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Xiao Hei and her Three Kittens
There's a black cat in my backyard. I call it "Xiao Hei" because it's so black.

My parents have been feeding it with a fish everyday when it was pregnant. Now that it has given birth to three kittens, my parents are feeding it with two fishes per day.

Xiao Hei has been very protective of her kittens, always snarling at us when we went near her kittens. But today we finally get to hold the kittens, not sure why she let us hold them though.

Like what my father remarked, it's very heartwarming to see Xiao Hei and her kittens, especially when she let the three kittens climb over her body and she just sat there watching them.

p/s: I feel like I'm writing a primary school essay :)


Imprints and Dreams
I had this recurring dream about taking Geography examination for SPM, where there was no teacher for one year but we were still expected to take the exam. The dream always took place during the week before the exam. I would be counting the days to exam day, making a timetable to do revision, or rather to study the text for the first time before the exam. There's always this horrible image of looking at the thick textbook and realising that you didn't know 90% of the contents in there. And the textbook always look the same, if I'm not mistaken it's the revision book by Sasbadi. And I never get to follow the timetable. Something always happened, or I went round and round trying to do notes which never extend more than the first page.

Then I would wake up, and feel extremely relieved it's only a dream, and my schooldays are over!

I really wonder what is the significance of this dream. I never had this kind of experience in this lifetime, at least. I have never been in a situation when it's one week before the exam and I knew almost nothing about the contents of the subject. Also, I started having this dream only after I switched to my current job, as far as I can remember.

In this same dream, I was also in a situation where I was late for school, not only me though, there were quite a number of other schoolmates who were also late. We were all in the same area, trying to catch a bus to go to school it and it was already 8:10am. I think school must have started at 7:30am. Anyway, there were actually 3 buses which can go to my school, I saw schoolmates in 2 other buses asking me to take the other bus - I think something like their 2 buses are not moving yet? So I went to the 3rd bus, and tried to get a place. By the way, the bus were yellow in colour, something like the HK mini buses, the situation was as like, if there are no more seats then you cannot get on the bus. Ok, so I managed to get on, and my friend told the bus driver we were going to Petaling Street. And the bus driver asked us again to confirm it. And I went to tell the bus driver, I think we are supposed to go to Petaling Hill - maybe my friends are not familiar with the location as "this is HK and we are new" - Haha, my dream is kind of jumbled up here. It's really a combination of KL and HK here.

Then the bus driver asked us to get down from the bus. Seems like there has been an accident and the road to Petaling Street is blocked. I got scolded by my friends for being honest. Well, I didn't know that was the reason they said "Petaling Street" and not "Petaling Hill!" Towards the end of the dream, I started to think why can't we still go to Petaling Street and then walk to Petaling Hill, instead of being chased down from the bus and no other buses would take us there! Then I woke up.

I think when I was thinking about Petaling Street and Petaling Hill, the location is something like the Petaling Street in KL, and Victoria Institution up the hill. Funny dream.

DDVW talked about imprints and kamma, there are some things which left such deep impression in us, that it forms our "window" to look at other things. This "imprint" theory certainly made me realize and more aware of how I react to certain situations and people. The same event - caused by different people - would evoke a different reaction from myself. I am thinking, could these imprints go into the dream world as well? And also, could it be a rewind of what had taken place in past lives? I really really wonder...

( I just said "eat wine and drink biscuit" - LOL)


The Right Time at the Right Place
From the ongoing Japanese drama - A lot of times we wait for the right time and the right place to say something and to do something. And so often the right time and the right place never occur - therefore so many opportunities missed.


If You Can Change Something, Change It. If You Cannot Change Something, Accept It
Another episode from the Japanese drama - The title above says it all.


Writing
I called a few friends yesterday to catch up with them. One of them told me her latest plan and aspirations, and she would like to do it via "writing". I can't help but to be so awed and inspired with her aspirations! It never cross my mind that writing alone can accomplish so much. Her writing style is so unique that I believe she can spread her message across to many many groups and types of people, even without saying it out upfront in her writing. I believe her readers may not even realize they are actually reading something inspired by this "message". I shall not disclose too much till she achieve her dreams. All the best to her, may your aspirations come true!

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