healing

Actions to take

Posted 2009-03-28 (土) 午後10:18 by terra

After yesterday’s depressing post (was feeling morose I guess) I’ve decided that I shall take definitive actions to make my life feel better.

1. Restart on my exercise regime. I used to do yoga/pilates really actively but I’ve stopped for a while. I guess exercise really helps to release endomorphins. I spent 1 hour today doing Ashtanga yoga, and I feel a lot better now.

2. Get out more and hang out with friends.

3. Start spending money on things that make me happy. I reckon spending money will help the economy as well as make me feel better about myself.

Subjects: Life 生涯

Mood: Declarations

Tags: healing, pilates, recovery, shopping, yoga

Introversion, feelings of regression in Singapore

Posted 2009-03-27 (金) 午後11:31 by terra

There’s something about being back in Singapore that’s brought out the worst case of shyness and introversion in me.

I’m naturally introverted and there’s nothing wrong with that. But lately, the hesitation to speak up about how I really feel about things is debilitating and it really sucks.

The funny part of it all is that I felt I was a completely different person in my months overseas. I think being in Australia and Japan nurtured extraversion in me. And as a friend pointed out, it’s perhaps because no one knew me in Oz that I could let out the inhibitions within myself.

Coming back to Singapore it’s like I’m feeling the effects of culture shock, which is strange because I grew up here thus I ought to know better. However, I googled, and apparently there’s such a thing called reverse culture shock where the subject who’s been overseas for a period of time finds it hard to re-adapt to her country of origins.

Subjects: Life 生涯

Mood: Philosophical Musings

Tags: career, culture shock, Fukuoka 福岡, healing, introversion, Japan, Singapore, Sydney

And I dreamed I saw the bombers...

Posted 2006-08-12 (土) 午前12:24 by terra

“And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation”
—Stardust, Joni Mitchell

What a wonderful evening, watching an amazing display of fireworks light up the night sky as we sat close to the edge of the waters along Marina Bay! Never mind the slightly muddy field that we had to tread through, nor the 1 hour travel home in what would have been a 1/2 hour journey under normal traffic conditions. It was certainly worth the price to pay for those glorious ten minutes.

And a comforting piece of news to complement the day. ^___^

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