Past Re-collections

Me checking out the statue of our former President Sir Milton Obote

I chanced upon a post from a twitter follower about her 2018 mid-year review. Her post reminded me of my promise to keep a gratitude journal to help me focus on the positive and dwell not on the lemons life handed me. I admit; I lost my way after 2015 and it has been a lot of work trying to find myself again. I derived a lot of pleasure in keeping a gratitude journal and sharing it in that I was driven to leaf through my collections for 2017. I spent equal measures of 2017 terrified of death and worried over the state of my health. I lost 3 people within my immediate family and a close friend to both of my best friends. Those surprise deaths shook me to the core and exhibited the fragility of life. To date; the possibility of death still lingers in my thoughts.

"Why not 2018, you ask?" 2018 is HARD at the moment. However; this is not a dreary post so I shan't make it as one. These were some of my thoughts and bits of gratitude for 2017.

January

Alhamdulilah for the opportunity to work and earn a living.

I was involved in a documentary talking about issues affecting Women with Disabilities at national level.

When you get the chance to be good and do good for someone don't let it spill out of your hands.

The Story of You - Poem

February

I received and signed the work contract

Dear Girl - Poem

Artistic inspiration struck after 3 months. Alhamdulilah for my talent

March

You Don't Know Me Enough - Poem

Impressed with my "Expression of Happiness."

Inked my "Expression of Happiness" and the details came to me slowly but surely

"Write - when the words are ready to be written and flow without effort."

April

We Have No Say Over - Poem

May

Online interview

Even In Love - Poem

Thank God for good company and the ability to take oneself out

My obsession with Korean Dramas was resurrected with the discovery of kissasian.com

"Every girl deserves a guy who tells her that her smile blinds his sight." I wish we had met at a different time

Surprise birthday cake from the sister and brother-in-law

Spent the day in the company of a man. May it be a better year. Ameen

BIRTHDAY! Alhamdulilah for another year

July

I had the most wonderful dream that gave me a little hope.

My opinion made it to the news dailies.

July never fails to make me feel like the loneliest soul in the world

August

Work trip to Apac and Lira where I met the most inspiring woman with a disability and paid a trip to the home of Sir Milton Obote

Life may not be as perfect as it should be but it is totally OK at the moment

It is a shame that the people we care for never hold us in the same regard

September

"Vanity is making feeble attempts at not looking too helpless and sick in front of your lover." - Temptation

I had kind of hoped you would be my ocean

I almost told you before it went awry

I guess, I was wrong.

Busy week! Busy Month!

Goodbye September. You were quite a hard month but I managed to muddle through it

October

Your Face On Mine - Poem

Its sad having to watch everyone's ship arrive but your own. Even sadder is the fact that it may never arrive.

I'm more terrified of death as an adult than I ever was as a youth

I miss the innocence of youth

November

I have lost so many people this year that I keep wondering who the next person to go might be

Her Mother - Poem

Yoga fix got my thighs looking smaller!

Happy to have more responsibility at work

December

Moments - Poem

Weddings make me sad

The innocence of youth is believing in your dreams with infinite faith that they shall come to pass. Never knowing that life interrupts the best laid plans and that nothing ever turns out the way we thought it would.

Quotes 6.0

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” – Dr Seuss.

• Sometimes fighting the good fight beats the hell out of you. – Beauty And The Beast
• A man who has nightmares every night of his life is in pain. – (Yukio) The Wolverine
• There is nothing like a good man to keep a woman distracted. – Fedora
• I try not to make plans. God  always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it. – Tom Hiddleston
• You weigh your kind words as if they were gold, and dispense them with great stinginess. – Christina Dodd
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. – Rumi
• Every day of our lives is it’s own performance. – Grey’s Anatomy
• The most foolish man is one who brags about his wisdom.- Sungkyunkwan Scandal (Korean drama)
• Love is a little selfish or else it’s not love. – Aurora
• It’s better to be loved and betrayed than never truly love. – Seize The Day
• A woman never forgets her first love, no matter how badly it ended. – The Vampire Diaries
• The life ahead of you comes from the life you’ve had so far. – The Fugitive: Plan B (Korean drama)
• I’m drunk in love and steaming with desire for you. – Wild Heart
• The hunting dog is killed after catching the rabbit. – The Fugitive: Plan B
• A woman’s taste in men changes over time. – The Fugitive: Plan B
• Jealousy doesn’t understand reason. – Corona De Lagrimas
• The one that falls in love later falls in love madly. – Corona De Lagrimas
• There is no reality in dreams.” – The Fugitive: Plan B

A Serial Catch up.

My mood is all over the place lately and when this happens, all I WANT is to lose myself in a good romance novel preferably a Mills and Boon which are hard to come by unfortunately. There is a simplicity with mills and boon, the plot is straight forward and the romance is just right. I have a considerable collection of genres on my laptop but no good old fashioned mills and boon. I need a veritable collection of them, so, I am searching.
I’ve been catching up with one of my favourite television series – Korean Dramas. I watched a good one last year which I forgot to mention. It is not a drama as such more of a comedy. The last scandal of my life. It's quite funny and a good comedy. For someone who is used to watching periodicals about China and Korea, this was quite refreshing. It is about an ex teen couple who meet again after 20 years. You know how that goes, life intervened, the woman got married and divorced then went to work for her teenage love as a domestic after her husband stiffed her in the divorce and left her with a huge debt to repay. To sum it up, it is about love at 40.

The Last Scandal Of My Life

I also watched IRIS an espionage series. When this aired last year, I was a reluctant viewer. I hate series that deal with politics, mysteries, espionage etc. I don’t even attempt to read novels in that genre. But, I let myself watch when reruns were airing. I can’t say I loved it as much because of the genre but the plot was quite sad especially the love bit. Since the supposed protagonist was a man seeking revenge after being betrayed by the agency/agents he worked for, he ended up being shot on the way to propose to his girlfriend after defeating his nemesis and crew.

IRIS

 

And then there is My Lovely Samsoon. This is absolutely funny. I watched it twice for the fun of it. It is loosely based on Bridget Jones’ Diary. 30 year old woman falls in love with a 20 year old something.  The young man was so bossy and such a dictator. Thinking of it still brings a smile to my face. I would watch it over and over like I do the Big Bang Theory.

My Lovely Sam Soon

Now that IRIS is done, I am left wondering if they will air the sequel IRIS 2 immediately or make me wait 3-4 months for the next one. Seriously, my taste is really eclectic, no?