The Angry Walk
A quick decision saw me traipsing around Canning Garden(the environs where I live) on foot, to Wooley Food Court for an early dinner, and then round the other way back home, buying the Financial Daily, some desserts, and some dark grapes along the way.
The journey, with all the detouring, is estimated (by me ) to be at least 8km long,and is my first real piece of exercise in a year!
Had a leisurely iced tea and chicken rice when I reached the food court at around some minutes past four. The stall was not quite ready to serve me yet, so I took out the Sunday supplement out while I waited and read some of the articles there, especially about the World of Walls project initiated by a German historian to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The realisation hit me then that his opening words about how walls that are built to protect also keep out Life, applied to me so well!And a sense of a Provident moment hit me just then...
I even bought a snack for the maid and felt good washing the sweat from my body during the bath.
Along the return journey, I saw a rather faint rainbow in the sky,and stopped at a shop, 'Pretty Pets' to admire and adore a clutch of puppies all averaging 6 weeks old: Beagles in the majority, and Rottweilers making up the numbers(10 in total).
Seeing them stirred in me the urge to own my own place so that I can rear them myself.
But that dream is still a distance away, because I aim to pay for my first house in cash upfront settlement.
Anyway, I timed my 'trek' such that I returned home just before it got dark, at around 7:12 pm.
I can safely say that I've rid myself of the helpless frustration that came immediately upon opening my eyes to the dark side of my mothers' personality(yet again).
Still,my knees are tingling with the effort as I'm blogging now, and this invigorates me more than anything!
Tomorrow, I have to take action & return her the 'bribe' she gave me and flatly refuse to be part of her scheme.
The journey, with all the detouring, is estimated (by me ) to be at least 8km long,and is my first real piece of exercise in a year!
Had a leisurely iced tea and chicken rice when I reached the food court at around some minutes past four. The stall was not quite ready to serve me yet, so I took out the Sunday supplement out while I waited and read some of the articles there, especially about the World of Walls project initiated by a German historian to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The realisation hit me then that his opening words about how walls that are built to protect also keep out Life, applied to me so well!And a sense of a Provident moment hit me just then...
I even bought a snack for the maid and felt good washing the sweat from my body during the bath.
Along the return journey, I saw a rather faint rainbow in the sky,and stopped at a shop, 'Pretty Pets' to admire and adore a clutch of puppies all averaging 6 weeks old: Beagles in the majority, and Rottweilers making up the numbers(10 in total).
Seeing them stirred in me the urge to own my own place so that I can rear them myself.
But that dream is still a distance away, because I aim to pay for my first house in cash upfront settlement.
Anyway, I timed my 'trek' such that I returned home just before it got dark, at around 7:12 pm.
I can safely say that I've rid myself of the helpless frustration that came immediately upon opening my eyes to the dark side of my mothers' personality(yet again).
Still,my knees are tingling with the effort as I'm blogging now, and this invigorates me more than anything!
Tomorrow, I have to take action & return her the 'bribe' she gave me and flatly refuse to be part of her scheme.
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