I’m sure there have been substantial amounts of time and money invested into the design of toilet cubicles. I mean, these things are ubiquitous and have been around for a good deal of time. There’s gotta be some sort of usability studies on this topic. Surely anybody in the building construction industry would have no problems coming up with a functional toilet cubicle that allows you to get your job done, without fuss, and away you go.
Well, apparently not.
Feels good to be writing again now that I have finished Uni. The topic I want to bring up today is engagements and marriage. I’m sure that most of you have noticed that there are so many people getting engaged lately! It almost seems like there is a new engagement a month, and at least one wedding to attend per month.
It’s exciting to attend these weddings, to see the joy in the couple’s faces, to hear them as they make promises to each other to love the other person as long as they shall live. But a question that has crossed my mind as I attend these weddings is, how do these couples know when it is the right time to take the next step? How do people (well, the boyfriends anyway) know when to pop the question? Continue Reading »
From the number of weddings, engagements, and people starting to go out in the past few months, it looks like cupid has been working overtime (which is sorta typical in this day and age… how sad).
Congratulations to Grace and Chris, as well as May-Sze and Ethan on your marriages. May God continue to grow you and bless you in your marriage.
And to preempt anybody asking me the question, I have one word for you all:
Patience.
[Now that Joyce's thesis is finished, and Grace and Chris' wedding is over, time for me to finish off said half-baked posts...]
She had everything to live for — a “beautiful and bubbly” girl that was described as “intelligent, successful, talented and popular”. However, her friends and family were stunned when Charmaine Dragun took her own life at The Gap.
Nobody saw it coming.
Despite her cheerful appearances, impressive social circles and other external factors, deep down she was really troubled. She effectively lived a life behind a mask of faux happiness, keeping up a positive image of herself, while deep down her hurts were slowly driving her over the edge.
A bit over a year ago, I had the unfortunate experience of being informed that Andrew, a co-worker who I was working closely with at the time, committed suicide. None of us saw it coming neither — he was similarly positive, good-natured and had a carefree attitude towards life. It would appear that not even some of his recent setbacks had affected him much.
Oh, how wrong we were.