😘 Beautiful Girls πŸ’ƒ

I heard this song at the gym a few days ago. I love the beat to this song. πŸ’“ I am finally getting a grip on publishing articles on MindBodySpirit.com. My goal is to publish at least 3 SEO-optimized articles per week and then increase it to 4 by the end of September 2022. Woohoo! πŸ˜ƒ

Beautiful Girls ~ Sean Kingston

Beautiful Girls

~ Sean Kingston

You’re way too beautiful girl
That’s why it’ll never work
You’ll have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it’s over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only wanna do you dirt
They’ll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say it’s over

See it started at the park
Used to chill after dark
Oh when you took my heart
That’s when we fell apart

‘Cause we both thought
That love last forever (last forever)
They say we too young
To get ourselves sprung

Oh we didn’t care
We made it very clear
And they also said
That we couldn’t last together (last together)

See it’s very defined
You’re one of a kind
But you mash up my mind
You haffi get declined
Oh Lord
My baby is driving me crazy

You’re way too beautiful girl
That’s why it’ll never work
You’ll have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it’s over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only wanna do you dirt
They’ll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say it’s over

It was back in ’99
Watching movies all the time
Oh when I went away
For doing my first crime

And I never thought
That we was gonna see each other (see each other)
And then I came out
Mommy moved me down South

Oh I’m with my girl
Who I thought was my world
It came out to be
That she wasn’t the girl for me (girl for me)

See it’s very defined
You’re one of a kind
But you mash up my mind
You haffi get declined
Oh Lord
My baby is driving me crazy

You’re way too beautiful girl
That’s why it’ll never work
You’ll have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it’s over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only wanna do you dirt
They’ll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say it’s over

Now we’re fussing
And now we’re fighting
Please tell me why
I am feeling slighted
And I don’t know
How to make it better (make it better)

You’re dating other guys
You’re telling me lies
Oh I can’t believe
What I’m seeing with my eyes
I’m losing my mind
And I don’t think it’s clever (think it’s clever)

You’re way too beautiful girl
That’s why it’ll never work
You’ll have me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it’s over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only wanna do you dirt
They’ll have you suicidal, suicidal, suicidal, suicidal

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🌷 My September 2023 National Acupuncture License Renewal

  • Total PDA’s required between 10/13/19 – 09/30/23: 60
  • I have earned 30 PDA’s
  • I still need to accrue 30 PDA’s before the end of September 2023.
  • 08/20/22: TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Dizziness – 4 PDA’s (Live Webinar).
  • 08/20/22: TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Irritability – 4 PDA’s (Live Webinar).
  • 09/10/22 (Sat): TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Thirst – 4 PDA’s (Live Webinar).
  • 09/17/22 (Sat): TCM Analysis of Two Sinusitis Cases – 2 PDA’s (Live Webinar).
  • 09/17/22 (Sat): TCM Analysis of Three Sinusitis Cases – 3 PDA’s (Live Webinar).
  • 10/10/22 (Mon): TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Shortness of Breath – 4 PDA’s (Live Webinar).
  • 10/10/22 (Mon): TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Bloating – 4 PDA’s (Live Webinar).
  • I still need to find 5 PDA’s from online courses after this. Make sure I include a “CPR / First Aid Course” for 4 PDA’s. Make sure that the course I enrolled in is also accepted by the California Acupuncture Board for 4 CEU’s as well.
  • 02/03/23 (Fri): CPR Basics – 4 CEU’s.
  • I still need 1 PDA before the end of September.
  • 02/23/23 (Thurs): Analysis of Lower Back Pain in Biomedicine – 5 PDA’s.
  • πŸ˜ƒ 02/23/23 (Thurs): I have completed all of my PDA’s required for my Renewal in Sep 2023!

🌷 My April 2023 California Acupuncture License Renewal

  • Total CEU’s required by 04/30/23: 50
  • I still need to accrue 25 CEU’s before the end of April 2023.
  • 25 CEU’s for live webinars.
  • 25 CEU’s for online courses.
  • 08/20/22: TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Dizziness – 4 CEU’s (Live Webinar).
  • 08/20/22: TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Irritability – 4 CEU’s (Live Webinar).
  • 09/10/22 (Sat): TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Thirst – 4 CEU’s (Live Webinar).
  • 09/17/22 (Sat): TCM Analysis of Two Sinusitis Cases – 2 CEU’s (Live Webinar).
  • 09/17/22 (Sat): TCM Analysis of Three Sinusitis Cases – 3 CEU’s (Live Webinar).
  • 10/10/22 (Mon): TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Shortness of Breath – 4 CEU’s (Live Webinar).
  • 10/10/22 (Mon): TCM Syndromes and Treatments of Bloating – 4 CEU’s (Live Webinar).
  • I still need to find 25 CEU’s from online courses after this.
  • Since I need to include a “CPR / First Aid Course” to meet the NCCAOM requirements for renewal, make sure that I find one that satisfies both the CA Board and the NCCAOM board as well.
  • 02/03/23 (Fri): CPR Basics – 4 CEU’s.
  • I still need 21 CEU’s before the end of April.
  • 02/23/23 (Thurs): Analysis of Lower Back Pain in Biomedicine – 5 CEU’s.
  • 02/23/23 (Thurs): Analysis of Shoulder Pain in Biomedicine – 5 CEU’s.
  • 02/23/23 (Thurs): Correct Clinician-patient Relationship – 2 CEU’s.
  • 02/23/23 (Thurs): Privacy Protection in Telemedicine – 2 CEU’s.
  • 02/23/23 (Thurs): A Brief Introduction to Human Trafficking – 1 CEU.
  • 02/23/23 (Thurs): Analysis of Knee Pain in Biomedicine – 5 CEU’s.
  • 02/23/23 (Thurs): TCM Introduction to the Causes of Infertility – 1 CEU.
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πŸ’­ Thoughts for August 2022 🌺

  • Theme for the Month:
  • πŸ˜ƒ Reset My Mind and Body
  • Affirmations for the Month:
  • I practice patience, understanding, and compassion with others as well as myself.
  • I believe everything works out for the best.
  • I aspire to live a life that has meaning to me.
  • I look forward to the future and my role in it.
  • I live in the moment while learning from the past and preparing for the future.
  • Wednesday (08/03/22):
  • My sinuses have been acting up again. Got brain fog, feel so tired, and can’t think straight. πŸ˜₯
  • Friday (08/12/22):
  • After months of learning how to set up an SEO-optimized website that will appease “Google God”, and at the same time is human-readable, I’ve finally finished writing my very first article on mindbodylist.com.
  • If Google is not happy with my website and my content, then she’ll place my article on page 100 and beyond, which will never be read by anyone.
  • “Location, Location, Location”, just as the location of the actual store is so important for a business, so is the “location” on the internet. You have to get onto Google page 1 for any keyword search term, in order for readers to know that you even exist on the internet.
  • The name of the game is to get my article on Google page 1 when someone does research for the keyword that I’m targeting.
  • Then, to get the reader to click on one of my recommendations to Amazon and I will earn a commission for anything (the pricier the better) the reader buys on Amazon for the next 24 hours.
  • I followed what I learned (still a long way to go though) from 3 training programs for affiliate marketing authority websites to create a website that is fast and optimized for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
  • It’s still far from being perfect, but I’m finally starting to overcome my fear of not being perfect. Not being perfect has stopped me from doing so many things in life.
  • Not being perfect is still 100% better than not starting because I’m afraid that it’s not perfect. I’ll continue to tweak it as I go.
  • I am still not 100% happy with the way the images look, especially since they are not uniform throughout the entire article. However, something is better than nothing. I’ll have to figure something out later on.
  • Now, I just need to continue to go through the training programs, and product SEO-optimized content articles (and images) and give it time for the seed to grow, as it will still take time before Google will even pick my website up on the radar.
  • Perseverance, and not perfection, is the key to success. I’m going to continue doing this, and I’m actually enjoying it along the way! πŸ˜ƒ
  • Saturday (08/20/20):
  • I need to accrue 50 CEU’s (50 hours of Continuing Education Units) in order to renew my California Acupuncture License which expires on 04/30/23.
  • I’ve signed up for 8 CEU’s this morning and am watching the live webinar right now.
  • Getting my routine back on track now! πŸ˜ƒ

πŸŒƒ Up All Night

I don’t really have anyone to talk to regarding my issues with my ex-husband, besides my mom and my therapist. Most of the other people I talk to are men who are interested in me, so they’re not interested in hearing anything about the issues I have with my ex-husband. I also don’t feel like telling people in my daily life about my ex-husband either. I’ve learned in the past few months to just journal my thoughts and share them with whomever is out there that happens to land on my blog. That’s probably how I’ll be living for the rest of my life as well, speaking to myself, and journaling my happiness and sorrows on my blog…

Up All Night ~ Charlie Puth

After our first date, my ex-husband called me the very next day and told me that he wants me to be his girlfriend. We had a fun day together, which extended to the wee hours of the night as well. He emailed me, texted me, and called me every day. He celebrated our anniversary every month.

He asked me to go with him on his skiing trip to June mountain but I had already booked my flight to go back to Taiwan and visit my family for a month. He called me daily when I was in Taiwan and we had very good conversations.

He had been in a very good mood lately since the company he was working for was doing very well and he was receiving recognition for his success. He called me when he was driving back to Oak Park from his skiing trip in June mountain. He sounded almost grandiose on the phone. He was telling me intimate acts of what he’ll do to me and we were just having a sexy fun time on the phone.

But then, he told me that he has to hang up now because the police car behind him has signaled him to pull over. He said that he’ll call me back afterwards. I waited all night but he never did. He eventually called me back perhaps a day or two later. I can’t remember exactly now especially because of the time differences between California and Taiwan. He said that he got arrested for driving under the influence (DUI). I felt so guilty when I heard that. If only I was there with him, then it wouldn’t have happened, was what I thought to myself… This was the beginning of the demise of our relationship.

Before this incident, he was fun, joyful, and loving toward me. We had wonderful conversations on the phone every night. We were talking on the phone one night after I came back to California and he told me that he feels emotionally drained now and he would like for me to take charge some of the time, as in thinking of places where we can go and things that we can do, etc. We also started discussing what to do now regarding his (second) DUI. His driver’s license will be revoked for a year. He has to pay a huge fine and monthly probation fees. He also has to attend DUI classes in Santa Barbara.

My father has always taken care of us, to the point of being controlling. Regardless, I didn’t have to plan or worry about anything. I’m also the youngest child in the family, so I’m used to being pampered and taken care of. But now, my boyfriend is going through a huge crisis, and he has asked me to help him take care of matters. So, I decided to grow up, and place all the responsibilities on my shoulders, especially since I feel guilty for not going with him on his skiing trip, and thus not being able to prevent him from being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.

He texted me one night in 2010 to say that he was leaving work to come home. He always texts me when he leaves work so I’ll know when to expect him, even up to this day. He also started texting me his daily driving routes ever since he started working as an independent contractor so that I can calculate his daily mileage for tax deduction purposes. It usually takes less than an hour for him to arrive home, but he never did. I frantically waited and waited for hours and stayed up all night not knowing where he could be. I called my mom and told her I don’t know what has happened to him, and I don’t know what to do. I told mom that he has been drinking and driving a lot lately and I’m wondering if he got arrested again for driving under the influence.

I decided to try my luck and see if our county jail has booking records online and to call all the hospitals in Ventura County to see if he was in one of them. We were living in Westlake Village at the time, which is at the border of Los Angeles County and Ventura County, so I was worried that he might have been brought to a hospital in LA County instead if he got injured in an accident. I think it was around 1 am or 2 am when I searched the Ventura county jail inmate search and saw that he has just been booked in jail for driving under the influence.

Things were already bad between us and we were thinking of getting a divorce, but now how can I possibly leave him when he is once again in trouble, and this time in huge trouble, because it’s his third DUI? He has to go to jail besides all the other fines and probation and DUI classes, not to mention the drastic increase in our car insurance rates, especially since he is driving a fancy sports car. Then, he started to get ill, and the doctor found that he has a brain tumor (thank goodness we found out years later, at the Mayo Clinic in MN, that it was a developmental anomaly, and not a pituitary microadenoma), so that was the end of our talks about getting divorced. I decided that I will stay with him and help him through this even more difficult time in his life.

That was the only phase in my life where I, “Miss Goody Two Shoes” was inside a jail. I went to visit him whenever they had visiting hours and had to wait a long time before I could go inside. I spoke to him on the phone every day and encouraged him to just relax and take it easy while inside the jail. The charges for placing a reverse call inside a jail are ridiculously high, but I knew that was the only time he had any communication with the outside world, and I treasured being able to speak with him daily as well. I sent him greeting cards, coloring pencils, money, and whatever fun things I could think of to help him past the time in jail. He actually drew many beautiful drawings of me while he was in jail and showed them to me behind the glass window when I went to visit him.

I found out afterwards that he was drinking at his buddy’s place in Santa Barbara that night, and he calculated it so that the timing will be correct to text me when he said that he was leaving work. He also told me earlier that he was going to work until later that night. Addiction is such a horrid monster. This successful, intelligent, hard-working medical device engineer turns into a liar, cheater, and irresponsible person because he is unable to overcome his addiction to alcohol. And it’s not just the physiological component, it’s the psychological component that’s the worse. The games he plays, and the lies he tells, are all because of his addiction to alcohol.

When he’s in an active addictive phase, he turns into a completely different person. I remember there was a phase back in around 2012 when he was once again going through an active addiction phase. We were sleeping in separate rooms at the time due to constant arguments regarding his drinking. We got into a verbal altercation (regarding his drinking) which turned so bad that I actually feared for my life. I locked my bedroom door and put a kitchen knife under the pillow because I was scared that he might break down the door when I’m asleep and kill me. He went through a phase of threats of death, mostly of himself, but sometimes indirectly referring to me as well. I went through a few years of marriage just accepting it one day at a time and wondering if today will be my last day on earth. I can understand though why sometimes he gets so mad at me when it comes to his drinking. I once poured his over $1000 bottle of spirit down the drain because I felt that the damage outweighed the benefits for him to put that into his body.

I try to block these traumatic incidents from my mind, but they still come up to the surface at times.

He texted me at 5.14 pm this afternoon to say that he was heading home. It usually takes him around an hour to get home. He texted me at 5.41 pm to say that there was “Traffic on 694”. I got home at 6.42 pm and he still was not home.

Once again, I was worried if he was drinking and driving and either got pulled over, booked in jail, or is in the hospital, or worse, the morgue. My mind started racing frantically since he wasn’t answering any of my calls or my texts. I can understand that he’s being careful now after being pulled over for talking on the phone while driving, but he only eventually got home after 3.5 hours.

I asked him what happened and he just said that he was on the phone with a client. I asked him why didn’t he call me back or text me back. He just replied, “It doesn’t matter”. And this is not the first time something like this has happened this year, especially now that I’m aware that he’s drinking (and driving) again.

I’ve been in this constantly traumatized, hypervigilant, waiting for the other shoe to drop mode ever since he got arrested for driving under the influence while driving home from June mountain, which was over 14 years ago. He doesn’t even have the consideration and respect to text me back and let me know that he’s okay. I don’t want to go through another DUI with him again. This has taken a complete toll on my mind and my body and I’m still going through this fear and trauma daily.

I told him last night that if he’s going to act like “the boy who cried wolf”, then the next time he doesn’t come home, I won’t be looking for him.

I am done with uncaring, inconsiderate men who expect me to be there for them all the time but do not care for my feelings.

Up All Night

~ Songwriters: Bonnie Mckee / Charlie Puth / Giorgio Hesdey Tuinfort / Thomas Troelsen

Well I get the thrill run down my spine
When I see you hitting me up
Feeling so electrified
With the heat of a million suns
You know just one touch can keep me high
And I think I’ll never come down
‘Til a couple days go by
And you’re nowhere to be found

Up all night
Up all night
All the things that you said to me yesterday
Playing over in my mind
It’s a crime
It’s a crime
How you’re reeling me in with the games you play
Then you hang me out to dry

So I try to shake you out my head
Try to dance with somebody new
But you got those lips so red
And that smoking voice, you do
So I know it’s pointless anyway
‘Cause there ain’t nobody else
That could light me up so bright
And break this crazy spell

Up all night
Up all night
All the things that you said to me yesterday
Playing over in my mind
It’s a crime
It’s a crime
How you’re reeling me in with the games you play
Then you hang me out to dry

If I wait a little longer
Then maybe you’ll come back around
Wait a little longer
Then maybe you’ll be ready now
‘Cause I would wait forever
For you to fall back into my arms
So come on

Up all night
Up all night
All the things that you said to me yesterday
Playing over in my mind
It’s a crime
It’s a crime
How you’re reeling me in with the games you play
Then you hang me out to dry
Up all night
Up all night
All the things that you said to me yesterday
Playing over in my mind
It’s a crime
It’s a crime
How you’re reeling me in with the games you play
Then you hang me out to dry
How you’re reeling me in with the games you play
Then you hang me out to dry

πŸ™ Already Gone… πŸ’—

I feel that this song “Already Gone” by Kelly Clarkson may reflect how my ex-husband feels and decided to act towards our relationship. Even though he has hurt me tremendously especially with the way he handled it, but I feel that he still had some good intentions behind it. πŸ™

When he asked for the divorce on 12/04/21, he said something that stuck with me. He asked me, “You’ll never ask for a divorce, right?”. I told him “Yes”. I think he realized at some point that he had to be the “bad” person to initiate the divorce, in order for us to end our unhappy marriage. He also told me that he has finally resolved his feelings towards our relationship. I wasn’t even aware that he was upset of our almost “non-existent” relationship, until he said that…

Already Gone ~ Kelly Clarkson

He became less and less emotional towards me as the years passed by. However, there were moments when he still showed that he loved and cared for me a lot…

In 2010 in California, after coming home from a delicious seafood dinner, we laid in bed next to each other watching some funny reality tv show together. I started getting bad stomach pains and felt sick. My ex-husband turned on the lights and saw that my face was swollen like Will Smith in the movie “Hitch”. I started to have some difficulty in breathing as my throat was starting to swell up. He was panicking and frantically drove me to the closest ER. I was praying and hoping that we won’t get into a car accident, because he was driving so fast, and thus delay my treatment, as I was going into anaphylaxis from severe allergic reaction to the seafood that I ate. Thankfully, we arrived in one piece. πŸ™

There was a long waiting line at the ER but as soon as the staff at check-in saw my completely swollen face, he told me to go inside immediately. That’s how bad the condition I was in…

There was a long waiting line inside the ER room as well, and they had to just put me on a stretcher, start an IV line, and inject epinephrine into my system as that is the first line of treatment for anaphylaxis. My face turned red right away and I started to breathe with even greater difficulty. My ex started to panic again and started to yell at the hospital staff, asking why they’re not seeing me right away? Once again, I’m thinking to myself that it’s probably not the best idea to be yelling at people who have the power to decide whether I shall live or die??? πŸ€” Nonetheless, I understood that he did it out of grave concern for my life and appreciated him for his effort.

I was having constant abdominal pain in 2015. I believe now that I was suffering from chronic appendicitis. My ex was going to attend a Medical Device Convention in San Diego in November and decided to take a week off so that we can also spend some leisure time there as well.

I once again had pretty bad abdominal pain on 10/26/15, less than two weeks prior to our departure. I called him to let him know and he asked me to go and see a doctor right away. I called my health clinic to schedule a same day appointment and they transferred me to a triage nurse to determine how serious my condition was. The triage nurse told me that I have to go to the urgent care clinic immediately, so my ex-husband came home and took me to the urgent care clinic in Plymouth. They determined that I had to go to the ER unit instead, which was thankfully, in the same building. The ER physician suspected that I had acute appendicitis and wanted me to have an abdominal CT scan to rule it out. Just my luck, their CT scan machine broke down so they had to arrange for me to go to the ER in Maple Grove instead. The CT scan showed that I had acute appendicitis and they told me that I had to go into surgery immediately.

When I came to in the recovery room, I saw that my ex had already bought me an adorable stuffed animal. I also found out that he sat outside my operating room the entire time I was having surgery. He informed his workplace that he will be taking time off and slept on the sofa couch in my recovery room for the night. He bought me a cane and helped me with my recovery by taking me out every day after work, since I wasn’t well enough to drive and he knew that I was not the kind of person that could stay at home for the entire day. We also had to cancel the trip to San Diego as I was still experiencing a lot of pain from the operation and was not feeling well enough to fly.

We stayed at a beautiful lakefront home in Orono, Minnesota back in 2017. I just checked my previous Facebook profile that got hacked (and I still can’t gain access back to it) now. This was what I posted on that Facebook profile back on March 12th, 2017:

We had a major blizzard around the same time last year, on the day that I was scheduled to go do our taxes. If I remember correctly, there were probably 11 inches of snow and I ended up driving over a traffic island since everything was just completely covered in snow. The next morning, hubby called me and basically told me that I am banned from leaving the house. I got so upset I eventually hung up on him. He called me again at noon and said “Hey, it’s warmer now since the sun is out”. I asked him “Does that mean I am no longer banned from leaving the house?”. He said “Yes!”, hehehe πŸ™‚

So it’s like Groundhog Day again since we’re going to see our tax preparer this afternoon and there’s a blizzard from 1pm CT to Monday afternoon at 4pm CT. While driving this afternoon, I reminded hubby of what happened last year when I went to see our tax preparer. He decided to take a pre-emptive strike this time and told me before the blizzard even started that I am banned from leaving the house tomorrow. I asked hubby, do you remember what happened last year? Are we really gonna have to go through this again? Where I’m going to get upset and and then you’ll call me during lunch time tomorrow and tell me that the sun is out so my ban has been lifted? He said, “That’s right!”

Then he decided to get clever and told me that he’s going to splash water all over my car doors so that they will get frozen shut (since it’s 19F) and I won’t be able to drive anywhere. hahaha! Gotta say, hubby’s really creative! πŸ˜ƒ

Hahaha, reading that post now just brings a smile back to my face! πŸ˜„

On 01/13/22, I experienced excruciating stomach pains, passed out, had a concussion, and vomited all over. Thankfully, my ex-husband was there and quickly turned my head to the side. Otherwise, I would have choked on my own vomit and died.

When I slowly regained consciousness, I realized that he had already put me on the bed and was acting so distraught. He was so tender and loving towards me, which was something I had not experienced for a very very long time. I asked him what happened to me? When he realized that I’ve regained my consciousness and could talk again, he went back to his usual self and coldly told me that I passed out. He said that I vomited all over and asked what I ate for dinner? He was back to his usual old self again. However, I will always treasure those few seconds of experiencing his tenderness and loving care towards me before he realized that I had regained my consciousness fully. I don’t think he knows that I was aware of how tender and loving he was towards me for those few seconds before I asked him what happened to me.

He took me to the ER in the morning and then to my neurologist (it just so happened that I was scheduled to see my neurologist on that same day because I passed out a few weeks ago at my chiropractor’s office). He tried to convince my neurologist to legally stop me from driving until they find out what caused me to lose consciousness (which could take months), and got upset when she told him that she’s unable to do that (whereas in CA, they could). He knows that I am a law-abiding citizen, so if I’m legally banned from driving, then I will have no choice but to obey it. However, if he requested it, then I might comply with him now and then, but not all the time. I do appreciate his efforts especially since we’re already getting divorced, and he’s well aware that he will have to drive me around every day if I’m not allowed to drive.

We both have strong personalities and have had constant power struggles throughout our marriage. He told me a few years ago that we are both intelligent people, and he believes that there must be a way for us to make this marriage work.

However, too many stressful events happened one after another in the past few years, which I think finally broke down both of our will and strength to fight for anything anymore. I think the most significant one for him was the demise of the company that he worked for since 2006 and was so close to having their stocks go public, our road to riches. The most significant one for me was my sister’s suicidal attempts, which finally led to the heartbreaking decision of placing her in a psychiatric institution for life…

A friend asked me a few days ago if I still wanted to have children since I don’t have any. I told him that I don’t. The main reason being that I want to dedicate my time to taking care of sister, for my parents’ sake, and for my own sake, because I love her so much. The other reason being that if my child falls ill, like my sister does, then I don’t know if I will have the strength of my mother to take care of my sick child for the rest of his/her life, or if I will just have a complete breakdown myself?

They say that you can create your own reality. But sometimes, circumstances are so tough, that I’m not even sure about that anymore… I have so many mixed emotions, I don’t know how to feel anymore…

Already Gone

~ Songwriters: Kelly Brianne Clarkson / Ryan B Tedder

Remember all the things we wanted
Now all our memories, they’re haunted
We were always meant to say goodbye
Even without fists held high
It never would’ve worked out right
We were never meant for do or die

I didn’t want us to burn out
I, I didn’t come here to hurt you now
I can’t stop

I want you to know
That it doesn’t matter
Where we take this road
But someone’s gotta go
And I want you to know
You couldn’t have loved me better
But I want you to move on
So I’m already gone

Looking at you makes it harder
But I know that you’ll find another
That doesn’t always make you wanna cry
It started with a perfect kiss
Then we could feel the poison set in
Perfect couldn’t keep this love alive

You know that I love you so
I love you enough to let you go

I want you to know
That it doesn’t matter
Where we take this road
But someone’s gotta go
And I want you to know
You couldn’t have loved me better
But I want you to move on
So I’m already gone

So I’m already gone

Remember all the things we wanted
Now all our memories, they’re haunted
We were always meant to say goodbye

I want you to know
That it doesn’t matter
Where we take this road
But someone’s gotta go
And I want you to know
You couldn’t have loved me better
But I want you to move on
So I’m already gone

I’m already gone

Remember all the things we wanted
Now all our memories, they’re haunted
We were always meant to say goodbye

🌹 It’s a Wild World

Lately, I’ve been noticing a shift in my mindset regarding my divorce. I have been feeling like a bird trapped inside a cage for many years now. After my ex-husband asked for a divorce in December last year, I slowly started to feel that the lock to my cage door has finally been removed. However, even though I feel miserable being trapped, but I also feel a sense of familiarity inside my little cage. It’s my Home, after all…

It’s a Wild World ~ Cat Stevens

For the past few months, I’ve been opening the cage door and going outside to play for a while. But then before the sun sets, I’ll fly back into my cage and close the door behind me again… Lately, I’ve been treading farther and farther to other places to play, but I still come back to my cage before the end of each day and close the door behind me. This is what I have been familiar with, for the past 14 years. As trapped as it makes me feel, at the same time, I feel safe…

However, I’ve been starting to have a paradigm shift recently. Yes, it’s a wild world out there, filled with a lot of dangers, but at the same time, a lot of fun adventures. Maybe I’ll be ok on my own out there? It’s nice to have companionship. However, if it’s not with the right person, and we’re not compatible, then it’s actually better to just be on my own.

When he asked for the divorce, after getting caught for secretly drinking again for the past year (I wasn’t aware of the other woman, and the monies that he secretly withdrew from our bank accounts until later on), he also mentioned that it’s because we’re too different. He doesn’t think that we’ll be able to change for one another and he doesn’t want us to continue being unhappy for the rest of our lives. We both tried, but I think after 14 years, it is reasonable to say that what he has said is true. ..

My ex-husband has done many hurtful things to me, especially in the past year. However, thankfully, he still cared enough to make sure that I will be taken care of once our divorce is final so that I’ll be okay on my own. It’s a wild world and there are a lot of bad out there, but I am slowly starting to feel that I will be okay being on my own. Perhaps, I can make a lot of nice friends out there? 🌹

It’s a Wild World

~ Cat Stevens

La la la
La la la
La la la

Now that I’ve lost everything to you
You say you want to start something new
And it’s breaking my heart you’re leaving
Baby I’m greaving

But if you want to leave take good care
Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there

Oh baby baby it’s a wild world
It’s hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh baby baby it’s a wild world
I’ll always remember you like a child girl

You know I’ve seen a lot of what the world can do
And it’s breaking my heart in two
‘Cause I never want to see you sad girl
Don’t be a bad girl

But if you want leave take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there’s a lot of bad everywhere

Oh baby baby it’s a wild world
It’s hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh baby baby it’s a wild world
And I’ll always remember you like a child girl yeah

La la la
La la la
Baby I love you, but if you want to leave take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there’s a lot of bad everywhere

Oh baby baby it’s a wild world
It’s hard to get by just just upon a smile
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh baby baby it’s a wild world
And I’ll always remember you like a child girl oh yeah

Oh baby baby it’s a wild world
It’s hard to get by just upon a smile
Yeah
Oh baby baby it’s a wild world
And I’ll always remember you like a child girl