I'm back

As you may have noticed, I have changed my blog look. It was getting a little 'blah' for me. However, I still like my peach-coloured background and decided to retain that element.

What have I been up to lately? Nothing much except eat, sleep and breathe Facebook! :) Suddenly there have been a surge of long lost friends and relatives coming out of the woodworks. It has been exciting catching up, posting photos of yesteryears (some really, really old - before I was born!) and reminiscing the simpler days gone by.

I have also been challenging myself to some word games and I have to say it is becoming addictive to the point of obsessive, which makes it stressful at times. It is time to let go. Just like blogging, it is meant to be fun not work. I will still be active in Facebook, just not stressing myself out to reach a goal in those darn word games. :D I, however, have to thank some of my friends who have put me up to the challenge (they are bloggers as well - you know who you are). ;)

It has been a dark and cloudy day - very unusual since we have had nothing but extreme heat. With Edouard making landfall (sorry to those living on the coast down south), it has brought my area (and many more) much relief. The latest news:

Edouard inland, beginning to weaken
Lead Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
11:07 a.m. Eastern Time 8/5/2008

Tropical Storm Edouard (60 mph) is swirling inland over extreme southeast Texas now and beginning to weaken.

As of 10 a.m. CDT, the center of Edouard was located about 40 miles west of Port Arthur, Texas, and moving toward the WNW at 15 mph.
A tropical storm warning remains in effect between Cameron, Louisiana, and San Luis Pass, Texas. The hurricane watch has been cancelled.
Heavy rain and gusty winds are expected to continue in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana over the next several hours. Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches is likely along the track of Edouard, although isolated totals of 10 inches are not out of the question.
Winds gusted as high as 68 mph at Sabine Pass North just after the center of the storm crossed the coast this morning. Winds will drop off as Edouard continues to churn inland, but a few power outages are still likely in some of the more vigorous rainbands.

Elsewhere in the tropics, both the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Basins remain quiet. In the western Pacific, Tropical Storm Kammuri is expected to make landfall in Mainland China west of Hong Kong on Wednesday morning (U.S. time).

Anyway, I digressed. I was not supposed to blog about the weather, although it is an interesting subject ... seriously.

I was looking through some of my stuff that finally arrived from Malaysia (I chose sea mail) and found my old diary filled with poems - some I composed and some collected from other sources. Here's one which was penned on 17th March 1986. Warning: It is silly!

Out of the blues one day

Appeared a guy about 5 feet tall

His words were made of stammers

Which my friend could not make out at all

He introduced himself as someone,

Jacob Singh if I can recall

He stammered so much that all I could hear was

"Aaa...aaa ... I'm Jacob Singh", I think that was all.

He handed a gift to Christina

I think a week after that stammering incident

This time he spoke more fluently

But his shivers seem imminent

I was so right, I saw him shiver

Handing a gift so neatly wrapped

He handed it saying "Here's sssomething for ... for... y..you"

I think to wake him, he needed s slap

And so because of his height

We decided to name him 50

50 stands for 5 feet zero

Look at him and you will say "What a sight"

So, nowadays, if he's around

Christina beware, don't frown

For your 5 feet hero is bound

To catch you and pin you to the ground

Note: His name was not Jacob Singh, after all. It was something else, which I have forgotten. He was a student from Bangalore, India. After handing that gift to Christina, things warmed up between them.

Ah! memories.