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Gorgeous lesson from a 4-year old

May 18th 2008 08:25

I saw something important about human psychology yesterday while trying to handle my 4-year old niece's dramatic and tear-filled outburst about not being able to have another turn playing games on my Mac.

La La (as we affectionately call her) and her brother had been taking turns most of the day playing on my Mac and they get very passionate about making sure they get the same amount of time on it. As it was time for them to head home, her brother was finishing up his turn and then La La wanted to have another turn. When I told her there was no time for her to play on the Mac, she began crying - crying with a passion. Droplets of tears ran down her face as fast as rain on windows, her brow creased like she was experiencing the deepest of anguish, she expressed with a loud, hurt voice how much she wanted to have another turn on the Mac - this went on for ages - and she stomped her feet in an attempt to get her way. I know how passionate she can get so I wasn't surprised at that

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Men who don't buy drinks

May 5th 2008 09:00

Am I old fashioned? Am I totally out of sync with modern day man/woman rituals? Am I expecting too much when I assume that a man should offer to buy a female a drink if he wants to show that he likes her?

I just want to get this off my chest. If a man won't buy me a drink while he is talking to me at a bar then I assume he is not interested. If he doesn't want to spend $7 on a drink, how on earth will he give me anything else? And when I say "give", I am talking about giving affection or attention or love...I don't mean material things

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Smiley butchers

February 26th 2008 01:11

I like going to the local butcher. It's a more pleasing experience to have the butcher pack and weigh your meat in front of you compared to picking your cuts from the cold aisles of supermarkets. It just feels sterile when I have to buy prepackaged meat.

At my local butcher, I can ask which cuts/types are better for certain dishes. I can choose the actual pieces of steak I want. I can also be inspired by the meat on display for future cooking adventures. I like being able to see the meat on display without the clingy wrap. And I also have one more thing to confess about butchers

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Staring at people

February 19th 2008 03:19

One of my pet habits is staring at people on trains - taking note of the details of their face, especially - and then liking or disliking them purely for their expression on their face. There is no fairness in this peculiar observational test I place on others. The person may be wonderful and decent for all I know, yet if I dislike their face, such as if they wear a particularly snotty, closed in expression, I perceive them to be a terrible, unkind person.

Perhaps it's superficial of me but I do admit to enjoying disliking people for the expressions on their faces. It has nothing to do with whether they are attractive or not; it has to do with the effect their face produces on me. The vibe that the face radiates

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Romance and sale flights

January 26th 2008 03:24

Drawing comparisons is what writers do. I have an odd one to talk about right now.

I am on the hunt for the cheapest return flight possible for Sydney to Cairns, since I am headed there in February for a getaway with friends. Taking the time off to write and not earning my normal salary means I am dedicated to making my money go a long way. In other words, every penny I save means I can survive for longer in my creative hiatus without feeling the pressure of going back to full-time work

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25% are kind, 75% are oblivious to other's needs

January 25th 2008 01:40

Travelling on a Sydney train often gives me something to write about. Sometimes it's because I find a person's facial features intriguing to the point where I feel they reveal information about their character. This could be a sign of my acute observational powers or my ability to imagine and create stories from thin air - you decide!

Today, my experience had nothing to do with facial expressions but everything to do with human kindness

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Fantastic New Year's message

January 14th 2008 05:00

My sister sent me a text message on New Year's Eve that is simple yet very powerful. She wrote it herself too which made it doubly nice. It made me see that I need to let go of the past and embrace the now.

Start the new year with new ambitions, goals and most of all new desires. Leave all feelings of regrets, mistakes and guilt behind (in the nearest trash can). At midnight, let only good thoughts and desires embrace you.
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A mother for always

January 4th 2008 02:39

My beautiful Mum, Sonia, passed away at 5.50am on Friday 7 September 2007.

These are the words I spoke at the church service

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The effects of anger

December 9th 2007 22:26

I do not get angry often. I actually rarely get angry but in this trying time of losing my Mum, all my nerves and emotions are raw. I feel like an open wound where any dust particle or jab or touch has the potential to make me feel angry. I breathe in very deeply to ward off an outburst. However, the other day I was just not able to control my anger, and I yelled and cried at the person whom I was having the argument with.

The one thing I notice with anger is that it never makes you feel better afterward. It's like a toxin in your body that on explosion gives instantaneous relief but after that instant, your body and mind are left in ruin. You think that by letting the anger out, you will release the toxin - the bad feelings, the out-of-control emotion - out of you. Instead what happens is that the toxin spreads more deeply into the fibres of your being and then you have brand new problems: trying to forgive yourself for getting to that point of anger and determining the damage you caused yourself and others

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I would rather be a poem

December 6th 2007 03:37

Do some women lead their lives as “polite fiction”?

In one of the most beautifully crafted books I read this year, To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the characters coins the phrase "polite fiction". It made me think about women who live their lives as pretty one-dimensional canvasses without exploring the depth of treasures within...mainly because they haven't found the strength to be REAL, to learn about themselves

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