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 This winter in Syd after  2 1/2 years not living here permanently. Today visited DFO . Looking at the wide range of fashionable goods & bags in the shop - feel a bit out of touch like a ‘swa-ku’  Guess need stay up to date on & off  Intention is the key to all smooth relationships  Same mentality as those willing to co-create , share , harmony (humility) & revere life  Strange how easy it is to settle into a ‘country bubble’ life - pleasant & uncomplicated  But become hard to fit back into the ‘rush real world ‘ 

2020 Time Spend NY Eve with Sharon & Hannah Nice fireworks from Sharon’s house Korean catchup TV episodes NY’s day , we had brekkie & lunch & buy CNY 2020 clothes for Hannah

Retirement Time 61 ( 2017 ) - Took back investment prop interstate & move back & forth between 2 states & family overseas Reconnect with old friends interstate Restablish interstate base & met new nice neighbours & their pet dog. Year of transiting from working like to fulltime retirement Chief benefit - Smooth transition to retirement life 62 (2018)  - Did overseas trip to Croatia with overseas cousins. Immediate family visited me in my interstate base before I re-rent our space as moving between two states to maintain home was getting too much. Chief benefit - Simplify living arrangements 63 (2019) -  Concentrate on one homebase Develop new hobbies like quilting & walking Join a walking group for walking holiday interstate EOY festive celebration with immediate family Chief benefit - Develop new hobbies Manage health 64 (2020) ‘ Today I do what others won’t Tmr I do what others can’t ‘ Learn this from FionaF & her w...

Holiday Time Easy living  Only thing to care about is a bit of laundry & room tidying  Daily - wake up at appropriate time after  adequate sleep Go with the flow  Fit in any social for the day - family , cousins  Connect with family mbrs especially Gen Z mbr  Check some internet stuff  Do some cooking for fun  TV spore  Exercise  Basically take it easy 

Nov 2019 Recently I went on a walking hol at MP with a new group of friends Had a delightful time Just time to experience new places , activities & be a better walker Company was good All in all a most delightful 10 days

Camino Calling 1. Guided to flourish in store at MBS 2. Read Camino article in WW mag 3. In book I am reading ' The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or touch . They are felt with the heart' 4. New ebook I am reading on 4/5/19

‘Fear not , little flock , for it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom’   Luke 12:32 2019  - Simplify housing Apr  - Hope to try vegan eating - inspired by Elsa’s wholesome Life book Also to stick to a fitness schedule when not travelling

‘To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven’....... Time to be born - J, H, S Time to die - M, F,   M, Eden, Ellie Time to plant & plucked what is planted - various homes -  Carlingford/Parramatta/Baulkham Hills/Epping Linkage Time to kill - off unnecessary stuff Time to heal - sickness Time to breakdown - stuff no longer needed Time to build up - new skills , younger family mbrs Time to weep - emotional times Time to dance - celebrations Time to mourn - those who are no longer with us on earth but still with us in spirit Time to cast away stones - when gardening Time to gather stones - when building structures Time to embrace - those we love Time to refrain from embracing - people not good for us Time to get -  honest Time to lose -  old no longer useful ideas Time to keep - truthful ideas Time to cast away - wrong thoughts Time to tend - to conscious living Time to rend - whatever is not good for us Time t...

Belle Cafe at Vacluse - New South Head Rd Bookocino at Avalon Beach Muji S’pore - Plaza Singapore East Gosford Art Gallery cafe

Lots of  exercise classes Yummy food / Cooking Enjoyable lunch meets Walks in interesting places Comfortable base to read good books Finish quilting rug project Learning applique Watching TV cooking shows Essential Oils Pots Gardening  Catch up meets Declutering , home maintenance , redesign space

Families live simply We and 3 other families live with my grandma It was the 'family'  house - none of the above families own their own house even though each family also have 4-5 children . How we forget and think that home ownership is so important. We and another family start to move out when the government start to build affordable flats for the people. Finally the Landlord took back the leased land and compensate my uncle for their 'family' house. As a kid , we walk miles to school passing a village where the locals don't even have their own tap water and could be seen filling buckets up from the free public taps provided in the village square. We have to cross a canal that only have a log across it . On rainy days it was quite frightening and we walk through a more prosperous district to get home .This other way was another 1/3 longer in length hence not often use by us. For primary school recess , we will given 20 cents daily for food and dr...

Trying to decide whether or not I should pay for an online book writing course . Cost about $600 - $700 Told myself  if  I make some extra money from investing will use the bonus for the course Guess it could be stretch time Other  stretches I need Drive better

What one thing will be make the most important difference to my life & my family life ? The chief cause of  failure is giving what we want most for what we want now - no long term perspective . -   from Denning's Vision Board course How often does the fog of  life make us give up rather than stay the course - swimmer giving up just before her shore target as she was beat by the fog this time round . A  new skill ? Weight -  63 kg Exercise regime - for health Don't make Vision B too crazy or too overwhelming - scattered mind Put VB somewhere where I can see it at least twice a day  -fill my mind with what's on my vision board A nice Other Base for staycation between places

Right now enjoying a Luke Ngyuen’s cooking episode on television - he is travelling & cooking in Vietnam - interesting local scenes & good cooking tip Nice walking group walk to Cremone Point Social Events Quilting Hobby  Pot a nice pink flowers plant  Exercise classes

‘ In finding his inner life ........  we find ourselves unlimited in terms of ‘here’  or ‘there’ , ‘now’ or ‘hereafter’.  There is a going in and a coming out without  any sense of  time or space , an unfolding without  degree, a realisation without an object. ‘  Joel Goldsmith - The Infinite Way Life just happens & bring us wonderful experiences

When we don't slow down and 'zen' our activities , we have a tendency to use time hastily sometimes for stuff we should  not even be involved with or dispense unwanted advice . When we ply too many unconsidered activities in our life , we lack focus and is wasting our own life energy.  Better to slow down & be purposeful and intentional about our activities rather than be driven by FOMO - not good for our own health and also creating un-necessary tension for people around us by a normally frenzied mindset in FOMO attitude & behaviour. Evaluate what is really important to us & avoid scattered thoughts 

Time really counts Everything ‘progress’ in time like new inventions or new ways of doing things

'One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.'  Virginia Woolf  (A Room of  One's Own) I share the same sentiments. Better to enjoy delicious food with family & friends in our home base than spend wads of dollars in overseas travel if one have to choose between the two. Spreading out the funds through the year that I would have spend on travels to enjoy meals with love ones is more gratifying for me I think.

One reason I think why we did not travelled as much in earlier years is because it was hard to leave the house and dogs by themselves for too long. Day to day housing is important to consider so that it does not affect too much the amount of  time desired for travel. Places I will like to see one day -  Spain - El Camino de Santiago                                                        diff parts of Asia - markets & culture                                                        (Mynamar , Nepal)                                                        ...

Women in my mother's time were generally considered inferior to their male siblings ; the reason I say this is because if a family only have enough funds to educate some but not all children, the sons will get the education but not the daughters like in my mother's family . Her elder sister got some education because she wanted it and grandma barter for her education by doing the teacher's laundry as we were told by our aunties. It may also be women were considered to be 'married off' & belonging to another family while the sons will still remain in the family to help earn money This lack of educational opportunity affected our mother's opportunities in life and our subsequent upbringing. However she gave us freedom of choice in many ways while we were growing up. Just as well education became more available to everybody when we were growing up and in turn give us more options in life with the education we receive. I exercise compassion when growing...