Monday, May 01, 2006
May Day
May 1st. Labour Day. It's not a holiday here in the Land of a Thousand Islands. People are still trudging abt their daily lives here under the cloudy skies. But not everyone. I am as slack as ever and it's getting on my nerves. Yet things we took for granted at the little red dot of an island cannot be done as easily here, for various reasons.
Security has been beefed up for the week due to the demonstrations. The streets are a bit quieter cos ppl are worried that things may turn ugly. I have been sent home and here I am, being the correspondent in charge of watching the news and alerting them if anything goes wrong. I dun think things will turn too bad this time, but the economy has been so slow lately that you never know what may happen. The fuel price hike might have been announced some time ago, but, like any other policy, it took time before the true impact is felt.
Some good points abt relationships I got from the web:
There’s a difference between romance and intimacy. Romance is about personality, and intimacy is about character. Romance is about the lure of surface chemistry, charm—your socialized self playing with somebody else’s socialized self. It’s superficial stuff and not necessarily long-lasting. Intimacy is about connecting soul-to-soul, character-to-character — sharing your real self with someone else’s real self — and that’s what’s necessary for a solid, long-lasting relationship.
Basically a relationship will survive not based on how well you get along, but by how well you don’t get along. A couple is only as “strong” as how well the two individuals can deal with their weakest moments together.
Security has been beefed up for the week due to the demonstrations. The streets are a bit quieter cos ppl are worried that things may turn ugly. I have been sent home and here I am, being the correspondent in charge of watching the news and alerting them if anything goes wrong. I dun think things will turn too bad this time, but the economy has been so slow lately that you never know what may happen. The fuel price hike might have been announced some time ago, but, like any other policy, it took time before the true impact is felt.
Some good points abt relationships I got from the web:
There’s a difference between romance and intimacy. Romance is about personality, and intimacy is about character. Romance is about the lure of surface chemistry, charm—your socialized self playing with somebody else’s socialized self. It’s superficial stuff and not necessarily long-lasting. Intimacy is about connecting soul-to-soul, character-to-character — sharing your real self with someone else’s real self — and that’s what’s necessary for a solid, long-lasting relationship.
Basically a relationship will survive not based on how well you get along, but by how well you don’t get along. A couple is only as “strong” as how well the two individuals can deal with their weakest moments together.
// posted by Jenn @ 3:58 PM 
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