5 Things You Don't Know About WaterLearner

I was tagged by Sam about two weeks ago to do a 5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me Meme. Yeah, Sam, I did not forget alright! :-) Have been trying to find time to do it all along. Enough of excuses that the inner devil inside me is trying to defend my huge ego. Here are my five things you probably don't know:

1) My Godson - Oliver

Oliver is the son of my good friend, Sophia. I have known Sophia for more than 10 years! He is coming to a year old soon. Such a charming little thing is he not?

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2) The Doodler

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I doodle a lot. When I am stressed or when I have nothing to do. While I am on the phone, or when I am trying to solve some problems ... I get inspiration from doodling. When I am into creating some serious works, I normally use pencils. More often than not, I use Pilot V5 pens that I have in quite a few colours on my work desk

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I used to practice Chinese Calligraphy. More as a training to still my mind than as an art.

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3) Current Pastime - My Virtual Escapade

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I am quite addicted to PSP. Blanca (the white one) was a gift from my husband (then, boyfriend) more than one year ago. From where I used to live on the eastern side of Singapore, it took me one hour on the public bus to get to my workplace on the northern side of Singapore, daily. He gave me Blanca to keep me occupied and to make the two trips a day more bearable. It really did help. Blackie (the black one) belongs to my hubby. He only bought one for himself half a year ago.

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4) Fear of Water

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I have received feedback from some readers who mistaken my blog to be that of a swimming instructor. WaterLearner? Why WaterLearner?

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I once read in the Chinese Classics, Dao De Jing, that Water has many virtues. In one of the chapters, it was written:

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"The highest goodness resembles water. Water greatly benefits myriad things without contention. It stays in places that people dislike..."

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Despite adopting WaterLearner as my avatar, I have fear for deep waters. I nearly drowned while I was swimming in a pool in my teens due to cramps. Since then, I have always had this fear in me. I still swim though. But WaterLearner has no courage to face deep waters.

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5) Clumsy Hiker in the Forest of Life

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As much as it is Awareness that I am often writing about in my humble blog, I am extremely far from enlightenment of any kind. Dark wars inside me are faced and battled everyday between my untrained Awareness and this very strong selfish opponent called Ego.

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At times when my reaction appears somewhat slow, somewhat clumsy, or I carry a out-of-this-world-look .. such are very likely moments of battling between my Awareness and Ego. Before emergence of a victor, to the outside world, I appear to be on a Pause-Mode.

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So .. My five things are done. I would love to know more about the following fabulous bloggers. And do remember, it must be something that most do not know about you. Yeah!

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* Bobby * Judy * Emila * Janice * Jean * Winston * MT * Sharon * KeeYit *

* Lili * Trinity * Sam * BokJae * Marzie * SweetDaddy * Joanne * Jamy *

A Note to those I have tagged:

No time to do it? .... Never Mind. I understand :-)

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