SUNDAE INTER:LUDE

Desiderata.Inter:lude


As this is the first Sunday when Desi takes a break from Desiderata.English as indicated last January 1, 2006 -- how times flies, eh? -- I wish to start on a theme which encourages mGf that we all take a break from the routinessness of our everyday activities. I invite my most EsteemedReaders to use this channel to converse with each other. Please Email to chongyl2000@yahoo.com
any of your original writings, preferred option,
OR quoted sources of exquisite writings
Prose or Poetry
as long they serve to give tired souls
an INTER:LUDE
something that touches the heart
lifts the spirit
maybe can even be soulful butt deep
makes the readers wanna dance
as on a primeday
with spring on light feet.Like Christopher.

Desiderata leaves it to the
IMAGINE-NATION
of you (young), yOu (older), and YOU (who never grows old, only Up)!


Flagging off with an Intro:

Lust Friday,while expecting it to be a FRIghtday as a Herculean task was intimated to me by SMS and email, Desi received a pleasant GIFT of
Let's Folk again
of 40 Remastered Original Folk Songs
from an AlmostGalNextDoor

And in some way, May, poets' month, and September, Desi's Special, arrive early for Desi this year
as the album kicks off with
Try To Remember - The Brothers Four
which I had penned about lust ... yeah, can't be anytime but September 2005.

For this Goode Morning I was taken by Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam
who renders with joy anew

Morning Has Broken


Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the world

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day


As dessert and to flag off this series is an Ori Sunday INTER-LUDE -- it goes very well with a CON BF consiisting of French toast with peanut butter, telur mata kerbau with Malaysian toast with authentic "butter" (not margarine and a type of cholesterol-free butter!), some sausages, Spaghetti cowboy fresh cooked yellow beans ... washed down by a jug of pipinghot Haridas tehtarik.

Reprising from Sunday, January 01, 2006
Because A Little Bug Went KA-CHOO
By Christopher Lau

Here is the story -

One fine morning, a little bug sneezed.
Because of the sneeze, a little seed dropped.
Because the little seed dropped, a worm was hit.
Because a worm was hit, the worm got mad.

When the worm was mad, it hit a tree. A coconut
dropped. It hit on a turtle. The turtle splashed into
the water. A hen got wet. The hen got mad.

When the hen got mad, it kicked a bucket. The bucket
shot up and when it went down, it hit Farmer Brown.
Farmer Brown's head got stuck in the bucket. He phoned
for help. Police came speeding. They hit a stone. One
policeman flew up all alone. When the policeman came
down, he landed on the boat of Mary Lou and made a big
hole in Mary Lou's boat.

The boat started to sink. Everyone started to scream.
Mrs Brown called on the phone for more help. They tied
a strong rope on Mary Lou's boat. The boat did not
sink, but it needed to be fixed.

So, they went to town. They ran into a circus parade.
The whole town turned into chaos!

I thought the story was hilarious when my mother read
to me when I was 3 or 4. Then later, when I was a
little older, I thought it was boooooooring! But I
think the whole thing started with the worm getting
angry and hit a tree. The hen also got mad and kicked
a bucket. It would have been a happy ending if the bug
sneezed and hit a seed that fell to the ground and
grew up to be a bean tree. Then, we can continue with
the story of Jack and the Bean Stalk! I think it is
more interesting.

I also have a story of sneeze and bugs. I sneeze very
often. So often that my mother does not get excited
over it anymore. But, this time, it was a little
different. Because I sneezed, bugs went around.
Because the bugs flew everywhere, I caught a sore
throat. Because I had a sore throat, my nose blocked.
Because my nose blocked, the bugs ran to my ear.
Because the bugs stayed there, my ear got infected.

Because my ears got infected one time too often, my
mummy panicked.

Because my mummy got panicky, I got to see a
specialist doctor in Singapore. Because the doctor is
special, he said I am allergic to many bugs and
cockroaches. So, I sneeze often. Because he is
special, he also said I am over-weight. Because I am
over-weight, he asked me to work on losing 2 kg first.

Because he said so, I have been working very hard.
Because this special doctor said so, I even felt
guilty eating a little piece of chocolate yesterday!
Yeah, I have lost 1 kg!

When school begins on Tuesday, I will have to carry a
8-kg school bag and walk all the way to the 4th floor
where my class is located. Then it wil be fast for me
to lose another kg.

See, sneezing is not bad, if you don't get mad. The
moral of the story is "Don't get mad and hit a tree or
kick a bucket. Then, even if you sneeze, you can meet
a nice doctor who not only helps you sneeze better, he
can help you lose some weight!"

Lessons for adults from
Because A Little Bug Went KA-CHOO
Rosetta Stone
Dr Seuss Series for Child Books

By Yan

This is a book of great truth. "You may not believe
it, but here's how it happened ..." (that's how the
book begins.)

Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher said, "Life
can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived
forwards."

It is easier for us to understand this truth at the
beginning of the year. On new year's eve, just last
night, did we realize more than at any other time in
our lives we can never go back in time. We looked back
and remembered, but we could not retrace a single
moment of the year that had past!

Therefore, little Chris looked back at the story of
the Little Bug and felt that if the worm had not been
mad or the chicken had not been mad just because of
little irritations, the whole chain of events would
not have happened! He understood life backwards, and
seemed to understand that little "bends" in life can
make a whole world of difference!

Who can measure the potential of a sneeze?

Only time will tell. Therefore, the second truth is no
matter how insignificant your work may seem now, only
time will tell of the consequence.

Who would have thought that a little sneeze of Chris
would give him a determination to "lose some weight"
by accepting certain forms of discipline or give up
certain habits? We would not be able to see the
influence on his life, it may reach beyond our years.
But, we hold on the faith that "the sneeze has blown a
seed and the seed has been planted", God of harvest
will cause the little seed to come to fruition.

When it does, it will be more than you can measure.

Before us stretches a new year. We feel the challenge
of the unknown, of the unexplored, of the year ahead
of us yet to be discovered. I feel a bit of
excitement, a bit of fear, a feeling of weakness, but
I know there are great possibilities in store for each
of us in 2006, for God has said,

Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it
entered into the heart of man the things that God has
prepared for them who loved Him. - 1 Corinthians 2:9b)

DESIDERATA: This special INTER:LUDE is the fruit of a son&Mum teAm. If my ER have any questions, address them to Y&A Chris who's all grown up at age 11-going-21, and Yan, who's xx going xx minus 1.(This is privileged information, the xx I mean,which this holder may oblige with sharing if you can track Desi down in FuRong and buy me a CON!}

Have a Blessed Sunday,
Every Sunrise brings a fresh new day to ENJOY.