Friday's child is loving and giving ...

Desi's delighted as he met a loving and giving child today…

And it’s doubly blessed because I met this Friday’s Child on a GOoD Friday.Yes! September 9, 2005 will stand out L'VINGLY in my life’s story-telling course.

Caught up with Challengee Primrose – winner of C4 which stands for Cabaran Yang ke-Empat, in case mGf like Sab is still clueless and wondering in the Perthian Haze. Digressing a bit, I see Sab, kyels and of course,Sweets, hacing been acting co-hosts at Desio's Place for the better part of yesterday and today. Terima kasih, which according to Oz mates, is the most striking way fo expressing garitude "Receive my Love" in deed.;)

Since Haridas could not be present to the honours, humble Desi stood in at the Booker przie presentation, and we raised two teh, “the non-tarik” type, since no susu lembu was available, as the Cowws didn't come home lastnoite,but I asuure you we sipped "branded" tea, for it’s from San Francisco, you see. A Challenge to Love was handed over to the smiling' recipient somewhere in the big bad city of Koala Lumpuh. Cutting to the race, (not chase, just in case there is wrong connotation here), Desi is extra careful when engaged in wordplay nowadays when the weather is hot, and most people don’t like someone who is windy angin-angin -- for sweetSpirit, who is Learning a New Word of BM a Day.

Primrose tells YLChong – whose penname, not actually a nick, for I adopted Jurassic years ago!,rhymes with Daisy, so appropriate in such blooming company, a li’l wind is okay with the flowers in her garden – she’s factually a Friday’s Child, who is born to be “loving and giving”.

I asked her how she knew. Oh, found out when filling up some forms relating to universitydocumentation (hope I gotta fact right... anyhow, genuine mistake also can't sue Desi, also not much currency2. Primrose said she was able to refer to a calendar that could track one's birthday down to that detail. Where on earth did she spy it -- no, primroe is not no secret agent-- in a neighbouring country?

And I assure thee, she truly and literally lives up to her name. Just visit http://primroses.blogspot.com, and you’ll be greeted by Bloom, Flower, Bloom, and acts of giving gifts like a Saint Frances even when Christmas is more than three months away.

I’m stealing one visitor’s comment from Primrose-y garden:

(NOTE: Case of The spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak...Desi quietly stepped into Primsrosey garden to steal ome stalk of bloom, but he was stopped by a Fierce -looking Virus, screaming Access Denied. I wasn't wearing my LanSi badge!)

(Space here reserved for the theft!)



While I told her there is no such thing as a “free lunch” in this world, she brought me a book called Ghosts of London to frighten the wits out of me. As if Desi is not sufficiently endowed in that department? And Primrose, that’s certainly a rhetorical question!

I brought mNf up to speed on the newsfront -- she had galcotted the news the past two days as she had other priorities to attend to, really “bee-sy” with her flowers! – by mentioning in passing about some “cheer” in the Malaysian airspace which came from our Prime Minister Pak Lah.

FOR THE RECORD

I note the supposedly “cheery” news as reported it The Star September 8, 2005 news headlined
Quick relief
 Road tax reductions up to 80% from Sept 12
 No petrol, diesel and cooking gas price increase until year-end
 No toll increase for this year and next year
 Increased aid for senior citizens, poor, and disadvantaged children
The only “discerningly sensible” quote extracted from all the street polled responses came from a sole gentleman. The Star reported: “S.K. Lim, 62, who had worked for more than 30 years in the Inland revenue Department, said although the “package” appeared helpful, it was merely a short-term solution.
“Pak Lah needs to look at long-term measures to ease the burden pf the people,” he said.

In the past almost two years as Prime Ministe, I've discerned in our country's CEO a "loving and giving" person. Maybe he's also a Friday's Child?

Such generosity of heart -- on citiznes like Primrose and PaklLah, I deem worthy of emulation. No wonder one reader called her "Princess". Here I make a thread to yesterday's Post highlighting the issue of Teenage Suicides, not just in Malaysia, but also in other countries as shared by other Readers. My link is that Youth of Today must be encouarged to take part in socilaising and looking outwards, and not be lone rangers and looking inwards. If they involve themselves in VOLUNTEERING, the perosna will be outward ;ooking, and ofetn looking to lend a helping hand. That hand that gives abundantly will be rewarded SEVEN times SEVENty times over, mGf Mr Cowws says, and I add to that: Hear! Hear, Young Ears.
To a YoungHeart made of Gold

So today's Morsel for Thought:

If the youths of today learn to give and not looking forward to receive, they are liely to grow up POSITIVE. A person always looking to Self and always wanting to receive will be likely to feel disappointed, and a more vulnerable victim to suicidal tendencies. At one time or another, adults in their 30s onwards will tell you they would have met at least one encountered that made the heart bleed so babdly they wished the whole world wlould swallow them up into its bosom. Making the heartaches all disappear.

But don't edge towards that precipice. Cultivate fRiendships, and that means reaching out to others, before they can reach out to you. Friendship is a two-wy or multi-way traffic. Never stand alONE. I end with Max Ehrmann's counsel appropraie for a Loving Day, so that as many of us can aspite to become Friday's Child, wins a ove they say ...:)

Love Some One

Love some one – in God’s name
Love some one – for this is
The bread of the inner life, without
Which a part of you will
starve and die; and though you
feel you must be stern,
even hard, in your life of affairs,
make for yourself at least
a little corner, somewhere in the
great world, where you may
unbosom and be kind.


DESIDERATA apologises for an EveningPost today, but we can all s-mile to-night.Remembering Primrose's childlie departning S-m-i-l-e that stretches for m-i-l-e-s...