Shiva's and Metta's Mother's Sutra

I didn't go for my run this morning - i'll go later.  I don't know what's happened to my sleep patterns/ schedule. It's a nightmare, that's all i know. Anyway.  I am also not obsessed with my weight any longer. I don't know why. Something definitely switched when I went back to Ireland. I am now - yeah, I'll run and I'll swim and I'll be happy. That's it. I think it's going to be hot today. It has been hottest since I've arrived. Although it said no rain for the next two weeks, it has rained on Monday and it rained yesterday. I looked at my short stories and Miriam and the Myna...and this is the plan going forward. As I was running yesterday, I thought that the first story would be called Prologue and the last story would be Epilogue.  Then it will be divided into parts...  Like: End Times (stories about the collapse of society), Her there be Monsters (women-animal hybrids),  Powerful Women?, In Another Life (alternative time lines), ...

I finally relooked at my short stories. 

Oyster Bank, Tanjong Pagar Trump thought that a quick visit to Ireland would strengthen his Irish American voter base for the mid terms, instead he was ambushed by Uachtaran Connelly who, being a menopaused woman, told him genocide was terrible and then made him sign the guest book on the world's smallest desk. Then Irish people, virulent pro Palestinian supporters and have been livid about the genocide taking place in the Levant now for the past four years, went to bat for the Gazans and Lebanese by staging a demonstration in Dublin, followed by several imaginative ways of telling the US and Trump what they thought of him.  Trump did not get the political capital he was hoping to make. Instead he got inflatables and humiliation - and the Irish, as usual, took the upper hand and told him where to get off.  Very proud of the people of my adopted land.  Well, yesterday, I went for my run. Then we commenced with eat...

Well, the jet lag hit hard today - didn't sleep until 8.30 am and then slept till 2.30 pm. It is relentlessly hot. Relentlessly. It's mad. I cannot imagine this is the weather we are going to have for the next week at least. When is the next full moon? We have just had the new moon - the next full moon is on the 26th. So we are stuck with this weather at least until then. Fuck. Well, I water the garden in the morning. And then in the evening. I haven't done that as yet. The table is just completely messy. I need to sort it out. So yesterday's plan has been trashed. It is now 3 pm and I'm just spiralling. I really want to go for a run but I feel so tired and fed up. I think I'll just clear this table and see where that leads me. My priority this week will be doing a deep clean of this room.  So the daily things will be the following: Looking after Ma Being in touch with friends Doing Admin Deep cleaning - I've put that in my planner already Cleaning up draft ...

Drawing in Lengkong Bahru Ma always said that Hai Lam people worked in nonya kitchens. I didn't believe her. What did I do yesterday? Well, yesterday after being laid out by jetlag - you'd think I'd have some sort of immunity by now - I did some planning and tidied the table. Then I went for a teh peng with Oisin and headed back here to have a nap. I was going to edit my short stories when Oisin put on Ocean's Eleven . So I watched that and began to fall asleep. I got up around midnight and stayed awake till 2 am. Then I went back to bed and got up at 6.30 am. I ran at 7 am. It was smoky and still. A weird kind of heat. After that we went out. I'll post that later. The burning of the rainforest continues. Coupled with the utter destruction of the rainforest here and the usual heat, it makes Singapore an oppressive place to be. It's not that it is hot - it is actually not as hot as when there is direct sun coming down in a clear blue sky. ...

Well, it is now 24 hours since I've arrived. Time means nothing essentially. It has felt like I was in Ireland for two months. But it was only 3 weeks. The flight, 13 hours, felt like it was 5. I couldn't tell you why everything is all over the place.  But now that I'm back here, it feels like it has put some kind of bookend to this last few months. If the last few months began when I arrived here back in March.  March              Singapore June                 Ireland July                 Singapore August           Ireland September     Singapore So actually, it's only 5 trips I have had. So only 5 sets of jet lag and transcontinental flying. That's it. So what? 5 days of flying and travelling - an entire week, if you think about it. It's not that much. Considering I spend zero hours travelling most of the time. ...