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26 Years of Quiet Love: Farewell to My Beloved Baby

Forever my Big Baby Introduction: The Gentle Shadow On April 19, 2000, a tiny terrapin quietly walked into my life and changed it forever. I bought her from a little neighborhood shop at my local market—the kind of place that sold ornamental fish, pet food, and basic aquarium supplies. Back then, I actually brought home two or three baby terrapins. Being so young and not knowing much about pet care, the others sadly didn't survive very long. I still remember the tears I cried back then, gently burying one in a small hole I dug downstairs at our HDB block. Completely unaware at the time that digging there wasn't permitted! But through it all, one strong, resilient little soul stayed with me: my Big Baby. In those early days, we really had no idea how to properly raise a terrapin. We simply learned as we went. I started with a small, basic tank, changing her water every single day and feeding her a mix of vegetables and standard turtle pellets. As the years passed and she grew fr...

Effort in Writing

Not sure if my readers know that for about 5 weeks, I have been writing posts for Foodpanda Magazine and that explains why no updates on my own blog. If you haven't know, go on and read from the link below:


I realize the effort put on writing the above 5 is more than what I have given to my own blog posts here. That is very bad of me and I just realize it after writing the 5 posts. Probably, I just want to achieve some recognition for my writing and the posts here in this blog. Because I don't write every fine posts all along. I just write whatever is in my mind, be it in constructing the sentence and grammatical thingy. This is just me.

But for the 5 posts, I think, plan, write and rewrite many times so that the whole thing flows well. So for a week, my mind is preoccupied by every single post that I'm gonna submit every week. Like I'm so hardworking ya. Kind of exhausting, especially when you rewrite. Because everyday I have new ways or ideas to write the post. Sentence structuring and all. Every single day. Or when I stopped for awhile for shower, I come out of the bathroom with new things in mind and as quick as I can, I type it all out and rephrase or structure it in proper. And every single day, my brain juice is squeezed till dry. 

But at least it turns out well with some editing from them though. It doesn't really matter. What matters most is the effort I put in writing it out. Weeks of panicking over what to write, how to write, how to attract readership and all. Phew... it is really not that easy. No wonder some bloggers asked for higher amount of remuneration for every article they write. I think I should too after this experience. Because every post is painstakingly written no matter how. And to have fussy readers out there, it adds on the amount of pressure to every writer in order to suit everybody's reading pleasure. Wow...

Write wrongly, there comes all the keyboard warriors or justice warriors who will go all the way just to pick on you by throwing nasty comments and make you the most miserable person in the world. 

That is life. Everybody is the same. So am I. But I learnt from lessons to just 'watch how the show goes' without speaking out. Swallowing all the injustice and move on.

End of blabbering.

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