The last few days of summer have always been precious. They say summer appears to have more magic near its end and it always seems to end before you’re finished with it. Warm days, and cloudless blue skies were perfect for rides high up in the sky. The late summer breeze kissed my face as [...]

The sight of pumpkins always reminds me that autumn is approaching and the anticipation of the chill that could come during the evenings when summer warred with autumn. It won’t be long before the first scent of damp autumn leaves hangs in the air. Up till now, I still have no idea on how to [...]

I still remember the moment when I sat on one of these thing. As soon as the safety harness was in place, snug against my waist and shoulders, all that I could think of was that this was a mistake. A part of me wanted to get the hell out of there while another part [...]

There was a time when I was seventeen but fervently wished that I was twenty-seven and all grown-up. But when I reached twenty-seven, there were fleeting moments when I wished that I could be that seventeen year old girl again, whose life’s canvas was all but unpainted. It was a fine summer day in the [...]

There are times when life grants you little moments of satisfaction. Knowing that you get all the more wiser after trudging through a series of setbacks or taking some wrong turns. However fleeting these moments are, sometimes they are a little too fragile to hold on to and always too easy to be overlooked. Taken [...]

We are having superb summer weather lately with temperatures over the days rarely dipped below 30°C with cloudless blue sky to boot. Perfect days to be out and about. With the World Cup going on for the past few weeks which made summer in Germany all the more worth experiencing, especially when the German team [...]

Summer is emanating its irresistible charm on me. There are blue skies to warm the heart and ice cream to cool off the heat. Plenty of juicy red strawberries to sweeten the days and succulent cherries to tease the senses. The ecstasy of feeling cool water on the skin in the pool under the scorching [...]

I was to be the maid of honour of a best friend’s wedding. It was wonderful, a day filled with tears of joy and laughter. The night before the wedding, I was looking for a poem to dedicate it to the newly weds. I googled up in the Internet and found this one from Goethe [...]