archive of March, 2009
From my bedroom windows and from the balcony bordering the den I can watch a dozen tiny, brown birds bathing at the edge of the kids’ wading pool below then shaking themselves dry and preening in the three small pine trees which are very close to the apartment. The palm trees of various species, with fronds waving in the wind, aren’t suitable perches for the birds. They favor the textured, skinny, horizontal branches of the young pines which aren’t moved much by breezes. »→
Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ~ C. S. Lewis
I just watched a Formula One race on television – the season-opener in Melbourne, Australia. The race began at 5 p.m. there – 2.p.m. here in Malaysia. Racers of Brawn GP, formerly Honda F1, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello had qualified Saturday to start in positions one and two! An auspicious start for Brawn GP, which as Honda F1 had been languishing for years. »→
I had my first vehicular accident this afternoon on the way back from Penang Hill. I’d thought that I’d wreck sooner or later amidst the zaniness on the roads here. I thought maybe at night, on a wet, oily road, that I’d have to dodge someone and would lay-down the bike. »→
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. ~ C. S. Lewis
Malaysian motorcyclists’ credo: Anything goes. »→
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. ~ C.S. Lewis
The parish will have a blood-donation day on April 5. Until then, I’m an involuntary donor. Mosquitos love me. The ankle-biters visit me each week. They like my neck, hands, ankles and feet, perhaps because they don’t have much hair for the skeeters to avoid. I think that they get me when I sleep. We leave windows and balcony door open day and night for airflow through the apartment, and Asia doesn’t have window screens, so the bugs are free to come in. Oh, well. Small nuisance.
Well, mail doesn’t take too long to arrive here (unlike the Philippines). A friend sent mail from Baguio City on Monday, March 16, and it arrived here on Saturday, March 21. My brother mailed a small parcel from Tampa on Friday, March 13, it arrived in Malaysia on March 19, then I received it here on March 23. I sent postcards in February from Kuala Lumpur to U.S. and Germany, and transit times weren’t long, so I was glad.