The Ultimate Dance Experience!! At least it is for me ;)
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Its the time of the year and I'm in a place like no other!! A few days hiatus from blogging did me good as I had all the time in the world to catch up on good food and good sleep. Although Ipoh is viewed by many as a sleepy town, it is simply the place where you find food, GLORIOUS FOOD!

My stomach had hardly enough time to digest everything I've poured in the last few days but this has not stopped me from pouring in more! With pastries that crumble in your mouth, dishes which not just fills but satisfies, bits of tidbits which come with an assortment of aromas, you simply cannot resist. Ah yes!! I nearly forgot to mention the drink that completes it all, Shandy!!

Shandy, shandy, shandy,shandy...All the shandy in the world that is mine for drinking. Chinese New Year is the only time in the year where I can drink Shandy without my parents nagging me about alcoholism. Well, they still do but I don't care and someone needs to drink it anyway. Why can't it be me??Ha ha ha, I feel a teeny bit whoozy though so I guess its time for more Shandy! Have a jolly good Shandy-licious New Year Folks!!

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There is really nothing like a good read, nothing like having that deep kind of satisfaction that bubbles from within when you've finished a good book. I can hardly believe my luck! Two days ago, I hopped down to the nearest library and I found the very book that inspired this blog.. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

Basically it centres around the Jean Valjean, a man forced into burglary by poverty, sentenced to 5 years as a galley slave but spend 19 years instead( he was caught escaping thrice). The amazing thing about this book is the way Hugo details the emotional and spiritual turmoil Valjean faces not so much as a galley slave but as a "free" man . Valjean may be liberated physically but his spirit was still being enslaved.

To add to that, Victor Hugo has an interesting way of putting two and two together to finally give you the whole picture. I likened it to the sewing of quilts. Hugo works first on certain patches of the story and stops, turning his attention to other new patches. When he's satisfied with the patches that he has so carefully threaded through, he sews them all up together with a strong, neat stitch!

In between these patches, he expertly introduces other characters such as Javert, the irritating policeman, Cossete, the love and light of Valjean's life, Marius, the threat which turned out to be the entrustee and of course, Monseigneur Bienvenu, the bearer of light, hope and love in a society struggling without.

After staying up all night to absorb Les Miserables, I can almost understand how cruel and persecuting the society can be but I understood more importantly how a man, if he prevails and endures, can finally find peace not from man but from God. It is ridiculously easy to say that one will love, live for and devote his life for God. However, doing it is ironically the hardest thing in the world and that was just what Jean Valjean did.

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Have you ever felt like dumping everything you're doing at the moment and just flop over to the bed or ever wished time would stop running so you can unscramble your thoughts one at a time or how about breathing as a career?
Laziness..or rather its root word, lazy means resistant to work or exertion, disposed to idleness and indolence, slow moving, reclining or lying down according to Dictionary.com. Another site says its of German origin?? (WHAT?? only Germans are lazy??) No way! Laziness is universal..Come on, look at me! I've never been to Germany and yes, I'm lazy and I'm proud of my capability to be lazy or unproductive as my dad puts it.
Its a simple therapy to today's stress-filled environment. If people will just learn to be lazy once in awhile instead of concentrating on the stockmarket, building a fortune, the kids, your in-laws etc., we will have less cardiovascular diseases. Laziness is infused in resting, doing something slow-paced, refusing orders for once and its free! The very thing you may need to boost your health is free!!
Being lazy is the very essence of recharging yourself to face whatever you need to do with a renewed passion. I'm not against hardwork, definitely not but working like a robot 24/7 will only suck out the fun, the zeal and the reason why you're doing what you're doing. Take me for example, I've been stressed before exams and I didn't enjoy it one bit. Sometimes in the rush of things, I question my choice but now as I'm lazing around at home and thinking alot, I'll have to admit, I seriously enjoy being a medical student!Its cool!! (i'm still sane :))
One thing's for sure, laziness allows me to do more things I enjoy doing instead of just studying such as shopping, listening to music, watching movies, disturbing my sisters and hah! Blogging!! To my mum, I'm lazy because I'm not studying but surfing the web and in the process, luring my "hardworking" sisters into the realm of laziness. I try explaining to her that the reason she has a sane daughter is laziness but I tried!
I guess its just one of those things in life that you need only to explain to yourself and if people ask or scold as in the case of parents, you can try to enlighten them about it. In the mean time, if you ever reconsider spa treatments, scrape that idea and just stick to being lazy. Trust me, it works big time!

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