I’m home!!
Today’s been one mixture of emotions.
I started my day with a major headache due to lack of sleep the night before, and *ahem* due to my experience with one whole glass of beer to myself. Hahaha! Vek said I was funny.. No, no..i did not have a hangover. I just woke up feeling very very sleepy :)
Woke up early in an anticipation to meet up with my darlin’ cousin in Nilai. She was to leave for the KLIA in the evening. So, I was adamant to spend the best quality of time with her for the remaining hours I had.. and I did! (Pictures with Ling Ling and buddy Terrence coming soon..)
Saying goodbye at the airport wasn’t exactly the best highlight of my day. Despite foreseeing this, saying “goodbye” just makes me choke up. Argghh.. hated that feeling.
5 hours later, I am finally home… the joy! The air here seems to smell better; Crickets, chirp in a different tune; Stars lite up in a brighter twinkle… LOL. Yes, I’m happy.
Heck, sathya made me a “special drink”- ribena + orange juice + ‘kit chai’ ping. It’s surprisingly yummy.. lol.. I think he’s happy to see me too!
i can smell.. FReeeeEEEdom!!Last one whole month of torture, sweat, sleepless nights and back aching last minute revision has finally paid off.. "paid off"- dont really know that for sure till end of August.. but what i mean is - exam's over!it's holiday season! and as my yearly planner says, it's "summer break" now.. so KL town, here i come. Vic, can't wait to go shopping with u.. prom, ayushna, *screamz*... mummy, me coming home soon! yiPPEee-dee-day!as some of u might've noticed, i've innovated my lil right hand corner and added a lil "major to do list" to help me count down to the stuff i shall accomplish this 3 whole month of hols (It isn't much.. but at least it's sumthin'). Hopefully the looking for job bit aint going to take away my chance of accomplishing the list, but anyways, caring frenz are encouraged to help me strike as many off as possible. It's a mission!happy summer everyone!
I’ve been signing off letters “without wax” these days. No, it isn’t my way of informing someone why I haven’t waxed (not that I haven’t.. ahem )... No, I wasn’t being cheeky or being lamely funny (maybe I was). Anyways, why “without wax”.. Well, Vickie dear, here’s my explanation..
Thanks to Dan Brown, the master of literature, the shi-fu in mind manipulation thru mere words, I came upon the true beauty of the phrase. Hah! I exaggerate, but yes, I guess this is the most appropriate way to start. You know, giving credit to the one who introduced me to my current amusement.
Who would have guessed that the mere words “without wax” was something everyone took for granted these days. Like honey one spreads on their French toasts and pancakes, like the beautiful sculptures one finds on the fountains of Italy, when I say without wax, what I simply mean is I mean what I say.
Baffling? Honestly, the secret behind without wax is too sweet. Its origins were ancient, truly.
But I’ll just let Dan Brown explain.
“During the Renaissance, Spanish sculptors who made mistakes while carving expensive marble often patched their flaws with cera – ‘wax’. A statute that had no flaws and required no patching was hailed as a ‘sculpture sin cera’ or a ‘sculpture without wax’.”
Yup! A simple explanation, for a simple fact. So it really wasn’t funny whenever I signed off with “without wax”. I was merely saying “sincerely”. Like how most of us would sign off their letters... well, the more articulate ones among us that is. Lol.
After reading about it from Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress, I went online with “without wax” in mind. Lo and behold.. the amount of sites relating to “without wax” was without wax surprising.
Apparently, the Greek word translated “sincere” as Anupokritos. The last part of the word is our word hypocrite. The prefix “an” means “without”. So the Greek word actually means, “without hypocrisy”. In classical Greek the word “hypocrite” meant someone who wore a mask in a play.
Without a mask. Without deceit. Without fraud. Without wax.
But brush off the origins of the word “sincere”, without wax truly goes to another level when one sees it in a different light. Why do we have to go so way back in time to understand? Ironically, this simple explanation could literally be found in our very on home. Take honey for example. A pure honey, as I was told, is one from which all the wax has been strained. The lesser wax there is, the purer it becomes.
Purity.. ah, nice word ain’t it. I would love to add on another fact about wax and its relation with a woman. However, I think I shall keep that particular point to myself. Every woman has to have her mystery doesn’t she? With or without wax...
