Just now I repaid a tiny part of my lifelong debt to my parents by helping them put on fresh bedsheets. Mum was visibly tired and so was Dad. I felt a childish sense of pride after that... for my tiny attempt to reciprocate their daily acts of love and selflessness. Pple always say giving is altruistic, but I think it's not entirely so; cos givers like me derive self-satisfaction in the process... :P

Am wondering if it's worth investing 2.5 hrs of my weekend catching Eat, Pray, Love. Reviews of the movie seem mixed, and Miss C advises that the book is way better. Perhaps I should go get the book, while I'm in the pensive, 'what's my purpose in life' mood... and who knows, discover my purpose in life..! (yeah if only it were so easy). Am halfway thru this girl-ditches-job-for-passion book abt someone leaving corporate world to pursue her dream of learning cooking at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Her writing is not terribly exciting and the sub-plot about her and her dream bf sounds rather unoriginal/ unrealistic so far, but her class experiences and stuff she learns in class are still interesting enough. Just that what she cooks all sound pretty complicated. If I ever follow in her footsteps, I'd probably do the pastry course :P J has urged me to do so in Kobe... haha. Sigh, that's not possible for now lah.

Me also resolves to stop thinking bad thoughts about myself all the time. Seems like 50% of the blog posts in my 'younger days' were self-bashing in nature... No wonder I got upset so easily lah.