What A Gloomy Morning

     I am an early riser. I walk to exercise my limbs. Today I woke up to a gloomy countenance, some intermittent showers. I am unable to do my usual morning routine.

It's seems so sad

     For over four years now, I have been walking about 2.5km a day each morning. I started with very slow walk accompanied by some relatives. Now I walk each morning alone as all the kids are back to school, unlike during the COVID times, they were doing modular studies at home. Walking has been my therapeutic regimen each morning and I do some stretching. I was a gym buff before, an outdoor person who loved mountain climbing, spelunking and the likes.

     I remember vividly when I woke up from my comatose in the Singapore hospital five years ago, I was unable to walk. Two hospital physiotherapists taught me how to walk again. They taught me simple basic things to do such as brushing the teeth, eating, getting in and out a car, climbing stairs and all. They were so professional at training me. I think that's happening only in expensive hospitals in the Philippines like St. Luke or Makati Med.

Dragon Year 2024

     Yesterday was the new year in the Chinese lunar calendar and it's the year of the dragon. My 30 years of working in Malaysia and Singapore had exposed me to the Chinese tradition of Chinese New Year. It is a holiday in the Philippines but still, the practices of the traditional Chinese are not as prevalent as in Singapore and Malaysia where the Chinese population is much, much bigger.Happy Chinese New Year 2024

     I miss the traditions that I was exposed to during the 30 years I was working there. It's a two-day holiday but since most of the companies are locally owned, they had longer holidays, although I only get two days off as I worked in multi-national companies. I was usually the one working as my Chinese colleagues were on longer holidays.