Green efforts comes in waves

In UK, studies show one in four men are less enthusiastic about the eco wave as compared to one in six women.

Has green fatigue really kicked in or has being green become instilled as a way or life? Read http://www.bemoreeco.com/2010/10/18/green-fatigue-hits-campaign-to-reduce-carbon-footprint/

Breakie box

Alas! A guilt free breakfast (economical bee hoon with a slice of luncheon meat and sunny side up egg) by my work desk.

Breakie is purchased from level 2 cafeteria and packed using my brand new "tool box" made by Daiso Japan! There is even a sliding tray for saucering my all-time favourite green cut chilli drenched in white vinegar.

No more damned single use and throw styrofoam packets that get incinerated into horrid toxic waste.

Bebe is finally doing her little part as a resident on planet green earth. It took me time to hunt down the right box and I dreaded the 3 horrid weeks of "malpractice" on my part. Next project is the purchase of a nice thermos mug so that I can takeaway traditional coffee/ tea/ ying yang from level 2 cafeteria with my very own mug!

Go green you too! Bring your own box for takeaways if you must takeaway. Boycott single use plastic and styrofoam as much as you can. Be a eco-friendly foodie.

p.s. Bebe bought a similar breakie box for kimmie too so we can go green together. Yeah! Bebe will get kimmie your very own thermos mug too.

Copyright © Joanne Bergenwall Aw

Glow!

What is involved in the art of glowing? Are there pre-requisites for innate genetic correlations in order to form unspoken bonds that illuminate?

Late night tea session at Ya Kun @Northpoint Yishun with mummy after visiting sixth auntie at Khoo Teck Phuat Hospital KTPH level 8 bed 28 turned out to be yummy for both the taste buds and heart petals. No sugar was needed to bring forth the sweetness of our tea stories, just the dedicated art of traditional tea-making and story telling costing S$3.00 and 3 hours.

Stories told by naturing hearts are received with gratitude and tenderness. Maternal bonding is an universal art, taught by nature and trained under day-to-day practicalities through trial and error. There is no right and wrong formulas, just love in a constant striving motion. There is no way to get it perfect at one shot, but instead one must have the diplomacy to not give up on one another, be it mother/ father to daughter/ son or daughter/ son to mother/ father etc.

A man named Ah Koon perhaps never expect Ya Kun to become a legacy when he started out making simple aromatic coffee and kaya toast in his cubicle at 15-B Cross Street. Wooden bench sleeping and many more struggles and sacrifices were pre-requisites from many young men striving to become men back in those days.

My grandfathers did the same, and my father did the same. Was this all acts of training and character building so that one day they may embrace paternal instincts with agility? Was not our forefathers' act of enduring hardship an indirect way of loving and naturing too to make up for the masculine deficiencies in expressing tender loving care?

Would it be possible to leave behind a legacy after our short lived lives on earth? A legacy of loving, bonding, making sacrifices and sharing? Glow bebe, pearly, philip, choon tee, kimmie, baba, kurre, susan, and rolle glow! May tea and coffee stories continue to unfold and unravel the love hidden within us for one another.