Remember Hoot? This was an amazing quarantine video by the very talented Straw “Hoot” was nominated top 200 Indie song for 2022! 🎉🎉🎉
But good news doesn’t stop here. With the upcoming general elections (so many new leaders in such a short space of time)!
Check out this trilingual (Mandarin Bahasa Malaysia and English) composition. Appreciate and enjoy the artistry and message behind these verses, hashtagged #JomUndi #PRU15
Meet Singer – Songwriter Straw!
“Hoot… An owl can rotate its head up to 270 degrees.
Living in this information age, how far would humans go in expanding their horizons, and pursuing a wider perspective like the owl?”
Check out her quarantine style music video here, due to premiere on September 17th 9pm (+8hrs GMT)
Have no anxiety about anything,
but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God,
which passes all understanding,
will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6,7
Part of the new normal is to have home-grown herbs! Now for some of you, this might not be a new thing. Some might even have super green fingers.
For me, however I am just glad that this batch of herbs havent died on me! Take this mint for instance. Together with a few others, it was gifted by a friend, and came with instructions on the care needed. Needless to say, I have worked to ensure they are followed!
I am reminded Colossians 2:6,7 “As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built and built up in Him, established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding with thanksgiving”
One has to be intentional in growing.
So much for wanting to blog here regularly. Pandemic turns our lives upside down. Welcome to the new normal!
Still, all is not bad. I have become not only proficient in video conferencing, but am considered an authority on it by many at work! Not bad for a white-haired boomer.
I have also been able to paint most of my house, accidentally got a green wall thanks to my Hubby getting a specific paint colour which was closer to green than the expected blue. Again, not bad for a boomer?
Weight loss was another benefit! Now to keep it off! Ah, what a challenge!
One truly wonderful outcome was to be able to pray via video conferencing over forty days, at dawn. Undeterred by physical distancing, people young and old, joined in from as far as both corners of the globe. How cool is that.
Now we enter another round of controlled movements… Believing more good will come out of this still.
Climbing up and down the ladder to get to all the nooks and crannies. 
The ceiling in my house is high. Higher than most houses. I had to purchase a taller than usual ladder to reach the ceiling fans. Imagine having to paint those walls! And the ceilings! Just as well I didnt have bouts of vertigo! So glad that I was fit enough to do this! And most of all, that I enjoyed it despite the aches after.
With such thankfulness, as I reached up to paint the top of the walls, It crossed my mind – Why am I not using the right tools? Shouldn’t I put an extension on my paint brush or roller instead? I realised that the post-painting session pains in my shoulder could have be lessened had I taken the extra steps to be more prepared. Instead of thinking beforehand, preparing in advance, and thereby using the right methods which could possibly ended up with a quicker and with a more comfortable conclusion, I rushed headlong and just did it… In this case, lesson learned – shortcuts don’t work without having some fore-planning. Just do it – put some though to it!
As with any project, there should be some preparatory work. Ground work is needed. Planning ensures smoothing out of potential bumps.
It is no different for our painting project. Old flaky paint needs to be removed.
Sometimes I think that flaky relationships ought to be removed from our lives too… Just saying! Haha!
“Do something new” we were encouraged. Well, even before the encouragement to do so, we had prepared to do so. Old folks getting down to some DIY. We have done this kind of thing before, but not at our present house. So when news came about impending restricted movement allowed, we got ready… Lots to do! 
Here we are then. Two old(er) folks, going to attempt something we haven’t done in years…!
Some before and after photos in the next post… perhaps!
When you are living under government controlled movement order, working from home can require major adjustments.
Thankful for Hubby who is a whizz at experimenting and doing new things.
Here he is, making soap! Such an apt activity at this time. 
Each batch takes a month to cure, but already this one already looks good! Most are fragrance-free because our son prefers that. Three have my preferred and experimental scents added in. I’m already looking forward to the end of the month when I can try them out!
So how are YOU spending your time these days?
 | Elena on Painting Preps and Flaky … |
 | Check These Out! | M… on Hoot – A Quarantine Styl… |
 | Adri on Dumplings Delight! |
 | Veronica on Magnet Magic |
 | Reece on Magnet Magic |
Metamor4Sis 