WAIT ... I AM ARRIVING.

 QUICKLY-lah, the car is starting.

DO THE PCR now, I want to get out. 

Grandma, what LONG chopsticks you have?

The BETTER to PROSPERITY TOSS with, my dear.

I could do with a tiger chasing me as I need to loose the fats! After some good prosperity tosses, I am bulging at the waist. So it was a brisk walk minus the tiger one evening for  "defattening." 

This Buddhist temple nestled among spiraling condominiums along a bustling main road has always intrigued me. 

My Thursday walk took me right to the entrance and inside.

 Since it is the Chinese New Year, offerings were made for blessings and good fortune.

The carvings had depth and resembled 3-dimensional art pieces.

The outer ceiling was carved with dragons in the clouds motif and painted brilliantly.

OUT with the OLD, IN with the NEW?

NO WAY!

OLD and NEW can co-exist in HARMONY.

I HAVE A FRIEND DOWN THIS STREET

But to be honest, we seldom meet

First it was our work,

then our family,Now it’s the grand kids, what other excuses will there be?

When we were kids, it was the opposite,

We made every excuse just to meet

Then as we grew older, this friendship time

Became so rare, we never could find.

So for this year a promise I makeNot to meet only during a good friend’s wake

But to take the time to 

connect and share

            A meal and laugh as I still CARE.

                                                       Sassy JAM 2022