Cakap cakap......First day of the year.

Its just past 6.27 am on the first day of 2013. I have been awake since 4.30 am ...reading a bit of Tagore  in bed. My wife is sleeping beside me. After Tagore I am now listening to Perry Como singing "Its Impossible"....I cannot think of anything else that I would like to do at this very moment than to be where I am now and doing what I am doing now - beside my wife,writing and listening to Perry Como over and over again. 

It should be just past 5 am in KL and I am sure some of you are already up and about...thinking of the coming day and what you will have to do. "What you will have to do!"....that does not sound too good does it?  But I know that for most of you the business of earning a living goes on day in and day out. 

I stopped thinking about that a long long time ago. I have no house, no possession, nothing of value that I would worry about and just enough of everything that I need - not what I want but what I need - to keep me comfortable. Of course I could do with a bit more of this and that...but nothing that would have me do something I do not want to do. It took a bit of persuading for me to tell myself to accept that life without a BMW or a Merc, a Yacht or the very very good things in life is okay...but I am getting there. Having the same girl I married at 21 still with me and two kids of whom I will not yet give unconditional love, but of whom I am proud and delighted to love and have them love me back (I hope...) makes everything good.

Today I have no plans to do anything but write. Probably I will make breakfast for my wife if she wakes up early or lunch if she wakes up late. After that I have the rest of the day to do as I like! Maybe I might cook the rest of the lamb chops in curry and have it with basmati rice....maybe! So much time with so little to do! Life is good.