CC or Chinese Connection

Rt now, China and I are this close. This is their year of Ox and I concur. This is my year of Ox too.

I had intially thought of it as the year of the Bufallo. But one knows there is a fine difference between the Ox and the Buffalo.

The word “buffalo,” by the way, comes to English from the Romance languages; the Spanish word is búfalo, and the Italian is bufalo. The word is a distant cousin of our word “beef.” The word “bison” comes from Latin, where it referred to an ox, and it may originally have been a Germanic term meaning “stinking animal.” (courtesy Quezi).

So for now, I am willing to be the stinky Ox in the china shop.

Talk like an Ox, Walk like an Ox, theeeenk like an Ox...plough like an Ox... have a hump or two. Paint my horns red,wear bells on my feet....SNORT.....

nO mOrE bEiNg ThE nAmBy PaMbY cAt...and her, with all her hair fallen out.

START/STOP/START

Three posts in 2008, I bravely move on to 2009.....along with a new house, busier husband, some amount of happiness....more and improved resolutions and a lil more focus????!
Of all the assets..the new house is most intangible...the hours spent on it cud have been spent on healthier pursuits, but when it was over ( ok, so its never over till its really over) I expected a punch , a feeling of coming home...let me tell u, me friend...it hasnt sunk it yet. I used abt 10 or more colours on the bloody walls...and it feels colourful,beautiful, cheery and like someone else house. The odd part though...my furniture fits perfectly into this someone else house.
I have few resolutions regarding the house too -
1.Take pics and indirectly connect to the other new year resolution of being more of a camera person.
2.Write about the house..and yes, this is a good start..if they will have it...
3. Make a garden and I dont have a clue...just an image...
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(Cut for image).....medium sized trees, bent and sweeping out...lanterns hung from it...no lawn!!..but weathered rocks in places...and ivy and fern and moss...and a crooked lil path, no paving, occasional slabs.....an old wooden pulley over the well...a small thulsi thara...big white roses..climbing plants, trellis to the tiled roof...white/pink flowers..never yellow...the blank wall facing the front door...with something written on it, a mantra for a blue day...stone lions...collection of cacti, coz not enough appreciation for it and also, coz i might not water occassionaly....
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