Thoughts beyond my life & my travel - Bel

Broken Embraces directed by Almodovar is a superb movie about a relationship between an incredible movie and a scriptwriter/a rich man.  Have you been a fan of someone or something you indulged in? It can drive you to do whatever to get a tight grip of it and it's so hard for you to let it go.  If it's a harmless obsession, we call it love, focus, and passion. If it has become a hurtful relationship or illegal, we call it an addiction, harassment, and offensive act.  I still find Penelope Cruz an absolute beauty. It's not an obsession, not a cherish, but admiration of her movie.  Job well done!

I went to a classical music concert at lunchtime today. As I was super tired, I decided just to close my eyes and relax and listen to the music. Whilst I didn't actually fall asleep, I felt empowered with energy as I was so focused and all my muscles, my brain, and my jaw were so relaxed that I enjoy the music even more without opening my eyes.  The people around me might have found me weird, and might think that I tried to find a space to have a power nap. I do not care. As a matter of fact, when I was so focused, I could find my racing thoughts were gone and just enjoyed the music which is even more beautiful.  I gonna add some classical music to my phone for my enjoyment :)  Have a happy day. 

Today, I got the news about a doctor whom I admire was passed away. Many of us anticipated this day would come but I was more shocked to hear the news when I was on a bus.  The day before I read the news about a famous Chinese novelist who gave up treatment and passed away. I totally respected his decision as he said he had no longer enjoyed the taste of food. And he's over 85 and didn't want to go through chemotherapy. He's actually an optimist and I always love his openness on his talk show. He talked about love, poetry, history, movies and even sex more than a decade ago in this city where people were relatively conservative at the time.  I let my tears run down and grieved, part of it, for the loss, part of it, for my luck of working with this doctor and being enlightened by his passion, innovative thoughts, and intelligence.  No matter how stressful I was the rest of the day, I had to prepare all kinds of communication documents in a short time frame. But because of ...

I'm still feeling I have to pay off my sleep debt, but every day is a new day. Today, typhoon signal no 8 has been hoisted most of the days, and the face-to-face skincare workshop was called off. I felt lucky I joined the Clubhouse - Our happy room, to talk about the topic of "how to align your mind, body, and soul.  It's probably my 2nd or 3rd time joining the clubhouse chat, I felt great to have many others listen to how I feel and at the same time, I love to learn what others share their thoughts. The chat was hosted by Julie, a life coach, and a psychologist.  What I learned from the speakers today and what I explored are listed below:  Body - energy source from food, exercises, sex, focus and 5 senses:  smell -  aroma sound - music  taste - food touch - massage  sight - beautiful scenery  Mind - best to empty our mind and relax through focus on what we like, that can be related to the 5 senses, and the things we enjoy to create inner peace (e...