Update #2

How's weekend?

I can't remember what I did yesterday.

Oh well. now I remember! Yesterday, we were baking cookies for Chinese New Year. I'm glad that it went well and I enjoyed the process very much, despite all the cleaning up works. One thing about baking cookies is that I find it harder for baking cookies as compared to baking cake because you need to give in your effort on every single cookie so they can look nice and consistent.

So here's our product. Taste turn out to be pretty good!

And today. Well well well, what did I do today? 

Haha as usual, I always like to mention about the weather :P It's a humid rainy day. A bit unexpected in this hot summer. Waking up at 7.45am and realized it has been a long while since the last time i woke up early within this month. Went to a monastery called Bodhikusuva at Wilton? Not sure what's the name haha. Spent 6 hours there and it was my first time to try on offering robes. Although I have been involved in some Buddhism activities last year, but there are still much more practices and things to be learnt. I felt not at ease when i was there today. Reason could be I am not familiar with temple and were not sure about the rules and customs? I don't know. Some part of me is interested in Buddhism because I am really impressed by the teachings and believe it as a way to gain wisdom in life. Other part of me is still trying to adapt to the ethics and things that a Buddhist do like chanting and meditating. hahaha To be honest it's not that meditation is really hard but at this moment, I do not have strong determination to put more effort on meditation. Sigh.

Right after lunch and some bush walking, we drove all the way to Hwa Tsang Monastery. Happy to see Venerable Neng Rong who looked happy and well today. They were having meeting while I was actually feeling quite sleepy, tired and hungry again. AGAIN. hahaha. And then i flipped through UNIBUDS Annual Magazine. The theme is impermanence-my favourite topic!! :D I read this before but I skipped some of the articles in it when i read last time and so I tried to read the one written by Venerable Tsang Hui. I then read through a line and wanted to share my feelings here. When I first heard about impermanence, I thought that since everything is going to change in this world, why do we need to work hard as impermanence suggest that things we work hard for will change or gone someday? I then felt a bit discouraging due to my own thoughts and doubts. 

And just right on this evening, I found the answer in VTH's article. He said that impermanence is the reason for us to work harder and do something. Because we know if things are impermanent, situation is impermanent. It implies that our effort can definitely make a change to things that we want to improve on. And when we put in our effort,  bad situation could be changed to a good one. This also means that good things can be changed to a better one, because of impermanent. I found this is a very positive way to perceive impermanence. 

And yeah. That's it for today. Im feeling extremely sleepy now and don't think can blog anything else hahaha so that's the end of story and we shall continue next time. Good night and have a good rest everyone!