I have noticed that my orange cats seemed to sleep much longer during during the day. Perhaps, as they got older , these cats needed more sleep. But as people got older, they seemed to require less sleep. I used to need six to seven houre sleep but these days I could do with four to five hours’ sleep only. So, I wondered why my cats slept much longer than before.

These days I seemed to be overwhelmed by list of things I had to do around the house and garden. I had procrastinated and wasted lots of time in the past. The body and mind were just on strike and refused to what was supposed to be done. I thought it was a kind of reaction to the pressure and sense of urgency which I piled upon myself. I told myself I had to put everything in order before the next economic collapse in my country and the impending effect of a big kinetic confrontation.

I always looked forewards to visiting Yannawa temple to feed those stray cats. Feeding these skinny cats gave me lots of positive vibes and made my mood very optimistic. This weekly rituals (every three days) gave me hope about the possibility of changing my bad habits and procrastination. Watching these cats eating very intensely, I realised that I was emotionally dependent on them and their friendships. So, I hoped that I would have the resources for buying cat food and that the temple continued to let these stray cats lived around the old buildings.

I was quite surprised to see some orchids blooming in my garden. Usually as soon as the hot season has arrived, most orchids would become quietly dormant. I wished I could have learnt some wisdom from these orchids. They knew how to survive in unfavouble conditions and waited for the right time to shine.

The price of silver has increased by almost 80% since the day I bought my silver beads years ago. At that time, I knew that I should get some silver beads as the return should be higher than bank interests. I also knew that I would easily spend all my extra cash income so it’s better to stash some silver. I did some reading that silver should do very well in the future. But the market manipulation of silver prices had been very disappointing as the return on gold bars went through the roof this year.

I was wallking around the shopping mall two weeks ago and I stumbled on two new sweet shops recently opened in the food zone in the basement. These two sweet stalls made traditional Thai sweets with premium ingredients as they were well known vendors with long family tradition of making Thai sweets. So, I was very glad to find these Thai sweets shops a few meters from my favourite wine shop.