Homemade Kara Not Ok

Usually, me and my wife would return to my parents home to have dinner after work since we don't cook. It's only a mere 15 mins drive from our new home. We couldn't resist mum's yummy dishes anyway. And it is a good deal to actually share more personal time with our parents too.

Now you see, our parents' is a single storey house sandwiched between two other neighbors. We used to have a terrible neighbor on the left side of the house. A 3 person family with a fat and ugly looking mammal with a voice of an ape [the wife]. The family moved almost a year ago and in came, yes, another 3 person family. Well, at least with a more 'polished' manners to say the least. A quiet lot. They too, moved out a couple of months back.

Now, we seem to have a good 4 piece family renting the place. Everything is fine until there's one night when we return home for dinner, suddenly we have this lady blasting her voice away with her karaoke set!

Seriously, i love singing myself, but doing a karaoke at home where you're singing at the top most pitched voice cramped in a less than 1000 sq.ft. pied-à-terre is obnoxious! We're trying to watch TV and banging our heads against the wall to get the music out of our heads is not very helpful. And mind you, she is not singing those popular songs too. Why would anyone want to do that?

Karaoke lounges are a dime a dozen nowadays. You can get good rates for a reasonable sized room with a thrown-in buffet too. There, you can have all the hokkien and indian songs where you can holler your blardy pipes to the max and get the incentives of not upsetting your neighbors.

After several nights of 'disturbance in the force', I'm beginning to lose my patience and have almost decided to go over and knock on the door when something stopped me from doing so....

"Don't do that son", mum said. "I like it".

I rest my case.

In this life, I was loved by YOU

How much do you love someone? Is there a way to measure your love, how much is given and taken? Can you really love someone by giving all you got and expect little or nothing in return? How much do you think is reasonable and if there is a limit, how do you know you've reached it? Or do we simply ignore the fact that love is a one sided affair that no one should bother about the quantity on board.

There are various definitions of love to each and everyone of us. Of course, there are differences for families, spouses, relatives, and friends. But they all share similarities too : it requires sharing, respect, forgiving, unselfishness, caring and enjoyment.

By giving away your love, there is no surety of regaining in return, but it is always the sense of selfless and appreciation that encourages such notion. Never load yourself with towering expectations. We are all different in a way or another. Love someone your way, but it is always good to learn about others and cope with changes which would eventually benefits both.

Always listen and prepare only neutral explanations and never retaliate. It is not about how much is given or recieved, it is about how much you understand and learn. This is sharing. This is LOVE.

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Dreaming My Dreams
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"All the things you said to me today
Changed my perspective in every way
These things count to mean so much to me
Into my faith you and your baby
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you
And there's no other place
that I'd lay down my face
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you"
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'Dedicated to my wife, my lover, my best friend'

Dreaming My Dreams' was written on
December 25th 1993 by The Cranberries