Dera's Diary

Dear diary, Happy children's day everyone. I can't believe it's day 63! I hope you all had an interesting day. Recently, we ran out of gas in my house. This was major cause we'd been using the same supply of gas for months. Anyway, my mum calls the gas supplier explaining the problem, and he says he'll call the next morning. But you know, we were in the middle of creating the ultimate spread when this "crisis" hit. Like theatre guys say, "the show must go on". And so we cooked in our oven.... and microwave. The meal turned out awesome and we ate in peace. Three days later, and we still await our precious gas suppliers call. The jokes on him! We still cooking in our trusty oven!!! Lesson to be learnt: the show MUST go on. Things are tough. And sometimes we need people and they don't show. But the world won't stop. You can't either. If you need to, cry, throw yourself a mini pity party, but get moving eventually. God's got y...

Hello diary, I'm posting a bit later this week. I recently increased my workload, so I'm now involved in two different online learning platforms. Every now and then I sit down and question myself about the sheer madness that  must have driven the decision. But the deed has been done and both platforms are beneficial, so I'll learn to multi-task. I feel like nowadays, (cause of my workload) the hours seem to fly by and then I end up feeling like I haven't accomplished much. It's most definitely different from the time when I didn't have much to do. I can't really say which situation I prefer, though. In my house we've decided to start sleeping earlier and I know a lot of people might feel like it's impossible. But if you're committed, you can. Really, you can. One of my major motivations to sleep earlier is the difficulty I have sleeping these days. I decided some time ago to start sleeping at 2am on weekdays to get more sleep, but I...

Hi everyone, For those of you who read the last post about the dearth of food, I can assure you that we now have a sustainable supply of edibles. :) I'm just wondering how your weeks have been up till today...... By now, we're all getting used to this quarantine thing even as we pray for it to end. I can't help but think that God timed this coronavirus outbreak was perfectly. I don't know what's so special about this time in history apart from the fact that it's the beginning of a decade. Maybe, and I'm just being hypothetical here, God didn't want us to walk through another decade asleep and thoughtless towards others. I'm just thinking. God could've stopped this virus when it hit China, but He didn't. He's not aimless so there must be a reason. I just think that if he stopped it in China, the rest of the world would never have noticed or cared. A lot of us would have said "hey, that's a China problem." "Why...