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I think I’ve used all the sweet and romantic words for our anniversary wishes for the last 15 years. So, for our 16th anniversary, I've run out of words to describe my love towards you. I don’t know how to describe my appreciation for all the things you’ve done for me. I don’t know how to thank you for always sticking with me through thick and thin. I don’t know how to tell you how grateful I am for the forgiveness you gave me every time I made mistakes. I’m speechless!

So here goes the story…we were supposed to get married on the 2/2/2004 because of the nice matching numbers. But we ended up getting married on 1/2/2004 instead which was a day earlier. That shows how much fate couldn’t wait for me to be your husband. Of course, I thank the Imam because he had to move our wedding earlier due to a royal event. I nearly went amok at the mosque because he only told us a few days before the wedding! But I chose to look on the bright side which was us getting extra outfits for the wedding only to be ready in a few days. No pressure! But we managed to get married in the end and the rest of the wedding was like a fairy tale only without Prince Charming.

16 years later, here we are with 3 amazing children, a dead hamster and no cat. We are still going strong and stronger. After going through the hardest last year, I just want to let you know that I will always be there for you and the kids. And now I realised and want to thank God and the Imam for bringing our wedding earlier, so that I can be your husband a day earlier. An extra day to spend with you means the world to me and I will never take it for granted.

Happy 16th anniversary my dear!

Me love you long time,
Mr Dad
‪1/2/2020‬

p/s: Special thanks to my next door neighbour John for bringing in our recycle bin (coz I forgot) so my wife doesn’t tell me off on our wedding anniversary!

Over the weekend I picked out black clothes, put on my white coat, and went to a cemetery. You could call it a funeral, but it was more of a memorial and celebration of the many people who donated their bodies to further our education as medical students. Anatomy lab was one of the things I was most terrified of as I started my first year. It took a lot of time to normalize spending hours in a basement full of dead bodies, and bringing myself to cut into one was a whole other struggle. However, knowledge is greater than fear and I always remembered how my mom told me she made it through lab - she knew her cadaver had given the gift of their physical body and she wanted to make the most of it by learning the best she could. To all the people who donated their bodies to our class, and to their families, we can’t possibly thank you enough. I hope we make you proud and pay it forward when we are doctors someday.

Known as ‘holy wood’, Palo Santo is able to be used once these trees have naturally fallen in the rainforest and lie dead for four to ten years before they are harvested. This sacred plant medicine offers a grounded and clear energy while also enhancing creativity and bringing forth good fortune.

Smudging is the use of a sacred plant medicine to bring or clear energy into a space using the combined elemental energies of fire (flame), earth (plant), and air (smoke). In short, smudge ‘deposits’ the energy of the plant into the space helping to dissipate old, lingering energies. Essentially, it will “clear all energies stuck to the aura of objects and people” to make way to invite new or good vibes in.

One must understand that it's the user's intention that brings power to the smudging action. This means being present with the smudging process as it's happening and being grateful to the plant for allowing us to use their body to heal us and our space.

This is a lifestyle practice. You’ll only get out of it what you put into it. Intention is everything.

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Michael Jordan got the start and provided one more lasting moment. But it was all Kevin Garnett at the finish.

The 52nd NBA All-Star Game was Jordan's last and filled with firsts as the Western Conference exhausted the Eastern Conference 155-145 in a double-overtime thriller.

Given a surprise start as Toronto's Vince Carter stepped aside, Jordan appeared to make yet another of his seemingly endless series of game-winning shots. The superstar swingman of the Washington Wizards threw in a high-arcing jumper from the right baseline over Phoenix's Shawn Marion that gave the East a 138-136 lead with 4.8 seconds left in the first overtime, bringing a roar from the Philips Arena crowd.

"I didn't think it was going to go in, but it went in," said Marion, who was victimized for a game-winning shot by Jordan in Phoenix last season.

"I thought it was the game-winner, but anything can happen in an NBA game," Jordan said.

Anything did. A foul call on a three-point attempt put Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant at the line for three free throws with one second to go. Bryant made just two free throws to tie the game.

"The first thing when Kobe got up, he said, 'I can't believe he called that,'" said Indiana forward Jermaine O'Neal, who committed the foul.

Bryant's free throws forced an unprecedented second extra session, which belonged entirely to Garnett.

The 7-footer of the Minnesota Timberwolves -- who played shooting guard earlier in the game -- took the smaller Carter into the low post for three straight jumpers. He added a foul shot for a 145-138 lead with 3:38 remaining, and the West never trailed again.

"It looked like old 23 crept back in the building and was trying to take the game, but for the most part, we hung together and won," Garnett said.

Garnett collected his first All-Star Game MVP award as he scored 37 points on 17-of-24 shooting and added nine rebounds and five steals. His points were the most in an All-Star Game since Jordan scored 40 in 1988.

"The All-Star Game is not about individual," said Garnett, an unselfish superstar. "It's totally a group effort. It's a time for you to share stories, good times, emotional times with your teammates."

Jordan, who turns 40 in eight days, gave Garnett some stories to share. He started very slowly and even missed a dunk in the first quarter. But he became the all-time leading scorer in the All-Star Game late in the third quarter and finished with 20 points on 9-of-27 shooting.

"I think I got a chance to enjoy some good young company tonight," Jordan said.

Some of that company joined Jordan on the Eastern Conference. Guards Allen Iverson of Philadelphia and Tracy McGrady of Orlando -- both of whom offered their starting spot to Jordan -- scored 35 and 29 points, respectively. But it wasn't enough to prevent the East from dropping to 32-20 in the all-time series.

"I was going to try to forget my jersey in the locker room," McGrady said. "That way (Jordan) had to start and go out there."

Bryant scored 22 points and Steve Francis of Houston added 20 for the West, which erased an eight-point deficit in the last two minutes of regulation and blew a seven-point lead in the last two-plus minutes of the first overtime.

San Antonio's Tim Duncan had 19 points and 15 rebounds and the Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal had 19 and 13. It was the sixth overtime All-Star Game and the first since 1993 in Utah.

Although the first quarter was the lowest-scoring opening period in 50 years and the first half the lowest since 1976, the game fell three points shy of the highest-scoring contest, another overtime affair in 1987.

The pace seemed to quicken a bit after a halftime ceremony in which Jordan was serenaded by Mariah Carey, who wore No. 23 jerseys of Chicago and Washington while performing three songs, including "Hero."

"I thank you for your support," a visibly humbled Jordan said to the crowd. "I leave the game in good hands."

"The halftime ceremony was something I'll remember for a long time," said Francis, who was playing in his second All-Star Game. "I felt like he was talking to me when he said the NBA was going to be in good hands."

McGrady took the third quarter into his hands, scoring 17 points to give the East a 93-86 lead. With 2:04 to go in the period, Jordan sank two free throws to move past Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (251 points) as the all-time leading scorer.

The West overtook the East at 102-100 on a dunk by Shaquille O'Neal with 8:14 to go, but McGrady responded with a three-pointer. Three jumpers by Jordan and a drive by Iverson pushed the lead to 116-106 left and tightened the MVP race.

It appeared to be Jordan's when he flipped in a left-handed shot on 7-footer Dirk Nowitzki of Dallas for a 120-112 lead with 1:58 to play. But he missed shots on three consecutive possessions, allowing the West back in it.

"I wanted it to be a competitive game," Jordan said. "It was a fun ending anyway you look at it."

Bryant had a chance to win it when he was fouled with 17 seconds left but split the pair, and Marion partially blocked Jordan's jumper at the other end.

Despite eight overtime points from Iverson, the East looked dead when Francis hammered home a lob for a 135-128 bulge with 2:09 remaining. But McGrady and New Jersey's Jason Kidd scored four points each as the East surged to a 136-135 edge with 33 seconds left. A free throw by Shaquille O'Neal tied it.

"It's easy to come in with the attitude that you are just going to run down the court and jump around and not play hard, but that's not what it is about," Iverson said. "I think the fans deserve more than that."

The fans got a huge treat when Carter -- who had been criticized for keeping his starting spot -- stepped aside for Jordan in a classy move.

"This is a storybook ending for Michael," Carter said. "I'm sure I'll have another opportunity to be in the All-Star Game, and this is how it's supposed to be."

"I felt like he had taken a beating and he shouldn't have," Jordan said. "I think he was being very respectful."

But Jordan missed eight of his first 10 shots, and the poor shooting was contagious. The East held a pedestrian 23-18 lead after one period and the West held a 55-52 halftime edge.