living fast and slow, vignettes

August & Sept backlogs Diary:Hi, hello and good day, It's October now but my mind is still stuck in September, which in that month, I thought about August pretty often. August revisit :I just realised a few countries in SEA shared the same independent month because of the Japanese invasion. That's interesting. Oh what a way to start a post. Whoever read this might get a whiplash, my bad. Early this month, I went to a local tourist spot, a chocolate shop with my husband's side of the family. It was fun because everyone was there. Throughout the month, I'm working on the second draft of my manuscript. Writing was hard but I couldn't imagine not doing that. Because of that, everything I read automatically became a learning session. I was so hypervigilant of sentence structures, prose and overall stories. Not that I become overly critical, but it was like my third eye was awakened. I grew appreciative of every single good prose that I came across. I used to be a monogamist reader but…