:)

I said to myself yesterday that I just gotta blog in one more post before the new year. My feelings at the moment - it's all so mixed up in a really good way. 

Am happy that I lived through 2010 quite well because I learned so many things from so many different experiences.

For tomorrow, I'll be wearing this on my feet...

Yes, a new pair of heels to greet the first day of the new year. 

Running out time now...gotta quickly get things done and get ready to face every special moment of today. 

Happy New Year 2011 everyone!!!

And of course...Happy New Year Sabbath too. :)

To Him I Owe...

Every day, I hope to come before Him on my knees offering Him praise and thanks. Sometimes, my moments with Him seem a little more special...because the heart is overwhelmed with His grace...and unfailing love. 

Lord, thank you for this day,

For the life that you gave me,

And for the moments where

I learn to appreciate it more.

Thank you for those 

who came into my life 

and left footprints

where my memory 

can trace them back - 

for they created a 

special spot in my heart. 

For the times when I sink low,

thank you because Your strength

lifts me up and still...

I can smile for You. 

And for Your love...

that is something I can 

never be able to thank you enough.

Because of it, 

I breath life in me,

I can learn to love...

and be loved.

When Friends+People Meet On A Sabbath

Tagging along on church visits can turn out to be an experience where it rewards one mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I for sure know that I felt that today. Also, may I be forgiven for being where I am right now. I am not all devilish. And I insist...no sarcasm intended here.

Got the chance to meet a friend whom I haven't seen for about almost two years now. And of all the places, I bumped into her at the ladies' restroom after church service was over. Sometimes, you just meet people unexpectedly at unlikely places or under unlikely circumstances. Speaking of '...unlikely circumstances', I'm reminded of something. Or do you want me to be more honest and say... someone? 

Anyway...

We exchanged contact numbers. Hmm...I wonder what impression did her mother got of me. I was being my usual silly self in front of her like I would back in my slightly younger days. Good one...I mean the brief reunion. That wasn't the end because not long after I crossed paths with the mother (and later the father) of my two good friends. It's all good...to be able to talk to people you know... and sometimes or two, to the ones you just met for the very first time. Haha...am I heading somewhere with all this talk? 

Continuing on...

I know I made the right decision. I saw them - the students - sing and perform their last for the school promotion for this year. I felt a familiar feeling which somehow feels all novel to me without fail every time I feel it again. It's the feeling of 'missing'. That's what you feel when you feel attached to something or someone (you can combine the two if you wish). 

This heart spoke in silence. I chose to hear its voice. Deep inside, I'm glad I did. 

I listened.  
 

Oh Dear Dentist ~

The fourth of November brings me to a date with my dentist. I'm dreading the needle and all the utensils that will be used to extract that tooth. Not just any tooth. It's the wisdom tooth. And just why did someone had to put 'wisdom' in front of the tooth? Because it only pops out  of our gums as our age matures?

Speaking of age, I'm counting my days. Of what you might ask... adalah (just something). "Haro no"...that's how it's said in my mother tongue. Yes, I'm forever improving. Wish I could speak the language like water flowing out my mouth. Haha.

I need to eat. Fast. Dad's fetching me soon. Hehe. 

Oh dear Lady Dentist,

Please be gentle as you cut through 

the inner flesh of my mouth,

I already feel sick just thinking 

of how all that extracting will be done,

Forgive me for being such a child,

Kids say it as 'scaredy-cat',

Yeah... in a big sense...

I guess I really am.

My first November afternoon...

...and I find myself in a Chinese restaurant somewhere in Kota Kinabalu area. And guess what else... the restaurant seems that it's about to be closed... they're arranging the chairs. I'm guessing as soon as the last table of customers finish up their meal they're shutting the doors. Hmm... that's early.

My afternoon hunger for lunch has been satisfied... not exactly full to the max but it will do. After all, I wasn't craving much for food earlier.

I'm loving the breeze... and haha... at the moment it's coming from the ceiling fans above me. Ahh... anyway... the layout for today up to this point isn't too bad. I called up my dentist to set an appointment... yeah... a tooth-extraction date... a romantic date isn't anywhere in the picture for now.

Wish I could go on typing... but these people make me want to hurry. Don't like the feeling.

So... that will do for now. Gotta go... would be a waste to sleep through the day if you're not in any physical pain... I choose to live through this day with my five senses alive.

Love you... November. ;)

Whoopsies... o_O

Let me tell you a story...

One of my students threw me this question before anyone or anything else interfered. "Teacher, did you dye your hair?"

Gulp. 

I felt like giving him this response: "Uhh... yeah." Instead, I responded, "I don't know." I know, I know... that doesn't sound professional at all. But anyway, I knew he knew the answer even without me giving one. I had my hair dyed much earlier this year. Don't tell me someone just noticed today. 

Ah well, never mind that. I'm planning on dying it again next month. I dyed it on the second month and will add some emphasis to the now fading color on the second last month of this year. Some Asians, like myself in particular, just don't like that typical black hair. Sometimes. So they put some color to it. Don't worry, I won't go for blond - my Asian physical features won't fit into the color at all.

Yes... I am a good teacher. And, whether that is true or not, I'll leave it that way for today.

From the Japanese drama series, "Great Teacher Onizuka"

Come, I change from GTO to Great Teacher Lorena. 

Yeah! I feel good... na na na na na na na. 

~    ~    ~    ~ 

Someone just approached me and asked whether she could take piano lessons from me. Hehehehehe... can can can!

'Happy is this Heart'

Pictures, pictures. I can't do much with a 2mp camera hp, but heck with that - I'm posting some up anyway. Wait 'til I get a more advanced one (camera/hp/whichever) of which..hmm..will just have to wait.  Patience, dear.

Anyway...

Love the upgraded look here. Just realized the change yesterday. The glow from the lighting fixtures below plus gate post light(s) really does make the big difference. Oh by the way, the grounds are all wet - I was slightly spared by the rain. 

And here's to the bookmark - gift from a friend from miles away - that I got last Friday. Time received: Somewhere around 9am. Don't ridicule me - I take note of the time. 

Marriage vows to be exchanged when the dawn of a new day comes. Taken on Saturday midnight - that partly explains the stillness of this moment. Significant date and time: October 10, 2010 @ 10am.

Sunday. Sometime during the matrimonial ceremony, with the assumed permission from the owner, I took a snap of this key-chain. Secretly wishing I had one too. The word that spreads across this pink beauty speaks, "Believe" What's more beautiful about it is the biblical text inscribed behind it found in Matthew 21:22. 

May you and I find the time to seek and contemplate on His words ;)

Red Letter Day

Second day of PMR. Today's paper was English. A colleague of mine came over to my desk and asked me what my choice of answer would be for 'a red letter day'. It was a multiple-choice question. 

I gave my answer. We both agreed to it. 

So... when's your red letter day? 

I know one thing... I'd like to have lots of it in the days ahead of me.  

 

Living Today

Yes, I need the strength to live through this day. One day at a time will do. Now, I can go talking about strength through prayer or strength for our physical needs... food (plus beverage) whether it be healthy or not. 

Ice-cream that I had late Sunday evening to cool down whatever troubles I had inside. As I said to someone, this is only a temporary (cooling) effect. 

Box drink I drank up after having my brunch - my second meal this morning. How great I am. Ha!

Took this shot sometime last month. October 2010 is still very new peeps and September wasn't too long ago. Sigh. I have reasons to miss it. This... is the ABC I'm talking about. I would walk my way to town just for this when the mind and tummy calls for this sweet  cold treat.  From now on, I don't want you to wonder what this ABC is all about whenever I mention it. Say yucky if you want to... I say yummy-ness!!

~ ~ ~

Take a deep, deep, breath. 

I want to think and firmly say to myself... You know you will be.

'pau ayam kokok'

A good breakfast makes the tummy all happy. I'm glad to say that mine is. Had something to eat before leaving for work and another one just about 30 minutes ago. My appetite is back. For the past week my tummy didn't go too well with food all because of a stupid mistake. 

Never, never, let these three be combined in the tummy all at once: kimchi, tuhau, bosou. Bad idea.

Anyway...

Today there was picture taking with the students. Haiya... Had I known earlier I would have shaved my eyebrows, overdo my lipsticks, and dye my hair purple. Now, of course I wouldn't do any of that. Just tell me lah so I can make myself look a little better than today. Haih...

On another note, I'm all nervous about something. C'mon... do I have to do the talking? Somehow being a teacher doesn't quite help with taming the stage frights. I have less than two weeks. Gulp.

Oh and by the way, about the title of this post, it's totally irrelevant. If you insist to know what it is all about... Well, someone asked me the filling of the pau that was sold in the school canteen (I was having my breakfast there). My reply was, "Pau ayam," then with lightning speed, I decided to add another word, "kokok". 

Thus, a minor story has come to life. 

I want to eat pau lah.

I Am Half Awake...September Has Ended

Today's quote catch:

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, 
or its flame burns low. 

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ 

No doubt. The person who wrote that must have known that feeling all too well. Or his emotional boundaries are extraordinary - his horizons stretch far. 

~   ~   ~

Hmm... seems like the church is gonna have the comforts of technology soon - air-conditioner. That explains why there was the presence of electricians during the week. Am I excited about it? I'll just say... it's good I guess. Don't kick me out just because I said that. 

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Got my apartment lights fixed. One of it. The person in charge of doing all the fixing left the ladder at my place. Good. Now, I can clean that window screen above my front and only door that has turned black with dust. Cleaned it already with a mop (I'm sure you can picture that) but not thoroughly satisfied with the job. Yes, I'm smiling. Hehe.

Thinking of walking down to town across that steady hanging bridge. Noticed just this morning that the road was blocked when I entered one of my class. The other bridge below the hanging bridge was covered with bamboos and perhaps branches from upstream. Road block equals to traffic jam. Guess it's all cleared by now. I'll know soon. 

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Tomorrow morning will bring me to some place else. This time with different people to a different church. I look forward to more of that in the future. Thinking, "Wanna get my face all dolled up or not?" Just got into the mood of it. I might end up not doing it. Whatever the decision, I'm waking up early. Ladies. Girls. Whichever. Understand that they need double if not triple the time to get themselves ready compared to men. Guys. Again, whichever.

Anyway... I'll give this blog a rest over the weekend. May this October's treasure box be filled with many good things ahead. ;)

Of Now and Yesterday

I must have been about 10 feet away outside my door when I realized that my comb was still held between my mouth. I want to believe that the people inside the cars that were passing by did not notice. Yeah... they were too busy to notice the life ahead of them. Haha! Well that got me smiling all the way to work. In fact, I almost felt like making fun of myself, thinking, "How could I have done that?" 

 

People, it's perfectly fine to tell yourself that it's okay to smile or make fun of yourself once in awhile. Just make sure that you're not anywhere near to the idea of losing your sanity. Yups.

...

Yesterday, I got one of my bank card replaced. Its got all out of shape when it got exposed under the sun. Smart move of leaving my wallet on the dashboard on a hot sunny day. I chose to go for a different type of bank card this time - not because of the additional functional features but simply because of the look of it. More color, more nice to see. Plus it's covered in one of my favorite color. Hehehehehe... crazy. 

10 10 10...October 10, 2010. That's when my phone credit validity will expire. I'm deleting the message now. 

 

See that hairpin? That's what you do when the thread of your sleeves have gone off and you just didn't find the time to fix it. One of my students caught me taking a shot of this using my very humble 2megapix hp. Ehehehehe... I give you the 'peace sign' lah.  

...

No one and nothing else must come my way on a certain day and time next week. Another call of my life was made once more yesterday. Please please oh pretty pretty please...

...little fingers...

The touch from the hands of a child gives a special kind of comfort to this quiet heart. You feel it even more so when the hands are joined in prayer. This speaks of me...as its little impressions are left still beating inside me.

Finally, for the times when I thought my prayer was never perfect enough whenever asked to pray during the morning worships, I felt that one small part of it was acknowledged by one of my superiors - my boss. 

And for that, for some reason, let me say...thank you. 

Outline of Today

Sometimes it gets me wondering whether the smiles or 'good mornings' that I get on my walk to work is really genuine or not. Sometimes I can tell whether they really are or not. Sometimes I get fooled. 

I think the 'peace sign' would be better like the one that I got from one of the more senior students. Haha! That just totally lit me up with a smile in return. I'll have no doubts on the sincerity of that. Hmm... I might be wrong on that. Dunno.

Anyway, I'm on a mission. I'm gonna reload my hp with some phone credit to make the call of my life (ya lah tu). I'll see how far my guts bring me. If they don't bring me far enough I'll opt for email. Thank goodness for email accounts. Muah!!!

Everything what I just said... don't believe me.

Pure nonsense...

Shoot. I can be more professional than this. It's not too hard to get the info I need. Yeah... after all they're all humans on the other end of the line. You act to get what you want. None of that, it will all remain pretty much dead still. 

  

Cross my fingers. 

No, make that double crossed. >_<

Monday's Blessings

Like every morning of the school day, my fellow colleagues and I will sit together for worship. Well, that is if everyone tries their best to make it to that room at a certain time.

I was singing a song in my heart this morning as I headed to school where part of the lyrics to the song goes, "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end, They are new every morning, new every morning, Great is Thy faithfulness oh Lord..." 

And just like the lyrics that were sung in my heart, our hymn selection also had the word morning in it.

I'll share with you the hymn and the second stanza of it.

It Is Morning in My Heart

2 I can hear the song-birds singing their refrain,

   It is morning in my heart;

   And I know that life for me begins again,

   It is morning in my heart.

Refrain

   It is morning, it is morning in my heart,

   Jesus made the gloomy shadows all depart;

   Songs of gladness now I sing, for since Jesus is my King

   It is morning, it is morning in my heart. 

I silently slipped out the hymn to copy the song and I did just that awhile ago. Don't worry, it will be returned in perfect condition. I shall memorize the piece so I won't need the notes to play them.

A little wish of mine...

I wished I took my piano lessons more seriously in my younger days. Why did I hate learning the piano back then?

Gosh.

Keeping the Faith

Thursday's today. Friday's tomorrow. 

This only daughter and sister is coming home. She longs to be there.. even if it means only a matter of a weekend long. Never mind the things that she used to complain of and will perhaps still continue complaining about.. at this point it's the presence of them living there that matters. 

May the home that I head to one day is.. the eternal home. 

Recess...

...and I'm trying to get some ideas for a class later. This subject is just so not my area of expertise...still need more experience on the subject that I'm already quite comfortable teaching with...and now (or have been since early this year) to have this as one of my teaching load makes it such a burden. Yes, I can see that I'm complaining. Well, it's  more on the students that I'm concerned about (finally I acknowledge them again). 

Anyway...

Gotta reinstall Skype back to my laptop. Had it once but uninstalled it for some reason. I'll get to it later sometime before/by Friday.

Make Skype a part of your everyday life... that's how it goes on Skype's main page. 

I say, with all due respect, "I'll make Skype a part of my life when there's people that matter to me to keep in touch with". That's more like it. ;) 

'Come go eat and talk'

Gosh! I still feel so stuffed inside. Had an early lunch about one and a half hour ago. Shouldn't have snuck out at that time but I made myself a good reason to after having done the necessary arrangements - old friend came to pay a visit mah. So, three we were, who went out for a meal together and sat for some chit-chat over the table. Let me recall the orders: 

• Ham choi fish head soup (with milk) 
• Loh han guo drink... please tell me I got that order correct

Do take note that when you order the same thing as the other person sitting next to you,  it saves you from much elaborate thinking. Ha!

A little much later at a different venue... ice lemon tea, ice-blended yam, ice-blended chocolate (one for each to savor).

All with the same profession, but perhaps with different set of goals in mind and drive of motivation to keep moving. Talked about work (high school's a little bit of the past you see).. then.. ehem.. back to high school days (a bit - haha!).. news of an ex-classmate tying the knot pretty soon (had a hard time figuring out the name though so that part of the sharing moment didn't go far).. pondering life at present (only on the surface - didn't want to get all detailed about that).. bla there.. bla here.. and what do you know? Ended up with some health talk. No.. that's nothing to laugh about. 

Anyway...

It was good company. A little too much with the calorie intake though. Oh well. Good news on my part: I gained some weight! However, a friend who came over to my place just last night, didn't think so (said that I still looked the same).  Oh, c'mon lah. Ex-classmate today said, "You still so kurus." [I refuse to translate the last word.]

Baik lah, baik lah... [okay, okay]

Got bored with my story? Enough with it. I was going to end it sooner or later. 

My light breakfast this morning. It wasn't intended - I wanted to make it to my working table before 7am. Proudly, I did.. at the expense of my poor tummy.

Now, if you notice, sometimes there's these kind words of instruction on the wrappers  with an arrow symbol which goes, "Tear here." I paid no attention to them and opened my way to the biscuits inside my own way.

My abandoned heels that were left resting in peace somewhere in one of the compartments of my working table for more than 10 months. Hello you... I decided to  wear them on since I brought and left my other pair of heels back at my place. A little dusty with a cobweb to it. Doesn't matter. I'll throw you away one day.  Oh how dear sweet of me... 

Speaking of footwear, I came across this: 

Spring 2010

WHOA!! 

That's about it. I won't comment any further on it. 

I've been talking too much today. 

And I don't ask to be forgiven for that.

Enough said.

Sep..tem..ber

The morning of today started off with a windy weather which isn't quite the case anymore right now. Dark clusters of clouds are forming up above and no.. it doesn't look too nice. 

Oh well, I won't be able to see how the rest of the day will be like. After all, I'm going to find myself in a different place in the later part of the day. This wasn't in the plan at all - I was expecting to go only tomorrow. I'm not ready. 

Haiya.. why lah?

Feel like stepping hard on the accelerator.. if only there's the following:

• my own car
• my safety and others on the road is guaranteed
• no mad person chasing after me
• no traffic police to stop me

Now could it possibly be possible? Tell me..

Gotta cancel my plan of going with my good friend and tell my other good friend to direct him to her location. Dunno why I had to emphasize good friend twice.. I guess I just miss some of my friends. Can you live without one?

I want to sigh one thousand and one times. But nah.. it will only kill the little energy that I need to get moving.

Listen to What's Inside ~

This rhythm that's beating inside me.. could it possibly be real? Tell me now if it isn't so.. before I go too far. It's been far too long.. almost  as if it was only a dream that never came to the senses of reality. But I know better.. it wasn't a lie. Now.. I've left it all behind.. never to look back at the pain that tore me apart for days which.. grew to much more than that. I've come to accept it.. and more so to embrace it. I can see through it now with newer sight. I'm no longer blinded by hopes that never amounted to anything. I know now that it only pulled me further back instead of pushing me forward.

I choose now to lay it to rest.. because now I can say, 'Thank you.. you helped me to grow.' 

Take my hand.. and show me the beauty of this precious gift. 

Mess

I'm surrounded by such a beautiful mess. I don't know whether I meant that sarcastically or symbolically or whatever way you want to put it. Weird but I just don't have quite the energy today - I just want to go to the comfort of my bed. Mind you but when you're all tired you won't care much to think whether your bed owns a luxurious price tag on it or not. 

Meeting. Again. I shouldn't be complaining but I'm doing just that right now. Am I actually mentally and physically.. and emotionally ready with the work I'm tied to? I don't even know why I'm asking myself that question now. It's gonna start pretty soon.. and the afternoon.. gosh.. it's damn hot.

Guess things will seem a little more in place when I get myself more organized at home. I have to seriously work on that. 

Now, since I'm all tired, sometimes it's nice to have a cooling color to soothe your vision.. like the image I got somewhere off the net. Don't sue me for doing that.

Gotta go.

Yo...

Slamat tengahari M'sia!

I have a lot of work to be done but little seems to be accomplished. Not good..nope..not at all. Ha! I'm thinkin' of chicken butt now - there's a reason for it and not just any reason. Short story goes...

One of them asked me, saying this, "Teacher..apa English 'buntut ayam'?" [What is 'buntut ayam' in English?] He continued, and gave an answer to his own inquiry while smiling, "Chicken butt?" That question completely shattered my professional composure - I couldn't help but burst out laughing. Some others caught what he said and joined in all the glee. I was saying, "Can't you think of anything else..like chicken wings or chicken breasts? Why of all things...?" 

On another account, while I was busy marking their day's assignment amid all the noise, a familiar smell came greeting my senses (someone was secretly eating in class but unfortunately had failed to contain the smell). I'd say it was somewhere between the smell of a fried nugget and hot dog. I went for nugget but the others said it was hot dog. I decided to skip the scolding remarks and instead went sniffing about like a mad person..then questioned, "What..you didn't share me some?!"

I guess at this point, it's quite obvious who 'them' refers to. Also, 'their' and 'others'. Next time, I'll address 'them' more appropriately. You know..they're humans too. Donks!

Gosh..sometimes I think (actually very often) that I am better being friends with them than being what I actually am to them in the first place.

Speaking of friends, I just realized that my quote catch today reads, "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." Marlene Dietrich ~

Nice. (=

Daisy Day ~

I choose to move.. for I chose to take the chances.. it might turn out right.. again it might not.. but then again.. life won't be as it is if you don't dare to take a new step forward.

So today wasn't at all that bad.. that much I will say.. for now.

Come What May

Let the story continue... for it might end as a beautiful piece of composition life can ever have. Yes, it never lies. The external layer may disguise it well but the internal part of it is ever transparent.  

August. What can I say about it after having living for almost ten days of it? Well today wasn't exactly fantastic. I was emotionally excited for only a small portion of the day. Then it went spiraling down just like that. Bam! Bad thing is I started carrying that side of that emotion with me to where I shouldn't have. Work explains it. The nature of it serves to elaborate my situation. Jab-bah-ruh-blu. Hope you read and said that fast enough. Young minds... and character... plus attitude that hasn't gone far from the starting line.  All that with a complete consecutive five days count virtually every week. I've gone perhaps half of the line but still have a long way to go.

I ask myself a string of questions which makes me not much different from others. What can be done to make things different from the usual? I want a change for the better - for myself as a person and for them which I have a love-hate feeling for. Solutions come when you don't avoid what you encounter. You're drawn to the root of the problem when there's maturity of the mind and emotion. 

It's all a matter of choice, and today, it's quite obvious I didn't make the right one - all because I simply chose not to.

May tomorrow be a day where I make a better set of choices. 

My Big "Haiya" Moments

Addiction is a bad thing. Well, usually that's the idea one normally gets - the word itself, that is, 'addiction'. It's bad enough that one can't stop smoking or drinking, and yet claim that they're not addicted. Total denial. My aim of blogging today isn't to condemn anyone. The earlier sentences were just my way of saying hello. I'm a girl, and girls, generally, have a weird way of expressing what they really have in mind which only generates confusion and contradiction sometimes. 

My predicament is this. It's something that I have just recently developed. I'm dealing with allergic reactions believed to be caused by some of the food that enter my digestive system. I can't exactly pin-point what and what they are, but I believe that one of it is chili. I like my food hot. That means chili in its original form or in some other altered way on my plate. The closest that I can describe of the type of hot sauce that I over-mix with my food is chili in vinegar that is usually blended with ginger and garlic, and whatever secret ingredient there is in it. BUT (nasib baik bukan kena spell 'butt')...the condition of my skin is not in its best state these days especially on my face and neck area, and sometimes my gums. Oh my. I can only look and taste with my imagination how much tastier my food would be like with some of that condiment that my palates have grown fond of. 


It's coming to about three weeks now since I've come to live with the fate that has befell me. I don't even know if I have the power to exaggerate about this. I'm fed up because I live in discomfort, partly pain, anger, and a bit of a bruise to my self-esteem. People notice the redness, and it's not the type of attention I'm seeking for at all.   


There comes moments when I just feel like ripping off my entire eyelids. Itchy. Just too itchy. 

HAIYA HAIYA HAIYA HAIYA HAIYA

HAIYA!!!!!!

I might as well become a skin specialist one of these days. 

"Excuse Letter"

Who would have known that FB would prove to be quite a useful tool for students to send in an excuse letter over the Internet?

I didn't, and I never thought that one would actually come up with that idea. Ah, young people these days have gotten themselves well versed over the World Wide Web. Sort of. Good thing about having an email account is, you don't need to log in to your FB account to read your messages.

Sometimes - or quite often lately - I get into this mood that says, "Today, FB isn't important."

Anyway...

Just to let you know, the student is excused. I totally accept it. Ha.

Hunger

Know that at this moment, I am hungry. I am at a meeting, and right now a lot of talking is taking place. 

I am completely anticipating the moment where I can finally make my leave to satisfy my hunger for, of course, literal food.

Gotta stay alive.

Who's with me?

Stretch When You Think You Can't

For the first time, I felt so alive sitting down for the meeting that I had to be at today. I think even if I had four hours of sleep or less, I would still be keen on listening to what I heard for two and a half hours. It feels good to be fed with words that encourage and motivate, and most of all, ones that renew that spirit that might be drying up. 

Thank goodness... I was awake to hear it all.

I thank God for the opportunity, because with opportunity comes blessings.

Password

I spent the past lengthy minutes ago figuring out my password to gain legal access to this blog. I forgot it - and I just can't believe it that I did. I'm putting a vain attempt to assure myself that it had a lot to do with the Caps Lock key that I must have accidentally activated. 


This is what happened next: I failed to conjure up the password, and therefore, resorted to renewing the password. I did that, but I'd say that the new password that I typed in is the same as the previous one - the one that got rejected. Yes, I'm making quite a big deal out of this because originally I had planned on blogging about something else until I encountered this ordeal. See... the Internet is perfectly capable of creating such a havoc in a split second, bringing a mess to your already pitiful life. 


Take note that your points to the blogger.


Readers should realize that at this point, that from the very beginning of this post, most (if not all), of the sentences were forced to succumb to, what we sometimes acknowledge as, exaggeration. Wow. I just realized that that was a lot of commas in a single sentence.


If there was any moral found in this post, well, let it be that you should never forget your password. 


Also, you should bear in mind that sometimes it just really is your fault and that admitting it is the better thing to do so you can move on with a new password.


End.

'Tis a New Month

Yesterday was April Fool's Day (I shouldn't be capitalizing the letters a, f, and d at all) and there's nothing significant about it. Nope. I wonder why people take joy in playing jokes on others just because of the day being April 1. Okay, yeah, I know - simply for the fun of it. And what if someone took your things simply for the fun of it? Or if someone did something that made your heart almost jump out of your ribcage and you could have sworn that you'd die of a heart attack had you been suffering from a weak heart condition? Bet that doesn't sound like any fun at all.

Hmm.. that was a harsh tone to begin my blog entry with. Anyway, yep, it's a new month. Just like almost any other person, I've got lots swimming through my mind. Something about tomorrow. Something else about next month, the end of the year, and so forth. Really, my concerns should be more about today. But it's hard not to. Isn't that what most others feel as well?

Well, I still got my health. Still have my pair of feet to bring me to places, my hands to create (or destroy), my voice to verbalize those thoughts, my brain to know what's good and what's not, and my heart to allow my dreams to have a beat of life in them. These should be things to smile about. Definitely not to worry about.

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Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient. 


That's how the World('s) English Bible puts it. 

So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. 

Matt 6:34

I'm not sure what version this Bible verse is of. 

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Glad it's Friday. I've got lots of reasons to be happy 'bout it. 

 

A Day in March

I bet you've never seen a (dwarf) hamster yawn before. I did, and it was just today that I've seen one while I was eating something for lunch. Ha! I turned my head just at about the right time. Hmm.. it's one of the cutest action I've ever seen. 


Image - still crispy clear in my head. 

It's raining, just like it has been for the past two days at around this time. Wish the weather was a little better since I'll be on the road not too long from now. A two to three hours' drive. No, it won't be my hands on those steering wheels. I can buy myself some sleep at the passenger's seat - I guess that will do me good. If not the sleep, I'll find something to talk about with the others.

Rain's getting harder. Wonder how the weather will be where we're intending to go. 

Indeed, showers of abundant blessings.

Mandarins in March ~

I've got a good nine of them left sitting on the shelf inside my refrigerator. 

And soon there will be no more left.