She's Thinking...

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm. 

-Norman Vincent Peale-

The above is today's quote that I'd like to look back in one (or more) of my tomorrows. I guess sometimes it just really has to do with the level of enthusiasm we have in us that changes or makes a difference in the way we look or do things in the days that we live on dear planet Earth. It's quite contagious, sometimes, you know - the enthusiasm, I mean. That's the kind of people I'd like to be around with. Yupz.

Something I learned today was about kindness. Hmm...I'm thinking I don't quite have it in me like how some people are. How is it that some people appear to be like saints (or angels if you prefer), and really are that way right from the heart? No mask whatsoever...you see their intentions right through. Gosh. I envy them.

Here's a little something I'd like to include in today's post. 

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.

"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."

"The Wise Woman's Stone"
 Author Unknown

Good stories are always worth sharing if it makes the heart feel all good inside...and maybe, even if you won't ever have any idea who was the author of it (like the one above...hehe).

Since there's been zero images for the past few posts, I decide to add in one or two this time. 

 

I'm not quite a fan of the feline animal kingdom, but somehow some kind of hidden chemistry brought me to this picture. Could it possibly be the cuteness factor?

I love this image!...Because I love hugs where the heart smiles with you. Hehe

Later peeps...my wish for tomorrow...hope you have a good day ahead. :]

Simply the 7th...

For the many yesterdays, and how I've gone through them to come to this moment, I'd like to say, "Thank you...I know there's still more heartaches to heal from (and to still heal from the ones that still stings the beating part of me), but still...I want to say, 'Thank you', anyway."

Dear God, please help me to see every day this way with a touch of gratitude in the heart.

Fly Me To Some Place Else

As of now, 2.55 pm on a sunny Friday afternoon, part of my day has been great. Oh yeah! It feels good to feel this way. I'm beaming from inside...would be even better if I could feel this way for at least 3 - 5 days in a week. I'm trying to be a little more realistic...'cause you see, you can't always be in such a splendid mood every - let me add - single day (therefore, 3 - 5 days of being spared from moments of unhappiness...lolz).

Now, lemme count...1...2...3...4... Yup, four things that's causing me to smile from the liver (got this phrase from my favorite book, 'Eat Pray Love'). I'll leave the first three zipped up - not that it's top secret or anything (well maybe a little) - and I'll let you know reason number 4. It's the weekend!... Plus, it's Sabbath tomorrow... Time to get all renewed spiritually. Hehe. I'm trying peeps, I'm trying...it's a daily effort to let that part of you grow.

Know what? I've suddenly got this desire to be at some place else...not for that long a period, just maybe a little more than 'awhile'. And, if it can happen, I'll be back because my heart belongs on 'home ground'. Yupz. Most of us are where we are because we chose it. Like for instance, me being right in front of the computer...blogging.

Hmm...just how far will I go to get what I want? 

I hate saying I don't know. Sometimes, I just really want to know, you know. I know you know. Donks!

Anyway...

I hate being all alone here...I wanna be back home. So my choice? I'm logging off and heading back. 

Happy Sabbath y'all!

Tunggu!!...Wait!!...

This quote by Hans Nouwens - I want to post it up here even though it appears on my quote catch right now as I type. I'll lose it by tomorrow that's why. So here goes...

In true love the

smallest distance is too 

great, and the greatest

distance can be

bridged.

Lawa lah! (Uhh...sorry that's an expression I find hard to 'translate'). If you've got a person who can love you this much, and it won't change now or later, then you're just one lucky person. Gotta appreciate the good things in life - they come by so rare sometimes.

Bye...for real now. ;)

 

Breath...This Is Another Day

A picture that I so want to capture right now looks something like this in mind...a single white flower cupped in the palm of my hands with still waters as my background. Well, maybe I'll try to be more flexible with the choice of color.

No camera, specifically a DSLR. I can almost swear I won't stop mentioning 'bout this until I purchase one...or am given one. Dalam mimpi kau lah! [In your dreams lah!]

Anyway... 

It's mid-week prayer. This heart says, "Go..." And so, today, this evening, I will listen to that voice. 

Help me to see how precious this life is - the one You gave me to live...sweet or bitter it may be...and help me, too, to say and do the right thing.

PeekaBoo!

Sometimes, being all busy like right now is not too bad. It's better than staying at home 24/7 doing nothing and letting my brain rot.

I've got 2 minutes (this is a lie!) to post this up. Yes, I'm giving myself a 'breeze'...whatever the heck that means to you. Ha. 

The bell just finished buzzing. Tata!

In His Eyes...

It is these words that are echoing at the back of my mind right about now...

 

"Sometimes you have to forget your own hurt, and think about the hurt of others...that's when your prayers change."

 

Why do we always end up asking from God? We ask to be blessed for this, and then that... and if that's not enough, we ask for so many other things that never seem to come to a definite end. Why this question? Because it was directed once or twice before to a congregation/worship gathering/etc where I happened to be in it.

 

*Sighs*...Yes, I guess I'm rendered by deep contemplation.

In His Eyes... His love for us does not fall short... It is us who fail to understand just how much we really mean to Him. 

I hope He helps me understand the depth of this love He has for me.

Nite, peeps.

"She Will Be Loved..."

Just so happened that that's the tune I'm tapping into right now..intentionally (on Windows Media Player)..like having the same song played over and over again. Please don't throw the word 'lame' at my face. Ha.

Well, who doesn't want to be loved, right? I guess, my words will hold some percentage of truth when I say that we were born with a heart that desires to be loved. 

Oh well, that's not quite what I had intended to blog about ('...to be loved'). Fellow peeps..I missed blogging. The first two paragraphs were just mere comments to the title of the song that's quietly playing through the speakers. I had wanted to put in a new post on the last day of June. Luck, however, was dry on my side. Now, no thanks to the terrible Internet connection, my archives has one month missing - the chain of posts have been broken. Dang.

Anyway...

You know how it gets when you do things in a rush? Like when you rush blogging something up, you don't get to say all that's in your head. 

That's how it is for me now..wanna say more but the voice at the back of my head is saying, "Hey you..go take your bath and freshen up yourself."

Yup, got a small farewell party to go to in about 15 minutes from now.

I hate goodbyes like this one.

Later!

 

Her Heart Says This...

There's just one thing I'm sharing here today...I want to travel.

Yes, I want to go to some far away place from the usual scenes around me, with one of my girlfriends. And of course, there's definitely no harm if there's more in number to travel with. As the saying goes, 'The more, the merrier'.

I just want a breath of fresh air...to let this mind roam free from the clutters of every day life...my life to be exact. A week long getaway will do me some good. 

All I need is to gear myself with a wallet filled with the right amount of money (plus some extra bit of cash or more), a backpack carrying all a woman's necessities, a stomach ready to be charmed by novel culinary experiences, and...that Digital SLR that I've always wanted. My baby! Pictures...if you can't bring anything else back home, bring some pictures that everyone else can enjoy during  happy family gatherings.

I'm getting all rusty mentally and in spirit. I need to be rejuvenated. Spraying perfume to the bare skin just simply won't do no matter how sweet to the senses or how well-known the brand or how 'wow-ish!' the price tag. Last I've been out of the country was 'plus minus' two years ago. Seems like I'm half way shrivelled to my bones like an orange sitting in the fridge for way too long and that all traces of life has slipped and dissolved into thin air. That's how I'm mentally picturing myself.  

'Punya lah'...itu lah ekspresi orang disini. 

Okay, I'm telling myself it will happen soon. That chance is already on it's way, heading straight at my direction. Whether that's true or not...well hey, gotta cheer myself up with the thoughts of possibilities in the palm of these hands that I've got.

May God bless us with a happy heart...there's nothing bad in that. :)

May's Greetings

Guess what? A smile is sketched across the features of my face right now. You'll find out why if you read on. :)

On the afternoon of yesterday, at around this same time, the sun was hidden by clouds that poured out rain...yeah it pretty much rained the whole afternoon yesterday. Total mood killer, I'd say. I slept through the afternoon like a pig (what a pathetic way to picture myself in sleeping mode). Anyway, what really gets me smiling is the change of weather today...this very day. Earlier this morning, I felt that all hope was gone when I saw no promising light to a bright sunshine any time today. So I breathed out a prayer as I mounted the stairs somewhere on this school compound (well more like a conversation to God) which went something like this, "If there's no sunshine today, well at least let it not rain until night time." 

God proved He could do much more than that silent prayer I breathed out. Sometime ago, but not too very long ago (somewhere in March), I heard this particular line of words from a much revered pastor who gave this talk for chapel. I wish I was in the chapel gathering area right from the beginning of his talk. His exact words were, "Tuhan mampu lakukan lebih daripada doa-doa kita". Translated version of that would go, "God can do much more than our prayers." They were just the words I needed to hear at that very moment when my ears had finally tuned in. 

Outside the window, the sun is shining bright and the birds are singing to their own tune of praise. It's enough to make me happy for now. So, thank you, Lord...thank you so very much.

Hehe. Here's the sunshine I was talking about.

I didn't mind the fact that two senior students saw me capturing this scene which I believed to them seemed like there was not a single speck of significance about it. You have no idea how I feel at this very moment. I guess only I will know the story. Or maybe, just one other person. ;)

By the way, here's the continuation of the Serenity Prayer from my previous post. 

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

as it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting that He would make all things right

if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life

and supremely happy with Him

Forever in the next.

Amen.

~Reinhold Niebuhr~ 

I hope so much that this day of next year would be so much different...in a good way of course.

May tonight's rest be filled with inner joy that only God can give. :)

Let Not Anger Spoil My Day

Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change;

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.

To be continued...

My twenty plus years of life has taught me a lot...and I will learn yet even more as I have come to know - some experiences sweet to the taste and many others hard to swallow. Who would have ever thought that life could be so cruel, and that in the moments in between it could be as gentle as the touch of the hands of a loving mother? 

Left and right, and all around, there are questions. For some, all they might probably see are answers rushing towards them. I'd say, 'Wow!' to that if that were really true. Who are 'they' and 'them'? They're people other than the pronoun 'I' or the other similar version of it, 'me'. 

The seconds...they're still moving without ever running out of breath. These words slip by tiptoeing and come whispering to me, "My dear, this day has not yet come to an end.'

Each one's got a story of their own. You and I. Some stories escape the heart synchronizing itself, dancing to the flow of breath. Some choose never to leave, settling in the inner walls of privacy. And sometimes, if it ever does chooses to take a step outside, it goes to just one other soul. That's about as far as it goes. No further.

3pm. And I need to quench this thirst. 

Next to come, a purchase or two later today. That must happen.

Bye for now.

More than meets the eyes...it meets the heart.

Didn't plan on blogging 'bout anything today, but it turns out that I'm in the mood. That shouldn't be quite a bad thing, should it? Nah, guess not. 

Well, I've got to hand it to the pictures to help me tell today's episodes. Thank goodness for the birth of technology.

 

Creative piece of needle work. Story goes that it was given as a gift from a friend who's not living anywhere close by. We're talking Myanmar, people. I guess sometimes it's not so much of the thing given, but the thought...and that, fellow readers, makes the heart feel all warm with happiness. Oh by the way, it wasn't for me. The lucky person is my colleague that, let's say, I'm quite close to.  

Not quite satisfied with the angle which I took with the first shot, I took another. Looks to me as if they're half swan half peacock. 

 

So here's the person who gave that gift, one of musical talents. Notice the caption on the top left? Guess what? I've got my list of people that I miss too. I won't deny it. Maybe verbally, but not the heart.

 

Food! Definitely not from my limited culinary skills. This came from the time and energy of a group of students. I came to replace someone to taste and to actually grade the prepared dish. Ha! So much for spending little time in the kitchen.

Now there you go. Aww...I said, "Come, I take your picture," and they all obeyed and posed cheerfully.

 

Not bad with the utensils arrangement and all.

 

Menu complete with love from color pencils (hehe).

 

Notice how some of the letters get a little fancy with the curves.

Second helping of carbohydrates, anyone?

 

Now when the eating was done, I found this girl back in the teacher's room. That's a pen that gives out a green glow of light. Someone bribed her with a candy (find it if you can) to write. 

Piece of advice: Never bribe kids no matter how tempted you are to do it.

Truth is I really don't mind if I have to do that to kids

over and over again.

 

And here's the look of the pen when it has its cap on. See...I'm not the only one fascinated by it. I've got my little buddy. Hehe. Someone give me a little sister!

Pretty much about it for now. Gotta get back home. Heading over to a friend's place later tonight. I want to laugh like a kid, talk like a real grown up when I have to, talk  all gibberish when I feel I'm allowed to, and just think as free as this mind would run. 


Night and sleep tight.

Sunshine for Monday

I haven't completely deserted my dear blog, so yes, I'm back. Muah! The weather's been pretty kind so far - sky's painted with a healthy shade of blue and there's enough sunshine to get you over-tanned. Ha. Nah, I'll never be interested to get a tan. Why, I'm a typical Asian sticking to the concept of physical beauty where the fairer the skin the lovelier (no seriously, don't believe that...if you do, don't ever let me know that you have just criticized me). Ahem...well I ran dry of luck when I was born. My skin's not as fair as I wish it to be. What? The brother gets the fairer complexion? Boo. 

Pictures, peeps. I've got to get them coming in once in awhile. Would be such a bore sight to see endless strings of posts without a single image. Oh yeah, by the way, I sparked up a conversation on DSLR with a colleague of mine earlier. Feels good to talk with someone who's tied to at least one similar interest and from there on branching out other bits of decent conversation to occupy time. Too bad, I haven't gotten one for myself just yet. Grrr. Guess what? Once I own one, I'll refer it as my 'baby' (hoho!). Kalah trus oh status semua boipren yang wujud di dunia yang bercuaca panas ni (and please don't force me to translate that).

Here goes them pix. 

  

Another colleague holding up a kind of...fruit you might say? First time seeing one so decided to take a snap of it.

A look on the inside. The spoon, I'm sure, tells you that it's edible enough to not cause you a tummy ache. Small serving...what harm could it possibly do? Unless of course it's sprinkled with poison.   

I've been craving for ice-cream after bumping into someone at the payment counter in one of the shops down town yesterday. He's made me all jealous with all of those ice-cream cones in his hands (there were 4 to be exact). So after lunch today, I took a solo walk to the bakery with my good ol' umbrella. Really, it's not that old you know. I just had to put something in between the adjective (good) and the noun (umbrella).So, tada! to ol'!

I couldn't get enough of one cone of ice-cream so I ordered another to go down my throat. Sure cheaper than the ice-creams I saw yesterday, but in a way it's all the same - cold and sweet. Right, right, right?

Nyam, nyam, nyam. That intro was just purely for the sound effect (why need an effect of this sort...dunno) to this whole new paragraph of which might not make any sense to any of you. Never mind, it does to me. I had one more picture to post but I ended up deleting it. The background was in a state of a tsunami mess with the main object in focus being me (a little chubbier), having my hair just washed, dried, and feeling all fresh. I lurve hair that feels all rejuvenated!

Hmm...planing on growing out the leftover dye on my hair then go chop it off, refining it with layers. Maybe I'll put on some wild color to it during the longer school break (like at the end of the year) and then color it to jet black just before school reopens next year. 

Now that is total foolishness which, maybe, I might actually so suddenly succumb to. Ceh...buat apa semua tu? [What's all that for?]

Today's a good day for me. Somehow strangely fine because I don't get to feel this way too often. Please, oh pretty please, let the feeling stay this way till I put my eyes to rest tonight. Should the day go the complete opposite for me tomorrow, then so be it. Just give today a chance to be the way it started off.

Can you do that for me God?

   

Take My Hand...

...and help me through the heartaches of life, oh dear Lord...for the hurts of others, have also become mine.

Hi, peeps. I think I love today. He speaks to me through others around me. Thank you from deep down in my heart.   

Slap Me. I'm Sleepy.

I'm all sleepy due to another late night's sleep last night. My adik asked me this when he saw me, "Teacher, why your mata bongkung?" ["What's with the swollen eyes?"] I didn't make a clear answer and he made a random guess that I cried. No lah, and if I really did, you'd think I'd really blog about it? 

Uhh...nope.

I want to smile. I want to laugh. And I want to talk silly stuffs and dream of floating on clouds. Doesn't sound like I'm in my right mind right now. But, I think I am - it just needs a little tightening of the screws here and there. Tell you what, I'm on a personal mission. Won't specify on what exactly. Just wanted to tell it here for the fun of it. Yup, a slice of  what's with my life these days.

Oh yah...have you gotten around to Yahoo(!) News these days? Every time the web page shows up on the screen, there always seems to be juicy, and sometimes weird, news. Ah well, news won't get rolling if it weren't interesting enough, right?

News is fine. Just save it from all the gossip.

Feel like making a purchase today - something that had been lingering in my mind since I saw it. I told my dad about it the other time my parents brought me out. I liked it when he told me this, "If you have your own money, then go ahead and buy it." That coming from a father to his daughter makes me pull one corner of my mouth into a smile. It's nothing important, and I think if I had my own kids with their runny noses for me to be concerned of, I won't even think of spending my bucks on that. I (had) better not.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

-Aeschylus-

And for the above (today's quote catch), I guess there might be some truth to that.

Bye for now. 

And...make tomorrow's Sabbath a good one. 

 

Invitation

Oh I'm glad it's Friday. I've got my reasons and if you're feeling the same about today, you've got your reasons too. 

Going over to someone's place today. Yup, a student invited the whole clan of us over to her place for Chap Goh Mei. Heading over to the house later this evening. Ok, so this will be my first to attend to such an occasion. And, I, have nothing against it.

Mari ber-Chap Goh Mei-ness!

I didn't forget...Happy Sabbath.

I Need Thee

Part The Waters/I Need Thee Every Hour

-Selah-

When I think I'm going under, part the waters, Lord

When I feel the waves around me, calm the sea

When I cry for help, oh, hear me, Lord and hold out Your hand

Touch my life

Still the raging storm in me

I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord;

No tender voice like Thine can peace afford.

Refrain 

I need Thee, O I need Thee;

Every hour I need Thee;

O bless me now, my Savior, 

I come to Thee.

I need Thee every hour, in joy or pain;

Come quickly and abide, or life is vain. 

Refrain

This is one of the songs that I've been tuning in to sometimes lately. Why the song? Simply because it speaks the voice of my heart. It pretty much says everything I  have been feeling inside me. 

I guess there are a lot of troubled hearts out there, and unfortunately, money doesn't quite solve it (maybe part of it) even if you have loads of it in your bank account. Not to say that I'm filthy rich or anywhere close to it, or to rub anyone's nerves in the wrong way.

Anyway...

Here's the picture of the day.

Do take note that the middle finger was not intentional.

Sometimes what you see is not what it actually appears to be. 

Hoho. 

Students placing their signatures on this piece of customized postcard. Yup, someone's coming home today. I would have wanted to join with all the welcoming of the return at the airport later this evening. Hmph. Got other plans made.

I'm a little crushed, but I have only one me. I can't be at two different places which are far apart at the same time. Just an extra thought I'd like to throw in...It is true that we are unique - we're not like everyone else (in every aspect). How unique? That's up to us to decide. 

Lord, be with me now for I just don't think I can handle my burdens on my own...it's too tiring.

Intruders

I washed my hair this morning, just like some many other mornings before. It got me late to where I should be at a certain time. No, I'm not proud of that, but I'm pretty helpless to change that part of me for now. 

I missed out on some important news - that's the bad thing about being late. Dang. But the news, trust me, has nothing good in it. It only brought to the realization of the things that should have, or shouldn't have, been there in the first place before all this happened. The "what ifs", I guess, were hovering like the shape of a halo. Geez..I might be wrong.

Anyway..

Upon realizing what took place (and still cursing myself for being late), I was shocked. I didn't ask much, however - my ears simply took the course of tuning in to the conversations around me in hopes to catch bits of pieces here and there just enough to put together a picture that still had many question marks. I played into the scene trying to imitate the personality of Sherlock Holmes. Unintentional, of course. The pictures I were about to take were worth blogging material. Hoho. Careful, I just might be the next blistering annoying paparazzi you'd wish you never met.

So here it is..the pictures. I don't intend to reveal too much. 

Clearing away what had been broken. Ouch. You don't want to get those splinters past your skin.

The damaged must be replaced meaning extra (unnecessary - if the right security measures were taken at the first place, necessary - if you don't want a repeat of the incident anytime soon) cost. Just out of the blue, how long does it take for a damaged heart to be fixed?

Seeing this makes me question, "Didn't they have anything better to do?" A lightning strike would have been useful for them considering the rainy weather these days. I'm human - the mercy in me tends to leave automatically before even having the chance to exercise it.

A wave of speculation stirring in the background.

Don't we just love trails of fingerprints sometimes (yeah I know you can't spot them..same for me but I was told they were there)? Gotta bring forward the evidence. *Crosses fingers* 

Now just look at what they've done. Tsk tsk tsk.

What I learned of today, reminded me of what happened to a friend of mine before.  Of this, I won't elaborate any further.

Well..what can I say?

Shoppin' Mall

So what's with the title you might ask. Well sometimes you don't wind yourselves in such a place just to go shopping. Nah. Sometimes you want to go there (the shoppin' mall I mean just in case you've gone off track) simply because we want to be out of the house. The cool people would say 'chilling out' and since I'm not anywhere close to that, I'll just go for the good ol' ordinary 'hang out'. Ha! Yeah, sometimes I laugh at my own jokes. Just plain weird. 

And for the record by the way, this is my first time going into a cyber cafe in a shopping' mall. For the other times, the cyber cafes that I went into were located at smaller shopping lots. 

Ah anyway, I'm logging out.

People, I want french fries from McD. It's not the healthiest of food but I think I'll be buying myself some of that a few floors down. 

Here I come you unhealthy french fries!  

Sabbath's Coming! ;)

Weather this morning isn't as bright and sunny as yesterday but I don't have to be so gloomy like the sky outside - the birds are still singing anyway. I'm happy to think of tomorrow. I miss the Sabbath. It's just a few more hours to go, but somehow I already miss it for some  odd reason. 

Let's sidetrack for a moment and I'll begin it with an image I took two days ago. 

I'll tell you how this book got into my hands. 

When you're going to meet up with someone, say in a shopping mall and that person will only be showing up in about half an hour's time, and you have no one familiar to share silly stories with but yourself, head to a bookstore - saves you from the myriads of junk food sold around that temporarily satisfies any present cravings. Trust me, you won't look stupid going from shelf to shelf examining the entire row of books and opening one or two of them to get a glimpse of the contents. 

Enough with the prologue. That book you see there was pretty much the first book that I set my eyes on when I entered into that bookstore. It was like chemistry had brought us together. Ahem..that sounds a little too cliché, but anyway, I think we do need it sometimes to complete our thoughts. Hehe. As you see the book comes with quite a size that it got me thinking it's gotta be priced somewhere between RM60 - RM70. I was wrong and I'm glad I was because it made me say this in mind, "Aha!". You might have guessed already that I am now the proud owner of it, bought at RM19.80. I claimed my privileges for owning a membership card, thus a discount for my purchases of the day (I bought an extra item - sellotape).  

Jodi Picoult. I've read a few two of her other books before but I haven't gotten myself to buying a personal copy of my own. If you don't have anything against fictional books you might want to try reading one of her books. "My Sister's Keeper" got me to tears..I find it better in my imagination than the animated version of it (the movie I mean). 

"Change Of Heart". The title captured my heart instantly. Do I personally want to have a change of that in me? Yeah, definitely, if that's gonna make me a better person in the present and the future. 

Hmm..can I have a month off from work just to indulge myself in books and still get my salary coming in my bank account? I'm a slow reader that's why. I'm pretty slow in doing almost everything (except when it comes to driving - which makes me a bad driver).

~ ~ ~

Sabbath's coming real soon! Oh dear Lord, help me to prepare my heart for your coming Sabbath day.

Smile for Jesus!

Oh dear February!

I woke up to the early moments of this morning with gratitude flowing into my heart (plus sleepy eyes..just in case you wanted to know). Got to admit that it is truly one of the best moments to talk with Him above with the surrounding stillness around you. 

It's not about what I know will happen that makes me happy..it's more of what I hope for that gives me that glow of happiness inside. Hmm..well maybe it's not that obvious sometimes when it comes to my facial expression. Sorry, I hate to say that I might have been born with such a plain expression for the most part of the time. But..let me tell you this..I laugh out loud at the wrong time sometimes. 'Wrong timing' is how the people here like to put it. Heh. So I guess that makes me as weird happy.

Well so much for the brief moment of revelation there.. It's noon, the low hungry grumbles of my tummy just came to life a moment ago. It is drowned by the sound of the air-conditioner above me and the little chatter some tables away. 

Wanna eat! Gonna be my first lunch for this month! Eat while we can! Yeah!

31

Let me think just for a second or two, and if anything comes up I'll share it here.

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Okay..you know what? I don't know how my life would look like when I hit 31. Should I? Hot news circulating at the moment is that the world is coming to an end. I blurted out more than once that if it's really coming to an end, then I see no point of getting married. Hoho. You should have seen the 'debate' some of my Form 5 students and I had in the second last half of the class I had with them. Don't worry, I don't teach them nonsense. It's perfectly sensible. At least I think so. 

I didn't live up to my word of blogging in a few more posts before the end of this month. So since I didn't accomplish that, here is at least one last post for the month of January.

It's the last day of January 2011! I'm all thrilled because I have a long weekend ahead..Chinese New Year holidays mah. Hehe. I'm not Chinese. I have no traces of it in my blood (although I'm quite sure I wouldn't mind if I did) but still there's this anticipation to this moment of celebration. I love the fireworks. I love the red lanterns that they hang on the porches. I love their decorations in the shopping malls (at least to the one that I went to). I would definitely love the 'ang pau(s)' if I were given some. I mean who wouldn't? Money doesn't fall from the sky when you ask for it..does it? No doubt, I'd wish till I bleed that I were living under your sky if it spitted out money.

Yup, so here's some pics I'd like to share. 

My first time having a Korean meal outside with friends. I went for spiciness 'level 3'. I refused to lower the 'hotness level' (sounds so wrong..haha!) because I wanted to go for the max. Oh yeah! You are about to find out that I cannot tolerate the spiciness well. I had a 'momentary runny nose'.

I forgot but I think this was Chinese tea (ah..see the Chinese influence?).

My order. Nice..just nice. Notice the plate of kimchi to the top right corner of the tray? Last year, I triggered my allergy with that. Good thing that is not a problem no longer. Hooray!!

When your mum or dad tells you to finish up your food, just do it (my..they're not going to poison you or something) and don't go putting on the best pout you can make on you face. I love leaving my plate/bowl this clean. Think what you want to think. Some people (I can't expect all I'm not a god) still like me no matter how I am. Toast to you guys!

Oh dear butterfly..fly me away to beautiful places!

 

Oh by the way, this is the CNY (Chinese New Year) decoration that I was talking about. They're not real but still it holds its own beauty. Three butterflies makes me think of the words ~ I.LOVE.YOU. 

My students (the ones that I had a 'debate' with) wrote this on the whiteboard just before I dismissed them (some more of this and that were added while the students were leaving). The ones that stayed behind waited for me to get my hand-phone and later my charger (when I realized the bat was low) so the writings on the whiteboard would stay protected as in 'un-erased'. I wanted to take a picture of it. Aww..how sweet of them for them to wait. Geez.

I'm happy with today's post and I'll be seeing another post in the month of January next year. Muah! 


Hola February! You are most welcome to enter into my calender of life! :D