I was reading Steph’s blog this morning and I couldn’t agree more on the following quote:-
“….you know a guy loves a woman when he cannot stop taking photos of her…” - Ekachai
I saw this lovely pair of shoes at Mark & Spencer in Singapore. Just too bad that I couldn’t even fit in their size 3. 
I caught these 2 feller sneaking into my parents’ room when I let them out of their cage. And mum complained that they bite off her floor mat. LOL!
People say wheat grass supposed to be good for you. So I gave it a shot. It didn’t taste that bad actually. In fact, it was a little sweet.
That little shot alone cost RM3.50. Insane! It came with a slice of orange for you to flash the wheat grass taste down.
When people around you, dislike or hate you no matter how good you’ve treated them in the past, somehow their perception of you never changes. You will never be prefect in their eyes. Somehow, negativity always overwrite the positive. That’s just the way human are.
But above all that, sometimes it’s comforting to know that at the end of the day, you still have a friend, a rather good friend whom loves you very much and were there to see you through all the time. Someone who understands how you feel after all the pain and tears you’ve been through. Someone who is greater than all your problems. Just that very often we human forgotten about His existence and had taken Him for granted many times.
… and His name is Jesus.
7 Secrets for a Happy Life
1. Self-Respect: If I don’t love and respect myself, who will? It all starts right here with ME. If I think that I’m a pretty good person, it doesn’t much matter what anyone else thinks. And the irony is that once I like myself, most everyone else will like me too. People enjoy being around people who speak well of themselves - not in an arrogant boastful way, but with honest self-appreciation.
2. Forgive Everyone for Everything: Angry and happy don’t mix. Flush out the angry, and the happy has a place to put down roots. Until we forgive everyone for everything, we hold on to anger and resentment. Once we forgive, we can become happy. Forgiving is not a gift to someone else - Forgiving is our gift to ourselves - a great gift - the gift of happiness.
3. Be Grateful for All of Life: Each of us has been infinitely blessed - beginning with the gift of life. Whatever may appear to be missing or broken on any particular day, our glass is not half full, it is 99.9% full. More practically, when we feel ungrateful, we become unhappy. When we choose to feel and express our gratitude, the act of feeling and speaking our thanks creates a happiness within us. The more we express our gratitude, the more we have for which to be grateful. Today and every day, take time to celebrate life - whether an hour’s meditation in a quiet natural space, or a brief moment’s conscious pause to breathe deeply and celebrate gratitude for life.
4. Choose Happiness: Everything in life is a choice. There is never anything we ever “need” to do. Every action and thought is a choice and has consequences - pleasant or unpleasant. Whether you go to work today, change jobs, smile at the bank teller, order fried fish, yell at your kids, complain about life, hold a daily celebration of gratitude for life - they are all choices. Happiness is a choice. Stay alert and make conscious choices for happiness.
5. Begin at the End: You can never reach your destination if you don’t have a destination. Decide what accomplishments you want recorded on your tombstone. Take a whole quiet day to consider your life. Be very clear that your happiness does NOT depend on reaching your goal. In fact, it’s the reverse. Your happiness depends on accepting whatever life throws at you while you walk the path toward your goal. What is important for your happiness is having a goal, and working toward it.
6. Start Today: Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow - today. Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning. Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
7. Life is NOT “Supposed to be Fair”: Know that there is no single way that life is “supposed” to be. Demanding that life meet our expectations is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence. Life is a game with no rules. Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions. Our only path to happiness lies in being open to receiving whatever life throws at us - with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
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How to Love an Imperfect Person Perfectly
When we meet the right person to love, when we are at the right place at the right time, which is chance. When you meet, someone you are attracted to, that is not a choice. That is chance.
Being caught up in a moment and there is many couples who get together because of this are not a choice. That is also a chance. The difference is what happens afterward. When will you take that infatuation, that crush, that mind-blowing attraction to the next level?
That is when all sanity goes back, you sit down and contemplate whether you want to make this into a concrete relationship or just a fling. If you decide to love a person, even with his faults, that is not a chance. That is choice.
When you choose to be with a person, no matter what, that is choice. Even if you know there are many people out there who are more attractive, smarter, and richer than your mate is, and yet, you decide to love your mate just the same, that is choice.
Infatuation, crushes, attraction comes to us by chance. However, true love that lasts is truly a choice. A choice that we make. Regarding soul mates, there is a beautiful movie quote that I believe is so true about this: “Fate brings you together, but it is still up to you to make it happen.
I do believe that soul mates do exist. That there is truly someone made for you. Nevertheless, it is still up to you to make the choice if you are going to do something about it or not. We may meet our soul mates by chance, but loving and staying with our soul mates is still a choice we have to make. We came to the world not by finding someone perfect to love…BUT to learn how to love an imperfect person perfectly.
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- Picture taken from here
They have been married for two years. He loves literature and often posts his work on the net, but nobody ever reads them. He is also into photography and he handles their wedding photos. He loves her very much. Likewise with her. She has a quick temper and always bullies him. He is a gentleman and always gives in to her.
Today, she’s being willful again.
Her: “Why can’t you be the photographer for my friend’s wedding? She promised she’d pay.”
Him: “I don’t have time that day.”
Her: “Humph!”
Him: “Huh?”
Her: “Don’t have time? Write less of those novels, and you will have all the time you need.”
Him: “I… someone will definitely recognize my work some day.”
Her: “Humph! I don’t care, you’ll have to do it for her!”
Him: “No.”
Her: “Just this once?”
Him: “No.”
Negotiation’s broken. So, she gave the final warning: “Give me a Yes within three days, or else…”
First day, she “withheld” the kitchen, bathroom, computer, refrigerator, television, hi-fi… Except the double bed, to show her “benevolence”.
Of course, she has to sleep on it too. He didn’t mind, as he still has some cash in his pockets.
Second day, she conducted a raid and removed everything from his pockets and warned, “Seek any external help, and you bear the consequences.”
He’s nervous now. That night, on the bed, he begs for mercy, hoping that she’ll end this state. She doesn’t give a damn. No way am I giving in, whatever he says. Until he agrees.
Third day, night. On the bed. He’s lying on the bed, looking to one side. She’s lying on the bed, looking to the other side.
Him: “We need to talk.”
Her: “Unless it’s about the wedding, forget it.”
Him: “It’s something very important.”
She remains silent.
Him: “Let’s get a divorce.”
She did not believe her ears.
Him: “I got to know a girl.”
She’s totally angry, and wanted to hit him. But she held it down, wanting to let him finish. But her eyes already felt wet. He took a photo out from his chest. Probably from his undershirt pocket, that’s the only place she didn’t go through yesterday. How careless.
Him: “She’s a nice girl.”
Her tears fell.
Him: “She has a good personality too.”
She’s heartbroken because he puts a photo of some other girl close to his heart.
Him: “She says that she’ll support me fully in my pursue for literature after we got married.”
She’s very jealous because she said the same thing in the past.
Him: “She loves me truly.”
She wishes to sit up and scream at him “Don’t I?”
Him: “So, I think she won’t force me to do something that I don’t want to do.”
She’s thinking, but the rage won’t subside.
Him: “Want to take a look at the photo I took for her?”
Her: “…!”
He brings the photo before her eyes. She’s in a total rage, hits his hand away and leaves a burning slap on his face.
He sighs. She cries.
He puts the photo back to his pocket. She pulls her hand back under the blanket.
He turns off the light, and sleeps. She turns on the light, and sits up. He’s asleep. She lost sleep. She regrets treating him the way she treated him.
She cried again, and thought about a lot of things. She wants to wake him up. She wants to have a intimate talk with him. She doesn’t want to push him anymore. She stares at his chest. She wants to see how the girl looks.
She slips the photo out. She wanted to cry and she wanted to laugh.
It’s a nicely taken photo. A photo he took for her. She bends down, and kissed him on his cheek.
He smiled. He was just pretending to be asleep.
“You learn to love, not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
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Five simple rules to be happy:
1 Free your heart from hatred.
2 Free your mind from worries.
3 Live simply.
4 Give more.
5 Expect less.
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Just last week, I’ve finally completed my red wiving dress (not sure I got the term right, but they call it “anyaman” in Malay), which turned out to be more of a party dress instead of a glamour evening one. For this one, I spend almost 2 weeks (if you were to count by days) to complete due to some technical error encountered many times.
While the current dress that I’m working on is with chiffon draping on top of it. This is in fact my second attempt doing draping. My first attempt didn’t quite turn out as what my principal wanted. 
Will be continuing my dress today. Hopefully I’m able to get it done by today so that I can proceed to the bridal dress which I’ve been dying to made. Stay tuned! 
