Luvie loves her macbook too, apparently I was about to write a poem about her when she decided to put her paw onto my caps lock key, hitting it incessantly as she slept. In irritatance, I pushed her off my computer and she gave a grumpy “meow” as she jumped off the table and proceeded to my bed instead. What a pampered kitty it is.
She looks like the tuxedo cat on the side of my blog doesnt she? haha…
driving along the highways watching flashing neon lights.
coming home half dead and half drunk on sleep deprivation.
is a great book. I would recommend it for a good read. It depicts a true life account of a Japanese gangster daughter and how she endured all the hardships. Most of the men in her life had abused her in one way or another. She finally did meets someone who respected her but they were in much suffering.
I feel that in the tradition Asian context the men of the household wields too much control over women. Things are set to change because women are increasingly gaining financial independence, they are, in fact becoming stronger. I truly admire women who silently withstand abuse from their husbands in order to protect the young.
Personally, I have not regained much trust in men. If even a choice, I would rather depend on myself. The prospect of marriage and having children does not likely to me at the moment, but I might change my mind in future. I rather be self sufficient and left to my own. Maybe it is just my preference for being solitary from a young age. This book further reconfirms my judgment. I cried several times while reading the book, they bring tears to my eyes, it is was so heart breaking.. and yet looking at her petite figure, one would never realise that she has been through so much.
When you look at yourself in the mirror, who do you see?
These few days I have seen a beautiful angel, staring back at me, she comes out and hugs me in her warm embrace. She pours all her love into me from her heart. I fill her love fill me up with never ending joy and bliss. She looks and smiles and me before going back into the mirror, and I see myself.
I have also seen what happens when others look at themselves into the mirror. When they look at themselves in the mirror, they see ugliness in their reflection. They immediately cover the mirror in layers and layers of cloth. They try to get rid of the mirror as well, by dumping it outside. They hide in their room, afraid to look at any mirrors.
“He looks at himself in the mirror, his ugliness overwhelms him so much that he smashed the mirror onto the floor. Pieces of glass shattered across the floor, he looked down and saw the broken pieces of his distorted face, staring back at him. In fear, he ran out of the room. He ran and ran towards the darkness. The darkness welcomes him with open arms, gobbling him up like a black hole.
I looked down upon him and sent him a beam of light. He looks up and looks at the light, but he was afraid. He dared not go into the light and went in further and further into the darkness, till no more light came in. I solidified the beam of light, so that one day, when he is ready, he will be able to find his way home”
is the process in which people look for an explanation of another person’s behavior. When they realize that they do not understand another, they tend, say Hall and Hall, to blame their confusion on other’s “stupidity, deceit, or craziness.”
Helen Deresky, International Management (2008)
Misunderstandings are not all what they seem. The ignorance of another person’s inability to understand will lead to attribution to defend one’s ego from confronting what is unnatural to them.
Hard work is easy compared to the alternative. For the alternative is a life without meaningful accomplishment or fulfillment.
Effort can be difficult, time consuming and inconvenient. And yet, the rewards created by diligent, focused effort make all that effort well worth the trouble.
Effort brings lasting value out of troublesome situations. Effort puts your dreams into action and makes them real.
When you’re wondering how to get what you want, the answer is usually simple. Get to work.
Life is always overflowing with abundance. Through your efforts you express that abundance in personally meaningful ways.
There is always work to be done for those who are willing to do it. Be willing, get to work, and enjoy the immense value that your efforts create.
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is horrid. The taste is disgusting.
Talk to me about eating chinese food on a round table style kind of setting – why does it taste so horrible? I could only taste soy sauce in all the dishes. Thats so ew.
My crystal heart is soft and fragile
Treat it with gentle loving care.
Don’t break it….
A picture of a water crystal after saying “love and gratitude” to it.
“I will kill you.”
Imagine what our thoughts could do to us if they could do that to crystals?
Pictures from Dr Emoto Website
