...reminiscin' => 08...09

this year will be going away and
there comes another year for us to journey on...
we are just passersby in this so called earth...
we will have ups and downs,
happiness and sadness,
joy and pain...

just like this year everything will be gone
and will only exist in our past,
the present will stay,
but we have hopes for tomorrow...

keep on dreaming...
believe in what you can do
for yourself and others.

learn to love yourself more so that
you can love others more...

take risks and stand up for it...
you can't turn back
but you can move along...

enjoy...

be heard...
be safe...
be brave...
believe...

life without a mixed of everything
can't give you satisfaction...

live your life without regrets...

have a blessed new year

= complicated love =

there's an adrenaline rush we feel everytime a great emotion comes along.
whether we are being surprised, shocked, amazed --
we feel something is going on rushing through our veins deep inside us;
we don't bother to analyze every single detail of such feeling;
it's what we feel that we are able to define...
but once we try to look into what's really happening inside;
we are mixed up and don't know how to define it;
we say it's complicated to tell.

complications in life will always be present amongst us.
no matter how hard we try to have simple living;
life itself complicates us...
studies... work... colleagues... friends... family...
what to wear, where to go, how to behave;
sometimes add up to these complications...

love? it will always be complicated.

loving a person who doesn't love you at all.
both of you love each other but you can't be together.
a person loves you deeply but you don't love him/her at all.

loving someone who loves another person.
loving each other but both of you have already partners.
loving a person who have no idea you love him/her.


we find Romantic love between one man and one woman.
It may end beautifully or tragically.

Lustful love usually ends up hurting someone.
The kind of love that ruins lives and reputations.
It cares only about sex.

Friendship love is a caring love.
It is a special love that has no demands or conditions.

Smothering love is the kind that demands constant attention.
One will not let another have a life.

Unrequited love is love that is not openly reciprocated,
even though reciprocation is usually deeply desired.

Godly love is a perfect love.
It is the love that is willing to go so far
as to give up ones' life for another.

you see! there are so many ways we could think about loving.
when we try to imagine or define it, we end up asking ourselves;
we yearn for answers but we always left it hanging.

follow your brain over your heart.
choose your heart over what's in your mind.

then, we don't know what to do.
think. feel. decide. choose.

we left part of us with unanswered questions and move along.
coz everytime we look behind, there will always be complications.

we can never depart from complications.
it's just there.
as long we are ready to face it up.
strong enough to have courage to fight against it;


...anything worth having is worth the risk...

*the psalmist’s words*

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" ...the person who fears God
“will never be shaken . . . .
His heart is steadfast” (Ps. 112:6-7).
And so we —
and you,
no matter what you are facing —
can continue to be “steadfast,
trusting in the Lord.”

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*Be Passionate*

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

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Life is like a cup of coffee

"Life is like a cup of coffee,
Sometimes bitter,
sometimes sweet,
Important thing is who you drink it with."


Niccolo Paganini, a colourful and gifted violinist of the nineteenth-century was standing before a packed house, playing through a difficult piece of music. A full orchestra surronded him with full support. Suddenly, one string on his violin snapped and hung gloriously down from his instrument.


Beads of perspiration popped out of his forehead. He frowned but continued to play, improvising beautifully. To the conductor's surprise, a second string broke. And shortly after, a third. Now there were three limpstrings dangling from Paganini's violin as the master performer completed the difficult composition on the remaining one string. The audience jumped to its feet and in good Italian fashion filled the hall with shouts of "Bravo! Bravo!"


As the applause died down, the violinist asked the people to sit back down. Even though they knew there was no way they could expect an encore, they quietly sank back to their seats. He held the violin up high for every one to see. He nodded at the conductor to begin the encore and then turned back to the crowd. With a twinkle in his eye, he smiled and shouted, "Paganini and one string!"


After that he placed the single-string Stradivarius beneath his chin and played the final piece on one string as the audience shook their heads in silent amazement.


Our life may very well be filled with troubles, worries,disappointments and what not. Frankly, we spent most of the time concentrating and fretting over the strings that snap, dangle and pop - the things that can't be changed!


Are you still agonizing over your snapped strings in life?
Is the one string that you are left with being played out of tune?
If so,
may I encourage you to look not back,
press on,
and start playing the single string again.


Let it yield a sweet,
winesome melody that the world needs so desperately.
You can if you will.