"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." Thaddeus Golas
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude." Scott Hamilton
"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln
"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." Earl Nightingale
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind." Dr. Albert Schweitzer
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." William James
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Posted by xian at 12:10 AM 0 comments
Labels: soul food
Sunday, April 26, 2009
argh..
Think imeem is restricting song-play to 30 seconds only...
irritating...
hmpf...
Posted by xian at 11:47 PM 0 comments
If I were a boy ~ Beyonce
If I were a boy
Even just for a day
I’d roll out of bed in the morning
And throw on what I wanted and go
Drink beer with the guys
And chase after girls
I’d kick it with who I wanted
And I’d never get confronted for it
Because they’d stick up for me
If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taken you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed
If I were a boy
I would turn off my phone
Tell everyone its broken
So they think
that I was sleeping alone
I’d put myself first
And make the rules as I go
Cause I know that she’d be faithful
Waiting for me to come home (to come home)
If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taken you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed
It’s a little too late for you to come back
Say its just a mistake
Think I forgive you like that
If you thought I would wait for you
You thought wrong
But you’re just a boy
You don’t understand (and you don’t understand)
How it feels to love a girl
Someday you’ll wish you were a better man
You don’t listen to her
You don’t care how it hurts
Until you lose the one you wanted
Cause you’ve taken her for granted
And everything you had got destroyed
But you’re just a boy…
Posted by xian at 12:45 AM 0 comments
Labels: music
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Indeed PMS
Part of It is indeed pms mood swings... never underestimate the power of hormones ;p
Anyway I am feeling better.
The mind is clearer..
The search is on....
Ganbatte ne =)
Posted by xian at 12:05 AM 0 comments
Monday, April 20, 2009
The blank slant of tomorrow - Robin sharma (Reminder)
At midnight tonight, you get a most amazing gift: a fresh set of 24 hours.
These hours are pure and flawless and limitless.
They offer you the opportunity to show courage and behave brilliantly and forge new habits that will get you to a new place of being.
And they offer you a space to laugh. To love. And to do your dreams.
Whether you'll admit it or not, tomorrow is incredible. Not everyone gets one.
So make tomorrow special. No, make it ridiculously great. Breathtakingly brilliant. A piece of art you can tell your grandkids about. Just amazing what one can do in a day. To be what we are meant to be.
Posted by xian at 1:06 AM 0 comments
Labels: soul food
Boredom
I'm sometimes hit by melancholiness which will prompt me to ask alot alot of questions about my existent in this world & how to have the courage to live it the way i can or want.
Certain things are so monotonous that's it's bordering along boredom.
Not enough challenges or new stimulations in my life? No guts to live or fight for the life that i want?
I tried to verbalised how i felt but my friends said, aren't u doing so much stuff already? U already have alot of activities, so why still feel bored? I don't know how to answer this question.
I'm looking deep into myself for answers and so far nothing is coming up yet or i'm refusing to see it yet, anyway I hope it will come soon. Time is crucial.
Was chatting to another friend of mine and she know exactly how i am feeling, which brought me some relief, at least I'm not the only one feeling this way.
I read somewhere that i should not block such feelings, u should just let it come, feel it completely and then let it go. If you push it aside, it will just come back & haunt u again some other time.
The worse thing that can happen is procrastinating about life and not doing anything to improve it. Yucks, that will be disappointing & disgusting.
I must learn how to breakthrough myself.
I must.
P/S: Wondering could it be just PMS?? haha..
Posted by xian at 12:30 AM 0 comments
Labels: self-reflection
Thursday, April 16, 2009
I dreamed the dream - Les Miserables
I dreamed a dream in times gone by
When hope was highAnd life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung
No wine untasted
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame
He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed
The dream I dreamed.
Posted by xian at 10:55 PM 0 comments
Labels: music
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Contemplative Quest
Paulo Coelho
Linda Sabbath took her three sons and decided to go and live on a small farm in the interior of Canada, where she wanted to dedicate herself completely to spiritual contemplation.
In less than a year she fell in love, got married again, studied the saints’ techniques of meditation, fought for a school for her children, made friends, made enemies, neglected her teeth, got herself an abscess, hitchhiked in snowstorms, learned to fix the car, thaw out frozen pipes, made her alimony stretch out at month’s end, survived on unemployment money, slept without indoor heating, laughed for no reason, cried with despair, built a chapel, made repairs to the house, painted walls, and gave courses on spiritual contemplation.
“And I eventually realized that a life of prayer does not mean isolation,” she says. “Love is so big it has to be shared.
Quote of today:
Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still,waiting to improve before he makes a decision,he’ll never move ~~~ Unpublished sayings
Posted by xian at 10:23 PM 0 comments
Labels: soul food
Friday, April 3, 2009
Quotes
While I kept my heart to myself, I never had a single morning of anguish or a single night of insomnia. Since I fell in love, my life has been a sequence of anguish, losses, confusion. I think that God, by using love, managed to hide hell in the middle of Paradise” (C.A., 23/11/2006)
Courage is shown in acts, not in words; it is not bluffing, arrogance, or madness. A courageous man is the one who dares to do what he finds is right, and bears the consequences of his acts – whether they are political, social or individual.
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
“Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of difficulties.”
"Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely & treasure what u feel as a gift"
Posted by xian at 11:05 PM 0 comments
Labels: soul food