Crossroads

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I took the longest mrt route heading home while my brain is pondering into something else. I'm thinking about my life today and in the future. My heart and my mind is battling of what road should I take. Do the past really matters to the people? Will the people condemn you? What if you choose the road of happiness but your past remains hidden?  Will there be storm in your life or will there be rainy days? What if you choose the path of not trying the things you are happy with? Will  you regret it once you reach the Age of Autumn?  I heard from the movie that when the ships lost its direction, they only have to look at the north star or Polaris to find its direction.  I am looking at my north star now and praying where He wants me to be because I trust His way. The best is yet to come.

It's my Mom Birthday Today!

Taken from Ocean Park Manila

It's my mom birthday today and she doesn't know that I have a surprise for her! My surprise is only simple - buy her roses. My super mom loves flowers. We had many flowers in our home province like Orchids, Santan, Bougainvilla, Sunflower, Rose and I don't know the others. She even likes to plant herbal like oregano and loves to plant vegetables like pumpkin, malungay, sweet potato, tomatoes and others. Since she loves flowers, I bought online 1 dozen white and orange flowers at Isand Rose website to be delivered to her today. The link to Island Rose is http://www.islandrose.net/.

Below is the flower I gave to her

Courtesy of islandrose.net

I chose white and orange because it is saved for most special person and the color gives a cheerful aura. How I wish that I can see my mom's face when she received the flowers!

I called her this afternoon to say happy birthday to her. And she thanked me for the flowers I have delivered.  Happy Birthday Mom! I miss you much!

My mom's picture taken by my brother after she received the roses.

Meeting the Life Group

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Last week, I met my LG at McDo. I felt blessed, inspired and happy to meet the group. The topic was about Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the bible.  The chapter is a prayer of one who delights in and lives in by the sacred law.

So we were asked which verse we want in this chapter and why we liked it. I answered verse 90 which states

 "Your faithfulness continues through all generations;
you established the earth, and it endures."

I like the above verse because it talks about God's unending faithfulness to us. Even we are sinners yet God remains faithful to help us.

Also there were questions asked to us and the answers that I remembered were the following:

My favorite song that I never forget is the song of Casting Crown "Who I Am"..The part of the lyrics I love best is the following:

Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours

I always want to hear this song whenever I am sad, stress, problematic or worried. This is my cure to my soul. I first hear this song through my friend, Sheena. I was looking for a piece that I can sing to the audition of Makati Feast's choir then Sheena told me to sing this song.

My favorite quote that I never forget is

 "Nothing is forever. There are stream of people going into our lives. Nothing just stop and stay but it flows on like a river."

People come and go but leaves footprints in our life. The best is to learn something from that person. Never regret.

What I want to meditate is to become emotionally and spiritually mature. I acknowledged that I am not a mature person but I am working on being emotionally and spiritually mature.

Newspaper

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Last month, my housemate's wife told me that someone (old man or woman) was knocking at our door to collect newspaper. I have many newspaper in my room because I read newspaper everyday after office hours. If the oldie collects newspaper from every household, I can't imagine how heavy will that be. It's a struggle to collect newspaper inorder to strive for her everyday living in Singapore. I am not sure how much is the cost of newspaper per 1kg but I am sure that the cost is not big. That newspaper reminds of my mom way back when she was a domestic helper in Hongkong and we were students. Every Sunday,my mom collects newspaper so that we have allowance. Her salary wasn't enough for us 4 students (2 college and 2 highschool). That time my dad had no work and he was in the province to take care my 2 siblings. That newspaper had helped us to graduate in college and IN highschool. Looking at the present day, I gather the newspaper and place it outside our unit so that someone who needs it may get it because I know how important for that person the newspaper is.

Chinese New Year 2011

We celebrated Chinese New Year last February 3 and 4 and it is a Year of Rabbit. They say that it is a Lunar New Year to celebrate the Harvest of Spring. Due to CNY, we left the office as early as 3PM of February 2. And by the time I go out, almost all stores are starting to close. By February 3 and 4, all stores and malls are closed except for the MRT, bus and taxi. During the CNY, I just stayed at home and watched TV, movies, surf the net, read pocket books. On the 5th of February, business resumed.

I have taken some shots for the activities during CNY.

As early as January, they are constructing the Rabbit at Suntec.



Drawing contest at Esplanade Link



My Fortune plant I bought in Fair Price. It is a belief that it brings Good Luck. It can make a room feel more cheerful.

My picture is posted in the pantry of our office. I am the Model for the Year of the Rat. And that girl took my picture. This was taken by Amar using his handphone and sent it to me.

This is the food served at the office during the CNY celebration. The pink food is stuffed with rice, the white one is stuffed with veggies and the 2 cream colored food are tikoy.

I painted the 3 Zodiac signs. I used egg shells and cotton buds. After that, I used Acrylic to paint. My officemates painted the other zodiac signs assigned to them. These were posted in our pantry together with the model pictures.

I haven't taken the picture of dragon dancing because I was late! Next time I will not be late again. I saw the dagon dance before in the Philippines. They say that it will take bad spirits away and brings good fortune.