No Less than Zero

Yesterday was a day of Worry, Joy, Excitement and Sadness. As I feeling the sense of lost, words from my favourite author came to me...

What could be worst? Think of the Bright side.

Remember, every one of us is born empty handed. We all started off with nothing i.e. ZERO.

Since we are born with nothing what can we lost more than nothing.
There is no lost in life because we came empty handed. (Naked we came from mother’s womb, empty handed we leave this world).

The worst that might ever happen to us is but just going back to the starting point.
Thus, in life, there is no lost but GAIN.
What you have now, even a little penny, is the bonus of your life.

Thinking about this, YUP! I picked up my courage and smile again. Yes, since I got nothing to loose but all to gain, so cheer up. Look at what I already have and what God has already given me. I have so much so much in my life.

Thank you Lord!
Thanks for the wonderful words of reminder.

Life is a Bonus! Cheers!

Angeline

Durian Secrets

Durian, D U R I A N..
this name often causes extreme reactions from people.
There are two extreme groups of people towards Durian.
Either they LOVE IT or they HATE IT!

To Durian lovers, here are some tips from a durian 'professional' how to chose a good durian...hee...

Good durian doesn't necessary be expensive durian, just for your information.
My family often gets to eat cheap and delicious good durians cuz we have one durian 'Zhuang Jia' at home...hee..
If you know the trick to choosing good durian, you can even get nice durian for as cheap as 50cent each. No joke.

Here are some tips to share with you..
Tips to choosing good durian:
1) Chose the one which has sharper and pointed thorns.
2) Smell the durian - should produce fresh light smell
3) shake the durian, if the sound is too loud means the seeds is too big, not meaty or does not have much meat in it so no good.
4) the stem should not be wet or rotten.
5) the durian should be light

These are just some simple tips.
Oh and before I forgot...

Do you have trouble always to wash away the smell of the durian after eating? The smell stay with you after you touch durian right?
No matter what you wash your hands with or how many times you wash your hands, you just can't get rid of the smell.

Here is the important and ease tips to help you wash that smell away without a single cent spent...
Listen carefully ok????

After eating the durian, do not throw away the durian shell.
Yes, most of you use it to drink salt water to reduce the heatiness caused after eating durian..But there is another important use for that shell...

1)hold the durian shell THORNS PORTION under running water..
2)let the water run through the thorns....and wash your hands with those (durian-thorns)water.

Listen carefully...
Now smell your hands, isn't it AMAZING?

Durian Smell...ALL GONE!!!

Isn't God amazing? He create the things for our enjoyment with a solution to what we might face from this enjoyment. I guess this happens in many things of our life.
We often missed out that the solution to our problem can be found in the problem itself.

Thus in this case, the solution to the long lasting smell of the durian is in fact the thorns of the durian. To get rid of the smell of the durian from your hands after you have enjoyed the durian just wash your hands with the water that run through the thorns of the durian. ItS Instant and Free!!!

So, enjoy your durian now, durian lover!!!
(I knew this secret since 15years ago, but only recall recently as my dad started durian fest weeks ago.)

What is Love?

This is really touching.
I am placing this in my blog to share with you guys.
Read the English subtitle.

True Love does exist.
Just a matter of time and even tho like I say, no one knows what will happen the next moment.
No one person can guarantee he/she will love you forever.

But one thing for sure, treasure when true love comes knocking on the door of your heart.
Best wishes to everyone's love!

May this season be a season of Love and Happiness!

Another Strange Dream

Just as I forgot about the dream I had last nite, today in church, Pastor mentioned about Tsunami, which brought back memories of what my dream was about.

In my dream last nite, I found myself and my family in our new house.
What unique thing about this new house which we live in is that..the neighbours are really kind and helpful.

They came knocking on our door one day..
As I opened the door, what I saw was that right infront of our door is the beach leading to the sea.

What happened was, that our kind neighbours actually came and told me that they intended to build a tall wall infront of our entrance so as to keep the wave or the sea hitting directly onto our house, because they predict that a tsunami is coming our way. And the path that is leading the Tsunami wave is the little streams of water leading from the sea towards our house entrance.
They pointed toward the little stream which seems to form and is leading its way towards the entrance of our house.

They told me that they are gonna build a wall that is tall enough to cover up our house so that when the tsunami (wave) hit us, me and my family will be well protected. Even tho it does not really concern them but they are so kind and volunteer to fork out money to contribute building the wall up.

I was touched by these neighbours.

I am not sure why I had such a dream, probably in one way or another, these neighbours represents the wonderful classmates and my studymates who had been really supportive esp during these period of time. They took lots of initiative and endured the frustration I am going thru. I am touched and felt really bad about how miserable or frustrating it must have been on them.

I couldn't do much now but to only say "I am terribly sorry my buddies. And thanks for bearing with me all these while and been so understanding and supportive." I could not express my gratitude more enough. But I know that God will blessed them accordingly.

Its not easy to make sure that everyone is happy and comfort with you. But I guess, if I do my part to apologise for any unhappiness caused and tried my best not to dwell in it, then time will heal any unhappiness and things will get better and get in place. My friend is right, everyone has their own problem. We must know how to control our emotions and enjoy every moment.

I ask God for strength, knowledge and wisdom to do so.
Father in Heaven, pls I pray that God you will lead me and provide me with the peace and the joy with I need. The inner comfort which I need. Pray for happiness for everyone around me.

Joyce, how are u my dear. I am worried about you, I pray that you are fine. There are different season for different thing. This season seems rather long and almost unbearable at times, like the heat one feels under this unstable weather. But I know eventually, this season will be over and the new season will come. Tho I can't be with you but the Lord will always be there for you.
Still love you as I always do, cuz you are my best friend.

Will catch up with you when things are more settled over my side ya?
Meanwhile take care my dear. Pls pls do take care.

Take Every Thought Captive

by Max Lucado

Today’s thoughts are tomorrow’s actions.
Today’s jealousy is tomorrow’s temper tantrum.
Today’s bigotry is tomorrow’s hate crime.
Today’s anger is tomorrow’s abuse.
Today’s lust is tomorrow’s adultery.
Today’s greed is tomorrow’s embezzlement.
Today’s guilt is tomorrow’s fear.

Could that be why Paul writes, “Love … keeps no record of wrongs” (1 Cor. 13:5 NIV)?

Some folks don’t know we have an option.

Paul says we do: “We capture every thought and make it give up and obey Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5).

Do you hear some battlefield jargon in that passage—“capture every thought,” “make it give up” and “obey Christ”? You get the impression that we are the soldiers and the thoughts are the enemies.

It was for Jesus. Remember the thoughts that came his way courtesy of the mouth of Peter? Jesus had just prophesied his death, burial, and resurrection, but Peter couldn’t bear the thought of it. “Peter took Jesus aside and told him not to talk like that.… Jesus said to Peter, ‘Go away from me, Satan! You are not helping me! You don’t care about the things of God, but only about the things people think are important’” (Matt. 16:22–23).
See the decisiveness of Jesus?

What if you did that? What if you took every thought captive? What if you took the counsel of Solomon: “Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life” (Prov. 4:23).

You are not a victim of your thoughts. You have a vote. You have a voice. You can exercise thought prevention. You can also exercise thought permission.

Change the thoughts, and you change the person. If today’s thoughts are tomorrow’s actions, what happens when we fill our minds with thoughts of God’s love? Will standing beneath the downpour of his grace change the way we feel about others?

Paul says absolutely! It’s not enough to keep the bad stuff out. We’ve got to let the good stuff in. It’s not enough to keep no list of wrongs. We have to cultivate a list of blessings. The same verb Paul uses for keeps in the phrase “keeps no list of wrongs” is used for think in Philippians 4:8: “Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things” (RSV). Thinking conveys the idea of pondering—studying and focusing, allowing what is viewed to have an impact on us.

Rather than store up the sour, store up the sweet.

Rotten Potato

Lately, I have been very emotional and caused people around me to feel uneasy. I didn't realised until last nite.

After talking to a very nice and patient friend who brought awareness to me, asking me to reflect of how I changed over this few months...how things were few months ago and how I behave or react during these few months.

This brought sudden awareness to me and yes after I think back and reflect, indeed, I did not handle my emotional stage well for these couples of months. Not only did I keep myself dwell in misery but also unintentionally brings it upon people who are close to me.

Yes, everyone has their bad times. We should not dwell in the unhappiness and must learn to move on, not letting it affect our work, family and study or even friendship.

I am sorry for an unhappiness I brought onto you guys. Thanks for bearing with me time after time.

Today, I asked my friend what does RELAX means? He has always patiently advised me to learn to RELAX. I did not know what is relax?
Today, he told me, Relax is not to think about work when you are study to let anything bad things happened at work to affect you.
Relax is, not to let any bad things that happen in your study to affect your work.
Relax is, not to let any unhappy past to affect the time for you to play and have BBQ. We should treasure each moment by itself and make the best out of it. Not to bring in our misery into each moment to let it affect the moment of our enjoyment.

Finally, I understand what he mean by to RELAX.

Again, I am sorry to have you guys to bear with me thru-out this moments of not knowing how to RELAX bringing tension to you guys. I am sorry.
But I will not dwell in this past anymore and will end my apologise here so that I can learn to RELAX.

Yes, like my friend said, everyone makes mistakes in life. There are many bad things which happens in one's life. Important thing is, how do you handle them. Do you allow them to affect the rest of your life?

This reminds me of having a rotten potatoe in a sack fulled with potatoes. Having a rotten potatoe will cause the whole sack of potatoes to rot sooner and later.
So, what should be done is, to take out that rotten potatoe and throw it away instead of letting it affect the other potatoes.
Each time one potatoe rot, each time I would take and throw them away.
I should learn to handle one at a time.

Thanks for having the patient to enlighten me, despite me and my emotional behaviour.
Appreciate it very much!

Have a pleasant and wonderful National Day Holiday!

Cheers,
Angeline

There are more out there...

Spent my entire off day today searching for jobs thru the web, typing resumes for different types of jobs.

Wow, hahaha..never know it could take so much time and effort to finding a job which one likes. Well, the more I should be thankful to God for always providing me jobs without me having to look for them. I am indeed blessed.

Tho it took a lot of time to go thru the requirement of each job available and find out what is in the job market now...but its really interesting.
The more I looked at the jobs available in the market, the more I was flabbergasted.
Hee..there was an interesting story about this word FLABBERGASTED which one of our lecturer shared with us few days ago.

Here is the story..
One day, our lecturer became a victim of the POWER OF VOCABULARY.
Why so?
This is what happened...
A friend of his loves to learn new words each day. He carries a thick dictionary with him everywhere he goes. Each day he will look for a new word in the dictionary (an alien word)..and within that day..He will find ways and means to use that word somehow, showing off his Powerful Words Skill.

And so...without knowing him having this unique behavior, my lecturer became his victim. He came to my lecturer asking what is he working as? And my lecturer answered in a simple and clear statement "I am working as an Associate Lecturer in XXX".
Immediately that guy's facial expression changed...(which caused my lecturer to worry). What happen next was, he came out with this word "Oh, you are working as an Associate Lecturer in XXX. I am so Flabbergasted!"
Well..this started my lecturer worrying...as he is now speaking alien words. This word is not frequently used in our local context.
And it set my lecturer in a troubled mode. Cuz, the joke to this is...to my lecturer, it sounds like "you Bastard!" so he thot his friend might have scolded him.
So immediately he went home that evening and took out the dictionary to check on that word.

Thereafter, he found out from many of his friends that many were victims of that "POWERFUL WORD" friend.Thus everyone started to avoid that friend so as to avoid being the next victim...hee

Well..the moral of this story as my lecturer say.."Esp in exam, clarity is very important. One word might have many meanings. Thus, the most important thing for exam is clarity. You must use simple and straight forward, easy to understand English to express yourself. Cuz in our exam, vocabulary is not what they are looking for."
I agree to his point.

This reminds me of a close friend of mine, who is not Local. He often uses words like Flabbergasted, 1-ish, 2-ish (which means about One plus in the afternoon or two plus in the afternoon)etc. Many times, I have to remind him "Can you speak in simple English? You are talking to a simple woman who only understand simple English."
In the beginning, when he first sent me smses, they really looked like alien languages to me. None of my friends understood what he sms-ed to me when I shown them the sms. It took a while for this American friend of mine to finally speak simple and understandable English to me. And it took me a while to get adapted to his "alien" terms.

Languages are beautiful only when they can be understood.

Oh before I forgot, here is the meaning of Flabbergasted from the dictionary:

Flabbergasted: to shock someone, usually by telling them something they were not expecting

A Happy day!

I seem to keep smiling the entire day today.
Today is a happy day as I told Master Wu Gui.

I see beams of goodness shinning at me....

First, my eldest godson actually took initiative to talk to me instead of me who normally took the initiative to talk to them.
He even asked if I am joining them for lunch..but I told him perhaps some other time.
Good to see this tiny little boy whom I used to carry in my arms when he was a baby, in the stage of becoming a fine young man.

His little sister never fails to greet me with hugs and kisses every time she sees me. Each time she does that, I felt so blessed.

Not only that, today I received gifts from the mothers of my god children.
Melissa, mum of my 3 godchildren bought me this nice belt from Shanghai during her recent business trip. (Thank you Melissa)


And Sandra who is in Melbourne Australia bought me this bottle of honey which she often tells me is good for my throat esp when I am unwell. And she bought me some gums too! I felt so so blessed...(Thank you Sandra) (Not forgetting to Thank you May and Swee Hock for passing Sandra's present to me.)


Hmm...Life is sooooooooo wonderful...(I remember what the show $$ Money not Enough 2 says...which I agreed.."The richest person is not how much $$$ you have..but rather..who and how many love ones you have that is always there for you.")
I am indeed very blessed...Thank you guys! Love you guys forever..Muck!!!

There are countless blessing in my life...
Truly each time as we sing this old traditional hymns during our church service "Count your blessing name them one by one, count your blessing see what God has done..." it reminds me again, not to just focus on the trouble itself..but look around me and start counting the blessings in my life..and soon, I am filled with thankfulness and happiness instead of worries and sadness.

It reminds me of what the bible says about just trusting in the Lord, watch just how God will open the windows of blessings and pour them out onto you...

Thank you Lord for every countless blessings in my life.

Season for Everything

Today, God shown me again..there is season for everything...
Key words: Faith and Patient.

In the mist of leaving my present bookstore...I see a number of openings which God has and opening up for me. I am filled with Joy!

The future is Bright! Reason being..God is always there!

I am delighted but I do bear in mind that whatever result it may be, there is always the Will of God. The will of God is always at our interest because He loves us.

Right now, will take one step at a time, doing what is within my ability and give my best to it. Result? Leave it to God. Eventually, no one knows what is the Best except the Creator!

Have a pleasant weekend.

Cheers, Everyone!

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