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What’s the point?

Believe me when I say there have been more than enough and too many occasions where it occurs to me  that I should take those pictures down my wall. Yes. Facebook’s. But then again, what’s the point? Take down whatever, if it’s still in your head, it’s in your head.

Besides, doing so will only mean I’m afraid to accept my past, and I am the way I am today because I went through everything that’s on those pictures and even more. Deleting and untagging things don’t make them go away. It’s pretty much embedded in me.

Should one only accepts your present, hoping to go into your future, but not accepting your past?

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May 07, 2012
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When Apple and Blackberry are not just fruits any longer

This could possibly be one of my biggest dilemma in life. Which? I wish I could mash them into one and don’t have to choose. That would be nice. Very nice.

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April 22, 2012
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What if Your blessings come through raindrops?

What if Your healing comes through tears?

What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near?

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy?

And what if trials of this life, the rains, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

Laura Story - Blessings

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August 29, 2011
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"By setting the story in 1984, before cell phones and e-mail and the Internet had become common, I made it impossible for my characters to use such tools. This in turn was frustrating for me. I felt their absence slowing down the speed of the novel. When I thought about it, though, not having such devices at the time—both in daily life and in the story—ceased to be an inconvenience. If you wanted to make a phone call, you just found a public telephone; if you had to look something up, you went to the library; if you wanted to contact somebody, you put a stamp on a letter and mailed it. Those were the normal ways to do those things. While writing the novel (and experiencing a kind of time slip), I had a strong feeling of what the intervening twenty-seven years had meant. Sorry to state the obvious, but maybe there’s not much connection between the convenience of people’s surroundings and the degree of happiness they feel."

— Haruki Murakami on 1Q84 in The New Yorker. (via somethingchanged)

(via somethingchanged)

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August 29, 2011
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"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."

— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, via Goodreads. (via somethingchanged)

(via somethingchanged)

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August 29, 2011
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Most recent addition to my “Feel-good Playlist”

About two or three months ago, I can’t remember exactly when, something happened and it was a huge blow to my self-esteem. Although I can’t give you the details of what happened, I can tell you how I felt. I felt so unworthy and unloved, not good enough, far from precious, plain nasty and yucky emotions and feelings. So, I brought that into prayer that night.

The next day, a friend sent me a message over BBM just out of the blue. She was telling me about what another friend of ours said about me. Out of everything that she told me, one phrase just jumped and stuck on me: “A diamond in the rough” That one phrase was all it takes to lift my spirit up.

I know that I’m not a diamond, yet. Even if I am, I’m still in the rough and a diamond in the rough is still not good enough. Or at least, not as good as a diamond that has been shaped into brilliance. But, I was lifted because somehow, for some peculiar reasons, despite of my negative emotions, I was able to focus and zone my attention more on the “diamond” than the “in the rough” part. Regardless of what I’ve been through and how I’m feeling, that phrase serves as a good reminder of the potential that I’m gifted with. It gave me a sense of hope that I needed for a brighter, better future.

After my conversation ended, this song suddenly came on T.V and it was my first time hearing it. What really caught me was that this song has the very same “diamond in the rough” phrase that lifted me up just a little while ago. And the lyrics to the song was fitting to my struggles at that time. I don’t know about you, but I’m not a believer of coincidences. It feels like all these things has been orchestrated to answer my prayer and to lift my burden up. It’s an example of how the simplest things in life, things that appear to be regular and normal, could be used by God to show His love and care. He knows just exactly what I needed and what to tell me.

p.s: My friend didn’t know of the situation I was in and so she was telling me just for the sake of doing so, with no intention of cheering me up whatsoever. But without her realizing, she did.

p.p.s: With that being said, when you feel a strong urge to tell someone something, do take the time to do so and don’t push it aside. Your words could be the very thing they needed to hear.

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August 27, 2011
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Sometimes, many countless times even, I am so overwhelmed with gratitude and I simply run out of words and only left with tears in my eyes. I can’t even begin to explain the many abundant ways of how the Lord, my Father, has been so very good to me. Everything I say will be a major understatement and no amount of “Thank You”s will ever fully express all this gratefulness that I have.

Often it feels like I have so much in me that I could hardly contain it - as if I’m in a near-explosive state. In fact, it’s the very reason why I’m writing what I’m writing now, in the hope that I’d be able to channel some of what I have in me, even if it’s just a little tiny bit.

There are countless times I contemplated to shout all over Twitter “My God is good!!! He is oh so very good!!!”, but Twitter won’t understand, people won’t understand, the world won’t understand.

I know I should “[g]o tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere”, but I have yet to train my guts. So for the time being, I’ll start by taking baby steps, by going and telling it to this little community I have on Tumblr and to those near me.

His goodness to me feels very personal, very intimate, and is uniquely mine. I could tell people of my joy, and they could get very happy for me, but without experiencing it themselves, they won’t truly understand what it is that I’m feeling within me. My God gets personal and close that way, and I love it! He gets to us in ways that works for us personally. He knows just how to get to our deepest core. He truly knows us inside out.

I pray that more and more, every day, each and every one of us will have a revelation of His love for us, are able to realize every goodness He has done, is doing and will do in our lives, to see how He has cared even to the tiniest littlest things. When that happens, I know you’ll be left speechless like I am. He is and everything He does are too great, too majestic for words.

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August 26, 2011
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"We’re going through a time machine back to the year 1965!!"

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A little kid on a train passing through the underground tunnel.

Kids makes everything fun.

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July 10, 2011
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Lensless glasses - an item I see more and more walking down the streets of Vancouver, which could serve as a hint that it’s a mushrooming trend everywhere else in the world. Seen mostly, if not all the time, on South East and East Asians. Note: no racism is intended. Just stating the fact as I know it. This would be one fashion trend that I just don’t get and, in my personal opinion, needs to go and shouldn’t linger around much longer. Would it be too much if I say that it’s becoming a pet-peeve of mine to see people wearing them? I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me. I don’t find it cool/cute/endearing/trendy/whatever-look-they-are-trying-to-achieve. Simply put, I find it weird and pointless. They serve no purpose whatsoever.  If one wants to pull a nerdy/geeky/smart/all-of-the-above look, but is not having problematic vision or have already worn corrective soft/hard lenses, there are always non-prescriptive glasses in the market. Why wear a pair of glasses, without the glass? They are called “glasses” for a reason. I know that there are more important issues out in the world I could write about and build awareness on. Also, I should be minding my own business. But, as in the words of Jerry Bruckheimer: Because you can’t do anything halfway, you’ve got to go all the way in anything you do. 

Lensless glasses - an item I see more and more walking down the streets of Vancouver, which could serve as a hint that it’s a mushrooming trend everywhere else in the world. Seen mostly, if not all the time, on South East and East Asians.

Note: no racism is intended. Just stating the fact as I know it.

This would be one fashion trend that I just don’t get and, in my personal opinion, needs to go and shouldn’t linger around much longer. Would it be too much if I say that it’s becoming a pet-peeve of mine to see people wearing them? I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me.

I don’t find it cool/cute/endearing/trendy/whatever-look-they-are-trying-to-achieve. Simply put, I find it weird and pointless. They serve no purpose whatsoever. 

If one wants to pull a nerdy/geeky/smart/all-of-the-above look, but is not having problematic vision or have already worn corrective soft/hard lenses, there are always non-prescriptive glasses in the market. Why wear a pair of glasses, without the glass? They are called “glasses” for a reason.

I know that there are more important issues out in the world I could write about and build awareness on. Also, I should be minding my own business. But, as in the words of Jerry Bruckheimer:

Because you can’t do anything halfway, you’ve got to go all the way in anything you do. 

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June 28, 2011
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"Tearing down is always easier than building up. It takes years to build and just seconds to destroy. Whatever “it” may be."

— My brain

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June 10, 2011
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