Ahead

I’ve got sunsets to witness
dreams to dance with
beaches to walk on
and lovers to kiss
there’s a whole lot of world out there
that I can’t wait to see
My best days are ahead of me

Little things

In the past week, 10 out of 14.

:)

MAGIC

The magic of real life which is also known to me as the goodness of God.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

Amigos para siempre

After a week of meeting crazy deadlines, unexpected run-ins, and golden conversations -

Today, I toast to friendships.

The kinds which you meet when you are yay-high in a church nursery, and go on to stand by you even though they’ve seen all your best and worst moments,

The kinds which accidentally happen, and later blossom into the best kinds of relationships you couldn’t even imagine living without,

The kinds that are fleeting, but leave permanent imprints,

The kinds that slip your memory occasionally, but when they come round, bring the biggest smiles to your faces,

The kinds that make you do the stupidest things in the world just because they bring out the best in you the way,

The kinds that you are forced to work with, and make you hate and love and love and hate,

The kinds which are borne of a friend-of-a-friend, or an accidental facebook error, those sekret friendships that you build along the sidelines,

The kinds that don’t need you to constantly be there, but know that you are there when they need you,

The kinds that make you burst out laughing the moment you see them and you can’t quite explain that sudden explosion of joy,

The kinds that at the very first meeting or conversation, reach out and grab part of your soul and just won’t let go,

The kinds that take your hand so that you won’t get lost, make sure you tread carefully on broken egg shells, whisper in your ear words of advice,

The kinds that can sit and do absolutely NOTHING with you, and get you by your worst times when you don’t even know it,

The kinds that you see every day, take for granted, forget to call or text, and only ring when you need favours (:D),

The kinds that grow into something more than friends,

And all the other kinds in between.

x

To all my friends, wherever you are,

I wish you love :)

Flowers & shipwrecks

LOVE.

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So this weekend has been a little bit off the hook. Stolen credit card, police report, guilt and indignance all fused into one, mad ranting and raving, and I had to quit my job as a result. Also, I am confident that I jinx myself into these trials. Its like God gives me homework after I write down what I’ve learnt. Things like these always seem to occur after I put out some public declaration of my faith/wave my fists wildly at the world, and the like. Refer here and here.

So.. the good things about quitting:

I can now paint my nails and my weeknights are alot more free! Freedom from slavery!

Bad things about quitting:

I feel really guilty about just leaving like that :( I was just starting to get used to it.

x

I’ve been searching for words of encouragement over this period, and God gave some on Sunday morning.

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor 12:8-9

I always knew this verse, but I never took note of the sentence in the front.  About how Paul prayed three times for God to take away the trial, but God didn’t, and responded as such. Suddenly it became so much more powerful with the context.

WITH CHRIST IN THE VESSEL WE CAN SMILE AT THE STORM :)

Secure.

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Delight

Brad & Jen will always be my golden couple, but this picture of  Bradgelina & family is too cute and definitely deserves a winning space :)

Or at least I will try.

Sunset Thursday

Yesterday at the end of the one-day orientation, we went for a hike. We could’ve gone for dimsum, or coffee, or yoghurt.. but no, my friends wanted to go on a HIKE. HA. So we thought it was like you know, a “hike”. A slow walk or a stroll to the top of the hill or something.

WE WERE SO WRONG. The next time they say hike, we know they mean HIKE. I felt like I was climbing Bkt Timah Hill and at the end there was a slope that we had to climb and IT WAS LIKE 90 DEGREES INCLINED I’m not even kidding. I’m amazed I didn’t die there in the woods. And the going back down experience was once in a lifetime as well. It was pitch dark, at one point there was no one in front of us, and we had to walk down the side of a highway and woah now I know the meaning of BLINDING lights.

But the real deal was the great company and the friends made (through complaining and hiking haha).

And look at that view.

Homo Aestheticus

Precisely because we are at bottom grave and serious human beings – really, more weights than human beings – nothing does us as much good as a fool’s cap: we need it in relation to ourselves – we need all exuberant, floating, dancing, mocking, childish, and blissful art lest we loose the freedom above things that our ideal demands of us…. We should be able to stand above morality – and not only to stand with the anxious stiffness of a man who is afraid of slipping and falling at any moment, but also to float above it and play. How then could we possibly dispense with art – and with the fool?

Nietzsche was a lunatic but he sure could write.

Outlook

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BOOM DE AH DAH!

Olympics – Celebrate Humanity, Smile & Courage

The full set of seven videos:
Courage, Bronze, Giant, Silver, Rhyme, Smile, Adversary.

My favourite two of the seven:

Smile

When you smile, I smile – that’s the deal.
I will not walk past you and not look you in the eyes and not acknowledge you
Instead we will pass each other and say hello
Not with our words, for they are not the same
But with our faces.

I meet you and see there is good in your eyes
There is passion in your heart
There is a friendly hello in your smile
And for the first time we can relate and appreciate each other.
Thats all it takes; thats where it starts
Because I know that you will smile and I will smile
And all the rest, is easy.

Courage

Strength, is measured in pounds.
Speed, is measured in seconds.
Courage?
You can’t measure courage.

Olympics – Celebrate Humanity, Nelson Mandela

For seventeen days, they are roommates.
For seventeen days, they are soulmates.
And for twenty-two seconds, they are competitors.

Seventeen days as equals, twenty-two seconds as adversaries.
What a wonderful world that would be.

Olympics – Celebrate Humanity, Andrea Bocelli

I must admit I am not a fan of every sport in the world (or sports in general for that matter haha), but the olympics somehow manages to draw the whole world in, attracting all of us through the simple displays of humanity and the human spirit.

The series of adverts for Celebrate Humanity, Olympics 2004, are AMAYZING and inspiring beyond words. They shall all go up here, slowly, one by one. Just because they show us the best of every man, the best of what is inside of us. Enjoy :)

If you could have the arms of Hercules,
legs as swift as the wind;
if you could leap shoulder high above the rim;
have the kick of a dolphin;
the reflexes of a cat;
if you could have all this,
you would have the body, you would have the tools.

But you will not have greatness
until you understand that the strongest muscle is the heart.