changes

Life. Motion. Movement. Change...

We just came back from Jedi's 1st birthday, lovely, simple celebration of new life. God bless you Jedi!

(This post is going to be quite dis-jointed!)

One day we're celebrating birth and life. another day earlier, i just found out that a friend & colleague is leaving our company! right after another friend just left.

anyway, here's the point. in 2003, 5 of us took a photo. a group of young uni students signing a scholarship with our company. now of 5, 2 have left the company, 1 is being posted overseas (though in the same company) and that leaves me and another left!

looking back in life, it's almost like being an athlete on the running track. we look to the left and right, see the people who start the race with us. but as we run, people go off on different tracks, the paths diverge.

we start well, can we finish well? where will we finish? each person in life seems to run their own path.

birth, life, death, graduations, terminations, new careers....life moves.

God knows, but may we only walk on paths He sets and through doors He opens :)

it's our beautiful promise :)

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,
saith the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain cometh down,
and the snow from heaven,
and returneth not thither,
but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower,
and bread to the eater:

So shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth:
it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

For ye shall go out with joy,
and be led forth with peace:
the mountains and the hills
shall break forth before you into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree,
and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree:
and it shall be to the LORD for a name,
for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."

isaiah 55: 8-13

Hunniemoooooo Snippets #1

Back from a long hiatus.. yeeehaa!

Here's a couple of photos from each lovely Aussie city we visited. Something to get your tastebuds tickling :)

St. Kilda Beach, Melbourne

Red Cross Vintage, Chapel Street, Melbourne

Backdrop of Rose Garden, along the way to Cradle Mountain from Hobart, Tasmania

Freycinet National Park, Tasmania

Sunset along the way to Hunter Valley, Sydney

Wagyu beef buger (AUD$10 ), The Rocks Market, Sydney

p.s.We are 3 weeks from the next holidays! :) Yippee Yippe Woo!

The Day of Unspeakable Joy

Now this i am highly capable of :)

Ever had one of those days something so incredibly good happened to you that you can't help but grin from ear to ear? That when the news was delivered to you, it's as if your entire world lighted up and everything seems so beautiful? That you can't help but scream and jump a hip hip hooray and 3 cheers for yourself cos you are absolutely brimming with happiness, relief and joy? And you know that you are grinning like an idiot, behaving like one cos you say hi and bye to everybody including the uncle who mans the toilet (who knows you la!)... but you can't help it?

OOooOhhh! Today was such a wonderful day :) All i can say is Thank God, my lovely lovely Isaiah, my family and some special special people for it.

I was clearing through some stuff, desperately searching for a piece of paper when i stumbled upon one of my old organisers i had in uni days. Coincidentally, it's from the days when Isaiah and I first held hands :) Here's a poem that i found especially inspiring:

If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it
To work day and night for it
To give up your time, your peace, your sleep for it;

If all that you dream and scheme is about it
And life seems useless and worthless without it;
If you gladly sweat for it,fret for it and plan for it
And lose all your tenor of the opposition for it;

If you simply go after that thing you want
With all your capacity, strength, sagacity
Faith, hope, confidence and stern pertinacity;

If neither cold, poverty, famine
Nor gout, sickness or pain of body and brain
Can keep you away from the thing you want;

If dogged and grim you beseech and beset
With the help of GOD, you will get it!
Les Brown

I was reading through this poem when i realised... hey! they all applied to me. And when the wonderful thing happened, my goodness... it's just simply a-m-a-z-i-n-g :)

Now go grab some dreams people!! :) Reach out for it and be stubborn about letting it go!

Updated: 
For the curious, this blog post was about the day i finally passed my practical driving examination on my second attempt. The initial plan was to pass the exam and present my driving license as a part wedding gift to Isaiah so that i can help with the driving in Tasmania. However as it turns out i didnt pass in time - which was all for the better anyway, since i couldn't switch lanes even if my life depended on it! Anyway i was going for driving lessons on the sly and it was really hard to keep the secret in. Fun, but tough.

hello from the sleepyland!

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. Been caught up with work and trying really hard to get out of sleepyland. These days, it seems like i can never get enough sleep. The most infuriating thing is that i would bring my lappy to and fro school and home and do nothing - except burn off calories from carrying the 10000034323423000 kg laptop.

I will will WILL post about the honeymoon soon. To those of you reading out there, thank you for coming back time and time again. We really appreciate it. More interesting stuff soon i hope! Considering that our lives are pretty colourful, we ought to share more love and fun! Like the beautiful houses in Brighton Beach, Melbourne, you see above :P

Have a great week ya'll. It's a short one.. or a deceptively short one. :P

God bless!