Have Yourself Some Faith

Isn't it weird how we, youngsters, nowadays easily believe in such designer jeans campaign,

believe that one day that super fitted dark blue pair will turn into a comfortable one with fades you'd like to have?
Finally, you stride yourself to the nearest store, get one, and prove it by yourself.
Why do you do that? The most easiest reason is because others have done that also.

Nah, now you've seen a lot of successful people, inspiring ones, the creative creatures.
Get back to the previous lines.
You gotta do it, gotta prove it,
because of what? Others have done that also.

Briefly not jeans campaign, but really
if they can do it well, you might do it better. Go ahead, try.

Towards Opportunities

Singapore, Sep 2012

We're a set of anything that has ever happened to us. A set of decisions we've made. A set of experience, recklessness, ruthless agenda, and a burst of joy. How we think and respond to stuffs, they made us. Where we have been, they molded us. We change over time. Either for good, either otherwise. It depends.. on this skin, this flesh, this soul that intertwine to each other.

Collecting every sharp moment when you feel most alive, never let those moment go, probably that is where you belong. For me personally, there are quite moments I feel to the most. Waiting for SMRT by staring at the minute counter, sipping on the real thai tea while talking with best friends, doing things I was very afraid of doing.

There are a lot.. a lot of stuffs once I doubted to do.

Going abroad all by myself, greeting somebody that no longer talk to me, eating Thai pancake for the very first time, learning how to dance, having an audition, being in charge of certain roles in a musical, mailing someone I respect too much.. and more.

Most of the time, at that kind of moments, I really choose not to second-guess myself. To stand firm and do those without thinking twice. Not telling you that consideration is a bad idea, that's how I encourage myself.

And most of the time, those moments I strive myself to do wholeheartedly become priceless ones.

Life is full of opportunities which you sometimes think you can not afford. You also bring along goodness, distinction, and any other thing you barely can mention if you have not tried everything.

Go ahead, life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Kahlil Gibran's

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Once

Once everyone is an ignorant, a realistic, a damn hard-tempered, a love non-believer.
Once they keep the bitterness, spread it around, carry it within, stroll down with it.
Once they got tired.
They think building a wall of bitterness will save them from more complex, profound heartache.
They think having a thick shield will ease them up from every suffering that emotion can pour into them.
Once, at that moment, they do not realise that carrying, owning, and nurturing bitterness will cost them a bunch. A bunch of painful memories they can not let go, strokes of ego they can not tame, scratches that multiply over time.

Once they fell.

Too weak because what is inside is hollow,
deep filthy emptiness that bitterness successfully builds.

Once you know your pain, anger, disappointment will not there to save you.
They might get you beaten for twice, or more, but that does not mean you gotta live with them forever.
Once you know you no longer need them, you forgive and smile a lot.
Bitterness dimes you, so does hatred.

Once you just know, well again, you are worth loving without them, really.
So come on, wipe it off.

20

Most of the time we let days passing without bothering much about everything. We let it slide, let it glide. Flourished with beauty of every single laughter, warmth from friends, or passing a stranger we barely knew, once moment a go. I let February roll in a fast fast pace. So fast that when I look back, I get quite astonished to find out.. people are here and there to keep the others sane. Or otherwise.
My 20th birthday, is just like, another birthday.
It got a bit special on 9 am. But I was sooo grateful, to be healthy, alive, and happy. Everything is blessing. Beyond words.
What wishes for this year?
Graduating from college with a good score, getting an internship in a lovely company, having more emotional bonding with people whom I love, secretly learning how to cook, spending more time to do yoga for restoring true power, drinking less caffeine and more juice, making new friends, and be more grateful.
Putting more faith, I am ready to shine.
 Of course, brighter than usual.

My Favorite Things between Holidays

taken from here

1. Waking up late without being dizzy and sickened after that.
2. Getting my jobs done on schedule.
3. My Vegas Volt, a true true love.
4. Seeing best friends after days cannot meet each other.
5. Reading a decent book before hitting the bed.
6. Good hair day.
7. Writing on my new daily planner.
8. Reading brainpickings.org and smile when finding good lines.
9. Knowing the loved one always waking up early.
10. Curling inside blankets between rain while listening to my iPod.

Kindness

taken from here

Life, it offers you unlimited opportunities, battles. It comes with abundance, along God follows and takes care of your path. Believe you are blessed, of course you are. Don't take seriously people who try to make you feel bad, they probably have bigger fears they cannot express.
Life, it always smiles back at you when you greet it with an open arms, with bunch of love, being careful, and forgiving. There's no such place for those who fail at forgiving.

Why? For every kindness sets you free.