The life that is you

You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be miserable.
Which would you rather be?
You can choose to make productive and purposeful use of the moments in this day.
Or you can choose to let the time slip away and be left with nothing but regret.
Life is what you decide you are going to make of it.
What have you decided to make of the possibility-filled moment that is right now?
You can complain that it's all so very unfair, but all that will accomplish is to bring you down even more.
Or, you can fully accept life as it is and then experience the genuine satisfaction of making your way forward in spite of the obstacles.
You can choose to hide behind excuses or you can open yourself up to the richness of life.
You can decide to make the most of whatever comes your way, and know how great it feels to be fully alive and engaged in your world.
No matter what has come before, life in this moment is what you decide to make it.
Consider all the possibilities, and then choose the life that is you.

-- Ralph Marston

In love with life

Fall in love again each moment with life.
Breathe in the rich, new wondrous possibilities that are continually being born.
Realize what a grand opportunity exists in even the smallest of matters.
Today is a day like no other, and you are magnificently blessed to be a part of all that it encompasses.
The wind blows, the sun shines, night falls, and some days bring brutal cold while others offer stifling heat.
There is beauty, there is tragedy, and there is exquisite fulfillment along with bitter disappointment.
On the surface, life is filled with much adventure, activity, change, confusion, excitement, joy and frustration.
Underlying it all you'll find abiding peace and goodness that can never be denied.
You have the unique, unmatched good fortune of being you, right here and right now.
Take a brief moment to realize and remember who you truly are.
Then look out at the vast expanse of possibilities that surrounds you.
And dive lovingly into it in your own special way.

-- Ralph Marston

Do you believe in God

I'm still in search of my religion.
But I do believe in God.
A friend - Chris helped pray for me & Twain in a prayers group which he always have at his place every Mon in KL.
Janet from the prayer group saw Mother Mary's presence beside me and a bright rosary in my session.
Francis saw this red light in the sky and came the rain for Twain's session.
I seriously do not know what these vision means or what are the story behind but one thing is for sure, I feel calm, and feel lighter with some baggage gone, I finally have the peace of heart and mind after a while.

I have never seen God.
But I do believe in HIS presence and miracles.
Just like the way I'm feeling now - serene is the word.

Home

I noticed it is here that a little bird has chose to built her home.

A nice home hanging on the tree in the garden of our home where she feels safe and protected.

A simple home with a window and a door way.

A simple life that make us human envious...

Hair Cut

Not planned.
Not intended to.
Met up with friends at their friend's place who is a hair stylist.
So, hair is short now because I happened to meet the right man, at the right place at the right time…

A little faith & determination

Had asked Twain to rate year 2007 on the scale from 1 - 10 and guess what, he rated this year a 7!

I was surprise. Totally out of my expectation as I was so sure that the best he could do is to give it a 6 for this year or the worst 5 but here he is giving it a 7 for a year that is actually unpredictable, volatile and tough for his business.
I felt pleased, that although things and business is so tough on him and there are just so many things going on at the same time now but he is still feeling optimistic and still think that all these are only for the better. He thinks he can sail thru the rough sea.

FAITH and DETERMINATION makes a lot of difference...

The 3 of us will pull through, I know!

With God's will, hope everything we went thru prove to be worthy one day down the road.

(*Renee holding tight to mommy's hands)

Life before 2008

If I were being asked to rank 2007 in 1 out of 10, it will be 7.
I would not rank this a fantastically great year, it is a reasonable good year. I guess it all depend on which area we are looking at, I think.

Life is certainly not a bed of roses where I am now. Life has been crazy lately. I feel like I am rushing with time everyday. Like I need extra 12 hours a day. Work has been crazy and hectic, traffic is madness, bills keep coming in, car service is up again...the list can goes on for hours. Trying to juggle everything at one go isn't easy. Having to deal with work, life, motherhood and all the other stuffs at one go needs better stamina then where my stamina level is now.

Having Renee is definitely the most rewarding thing for me this year. My 2 best moment in a day now is the time I see her at the sitter's place and my sleeping time. It is like she makes the world stops every min I spend with her. All worries fade away. It is strange how looking into her eyes and her little smiley lips just make my lips go wide open too. She is definitely a magician.

Twain have some business issue to solve himself. Fuel charges went sky high overnight few months back and that has definitely make business a lot harder now. Still trying to do damage control and keeping business transactions in place is the after effect from the unforeseen price change in fuel. He must be exhausted too. He might rank this year only a 5 for him. I will find out.

This definitely is not an easy year end for the household financially. But this is life right? Like it or not, life goes on. However, I would prefer to think of this that we are going thru now as a challenge. I believe God will never give a test to a person unless HE knows they can take up that challenge. Plus one never know what is in front of us, can we? We might be looking at a poor ugly looking dry desert now, but who knows if a nice beautiful waterfall mountain is just another 10km in front awaits us.

One thing for sure, we still feel blessed definitely, the fact that we still have all the important people and things in life at this slightly tougher time: Renee, families, friends... and that God has sent 2 angels all the way here to cheer us up so much during this season.

Farewell 2007; Welcome 2008!!
Celebrate Life as Life is too precious to give up at any point.

Christmas 2007

We spent Christmas eve having steam boat dinner and I am telling you dinner was nice and yummy. It was the right kind of food for the eve I think.
I can see that both Sue and Blair enjoyed the dinner too. Twain definitely enjoyed it.

We went grocery shopping at Tesco because we are having the Christmas lunch the Sue way. It was still quite crowded at Tesco. I guess there must be a lot of last min shopping. Sue & Blair are totally amazed at how everyone is still so awake and out here doing all sort of activities like it was during the day time at 11:30pm. From where they are, even the kangaroos are asleep during this time.

We then went to have the usual 101 rojak and fruit juice at the Explaned. That place was quite crowed too. There were strong wind and even the sea water splashed onto our heads and faces once in a while where we sit. There were some fireworks too. It was a very pleasant night.

The moment Renee met her Kai Ma Sue, she gave a huge smile and they got along so well ever since. And you can tell that her Kai Ma Sue is one of her favorite person now. She is alright with Blair too. Blair can carry her and play with her and she didn't start crying. I was so surprise that she did not cry or being cranky at all like what I thot she would.

Renee then started to play by herself in her 4 wheels drive during Chef Blair & Sue cook for us.
They cook like they are cooking for a village. There are so much food for only 4 of us as Min & Meg couldn't make it. But I will have to tell Min that she has missed out huge man as the meal was good!! This 2 cook are some real shit man. Not only they have the style, they can really cook! We had baked broccoli, a pan of nicely baked vege, grilled chicken that you probably can smells from houses away. It was a great lunch and we are honored. According to Sue, most people do Christmas lunch instead of dinner. Unlike here, we usually do dinner. And Christmas eve countdown celebration are definitely more massive here than in Australia. There, most people are already in bed so that they wouldn't bum into Santa while he is here to drop their gift in the sock.

We spend the later part of the afternoon at The Little India where I took Sue to tailored made her Saree as a Christmas gift for this year.
It is such a nice and lovely day overall.
Twain & I enjoyed ourselves. Renee has been happily following us around watching and observing. Just hope that Sue & Blair enjoy our company as much as we enjoy theirs.

Tree decoration done

Christmas tree deco done!

Will start all the present shopping for friends and family soon.

Ho...Ho...Ho...