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Creative Corner => Online Journal => Topic started by: jon_jon on February 22, 2012, 03:49:43 AM
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"If you want to succeed, your desire for success must be bigger than your fear of failure." -Bill Cosby
Cia Siab 6 Tag Kis
by LosWing (cover by Kristine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTXazXVne4#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTXazXVne4#ws)
Kuv twb nyiam nyaim koj heev
ua cas koj tsis paub li
xav los hnia koj
xav los puag koj
tiasis kuv ntshai tsam koj ntxub
kuv twb xav xav hlub koj heev
koj tig ntsia kuv
ua rau kuv lub siab no
yuj plawv rau koj
tsis pom qab yog vim li cas
koj luag ntxhi rau kuv
es kuv nyiag nyiam koj heev
****txij hnub ntawv los
txij li thaum kuv tau ntsib koj
es kuv tsis paub yog vim li cas
vwm rau koj, tag npaum li no
txhua tag kis, wb puas yuav, sib ntsib li no
txoj kev hlub, rau koj
cas yuav nco, koj luaj no
txawm tag tiam no
kuv puas muaj txoj hmoov los, ua koj tug....
(Repeat beginning until ****)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ibe7JvIgM#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ibe7JvIgM#ws)
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February 22, 2012
Finally got my movie from YesAsia. It's actually a korean drama, no homo.
I'd be starting my magical journey on Tamra Island tonight. It will keep me in a good mood hopefully, full of mystery, diving mermaids, well they're not actually mermaids, but these people on the island mainly the women dive for pearls and clams.
I saw the preview and the first episode and the music/scenery was very intriguing to me. Seeing something back in the days of merchant ships, traders, and palaces of old.
Stars: Seo Woo as Jan Beo-Jin, Pierre Deporte as William, Lim Ju-Hwan as Park Kyu, Lee Seung-Min as Seo Rin, and Lee Sun-Ho as Ahn Kawamura.
I find myself to be like Park Kyu in so many ways. Finding someone you like but then only for her to be in love with someone else, and having this feeling of unrequited love all the time.
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February 23, 2012
I really don't have a life eys? So here I am.
Going to watch more Tamra Island. I never knew that back then they did a #2 outside and fed it to the pigs/hogs? Maybe that's how Koreans did it. It looked gross but kinda funny. Beo Jin's a pretty cute girl in this movie.
So hungry tonight, but not eating. I looked inside my fridge and all I had left was three frozen pizzas that I never knew I had. Going to eat some pizza in the near future. I guess everyone is all hyped up about the game tomorrow. Basketball game that is! Knicks vs. Heat! Linsanity vs. Lewade!
I won't be able to see it since I'm at work, but will catch the highlights on the internet. It's going to be a great game! Now that Melo is back, Baron Davis is back, JR Smith, everyone is catching the ball and making plays.
Who do you think is going to win? Hmm. I think it will be a close game if all the players contribute equally like before. Looks like the past two Knicks game the starters were averaging double digits and each player seem to be shining more.
Lately I've been looking for a new car. Maybe a Lexus IS250 AWD, BMW M3 2006-7, or 335i or the 328xi coupes... That's what's really on my mind right now.
Some stats about me:
height: 5'9 1/2"
weigh: 165 lbs
fav color: white/blue
food: pizza/chinese
fav sport: vball
fav animal: horse
fav movie: braveheart
education: BS
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She did a great cover on that song. I really like her singing.
Great, it's a pleasure to hear her.
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February 24, 2012
Welcome to my world again!
Looks like the Knicks loss and I expected that to happen, but didn't think they would lose by almost 20 pts. I had a feeling that J.Lin would not be able to handle the pressure given him from the Heat. They were all over him in the beginning and I believe that was the case which caused him 8 turnovers. But this is the first game he's playing against the Heat! I believe he'll do better next time coming in, he must had a lot of anxiety about playing Dwade, Lebron, and Bosch!
Melo did pretty well leading the score but I think the guys could have been more aggressive on defense. They allowed too many points given over to the Heat in the paint.
The loss didn't really matter to me. J. Lin still has room for improvement and growth! Everyone still has to keep in mind that the kid is only 23 years old.
A few weeks ago I had my audit review and performance results back. Spoke with the higher ups and found out that two of my co-workers are getting married? Where in the world did that come from, I was totally not expecting it!?
Everytime I look at them, it's like they don't even show any emotions, affection, or physical attraction towards each other in the work place. How can this be I say? Maybe it was happening all along and I didn't even notice? Or they just talk through email? But I was told they were getting married from a good source.
That makes me the only second person who's not married yet in my department. :-\
I didn't even ask them if they were going to get married yet, since they haven't really told the whole office. I'll keep it on the down-low and respect their privacy.
Wheww, I don't even know about marriage....
Last year my parents were really heart stricken that I couldn't find a mate yet. So they've sent my pics to relatives in Laos and now I've got a package of photos and letters from Hmong Laos girls. Their words are really "qab zib" or "xu siab" uas luaj le.....
Almost every single letter was like this, if you like my pictures and find that you and I would be a good fit please call me and talk with me. I am more than willing to give my love to you and be yours in marriage and love. These girls get straight to the point! Which I like very much, but man that's a hard decision to make because they live so far.
Why can't american girls here be more like that? More open and straight to the point, if you like me Yes or No? None of that mysteriousness . None of that chasing game. American girls have too many goals, dreams, education, and freedom here in the States. It's like they don't care about marriage and cultural roots anymore, all they do is go out clubbing every weekend, hangout with friends, travel all over who knows where, and try to compete with men? I don't really care anymore...
American Hmong girl or Laotian Hmong girl?
Tamra Island has been fun! Episode 2 here I come.
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Girls from Laos and being straight to the point...
Do you like me? Yes or No? To me it's grade school. Little kids would write each other notes and ask: Do you like me? Circle Yes or No. Do you want to be my girlfriend/boyfriend? Circle Yes or No. ;D
The fact that they're so far away and you have NEVER seen them in your life, nor have they ever seen you in their life and they are already claiming to love you and wanting to spend the rest of their life with you if you'd only circle yes or no... gosh, I'm not sure if it's funny or cute. ;D
Hmong American girls - the way to their heart is to spend time together, to get to know each other, perhaps be friends first and if things go well, then a relationship may proceed. That's my mentality. If one says yes the first day could mean he/she is just a player. :)
Just my two cents, but best of luck to you. :)
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I saw Tamara Island a few years back. Sweet kdrama.
Makes me want retire on that island and go back to basics and not worry about materialistic items.
I had the same feeling. Want to see the ocean and retire already. No worries, just fish, eat and be merry.
Girls from Laos and being straight to the point...
Do you like me? Yes or No? To me it's grade school. Little kids would write each other notes and ask: Do you like me? Circle Yes or No. Do you want to be my girlfriend/boyfriend? Circle Yes or No. ;D
The fact that they're so far away and you have NEVER seen them in your life, nor have they ever seen you in their life and they are already claiming to love you and wanting to spend the rest of their life with you if you'd only circle yes or no... gosh, I'm not sure if it's funny or cute. ;D
Hmong American girls - the way to their heart is to spend time together, to get to know each other, perhaps be friends first and if things go well, then a relationship may proceed. That's my mentality. If one says yes the first day could mean he/she is just a player. :)
Just my two cents, but best of luck to you. :)
i don't think it's childish to think of it that way because then they're not indecisive about their decisions. they know they live far away, so they have to say those things to begin with. why waste time on a very far distance relationship with someone only to be friends? if friends is what I'm looking for I'd stay close here at home.
but the Hmong American girls get more of what they want because of their freedom here. They don't seem to be limited with constraints. i have a few female friends, but it's starting to get really awkward now as I get older because they start talking to me about their ex's and personal life issues. i don't want to be that guy.....
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Wow, a guy writing about love. That is definitely different. Gonna keep my eyes on this thread. I need to understand how men define love. :D :D :D
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February 22 2012
"The Tough go to God."
2 Chronicles 20:1, Jehoshaphat turns to God when being invaded by three armies.
Have you ever heard the saying, when the going gets tough the tough get going. Well here's the new twist to you believers out there. When the Tough gets going the Tough go to God!
What intrigued me about this story is that Jehoshaphat was going to get destroyed by these three armies. And yet they turn around and praised God instead. Let alone they didn't even have to put up a fight and they went and collected all the plunder that was left for them after the armies turned against eachother.
Jehoshaphat ordered the people to fast and pray. We have a God whose willing to work for us if we just allow Him to. All we have to do is praise Him.
What a glorious God we have.
Today for lunch I had some Pho, and got a fortune cookie with no fortune inside. I wondered what that meant, so I googled it. This was the answer I got from chineseop.com
Answers:
I was just watching Food Network and they had a special on cookies. A guy that worked at a fortune cookie shop said if you receive a cookie without a fortune that it means their machine messed up and make a wish and your wish will come true. He also said just get another cookie too. It doesnt happen often according to the "cookie man".
I just made my wish! G'nites.
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February 28, 2012
Another night has gone by my friends...
I've left my mustache and beard grow for the past few days and holy smokes it's coming in really good. It's starting to itch like crazy too! Been putting some lotion on it to keep it from itching.
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No real pic no care!
*ahem... 8)
have faith.
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February 29, 2012
Today I received an email from someone I thought had just forgot about me. It has been two years and I thought she had dropped off from planet earth. Turns out that she has had a messy life and has come down with a terminal illness. And I'm one of the people that she shunned awhile back and was trying to make amends with me.
Well, I forgive her like a friend, since I know we all are not perfect. But then she goes and tells me that she has a friend that she gave my contact to and now I'm sitting here wondering after all this time, she wrote back just to tell me that? At least she remembered.
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Was she hoping her friend will contact you?
Yes she did! And her friend said some good things about her which I liked. =)
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March 1, 2012
Wow, eversince I grew out my beard and mustache, I've been feeling a lot better about myself. Got a few compliments at work and I think the ladies like it there. One guy told me it gives me an edge that I never had before. And he says, I look more serious and fierce with the beard. He said I look like Brett Farve and I told him, I was going for the A-rod look...lols.
Knicks beat the Cavaliers 120 to 103. I thought they were going to lose at first but they came back at the end and wooped them. Novak is my man! His 3 pt shooting skills are killer! I still think they play kind of sloppy together because some of the team mates are still trying to make some chemistry with each other. I like it that B. Davis and JR Smith are connecting! The Knicks should put them on the floor more often if they're scoring and rest Lin for awhile because he can get tired or just to mess up the other teams defense.
I really like this cereal called Fiber One, been eating it for quite some time now and it's been helping me relieve myself really well. =X
Love, why do people seek it? My take on love is that we all need it. It's separate from sex but would be much better to have the two at once if possible with your special someone. We all have physical bodies and we all pro-create. That's a purpose given to us from Mother Nature herself and from God. We were made in His image.
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February 2, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_gCxAaLhc
Hli Xiab...
I have no life today. Woke up went straight to work came home did nothing and now here. The End.
Wait.. I ate a pizza and then watched some more Tamra Island. No i'm not a phat bastard, and exercise everyday. Today I ran 2 miles and did some more cardio.
Also studied some more on my faith. I'm totally turning new leaves of thinking.
Have you ever heard of that saying by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains; however, improbable, must be the truth!"
I'm starting to see some light in that, but how far can human reasoning and science lead us when there's so much more out there to understand and see outside of this universe or galaxy. How many more galaxies, and milk ways are out there! Just imagine another earth like ours, and we all could because they've found Kepler 22 some trillion miles away.
What happens if we do find life outside of the milky way! Are we not alone here in this place.
Will those extra terrestrial beings understand who we are? And will they know how to love us? Or do they have a higher form of Love that we do not understand yet because we're only Human. What do they dream of? Are their dreams like our reality here on Earth? Can they feel the same way we feel...?
Where We Belong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT__UfB8UfM
Angels on the Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mi10ujLq3M
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March 6, 2012
Got such a big headache today. I don't know why? I need some aspirin or tylenol here.
Ok, so my friend that gave my contact out to her friend. I called her up this weekend and whewww.... I just couldn't stand talking with her. It took me like 10 minutes to 15 mins to realize that she wasn't really out of breath but just breathing hard. I even asked her if she just got done running or something and she said, "No? she was just playing video games with her buddy?"
I asked her who her guy friend was and she didn't really give me an answer. I think that's the last time I'm going to call this chick.. eww..
Don't think that love is hard to find, sometimes when we're going through life without a clue trying to find what's right for us. There's a bigger picture involved and you just have to find it, but maybe someone was always with you from the beginning helping you all along....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jeLl-mNAxY
Enjoy!
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March 7, 2012
The sun's rays were warm today. Warmer than usual for a day in March. Today, the Knicks played against the Mavericks again, this time they loss to Dirk Nowitski and Jason Kidd. I'm dissappointed with the outcome! The Knicks were done until the third quarter and caught up during the 4th, but got pummeled by Dirk again at the end. Carmelo only made two field goals? WTF? I don't believe there's any strong chemistry with Him in the line-up. They should bench Carmelo and throw in Steve Novak right away or sooner like in the 2nd quarter when they were down by 10! Novak is kicking butt with his 3 pt shooting.
I shaved my beard today.. It felt so good! My co-workers told me I should have left it and wanted to take pictures with me. But man, I can not sleep with the itching and it's starting to bother me.
O yea... who cares. No one really cares, some folks didn't even notice.
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March 8, 2012
Life is feeling good. At least the weather is getting warmer and now I can go jogging outside.
Work was alright, so many folks called in sick or out of work today. Boy, do I feel awkward coming in....
My older brother msg'd me at work and I called him back. Here's the situation, my older brother wants to re-finance his house but the bank won't allow him to have too much debt to income ratio. His wife can't be a co-signer with him because her credit score is below 700 or at 680 only. He asked me if I can co-sign a loan that he had taken out for my youngest brother so that he can eliminate that debt from his name because the bank will see it as a debt obligation to him...
This is how it started awhile back, I was against my brother taking that loan out for my youngest brother at the beginning because he didn't really need a BMW at the time. But he didn't care because he was trying to teach me a lesson or whatever he was thinking that I should just co-sign because we're brothers...
Anyhow, my younger brother had a car that he got into an accident with that my parents paid for when they refinanced their house, and they never even helped me once with my car payments?
Now my parents are in debt well only about 7k because of the money they took out to cash my younger brother's car that he got into an accident with. Well it wasn't my younger brother's fault so he got a settlement from it and insurance money to help cover his losses.
Instead of using that money to pay back my parents and help them out with the bills while he could get an economical car, he decides to get a higher end BMW with the help of my older brother.... He had asked me first to co-sign but I said no, because he could pay back my parents debt that they pulled out for him, but he didn't.
Now going back to my oldest brother; I told him no, because I was against taking out that loan for our youngest brother to begin with. And if he wants his name off that loan, he should just take it off.
Did I do the right thing by saying no or should I just have signed it temporarily like he told me while he finishes re-financing his house? Ack....
This wasn't the first time my older brother asked me to help him out either. He asked me a month ago if I would loan him 3500 for a bike, while he was going to pay me back with his income tax money? I said No, because he should use that income tax money for his kids. And then he goes on to tell me that he doesn't need my help, and could always get it from the bank. He was just testing me to see if I could help him out or the family in time of need?.... WTF?
I was like, "How does buying you a bike have to do with helping out the family?"
He goes on to say, "I have a House, a Lexus (that they paid in cash), and two other cars, do you really think I need your help...."
WTF!?!?..... If you're going all egotistical and materialistic on me then forsure NO!!! It's starting to rub off on me the wrong way.
Ok, talk about family affair.... everything is off my chest now... =S
Can't wait for my four day weekend next week! Warm weather please stay long. And that one hour forward will surely help speed up the process.
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I’m the second oldest in my family and sometimes I feel like I have this responsibility to help out my younger siblings so they too can get on their two own feet. My heart can never really say NO since they rarely ask for anything unless they are out of solutions. But if it’s one think I’ve learned, it’s that there is nothing wrong with saying no to family members. It doesn’t make you selfish…it doesn’t make you look like a bad person…it doesn’t stop them from loving you. Sometimes the best thing you do by saying no is teaching them to budget and manage their own financial life. A lesson taught indirectly through practiced behavior is better than just giving a solution to the individual hoping he/she would take something valuable from it. Do you get what I mean?
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I’m the second oldest in my family and sometimes I feel like I have this responsibility to help out my younger siblings so they too can get on their two own feet. My heart can never really say NO since they rarely ask for anything unless they are out of solutions. But if it’s one think I’ve learned, it’s that there is nothing wrong with saying no to family members. It doesn’t make you selfish…it doesn’t make you look like a bad person…it doesn’t stop them from loving you. Sometimes the best thing you do by saying no is teaching them to budget and manage their own financial life. A lesson taught indirectly through practiced behavior is better than just giving a solution to the individual hoping he/she would take something valuable from it. Do you get what I mean?
i feel they're not being responsible with their money...
and i'm just fulfilling their greed for worthless material things. why should i co-sign for things that have no value whatsoever and for their personal enjoyment only? i see that they're not taking care of the things that matter most, and sometimes the more you give them... the more they just take from you for granted.
can't say YES all the time.
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March 10, 2012
Can't believe the Knicks loss to the Bucks again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_0pcyR2AVM
This here is my reason why they lost at the end. They should have given the ball to JEREMY LIN!.. You frick'n idiots!!!
Let Lin make the play! Carmelo has beef against the bucks and he isn't playing with a winning mentality. The last game he played against the Bucks they lost because of Him! 35 pts? But no WIN!? C'mon, something says that he needs some team work involved here. There defense really sucked the last game! And I thought they were going to beat the Bucks easily with Jeremy Lin...
In which they had a GREAT start!!! When you look at Jeremy's numbers, a double double game getting the whole team involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3uJLqomgU8
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March 11, 2012
With no purpose your skills are meaningless... The purpose of having faith!
Today met an acquaintance and her husband. She introduces her husband by her "street" name.... "Taco"....
Ok.... I just don't get it? It's a case of what was she thinking? But I guess people have their unique taste for Love or whatsoever. But I'm not going to bash on Hmong girls.... Gotta stay positive here.
Finished my taxes this weekend, going to send it tomorrow!
Had some kimchee with seafood noodle soup! Pretty good, they added plenty of shrimp.
Going to see the Chronicle tonight. I opted out of watching John Carter, looks like another Conan meets Braveheart type of movie. Too redundant.....
Another lonely night, signing off.
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March 14, 2012
Great weather we are having this whole week. So far went fishing and hung out with friends. Drank a few beers at happy hour!
Topic we always talk about of course is girls and women!... but mostly sex.
One of the guys mentioned that women will justify everything about herself for a man if the sex is ORGASMIC, no matter whether he's a loser, midget, OG, or whatever. Do you guys believe that's true? Would a woman go justify her relationship and compromise all her values for "good" sex....
C'mon now, that's BS. Or shall I take it from him. :-\ ::)
Well, if they do that's the reason why women like all the bad guys, technically because they think they're good in bed. lols...
That was our justification for why the bad guys get all the girls.... Haha
Anyways, I just don't see how a boy and girl could find their true love when their young and grow up together to be married with each other without ever having to date and see other people. It was like they were destined to be together from birth, like in those Korean Dramas.
btw, the Knicks should trade Melo and Stat.... I'd like to see the knicks just play Chandler, Shump, Lin, fields, JR Smith and Novak...
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March 21, 2012
I didn't think I'd ever say something as mean as telling my parents, "I don't want to be Hmong anymore!"
I'm just fed up with life that I've blamed my culture for the way I am and why I couldn't hang around friends of different races when I was young. Didn't get to do much during school years because my parents didn't allow me to have friends at all. Didn't go to parties, no football games, no dances, and didn't even go to my own graduation. I felt somewhat embarrassed to go because my parents would show up. I've somehow accumulated so many DT's because I hated school, and was an outcast from early on in high school. I don't know how I managed to graduate high school but I did.
I've always thought to myself that I was born Hmong to be alone, and that when I almost drowned as a kid, I should have just let go because it was after all a lonely life and still is....
Now that I'm thinking more about what I said, I need to take back my words and will have to ask my parents for forgiveness. I don't know why I say that to them but I know that in my heart it has been a lonely journey for me.
Here's a story I found for those who are embarrassed or need to remember that your parents would give anything to love you more.
A Mother's Love
My mom only had one eye. I hated her… She was such an embarrassment. She cooked for students and teachers to support the family.
There was this one day during elementary school where my mom came to say hello to me. I was so embarrassed.
How could she do this to me? I ignored her, threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school one of my classmates said, ‘EEEE, your mom only has one eye!’
I wanted to bury myself. I also wanted my mom to just disappear. I confronted her that day and said, ‘ If you’re only gonna make me a laughing stock, why don’t you just die?’
My mom did not respond… I didn’t even stop to think for a second about what I had said, because I was full of anger. I was oblivious to her feelings.
I wanted out of that house, and have nothing to do with her. So I studied real hard, got a chance to go abroad to study.
Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. I had kids of my own. I was happy with my life, my kids and the comforts. Then one day, my Mother came to visit me. She hadn’t seen me in years and she didn’t even meet her grandchildren.
When she stood by the door, my children laughed at her, and I yelled at her for coming over uninvited. I screamed at her, ‘How dare you come to my house and scare my children!’ GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!’
And to this, my mother quietly answered, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address,’ and she disappeared out of sight.
One day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house. So I lied to my wife that I was going on a business trip. After the reunion, I went to the old shack just out of curiosity.
My neighbors said that she died. I did not shed a single tear. They handed me a letter that she had wanted me to have.
‘My dearest son,
I think of you all the time. I’m sorry that I came to your house and scared your children.
I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion. But I may not be able to even get out of bed to see you. I’m sorry that I was a constant embarrassment to you when you were growing up.
You see……..when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn’t stand watching you having to grow up with one eye. So I gave you mine.
I was so proud of my son who was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eye.
With all my love to you,
Your mother.’
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March 27, 2012
Quite melancholy and depressing with the dating life these days. Hmong american women 25 and up, none are to be found? Am I not looking in the right places? So my friends tell me to go hang out at the clubs and bars to find women. But the only ones I found there are full of many surprises with their baby daddy drama!
Contemplating on marrying a Laos girl soon....
I've never thought of going there, but it sure seems like a guarantee shot now that my parents have inside people. I've got one girl that I particularly like. Maybe it's in the way she smiles, the way her long hair flows in the wind. Can't wait to see her soon when I visit.
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April 1, 2012
Today I'm going to talk with the Hmong-Laos girl that my auntie has pointed out to me. I'm sorta nervous because she's really pretty, my auntie has good taste in fine things and she's good at match making. She's also pointed out two other potential girls for my brothers but they could care less. I've never been married nor have any kids, how would one know if someone's right or not?
Fate was knocking at my door ever since I told my parents I didn't want to be Hmong anymore, looks like I'll have to learn how to speak Hmong better! Kind of funny how things work for the good in all. I could write fine, just can't speak much of it. Sometimes I mix green with white dialect and people wonder if I'm green or white? If marrying a Hmong-Laos girl is where I need to love my own-kind then let it be...
Not to say that Hmong-American girls aren't pretty or uninteresting, I haven't lost hope in them, but a broken record of Hellos and no replies has not kept my heart in good shape. Otherwise, I have the same chances with a Hmong-Laos girl who's only hope is to come to America and get a better life here so that she could send money back to her parents at home. In this I know she will love me more and will appreciate me for bringing her here. My mom's already liking her because she'll be able to have a nyab who can communicate with her in her own language at last.
I will need to put my foot down and do this! Be a go getter.... The obstacles that were put forth before me were only there to make me stronger. My enemies have no power over me; and they only fulfill my destiny.
Codfish is a big business. The market is huge. When codfish were first being shipped, they froze them. They noticed that the flavor was lost during shipping. Somebody came up with the idea to put them in tanks and ship them in actual seawater. Even then the codfish would arrive at the market 3 or 4 days later, and would have lost much of their flavor because they were not active enough in the tank. They had a kind of mushy texture.
Finally, they learned to ship the codfish with a couple of catfish in the tank with them. The catfish is the natural enemy of codfish. During shipping the catfish would chase the codfish all around the tank the whole time, and when they got to the place where they were going, the codfish tasted like you just pulled them out of the sea. Their texture was great; their taste was even better than before.
See God knows that we are codfish in a catfish world. God allows all things, even catfish type things to help us grow strong and if He kept us from those things, we wouldn't grow into the image of Jesus Christ. Jesus himself said, "In this world you are going to have struggles. You are going to have troubles, tribulations, but be of good courage. I have overcome the world and I am going to take those troubles and I am going to transform you more and more in to my likeness."
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Lub 4 hli ntuj hnub 3, xyoo 2012.
I give this Hmong-Laos girl a call only to get her older sister. First words to her were, "Hello, Nyob Zoo os! (------) puas nyob hauv tsev lawm nas?"
She's like no? And I asked her who she was, then she tells me she's the older sister.
Darn it! She's not even home. Now I have to wait for a few days because she told me that her younger sister was not in town and was going to be gone for awhile visiting another village/city.
She says that she works in a different city. Ohhh... How so? Just my luck.
Gonna call her again tomorrow to see if she came back home yet.
It's almost Easter! What am I to do, Easter Bunny will you be there to lay any eggs for me this year. Yesterday, I watched Mao's Last Dancer, a true story of a ballet dancer named Li Cunxin who was chosen at the young age of 11 to train in ballet for Madame Mao's dance academy. He was then given a scholarship to study abroad and dance with the Houston Ballet in America. Once in America he finds out his new found freedom and love. While the heartache of missing his family back at home keeps him up at night.
This is an inspiring movie that everyone should see! It goes to show you the struggles of Communism and Capitalism back in the 1970s and 80s. You can definitely see that China has been turning a new leaf in its Communist agendas from today as compared to back then.
Li Cunxin's personal story is a journey that reinvigorates you to reach higher for your own dreams.
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April 6, 2012
Bet u guys were waiting to see if I called her or not!...
Welp, turns out I did! She answered the phone. We talked for a good 45 minutes until I told her that I'll call her again. We both have similar upbringings. She told me about how most of the Hmong people in Laos or the youth speak only Laotian now and none speak Hmong. I told her the same thing about the kids here in the US, most of the youth speak English and barely any Hmong at all. We even spoke about General Vang Pao and she said that if they ever mention his name they could be put in jail or taken away. Wow...
She was amazed at how good my Hmong is, but I told her that I was raised up in a christian home and my parents took me to church where we learned Hmong. That's where I picked it up, otherwise I would not know a bit of Hmong at all. We spoke a little bit about our faith but didn't get into it much. She wanted to know if I was going to come visit already?
I told her about my auntie, and that she's going back to visit again this year. She must be a regular in her village because she told me that she's popular with the people there. I didn't know that, and they do business sewing Paj Ntaub for her. She must pay them cash! That's gotta be it.
She's very articulate with her words in Hmong and has a very sincere demeanor. Although sometimes I think she speaks like my mom in Hmong, that kind of scared me in a good way. =)
This weekend will be a fun one, gotta do the laundry, wash the blankets/pillows for the guests, buy new dress shirt for Easter Sunday, and get everything ready when my brother's family arrives at my place.
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April 15, 2012
The Beat to My Heart by jj
He gives me two ears,
but fills them with the sound of tears.
God gives me two arms and two hands,
but they'll never reach the skies.
With a vivid imagination.
God gives me two eyes,
Will I ever get to my destination?
He made me with two legs and two feet.
Maybe one day, I'll run far apart,
I shall find that beat.
The beat to my heart.
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April 18, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0PrTkE5jG4&feature=related
6 Steps to Success by Arnold
1) Trust yourself
2) Break some rules
3) Don't be afraid of failure
4) Ignore the nay-sayers
5) Work hard as hell
6) Give back to your community
Today I will not fail at what I'm going to do, whether going to work, relationships, or helping a friend. I will conquer my emotions and not let myself get carried away in worry. I will listen and find solutions when needed. Talk when I have to rebuke and talk for success, not to put anyone down or to gain pride, but to build each other up and to encourage one another towards peace and tranquility.
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April 21, 2012
Why am I falling in love with this girl thousands of miles away? Have I not found someone here closer to me? Why is it that the ones that are closer to me take me for granted? Am I just a shadow on the wall that they can care less about?
What is it that I feel, when I speak with you that makes you different? Of course we speak Hmong, the girls here would not be able to speak any Hmong. Is it because the way you make me feel as if you really need me to rescue you? Am I trying to be a hero when what you need is more than what I have to offer. Although we're thousands of miles away you send your prayers to me as if I was the one who was asking for them.
Is this the feeling of being heroic and finding my damsel in distress? Why do the girls here take so many things for granted but yet you don't want any of it and are content with what you have? You have so much more respect from me because you have found your happiness on the other side of the world without the ideologies of the west. And here I am trying to offer you the best of the western civilization. You have so much peace within you. Will I be able to offer you a better world in which you can love, live, and enjoy that happiness?
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Awwww....
My reaction exactly. :)
JJ, a woman is happiest where her heart is. If you are able to locate that, you need not question at all....she'll settle herself into your world. Things should be simple like that.
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I thought my life was hard, I remember living in my car for a few days because I didn't fill out for a dorm my last two years of college... Long story short, I found an apartment through public housing. I was considered homeless and they were willing to put me in an apartment after filling out an application for Section 8. I was afraid of not getting a place to stay because the landlord was evil and threatened to call the cops on me if he found me staying near the housing complexes again. That's where I slept because the parking lot was not well lit and I could get away parking my car over night there...
I prayed, and prayed.... and guess what happened a few days later. They fired the slum lord and right after that the new landlord or housing manager saw my application/sent it through and told me I could stay as long as I finish college. And now here I am. Done with college!
But it doesn't compare to what this girl had to go through...
From scrubbing floors to Ivy League: Homeless student to go to dream college
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/us/from-janitor-to-harvard/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/us/from-janitor-to-harvard/index.html?hpt=hp_c1)
Lawndale, North Carolina (CNN) -- It's before sunrise, and the janitor at Burns High School has already been down the length of a hallway, cleaning and sweeping classrooms before the day begins.
This particular janitor is painstakingly methodical, even as she administers a mental quiz on an upcoming test. Her name is Dawn Loggins, a straight-A senior at the very school she cleans.
On this day, she maneuvers a long-handled push broom between rows of desks. She stops to pick up a hardened, chewed piece of gum. "This annoys me, because there's a trash can right here," she says.
The worst, she says, is snuff cans in urinals. "It's just rude and pointless."
With her long, straight dark blonde hair and black-rimmed glasses, Dawn looks a bit like Avril Lavigne. But her life is a far cry from that of a privileged pop star.
She was homeless at the start of the school year, abandoned by her drug-abusing parents. The teachers and others in town pitched in -- donating clothes and providing medical and dental care. She got the janitorial job through a school workforce assistance program.
She's grateful for the work. But it's where she's going next, beyond the walls of Burns, that excites her most. She applied to four colleges within North Carolina and one dream university. She'll graduate soon before heading off, leaving her dust pan behind.
Dawn Loggins has worked as a janitor her senior year to make ends meet.
Dawn Loggins has worked as a janitor her senior year to make ends meet.
For now, there's still work to be done. She stops for a quick bite to eat in the custodial closet amid Pine-Sol and Clorox. She then darts to classes -- three advanced placement courses and an honors class.
Growing up without electricity
Dawn grew up in a ramshackle home with no electricity and no running water. She often went days, even weeks without showering. She and her brother Shane -- who was equally studious in his schoolwork -- would walk 20 minutes to a public park to fetch water.
"We would get water jugs and fill them up at the park, using the spigots in the bathroom. And we would use that to flush the toilet or cook with. Stuff like that," she says.
She confided in a staff member at school. She had trouble doing homework at nighttime because her home had no electricity and she couldn't afford candles. It was difficult to read in the dark.
"OK, we'll get you some candles. We'll take care of that," said Junie Barrett, Dawn's supervisor.
Another time, Barrett says, Dawn and her brother asked if they could use the school's washing machine to clean their clothes. "I said, 'Just leave them with me. We'll get them washed, dried,' " Barrett recalls.
"We let them use our shower facilities in the locker rooms because they had no running water. They had nothing to bathe in."
Burns High was their fourth high school since middle school, as they moved from town to town. Living the life of a rolling stone, the two had missed several months' worth of classwork when they first arrived two years ago, putting them well behind other students' progress.
Shane was outgoing, but Dawn always appeared more reserved.
Guidance counselor Robyn Putnam saw the potential in Dawn and Shane early on and enrolled them in online classes to get them caught up. The work paid off.
Abandoned by parents
Last summer, Dawn was invited to attend a prestigious six-week residential summer program, the Governor's School of North Carolina, at Meredith College in Raleigh, 200 miles east of Lawndale, to study natural science. It was a field Dawn had never studied before.
The program is reserved for the state's top students.
Putnam ferried Dawn to Raleigh to attend the elite program and took her shopping, making sure she had the clothes she needed. Other faculty members contributed funds, too.
Putnam worried Dawn's home situation could worsen while she was away. "We weren't even sure where her parents were at that time. And there was an eviction notice on the house," she says. "We kept telling her to get everything she could; we knew this was a possibility."
Dawn saw her parents for 30 minutes during the middle of the summer program during a short break. They talked about her school and how she was doing. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. "It was just a regular conversation," she says.
She wouldn't hear from them again for weeks.
As she prepared to leave the summer program, she kept calling her parents' phone, only to learn it had been disconnected. Putnam picked her up and brought her back to Lawndale.
"When I returned, my grandmother had been dropped off at a local homeless shelter, my brother had just left, and my parents had just gone," she says. "I found out later they had moved to Tennessee."
Her voice is steady, matter of fact. "I never expected my parents to just, like, leave."
Dawn was abandoned.
"I'm not mad at my parents. My mom and my stepdad both think that they did what was best for me," she says.
Dawn Loggins maintained an A-average despite her hardships.
Dawn Loggins maintained an A-average despite her hardships.
In fact, she used her parents' example to drive her. "I just realize that they have their own problems that they need to work through," she says. "They do love me; I know they love me. They just don't show it in a way that most people would see as normal."
Stability in Lawndale
For a while, Dawn lived on the odd couch at friends' homes, while she figured out what to do. Sometimes, she slept on the floor. The only thing that was clear was that she wanted to stay in Lawndale, where she was active in extracurricula r activities, had a boyfriend and had a job.
Her classmates there didn't make fun of her, though she had been mercilessly mocked in middle school. "It was the worst. That's when I would come home crying because the teasing was so bad," Dawn recalled.
Helping Dawn
For those wanting to help, Dawn appreciates the generosity. She wants to use funds to form a nonprofit organization to help other homeless children. Any contributions can be sent to: Burns High School/Dawn Loggins Fund, 307 East Stagecoach Trail, Lawndale, NC 28090
She had lived with her grandmother until she was 12 and attended junior high at a school about an hour away from Lawndale during that time.
"My grandma loved me, and she taught me a lot. She had lots of crafts around and watched History Channel with us. But ..."
Dawn's voice halts, then begins again a few seconds later. "She never really explained to me and my brother the importance of bathing regularly. And our house was really disgusting. We had cockroaches everywhere. And we had trash piled literally 2 feet high. We'd have to step over it to get anywhere in the house."
Dawn would go without showering two to three months at a time and wear the same dress to school for weeks straight. "When I was little, it seemed normal to me. I didn't realize that other families weren't living the same way that I was. And because of that I got teased, the kids would call me dirty."
In Lawndale, a town of about 600 in the Appalachian foothills of western North Carolina, things were different. Dawn felt comfortable.
With her parents gone, she processed the options with her guidance counselor.
She could move yet again to Tennessee to be with her mother, or she could be turned over to the Department of Social Services. Putnam feared what that might bring. "If Dawn were to go into the system, she could be uprooted again and moved around," she says.
Dawn would turn 18 during the second semester, Putnam knew, making her an adult by law. So Putnam asked Dawn: "What do you want to do? She said, 'I want to graduate from Burns. To be in the same school two years.' "
So the community and Burns staff became her family.
Sheryl Kolton, a custodian and bus driver for Burns Middle School, had met Dawn before and knew her but not well. She wasn't expecting the phone call she received. "The counselor at the high school just called me one day and asked me if Dawn could come live here," Kolton says.
A few days later, she and her husband, Norm, agreed.
Shooting for the stars
With a roof over her head and the contributions of Burns staff to supplement the Koltons' income needed to house and feed a growing teenager, Dawn was seemingly in a stable environment. She admits that having her parents out of the picture helped.
"Honestly it was kind of a relief," she says. "I mean, I have a place to stay, and I have a job, and I'm going to school."
As she began her senior year, Dawn turned her laser-beam focus to her future: college. She knew she wanted a different path than her parents.
"When I was younger, I was able to look at all the bad choices -- at the neglect, and the drug abuse, and everything that was happening -- and make a decision for myself that I was not going to end up like my parents, living from paycheck to paycheck."
A straight-A student, Dawn was president of the photography club. She also had started a community service program collecting thousands of letters for active military troops and was involved in National Honor Society and band club. Before she took her custodian job, she ran cross country.
She wasn't top of her class, and she didn't have a perfect GPA, but she was smart. On paper, she had always fared well.
"I was looking at her transcript, and one of the lowest grades on her transcript is a 94 and that was for a class called Success 101, and the irony of that is just really amazing," Putnam says with a laugh.
Dawn Loggins says the worst thing about cleaning is snuff cans in urinals.
Dawn Loggins says the worst thing about cleaning is snuff cans in urinals.
Dawn applied to four colleges within the state: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University; Davidson College; and Warren Wilson College. In December, she sent one final application off in the mail, to her reach-for-the-stars choice, Harvard.
No one from Burns High had been accepted to the elite Ivy League school.
"I thought about it and just figured, 'Why not?' "
She asked her history teacher, Larry Gardner, for a recommendation letter. "I don't know how many times I started that letter of recommendation," he recalls. "Because how do you articulate her story into two pages? How do you explain this is a young lady who deserves a chance but hasn't had the opportunities?"
But after a prayer for wisdom, the words flowed.
"Once again, words fail me as I attempt to write this letter of recommendation," Gardner began. "I can promise I've never written one like this before and will probably not write one like this again. Because most students who face challenges that are not even remotely as difficult as Dawn's give up. This young lady has, unlike most of us, known hunger. She's known abuse and neglect, she's known homelessness and filth. Yet she's risen above it all to become such an outstanding young lady."
Months passed. She was accepted to the four schools in North Carolina. Each time, the acceptance letter came as part of a thick package with fat brochures and congratulatory notes.
Days went by. Nothing from Harvard.
But on a sunny day earlier this year, she came inside after tending the garden. There was a letter from Harvard, the type of letter every high school senior dreads from a university -- a regular-sized envelope, the ominous sign of rejection.
Cautiously, she opened it: "Dear Ms. Loggins, I'm delighted to report that the admissions committee has asked me to inform you that you will be admitted to the Harvard College class of 2016. ... We send such an early positive indication only to outstanding applicants ..."
She gasped when she read those words.
Gardner had the same reaction when she handed him the note at school the next day. "I just looked up at her, and kind of teared up because this is a young lady who ... " he stops, his voice breaking.
"When I first met her and had her brother in class, they were living in a home without electricity, without running water, they were showering at a local park in a restroom after most of the people at the park had left. This is a young lady who's been through so much and for her to receive this letter -- pretty awesome."
Not only was Dawn accepted to Harvard, she got a full ride. She was offered tuition, room and board, as well as assistance finding an on-campus job.
The tiny town of Lawndale rallied around Dawn again. They raised money to get her to Boston so she could see the school in person in April.
"We in a sense had a collective responsibility to get her to Harvard," says Aaron Allen, Burns High principal. "Even though Harvard was going to pay for Dawn to go on her own, this is a girl who's had multiple moves, never flown, never ridden a subway, never really been outside small town USA, North Carolina foothills, and you're expecting her to go to Cambridge all by herself?"
Barrett, her custodial supervisor, traveled to Cambridge with her. "When we went up there, it was just like she was at home. She will succeed, and she will excel."
For Dawn, it wasn't a foregone conclusion that she would attend, but her inaugural visit solidified the decision. "I just could not picture myself anywhere else, at any other college."
Helping others
Since Dawn's story has come out, she's attracted attention worldwide from well-wishers sending her everything from simple encouragement to monetary donations.
Dawn doesn't want the money. "When I get to college, I can work for what I need. And I know my future is going to be great."
She hopes to start a nonprofit organization to help other teens who've had obstacles in their educations, using the funds that have been sent to her. There are more than 200 students listed as homeless in Cleveland County, where Lawndale is located.
"There are so many kids whose futures aren't so sure, and they need help more than I do," she says. "I want them to be able to use my story as motivation. And I want the general public to realize that there are so many kids who need help."
The final pages of Dawn's high school chapter are nearing a close. She will walk across the stage today -- June 7 -- to accept her diploma. She has invited her parents but isn't sure they will be able to attend. "If they're not there, it would be for good reason."
But the one person she will look for in the crowd is her brother Shane.
"Throughout the years, no matter where I've been or been through, he's always been there for me," she says, with a rare ghost of a smile.
Shane will attend Berea College in Kentucky on a scholarship.
Dawn has learned the sort of lessons that can't be learned in school. "I love my parents. I disagree with the choices that they've made. But we all have to live with the consequences of our actions," she said.
She takes it all in stride. "If I had not had those experiences, I wouldn't be such a strong-willed or determined person."
She might just find Harvard to be easy.
:-[
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June 8, 2012
Why am I attracted to Hmong Yang girls? Every single girl that I meet that I like are Yang's.
Even across the globe they're Yang's. Maybe I'm destined to marry one since there just seems to be some irresistible trait that they have that is drawing me in.
My parents told me to marry some other clan, I said... fine.. it doesn't matter; as long as she wants to marry me. I tried searching for other girls with different last names but found out that majority of the girls I meet that share the same commonalities are Yang's.
But when I don't even try to meet Yang girls, the Yang girls come naturally for me... lols.
My parents urge me to marry other girls besides a Yang because all my other siblings are married to one! They want some in-laws from a different clan. Too bad I can't marry one from each clan.
The only other clan I would like to marry if I can't get a Yang girl are Lees, because they seem to be non-existent, more exotic and less of them. =P
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Yangs are pretty sexy. ;)
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Hollar... :-*
Kidding!
Yangs are consider the Smiths and the Nguyens in the Hmong world. Sometimes it suck being a Yang. Too many awkward moments.
I agree. Too many good looking brothers and sisters. Lol
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Too much Kool Aid drinking among Yangs it seems. ::)
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Too much Kool Aid drinking among Yangs it seems. ::)
You know you like what you've drank. ;)
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You know you like what you've drank. ;)
I will admit to have been priviledged to know of and meet a few really beautiful Yang ladies.;D Not so much guys because I don't look for that and I'm not gay. ::)
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Speaking of npau suav.... Twas another night of that not happening. I've a long streak going recently. :(
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How sweet! What a love story... I know she will make you very happy and will be the wife you always dream of... best of luck to you and her. May your future be filled with long happy days.
lols.. that's just a dream.
not a reality yet. ;)
if only those days can be spent with the one you truly love.
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June 14, 2012
Tonight I'm surrendering the things in which I can not control over to you God. For I know that you work for the good of those who love you, who are called accordingly to your purpose.
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths.
Proverbs 3, 5-6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_1YliutzA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_1YliutzA#)
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June 29, 2012
Something I learned in my past about receiving advice from others. Is that sometimes your loved ones may not know what's truly in your heart and may not have the best advice out there. Even though they want the best for you and are on your side for your best interest. Most will tell you to do one thing or the other because they think it's right. They've already made the decision for you. But it doesn't necessarily mean that it's what you want to do or have it in your heart to follow. This is why most people live a life that is run by their parents, family, and peers.
It's not wrong to seek advice from them or talk with them, but you must remember to listen to your heart and follow your heart's intuition. Guard your heart, and don't just take any old advice given to you. Learn to separate good advice from poor ones then you'll go far.
I think I've taken good advice so far but looking back sometimes people gave me bad advice out of ignorance and pure jealous motives because they didn't want to see me succeed... ::) However, i gotta stay positive here. Have you guys received compliments lately? Well, I have. It sure feels good when things are kind of blah these days.
Three compliments that I received this month from out of nowhere that has been keeping me going strong. Two of them came from my Indian friend's wedding last two weeks ago. Both of them came during the dance reception. I know I'm not suppose to be at a dance reception, coz I'm Christian and all... but hey, i'm bad arse like that. It's just a dance reception! His mom and dad were dancing with us...lols. we all had a blast.
ok, 1st compliment came when I was sitting down at our table and one of the girls asked if I was korean/chinese? Shall i take that as a compliment? She said I didn't look Hmong at first until I told them.
2nd compliment came after the dance was almost over around mid night. The groom (my best friend) and I were talking and he said that he should have made me a grooms men. I told him he shouldn't have worried and that whatever his decision was I would have been happy for him and that it was a privilege to be a guest at his wedding. Then he told me that I had such a good-heart and that he loved me. That was the first time he said that, the "i love u part"... from a guy to a guy (no homo).... we're brothers at heart. We know each other for about 10 years now.
3rd compliment, one of my youth guys told me it's not fair that I take off my shirt while at camp because I have abs and he didn't (no homo)... lols. Since when did I started having abs? it's still a work in progress, but that felt great, hardwork pays off... 8)
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jon,
First of all, dancing is NOT a sin. It is not in the Bible. Even King David danced. The argument is that dancing can lead to sin. You know as well as I do that tempations is everywhere, including in the church.
Second, I agree with you, sometimes family members give great advice and sometimes they don't. I am learning to listen to my heart and when a piece of advice does not put my heart and mind at peace... I go to the Bible and seek God's words... when I find an answer to echo's God's words, then I am happy and at peace.
And then there's my bestfriend, who thinks alot like me and is the only one who was able to give me an answer to a life turning delima that the minute I heard it, it made total sense and I knew it was according to God's will. So, thank God for Godly bestfriends.
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jon,
First of all, dancing is NOT a sin. It is not in the Bible. Even King David danced. The argument is that dancing can lead to sin. You know as well as I do that tempations is everywhere, including in the church.
Second, I agree with you, sometimes family members give great advice and sometimes they don't. I am learning to listen to my heart and when a piece of advice does not put my heart and mind at peace... I go to the Bible and seek God's words... when I find an answer to echo's God's words, then I am happy and at peace.
And then there's my bestfriend, who thinks alot like me and is the only one who was able to give me an answer to a life turning delima that the minute I heard it, it made total sense and I knew it was according to God's will. So, thank God for Godly bestfriends.
dancing is just dancing to me...
thinking back, some of the worst advice i've received came straight from my parents and the others from siblings. the only reason why you listen is that they're supposedly the ones you trust and the ones you love. they should know best, but i don't think they'll ever live in your shoes...
i've had great friends who were able to listen to me and be my devil's advocate over-time. they've kept me sane throughout all these years. just having someone to listen to your needs is a fortune to have.
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July 2, 2012
Today I learned a valuable lesson that we should not try to be a people pleaser. We should strive to see God's will for us and please God first, the rest will follow. Often times we are frustrated and upset because we can not measure up to what other people have tried to mold us to be. That's because it's not who we are. It's someone else's mental picture of who we should become and is not who we truly want to be on the inside.
We have given up our true selves to follow other people's dreams for us and their expectations, not our own. We can never please everyone! Have you heard of Aesop's fable about the Old man, the boy and the donkey?
An old man and a young boy were traveling through their village with their donkey. The boy rode on the donkey and the old man walked.
As they went along they passed some people who remarked it was a shame the old man was walking and the boy was riding.
The man and boy thought maybe the critics were right, so they changed positions.
Later, they passed some people that remarked, "What a shame, he makes that little boy walk." They then decided they both would walk.
Soon they passed some more people who thought they were stupid to walk when they had a decent donkey to ride. So, they both rode the donkey.
Now they passed some people that shamed them by saying, "How awful to put such a load on a poor donkey."
The boy and man said they were probably right, so they decided to carry the donkey.
As they crossed the bridge, they lost their grip on the animal and he fell into the river and drowned.
The moral of the story?
If you try to please everyone, you may as well just kiss your ass goodbye.
Trying to fit yourself into other people's mold will only make your life frustrating and miserable. It's always better to be free from that and let God mold you the way you should be! Allow him to work the miracles in your life so that you can become who you are, not someone that lived their life accordingly to the critics of others.
One more thing that I discovered today, certain dreams should be kept hidden and not yet revealed. Dreams should not be told to others unless you know or trust them. As in Joseph's story he told his dream to his brother and it caused them to become jealous; selling him away to the egyptians. He told them about how he was going to rule over them one day and they will bow down to him. His brothers were furious with this because he was also the favorited son by their dad.
Maybe they took it as a joke but it was cruel, and sold him away to slavery. He did however come back to fulfill his destiny and his dream. Forgiving his brothers and rescuing his family from famine.
Okay so moral of Joseph’s story, don’t tell your dreams to people so quick, they may be jealous of you, hate you or decide to do something bad to you. But somehow God worked it all out in Joseph’s favor. If his brother had not sold him away he would have not got to be Pharoah’s right hand man.
In all, Joseph was right with God all along and that made him who he was.
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July 4, 2012
I had Pandora playing yesterday night and this song came on...
No More Rhyme by Debbie Gibson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Y_68s43yI#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Y_68s43yI#ws)
I'm not the type of person who'd write poems or love songs. It irks me whenever I feel this way coz I was never like this. I wrote this in the poetic section. Thought I'd stick it here before I forget it. Love works in so many ways... I'd thought I share this poem about a voice that consumes me day in and day out. I can't grasp it, but it carries on my love.
Lub Suab Hu by jj
Yog tsis muaj koj lub suab hu kuv,
Mloog lawm tus hu los tsis muaj nuj nqig.
Yog tsis muaj koj los nrog kuv mus,
Kuv lub siab yuav nrhiav koj mus ibtxhis.
Ntshe tig ib hmo yuav uas npau suav txog,
Hnub uas kuv yuav tau koj los nyob nrog.
Es yuav sawv los tsis pom koj nyob ib sab,
Yuav mob kuv siab tsis muaj hnub kaj.
Thaum twg koj mas li los puag ,
Tsis txhob cia kuv nyob ib vuag.
Nco koj npaum li hniav hnub thov,
Kom tau hnov koj lub suab uas rau kuv sov.
Yog tsis muaj koj lub suab hu kuv,
Mloog lawm tus hu los tsis muaj nuj nqig.
Yog tau koj los nrog kuv mus,
Kuv lub siab yuav nyob kaj siab lug.
Yuav nyob kaj siab lug, mus tag ibtxhis,
Mus ntev dhau lub tebchaws nov, kom dim.
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July 6, 2012
Wait with Expectancy! When we wait upon God we should seek out his favor for us. Not just sit back and hope that good things will come or that he'll just give us what we ask for. We need to follow His direction for us in our lives and not be idle on who we are.
To receive God's blessings we must have genuine faith to see where His miracles will take us. With faith we are healed. With faith, sins are forgiven and sickness can be cured. The blind can see and the paralyze can walk.
No Other Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szja6sRob-I# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szja6sRob-I#)
No Other Name
Teach my eyes to recognize You
Teach my lips to glorify You
Guide my feet so I can find You
Wherever You are
Be my way, I'm lost without you
Be my light, shining through my every breath
My every move, till every thought is You
One day every knee will bow
To the
God of Glory, the Lord most Holy
Emmanuel
Giver of Life, Light of the world
And there's no other name
Worthy of praise but Yours
Teach my eyes to recognize You
Teach my lips to glorify You
Guide my feet so I can find You
Wherever You are
One day every knee will bow
And one day every tongue will confess
You're the
God of Glory, the Lord most Holy
Emmanuel
Giver of Life, Light of the world
There's no other name
Worthy of praise but Yours
Jesus, there's no other name but Yours
Jesus
You're the
God of Glory, the Lord most Holy
Emmanuel
God of Glory, the Lord most Holy
Emmanuel
Giver of Life, Light of the world
And there's no other name
Worthy of praise, oh there's no other name
Worthy of praise but Yours
There's no other name but Yours
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July 10, 2012
I really like Pizza!
(http://www.marycatherinestarr.com/uploads/6/8/0/6/680696/3875650.jpg?372)
shhh... I love pizza more... 8)
Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, and soul. I believe people shouldn't love God in vain. You're not serving yourself any good. You shouldn't also love other people in vain or pretend to love someone. He taught us to love everyone whole-heartedly like you would yourself but you shouldn't have to pretend. What's worse is to love someone, but truly hate them on the inside. You're nothing but a white-washed tomb. I wouldn't want someone to love me because they had to or because they're inclination of me was something that wasn't true.
You're not building a solid foundation on love and if u never loved someone to begin with that sand will wither away quickly because it was founded on a lie or by deceptive means. The truth has nothing to hide, but a lie will continue to waver and it seeks to defend something that isn't real. When you fully love someone you do not need to defend yourself because the truth is that the love you have covers all multitudes of wrongs.
Someone once asked me why my journal entries have a melancholy feel to them. They just are, I can't explain why. Seems like the more I write, the more my shadows come out of the woodwork.
And my shadows are filled with more mystery than the light that surrounds it. When I start searching inside I try to shed light on the sad things and make them happy. That's the only way to clear myself of negative thoughts and bitter resentments in my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edafYp_M-QE#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edafYp_M-QE#ws)
When you love someone their happiness should ultimately be your happiness! Even if they'd never loved you....
Through trial and tribulations. I will count every loss as joy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E#ws)
May His name be praised, and not mine.
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July 11, 2012
My sister told me that women are the best liars, and are more deceptive than men. I believe that! She told me some of the stories she did to guys just to ruin them and had no remorse of what she did to them. I don't think I'll ever give my heart away again to a woman. She'll have to meet me half-way this time and even when, she'll have to earn it. not gonna take that bull shi3t no more.
My brother was right, a woman doesn't deserve your love; because as a guy you're the one who'll always have to chase her. She'll never come chasing after you. We're just wired that way, he says. good thing i have him to console with in my life, but it's sad to know that his wife married him for all the wrong reasons as well. Not to say he wasn't a good guy, but like me people often mistaken us for being the bad guy? I don't know why? Do we look like bad guys? Just because we don't dress up in suit and tie everyday or am willing to become doctors, lawyers, and pastors? Nor do we attend every OG party and event. They don't like us...
aiya, no more.
Off to Tamra Island I go, I'm catching up on it.. yeup, kinda bored these past couple of days. At the end of part 12... I don't understand why, Park Yu doesn't say bye to Beo Jin when they leave back with the foreigner and the japanese guy. He just sits in his room and Beo Jin's like, this is it, i'm going...
Don't even want to say my good-bye's coz it feels like you'll never get to see them again or hear their voice. I don't like saying good-byes. If I leave without a trace, I mean to come back one day! When I say good-bye it means i'll be gone forever....
It's kind of funny how my mom used to threaten us kids when we were small. She would threaten to leave us behind and move somewhere far if we didn't do something she said or to make us stop crying. I remember it all too well because her words were brutal and it cut sharper than a knife into me. Everytime she said it, i'd stop crying as a kid to only feel that knife still stuck in my heart.
In a strange turn of events, i would be the one leaving her behind and moving out early after high school to never return home.... maybe she never wanted me there....
My place at home is nothing but a storage closet now with junk stored up in it. how will i return, when i don't even have a place to sleep on. i'm trying hard here mom, if i don't make it out here, i'm willing to die alone here before i come back with nothing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COqNknAowMo# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COqNknAowMo#)
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July 13, 2012
When you give your heart away. Hopefully a new one grows in its place because I'm going to be heartless for awhile.... :'(
What can you do when all the odds are stacked up against you? And you only have one chance to bet! You got to act at the right time and follow your heart, kind of hard when you given it away...
Faith without deeds is dead.. it really is. When you have faith you should act upon it before it goes away. I need that faith to do what is right, and to recognize what I can change. If it is not His will, I will not take what doesn't belong to me. And to get rid of all my selfish desires, and for Him to send me want truly is mine. To help me on my way in this world.
My prayer is to find that faith again, and to act upon it, to let it shine so that other people can see God's magnificent works.
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July 19, 2012
Endless Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_N8hB7CoPk#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_N8hB7CoPk#ws)
If my life was a book, I want to know that I was the author and that everyone else didn't write so much in it. In life we can't always be the author, it just doesn't happen like that. We have people that influence like our parents, siblings, friends, and leaders. But I have to remember that God was the one who created me and everyone in this world. Maybe I should hand that pen over to God and let Him write my story for me. Hoping that it will have a happy ending.
I found out that beauty does not last forever at a young age. I had a friend who was really pretty and we went to school together in elementary school. One day while at home she was helping her mom cook and she accidentally tipped a pot of something boiling over her arm, it got all over her left shoulder and barely skimmed her face. But you can still see where she was burned severely bad. She was the most beautiful girl at my school, to my eyes, and that had to happen to her.
I remember the look on her face when she came to school after her incident. I looked away and avoided her at first because it was hard to see her pain. I didn't know what to say. All the other kids were asking her what happened, and comforting her. After awhile I came back to her and told her that God would help her. I could see tears in her eyes; life was not going to be easy for her from then on.
A few years later we moved when I was in the fifth grade and never saw her again. But I learned a valuable thing from her. People will always judge you by how you look, but what they remember about you is what you've done.
When we truly find beauty in someone, that's what lasts forever. It's not the looks and materials things that make us who we are, those things fade away. The only thing that lasts is that true beauty we find in love. To love one another as God loves us, unconditionall y.
An excerpt from The Alchemist:
Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake contemplated his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.
When Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.
“Why do you weep?” the goddesses asked.
“I weep for Narcissus,” the lake replied.
“Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,” they said, “for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.”
“But…was Narcissus beautiful?” the lake asked.
“Who better than you to know that?” the goddesses said in wonder. “After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!”
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
“I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”
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Captain's Log, Stardate 21 July 2012.
What does it mean to be a Hero?
I've come to my senses that a Hero sometimes doesn't get the girl at the end. Hollywood makes us believe that the "good" guys get all the women and you always see the kiss at the end. Well time to wake up and smell the coffee.
A hero does what's right and hopes that what he did will be worth more for those he love. A hero as defined here by the dictionary:
A person, typically a man, who is admired for courage or noble qualities.
Hero's are not born they're made....
Have I been a man who is willing to sacrifice not being with a girl to do what's right. Even if it means that she will not be with me at the end. Yes, I've ran into situations where it wasn't just worth fighting for to keep someone when you actually will save them by letting them be with someone who can help further themselves.
Even if it costs you your own heart to know that someone won't be loving you in return, doing that righteous act will win not just the heart of man, but God's.
That's what I must do. I must be a man after God's own heart.
I've put aside all my selfish desires for myself, what I want to become and look at what God's heart is telling me to do. My body and flesh may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 25 July 2012.
Can't believe I'm filling in for two weekends in a row. I really don't have a life? Being nice ain't easy, I guess. My co-worker's getting married in two weeks here and going on a honeymoon. Guess what? I get to fill-in for her weekends. Boss comes over and tells me that she's going to be on leave for a few days because she's getting married. Asked me if I was willing to come in for her... aah...
these times I wish I was married, had a family to step in for, got something going on that's important?... nada.. nothing?
well, looks like I'll be coming in two weekends, that means working a possible 50-60 hour shift approx. 120 hours in two weeks. :(
this August and September, I have nothing but weddings to go to. weddings are becoming sad each time I attend. use to be happy attending because of the food and such, but these days I feel like it's the end of the world.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27 July 2012.
The two drops of oil
by Paulo Coelho
A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was looking for.
However, instead of finding a holy man, our hero entered a room and saw a great deal of activity; merchants coming and going, people chatting in the corners, a small orchestra playing sweet melodies, and there was a table laden with the most delectable dishes of that part of the world.
The wise man talked to everybody, and the young man had to wait for two hours until it was time for his audience.
With considerable patience, the Sage listened attentively to the reason for the boy’s visit, but told him that at that moment he did not have the time to explain to him the Secret of Happiness.
He suggested that the young man take a stroll around his palace and come back in two hours’ time.
“However, I want to ask you a favor,” he added, handling the boy a teaspoon, in which he poured two drops of oil. “While you walk, carry this spoon and don’t let the oil spill.”
The young man began to climb up and down the palace staircases, always keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. At the end of two hours he returned to the presence of the wise man.
“So,” asked the sage, “did you see the Persian tapestries hanging in my dining room? Did you see the garden that the Master of Gardeners took ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my library?”
Embarrassed, the young man confessed that he had seen nothing. His only concern was not to spill the drops of oil that the wise man had entrusted to him.
“So, go back and see the wonders of my world,” said the wise man. “You can’t trust a man if you don’t know his house.”
Now more at ease, the young man took the spoon and strolled again through the palace, this time paying attention to all the works of art that hung from the ceiling and walls. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around the palace, the delicacy of the flowers, the taste with which each work of art was placed in its niche. Returning to the sage, he reported in detail all that he had seen.
“But where are the two drops of oil that I entrusted to you?” asked the sage.
Looking down at the spoon, the young man realized that he had spilled the oil.
“Well, that is the only advice I have to give you,” said the sage of sages. “The Secret of Happiness lies in looking at all the wonders of the world and never forgetting the two drops of oil in the spoon.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia9HSfLRUGY#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia9HSfLRUGY#ws)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDUfrtTSN0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDUfrtTSN0#)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHw_kul3kLQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHw_kul3kLQ#)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ0dkExj0vk#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ0dkExj0vk#ws)
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Amaryllis
by Shinedown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGRicE_Lxg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGRicE_Lxg#)
In a while now I will feel better
I’ll face the weather before me
In a while now I’ll race the irony
And buy back each word of my eulogy
All the uninvited tragedies
Step outside
Ask yourself now
Where would you be without
Days like this
When you finally collide
With the moment you can’t forget
So do I remind you of
Someone you never met
A lonely silhouette
And do I remind you of
Somewhere you wanna be
So far out of reach
Ohhh I wish you’d open up for me
Cause I wanna know you
Amaryllis
Bloom
Stay a while now
Undress your colors
Cause they’re like no others
I’ve ever seen
I could get used to your company
Step inside
Ask yourself now
Where would you be without
Days like this
When you finally collide
With the motions you can’t resist
So do I remind you of
Someone you never met
A lonely silhouette
And do I remind you of
Somewhere you wanna be
So far out of reach
Ohhh I wish you’d open up for me
Cause I wanna know you
Amaryllis
In a while now
I will feel better
I will be better
So do I remind you of
Someone you never met
A lonely silhouette
And do I remind you of
Somewhere you wanna be
So far out of reach
Ohhh I wish you’d open up for me
Cause I wanna know you
Amaryllis
Bloom
Amaryllis
Bloom
Amaryllis
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Wb mam sib hlub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU0WlXrKuRo# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU0WlXrKuRo#)
Guy:
koj niam koj txiv, tsis pub koj los hlub kuv
Nkawd ua ciaj ua tuag, rub koj ntawm kuv lub xub ntiag
Txiv cem ntsoom koj, niam saib tsis pub ploj ib pliag
nkawd hais tias kuv, tsuas yog ib niag dev liam
Girl:
Kuv niam kuv txiv, tsis pub kuv los hlub koj
Nkawd txiav tu nrho, rub kuv ntawm koj me nplooj siab
Nkawd cem nkawd ntaus, tsis pub kuv tuaj cuag koj
los tsis txhob poob siab, vim koj yog kuv txoj sia
Guy:
Txawm yuav tau koj, los ntshe nkawd yuav tsis hlub
Nkawd yuav ntxub ntxub, qhov muag dub li nciab
Nkawd yuav tsis nyiam, tsis hu kuv ua nkawd vauv
Girl:
Tsis txhob tu siab, txawm luag yuav tsis hlub wb
Tshuav muaj koj los, nrog kuv nyob ua ib ke
Txhua tsav txhua yam, lub neej yeej yuav ruaj ntseg
Together:
Wb mam sib hlub, sib pab lawm yav tom ntej
Los nyob ua ke, sib hwm mus tag ib txhis
Ua wb lub neej, muaj koob mus nto lub ntsis
Kom muaj ib hnub, nkawd rov nco txog wb
(music plays…….)
2nd Round….
Guy:
Koj niam koj txiv, tsis pub kuv ua nkawd vauv
Nkawd thiaj li ua, txhua yam thaiv wb txoj kev hlub
Hais lus khib khib, chob nkaus hauv kuv me nplooj siab
Tsis xam hais tias, kuv no yog tib neeg thiab
Girl:
Tsis txhob tu siab, nplooj siab tus neeg kuv hlub
Txawm luag tsis pub, los kuv yeej yog koj tug
Yuav sau siab los, nrog koj nyob mus ib txhiv
Yuav tsis cia koj, nyob nrog lub kua muag si
Guy:
Txawm yuav tau koj, los ntshe nkawd yuav tsis hlub
Nkawd yuav ntxub ntxub, qhov muag dub li nciab
Nkawd yuav tsis nyiam, tsis hu kuv ua nkawd vauv
Girl:
Tsis txhob tu siab, txawm nkawd yuav tsis hlub wb
Tshuav muaj koj los, nrog kuv ua ib ke
Txhua tsav txhua yam, lub neej yeej yuav ruaj ntseg
Together:
Wb mam sib hlub, sib pab lawm yav tom ntej
Los nyob ua ke, sib hwm mus tag ib txhis
Ua wb lub neej, muaj koob mus nto lub ntsis
Kom muaj ib hnub, nkawd rov nco txog wb
Ending
Kom muaj ib hnub, nkawd rov nco txog wb
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Captain's log, stardate 30 July, 2012
I always wondered if gay couples get mad or jealous if their s/o likes someone who is of the opposite sex. I had a strange encounter with one of my past friends. Just noticed that she is now bisexual and having a relationship with a woman by her facebook comments, pics, and posts.
We were at a wedding and she noticed me from afar. Came up to me and asked to take a picture together all the awhile her "girl" friend was with her. I didn't know they were supposedly together in that way, but she was talking to me and we just said a few words. She told her girlfriend to take a picture of us. I was sensing some jealousy or hatred from her friend? She had that jealous look in her eye... lols
Well... what do u know? lesbians get jealous of guys who like their girlfriends... hahah
That's a first one for me.
Today, I helped a friend moved to his new apartment. We got talking about life, women, and just family issues. Afterwards I went to the flea markets to buy some hmong clothes and got myself some crazy steak with drunken style noodles! Yum..
While at the flea market I see this girl, I've seen her elsewhere before and she's always with a different guy each time I see her. White guy, hmong guy, and now a mexican/phillipino guy?
I'm thinking why would she go through guys like that? She's a really pretty gal, but I believe she's a single mom. Saw her little girl with her. I don't even think those guys are dating her for the long-term. ::)
My question is when a girl is divorced and/or has kids. Do they not care who they date anymore or just go for anyone who's willing to give them a chance? A pretty girl like her why does she keep on dating losers who can't even take care of her and her kid. She can find way better...
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August 5, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTXazXVne4#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTXazXVne4#ws)
Easy guitar tab for Cia Siab Rau Tagkis!
(http://i48.tinypic.com/3elhk.jpg)
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Lub Sijhawm
by kristine x.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQpPASX0lxw# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQpPASX0lxw#)
kuv xav pw ntawm koj ib sab
mloog koj lub plawv dhia txhua hmo
saib koj ntxiv siab heev
thaum koj pw luag ntxwb ntxhis no
kuv xav tuav lub sijhawm no mus
kuv yuav nyob ntawm koj ib sab mus
kuv xav los sawv ntawm koj ib sab
tuav koj txhais tes txhua sij hawm
saib koj zoo tshaj
txhua leej txhua tus txhua yam tsam
kuv xav tuav lub sijhawm no mus
kuv yuav nrog koj taug ib txoj ke
kuv tsis xav qe kuv lub qhov muag
tsis xav tsaug zog vim tsis xav
plam koj ib pliag nrog lub sijhawm
txawm kuv npau suav txog koj txhua hmo
los tsis cuag li kuv nrog koj
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Yog tsis muaj tagkis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKeRdu_U50# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKeRdu_U50#)
Tus Sau: Txiaj Yeeb & N. Txiaj Yeeb Xyooj
Muab Suab: Kristine ft. Marko
(Male)
Yog tias tsis muaj tagkis lawm
Koj puas paub tseeb tias kuv hlub koj npaum li cas tiag
Kuv puas tau qhia txaus rau koj tias kuv hlub koj tshaj
Koj yog kuv nploojsiab
Thiab yog tus uas Vajtswv npaj tshwj xeej rau kuv
Koj yog txhua yam hauv kuv lub neej
Kuv hlub koj mus tag kuv lub neej thiab kuv txojsia
Yog tias tsis muaj tagkis lawm
Koj puas yuav ceev tau kuv txoj kev hlub tseg cia
(Female)
Yog tias tsis muaj tagkis lawm
Koj puas paub tseeb tias kuv hlub koj npaum li cas tiag
Kuv puas tau ua txhua yam thiab qhia koj txhua hnub haiv tias
Koj yog kuv txojsia
Koj yog lub hnub tshav rau kuv txhua sijhawm
Koj yog txhua tsav yam uas kuv ntshaw
Kuv hlub koj tag kuv lub siab lub ntsws mus ib txhis
Yog tias tsis muaj tagkis lawm
Koj puas yuav nco tau kuv tus ntxhiab mus ib sim
(Chorus both M/F)
Yog tias tsis muaj tagkis lawm
Hauv kuv lub siab tsis xav kom tshuav dabtsi
Vim Vajtswv pub sijhawm rau wb los ua neej xwb
Kuv xav ua txhua yam txhawm rau koj ib leeg mus li
Kuv yuav hlub koj kom tag kuv lub siab hnub no
Yuav tsis zais ib yam ntawm koj mus li.
(Female) w/Male harmony
Yog tias tsis muaj tagkis lawm
Koj puas paub tseeb tias kuv hlub koj npaum li cas tiag
Kuv puas tau ua txhua yam thiab qhia koj txhua hnub haiv tias
Koj yog kuv txojsia
Koj yog lub hnub tshav rau kuv txhua sijhawm
(Male) w/Female harmony
Koj yog txhua tsav yam uas kuv ntshaw
Kuv hlub koj tag kuv lub siab lub ntsws mus ib txhis
Yog tias tsis muaj tagkis lawm
Koj puas yuav nco tau kuv tus ntxhiab mus ib sim
(Chorus both M/F)
Yog tias tsis muaj tagkis lawm
Hauv kuv lub siab tsis xav kom tshuav dabtsi
Vim Vajtswv pub sijhawm rau wb los ua neej xwb
Kuv xav ua txhua yam txhawm rau koj ib leeg mus li
Kuv yuav hlub koj kom tag kuv lub siab hnub no
Yuav tsis zais ib yam ntawm koj mus li.
(music)
(Outro)
Yog tagkis sawvntxov tsis muaj kuv lawm tiag
Cia kuv txoj kev hlub nyob rau koj lub siab
(Female)
Yog tias tsis muaj tagkis lawm
Hauv kuv lub siab tsis xav kom tshuav dabtsi
Vim Vajtswv pub sijhawm rau wb los ua neej xwb
(both M/F)
Kuv xav ua txhua yam txhawm rau koj ib leeg mus li
Kuv yuav hlub koj kom tag kuv lub siab hnub no
Yuav tsis zais ib yam ntawm koj mus li. (2x)
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I am in so in love with Kristine Xiong's music right now :)
I love the emotion in her voice, it makes the song so real and personable.
Thanks for posting lyrics :)
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Captain's Log, Stardate 11 August 2012.
Today I had lunch with a good buddy of mine. He's going back to school and starting up in the fall here. We ate Pho on Nicollet. He told me about why he wanted to go back to school to get his masters in Public Policy. It was a strange conversation, almost all my friends I know have tried getting into that field. And two of my female friends actually got something worhwhile as in a job. The others came out with a debt load.
I don't remember much talking besides listening to him talk. He was looking for an apartment.
Pho was great, and I came home with a stomach ache. Oh yea, on the way there I almost hit a bicyclist.
I've been working this late shift. Can't sleep till sunrise and when I do wake up it's time for lunch. :(
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Captain's Log, Stardate 13 August 2012.
Esther, another Cinderella story of a young orphan brought up by Mordecai (her Uncle) to be taken in by the King early on as his new Queen. Later on only to save her people by thwarting Haman's plot to kill all of Mordecai's people because Mordecai didn't bow down to him.
What can we learn from that? Seize the moment! Esther seized her moment by telling the King about Haman's plan at a royal banquet and saved her Uncle's life and people. Esther was made Queen to have that opportunity to save her people.
But what we fail to see is that normal people like us who don't have that position of authority or place in this world, don't see the "Mordecai's" in this world. Mordecai seized all his moments by taking Esther in as an orphan. Taking care of her and telling her to stop Haman's plan before he kills all of them.
Mordecai is an example that we all can learn from. We don't need to be in some spotlight, or have any authority of sort to begin serving our God. People always believe and think they need to be someone in order to influence other people, however, we don't have to be popular, rich, hold positions, or gain notoriety/experience before we are able to work miracles.
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(http://amolife.com/images/stories/Reviews/la-belle.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foDgTn2CS-o# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foDgTn2CS-o#)
http://www.whatmakeslovetrue.com/love-stories/ (http://www.whatmakeslovetrue.com/love-stories/)
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August 15, 2012
Work was such a drag today. Felt like it went on forever! But anyhow, I got a good compliment from a co-worker. He told me I'm the most kind-hearted person he's ever met.
Well what does that mean? These past two days, I've been getting socially-assaulted by this person (a lady), I won't say a name, but it's just the usual person. It's just the way she talks, and the way she does things. It's not the best way of going about it. She would yell at the dumbest things, and if you didn't do something right; she'd come over and heckle you like there's no tomorrow. Sometimes I just want to tell it to her face, but old lady's aaah.... just got to deal with it. She's cute in a way, but very disturbing because of her short-temper.
Anyways I've been dealing with this for quite awhile now, basically the first day I've been working there...lols
But my co-worker was asking me, how do you deal with it? I don't know, I've gotten used to it. All that social aggravation is not welcome at all and doesn't make life any easier because we're a time-sensitive work-place. Afterwards he says, "You are such a patient person and you've got the kindest heart ever"... coming from someone I'll never expect it to come from...
I can just say that this an example of a catfish in my tank full of codfish... God puts those catfishes in our lives, sometimes to help us grow? To make life worse =/ ? I hope not, but we face trials of many kind a day. We just have to fight it, and learn to grow.
Why is it that when you love someone it's so hard to express it? Is it because you fear that he/she may not return that love? Sometimes you just put your heart out there and hope someone would hold onto it forever... That's really all you can do.
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August 18, 2012
I've had the wooping cough for quite sometime now. I could swear that it's the cause of my night tremors, waking up in the middle of the night. Explains my massive weight loss as well... I've lost a total of 45 lbs in 6 months. Didn't help that I took my wisdom teeth around March too. They were hurting like a mutha!
People been asking me the secret and it's not a secret. I haven't ate much in the last 6 months.
The coughs have subsided but they come and go for a strange reason. My sister came to visit last month and told me to visit the doc, but I've been tough about it and not gone.
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August 19, 2012
(http://nature.ca/notebooks/images/img/127_p_ermine_4890_p.jpg)
A Lesson from the Ermine
For centuries the garments of European rulers and judges have been lined with the white fur of an Ermine. The story behind that custom is one of the most unusual practices of the animal kingdom.
Since you probably haven't met an Ermine, let me introduce you to this pint-sized creature. An Ermine is a cute little animal with shining black eyes and beautiful fur. It has short legs and a long narrow body that's some twenty inches long from the tip of his nose to the end of its tail. The agile animal is found in the northern region of the northern hemisphere. In summer, its coat is a rich chocolate brown except for the undersides of the body and legs. In winter, the color changes to a clear white, broken only by a black tip on the tail.
If you looked up a picture of the Ermine on the Internet or at the library, you would be shocked by the purity of its white fur--I know I was. It's whiter than an egg shell or a lily and only freshly fallen snow can boast of such whiteness The Ermine seems to realize the beauty of its coat and takes great pride in maintaining it. Indeed, the animal's most unusual characteristic is it's hatred of anything that might soil its fur. Hunters who know this will fill the burrow of an Ermine with filth and wait with their dogs for the furry animal to return.
Once the Ermine spots the dogs the snow-white creature will dart for the safety of its burrow. But the Ermine will not enter the soiled safety of its home. Rather than flee into the burrow, the Ermine will fight the dogs to the death. It would rather die with a blood stained coat than live with a dirty one.
That's why the Ermine's fur is used on the robes of rulers and judges. This sentiment of purity is figuratively transferred to the fur as a symbol of the purity of justice and law.
Don't you find it amazing that God programmed an Ermine to prefer a fight to death over a soiled coat? Think about it for a moment, his instinct for purity outweighs his survival instinct. That animal possesses something every Mighty Man needs. We need to realize personal holiness is a value worth fighting for. That's no doubt why Apostle Peter wrote these words in 1 Peter 1:15-16, "But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.'"
We must never forget that we're involved in a spiritual battle. Since that's the case we must daily guard our minds from anything that would compromise our purity. Take a few moments and do a quick review of your life. How pure are your thoughts, words and deeds? If something has soiled your fur, get rid of it and fight to keep it clean.
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August 20, 2012
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpSVITLjmd1waBoK_0LfRHrXvJpHTDRRLGlNEvEp58b72sEQBG&t=1)
I finally saw that movie Silenced. It's a Korean movie about a young teacher who goes to Mujin and discovers the horrifying things that were being done to the kids there. Mujin's Ja-ae Academy for the mute and deaf, the children were innocent victims taken advantage of by their head principals, chief, and teachers. Very disturbing movie, but opened up a voice that need to be heard of. The children could not defend themselves...
Sometimes in our lives we are put in situations to help others who are less fortunate and can not speak or defend for their own life. Are we capable of helping them? As a human being are we here to serve each other? How can we humble ourselves to bring justice to those that need it most. Do we just ignore all injustices in this world because there are too many?
I'd like to differ; to help make a difference, to defend the mute and deaf who can not defend themselves. Open up their ears and eyes so they may see that such acts of evil can be stopped by a few good men.
Here's a quote from this movie, when the teacher was talking with Yeon-du, explaining to her about life and what beauty is. This is the quote he gave her.
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” ― Helen Keller
And here are two that I could think of at this moment:
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute." — Proverbs 31:8
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ― Helen Keller
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August 22, 2012
Brother's in Arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs#)
Pick your own battles. I wonder if the battles I pick are worth fighting for sometimes. I just wish they all go away, but you have to learn to not fight every battle because you can't win them all. It's pointless in fighting a losing a battle.
The only battle that I need to win is the battle within. The one that matters the most, the one that is inside of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_1YliutzA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_1YliutzA#)
Am I still seeking you. May I remember that it is not my battle, and you have already won my battles for me. ~ Because your living waters flow within me. I'll pray as long as I breathe.
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Jj
Hope you feel better. I am too recovering from a nasty cough. It's the worst.
I'vw seen that movie. It broke my heart and left an everlasting impression. Good news is that they won the appeal.
We've had an outcry of wooping cough cases up here. And I think that's what I had...
That movie brings back some memories about my childhood friends who were abused. I wished I were able to help them but couldn't do more than a hug. I lost track of them now, but their story remains with me.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWGoGYFoUlw# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWGoGYFoUlw#)
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How did i fall in love with u
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igGae-6baqM# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igGae-6baqM#)
Don't wanna lose you now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2jegZOCOw8# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2jegZOCOw8#)
Tsis muaj koj lawm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1wjbn3VSLA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1wjbn3VSLA#)
Cas Hnub No Koj Ho Rov Los?
Koj Tsis Nco Txog Wb Yav Tag Lawm Los?
Koj Twb Mus Koj Twb Tsis Hais Ib Los
Koj Ua Kuv Lub Siab No Quaj Nco Koj
Chorus
Koj Ncaim Kuv, Mus Vim Koj Ntxub Kuv
Koj Ua Kuv Nco, Txog Koj Txhua Hmo
Ua Cas Hnub No, Koj Ho Rov Los?
Nyob Hauv Kuv Siab Tsis Muaj Koj Lawm
Tsis Muaj Koj Lawm
Kuv Twb Ua Txhua Yam Rau Koj Tag
Kuv Twb Hloov Tus Kheej Tsis Ua Nheeg Phem
Los Koj Yeej Tsis Pom Qov Kuv Ua Zoo
Koj Thiaj Mus Koj Thiaj Tsis Nco Txog Kuv
Chorus
Koj Ncaim Kuv, Mus Vim Koj Txwb Kuv
Koj Ua Kuv Nco, Txog Koj Txhua Hmo
Ua Cas Hnub No, Koj Ho Rov Los?
Nyob Hauv Kuv Siab Tsis Muaj Koj Lawm
Tsis Muaj Koj Lawm
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What are you trying yo say
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September 5, 2012
What a memorable weekend! Lots of things happened and many good things, but what caught me off guard was that I never knew how much people hated being in nature. While walking through the Redwoods I saw two different types of couples.
One, those that were happily married or together and enjoying nature in its most natural beauty. Two, those that are completely opposites in nature. By that I mean, I saw two couples in the same day yelling at each other, calling each other names because the other didn't want to be there. Who wouldn't want to see these giant works of art that God created? Some people are clueless and have no admiration for nature. However, I didn't let that get to me.
I was still able to see the redwoods and experienced true unfiltered beauty in its natural state. The calming streams, deciduous ferns, and redwoods came alive that day. They spoke to me and told me that I would be ok.
Not even a leaf is left unaccounted for.
(http://www.tenfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Muir-Woods-National-Monument.jpg)
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September 6, 2012
On my flight out Friday morning, I saw this Hmong girl and two sets of parents. Saw them right before getting into the security check point. The girl was telling her parents to hurry up and go before their plane leaves, while the other couple was standing there. I was getting in line and right after I got in line a few people show up, then her dad decides to line behind them.
Her mom didn't want to leave her yet and held her daughter's face, which seemed like the last time they were going to see each other. Tears were streaming down her face and I tried to stop staring but I couldn't.
Then her mom spoke in Hmong, "Me naib dabtsi uas zoo nawb..." and that's how I knew they were Hmong.
The line started to move and her mom hopped in line.
Just as we were about to enter into the metal detectors, a miracle happen; somehow the other five people behind me went to another opening and her parents got put right behind me.
I asked them if they were Hmong and her mom said, "Yes."
Then I asked if that was their daughter and if she was getting married because they were crying like she was going to be gone for awhile. Her mom said, "No, she's just going to school here and they will not see her for a long time."
I asked what their names were and all she said was this, ".... Pov Mai Chang...."
I can't remember if that was her name, or her mom's name? Or the name of their dad...that's all I have to go with. :-\
She did say that they were heading back to Seattle, WA. After that I put on my shoes, belt, and got my things ready to go. We just went on our separate ways to our terminals and that was it!
I wonder if I'll find her again one day. Or see her somewhere? Aww man.
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Lub Sijhawm
this is the full version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyPBBwjAStQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyPBBwjAStQ#)
and if u want to download the song:
http://www.suabhlubmusic.com/songs/Lub%20sijhawm/NDI= (http://www.suabhlubmusic.com/songs/Lub%20sijhawm/NDI=)
please buy the album!
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September 5, 2012
What a memorable weekend! Lots of things happened and many good things, but what caught me off guard was that I never knew how much people hated being in nature. While walking through the Redwoods I saw two different types of couples.
One, those that were happily married or together and enjoying nature in its most natural beauty. Two, those that are completely opposites in nature. By that I mean, I saw two couples in the same day yelling at each other, calling each other names because the other didn't want to be there. Who wouldn't want to see these giant works of art that God created? Some people are clueless and have no admiration for nature. However, I didn't let that get to me.
I was still able to see the redwoods and experienced true unfiltered beauty in its natural state. The calming streams, deciduous ferns, and redwoods came alive that day. They spoke to me and told me that I would be ok.
Not even a leaf is left unaccounted for.
(http://www.tenfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Muir-Woods-National-Monument.jpg)
Looks beautiful. I am going to make it out there one day. :)
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Looks beautiful. I am going to make it out there one day. :)
You should go see it! Wait until this year is over though....
Just in case Cali does go into the ocean in Dec. 2012. Go see it at least once!
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September 16, 2012
Today I came to wait for u but you were not there. I waited... and u didn't show up. Maybe one of these days, you'll be there when I least expect it. When I'm not looking, when I'm not searching no more, when my heart doesn't feel no more, when the tears don't come no more, and the memories of waiting for u no longer come. Then maybe I'll find what's already left...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDV0PMvhrB8#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDV0PMvhrB8#ws)
Fading of the day
as night takes over
and I can almost feel
you here
Your memory remains
I breath it closer
I swear that I still feel you near
The cool wind is taking over
it's taking over
So far away
you're gone so long
ohh and I'm waiting
Till that day
I take you home
know that I'm waiting
know that I'm waiting
know that I'm waiting
Haunted by your grace
you know I'm falling
so cool without you
always in my mind
I hear you calling
Haunted by your grace
you know I'm falling
so cool without you
always in my mind
I hear you calling
(I hear you calling)
So far away
you're gone so long
ohh and I'm waiting
So far away
you're gone so long
ohh and I'm waiting
Till that day
I take you home
know that I'm waiting
know that I'm waiting
Haunted by your grace
the beautiful of falling, falling
the echos through my days
I still hear your calling
you calling me
The cool wind is taking over
it's taking over
Still your
So far away
you're gone so long
ohh and I'm waiting
Till that day
I take you home
know that I'm waiting
Haunted by your grace
you know I'm falling
so cool without you
always in my mind
I hear you calling
(I hear you calling)
So far away
you're gone so long
ohh and I'm waiting
So far away
you're gone so long
ohh and I'm waiting
Till that day
I take you home
know that I'm waiting
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September 18, 2012
:P :o
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September 23, 2012
Wait there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHOf7lqLljU#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHOf7lqLljU#ws)
Love hurts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9D-l2m7Ow# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9D-l2m7Ow#)
We are made in the image of God in all his creation, only you and I.
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September 24, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8sjkMBf4p0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8sjkMBf4p0#)
Did I miss my mission? Have I failed. Someone once told me, I'll have to stop putting God in my schedule and put myself in God's schedule.
I'm suppose to do what is good and if I don't do it, I've already sinned. Since because I know what I should do, but I do not. Is this just more circular reasoning? It's causing my head to go in circles.
If I love someone and I don't protect or help her. Is it wrong for me to not do anything and live with that feeling because I know what is good but I don't do it? Even when all the motives are for the right cause. But even by doing that which is right will cause someone else to be hurt? Where does one draw the line?
A Lot of Wrong.
Lot, missed his total mission. How could two whole cities be destroyed and God could not have found anyone else worthy of saving in Sodom and Gomorrah. The people were so wicked God destroyed them all. Lot's own family even became insensitive to their acts. At the end of Lots life, his two daughters plotted to sleep with him to have children even though they knew it was wrong because of incest.
Is the pain so strong that you've become insensitive to do the realities of life?
Only the person who carries the cross will ever know the burden you go through. Only when you begin to carry that cross will you know what sacrifices he has made in remission.
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Many say we must listen to our hearts, but we too must not succumb to it either. However, exactly how long can a person be able to deny what they feel, especially when that feeling is beyond that of which they can control.
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Many say we must listen to our hearts, but we too must not succumb to it either. However, exactly how long can a person be able to deny what they feel, especially when that feeling is beyond that of which they can control.
I'm going to succumb to my heart because that's where all life happens. Once that stops beating you know longer need to breathe, you no longer need to think, and you no longer need to feed yourself.
It's not that we must deny our hearts, but we have to find where it wants us to go. And that's why I need to succumb to it. For whatever reasons, my thinking makes no sense because my heart doesn't want to follow. I need to follow my heart more because it's where all truth comes from.
A mouth speaks, a brain thinks for us, but a heart tells the truth about us.
Here's a "Poem" for u:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDNphi91X0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDNphi91X0#)
from Yiruma.
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Thank you for the beautiful poem,it's very soothing to the mind,heart and soul.
Good luck on your journey and that you achieve great happiness once you've reached your final destination.
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September 30, 2012
Wherever you will go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOIfs_g0oRU# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOIfs_g0oRU#)
This video takes me back to a time in highschool. I actually knew a girl named Lana. She had dark black hair and was the most cutest girl in highschool at that time. She sat right next to me in English class in the 11th grade. I remember she had borrowed a pen or pencil from me a few times because we always had to write for the first 10 minutes in class. Dr. Hutchinson was our teacher.
I remember her mom coming to pick her out of school one day for something but I can't frankly tell why she did? And that would be one of the last times I saw her in high school.
Until that day. Yes. Somehow, fate or God or some divine power wanted us to see each other.
We would meet again at the Technical college i went to. I actually saw her first and said hi, we exchanged numbers but i didn't call her back. That day we had an event going on for the students and faculty and she had a baby in her hand. She told me she worked in administration at a local clinic/hospital in Neenah.
I figured she was married or had someone already? Then it happened once more, we met in speech class and I found out she actually switched high schools that junior year. She knew one of my classmates because he was the star quarterback back at North during her senior year. The three of us sat with each other that summer.
Ahh.. all those times. That's where she went that junior year. If I had the chance to go back and ask someone to prom it would have been her, Lana.
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Can you read my mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxyUhdnjuQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxyUhdnjuQ#)
Even superman with all his powers can not even save the one he loves.
If only you could read my mind. ;)
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:'( :'(
The song and video reminds of someone I once knew once upon a time. Tears still flow everytime I think about that person. :'(
Yes, even superhero(s) can't always save those they love especially when it's inevitable.
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:'( :'(
The song and video reminds of someone I once knew once upon a time. Tears still flow everytime I think about that person. :'(
Yes, even superhero(s) can't always save those they love especially when it's inevitable.
harmony,
that person gave u something that he or she will never get back. time shared can never be taken back from someone. the best thing about living is that you still have time to share with the ones you love.
don't waste it away. you'll never be alone....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZfJYOQ8O8#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZfJYOQ8O8#ws)
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October 17, 2012
Our God is Greater
by Shane & Shane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx21p1cqytI#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx21p1cqytI#ws)
I always thought this song reminded me of Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.
I think I'm going to run that combo through with the chorus somehow. Should be a nice hook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQVrCflZ_E# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQVrCflZ_E#)
Before the Throne
by Shane & Shane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI3nRzjA32s# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI3nRzjA32s#)
I love the part in this song that goes.. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.. reminds me of Elvis's remake of Glory Glory Hallelujah! But in this tribute to him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGjI3YOOtM# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGjI3YOOtM#)
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October 18, 2012
The other day I was talking with my cousin. He's a fews younger than I am, but he was trying to introduce some girl to me. He told me that I'm the kind of guy that a girl would fall in love with over time and that's better than falling in love with at first sight? What does that mean? Not to say that I'm bad looking...lols .
I asked him who he was trying to hook me up with. She's somewhere living in Milwaukee but doesn't come out much. I kind of brushed it off because I haven't met her yet and she seems like the really conceited type of girl. But he told me she was really attractive and that we would make a good fit.
When a guy is trying to introduce a really attractive girl to you, whewww.... at times like these it's good to have people like that in your life. I don't know if she'll ever even get to know me because from what he told me, my first thought was she's really conceited, and closed behind doors. =S
If she ever comes through I'll meet up with her and see how things go, but all I have is his word. He's my only connection to her. Otherwise, it is almost a lost cause. :(
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October 25, 2012
Romans 8:26 - In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
Something from this past weekend I remembered.
Three little trees
Once upon a mountain top, three little trees stood and dreamed of what they wanted to become when they grew up.
The first little tree looked up at the stars and said, "I want to hold treasure. I want to be covered with gold and filled with precious stones. I'll be the most beautiful treasure chest in the world!"
The second little tree looked out at the small stream trickling by on it's way to the ocean. "I want to be traveling mighty waters and carrying powerful kings. I'll be the strongest ship in the world!"
The third little tree looked down into the valley below where busy men and women worked in a busy town. "I don't want to leave the mountain top at all. I want to grow so tall that when people stop to look at me, they'll raise their eyes to heaven and think of God. I will be the tallest tree in the world!"
Years passed. The rain came, the sun shone and the little trees grew tall. One day three woodcutters climbed the mountain.
The first woodcutter looked at the first tree and said, "This tree is beautiful. It is perfect for me." With a swoop of his shining ax, the first tree fell. "Now I shall be made into a beautiful chest, I shall hold wonderful treasure!" The first tree said.
The second woodcutter looked at the second tree and said, "This tree is strong. It is perfect for me." With a swoop of his shining ax, the second tree fell. "Now I shall sail mighty waters!" thought the second tree. "I shall be a strong ship for mighty kings!"
The third tree felt her heart sink when the last woodcutter looked her way. She stood straight and tall and pointed bravely to heaven. But the woodcutter never even looked up. "Any kind of tree will do for me." He muttered. With a swoop of his shining ax, the third tree fell.
The first tree rejoiced when the woodcutter brought her to a carpenter's shop. But the carpenter fashioned the tree into a feedbox for animals. The once beautiful tree was not covered with gold nor with treasure. She was coated with saw dust and filled with hay for hungry farm animals.
The second tree smiled when the woodcutter took her to a shipyard, but no mighty sailing ship was made that day. Instead the once strong tree was hammered and sawed into a simple fishing boat. She was too small and too weak to sail to an ocean, or even a river; instead she was taken to a little lake.
The third tree was confused when the woodcutter cut her into strong beams and left her in a lumberyard. "What happened?" The once tall tree wondered. "All I ever wanted was to stay on the mountain top and point to God."
Many, many days and nights passed. The three trees nearly forgot their dreams. But one night, golden starlight poured over the first tree as a young woman placed her newborn baby in the feedbox.
"I wish I could make a cradle for him." her husband whispered. The mother squeezed his hand and smiled as the starlight shone on the smooth and sturdy wood. "This manger is beautiful." she said.
And suddenly the first tree knew he was holding the greatest treasure in the world.
One evening a tired traveler and his friends crowded into the old fishing boat. The traveler fell asleep as the second tree quietly sailed out into the lake. Soon a thundering and thrashing storm arose.
The little tree shuddered. She knew she did not have the strength to carry so many passengers safely through with the wind and the rain. The tired man awakened. He stood up, stretched out his hand and said, "Peace." The storm stopped as quickly as it had begun. And suddenly, the second tree knew he was carrying the King of heaven and earth.
One Friday morning, the third tree was startled when her beams were yanked from the forgotten woodpile. She flinched as she was carried through an angry jeering crowd. She shuddered when soldiers nailed a man's hand to her. She felt ugly and harsh and cruel. But on Sunday morning, when the sun rose and the earth trembled with joy beneath her, the third tree knew that God's love had changed everything. It had made the third tree strong. And, every time people thought of the third tree, they would think of God. That was better than being the tallest tree in the world.
So next time you feel down because you didn't get what you wanted, just sit tight and be happy because God is thinking of something better to give you.
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Nov. 9, 2012
I'm glad that I still have hands...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbhW_K3NvmQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbhW_K3NvmQ#)
Article I found about invisible barriers.
You can, and you must unleash the power of your mind if you want to achieve the success you are striving for. You can become whatever you want. You can become an overwhelming success, or a miserable failure, it just depends on what you decide to believe.
It's important to remember that whatever your mind focuses on is what you will get. I have had patients that thought that they were going to get the flu as soon as it was "flu season." And guess what? Shazam! Just as they had "predicted", they came down with a raging case of the flu. I have had people that would blame their congestion and sinus issues on the allergens that were floating around in the air. (Even though many others were breathing the same air, with the same allergens floating around with nary a sign or symptom.) So this power of belief is mighty, to fix us, heal us and focus us.
One of my mentors related this interesting account of an intriguing experiment. In a Southern California aquarium there was a study conducted on the intelligence of sea animals. The scientists placed a barracuda and Spanish mackerel in the same tank. Now for those of you that aren't fans of seafood, the barracuda is a natural predator to the mackerel. Unbeknownst to the two fish, there was a transparent barrier placed in the tank. So when the barracuda saw the mackerel and attacked, the barracuda bonked his nose on the transparency which stopped it from eating the mackerel. After repeated attempts at attack, and being thwarted at each attempt, the barracuda stopped trying. It had been conditioned to believe that there was something preventing it from succeeding, and not being able to reach its goal. Later, the scientists removed the barrier from the tank, and even though there was no barrier, the barracuda BELIEVED that the barrier still existed, and never again attempted to attack the mackerel. This limiting belief was a great detriment to the barracuda, because he allowed himself to believe that he couldn't attain a tasty morsel for lunch. When this story was related to me, the two fish had lived in the same tank, barrier free, for two years.
So what are the barriers that you have right in front of you? Are they real, or are you conditioned to think they are such? Remember, it is all in your mind. You can overcome any obstacle, real or imagined if you simply, and powerfully put your mind to it.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/781776 (http://EzineArticles.com/781776)
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Do You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxgicSXUs7Y# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxgicSXUs7Y#)
As You Wish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRgR_mqI-wY#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRgR_mqI-wY#ws)
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December 9, 2012
Snowy day. =(
Take me to your heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKn3GGCbh_0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKn3GGCbh_0#)
Hiding from the rain and snow
Trying to forget but I won't let go
Looking at a crowded street
Listening to my own heart beat
So many people all around the world
Tell me where do I find someone like you girl
[Chorus]
Take me to your heart take me to your soul
Give me your hand before I'm old
Show me what love is - haven't got a clue
Show me that wonders can be true
They say nothing lasts forever
We're only here today
Love is now or never
Bring me far away
Take me to your heart take me to your soul
Give me your hand and hold me
Show me what love is - be my guiding star
It's easy take me to your heart
Standing on a mountain high
Looking at the moon through a clear blue sky
I should go and see some friends
But they don't really comprehend
Don't need too much talking without saying anything
All I need is someone who makes me want to sing
[Chorus]
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별빛달빛 starlight moonlight by secret
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTVfJ1j7o-A#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTVfJ1j7o-A#ws)
This song was stuck in my head for the longest time! ack...
Finally found it. Someone posted a video of Baby Yerin below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ujctX-Xxzk#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ujctX-Xxzk#ws)
which lead to this other video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdx-xL_Eh7E# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdx-xL_Eh7E#)
and so forth... :P
ok. I'm glad that's all figured out now!
shoo bi do bap bap ba....
hopefully it will stick in your head now too..haha
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Stardate Captain's Log 12/24/12
Christmas just isn't Christmas anymore? As a kid, you'd think that Santa was real, Elves are real, and the Snowman can come to life at night! These days, I really want to believe. I just want to...
But I must keep the real thing that matters most. The one thing that my heart is hanging onto. Maybe just maybe, a man came down from Heaven and saved us all from death. And the true meaning of Christmas is a perfect being. Jesus Christ.
Noh, I just didn't swear. That's what u think, when I said His name. However, what crime did I do? Am I not perfect enough? Must I pay for my ignorance? Must I live to make mistakes? Is that what life is all about? Questions. Blood was paid for. And now I have a new beginning.
Merry Christmas.
9 Crimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x27DPaR3axA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x27DPaR3axA#)
Leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place to be thinking of you
It's the wrong time for somebody new
It's a small crime and I got no excuse
And is that all right, yeah?
I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that all right, yeah?
If you don't shoot it how am I supposed to hold it?
Is that all right, yeah?
I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that all right, yeah, with you?
Leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place to be cheating on you
It's the wrong time she's pulling me through
It's a small crime and I got no excuse
And is that all right, yeah?
If I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that all right, yeah?
If you don't shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it?
Is that all right, yeah?
I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that all right?
Is that all right with you?
Is that all right, yeah?
If I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that all right, yeah?
If you don't shoot it, how am I supposed to hold it?
Is that all right, yeah?
I give my gun away when it's loaded
Is that all right?
Is that all right with you?
And is that all right, yeah?
Is that all right?
Is that all right?
Is that all right with you?
No?
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1/6/13
Angels? Are they real. If they are I'll need one with me this year. I'm torn between some life altering decisions... Please send your angels to protect me this year God. Direct my paths to your likeness. This is my prayer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlkRFyIHE-I# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlkRFyIHE-I#)
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We all face altering situations in life either from bad decisions we made or from things which we really have no control of and the only thing we can really do is hold on to hope and try to have faith that things will turn around in our favor. Although, things don’t always turn out as we hope, life does not end until we stop breathing. I always say to myself, what does not kill me will only make me stronger, so I continue to wake to live life trying to make the best of what I have or what is left anyways… so, cheer up and don’t feel too bad, as you’re not alone..
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We all face altering situations in life either from bad decisions we made or from things which we really have no control of and the only thing we can really do is hold on to hope and try to have faith that things will turn around in our favor. Although, things don’t always turn out as we hope, life does not end until we stop breathing. I always say to myself, what does not kill me will only make me stronger, so I continue to wake to live life trying to make the best of what I have or what is left anyways… so, cheer up and don’t feel too bad, as you’re not alone..
You're right. Without faith it is impossible to please God.
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2/2/13
Long Spoons in Heaven and Hell
A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like."
The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water.
The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering.
The Lord said, "You have seen Hell".
They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. The holy man said, "I don't understand." "It is simple," said the Lord, "it requires but one skill.
You see, they have learned to feed each other, while the greedy think only of themselves." When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you!
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2/5/13
The Gaze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pxxDb10QI#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pxxDb10QI#ws)
What a strange song. Heard it today from out of no where on my remixes. Must be a newer song just came out but not as popular yet.
My Destiny where are you?
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2/6/13
My sister and aunt asked me the saddest questions of all time, awhile ago. Who packs your lunch for you? And who cooks for you? I just didn't know how to answer them. I've always ate out or packed my own lunch...
Looks like the girl from Laos my mom wanted me to get married to has already been taken by another Hmoob Mekas. Well, it didn't help that I told her that I wasn't coming to see her anymore since I want to marry a Hmoob Mekas girl. And then my aunt's house caught on fire this past month, so I had no one to go with anymore. Just great... now I'm stuck back at the beginning again.
I don't care for love anymore these days. Love is not everything in life to me anymore. I think that idea has died with me a long time ago. When I was in the 5th grade and had my near death experience drowning in the lake. Shouldn't have walked on thin ice, but I'm still alive and made it. I should have let go then to that edge of the ice. Maybe six feet under would have been better than suffering alone. Everyone who knows that story thinks I'm a super human being, but being super has nothing to do with it. When you're young you want to live, but as you get wise you see the world isn't what you expected.
There's got to be more to life than Love, Death, and Life.
What is Love? As my sister asked, "Who packs your lunch...?"
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. —Bruce Lee
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2/7/13
I've Been Waiting For You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igr8d_VvIhY#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igr8d_VvIhY#ws)
yeahh..
Girl I've been searchin so long thru this world
trying to find someone who could be
what my picture of love was to me
and you came along
When I saw you I knew you were the one
the love that I've been dreamin of
I've been waitin for you (waitin for you)
all my life for somebody who (somebody who)
makes me feel the way I feel when I'm with you, baby
have you been waitin too
cuz I've been waitin for you
Girl I've been saving my love all this time
cuz I knew someday I would find
the one that i've loved for so long in my mind
From the moment that I looked in your eyes
I saw the girl I've loved all my life
I've been waitin for you (waitin for you)
all my life for somebody who (somebody who)
makes me feel the way I feel when I'm with you, baby
have you been waitin too
cause I've been waitin for you
Now that I've found you I just can't let u go (cant let you go)
no no no ohhh
oh there's just one thing I want you to kno
Spoken: girl I love you so...
I've been waitin for you
all my life waitin for you
I've been waitin for you
all my life waitin for you
when I saw you I knew you were the one
the love that I've been dreaming of
I've been waitin for you (waitin for you)
all my life for somebody who (somebody who)
makes me feel the way I feel when I'm with you, baby
have you been waitin too
cause I've been waitin for you
I've been waitin for you
all my life waitin for you
I've been waitin for you
all my life waitin for you
I've been waitin for you
all my life waitin for you
(fade out)
j'adore ;o)
x
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2/10/13
How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? Unless you’re the Terminator, you’re probably set back on your heels. However, the mark of your success is how quickly you can refocus on what’s important in your life.
Garbage Truck
Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. And I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here’s what happened.
I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, the car skidded, the tires squealed, and at the very last moment our car stopped just one inch from the other car’s back-end.
I couldn’t believe it. But then I couldn’t believe what happened next. The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. How do I know? Ask any New Yorker, some words in New York come with a special face. And he even threw in a one finger salute! I couldn’t believe it!
But here’s what really blew me away. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was friendly. So, I said, “Why did you just do that!? This guy could have killed us!” And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck ® .”
He said:
“Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment . As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you.
So when someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be happier.”
So I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the street? It was then that I said, “I don’t want their garbage and I’m not going to spread it anymore.”
I began to see Garbage Trucks. Like in the movie “The Sixth Sense,” the little boy said, “I see Dead People.” Well now “I see Garbage Trucks.” I see the load they’re carrying. I see them coming to dump it. And like my taxi driver, I don’t take it personally; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.
One of my favorite football players of all time was Walter Payton. Every day on the football field, after being tackled, he would jump up as quickly as he hit the ground. He never dwelled on a hit. Payton was ready to make the next play his best. Over the years the best players from around the world in every sport have played this way: Muhammad Ali, Nadia Comaneci, Bjorn Borg, Chris Evert, Michael Jordan, Jackie Robinson, and Pele are just some of those players. And the most inspiring leaders have lived this way: Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
See, Roy Baumeister, a psychology researcher from Florida State University, found in his extensive research that you remember bad things more often than good things in your life. You store the bad memories more easily, and you recall them more frequently.
So the odds are against you when a Garbage Truck comes your way. But when you follow The Law of the Garbage Truck ® , you take back control of your life. You make room for the good by letting go of the bad.
The best leaders know that they have to be ready for their next meeting. The best sales people know that they have to be ready for their next client. And the best parents know that they have to be ready to greet their children with hugs and kisses, no matter how many garbage trucks they might have faced that day. All of us know that we have to be fully present, and at our best for the people we care about.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let Garbage Trucks take over their lives.
What about you? What would happen in your life, starting today, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by?
Here’s my bet: You’ll be happier.
— DAVID J. POLLAY
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Yog Kuv Lub Plawv Tseem Dhia by Xu Yang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2-ThJDMKRM# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2-ThJDMKRM#)
Verse 1:
Hnub kuv ntsib koj, kuv yeej paub tias,
Koj yog tus kuv xav tau.
Thaum kuv nrog koj, qhia tau rau kuv tias,
Koj yog tus kuv xav hlub ib leeg.
Hnub kuv puag koj, kuv yeej paub tias,
Koj xwb thiaj yog kuv tus.
Thaum kuv hniav koj, kuv mloog tau haiv tias.
Koj xwb thiaj yog kuv nplooj siab.
Chorus 1:
Yog hnub twg, kuv lub plawv,
Tseem dhia ces kuv yeej yuav hlub koj ib leeg,
Yuav hlub koj tsis pub muaj hnub kawg.
Yog thaum twg kuv lub plawv,
Tseem dhia ces kuv yeej yuav tsis nrug
koj ib pliag,... hlub koj mus ib sim.
(music)
Verse 2:
Hnub kuv puag koj, kuv yeej paub tias,
Koj thiaj yog kuv tus hlub.
Thaum kuv hniav koj, qhia tau rau kuv tias,
Koj ib leeg thiaj yog kuv nploojsiab.
Chorus 2:
Yog hnub twg, kuv lub plawv,
Tseem dhia kuv yeej yuav nyob ntawd koj xub ntiag,
Nyob nrog koj uake mus tag li.
Yog thaum twg, kuv lub plawv,
Tseem dhia ces kuv yeej yuav hlub koj,
Yuav hlub koj, tsis pub muaj hnub xaum.
Dahh tahh dah ta-ta... ooohhh
Ending:
Yog hnub twg, kuv lub plawv,
Tseem dhia ces kuv yeej yuav hlub koj ib leeg,
Yuav hlub koj tsis pub muaj hnub kawg.
Yog thaum twg, kuv lub plawv,
Tseem dhia ces kuv yeej yuav hlub koj,
Yuav hlub koj, tsis pub muaj hnub xaum.
j'adore ;o)
x
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2/16/13
I'm sure those who live on the west coast have heard of Hollywood Undead. I like 'em, besides all they write are bitter songs, Been to Hell, Undead, and Another Way Out. Shows people that Hollywood in America is tainted with greed, sex, drugs, alcohol, anger, selfishness, resentment, hatred, and everything the devil's trap wanted you to become and be. This is the real American Tragedy.
They hold a lot of meaning behind those who chase after dreams in Hollywood. Seen the most righteous people do the most heinous things. People after dreams full of nightmares....
Vulgar music and language! Warning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnE2_DUhbs#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnE2_DUhbs#ws)
Here's my two favorites from them:
Undead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PEn-OO2YXo# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PEn-OO2YXo#)
Outside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZBtZVfDOg#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZBtZVfDOg#ws)
(Danny)
Someone left the door open
Who left me outside
I'm bent I'm not broken
Come live in my life
All the words left unspoken
All the pages I write
On my knees and I'm hoping
That someone holds me tonight
Hold me tonight
(Verse: Johnny 3 Tears)
Welcome to the world
And all the landing that was wasted
The blood upon your hands
And the wickedness that made it
Seem to scream it all
And the memories get faded
See the exit wound
Dear God what have we taken
I guess I'll say a prayer
And I'll kiss into the air
I'll look into the sky
Send them straight to nowhere
We all dug the grave
Can't shake away the shame
Can't quiver in the sky
But you're shaking all the same
You left us with the guns
And all of 'em were loaded
Teach us how to shoot
But you taught us how to hold them
All the weight of all the world
Is right between your shoulders
Heavy is the heart
When the world keeps growing colder
(Chorus: Danny)
Who left the door open
Who left me outside
I'm on my knees and I'm hoping
That someone holds me tonight
Hold me tonight
(Verse: Johnny 3 Tears)
Two sides to every story
Here's a little morning glory
Breakfast of a mirror dying slow
Seems a little boring
Burn it like a flag
Walk it straight into the breeze
Cause there's two types of people
You are weak or you are me
Yeah what's another life time
Like mine
We all die a little sometimes
It's alright
Did you come to say your goodbyes
To this life
We all hard a little sometimes
We're alright
So mothers hold your children
Don't you ever let 'em go
There is weakness in your grip
And they are holding all your hope
Don't you ever let me go
Don't you ever let me go
Don't you ever let me go
Don't you ever let me go
(Chorus: Danny)
Who left the door open
Who left me outside
I'm on my knees and I'm hoping
That someone holds me tonight
Hold me tonight
(Verse: Danny)
Someone left the door open
Who left me outside
I'm bent I'm not broken
Come live in my life
All the words left unspoken
All the pages I write
On my knees and I'm hoping
That someone holds me tonight
Hold me tonight
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3/16/13
It's St. Patrick's Day Weekend. Time for some Green Beer? Eh. Noh?
Maybe just one drink and I'll have to start finding that four leaf clover. ;)
The other night I had a dream about driving towards a bridge, I saw an elderly couple driving before me. As we were about to drive on the bridge I saw a huge statue and tried taking its picture. All the while I was driving. Suddenly the bridge began to climb higher and higher. My car was at a 45 degree angle and then almost vertical at 90. I started to lose control of my car and was riding the left guard rail, holding onto it with my left hand and with my right onto the steering wheel. Just a few more feet and I hit the top.
Once at the top I looked down and saw that all the cars before me were flying off the bridge into the water going in straightforwar d. The only thing I could do was follow them and free fall right into the waters below. As soon as I hit the water, I woke up only to be in a dream of my room, and then I woke up again this time clearing my eyes and saw that I'm still alive.
Talk about Inception! A bridge to nowhere and then waking up to my room only to see myself wake up again in reality.
Lately, I've been looking for cameras, mainly just point-and-shoot ones for now. I've narrowed it down to three or four digital cameras: Sony's HX30V, Sony WX150, Samsung MV900f, and/or Sony RX100. Which one should I get?
I'm really leaning towards the Sony's HX30v because of it's capabilities to do HDR (high dynamic range) pictures, 3D pictures, Panoramic, and 20x zoom. The battery on this thing will last me 320 shots compared to the average 210-250 shots with the other cameras except for the RX100. If it wasn't for the price I would get the RX100 because it has been compared to DSLR technology or quality at 20 MB sensor.
Greg Jennings is playing with the Vikings now... aaahhh... He was a benchwarmer anyways with his injury last year. Who knows? Maybe Christian Ponder will be able to throw to him on the bench if he's injured again this year on the Vikings since they also picked up Matt Cassell from KC....lols.
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4/24/13
I was a victim of a bait and switch a week ago. I ordered a camera from bestpricephoto .com and did not receive what I originally ordered. I should have known there was something up with my order when a sales representative called to confirm my order. He told me that for anything over 500 they required a confirmation call. Which I thought was awkward? But that was fine with me.
However, this is what happened, he said I ordered an extra battery for the camera online and he told me he would upgrade me to the next package with the better long lasting battery that way I wouldn't need another battery. Which I agreed upon because I thought they had a better battery for the camera I wanted.
Eventually he sold me a different package with other accessories and neglected to tell me that they already discontinued the brand of camera that I ordered. The camera was for a Sony HX30v. If you look on their website, the camera is still there and available. No sign of whatsoever that the camera (HX30v) is no longer being sold. I didn’t learn that until I called back to them and talked with one of their sales reps.
By the time I got the camera it was for an HX200v. A much bulkier and heavier bridge camera, not the point and shoot HX30v. The only two things that it has that is better than the HX30v is the 30x zoom lens and longer battery life. It was not what I wanted but for now I am just keeping it because I don’t want to be without a camera and money from this aweful website retailer.
Words of caution do NOT buy something over the internet unless you know the people! That was one tricky sales rep! Avoid bestpricephoto .com, the had some good reviews, but I read somewhere that they were a slum operation that originated out of Oregon. If you look at the address they provide it ends up at some strange location in Brooklyn, New York.
You don’t want to be involved in a bait and switch like me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvWCvYPsiuM# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvWCvYPsiuM#)
Down
I don’t know where I’m at
I’m standing at the back
And I’m tired of waiting
Waiting here in line, hoping that I’ll find what I’ve been chasing.
I shot for the sky
I’m stuck on the ground
So why do I try, I know I’m gonna fall down
I thought I could fly, so why did I drown?
Never know why it’s coming down, down, down.
I'm not ready to let go
Cause then I'd never know
What I could be missing
But I’m missing way too much
So when do I give up, what I’ve been wishing for.
I shot for the sky
I’m stuck on the ground
So why do I try, I know I’m gonna fall down
I thought I could fly, so why did I drown?
I'll never know why it’s coming down, down, down.
Oh I am going down, down, down
Can’t find another way around
And I don’t want to hear the sound, of losing what I never found.
I shot for the sky
I’m stuck on the ground
So why do I try, I know I’m gonna fall down
I thought I could fly, so why did I drown?
I never know why it’s coming down, down, down.
I shot for the sky
I’m stuck on the ground
So why do I try, I know I’m gonna fall down
I thought I could fly, so why did I drown?
It’s coming down, down, down.
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5/8/13
In a strange new land, in a new language I'll have to understand. My adventure awaits me on the Mediterranean Sea. The stars float in the sky lit horizon as I make my way. The night comes and the islands light the way to a new land. Will I see Caesar and will I meet God.
I'm just a Goonie. Girls gotta have fun eh. :-X
When the world doesn't wait for you, you make your way to where it all started! Time to walk on water. Do Angels exist? Why me? Where should I cast my net?... So many questions to ask.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A#)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRR2OOvn3Ew# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRR2OOvn3Ew#)
Bella Ciao! Italy here I come. ;)
And back to the beginning where it all started! Back to Genesis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0SocbXEal8# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0SocbXEal8#)
On a conquest to find the writing of true love, why in Corinth Greece...
1 Corinthians 13
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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6/6/13
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/index.php?action=song&id=304 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/index.php?action=song&id=304)
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/index.php?action=song&id=54 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/index.php?action=song&id=54)
The temple doesn't need to be rebuilt no more because we are His living temple. For those that believe, He abides in us and we in Him. There is no need for another temple, but to be ready and await for the second coming.
Draw near to me and I'll draw near to you. J4:8 ;)
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6/13/13
I threw a coin in Trevi Fountain and will be going back one day. Haven't forgotten that time doesn't wait for no one and just over these past few weeks, I've missed two weddings, a few graduations, and some birthdays. Well, when I thought about it, who really cares? If I wasn't there, it wouldn't have made any difference. The only one thing I was able to make it back to was for my niece's graduation and that was it. Maybe that would encourage her to make it through college. I can't believe she's already going to college, wasn't I just there changing her diapers a week ago.
A recurring dream that I've been having lately is searching for lost items. Like I lost something in my dream and frantically I search and search but do not find it. Then wake up like I'm missing something in real-life.... :(
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Davi-chi ;)
You Are My Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7lN6GACH28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7lN6GACH28)
Don't Say Goodbye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuwRqIzkyOQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuwRqIzkyOQ)
LYRICS:
떨리는 너의 입술을 난 난 처음 보았지
tteollineun neoui ipsureul nan nan cheoeum boatji
무슨 말 하려고 말 하려고 뜸만 들이는지
museun mal haryeogo mal haryeogo tteumman deurineunji
슬픈 예감은 다 맞는단 노래 가사처럼
seulpeun yegameun da matneundan norae gasacheoreom
설마 아니겠지 아닐꺼야 아니어야만 돼
seolma anigetji anilkkeoya anieoyaman dwae
벌써 넌 나를 떠나 니 마음마저 떠나 또 몸마저도 떠나는데
beolsseo neon nareul tteona ni maeummajeo tteona tto mommajeodo tteonaneunde
난 몰라 널 잡을 방법을 좀 누가 내게 말해줘요
nan molla neol jabeul bangbeobeul jom nuga naege malhaejwoyo
*오늘밤 그 말만은 말아요 왜 날 버리고 갔나요
*oneulbam geu malmaneun marayo wae nal beorigo gannayo
나 마음이 아파 가슴이 아파 눈물 차올라요
na maeumi apa gaseumi apa nunmul chaollayo
아직은 안녕 우린 안돼요 넌 그 입을 더 열지마
ajigeun annyeong urin andwaeyo neon geu ibeul deo yeoljima
안녕이라고 내게 말하지마
annyeongirago naege malhajima
차가운 너의 한마디가 날 주저앉었지
chagaun neoui hanmadiga nal jujeoanjeotji
세상 무너질 듯 무너진 듯 눈물만 눈물만
sesang muneojil deut muneojin deut nunmulman nunmulman
지금 순간이 가면 이 순간이 지나면 영영 우린 이별인데
jigeum sungani gamyeon i sungani jinamyeon yeongyeong urin ibyeorinde
사랑해 죽도록 사랑한 날 날 버리지 말아줘요
saranghae jukdorok saranghan nal nal beoriji marajwoyo
*오늘밤 그 말만은 말아요 왜 날 버리고 갔나요
*oneulbam geu malmaneun marayo wae nal beorigo gannayo
나 마음이 아파 가슴이 아파 눈물 차올라요
na maeumi apa gaseumi apa nunmul chaollayo
아직은 안녕 우린 안돼요 넌 그 입을 더 열지마
ajigeun annyeong urin andwaeyo neon geu ibeul deo yeoljima
안녕이라고 내게 말하지마
annyeongirago naege malhajima
이별이 뭔지 나는 몰라요 그냥 서럽고 서러워
ibyeori mwonji naneun mollayo geunyang seoreopgo seoreowo
나 사연이 많아 추억이 많아 가슴 찢어져요
na sayeoni manha chueogi manha gaseum jjijeojyeoyo
아직은 안녕 우린 안돼요 넌 그 입을 더 열지마
ajigeun annyeong urin andwaeyo neon geu ibeul deo yeoljima
안녕이라고 내게 말하지마 안녕이라고 내게 말하지마
annyeongirago naege malhajima annyeongirago naege malhajima
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TRANSLATION:
I saw your trembling lips for the first time
You try and you try but hesitate to say something
Just like the lyrics from a song- sad predictions come true
No, it can’t be- it’s not- it can’t be
You already left me, your heart has left me
Even your body has left me as well
I don’t know how to hold onto you- someone please tell me how
* Please don’t say those words tonight
Why did you leave me?
I’m so hurt, my heart hurts- tears are rising
We can’t say goodbye yet- don’t open those lips any wider
Don’t say goodbye
At your cold words, I sank down
As if the world crumbled down, tears fell
If this moment passes, if this moment is over
We will be separated forever
I love you, I love you to death-
Don’t leave me
* repeat
I don’t know what separation is- I’m just upset
I have so many stories, so many memories-
My heart is ripping
We can’t say goodbye yet- don’t open those lips any wider
Don’t say goodbye
Don’t say goodbye
J'Adore ;o)
x
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6/19/13
Some days it feels good to know that life is beautiful.
...For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart... -Jeremiah 29:11
Your favorite color: Rainbow.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/1011189_10151755522583825_120626333_n.jpg)
Lights Changing Color
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnm9I8Pk83I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnm9I8Pk83I)
It was empty til you came up through the honey
Nothing ever goes as planned
When you’re walking and the lights are changing color
Remember how you held my hand
Remember how you held my hand
How you held
There’s a fire in your chest
I see the flame
They better watch it if they pick a fight
Hold that fire when the day it comes
It always comes
You feel you’ll never get it right
You’re never gonna get it right
You’re gonna get it
Hold on
Let it turn around
Spin another way
Hold on
You hit the edge of the
edge of the
edge of the day
Some people want it when you’ve got in your pocket
And they leave you if there’s nothing left
When you find that the ones that keep you lifted
Love them cuz they keep you out of your head
they keep you out of your head
They keep you steady
Hold on
Let it turn around
Spin another way
Hold on
You hit the edge of the
Edge of
The edge of the
Hold on
Let it turn around
Spin another way
Hold on
You hit the edge of the
edge of the
edge of the day
When you’re walking and the lights are changing color
Remember how I held your hand
Remember how I held your hand
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6/24/13
Welcome to Laughing-Water Falls...
(http://inthestate.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/img_0057.jpg?w=225&h=300)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Minnehaha_Falls-20050614.jpg/640px-Minnehaha_Falls-20050614.jpg)
This is the legend of Hiawatha and Minnehaha.
Long, long, ago, in the days that are now forgotten, West Wind wooed a lovely Indian maiden, but soon cruelly and faithless, he deserted her and she died of grief, leaving her baby son Hiawatha, to the care of his grandmother, old Nokomis.
The story continues how Hiawatha met and married Minnehaha – the loveliest maiden of the Dacotahs ( a different tribe). Hiawatha believed with Minnehaha by his side she would help heal the strife between the tribes. Minnehaha rose up and took Hiawatha’s side, and said,” I will follow you, my husband.”
After a long cold winter, famine and fever came, robbing Hiawatha of his dearest treasure, his beautiful young wife.
Hiawatha dressed her in her richest garments and was laid to rest deep beneath the snow. And as Hiawatha watched the fire which was kindled at night on her grave, his heart was less heavy, for he felt their parting was not for long.
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7/12/13
Today my mom called me, my niece went swimming the other day during a family reunion and got her leg stuck in a water pump at the pool. They had forgotten to put the cover on? How can you forget to do that? I hate bad news, she's still able to walk but it was bloody, the fans were cutting her leg and thigh.
The pool folks admitted that it was their fault. However, my brother didn't take her to the hospital to seek medical assistance because they didn't want the place that they stayed in to get in trouble? WTH. At least get a diagnosis or check-up to see if any arteries or blood clot will affect her walking abilities in the future. I told my mom to tell them to take her in!
Winnie The Pooh
by A.A. Milne
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
Where's my angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCr8qcQzcEE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCr8qcQzcEE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzZoOtXOqI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzZoOtXOqI)
The Moon Is Playing Hide And Seek With The Stars Tonight
I'm Wishing I Had Someone I Could Be Holding Tight
Someone To Look In My Eyes
Late At Night When The Shadows Paint The Sky
Everybody Finds Somebody To Love, They Say
They Say, Have A Little Patience, You'll Find Your Love Someday
Someday
But There's Nobody Here In My View
And The Moon Ain't The Only Thing That's Blue
Heaven, I'm Calling Out To You
Where Is My Angel?
Where Is The One I Need?
Where Is My Angel?
Where Is The One For Me?
Where Is My Angel, Tonight?
Heaven Send Me A Sign
And Show Me He's On His Way
Help Me Find My Baby
Don't Wait Another Day, Don't Wait
'cause This World Is A Lonely Place
And It Will Be Until I See My Angels Face
I Look To The Sky Each Night And Say
Where Is My Angel?
Where Is The One I Need?
Where Is My Angel?
Where Is The One For Me?
Where Is My Angel, Tonight?
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7/19/13
I'm sorry dad, didn't mean to make you cry. I'm sorta fed up with the lecturing and marriage proposals. Could we talk about anything else besides that? Take me fishing or show me something new like how to ride a bike when I used to be a kid. You know that every time we talk about marriage you'll always get the same answer from me. The more you butcher me with religious zeal and finding a woman of faith, you're making it harder not easier, it's like asking me to find a needle in a haystack.
How am I going to take back my words that I didn't mean to say. It's hard for me to explain it to you in Hmong. I've given up on Hmong traditions, given up on the Hmong people. We're just a lost cause. All I see is a Hmong generation full of lost souls with no real Hmong identity. Just a bunch of fakes out there in it for themselves. If you ain't rich or pretty no one really cares about you. Fawk it all. If it wasn't for my faith, I'd be elsewhere. Forgive me, don't waste your tears.
In my heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq5Q2n85s3c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq5Q2n85s3c)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HFUV1DHbkQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HFUV1DHbkQ)
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August 12, 2013
"In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps." -Proverbs 16:9.
"A person's steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand their own way?"-
Proverbs 20:26.
Sometimes I often think to myself, if the way I'm going is wrong or if I'm purposefully trying too hard in life. Why are things the way they are? Maybe I should not be fighting those delays in life; as loneliness takes its toll. I don't understand why things are the way they are but I for sure know that I must keep my trust in you. If all else fails, you're the only thing that is keeping me within common sense. You're my rock and my foundation. You've never failed me. I need your restoration Lord.
What happens if God has a bigger plan for me and I goofed it up by forcing myself in the wrong direction. As hard as life is already, I don't want to be fighting an uphill battle. Please help me make the right decisions. Then I looked at your word and this is where I landed today.
"It is a trap to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider one's vows."-Proverbs 20:25.
Then it hit me, I shouldn't be judging so fast. And it wouldn't be wise to set a trap for myself by making wrong and rash decisions now, and then reconsidering my "vows" later. My impulses are saying one thing, but my instincts are telling me otherwise.
It's time for a change.
Koj tso kuv tseg
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Peb%20Vaaj%20Peb%20Tsev/Volume%203/Koj%20tso%20kuv%20tseg.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Peb%20Vaaj%20Peb%20Tsev/Volume%203/Koj%20tso%20kuv%20tseg.mp3)
Mivnyuas xaav lug tsev
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Peb%20Vaaj%20Peb%20Tsev/Volume%204/Mivnyuas%20xaav%20lug%20tsev.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Peb%20Vaaj%20Peb%20Tsev/Volume%204/Mivnyuas%20xaav%20lug%20tsev.mp3)
Koj tso kuv lug
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Peb%20Vaaj%20Peb%20Tsev/Volume%202/Vaajtswv%20Koj%20tso%20kuv%20lug.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Peb%20Vaaj%20Peb%20Tsev/Volume%202/Vaajtswv%20Koj%20tso%20kuv%20lug.mp3)
Kuv nam
http://mp3truck.com/onply2.php?tl=Kuv_Nam&q=Umd2d3dKNVdxSnM= (http://mp3truck.com/onply2.php?tl=Kuv_Nam&q=Umd2d3dKNVdxSnM=)
J'Adore ;o)
x
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August 21, 2013
On Monday I had a flat tire going into work, damn it was hot as heck trying to take off my tire, sweating bullets! Good thing I heard it while I was on County Rd B. It must have blown out after I came off the highway. I drove for awhile and pulled into a BP and put on the spare. Those were brand new tires I bought this summer, I called into the shop and got it fixed today. They did it for free. Thank God!
Bad news, well I had some good news going into work. But that's for me to know and for you all to find out one day. O0
Everyone's getting married this Labor Day. Times flying, gotta plan your future. Can't wait for things to come anymore. Have to go get it. (*note to self, be a go getter)
State fair starts on Thursday. Should I go? Should I not?
Tus tsim ntiajteb
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Thov%20Txib%20Kuv/Tus%20tsim%20ntiajteb.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Thov%20Txib%20Kuv/Tus%20tsim%20ntiajteb.mp3)
Fij rau koj
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Hauv%20Lub%20Nruab%20Siab/Fij%20rau%20Koj.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Hauv%20Lub%20Nruab%20Siab/Fij%20rau%20Koj.mp3)
Tagkis
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Hauv%20Lub%20Nruab%20Siab/Tagkis.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Hauv%20Lub%20Nruab%20Siab/Tagkis.mp3)
Zam txiv
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Thov%20Txib%20Kuv/Zam%20txim.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Thov%20Txib%20Kuv/Zam%20txim.mp3)
Wb txojkev hlub
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Txuag%20Siav%20Siav%20Ntev/Wb%20txojkev%20hlub.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Txawj%20Pes%20Vaj/Txuag%20Siav%20Siav%20Ntev/Wb%20txojkev%20hlub.mp3)
Fwm txug kuv nam
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Mothers%20Day/Fwm%20txug%20kuv%20nam_md.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Mothers%20Day/Fwm%20txug%20kuv%20nam_md.mp3)
Yuav pib qhovtwg
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/All%20Star%20INSPIRATION/Yuav%20Pib%20Qhovtwg.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/All%20Star%20INSPIRATION/Yuav%20Pib%20Qhovtwg.mp3)
Lub ntuj tso kuv lug
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/All%20Star%20INSPIRATION/Volume%202/Lub%20Ntuj%20Tso%20Kuv%20Lug.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/All%20Star%20INSPIRATION/Volume%202/Lub%20Ntuj%20Tso%20Kuv%20Lug.mp3)
Uas sab ntev tos koj
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/All%20Star%20INSPIRATION/Volume%202/Ua%20Sab%20Ntev%20Tog%20Koj.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/All%20Star%20INSPIRATION/Volume%202/Ua%20Sab%20Ntev%20Tog%20Koj.mp3)
Yog muaj ib hnub twg
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/All%20Star%20INSPIRATION/Volume%202/Yog%20Muaj%20Ib%20NubTwg.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/All%20Star%20INSPIRATION/Volume%202/Yog%20Muaj%20Ib%20NubTwg.mp3)
Yog muaj ib hnub twg kuv tau koj lug uas kuv tus,
Kuv yuav xyov koj lug kuas muag, dlaws koj kev nyuajsab,
Hab kev quajntsuag.
Yog muaj ib hnub twg koj tau kuv lug uas koj tus,
Koj yuav nyob kaj sab quas lug, tau txujsab nyob ibtxhab,
Moog ibtxhis.
Koj yuavtsum txhajtxim sab, saib koj yuav nrug leejtwg moog
Koj yuavtsum txhajtxim sab, saib koj yuav nrug leejtwg moog
Yuav nrug kuv, moog los...
Tso kuv tseg...
J'Adore ;o)
x
'Nites
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GO! GO! GO! the fair only comes once a year :)
I'm taking my son this year and we are going to catch the rodeo show since my coworker's horses will be in competition this year again.
Loved the music selection too.... XF. Txawj Pes and Koungla are in my collection too :)
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Sorry I had never read your journal before till now. I LOVE this song....! Do you happen to know if this is an actual movie? I want to watch it now :D
http://youtu.be/8HFUV1DHbkQ (http://youtu.be/8HFUV1DHbkQ)
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GO! GO! GO! the fair only comes once a year :)
I'm taking my son this year and we are going to catch the rodeo show since my coworker's horses will be in competition this year again.
Loved the music selection too.... XF. Txawj Pes and Koungla are in my collection too :)
I will go during the week for State Fair, when it's less busy.
Sorry I had never read your journal before till now. I LOVE this song....! Do you happen to know if this is an actual movie? I want to watch it now :D
Thanks, I love the song too, but I haven't seen the movie yet. It's a Chinese romantic comedy that came out in 2008.
The movie is called, "If You Are the One," starring Ge You and Shu Qi.
It's about an inventor who becomes a multi-millionaire after selling his invention to an angel investor and decides to leave his bachelor life to find the girl of his dreams. Only to fall in love with an air stewardess that he crosses paths with.
Ge You is a well known actor in China for his comedic roles and personality in movies. Shu Qi, also a famous actress in China, you've seen her in The Transporter with Jason Statham.
Part two just came out in 2010. Although part one looks better.
(http://cs11409.vk.me/u167473513/154631309/x_1e048c02.jpg)
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August 27, 2013
I'm trying this new work out called, P48x. It requires that we follow this statement for 14 days:
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." - Phillipians 4:8 for Christ.
Last week was a really strange and awkward week. On Monday, had a flat tire, and during the week some guy died at Motel 8 apparently from gunshot wounds because none of the workers wanted to let him in during the early hours. They found him dead.
Another night while coming home off the same exit at that same Super 8, I noticed a car pulled-over by the cops, I saw two cops one in front with a gun and the other in back aiming a rifle at the car driver. A passenger had gotten out of the car and had his/her hands up while the driver was still in the front seat of the car. The next day on the morning news I heard that a guy had died that night from a police altercation. That was all they got, but they never mentioned the other passenger who surrendered on the news. I wonder why?
What was awkward was that the car was not on the road, it was situated on a grassy knoll (no pun intended) facing 180 backwards from the exit on the off-ramp.
About 4-6 squad cars if not more were there and an ambulance. :-X
Then this past Saturday, a childhood friend of mine who I grew up with passed away in the hospital. He has been having problems with his heart and has been doing dialysis for about two months because of a blood infection. He didn't survive leaving behind his young wife and kids.
Life is short, we don't know when our time will come and go. We just have to make it through everyday and remember to smile along the way.
As a butterfly in its cocoon, as we are on earth. We all make that struggle, and one day like butterflies; we'll all fly out of here, living our true form, not of this world. But forever in the endless void of this universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE4l1Dfboes# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE4l1Dfboes#)
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August 28, 2013
Today I met my dad's sister's kids. Technically his nephew which makes us cousins? I never knew I really had more cousins, but we are actually closer than we think related. I guess everybody's related to a Vang somehow somewhere. He just got back from GVP's wife's funeral.
My mom tells me that it was GVP's spirit who came back to take her with him to the underworld. Really that's it?
Peb tsuas nyob ib pliag hauv ntiajteb, tseem yuav muaj qhov chaw uas peb tseem tsis tau mus txog...
Nyob uake ib ntus
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Kev%20Ntseeg/Volume%201/Nyob%20uake%20ib%20ntus.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Kev%20Ntseeg/Volume%201/Nyob%20uake%20ib%20ntus.mp3)
Lub neej ib vuag
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Suab%20Nqua%20Hu/Volume%202012/Lub%20neej%20ib%20vuag.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Suab%20Nqua%20Hu/Volume%202012/Lub%20neej%20ib%20vuag.mp3)
Koj txujkev hlub
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Praise/Volume%203/Koj%20Txujkev%20Hlub.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Praise/Volume%203/Koj%20Txujkev%20Hlub.mp3)
Lub sijhawm
http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Christine%20Xiong/Volume%203/Lub%20sijhawm.mp3 (http://www.hmongchristiansong.com/audio/Hmong%20Christian%20Songs/Christine%20Xiong/Volume%203/Lub%20sijhawm.mp3)
I carry your heart with me
By E. E. Cummings
i carry your heart with me
(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it
(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)
i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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September 25, 2013
Some days I just want to quit, and start all over again. Where would I go? What would I do? Who is going to help me? Wish things could be different.
The other night I dreamt that I caught a huge sting ray with a line and hook. I met an old friend with blond hair and he knew how to sing. I was standing on pieces of white foam board in the middle of a lake balancing myself reeling in my big catch.
I hope it's a good sign.
I'm thinking of catching that broadway show Wicked. It's practically been here in town for a few weeks now. It was here a few years ago too. I never had the chance to go, since no one wants to go see it with me. I'll go check it out myself.
One of my favorite past times, walking at the park. Some days I go for the smiles on people's face and to see who'll pass me by. It's getting quite colder now here at nights. Tonight's in the 50s but it will soon rise back up to the 80s this week, says the weather man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTh-mcV8OfY# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTh-mcV8OfY#)
One more night, one more night with you
Close your eyes I'll give you my love
One more night, one more night with you
Please hold me once again 'cause I love you
Here I stand and I can't even cry
My heart is breakin' up inside
You say goodbye, you found somebody new
Wherever you go I'll be with you
One more night, one more night with you
Hear me now I can't let you go
One more night, I'll open my heart to you
Please hold me once again 'cause I love you
Before you leave, just take me in your arms
And let me feel you once again
Can't help myself, I still depend on you
Whatever you do, I'll be with you
One more night, one more night with you
Close your eyes I'll give you my love
One more night, one more night with you
You know how long it gonna last, it's up to you
I wanna hold you once again 'cause I love you
J'Adore ;o)
x
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Nice read. Found some part to be funny too. A romanticist eh? Can't find those nowadays. O0 Stay the same, as you are in writing. God has someone waiting for you too. HE has someone for everyone.
And who packs your lunch? geez, don't even worry about that. As a woman, we have to pack our own lunch. :D
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October 8, 2013
I'm five years behind this but been looking for Journey's new CD Revelation with Arnel Pineda. I heard they found him from the Philippines on Youtube. Not bad, not bad.
Although I like Steve Perry the original singer's voice better because it's the original behind Open Arms, it's softer, Pineda's voice has a more powerful edge on it. Pineda's more of a hard rock 'n roll singer, but he filled in for Steve Perry just right. Neal Schon couldn't have found a better singer who was able to be molded into Journey's band. Considering they're all over 40 now. Pineda still looks super young, but he's actually 46...
I accidentally saw his documentary on pubic broadcasting. He grew up as an orphan with his mom passing away at an early age, his dad left him to the care of relatives. Truly, a great story of survival, and big dreams. One thing that I picked up from Arnel, is that he keeps on smiling, and he definitely doesn't let any setbacks ruin his future. One thing he does well, he keeps on singing!
You got to keep on singing even through the hard times. Keep the music alive. Don't stop believing! ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZBBDYao9W4#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZBBDYao9W4#ws)
Open Arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nyH11uH-2E#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nyH11uH-2E#ws)
I think this is the best performance with Arnel singing Open Arms including an extended guitar solo.
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October 15, 2013
Walked out in the rain today as it steadily fell between the cracks of falling leaves, it's sure dark.
I tried looking for Journey's Revelation CD today, and it's not at Barnes and Nobles for sure. They said they'll have to order it from Japan. I took a look at Amazon and guess how much they're selling that particular CD for... $338! Wow. Only one left, brand new.
http://www.amazon.com/Revelation-Journey/dp/B0018OAP7K (http://www.amazon.com/Revelation-Journey/dp/B0018OAP7K)
You could only get the CD at Wal-Mart, I still have to go there. Hope that maybe I can find some there because I read in the news articles that it's only $11 bucks retail at Wal-Mart who has exclusive rights to sell that Journey CD.
Since I was at B&N I picked up two books, The Last Unicorn and Bride of the Water God. The Last Unicorn had a white cover rather dull looking but when I opened it up the pictures were full of color and the pages were glossy with a thicker than average feel. This original story was written awhile ago by Peter S. Beagle in the late 1960's, it later became an animated video.
The other book I picked up, surprisingly was the first book for Bride of the Water God. I got lucky because usually the first book is always gone in those Manga series, I bought it right away. However, the second book was gone, I'll have to come back and look for that another day. The Manga for this book is online and free as well. I don't know why I bought the book, but the online version has color if you ever want to read it, I included the link below:
http://www.mangareader.net/110/the-bride-of-the-water-god.html (http://www.mangareader.net/110/the-bride-of-the-water-god.html)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAJKP6keJI# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAJKP6keJI#)
Someday, maybe Soah will eventually find her husband. Being sacrificed to a Water God for the sake of saving your village from drought. Alas, it's raining tonight, have you found your love Soah or are those your tears falling from heaven.
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All this time es koj tseem npau suav txog ib tus hlub.... Great writings.
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All this time es koj tseem npau suav txog ib tus hlub.... Great writings.
Someone has to keep the dream alive. :)
October 20, 2013
Yesterday, I went over to my cousins eating thing for his wife. It appears to be she's pregnant! I'll have to remember to get them something after she gives birth.
In other news today, I called up Wal-mart's electronic department and no stores within a 50 mile radius has Journey's Revelation CD. I couldn't find that CD anywhere, still it didn't matter while looking at ebay for that CD, I also won a used Playstation 3 for 120 dollars. What a deal! I'll get it in the mail next week but let's see if it works, the description from the seller said, tested and in good condition.
This is what my devotional says today.
"The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him." -1 John 2:4.
Often times we walk in our faith but disregard following God's commandments. To have a relationship with Christ is to walk in His truth. We need to follow those commands. Are there times in your life that you have not walked in the truth? What were the circumstances?
The rain has been drizzling all day today. It's murky out, the dismal turn of dawn rests upon my shoulders tonight. Stay warm.
Tears won't wash away my heartache.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqFeSN4cSo#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqFeSN4cSo#ws)
Oh, I sold my heart to you
Babe, like all dreamers do
Feel the shadows of a heartache
Out of reach and out of touch
If I give you babe so much
Feel the shadows of a heartache
Oh, this restless world - I need my dream
Someone, save my life
And I know what it means
[Chorus: ]
Tears won't wash away my heartache
Tears won't wash away, tears won't wash away
Tears won't wash away my heartache
Tears won't wash away, tears won't wash away
And I'm losing my dream - I pray to you
Davi, oh Davi - I'm dreaming
Davi, oh Davi - believe me
Tears won't wash it away
Oh, won't wash it away
'Cause to get hold on hard baby
Say farewell, don't say goodbye
It's too late for a try
Why can't we live together
Years may come and years may go
Oh, you hurt before you know
In the shadows of a heartache
I'll be afraid I'm losing you
Oh, don't save my life, babe
Oh, you're making blue
[Chorus: ]
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November 3, 2013
Some days I wish I had the power to turn back the hands of time. Tonight we went an hour back in time or some like to say we get an hour to sleep in, but here I am. Time stands still for no one, we shouldn't measure it by how long one lives but by the moments we lived; nothing by coincidence everything made and crafted by the hands of God. However, we choose our course to live those moments. That is the beauty of it all.
Some days I wish I could fast forward time. That would make all those times that caused pain to pass through faster. All those times when you have to live through hardships, tribulations, and worries. They all pass us by and as the saying goes, "You either sink or swim."
Some days I wish I could stop time and hold it forever in the palm of my hands. All I would have would be memories of you. Those memories would give me strength to carry on through each day. Encouraging me to be strong and to breathe again because it would mean that you were alive in me. That without you my heart would ceased to beat, the world would stop turning.
If ever the world stops turning, we'd end sailing across the deep blue yonder.
In our blue destiny...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DG_YLbqf0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DG_YLbqf0#)
Dont claim to know much
bout the turning of the tides
People they come and go
leave a trace
Oh but you are certainty
Question marks have faded
Nothing we couldnt do
hand in hand~~
When the path was dark
I could see sparks
as you sailed straight through
to my heart.
I will dry your tears
shake off your fears
Sail into our blue
destiny~
♬♪♩♪♬
In the early light
as your smile breaks like morning
something inside me stirs,
pure and true
Its the curving of your back
the protection of your warm arms
Mountains could fall, and Id
not have a clue
When the path was dark
I could see sparks
as you sailed straight through
to my heart.
I will dry your tears
shake off your fears
Sail into our blue
destiny~~
o~~o~~o~~
They can tell us our love is wrong
They can tell us its all in vain
If we burned to the ground tomorrow
Loves in the remains
When the path was dark
I could see sparks
as you sailed straight through
to my heart.
I will dry your tears
shake off your fears
Sail into our blue destiny ~
wu~~
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November 4, 2013
Enjoyment is a spiritual thing and it is not based on circumstantial things. The ability to enjoy life and live purposefully comes from the creator. The power to enjoy something comes from God and only He can allow you that fulfillment.
Solomon writes: "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavily upon men; a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is sore affliction." Ecclesiastes 6:1-2
You may have fancy cars, luxurious houses, and wealth beyond imagination, but it is through God whom allows you the ability to enjoy those things. Without his Son's death and resurrection the life that you live is not everlasting but a temporarily one here on earth. Even though you do have these things they will not be with you in the after life.
Solomon had everything a king could ask for. At the end he knew that death could not be escaped. All the horses, wives, and riches of the world he could not take with him to the after life. All but a passing in the wind.
*If only I had one wife, and a white horse. I'd be happy. =P
At the end, those of you who want to save your life will lose it, but those who lose their life for His sake will find it. I only pray that even if I can't find love, I'll remember you. And when you know that I'm lost.
You'll be there...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f57XRlvBpM4#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f57XRlvBpM4#ws)
Over Mountains
Over Trees
Over Oceans
Over Seas
Across the desert
I'll be there
In a whisper on the wind
On the smile of a new friend
Just think of me
And I'll be there
Don't be afraid, oh my love
I'll be watching you from above
And I'd give all the world tonight,
To be with you
Because I'm on your side,
And I still care
I may have died,
But I've gone nowhere
Just think of me,
And I'll be there
On the edge of a waking dream
Over Rivers
Over Streams
Through Wind and Rain
I'll be there
Across the wide and open sky
Thousands of miles I'd fly
To be with you
I'll be there
Don't be afraid, oh my love
I'll be watching you from above
And I'd give all the world tonight,
To be with you
Because I'm on your side,
And I still care
I may have died,
But I've gone nowhere
Just think of me,
And I'll be there
In the breath of a wind that sighs
Oh, there's no need to cry
Just think of me,
And I'll be there
Don't be afraid, oh my love
I'll be watching you from above
And I'd give all the world tonight,
To be with you
Because I'm on your side,
And I still care
I may have died,
But I've gone nowhere
Just think of me,
And I'll be there
Just think of me,
And I'll be there
Think of me...
And I'll be there...
J'Adore ;o)
x
'nites
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11/11/2013
Guard the truth and be strong in strength that He is with us till the end of age.
A teacher (from Paul to Timothy), a soldier, an athlete, and a farmer. 2 Timothy 2:13.
(http://i44.tinypic.com/zsw84.jpg)
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(http://i40.tinypic.com/14294qo.jpg)
Warm brisk air filled the night, pondering to myself on the stone steps of the Spanish Piazza; you had dreams to accomplish, goals to finish, and places to be. My persuasive homily to you before you left had no moot point. You've made your decision to pursue mindless matters to fill your resume and studies. Love can wait, friendship was a forethought.
Love, it wasn't on your mind. For the fruit of knowledge was more appetizing to your taste.
Here I am standing between you and the world. And you chose the world over a mere man. What can I do to make you mine? What can I do to change your heart?
You're now somewhere in the Big Apple, where dreams are made of. A pocket full of dreams. I too have a dream, but my dream left with you. It was better to let you follow your dreams of greatness, that I wanted you to fulfill your dreams even if it meant that I was not a part of it.
Don't forget to hold onto that spoon of oil, while making your dreams come true.
Ciao Bella
One day I'll catch you in a taxi, or by flickering red lights in times square, we'd stop and peer from underneath our umbrellas. Brushing the rain from my brow I'll wave and you would smile. We'd finally take our time and make our way to SOHO, then afterwards a few blocks down to enjoy an Italian Café for a piece of tiramisu.
You were stronger than me, and when you left... I knew you were. Your eyes never turned back to meet mine.
It was over, the dream is but a dream.
Ciao Bella.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dNaSH2N3Ww#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dNaSH2N3Ww#ws)
I'll tell myself don't fall-in-love again, taxi girl. You don't need me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeaorIRgJVg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeaorIRgJVg#)
It was a rainy night
A rainy night in new york city
Oh, she'll never fall in love, had enough of all
She was only 18, starring at the wall
She's my taxi girl - she was my baby
Through the stormy weather, through the stormy rain
She drove her little cab all over again
She's my taxi girl - she is my baby
Her only friend was luca, she's working for the rent
But that guy was a hooker at the end
Oh baby, hey, be my taxi girl
Oh when you're alone - i'll be a part of you
Hey, be me taxi girl - i'll be your home
I'll make your dreams come true
Oh, she'll never love again, baby that is true
That's the answer just for me and you
She's my taxi girl - she was my baby
From the heart of harlem to 5'th avenue
She drove her yellow cab like they all do
She's my taxi girl - she is my baby
Her only friend was luca, she's working for the rent
But that guy was a hooker at the end
J'Adore ;o)
'nites
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11/21/13
The moon shone bright across the Mediterranean that night. The light eclipsed over the slopes of Sicily as we sailed in. I'd make my way through the Sicilian border and into Messina. Cities here were made into labyrinths, every corner different from the last, streets intertwined like a web--maybe no one had any sense of direction back then. Perhaps, it was meant to confuse people from stealing their treasures.
That night, the shadows danced into the moon-light, a million jasmine flowers unfurled in the air; an aroma I'll never forget. Before me the curtains opened and a masquerade was awaiting our presence. Time stood still for a thousand years.
I followed the shadows in my gait; spiraling down a seamless staircase. Hoping that you would appear--then around the corner of my eye--was that you? For a moment I stood in hesitation, turning my head to your direction. A faint laughter rung behind me. Was someone mocking me? I took off my mask in haste. Have I become the goblin king?
Vieni a ballare con me~
(http://i40.tinypic.com/2ildndc.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQsIpCjDdBU#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQsIpCjDdBU#ws)
I'll place the skies within your eyes,
I'll place the moon within your heart...
j'Adore ;o)
x
'nites
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11/26/13
The pair of pants I bought last week finally came in the mail! Calvin Klein, boot cut jeans size 34 x 30. It's kind of loose on me, but I wear these with a buckled belt. This is my second pair of Calvin Klein jeans, I like this pair of jeans. I bought a pair two years ago and I noticed that none of the stores don't carry this same kind of jeans anymore. I had to buy it online.
The original one was made in Egypt! Compared with the new one I just bought the older one had a lot better material, the color is much more vibrant and deeper even though it's just light-wash blue. The new one was made in Vietnam. They must not be making these anymore in Egypt since all that turmoil going on over there, the U.S. has put sanctions on Egypt.
War in Syria, social unrest in Egypt, and the Philippines ravaged by a tsunami.
Life is fragile, in a blink of an eye and we are no longer here.
My parents came to visit me this past weekend. They came along with my older brother and his family. My dad is no longer the same in health, as I see that his eyes are deteriorating right before me. He cracks a smile when I joke before him, and he holds back tears when he speaks about the past. Out of all the brothers he was the poorest of them all. He had came with another party to Long Tieng but they talked about leaving my parents behind because they were poor and they did.
They all abandon him in 1975 after the fall of Saigon, everyone left even the General. He had no money to make it to the U.S. with my mom, and my brother. With a pair of clothes on their backs and two spoons and a white Hmong bowl in their nap sack they fled.
He was lucky to have met my Uncle on the way to Long Tieng and when he met him there, they had found each other by luck and coincidence. For some odd reason they were stuck there because they wouldn't let them go across and pass the gates. The soldiers didn't want no one leaving the borders and if you had a lot of kids with you they would automatically stop you.
That day my Uncle had taken a taxi back to Long Tieng to get his motorcycle and his original plan was to leave on a separate occasion without his wife and kids because he was a soldier for GVP they would catch him and take him back if they knew he was fleeing. On the way back he then saw my parents and asked them where they were heading. And after seeing them he changed plans to take them along with him back to his wife and kids. The new plan was to divide his kids up and give them to my dad that way it didn't look like he was fleeing with his family.
Luckily, my Uncle had bought three extra tickets out that day and if he were to have missed my parents, they would have not gone pass out of Laos and left behind to die in the aftermath...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0sihX98mAw#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0sihX98mAw#ws)
Where do all the prayers go? Standing in front of the Western Wall, hundreds of pieces of paper filled the cracks that lay between the bricks. All with writings of prayer from people around the world, from those who believed in praying. With every breath of life we should pray. But who was to answer all of these prayers? Maybe someone out there is listening.
(http://i41.tinypic.com/11gmu8j.jpg)
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12/2/2013
Today I did the unthinkable! Went to eat pho and after finishing the entire meal. I was thinking wouldn't it be funny if I left my wallet at home. I started feeling my pockets and coat jacket. Shooo... WTH. I did...
I get up to the counter and asked the cashier, the owner I believe, that I forgot my wallet at home and will have to go back and get it. He says, "Okay, okay, okay..."
Customers were awkwardly staring at me. In a hurry I dashed out the door and into my car and went back home to get my wallet. Came back in about 15 minutes and paid the guy. Then he tells me, "I believe that you'll come back."
I believe that you'll come back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c0AivlF0-E# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c0AivlF0-E#)
Thaum koj nyob ntawm no,
Koj uas kuv lub siab kub li hluav taws.
Thaum koj tuav kuv tes,
Lub cev cia li nres,
Lub ncauj hais tsis tau.
Thaum koj nrog kuv nyob,
Koj pom tag txhua yam hauv kuv ntsej muag,
Tej yam wb yuav ua,
Tej yam wb yuav txuas rau yav tom ntej.
(Chorus)
Koj yog kuv lub hnub,
Koj cig nyob saum ntuj.
Koj yog kev zoo siab hauv kuv lub neej,
Koj yog kev npau suav,
Nyob hauv kuv dab ntub,
Koj yog kuv txoj sia,
Koj yog kuv txoj sia...
Thaum koj nyob ntawm no,
Tsis muaj dabtsi yuav ntxhov kuv lub siab.
Thaum wb nyob ua ke,
Lub sijhawm cia nres rau wb ob leeg.
Thaum koj nrog kuv nyob (nrog kuv nyob)
Tsis muaj dabtsi kuv yuav uas tsis tau.
Hla roob dhau hiav txwv,
Ntaus rog yeej ntiaj teb,
Tsuav koj hais "hlub kuv"
Repeat Chorus
Hauv kuv lub neej,
Koj ib leeg xwb caws tau kuv txoj sia
Hauv kuv nruab siab
Muaj koj ib tug
Repeat Chorus
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Awwww, you're nice to not have her pay for it! :P
She shouldn't have to worry. Because a man takes care of his woman. ;) :P
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12/3/2013
The fountain of youth, I believe in such a thing and love at first sight.
I always wondered how my parents and those who were in love stayed so young after all these years. I attribute that to how they were able to stay in love with the person they married or fell in love with over a long period of time. For them time stopped and everything else evolved around their world. It didn't matter if they had money, food, clothing, shelter, or material things. They had what mattered the most and that is each other's love.
After a prolonged period of time of being in love they have something that only people yearn to understand or have. That in itself comes patience and perseverance, and with it they were granted a gift of everlasting youth. They say that true love makes you younger.
Love at first sight. When you see someone whom you've not known before but yet you're smitten by cupid's arrow. I believe it can happen to anyone, when you meet that person and you just know. That somewhere, somehow, call it fate or destiny; you have found the one. These people stay with you in your head for a lifetime because their resemblance to your past experience of what love should be and their warmth has put an indentation in your heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPIwRWxvabM# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPIwRWxvabM#)
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12/5/13
Snow storm came and gone. The snow blower came in extra handy today, finished the driveway and walkways within half an hour compared to the normal strenuous two hours. Surprised myself! Why didn't I get that thing earlier?
What is Christmas? Is it just about gifts? Because people like receiving gifts we should keep on giving, yeah that's it =X. Christmas no longer bares any spiritual meaning but has become a pagan ritual to the masses like Halloween.
What's the point of celebrating it? Santa Claus isn't real and some may even contend that Jesus never walked the earth, putting Him in the same realm of mythical creatures... Then is your life and mine in vain. If it wasn't for Christmas we wouldn't have songs like Christmas Tsis Muaj Koj.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh0z2cB6ij4#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh0z2cB6ij4#ws)
Can one man save the world. What for? For Love...Are we that important to Him.
We are the reason. And He is the reason to live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuqFTj3aTNs# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuqFTj3aTNs#)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZdpJkhE8OA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZdpJkhE8OA#)
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Captain's Log, Stardate 12.19.13
While driving in my car today, I heard an acoustic version of this song by Rembrandt but can't find it anywhere. This is the 90's version. Although not as popular as their main hit, I'll be there for you, on Friends.
That's just the way it is, babey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2HqoxjZ4Q# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2HqoxjZ4Q#)
What are you giving for Christmas? If whatever you give doesn't hurt you, you'll care less about it. Do you believe in that? You'll remember the things you gave out of sacrifice more than the things that you gave without having to lose anything.
My cousin's girlfriend gave away one of her kidney's away last year around this time to her sister and now she is off dialysis. She's still young. He told me that they don't take the old kidney out but put in the new one from the donor and incorporate that one in somehow, the old one just sits there? I don't know I'm not a doctor.
It was a miracle, and she had the right blood match and everything. Now that was a gift! It sure helps to have siblings within the same age range. I would definitely go under the knife to save one of my brothers.
Love is on the way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MclSSoOBt3Q#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MclSSoOBt3Q#ws)
A flash of lightening struck across the horizon in the dark distant sky. The sun fell on its knees and the clouds formed circles above Edman Chapel. I was talking with a friend of mine who just got out of the military. The scars had left him emotionally wounded when he came back from Afghanistan, I was lending him an ear.
A crackling of thunder shuttered our conversation. Unexpectedly, the white french doors to the side of us opened forward. And there you were! What kind of witchcraft is this? An act of God?
You had covered your face in fear and shame and walked right pass. I knew it was you. It couldn't have happened at a more fortuitous time.
In a raspy tone I called out your name, "Butterfly!"
And you turned around like you didn't notice. What was I thinking? I had to let you go, you've left a footprint in the sands of time. Although that has faded away with the tides of my heart. It was our final good-bye.
The rain began to cease its pouring as we departed into the night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omEOvIsBDE#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omEOvIsBDE#ws)
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I just wanted to drop in and say 'thank you' for the inspirational reads; bible verses, devotions, poems. Your song selections are very emotional and raw, just like your writings :). They bring back a lot of memories for me, too. God does have a plan for all of us - your talent is exhibited here - this is your ministry. Keep up the good work!
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12/27/13
Yesterday was my sis' birthday, I wished her a very happy birthday! Told her that it's not how long you lived but it's how you live that counts.
The other day I was watching TV, nothing good was on. After watching a few hours of a fire pit with music, I turned the channel and a Shirley Temple movie called The Blue Bird was showing. This movie was made in the 1940s. No wonder why I didn't see any African kids, Mexican, or Asian kids in this movie. American movies back then were very "white." I don't mean to get into a civil rights argument here, however, just pointing out the obvious facts.
The movie was almost over, but I was able to catch the best part of the whole movie. It was the ending, when Shirley Temple and her brother goes up to heaven and sees all these kids waiting to be born. Some knew who they were going to become like engineers, doctors, and sailors. Others knew how long they were going to live like Shirley's sister who's still waiting to be born. Although she knew she wasn't going to live long, she met Shirley and her brother in heaven before she was going to come.
Then Shirley and her brother meet a young boy who doesn't want to be born because on earth not everyone is born free. Free of slavery, greed, and injustice. It was a cruel world to be born in, he said. But then when his name was called he gladly obliged to go! He wanted to make a difference and fight for those things, for a united people.
After most of the kids been called, some tried to sneak in but couldn't. Others looked onward to those who got on board the silver ship of life. A young couple, boy and girl were holding each other. Soulmates who didn't want to part each other. One was called and the other left behind. The boy was called down but knew his time would end before she was to come because he would grow old and be without her, he didn't want to go. She didn't want him to leave. Then the reaper of life says, he's not going down to die, but to live!
Soulmates, do we have one? Or is that just a concoction of our subconscious way of thinking about how love should be between a man and a woman. When in reality, we naturally choose our partners through our senses. By the way, I still believe in a soulmate. The one your heart cries for at night when you hear the crickets chirping outside in the summer's wind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWBNt7hVEw# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWBNt7hVEw#)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWlKBULKN4I# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWlKBULKN4I#)
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1/13/14
The Secret Garden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvgFHhLjFdU#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvgFHhLjFdU#ws)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OhQ5llkBYg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OhQ5llkBYg#)
Music to fall asleep to. :-X
What is unconditional love? It must be that yearning for someone when they don't really care for you but you go ahead and make the time to seek them out. When you forgive a wrong without taking vengeance into your own hands.
You give them your attention and love without any much return. Take care of their needs before your own and make sure they are safe from harm. Protect them until your time has gone and if they don't return your I love you's, maybe there is more to life than a fallacious love on earth.
Everyone has an inner beauty hidden inside but few will recognize it. Beauty for ashes.
The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
THE FIRST CHILDREN who saw the dark and slinky bulge approaching through the sea let themselves think it was an enemy ship. Then they saw it had no flags or masts and they thought it was a whale. But when it washed up on the beach, they removed the clumps of seaweed, the jellyfish tentacles, and the remains of fish and flotsam, and only then did they see that it was a drowned man.
They had been playing with him all afternoon, burying him in the sand and digging him up again, when someone chanced to see them and spread the alarm in the village. The men who carried him to the nearest house noticed that he weighed more than any dead man they had ever known, almost as much as a horse, and they said to each other that maybe he'd been floating too long and the water had got into his bones. When they laid him on the floor they said he'd been taller than all other men because there was barely enough room for him in the house, but they thought that maybe the ability to keep on growing after death was part of the nature of certain drowned men. He had the smell of the sea about him and only his shape gave one to suppose that it was the corpse of a human being, because the skin was covered with a crust of mud and scales.
They did not even have to clean off his face to know that the dead man was a stranger. The village was made up of only twenty-odd wooden houses that had stone courtyards with no flowers and which were spread about on the end of a desert-like cape. There was so little land that mothers always went about with the fear that the wind would carry off their children and the few dead that the years had caused among them had to be thrown off the cliffs. But the sea was calm and bountiful and all the men fitted into seven boats. So when they found the drowned man they simply had to look at one another to see that they were all there.
That night they did not go out to work at sea. While the men went to find out if anyone was missing in neighboring villages, the women stayed behind to care for the drowned man. They took the mud off with grass swabs, they removed the underwater stones entangled in his hair, and they scraped the crust off with tools used for scaling fish. As they were doing that they noticed that the vegetation on him came from faraway oceans and deep water and that his clothes were in tatters, as if he had sailed through labyrinths of coral. They noticed too that he bore his death with pride, for he did not have the lonely look of other drowned men who came out of the sea or that haggard, needy look of men who drowned in rivers. But only when they finished cleaning him off did they become aware of the kind of man he was and it left them breathless. Not only was he the tallest, strongest, most virile, and best built man they had ever seen, but even though they were looking at him there was no room for him in their imagination.
They could not find a bed in the village large enough to lay him on nor was there a table solid enough to use for his wake. The tallest men's holiday pants would not fit him, nor the fattest ones' Sunday shirts, nor the shoes of the one with the biggest feet. Fascinated by his huge size and his beauty, the women then decided to make him some pants from a large piece of sail and a shirt from some bridal brabant linen so that he could continue through his death with dignity. As they sewed, sitting in a circle and gazing at the corpse between stitches, it seemed to them that the wind had never been so steady nor the sea so restless as on that night and they supposed that the change had something to do with the dead man. They thought that if that magnificent man had lived in the village, his house would have had the widest doors, the highest ceiling, and the strongest floor, his bedstead would have been made from a midship frame held together by iron bolts, and his wife would have been the happiest woman. They thought that he would have had so much authority that he could have drawn fish out of the sea simply by calling their names and that he would have put so much work into his land that springs would have burst forth from among the rocks so that he would have been able to plant flowers on the cliffs. They secretly compared him to their own men, thinking that for all their lives theirs were incapable of doing what he could do in one night, and they ended up dismissing them deep in their hearts as the weakest, meanest and most useless creatures on earth. They were wandering through that maze of fantasy when the oldest woman, who as the oldest had looked upon the drowned man with more compassion than passion, sighed: 'He has the face of someone called Esteban.'
It was true. Most of them had only to take another look at him to see that he could not have any other name. The more stubborn among them, who were the youngest, still lived for a few hours with the illusion that when they put his clothes on and he lay among the flowers in patent leather shoes his name might be Lautaro. But it was a vain illusion. There had not been enough canvas, the poorly cut and worse sewn pants were too tight, and the hidden strength of his heart popped the buttons on his shirt. After midnight the whistling of the wind died down and the sea fell into its Wednesday drowsiness. The silence put an end to any last doubts: he was Esteban. The women who had dressed him, who had combed his hair, had cut his nails and shaved him were unable to hold back a shudder of pity when they had to resign themselves to his being dragged along the ground. It was then that they understood how unhappy he must have been with that huge body since it bothered him even after death. They could see him in life, condemned to going through doors sideways, cracking his head on crossbeams, remaining on his feet during visits, not knowing what to do with his soft, pink, sea lion hands while the lady of the house looked for her most resistant chair and begged him, frightened to death, sit here, Esteban, please, and he, leaning against the wall, smiling, don't bother, ma'am, I'm fine where I am, his heels raw and his back roasted from having done the same thing so many times whenever he paid a visit, don't bother, ma'am, I'm fine where I am, just to avoid the embarrassment of breaking up the chair, and never knowing perhaps that the ones who said don't go, Esteban, at least wait till the coffee's ready, were the ones who later on would whisper the big boob finally left, how nice, the handsome fool has gone. That was what the women were thinking beside the body a little before dawn. Later, when they covered his face with a handkerchief so that the light would not bother him, he looked so forever dead, so defenseless, so much like their men that the first furrows of tears opened in their hearts. It was one of the younger ones who began the weeping. The others, coming to, went from sighs to wails, and the more they sobbed the more they felt like weeping, because the drowned man was becoming all the more Esteban for them, and so they wept so much, for he was the more destitute, most peaceful, and most obliging man on earth, poor Esteban. So when the men returned with the news that the drowned man was not from the neighboring villages either, the women felt an opening of jubilation in the midst of their tears.
'Praise the Lord,' they sighed, 'he's ours!'
The men thought the fuss was only womanish frivolity. Fatigued because of the difficult nighttime inquiries, all they wanted was to get rid of the bother of the newcomer once and for all before the sun grew strong on that arid, windless day. They improvised a litter with the remains of foremasts and gaffs, tying it together with rigging so that it would bear the weight of the body until they reached the cliffs. They wanted to tie the anchor from a cargo ship to him so that he would sink easily into the deepest waves, where fish are blind and divers die of nostalgia, and bad currents would not bring him back to shore, as had happened with other bodies. But the more they hurried, the more the women thought of ways to waste time. They walked about like startled hens, pecking with the sea charms on their breasts, some interfering on one side to put a scapular of the good wind on the drowned man, some on the other side to put a wrist compass on him , and after a great deal of get away from there, woman, stay out of the way, look, you almost made me fall on top of the dead man, the men began to feel mistrust in their livers and started grumbling about why so many main-altar decorations for a stranger, because no matter how many nails and holy-water jars he had on him, the sharks would chew him all the same, but the women kept piling on their junk relics, running back and forth, stumbling, while they released in sighs what they did not in tears, so that the men finally exploded with since when has there ever been such a fuss over a drifting corpse, a drowned nobody, a piece of cold Wednesday meat. One of the women, mortified by so much lack of care, then removed the handkerchief from the dead man's face and the men were left breathless too.
He was Esteban. It was not necessary to repeat it for them to recognize him. If they had been told Sir Walter Raleigh, even they might have been impressed with his gringo accent, the macaw on his shoulder, his cannibal-killing blunderbuss, but there could be only one Esteban in the world and there he was, stretched out like a sperm whale, shoeless, wearing the pants of an undersized child, and with those stony nails that had to be cut with a knife. They only had to take the handkerchief off his face to see that he was ashamed, that it was not his fault that he was so big or so heavy or so handsome, and if he had known that this was going to happen, he would have looked for a more discreet place to drown in, seriously, I even would have tied the anchor off a galleon around my nick and staggered off a cliff like someone who doesn't like things in order not to be upsetting people now with this Wednesday dead body, as you people say, in order not to be bothering anyone with this filthy piece of cold meat that doesn't have anything to do with me. There was so much truth in his manner that even the most mistrustful men, the ones who felt the bitterness of endless nights at sea fearing that their women would tire of dreaming about them and begin to dream of drowned men, even they and others who were harder still shuddered in the marrow of their bones at Esteban's sincerity.
That was how they came to hold the most splendid funeral they could ever conceive of for an abandoned drowned man. Some women who had gone to get flowers in the neighboring villages returned with other women who could not believe what they had been told, and those women went back for more flowers when they saw the dead man, and they brought more and more until there were so many flowers and so many people that it was hard to walk about. At the final moment it pained them to return him to the waters as an orphan and they chose a father and mother from among the best people, and aunts and uncles and cousins, so that through him all the inhabitants of the village became kinsmen. Some sailors who heard the weeping from a distance went off course and people heard of one who had himself tied to the mainmast, remembering ancient fables about sirens. While they fought for the privilege of carrying him on their shoulders along the steep escarpment by the cliffs, men and women became aware for the first time of the desolation of their streets, the dryness of their courtyards, the narrowness of their dreams as they faced the splendor and beauty of their drowned man. They let him go without an anchor so that he could come back if he wished and whenever he wished, and they all held their breath for the fraction of centuries the body took to fall into the abyss. They did not need to look at one another to realize that they were no longer all present, that they would never be. But they also knew that everything would be different from then on, that their houses would have wider doors, higher ceilings, and stronger floors so that Esteban's memory could go everywhere without bumping into beams and so that no one in the future would dare whisper the big boob finally died, too bad, the handsome fool has finally died, because they were going to paint their house fronts gay colors to make Esteban's memory eternal and they were going to break their backs digging for springs among the stones and planting flowers on the cliffs so that in future years at dawn the passengers on great liners would awaken, suffocated by the smell of gardens on the high seas, and the captain would have to come down from the bridge in his dress uniform, with his astrolabe, his pole star, and his row of war medals and, pointing to the promontory of roses on the horizon, he would say in fourteen languages, look there, where the wind is so peaceful now that it's gone to sleep beneath the beds, over there, where the sun's so bright that the sunflowers don't know which way to turn, yes, over there, that's Esteban's village.
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1/24/14
“If a man could pass thro’ Paradise in a Dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and found that flower in his hand when he awoke—Aye? And what then?” -Samuel Coleridge (from the Garden by Robin Craig)
Some nights, when you dream of a dream that is so real. You can touch someone; a kiss, a hug, the slightest touch of a fingertip. A melange of unexplainable feelings that are beyond our normal physical sensory.
That's what happened the other day, I dreamt that I was holding on to your hand, before it was time to go and I haven't said the things I needed to say. Slowly my eyes brought me back to stark reality, reluctantly my fingers left your palm and when I awoke from my slumber; the ear buds on my bed were in my hand. Still attached to my iPod, I was holding onto them the whole time; it couldn't be your doing?
Nevertheless, they were in my palm and it felt as real as if you had left your fingers graze on me after we departed. Your seamless touch surpassing from one world to the next.
If I Can Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Dm16MOvRI# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Dm16MOvRI#)
You're the best thing that happened to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB7rhfLl8AU# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB7rhfLl8AU#)
j'Adore ;o)
'nites
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1/27/14
Tonight's so cold :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbG8yMD4_w0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbG8yMD4_w0#)
Once in a lifetime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtlm7ypAYg# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtlm7ypAYg#)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDSKuDiZteI# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDSKuDiZteI#)
I don't like to sleep alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqPZ2wlsXW4# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqPZ2wlsXW4#)
Brian Tracy says to write a specific goal on a piece of paper you want to do and write examples of what you will do to achieve them on the other side and he says that by item #20 you'll understand what it take to accomplish it.
When you are successful you can't wait to get up and start your day off.
Thanks to GT B for writing this short excerpt from Brian's 10 Goal Methods.
Brian Tracy - The 10 Goal Method
Brian opens his presentation explaining how he learned early that everybody starts out with nothing. “The great tragedy,” he says, “is most people stay at nothing, most of their lives.”
He picked up the concept of the 10 Goal Method along the way and began applying it.
“I am very eager to try anything, so I began to use this 10 Goal Method,” he explains. “I noticed extraordinary changes in my life very quickly.”
Before getting into the 10 Goal Method in his video presentation, Brian outlines a seven-step “recipe” for goal setting.
1 - Decide what you want;
2 - Write it down;
3 - Set a deadline;
4 - Make a list of everything you need to do to achieve it;
5 - Organize the list into a plan;
6 - Take action;
7 - Do something every day.
List Your 10 Goals
As a visual aid, he then produces a folded sheet of paper from an inside jacket pocket and instructs viewers to get their own piece of paper and on it, write the word “Goals” and today’s date at the top of the page.
“This is going to be a very important piece of paper for you,” says Brian. “Write down 10 goals that you would like to accomplish in the next 12 months.”
He explains that the goals should contain three specific qualities, the “Three Ps,” he explains.
First P - Write them in the Present tense:
I earn this amount of money by such-and-such date.
I weigh this number of pounds by such-and-such date.
I drive this type of car; live in this type of house; achieve this type of goal...
“You say it as though you have already accomplished the goal. This is the type of command your subconscious mind goes to work on immediately.”
Second P - Always phrase your goals in a Positive tense:
I am a non-smoker.
I weigh this number of pounds.
Third P - Make it Personal; always use the “I” word when writing down a goal.
“When you use the word ‘I’ it signifies that a very important goal is coming down from head office,” he says with a smile.
He also notes that the simpler the goal is stated, the faster it will come into reality. Every goal must be in the present tense, be positive and personal, and be time-dated.
“Once you’ve completed this exercise, something marvellous has happened,” states Brian, “because only the top 3% of adults have done this; written down 10 goals in the present tense, positive and personal, in their lives.”
How to get into the Top 1%
After elaborating on other statistics demonstrating the success of the 10 Goal Method, Brian spends a few minutes outlining a further step to produce above average results. Do this, he says, and it will put you in the top 1% of adults:
- Select the most important goal from the list; it will be your key goal;
- On a clean sheet of paper, at the top of the page, write the goal in the present tense, with positive and personal language;
- Set a specific deadline;
- On the page, make a list of everything you can possibly do to achieve the goal;
- Organize the list by sequence and priority;
- Take action;
- Do something every day.
“Make the decision that once you’ve started on this goal, you’ll never stop until it’s accomplished,” instructs Brian. “When you get up in the morning, think about this goal. All day long, think of this goal.”
If you do this exercise, something remarkable will happen, he says.
“You’ll go from positive thinking to positive knowing. You’ll go from wishing and hoping to absolutely knowing that you can set and achieve an important goal... And the things you will accomplish in the years ahead will be absolutely extraordinary!”
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2/9/14
Last two weeks ago on Friday, I almost ran a drunk guy over on the road coming home at night. He was in the middle of the road, in subzero temperatures. I don't know whether it is safe to be a good Samaritan anymore these days or not. This past week an elderly man, 69 years of age, was shot when he let a man into his house after trying to help the guy call 911. He was the next door neighbor, to many a retired army veteran. His wife survived the attack, but who knows why it happened.
Back to that night, it was freezing cold as always, -9. I didn't even want to stop and barely missed the guy by less than a car length. He was right dab in the center of my lane. I pulled to the right and stopped for a moment. He runs to my passenger side and begins to frantically knock on my window.
Slowly, I let the passenger side window down a few inches to see who he was. And he begins to yell at me to let him in. I told him, NO! Then I proceeded to ask for his name and where he was going. To which he finally complied, otherwise I would not let him in. After a few minutes talking...
Miles Kline was his name. He had a greenish-brown jacket on, brown hair, and a medium frame. That's what I could remember if he would have shot me and I survived, but I asked to see his hands if he had anything before letting him in the car.
I ended up taking the guy back to his place and that was the end of my night. That day I had just received my Journey Revelation CD album and was playing it my car. I should have kicked him out of the car when he said Journey sucked...lols Open Arms and Don't Stop Believing will always be remembered
That CD has gone up to as much as 1K... And I've seen people buy it for around 600 bucks on Amazon. I hope they keep that CD a limited edition, and don't produce anymore because I have two original copies. Only way you can get it is from Japan and I already spoken with Wal-Mart who has the only rights to distribute it, and no stores had a copy within a 50 mile radius of where I was.
Save my Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyZbuMw8fmw# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyZbuMw8fmw#)
Love will Remain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PIMXCGOlPk# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PIMXCGOlPk#)
1 Cor 2:2
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you, except JC and him crucified.
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2.17.14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCx1kHWG0Xc# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCx1kHWG0Xc#)
"Valentine"
(with Martina McBride)
If there were no words
No way to speak
I would still hear you
If there were no tears
No way to feel inside
I'd still feel for you
[Chorus:]
And even if the sun refused to shine
Even if romance ran out of rhyme
You would still have my heart
Until the end of time
You're all I need, my love, my Valentine
All of my life
I have been waiting for
All you give to me
You've opened my eyes
And shown me how to love unselfishly
[Chorus:]
I've dreamed of this a thousand times before
But in my dreams I couldn't love you more
I will give you my heart
Until the end of time
You're all I need, my love, my Valentine
[piano solo]
[Chorus:]
And even if the sun refused to shine
Even if romance ran out of rhyme
You would still have my heart
Until the end of time
'Cause all I need is you, my Valentine
You're all I need, my love, my Valentine
J'Adore ;o)
x
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2.25.14
Finally found it! 8)
Fan tid fai hua jai tid din (Dreamers) 1997
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CH4tjj9Eck# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CH4tjj9Eck#)
Duay Nam Ta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg9mEAYQi3o# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg9mEAYQi3o#)
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Hi, hon! How are you? :D
Fan tid fai hua jai tid din (Dreamers) 1997....I remember that movie. I love ST...he's got a babyface. He is so dreamy!
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Hi, hon! How are you? :D
Fan tid fai hua jai tid din (Dreamers) 1997....I remember that movie. I love ST...he's got a babyface. He is so dreamy!
Hello, PH wifey! :P 8) :-\
How are u!
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3.2.14
Bethesda Pool
It was told in John 5:1-19 of a time when Jesus came by these pools and healed a man who had been lame for 38 years. Legend has it by many Jews that periodically an angel would come and stir the waters and whoever would get into the pool first would be healed. Yet Jesus taught this man to trust in Him rather then legends of men.
Can I trust in you?
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"Faith allows things to happen. It is the power that comes from a fearless heart.
And when a fearless heart believes, miracles happen."-unknown
Sometimes we need miracles in our lives.
To the Beautiful You
It's me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBDq-JPwqUQ#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBDq-JPwqUQ#ws)
Butterfly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_f57jCSJns#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_f57jCSJns#ws)
Fighting! :P
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3.4.14
Does anyone know the original Chinese song for this tune? I had it but lost it.
Hlub Tsis Yooj Yim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrGCL0goRm8# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrGCL0goRm8#)
Verse 1:
Lub ntuj tsaus nti muaj ntau hnub qub ci
Los kuv tsuav muaj koj ib leeg xwb
Koj muaj nuj nqi tshaj plaws
Kuv paub koj zoo tshaj
Kuv zoo siab heev thaum kuv los nyob ze koj
Verse 2:
Txhua hnub txhua hmo npau suav txog koj xwb
Zoo siab muaj koj nrog kuv nyob ua ke
Tsis xav mus nrhiav lwm tus
Zoo siab nrog koj mus
Yuav nrog koj mus txog hnub kawg
Chorus 1:
Yuav ntsib tus neeg zoo li koj yeej tsis yooj yim
Thaum sib ntsib kuv nkag siab koj yeej yog neeg zoo
Zoo tshaj lub hnub lub hli nyob puag saum lub ntuj
Koj ntxim kuv lub siab kuv thiaj tau los hlub koj
*Repeat All
Chorus 2: *Repeat 2x
La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
Zoo tshaj lub hnub lub hli nyob puag saum lub ntuj
Koj ntxim kuv lub siab kuv thiaj tau los hlub koj
j'Adore ;o)
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3.20.14
Meggido "Jezreel Valley" mostly known as the valley of Armeggedon.
The final show down where all the armies of the world are going to meet one day to battle. Napoleon himself said, "All the armies of the world could maneuver their forces on this vast plain."
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As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be manifested in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” -John 9:3
Jesus appeared to the disciples on the shores of the Sea of Galilee and asks Simon Peter if he loves him. Three times he asked him, three times Peter had denied him before. If you love me, "Feed my sheep."
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Marrying someone, it shouldn't be based on looks alone. People's personality change as they get older, something they do could be cute today but get annoying as the years go on. I've seen a lot of good and bad in marriages. I do hope that people marry for the right reasons but every so often I would see some do it for the wrong reasons. Here's a list of wrong reasons why people get married:
-getting too old
-jumped into love too fast
-married because of looks, money, fame or popularity, education, or status
-fell for the sob stories, in other words they felt sorry for the person
-their friends told them to
-loneliness
-want to have babies
-want to get away from family
-everyone else or all their close friends are married
The list continues, don't marry someone for the wrong reasons. 8)
At the end of the day, ask yourself, do you love this person... whether for good or bad.
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3.20.14
Marrying someone, it shouldn't be based on looks alone. People's personality change as they get older, something they do could be cute today but get annoying as the years go on. I've seen a lot of good and bad in marriages. I do hope that people marry for the right reasons but every so often I would see some do it for the wrong reasons. Here's a list of wrong reasons why people get married:
-getting too old
-jumped into love too fast
-married because of looks, money, fame or popularity, education, or status
-fell for the sob stories, in other words they felt sorry for the person
-their friends told them to
-loneliness
-want to have babies
-want to get away from family
-everyone else or all their close friends are married
The list continues, don't marry someone for the wrong reasons. 8)
At the end of the day, ask yourself, do you love this person... whether for good or bad.
With this mindset, you will find someone that will greatly appreciate your love. O0
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3/26/14
Who sung this? I think it's either Loswing or Destiny. Beginning sounds alright, until the chorus and ending.
Too emo for me even.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgjbPa0-ESE# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgjbPa0-ESE#)
Lub hnub ibtxwm nyob rau sau ntuj,
Lub paj ibtxwm nyob nrog tus kav.
Tus ntses ibtxwm nyob nrog tus dej,
Es koj ibtxwm nyob nrog kuv.
Wb txojkev hlub, wb tau cog lus,
Tias yuav sib hlub mus tag ibtxhis.
Lub suab luag ntxhi nyob hauv kuv xubntiag,
Tsis muaj hnub uas koj yuav khiav...
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4/2/14
How do you know that you have loved someone? Can you really love someone by only listening to what others have said about him or her. For instance, a boy may have fallen for a girl because of what others have described to him even before he has had the chance to meet her. His hope is that she is what everyone has said about her is true.
Have you really loved someone? Is it better to only hear about somebody and to be in love with that person by ear or to actually fall in love and be with that person forever. No doubt in my mind, it's always better to fall in love...
Psalms 91:14, He delivers and protects those who love Him and acknowledges His name.
Miracles in December
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYk_Rfbo65A#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYk_Rfbo65A#ws)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpPuRZDZtBQ#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpPuRZDZtBQ#ws)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdUOB-cbzvo#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdUOB-cbzvo#ws)
I am searching for the one I can’t see anymore
I am listening for the one I can’t hear anymore
I can see the things I couldn’t see
Can hear the things I couldn’t hear
You’ve give me this power ever since you left me right here
Before, I was selfish and I didn’t care about you
I didn’t understand your heart; I was a fool
Right now, I’m trying to change who I am
And I know you’re not by my side
But it’s because of your love that I’m trying to change
It seems as if everything in my world somehow reminds me of you
Each snowflake in the sky is like a teardrop that came from you
I wish that somehow you would appear
I wish you’d be by my side, right here
Even with this power, I still cannot bring you back to me
Before, I was selfish and I didn’t care about you
I didn’t understand your heart; I was a fool
Right now, I’m trying to change who I am
And I know you’re not by my side
But it’s because of your love that I’m trying to change
If I could freeze time, I’d go back to you
I open this book and see the pictures of us two
On that page, you and I…
back then when there was “you and I”
I’m not strong, but I can change because of you
Because of your love
You changed my everything (My whole life and more)
Everything (My world from before)
Before, I didn’t understand how precious love was
I thought when it ended, everything would be just fine
Right now, I’m trying to change who I am
And I know you’re not by my side
But it’s because of your love that my love will go on
If I could freeze time (Oh, if I could)
I’d go back to you (I’d go back to you)
I open this book (of memories)
It has the pain that we both knew
As my tears fade away…
snow begins to fall just like that day
I’m still searching for the one I can’t see anymore
I’m still listening for the one I can’t hear anymore
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Hi, honey. Something about the way you put your thoughts on print brings about a soothing calmness in me. Your faith is amazing JJ.
I want the fall in love like those made in a romance movie....do-overs for the perfect kiss, multiple scenes because the lighting isn't right, bad acting and all. ;)
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4/10/14
For the Ultimate Warrior within you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23n3SrYJhY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23n3SrYJhY)
One of my favorite icons growing up as a kid passed away this week. Even the Gods couldn't save the Warrior from death. It all takes us one by one, who are we to deserve to live and breathe in this moment of time; life is complex, soft, and intricate. In an instant it is going to fly by, I need to remind myself that I must do things with integrity. Become a man of integrity and transform my thoughts, words, and actions by every word that proceeds from the truth.
This is from an article I found on the net:
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/04/07/living-a-life-of-integrity/ (http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/04/07/living-a-life-of-integrity/)
Practicing Integrity
Living a life of integrity is a daily process that’s doesn’t end until your life does. Here are some ways to develop integrity:
Decide now, not later. Many men have not thought through their personal value system. They’re not sure who they are or what they stand for, and they wait until the breaking of a crisis to make their decision. At that point, it’s too late. Faced then with great pressure, you will be more prone to take the route which is easier in that moment. Decide now what you will and will not compromise on. Then, when faced with ethical choices, the decision will have already been made.
Quit the rationalizatio ns. There’s always a million reasons to compromise your integrity. You hear them on the news every day as corporate bigwigs struggle to justify their fat bonus checks. You can always come up with justifications that seemingly make good sense and let you sleep better at night. But at the end of the day, when you place your rationalizatio ns on a scale next to integrity, you’ll realize you sold out something priceless for a measly pittance. There’s nothing more valuable than your good name and the ability to look at yourself in the mirror each day with a clear conscience.
Don’t take the first step. When a great man falls from grace, we often wonder how he could have ever messed up so royally. The truth is that he didn’t wake up one day and decide to commit an egregious blunder. It started with a little fudging here, a tiny bit of lying there. From there he just kept on sliding down the slippery slope of compromise. Don’t compromise on the little things, and you won’t on the bigger ones.
Don’t justify the means for the end. This is probably the most popular rationalizatio n for breaking with your integrity. In reality, the journey towards an accomplishment or decision is just as important as the destination itself. Even if you are richly rewarded at the end, if you cannot look back on the means used to get there with anything but shame, your victory will be hollow indeed.
Take personal responsibility for you life. At the heart of integrity is the ability to own up to the fact that you are in control of your life. You are responsible for both your successes and your failures. Nobody else but you.
Living a Life of Integrity
Integrity is a value that we should strive for in all areas of your life. Here are some of the areas and situations where it should always be applied:
Integrity Within Yourself
I once read an acquaintance’s blog in which he wrote of running into someone at a bar and struggling to remember what story he had told her about himself. Apparently, he enjoys telling people that he meets at bars and such that he is different people-a pilot, a doctor, a soldier, etc. He said that it sometimes gets hard to remember who he told what.
While this is an extreme example, how many men do you know who act like social chameleons; they are a different guy with you, a different guy at home, a different guy at work, a different guy when traveling, ect. Instead of being a single self, they live as multiple selves, transforming into who they think each group wants them to be. William James, the philosopher and psychologist, said that men have “as many different social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares.”
Even if you aren’t outright lying like my acquaintance, turning on some alternate persona in different situations can be exhausting. You end up feeling fragmented and confused as to who you really are. No relationship should require you to pretend to be someone you’re not. If people don’t like who you really are, why would you want to be friends with them in the first place?
The first step towards integrity is being honest with yourself. Be who are. Say what you mean. Do what you say you will do. Don’t just walk the walk; talk the talk.
Integrity at Work
Put in 40 hours of work for 40 hours of pay. You’re getting paid to do a job, not goof around. There are of course exceptions; you may be done with one project and have nothing to do until you get your next assignment. But if you’re supposed to be working on something, you shouldn’t be watching March Madness games.
Don’t take credit for others’ success. Never take someone’s idea and pitch it as your own. And don’t jump on a wagon at the end of a successful ride that you didn’t contribute to.
Be transparent. Make your deals as transparent as possible. Don’t leave out things that the other party is going to hate you for later when they figure out what they really signed.
Don’t steal supplies. Yeah, the corporation you work for doesn’t pay you enough. And yeah, no one is going to miss that box of paperclips. But it’s still stealing, buddy.
Avoid situations where you’ll have a conflict of interest. If you’re caught in something that prevents you from making completely honest decisions, get out.
If your company pressures you to make unethical decisions, walk away. It’s not true every man has a price; a man of integrity prizes his character above monetary security. Is it possible to make it in your career field while having true integrity? Yes, but only if you’re the best at what you do. You’ll always need to be a cut above the guys who take shortcuts to get ahead.
Integrity in Your Romantic Relationships
Be an open book. Don’t keep secrets from your significant other. Even if the secrets don’t affect her, if she finds out you’ve been keeping stuff from her, it will erode the trust between you.
Avoid emotional cheating. Having integrity in regards to physical cheating is a given. Harder is avoiding emotional cheating, a straying that seems more innocuous at first, but easily leads to the corporeal variety. If you find yourself sharing more of your thoughts and feelings with a female friend or co-worker than you do with your wife, it’s time to take a big step back.
End a relationship when you know it’s over. If you’re dating someone and have reached the point where you know you two don’t have a future together, don’t keep dragging her along because you’re afraid to end things. Break up with her like a man.
Integrity with your Friendships
Keep your promises. Always, always follow-through with the things you have said you will do. A man’s word is his bond. If you tell your friend that you’ll hang out with him, and then the girl you like invites you over–too bad. You already made other plans.
Don’t talk smack about other people. Saying something behind someone’s back that you wouldn’t say to their face shows a distinct lack of integrity.
Be the vault. When friend trusts you with confidential information, lock those secrets away. Nothing erodes a friendship faster then a breach of trust in the secret department.
Warrior - by DL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPoG8-WJTt0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPoG8-WJTt0)
This is a story that I've never told
I gotta get this off my chest to let it go
I need to take back the light inside you stole
You're a criminal
And you steal like you're a pro
All the pain and the truth
I wear like a battle wound
So ashamed so confused, I was broken and bruised
Now I'm a warrior
Now I've got thicker skin
I'm a warrior
I'm stronger than ive ever been
And my armor, is made of steel, you cant get in
I'm a warrior
And you can never hurt me again
Out of the ashes,I'm burning like a fire
You can save your apologies, you're nothing but a liar
I've got shame, I've got scars
That I'lll never show
I'm a survivor
In more ways than you know
Cause all the pain and the truth
I wear like a battle wound
So ashamed so confused, I'm not broken, or bruised
Now I'm a warrior
Now I've got thicker skin
I'm a warrior
I'm stronger than I've ever been
And my armor, is made of steel, you can't get in
Im a warrior
And you can never hurt me again
There's a part of me I can't get back
A little girl grew up too fast
All it took was once, I'll never be the same
Now I'm taking back my life today
Nothing left that you can say
Cause you were never gonna take the blame anyway
Now I'm a warrior
Now I've got thicker skin
I'm a warrior
I'm stronger than I've ever been
And my armor, is made of steel, you can't get in
I'm a warrior
And you can never hurt me again
Nooo oooh yeaaah yeaah
You can never hurt me again
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Good morning Jon-Jon,
Hope you are doing fine and is having a wonderful spring.
I heard the news that Ultimate Warrior passed on and it's kind of sad because he was a legend. I was hoping for him to make a comeback before he gets too old, but guess he move on. He was one of those Icons where you take notice and reminds me of a superhero like the rock. Rock's presence can shine the whole arena and warrior had that spark. I hope the warrior family take it well and hope he will find happiness.
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Good morning Jon-Jon,
Hope you are doing fine and is having a wonderful spring.
I heard the news that Ultimate Warrior passed on and it's kind of sad because he was a legend. I was hoping for him to make a comeback before he gets too old, but guess he move on. He was one of those Icons where you take notice and reminds me of a superhero like the rock. Rock's presence can shine the whole arena and warrior had that spark. I hope the warrior family take it well and hope he will find happiness.
G'morn, man. It's kind of hard remembering him as a kid, I have faint memories of his wrestling matches on TV when WWF reigned supreme. I know the feeling now that my co-worker had when Davy Jones of the Monkees passed away in 2012, it's someone you grew up seeing live on TV. And now they're gone.
Guess what hit me was the memory of that time my friend in grade school dressed up as the Ultimate Warrior and claimed to be his kid. He was a poor kid like me and for Halloween he wore nothing but some undies and tied some strings around his elbows and knees. Marker'd up his face with a mask like he was the Ultimate Warrior and showed up to class.. Haha
The teacher took him to the principals office called his parents and told him to go back home and put on some clothes. Lols...
The Warrior is now amongst the Gods.
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6/18/14
Carry Me Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9tjdfnxics#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9tjdfnxics#ws)
Unpredictable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7cFCK_cLbE#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7cFCK_cLbE#ws)
Angel of Mine by The Icarus Account
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xx5zXMSEzw#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xx5zXMSEzw#ws)
There was a time when I was never really sure
If I was ever gonna find that perfect girl
Kept thanking the day when you came my way everything changed
I could tell straight from the moment that we met
You would always be the girl I can not forget
In all of my thoughts
In all of my prayers
In all of my kiss
So maybe I'm falling in love
With an angel that came from above
Your something to find
One of a kind
You were all that I can see
Yes, sometimes it's hard to believe
Your something to find
One of a kind
Angel of mine
Angel of mine
I've never been the type to go all in
You were different it was evident
You gave me your heart
I'll give you mine
All of the time
So maybe I'm falling in love
With an angel that came from above
Your something to find
One of a kind
You were all that I can see
Yes, sometimes it's hard to believe
Your something to find
One of a kind
Angel of mine
Angel of mine
Where did you come from from?
Where have you been?
I have been waiting all this time
Angel of mine
So finally I've fallen in love
With an angel from above
You're something to find
One of a kind
You are all that I can see
Yes sometimes it's hard to believe
You're something to find
One of a kind
Angel of mine
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Do you remember love?
I can hear your voice now,
Tell me to go to you,
Just as I am about to be overcome with loneliness.
I can see you now,
Walking towards me,
As I close my eyes and wait.
My heart was clouded by tears just yesterday,
But now...
Do you remember when our eyes met?
Do you remember when our hands touched?
That was my first foray into love.
I love you, so.
I am no longer alone.
You are here with me...
https://youtu.be/_fZd19Do-rc (https://youtu.be/_fZd19Do-rc)
You're the one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FORgRKFJ58Y# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FORgRKFJ58Y#)
Haven't posted here in a long time. Thought I would stop since my time here is up. Don't awaken love until it so desires. SoS 2:7
Here's to you.
Girl, just take my hand
And pull me close to you
The love we have is true
Like a candle in the night
You are my light, my life
And I will burn for you
What you are to me
Girl, I will always need
Come, walk along with me
And tell me how you feel
You know my love's for real
Please don't leave me now
I'll make it work somehow
I promise, starting now
What you are to me
Girl, I will always need
[Chorus:]:
You are the one that makes me laugh
You are the one that makes me cry
I could go on and on and on
But that would do nothing if you're gone
Come and sit down by my side
Tell me it's alright
We'll make it through the night
Please don't shed a tear
I'll always love you dear
We'll last a million years
[Chorus:]
J'adore
;o)
Hey there. how are you? ;)
Michael Jackson is back! Raindrops keep falling on my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcUH5CHab_c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcUH5CHab_c)
It's your love
https://youtu.be/DN_CGVYUSdo (https://youtu.be/DN_CGVYUSdo)
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3/18/2016
Haven't come back here in ages. Why not... and leave my fingerprints in here once more.
We're just a bunch of monkeys trying to get out. Sometimes the only people stopping you are the ones you hang around with. Maybe if you took a step outside of your social circle you'll see that things can change, and you have greater potential than you thought. Don't let others put you down because they can't achieve something that you see is easily obtainable.
The Five Monkeys Experiment
An experimenter puts 5 monkeys in a large cage. High up at the top of the cage, well beyond the reach of the monkeys, is a bunch of bananas. Underneath the bananas is a ladder.
The monkeys immediately spot the bananas and one begins to climb the ladder. As he does, however, the experimenter sprays him with a stream of cold water. Then, he proceeds to spray each of the other monkeys.
The monkey on the ladder scrambles off. And all 5 sit for a time on the floor, wet, cold, and bewildered. Soon, though, the temptation of the bananas is too great, and another monkey begins to climb the ladder. Again, the experimenter sprays the ambitious monkey with cold water and all the other monkeys as well. When a third monkey tries to climb the ladder, the other monkeys, wanting to avoid the cold spray, pull him off the ladder and beat him.
Now one monkey is removed and a new monkey is introduced to the cage. Spotting the bananas, he naively begins to climb the ladder. The other monkeys pull him off and beat him.
Here’s where it gets interesting. The experimenter removes a second one of the original monkeys from the cage and replaces him with a new monkey. Again, the new monkey begins to climb the ladder and, again, the other monkeys pull him off and beat him – including the monkey who had never been sprayed.
By the end of the experiment, none of the original monkeys were left and yet, despite none of them ever experiencing the cold, wet, spray, they had all learned never to try and go for the bananas.
The metaphor and the lessons that apply to work are clear. Despite the exhortations from management to be innovative and collaborative, cold water is poured on people and their ideas whenever someone tries something new. Or, perhaps worse, the other employees suppress innovation, and learned helplessness spreads throughout the firm.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Heaven's Knife
By Josh Garrels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHmqt4e5dE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHmqt4e5dE)
Take my hand
I won’t let go
We’ve waited so long
And all my life
I walked alone
To you, my heart, my home
Like the first man
I was cut so deep by heaven’s knife
When I awoke from my sleep
Oh my Lord, she’s beautiful
She’s a part of me
She’s my wife
Bound by love
One flesh to be
An unbroken ring
And I lay down
My life for thee
In this we are free
Like the first man
I was cut so deep by heaven’s knife
When I awoke from my sleep
Oh my Lord, she’ s beautiful
Walking up to me
Oh she’s wonderful, standing next to me
Oh she’s all
All that I can see, yeah
She’s beautiful, she’s a part of me
She’s my wife
J'Adore
;o)
8/3/16
Above everything else guard your heart, because from it flow the springs of life. Prov - 4:23
If I was your heart and you were mine. I'd guard you for the rest of my life. For above everything else, you are the spring that gives me life. And I hope to be the spring that brings you joy. What more do I need?
We'll live forever if you were Here in My Heart and if I was in yours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKgnEz7HmuY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKgnEz7HmuY)
Me Lug Sib Tau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_YcJbZLgc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_YcJbZLgc)
Lyrics
Meb lug sib tau
Voice # 7
Peb tuaj ntawm nuav, nrug meb zoo sab
Txuj kev sib, hlub meb, lug sib sau...
Ua txij ua nkawm, koom ib lub cev
Meb ob leeg yuav yog ib leeg
Thov vaajtswv coj, nrug nraim meb
Txuj hauv kev, kws meb yuav taug
Thov vaajtswv rwj, meb kev ua neej
Kuam ua lub neej nyob kaaj sab lug
Chorus
Txij hnub nua moog, meb yog ib leeg
Koom ib lub sab taug tuab txuj kev
Nkauj nyaab nraug vauv kuam txhawj sib hlub
Ua neej luag ntxhis, muaj koom muaj meej
Nyob kaaj sab lug, moog le ib txhis
Music
Txij hnub nuav moog, meb ob nam txiv
Yuav tau sib, hlub hab, lug sib fwm
Koj noog kuv qhuab, kuv noog koj khiav
Thov vaajtswv coj meb txuj hauv kev
Meb kev ua neej, ntawm yaav tom ntej
Txoj cia kev, tshum cais, meej kev hlub
Txhob xyum qai dlub, tuav neeg txhaj paub
Lug neej yuav zoo yog ua sab ncaaj
Chorus 2x
J'Adore
;o)
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Sometimes when you look at the stars you wonder what God will bring to you. And out of all those stars at night, we wish God will do something or bring someone into our life to help us. To deliver us out of own misery. Don't ask, give what you have out of generosity or benevolence, and the universe will work for you in positive ways to return what is rightfully yours.
Someone once told me, "10 sons cannot amount to the might of 1 father." However, let me add, that 10 sons do not amount to the love of 1 mother.
Thanks for making me realize that.
You're amazing.
(http://www.lizmulheron.com/uploads/7/5/5/0/75504013/9946244.jpg?1459810828)
A girl dedicated this song to me in grade school. I didn't know what she was thinking at the time as I was dumb about love and into my own world. Puppy love? I never knew. I wasn't the lovey dovey type at the time—trying to be tough was in.
It does bring back memories of childhood friends. The freestyle era only lasted so long. Gone are the bass beats and the techno synthesizers of that time.
Holding On
https://youtu.be/cG7g2VB9i8U (https://youtu.be/cG7g2VB9i8U)
Some days
I look back in the times
When all your world was mine
I look back on the joys that lovers seem to find
Time and time again I think of you
Just tell me what it takes
To make you mine again
When all I want is to be with you
Can we make this dream come true
(Chorus)
I'll keep holding on
Your sweet whispers I hear
To love every moment
When I know you'll be near
You know that I still care
Even though you're not there
Just remember
I'm always holding on
Tell me
Is the fear that one mistake
Can cause our love to fade
I try so hard but baby it seems your mind is made
I pray to God you'll never
Let me go
Can love make me so blind
You're always on my mind
Just believe in me
You will surely see
That our love was meant to be
Kuv Cog Lus
https://youtu.be/u41URWtqSLA (https://youtu.be/u41URWtqSLA)
By Kristine X. Ft Nom Pheej L.
Hnub no kuv txaus siab cog lus rau koj
Kuv yuav hlub koj tag ib sim tsis ploj
Kuv yuav ua lub siab kom ncaj ncees
Rau koj ib leeg, kuv yuav tsis nkees
Vajtswv thov nrub wb rau koj xubntiag
Qhia kom wb yuav txawj sib hlub tiag
Txawm wb lub neej yuav muaj yuav pluag
Los kom wb txoj kev
hlub tsis txhob tsuag
Kuv yuav hlub koj, tsis
pub koj ntshaw luag
Cia wb lub neej ua rau
Vajtswv tau ntsejmuag
Hnub no kuv txaus siab cog lus rau koj
Kuv yuav hlub koj tag ib sim tsis ploj
Kuv yuav ua lub siab kom ncaj ncees
Rau koj ib leeg, kuv yuav tsis nkees
Vajtswv thov nrub wb rau koj xubntiag
Qhia kom wb yuav txawj sib hlub tiag
Txawm wb lub neej yuav muaj yuav pluag
Los kom wb txoj kev
hlub tsis txhob tsuag
Kuv yuav hlub koj, tsis
pub koj ntshaw luag
Cia wb lub neej ua
Rau Vajtswv tau ntsejmuag
Kuv cog lus yuav hlub koj
Kuv cog lus yuav txhawb koj
Kuv cog lus yuav ua txhua yam
pub rau koj mus ib txhis...yeah.. .
Txawm wb lub neej yuav muaj yuav pluag
Los kom wb txoj kev
hlub tsis txhob tsuag
Kuv yuav hlub koj, tsis
pub koj ntshaw luag
Cia wb lub neej ua
Rau Vajtswv tau ntsejmuag
Txawm wb lub neej yuav muaj yuav pluag
Los kom wb txoj kev
hlub tsis txhob tsuag
Kuv yuav hlub koj
Tsis pub koj ntshaw luag
Cia wb lub neej ua
Rau Vajtswv tau ntsejmuag
7/30/17
I've come to terms with myself and have accepted my loneliness...
-
A Titanic Moment
https://youtu.be/gGJpkp6k5ks
In life we all never reach our whole potential. That moment we see that our opportunity is lost forever and its never coming back or we won’t be able to see what could have been. The regrets in our life, or the dreams we let go because of circumstances above our own control. God or the maker never wanted it to work out, if it did the world wouldn’t understand its true nature and the universe itself would implode.
My mom’s friend had told me that you started working at the bookstore and began helping out teach the children’s classes. You’d come far away and I believe you’ve found your home. That moment you said we weren’t meant to be together, I felt a sigh of relief. It made me easier to let you go, I wouldn’t have to be the one to play the bad guy this time; but the pain lingered on inside because we both knew there could have been something more we’d be missing on.
We spoke shortly for a moment the last time we met and when it ended, I knew it was going to be the last. You didn’t seem at all surprised or worried, but I knew you were happy with whomever and whatever life has brought you to. I had only so many funerals to attend, that would bring me back to you. So many 40th celebrations that would bring us closer for just one moment. And if I survived again the next life, maybe the ending will still be the same. But I’d be happy to lose my life all over again to see you in the next.
When I said my, good-bye to you this time it felt like my last. From the corner of my eye, it had appeared that you were looking up and I was looking down. I made my way to the escalator adjacent to the entrance from where I stood and gazed up towards the light coming down from the opening at the top. It was as if my soul was leaving you behind, and getting itself ready to step foward into heaven’s gate. One by one each step went up.
You weren’t going to see me again, and I will forever be gone. The lights were shining brighter at the top and I turned over to see your face once more leaning over the stairwell.
At that moment we both knew whatever we had had withered away to dust, as if life had never came into existence.
You jump, I jump...
-
Warrior
https://youtu.be/T2LmSDVZdNg
Staring down the face of fear
Gotta keep breathing
When the negative is all you hear
Gotta keep believing
'Cause in the dark there is a light
Your truth it keeps on burning bright
Brave enough to fight the fight
And shout the battle cry
You'll never stop m, e I'm a warrior
When I fall down I get stronger
Faith is my shield, His love is the armor
I'm a warrior (I'm a warrior)
I'm a warrior (I'm a warrior)
I'm a warrior (I'm a warrior)
Every scar on my skin
Is a beautiful reminder
Of a moment when I didn't give in
And I walked through fire
'Cause in the dark there is a light
Your truth it keeps on burning bright
Makes me brave to fight the fight
And shout the battle cry
You'll never stop me I'm a warrior
When I fall down I get stronger
Faith is my shield, His love…
-
Neon Moon
https://youtu.be/7J-QsMC64kM
https://youtu.be/ewiodUlKey4
https://youtu.be/9wc8HSdg-jQ
Lyrics
When the sun goes down on my side of town
That lonesome feeling comes to my door
And the whole world turns blue
And there's a rundown bar across the railroad tracks
I got a table for two, way in the back
Where I sit alone and I think of losing you
I spend most every night
Beneath the light of a neon moon
If you lose your one and only
There's always room here for the lonely
To watch your broken dreams dance in and out of the beams
Of a neon moon
I think of two young lovers running wild and free
I close my eyes and sometimes see
You in the shadows of that smoke-filled room
No telling how many tears I've sat here and cried
Or how many lies that I've lied
Telling my poor heart
He'll come back someday
Oh, but I'll be alright as long as there's light from a neon moon
Oh, if you lose your one and only
There's always room here for the lonely
To watch your broken dreams dance in and out of the beams
Of a neon moon
The jukebox plays on drink by drink
And the words to every sad song seem to say what I think
And this pain inside of me
It ain't never gonna end
Oh, but I'll be alright
As long as there's light
From a neon moon
Oh, if you lose your one and only
There's always room here for the lonely
To watch your broken dreams
Dance in and out of the beams of a neon moon
Oh, if you lose your one and only
There's always room here for the lonely
To watch your broken dreams
Dance in and out of the beams of a neon moon
Oh, if you lose your one and only
There's always room here for the lonely
To watch your broken dreams
Dance in and out of the beams of a neon moon
-
Wake Up With You
https://youtu.be/eUk_6EL-_4o
https://youtu.be/c52z-vVQ1dQ
Lyrics
Don't need no star on the boulevard
Don't need no hall of fame
On bending knees I'll ask you
If you take my name
Don't need the Opry to make me happy
Don't need a mansion on a hill
Cause you and I by the sunset watching the time stand still
Let's Dream on this night away
Know that I'm here to stay
I wanna wake up with you
Every morning in your arms
Leave the shades closed
Turn off the alarm
And stay covered up till we're through
I wanna wake up with you
I wanna wake up with you
Don't need no screaming fans or a mic
Don't need no entourage
Don't need no black ferrari and a Ford car garage
Let's Dream on this night away
Know that I'm here to stay
I wanna wake up with you
Every morning in your arms
Leave the shades closed
Turn off the alarm
And stay covered up till we're through
I wanna wake up with you
I wanna wake up with you
Let's Dream on this night away
Know that I'm here to stay
I wanna wake up with you
Every morning in your arms
Leave the shades closed
Turn off the alarm
And stay covered up till we're through
I wanna wake up with you
I wanna wake up with you
-
Tos Koj
https://youtu.be/W7CdpgB-Nmg