The year of the Ox means a year of hardwork.

I am getting outta comfort zone.

Putting my hands to the plough.

I can't waste time, I seriously can't.

Its not a choice, its for survival and salvation.

Many have passed on just this month alone,

I gotta get back on course and get to work

so that more will come to see the Light.

~I'll shine for You~

Eagle

There are many things I like about the Eagle:

Looks For & Flies Into Storms - As storms approach, lesser birds head for cover, but the mighty eagle spreads its wings and with a great cry mounts upon the powerful updrafts, soaring to heights of glory. Eagles use the storm to lift him to these great heights.

Conclusion: Many shun away from the storms of life, few embrace it.

Very Gentle & Attentive To Their Young - The eagle is known for its ferocity, yet no member of the bird family is more gentle and attentive to its young. At just the right time, the mother eagle begins to teach her eaglets how to fly. She gathers an eaglet onto her back, and spreading her wings, flies high.

Suddenly she swoops out from under the eaglet and as it falls, it gradually learns what its wings are for until the mother catches it once again on her wings. The process is repeated. If the young is slow to learn or cowardly, she returns him to the nest, and begins to tear the nest apart, until there is nothing left for the eaglet to cling to. Then she nudges him off the cliff.

Conclusion: In life, the best way to teach someone is to let him try and learn, at the same time, to sit back and monitor progress. also, get out of comfort zone (nest).

Jumps of cliffs- An Eagle makes use of hot-air rising from the cliffs to soar high. They stand on the edge of the cliff and throw themsleves down and trusts that the column of air will take them up.

Conclusion: Learn to let go and trust in God.

Word of wisdom: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.~Isaiah 40vs 31.

Back to the basics...

Today was the last day of trading...and although it was just 2 days, I have learnt a lot. Anyway, some background info...trading is part of my retail diploma curriculum whereby we have to do selling. This time round, many of us complained...reason? 12 of us were assigned to just one pushcart and so, most of us had to do direct selling where we carried a basket of the snacks and went around the school, approaching ppl, asking them to buy.

initially, i had no mood to sell. i attribute that to two factors. firstly, we had our hands full with projects. secondly, i was affected by everyone else complaining about how pointless it was such that i totally lost the mood to sell. But i felt rather ashamed of myself when i saw how my fren maintained good cheer and motivated all of us to hit a certain target. it was because of her spurring that we managed to hit a record sales figure.

Well, it was from her that i was reminded of one basic principle that i was taught years back, and that was to give my best in all that i do. it may seem pointless and like a waste of time, but if we can do nothing to change the situation, then we can only make the best out of it!

I recently chanced upon a quote, it says:

'The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. '
~ Oprah Winfrey

Well, it reminded me of the why God created me and what I am on earth for. The earth is not my home...definitely not the place of my permanent residence....Life here is but a hundred plus years at most...what happens after that? I wonder if anyone actually thinks and ponders about such questions.

~The purpose driven life ~ -Rick Warren-

ppl in need...

Just today morning, my mom came into my room and we had one of those heart-to-heart chats we normally had and she told me that she came across an article that day that caused her to cry. It was about this 10 year old austic boy in singapore...he had long hair and his parents were divorced and he lived with his mother. They were very poor and the boy will always ask people for food(he dosen't beg)....hence, the neighbours living around the area knows him and call him ah boy. His mother suffers from depression and many at times, she will lock her son out of the house and so, the boy will end up sleeping downstairs during the night. He was a very sensible boy and will also prepare food and place it at the entrance of the door of his house for his mother to eat.
One fine day, as usual, the boy was locked out and so, he slept downstairs and this was brought to the police attention. So the police came to take a look and beng scared of the police, he ran away from the police and next thing that happened was, he fell off the building while running away from the police and was found dead. Tears rolled down my mother's eyes as she spoke...deep in my heart, I was very sad...why did the boy's life end this way? He's life was already so miserable and this is the way it ends? Well, happy endings belong in fantasies and fantasy, is a far-fetch from reality.
The boy has been living in that neighbourhood for so long...did'nt any of his neighbours bothered to ask him why he was sleeping downstairs? or showed concern about his life? if they had bothered to find out and extend a helping hand, perhaps his life would not have to end like this. Dear friends, have we been too caught up with our lives that we forget those who are suffering around us? are there ppl around you whom you know needs help? many of those old ppl we often see working in the coffee shop or hanging downstairs our HDB flats, have you tried asking them about thier lives? you might be surprised by what they can tell you! so, start showing some concern about those around you!

Haven blogged in quite a while...super busy these days...did not sleep till 7 this morning...thank God that I'm still energetic. Project mate just called...gotta go and discuss project liao.

Dear God, pls help me keep the smile on my face :) I live for you!