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"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."~ Norm Papernick

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."~ James Openheim

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."~ John Barrymore

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called."~ A.A. Milne

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."~ Logan Pearsall Smith

"Pleasure is spread through the earthIn stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find."~ William Wordsworth

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."~ Frederick Keonig

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."~ Lady Blessington

"Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe."~ Doug Larson

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."~ Booth Tarkington

"One joy scatters a hundred griefs."~ Chinese Proverb

"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."~ Thornton Wilder

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."~ Colette

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."~ Maxim Gorky

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."~ Joseph Addison

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."~ Robert Brault

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"~ Leslie Caron

"On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."~ William R. Inge

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."~ Mahatma Gandhi

"When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land."~ Grey Livingston

"When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land."~ Grey Livingston

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."~ Hosea Ballou

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ~Josh Billings

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."~ C.P. Snow

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. "~Confucius

"Every artist was first an amateur." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."~Anais Nin

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."~Mahatma Ghandi

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." ~Winston Churchill

"What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love" ~Victor Hugo

Crap. I'm short and fat.

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Welcome back, SexyBeast!!!

Holdiays here we come,people! :D

ciao!

God Bless guys!!!

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Sorry.

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*Back to the show!*(Omigosh this is so lame)

Have you ever really wondered
What does it mean to have faith in yourself?

What is it?
What does it do to you?

Everybody says to believe in yourself.
Everybody says to trust yourself.

But how do you achieve that state of mind?
So strong, so firm , so solid that even a walking Taipei 101 can't bash through it?

I , I
think it all begins by believing in God and surrendering all you have unto him.
(Sorry atheists)
You may think : that's like relying on somebody else, depending on somebody else, when now you're supposed to be building faith in yourself. But have you ever stopped to think , that when we surrender all we have unto God, it means that we have that enormous leap of faith, that we have that gargantuan trust in ourselves which grows. And grows. And grows and grows and grows...

When your crush rejects you,
God will be there.
When your friends turn away from you,
God will be there.
When you fail again and again,
God will be there.
When nobody else loves you,
God will be there.

God doesn't fail anybody, even through the bleakest of times.
Even when you have nothing left, God will be there, right at your side, guiding you, loving you more than you have ever deserved.
God will be there to guide you into trusting and believing in yourself.


Having that rock solid faith in yourself will prevent you from straying too far away from the right path. You will dare to dream, dare to reach for the stars.

You will learn to push past the limits that you have set for yourself. Push beyond the expectations that everyone around you has set for you. Stretch your capabilities past the maximum because with God they can stretch on forever.

Then
you will be able to embrace your dream.
All you have to do
is to reach out
and grab it.

God Bless~

beeaaaaaaaat.

Watermelons.........and eggs

These are truly incredible. You'll love the cool watermelons,but you'll be blown away by the eggs!

These egg shells were cut with a high intensity precision Laser Beam. This gives a very good idea of what can be achieved with a Laser Beam. This gives you an idea what laser surgery performed on one's eye is all about. Is it any wonder how one's vision can be improved in just a few moments? Science is sometimes wonderful, and it's still on the frontier of gaining new knowledge. Incredible what can be done with an eggshell and a laser beam.

'A true friend is someone who knows you're a good egg even if you're a little cracked.'

Happiness?

Of expectations and formulas for happiness

Something that i read recently (to be more accurate, 1 minute ago) 'stimulated' my very empty thinking cap.

You know the way we hear a lot of

Don't expect anything so that you won't be disappointed.

And this is what I thought was really cool :) :-

To tell you the truth I think that quote is utter bullshit.And I'll tell you why.We NEED expectation in our daily lives.Without expectation,there can be no excitement.Without excitement,everybody will just be jaded and emotionless.Why not you just splash grey paint on the world and drown yourself in morphine,since you want to be so void of emotion.

-jotted by the one and only Farhan

tellmewhentowoah.blogspot.com

Okay, it's no that bad, yeah.

But think about it. How on earth do you expect one to live without expectations?

Even the daft-est person expects something, just that they expect daft things, of course.

I think it's pretty impossible to live trans expectations. How do you live, not expecting something? It'll be like living in an empty nutshell.. a small, black, damp, mind-cramping one, at that.

If you don't expect anything, it'll be akin to not dreaming, not hoping for something to happen. Even the most faithful people expect something .

Now that we're in the heat of this topic, the unquotable quote above , is in other words, one of the feeble attempts to come up with a formula in the pursuit of happiness. Indirectly.

But some 'ingenious' fellows came up with a so-called formulae for happiness, and made it public. Ever heard of it?

Pleasure + engagement + meaning = happiness.

This is one of them.

Another one :

Happiness = P + (5xE) + (3xH)

P stands for Personal Characteristics, including outlook on life, adaptability and resilience.
E stands for Existence and relates to health, financial stability and friendships.
And H represents Higher Order needs, and covers self-esteem, expectations, ambitions and sense of humour.
Sound complicated?

Apparently the formula was worked out by psychologists after interviews with more than 1,000 people.

So do you still belive in the formulas that scientists and researchers have came up with?

There are many more, by the way. Not only these two.

It's like they 'chi bao tai de kong'

(direct translation: too much free time after having their meal)

Now, back to the expectations thing.

So I don't think the quote should go: "Don't expect anything-"

more like:

"Lower your expectations-"

But then that won't be right anymore. Because if you lower your expectations, this means that you already know your initial 'level' of expectation. So you'll still be disappointed if the expected result doesn't come out because in your subconscious mind, you'll still be clinging on to the first expectation!

So what is the formula of happiness?

In my opinion-as if it weren't clear already- is that there simply isn't one.

Most people probably don't know what happiness is, they think happiness is perhaps having lots of money or a big car, or a big house. But people who have all these things are not necessarily happier than people who just enjoy their life.

We tend to be very obsessed with what is wrong, what is missing and what we have not got, rather than focusing on what we want and getting it. It would be nice to just enjoy your life, because life is a bit short.

Pete Cohen, who came up with the mathematics-like equation above(the PEH one), said:

Four in ten men said sex made them happy, and three in ten said a victory by a favourite sports team.
For seven in ten women happiness was related to being with family, and one in four said losing weight.
Romance featured higher for men than women. So did a pay rise and a hobby they enjoyed.
Women were more likely to cite sunny weather.

So does this mean we can come up with a formula with this
result?

C.P Snow once said:

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:if you pursue happiness,
you'll never find it.

We all can be happy in a heartbeat if we want to. Period.

Or rather,

If you want to be happy,be.

-Leo Tolstoy

And..

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

So even if happiness forgets you for a bit, never completely forget about it.

God Bless You~

Now, I'll seat back, go finish that bertimbun-timbun truckloads of homework,

and hope that people actually read this thing. :

;D

INDEBTED TO A SAVIOUR (part 3)

The orthopaedic surgeon diagnosed me with having a severe muscle sprain and that my hip and thigh bone were slightly out of position. They were supposed to fit perfectly into each other, but they had pulled apart a little. He said I had to be out for a year. I was aghast. This killed my chances of taking part in the Nationals anymore! I was upset, I was depressed. I refused to talk to anybody, unless if it was absolutely necessary. I was too angry, too sad, too furious, too dejected to focus on anything because now the melancholy had taken over. I had let everyone down.




Most of all, I had let myself down.

***

I have came a long way since then. I suffered from the injury in September but by December, I was approached by my current teacher-I mean, coach to attend light training under her since she offered to coach me. Talk about a speedy recovery. She was a good friend of my mother’s best friend, so she found out soon enough that I had no intention of resuming training with my previous coach. I was still refusing to talk to anyone at that point and everyone, myself included, was quite shocked I had given her the chance to compromise.

But I never regretted that decision. My current tea- I mean, coach was the one who tapped my potential and talent to the maximum. She slowly guided me back into becoming the person I used to be, the person whom everyone missed. The girl who everyone loved.

*****

I stood beaming from ear to ear on the podium after receiving my gold medals, all six of them. I was now waiting to be awarded the huge gold trophy. If my aura was a colour, it would have to be yellow and gold, the colours of exuberance. If you stood close enough, you would be able to hear my heart shouting with glee and elation. The delight of finally getting here was too overwhelming, I could even burst into tears of jubilance now.

“And the National Finals Champion is….”

I closed my eyes to savour the moment.

In that blink of an eye, I was praying and giving thanks to the only person who was on my mind.

Thank you, teacher.

I mean, coach.

BeatriceLowWeiJin.

it's copyrighted ya know.

by me, du-uh.

*grins*

God Bless....You~