What 5 years have done to us

We are from the same place yet we are all so different in character
We stay together since young but yet you still don't know the way we work
We all text each other but the content and way or replying is so different
We all can text nicely but when talking face to face it's just crazy difficult
It's just all so different

5 year living alone on yourself and this is what happen between us. The small little ways we do, handle, settle, response things all seems so difficult for you to understand. Your self-centeredness is not a choice you had and this is what many times when things happen I don't know if I should be angry, pissed, or feel sad for you.

I know I've got a very bad attitude when I'm angry but your action of giving an attitude back at my attitude, isn't it more immature than me? And you even say things that should not, at least I do not say things in the context of Forever.

Why oh why. It's so easy to just flare up and quarrel it all out with the 2nd princess and then the next moments we are cool already. Why doesn't it work for you? Ever incident just adds on to the apartness we already have build through the 5 years. Trying so hard but it's just so difficult yet I know I should never give up. For after all, we are Family.

Crazy for you

Recently I've been crazy about bearbrick, it's just a new found love and finally I've decided to purchase a pair of these bling bling Swarovski heart-shaped Crystal bearbricks. It's just, I cant', so I bought. HAHAHA!

And then I saw these. How not to buy? They look so cute and there's lights!

Light [Pink] Be@rbrick   

The green card

So as of today, I've officially got the green card to post on behalf on the second princess's blog. Haha! It's going to be a once in a life time experience. Blogging about praggy stuffs but I'm not experiencing it, but I'm definitely experiencing the excitement!! ^^

SeungRi Comeback Stage

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SY 21st // Sickness begone!

Have been sick for 3 weeks and finally now I've recovered almost well. Haha! Took so long to recover cause was rather feeling the projects stress over the few weeks but now am okay with it already and handling it well. Haha!

 

Anyway, last Saturday was SY's 21st birthday party, which was also the weekend that my physical condition was at it's weakest but I survived the weekend still baking a batch of mini cupcakes for the birthday girl as I promised with the help of Eliz and Drus :) Made blueberry and chocolate chip flavoured mini cupcakes.

 

 

And also since there was a little bit of time, I decided to make honey cornflake! :)

 

 Photo time! Nothing much to talk about since I was feeling very floatish the whole night cause of the medicine. I'm glad SY was happy and she enjoyed herself so much she didn't remember half the things she did. Hahaha!

 

Then this Monday, the few of us closer to SY decided to give her a birthday dinner treat and surprise. Wasn't able to do it on her actual birthday so we settled with Monday :) It was good.

 

#MissPositive90

Saw this article posted by my cousin on FB and thought it was really meaningful, especially with the projects stress now, staying positive and living with no regrets is so important. Positive mind set for the win!

1. Wearing a mask to impress others. 

If the face you always show the world is a mask, someday there will be nothing beneath it.  Because when you spend too much time concentrating on everyone else’s perception of you, or who everyone else wants you to be, you eventually forget who you really are.  So don’t fear the judgments of others; you know in your heart who you are and what’s true to you.  You don’t have to be perfect to impress and inspire people.  Let them be impressed and inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.

 

2. Letting someone else create your dreams for you.

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are; the second greatest is being happy with what you find.  A big part of this is your decision to stay true to your own goals and dreams.  Do you have people who disagree with you?  Good.  It means you’re standing your ground and walking your own path.  Sometimes you’ll do things considered crazy by others, but when you catch yourself excitedly losing track of time, that’s when you’ll know you’re doing the right thing.  Read The 4-Hour Workweek.

 

3. Keeping negative company. 

Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you.  Don’t let them get to you.  They can’t pull the trigger if you don’t hand them the gun.  When you remember that keeping the company of negative people is a choice, instead of an obligation, you free yourself to keep the company of compassion instead of anger, generosity instead of greed, and patience instead of anxiety.

 

4. Being selfish and egotistical. 

A life filled with loving deeds and good character is the best tombstone.  Those who you inspired and shared your love with will remember how you made them feel long after your time has expired.  So carve your name on hearts, not stone.  What you have done for yourself alone dies with you; what you have done for others and the world remains.

 

5. Avoiding change and growth.

 If you want to know your past look into your present conditions.  If you want to know your future look into your present actions.  You must let go of the old to make way for the new; the old way is gone, never to come back.  If you acknowledge this right now and take steps to address it, you will position yourself for lasting success.  See the book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business.

 

6. Giving up when the going gets tough. 

There are no failures, just results.  Even if things don’t unfold the way you had expected, don’t be disheartened or give up.  Learn what you can and move on.  The one who continues to advance one step at a time will win in the end.  Because the battle is always won far away and long before the final victory.  It’s a process that occurs with small steps, decisions, and actions that gradually build upon each other and eventually lead to that glorious moment of triumph.

 

7. Trying to micromanage every little thing. 

Life should be touched, not strangled.    Sometimes you’ve got to relax and let life happen without incessant worry and micromanagement.  Learn to let go a little before you squeeze too tight.  Take a deep breath.  When the dust settles and you can once again see the forest for the trees, take the next step forward.  You don’t have to know exactly where you’re going to be headed somewhere great.  Everything in life is in perfect order whether you understand it yet or not.  It just takes some time to connect all the dots.

 

8. Settling for less than you deserve. 

Be strong enough to let go and wise enough to wait for what you deserve.  Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than you have ever been to stand up taller than you ever were before.  Sometimes your eyes need to be washed by your tears so you can see the possibilities in front of you with a clearer vision again.  Don’t settle.

 

9. Endlessly waiting until tomorrow.

The trouble is, you always think you have more time than you do.  But one day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to work on the things you’ve always wanted to do.  And at that point you either will have achieved the goals you set for yourself, or you will have a list of excuses for why you haven’t.  Read Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture.

 

10. Being lazy and wishy-washy.

The world doesn’t owe you anything, you owe the world something.  So stop daydreaming and start DOING.  Develop a backbone, not a wishbone.  Take full responsibility for your life – take control.  You are important and you are needed.  It’s too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday.  Someday is now; the somebody the world needs is YOU.

 

Credit: http://behindthehustle.com/2013/08/10-choices-you-will-regret-in-10-years/

(via Marc and Angel | image via AskMen)
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by Mary Elainne Dizon

Pretty happy // happy pretty

This is Crazy.

It's the time again. Study stress falling in just like how it all happened last sem. Why is it so different when I'm in uni. Never had I felt such stress before not even for O Levels. All the negative thoughts just flows in like a never ending tap. Falling sick off and on since 2 weeks coming to 3 weeks. Losing apatite day by day and it's not helping in me reviving fully. This is not going anyway. URGH! 

6 mths since we all know each other, and I never thought that a few of us would have come so far getting so much closer. Just a hug and it makes everything so much more easier bearable. But yet I'm still being very cautious, afraid that history would happen again like it always does. I wonder if there's anyone out there like me. 

This is crazy. All the negativeness needs to stop, but it seems like a never ending tap of negative flowing into me. If only I know there's someone out there praying for me. Maybe it'll all be alright. But there's one thing for sure, my Heavenly Father is silently feeling sad for me as I am. That's definitely comforting. 

Its been 2 years again

The once every 2 years Church Family Camp have just passed again and I still can remember 2 years ago what happened in Batam. This time round was so much fun, so much changes. We've all grown up so much that it's our turn now to be involved in parts of the camp from planning to holding each and every event. Those single then was now married and it's all so different yet the same heart warming times spent together.

 

Even thought saying this as a family camp, but honestly I didn't spent much time with my actual family. Instead, I spent most of the time with my second family, my cell mates. I really do thank God for the time well spent those 4 days 3 nights, it has really been such a long time since we got together and knowing more about each other and HTHT with the few closer girls till early morning was just awesome. It's really been long, especially with everyone busy with studies and those who just started work.

 

So, staring from day 1 have been a challenge. This time round not because there were late comers, but because of the bus. There were 3 busses which met with licencing problem of their own of not being honest, resulted in us having deprived of 3 buses. The calls to each coach agency was so frequent that all the coach company in Singapore knew that AMK Methodist CAC was in need of 3 buses and they even told us not to call anymore because that day was the beginning of long weekend PH cause of Hari Raya. I'm not sure of the details, but eventually ZS and LJ was about to find 2 replacement busses and the old people and what every bulky items we had were arranged onto the last 2 busses. End up having 25 youths to take public transport with their heavy bags all the way to woodlands, cross SG customs and arrive at MY custom, where one bus which have safely dropped the first load of people drove all the way back to fetch them. All in all they reached at 8pm. I'm really so proud of those youths. They're not those little kids that I see in church who always make noisy and all. They have grown :) Why I say that? Because the whole trip, they did not complain, but encourage each other! How much maturity is that!

 

Continuing, the rest of the days was good. Everything went smoothly, programmes and all. The best part was the 160kg of durians the crazy-ultimate-durian-fan-uncles for the win. ZS arranged for the durians to be send down to our resort in Malacca all the way from Mua! That was really awesome! The amount of durians was crazy, never did I see anyone order so much durian before! Hahahaha!



This is only half of all the 160kg durians

 

The guy who many everything possible. ZS. 

 

Part of the cell, the only few who loved durians.

 

Daddy so happy with durians too!

 

 

Also, the PPT duo is back in action! So awesome :) The times when 2nd service ppt was either me or mopes. Memories, just, awesome. :)

And this drummer got his own group of little fan girls! Hahahaha! He's secretly totally enjoying the moment I tell you. LOL!

 

Not forgetting how much fun we had together as a cell, water park, ultimate freebee, volley ball (which I did not join cause I had to go prepare for PPT), staying up late playing games. And a few of us even joined the youth to play ultimate murderer. So much more fun when playing in a big group of I think almost 15 people? 5 murderer, 3 detectives, and 3 nurse. And killing was not just by winking, they invented bomb and atomic bomb which will kill 3 and 5 people at one go respectively. Hahaha! The way how the nurse revives a dead commoner was by a kiss, and it was all too funny! The things and facial expression and all, too awesome!

Part of the cell playing volleyball

The uncle soccer gang

 

The water park

 

WHEEEEEEEEEE~

 

 

 

 

Then on the 3rd day, we had separate ministry activity in the morning. Our young adults ministry activity was running man! Haha! The mini games we played was all improvised from the actual running man show and the 'final show down' had to be the tearing of name tags! It was possible because last Christmas the older cell group, the guys all received a actual RM shirt with their own names from one of the brothers. So it was improvised that those few with the shirt were the "Kings" and the rest had paper wristlets on as substitutes of the name tag, and the main aim was to protect our "King". It was a crazy situation I tell you! Everyone's true colours appear once the tearing start. Hahaha! But it was all fun, we all didn't bring any emotions out of the game. It was good :)

 

Then in the afternoon was a half-day tour in Malacca. Went to the usual history informative places first, then it was shopping time! Went to this shopping centre which I obviously don't remember, and the to Jonker Street in the evening. We tried to play 食字路口 but it was a failed attempt cause we had limited time and the place was really very badly packed! But still we ate much good street food and it was a crazy experience. :)

 

 

The guy just had to walk pass holding a fan just like that

 

The camp ended well and the trip back to SG was good. Jam was not that bad and everyone reached back in church by 5pm. It was all a safe and wonderful journey, and thank God for everything, for the whole camp. Awesome!

Best photo from camp

With the roomie/gf

Remember this childhood 'toy'

With the favourite girl!

 

The cell (there are a few missing people)

 

 

 

 

 

The Family

 

Can't believe I actually didn't take any selca with the best gf! Tsk!

OG 10 unite

Finally we had our OG 10 gathering like after 01395866716459874years. Hahaha! Hosted by this most beautiful most kind most lovable most cute pie Drus. She was too kind to have prepared everything when I told her we will be buying the stuffs over.

Me and Drus :)

 

 

 

The girls

 

 

someone's mouth very big

The wonderful cooks for the night!

 

You can tell who's the charcoal person. hehe

 

Posers

 

 

It was good night, wonderful people, good food, nothing better than that. Cleared the place at 11pm cause of the condo's regulation and changed our location to the park nearby which obviously I forgot what's that park name. Hahaha!

 

 

It was a good time there, played group games too! It's the game where Wu Zhong Xian created, where you write for others a phrase/word or an action on a piece of paper and paste on their forehead that they cannot do and will be punished if they do it. And the point is for the rest to make them do it. Hahaha! so the punishment was to walk one round on the stone group massage thingy. LOL! It was just all too funny!

 

All the cat eyes

 

Sparkles time!

Sparkles // love

Oh oh, not to forget, KC made this no-bake strawberry cheese cake too! Its was yummy :) Very nice of him to make it for us! :)

 

The no-bake strawberry cheesecake



Oh and one sad thing, we didn't really take a group photo cause in both situation, there were missing people :( therefore ending with 2 different group photo.

 

At the park with our "taboo paper" hehehe!

 

At the BBQ place :)

Once every 2 years // Prelude

The happy pills // Prelude