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Justine Mei-Ern 陈美恩
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"When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted."
- Eleanor Roosevelt ©
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| Dalam masa bulan ni, itulah pegajaran yang paling penting untuk saya. Kesabaran: sifat bersabar walaupun bertemu dengan orang yang melampau dan aku rasa nak tumbuk muka mereka (macam hari ini apabila aku bertemu dengan pelanggan yang berlagak besar dan buat hal dengan pesanannya). Untuk bersabar walaupun dalam keadaan yang memerlukan saya tunggu masa yang lama untuk benda atau pencapaian yang saya inginkan. Untuk bersabar dengan orang yang bergerak atau bekerja dengan lambat atau tidak berteliti.
Kesabaran. Susah untuk dibuat, betul susah, tapi walaupun susah juga boleh cuba dengan sedaya upaya kan.
Terdapat pelbagai jenis orang di dalam dunia yang besar ini. Yang paling penting kita mesti belajar adalah untuk menerima perbezaan setiap orang unik yang dibina oleh Tuhan dan juga cuba cara berbeza untuk berhubung dengan mereka.
Sukar. Tapi boleh dibuat.
It is very important to have friends who listen to you, empathize with you, share your views and generate constructive critique/solutions during "unloading sessions" or about life in general. Thanks a million for that, Isaac.
It is also important, secondly, to have friends who thoroughly understand your PMS moments and know best how not to irritate you. And for attempting to embark on the mission of putting you through a game of Dota and teaching you how to play online poker during a sleepover. Thank you so much, Ian.
Thirdly, it is important to have friends who "nag" and chide you. No, I'm not kidding. These sort do actually keep you on track most of the time. And for being generous and a rather successful cook and pleasantly yet subtly demanding that I not miss the upcoming roadtrip. Thank you so much, Sean.
Fourthly, it is important to have friends to people-spot and hang in "secret rooms" and make uncommon observations with. Thank you so much, Bri.
Finally, but definitely not least, it is important to have friends whom you know actually read your blog word for word and pine for updates when there have been none for a week, as if their very existences depended on it. Thank you so much to Jojo my number one sexy blog stalker for that. *poke*
Oh wonderful people. What would I do without you all.
I haven't WRITTEN in Bahasa Melayu for so long and I need to start "karangan-ing" again. Now that I've gotten my spoken BM accent almost perfect, it's time to get started on Mandarin and get the tones right.
P.S. Bumbum, I've decided I don't like that particular sauce. I'm thinking it's mostly sentimental confusion.
Now that's a good term. And sometimes, what goes around does come around.
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One discovers many things about himself and the world through moments of combined retrospection and introspection. I, at any rate, have found that I am now a more "feeling" person. It could have been an experience, a process - I don't know how exactly it happened - but just before and after my entering into adolescence, I had embraced apathy and been apathetic to just about every subject and person and occurrence under the sun, and for no apparent reason.
Maybe it's because I'm much, much more aware of happenings - atrocities, mostly - around the world and in our nation itself. Maybe it's because this new-found, deeper sense of knowledge spurs my dormant emotions to action. Maybe it's because I see natural catastrophes and inhumane crimes and severe poverty aggravate the lives of innocent, already wretched people, and these destructive tides of heinousness break my heart in ways it never did before. Maybe it is because of my prayer that I be able to feel the Lord's heart and see the world through His eyes.
"Ignorance is bliss." That saying is true. But that bliss - if I knew what it contained and defined - is certainly not the sort of bliss I would want or wish for. I would rather be a feeling person any day than exist in a web of ignorance spun by fantastical tales that result from closing one, or both, eyes. Yes, I would rather feel the pain of the world along with its cruel injustices - maybe not to the fullest extent the way only God can - but from what I see and hear and read about.
I am grateful that God has instilled in me this desire to help, to love, and to act instead of merely speaking and pointing fingers.
Whoever says that an individual's thoughts and actions do not amount to anything is an idiot.
Multiplicity: when one has it, he influences many others. Hence the power of one.
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Do check out SABM (opens in a new window).
God bless.
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|     On the dawn of the first day of January 2010, I couldn't yet adjust to the fact that I was moving into a new year. For the past years there had always been two connected zeros after the number 2, and I just wasn't accustomed to writing or thinking 2010 or '10 or that referring to the 2009 calendar was so last year. Today I'm seventeen days into January, and I feel like I'm really into the year.
It's funny how things happen or come along and then you only realize after it occurs that you actually had previously planned it, but it just came to fruition at a later or most unexpected time. Hence the saying, life is full of surprises. Or not so much "surprises" in that sense, but you get my point.
I have observed that the majority's thinking is all very much alike, many a time alike in an unfavorable manner, because everybody's responses are just another's, and another's. They're all TYPICAL. I hope I'm not, because I try not to be.
It's assuring to be able to honestly acknowledge that I'm actually quite helluva sensible. I kid you not.
I realize I'm intensely IRRITATED by people who laugh/titter/snigger non-stop for absolutely no reason at all. Every nerve of mine is aggravated by the sort of people who seem to have all the time in the world to hover over and comment on my every action. Get a life for your own sorry sakes. I'm glad I have the skill to put those people in place because when I do, honestly speaking, it feels like the most righteous act I'll ever do by them. Not that I'm exalting myself as patron saint, but that that one action points out to them and makes clear my stance on the limits of their conduct. Donald Trump is right in saying that respect is of utmost importance. It doesn't matter if they dislike you, because as long as you've got their respect, that's mostly what really counts.
Expectations.
Decisions.
I've a lot on my mind and task plate right now. I'm going to pray, meditate, sleep, and then have a mental run-through of my priorities and commitments while speed-walking tomorrow morning.
And before I end, here's one thing I'd like to share that Pastor Daniel quoted from 1 John during celebration yesterday evening: Perfect love drives out fear.
There is no fear where love exists, because fear involves punishment. He who lives in fear does not have perfect love.
Have you any fear(s) today?
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Hola people! So two days ago I got a part-time job at Subway, and I'll be working shifts six days a week from either 10am-5pm or 2pm-10pm. Sunday is my off-day. Co-workers are pretty nice, I'd say. And making sandwiches is kinda fun. :)
I'm currently prepping for my SAT on Grockit.com. It's such a WONDUHHHFULLLL site I tell you. I'll only be going to college in March as the January 4th intake is wayy too soon. Besides, I'd like to do other things. ;)
I want to learn the ways of Alan Shore from Boston Legal - his way with words and his confounding rhetoric that renders his opponents helpless, according him triumph when sealing deals. It makes me so happy.
Today from 2-4pm is the KIDS Christmas Party at church. There'll be about 700 guests; we're gonna have a lot of work to do, but it'll be fun.
Manchester United and Chelsea are gonna have a close fight for the league title.
Tuesday is my undang exam. JPJ better not be offline this time or I'll sue their pants off.
I've got to go now. Have an awesome pawsome Christmas and always remember the true meaning of it. It's not about the Christmas trees or Santa or caroling or the presents, it's about celebrating the birth and joy of Jesus Christ, extending that blessing to others and living out the love He has put inside you. Let's look forward to a fruitful, excellent, fresh, exciting, fabulous new year. There are going to be greater things ahead. God bless.
xx
P.S. I think Adam Lambert is sexayy. And I still like "No Boundaries" very, very much. Such an inspiring song.
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