Today marks the first day back for majority of the people – to school, to work, etc. Time to make or start on those new years resolutions this 2016.
Why hello 2016!
Today marks the first day back for majority of the people – to school, to work, etc. Time to make or start on those new years resolutions this 2016.
Why hello 2016!
Going home for the holidays is one of the most memorable, heartfelt, and touching things one can do especially for a celebration such as Christmas. Like anywhere around the world where Christmas is an important celebration, the trip is just as fun as it is stressful. For anyone who has to live or work away from family members, preparing for the holidays happens weeks before the actual date of travel, and scheduling a travel date and booking a ticket happens weeks in advance – for the most part.
But despite the stress of scheduling, booking, and the actual flying, not to mention buying gifts, at the end of the day there’s just something really special about traveling home to be with one’s loved ones on an occasion such as this.
Here’s hoping that most of you all out there will be going home for the holidays, or spending the yuletide with those who matter the most to you.
Happy holidays!
Even though we don’t technically celebrate it here, Happy Filipino American Friendship Day! If I remember my history correctly, July 4 was once our “independence day”, a day when the US granted the Philippines independence from their post-WW2 economic and government assistance, or something like that.
Also, testing out this new pen I purchased recently. This kind of calligraphy is tedious and slow, but it looks VERY nice. 😀
God gives answers in three ways:
He says yes, and gives you what you want.
He says no, and gives you something better.
He says wait, and gives you the best.
上帝用三种方式作答:他点头给你想要的;他摇头给你更好的;他让你等,就给你最棒的。
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I saw this post on Weibo, and it seems felt like something that I needed to hear at the time. With a lot of things happening in my life, sometimes a sign is just what you need to reassure you of what’s to come, or what you need to watch out for and wait for. The problem with being paranoid is that it seems I take everything as a sign, and f ever there was a sign I wonder and ask myself if it really is that something I’ve been watching out for. Just really confusing on so many levels…
I put up this new scribble on my workboard a few days ago. I wrote it out on three separate sheets so I can switch happiness and choice around, realizing just recently that I should have put is a into two separate sheets as well because the philosophy student in me says so.
Happiness is a choice. We can choose to be happy, and we can choose to be sad. It is the same as saying, be positive or be negative. But at the same time, choice is a happiness. Things may not always go right, and in fact we often choose the things that are wrong for us, but having a say in what we do is a form of happiness and freedom. The freedom to choose what is right and wrong, the freedom to freely make mistakes. To some, that is a happiness.
Haven’t had a lot of time recently to practice my calligraphy.
On my last day at my old company, the officemates gave me a copy of John Green’s “Fault In Our Stars” for my going-away gift. A few months in between getting the book and the movie coming out, I read the book and find myself crying over the story and the characters. And it was beautiful.
A few days ago, I watched the movie with two of my former officemates at the new BGC Cinemas. And it was beautiful. The book was amazing and touching, but seeing them act out the dialogue on screen….we all just ended up in tears.
“Okay?”
“Okay.”