GUIDE TO A BETTER LIFE - DR. RANDY PAUSCH

This is amazing; the author died of pancreatic cancer in 2008, but wrote a book. The last lecture before then, one of the bestsellers in 2007. What a legacy to leave behind.


POINTS ON HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE

Personality:


* Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

* Don't have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.


* Don't overdo; keep your limits.


* Don't take yourself so seriously; no one else does.


* Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.


* Dream more while you are awake.


* Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.


* Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner of his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.


* Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.


* Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.


* No one is in charge of your happiness except you.


* Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.


* Smile and laugh more.


* You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.


Community:


* Call your family often.


* Each day give something good to others.


* Forgive everyone for everything


* Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.


* Try to make at least three people smile each day.


* What other people think of you is none of your business.


* Your job will not take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.


Life:


* Put GOD first in anything and everything that you think, say and do.


* GOD heals everything.


* Do the right things.


* However good or bad a situation is, it will change.


* No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.


* The best is yet to come.


* Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.


* When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.


* If you know GOD you will always be happy. So, be happy.

While you practice all of the above, share this knowledge with the people you love, people you school with, people you play with, people you work with and people you live with.

Not only will it enrich YOUR life, but also that of those around you.

Mellow Yellow Monday: "It's a DATE!"

One of the treasured moments  in my life.Yes it was a date after we're done at the embassy.:) I was really so happy:) My sweet smile in this photo shows...:)


Hmmm I just notice it now that most of our orders were color yellow....hehehe so I post this for MYM! Have a nice day!

Orange Tuesday: " Wish...Wish...Granted!"

Wish...wish...wish... :)

Reminiscing my childhood years….hmmm as a child who loves music…yes it was my greatest wish to have even just one musical instrument to play. So I did have a guitar but it was a toy guitar… it has 4 strings but I know it was not the real one like what I wished to have. Of course my parents won’t give me a real one. If they did, it would surely just end to nothing. They know my attitude. I was quite impatient in doing things I can’t. I was so spoiled child and I easily get wild. I didn’t know how to play guitar that time so it was just a waste. This desire started when I saw a lady playing with the real guitar. So I started clicking my toy guitar as if it’s the real one. hehehe.It was so cool.

That wish became more intense as I grew up. I can sing. And I want to sing with the guitar. So in my college years I started to click some basic guitar chords. Then I can play some songs with those basic chords I learned. Wow! But there was a time that I just feel frustrated about playing a guitar.I want to have a guitar of my own. Yes I did save money for it but I failed again…I used the money for other valuable things. My priorities just changed, setting aside first my personal wants.

But God make all things beautiful in His perfect time.

I got married just this year and things just changed! Full of surprises …and one of that is my wedding. It was really an awesome grand wedding for me. I’m so thankful to God for  my husband. God crossed our paths for a great purpose. It’s really a dream come true. And just recently another surprise for me. A Guitar! A BIG WOW! He bought a guitar as a gift for me ! I never told him about it. It was indeed the best gift I ever receive. I wished for it long time ago and it’s really great to have it now. My wish granted! I love it truly…Thank you Lord…

Mellow Yellow Monday " SunFlower"

Beautiful bloomed flowers and my beautiful friend.Her name is Rowena.This friend of mine was my classmate in college. She's now in Singapore and work there as an English teacher.So proud of her so much!Seeing this photo with color yellow flowers...it's really great to post this for MYM.

Have a nice day to all!

Why does chopping onions make you cry?

It's not tears of joy that you shed while preparing these beloved bulbs.Hmmm… countless times already that I experienced tears just dropping while cutting onions…and that’s why I wondered, why this thing makes me cry? It’s interesting, isn’t it? As what the article said that you can have whole onions sitting around your house for days, even weeks, and everything is just fine. But when you try chopping it even just a small onion…you can't help but say..ouch! Stinging , burning and crying (oh, my!) like you wouldn’t believe. Hehehe

So here’s the answer why?: I just read this article today and I want to share this discovery to my fellow bloggers.

Lachrymatory-factor synthase, an enzyme that was discovered by Japanese researchers in 2002, is released when you cut into an onion. This enzyme converts the onion's sulfoxides into sulfenic acid. The sulfenic acid rearranges itself into an unstable compound known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide. Once this compound reaches our eyes, it irritates them, causing the crying reflex to kick in to flush out the irritants.

Additional infos:

There are three types of tears — basal, reflex and emotional. Basal tears keep your eyes from drying out, like on a windy day. Reflex tears clear your eyes of irritants, such as when you get dirt in your eye. And finally, emotional tears can be a result of happiness, sadness or any other emotion that gets your cry on.

The kind of tears you’re producing when you’re chopping onions is reflex tears, because your brain is sending the message to your eyes to flush out the unstable compound mentioned above.

So is there anything you can do to prevent it?

Well, a scientist at New Zealand’s Crop and Food Research Institute by the name of Colin Eady is working on creating a tear-free onion. That’s right, folks — no more crying. Using gene-silencing technology, Eady was able to shut down the lachrymatory-factor synthase gene and create an onion that did not induce tears. The onion is a long way from grocery store shelves, but we could be on our way in the next few years.

Until then, here are some other things you can try:

First, try sticking your onions in the refrigerator for a few hours before you cut them. Or the National Onion Association (yes, there is one) suggests cutting the top end of the onion off and peeling downward, but cutting off the root end (the one with all the hair on it) last. This is because the cells that release the onion's bountiful sulfur are concentrated at the base. It also might help to peel the onions under water.
Hmmm...good luck chopping!

My husband's love letter for me today....

Hello skat,

Its me..your husband here…hope you fine and happy. I just want to inform you that I truly love you since I have realized that shortly after we have met and my love for you keep growing everyday since then…..and I have never play games with you but was serious with you from the beginning and so glad and thankful to God for bringing you into my life and have open your heart that we could love each other. I do not have any regrets in fetching you and marry you as you are special to me. I hope that I make you happy and that I do care enough for you that you wont have any regrets at all. Its good if you want to share things that you don’t have a heavy heart about things that you did not share the time before our marriage. It wont change anything as I am so happy that I am the one you have chosen to be with and willing to marry for the rest of your life. LOVE YOU SO MUCH..

This  just an informative mail to you although you know all these things..just tell you again…..care so much for you..

Your Husband

Ockert

Speechless....wow! very much appreciated..:) Thank you Honey....

Ruby Tuesday & Orange Tuesday: " An expression of love"

I made this for my dearest husband that I loved so much...It was indeed a very effective way of expressing love to someone dear to you.I let him  read it as he opened the door  when he got home from work a month ago. He was really so surprised by that very creative way of expressing love for him. I know it was quite funny but that’s me…I love to show my feelings for him in some unique ways. So happy seeing him that time that he’s overwhelmed of what I did  and I’m still doing it until now...Surprise!!. It really feels good when you make someone special very happy in that moment of time and I know he won't forget it.hmmm good that I was able to take a picture of this.So now I could post this for Ruby  Tuesday becoz of the heart color that is red and for Orange Tuesday becoz of the oranges fruits  that were formed for those letters I and U.hehehe:) I LOVE YOU!

Hello to all!
Hmmm I really dont know what to say now...but honestly I miss all my friends here.Wish I could make my blog site more interesting as I start again ...I mean to continue the desire of inspiring lives and spreading words of encouragement to all readers.
I was really so busy those times ...facing the new chapter of my life.God is so GREAT and FAITHFUL that He made my dream come true.This time I'm pretty sure that I have lots of things to share. I love you all!

Minute Reflection --All is Mind

Everything -- absolutely everything -- that happens in our lives has a spiritual cause. Events on all other levels -- mental, emotional and physical -- are only effects.

When we are struggling with any challenge, whether it be ill health, a lack of money, a lost job, relationships, an accident, whatever -- we need to look for the spiritual learning. We can ask ourselves, "What quality does my soul want me to live more fully?"

"If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem."

Midweek Blues: "My Grandmother had a GREAT TIME"

Hehehe my grandmother was having a great time with her grandchildren during her visit at North Carolina.Wearing her favorite color BLUE. Look at her...She has the courage right?...

Ruby Tuesday: "Red Roses"

                     Hmmm flowers so red...so meaningful....

My reflection on Psalms: 

Psalm 16 

Keep me safe O God for in you I take refuge I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing. As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. The sorrow of those will increase who run after other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood or take up the names on my lips. Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup, you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places, surely I have a delightful inheritance. I will praise the Lord who counsels me even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, my body also will rest secure because you will not abandon me to the grave nor will you let your Holy One see decay. You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. 

This chapter reminds me of putting my complete confidence in the Lord. The first line opens up with a declarative statement of confidence to a trustworthy God. Followed by self realizations of the unworthiness of a human soul without God.. Life with its ups and downs can be very confusing, tiring and endless toil of restlessness….As believers we are not spare to experience the effects of our fallen world. But amidst all these life is still beautiful and worth living because we have a faithful God who dispose our lives not by chance nor according to how we do well in working hard on it, but by a loving hand and divinely wisdom directs each course with the best interest in mind to give what is best and carve every minute details to produce a beautiful person in us who will reflect a beautiful God. We have hope in the Lord… LORD let me rejoice in the best portion you had allotted for me-your loving hands filled me in…thus my cup runneth over…sheltered by an awesome God so I am and my lot is secure-no one can take it away from me…YOU WILL SEE ME THROUGH….THROUGH it all….I AM COMPLETE…for YOU WILL MAKE ME SO…… I will remain in you for unless I am with you life will be meaningless…you are my joy-in you alone I will find pleasure for you are my world…

Go Green Friday: " Landscape"

.                              Very nice landscape....found near Limketkai Mall in this City.

Mellow Yellow Monday: " Yellow Key Holder"

It's cute right? This photo owned by someone dear to me.. .a friend of mine..I just borrowed this for MYM...Hehehe glad my friend allowed me to use this photo. This is her key chain.

Midweek Blues: 1st Entry "A Souvenir from Boracay "

I love this cute key chain ...a souvenir from the Island of Boracay. It was given by ate Grace. Thanks te Grace...you're so thoughtful.

Ruby Tuesday: "The Red Team"

The Red Team! Yes These men are really a good basketball players.My uncle was one of the MVP's during that league. Congratulations!

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Shadow Shot Sunday: 1st Entry " Tripping"

Scenic Sunday:(3rd Entry) " Bohol Island"

These pictures taken during our mission at Bohol Island.

My Personal Testimony

Looking back on my younger years, I could say that my life was really great…I had a wonderful family who loved me so much. I really thought that there’s nothing more in my life that I could ask for. All were fine for me. Everything was perfect on my own understanding. But when my grandfather died, things changed. My family really experienced serious hardship. If only my father didn’t die early, we wouldn’t experience all of those. My parents hopelessly did all their best with their desire that all of us could finish our studies. But their best was never enough so they decided and allowed me to study here in Cagayan De Oro City where I live at present. My other sisters and brothers lived with my parents and another one lived with my relatives.

Living in this City was and is never regret because I received Christ as my personal Lord and Savior in this City at the age of 18 and I was in my second year in college that time. My aunt Noemi shared to me about Jesus and His love—that God has a wonderful plan for me. Not only did things change but my life also changed since that time. Slowly God revealed to me His wonderful plan and purpose. God is really too wise to be mistaken and too good to be unkind. Since that time, I realized how I needed Christ. He’s the most important thing that happened in my life.

I am so happy to have eternal life, a sound mind, and a loving heart.He cares for me and accepts me for who I am and what I have and I am now in close personal relationship with God. Because of His continuing mercy and love, until now I’m serving Him through the talents He has blessed me.
Thank you and I want to bring back all the Praises and Glory to our God!