“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” - Pat Riley

Listening to my morning's easy smooth music is really inspiring. It's practically motivating me to write and say something again here on my blog.. lolz.. I just finished writing on my journal and thought to jump off here on my wall, not to share what i've written but perhaps riding on everyone's traditional way... updating our social media, shouts!lolz

Firstly, I thought i started my month of May pretty good. Instances is that, there's always something coming. Normal. It's not that can't handle it but problem is, we have heart so sometimes we get emotional, silently emotional. (its the time we say, all is ok but in fact, not really 100 percent ok.. ) right? Been reflecting a lot today and counted lots of blessings. I put it this way because its true, fact that there's a always our ups and downs no matter what. I noticed that I'm presently experiencing adjustments. Many adjustments actually.

A monthly review is also a great exercise in mindfulness and conscious living. It’s my way of slowing down, reminisce about my favourite moments, making sure that I'm taking the time to appreciate all the little and big things that were a part of my life in the past months or years, and also to draw some conclusions about which kinds of things made me happy and which don’t.

I'm now trying to set goals and already have some ideas for the months to come. Few projects needs to accomplish and truly, I'm motivated everyday with all these challenging experiences. Hopefully this will also ensure my goals, priorities and values. For now, Im letting everything sink in for a while and enjoy the day to day things.. Chatting with my family and friends and living the life.. love to maintain that.. <3

Sunset in my life

“Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

Whoa! It has certainly been a while! I remember the last time I was taking photos of the ocean was when I was in Indonesia, that was a year ago. My photo shots is taking me everywhere and I'm really enjoying it. I've been putting my heart and soul into my new project and hopefully it will be fruitful in the end.

The majority of my time will be spent on my website, as i'm busy upgrading and updating my details and busy also doing my project.

Today, I thought to change my cover photo because I thought its about time. Lolz. This sunset photo inspired me a lot lately. From the word “sunset” it already says something powerful about life.

I thought this photo speaks to me so well. I've been through all the ups and downs this past months. Many incidents that is teaching me and reminding me that sometimes, “shit happens.” In some ways, it hit me a bit and changed the way I see and do things.

Over time, I must say that at one stage, my inbox has been flooded with emails from friends around the world, reminding me.. and I quote.. “hey, you're not that.. people think you're like that, but you're not..” OR “..expect people to judge you but let it be, it will pass, real friends will always be there for you no matter what...” what a sweet lines to read, right?

T'was really a one wonderful feeling to know that there are people out there, who cares, loyal and will emotionally support you. I was also touched when I talked to my best friend Abel about life and shit... he said, “people love to see you fall so don't get provoked with their nonsense.. be strong and have faith...” – Going back to my zodiac, it came to me and made me remember, is this really the year of the dragon where its being picked by the sheep? Apparently, not all the dragons are spitting fire, isn't it.. lolz..

As I was taking a photo of the sunset. I thought i'm gonna sit on this big stone and leave my camera next to me. I started again to reflect with so many things. I knew this is what I needed to do. Rewind and unwind.

You know, there's something especially powerful about connecting with people. First, strangers. You will get to know them, become friends, then fights, then hatred, then enemies until suddenly. Sadness.. then again, happiness because you start to meet another strangers and will become friends... its a cycle. But if you come to think about it, seems, to be a Stranger from the start but the connection brought you to life. The journey into wholeness, fulfillment, bliss, self-awareness and purpose that just makes you come even more alive.

So, as the sun started to slowly bidding goodbye. I finally realized that, what happened today is gone. We can't undo things. I guess the sunset speaks a lot with me today. It basically says that, I should work on letting go and stop caring what everyone else thinking and instead define MYSELF. That's a lot of thinking but I figured out how to turn those dark days into something much bigger. I learned that I should continue to live life (on purpose). I learned what it meant to feel blissfully alive while living in alignment with my truth.

(sigh) Anyways, It's now getting dark so I have to go back to our room. On my way back, I took few snap shots of the beach. Which i'm gonna be sharing with you soon.

Life must move on even if the sun sets. Tomorrow is another day filled with sun that shines upon us. Be grateful and happiness will naturally comes back to you.

Much love my dear Friends and thank you once again for reading my long journal today.

...THE THOUGHT OF...

“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.”  ― C. JoyBell C

Going through the pace of adjustment period is always the part where challenges arises. Before my surgery, I went pretty deep thinking about the pleasant and unpleasant experiences I'm gonna go through after my operation. I noticed that the part of accepting something new especially when it comes to your health is pretty serious. I don't really know if i can make this change especially when it comes to food intake (strict diet menu) in a long term commitment but i will try. lolz


After two to three weeks of not writing my journal. I thought i will be writing again a long paragraphs of thoughts. I remember when i was at the hospital, i started to reflect again on many things especially those experiences that i've encountered from bad and good. I found that there are many people trying to search for love outside themselves and its about searching for someone to show them that love is such a big word and it does mean a lot of things. BUT. in fact, the only person who can actually show you love is YOURSELF. The condition is, IF you open your own heart and forgive, you will eventually find INNER PEACE and not only LOVE. 


There is this friend of mine in Singapore. She always love me since the day one we meet. (12 years ago). She's amazing and i am scared of how much i care and feel the appreciation of how loving she is to me. I am not perfect. I hurt myself sometimes, i hurt her, but we always come to the point of solving things with love. A love friendship. I believe that when you ACCEPT a person for who they are, the day you meet them (no judging the person from the surface)... you will never feel doubt and if there is, you will always go back to the good times and renew. LEARNING how to LOVE is such a tricky one because there will always be challenges that will come along the way. 


Life is really complicated when we complicate it. Im sure you agree with me... but I've learned too that in any relationship there are these few waves that we will go through yet we are still grateful for these feelings, the emotions: the pain, the joy, the sorrow, the heartbreak, the tears of both and neither, there are many people out there who encountered or experienced pain and yet.. we still find LOVE at the end. 


Oh well, that's pretty long one. lolz.. Hope you didn't get bored reading.. lolz. 

THE BLAMING GAME

"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives." - J. Michael Straczynski

Lately, I notice that the most common conversation I have with other people includes the blaming game. I too play that game sometimes, lolz..

Most of the time, when your expectations didn't happened, your energy simply will diminish. Last night i had a very good talk with a friend. We had a good life sharing moments. We laughed and all..

As we were sitting there. It was then that i started to think about the blame game wondering “If games are supposed to be fun?”  Right then, I realized that these blame game is totally a different kind of game. Even kids have these game too.

Funny to think that sometimes, we just love to pass our faults to other people. Yeah, i encountered that a lot too. Lucky, wisdom wise, we are mature enough to understand things like that. I sat down, took a long deep breath, and thought about the ways I’d contributed to my own unhappiness. In that moment, i realized i was blatantly ignoring vital life lessons too. Instead of blaming others, i should consider what i contributed why things happened the way, i didn't expected.

I believe we are here to learn lessons. Once we learn a lesson we move on to the next lesson. However, if we fail to learn a lesson, we keep finding opportunities to learn it again and again.

Isn’t it weird that sometimes, we just keep blaming others for our fault? Sometimes, even if know we are at fault and yet, we still find way to blame others.

At the end of the day, I've learned that LIFE will continue to throw us the same lessons until we learn from them.

My Wednesday Thoughts...

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"  - Bob Marley

Hi my beau-friends, how's your week, going? I hope all is well. At this moment, weather in Bangkok is pretty good. Humid outside as usual. I don't know where is Henry now too in the Philippines but I'm joining everyone in prayers too.

Wednesday thoughts over a cup of coffee..  thought I'm gonna share something interesting. Blissful days, Folks!

Yesterday, I was reading an article about musicians or the extremely popular singers around the world. So much to say but It's pretty interesting to read something that you normally don't even bother reading it.

Something that i love about the artist are their freedom to express their thoughts through songs. Oh well, we can all express our feelings or thoughts in different ways, right?

But here, I'm stuck with Bob Marley's quote. I thought its beautiful. He's totally right. It's good to pause and read a bit and reflect about it. Sometimes, we just needed a fresh start to move on. Life is new everyday and life is beautiful (when we choose to be beautiful)... why not value it and why not free your thoughts from negative thoughts..

I've learned that, the time we start to honor our feelings, all our emotions and to remember the lessons from the past, then we can clear the way to our heart.

Sharing you love and peace!

(photo borrowed on google search engine)

Happy Wednesday!

And is true. Either you choose to be happy or unhappy.. that's all.. 

I would say this is a huge key to staying positive: letting go of expectations that things are going to turn out a certain way. This quote points to that by saying that nothing is going to be perfect, and that's totally ok, as long as we can let go of our attachments to the outcome and be present for what is actually happening.

Enjoy week ahead my Beau-Friends!

BLISSFUL FRIDAY, AHEAD!

"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character." - Heraclitus

I thought my weekdays went well. Encountered normal moody 'thingys' but thank God for Everything! It passed! It's weird but I'm feeling more content on weekdays. The little stuff that i am able to finish each day makes me feel pretty spectacular and it's motivating. It's just lifting me up! All is about being grateful at the end of the day.  

Im totally grateful for everything, life, love, family, name it..  and this time, i like to say that I'm so grateful to have good friends around me. Really appreciate them a lot. Some comes and some go but totally, when you are surrounded with good friends, its flipping your negative energy to positive energy. It’s a different vibe!

I am feeling more positive than I have in awhile, and I think it has helped me to read and getting back to my regular routine. Journal in the morning whilst having my coffee and blogging whenever, then of course, committed responsibility is the priority.

It feels great when you feel, ALIVE! I don't pressure on myself to write on my journals and blog because, i thought it is fun thing to do and yes, I'm like you. I don't pressure myself because I'm not in the quest for perfection, i'd rather do things one at a time than pushing myself to the limit, that's failure at the end. I try not to skip my journals, photos and blog because I just want to feel lighter, happier and more balanced.. if possible... lolz. 

The last four days was such a positive and productive days. As always, I guess when you try to ignore the negative energy, you will achieve more like most things in life…two steps forward and one step back. I make some progress, realize some things, think rationally about how I have chosen to live life fully... entertain good vibes and yes, i keep pushing myself to go the gym.. lolz.. I don't know if I'm making sense here... but yeah, I feel grateful for everything! 

Oh well, everyday is a struggle but i've learned that when you do things and it comes from your heart, you will feel slightly more prepared to deal with those dark encounters the next time around. 

Thank you to You, who reads my thoughts, as well as those who share their notes and blogs. It's good to learn from the bad and the good. Cheers and Enjoy your Friday and the weekend ahead. 

Sharing you my blissful Friday!

(photo borrowed from google search)

LET'S TALK ABOUT SELFIE! --- ♥ º ☆.¸¸.•´¯`♥

"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory." - Susan B. Anthon

Normally, you stretch your arms, (just in front of you), look at your phone lens and smile with your best superfluous smile ever, then click that bottom and then, you go to your app where it will adjust the colours, the skin tones to your satisfaction THEN... post it or share! One very good example is when you have something new to share. New hairdo, new phone, new make-up, new dress, whilst in the gym, in the car or even some when asleep? or of course.. visited new places and etc... (oh yeah, i won't deny that too.. lolz..)

oh yes! It does exists! you might be wondering where did selfie started.. surprisingly, it all started in 1839 by Robert Cornelius! Exciting isn't it? Mr. Robert Cornelius (1809–1893) pioneered the first self photos. Image of The first “selfie”

I was laughing a lot a while ago when i received a PM from my long time friend, (anonymous)  talking about her face online (selfies). Of course, i LOVE selfie photos and i admire people by doing so, why? because they are so brave and free! --who cares about the way you look, you are just being yourself!  In a world where photo-sharing is on top of the web, where a new app is easily downloaded to rectify photos to become the best that photography has to offer.. SELFIES! 

For curiosity, i tried to find out more about the selfie picture that my cousin tagged me. I found out that the selfie picture i received was taken in 1920. Made me smile now because i really thought SELFIE pics are introduced this 20th century but apparently, not.  Here, you are looking at the very very very old picture of selfie.

"Snapped in New York on the roof of the Marceau Studio on Fifth Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral, this picture features five mustached photographers holding an antediluvian analog camera at arm's length. Because this camera would have been too heavy to hold with one hand, Joseph Byron is propping it up on the left, with his colleague Ben Falk holding it on the right. In the middle, you have Pirie MacDonald, Colonel Marceau, and Pop Core."

Yes, i understand why some people dislike 'selfie' because sometimes its annoying thing once could do but at the end of the day, when you do a 'selfie' you probably gonna give yourself some good dam laugh. I took few photos of myself and one time, i was quoted that I'm addicted to myself, i laugh like nobody else because when i went to visit her/his page, she/he has more selfie photos than me! lolz

It’s JUST SO FUNNY to bring to light things we do all the time and don’t think for a second, others MAY find it annoying or ridiculous. It’s the age in which we live. With all this technology, we are each given the opportunity to offer others a glimpse into our lives, no matter how boring or exciting they are. We used to be able to just take the photos. But now, with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Myspace etc. it makes it that much easier to share these photos so instantly, that sometimes it’s just so hard to pass up! It’s harmless. But, when you come across a post like this, it’s a reminder of just how funny and/or stupid some of these so called ‘selfies’ come off.

So, you still think that people who take selfie photos have mental problem? I think you better think twice, don't forget that not all people taking 'selfie' pics are crazy, they are just FREE! but other than that, just don't over do it.. otherwise, it will become like a selfie addiction and you may end up posting EVERY SINGLE activity of your life.. no privacy! 

THE DIFFERENCE --- THE ATTITUDE

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." - Robert Collier

TOTALLY! --- "If you took two identical twins, you would think they are very similar with little difference between them. But if one of them has a negative attitude and one has a positive, you will notice that the difference is actually enormous. One of them will be quite pleasant to be around, and one won't. These small differences are actually huge differences. Be positive, because not only do people want to be around you more, but it sets you apart from the majority of the world. Being different is usually a good thing! Be unique! Be special! Be yourself."

Awesome meeting this morning! motivating! yeebaaah!