25 CHRISTMAS TREES

A short post! Enjoy! <3

I give myself a December challenge this year and oh boy, its a lot harder than I thought. 

My original challenge was to find and take pic with a different Christmas tree everyday. Unfortunately, things had to come up and I dint manage to find any at some of the days. To cover it up, I had to actually find more than 1 Christmas tree when I am out. 

Despite of it, I enjoyed this very little challenge of mine.

So here is it,

ALL SEASONS

STRAITS QUAY

QUEENSBAY MALL

CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

NAIR'S HOUSE

BUKIT JAMBUL COMPLEX

SHALOM WORKING YOUTH

GURNEY PLAZA

GEORGETOWN CITY HOTEL

KHOR'S HOUSE

ALL SEASON'S

QUEENSBAY MALL ( Some shop )

QUEENSBAY MALL 

MC DONALDS

CAROLLING

XAVIER'S HOUSE

CAROLLING

OYOG'S HOUSE

DOLCE DESSERT CAFE

PARAGON MALL

PARKSON

KENNY ROGERS 

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YMCA

CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

DE WITT RESIDENCE

There you go, all the 25 different Christmas trees taken within 25 days. 

I have to also give credits to all my beloved photographers : Melessa, Adele, Cavina and Kenneth! 

That's all about it.... Be blessed and goodnight. 

LIFE LIKE THIS

Few week ago, I got a news from a friend that one of his good friend's father passed away while working in a construction site. I somehow felt so sad whenever I think about it as I do not even know him. Two weeks later, I got a news that one of my church member lost his sister from a car accident while crossing the road. and yesterday, I find out that an actor named Paul Walker passed away from a car crash accident. My heart breaks by just thinking about all of this while typing. I mean, how can this possibly happen? How can someone just go like this? Why is there any indication of signs? I know its an accident but what about his/her family members? Who can they blame? God? No way. I can't blame God because as much as I am sad about it, I believe He has a reason for this to happen. but this news reminds me about how precious life is.

   Life is so precious. It can be so difficult to explain how precious one life is. God made us differently. Each and everyone of us who have lived, who is living and who is going to live in this Earth so differently in the likeness of His image. We are all fearfully and wonderfully made. God did not make any mistakes while making us. You and I are so very beautiful. Each and every one of us are made with no mistakes. Life is a gift from God.

  Life is a suspense, life is interesting, life is a journey God intended us to experience, more-so life is very fragile. Life is like a huge box filled with memories from the good ones to the really bad ones. Life would not be memorable if there is no obstacles or problems. Obstacles in life show us how strong we can be. It gives us the opportunity to go or think beyond what we can do. In all of that also, obstacles shows us how much God love you and I and that the strength we have to overcome the obstacles is from Him. That is call the supernatural natural strength that He gives us. Undeniable, the good memories makes life so much more beautiful and bright and the people whom we must thank besides God is the people whom He has introduce to us. Our family, relatives, best friends, friends, buddies,and even acquaintance. I am already smiling just by thinking about how me and my friends first met. hehe

    Life is a lesson. We fall, we got our heart broken, we fail but those who appreciates life will get up, will strive and will not give up. Run, let us run to achieve what we desire. Allow God run with you because you know without the One above, something will be missing at the end of the day. Everyday is a new day. Everyday is a new beginning. Everyday is a new start. We cannot run away, we cannot stop the sun from rising as much as the sky to turn dark every night but what we can do is change our mindset to think positive, to do good and be good everyday before the sun sets. Let us not go to bed thinking that we have wasted another day not doing anything productive. To also be able to appreciate life by doing something useful and fruitful rather than wasting our time doing something which is not worth it and will allow us to regret later on. 

    Life is like an unending growth within. The only time we stop learning and growing mentally is when we die. We fall, we get back up and learn from experience. Sometimes, we don't have to experience it by our-self in order to be stronger or to know what is the right thing to do. It is also when we put a listening ear to other people's experience that we get to learn as well and when we are put into the similar situation in the future, we will know what to do. Don't ever degrade ourself for someone who does not know how to love. Don't trust a person so soon if you do not want to feel disappointed. Trust is build along the way. Trust is when we feel at ease to tell that person our deepest secret. It does not mean we cannot talk or be friends with a person whom we cannot or yet to trust fully, but wanting to guard our heart and know that person well enough first. Its different compared to One man. We can always trust that One person. Trusting God is like having faith in Him that He will be with us through thick and thin. Our job is to only believe in Him. John 6: 29 says " This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent." He will fight for us and in all circumstances that we have to face, its a learning process for us. It strengthens us mentally and psychologically. 

So yah, this is how I see life. Some say life is like a game, some say life is like a roller coaster, but I say life is like an experience. Life is a suspense as we cannot see whats coming next and that makes life very interesting. We only have 2 choices in life, either to make it priceless or useless and regret it when you have not much time left. fyi, we will never know when is our time to leave. Therefore, make your pick wisely. =) 

    

MARRY ME by Jason Derulo

The one song that caught my attention when I was driving. I immediately fell in love with the song. Dint know it was a hit until I check it out on You Tube and it became my current favorite song after hearing to the lyrics  of the song properly. Its just one of the few songs which really make sense this days. Anyways, just a short post. Goodnight. <3

MORE THAN WORDS

Actions speaks louder than words. Saying " I love you" is clearly not enough.

 Easy said than to be done, that's why actions explains it all.

ABSOLUTE FITNESS

    Selfishness demands, " What's in it for me? ", while Love asks, " What can I give?". I was reading an article about marriage and love and this reminds me of the feeling I had by just giving. Even if its something really small, or whether or not the other party felt appreciative, its my own satisfaction that matters. come on, course who would now be happy to be receiving a small surprise once in a while right? haha.

    This story comes down to my working experience in Absolute Fitness, Queensbay Mall. Having the opportunity to work in AF for 3 months, it cannot be more memorable compared to my previous working experience as a waitress. My position in AF is known as fitness consultant, hence I am basically doing sales in the Company.

    The one and only thing that I have learn throughout my working experience in AF is teamwork and that says it all about my experience there. Queensbay team is the only team which focuses on teamwork. I can proudly say that I have the best manager so far because without him, the word "teamwork" wont even exist in the Company.  Motivating us every single day without fail. He is the kind of manager where concludes that every consultant there is like a family. He treats us like one,he understands us like one and he teach us that we have to be like one in order to achieve our goal. Knowing that I have a great manager, I also have a bunch of wonderful people to work with including the personal trainer team. We do not hesitate to help and advise each other in all areas and that makes us special.

     In terms of working, I learn how to communicate with different kind of people, I learn how to present the membership package in a way where it will not scare the customers away. Not only that, I learned how to handle rejections and also learn how to say "No" to certain things. Also, I learn more about health and exercise. I learn that in sales line, one have to be very hardworking to get what you want and one cannot bring personal issues during work. Its also crazy to know that in the sales line, your working hours is more than 8 hours. No doubt, the best part is I got the benefit to fully utilize the gym without paying a single cent. hehe. and I am blessed to have two of my friend whom is a personal trainer to train me throughout this 3 months.

    Yes, I am the youngest and unfortunately the only female consultant there. I do not know whether to feel fortunate or not because most of the time, I felt like I am being treated like a guy. hehe BUT equally to that, I must say that most of the time, I am being treated like a little sister. I am the eldest among my 2 siblings in my family, therefore, it is definitely nice to be treated like a little sister for once. I felt protected instead of protecting, felt free instead of being responsible all the time, felt loved and cared by all of them. 

    I count my blessings everyday to be experiencing this.  I truly believe that every sale that I get is a gift from God and He is the first person whom I will thank after I close the sale. He gives me the opportunity to meet different kind of people. I realized that there is countless types of people in this world, each with different personality and reaction towards a situation. Some can make me laugh, some makes me flattered and there are people who also likes to get on my nerves but then come to think about it, they are who they are. They are brought up this way and more importantly, we cant judge for who they have become.

    I never though that I will only be working there for 3 months but I have to be obedient. Now, having ample of time, sitting in front of my laptop figuring out how to put my working experience in words, I am starting to miss my job. Despite coming home feeling so tired, thinking about how to get sales in and reach my target by the end of the month, its really exhausting. but then, thinking about how much or energy we and effort we put in just to get the sales in as a team, thinking about the feeling of achieving our own target and also the group target at the end of the month without leaving anybody out, it simply's overtake all the negativity we have to face. It feels like home every time I step into the gym. I can simply go there with a messy look and then take my time to clean up myself by noon.

   Never once I have regretted working in Absolute Fitness, Queensbay Mall. It was one great journey. If I were to have the chance to repeat it again, I would. I have to thank a very good friend of mine, Adrian Oyog for recommending me this job. I step in the gym not knowing anyone and after three months, I can confidently say and call each and everyone of them my family. Often we do not talk about our work but just trying to know more about each other especially the times where we are free during working hours. Its nice to just recall how I became close to each and everyone of them in a personal way. Some of them started with just one meal together or just by coincidentally sitting beside each other or by a normal conversation. 7 personal trainers and 6 consultants including myself and my manager.  I will not know where to begin if I were to write down their personality. All of them are just so nice, so helpful, so wonderful, so funny and entertaining, so genuine and most of all have a goal in life. One in a million! Now, no longer an employee, I am certainly sure that we are still gonna keep in touch and be friends for a very very long time.

    I have to also thank One more person and that person is God. I thank God for giving me this opportunity to work in an awesome place. I thank God for all the times where He hold me up and never let me go. I thank God for all the sales I get for the past 3 months. He showed me the power of prayer and faith. Someone once told me in the midst of giving up that God does not work in times where others are working towards something but He works in times where it is just another ordinary day for others. It was Sales day and each consultant have to at least have 2 to 3 new membership but on that day, I have none, whereas when the next day came, I closed 2 cases and I am one step closer in reaching my goal for that month. God is so good to me and its because I believe that He is in control.

    Ahhhh, back to giving, in the midst of everything, I did one good deed at least once in every week and not towards my fellow teammates but to the cleaners there. Its was a sudden thought that came in to my mind and I decided to do it because I realized that it does makes a difference throughout my day. After realizing it, I start to reach out my hands to my colleagues as well. So yah, love is not just about expressing your feelings towards others. It is more than that. It is also about wanting to see others happy and I experienced it personally. Thank You Daddy. <3

A few pictures to end this post.

RANDOM THOUGHTS

I was in work today and all of a sudden, I have this thought coming through my mind. So I decided to write it down. 

    Often we ask why is there so many problems that keeps on haunting us, coming in one after another, and this will lead us to thinking whether we made the right decision in certain things in life. I know it surely does affect me. haha. Again, I guess we will never know unless we have someone so great and mighty to tell us. God did not promise  that things will run smootly when we receive something great but He did promise that its gonna be totally worth it. Its sad. Its really sad that the "thing" that we need to sacrifice is a person, someone who is so dear to us. 

    When we tell people our problems, they will constanly advise or comfort us by asking us to try to think positive, tgar now things change means that there is something better coming, that when we close a door, another door will be open, that if  that someone close to us cant accept us for what we have changed into ( in a good way), it means that he/she is not worth out time, hence if we continue to believe, there will surely be someone who will accpet us for who we are. 

  

    We constantly seek for peopls's advise and with that also, we do not know whether to buy their advise or not. Now, the question is, why not seek the Almighty God, the Way, the Truth and the Life.We can proclaim that all things is possible for God and also if we pray and believe it will happen.It will, it will come true because God is a Man full of promises and because He loves His children so very much and His desire is to see His children happy. 

 

   Sometimes, we think that He is not with us and do not love us because our prayer have not been answered. It can be because He knows what is best for us. FAITH is the word! It is ok if things does not go the way we wanted now but believe that its gonna be worth it in the future because our lives is at God's hands. No one else can touch us. Nothing to worry about already right? =)

    Besides that, often people also thinks that they have everyting they have in life and feel so blessed or people think that they do not have anything and live is not as good as they though it would be. What they do not know is there is actually something better waiting for them. 1 Corinth 2:9 says " no eyes has seen, no ears has heard, and no what human mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him."

   Therefore, dont stop asking and seeking for His love. Don't stop praising Him in good times and in bad times. The only time we should be feeling regret and devestated is when we think of giving up on the Lord because I tell you, for the many times we feel that God does not love us or when we sin, He never give up on us. He will wait for our return. He will run to us. and because He never stop loving us. HE LOVE YOU AND I SO MUCH! <3 

CONFIDENT

19.07.13

     I am in the midst of reading the book of Proverbs from the bible. After reading chapter by chapter, I got this very irritating yet exciting feeling of writing down my journey to become a woman of God. Its not about being a person of God anymore but a pure, strong, confident WOMAN of God. I emphasis on the word " Woman" because I know that we as Woman have a place to stand equally side by side with men's in this world and the Kingdom of God ( not trying to be sexist here). It took my approximately a month to think about writing this down because I think that I am not in that place to write about a Woman of God but nevermind. I never knew how powerful can a woman be until a few years back where I attended my very first woman ministry in church. To be honest, I forget what is said there but I know very clearly that that is the start.

    It continues when someone showed be a video about woman and finding her soul mate. One think that I remember from that video is " a girl is the most complicated creation God has ever created" and that makes girls so special and unique and that answers every boys question on how no one could every fully understand a girl and I think that is ok because he will be always discovering something new about her and that sparks up the relationship right? If its a good discovery, that boy must be blessed but if its bad its a different story already. haha The topic about modesty then came in to the picture and all I though about being modest is about how a girl should dress. No short shorts skirts, sleeveless tops, and anything is shows things that should not be shown in the first place. That was 1 year ago and to be frank, I did not follow at all.

    and then comes 2013, not long ago, the same girl send me a youtube link, a 70 minute talk from Lisa Bevere entitled " The confident woman fights like a girl " and it just opens up every part of my soul ( I have to watch it a few times to fully understand what is she trying to say, but its worth it). The video is split into 7 parts and each part, there is an important message. The messages from this preaching is "Being a confident woman is not acting like a man", "Confident woman like other woman", " Confident woman face their fears"," Confident woman know how to handle their sword", " Confident woman are guardians of the heart", and lastly "Confident woman strikes when the enemy draws near" Oh how powerful this messages can me and by just writing it down, I am smiling and feeling so grateful to be a female and it gives me this strong conviction to wanting to walk down the road that God has planned for me. Confident woman don't act like a man to solve problems, never jealous, believing that God fights for us (never afraid), know what is she doing is right, giving a man a reason to fight and face their fears and always fighting for what is right.

  I want to be that woman. I want to be a Woman of God and that is how I realized how important modesty is. In marketing class, I learned that first impression is very important and it allows people to remember for life, and also people's first impression defines what they think about your company for the first time. If its a negative review, don't ever hope that you will have a business relationship with them. Never the less, if it is a positive review, there is a high chance of building a long term profitable relationship. That is my definition of being modest. No matter how good or how "godly" a person is inside, what people first see is your physical appearances. ( Business Admin is the right course for me.. haha ) It was hard at first and am still struggling in the way I dress but then I never felt more excited in finding more ways to dress modestly. Also, I do not know how to thank God more and two other girls who are walking in the same direction as me to motivate me and share fashion tips with me. I am thankful and truly blessed to have them in my life. Trust me when I say that there is so so many ways a girl can dress modestly without revealing anything unnecessary ( Try Googling modesty )

Remember that I wrote that I think that I am not in the place to write about this topic? It is because I fear of being confident but I will let this story be my first step to being confident. It takes me lots of courage to post this up. haha.

Allow me to end with a bible verse from 1 Timothy 2: 9-10 which says " likewise also that woman should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for woman who profess godliness with good works."

    Modesty + Confident woman = Beautiful...Strong... WOMAN OF GOD!

p/s : I'll tell you what I think about Proverbs 31 after reading it. =) Blessed day everybody.