Celebrating L.O.V.E.! :p

Happy Valentine's Day! :-)))) To me, love means encompassing acceptance and forgiveness. Love keeps no record of past wrongs. Love appreciates and love cherishes. Love wants only the best for each other. And the true love of all starts with loving oneself unconditionally, and only then can one extend her love to those around.

Love is patient and kind;
Love is not jealous or boastful;
it is not arrogant or rude.

Love does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrong,
but rejoices in the right.

Love bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.

Principles of Life!

1. Love is joyful awareness. Love life--people, animals, nature, gardening, art and music, sports and exercise, literature, God--anything and anyone that brings you a joyful awareness of the wonder of being a living creature.

2. Gratitude satisfies the spirit. Be grateful for all that you love and if you cannot think of anyone or anything that love, then be grateful you still have a chance to love. Be especially grateful for the opportunity help and to serve other people and good causes.

3. Gratitude is the antidote to self-pity. Feeling sorry for oneself is ruinous. Especially don't fall into believing that we live in the worst of times. It takes little imagination to know how much worse it has been for other people in previous ages and in other places. Be grateful for this life.

4. Ethics guide the good life. Put ethics and principles above pleasure, convenience, safety, income, career, your presumed place in the world, and the way others view you. Living a principled life is the key to a satisfying life.

5. Everything good requires courage. Find the courage to love, to be grateful, and to live by sound ethics. Especially be brave enough to speak when you are afraid.

6. Dare to seek romantic love. Abiding love for a partner in life is the nearest we get to heaven this time around.

7. Make a living by doing something that you love. Many people find a way to do it. Your occupation should feel like a privilege, a pleasure, and an opportunity to serve.

8. Approach every single challenge in life with determination to master it. Otherwise you won't handle it. Feeling helpless in the face of adversity is a prescription for failure. Deciding to take on the challenges is a prescription for self-satisfaction and makes success more likely.

9. Don't hide from or stifle your painful emotions. Feeling pain signals that there is something wrong in your life that needs immediate attention. Invite your painful emotions to tell you everything they can about what you really want out of life. All psychoactive substances, from illegal drugs to psychiatric medications, suppress our real emotions and should be avoided, especially in time of suffering and fear when we especially need to know what we are feeling.

10. Reject being labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis like depression, bipolar disorder or anxiety. There are no "psychiatric disorders;" only life disorders. All of us have to struggle, to go through hard times, and to find a way of becoming more in control of our emotions and more successful in our actions.

11. Don't think of yourself as a survivor. Intending to survive guarantees little more than getting by. Think of yourself as some who intends to triumph.

12. Forgiving other people liberates us from hate. You won't get even by hating, you'll get miserable, bitter and spiritless. Take care of yourself by forgiving, and if necessary by avoiding hurtful people, but don't waste a minute hating.

13. Seek a worthwhile life rather than happiness. The search for happiness will distract you from what matters and even make you crazy. Happiness is often a matter of luck--the way we are shaped by childhood, where we happen to be born, health, and circumstance.

14. No one knows the meaning of life but it's certain that life is best lived with love, gratitude, ethics, courage, and a determination to give it your best effort. A sense of worth is guaranteed and happiness will often tag along as well.

15. Let your spirit be touched, and touch the spirit of others, with love.

Copyright by Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Thanksgiving Day 2006.
Please copy and send these intact guidelines along with the copyright notice to anyone you wish.

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Dr. Breggin's latest book is Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (2008) and his revised and updated website is Breggin.com.

Celebrating the end of CNY! ;-)

Wow... discipline is definitely not enough here!!! Final exam in just 6 weeks and we're playing cards and shouting and gambling and staying up late chit chatting on top of the KL city. Hehe. But the memories are certainly worth the late night!

Cham, today I'm suffering from the aftermaths of staying up so late. So hard to climb out from the bed...and keeping staring blankly during study group in the hot hot afternoon...just wanna doze off and 'refill' my sleep debt. Haha!

Some breathtakingly nice photos to share, taken by our dedicated photographer Mr Goat. ;-)

Deng deng deng deng.... --> presenting the 9 gambling kings and queens! The 'old thousand' won all of our hard earned $$..sob sob...but luckily we ate back what's worth in his house into our stomach..hehe..so no win no lose. ;-p

快快快

快快快。。。朋友车要来了！哈哈！趁还有点小时间把新年假期做个终结。其实也没什么大感想，就是很享受这段在家疯疯颠颠的日子。可以抛开书本烦恼，就是吃喝玩乐逗狗（秘密出来了！！！）哈哈！

好了，现在是时候重拾课本，呜呜。。。应付还有两个小月的 final exam.惨惨！haha.. hehehe :P 想到都苦，不过我答应自己，要以笑脸应对，把快乐放大，不开心缩小， 这样不就行了吗？

对对对，就看我有多厉害讲到做到。Lalalalala :p

ps: 我喜欢的早餐！Cornflakes in cold milk. Nice nice nice. :)

The demented dog!

Yay! Finally found it! Saw this very cute and hilarious cartoon during class yesterday and wanted to post it in my blog. Dr used this cartoon to illustrate to us how the demented patients will, like this dog, lost their way in familiar places.

Hahahahaa.. so funny.. you see the dog, still got a drop of tear hanging at the egde of its eye! Hahahahahah.. but I thought dogs can find their own way home one.. oh ya.. demented la.. cham... wondering whether my Ruby will one day become like this. kekekeke. Alzheimer's dog! :-P And instead of the usual 'humans post lost dog notice', this dog is pasting the 'lost human' notice everywhere... kelian de dog! hahahahhaaha..

Ok, enough of laughing! Back to studying! hehehehe. :P

Of intention and thanksgiving

I like the word 'intend'. It's like wanting something but you don't set out to want it NOW or in any fixed way. You're ok with anything that comes along and it just puts you in a peaceful piece of mind. Intend intend intend. :-)

About thanks-giving. Everyday is a thanks giving day, more so on the new year. When you give thanks, you'll get more of it. So, whatever it is that you want, or *intend* to have in that matter (hehe), give thanks to whatever that you already have. And what's that for a good way to start a new year - so that you'll have more and loads of the good things in this coming year! :)

Lalalalalala! I intend to.... _____________ (fill in the blank) and I'm grateful for the ______ that I already have.

(example: I intend to have doraemon in my life and I'm grateful for the doraemon picturez that I already have. hehehhehehe)

The first day of 2009!

Lalalalala... wishing everyone an exciting and wonderful year ahead! Whatever it is that we're going through now, they're just perfect for the time being. Cherish, and enjoy in the moment! Make the best out of everything you have - which is a lot I suppose! :-)

We'll all do fine.

Side note to share: yesterday I had a very magnificent view of genting highlands from the low land! Imagine a chain of lantern lights shinning and berkelip-kelip in the middle of the sky out of nowhere.. it's like a city itself hanging in the sky! And 隐隐约约 you can see 绽放的烟花 on top of the lantern. 真的很美！:-)) Should get a chance to take a view of it if there is!

Canadian pizza!

Hmm... yummy! :-)) Blogging with a full stomach. :-p

I don't know how long this gem has been here in M'sia.. but this buy-1-get-1-free pizza offer is really worth it. For RM29.90 we get two regular pizza, thin or pan crust according to your liking. The pizza itself is very loaded, meaty and 'sincere'. It's not like they cheat you on the content for the cheap price. Hehe.

The phone operator seems less systematic and trained than the big fast food delivery chains out there. hehe.. the operator asked me how to get to our college - and whether it's near the bus station (huh which bus station?) etc haiyo... but finally without any fuss the delivery man managed to find his way here, on time, within 40 mins as promised. :)

Can order online too - canadianpizza.com.my but somehow my browser blocked the pop-up... so no luck! :)

lalalallalala. loving life! :)

Celebrating ME! :)

Shopping spree again yesterday! hehe :p Pitty JJ, wanted to spend money but din find anything to her heart's desire.. hehe.. made me feel like I'm the big spender here. Ahemm.. nola.. I just bought that thing just becauseeeeeeeeee........

*got free gift wrapping*

:-)) I'm a girl, after all!

Which girl doesn't like gift? ;-)

Ding ding ding ding... >>>> YEAH! Got a gift for ME, I want to really thank ME for being who I am, the special and unique me, so I'm celebrating ME this holidays! There's no one else in this world that's like ME, rite?

AFTERNOTE: We were taught to just fit in, to be like everyone else, and to compete with other people for the things we want in life. But that's not how it works. You don't have to fit in, you are a unique entity, a special gift, to each and everyone that you reach out to.

Lalalala! I'm a gift... :-p hehe

我爱小叮当！

还记得小时候常去＇借tape', 就是借小叮当的片来看。记得是广东话版的。。那叮当肥肥圆圆的身材还有短短的手，hehe,好可爱！很喜欢它每一次都有很creative的工具来帮大雄，不过很多时候都是弄巧反搓，笑死人！喜欢它伸手进去肚皮前的口袋然后很英雄的把工具举起来，ding ding ding ding 的样子。hahah! 还有就是小叮当的主题曲。。很开心的每一次听到这首歌！Ang ang ang! hehe :p

还有很喜欢小叮当的时光机！！！大雄很喜欢去未来看他跟静宜在一起的时候。哈哈！ 还有就是它的蜻蜓竹，插在头上大雄就可以不用迟到上学了。 还有每一次大雄考试都是考零鸡蛋的！ hahahahaha.

Hmm...好久好久没有看了。。很怀念！

很想再一次回去借tape来看。看小叮当有没有长大了！ :p