Heavenly yummy;

I so miss eating this 'Chap Chye Rice'! It's the most delicious chap chye I ever tasted in my life. Hehe.

I think I am going to try cook this recipe on my own!

And maybe, just maybe, I'll put up the pictures here. (: (:

Beyond our knowing;

I have a dream;

This, my dear, is my dream.

Speak up;

“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.” 
― Fred Rogers

Sometimes people need to know that they have hurt you even though in the process of telling them, you may be hurting them. Otherwise, they will never know what they have done wrong. There are times you need to be fair to yourself, just like how you are fair to others. You cannot please everyone and end up not being fair to yourself. Now that's called not loving yourself and loving yourself is equally important as loving others.

Times like this;

"Life is beautiful
but it's complicated, we barely make it.
We don't need to understand
There are miracles, miracles."
- Vega 4

A sign or coincidence?

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 

Robert Frost

"I took the one less travelled by."

Purely coincidence or is that a sign for me to read?

A message you need to hear;

Where is your heart?

Where is your conscience?

Where is that gut feeling that tells you right from wrong,

that tells you to act morally?

In face of fear,

don’t silent your conscience.

In face of ignorance,

don’t ignore your gut feeling.

In face of adversities,

don’t let go of compassion.

For you never know,

what could have been

if you listen to your gut

and you make a stand.

That one act from you,

can make all the difference in a life.

LISTEN.

Listen hard to what your heart is telling you

and speak up.

Stand up for somebody.

Reach out for someone who is in need

for your love and care means the world to a life in agony.

My words;

My words,

they are stuck within my mind
and my heart.

I try to get it out.
I try to pen it down
but it doesn't feel right.
It doesn't seem to fit anywhere.

So many words
in my thoughts,
yearning to be heard.

My words,
it makes me wonder.
Will I ever make it fit
and 
will it have any meaning?

My words,
even though cluttered,
it gives me life,
it gives me hope,
it gives me room to breath
and it brings me serenity.
The kind of serenity
I can only find
in the beauty of words.

My words,
My story,
the very part of me
which makes me whole.

- HANA

Keep moving;

Keep on moving, sweetheart. Through it all, tap on your inner strength. You got so much more inside of you!

Credits to A White Dove Production for this wonderful video.

Destiny;

Some things happen because they are destined to happen and if those things did not happen, one would  have not experience the blessings in disguise of the events which took place.

Some things happen because they are destined to happen so as to test one's courage or faith or love and if those things did not happen, one's inner strength would have not been nurtured for the face of other odds and adversities to come.

So if destiny plays such a big part in our lives, does it mean we have no say in our lives? Does it mean we do not make choices for ourselves?

Choices, my dear, will still be made and paths will still be carved.

Very often, we go about living thinking that we make the best choices or the worst choices in our lives. Little did we know and notice how fate and destiny comes hand in hand with our choices. That, my friend, is the beauty of the destiny written for us.

I spend a few good years thinking that my choices were everything I had. It took me another few years to realise how there is so much more to life than the choices I made.

Lenaku;

Sewaktu aku terlena,
diri terasa asing dari segalanya kecuali deras nafasku.
Sewaktu aku terlena,
segala yang bercelaru di minda lenyap buat sementara.
Sewaktu terlena,
kedamaian terasa aku yang punya.

Pabila terjaga,
kaki kembali berpijak di bumi yang nyata.
Minda mula memikirkan itu dan ini
dan segalanya kembali seperti sediakala.

Pabila aku terjaga, kedamaian itu pasti
namun harus dicari.

Hadirlah lena, hadirlah jaga.
Keduanya teramat bermakna.

Rintihan hati;

"Airmataku yang berlinangan, menjelmalah bayangan tika ku keseorangan. Hanya kau yang memahami diriku, yang mendengar rintihanku. Kaulah yang ku perlu."

Sukar untuk kita memaafkan orang yang melakukan kesalahan pada kita apatah lagi meninggalkan kekecewaan dan kehambaran dalam hidup kita. Kemaafan beribu kali lagi sukar untuk diberi jika yang memalitkan luka pada hati kita ialah mereka yang kita sayang sepenuh hati dan mereka yang kita berikan sepenuh kepercayaan. Namun itu, pada hakikatnya, itulah adalah dugaan yang besar untuk kita tangani dengan hati yang redha dengan qada dan qadar Illahi. Segala sesuatu yang terjadi sememangnya telah tertulis buat kita. Apa yang tampak baik di mata kita selalunya ada terselit kepahitannya dan apa yang buruk di mata kita selalunya ada tersembunyi kebaikannya.  

Apa yang pasti, walau apa pun yang terjadi, kasih sayang Illahi akan selalu ada buat hambanya.

* Filem 'Dua Kalimah' adalah sebuah filem yang menginsafkan.*

Sejati;

Hati yang resah, 
ke mana hala tujunya?

Jiwa yang kacau,
apa yang mampu mendamaikannya?

Fikiran yang  bercelaru,
di mana kesudahannya?

Keresahan, kecelaruan dan kehambaran di dasar hati
dapat diubati dengan kasih Illahi.

Kasih Illahi yang mendamaikan,
tulus lagi murni,
kasih yang sememangnya tiada berbelah bagi.

Percayalah.
Percayalah wahai hati nurani.
Percayalah pada kasih Illahi yang sejati.