Don't try this at home

I just adore these two from the movie Ice Age. I can get stomach cramps, laughing, just watching this trailer.

You..

A lifetime seemed have passed since I wrote the last entry.  So much had happened since then, I could not even structure a proper sentence for it. So rather than stumbling with my words, I will not talk about it for now.

However, I will say this. What happened made me appreciate the 'NOW' even more. We go through life chasing after our dreams. The dream of a better shoes, clothes, handbags, handphones, car, house, in short, a better life, or the better 'us'. 

I have come to learnt that there is nothing wrong with that. It is certainly better chasing after our own dreams than, having dreams but expecting the dream to come to fruition by its magical self, or putting hopes on others to fullfill our dreams for us.

However this week, made me think. While we all get so caught up in chasing the dream of 'the better us', we tend to forget to celebrate 'us' as is.

I really love all things Dr. Suess. I am not going to psychoanalyse the reason behind it for now. Today lets just celebrate Dr. Suess and 'You'.

(Source: Internet)

"Today you are You, that is truer than true.

There is no one alive who is Youer than You."

~Dr. Suess~

The Junk

His birthday came and I brought him to his new favorite place, The Junk. The last time we went there, he wanted to try their Fisherman's Basket, but since we have ordered other dishes, the waiter was kind enough to tell us, we may not be able to finish it, unless we cancel our previous order.

So he told me that the next time we go to there, he must try their Fisherman's Basket.

And we did just that on his birthday.  First we ordered the Ceasar Salad. I like it.

Then came the Fisherman's Basket. Check out his reaction when he first saw it. hehehe..  It was huge!

The Fisherman's Basket consist of soft shell crabs, fish fillet,lots of calamari, onion rings, prawns and topped with lots of fries, and salad on the side. Served with tar tar sauce & a wedge of lemon.

It was good!

I had a 555 Sour drink. It was a tall glass of sweet sour yumminess. It has fresh lime, preserved lime, mandarin peal, salted plum, preserved plum, and etc. Hits you all in the right sour spots!

Ding!Ding!Ding!

The man was very happy with his Fisherman's Basket.

Happy Birthday my darling.

Answers

Do you have questions in your life which you just could not wait to find its answers.


No matter which way you go, how you chased after it, how you flipped the rocks in you life just to find out if the answer lies underneath them, climbed up the walls of obstacles, looked over the roof of self help books/gurus/teaching, ventured into the drain disgusting self-pity, waddled into the swamps of confusion, checked out the tree branches of maybes, the answer just eludes you...


So you gave up on it.

Then, just as you have long ago given up on it,  totally no longer interested in it, the answers just came to you.

There is also a timing to these answers. It will not come, when you are not ready (no matter how ready you like to think you are).


An answer came to me today. And it came when I am finally ready for it.


I praised the Wonderful Almighty Father for His timing too.  He knew I was ready to let it go and showed me The Answer. (Or let the answer came to me, literally, as it did today).


Had the answer came before today, I believe I would not be able to handle it. But things had happened that allowed me to reach this stage today, and, that's when the long-searched for answer came to me.

So, today, if you have an answer which have been eluding you [or think you will die this instance if you do not have it, (just switch off that diva mode)], and be comforted to know, that it will come in its time.

You have done your part in looking for it. No need to wring that rock for its answers. Enough running, chasing and looking for now...

Its time to hold back,

find your little nook,

calm down,

and chill...

~~~~~~~

A Time for Everything

Ecclesiastes 3

 ¹ There is a time for everything,
   and a season for every activity under the heavens:

 ² a time to be born and a time to die,
   a time to plant and a time to uproot,
 ³ a time to kill and a time to heal,
   a time to tear down and a time to build,
 ⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh,
   a time to mourn and a time to dance,
 ⁵ a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
   a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
 ⁶ a time to search and a time to give up,
   a time to keep and a time to throw away,
 ⁷ a time to tear and a time to mend,
   a time to be silent and a time to speak,
 ⁸ a time to love and a time to hate,
   a time for war and a time for peace.

Just be..

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

~Dr. Suess~

"Mmbek"...

How could I be so lonely by Cath Glasgow

How could I be so lost,

In a place I know so well?

How could I be so broken,

In a family so together?

How could I be so lonely,

Surrounded by so many?

How could I be so unhappy,

Surrounded by so much beauty?

How could I be me,

When even I remain a mystery?

~~~~~~~~~

Ahah! And all these while I thought I was going nuts. There is another person out there asking those exact questions.

I shared with a dear friend how 'detached/ disconnected' I have been feeling for a long time. We have brainstormed trying to find reasons behind this. Hormone? Real depression? Plain crazy? But basically to borrow her words, it's like we were aliens doing our time on earth. (Or something to that effect).

She meant it literally then. Although she summed up the emotion perfectly in all its sombre notes,  I saw humour in that image ~ me and my friend donning our alien suits, kicking pebbles by the roadside of our life's journey, ~

Two confused aliens, in utter state of conundrum.

It cracked me up for awhile.  As equally confused I was with the whole thing, to be able to laugh felt really good. A relief, in fact. 

On a serious note,

• How could anyone feel not at home when they are in fact 'at home'?
• How could anyone feel discontent when they have all their heart's desires?

The list of 'maybe's runs very long.

For me personally, maybe we feel this way because earth is really not our home.

'But store up for yourself treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal.'

(Matthew 6:20)

We have not been able to figure it out yet. Maybe we will find the answer at the end of our journey or maybe it will pop up when we turn round that little corner just a wee bit up ahead.

But until then, just for today, I am comforted to know that someone out there, (aside from us two aliens), feels the same way too.

Thank you, Cath Glasgow. I am sure we will know the answer, one day. Soon.. (In His time..)

Maybe there are more of us out there than we know, ya? The truth is out there.

Signing out, earthlings!

*X-Files soundtrack  in the background*

Note to self: "You decide...."

"You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You're on your own.

And you know what you know.

You are the guy who'll decide where to go."

~Dr. Suess~

Reality of Dreams

Do you have a dream that seemed to define who you are?

That dream, became your direction in life. That one dream, unlike other dreams, on which all the decisions you have made since you are a teenager were based upon. And even when you get distracted along the way, when you turn back and have a look, you will notice that even when you were unaware of it back then, life seems to nudge you towards it. It is like, you were meant to be 'there' in your designated 'spot' in life.

What you are suppose to do, even when at times you do not feel like doing it.

I have such dream. Had it since I was 16 years old. For some unfathomable reason even to myself, I did not understand why I want to be that person. Maybe I was smitten with the 'PERCEPTION' of that dream and hang on the that 'Perception'.

Today, I lived the dream I had when I was 16 years. It took years of hard work, sweat, tears (literally) to reach this point. Along the way I have my loved ones telling me to just let it go, that it was not worth it. I felt guilty for subjecting them to my endless vents while in pursuit of this dream. However I found myself not able to just let it go.

How do you let go of something that defined all the decisions you have made all these years.

How do you let go, when you have come to realised the REALITY of your dream, no matter how hard you chased after it, no matter how long it took you to reach it, turned out not as you have perceived.

Does it mean all these years, chasing after that one thing you know for sure was the thing for you, had been a total waste?..

How now?

*sigh*