LIFEBOOK 2009

Dear Friend,

Take care of yourself and love yourself more..and you can't expect miracle..

Health:
1. Drink plenty of water
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a
beggar
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food
that is manufactured in plants
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy
5. Make time for prayer
6. Play more games
7. Read more books than you did in 2008
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9. Sleep for 7 hours
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day ---- and while you walk, smile

Personality:
11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their
journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control.
Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do ; keep your limits
14. Don't take yourself so seriously ; no one else does
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip
16. Dream more while you are awake
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with
his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.
Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away
like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Community:
25. Call your family often
26. Each day give something good to others
27. Forgive everyone for everything
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day
30. What other people think of you is none of your business
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your family
and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:
32. Do the right things
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful
34. GOD heals everything
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
37. The best is yet to come
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

(Yin Lu sent this, must read).. haha thanks to her.

Nobody

Nobody can go back & start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today & make a new ending.

Life is full of beauty,notice it.
Notice da small child, & the smiling faces.
Smell da rain
& feel da wind.

Laugh as much
as u breathe,
love as long
as u live!

Nobody

A World Of Colours

I wanted to paint the world in different colors
The colors so rich and cavernous
Wished to have vibrant picturesque on my canvas

I searched the canvas over which to spill the colors
All the shades of blue, pinks and yellows
I thought of even painting the real fellows

Just as I were about to start my endeavor
I happened to feel a slight tremor
I tried to reason out my hands quiver

Inadvertently I observed the world of reality
Which I perceived was painted in entirety
The world was already colored so magnificently

Neither a ray more nor a shade less
I know the work of God is faultless
The world’s really so colorful and so flawless

this is how i feel about life

Five Short Steps

I WALK DOWN THE STREET
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost, and I am hopeless.
It isn't my fault
It takes me forever to find a way out.

I WALK DOWN THE SAME STREET
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it
I fall in again. I can't believe I am in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

I WALK DOWN THE SAME STREET
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there. I still fall in... it is a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

I WALK DOWN THE SAME STREET
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I WALK DOWN ANOTHER STREET.

Bamboo

Happy Chinese New Year soon...

Here we have another new beginning,
Another chance to be what we are not.
Praised be those who recognize the rot,
Portion out the guilt, and go on living.
Years change far more frequently than we,
Nor are our changes more than painted screens,
Each placed to maximize our meager means,
Windows on a world that none can see.
Yet, truth be told, we know well what’s within.
Each resolution fails to touch the heart,
As in the end we are, as at the start,
Remorseful reprobates, half hope, half sin.

Bamboo

Bamboo (1)

Out of the ground a straight thing grows,
out of the ground a blue-green pointed thing grows,
piercing the frozen winter,
glimmering green in the morning’s empty road

Bringing tears to the eyes,
tears falling even now
from above shoulders swollen with regret,
hazy, the bamboo roots spreading, spreading,
as out of the ground a blue-green blade comes up.

Bamboo (2)

In the shining earth the bamboo grows,
the blue-green bamboo grows,
underground the roots of bamboo grow,
roots that gradually taper off
with fine hairs sprouting from their tips,
hazy fine hairs faintly growing,
faintly trembling.

In the adversarial earth the bamboo grows,
above ground the sharp bamboo grows,
perfectly straight bamboo grows,
with its rigid joints going rin, rin,
at the base of the blue sky bamboo grows,
bamboo, bamboo, bamboo grows.

Hagiwara Sakutaro

Bamboo Grove

The bamboo grove shines in golden sunshine,
the lush green leaves in the grove sparkle with life,
The wind blowing thru the pores in bamboo stalks fills the grove with melodious music,
The parrots, cuckoo, and maina birds fill the grove with color and cheers.

The bamboo plants bend and sway during windy days,
shows how to be strong and flexible in stormy days.
It is the idol of survival in tough and blistery weather,
It graciously gives way to sprouts to prosper in its withering days.

The aura of bamboo grove by night is charming to behold,
The moon peeks thru the leaves painting the grove in silhouette and silvery shadows,
The trees resonate with the heartbeat of romance,
Each knot feels like the ladder to advance to the higher level of ecstasy of love.

The plum blossoms in the grove under the moonlit silvery skis,
Reminds me of the eternal lovers bonded together in eternity,
The trees stand tall with vigor with branches protecting lovely pink blossoms,
The grove brings the aura of good fortune and friendship forever.

Keep In Mind

Touch the sky
and in your reach
believe
achieve
and aspire.

May your tomorrows
take you to the
summit of your goals

And your joys
take you
even higher.

Bamboo

Happy New Year 2009!

Happy New Year to you.

Soon, Happy Chinese New Year to you...

Hurray!


Bamboo