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emiko shinning brightly at 9:28 PM

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Ultimately.....

Its not the GOAL you set, Its WHAT YOU NEED to achieve it.

Its not how high you want to RISE, Its KNOWING HOW to take off.

Its not what you DREAM of doing, Its having the KNOWLEDGE to do it.

Its not where you WANT to go, Its knowing HOW to get there.

Its not WHAT you want in life, Its knowing HOW to reach it.

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emiko shinning brightly at 11:19 PM

Saturday, November 26, 2005

Lesson Of Life

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.
The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.
The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.
The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.

The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment. The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up. If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral lessons:

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest. Don't judge life by one difficult season. Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later.

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emiko shinning brightly at 1:17 PM

Sunday, November 20, 2005

First time in KLCC!

Just go to KLCC for the first time in my life just for the sake of the Malaysian Studies Research Project Scrapbook. Sounds silly, don't I? Who asked me to have all the courage to do it all alone? Individually? Suppose to be a group project but Ms. Su chucked me in an alien group whom I can't work with... Well, I was so stressed up for the first project as it's so hard to communicate with all of them... I registered late for this course so I have to bear to cost of it. *Sucks!* Anyway, I managed to capture quite a number of beautiful scenaries at KLCC... its park... the philharmonic hall n Aquaria ( no $ to enter)... haih... what a waste~! But I have a great day there. Thanks to Tien Ching!!!

Anyway, the photos below were taken in the KLCC park... they were kinda nice.. i mean the scenery... hope I could make another trip there before I submit my scrapbook... I guess I really have to do well for all the projects as I don't think I can ace the finals cos this course its all about history.. I just hated it... I just need a pass! That's it!

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emiko shinning brightly at 4:53 PM

Sunday, November 13, 2005

I'm back- back to blogging once again after being vanished for awhile. In fact, things haven't been the same for me again. One thing that really pulls me down so much for the past 2 weeks was that I was so ill and the dr. suspected I might be down with dengue fever but thank God, I'm feeling so much better today and I managed to enjoy this Holy Sunday by going to church with my grandma. I have so much to thank God for, including today's sermon. Perhaps it's because God has so much to tell me and that He has indirectly send someone, the annointed pastor to preach this morning. The title for today's sermon is how to reach my full potential with excellence. He said all of us are bound by our past and that we couldn't achieve our fullest potential that God has for us and we used to take things forgranted by sitting back and wait till our very last day... The pains and hurts could be the things that is holding all of us back too from serving God's kingdom... Well, I have learnt so much today about Moses... the 3 syndroms, namely...

"Who am I" syndrome- God's voice convicts you to build you up but the devil's voice condemns you to put you down". Paul Hovey once said, "A blind man's world is bound by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge; a great man's world by the limits of his vision".
"What If" syndrome- God uses what we have to develop our potentials cos' He won't demand the things that we don't have. He is more interested in our availability rather than our abilities. Our God is a God of Multiplication!
"I am afraid I can't" syndrome- We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.

This sermon has definitely taught me a lot... I should be ready to use by God to develop my full potential... I strongly believe that God has a great and bright future for me and He knows what is it that is right and good for me and whatever I do, I will do it for His glory!

Thank you God for helping me to be part of the YGCC selection and putting me for the final interview. I really believe that by Your grace and will, You will put me up for the top 10 (succeed in the interview) and ready to fly off! Lord, let me have Your good news! Teach me what is right and pleasure to answer for the interview, Lord!!!...

To all my friends who are reading this post, pls keep me in prayers as my interview will be held this Thursday(17th Nov)...Thx!

Thank you Lord for knowing what my heart desires most... I want to reach out and touch my community more... Use me, God!!! Mould me.....Waiting for Your divine calling & touch... Let me be Your living testimony!~

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emiko shinning brightly at 12:38 PM

Sunday, November 06, 2005

"I believe that a low sense of self-worth is a major problem plaguing most people today. It often underlies many other problems we face. Without a healthy sense of oneself, we feel unworthy of respect and of good things in our life.

Our society has often taught us to value others and to devalue ourselves. Yet this doesn't work for the betterment of all society. Unless we truly value ourselves, we're always looking to others for our sense of value or approval. Consequently, this usually entails trying to manipulate them into “loving” us in some way in order for us to gain a sense of self-appreciation. Manipulation and control are always detrimental to relationships. And needing the approval of others always leaves our self-worth in someone else’s hands.

The thing that turned it around for me was simply accepting, with child-like faith, the belief that I am loved and have value in this world, simply because I exist! From my historical religious perspective, it was a matter of my accepting “God’s view of me” rather than the world’s view of me.

I simply accepted the belief that I have value, as do all people, because I am part of God’s creation, created by Him/Her, as an extension of that Goodness. Nothing I’ve ever done has earned it; nothing I’ve ever done has lost it; and nothing I’ve ever failed to do has lost it. It’s simply that I have worth because I’m a part of that which is intrinsically and inherently Good, as we all are. Period.

I’d assented to that belief intellectually for some years, but knowing something intellectually and knowing it experientially aren't the same thing. I now feel my worth within, whether or not anyone else on the planet validates my worth by their appreciation of me. I appreciate others’ appreciation of me, but I don’t depend on it, for no one else can know me as I know me. And if they’re not appreciating me, it may simply be because they aren’t appreciating themselves either, so they can’t see beyond their own pain. Put simply, a person’s worth doesn’t depend on anyone else’s approval but God’s.

Once I began to get my sense of worth from within rather than trying to get others to value me from without, I was able to let everybody else “off the hook”. Nobody else had to “value me” in order for me to feel my own worth. This gives me the freedom to allow people to be just as they are, whether or not they include me. And it gives me the freedom to love others, whether or not they return that love. In my opinion, unconditional love doesn’t have to be returned; it only has to be given, because giving is its nature.

This said, my only advice to anyone would be to simply decide you have value by accepting that belief for yourself. That’s really why we want others’ approval—to convince ourselves of our worth. But our worth is a given; only our unbelief keeps us from accepting it.

You can never do enough to please everybody. So please yourself and let those who are attracted to what you are be attracted to you. As you become willing to release the compulsion to need validation from others, you can begin to give of yourself in a way that others will more likely value you. You don’t have to try to be any specific “something” somebody else would want. Just plain “goodness” is attractive to most people.

The problem with trying to “win” others' approval is that we don’t have our own approval in that situation. And since others reflect back to us what we believe about ourselves, they will reflect back unapproval. Most people don’t act; they react. So they don’t “act” toward you; they “react” to you. When you begin to value you, others will feel that value and respond accordingly.

As long as your happiness depends on something outside of yourself, your happiness is in someone else’s hands. And you can’t control that. I’ve learned that I can give myself happiness by simply doing it, by loving myself as purely and innocently as I would love any other human being, for I am “another human being” to others.

You have value, whether or not anyone else acknowledges it. You are worthwhile, whether or not anyone else says so. And as you begin to live from that perspective, you will begin to radiate a sense of well-being that others will like and want to be around. You don’t have to try to be something they will like. Your own unique version of “goodness” will be sufficient. People will still have preferences and may prefer someone else over you. But they will have a greater sense of appreciation for you as you express a greater appreciation for yourself. Most importantly, you will appreciate you and more easily appreciate others.

I wish I could tell you specifically what you have to do to achieve this, but I can’t. It’s simply a belief that you adopt. And a belief (any belief) is simply a thought that you think, over and over, until you come to adopt it, whether or not it is true. We have many beliefs that aren’t “true”, but because we believe them, they become true in our experience of life. But your worth is one that, I believe, is unquestionably true. You only need to accept it as true for yourself to begin reaping the benefits of it.

Your own eternal self knows that all is well, even if your intellect isn’t yet convinced of that. But you can retrain your intellect by simply changing your mind. That’s how your intellect got every belief it has now—you accepted something long enough that you came to believe it!

You’re OK. You have value. As YOU begin to live from your worth, and not from a sense of lack of worth, you will radiate that worth to others, who, like you previously, are also looking for their sense of worth. As you know your own worth, you also know their worth.

Give yourself permission to value yourself, despite the teachings of our society to the contrary. Jesus said it eloquently when he said, “Love your neighbor AS you love yourself.” Loving ourselves is the measure by which we should love others. Funny how our society has gotten that one backward! In truth, you cannot love others until you begin to love yourself.

I’ve learned that I can be a “lover” simply by loving, whether or not anyone else “loves me back”. I am “in love” whether or not a specific person “loves me back”. I am a lover, period. And a lover loves! And as I love, I get to feel the wonder of that love flowing through me. When water flows through a pipe, the pipe gets wet, too! I’ve learned that as I focus on giving, rather than receiving, I too receive from the act of giving.

You have value. But you must claim your value. When you look to others to validate it, you are, in that moment, not claiming it for yourself. So others have a harder time of claiming it for you, since most of them don’t claim it for themselves either.

Enough of this. You are loved. "

~Yes... yes... I'm being loved... I am the lover of myself n I do not need others to love me for God's love is greatest above all! He is definitely our ALL in ALL!!!

Charles David Heineke, 1998

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emiko shinning brightly at 6:16 PM


++Inspirations?++ Rainbows and shadows intertwine, weaving images through my mind. Dreams and thoughts flow in endless streams, cascading like a gushing tide... Name: Cindy Tan Age: 21 University: HELP University College Birthday: 3rd February 1985 +++ Involved in mission trips!! +++ Actively involved in community services +++ Transferring to U.S.A in 1 year time!! ~~Thank you for visting my blog! Happy Reading!~~ + +Blessed+ + * June Khoo * Kenneth * Su Cheen * Aliya * Step * Annie and to all of you who are not in this list, you're still my friends and you know who you are! + +Favourites+ + Heartlight Youth Alive Malaysia Anime Skies + +Visitors+ + Wanna play Tic-Tac-Toe with me? Will give you a chance to WIN :) rantings [July 2004] [August 2004] [September 2004] [October 2004] [November 2004] [December 2004] [January 2005] [February 2005] [March 2005] [April 2005] [May 2005] [June 2005] [July 2005] [August 2005] [September 2005] [October 2005] [November 2005] [December 2005] [January 2006] [February 2006] [March 2006] [April 2006] [May 2006]	Wednesday, November 30, 2005 MOMENTS IN LIFE There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! When the door of happiness closes, another opens; But often times we look so long at the Closed door that we don't see the one, Which has been opened for us Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, Because it takes only a smile to Make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile. Dream what you want to dream; Go where you want to go; Be what you want to be, Because you have only one life And one chance to do all the things You want to do. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet Enough trials to make you strong, Enough sorrow to keep you human and Enough hope to make you happy. The happiest of people don't necessarily Have the best of everything; They just make the most of Everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always Be based on a forgotten past; You can't go forward in life until You let go of your past failures and heartaches. When you were born, you were crying And everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, You're the one who is smiling and everyone Around you is crying. __n_ /____\ + + + + + +l__n__l+ + + + + + emiko shinning brightly at 9:28 PM Sunday, November 27, 2005 Ultimately..... Its not the GOAL you set, Its WHAT YOU NEED to achieve it. Its not how high you want to RISE, Its KNOWING HOW to take off. Its not what you DREAM of doing, Its having the KNOWLEDGE to do it. Its not where you WANT to go, Its knowing HOW to get there. Its not WHAT you want in life, Its knowing HOW to reach it. __n_ /____\ + + + + + +l__n__l+ + + + + + emiko shinning brightly at 11:19 PM Saturday, November 26, 2005 Lesson Of Life There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise. The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment. The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up. If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall. Moral lessons: Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest. Don't judge life by one difficult season. Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later. __n_ /____\ + + + + + +l__n__l+ + + + + + emiko shinning brightly at 1:17 PM Sunday, November 20, 2005 First time in KLCC! Just go to KLCC for the first time in my life just for the sake of the Malaysian Studies Research Project Scrapbook. Sounds silly, don't I? Who asked me to have all the courage to do it all alone? Individually? Suppose to be a group project but Ms. Su chucked me in an alien group whom I can't work with... Well, I was so stressed up for the first project as it's so hard to communicate with all of them... I registered late for this course so I have to bear to cost of it. Sucks! Anyway, I managed to capture quite a number of beautiful scenaries at KLCC... its park... the philharmonic hall n Aquaria ( no $ to enter)... haih... what a waste~! But I have a great day there. Thanks to Tien Ching!!! Anyway, the photos below were taken in the KLCC park... they were kinda nice.. i mean the scenery... hope I could make another trip there before I submit my scrapbook... I guess I really have to do well for all the projects as I don't think I can ace the finals cos this course its all about history.. I just hated it... I just need a pass! That's it! __n_ /____\ + + + + + +l__n__l+ + + + + + emiko shinning brightly at 4:53 PM Sunday, November 13, 2005 I'm back- back to blogging once again after being vanished for awhile. In fact, things haven't been the same for me again. One thing that really pulls me down so much for the past 2 weeks was that I was so ill and the dr. suspected I might be down with dengue fever but thank God, I'm feeling so much better today and I managed to enjoy this Holy Sunday by going to church with my grandma. I have so much to thank God for, including today's sermon. Perhaps it's because God has so much to tell me and that He has indirectly send someone, the annointed pastor to preach this morning. The title for today's sermon is how to reach my full potential with excellence. He said all of us are bound by our past and that we couldn't achieve our fullest potential that God has for us and we used to take things forgranted by sitting back and wait till our very last day... The pains and hurts could be the things that is holding all of us back too from serving God's kingdom... Well, I have learnt so much today about Moses... the 3 syndroms, namely... "Who am I" syndrome- God's voice convicts you to build you up but the devil's voice condemns you to put you down". Paul Hovey once said, "A blind man's world is bound by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge; a great man's world by the limits of his vision". "What If" syndrome- God uses what we have to develop our potentials cos' He won't demand the things that we don't have. He is more interested in our availability rather than our abilities. Our God is a God of Multiplication! "I am afraid I can't" syndrome- We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. This sermon has definitely taught me a lot... I should be ready to use by God to develop my full potential... I strongly believe that God has a great and bright future for me and He knows what is it that is right and good for me and whatever I do, I will do it for His glory! Thank you God for helping me to be part of the YGCC selection and putting me for the final interview. I really believe that by Your grace and will, You will put me up for the top 10 (succeed in the interview) and ready to fly off! Lord, let me have Your good news! Teach me what is right and pleasure to answer for the interview, Lord!!!... To all my friends who are reading this post, pls keep me in prayers as my interview will be held this Thursday(17th Nov)...Thx! Thank you Lord for knowing what my heart desires most... I want to reach out and touch my community more... Use me, God!!! Mould me.....Waiting for Your divine calling & touch... Let me be Your living testimony!~ __n_ /____\ + + + + + +l__n__l+ + + + + + emiko shinning brightly at 12:38 PM Sunday, November 06, 2005 "I believe that a low sense of self-worth is a major problem plaguing most people today. It often underlies many other problems we face. Without a healthy sense of oneself, we feel unworthy of respect and of good things in our life. Our society has often taught us to value others and to devalue ourselves. Yet this doesn't work for the betterment of all society. Unless we truly value ourselves, we're always looking to others for our sense of value or approval. Consequently, this usually entails trying to manipulate them into “loving” us in some way in order for us to gain a sense of self-appreciation. Manipulation and control are always detrimental to relationships. And needing the approval of others always leaves our self-worth in someone else’s hands. The thing that turned it around for me was simply accepting, with child-like faith, the belief that I am loved and have value in this world, simply because I exist! From my historical religious perspective, it was a matter of my accepting “God’s view of me” rather than the world’s view of me. I simply accepted the belief that I have value, as do all people, because I am part of God’s creation, created by Him/Her, as an extension of that Goodness. Nothing I’ve ever done has earned it; nothing I’ve ever done has lost it; and nothing I’ve ever failed to do has lost it. It’s simply that I have worth because I’m a part of that which is intrinsically and inherently Good, as we all are. Period. I’d assented to that belief intellectually for some years, but knowing something intellectually and knowing it experientially aren't the same thing. I now feel my worth within, whether or not anyone else on the planet validates my worth by their appreciation of me. I appreciate others’ appreciation of me, but I don’t depend on it, for no one else can know me as I know me. And if they’re not appreciating me, it may simply be because they aren’t appreciating themselves either, so they can’t see beyond their own pain. Put simply, a person’s worth doesn’t depend on anyone else’s approval but God’s. Once I began to get my sense of worth from within rather than trying to get others to value me from without, I was able to let everybody else “off the hook”. Nobody else had to “value me” in order for me to feel my own worth. This gives me the freedom to allow people to be just as they are, whether or not they include me. And it gives me the freedom to love others, whether or not they return that love. In my opinion, unconditional love doesn’t have to be returned; it only has to be given, because giving is its nature. This said, my only advice to anyone would be to simply decide you have value by accepting that belief for yourself. That’s really why we want others’ approval—to convince ourselves of our worth. But our worth is a given; only our unbelief keeps us from accepting it. You can never do enough to please everybody. So please yourself and let those who are attracted to what you are be attracted to you. As you become willing to release the compulsion to need validation from others, you can begin to give of yourself in a way that others will more likely value you. You don’t have to try to be any specific “something” somebody else would want. Just plain “goodness” is attractive to most people. The problem with trying to “win” others' approval is that we don’t have our own approval in that situation. And since others reflect back to us what we believe about ourselves, they will reflect back unapproval. Most people don’t act; they react. So they don’t “act” toward you; they “react” to you. When you begin to value you, others will feel that value and respond accordingly. As long as your happiness depends on something outside of yourself, your happiness is in someone else’s hands. And you can’t control that. I’ve learned that I can give myself happiness by simply doing it, by loving myself as purely and innocently as I would love any other human being, for I am “another human being” to others. You have value, whether or not anyone else acknowledges it. You are worthwhile, whether or not anyone else says so. And as you begin to live from that perspective, you will begin to radiate a sense of well-being that others will like and want to be around. You don’t have to try to be something they will like. Your own unique version of “goodness” will be sufficient. People will still have preferences and may prefer someone else over you. But they will have a greater sense of appreciation for you as you express a greater appreciation for yourself. Most importantly, you will appreciate you and more easily appreciate others. I wish I could tell you specifically what you have to do to achieve this, but I can’t. It’s simply a belief that you adopt. And a belief (any belief) is simply a thought that you think, over and over, until you come to adopt it, whether or not it is true. We have many beliefs that aren’t “true”, but because we believe them, they become true in our experience of life. But your worth is one that, I believe, is unquestionably true. You only need to accept it as true for yourself to begin reaping the benefits of it. Your own eternal self knows that all is well, even if your intellect isn’t yet convinced of that. But you can retrain your intellect by simply changing your mind. That’s how your intellect got every belief it has now—you accepted something long enough that you came to believe it! You’re OK. You have value. As YOU begin to live from your worth, and not from a sense of lack of worth, you will radiate that worth to others, who, like you previously, are also looking for their sense of worth. As you know your own worth, you also know their worth. Give yourself permission to value yourself, despite the teachings of our society to the contrary. Jesus said it eloquently when he said, “Love your neighbor AS you love yourself.” Loving ourselves is the measure by which we should love others. Funny how our society has gotten that one backward! In truth, you cannot love others until you begin to love yourself. I’ve learned that I can be a “lover” simply by loving, whether or not anyone else “loves me back”. I am “in love” whether or not a specific person “loves me back”. I am a lover, period. And a lover loves! And as I love, I get to feel the wonder of that love flowing through me. When water flows through a pipe, the pipe gets wet, too! I’ve learned that as I focus on giving, rather than receiving, I too receive from the act of giving. You have value. But you must claim your value. When you look to others to validate it, you are, in that moment, not claiming it for yourself. So others have a harder time of claiming it for you, since most of them don’t claim it for themselves either. Enough of this. You are loved. " ~Yes... yes... I'm being loved... I am the lover of myself n I do not need others to love me for God's love is greatest above all! He is definitely our ALL in ALL!!! Charles David Heineke, 1998 __n_ /____\ + + + + + +l__n__l+ + + + + + emiko shinning brightly at 6:16 PM
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