For the past few days, I became idle in joining memes that I almost forgot my own hosted meme, Picture Perfect (please join with me) every Thursday!Thanks to my loyalists (lol!) for reminding me.

With all the memes around the globe that I've been joining, I encountered another one from Mama M of My Little Life.

It is so simple to join. Every week she will be posting five questions and all you have to do is just simply answer that one and post it right on your blog. 

So for this week, these are my answers to her given questions:

1. Can you drive a stick shift?

- Unfortunately, I do not know how to drive (even a bicycle), so definitely NO.

2. What are two foods you just can't eat?

-Exotic foods (like cultured cockroach and other insects ;), durian fruit

3. Do you buy Girl Scout Cookies? What is your favorite kind?

- Nope, i haven't tried it yet but it sounds so sweet and delicious.

4. How do you pamper yourself?

- Have my toe nails and hair rebonded at the salon

5. What is your nickname and how did you get it?

- Jackie. Actually it is only the spelling that was changed. It used to be Jacky before, way back in high school days. Though some old acquaintances called me Jack-jack. However, I am working out the "eikcaj" (spelled backward as jackie) on which few of my church mates have called me that way already ;)

How about you? I know you've got different answer as mine. So join with us and have fun!

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Sorry for being so late... and thanks to Gene for reminding me as well.

This picture was taken right after the True Love Wait Concert Symposium in our church... 

Super duo couple: Mark & Joey, Huggy & Me!

I always keep this verse in my heart. I may not able to memorize it verbatim but the context is very clear to me. When things seems not in accordance to all my plans, this is the first thing that God will impress into my heart followed by what I firmly believe that EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Recently, I went through a lot emotionally. Though it wasn't over yet but I am still hopeful that soon I can get over it and everything will be okay. I was also confronted with my future plans together with my significant other. I am the pessimistic type trying hard to be positive by all means. Though we are working on it but at the back of my mind, it is God's plan that shall prevail. 

"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails."

(Proverbs 19:21, NIV)

Yes indeed.


I knew that if it is really by His will, everything will work out smoothly. Even at this very moment as I wrote this piece, I can hear God's whisper in my ears "It is not your thoughts nor your ways, It is all MINE".


Not unless, He will grant it out of His Permissive Will instead of His Perfect Will. 


Well, I would still prefer for His Perfect Will, no matter what.


Amen.

In a beauty salon where beauty and wellness is the focus of the marketing, it is just right for the staff to wear beauty uniforms that will suit the quality of the company they are working with. In choosing the right beauty uniforms, consider the style and comfort. These two should go along with each other to boost the confidence of the staff.

Increase your sales by having a beautiful staff on their attractive beauty uniforms.

Words of wisdom for today: “Weigh things first before you make further action”, simple yet a very true reminder. Last night I was overwhelmed with my emotion that I wrote something here (which I purposely deleted to avoid further misconception). If we merely rely on our emotion, we cannot be assured that what we perceived and conceived to be true is indeed the truth. The outpouring of our emotion, if not handled or managed properly, will likely result to broken relationships. It could be anger and resentment that drove us to do such thing. In my case, it was. I realized I was too concerned with my emotion that I failed to look at the brighter side of the situation. Tears blinded me to further look into details as to why such things were happening.

Things that cannot be undone are the hardest thing to mend. Because of extreme emotions, I was temporarily lost to the reality that life isn’t bad at all. If we merely focus on one situation without considering the root cause, the effect could be detrimental, if not fatal, to one’s relationship. I knew for a fact that nothing good will result from our reaction caused by so much anger.

My apology to those who were affected with what I have written. My sincere apology to those people whom I thought have caused some pain on me that much. My mentor was right; I should weigh things out before making any moves. I have cried a lot already, but this time, not out of extreme emotion, but of guilt for being so judgmental. It was me who gave the wrong judgment. It was me who made the wrong assumptions.

I have learned somehow with this experience. I learned the art of listening. As I woke up this morning, I really prayed for wisdom and strength. I asked for wisdom for me to understand why such thing happened to me.

The restoration process is not that easy. Everything was cleared to me now. I just have to settle the issue with someone I loved the most. Again, it was out of extreme emotion that I did such thing.

There might be some issues that really affect me that much but that was already a thing in the past. I should not let those issues ruin what I have planned ahead. It was over. I should not allow it to haunt me again and again. We all went through similar situations, but as long as we live, we have the options to move on or just simply dwell with it and continue to hurt ourselves.

This situation helps me as a person. It teaches me the essence of maturity. I know I still have lots of things to learned. This was just the beginning. I just thank God for the wisdom. I may be lost last night but now I am back to the reality.

But as for now, I still have to do something to restore what was almost ruined by those extreme emotions.

Again, my sincere apology. ☺

This was taken during one of the Youth Fellowship at Pastor John's house. Miss the moment....