wedding bands check! a rainbow! grim reminder

Yes, wedding bands have been purchased. we simply haven't engraved anything yet.

The bands themselves were a blessing from God as they fitted all our requirements. Asymmetrical, two tone and affordable. They were more than affordable really. =) So praise God for such a steal!

last friday I had quite an upsetting day at work and tho i was fine soon after the incident, mood wasn't in tip top form. but as i took a four bus stop ride from my office to the mrt, i looked out (i usually never look out that way cos the bus is usually empty and i'm standing at the no chair area looking to the right of the bus). and the minute i looked out of the window, there was a rainbow. we often lament abt the LAST time we saw a rainbow... but as i stared at it, admiring its colours and the significance of seeing the rainbow that particular day, i wonder if i've missed out the many rainbows in my life simply because i never looked.

yesterday i got a mail that really affected me. i'm sure some of you have received it before. i'm usually unaffected by forwarded mails, often i hardly even open them. but i was clearing my inbox yesterday so opened one or two forwarded mails. this one, showed people starving till they were literally skin and bones. one was of a child, maybe even a baby... but the thing that shook me, that though the child had such young eyes, it was no better than a skeleton with skin. the pulitzer prize-winning photo of a vulture waiting for a baby to die was also depressing. the photographer committed suicide three months after the photo from depression. not sure if it was related. could be, couldn't it?

so i decided, enough with wasting food and water. we really should conserve what we can and not take all that we have for granted. shame on me who always leaves a pile of rice on the plate. shame on me for turning my nose up at vegetable dishes. shame on me for not finishing the water i've poured into my cup. every grain of rice, every drop of water's so precious and can never be gotten back once wasted.

it was a grim reminder at how i take the life i lead for granted. so the next time you go order your lunch or dinner, don't over order. there really are starving people dying everyday.

i thank God for providing for me. I thank Him for opening my eyes to see how i've wasted His many blessings each time i throw good edible food away. i'm appalled i resorted to extreme measures to lose weight in the past, when there are people who don't even have any flesh to keep them warm.

may we all learn how to fully appreciate what the Lord has blessed us in abundance with and always think of our actions so that we won't waste.

my 100th post! heehee

hey everyone... hope you've all been fine. think many are having a good time on facebook. considered starting it so that i won't be left behind, but the amount of time i am actually online is so minimal these days, just doesn't make sense to start. maybe when xiang starts his pupilage and i haven't anything else to do. then again, maybe not.

updating this blog is already a challenge most days. obvious by the lack of entries.

well, here's what I've been thanking God for lately

1. still my wonderful family
2. xiang of cos
3. in the past two weeks, i've stayed back for more hours than the whole time i've been at my current workplace combined. heehee... so really thankful that God saw me through those tedious nights and i managed to complete what i needed to
4. work's been busy but it's satisfying when i know i'm like thinking and contributing. at least i feel like i've been. maybe i haven't! but at least in my brain, it sure feels like it. heehee...
5. keeping me healthy and free of illnesses. twice in the past month has a flu been threatening to come upon me. yesterday was one of them. but praise God! He helped fend off the flu and i'm functioning if not tip top, in a normal condition. =) too much work to fall ill and miss days of work at the moment.
6. for my 2008 diary. ok, technically it's just a book. but i printed out my months and stuck em in it. it's cute! got sesame street characters all over it! heehee... used up the last of my kino vouchers (gift from a fren) and paid a mere little 80cents for such a lovely book.
   
7. so being such a J according to the MBTI test, i faifthfully transferred all impt details such as birthdays (many of you who actually read this, are in it! heehee... if it's not, then you haven't told me your birthday!) and having reached the last birthday of the year, it was of cos xiang's! this 31st dec baby... but what was intriguing, that in 10 days after his 2008 birthday, we'd be getting married! wow... talk abt a year whizzing by... heehee..
   
8. we bought our wedding bands really really really cheap.. well, to us it was a steal anyway. nothing fancy... no big name, no diamonds.. but it satisfied our requirements and was at less than half the price of the last pair we sorta fancied. all thanks to my mummy who informed me of this shop having a moving out sale... so yup... =)
9. for everyone of you who bother to still check this less than frequently updated blog! thanks for caring! =)