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Friday, February 27, 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Double Happiness?

This is the 雨过天晴的彩虹!


Double Rainbows!


Do you believe that there is a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow?

Back-dated Yet Again...

In Jan ~ BETTY-JESS
It's her Birthday! So Lynn and I decided to buy her this...



& Cass bought her the cake



In Feb ~ V Day
Did a group celebration at Conrad...



Dinner at


The MSG soup


I had this, and it's not nice at all!


Pork Knuckle is definitely better


The Group


Life has been pretty hectic and stressful for me...
Wonder how long i can dong...

Monday, February 16, 2009

"Window"

xxxxxxx (it's too long a story to type...)
But below is the moral of the story:

What we see when watching others, depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge.


More often than not, are people seeking to find the bad in others to bring out the good in themselves? Or the good in others to do self reflection?

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

What Goes Around, Comes Around

Came across this story from my fren's blog...
She "asked" me to pass it on to let the light shine, so I post it in here...

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One day, a man saw an old lady stranded on the side of the road. But even in the dim light of day, he could see that she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her.
Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe; he looked poor and hungry.

He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how she felt. It was that chill which only fear can put in you.

He said, ‘I’m here to help you, ma’am. Why don’t you wait in the car where it’s warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.’

Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.

As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was only just passing through. She couldn’t thank him enough for coming to her aid.

Bryan just smiled as he close her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened had he not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were plenty, who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.

He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, ‘And think of me.’

He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight.

A few miles down the road the lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab a bite to eat, and take the chill off before she made the last leg of her trip home. It was a dingy looking restaurant. Outside were two old gas pumps. The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn’t erase. The lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she never let the strain and aches change her attitude. The old lady wondered how someone who had so little could be so giving to a stranger. Then she remembered Bryan.

After the lady finished her meal, she paid with a hundred dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to get change for her hundred dollar bill, but the old lady had slipped right out the door. She was gone by the time the waitress came back. The waitress wondered where the lady could be. Then she noticed something written on the napkin.

There were tears in her eyes when she read what the lady wrote: ‘You don’t owe me anything. I have been there too. Somebody once helped me out, the way I’m helping you. If you really want to pay me back, here is what you do: Do not let this chain of love end with you.’

Under the napkin were four more $100 bills.

Well, there were tables to clear, sugar bowls to fill, and people to serve, but the waitress made it through another day. That night when she got home from work and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written. How could the lady have known how much she and her husband needed it? With the baby due next month, it was going to be hard...

She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low, ‘Every thing’s going to be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson.’
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"We comfort others with the comfort we had received."
-> So, which comes 1st? do we comfort b4 we are comforted? or we comfort after receiving the comfort?
-> Actually, the so-called PERFECT ans is the earlier right... And shd comfort without expecting to be comforted right...
-> haha...

Does Good really begets Good?