just got home from work and i'm not done with the day's work yet
...so i'm folding my newly cleaned clothes to gain some control
i'm still thankful for the laughters spontaneously shared (indeed, still thankful)
About Me
- Joni Gail A. Morales
- Warrior of Light Online When he learns to handle his sword, he discovers that his equipment has to be complete – and that includes armor. He goes out to look for armor and hears what some vendors propose to him. "Wear the breast-plate of solitude," says one. "Wear the shield of cynicism," answers another. "The best armor is not to get involved in anything," suggests a third. The warrior, however, does not listen to them. He goes serenely to his sacred place and dons the indestructible cloak of faith. Faith softens all blows. Faith changes poison into crystal-clear water. His angel whispers to him: "Yield everything." The warrior kneels down and offers his victories to God.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
the rainbow connection
over the weekend, i saw a couple of old friends, as in friends I haven't seen for ages...
kind of reminds me of who I was back then, what I was doing when I knew them
some kind of re-orientation to myself...quite refreshing though
these past few days was very hectic at work, my emotions even more hectic...
they're all going overdrive and I'm pre-occupied with juggling them all at once
I'm feeling more of a girl than ever these days, all emotional
and tentative to give in in using rational judgement
today, at mass I got re-oriented with an old promise of God's to me,
so I prayed...
never felt so much better in days...
I just got out of church feeling peaceful...
but of course, coming out to reality again meant that peace would be broken all over again
here are the things I leared from "inception"
1. pain is all in the mind
2. the best idea is the simplest one, it will creatively grow in its natural course
3. changing someone else's mind is very hard, losing yourself is a possible consequence
4. bad memories, if never let go of, will haunt you forever, so start forgiving yourself
5. it can take forever for dreams to weave, but it can take seconds for reality to kick it
kind of reminds me of who I was back then, what I was doing when I knew them
some kind of re-orientation to myself...quite refreshing though
these past few days was very hectic at work, my emotions even more hectic...
they're all going overdrive and I'm pre-occupied with juggling them all at once
I'm feeling more of a girl than ever these days, all emotional
and tentative to give in in using rational judgement
today, at mass I got re-oriented with an old promise of God's to me,
so I prayed...
never felt so much better in days...
I just got out of church feeling peaceful...
but of course, coming out to reality again meant that peace would be broken all over again
here are the things I leared from "inception"
1. pain is all in the mind
2. the best idea is the simplest one, it will creatively grow in its natural course
3. changing someone else's mind is very hard, losing yourself is a possible consequence
4. bad memories, if never let go of, will haunt you forever, so start forgiving yourself
5. it can take forever for dreams to weave, but it can take seconds for reality to kick it
Monday, July 19, 2010
saw fireproof again today...
...i pray that when I find my own partner, i will not choose to leave when the fire comes
took the MBTI personality test again today...
here is my results...
from an ENTJ (2 years ago)
ENTJ
Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas.
to an ENFP (currently)
ENFP
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.
source:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/the-16-mbti-types.asp
from an ENTJ (2 years ago)
ENTJ
Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas.
to an ENFP (currently)
ENFP
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.
source:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/the-16-mbti-types.asp
Sunday, July 18, 2010
...and yet another quote...
...we are the architect of our fate...
and sometimes the fate of others
CSI NY
and sometimes the fate of others
CSI NY
today I asked...why is sense of humor important?
...then I came across Mother Teresa's quote...
Joy is a net by which you catch souls.
Mother Teresa
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another quote by Mother Teresa I found very interesting...
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa
Joy is a net by which you catch souls.
Mother Teresa
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another quote by Mother Teresa I found very interesting...
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa
heard this quote recited at yesterday's wedding dinner....
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I acted and beheld that duty was joy." (Rabindranath Tagore)
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found a good read on the internet on duty and responsibility...
http://www.personal-development.com/chuck/duty.htm
Duty and Responsibility
Written by Chuck Gallozzi
Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry
Many people feel that they are weighed down by duties, obligations, and responsibilities. To them, the title of this article seems strange. They don't realize that complaining about carrying out one's duties, is like complaining about having to eat! Most people realize that eating is not only necessary, but can be a source of great pleasure. The same is true for performing our responsibilities. We actualize our potential by fulfilling our obligations, which leads to pleasure and happiness. In fact, the harder the duty is to perform, the greater the pleasure on its completion. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe makes an outstanding point, "How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."
Duty is enmeshed with human life. We cannot separate the two. For as Daniel Webster said on April 6, 1830, "A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us." Here's how Joseph Joubert expressed a similar thought, "Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."
What is meant by duty? Duty refers to what is DUE to others. For example, parents have the duty to care for their children and teachers have the duty to bring out the best in their pupils. What about responsibility? Responsibility is to hold ourselves accountable. It is a way of saying, "the buck stops here." It also recognizes that if we take credit for our successes, we must take responsibility for our failures. Of course, we cannot be held responsible for situations beyond our control, but we are responsible for the way we act during such situations.
Why be responsible?
1. Freedom. When we are responsible, we are free; we are in charge of our lives. When we abdicate responsibility, we become slaves to our base desires. Max Stirner explains: "Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self."
2. Greatness. As Winston Churchill said, "Responsibility is the price of greatness." If we wish to do great things, we must start by accepting responsibilities for the small things we ought to be doing each day. Oprah Winfrey also makes a good point: "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
3. Self-growth. As we carry out our obligations, we develop character, self-respect, self-esteem, and peace of mind. Our responsibilities also give meaning to life and allow us to experience happiness.
Tips on self-improvement
1. Learn the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
2. "Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." (Mark Twain)
3. Change your focus from the effort it takes to do your duty to the pleasure you will experience on its completion.
4. Make plans to fulfill your obligations. We are all familiar with "to-do" lists, but get into the habit of creating "ought-to-do" lists and schedule your obligations into your day. "What, then, is your duty? What the day demands." (Goethe)
Final thoughts
I realize that some people think God gave us quick reactions so we could duck responsibility, but I know you don't fall in that category. So, do your duty for duty's sake, asking for nothing in return. Be the sky, not the soil. "The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free." (Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, playwright, novelist, musician, and painter, 1861-1941)
Sir Walter Scott describes our folly: "We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt." How should we build our character? Out of snow? If it is to be enduring, shouldn't we forge it in the furnace of responsibility, mold it with obligation, and glaze it with duty? Some final thoughts follow.
"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers." (Henri Frdric Amiel)
"Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less." (Robert E. Lee)
"The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us." (Indian Proverb)
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I acted and beheld that duty was joy." (Rabindranath Tagore)
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found a good read on the internet on duty and responsibility...
http://www.personal-development.com/chuck/duty.htm
Duty and Responsibility
Written by Chuck Gallozzi
Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry
Many people feel that they are weighed down by duties, obligations, and responsibilities. To them, the title of this article seems strange. They don't realize that complaining about carrying out one's duties, is like complaining about having to eat! Most people realize that eating is not only necessary, but can be a source of great pleasure. The same is true for performing our responsibilities. We actualize our potential by fulfilling our obligations, which leads to pleasure and happiness. In fact, the harder the duty is to perform, the greater the pleasure on its completion. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe makes an outstanding point, "How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."
Duty is enmeshed with human life. We cannot separate the two. For as Daniel Webster said on April 6, 1830, "A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us." Here's how Joseph Joubert expressed a similar thought, "Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."
What is meant by duty? Duty refers to what is DUE to others. For example, parents have the duty to care for their children and teachers have the duty to bring out the best in their pupils. What about responsibility? Responsibility is to hold ourselves accountable. It is a way of saying, "the buck stops here." It also recognizes that if we take credit for our successes, we must take responsibility for our failures. Of course, we cannot be held responsible for situations beyond our control, but we are responsible for the way we act during such situations.
Why be responsible?
1. Freedom. When we are responsible, we are free; we are in charge of our lives. When we abdicate responsibility, we become slaves to our base desires. Max Stirner explains: "Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self."
2. Greatness. As Winston Churchill said, "Responsibility is the price of greatness." If we wish to do great things, we must start by accepting responsibilities for the small things we ought to be doing each day. Oprah Winfrey also makes a good point: "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
3. Self-growth. As we carry out our obligations, we develop character, self-respect, self-esteem, and peace of mind. Our responsibilities also give meaning to life and allow us to experience happiness.
Tips on self-improvement
1. Learn the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
2. "Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." (Mark Twain)
3. Change your focus from the effort it takes to do your duty to the pleasure you will experience on its completion.
4. Make plans to fulfill your obligations. We are all familiar with "to-do" lists, but get into the habit of creating "ought-to-do" lists and schedule your obligations into your day. "What, then, is your duty? What the day demands." (Goethe)
Final thoughts
I realize that some people think God gave us quick reactions so we could duck responsibility, but I know you don't fall in that category. So, do your duty for duty's sake, asking for nothing in return. Be the sky, not the soil. "The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free." (Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, playwright, novelist, musician, and painter, 1861-1941)
Sir Walter Scott describes our folly: "We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt." How should we build our character? Out of snow? If it is to be enduring, shouldn't we forge it in the furnace of responsibility, mold it with obligation, and glaze it with duty? Some final thoughts follow.
"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers." (Henri Frdric Amiel)
"Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less." (Robert E. Lee)
"The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us." (Indian Proverb)
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I acted and beheld that duty was joy." (Rabindranath Tagore)
chinatown and indian wedding dinner
oldest Hindu temple in Singapore
with my AG
"footwear not allowed in the temple"
german sausage stand in chinatown
biggest Buddhist temple in Singapore
"sleeveless and mini skirts not allowed"
at the temple's roof garden
final installment of Arvin's wedding
the banquet dinner
Saturday, July 17, 2010
friday night
...after a very long week...
radioactive sago project really put an exclamation to it...
i miss the randomness spelled in P-H-I-L-S
certainly a trip down memory lane...
old thoughts, old feelings...now ready to be shelved
learn...learn...learn...from the past
now, must move on...
*end scene*...the present...
radioactive sago project really put an exclamation to it...
i miss the randomness spelled in P-H-I-L-S
certainly a trip down memory lane...
old thoughts, old feelings...now ready to be shelved
learn...learn...learn...from the past
now, must move on...
*end scene*...the present...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
heard something smart today
"...don't let time use you...
make use of the time...
use it to your advantage"
make use of the time...
use it to your advantage"
Monday, July 12, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
2 weddings, a school play, and a rainbow
my room mate gab plays sylvester, the cat
the choir sings at regie and mitch's wedding
at st. francis xavier church, serangoon
a rainbow to cheer up my week *big smile*
my first indian wedding
enjoyed it arvin!!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Brightest idea...today
Comfort Cravings....
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/comfort-cravings
i just needed to park this somewhere...hope I don't forget this...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/comfort-cravings
i just needed to park this somewhere...hope I don't forget this...
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