5 More Quotations

1. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
- Glenn Clark-

2. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe.
- Madeleine L'Engle-

3. Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.
- George Macdonald-

4. We may spoil gratitude as we offer it, by insisting on its recognition. To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
- George Macdonald-

5. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
- LC Chronicle-

5 Things I Like about Chinese New Year

1. Reunion Dinner - Everyone in the family (including those not living at home - if possible) comes home for a delicious family meal of jumbo shrimp, fish, chicken, "yong dao fu" (my mom's specialty), and many other dishes (usually somebody's favorite) my mom chooses to cook that day.

2. "Bai Nian" - Getting to visit with friends and munch special Chinese New Year tidbits all day long.

3. Angpows - The red packets that contain money.

4. All the superstitions associated with the festive season (don't have to believe in them, but they are so unique to Chinese New Year).

5. The Chinese New Year songs. You can own them on CDs, or listen to them on the radio, and at almost every mall.


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5 Favorite Singlish Words

1. Shiok - This is the feeling I have after gobbling down a really delicious and extremely spicy dish, like Laksa (with lots of extra chili sauce added). It is a state of ecstasy which is short-lived.

2. Sien - This expresses a feeling of extreme boredom. The person feeling sien may also feel a lack of energy, and care for everything. Constant yawning may also occur. It may also express disappointment, disgust, and all kinds of bad feeling.

3. Aiyah - An appropriate, and meaningless (but yet full of unspoken meaning), and sympathetic response to some one's griping.

4. Hah... - A word that expresses different feelings, depending on the tone used. May express surprise, disbelief, or just a substitute word for "oh".

5. Aiyoh - This expresses shock, disapproval, fear, or just physical pain.

5 More Quotations

1. If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear.
- Ursula K. Leguin

2. Some people are born able-bodied but go through life in dark despair, and some people in spite of having no arms and legs, go through life without a care in the world. Disability has nothing to do with it.
-Hirotada Ototake

3. Chance favors only the prepared mind. The more ideas, images, and phrases we have to work with, through our accumulated learning, the more chances we have to combine these mental building blocks in novel ways.
-Louis Pasteur

4. There are some who love the faults of others and use them to feed their own strength. The object of this love is also to be pitied, and they dare not outgrow their weaknesses.
- Geraldine Harris

5. A man who does not love the truth, but disputes for victory, is the swine before whom pearls must not be cast.
- George Macdonald

Baby talk

5 words from my baby's vocabulary:

1. Calls every vehicle "tuck" (truck).

2. Tells me he "yikes" (likes) Elmo.

3. Likes to sing "London Bridge", and ends with "My fren (fair) lady".

4. Points to the sky and says "airmane" (airplane).

5. Watches "Little Einsteins" and calls them "Little Einmimes".

5 Favorite Quotes

1. Character has far more to do with determining history than history has to do with determining character.
- George Macdonald

2. It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J.K. Rowling

3. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering - the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself at all.
- Virginia Wolf

4. But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.
- George Macdonald

5. Do you know how it is with love? First comes delight: then pain: then fruit. And then there is joy of the fruit, but that is different again from the first delight. And mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step: for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. You must not try to keep the raptures: they have done their work. Manna kept, is worms.
- C.S. Lewis