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| *last week, i recharged* 
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| *new toy* I got a spanking new laptop from the company! Yippy! It’s totally brand new and, get this, it has a biometric fingerprint sensor! No need to type in userid, password and domain anymore! Just swipe my thumb across and voila! logged in! Happy happy! Totally God’s favour coz I was given this lappy. All the executives are using the desktop and my boss wanted all of us to have a lappy. We have 2 older extra lappys and 3 executives. So they bought 2 more, and 1 was given to me! The other was given to one of the assistant manager coz her lappy was like spoilt. After refurbishing it, it will be given to one of the other executives, while the 3rd executive will take one of the older extra lappys. Hee…This favour…. I like! My new toy: 
p/s: yes i know "sensor" is spelt wrongly but i can't be bothered to rectify it. heh. | | |
| *note to self: have a mary heart in this martha world* Stressed Out? Listen Up! by Joyce Meyer I have learned something in my own pursuit of a stress-free life—if I want peace rather than the pressure of stress in my life, I must choose to seek direction from God in every situation.
Our God is a God of peace. He will always lead us toward peace and joy, not toward anxiety and frustration. Therefore, we have to be listening for His voice. By following His voice, we can find peace and overcome the stress that so many are dealing with today.
To find peace in our lives, we simply need to obey the promptings God gives us each day. A prompting is a "knowing" deep down on the inside, telling us what to do. First Kings 19:11,12 refers to this knowing as a still, small voice.
A prompting is not a whack on the head with a hammer! In 1 Kings, the Lord did not use the great and strong wind, the earthquake, or fire to prompt Elijah. His voice came to Elijah as a sound of gentle stillness and a still, small voice. A prompting doesn't even have to be a voice at all—in fact, God often gives direction by speaking to your heart rather than to your ears.
Since a prompting is very gentle, some might question whether it is from God or not. When you're unsure about a prompting, it's often easy to ignore it. One time, after I had been shopping at the mall for three or four hours, I sensed that God was saying, "You need to go home now." I had only purchased half of the eight items on my shopping list, so I ignored the prompting and kept on shopping.
The remaining items on my list were not immediate needs. But, like many determined, goal-oriented people, I was not about to leave that mall until I purchased every item on my list. I had come for eight items, and I was going to leave with eight items! I didn't care if I had to be dragged out of that mall, I wasn't leaving until every item was crossed off my list! And I wasn't going to listen to any voice that said otherwise.
I remember reaching the point of being so tired and upset that I wasn't even able to think clearly. All I wanted to do was finish shopping and get out of there. It was almost more than I could do to remain civil to the other shoppers and clerks in the store. I was stressed out!
Looking back, I can't remember how many times I've done that—stressing out because I've pushed beyond the prompting of the Lord. I can always tell I've gone too far when I'm not able to practice even the most basic manners—politeness, kindness, and self-control.
If I simply had obeyed the prompting of the Lord when I heard that "still, small voice," telling me to go home, I would have easily relieved the stress from the situation. Instead, I bulled my way through in my own determination to achieve my goal, and I ended up bringing stress on myself and everyone else around me.
If we will simply learn to listen to God and do what He says, we will discover that things will go well for us. No matter what the situation, we need to listen to God and obey His voice. Proverbs 3:6 states: In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths. You may not understand the reasons for God asking you to do certain things, but as you listen to His voice and obey His direction, you can experience a peaceful calmness as your stress level begins to decrease. So listen up...and de-stress!
Copyright ©1998-2004 Joyce Meyer Ministries.
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| *Dashing Diva NOT* Sometime ago, I received a S$100 voucher for Dashing Diva. I decided to use it recently in lieu of the wedding of my baby's sister. 1) Getting appointment No one picks up the phone. Several calls later, finally got a human on the other end. Tried to book a 1930 hrs slot, but upon hearing that I might want to do a mani as well as a pedi, receptionist told me that I must reach at 1900 hrs, if not I will not be able to do so, as that was their last appointment slot. I informed her that on the website, it was stated that they close at 2100 hrs, and no indication of last appointments whatsoever. She insisted that she doesn't know anything about the website, and I must come at 1900 hrs, if not I can forget about having both my mani and pedi. Diva Rating: ***** 2) Promotions Upon reaching (slightly panting at 1915 hrs), I could opt for a mani (S$50) and pedi (S$65) with an extra price for french (S$10 and S$12 respectively). Amongst some things she mumbled, basically with my S$100 voucher, I just needed to pay S$25 extra. Ok cool. Halfway through my mani, I saw some women having cosmos, and I remembered there was this promotion on Thurs and Fri where free cosmos were given out. So I enquired about the lack of mine, and the mani lady got confused and asked the receptionist. The receptionist came and explained to me a whole load of mumbo jumbo, and I finally understood that I was already having a promotion of a mani+pedi combo, and hence, not eligible for another promotion (2 promotions cannot overlap!). My extensive digging around the website jolted my memory in that the mani+pedi double promotion was only available Mon - Thurs, and since it was a Fri, how could I be enjoying that promotion? I was really confused. As usual, the explanation given by them was that things on the website was put up by the management, and they do not know anything. Fine by me, wasn't too interested in the cosmo anyway. Diva Rating: **** 3) Mani-Pedi Experience My mani-pedi girl was quite young...quite good. But the classic Mani & Pedi was just ...classic. Not unavailable anywhere else, at a lower price too. The usual massage and exfoliation... Oh and they used their in-house nail polish. Not quite sure if it's that good or not? One plus point is the LCD screens all around, on MTV channel so it keeps us entertained during the long-drawn affair of not-moving-my-hands-and-feet-much. Magazines to read (Cosmo..Bwahah!) and a big plush heart-shaped cushion to hug during the pedi. Diva Rating: *** 4) Value for Money So I chatted with my mani-pedi girl (ok seriously, i think there's an official term for them but right at this point in time i have no idea what) and asked her if she was trained in Dashing Diva. She gave me a stunned look and proudly proclaimed that she has been in this line for 5 years. Apparently, she worked in City Plaza prior to this. ok so that's not cool. If she was still working in City Plaza, I could jolly well go there and pay a much lower price for the same service, possibly in not such a bright, girly ambience, but that would be fine by me because I'll still have O.P.I on my nails. I would pay S$50 for a mani IF they were trained in New York, HQ and came over to spread the exclusive service. As it is, I was just paying for the ambience and the electricity bill for the numerous LCD screens around. Speaking of ambience, I'm not quite such a pink-girl as many of you know. I much prefer the zen-like ambience in my fave shop in Holland V (please go check it out - Earth Sanctuary in Holland Shopping Centre). They even have flower petals floating in the basin for my feet - nice! Diva Rating: * 5) Extra Services They kept proclaiming that my heels would totally kill my nails and wanted me to buy slippers. Ok that's a good idea to provide slippers for those ladies who wear un-pedi-friendly footwear. I managed to not kill my nails though and saved the extra money. By the time I was drying my nails, they were closing up already. Needed to go to the ladies like REEEEALLY bad. Was rushing to the airport as well, and my baby was already on his way to come pick me up to drive me down to Changi (he reallly didn't have to but was soooo sweet to insist..hee..). Was wearing jeans, which was totally un-mani-friendly. My mani-pedi girl then offered to help me unbutton! Haha! So we popped over to the ladies (yes the one outside Balaclava, like oh-my-god how unglam!) and whilst lining up, she unbuckled my belt and unbuttoned my jeans for me. No, she didn't button it back for me, i could manage myself thank you very much. Diva rating: ** Conclusion: No, I would not go back there again. Will not be like those act-glam ang moh ladies going in with the hoity-toity air about them, because they are willing to pay a premium price for the name of a NY boutique, but without the premium service of the NY boutique. I'm so not that dumb. Diva Rating: *** 
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| *hisprincesskristen is 3*
My blog is 3 years old today.
It has followed me through so many seasons in my life… through all the happy times and fun times, heartbreaks and sorrows, my catharsis for my propensity to be pissed off at things… my life over the past 3 years in short.
Well, being a sentimental fool, I find it hard to abandon it or shut it down. Feel the need to move on because well… it’s good to move on and some memories are better left alone, sanctified – set aside – from the new and fantastic things in life.
Plus there are people who are reading/can read whom I don’t exactly want having access to my life? Not that my readership is sky high or whatever… but…. Yeah…
So anyhow, I’ll just leave this blog to exist still…. I’ll take my mind/thoughts to somewhere else, and leave my spirit and body here… haha… you’ll get what I mean soon.
Thanks everyone for sharing my life all these while… =) you’ve been a blessing/impact one way or the other.
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