There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. Whey you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.

"Don't GET upset with little problems Because Life is like a road, and Problems are like speed breakers. They save us from big Accident".. “Sometimes You have to Shut Up, Swallow Your Pride and Accept that You are Wrong” “It’s not GIVING UP, It’s Called Growing UP”.. !

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules,then you must forget the rules and lay from your heart. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY HARI VALENTINE Sejarah awal adanya hari Valentine dimulai pada awal abad keempat sebelum masehi, kebiasaan dari pada bangsa Romawi biasa mengadakan pesta bagi salah satu dewa/dewi mereka yaitu Lupercalia Lupercus (yaitu dewi kesuburan). Perayaan ini dilaksanakan pada pertengahan bulan Februari, bersamaan dengan musim kawin burung. Ternyata pesta Lupercalia ini bukan hanya pesta biasa namun acara tersebut juga merupakan ajang mencari jodoh dan bersenang-senang yang cukup unik. Perayaan tersebut dimulai oleh para gadis yang menuliskan namanya pada secarik kertas, kemudian dimasukkan ke dalam kotak. Selanjutnya para pemuda yang hadir akan mengambil kertas didalam kotak tersebut secara acak. Nama gadis yang terpilih akan menjadi pasangan pemuda tersebut sampai pesta Lupercalia yang berikutnya (saling bertukar pasangan tanpa ikatan). Akhirnya acara jodoh-jodohan dalam pesta Lupercalia yang telah berlangsung selama 800 tahun ini pun kemudian ditentang oleh fihak gereja yang ada di Roma. Alasannya, hal ini merupakan perayaan kafir yang bertentangan dengan ajaran Kristen. Romawi pada abad ke-3 diperintah oleh Kaisar Claudius yang kejam. Ia berambisi memiliki pasukan militer yang besar untuk berperang. Ia ingin semua pria di kerajaannya bergabung di dalam ketentaraan. Claudius berpikir bahwa banyak pria Romawi enggan menjadi tentara karena takut meninggalkan keluarga dan kekasih mereka. Lalu Claudius memerintahkan untuk melarang semua pertunangan dan pernikahan di Romawi. Valentine yang saat itu merupakan pendeta terkenal di Roma bersama-sama dengan seorang pendeta lain bernama Marius, secara sembunyi-sembunyi tetap menikahkan para pasangan.Namun perbuatan mereka akhirnya diketahui oleh Claudius, yang langsung memerintahkan untuk menangkap dan memenggal leher Valentine. Ia dihukum pancung pada tanggal 14 Februari 270 M. Sebelum dipenggal, ia menulis surat buat putri penjaga penjara yang senantiasa menemaninya selama di penjara. Di akhir surat ia menulis, “Dengan Cinta, Dari Valentine mu”. Semenjak saat itu ucapan Valentine pun menjadi kata yang tersohor dan melegenda. Karena itu ada yang percaya bahwa orang-orang merayakan tanggal 14 Februari sebagai hari Valentine... untuk mengingat Valentine sebagai pejuang cinta. Apapun latar belakang hari Valentine, perlakukanlah tanggal 14 Februari secara proporsional dan tidak berlebihan. Kebiasaan mengirimkan kartu Valentine yang sekarang ini sebenarnya tidak ada hubungannya dengan Uskup Valentine atau pesta Lupercalia. Konon kartu Valentine ini adalah kartu yang pertama keluar untuk jenis kartu ucapan. Pada saat itu orang belum mengenal jenis kartu ucapan yang lainnya. Saat pesta Lupercalia mulai ditinggalkan, para pemuda Romawi tetap menggunakan kebiasaaan ini untuk mengajak kencan gadis idamannya dengan memberikan kartu tulisan tangan di tanggal 14 Februari. Tapi kartu Valentine yang sebenarnya pertama kali dikirim oleh Charles, seorang bangsawan dari Orleans, di tahun 1415 untuk istri tercintanya. Saat itu Charles sedang di penjara di Tower of London yang sekarang sudah menjadi museum. Dari sanalah kemudian kebiasaan mengirim kartu itu terus berkembang sampai sekarang dan perkembanganya pun tidak hanya kartu ucapan saja namun pemberian kado berupa coklat dan benda-benda yang dianggap romantis. Demikianlah sejarah Valentine Day atau hari valentine dan kebiasaan memberikan kartu ucapan dan kado sebagai bentuk kasih sayang pada orang yang dikasihi tiap tanggal 14 Februari. . bagi yang merayakan valentine ....

Whenever you get pain in your life… just think that P. A. I. N. is an acronym.. Positive Attitude In Negative situation... Don’t worry about yesterday or last month. Today is a new day, so renew your mind this morning. Be positive and start fresh.

GOD’s ways are better & higher than our ways. No matter what you go through in life, no matter how many disappointments you suffer, you’ll always be the apple of GOD’s eye. He will never give up on you, so don’t give up on yourself.. Larger FAITH means less worries !!!

Money says: Earn me, forget everything Time says: Follow me, forget everything Future says: Struggle for me, forget everything GOD simply says: JUST REMEMBER ME, I’LL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING...

There are no secrets to success. Not even a shortcut to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure

February 8, 2013 8 Things You Should Know About Chinese New Year By Jesse Greenspan

Chinese New Year, traditionally the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar, begins Sunday. Also known as Spring Festival, it’s a more family-focused affair than January 1, with sit-down dinners taking the place of blowout parties. As the Year of the Dragon transitions into the Year of the Snake, here are eight facts about this celebration of renewal. 1. Chinese New Year coincides with both spring and spring cleaning. Under the Chinese calendar, the New Year holiday marks not only a new year, but also the switchover from winter to spring, when ancient farmers began another season for planting crops. “When we start spring they’re actually just getting into the middle of it,” said Anthony DeBlasi, a professor of Chinese history at the University at Albany. Conventional New Year preparations include shopping for clothes, hanging paper scrolls that contain wishes for such things as “happiness” and “wealth,” and repaying all debts. It’s also time for spring cleaning, traditionally believed to sweep away bad luck and appease the gods. “You want everything to be spotless,” DeBlasi said. Just make sure to finish before the new year actually starts. Otherwise, you might be getting rid of good luck. 2. Chinese New Year is 15 days long. On Chinese New Year’s Eve, families tend to gather for an enormous feast, complete with dumplings that resemble ancient coins in northern China and sticky rice cakes in southern China. Other traditional foods include fish, which in multiple Chinese languages sounds like the word for “abundance”; tangerines, which sound like the word for “luck”; and uncut noodles, which signify a long life. Since eight is a lucky number, the meal often consists of eight courses. In addition to eating, children receive red envelopes with money inside, and nearly everyone in China lights off fireworks and firecrackers. “I’ve never been in a war zone, but it’s what I’d imagine a war zone would be like,” DeBlasi said. “Its just really loud and thunderous.” The holiday then continues for another 15 days, lasting from the new moon to the full moon. It culminates with the aptly named Lantern Festival, when lanterns are hung outside homes and on streets. Some people also celebrate the so-called “Small New Year,” an homage to the “kitchen god” that takes place a few days before the New Year’s Eve dinner. 3. A baby boom occurs during the Year of the Dragon. Each year in the Chinese calendar is represented by one of a dozen zodiac animals. This past year, for example, was the Year of the Dragon—the only mythical creature among the 12—which is associated with power, wisdom, charisma and royalty. “The Eastern dragon is very different from the Western dragon, which heroes try to find and slay because they are so evil,” said Duanduan Li, a professor of Chinese applied linguistics at the University of British Columbia. “Eastern dragons are thought of as divine.” Since people are believed to take on the personality of the animal of their birth year, the Year of the Dragon is considered more desirable than others for having babies. In fact, it has been reported that the birth rate in places like China, Taiwan and Hong Kong typically goes up about 5 percent. The Year of the Dragon also is regarded as a good moment for opening businesses, starting new careers and buying property. Yet prosperity is far from guaranteed. “Mao Zedong died in the Year of the Dragon,” Li said. “And that was the year we had the biggest earthquake in Tangshan,” which killed at least 240,000 people. 4. The Year of the Snake, on the other hand, is not so desirable. Intelligent, wily and enigmatic, snakes are not the most beloved of the zodiac animals. People born in prior snake years like 1977, 1989 and 2001 have even been known to euphemistically call themselves “small dragons.” With another Year of the Snake beginning Sunday, soon-to-be parents can take solace from such famous “snakes” as former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and artist Pablo Picasso. Or they can ignore the zodiac signs altogether. “There are probably a few people who take it to the extreme, just like there are with Western astrology,” said Elizabeth VanderVen, a former professor of East Asian and Chinese history who now runs Unicorn Intercultural Consulting. “Most people take it with a grain of salt.” 5. No one used to know what year it was. Legend holds that Emperor Huangdi invented the lunar-solar Chinese calendar in 2637 B.C. Until recently, however, the Chinese never concerned themselves with numbering sequentially. “Centuries ago, they wouldn’t have known it was 3842 or whatever,” DeBlasi said. “They numbered, but they tended to number in cycles.” Even today, there is no universally accepted starting point. Nonetheless, it’s generally agreed that Year 1 corresponds to the supposed first year of Huangdi’s reign in 2698 B.C., meaning this upcoming year is 4711. 6. China’s Communist Party tried to suppress New Year celebrations. China’s new republican government adopted the Western-style Gregorian calendar in 1912 and changed the official name of Chinese New Year to Spring Festival. The Communist Party under Mao Zedong, which took power in 1949, then tried to do-away with all aspects of the holiday that it considered religious, feudalistic or superstitious. Throughout the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the Communists even cracked down on lion and dragon dances, along with traditional greetings. “Sometimes very minor things could invite big trouble for you and your family,” Li said. Chinese New Year was reappraised, however, during the period of economic liberalization that followed Mao’s death. Since 1996, it has been designated a weeklong vacation. 7. Chinese New Year is the world’s largest travel rush. In the United States, nightmare traffic jams are the norm on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Mother’s Day, when travelers clog up highways and airports on their way to visit family. But none of those holidays come close to matching Chinese New Year in China, when, in what’s been called the world’s largest seasonal migration of people, an estimated 3.2 billion trips are taken over a six-week period. “I would never recommend any foreign tourist traveling in China at that time, although a lot of them want to go,” VanderVen said. Many American families of Chinese descent also hit the road around now, causing attendance to sag at certain schools. 8. A generational gap has sprung up with regards to Chinese New Year. Although family remains an important component of Chinese New Year, a new generation in China is rejecting some of the holiday’s other traditional elements. “The modern urban lifestyle has affected how people celebrate,” VanderVen said. “Younger people probably just want to play video games, text with their friends and not think about studying.” Meanwhile, parades have become popular in North American, European and Australian chinatowns, complete with floats, lion and dragon dances, costumes and marching bands.

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When the sea is too rough, you don’t have to go for fishing, You’ll catch nothing & get into trouble. You let it calm down first before you go. Same w/ life,when you are disturbed & confronted w/ a lot of problems, find a space to breath, discern & pray so that you can be guided in your decisions.

GOOD WORDS

Never blame anyone in your life. good people give you happiness. bad people give you experience. worst people give you lesson & best people give you memories.

Mistakes are often made to learn a lesson, but if you keep making the sames mistakes what lesson have you learned ? You can't get through the book of LIFE if you're always stuck on the same page......

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Receive blessings with silence - that is called HUMILITY… help those with more difficulties than you - that is called COMPASSION… work with happiness- that is called ENTHUSIASM… understand that not everybody is at your level - that is called TOLERANCE… give everybody the best of yourself – that is SINCERITY… trust that everything will be alright - that is called FAITH…