I reckon, if by window e-shopping handbags and watching Sugar on cable make me eat less, why bother dieting?
The Meaning of New Shoes
The Meaning of New Shoes Featured Writer: Jenn Winter www.jennwinter.com
“Ah, Jenni,” Irene smiled as she picked up a small pair of the faux Converse All-Stars, “they are really going to remember this!”
“Huh?” I looked up from a long list of names and measurements in my little black notebook, “remember what?”
This is no Louboutin but the smiles say it all.
It is 128 am here, I cannot sleep because I still wonder what shoes to wear tomorrow and I have an early flight to catch. But I know I cannot get to sleep before I read this. My heart goes to everyone who does good to other people regardless of the “whats”. In the end, I think I will settle with my black walking shoes and will probably feel the joy just as much as the children featured in this article.
Thoughts of the day
Many people are poor not because they do not own enough money, but because they spend it on wrong priorities.
Terukir di bintang
It is February and you can see “hearts” virtually everywhere, on the cards, the banners, the parfum parlours, the diamond shops, the restaurants, the florists and the chocolate advertisements on tv. Personally, I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. But it seems that this year’s February has more charm than it has ever been before. Maybe because I have been watching too much of The Pawn Stars, The Pickers and King of Restorations over History Channel lately. Perhaps the all rustic, old and vintage antiquities have caused me to be slightly airy-fairy. Romanticism on TV or film is highly over-rated I must say.
Having said that, I will make this my February theme song. Terukir di bintang literally means Engraved on the Stars that somehow fits well with February and vintage and oh so Venice!
Gondola anyone?
Fun in the sun
It is a long weekend til today and the weather outside is pretty warm. It is a beautiful day and would be a waste if we were to spend it inside. Itqan has been extremely helpful with rearrangement of the boys’ beds and study tables into our room because their bathroom needs major plumbing job soon. So, for a treat, we head to the nearby swimming pool for a dip.
They enjoyed it as much as their sisters.
As for now, I would savour their childhood as much as I could, along with the mess that comes with it, ha!
Cut Leaf Illustrations for ‘Plant for the Planet’
Ad campaign by Legas Delaney for Plant for the Planet, using cut leaves symbolizing their ability to absorb CO2.
This is just too cool not to be re-blogged, don't you think?
Invest on green, eat organics, live green, breathe green, support green companies.
City of lights (love)
Somehow, I was so into Paris since last year. Maybe it was because of the DVD or a novel, I seriously could not recall now. Or maybe it was because that the fashion scene decided to make Paris (read: vintage) the theme last year, until you can see everything Parisian as the exhibits and decor on the window.
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Thanks to Dan Brown, I once thought of visiting the Louvre just because I wanted to trail back all the places mentioned in the Da Vinci’s Code. I am currently on Bonjour Happiness and thoroughly enjoyed it so far. For now, I think that if I ever get to Paris, I would like to savour it as everything that she is: Mysterious, Lights, Love and Living well.
http://michaelmillerfabrics.com/
Two novels, a non-fiction, a DVD, a free bookmark, this and this were too much of a coincidence. After all, happiness is made. Someday.
A heart of a what?
So went the fable that I heard on the radio this morning. It was about a mouse who were so stressed out when he was bullied by cats. The mouse went to see a witch and asked her to change him to a cat so that other cats would not bother him anymore. Wish granted, he was made miserable not long after by dogs. So he went and asked the witch to change him to a dog, only to be stirred later by lions. So he asked the witch to change him again to a lion, and he was then changed to a lion. His life was still miserable because at that point the hunters would want to catch him. He went to see the witch, so that the witch can change him into a hunter. However, unlike the last 4 attempts, this time the witch refused to change him to a hunter. She said ” you will never be the person you wanted to be for as long as you have a heart of a mouse!”
“This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away“. – Rumi in Rumi Daylight.
Opportunities
I have been blogging from my phone ever since I downloaded wordpress apps which I must say, is very user-friendly and I can type away whenever and wherever.
Over the radio this morning, Ustaz Badlishah talked about opportunities. Almost instantly it hit me: that opportunities have knocked on my door more than once in the past years. Some of the opportunities, were well-received while many others went swooshing by like a fast train, leaving only the dust and the sudden jolt of noise. Then: nothing.
I remembered at Raudhah, in Masjidunnabi at Madinah, I prayed that Allah blesses me with unknown sustenance from unexpected sources. But when it happened, I did not even care. Isn’t it weird that you ask sonething from an important person, and when your wish is granted, you do not take it and worse still is you are acting as if you do not ask for it in the first place?
Astaghfirullah, what have I done that made me think that I have the ability to foresee what is best and what suits me when multiple opportunities come right at your door?
U.B quoted someone – “If no opportunity comes knocking, build the door!”. Subhanallah! With the spirit of thirst for knowledge, experience and abundance, with the intention to give back, it is going to be my call. Nobody else will do it for me. Only me.
