阿蕾~心情日记

刚刚进入寇绍恩牧师的部落格。发现了一篇很有意思的文章。是他朋友转寄给他的。愿与你分享。。。
 
《《對基督徒非常有幫助的29條建議》》

1.下次如果覺得自己了不起時，試試行在水上。

Guess what is in the town? Lunch promotion! Yesterday my colleague mentioned that there is a promotion banner @ U-Village Restaurant, Sg Wang. The promotion is RM1 for Char Siew Rice from 1-2pm, RM2 from 2-3pm on 26-27 Feb 2009. At first we did not trust it and everyone is wondering of the terms and condition to apply.
So, we decided to verify the promotion ourselves during today's lunch hour. With 6 people, we marched on to our U-Village. Well, not so crowded there but still need to be put on waiting for empty tables. After waiting for 10 minutes, finally we get our seat. We ordered a total of 7 plates of Char Siew Rice...it's really RM1 perplate. The rice accompany the Char Siew is quite a big portion while the Char Siew portion seems to be smaller. But it's worth for RM1. Immediately we try on the Char Siew Rice...yummy...taste nice...Then, I regretted not to bring my camera to office...If not I can show you the photos here. Here is the proof of recipe.  See the D'LY Special RM1.00! We'll be back tomorrow! Yeah!
 
 

Erm...Today decided to continue on the blogging...Think I have deserted my blog for a long period. It's time to pick up on this habit. Gambatte ne! Hope I wouldn't give up half way again....

Last night I picked up a book that I've read long time ago...."How to enjoy your life and your job" by Dale Carnegie.

Then, I read through the Chapter 1: Find yourself and Be Yourself and found a poem by Douglas Malloch (1877 - 1938).
It hit my heart on the spot. There are always times in our lives when we wonder why we can't be like someone else who is shining on stage, who is so creative, who is so pretty, who is so humorous. We will never be like them so better give up the dream to be like them. Let's focus in knowing ourselves and live the fullest of ourselves. 
It's time to do some soul searching.....
Let me share with u the poem I mentioned....
"We all dream of great deeds and high positions, away from the pettiness and humdrum of ordinary life. Yet success is not occupying a lofty place or doing conspicuous work; it is being the best that is in you. Rattling around in too big a job is worse than filling a small one to overflowing. Dream, aspire by all means; but do not ruin the life you must lead by dreaming pipe dreams of the one you would like to lead. Make the most of what you have and are. Perhaps your trivial, immediate task is your one sure way of proving your mettle. Do the thing near at hand, and great things will come to your hand to be done."
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley — but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass —
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here,
There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do,
And the task you must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail —
Be the best of whatever you are!

登 登 登 登 。。。星期六的寻宝游戏成绩要公布了。。。
我们总共有39辆车参加竞赛。。。猜一猜我们得了第几名！
答案是第四名，从后面算起。。。好惨哦。。。
当天晚上，在公布 top 123 时， 有6队参赛者被叫上台。里面有前 123 名及后123 名。

咳。。。又生病了。。。从喉咙痛发展到伤风了
最惨的是明天还要参加我公司的寻宝游戏。不知是否有体力呢？
我的队员们说：你可以在今天请病假，但千万别在明天请病假。哈哈！
今天将是个忙碌的一天。。。阿蕾，加油！

 
Going to watch movie The Dark Knight tonight. 
Heard that it has a good review o....

Currently, my pastor's sermon is on the topic of God's Antidotes to My Life (神赐的排毒餐). It's the 10th sermon on this topic last week. He preached about toxins in our life, which we could remove based on Psalm 23, it's about the 5th toxin last week.
Found that it's really interesting....
Toxin #1 : Worry
Toxin #2 : Busyness
Toxin #3 : Emotion Hurts
Toxin #4 : Indecisive
Toxin #5 : Valley of the shadow of death
Remember that pastor share about 5 facts about valleys of life: It's inevitable, It's unpredictable, It's impartial, It's temporary, and It's purposeful. Pastor shared about a photo of tunnel and mentioned that the most important thing to remember when you are in valleys of life is to keep on moving. There's always the light at the end of the tunnel. Move to the light and you'll find hope.
If you are interested to listen to the sermons on this topic. You can download the sermon mp3 from here:
http://www.megacmc.org.my/resource/sermon/sermon.htm

Here is an meaningful article (extracted from an email received) to share with you....
小時候我很喜歡做的一件事，就是幫忙媽媽檢查回來的蛤蜊裡有沒有壞的。蛤蜊的外殼看起來都差不多，但是如果一不小心讓一個臭掉的蛤蜊混在新鮮蛤蜊中，那整碗湯就都糟蹋了，所以雖是小事一椿，我可一點也不敢掉以輕心，並將此神聖的使命視為莊嚴的儀式 ，用虔誠又恭敬的心情在做這件事。檢查的方法是用左手先拿住一個蛤蜊，再用右手撿起其他蛤蜊，一個一個的敲敲看，如果蛤蜊敲出的聲音是結實的，就是新鮮的蛤蜊，如果敲的聲音是虛的，有點沙啞，不管它的口閉得多繄，還是臭的蛤蜊。小孩子耳朵好，很容易就可以辨別出好壞，自從母親教過我 之後，我幾乎不曾「誤判」過，也使家人每次在享受鮮美的蛤蜊湯時，都會誇獎這個「蛤蜊鑑定專家」。所有的蛤蜊都是臭的！有一天，母親又買回一包蛤蜊，我熟練的拿出一個大碗，開始我的鑑定工作，出乎意料之外的是：居然「所有的」蛤蜊都是壞掉的？我簡直不敢相信我的耳朵，一個一個再敲過一次，竟然仍然「沒有一個」蛤蜊是好的！那種感覺就很像一位警察到一部公車上去抓扒手，結果發現一車的人都是扒手！我捧著那一大碗被判刑的蛤蜊去稟告母親，母親很是驚訝 ：「怎麼會這樣呢？這個賣蛤蜊的從來不會騙我的呀？」於是母親大人親自動手檢驗，這才發現原來我抓在左手中的那個蛤蜊是壞的！難怪敲起來聲音全部不對勁！這種「原來如此」的恍然大悟的經驗，往往在孩子心中烙下深刻的溝痕，然後進入記憶的深處，等候生命的唱盤再度轉到那個相似的部位。都遇到不好的人！

大學畢業後我開始工作，我非常的努力，對自己有些期許，也有些要求，但是有一段時間我對周圍的人都看不順眼，在我眼中，「每一個人」都有令我難以忍受的缺點，我很想改造他們，而改造不了時，我又想躲避他們。我覺得自己很倒楣，很不幸，怎麼「都」遇 到不好的人！正當我沉醉於自怨自哀時，心中忽然響起「蛤蜊之歌」，難不成我就是那個壞掉的蛤蜊？我聽到那麼多「別人的」沙啞之聲竟可能是我本身造成的？按照常理，一個人不會只遇到壞人，周圍有些人對你友善，有些人對你不友善，這樣的機率最大。那我？那我可能就是那個不友善的人，我用自己的高標準去檢驗我周圍的人，看起來我對大家都不滿意，其實我最不滿意的人是我自己！我沒那麼好，別人也沒那麼差！我忘了我震驚於這個內心的自我發現有多久，我其實很難過，原來我沒我裝出來的那麼好，別人也沒我看的那麼差。我有兩個抉擇的方向：一個是－－把自己裝得更好，使得別人看起來更差！另一個選擇則是──開始學著去欣賞別人。因為只有在看到別人的好時，我才會發現自己的好，也才能真正欣賞自己。這是一段漫長的歷程，一開始甚至要「強迫」自己，很像視 力矯正」。要把不順眼的看、看、看，看到順眼。每當我想放棄時，就想起那個差點害我將整碗新鮮的蛤蜊倒掉的臭蛤蜊。幾年下來，我也體驗到原來這項能力不僅改善了我的人際關係，對於教師這個職份也有不可或缺的重要性。面對形形色色的學生，我如何去聽出噪音中的樂音，更進一步去判斷他的旋律和節奏？做不成偉人？做友善的人吧！沒想到吧？這麼一件小小的家事訓練，竟也可以影響我如此巨大！我們，如果沒有成為偉人的抱負，至少也可以像我敲敲蛤蜊， 學會做個友善的人吧。

~ It's true, as my life continue to grow older in corporate world....I have more and more grumbles for working environment, peers, friends, family, politics, weather, bla..bla...Maybe the oyster in my hand become bad slowly and I'm did not realized it. Lately, keep on having the feeling to give up my work and have a change in environment. I can find 101 complaints about my current job...:P keep on asking why my working environment getting worst...not happy with this la....not happy with that la.... Is it problem with the environment or it's because of my mindset?