Love Is Blind

I watched The Break Up yesterday. Did not quite like it because it was boring. But it does show correctly how important communications is, especially for a relationship.

Very often we go into a relationship and people cannot understand why. So the most common reason would be "love is blind". That's just the easiest answer and also no other further questions need to be entertained about the relationship.

Why then "love is blind"?

Because that is precisely how it is when you are in love. You are blind to all the things that you do not want to see and notice the smallest details about what you like in a person. You think the person is funny, even if not. You think the person is cute, even if not. You think the person just knows everything you need to know, even if the person is not super knowledgeable. Love is blind to faults, shortcomings, tempers, blah blah blah. As Josh Groban puts it, "In My Eyes You Do No Wrong"...

There is nothing wrong with love being blind. I think it is good. But I do not think that is all. There are many other virtues associated with love. Love goes beyond being blind. It gives the additional strength and energy to want to do more. Do more for the sake of yourself, for the sake of the other and most important, for the sake of both. It is active, not passive. If both see it and understand it, then the walk together begins.

So what then is LOVE????!!!!!!

Love is YOU.

(For everything else, there's Mastercard.)

Up & On

I sang this as a small boy. Never felt more passionate to sing any other school song. Always believed that a great many graduated in wisdom and stature.

Up & On
Lives are in the making here
Hearts are in the waking here
Mighty undertaking here
Up and On! Up and On!

We are arming for the fight
Pressing on with all our might
Pluming wings for higher flight
Up and On!

Up boys! Truest fame lies in high endeavour
Play the game! Keep the flame Burning brightly ever!

Fair before us lies the way
Time for work and time for play
Fill the measure while we may
Up and On! Up and On!

Life and time will not delay
Time is running fast away
Life is now today today
Up and On!

Up boys! Truest fame lies in high endeavour
Play the game! Keep the flame burning brightly ever!

Foes in plenty we shall meet
Hearts courageous scorn defeat
So we press with eager feet
Up and On! Up and On!

Ever onward to the fight
Ever upward to the Light
Ever true to GOD and RIGHT
Up and On!

Up boys! Truest fame lies in high endeavour
Play the game! Keep the flame burning brightly ever!

Past, Present & Future

I cannot change the past nor history.

I cannot erase my memory.

I am in the present.

I remember the past.

Can't change what's gone.

Can change to move on.

The falls to remind how I got up.

The joys to savour how I grew up.

I think about the future.

What is now will be the past.

Each fall I will get up.

With joy I will fill up.

-- Prawnkid Productions

Lessons

Just finished a two-day course on Fraud Prevention. Due to my nature of work before, I guess this is an important course. Learnt some lessons from the course...

Lecturer:

What should the manager do when a fraud is detected?

My group:
Not sure. We are not managers.

(Why do I have to be the team leader???)

*lecturer gives weird look and scratches head in surprise*

Lecturer:
How many of you have staff reporting to you?

*raising of hands by some including me*

Lecturer:

Then surely you are managers if you have staff reporting to you?

Prawnkid:

That just makes us the Head Slave.

*lecturer speechless*

*entire class laughing in chaos*

Note:

I am sure they are not laughing at what I said but just in total agreement.

Some people really do feel that way.

Trust

TRUST

Requirements

Let go.

Love

" And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. "

-- 1 Corinthians 13:13

Every new day your glory unfolds

Filling my eyes with Your treasures untold

The beauty of holiness brings worship anew

My greatest love is You

Call me deeper into Your grace

The river that flows from the holy place

Wash over me

Cleansing me through

My greatest love is You

Hope

" Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; "

-- Lamentations 3:21-25

My life is in You Lord

My strength is in You Lord

My hope is in You Lord

In You, it's in You

I will praise You will all of my life

I will praise you with all of my strength

With all of my life

With all of my strength

All of my hope is in You

Faith

"Faith is easy when you're standing in front of a miracle. The real test of any faith is when there aren't any signs."

- quoted from Lynnette's reading

Forgetting what lies behind
Setting our hearts on the prize
Always keeping our eyes on our Lord Jesus

We're running the race to win
All the way to the end
Breaking down every sin that will seek to hinder us

And we'll be faithful to our calling
For You are able to keep us from falling
For in Your promise we will trust
We'll be faithful to finish the work You began in us

Weekend

Weekend went by in a breeze......someday someone should start the trend of 5-day weekend and 2-day weekdays. I'm sure most people would prefer that. Hahaha...

I actually arranged to pick Yiling up for breakfast at 5:45am on Saturday for breakfast!!! Without sleeping since Friday night too...that marked my first visit to Swee Choon (along Jalan Besar) for dimsum and porridge. Not bad......at least we didn't just eat MacDonalds...well, dropped her off to go make some money in Malaysia and help me buy some clothes. Headed home for 2 hours of sleep...

Woke up to have a good chat with Tingie. Interesting how we were talking about the same things and yet they gave us different revelations. Hang on there ok? You are an encouragement and a pillar of strength...

Really wanna go fly kite....literally....date has been set as 27 August!!! Am really looking forward to it....

The kite reminds me of myself...if I was a kite, I want my Father to be in control of the string. Pulling it at the right times for me to cut through the winds of trials and changes. If the string is broken, the kite might seem to go up high on its own, BUT eventually will fall somewhere. Father, please be in control of the string and guide me with your gentle tugs...