Grace has MOVED!

Hey fellow readers:

I have moved to http://grace-ious.blogspot.com/ :D

See you there!

-Gracie-

Something to think about

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghosts in the links,
Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks,
Under the look of fatique, the attack of migraine and the sigh
There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

W.H. Auden


I love it. I loved it once I saw it and I love it more right now.

It's so easy for us to judge someone and yet so hard for us to be as quickly to love. This, is an amazing reminder that hey, you have your reasons, your story on why you are the way you are - and it's so important for us to be reminded that other people do too...you're not the only one who has gone through some hard time.

I'm guilty of the judging as well - sometimes, when I see those who throw themselves madly into work (which includes me, ironically), I somehow believe that "hey, I won't be like that next time".

There's always a reason why people are the way they are.
There's always a reason why they choose to live life the way they're living it now.

I would love to hear the stories, if only they would tell them to me.

The jogoya trip

Critics Note: the food was good :) but sadly not great.

Grace moment: I loved the coconut (pic/photo above) and went around hunting for it - I asked the cook and he pointed to where the bathroom area was (I, not knowing the coconuts are actually really situated on the way to the washroom) thought he didn't know english and ignored him. =.="

Oh wells, it was this great experience since I was given directions by **eh hem** a guy who led me to anywhere else but the restaurant. My lack of direction sense really didn't help the matter.

We got there thanks to Amanda! (my wonderful gps system that breathes) :D

Being Random

LoL.

A nice pic of me and my MGT group members @ the curve.

=)

(we were supposed to be observing logos - we finished early and observed the logos even closer! (the logos of the restaurants on the napkins) =>)

Have a great week!

The Present

I’ve been working for 12 hours a day from Monday to Thursday – and rewarded myself with ‘Jogoya’ yesterday :D - will be posting up some pics soon...honestly, I'm a bit too lazy at the moment.



Having been reading a fascinating book by Michael Koh, I can’t help but agree on his views concerning time – something that I myself am guilty of at times – not living the moment.

I think it was the worst last week – somehow, I just wasn’t into the present – my mind was at work when I was at home or having heart to hearts with my friends and family and my mind was distracted while I was working.

It’s refreshing to be reminded that the present – now, this moment, this day, this minute – is not called a gift for nothing  and living life simply means embracing it to the fullest (and being thankful that it’s given to you!)

A thousand miles away

The KLIA lights have long fadded away from my sight. I remember the sound of laughter, the joy and excitement of a new chapter in life mingled with possible apprehension about what would come. I was never the one who was holding a boarding pass and carrying 3 luggages and numerous hand carries but it was always written on their faces - and my turn would soon be coming when I would be the one frazzled and nervous and excited and...perhaps one can never be fully ready for the goodbyes and farewells.


I miss you already.

It's amazing how missing someone makes you feel and how constant it can be. I know so many people that I simply never stop missing - the feeling is always there - thank God for technology nowadays but it's still not the same.

I hate farewells.

Thankful

I had so many topics on my mind to post about (i.e. I wanted to write a review on '27 dresses' as well as 'P.S. I love you', I wanted to blog about something totally random) but now that I'm in front of my computer (having been down with fever and flu), I feel too thankful to talk about anything else than how totally awesome He has been to me.

It had happened like any other internship search I had been on - some companies will call you back and some don't - but my internship/part time job search was different than all the others I had been on - because this time, it was personal.

I wanted an internship with a company (which I will not name due to obvious reasons of how easy it is for blog entries to come up on Google search), I'll call it Company B. I wanted an internship with this really reputable company because of so many reasons:

1. The company’s name would look awesome on my resume
2. It was a short distance from my house (relatively short, anyway)
3. I really respected the values on which the company stood for….and the list goes on…

When things started going wrong with someone of certain authority in the company, I was so hopping around, annoyed (you might or have not heard my incessant ranting on the subject – if you have, I offer my sincere apologies – I was really acting like a child). While I was extremely frustrated with Company B as well as being in the middle of my exams, I placed in an application for Company A – a half-hearted effort at most, unmotivated by the fact that this company was much less reputable than the previous company I had once had the blessing of interning for.

Company A incessantly contacted me and with a telephone interview by my now-manager, I was in – I got the internship – and the pay was…awesome.

It goes to show how shallow my thinking can be – I kept thinking that Company B had everything to offer me, but I am having a blast at Company A. I’m so thankful to God for simply knowing what I wanted more than I ever will. He truly knows what my heart's desires.

Sometimes I just forget.

I’m glad that He never fails to remind me that He loves me.