A New Beginning
January 1, 2009 | By 
bokjae | In Life Experiences
Welcome my friends to my own hosted Blog and it is a real New Beginning in my blogging journey starting from 1st January 2009! I was running this blog Walk of Life for a few months now with the intention of moving Listening, Learning, Living one day and today is my actual migration!
Yes! I am very happy and excited about this move and hope to continue to post interesting life experiences here. Well it is not completely done yet but I will get my Blogroll, social Networks and other Widgets ready soon! Thanks for your continuous and unfailing support and really look forward to seeing many of you here! Cheers!
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2008 Closure and New Beginnings in 2009
December 31, 2008 | By bokjae | In Life Learning
It is the last day of 2008, a year full of turmoil! Yes many major changes took place in the last 12 months! Change seems to be the word world wide! Its normal for one to make resoultions at this time and I stumbled on a post by Versacreations that may help one to focus on what needed to be done or change for the year ahead.
Here are a list of Helpful Questions which you can ponder upon and set your own goals:-
Completing and Remembering 2008
What was your biggest triumph in 2008?
What was the smartest decision you made in 2008?
What one word best sums up and describes your 2008 experience?
What was the greatest lesson you learned in 2008?
What was the most loving service you performed in 2008?
What is your biggest piece of unfinished business in 2008?
What are you most happy about completing in 2008?
Who were the three people that had the greatest impact on your life in 2008?
What was the biggest risk you took in 2008?
What was the biggest surprise in 2008?
What important relationship improved the most in 2008?
What compliment would you liked to have received in 2008?
What compliment would you liked to have given in 2008?
What else do you need to do or say to be complete with 2008?
Creating 2009
What would you like to be your biggest triumph in 2009?
What advice would you like to give yourself in 2009?
What is the major effort you are planning to improve your financial results in 2009?
What would you be most happy about completing in 2009?
What major indulgence are you willing to experience in 2009?
What would you most like to change about yourself in 2009?
What are you looking forward to learning in 2009?
What do you think your biggest risk will be in 2009?
What about your work, are you most committed to changing and improving in 2009?
What is one as yet undeveloped talent you are willing to explore in 2009?
What brings you the most joy and how are you going to do or have more of that in 2009?
Who or what, other than yourself, are you most committed to loving and serving in 2009?
What one word would you like to have as your theme in 2009?
We take this opportunity to wish all our readers
A Purposeful, Fulfilling and a Blessed 2009!
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Thoughts Worth Pondering
December 29, 2008 | By bokjae | In Life Experiences
Christmas 2008 is gone and soon we are approaching the end of 2008! Ever since my last post, it had been a nightmare trying to go online! Apparantly our Service Provider said it was a Submarine Cable Fault which will be completely restored by 31st December! 2008 of course! Till then just reluctant to go online for it takes ages to load a page!
Lucky for me that tonight the speed is a bit better and I take this opportunity to write my last post for the year! Christmas for us was a very very quiet affair and we hardly went out except for some groceries shopping. Although it was quiet but I was kept rather busy helping rock and my daughter fix a thousand and one things!
Being quiet, I did a bit of pondering over world events and other things. To me the outlook for 2009 is rather gloomy! While the world celebrated the recent Christmas with familiar songs like Joy to The World; Silent Night and so much about Peace, the world around us is very very far from Peaceful!
Israel and Palestine started fighting again.
India and Pakistan are getting troops aligned at the borders.
Tamil Tigers bombing in Ceylon.
Talk of Recession literally every where.
So what can one expect in 2009? Wars and Rumours of War? Earthquakes and Natural Disasters? Outlook is rather bleak! On a personal level I had been pondering on some encouraging Words I read somewhere and would like to share with you and perhaps help to keep our smiles in the year ahead!
Personal :-
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.
A sharp tongue can cut your own throat.
You lie the loudest when you lie to yourself.
One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.
Work :-
Your mind is like a parachute...it functions only when open.
If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Ideas won't work unless ' You' do.
If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn't oversleep.
Friends :-
The best vitamin for making friends..... B1.
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away. Sometimes we are so caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we forget what's right and wrong. Sometimes we just don't realize what real friendship means until it is too late.
I don't want to let that happen so I am going tie you to my heart so I never lose YOU. May You, my friends, have a Purposeful, Successful and Joyful Year ahead in 2009! Blessings to All!
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Parent’s Christmas Wish
December 17, 2008 | By bokjae | In Family
On the day when you see us old, weak and weary… Have patience and try to understand us… If we get dirty when eating… If we cannot dress on our own… Please bear with us and remember the times we spent feeding you and dressing you up.
If, when we speak to you, we repeat the same things over and over again…. Do not interrupt us…… listen to us. When you were small we had to read to you the same story a thousand and one times until you went to sleep.
When we do not want to have a shower, do not shame nor scold us… Remember when we had to chase you with your thousand excuses to get you to the shower.
When you see our ignorance of new technologies… Help us navigate our ways through those worldwide webs. We taught you how to do so many things…. To eat the right foods, to dress appropriately, to fight for your rights….
When at some moments we lose our memory or the thread of our conversation… Let us have the necessary time to remember….. And if we cannot, do not become nervous…… As the most important thing is not the conversation, but surely to be with you and to have you listen to us….
If ever we do not feel like eating, do not force us. We know well when to eat and when not to eat.
When our tired legs give way and do not allow us to walk without a cane. Lend us your hand, the same way we did when you tried your first faltering steps.
And when someday we say to you that we do not want to live anymore, that we want to die. Do not get angry. Someday you will understand. Try to understand that our age is not to live but survived.
Someday you will realized that, despite our mistakes, We always wanted the best for you and we tried to prepare the way for you. You must not feel angry, sad or ashamed for having us near you. Instead try to understand us and help us like we did when you were young.
Help us to walk……..
Help us to live the rest of our life with love and dignity. We will pay you with a smile and the immense love we have always had for you in our hearts.
We love you child. Mom and Dad.
You can watch the actual Presentation with music and pictures at Parent's Wish.
We are indeed grateful and thankful to our Lord for our children who shows such great understanding towards us as parents, taking time off ever year to be with us even though its only for a month! Thank-you dears!
I must share another story about my 'Spiritual Mentor' who even at the age of 70 plus, still comes home from Canada to be with his mom who was I guess 90 over! What he did was just to be with her, hold her hands and listen to her yakking! This Blessed Grand Dame just gone to be with The Lord recently! I am sure his mom must be feeling so very happy to have a son who does that! I believe that the investment of "Time" in your children's or parent's life is the most precious gift of all! More than money or material gifts! How about giving this Special Gift to the ones you loved this Christmas!
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What If It Was You?
December 16, 2008 | By bokjae | In Humour
Ah! Yes! Baked Beans, one of my favourite breakfast Menu! Not sure how true it is about the effects of taking Baked Beans. In regards to this here is a really hilarious story about Baked Beans!
One day I met a sweet gentleman and fell in love. When it became apparent that we would marry, I made the supreme sacrifice and gave up beans.
Some months later, on my birthday, my car broke down on the way home from work. Since I lived in the countryside I called my husband and told him that I would be late because I had to walk home. On my way, I passed by a small diner and the odor of baked beans was more than I could stand.
With miles to walk, I figured that I would walk off any ill effects by the time I reached home, so I stopped at the diner and before I knew it, I had consumed three large orders of baked beans. All the way home, I made sure that I released all the gas.
Upon my arrival, my husband seemed excited to see! me and exclaimed delightedly: 'Darling I have a surprise for dinner tonight.' He then blindfolded me and led me to my chair at the dinner table.
I took a seat and just as he was about to remove my blindfold, the telephone rang. He made me promise not to touch the blindfold until he returned and went to answer the call.
The baked beans I had consumed were still affecting me and the pressure was becoming most unbearable, so while my husband was out of the room I seized the opportunity, shifted my weight to one leg and let one go. It was not only loud, but it smelled like a fertilizer truck running over a skunk in front of a pulpwood mill.
I took my napkin from my lap and fanned the air around me vigorously. Then, shifting to the other cheek, I ripped off three more. The stink was worse than cooked cabbage. Keeping my ears carefully tuned to the conversation in the other room, I went on like this for another few minutes.
The pleasure was indescribable. When eventually the telephone farewells signaled the end of my freedom, I quickly fanned the air a few more times with my napkin, placed it on my lap and folded my hands back on it feeling very relieved and pleased with myself.
My face must have been the picture of innocence when my husband returned, apologizing for taking so long. He asked me if I had peeked through the blindfold, and I assured him I had not. At this point, he removed the blindfold, and twelve dinner guests seated around the table chorused: 'Happy Birthday!'
I fainted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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