From the bottom of my heart

I want to say a big big thank you to someone so dear to me. Of couse, there's a lot of people who have given me support, love, care and everything else! But this person has given me even more than that. He gave me the courage, the motivation, the strength to realise that I could do whatever I want to do!

Richard Branson's (RB) book: Screw it, let's do it.

He gave me this book to have a read. I've truly been inspired. Those short but strong phrases can really boost the strength inside you. Those experiences and ambitions RB had really makes me think what a boring life I have right now and how I can make it FUN but yet meaningful.

"Life is too short to be unhappy" another classic phrase of RB. At first, even though I knew the meaning, I don't think it really went into me. But last night, when I was looking through a few articles. I thought about this sentence again. And now, it's stuck in my head FOREVER.

How to have a 36 hour day. This article was showed to me first by my dear Rich. It's through this article, that I finally woke up. I've finally crawled out of my own little perfect world. Because there's really NOT ENOUGH TIME FOR ME TO WASTE.

Life is like a rollercoaster. Ups and downs. But always remember, you are not the only person sitting on it. You are never alone.

My date with Rich today was so extra meaningful. Whenever I think about his words, I can't resist not smiling. I thank God for sending me my guardian angel. There's no present ever better than this. He has not once failed to make me the happiest girl on earth! I will treasure.

As my Godparents said to me:
Jenn, just remember one thing. If the relationship is important to you - don't give up at the first sign of disagreement but work at it.

It's very important to me. I will. I know and I love you more than words can describe.

Last but not least, as promised. The answer to the previous guessing game is: PHOTO 2!
So congratulations to the beautiful Kris (being a model herself really helps) and my dearest Ruby JJ (a potential GREAT lawyer)!

Testing your ability to identify BEAUTY

GUESS: Which photo went on the cover page of a magazine?

Below are a few photos of a female artist (姜培林) who is going to be on a magazines cover page. Can you pick out the photo that was chosen in the end to be the cover photo?

If you got it right, then you do have the eyes of a professional photographer.
I got it right first time round! So can you! The answer would be published in my next entry. ^^

Have fun!

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Eat Tea: The new skin care tip

茶 I'm sure lots of skin-conscious people, like me, have heard that drinking tea is healthy and helps with the complexion of our skin. But have you heard that eating the tea leaves is even more effective?

According to some people who have tried this, their spots have disappeared very quickly and their skin complexion had improved immensely . Even the Chinese medicine doctors recommended this method to people who have lots of spots on their face. Eating tea: you can eat whatever kinds of tea but the most effective one would still be Chinese green tea. The method is very simple – just make tea like you normally do, after drinking the actual tea, don’t throw away the leaves, eat them! It’s as simple as that.

Note: Tea also prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls. (Actually, tea suppresses your appetite and keeps the pounds from invading....Green tea is great for our immune system too)! But people with a poor stomach should not eat a large quantity of tea leaves at one go because tea leaves have a huge “cooling effect”. So take it easy.

Try it for yourselves. And tell me how the tea leaves tastes like to you? To me, they are rather easy to chew and taste….FRESH! ^^

Friday night dinner

Had a lovely family dinner last night.

Went into town with Rich to buy some ingredients to cook for the family dinner and brought him back home to have a happy dinner party with my family. Very enjoyable night. I think Angela loves the pork chop Rich made. It's certainly very tasty!

Next time I'll have to remember to buy RIPE Avocados. TIP: they have to have little brown bits on their skin and feel soft! Otherwise, they'll taste bitter. OppZzz... haha. My prawn cocktail was not as popular because of the slight bitterness.


Rich's Pork Chop with Mash

Mum's 8 treasure rice cake

My favourite aubergines


Orange flavoured Pancakes

Baked salted fish...YUMMY!

Health

Recently, I've become more and more concerned about health issues. Maybe it's because of my loved ones health situations and so on. Just the other day, I came across 2 very interesting articles --

1. It's a miracle

A women in her vegetative state since November 2000 suddenly awakes for three days just last week or so. She told her loved ones that she is all well and even managed to see her grandchildren for the very first time. Doctors have not found any reasons why she could wake up after all those years. All they could tell the press now is that it's truly a miracle. The women's family members thanked God with no hesitation, to send her back every so often and tell them that she was fine. After the three days, the lady went back to her vegetative state again.

If every vegetative state patient could do the same, then this world would be a much happier place, don't you agree? Because what's worse than being alive like dead?

2. Anti-obesity program

Singapore plans to end its anti-obesity program in schools as parents complained that overweight children were being singled out and teased by classmates.

I find this very interesting because I've experienced this program myself when I was in Singapore. Everyone tried to keep fit not to get over weight because the PE teachers would weigh us every term. I'm lucky to have always been at the right weight for my height. Over weight students had to take a run around our school in the morning when we are reading in the Hall. Underweight students had to drink milk during our break times.

Every policy has it's advantages and disadvantages. Personally I like this programme. It's creating an incentive to keep fit fit fit!


Wishing everyone good health!

Suddenly I feel very peaceful

A bit emotional yet peaceful. After a lovely chat I feel even more assured. SO here I am writing down this peaceful feeling.

I feel that love is all around me.

Satisfied is not even enough to describe this feeling. All I can do now is to thank God for giving me what I have always wanted and that person who's going to be with me forever. I'm so glad. Glad about everything in life. Glad that everyone is giving me so much support.

Glad that Jennifer could finally be Jennifer.