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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Obstacles of life…..

We often get upset or temp to complain a lots whenever we face some difficulties in our life…

some might even put the blame to the god ,why the god treat them unfair ? why they can’t have a smooth sailing life ? why there are so so many obstacles in their life ? perhaps i am part of them too

found an good article online lately ….talking about the obstacles of life…

personally, I think it’s a good one to share …

“While we all pray for each other that one should not come across any obstacle in life, I have a different view after read the following.
We must come across obstacles and need to pray for each other to overcome obstacles (with some pain) and progress.
One night recently my daughter, Elizabeth, was showing me an aquarium full of tadpoles. She had purchased a whole bag full of them for her children to watch grow from tadpoles into frogs. It was fun watching all of those little wiggly creatures swimming around in the aquarium! It brought back many fond memories of my own childhood, playing with "critters" down at my grandparent's house.
I noticed that there was a big rock in the aquarium. When I asked her why she put a rock right in the middle of the tadpoles' environment, Elizabeth told me an interesting story. I can hardly believe that I have lived almost seventy years without having heard it. It is so good and "life-essence saturated."
Elizabeth said that she was instructed by the Pet Store Salesman to be sure to "put a big rock right in the middle of the aquarium." He
explained that "the tadpoles must have this obstacle to give them the incentive to climb up and thus split their little wiggly tails so that
their legs can begin to develop. If they have no rock or obstacle to climb up on, they will never turn into frogs. They cannot learn how to hop by just swimming around in water. They must have something causing resistance to give them the incentive to leap forward.
The man went on to tell her that last year a school teacher came back to the store and complained because none of her tadpoles had ever turned into frogs. She had put all of them in an aquarium and let them swim around but they never became frogs. He asked her if she had put a big obstacle, like a rock, in the middle of the aquarium. She said that she had not. She did not know that a tadpole will remain a tadpole unless it faces some obstacle or barrier that forces it to grow. Neither did I, but it makes perfect sense.
So, my daughter was excited to show me all of the tadpoles swimming around the rock. In time, they will begin to try to climb up it and eventually they will make the transformation into a more fully mature creature.
Well, I was amazed and delighted to hear that story. It helped me better to see, once again, why life presents obstacles and barriers in
front of us. The barriers are not there to hinder us, but they are there to cause us to grow. It is not so much what the object is in
front of each one of us that matters as much as it is our attitude towards it. If we realize that the obstacle we are facing is really a
gift that has come our way to help us grow and mature, we will be much more likely to face it in a positive manner.
Since I watched those tadpoles the other night and saw the big rock in their aquarium, I have begun to see the obstacles I face in a
different way. Instead of being rocks in my path, those obstacles have become stepping stones to help me leap forward in whatever
situation I find myself...
I know that those little tadpoles have no idea what is going on. They just are not that smart. The truth of the matter is, neither are we?
Most of us have no idea what all is going on in our lives either. We don't understand that the barriers and obstacles, challenges, difficulties and hard times that come our way each day are actually there for a purpose. There is no way we will have the incentive to
grow, or to become better, or to strive harder, if everything in life is just a simple situation. I know the harder I work at anything, the more profitable it is for me, not only financially, but personally, in my own heart and character as well.
So, the next time you see a frog hopping around, smile at him and thank him for the lesson, remembering the struggle he has gone through to get where he is. Perhaps out in the wild somewhere, he faced a difficult rock or barrier in his life, but rather than swimming away from it, he just crawled up on it and began to develop his personal strength until he eventually matured to become the frog that you see hopping around.
Moral of the Story:“Remember... Obstacles are there to help you... “

everything happen with a reason , so don’t get upset or Pease off whenever you encouter any obstacle in your life…just try your very best to overcome it , as these obstacles help to make you better person~

Cheers …..

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The First Snow @ Busan ….

As usual I was waken up by those noises…..<Arghhhhhhhhhh…so damn tired …as i only went to bed @ 3.am nearly 4 am,Thank to those homework > so to “wake me up”, i on my notebook to blast some songs while preparing myself ….

Then suddenly friend of mine msn me to tell that it was snowing last nite …so there are still snows everywhere…

Woo …Snows ..Snows Snows…The very very first Snow @ Busan .Although the snow is not much ,but We were quite surprise and excited to see snow today as it is just the 3rd day of winter and unlike Seoul or the northern region of Korea ,it’s rarely snow here at Busan.

It was my very first time to see snow as well ..so i for sure won’t miss out the golden opportunity to take some photos to keep it as memories

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P/S : the snow is just look like our Malaysia Ais Batu Campur (ABC) …hehe maybe next time i should add some milk and syrup on the top of those “ice”

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Happy Pepero Day (빼빼로 데이)

11th November is known as Pepero Day in South Korea..Papero day is named after the Korea 's famous stick snack Pepero (similiar to Rocky at Malaysia ) . Maybe you will wondering why it's celebrate at Nov ,11 ?The date Nov 11 was chosen because when written as "11/11" it resembles four sticks of Pepero



Papero day is similar to Valentine day .People will exchanging and eating of these Pepero sticks with family, boyfriends, girlfriends, and friends. Beside Pepero ,some other candies, and romantic gifts will be exchanged as well.



Ermmmm....how the Papero day start ??



According to Wikepedia , Korean start the celebrating the Papero day annually since year 2004 .It begun when students at a girls' middle school in Busan, where they exchanged Pepero sticks as gifts to wish one another to grow "as tall and slender as a Pepero.

Pepero do create some business opportunity as well. A lot of manufacture will create more flavours ,or special limitation pepero .

here is some of the photos i capture from different shop

Papero From Paris Baguette
I personally quite like their boxes design how i wish someone can buy it for me …hehe


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Original papero from Lotte

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HAPPY PEPERO everyone …..

Monday, November 9, 2009

生命

今天的我心情有点低落。。不知道是因为”蓝色星期一”的关系,

还是获知友人的外公过世的消息,这让我想起2007年,晚上还好好的外婆,也是忽然间就离开了我们。。所以心里有点难过。



人生就是那么的无常,

我们永远不知道下一秒会发生什么。。

也许下一秒,人生就这样的画上了句号。。



我不需要长命百岁,

也不在乎活多久,或多长

只要人生没有白活就好。。

也不需要什么大富大贵,

只要健健康康,不愁吃,不愁穿就好



生命长短不重要,怎么样运用生命才是重点。。

好好的珍惜我们活着的每一天吧!



在此希望友人的外公安息!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

茅草之旅- Seunghaksan(乘鶴山)

“How you normally spend your weekend ?? “ Prof.Lee asked his students during the network security class. “

Just stay at the dormitory” the students answered .

You all should try some hiking @ Busan said the Prof Lee. “Have you all hike the mount behind our campus ?”

“ Ermmmmmmmmm nope Sir “ the student answered .

“now is the right time to go , you all will be able to see those grass and some autumn scenery “ said the prof Lee while Naver-ing (Korea searching site something like google ) to show his student the nice view of the Mount

This is how or why me who does not a hiking fan will decided to “conquer “ Seunghaksan(乘鶴山) . Seunghaksan is located at Sasang ,Busan which is famous with the nice cogongrass (茅草) and some nice view of Busan city.

we departure @ 8.00 am from our dormitory and take about half an hour bus .

One of the Senior told us , we just need to walk for while to reach the place. But guess what, when we reached there we realize that it’s not true . After walking about half an hour , we notice that …it seem like still long long way to go …..

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Our destination will be the Top of the hill.( The brow area) .Walk and walk and walk and walk ..After walking about 1 hour we finally can see some cogongrass (茅草)

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But this is not the Best view of cogongrass (茅草).We need to walk further up just to see the nice cogongrass (茅草). .Luckily the whether is just nice for the hiking ..Sunny and Windy day …~~ I just love the weather. I will properly sweat like hell if i hiked @ M’sia with Malaysia 27 ‘C weather..LOL

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Take a break snap a photo 1st ..SMILE.

We finally reached the hill at after another 1 hour of walking . If you are not sure how to get to hill not worries , the tips is just follow the Ajuma ,Ajusi ( uncle and auntie ) .They will just lead you to the place and they even walk faster than us …what a shame

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The ice cream just taste nice :P after a long walking ….hahaha

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The total round trip is about 4 hours plus .. what a tiring trip but overall it’s a good experience .Worth to walk for long hour to see the nice scenery ..

Errmmmm maybe i will be there again someday ??? hahaha