I am a seeker soul

I tried the test xuzhu posted in his blog and here's the result.

I'm a seeker soul (just made me think, would i be a good seeker like Harry Potter.) Anyway, it says that...

You are on a quest for knowledge and life challenges.
You love to be curious and ask a ton of questions.
Since you know so much, you make for an interesting conversationalist.
Mentally alert, you can outwit almost anyone (and have fun doing it!).

Very introspective, you can be silently critical of others.
And your quiet nature makes it difficult for people to get to know you.
You see yourself as a philosopher, and you take everything philosophically.
Your main talent is expressing and communicating ideas.

If you guys want to check the test/quiz, here's the site http://www.blogthings.com/kindsoulquiz.html

The website also tells me that my name stands for...
M is for Mystical
Y is for Young
S is for Successful
U is for Unforgettable
E is for Exquisite

hmmm...

FTK

Yesterday, I joined in an activity called - For The Kids. It is actually a mini-olympics for special children. Me and my friends/blockmates, Lorelee, Nikka, Ellie, Mady, Grace, Kapst and Hana volunteered to join the activity. It was really fun and here are some pictures.


julius the bumble bee! hehe


the kids...hope you guys see julius trying to be in the picture.


this is edmund. doesn't he look like lito cruz in the tide commercial?


here's tolits again with the pa-gwapo pose


here's nikka and nicole. they look cute, don't they?


under the heat of the sun - lorelee and kapst


everyone having fun!

All of us, except Grace who handled an MR, had hearing impaired kids so we went to the sign language seminar before the interaction. Honestly, when seeing the kids, we never recognized that they were special because they really looked happy - like kids. They were super makulit, always running here and there and we would run after them around the football field. I guess it's not surprising that on Monday Ellie and Mady got muscle pains ehehe. By the way, Julius is my kid. He was like the leader2 of them all. If he'd sit, all of the boys would sit and if he'd run back to the field, they'd follow. The girls are...well, good girls. :) But, Lorelee's kid was also mukulit - probably because Lorelee's her idol eheh.

Anyhow, before the interaction I really thought I'd mess up because first of all, how'd I communicate with them. When the day came, the four of us, Ellie, Mady, Hana and me, all just said in sign language stop playing, play later, faster, wait, bad and 'hala'. I admit, it was really hard to give instructions to them when introducing a game...believe me. But as human instincts, our innate sign language skills, mine actually hehe, passed Julius standards because he understands what I want him to do...but doesn't necessarily mean he does it -- especially stop playing.

Though I really had fun, it also made me sad because when we asked them to dance, specifically Ellie to CJ, he actually said that he cannot dance because he cannot hear:(. See, they can't play newspaper dance or trip to jerusalem (which the organizers had for fun games?!?) Nevertheless, I am also happy for them because many love them especially their families, friends and God, and they are happy as they are. I just hope that our country would provide enough ammenities that are needed by these children.

Hope to meet them again next year! For those who have not participated, join!

Getting Over

Last Christmas break, I just saw my crush. Well, before I saw him, I said I was over having a crush on him. However, when I saw him, the way I acted was still like that of when I had a crush on him.

So, I asked my sister...

Why is it that even if I am over these guys (actually I felt the same thing with my other crush whom I said that I'm over him too), I still feel uneasy and act as if I still have a crush on them?

Then she simply answered....

You are not yet over him/them - you still have a crush on him/them.

Then, I ask myself, do I? and unfortunately, I think I still do, maybe not that intense anymore but still. How did I know? It was when I thought of my other crushes whom I also saw again but did not feel and act the same way. Thus, lesson learned here is that, sometimes, we mislead ourselves. Though we may think and say that we feel such, truly, we don't and we must accept it. Just like forgiveness. Though we repeatedly say and believe that we forgive this person there are still times, if we think deeply, where we can see that we really haven't forgiven him/her.

Even if we do want to forgive or get over someone, sometimes, we really cannot rush our hearts - that's why, I believe that time heals. :)


note to xuzhu: i already had this in my drafts before we had our little chat...just to let you know that i'm not talkin about your thing eheheh (you know what i mean)

OK! I'm thinking of scrapping off this article because as i saw my crush today, i realized, i think i'm over him already...i'm confused!

New Year's Resolutions

Definitely, as said in my very first post, people want to change which is why a number of us start the new year off with a list of new year's resolutions and oftenly, they never happen...what happened to last year's resolution of loosing weight? I bet it's still in your NEW year's list. eheh

Well, i was watching television (i forgot when), and I came about an interview of Dr. Phil. He said that for us to effectively change, we should not use the "will power" method but instead, "change our lifestyle". He said that the will power method does not work because you use emotions to motivate you so when you get tired or get frustrated, you easily give up. That is why, he suggests to change one's lifestyle - get out of temptation, make a schedule. Like for example, in loosing weight, we must change our lifestyle like make a habit of taking a jog or walk in the park for a couple of minutes a day or maybe to the extremes, live in another place where the people you live with have small appetites.

However, i was just wondering, for you to be able to change your lifestyle, wouldn't you need will power to do so? Isn't the reason of why people want to change something emotional?

Okay, if he's done his psychological research, i belive him. And besides, I didn't make any resolutions.

If we know we are NOT perfect, then why are we trying to be perfect?

I just heard this question this morning and it made me think. Just like saying, why do we want to be Christ-like if we know that we are never going to be like Christ?

For me, we are not trying to be PERFECT or BE Christ. I think, all of us (maybe not all), just want to be BETTER. And precisely why there is the 'like' in Christ-like.

What do you think?