interesting what makeup and lighting can do…
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Amanda
TOTD 25/4/12 – Models w/o makeup
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My dad, back from Shanghai
That’s my dad, “reporting” back to friends on his walkie talkie after he got back from his Shanghai trip (w family members). 🙂 A well deserved trip after 10years.
We catch up with friends, in our different ways.
He came a long way in his life, unsatisfied mostly. But with 3 glorious children!
It’s nice to hear his light-hearted voice once in a while. 🙂
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Be Bless
Love,
Amanda
TOTD 18/3/12 “of seeing positive changes in their perspectives”
“These men and women were not deterred by the social stigma associated with counseling when they came forward to seek help. As Jit Meng, one of the featured clients, would say, “A desperate man is not a self-conscious person.” Wei Qiang, in another featured story, agree to seek counseling for he recognized that an issue bigger than his pride was at stake. What was common was that these clients were all motivated by the possibility of seeing positive changes in their perspectives or relationships.”
– More Than A Chat: Real-life Accounts of Lives Empowered through Counselling, REACH Community Services Society
by the possibility of seeing positive changes in their perspectives or relationships.
Thought of The Day
Be Bless
Love,
Amanda
TOTD 16/3/12 – “that he now has a better grip of his issues”
“How would you describe counseling? This question was posed to the counsellors. ..
Another depicts counseling as extending a helping hand to individuals in resolving their issues. At the end of the counseling session, the counselee would feel heard, accepted and leave with the hope that he now has a better grip of his issues.
While family and friends may play the role of a counsellor, what makes professional counseling different from any other conversation is the process. Professional counseling is a facilitated process. It is more deliberate and directional than an informal chat between friends or family members. Trained counsellors are equipped with skills that enable them to elicit thoughts and feelings, facilitate self-discovery and generate solutions from counselees in a manner that lay persons are not adept to do. ”
– More Than A Chat: Real-life Accounts of Lives Empowered through Counselling, REACH Community Services Society
.. and leave with the hope that he now has a better grip of his issues.
Thought of The Day
Be Bless
Love,
Amanda
TOTD 15/3/12, A Different Leap of Life
Was just looking at a status update of an ex-colleague.
She updated it saying “.. a leap in my career and I’m grateful for this.. ” Something along the line of having been at the bottom for this long and things are finally changing.
That felt like a slap to my face initially. WHAT!! even she as an under-achiever* is doing better than you! What are you doing with your career!!
*okay, when in the context of comparison, one tends to put another down.
I feel really lousy for a while..
Then it came on to me, it isn’t exactly that I’m not moving forward, “a giant step in career? a giant step in life’s understanding.”
As I began to notice the high-flyers around me, I gain a different perspective.. Yes, they have like perhaps thousands giants leap in their career. They have perhaps tons of money in their bank. They have perhaps travelled all over the world to work.
What do I have?
I have a little bit more time to do what I want compared to them. I can start and maintain a relationship in a country *its a challenge to settle down if one is traveling around the world to do their job. I have more joy than stress.
Guess that’s the difference I have, my development, my giant leap stands in understanding how life can be like more than just money or paper chase.
No doubt money is still important. Being educated is important.
Just another segment of being a person.
A different leap in life.
Thought of the day
Be Bless
Love,
Amanda
Memories w Food Photography
It’s been very very long since I last take a photo of food that gave me such pleasure…
🙂 I miss being excited about taking photo..
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Love,
Amanda
TOTD 8/3/12 – Different
Sometimes, the teacher that teaches the underprivileged classes feels the most left out. 🙂
Cos everything is geared towards helping average or very good students to score, what about the others?
Topics that seems so general, can be entirely so new, so elusive to them.
Do you know, the world of their mind is actually way smaller than our comprehension, n they have their set of problems & issues too..
What feminism? A more trendy tudung compared to a traditional tudung is just “Tudung” to them.
They are not mindless. You just need to reach their level, you just need to know they are a seed too. You just need to try. You.
“If You Teach Me How”
Good Classes, Good Grades, Certificates are important, but, being average can live too.
More than just helping them to see results. My job is to help them to live.
Live their life.
Different.
Thought of The Day
Be Bless
Love,
Amanda
P/S: Mostly, this doesn’t apply in the Singapore Education System, because it doesn’t show in the grades.
Care for them and they will change. Sure, but not fast enough to show in the grades.
😀
TOTD 29/2/12 He Waits
“The cars, motorcycles and occasional truck pass him by. Drivers and passengers are oblivious to his existence. He sees the searing heat of the asphalt. It is not a gentle sun but the quiver of the leaves of the big tree he stands under, tells him there is a breeze. He watches the birds sing. They are silent to him. He feels calm and experience an ever present tranquility. Almost.
That same moment, many miles away, the same ungentle sun beats upon the bus she is traveling in. The air-conditioning in the bus blows with vengeance an uncomfortable cold wind. She pulls her cardigan closer to her chest and folds her arms; her head rests against the window as she closes her eyes.
… She closed her eyes as she took in his last embrace. “I have to go now.” She feels his lips gently upon her cheek. “Go in peace Huat.” She feels one last tight embrace, followed by stillness in the air.”
– The Strange Tale of An Incorrigible Expat Playboy short stories, He Waits, Peter Chen
Didn’t realize that the person in the 1st paragraph was just a soul till towards the end of the story.
Thought of the day
Be Bless
Love,
Amanda
TOTD 28/2/12 “and complete our day”
“But I had followed our routine everyday: walking down from Guy’s Campus at 5:30 in the evening, down Southwark Street, up Stamford, turning right at the IMAX and up Waterloo Bridge-our bridge-the strengthening smell of the Thames filling my lungs with anticipation, my feet quickening in step with my heart as I hoped to see you hurrying from the other side in your DKNY shirt and Gap khakis to meet me at the halfway mark and complete our day.”
– The Strange Tale of An Incorrigible Expat Playboy short stories, Shaina’s Inbox, Sandeep Shete
and complete our day.
Thought of The Day
Be Bless
Love,
Amanda
Vagina talk
Lets talk Vagina and Happiness…
Dont be bias, take a listen.
Maybe you will learn something about yourself too.
Applys to guys too.
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Be Bless
Love,
Amanda