Boxing Day

Fountain at Eaton Centre, downtown Toronto

Every 26th December, people in Canada celebrate Boxing Day. It's a day, when shopping feels like Heaven. Every stores give minimum of 50% discounts on majority items. Malls are crowded since morning. To avoid the crowd, people could shop on-line as well.. 

Wishing HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015 to all of you

Some Reflection at the end of the year:

WHAT IS MATURITY?

It's the ability to handle frustration, control anger, and settle differences without violence or destruction.
It's patience. It's the willingness to postpone gratification, to pass up the immediate pleasure or profit in favor of the long-term gain.
It's unselfishness, responding to the need of others.
It's the gift of remaining calm in the face of chaos. This means peace, not only for ourselves, but for those with whom we live and for those whose lives touch ours.
It's perseverance, sweating out a project or a situation in spite of opposition and discouraging setbacks.
It's the capacity to face unpleasantness and disappointment without becoming bitter.
It's dependability, integrity, keeping one's word.
It's the ability to disagree without being disagreeable.
It's the ability to make a decision, to act on that decision, and to accept full responsibility for the outcome.
It's the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
(Ann Landers)

IT'S TIME TO MERGE

(Reflection of Einstein. Picture taken at Einstein Museum - Bern, Switzerland)

Now is the time for us to begin building a single whole of humanity. To develop our non-rational abilities into a 'subjective technology' which will begin the wedding of science and religion, reason and intuition, the physical and the spiritual. This union of head and heart, insight and instinct, will ensure that as science comes to comprehend the non-material aspect of reality as well as it knows the material - our knowledge will become wisdom, our love of power will become the power of love, and the universal man of cosmic consciousness can then emerge. (Edgar Mitchell)

(Mileva and Einstein. Picture taken at Einstein Museum, Bern - Switzerland)

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself of the liberation and foundation for inner security. (Einstein)

(Love Letters from Einstein to Mileva. Picture taken at Einstein Museum, Bern - Switzerland)

PLUM or BANANA

If I was a plum, and had been trying to be the best banana, only to found out that I was a second rate banana...

I could have spent the rest of my life trying to be the best banana which was impossible, because I was a plum.

I had practised my freewill of bananahood.
But there came a time to summon courage to return to my plumhood. This move was considerably fair and wise. Because I was plum after all.
(Inspired from Reflections writen by Leo Buscaglia)

HAVE COURAGE

The ocean seems to be tha apt metaphor for change.
There is an ebb and flow to change.
It drifts in and out of our lives,
sometimes gently like a tide - and another times
like the crashing waves during a storm.

If we are superhuman, we would have no need
for bravery when traveling through troubled waters.........
But we're just human ................
and change provokes great discomfort.

Yet we discover,
much to our surprise
and often with the help from others,
that deep within us
there is a magnificent gift of strength
that will pull us or push us
through our changing times.

This power is COURAGE.

We all have it.

YOU HAVE IT.

POHON MAPLE vs BAYI 

Apa pernah denger Pohon Maple? Daunnya ada kira-kira sembilan sudut, dan bisa dijadikan gula atau sirup yang harum dan lezat.

Pohon ini adalah Pohon Nasional bagi negara Kanada. Daunnya tertera pada bendera kebangsaan negara tersebut.

Nah, berbagi dengan kamu, lelucon para petani disana. Mereka berkelakar bahwa pohon Maple itu yang melahirkan bayi-bayi di Kanada. Tuh, fotonya disebelah ini. Cute kan.

Never Alone

"You go two by two." The Lord said.

Thank you Lord..
You have secured my ladder and let me go two by two. Not alone...

The gentle hearted...

Never Alone, a photo by Andriana.pamella on Flickr