5 Powerful Lessons You Can Learn From Gandhi, snagged from ZenHabits.
1. Accumulate little
2. Eat simple food
3. Dress simply
4. Lead a simple, stress-free life
5. Let your life be your message
Read more: http://zenhabits.net/2010/03/gandhi-lessons/.
Haven’t touched this blog for quite a long while. Spending less time in front of the computer really does good things to me. I am less stressed and more relaxed. I got to have more time to do other things that I enjoy. One of which is watching my favorite series on DVD. I need to check for some personalized baseball bats on the internet right now though, so my series has to wait. And I am sleeping a little early than usual now and I wake up earlier as well. And so there are days when my son gets to bring freshly-cooked food for snacks in school, too. It’s like going back to the time when we don’t have internet connection and DH and I were just sharing one computer. Now I know why I was more relaxed and happier then.
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1st price – Ladies Chronograph (bic face) watch
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My friend Faye is having a blog contest and it is open to international readers. Check her blog contest post here.
Here’s how to join:
1. Subscribe to her feed via email located right side bar (REQUIRED) – 1 Entry
2. Blog about the contest along with the Prizes {You MUST include the Prizes and My link}- 5 Entries
- If you have multiple blogs, much better. Each blog post along with the Prizes -5 Entries.
3. Leave a comment in this post telling Faye what you did and give the link of the blog post. 1 Entry.
4. Comment to any of her post. From August 8,2010 to Sept 8,2010 and you’ll have 1 entry each comment.
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The Contest Ends on the 8th of Sept 2010 so if you wish to participate you must enter before that date. Winners will be announced on Sept 18,2010! The winners will be picked through Random.org!
I love!
“God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.”
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
~via http://soverypretty.tumblr.com/.
I was looking at various wholesale lots online when I remembered the yellow house I have been dreaming about for the longest time.
I actually came across the village’s brochure this morning and I so badly want the house I wanted to cry. I promise my next house will look exactly like this one. It may not be on the same village but definitely a similar house. I would love to live on the same village if not for the location. I find it a bit far.
These are purses. Really pretty.
~via http://www.kathleendustin.com/.
Pardon my sharing of too many old photos, as they are the photos that I recently uploaded to Flickr. I don’t have the time yet to upload the new ones as our connection has been acting up. And it has been for more than a week already. And I have to endure the intermittent connection. That’s the trouble of living in the province, there isn’t much choice of utilities.
Anyway, this is a resort in Laguna. This is our favorite getaway as we were able come in for free. Thanks to my dad for being so friendly.
At the walls of Intramuros, where we enjoyed hanging out and having our pictures taken.
At the school canteen. I think it’s another birthday of mine where I treated them to some cakes.
I remember watching a play with this bunch of ladies, too. Good thing, students got discounts for the tickets. How I wish we could afford concert tickets then. I’m sure we would all have a blast. Nevertheless, we very much appreciate all the freebies and the cheap thrills that we had back then.
Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people’s approval
and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.
~Lao Tzu
~via http://zenhabits.net/.
I’m finding it a bit hard to get back to blogging after being out of the loop for most of the days the past week. Truth be told, I hardly miss blogging, and I feel happier and more relaxed when I am spending less time in front of the computer. I can say that if not for the extra I am getting, I think I can let go of blogging. So maybe in the next days I will try to limit my computer time and just signin when there’s work or when I have to check on something like water filter maybe. And just spend the rest of my free time doing what I feel like doing that moment.