food for thought

"What is your aim in life?
Acceptance or authenticity?" - D

Do you go for bare minimum to hit the criteria? Or the real deal?

I should sleep more

4. Weight gain

People who are underslept seem to have hormone imbalances that are tied to increased appetite, more cravings for high-calorie foods, a greater response to indulgent treats, and a dampened ability to control their impulses — a very dangerous combination. It’s true that you burn more calories when awake, but not nearly enough to cancel out the many excess calories you consume when exhausted.

11. Distractedness

Having trouble paying attention to what you’re reading or listening to? Struggling with anything that requires you to truly focus? “Attention tasks appear to be particularly sensitive to sleep loss,” researchers have noted. If you want to stay alert and attentive, sleep is a requirement. Otherwise, you enter “an unstable state that fluctuates within seconds and that cannot be characterized as either fully awake or asleep,” and your ability to pay attention is variable at best.

-http://www.businessinsider.sg/what-happens-if-you-dont-get-enough-sleep-2014-2/#.Uy3aatwxElI

This is why i think it's perfectly normal for me to find it so hard to wake up early!! My body is telling me that sleep is so much more important than everyone else is taking it to be. Is my lack of sleep the reason why i've been craving for food and unable to stop myself from eating?? (I usually crave food but at least i'm able to think through whether i need  to eat it or not) IS this why i find it so hard to concentrate for my lectures?? (Although i must say i noticed that i seemed to act like i have ADHD since sec 3, when my friend told me that i cannot stay still for more than a minute) 

gasp.

Time to skip lessons :D haha... Can't afford to because i'm not a genius. I think i'm better than IQ games and questions than all these exams from my mods... Like if to get a job i'd choose the path where they make you take some mcq quiz thing which has an IQ section rather than submit my official documents. 

I digress. Well, hm. Goodnight.

Parable of the lost sheep

The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of Jesus’ well-known parables. In Luke, it appears in chapter 15 as part of a triumvirate of parables—Lost Sheep, Lost Coin, Prodigal Son.

Within the parable, there are three major players:

1. The Shepherd
2. The Lost Sheep
3. The Ninety-Nine (Loyal) Sheep

Typical interpretation of the parable makes Jesus out to be the Shepherd, the sinner to be the Lost Sheep, and believers to be the Ninety-Nine. I wonder if this is the only way to interpret this parable.

While Jesus’ parables are typically likening the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth in some fashion, they usually do so in the third person (correct me if I’m wrong here). In this case, Jesus sets his audience in the shoes of the shepherd. It is not a king or some woman or a wealthy landowner of some kind. It is “you.”

Is it possible that at different stages, in different situations and times, we are all three characters in this parable? Sometimes we’re the shepherd, going after lost sheep. Sometimes we’re the ninety-nine faithful who hang back. Sometimes we’re the lost sheep who has gone astray.

I suppose there could even be a fourth character in the parable: the friends who rejoice with the shepherd when he returns. Perhaps we’re they too.

Adapted from - http://www.witheringfig.com/new-testament/the-parable-of-the-lost-sheep-luke-154–7/

Found this online. Thought this is so true. Different phases of our lives, we may have encountered one of the above characters, or have been any one of them. But i know for sure that i do not want to be the lost sheep. I'm pretty sure once in a while we feel lost, but it's never good to be in a cycle of feeling good then feeling lost. Our reaction to that "feeling" should also be different each time round - it shows our maturity in our walk with God. Do you feel sad at your own state? Or do you immediately call out to God to bring you out and refresh you once again?

I'm glad that I chose the path to rely on Him and set my emotions aside. To not reason but instead trust. Stupid? Nope. Difficult? Yep. Who said this was easy? 

But His love covers it all.

And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. (1 Corinthians 2:12 NLT)

Sunday no funday

Going school for project on a sunday.. yay...

Things that cheer me up this sunday thou:
-i get to drive to school
-i am falling more and more in love with my macbook
-i just ate chendol from bengawan solo
-i woke up ay 11am+
-i just watched a video that has a husky
-today's work to do is excel and baking related so it's not boring
TBC

BUT why

My source of entertainment has placed a security password!!! Is there even ANY common lame bloggers like me out there?? I just wanna know what other mundane fun stuff happens in other peoples' lives man. Someone give my back my source of entertainment :( why my friends all stopped blogging??

Anyway, i had less than 3 hours of sleep last night and when i woke up i was thinking about last night's project things that i was doing.. so i was SO confused in the morning and couldn't put my thoughts together. Somehow this made me really uneasy and i was just feeling weird and scared and confused.. Is this how a fish out of water feels like??
After morning class, slept walked and travelled back to the west only to get "SIWEI-ed". Hence ended up eating Subway with Peiru and Christina. GB was good today! Never boring with these bunch of people. Both officers&helpers as well as my kiddos. I was OIC today!! A very happy and proud OIC. Because everyone has to ask permission from me to do things. (ok not for everything..) But it was fun cause i kept annoying Peiru and Jaslyn with "Okay i give you permission to..." Also, OIC stands for Oh Wei Bo Wei-in charge. hahahahaha. If i start to #owbw #ohweibowei you, please don't mind me.

After went for life group which consisted of me, wy, sherry and yuling! It was fun even though it was only a small group of us. I was reeaaally tired so my face must've been :| or :/ or :\ Sherry made me climb the mountains and hills and stairs in NUS!!! Ended up being at the best place to chillax - Starbucks. But working at PB has made me noticed how Starbucks make their coffee and made me realise how cheap their coffee is!! Now i think twice about buying coffee.. Because honestly a cup of coffee for $6 is so not worth it. But once in awhile.. it's okay to give into that temptation, that craving..right?

BTW i spotted my ex-eye candy the other day!!! How do i even explain how i felt? It's like.. it was embarrassing that i wanna hide but then again i wanna be there, so i didn't really feel like leaving. This only proves one thing: I AM A FAITHFUL GIRL :P

hoehoemistletoe's 30DAYS

I've decided to start my very own 30days challenge!! Sticking to something for 30days straight is not that easy for me considering how much i like to procrastinate and how flickle minded i am.. Am currently doing a photo challenge right now. I must warn you i am no professional photographer so my pictures may just look...meh. But i like taking photos and i like trying to make my photos look artistic and pretty! So come on over and join me in my challenge :D

http://hoehoemistletoe.wordpress.com

busybusy

Just wanted my future self to take note that i went through this BUSY DAY.

I have a test tomorrow, followed by a presentation. Not to mention that i have to do my dental check up SOO early in the morning... I don't know about you but my dislike for waking up early(before 10-11am), on a scale of 1-10 is like 9.5.

Studied at JEM Mac with Jolyn today and we were being pigs and shared a nuggets meal even though we already ate lunch....And after we gobbled down our food WE WERE STILL HUNGRY. Was so tempted to buy something else but oh well studies come first. After that i followed her to find her friend who's working at eggs & berries at Westgate.. He looks waaaay older than the last time i remember him to be(jc times). Went to meet Hiang and did our project after that.


I have yet to finish studying for my test. I am so doomed even though i try not to think of it that way. I feel so much less prepared than my previous one and i failed the previous one. Accounting and I just ...don't mix well :( sigh. God just don't let me fail that module I can't retake an ACCT module, my heart can't take it.

Anyway I saw a cute guy today.

너무너무너무너무 좋아

나는 진짜진짜진짜 한국에 가고싶다...

그냥 거기 살아싶은데..

모든 국가도 괜찮아. 여행이 너무너무너무너무 좋아. 너무너무너무너무!

오오오오 멋잇다!!! ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

재밌게 많이 놀라시픈데ㅋ

금년에 시간이있으면좋겠다..내가 거기에있을거야.

오빠가 언니들 많이 보고싶어용. 정말요. 아빠두..더바쁘니까 더보고싶었어. 카톡 없거든요.

언제까지 이렇게넘바빠.. 딸이심심해요.

나 진짜 여행가고싶다!!!!!!ㅠㅠㅠ진짜...

아..그리구나

Mummy it's over

I can't believe my recess week just went past so fast. It literally zoomed past. I want my recess week back :((

Anyway, 60 more days to MALDIVES!! (i actually used excel to calculate this! heh secretly love CAT~ should have been an IS student eh?)
P/s have not gotten an internship..applied for 3 so far :/ not sure if i should apply for Swissôtel.. don't..panic..don't sadfhslaf