We are grateful that every step of the way has enriched our lives in all possible ways. And too our gratitude goes to all the available support given to our growth.
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
A time to count the blessings
On this day two years ago, we tied the knot and started our journey together.
We are grateful that every step of the way has enriched our lives in all possible ways. And too our gratitude goes to all the available support given to our growth.
We are grateful that every step of the way has enriched our lives in all possible ways. And too our gratitude goes to all the available support given to our growth.
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Love that remains
It's the pictures from a family cum dear friend (a.k.a. darling) that gave me the idea of writing this post.
The title goes like this: photoshooting weekend - 7th July 2011, and the album consists only a few random shots, taken using handphone in the car.
Driver is the groom-to-be, bride-to-be is sitting next to him. Parents of bride-to-be as well as the photographer at the back seat.
Obviously it is a trip for the wedding portraiture shooting.
And yes, parents are tagging along.
I bet some will give me the look of "What? What is the point parents following?" while others might probably say "how sweet the parents care so much to the little detail of their baby's wedding".
Ever since my dad's passed on, we siblings have been taking our mom together to almost everywhere we go. Well not that we did not do so when our dad's still around, but he wasn't keen in going out with us (at least not too often) and so mom will always accompany him. Thus the most we could do was to have family meal together as often as possible. That's the only time dad's keen (everybody eats).
The idea of "accompanying" comes from the concern of "spending time together". We do not want to let mom feeling alone or left behind, which will eventually make her misses dad even more; but most importantly is we want to have the chance to really appreciate the time we can spend together.
What's the point of having time spent together? Those are the moments that will become the most precious afterwards.
No matter what we are doing for as long as we do it together.
That is the best thing that nurtures the love, and eventually the memory, both share.
The title goes like this: photoshooting weekend - 7th July 2011, and the album consists only a few random shots, taken using handphone in the car.
Driver is the groom-to-be, bride-to-be is sitting next to him. Parents of bride-to-be as well as the photographer at the back seat.
Obviously it is a trip for the wedding portraiture shooting.
And yes, parents are tagging along.
I bet some will give me the look of "What? What is the point parents following?" while others might probably say "how sweet the parents care so much to the little detail of their baby's wedding".
Ever since my dad's passed on, we siblings have been taking our mom together to almost everywhere we go. Well not that we did not do so when our dad's still around, but he wasn't keen in going out with us (at least not too often) and so mom will always accompany him. Thus the most we could do was to have family meal together as often as possible. That's the only time dad's keen (everybody eats).
The idea of "accompanying" comes from the concern of "spending time together". We do not want to let mom feeling alone or left behind, which will eventually make her misses dad even more; but most importantly is we want to have the chance to really appreciate the time we can spend together.
What's the point of having time spent together? Those are the moments that will become the most precious afterwards.
No matter what we are doing for as long as we do it together.
That is the best thing that nurtures the love, and eventually the memory, both share.
(inspired by: Photoshooting weekend - 7th July 2011 by Joanna Lim)
Friday, March 04, 2011
LOVE is a Constant Working On It Thing
One of my best friends' best friend (we are friends but aren't besties just yet) went to Maldives for her honeymoon and she captured a lot of wonderful pictures.
There is one particular picture than she tagged me in, in which she claimed it to be a "reminder" for my husband to bring me there (*which I thank her so much for that). The other reason that she did that tagging was probably the light-writing thing was something we had them doing when taking the pre-wedding photos. But because the result wasn't really satisfying so we ended up did not use in compiling the album.
And so she did, write that word again and capture the picture for us to see.
Although the outcome did not turn out perfect but it triggered something very valuable:
Darren (the husband): practice make perfect. Thanks to our wedding photo shooting lesson.
Venn (the wife): after so many times, I still cannot get it nice....dumb.
Joie (my husband): Keep on practicing. Just like LOVE, need to constantly work together on it.
There is one particular picture than she tagged me in, in which she claimed it to be a "reminder" for my husband to bring me there (*which I thank her so much for that). The other reason that she did that tagging was probably the light-writing thing was something we had them doing when taking the pre-wedding photos. But because the result wasn't really satisfying so we ended up did not use in compiling the album.
And so she did, write that word again and capture the picture for us to see.
Although the outcome did not turn out perfect but it triggered something very valuable:
Darren (the husband): practice make perfect. Thanks to our wedding photo shooting lesson.
Venn (the wife): after so many times, I still cannot get it nice....dumb.
Joie (my husband): Keep on practicing. Just like LOVE, need to constantly work together on it.
Friday, May 14, 2010
First Love & Last Love
I just read from a posting on my friend's Facebook wall, which says "Our first love and last love is self love".
Her comment about this statement is "self love?"
I asked her, "Why? You doubt?"
I came across another statement quite some time ago whereby a very good friend said, "One who wishes to love others must love him/herself first. You just can't give away all the love without doing that to yourself."
Another friend of mine once said, "if you ask a little girl 'who's prettier, you or me?' she'll mostly end up patting her own chest saying 'I am' and that sort of honesty comes from the untaught self love".
So what's the love that we see in ourselves?
There is a silver lining between self love and selfish. But having the capability to love ourselves is a nature that we have without being taught. We somehow grow up learning how to share this love with people around us and sometimes we end up giving too much to others than ourselves because of our desire to receive attention in return. But most importantly is this love is something we always carry in us help making who we become.
So by understanding that love is something we appreciate as a gift not only to people but also to ourselves, we found that beauty in each and every person that is vital to create loving life - everyone is loved.
It may sound a little abstract but the simplest and direct way of saying self love is: are you seeing yourself in others? Do you see others in you too?
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