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Yoohoo!! Been blogging more of a late if you've noticed hehe. Them blogging vibes so high this month & I'm gonna update the entire 2014's entires dating back from January (if possible) and events which I've been wanting to post but either forgot about them or it just never happened. 

I guess this space here is like an interactive scrapbook for the future me to look back at & recall of all the happy moments I've created thus far. Also, allowing me to see how much I've grown as an individual and hopefully, my kids will look through them and laugh at their mummy for all the silly stuffs she does when she was younger. And lastly, for them to read their mummy's love story.

So, I really do hope that time permits for me to do all that before 2015 commences. Photos and videos of all the past events & happenings will be up (I really hope).

Okay, back to topic. I've been reading this book titled "Tell My Sons" by Mark M. Weber & only finished the book this morning. Basically, Mark (the author himself) decided to compile his journal entries into a book for his three sons when he finds out that he has cancer & doesn't have long to live. 

His entries date back to when he was growing up till he entered the Army, married his wife, led an army style life because he signed on with them, had kids and then found out about cancer.

I don't think I'm able to give you a summary of this book using my own words because unlike other books, this book didn't give me loads of feels but instead taught me valuable lessons about life & dealing with life. And I don't think I'll find the words to translate all that I've took in into this post because it wouldn't be accurate then. So, I'm gonna copy the summary from the book itself! 

(woah the summary quite long eh)

" At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed a stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the next two years he would fight a desperate battle he wasn't trained for, with his wife and boys as his reluctant but willing fighting force.

When Weber realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without him, they would know what his life- and-death story had taught him - about courage and fear, challenge and comfort, words and actions, pride and humility, seriousness and humor, and viewing life as a never-ending search for new ideas and inspiration.

This book is that letter. And it's not just for his sons. It's for everyone who can use the best advice a dying hero has to offer."

This book was a turning point in my dying passion for reading. Okay maybe not dying but it was time consuming to keep up with this love of mine. I loved reading & couldn't stop reading since I was 6? Didn't know the words? Fine, look at the pictures & created my own story. This must explain why I'm sucha drama mama now HAHAHA.

I recently got back this habit when I found myself finding things to kill time while on my way to work since it was a 30 mins or longer ride. I ordered this book earlier this year but never found myself reading it so one morning, I picked it up from my shelve and started reading it. Page after page, I found myself so caught up with this book & was looking forward to my morning bus rides to finish the chapters.

So, the usual morning bus routines goes like this:

1// Look through Instagram

2// Look through twitter

3// Sometimes go through dayre if I feel like it

4// Read 

Along the way, I found so many valuable insights, quotes & little lessons to get through our everyday life and I badly wanted to jot them down. But it was rather cumbersome to be typing it furiously in my phone while referring to the book. 

Hence I took out these little post-it flaggers (that's what I call them) & paste a strip beside the paragraph which I felt I wanted to keep. I hate to fold dog-ears or highlight my books so tadah!

That above is one of my top three favourite life lessons which I felt was the most apt to my life and me right now. 

I love all of the stuffs I flagged cause they're very wise words & will most def help in life. I struggled with the top three I wanted to share but here they are:

1. "Accept the things I cannot change, change the things that I can, and seek out information and perspective from others (wisdom) so I can tell the difference between the two."

(ermaigawd, I'm flippin' through the entire book & everything that I flagged seems apt lah)

2. "Everyone has things they don't want to do - there's no crime in that. But there's a big difference between 'can't' and ' don't want to' when it comes to facing the path of comfort or the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge.'

(the last is always the toughest when you can't decideee)

3. "The greatest value of a life is to spend it for something that lives after it. That in the end you become what you are through the causes to which you attach yourself and that you've made your own along the way. And that in many ways, it can be a higher ideal in life to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary way."

So there you have it folks, my top three favourites. I know it is rather lengthy & you don't need to digest all three but even reading through one of them might (hopefully) give you a lil kickstart to making your resolutions for 2015 *winks

OH YES! MY NEW BABY FINALLY ARRIVED!!!! CAN'T WAIT TO BRING IT OUT & EXPERIMENT WITH IT WHOOP WHOOP!! 

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