Kampung-Gal’s Journey

He met her on a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was
surprised, but due to being polite, she promised. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, she thought, please, let me go home…. suddenly he asked the waiter.
"Would you please give me some salt? I’d like to put it in my coffee."

Everybody stared at him, so strange!
His face turned red, but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously; why you have this hobby? He replied: "when I was a little boy, I was living near the sea, I like playing in
the sea, I could feel the taste of the sea, just like the taste
of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I always think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who are still living there".

While saying that tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched.
That’s his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart.
A man who can tell out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home. Then she also started to speak, spoke about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story.

They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who meets all her demands; he had tolerance, was kind hearted, warm, careful. He was such a good person but she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee!

Then the story was just like every beautiful love story , the princess married to the prince, then they were living the happy life… And,
every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that’s the way he liked it.

After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said: "My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie. This was the only lie I said to you—the salty coffee. Remember the first time we
dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt It was hard for me to change so I just went ahead.I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything..
Now I’m dying, I afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth: I don’t like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste.. But I have had the salty
coffee for my whole life! Since I knew you, I never feel sorry for
anything I do for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life.
If I can live for the second time, still want to know you and have you
for my whole life,even though I have to drink the salty coffee again".

Her tears made the letter totally wet.Someday, someone asked her: what’s the taste of salty coffee?
It’s sweet. She replied.

Love is not 2 forget but 2 forgive,
not 2 c but 2 understand,

not 2 hear but 2 listen,
not 2 let go but
2 HOLD ON !!!!

Don’t ever leave the one you love for
the one you
like, because the one you like will
leave you for the
one they love. Tonight your true love
will realize how
much they love you between 1 and 4 in
the morning.
Tomorrow the shock of your life will
occur. If you
break the chain you will have bad luck
for 10 yrs if
you don’t pass this on to 15 people in
15 mins
including the one from whom you got
this..

Effective immediately, please be aware that there are
changes you need to make in your life. These changes
need to be completed in order that I may fulfill my
promises to you to grant you peace, joy and happiness
in this life. I apologize for any inconvenience, but
after all that I am doing, this seems very little to
ask of you. Please, follow these 10 guidelines

1. Quit worrying:
Life has dealt you a blow and all you do is sit and
worry. Have you forgotten that I am here to take all
your burdens and carry them for you? Or do you just
enjoy fretting Over every little thing that comes your
way?

2. Put it on the list:
Something needs done or taken care of. Put it on the
list. No, not your list. Put it on my to-do-list. Let
me be the one to take care of the problem. I can’t
help you until you turn it over to me. And although my
to-do-list is long, I am after all… God. I can take
care of anything you put into my hands. In fact, if
the truth were ever really known, I take care of a lot
of things for you that you never even realize.

3. Trust me:
Once you’ve given your burdens to me, quit trying to
take them back. Trust in me. Have the faith that I
will take care of all your needs, your problems and
your trials. Problems with the kids? Put them on my
list. Problem with finances? Put it on my list.
Problems with your emotional roller coaster? For my
sake, put it on my list. I want to help you. All you
have to do is ask.

4. Leave it alone:
Don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘well, I’m feeling
much stronger now, I think I can handle it from here.’
why do you think you are feeling stronger now? It’s
simple. You gave me your burdens and I’m taking care
of them. I also renew your strength and cover you in
my peace. Don’t you know that if I give you these
problems back, you will be right back where you
started? Leave them with me and forget about them.
Just let me do my job.

5. Talk to me:
I want you to forget a lot of things. Forget what was
making you crazy. Forget the worry and the fretting
because you know I’m in control. But there’s one thing
I pray you never forget. Please, don’t forget to talk
to me - often! I love you! I want to hear your voice.
I want you to include me in on the things going on in
your life. I want to hear you talk about your friends
and family. Prayer is simply you having a conversation
with me. I want to be your dearest friend.

6. Have faith:
I see a lot of things from up here that you can’t see
from where you are. Have faith in me that I know what
I’m doing. Trust me; you wouldn’t want the view from
my eyes. I will continue to care for you, watch over
you, and meet your needs. You only have to trust me.
Although I have a much h bigger task than you, it
seems as if you have so much trouble just doing your
simple part. How hard can trust be?

7. Share:
You were taught to share when you were only two years
old. When did you forget? That rule still applies.
Share with those who are less fortunate than you.
Share your joy with those who need encouragement.
Share your laughter with those who haven’t heard any
in such a long time. Share your tears with those who
have forgotten how to cry. Share your faith with those
who have none.

8. Be patient:
I managed to fix it so in just one lifetime you could
have so many diverse experiences. You grow from a
child to an adult, have children, change jobs many
times, learn many trades, travel to so many places,
meet thousands of people, and experience so much. How
can you be so impatient then when it takes me a little
longer than you expect to handle something on my
to-do-list? Trust in my timing, for my timing is
perfect. Just because I created the entire universe in
only six days, everyone thinks I should always rush,
rush, and rush.

9. Be kind:
Be kind to others, for I love them just as much as I
love you. They may not dress like you, or talk like
you, or live the same way you do, but I still love you
all. Please try to get along, for my sake. I created
each of you different in some way. It would be too
boring if you were all identical. Please, know I love
each of your differences.

10. Love yourself:
As much as I love you, how can you not love yourself?
You were created by me for one reason only — to be
loved, and to love in return. I am a god of love. Love
me. Love your neighbors. But also love yourself. It
makes my heart ache when I see you so angry with
yourself when things go wrong. You are very precious
to me. Don’t ever forget that.

~ End of EducatiOn is Character~

One day, the father of a very wealthy
family took his son on a trip to the
country with the express purpose of
showing him how poor people live.

They spent a couple of days and nights
on the farm of what would be considered
a very poor family.

On their return from their trip, the
father asked his son, "How was the
trip?"

"It was great, Dad."

"Did you see how poor people live?" the
father asked.

"Oh yeah," said the son.

"So, tell me, what did you learn from
the trip?" asked the father.

The son answered:

"I saw that we have one dog and they
had
four.

We have a pool that reaches to the
middle of our garden and they have a
creek that has no end.

We have imported lanterns in our garden
and they have the stars at night.

Our patio reaches to the front yard and
they have the whole horizon.

We have a small piece of land to live
on
and they have fields that go beyond our
sight.

We have servants who serve us, but they
serve others.

We buy our food, but they grow theirs.

We have walls around our property to
protect us, they have friends to
protect
them."

The boy’s father was speechless.

Then his son added, "Thanks Dad for
showing me how poor we are."

Isn’t perspective a wonderful thing?
Makes you wonder what would happen if
we
all gave thanks for everything we have,
instead of worrying about what we don’t
have.

Appreciate every single thing you have,
especially your friends!

"Life is too short and friends are too
few."

***This material was ‘abducted’ from a fren’s ABOUT ME section in Friendster profile.
TQ Renu ***

I feared being alone
until I learned to like
myself.

I feared failure
until I realized that I only
fail when I don’t try.

I feared success
until I realized
that I had to try
in order to be happy
with myself.

I feared people’s opinions
until I learned that
people would have opinions
about me anyway.

I feared rejection
until I learned to
have faith in myself.

I feared pain
until I learned that
it’s necessary
for growth.

I feared the truth
until I saw the
ugliness in lies.

I feared life
until I experienced
its beauty.

I feared death
until I realized that it’s
not an end, but a beginning.

I feared my destiny,
until I realized that
I had the power to change
my life.

I feared hate
until I saw that it
was nothing more than
ignorance.

I feared love
until it touched my heart,
making the darkness fade
into endless sunny days.

I feared ridicule
until I learned how
to laugh at myself.

I feared growing old
until I realized that
I gained wisdom every day.

I feared the future
until I realized that
life just kept getting
better.

I feared the past
until I realized that
it could no longer hurt me.

I feared the dark
until I saw the beauty
of the starlight.

I feared the light
until I learned that the
truth would give me
strength.

I feared change,
until I saw that
even the most beautiful butterfly
had to undergo a metamorphosis
before it could fly.

Worth reading….

This was a speech made by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anna Quindlen
at the graduation ceremony of an American university where she was
awarded an Honorary PhD. Worth reading !!

"I’m a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don’t
Ever confuse the two, your life and your work. You will walk out of here
this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be
hundreds of people out there with your same degree: there will be
thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will
be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your
particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your
life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer. Not just the life of
your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank accounts but
also your soul.

People don’t talk about the soul very much anymore. It’s so much easier
to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is cold comfort
on a winter’s night, or when you’re sad, or broke, or lonely, or when
you’ve received your test results and they’re not so good.

Here is my resume: I am a good mother to three children. I have tried
never to let my work stand in the way of being a good parent. I no
longer consider myself the centre of the universe. I show up. I listen.
I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make
marriage vows mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends and
they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today,
because I would be a cardboard cut out. But I call them on the phone,
and I meet them for lunch. I would be rotten, at best mediocre at my job
if those other things were not true.

You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you
are. So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life,
not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger pay cheque, the
larger house. Do you think you’d care so very much about those things if
you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast?

Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on
a breeze at the seaside, a life in which you stop and watch how a
red-tailed hawk circles over the water, or the way a baby scowls with
concentration when she tries to pick up a sweet with her thumb and first
finger.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who
love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the
phone. Send an email. Write a letter. Get a life in which you are
generous. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you
have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its
goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money you would have
spent on beer and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big
brother or sister.. All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good
too, then doing well will never be enough.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.
It is so easy to take for granted the color of our kids’ eyes, the way
the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again.
It is so easy to exist instead of to live.

I learned to live many years ago. I learned to love the journey, not the
destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today
is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the
world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it,
completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling
others what I had learned. By telling them this: Consider the lilies of
the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby’s ear. Read in the back yard with
the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal
illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it
ought to be lived".

Worth reading….

This was a speech made by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anna Quindlen
at the graduation ceremony of an American university where she was
awarded an Honorary PhD. Worth reading !!

"I’m a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don’t
Ever confuse the two, your life and your work. You will walk out of here
this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be
hundreds of people out there with your same degree: there will be
thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will
be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your
particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your
life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer. Not just the life of
your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank accounts but
also your soul.

People don’t talk about the soul very much anymore. It’s so much easier
to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is cold comfort
on a winter’s night, or when you’re sad, or broke, or lonely, or when
you’ve received your test results and they’re not so good.

Here is my resume: I am a good mother to three children. I have tried
never to let my work stand in the way of being a good parent. I no
longer consider myself the centre of the universe. I show up. I listen.
I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make
marriage vows mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends and
they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today,
because I would be a cardboard cut out. But I call them on the phone,
and I meet them for lunch. I would be rotten, at best mediocre at my job
if those other things were not true.

You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you
are. So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life,
not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger pay cheque, the
larger house. Do you think you’d care so very much about those things if
you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast?

Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on
a breeze at the seaside, a life in which you stop and watch how a
red-tailed hawk circles over the water, or the way a baby scowls with
concentration when she tries to pick up a sweet with her thumb and first
finger.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who
love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the
phone. Send an email. Write a letter. Get a life in which you are
generous. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you
have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its
goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money you would have
spent on beer and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big
brother or sister.. All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good
too, then doing well will never be enough.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.
It is so easy to take for granted the color of our kids’ eyes, the way
the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again.
It is so easy to exist instead of to live.

I learned to live many years ago. I learned to love the journey, not the
destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today
is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the
world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it,
completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling
others what I had learned. By telling them this: Consider the lilies of
the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby’s ear. Read in the back yard with
the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal
illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it
ought to be lived".

      To realize
      The value of a sister
      Ask someone
      Who doesn’t have
one.

      " Follow your Passion & Success will follow you "