Immerse in Play

Bee is just like a kid sometimes..or rather most of the time.
Sometimes it's only being a kid..that you could feel bliss and joy for the moment.
Wasn't the most happy just moments before these photos were taken..
thinking, worrying too much of the future.
But just a few moments later..while immersed in play..climbing the slope, catching the beautiful sight of the sunset.. I've forgotten about worries and just being a bee playing n the field..

Random rambling

To come with nothing is to be.

To leave with nothing is to be.

Every heart has a compass..

A compass named Faith.

And on, shall it leads.

Joy, shall it brings.

With nothing but its friend

named Courage 

To dive into a sea

of unknown

and waves of challenges.

Spirit - Brothers under the sun

Brothers under the sun - Bryan Adams

I had a dream - of the wide open prairie
I had a dream - of the pale morning sky
I had a dream - that we flew on golden wings
And we were the same - just the same - you and I
Follow your heart - little child of the west wind
Follow the voice - that's calling you home
Follow your dreams - but always, remember me
I am your brother - under the sun

We are like birds of a feather
We are two hearts joined together
We will be forever as one
My brother under the sun

Wherever you hear - the wind in the canyon
Wherever you see - the buffalo run
Wherever you go - I'll be there beside you
Cos you are my brother - my brother under the sun

This song came on my playlist and I just can't wait to share it here!

I told Bird I wish he's flying with me in the dream..he told me he is.

And here's a song that illustrate that beautifully:)

Amazingly, I just realise the video for this song is actually the movie; Spirit! Stallion of the Cimerron.

Stallion, Sun, Wide open prairie, birds of a feather, two hearts join together, 

follow the heart, follow the heart...

Isn't this what I thought the dream is all about. Follow my heart:)

Lapland

Aurora Borealis in Finnish Lapland 2011 from Flatlight Films on Vimeo.

Guess what I wonder what is this affinity with the aurora borealis telling me.. I chanced upon this..its beautiful!!!!! time lapse of aurora lights! jeez they are like dancing lights literally! 

and I watched it on full screen on my mac and tata!! it ends with "Visit finland right at my face" hahaha maybe I should read up about finland..is this the blue part of the map that I'm supposed to go haha..

Strangely..beginning of this year..that is one of my dream; to visit Sweden.

But along the way where I bumped into so many ups and downs..it just slip out of my mind..

And here's something greater out there leading me back to it..

I believe so:) and have good feeling about it!

And here I found a sun during midnight in summer time at lapland! 

Small things of a day:)

Bee is highly energized at wee hour lately! And have been waking up as a "zombee" for the past few days! But...seriously sometimes you just gotta do whatever you feel like at the point where you feel the hype and vibe most (like right now! I just want to get connected here)

And suddenly thought maybe I should do a recount of today (since small things counts sometimes):

• Played with a new app to layout poster in my iphone honey
• Caught a glimpse of many birds flying, hovering near the rooftop of my office building
• Found a few interesting blogs of which some I have included in the side bars here.
• Read some articles from Simplenomics
• Found an interesting video that reminds me of my dream
• Posted thoughts about it and feeling the synchronicity
• Find out and sort out information regarding the difference between maple and rosewood. (New know-how gained!)
• Finished a packaging designed.
• Conceptualized the next revamped packaging
• Found an interesting site on illustrations and inspirations!
• Had sushi! (no space for cakes though)
• Got a book titled "Too many bosses, too few leaders" (kind of eager to read it since it sounds relevant!) 
• Read an article about sales http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=151297
• and here I'm feeling snoozy!!!
• Good night, finally Bee is crawling on bed!

Good finds grom Bernstein & Andriulli

Facets of my dream

Mountain Surfing from Tom Mottner on Vimeo.

http://matadornetwork.com/tv/the-most-mesmerizing-3-minutes-online/

This is beautiful!! and strangely..it kind of feels like or looks like how I'm "gliding" in the dream I mentioned in previous post! I never thought I could actually at least share a glimpse of my dream via such an outlet.

http://www.facebook.com/davebroshaphotography?sk=wall
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brosha/5490572383/in/pool-1547555@N20/
Feeling that synchronicity from the mountain surfing video..reminds me of another thing that I have found last night while trying to find a word for a site that I'm working on..
I googled on "soul observatory" and somehow I was led to this above flickr page which link to this picture of aurora..the northern lights.
Amazed. Amused. And somehow still curious...
I would like to fly.
I would love to lying in a wide field looking up into the lights...

"Garfield, the plushy lazy cat"

Come across a folder titled "Garfield" and thought I should just dedicate this sleepy post of mine to "Garfield, the plushy lazy cat"

^_^

Today

“What day is it?"

It's today," squeaked Piglet.

My favorite day," said Pooh.”

~ A.A. Milne

To promise is to have faith

I love this so much! Especially that self content, full of commitment look on Pooh's face with a big wide grin and chest out posture saying "I promise" 

When I see this picture, a random thought come to my mind. The one whom I'm gonna share my life with shall be the one who can say "I promise" to me in such light hearted yet sincere way with such a blissful smile on the face. 

It's so hard to have someone who could do this so simply well. 

I'm never a person who believe in promise..and has always forbid myself from using the word.

But do I have to be so hard on myself?

Sometimes making a promise to others is a commitment to yourself. This is what I have learn through my experience of not giving promise. By not giving promise, I give reasons which sometimes turns out to be excuses. I excused myself for not attending friend's wedding..because I didn't promise to go in the first place. I excused myself from meeting up with friends because I didn't promise. I excused myself from committing to myself, my dream, my goal because I didn't promise myself that I can achieve all that. To promise is to have faith. Simple. To have faith is to have hope. To have commitment is the first key to achieving any goal in life. This is what I learn when I begin to promise.

Maybe instead of not giving someone a promise, why not give yourself a promise.

I'm awed by my dreams!!

Woke up from a sleepy slumber..

feeling my body muscles all tensed up and aching.

Suddenly I remember parts and parcels of my quirky, deep dream..

So these are some facets of my dreams:

1. Lots of desserts! Cakes everywhere and seemingly in a new work place..huge space!

an office and somehow in a corner of it..there is a fridge left with one slice of chocolate cake.. 

I went near it and realise there is a cake dispensing machine..*blink blink* with all kinds of cakes..apple crumble included!!! and there is someone savoring the cake beside the machine..who kind of makes me feel warm..and there are many fruit tarts!!! strawberries with mango, apple...they are huge tall tarts with delicious looking butter crust! They look as if it will have buttery crumbs falling when I take my bite! aww!!!! I remember so much about the giant tarts that I don't quite remember the rest of the experience in the place. Maybe I have met a lady..artistic lady..who I seems to get around with..and who seems warm to me, showing me the way around long corridors and whom perhaps I got in a car with.. 

**The point is I have a good feeling about where I'm and who I'm with.. as if I have finally reach somewhere where I long to go. Is this a sign for something good happening? or a sign to pour my heart into being artistic and trust my intuition to follow my heart and do what I love! to do art?

2. Here's the next part of my dream.. but I only remember really facets of it..

I'm in somewhere spacious..high up in the mountains..in the nature maybe.. in some sort of a valley. The air is great! The sky is blue! The greenery is brilliant! Everything is beautiful! I look down from a mountain or a hill, absorbing the beautiful scenery of the green valley before my eyes, feeling new and afresh! There are small streams of water flowing peacefully through the valley, sparkling as the sun shines on it, with lush greenery growing along the streams that leads to a large lake or river where it is so wide that it seems to reach the horizon. At this point, I'm no longer on the mountain it seems. I'm gliding down the valley, across the lush green, almost touching the clear sparkling water beneath my feet. I seems to be diving down fast, cutting through the air and wind..but somehow I feel so secure..like as if I'm a natural flyer like a bird perhaps..and I'm being held by the wind. 

There is nothing to fear..and though diving down fast.. The speed is so fast that it actually reaches a standstill and I could see everything so clearly, so closeup. Saw gigantic flower floating on the crystal clear water, opening so magically..so miraculously, so gently and in tune with the universe..*I'm not sure what flower it is, looks like a lotus, but bigger, thicker. I lift myself in an angle..looking at the sight of the opening flower with disbelief, but with so much joy and light. I'm gliding among the lush greenery..that is so soft..so gentle...the long leaves of the green feels more like soft cotton or feathers caressing my skin so kindly. I feel like I'm in an endless flight, gliding across the sky up and down..breathing in all these miracle art of the universe..and somehow..a voice whispers..asking me to dive deeper in...

I'm not sure what it means..but I just follow..The whole scene seems to be vertical now and I'm still diving in...with no fear at all somehow..just curiosity. What will I be seeing.. Where does this lead..

And to my surprise.. as I dive in deeper, a peak of a tall narrow mountain appears before my eyes. I'm amazed and at the back of my mind..I'm asking how can it be..what happen..where am I.. I thought I came down from a mountain, dive deep into the depth of the valley.. I should have been touching ground somehow..but no..I'm not.. I seems to be flying maybe along a wide curve..like as if along the earth, the globe..which leads me to find another peak of an mountain standing so dignified among the green. And suddenly..I have a zoomed out view of the whole scenery, someone told me if I want to find the lights (in this case it seems I'm in search of the aurora)..I should just keep going till I reach the tip of the blue..the sky. And it seems now I'm being shown a map with mountains and valley like where I have just been gliding..and pointed to me the top part of the map high beyond the peak of the mountain..is the large portion of blue..the sky..where I will find the light.

Wow!! aww!! I'm not sure if I left out any part of the dream..but this is enough to awe me!! I'm so swept away and feeling so amazed as I'm recalling and writing it down here. It's been a journey man! I don't remember I have such dreams before.. not flying! But here I'm! I'm flying! And being shown directions?!? Can this be a sign too of telling me something?? 

*Think Think Think* I'm in the winnie the pooh thinking mode again. 

I haven't feel anything like this since beginning of the year just before I got together with Bird..where the reflection of water clear my thoughts..and blinking swallow smiling at me..

and now I'm flying?!

To think of it..have I just entered a sort of paradise?! 

Paradise is no where but on earth! So where do we find them? 

All of us have the power to find paradise when we follow our heart.

*Did a quick search on Aurora..and this is what I got..
"In ancient Roman mythology, Aurora is the goddess of the dawn, renewing herself every morning to fly across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun"
^_^

Swing swing swing in the breeze

 Swing swing swing in the breeze among the leaves

http://www.sofawned.com/2011/09/id-like-to-have-treetop-wine-party-too.html

Found this on sofawned..art by Schalle

Not exactly a perfect day today..with all flu-sick feeling and thoughts about future 

but this makes me smile and perhaps brings me closer to home than anyone would have known. 

all I need is simple; a little cozy bubble with greens and orange warmth with love, harmony and full of smiles from all loved ones..that's how life should be isn't it.

suddenly..I'm wondering...if I'm gonna leave home and be a nomad...

*getting drowsy from the flu tablet..wish bird could be holding bee to sleep..let bee have a worry-less sleep and a beautiful dream

Live as if its my last

Live as if it's my last on earth.. The way of beenine..if time is relative..
 I want to maximize time to live its fullest. There is no time for fear n sorrow if this is my last on earth. There may be time of despair..but leave it to the time. N move on.. Don't blame on fate.. Have faith in the god in me. Listen to the song of merry as I live the joyous voice of me

I saw an angel so tiny so gentle right as I look away from my typing.. In the form of an angel tattoo, it smiles like how the swallow first blink at me with a smirk on its face.

No one is gonna determine how we live except ourselves. Each of us has a compass in our heart..and god in our soul.

Found this lying in my mailbox and remember bee wrote this some time ago and was supposed to get it here.. hehe so here it is..

Bee still feeling breathless from the stuffy nose >_<

Dream somewhere out there

 Reading in the sun room! Dream Dream Dream

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/inspiration/daybeds-in-sunrooms-156426

This looks so comfy!! I can stay home all day curled up on the cotton in a cool weather:)

Love chances

How many times we gone all ways to look for the one true love

How many chances have we got to meet the one

Over the roof and the field, we flew paper planes across the sky

Through the clouds and the trees, among the birds and the bees,

We laugh and have fun just being us 

back to those simpler days 

where we were just kids 

and love is simply two souls connected as one

How many times we have probably look at one another 

then deny the voice in our hearts

How many times we have spoken the heart of one another

then just look at each other and smile

Over the hills and the trees, we waited patiently in the cold air of dawn

for the first light to rise to the dance in our hearts

Did I tell you I was trying so hard to hide the warmth and joy that touched my soul

Did I tell you..

I wish we could stay up on the hill longer, even forever

this is a moment when I recognize

you are the one

- Bee for Bird

(inspired by House at Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins)

Quotes of Love

"You deserve to be happy" - Bird made this for me. This is a magical statement.
Too many a time, when we just forget about what we deserve but we just keep working hard to make sure we get what we want. And many times those things that we want arent really enough to make us happy. Instead a statement like this from a loved one..brings back the warmth and love to fill the void in us that we been busy filling with wants.
So I deserve to be happy.
I deserve to say what I feel like and express myself freely because I'm.
I deserve to have a goal in mind and it's alright.
whatever makes me happy isn't it..
I just have to be happy with myself.

This inspires something...What or how I see myself:
ambitious, competitive, insecure, impatience, brainless sometimes, loving, soft heart with a cold front, restless....systematic, innovative at times (usu at the very last min), spontaneous, very random..small gut with bold act (when given no choice), sensitive, expressive, listener, loud, sincere & genuine (to whom I'm close and trust)..... Didn't quite know why I wrote these but just thought maybe its time to just express myself freely..so I could rid the headache that's been bugging me for days.
I'm all I'm..I'm all of the above and perhaps many more and I love myself. For I'm a unique combination of polar extremes, I'm the beautiful blend of yin and yang. I'm one. I'm love. I'm the sun. I'm the moon. I'm the stars. I'm the bird.

COokie Rolls & LoVe

yeah!! I got a lovely surprise of full range of flavours for my childhood favourite!
from Bird! So touched that Bird gave me a surprise with pears and cookie rolls..
especially when I thought we wont be meeting today. (Though secretly I was wishing Bird could appear beside me while I slept my day away..hehe woman being woman tends to be in a bubble sometimes..the feeling of being safe, loved and cared..nothing can replaced that)
This brings a thought to my mind..
I'm what I'm..I don't have to be strong because I have to.
I need to feel secure, loved, cared..and its alright because its not something like the stars that I'm asking for. So I'm not asking for too much. Sometimes I tend to bash myself up for desiring to be loved or cared. Simply because I drew a line that I shouldnt be so dependent on people.
But Bird makes me realise that I'm just a simple woman who long to be cared for too. And it's priceless. It's the simple things that makes me smile:)
Thank you Birdie.

House at Pooh corner

Found this song "House at Pooh corner" by Kenny Loggins, who is the same artiste who sing "For the first time" a memorable song for the bee and birds. Lovely lyrics:) Bring me back to kiddoland with pots of honey and a cuddly yellow bear to hug!

Beeing sunday

Cut out from tea packaging

Tea that Bird has been feeding me every morning:)

Bee is sick! Rare thing to happen but it did. I never really acknowledge a flu as really sick because I could still bounce around like Tigger. But this time..the flu bug is sending me off my beeland..been feeling the chills and heat and nose running and eyes tearing..
Bee don't like to be sick! Tried to sleep but bee don't really like naps in afternoon. It gives headache. So bee wake up and beeeez around my room and did some tidy up of my desk and find space to display the bottles I collected. Waiting for night to close my eyes and sleep.
So what have I done today:
send out the files to brother bear
finished watching Winnie the pooh show
tidy up my desk and found a place to house my bottles
decorate the magic potion glass Bird got from the raindrop cafe
read about winnie the pooh
found a song "House at the pooh corner" by Kenny Loggins
and here I'm beeeeing away bouncing on my keyboard

*Craving for this"

^_^

Magic Potion glassland

Really high content Beer Bird bottoms up

Picking weeds to brew beer? hehe

Magic Potion glass turned into magic grassland;p

Little Bird house I got from Japan last year finally found its place..and "love seeds" Bird picked at east coast park:) I'm gonna bring back the little yellow dried flowers from office to add to the family. hehe

Bird and Bee

http://pinterest.com/lynl/

Bird would love this!! And yea! I guess Bee does understand Bird's silence..

Bee learning to keep quiet when Bird need to hibernate and be absorbed in golden silence.

and perhaps bird could give bee apple crumble cookie to stuff bee's mouth like the pic below to shut bee from its hyperness! hehe

http://pinterest.com/justlittlefaith/

This is so so so CUTE!!!! jeez!! make my day:D 

Wish

Utrecht, The Netherlands. Perfection. http://pinterest.com/pin/203513231/

Aww!!! This is such a beauty!! I wish I wish I wish someday we will be able to have a picture of us in such a beautiful sight and breathing in all.  

Taking a peek into pinterest while trying to saving my working files.

Please please let bee save! already had an hour of work gone in one min while saving!

Tree house!!!

Row row row a boat

Coffee

Randomness

I love elmo and cookie! they are just so adorable!

Aww cookie!! and cookies!!!many many cookies:D

this kitty definitely not her usual self..she's just so quiet sitting here watching the world passes by

absorbing the world in..or away from it all..lovely soul

Pooh Pooh

Love Cookie pic Bird sent me while away from work

Met Bird's friend, a really nice lady and here's her pal, Dunken

Do nothing..do nothing:)

This melts my heart and bring some tears..

Be thankful always

A promise:)

In my heart...

I love tigger!! Cheery bouncy!

Like Bird and Bee..we dream

aww.. I can so relate to this.."nothing"

L.O.V.E