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Name: Arlyne
Country: Malaysia
Metro: Kuching
Birthday: 3/2/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: God the Father, Jesus the Saviour, sleeping, music, watching TV, reading, shopping, quality chocolate, doing absolutely nothing, cute soft toys, money, pretty ornaments and admiring God's beautiful creation of HOT men.. =)
Expertise: Professional Sleeper aka. Bum, Professional Couch Potato and Eye-candy Gourmet.
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Member Since:
10/26/2004
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| Halfway through the year 2009
And I haven't had one exceptionally good day this entire year.
Just when life appears to be improving a little, it throws you another curve ball. *Sigh*
Most stressful and faith challenging year so far!
Am I not good enough?
It always seems so. 
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| Help needed.
I guess the perk of rarely updating one's blog and the diminishing number of readers (although I don't exactly get much traffic to begin with) is that I can whine and rant on the occasional day I feel like it without having people to actually read it. Ranting entries are more for therapeutic purposes rather than for others to read. Hehe! 
This coming Wednesday, I'm scheduled to fly off to the exotic island of Bali for a 6 days 5 nights holiday with my old school friend, Judith and her university mates.
Part of me is excited for the trip. I mean, it's Bali! Hello? Beautiful beaches and places and people?
The other part of me is feeling pretty low since I'm having some shortage of finances for the trip. The company where I'm currently undergoing industrial training has not given me my allowance for last month and my parents are experiencing some shortages as well since it's towards the end of the month. I supposed I could choose not to go, but Judith would kill me since she wanted me to accompany her in the first place since her friends are a couple. Moreover, it would pain me to not go since the plane ticket was extremely cheap for an international flight!
How now brown cow?
How to raise a few hundred bucks in a couple of days without resorting to illegal means? 
Alright.
Father in Heaven, please help!!!
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| I am, you are, we are beautiful.
So I've been thinking, how often do we look at someone with envy - wishing that we were as beautiful or as well off or as popular or as smart, if not more? While we place the person who's trait we aspire to possess on a pedestal, we overlook our own gifts or talents. Our own set of traits that make us unique and our very own truckload of blessings. So maybe one of the more desired and outstanding ones are not part of our cargo, but that's diversity! Uniqueness in diversity. Makes the world more colourful, beautiful and interesting. Now, if only every other human being could embrace diversity and appreciate its uniqueness, racism or racial tension might not exist in society. Neither would there be genocide for the sake of the so-called ethnic cleansing, I reckon. But being selfish creatures who only commune with people who are alike (am guilty of this too sometimes) physically and mentally, we regard dissimilar people with contempt. Because we are different, therefore, I hate you. So I have digressed.
Maybe, there are people who envy us for what we have as we envy others for what they have. I guess it all bores down to appreciating who we are and what we have. I may not be as good looking or smart or well off as the next person, but I do have a family who loves me and friends who will be there for me through thick and thin, am physically able, lives in a country with a constant supply of clean water, attended among the best schools in my home state and am currently attending the best university in the nation, is not too hopeless musically, know a God who only wants the best for me etc. etc. i.e. some of the things that I'm thankful for.
Also, not everything that sparkles are genuine diamonds. Take celebrities for example. It's nothing new to read about suicides, abuse and addiction on our favourite gossip column/blog/magazine (whichever source you're inclined to). While they seem to be drop dead gorgeous (subjective views, but being rich can make you physically more appealing like Zac Efron with his dental cosmetic surgery) entities at the top of the world, inside they may feel empty and lost - pressured by the world to maintain the pretense of a perfect life admired by all. Sometimes I sympatise with them.
I supposed the next time we feel jealousy and envy creeping into our very soul, instead of succumbing to its potentially deadly clutches, lets take some time off and reminisce on all the wonderful things we already have.
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| Hungry
Hungry I come to You
For I know You satisfy
I am empty but I know
Your love does not run dry
So I wait for You
So I wait for You
I'm falling on my knees
Offering all my needs
Jesus You're all
This heart is living for
Broken I run to You
For Your arms are open wide
I am weary but I know Your touch
Restores my life
So I wait for You
So I wait for You
I'm falling on my knees
Offering all my needs
Jesus You're all
This heart is living for
- Kathryn Scott
There are times when I feel hungry, empty, broken and weary.. And even though I KNOW that You CAN restore me with new hope and strength, I do not wholly seek nor subject myself to You. I disapprove of my own fragmentary will! So I pray for a renewed heart and mind and passion - to live for you and not just for myself.
I dislike feeling disconnected. I need You.
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| Freedom!
"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance." - Article 18, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Malaysia..?
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