Happy Year of the Snake!

Wow it has been quite a while... How is everybody doing?

According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, today, Feb.10, 2013, is the official first day of 2013, Year of the Snake. Snakes, in Chinese symbology,  is considered as intelligent although somewhat unscrupulous.

I am passing on the positive vibes and I wish everybody a very happy and prosperous 2013!! [Let's get the bright side of the snake and behave smart in the days to come! : ]

Fran

Do You Volunteer?

I had an interview with Canadian Red Cross for a volunteer job. The interview went well and to be honest, I felt some kind of emotional connection to what I am going to do, something that I never felt before... I will probably start in two weeks and I am all excited!

Is there any volunteer experience that you want to share?

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mission Accomplished!

Hey!

How is everybody? I disappeared for a few days cramming for my SAP TERP10 exam. I passed the exam this morning. Mission accomplished! 

For those who may want to know more about the SAP software, the certification, and how the certification can help you launch your career as a consultant, below are a few links that I found helpful: 

What is SAP TERP10 about?
How to prepare for the exam?
How to start your career as an SAP consultant? 

And a video showing you how exciting it could be when you pass the exam. Well in my class, I saw some big moves, and we were pretty loud too! 

The course I took was a 10-day lecture course, pretty intense and time consuming I would say. Ah and you will definitely get shocked by the thousand-page course binder.

Have a great week everyone!
Fran

A Quick Post On Mother's Day

Hi everyone!

I believe that we may all have similar things to say to our moms.

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Happy Mother's Day, Mom. I Love You.

Have a good weekend everybody!
Fran

Jobs' Comment On Jobs

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." ---- Steve Jobs

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Have a great week everyone!

Enjoy life.

Fran

Job Hunting EH!

4 Key Success Factors for Success: 

1. Know what you want;

2. Work hard for it;

3. Be flexible and creative; 

4. Integrity, integrity, integrity.

The picture is from a friend, and it made my day. 

Happy holidays to everyone!

Fran

After So Long...

Hi ladies!

How is everyone doing? It's been ages since I last posted, so here are a few updates:

1. I finished my MBA on April 16th. Two years is a long time, ehhh enough for studies!
2. I have decided to extend my stay in Canada for some life and work experience.
3. I love April in Canada. We had snow, rain, sunshine and hail last week, and looking ahead...so yeah life is concise.

I would love to hear from you guys how you are doing, and I guess I finally have some time to update this blog a bit more frequent.

I hope you all have a big sunny day out there. 

Enjoy life!
Fran

Fine line between right and wrong...

10 things that I can do within 20 minutes

Within 20 minutes, I can:
1. draw something;
2. finish a blog post;
3. clean my room;
4. call my family, having a nice and happy talk;
5. take a quick walk to downtown;
6. take a picture;
7. learn a new trick, for instance how to use the financial calculator (it is a tough one though);
8. make some really good chrysanthemum tea;
9. cook instant noodles with boiled eggs, and hopefully eat them all;
10. wait for a single bus and still be patient... Sigh.

Life is short, but 20 minutes could be long.

Catch a falling star...

For my no-Valentine Valentine's Day.

But still,
With lots of love,
Fran

SECRET WORKED AND HOW!

Hey Lo Ladies,

I know I have been away from posting for as long as I can remember.. Apologies for my in activeness..

In one of the post that I have written earlier on this Blog were about The Secret.. click below

http://whattheladiessay.blogspot.com/2009/07/secret.html

I had mentioned all things that I wanted to happen to me through the power of The Secret!

I remember clearly writing about going for a trip to Thailand this year.

And yes, I am just back from Thailand!

I had never travelled abroad. for that matter I didn't even have a passport when I wrote the above mentioned post. But all I did is visualise myself sitting in that International Flight and going far away!

Thailand happened to me just at the right time. Barely a week after my passport arrived. I got a call from my boss asking me about this Story that I had to cover for my channel in Thailand.

Though it was just a 3 days trip. It still made feel so overwhelmed that I cant describe.. There are so many other things that I mentioned in my post ..But I am glad as of now at least one thing came true..

So I going to work harder on the law of attraction.. and will live my dream

So girls.. get your list ready and tell me what you wanna do in your future.. Start nOW!

Sabz

How will you tackle this problem?

A group of people are working on an essay. Each of the three writing members is supposed to write their own parts, put the reference, and submit to the two editing members.

Once they were all done, submitted the report, and met again, the two editing members said triumphantly,

"We found some one of us was committing plagiarism. But fortunately we found out, and we deleted that part that person plagiarized."

All the writing members are totally confused and there is an embarrassing silence in the group.

Later on, the person who "committed plagiarism" found out herself why they said that. She intended to quote the whole paragraph, and put quotation marks at the very beginning, but forgot to put the other half of the quotation marks in the end of the paragraph, although she put the reference there.

She felt so bad, almost burst into tears because she thought the editors should have let her know earlier so that she can review and revise her part… and she might feel not that bad now…

This is a story happened in one of the groups I work with. If you were one of the editors, what would you do if differently?

Tomorrow is gonna be different.

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"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
----Peter Drucker

You can always expect something positive from a counsellor. If you do not give yourself credits for what you have achieved, they will list out those things that you should be proud of. If you are worried to death about something you should not worry about, they will tell you to stop. If you lose track of your priority of your life, they will say it loud and clear- focus on whatever you should...

Things are in our sub consciousness but they just need someone else to bring them out so that they could change our lives.

Tomorrow, no matter good or bad, is going to be different, and I like it either way.

Last but not least, I found this website of Paige Pearson photography. Smile is the most beautiful language in the world.

Good night.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Thanksgiving Delights

By Joanna Fuchs

On Thanksgiving Day we’re thankful for

Our blessings all year through,

For family we dearly love,

For good friends, old and new.

For sun to light and warm our days,

For stars that glow at night,

For trees of green and skies of blue,

And puffy clouds of white.

We’re grateful for our eyes that see

The beauty all around,

For arms to hug, and legs to walk,

And ears to hear each sound.

The list of all we’re grateful for

Would fill a great big book;

Our thankful hearts find new delights

Everywhere we look!

Heading to the end of the semester, I have seen lots of people stressed out due to the unbearable workload and the worries about the job terms, some of which are yet heading anywhere. There is no exception for myself. Times may not always be that enjoyable, but I hope it is not painful and it is worth remembering in some ways. I want to secretly say THANK YOU to all my peers, and all my blog friends from all over the world. You all appear in one of the best years of my life.

Hope

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The Hope of Loving

by Meister Eckhart

What keeps us alive, what allows us to endure?

I think it is the hope of loving,

or being loved.

This is the story of yin and yang getting their wires crossed

Our dear Chinese friends are famous for their without parallel « zen » side and I’m not going to contradict that. After almost 2 months spend in their company (40% of Chinese students in my class), I can only confirm this stereotype.

Among all their wonderful theories of wisdom, my favourite one is probably the one dealing with the concepts of Yin and Yang. The yin symbolises darkness and coldness. The yang is its contrary. It means light and energy.

November: At the moment, we’re entering a cold period (well at least for the UK). I have to say it’s by far the season I loathe the most: my eyes start to cry at the merest sign of wind, my nose gets red (seriously, like as red as the Christmas father’s blazer!) and I feel down and I just want to lay in my bed til the end of this obscure period. Anyway, definitely not flattering and pleasing.

Well that’s no big surprise when you know that according to the Chinese medicine, the winter fits to the yin. However, the good news is that it hasn’t have to be the same on the inside. I mean, aren’t yin and yang supposed to balance each other?

Then, how to find again that right balance we’re talking about? The answer is simple: Add more yang to your life: warm colours, light and activities are the secrets. Incorporate this to your lifestyle, your food, your clothes, your relationships …Etc anything you can have an influence on.

Most of the people, in the winter (including me) tend to wear darker clothes, eat tasteless stuff and stay at home. Well maybe because their self is invaded by the yin. This is time to rock it out and get mixed up!

The Monkey Mind in You

It is crazy how the time is passing by. I feel like I was working on my mid term presentation yesterday and that it's already time for final exams! My mind is like jumping from one topic to another and i'm juggling with hundreds of thoughts and reminders everyday.

This actually just reminded me of a Buddhist concept: the « monkey mind » - I just LOVE all those bizarre theories. Appart from the fact it leads to cool blog post titles, it also is most of the time, very intersting. Therefore I consider it is my duty to advertise them.

To make it short and simple, Buddhist people believes that doing too many things at once is definitely not leading to anything good (yes, even for multi-tasked gifted women). In fact, you are wasting your energy. It's like running all over the place and therefore you can't be as effective as when you're performing only one task.

The monkey mind is the image they found to represent this idea. Your mind is like jumping from one branch to another, like a restless monkey.

That's all well and good but what do you do with your monkey ?

The nice Buddhist monk says: « First things first, inwardly watch your shifting mind for a few moments. Then focus on a specific mental task or topic with full concentration. The monkey will be still – at least for a while. »

A little recipe for happiness

I have a little recipe that isn´t hard to make... But you have to start it as soon as you wake up every morning. Here it goes:

1. Take a great big mixing bowl and fill it with a smile
2. Mix half a cup of sunshine with good deeds to last a while
3. Add a pinch of work and play, a pinch of thoughtfulness and care

But don´t bake it in the oven... just SPREAD IT AROUND EVERYWHERE!

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Power

I am a bad blogger...huge apologies for not checking in lately! I saw this on one of my fav blogs and I just had to pass it along:

Amazing.

xoxo,

Lisa

Get Inspired by Ashley, Again.

Quotes are my favourite. They just say too well what we want to say...

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"This is my wish for you: comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life."

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

"Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering."

All by Ashley Smith.

Wishing you all have a wonderful day.

Fran

A Short Note After A Long Time: Wishing You A Wonderful Day

It has been a long time since my last post. The thing is once you stop, you will have a hard time to resume ... In the past few weeks, once again I closed myself up, burying my head in my work and never looked up and told a thing. I feel sorry.

Life has been pretty fast-paced here. Being far away from home is not that easy, now I learned it very well. But no matter how uncertain I am about my future, I still believe that things will get better. One day, one day I will know which path should I take...

Wishing you all have a wonderful day.

Take care.

Fran