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What is LOVE Saturday

Tann waiting for homecoming…

Love is when you have two choices, one choice will give you everything in the world, fame, riches, everything, the other choice is the woman you love and you know you don’t have to even think. You don’t love her because it is so much fun to spend time with her. You love her because she makes you whole. Why do you give up your sleep, your comfort, your needs or even your blanket and your side of the bed? How can you explain such things?

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (The Message)
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

As the sun sets by a lake

Sunset by Inle Lake, Burma

A man sat by himself, silently in prayer.
“Dear Jesus, you know how much I love her.
You know how wonderful she is. Of course you do. You made her, every cell, every attribute, meticulously made. The problem is I can’t go further.”
    Why not?
“The past hurts, pains and anguish.”
    Then let me have it. When you cannot carry all that, I will carry it for you.
“It has been so long since I’ve loved anyone. I don’t know if I could…”
    Then love her the way I love you. And I will show you how.

2005, the year that was…

As the year draws to an end, it’s only normal to look back and reflect on the year that was. How time flies! 2 thousand and 5 started with a literal bang and I’m not sure how we ended up here so quickly. It’s an amazing year filled with amazing events. As I look back, I really thank God for all the little (and not so little) blessings. I may not have gotten a nice package or the job I wanted. Neither did they give me the raise I asked for. I didn’t manage to deploy WebAperture’s Photo Blog (it’s officially at the 0.1 milestone already though!) by end August, in fact a lot of to-dos got pushed till 2006. Yet, I think about how rich 2005 has been, I wouldn’t want it any other way.

I thank God for all the wonderful people in my life and how rich they have made it. Even the sorrows. I’ll miss Kenny Lee but he thought me the meaning of living life, not looking back with regrets or to be filled with anguish or hate over what life throws at you but to go on, with dignity and generousity and peace that only God can give.

I thank God for Jeff Wong who managed to snag that Halliburton job – I’ll miss our crazy overnight makan escapes but hey, you did it! I’ll quote your goodbye words here (from a hardcore Tolkien friend obviously) “Well, here my dear friend, comes the end of our fellowship here in Malaysia. I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil. We may never meet again, but we always carry a part of each in us.

Most of all, I thank God for my darling, who’s made my life sing (dance and a couple of somersaults too), for lighting up and putting all the color into my life and be my biggest inspiration. 1 like no 1.

I think about the 365 steps (days) that went by and I treasure them. The many little escapades, the joy shared over a meal, the hurried cleaning and moving, the digging, weeding, and planting, the freezing chill of Harbin, the 5600 frames till now (that’s 15.3 photos per day!), I can’t help but be amazed but that said, let’s get 2006 on the road of life… Happy New Year!

狗年行大运!

On the road of life, take the unfamiliar road…

Merry Christmas Darling :x

Merry Christmas, Darling
icon_ltgray_open_quoteGreeting cards have all been sent
The Christmas rush is through
But I still have one wish to make
A special one for you

Merry Christmas darling
We’re apart that’s true
But I can dream and in my dreams
I’m Christmas-ing with you

Holidays are joyful
There’s always something new
But every day’s a holiday
When I’m near to you
The lights on my tree
I wish you could see
I wish it every day
Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say

That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year, too
I’ve just one wish
On this Christmas Eve
I wish I were with you

Instrumental Interlude

Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say
That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year, too
I’ve just one wish
On this Christmas Eve
I wish I were with you
I wish I were with you

(Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas – Darling)icon_ltgray_close_quote
Original by the Carpenters, Eugene is listening to the version by Jane Monheit

Coffee + Love

icon_ltgray_open_quoteI love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. icon_ltgray_close_quote
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Expresso your Love

Lady in Red

I’ve never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight
I’ve never seen you shine so bright
I’ve never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance
They’re looking for a little romance, given half a chance
I have never seen that dress you’re wearing
Or the highlights in your head that catch your eyes I have been blind
The lady in red is dancing with me cheek to cheek
There’s nobody here, it’s just you and me, It’s where I wanna be
But I hardly know this beauty by my side
I’ll never forget, the way you look tonight

I’ve never seen you looking so gorgeous as you did tonight
I’ve never seen you shine so bright you were amazing
I’ve never seen so many people want to be there by your side
And when you turned to me and smiled, It took my breath away
I have never had such a feeling
Such a feeling of complete and utter love, as I do tonight

The way you look tonight
I never will forget, the way you look tonight
The lady in red
The lady in red
The lady in red
My lady in red (I love you.)

© Chris De Burgh