“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them."
~Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld~
Siem Reap City is the capital of Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. Siem Reap has colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter, and around the Old Market. The gateway city for The World Heritage Site and Wonders of the World: Angkor Wat.
Angkor Wat enchants visitors of its grandeur and breathtaking scenery.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” [1953] Dwight D. Eisenhower
Democracy if curtailed turns violent. Rights if suppressed turn amok. How could you explain to a CHILD these….
“Until Justice is blind to color, until Education is unaware of race, until Opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact” - American 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson
It has been a couple of weeks now since Bangkok, the City of Smiles and Loving People, engulf with “Colored Strife”.
First, there was RED.
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Then the MULTI-COLORED.
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And don't underestimate the Power of Yellow... right NoyNoy?
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And may I say this ....
I........... WE............YOU............... Need PEACE!
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Isn’t it beautiful looking at this view? Waving for PEACE!
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
~Swedish Proverb
Relationships demands sacrifices. Both the partners sacrifice to make the relationship work. Then there is compromise. Many relationships destroy person’s desires. Partners have to give up lots of freedom. I may have sacrificed a lot, but should it also go unnoticed? I will definitely feel used after that.
Then there is Emotional Distance. It occurs when you no longer connect with your partner on an emotional or maybe intellectual level. It happens when your partner just isn’t “there” somehow, when you no longer connect with your partner. You feel like you’re talking to and sharing your honest feelings with a WALL. When your partner offers a response, it’s remote, guarded, lacking in intimacy – perhaps because of a fear of intimacy. Intimate partners develop certain defense mechanisms to protect feelings and protect themselves from pain in intimate relationships.
That is ME and CHOJI. We are not PERFECT and have a lot to LEARN.
New Sunshine!
Not only will this break-up not kill you, but it may be the best thing that ever happened to you. The pain of a break-up can push you into a world of magic, of release and of healing that you otherwise might not have entered. And even though you may think that your ex is the be-all, of your life, undoubtedly there is more love, even better love right around the corner and a great life ahead.
“The strongest principle of growth lies in Human Choice.”
George Eliot
The freedom to choice lies on the liberty of an individual to make intimate decisions free from government interference, discrimination and public intervention. WE always have to make a CHOICE.
CHOOSE!
Religion.
Freedom of Religion. It is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. It is a concept that generally recognizes the freedom to change religion or NOT TO FOLLOW ANY RELIGION.
Liberty.
Under Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
I choose to have No Religion because it is one of my fundamental rights.
I choose to be GAY because it is one of my rights and freedom without distinction of any kind.
SHOUT IT OUT!
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.
“A Human Being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty…. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Albert Einstein
According to Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., in his book Keeping the Love You Find, chemistry or infatuation is actually an attraction to a person who combines:
The worst traits of our parents or childhood care takers to infatuate us;
The negative traits that infatuate us and we possess but deny in ourselves;
The traits that we find infatuating but have been repressed in us by our upbringing;
The infatuating traits that society denies our gender.
Chinese New Year of 2010. Love is best seen on action, not on a spur of emotion. Love is not exclusively based on how we feel and perceived. Certainly our emotions are involved, but they cannot be our only criteria for love. True devotion will always lead to action --- true love.
Time ticks!
As I end my entry, let me share a poem by William Morris :
Our hands have met, our lips have met
Our souls - who knows when the wind blows
How light souls drift mid longings set,
If thou forget'st, can I forget
The time that was not long ago?
Thou wert not silent then, but told
Sweet secrets dear - I drew so near
Thy shamefaced cheeks grown overbold,
That scarce thine eyes might I behold!
Ah was it then so long ago!
Trembled my lips and thou wouldst turn
But hadst no heart to draw apart,
Beneath my lips thy cheek did burn -
Yet no rebuke that I might learn;
Yea kind looks still, not long ago.
Wilt thou be glad upon the day
When unto me this love shall be
An idle fancy passed away,
And we shall meet and smile and say
'O wasted sighs of long ago!'
Wilt thou rejoice that thou hast set
Cold words, dull shows 'twixt hearts drawn close,
That cold at heart I live on yet,
Forgetting still that I forget
The priceless days of long ago?
