A Mother's Love

A Mother's Love

I have a pair of socks

a very plain pair of socks

Every time I wear this pair of socks

I feel my mother's love...

At one time, there was a hole in the toe of each sock
I almost threw them away
But my mom said, "No. I can sew them for you and you can wear them again."

My mom was born in a poor family and she has been frugal all her life

Mom added a piece of cloth to the toe of each of the torn socks and sewed them

I am now gazing at the sock and thinking about my mother and her love

A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever

To a child's ear, "Mama" is magic in any language

My mother, my best friend so dear
Throughout my life she has always been near

A tender smile to guide my way

She's the sunshine to light my day

Best friends forever, my mom and me
picking flowers and cleaning homes
a shoulder to cry on, secrets to share
Warm hearts and hands that really care

My mother's love for me

is the greatest love of my life

I love you, my dear loving mom...

Let's Start From Here

Let's Start From Here

giving up
why should i
have come too far to forget
beautiful
just got lost
somewhere along the way
so much was missing when you went away

let's start from here
lose the past
change our minds
we don't need a finish line
let's take this chance
don't think too deep
all those promises we couldn't seem to keep
I don't care where we go
let's start from here

standing here
face to face
a finger on your lips
don't say a word
don't make a sound
silence around us now
even when you were gone I felt you everywhere

let's start from here
lose the past
change our minds
we don't need a finish line
let's take this chance don't think too deep
all those promises we couldn't seem to keep
I don't care where we go
let's start from here

I've never been the one to open up
but you've always been the voice within
the only one for my heart

let's start from here
lose the past
change our minds
we don't need a finish line
let's take this chance
don't think too deep
and all those promises
let's start from here
lose the past
change our minds
we don't need a finish line
let's take this chance don't think too deep
all those promises we couldn't seem to keep
I don't care where we go
let's start from here

Respect

If you respect me, I will respect you more.
If you do not respect me, I will NOT respect you.

Very Good-looking EurAsian - Part 1.

1. (Picture 1-4) He’s name is Dennis Joseph O’neil. Just look at him…enough said! Haha. This hottie is a popular Korean-American model and actor who is called by Dennis O in Korea. Dennis has the best genes from both worlds and he’s the hottest eurasian man I’ve ever seen.

His Full Name: Dennis Joseph O’neil
Date of Birth: August 29, 1981
Height: 6′2″
Weight: 190 lbs
Parents: Korean mom, American dad

2. Mix and perfect match...model Michelle Lee, whose Eurasian features are of the type rated attractive by Westerners and Asians.

3. Devon Aoki is an American model and actress.

Aoki was born in New York City, New York, and grew up in California and London, attending high school at The American School in London. Her Japanese American father, Rocky Aoki, a former Olympic wrestler, was the founder and owner of the Benihana restaurant chain until his death on July 10, 2008. Her mother, Pamela Hilburger, is a jewelry designer of German and English heritage.

Aoki was discovered in New York at a Rancid concert she had gatecrashed. She started modeling when she was 13, the same year Aoki was introduced by her godmother to Kate Moss, who would later take the young Devon under her wing. She was signed onto Storm Model Management at age 14.

In 1998, at the age of 16, Devon replaced Naomi Campbell as the face of Versace. An A-grade student at school, Devon chose not to go on to college, believing that working and traveling offered her a "broader and deeper education" than a degree.

Win First, Then Fight

Military leaders, politicians and businessmen are all trying to gain an advantage over their competition and many turn to Sun Tzu’s ancient work, The Art of War. Now, for the first time ever, international renowned business speaker and bestselling author Chin-Ning Chu demonstrates how you can apply this Taoist wisdom to succeed in modern workplace.

Sun Tzu states, “Ancient warriors first place themselves in an invincible position, then wait for the opportunity to defeat their enemies.” This statement is one of the most mysterious in the entire book. Everyone has attempted to make sense of it, but few have.

By following the Master Sun’s essential elements of strategies—righteousness, timing, know thyself and others, leadership, management, the utilization of the paradoxical force of strengths versus weaknesses, assets verses liabilities, real verses unreal, innovation verses tradition—.can help you and your company transforming weaknesses into strength, raise corporate sales dollars, expand domestic and international marketing territories and guide leaders in the making of tough decision and advance in your career.

In order to achieve “Win First, Then Fight” you need to incorporate Sun Tzu’s proven winning strategic elements and a winner’s attitude that able you to effectively respond to friction during battle and everyday business challenges.

Today, you are going to discover how Master Sun’s Win First, Then Fight will alter the course of your career.

Timeless Asian Wisdom

Chin-Ning Chu—The Strategist Chin-Ning is the foremost American authority on Sun Tzu’s The Art of War and author of the international best-selling books: Do Less, Achieve More; Thick Face, Black Heart; The Asian Mind Game and The Art of War for Women with translations in seventeen languages. She has readers and clients in over sixty countries, counting among them presidents and prime ministers, chairmen and CEOs of the international Fortune 500. Chin-Ning presents the warrior philosophy as a premier vehicle for mastering strategic thinking in the corporate world as well as daily life.

She weaves the diverse elements of strength, strategy, pragmatic enterprise and personal growth into every topic she addresses. She fuses timeless Eastern wisdom with Western practicality into dynamic tools which produce tangible results for solving life’s ever-shifting challenges. Chin-Ning crisscrosses five continents as she delivers her custom-tailored speeches that raise corporate sales dollars, expand domestic and international marketing territories, and guide leaders in the making of tough decisions. She achieves a commonality among diverse cultural groups and she assists women to excel in the workplace. As an Asian-born American and a woman, Chin-Ning has learned to compete by going beyond the obvious while examining the different hues of the rainbow—turning liabilities into assets and creating strategies at will.

Her speaking style is energetic, truthful and humorous; her message—profound and thought-provoking. Chin-Ning’s work is frequently praised by diverse global media from CNN, The London Financial Times, Business Week and USA Today to the international editions of People Magazine and Vogue. Her name, "Chin-Ning" means "Journey to Peace" in Chinese. She was born in China, educated through college in Taiwan, and became a naturalized American after immigrating in 1969. She is president of Asian Marketing Consultants and Strategic Learning Institute, and the founder of Women WorldWide International.

Flattering

1. What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

2. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

3. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

4. There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

5. When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

6. Poverty does not produce unhappiness: it produces degradation.

7. Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

-George Bernard Shaw

Optimists & Pessimists

"Both optimists & pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute."

-George Bernard Shaw

The Art of War

The Art of War

Be Persistent.

Pursue one's own strategic designs to overawe the enemy. Then one can take the enemy's cities and overthrow the state.

-Sun Tzu

If the sovereign heeds these strategems of mine and act upon them,
he will surely win the war,
and I will stay with him.

If the sovereign neither heeds nor acts upon them,
he will certainly suffer defeat,
and I shall leave.

-Sun Tzu

Miss Pretty Brown Eyes

A friend of mine wrote a wonderful poem for me recently. So beautiful, it melt my heart...

And here is my new picture (please click on the picture to enlarge) with my Pretty Brown Eyes...

Miss Pretty Brown Eyes

There are gems that glitter,
Gems that shine,
Gems that weep and smile
And gems that sing divine.

There is one that lights up during dawn,
And flames all the way through the morn,
And then drifts across the silent sky
Waiting for the slow, long day to die.

There are moon pearls on a raven night,
And ocean gems in the watery light.
Glass kingdoms hiding in clouds of grey,
And diamonds strewn across the Milky Way.

There is a burning jewel when sunset calls,
And a thousand little more after night falls,
And none, not even the rubies in fireflies,
Can compare to those Diamonds Of yours,
Miss Pretty Brown Eyes.

My Lovely New Picture :)

My Lovely New Picture

Please click on the picture to enlarge. By the way, although I am an expert of skincare and make-up but I didn't wear make-up at all in this picture. My friends told me that I am a natural beauty. Happy to hear that :)

With a happy demure smile,
Princesse Ange ("Princesse Ange" means "Princess Angel" in French, I am studying French now.)