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Thought Provoking Life Stories (2)

2012-02-24T00:10:00.001+05:00

Welcome to this week's edition of Fantastic Friday, where we talk about happiness and inspiration and everything that goes in between!

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I came across this wonderful site that shares life stories of real people told in the fewest words, each with a subtle lesson for the heart. Here are my five picks for this week's token of inspiration.

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Source: Makes Me Think

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Rise and Shine!

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God: A Love Born of Faith

2012-02-21T18:22:00.000+05:00

When do you know someone is listening to your prayers? When was the last time you knew the sorrow you carried in your fragile heart was incurable by every single doctor, surgeon or expert that walks on the face of this planet? Some things are granted by God alone. Like hearing the unsaid, like ridding your heart of fear, like giving you the strength of staying strong, like gifting you the courage to say the bitter truth, like holding your heart when it can easily turn cold, like holding you by your finger and it becomes your lifeline to sanity... like cradling you through nights no one knows you've cried. God and God alone lets you be the best you can be.

And likewise, some things only God knows. He gives you a protected life as a child, with loving parents who watch over you and protect you from all troubles. And when you grow up, God gives you one little bump at a time till you have wings to fly, till your faith becomes so strong you needn't anything else. God and God alone shapes you in the person you are meant to be by teaching you, showing you, loving you, testing you and then rewarding you.

My faith in people has been shaken not because people were untrustworthy, but because only one faith exists in this Universe and that is the faith in Allah. You and I may have different notions for what that Higher Being is but we all look in the same direction, we all look for the same faith, at the same sky. When my heart could turn icy cold, He held in in His Mighty Hands and kept it warm so many painful times. The thinnest chord that led me to Him was the strongest. He taught me, showed me, tested me and then, I believe, He decided to reward me. My heart blooms with His warmth. My faith in Him is my lifeline.

I wish you all a life of Faith, Belief, Love and Miracle that only God can create. Stay blessed.

14 Cute Motivational Quotes -- Fantastic Friday

2012-02-17T14:05:00.000+05:00

Welcome to this week's edition of Fantastic Friday, where we talk about happiness and inspiration and everything that goes in between!

Always wear your invisible crown!

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

People will hate you, rate you, shake you and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.

Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.

~ Unknown

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.

~ Texan Proverb

Don't worry if you're SINGLE. God is looking at you right now, saying, "I'm saving this one for someone special."

Sometimes I think a soul mate is someone who will make you be the most "you" that you can possibly be.

Bloom where you are planted.

How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

~ Trina Paulus

Something fabulous is out there. Taking shape. Emerging. Peeking. Calling your name.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

~ Joseph Campbell

Self Worth: Some people will like you for no reason, some will not like you for no reason. Who you choose to spend the most time, thoughts, and effort on, depend on exactly how much you like yourself. By just staying near to people who treat you poorly, you are telling them it's OK to do so. Only keep people close to you who treat you well.

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Love's a Child - Valentines' Day Special

2012-02-13T21:22:00.000+05:00

defy what you know

and come with me

on a journey to the unknown.

let your heart answer

your highest calling

may this darkness pass

into one of our brightest

tomorrows.

defy reason

resist distrust

dare logic

the path to me

will be painful of all

but the path to me

will be rewarding of all

for i am the one

who keeps your heart

and i am the one

who knows your heart

come to me darling

for safe keeping

as a child would

his silly notions of love.

the cupid child who

never wants to grow up,

as would love

for love is tainted with

years of wisdom

let love be a child

who sees the world

with the purest eyes

the clearest of hearts

the tenderest of emotions

and let this love between us

grow into something

only a blind cupid would know.

Dedicated to my husband.
Happy Valentines' Day, darling.

Love is... Knowing your heart is in the right place!

2012-02-06T19:26:00.000+05:00

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"Love is..." is a famous comic strip created by New Zealand artist Kim Grove in the late 1960s. Later they were produced by Stefano Casali. These ubber cute series began as a series of little love notes that Kim Grove drew for her future husband, Roberto Casali. Kim Casali died in June 1997. Since then, her son Stefano Casali has maintained the strip although it is always shown as "by Kim Casali" and signed "Kim" instead of Stefano.

"Love Is..." has been translated in many languages.

More Love Is comics here:

Love is the sparkle he puts in your life

Love is being able to say you're sorry

Love is holding onto every precious moment

Beating the 6am Boredom

2012-02-01T08:09:00.001+05:00

Look what I did to kill my 6am lonely boredom. How I love the Internet for keeping me company at the oddest times.

I made this drawing at: http://andrew.thenewhive.com/drawonme

You can try it too. It's so much fun, and definitely beats the boredom!

Till then,

Toodles~

You fill up my senses like a night in the forest, like the mountain in springtime, like a walk in the rain...

2012-01-29T00:39:00.000+05:00

"We were silly children back then. Amidst everything we were so uncertain of, one thing was certain from day 1: we would end up together. It was really brilliant the way our hearts leapt up at the thought of each other when the question was of a forever. We grew up together, laughed, loved, fought through it all. We knew everything and anything there was to know about each other; he knew how to get to me and I knew I could never bar him out my heart when he wanted. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me. And I love, absolutely love when he tells me what a great friend I am to him. That's, like, better than being just a wife."

As children we see love as something so simple. Your heart is so clear it responds to every thing that has the tenderness to touch it. It's absolutely amazing the way children can see a wisdom you're no longer capable of as a grown up; what with all your fuzzy logics about the way this world works and how things should be. I'm happy to know that the man I married was someone my heart chose when it was crystal clear. My vision was not blurred with practicality and judgemental notions one tends to absorb. I knew no malice, no greed, no remorse. My heart knw what it wanted without anything pulling me off the gravity of it. I'm glad to be here, to know what innocent love is and to be able to spread it in my own little way. And I'm thankful for the man who reminds me every day that we are among the very lucky few who get to share something as pure as this.

Title Courtesy: You Fill Up My Senses

I love the places you take me!

2012-01-24T08:50:00.000+05:00

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Text credits: You Make Me Happy: And Other Things I Love About You (Harold's Planet)

You're Not Alone, I Promise

2012-01-16T00:49:00.001+05:00

... and if you ever need me, you know where to find me. You're not alone.

Find Yourself, Baby

2012-01-12T00:49:00.001+05:00

It feels like the whole world is bare open before my eyes for me to look and understand and take it in. I've always lived in a protected shell, and ended up being conned in the very place I called home. My heart leaps outward and my eyes search elsewhere. I'm looking at bigger plans, better people and a place of my own, sought out of my very own effort. The challenges only make you stronger, the set backs make you better and a loved one's treachery only makes you a better fighter. So go find yourself. Ah, this map just makes my heart swoon with delight. Just look at this huge space filled with opportunities and swarming with wonderful, wonderful, wonderful people! Look at all the places you can go sight seeing to, all the people you can meet and so much knowledge still left for you to absorb. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to 2012. Let this year leave you with a better, braver, happier person. Happiness is not around you, it's inside you; why are you straying elsewhere? I'm on a roller coaster ride. How many people actually get a second chance at life? And do you know the key to living the best way? Don't let that beautiful heart of yours carry hate and malice. It's meant to hold love and tenderness. Don't lose that. Don't lose God's Personal Touch in you.

Connect with me through one of the following options to stay in touch while I go home-hunting! Au revoir, darlings!

Break Out of the Normal

2012-01-08T21:15:00.000+05:00

Normalcy isn't good for writers. In order to find the extraordinary out of the ordinary, a writer must see beyond the canvas of normalcy. He must possess an eye for the special, he must feel emotions in a new paradigm to be able to make out the best in them for all the world to see. His words should be easy, yet the picture he creates should break the barriers of what and how words can impact. A write should be anything but normal; and that is why he is a complete package. Special, brilliant, sensitive; he touches your heart not every one can.

Waking Up To Dreams

2012-01-05T23:20:00.001+05:00

No the image does not go with the post. I just love these booties, that's all ;-)

After much thinking, I have finally settled for the theme of my debut book. I love writing short stories and the part I enjoy the most in them is making seemingly small moments as monumental as they really are sometimes. Please check out my selection of short stories here on the perfect line on the "Short Stories" link on the top menu bar. If you get time to read any of them, please take out a minute or two and leave a comment for any feedback you may have, any area you think needs improvement. Just pick one whose title grabs your attention. It would be so great if you could!

So, it's like I was putting off writing this first book that I had so much heart into because I wanted to have the perfect person to share it with. No time wasting trying to decide who would be the perfect one to name on my dedications page. This dream is mine to create, and my parents to have and enjoy, wholly. Life waits for no one, then what am I waiting for? I'm a go getter now and I love the new me! God willing, you're soon going to know me by my soon-to-be hard cover book in your favorite book store!

P.S. Thank you SO MUCH for the email messages, especially new year wishes, comments and your participation on my Facebook fan page. I'm very tight on schedule these days with a full time job that takes so much of time but which I absolutely love. I try my best to respond to all your emails, and will be back to replying to all your comments one by one. Just that for now, I need to focus a bit more on my career, since I'm learning new things every day. You guys are just awesome! *mwah!*

You know how to reach me.

Cheers!

- WarmSunshine

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Unfinished Stories

2012-01-04T09:28:00.000+05:00

Unfinished stories have a way with calling out to you by your name. There is something vulnerable about them that invites nurturing; like a crying child who loses the way home. These unfinished stories want you to cradle them in your arms once more, to soothe them, deal with all their loose ends and complete them. How desperately you want to give in to all this subtle imploring and play the woman, the ever-nurturing mother. But what you don't know is that they want to seep into your system. That's is the only chance they have for survival. Do not let these abandoned tales get to you. They are like slow poison. Run far, far away.

A New Year Message

2012-01-01T02:18:00.001+05:00

I am fantastic

brilliant

vibrant

full

life

a bright shining star

years do not define me

i define years.

i promise to

live up to myself

each day, this year

rules shall not bind me

i shall define those rules

set goals

and leave examples

i shall not tread

where the ordinary go

this year

i leave marks

where not every one

dare to go

i'll dance

to my own tune

move my

own way

scream to be heard

whisper in love

i'll be better

than each yesterday

i'll be optimistic

for each tomorrow

i am a woman

and i'm fantastic

in each and every way.

and this time around

years will not define me

i shall define years.

- Dedicated to all the wonderful women out there

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Perfect Liners!

MAY THIS YEAR BRING THE BEST YOUR WAY!

Cheers~

Come Home To Me, Darling

2011-12-28T23:57:00.001+05:00

Scream! Scream so hard your voice flies high above the maddening noise of this crowd. Speak loud, your voice is drowning. You, yes you, whoever you are... I need you. I've known you for, like, ever! Forever. I'm trying to be so good, sitting here waiting for you like a good girl. While I do, I want to work on looking my best, being the old pretty me. I want you to fall head over heels in love with me, for love, love and nothing but love. I speak up, shout, I don't want to miss you out now! Whoever you are, I love you already. You are going to be my best friend, my most precious love, life saver, soul mate, companion, lover. I've waited so long for you. I don't know who you are, but I can feel you around me and I smile everytime I think of you. My heart blooms into a radiant red, fills up all the nooks and corners of my insides with a healing, a soothing, a comforting warmth. When I finally meet you, I don't want anything but silence; a silence born out of sheer comfort in the realization of finally meeting, finally coming home. Come home to me, come home into my heart. It's filled with so much love, half the hatred on this planet can't exhaust it. Come home to me.

Tell me, princess... when did you last let your heart decide?

2011-12-27T22:52:00.003+05:00

I have a confession to make. I've had lots of absurd crushes and one of them was Aladdin and I was jealous sour of Jasmine. I mean, who could miss that dashing smile Aladdin had? Or the way he would brush his fingers through his hair when he wanted to act smart. The boy who looked cute in tatters became the handsomest guy on screen when Genie transformed him into Prince Ali Ababwa.

I just felt like sharing this photo with you lovely girls tonight. Don't we all have so many childhood memories associated with Disney classics? Aladdin still manages to be on the top! They are like a treasure trove of lessons and ideals for life Stand up for yourself; Find your place in the sun; The good always wins over the bad; You're beautiful just about as much you are at your heart; Beauty is skin deep, ugliness isn't; THERE IS MAGIC, only if you believe; HOLD ON TO FAITH; A happily-ever-after; so much more! Before you go, princess, when did you last let your heart decide? Think about it. Cheers!

P.S. I'm coming back to writing fiction very soon. Down with flu. Yukh.

No Place Left In Heaven

2011-12-25T22:08:00.001+05:00

How would you feel if you opened your eyes to see your body lying on the floor and a horrifying realization dawns upon you that you are so-very-dead and TRAPPED!? Yikes! You see all the people you care about going about their daily chores, they have moved on, life has moved on, it's only you who is stuck at a dot where there is no touch, no sound, no sense of time and space. You are just one invisible lot of immense cold. And with time, you start growing hands and arms, a head hovering in thin air but that's all the reflection you can get off the full length bedroom mirror. Freaky? Totally!

I'm reading Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, inspired by her International bestseller, The Time Traveler's Wife. The above lines are from one of the characters in Her Fearful Symmetry. The Time Traveler's Wife was a splendid book. It spoke to me on different levels, but mainly on the level only women can connect. Ah I think I'm gonna go and watch the movie finally. Never was able to have the courage of seeing the movie, the book was just too perfect for me. Tonight shall be it! I need a dose of mushiness and romance tonight because I just dread the thought of a Monday and a loooong week ahead. (In case any of my bosses are reading this, I love my work! Completely!!)

Clare, Henry, here I come! Promise to sweep me off my feet tonight because I just love your love story!

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A Haiku: Wonder - Wordful Wednesday

2011-12-21T09:50:00.001+05:00

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"a dazed bird sits

in old forgotten alleys of

a bright human world"

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My Lonely City

2011-12-19T01:56:00.001+05:00

A lonely city this is. I watch the sun go down with my deep brown eyes. It gives off shadows that spread like dark winged angels on my city that shines as a diamond by the radiant sun. I watch. The tall buildings. I think of the people living in each of them. People with budding hearts, hearts the beat, hearts that resonate with love. One of those hearts belong to me, that darling, silent, unknown heart that I have known for all time.

A lonely city this is. I watch scores and scores of people, and yet, sometimes it seems like a barren, deserted place. A lonely car I see far off, headed towards an unknown destination. An unknown journey. Take me with you, silent rider, and may be in the midst of not knowing, I'll strip off the last layer of camouflage that suffocates my skin, bare myself to you, in the hopes that you will know me for all my ugliness, for all my weaknesses, for all my sorrow.

A lonely city this is. Let's leave its quiet loneliness behind and drive away to our new mysterious stopping point. I want to lose my silence in yours. Tell me all your sorrows and may be, just may be, you can be convinced that I am what your dying heart needs. Your faint heart beat needs two warm hands to hold it and keep it from fading. Let those hands be mine. Then may be, you won't have to leave my lonely city by nightfall like this. May be , the loneliness won't intimidate you any longer, and may be you'll stay. For me.

Love is... Holding onto every precious moment!

2011-12-18T00:18:00.001+05:00

I used to collect these comic strips when I was young and paste them all in a diary, meaning it to be a gift for my future husband. I'm feeling so nostalgic right now. I still have that diary with me. I took it out and had a good look at it once more. It was soothing because it reminded me that a sincere love is always returned and I will soon have my share of it too :)

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Love is the sparkle he puts in your life

Love is being able to say you're sorry

First World Problems -- TGIF!

2011-12-16T01:10:00.000+05:00

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Capturing Perfection

2011-12-15T00:15:00.001+05:00

I've known nothing but perfect love. It's just the way I'm built. And no matter how crazy or weird it gets, things eventually fall into place. Building software systems and testing them, I found no matter how hard we try, we cannot make a system to the perfection of a cent-percent-brilliance. But the system made by the Almighty is perfect in every sense of the way. Everything balances out its opposite. And everything, absolutely everything is made to fit into the larger picture.

I have given up being a control freak a long time back and I was amazed to see how relieving it was. Tell yourself that some things are bound to happen while some things are just not meant to be. You can try, and all your struggle can either bring fruit or go down the drain. It hurts, some times it goes way more than just a four letter word h-u-r-t. But leave it. Shush. Leave it. Let go. Open your hands and give your troubles over in God's safe hands. Let Him take care of them for you. Relieve yourself of the worry, the control-it-syndrome. Stay human.

So, like I said, I believe there's a perfect love indeed, even when half the population of the planet complains about how unfair life is. There is never a single day I don't find something to bring me a smile. And yes, there isn't a single night that goes dreamless. Pain, hurt, sorrow, gloom, poverty, tyranny exists because there is happiness, love, kindness, purity, honesty, faith, hope, tolerance and compassion to contrast to that. Without this contrast, could you tell the difference?

Perfect love exists. Seize it!

6 Songs That Celebrate Girl Power

2011-12-13T00:39:00.001+05:00

Welcome to this week's Tunes I Like Tuesday and see what's on my play list this week.

1. Destiny's Child - Independent Women

2. Lady Gaga - Born This Way

3. Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough

4. Christina Aguilera - Fighter

5. Pink - So What

6. Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much

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She looked around and life was pretty amazing!!

2011-12-12T00:48:00.000+05:00

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I still love life for every unexpected thing that it throws at people. I don't think anything can tire me from the wonder of it. It wasn't completely a joy ride; I had my share of troubles and tears. But the beauty of it all becomes all the more obvious when amidst all the chaos, there is always a tiny window that lets in sunshine.

Today, I'm happy to be the imperfect person I am. I try to be a better person that yesterday, but I would never want to be perfect. Imperfections is what makes us unique in a human sort of way. I'm young, I'm careless, I'm free, I'm anything but perfect and that is exactly how I will make the best of what I have before me now.

Let no worry stress you out, let no one bring you down. Live your fairy tale each day.

Prompted at: Sunday Scribblings - Fairy tale

A new jewelry store on the block

2011-12-08T00:00:00.000+05:00

I'm a sucker for silver artificial jewelry. I found this amazing new site where you can shop all you want. They have a neat little collection, check it out.