Smile! Life is BEAUTIFUL

We humans always need a reminder from time to time to see the bright sides of life <3

Always look to those who are less fortune to know how luck you are =)

Believe and have faith


That is more valuable =)


Change yourself first rather than changing the world

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Charlie Chaplin's 3 Heart Touching Statements

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10 Great Tools for Learning New Languages

As I wrote in my previous posts about tips in learning a new language, part 1 and part 2. Today I'll share some great sites that will help you along as a tool in improving your stuff. 

 Let's get on with the list of 10 sites to help you with your language; 

 

1. Livemocha: that would be the first site I'll recommend. It has like over 20 languages to learn. Provided with audio, text, video and native people to practice with. 

2. About: that's another great site you can benefit from. Expert and pros will be your teacher in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English as a second language.

3. Mylanguageexchange: another great site for language exchanging. It's not free though and you have to pay a small fee to access more lesson on the site which are worth it. 

4. Chinese-Tool: for those who are interesting and learning Chinese language. Lots of text, lessons, audio and video. Pretty much like livemocha. 

 

5. Conversationexchange: as the address states it's all about exchanging conversations. Get around with native people you are interested in and teach one in exchange. 

 

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Recover Your Lost Data CD

Did your CD went blank after you can swear that you burnt your files in it in the right methods and you even check everything then it's all vanished!? Do you still see the computer giving you a status of a full (or to a certain) size CD but you don't see anything there, just an empty space?! Did the (show hidden files and folders) trick fail to get your important and favorite stuff back from your CD!? And all the other things didn't work too?!

Well, worry no more cause today we have a magical savoir for these situations.  

 

First, let's just talk why this situation happens. After experiencing the same thing I did a little search on google and found these 2 possibles for vanishing files from CD;

1. The files didn't get burnt on the CD. 

This happens when you are using a CD-writer. Like to open the CD from (My Computer) then drop and drag or copy and paste your files to it, write and then done. Sometimes this process isn't done and you think the files are on your CD. You can see them cause they are still in the cache of the PC but once you try it on another computer you won't find your files there. So double checking is must. 

2. Using rewritable CD (RW) 

In this cause since it's a rewritable one your files might mistakenly get replaced with new files when you burn them. Cause it has the feature of writing and erasing files from it. So the chance of happening is possible. 

Now let's get with the main topic of this post, how to get them back?!

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Five Minutes Friday: Tender

It's Friday where we join Lisa-Jo to write for 5 minutes every week. 

5 minutes only , you speak your mind about that certain topic. No backing, no over thinking. Just let your heart write whatever it has. It doesn't matter if it's written right or wrong. Express yourself and be free. 

Won't you join me too for today's topic which is about: Tender

I'll set the timer on 5 minutes, ready?

set!

GO!

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Your Age With Chocolate

Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway - but the I will tell you!
YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH >>> This is pretty neat.

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Brain Teasers & Riddles

Teaser #1: Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain in the world?

Teaser #2: When you need it you throw it away, when you don't need it you take it in.

Teaser #3: Cathy has six pairs of black gloves and six pairs of brown gloves in her drawer. In complete darkness, how many gloves must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match? Think carefully!! 

Teaser #4: If you can buy eight eggs for 26 cents, 
how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?

Teaser #5: What kind of tables have no legs?

Teaser #6: What is the first thing you do every morning?

Teaser #7: A brick weighs a pound and half a brick. How many pounds do two bricks weigh?

Teaser #8: How long is a rope that is 2 yards shorter than another rope that is three times the length of the first rope?

Teaser #9: What is greater than god, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will eventually die?

Teaser #10: As long as I eat, I live. When I drink, I die. 

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Cake Decorations

Cakes happen to be one of my favorite sweets. Though I don't like to eat a lot of them. Today, we I have another sweet picture post for you. As you can tell from the title it's all about cake decorations. All creative, cute and really sweet. 

Cup-cake Cake!

Now for more of delicious and cool cakes: 

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This Is Excellent

  

1. The best way to get even is to forget.

2. Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

3. God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts.

4. Some folks wear their halos much too tight.

5. Some marriages are made in heaven, but they ALL have to be maintained on earth.

6. Unless You can create the WHOLE universe in 5 days,
Then perhaps giving "advice" to God, isn't such a good idea!

7. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.

8. Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous.
You will get knocked down by the traffic from both ways.

9. Words are windows to the heart.

10. A skeptic is a person who when he sees the handwriting on the wall,

claims it's a forgery.

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Getting Traffic to Your Blog

One of the things that matters you as a blogger is the audience or reader to it. Without them you are just writing a journal of your own. Thus, you have to attract to right people for the topics you write so they will interact with you positively.

Here are simple 5 methods to get readers (traffic) to your blog that you might use everyday. 

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Are You in Touch with the Ones You Know?!

Staying in touch!

Meeting someone new in our daily life is a natural matter that happens from time to time. We meet them in school, work, in the mall or anywhere else. By time passage & while talking with them, a sort of relation builds between us. Some try to keep this relation or bond to remember the times they spend together or because they love them & without them life won't be that much joyful as it was with their company. 

Thus they stay in touch with them . But not all people are alike, true that they love and care about the ones they know yet they just don't know how important it is to stay in touch with others.

By observing, I noticed these types of people and their methods to keep in touch with the ones they know and people around them …. 

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Five Minutes Friday: Vivid

It's Friday where we join Lisa-Jo to write for 5 minutes every week. 

5 minutes only , you speak your mind about that certain topic. No backing, no over thinking. Just let your heart write whatever it has. It doesn't matter if it's written right or wrong. Express yourself and be free. 

Won't you join me too for today's topic which is about: Vivid

I'll set the timer on 5 minutes, ready?

set!

GO!

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Wisdom For The Journey

 

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Creative & Lovely Couples Glasses

Wedding! 

What a happy event for any couple. One of the thing that you'll probably find in the party is the glasses the lovely birds will share. Today's post is all about that. Sweet, simple yet creative and elegant glasses. 

Oh! How I <3 it!

 Below are most of these cute couple glasses: 

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BE AWESOME! B)

I'm Awesome!

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard.

Be someone who cares, and you will be loved.

Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed.

Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

Be someone who values truth, and you will be respected.

Be someone who takes action, and you will move life forward.

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20 High Quality Food Drawing Wallpapers - 2

So this is the second part of download the high quality wallpapers for food. 

Some previews of the second wallpapers: 

Healthy!

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20 High Quality Food Drawing Wallpapers - 1

It's been a long time since the last Download post I posted. 

So today I'm going to give you the best one anybody can ever have... FOOD!
Yeah! Yummy, delicious, colorful and sweet drawings of food wallpapers. All in high quality with demonstration of 1024 X 678.

Most of these will be Japanese food and also some other known food. 

Here are other preview of the wallpapers: 

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How to Make the (Show Desktop) Icon

One of the icons in the task bar is the (show desktop) icon which enable to view the whole desktop when clicking on it. It's very useful when you have a lot of programs opened then you want to jump to a file, folder or any other item on the desktop. Also, if you are one of those who care about privacy much and on a shared computer to hide all your stuff and whatever you are working on once anybody comes into your room. 

Accidents might happen and you can delete that icon by mistake. It's not a shortcut that you can replace back easily. Today's post I'll show you how to make this icon in case you deleted it by mistake, it disappear or just to know how =)

So, let's get started!

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Five Minutes Friday: Awake

It's Friday where we join Lisa-Jo to write for 5 minutes every week. 

5 minutes only , you speak your mind about that certain topic. No backing, no over thinking. Just let your heart write whatever it has. It doesn't matter if it's written right or wrong. Express yourself and be free. 

Won't you join me too for today's topic which is about: Awake

I'll set the timer on 5 minutes, ready?

set!

GO!

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Don't Do It!

 

Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart.  

Cling to them as they would be your life,

For without them, life is meaningless.

Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future.

By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.

Don't give up when you still have something to give.

Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

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Tips for Kanji: On & Kun Reading

This blog is not about languages nor about Japanese but it IS about the experience I gained in different fields and Kanji happens to be one of them. So today I'll share my method in learning how to know the Kun from the On reading.

The most interesting thing about Japanese is Kanji. It's fun and difficult in the same thing. Learning the writing system is unique and none like other. It's not just letters and alphabets, it's specific drawings that have certain meaning that what makes it interesting.

Before starting with it, one needs a lot of tips and info about Kanji in general. I read many useful ones and figured out a method of my own. But first there's one important note, at the beginning it seems a real hard thing and as many believe it takes a long time to finish though it's true that it takes some time to learn almost an amount that makes you able to read Japanese but it's not a long time, depending on how much you study every day.

Here's a simple way I followed in learning kanji:

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Small Yet Important

Things maybe small, invisible or tiny
but they hold great meanings
by the value they add or the joy they give 

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When Chinese Talking English

Talking Chinese

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How to Control Short Temper

Being a short tempered person can cause you troubles on your health and relationships. Controlling such temper could be a challenge at some points. Whenever you find yourself firing up if a guys talked with you in a rude way or your friend forget to get you your stuff or even if your whole day went bad, you could consider these steps to tame your temper. 

 

1. Counting to 10

Yeah! We said this a lot of times to kids and saw it in movies and shows and in fact this method is really helpful and powerful. Taking a deep breath and counting to ten lets your mind to take a break from what happened and think it all over again. 

2. Change Position 
If you are standing sit down. If you are sitting lay down. Change your body satiation from a condition to another will allow the body to clam down. 

3. Think before you speak
When the anger is all over you, you'll say things you don't mean and regret for it later. So don't make this mistake and take a little bit of time before replying back. 

4. Take a break 
If someone made you mad just stop the conversation for a while and take a break. Eat a light snack, walk in the garden, watch a short video clip. Just allow your mind to free the stress then talk again with clear mind. 

5. Wash your face 
When you're mad it's like getting FIRED with anger. Splash your face with water to (cool) that (fire) then you'll feel you're are losing your anger slowly slowly. 

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Contentment~! The Endless Treasure

Let me ask you something, how's your life going?! 

Are you happy with the way you are!? 

Or working to get yourself a better life?! 

Do you consider yourself one who didn't get blessed with God's gifts?! 

and living your life everyday in a misery?! 

 

As I always say, people's goal in this life is mainly to have a comfortable living style. Less work more money and lasting rest and relaxation. You just can't live like that unless you really have a the materials that allow you to enjoy life in such way. Some people work to their bones, others are blessed and live in heaven. The don't have to do anything at all. The money just comes to them. It's their destiny to have all these. 

Even though you do your best you find yourself sometimes the saddest person in the whole world! I know, it happens with me too at some points...  

When you come to see the reason you notice it's due the lack of money, rest, education, blessing, some compare their selves to others and say (why I'm not like my neighbor) or (why I don't have the same beauty as my friend does) stuff like that make you think over and over then consider yourself the unlucky-est person out there. 

You work for these and even think about them, it's a natural thing. Cause everybody are doing their best to get at better level. But, what I want to to think of is something else. Suppose that you're  not as beautiful and your friend or not rich as your schoolmate or lucky as your co-worker, whoever that are comparing yourself with. Just let them aside and think about what YOU really got. Even if you are missing something there's always another item covering up for you. 

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Five Minutes Friday: Roar

It's Friday where we join Lisa-Jo to write for 5 minutes every week. 

5 minutes only , you speak your mind about that certain topic. No backing, no over thinking. Just let your heart write whatever it has. It doesn't matter if it's written right or wrong. Express yourself and be free. 

Won't you join me too for today's topic which is about: Roar 

I'll set the timer on 5 minutes, ready?

set!

GO!

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Crème Caramel

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One of my all time favorite sweets. It's easy to make, the ingredients are so simple and always available in the kitchen and of course not to mention it's super tasty.

Makes 6 3-inch (4 oz) ramekins

[Caramel sauce]

200 g white sugar

[Custard]

4 large eggs (200 g)

100 g white sugar (about ½ cup)

½  tsp vanilla extract

500 ml whole milk

Now, let's make some sweet to have a sweet day~!

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5 Simple Ways to Chase Away the Black Mood

Even when you do your best there will be times when things go wrong, people misunderstand you, something goes incorrectly. No matter how much you control your temper a time will come when you lose it or get into a black mood. 

This is where you'll feel frustrated and depressed. You could act badly with others cause of your emotion status thought that is not your fault and you are just having a bad time. You should chase away that atmosphere and clear up what's in your head. 

I believe everybody got their own solution for such stuff. Even if you just leave it that way it is or follow a certain method, it's be a good idea to check these new ways on how to chase a way a black mood. 

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Designations & Mindset

Project Manager is a Person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in one month.  

Developer is a Person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a Baby.

Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month.

Client is the one who doesn't know why he wants a baby.

Marketing Manager is a person who thinks he can deliver a baby even if no man and woman are available.

Resource Optimization Team thinks they don't need a man or woman; they'll produce a child with zero resources.

Documentation Team thinks they don't care whether the child is delivered, they'll just document 9 months.

Quality Auditor is the person who is never happy with the PROCESS to produce a baby.

Tester is a person who always tells his wife that this is not the Right baby .
 

HR manager is a person who thinks that a donkey can deliver a human baby if given 9 month.

 

Beautiful Tea Presentations

One of the famous arts in Asia is presenting tea. There are many methods, lessons and even schools that teach the importance of this custom and how to serve it properly.

Today's picture talk is about tea presentation, not how to provide but some - creative - pictures of tea, saucer and teaspoon. 

 Here are some collection of totally cool tea pair sets, they are variety of:

Animals and fish

Nature: Flowers and Green

Butterflies and Birds

Now off with the wonderful pairs you'll fall in love with~!

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12 New Hobbies for 2012

Here it is! 

As the new year comes everybody puts up their resolutions to this year. One of the fun things to do is add a new hobby to your list that won't cost you anything and in the same time you will gain new experience, skill, have fun and of course build confident and discover how much you can really make. 

So, here are 12 hobbies to add  into your resolutions list: 

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