Bangkok

Bangkok (Thai: กรุงเทพฯ Krung Thep) is the capital of Thailand and by far its largest city with an estimated population of over 10 million.

History
Bangkok (originally Bang Makok) was a small village on the banks of the Chao Phraya river, until a new capital was founded on the west bank (present-day Thonburi) after the fall of Ayutthaya. In 1782, King Rama I built a palace on the east bank (now Rattanakosin) and renamed the city as Krung Thep, as it is now known to Thais -- the City of Angels (and much more: the full name is listed as the world's longest place name by the Guinness Book of Records; an English rendering goes like this: "Krung thep mahanakhon amorn ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burirom udomratchanivetmahasathan amornpiman avatarnsathit sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit" -- "The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (of Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn"). The original village has long since ceased to exist, but for some reason foreigners never caught on to the change.

Dear Father God, please protect my keke & I during our short holiday to Bangkok. Please let us enjoy and learn the beauty that you have created in Bangkok, and let us have a safe journey back home. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Making up Excuses

I asked a friend of mine recently why he seems unafraid of failure, and how he remains upbeat in the face of difficulties. And he shared his life philosophy with me - he said that every time he fails, he examines the situation critically, comes up with three reasons why he failed and from there, he thinks of three ways he can improve it. That way, he will be always learning and constantly looking forward to a better future.

That had made me think about how we all could benefit from that manner of thinking positively. When we failed at doing something, most of us tend to make up excuses for ourselves - e.g. because I'm not born cleaver, because the judges were bais and etc..

Making up excuses has been part of our life (and we nevere seem to do it better if we are given the same senario again for the 2nd time) well at least for most of us... but there's a great way to make your excuses work for you.

The next time you feel like making an excuse, instead of thinking of an excuse why we can't do it, try instead making an excuse why you think you can do it. Since we all are experts in making up excuses, we won't need much training in this area, so just shift our focus to instead of we can't do it, lets focus on what we can do. Instead of coming up with all kinds of excuses why it won't work, let's focus on why it can work. This is just like how my friend comes up with three ways he can improve the next time. But you don't have to stop at three? Give yourself no room to make up excuses why you can't. Instead of focusing energy on excuses that don't serve you in moving forward, make up excuses that inspires and motivates you to do what you want to do. Excuses like "there is no time like the present", "I am just the person to do the job", "I know all the ways it can work."

Be creative and think as many as you like.

Goodbye Forever FRENEMY

As I write this column, I'm still reeling back in shock from the latest stab in the back by a group of "frenemy" from my secondary school frens. The problem is not them is me! I feel that if I do not write this down somewhere, after some time I will slowly "forgive & forget" the incident that they did to me, and (me being me) I will begining to put my trust back on this person again. Enough is enough!! I got to put an end to this rubbish-friends !!!

I have to say while I was in my teenage years, I always have a very strong mindset that there's nothing I couldn't do and I'm always sharp in picking those positive energy. But lately I feel that all that has slowly lost in me because we started to see each other more often now because of my wedding preparation.... I started to realised it's the ppl who's around me that have give me such negetive energy i.e. bad chi/karma. As you know, evil energy or spirits and toxic-fren like to disturb those innocent, girl with happy life and somehow weak ppl. I admit lately I've become not very strong physically but I've found GOD to keep me back on track again. I trust HIM for that.

I told myself that I will never ever want to see their face again nor talk to them... I will not want to be like the rest, who (hv no opinion of their own even they are 27yo at this age) just grin and bear their naiveness like a 3yo child who has no direction at all and spending time on chatting nonsense behind other ppl back! Enough is enough!!!

I have to spend more of my time on meaningful friendships instead of the old that had already passed their expiry dates... It's even meaningless to think of them~!

As I read my fave marie claire magezine for this month, I was so shocked to know that this anonymous author also have the exactly same feeling as mine. She was like writting down all my thoughts in that last page of that magazine. At first I was a bit shocked, thinking "hey, did I wrote this and send it to the publishing company???" Then again, I realised that this authour has experienced the exact incident what I'm experiencing right on the same month!! Oh well, I understand that this was publish in May so she could have wrote it in April...

I was suddenly relief.... guess I'm just a normal gal after all, like any other young adults... and I have to say this "frenemy" really do exsist!! They are out there, looking forward to crush your life no matter what (because of their evil up bringing and for one main reason mostly are either poor or low self esteem). So watch out for them and never ever be like them so selfish and jealous about other ppl's life.

I should count my own blessings and I will be happy for what I am.

Like the authour said, though we live on the same planets but we have nothing in common. And NO! this is not a freindship I want to take to my grave. So goodbye frenemy and I do not wish to ever see your face ever again! Even I do, I'll just think it's translucent. hahah...

Words for Thought...

Everything falls easily into prespective when we see life as a gift from God...

Marriage is a covenant between a man and a women who commit themselves to living a Godly life....

The next thing to look forward to...

I have this craziest idea recently - to watch Rain's concert in Thailand to see what's the differences between the concert in Malaysia vs. Thailand - and I managed to convinced my keke to also buy into my idea... Here, I would like to take this opportunity to thank him for being so supportive most of the time. YOU ARE THE BEST KEKE!

Let's pray to God that our online ticket will be solved by the Thailand counterpart soon...

Here's the sitting plan of the stadium:

This is also a good time for me and my keke to get away from it all and enjoy a good concert after all these while. Frankly speaking, I haven't been to a good concert before. Hopefully Rain's concert won't be a dissappointment.