That's the title of a book actually.
"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men." (Matthew 5:13)
Salt-- a preservative. a flavour. a thirst-maker. And that's what Christians are called to be. An eternal preservative through sharing of the message, a true flavour through purposeful and meaningful living, and one who draws others to thirst and know the ONE God.
No particular reason for putting this sheep here. It's a cutie pinkie sheepie from Settler's cafe, complete with couches, sofas, cushions, soft toys and plenty of board games... quite a good hangout for friends... with western food and oreo shakes and ice-cream floats.
Food rhymes with mood. For this lame reason, I have the excuse for writing about that which struck me today... about how easily excitable people like me should not be overwhelmed by the ups and downs of life.
"There are certain things in life that we need not pray about -- moods, for instance. We will never get rid of moodiness by praying, but we will by kicking it out of our lives. Moods nearly always are rooted in some physical circumstance, not in our true inner self. It is a continual struggle not to listen to the moods which arise as a result of physical condition, but we must never submit to them for a second. We have to pick ourselves up by the back of the neck and shake ourselves; then we will find that we can do what we believed we were unable to do. The problem that most of us are cursed with is simple that we won't. The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination." (My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers)
Look at a half-finished cross stitch from the bottom and you see a mess of strings. But take a look at it from the top... and you'll see a beautiful picture in the making. Moods and circumstances take a different light when you look at the things as from the Above.
Of foods and moods, here's some food for thought... some quote of the day thingie I used to have. Here's another one.
OKieeeee!!! Photos photos here they come!
I've been wanting to blog but haven't managed to bolt myself to the seat... and get photoshop and blogger to work for me. I wanna learn flash! And dreamweaver! And... I'm up for kickboxing next sat! hahaha. And I've finally made a slow start at driving school... yes yes I'm on my way... and here's the photos...
This is ze Moonriver River Restaurant... a nice jazzy place furnished with couches!! haha. The lighting is relaxingly dim... and there's dark blue panels, artsy wall pics, bookshelves... and desserts, cakes and food, food and more food! Serves Western food and Japanese curry (comes in normal, spicy and extra spicy. My pick? spicy.)
My pick of the day at Moonriver was... the homestyled fish! Crispy and super tender and soft and juicy! haha. See the herbs in the fish? There's oregano in it! And the potato and brocoli are blanched or erm stir-fried... I don't know what they did to them but there's a really nice and light buttery smell which is not at all oily! Butter rice wise.... I think you should go try Pepper Lunch (arm yourself with $10-15) :p Anyways, good to have at least $20 with you at Moonriver.
More food over here. This has been endearingly termed as the budget Western food! ($10 bucks will do for a meal!) Welcome to Hans. You're looking at ze Sirloin steak together with ze cream of potato soup-of-the-day as well as toasts and orange juice and honey dew... Hmmm. Well. I think I still miss Bobby Rubino's tossed salad. Honey mustard please. (Bobby Rubino's? Bring your credit card :X)
After you're done with budget Western food... you go to the ladies at Tampines Mall... and you see one of the ideal toilets!!! (Yeah, I blogged about toilets. Go read the toilet's 'Must' and 'Must nots') What you see is actually the mirror reflection of ze toilet! Thumbs up for big, fingerprint-free mirror and nice couches in the toilet! And there're dressing counters/ tables/ make-up stations for ppl too! This is one good public toilet you can sit and have girlie chat in... haha.
And when you get home from a good heavy meal with a good old friend, you'd be drowsy and tired... and ready for a warm bath and bed. Upon emerging from the lift, you realise....
You can't get to your house without balancing on some shakey wooden planks which weren't there in the afternoon. Guess this happens when PAP had a walkover in your consituency haha. Floorworks and upgrading. Well, after performing balancing acts for a few days, it seemed a little worthwhile that the corridor looks much neater and cleaner after that. :)
With that, I end with 2 pictures, freaky to different extents.
Picture no. 1:
Scenario: I was half-awake, rushing off to camp at 7am when I saw a girl with long black hair lying on the pavement, curled up and unconscious... My heart skipped a few beats and I wondered what I should do...
Then I shook my head and rubbed my eyes... It wasn't a girl. It's a black trash bag with white paper and branches spilling out of it. Sheeesssh.
Picture no. 2:
Scenario: I was waiting for the bus when I spotted something squiggly squirming and worming from the corner of my eye. It's something spikey. No, make it hairy. It's a Hairy yellow caterpillar with a one-inch long spike near it's head!!
See that brownish black spike jutting out hear it's orange head? Gross! I wonder if it's part of the caterpillar or if it's a poor caterpillar that has been struck by a sharp twig... And out of all my curiousity, I stood there staring... and with my lousy phone that has no zoom function, I had to place my phone within just one mere inch of this hairy thingie to get a decent picture. So appreciate it ya.
Till my next entry... tata.
