Sunday, September 23, 2007

THE UNEXPECTED INCOME PRAYER
The following prayer has been used by many people with wonderful and surprising results. Speak it out loud, once or twice daily.

THE UNEXPECTED INCOME PRAYER
I believe God is the source of all supply, and money is God in action, and should be used for good.
I believe my good is now freely flowing to me so bountifully I cannot use it all, and I have an abundance to spare and to share, today, and always. I am expecting
"Unexpected Income!"

I believe God is now giving this to me and I accept this as Truth and give thanks.

All channels of financial supply are now open to me and I am richly, bountifully
and beautifully prospered in every good way.

I believe true Prosperity includes the demonstration of right living conditions,
right activity and right kinds of happiness.

This word, which I speak in faith, believing, now activates the law of increased
universal good for me and I expect to see rich results now!

I visualize the financial good I expect.

I see it coming to me richly and abundantly.

I claim and accept it for myself now.

I am grateful in advance! I bless all the good I now have, and bless the increase.

I bless all others in the
"Unexpected Income!" program, and I know we are now
all prospering together in every good way, and share the good we receive.

I now freely give my tenth to God's good work.

My giving is making me rich!

God gives to me rich, lavish financial blessings now!

This is so now.

I am grateful.

Thank you, God!


Unexpected Income

Hi Readers,

Just want to share this Unexpected Income Prayer that I received via email from someone sometime ago for you to try out.

THE UNEXPECTED INCOME PRAYER
The following prayer has been used by many people with wonderful and surprising results. Speak it out loud, once or twice daily.

THE UNEXPECTED INCOME PRAYER
I believe God is the source of all supply, and money is God in action, and should be used for good.
I believe my good is now freely flowing to me so bountifully I cannot use it all, and I have an abundance to spare and to share, today, and always. I am expecting
"Unexpected Income!"

I believe God is now giving this to me and I accept this as Truth and give thanks.

All channels of financial supply are now open to me and I am richly, bountifully
and beautifully prospered in every good way.

I believe true Prosperity includes the demonstration of right living conditions,
right activity and right kinds of happiness.

This word, which I speak in faith, believing, now activates the law of increased
universal good for me and I expect to see rich results now!

I visualize the financial good I expect.

I see it coming to me richly and abundantly.

I claim and accept it for myself now.

I am grateful in advance! I bless all the good I now have, and bless the increase.

I bless all others in the
quest for Unexpected Income, and I know we are now
all prospering together in every good way, and share the good we receive.

I now freely give my tenth to God's good work.

My giving is making me rich!

God gives to me rich, lavish financial blessings now!

This is so now.

I am grateful.

Thank you, God!


Thursday, September 6, 2007

Wrong Diagnosis?

Ever since the day the doctor told me I had a swollen liver, that I was diabetic and had high cholesterol, I started making adjustments to my lifestyle. I have since lost 5 kg.

I went to see our in-house doctor and when she examined my blood profile she told me that I was not diabetic and my cholesterol was not high. She asked me to stop taking both medication and then examined my liver. I was surprised that she said my liver was fine. She then wrote a note for me to have a liver scan to confirm this. The following day I went to the hospital for a liver scan. The reports came out that was my liver was fine. Not only that, my pancreas, spleen and kidneys are fine too. Whee...that was truly amazing good news for me.

Now that I am in this state, I am just wondering what kind of wrong diagnosis was given by the first specialist? They scare you with all the wrong diagnosis and made you come regularly for consultation. The place was so full with patients. Now I know why. It is a rip off.

I do not deny that after the first health scare, the wake up call was a good one for me but the wrong diagnosis? Had I not went for a second opinion, I would be doomed for life on diabetic and high cholesterol medication. Guess, God is on my side and gave me all the signs and warning.

I am grateful for this discovery and shall continue my quest for a healthier lifestyle as I feel that my new mission in life is about to begin.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

A Walk In The Park


It has been months since I last had my regular walk in the park which is a mile away from where I live. This morning when I woke up, I failed the motivation test as when I could not find my pedometer; I quit making the move to walk. I ended up internet browsing and reading instead.

By mid-day my daughter and I went to watch the latest Disney movie, Ratatouille. It was about a rat having a strong passion to become a chef. There’s lots of learning in the movie, about living your passion, about no giving up and about standing up to what you believe in. As we walked out of the cinema, my 15-year old daughter, Adilah said that she would want to be a chef.

She has always expressed her desire to be a chef. Ever since she was seven, she started watching all the cooking shows, experiments some recipes and at one point even sold some of her culinary delights to her classmates. Watching Ratatouille reinforced her passion and by now she is very sure of becoming a chef one day.

When evening comes, I started to feel restless and decided to take a walk in the nearby park. I put on my sports attire, my walking shoes and drove to the park. My target was to hit 2 rounds which cover approximately 2 miles. As I hit the ground, I started to savor the scenes at the park. First I encountered people feeding monkeys. There must be more than fifty monkeys, some adults and some looked like they’re mere babies a few weeks old. They looked so cute running around and eating bits of bread from the kind visitors.

The shooting fountain at the lake was also a great view and there’s a group of people scooping small fishes from the pond with their little nets. I wondered what they would do with the little fish they caught. Taking the fish from their natural habitat would surely shorten their life span.

As I continued walking, I met Marilyn, a colleague at work. I was inspired when I saw her as I knew that she just had a knee surgery and she is already walking. I used to see her when I walked during weekends.

At one point, I started to talk to the trees from my heart, that I missed them and thanked them for still being there for the rest of the joggers. I used to walk before sunrise and the air was fresher in the morning. The smell of the trees is fresher and the fragrance of the flowers is truly remarkable at 5.30 a.m. When I passed the waterfall, I stopped for a moment to savor the therapeutic sound and vision of the water flowing into the lake with the fish swimming underneath it. The scenery was worth savoring for.

I walked for 45 minutes and today reached 6,946 steps on my pedometer. My ultimate goal is to reach 10,000 steps on a daily basis. I have led a very sedentary life and most days I would clocked in around 1,200 steps. Can you believe that? I have always been very tired and use the excuse as coming home late from work for not walking or exercising.

Today, I am grateful that I made a choice to begin my exercise by taking a walk in the park.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Meeting With A Millionaire



On Thursday morning, my part-time young driver sent me to a specialist. I was there a week ago. This time it was for me to take my blood test results. When the doctor related the results to me, it was like "The Day That Changed My Life".

I am not sure how to describe it but it was so real. My liver is swollen. That shocked me as I have no clue how it can happen. I have never consumed alcohol in my entire life, never had jaundice fever and never was on any liver medication. My blood sugar was high, my cholesterol was high and my white blood cells count was high which was termed as mild leucocytosis. Next, the doctor told me what I should eat i.e. fish and vegetables only and told me of the medication I need to take etc. When I was in the doctor's room lying down listening to him, it all happened so fast and I cannot recall how I felt. The doctor was good, he gave me assurance not to worry, he would give some medication and would see me again in three weeks.

A call was made to my part-time driver and as I waited for the nurse to dispense the medication, all that the doctor had just said began to sink in. I felt like crying as it dawned on me how serious my health condition was and I may not live very long. I knew and had been struggling to lose weight but I guess nothing ever hit me until I read those reports. Since last week, after my first visit, I had stricter control on my diet and I had lost 9.68 pounds. For a week, I had been cutting down on my food, limiting to mainly fish, chicken and vegetables. Each day, I got excited losing the pounds as I plotted my graph.

As I begin to worry about my condition, suddenly images of Hamu crossed my mind. She was our Call Center Staff who had liver cancer almost at the final stage where all the doctors told her she had a few more months to live. Whatever the doctors had said, seeing her was a different matter altogether. She appeared normal and excited and no one would guess how terminally ill she was. It's been two years since she beat it, got married last year and delivered a healthy baby last month. Images of her bubbly personality came into my mind. Her condition was far worse than mine and I then resolve that I can beat this too.

Even though at times images of defeat slide in, I kept thinking about the show I was going to perform on Friday in front of 100 audience. I planned to have an outstanding opening with dry ice for an Agency Executive Seminar in a hotel. Well that kept me going.

When my driver fetched me, he spoke about a millionaire he met the previous night and he was surprised the millionaire knew me well. Then I made a call to this young millionaire, Azman Bidin. I told him I wanted to see him. He agreed and we met at 8.30 p.m. Two young man and another friend joined us. It was inspiring to see him and how he has grown. He spoke a great deal on the mindset, what it takes to be successful and shared with us his experience and even his dreams. It was uplifting to see him speak. Anyone who sees this frail looking man who is exceptionally thin wouldn't guess that he is so powerful, so influential, so passionate yet so humble in his ways. We were with him for 3 hours and at the end of the session, the two young man who came with me shared their excitement to jump in the business with the millionaire. I, too am so impressed with him as I once knew him as a staff in an Audit Department from the same company where I once worked. Both of us had left that company.

After my meeting with him that night, I forgot about my condition, reached for my computer as soon as I got home, worked on my presentation materials and went for slumber at 2.00 a.m. Yesterday I woke up at 7.00 a.m., switched on my computer and did my finishing touches on my slides.

I had a great session where I managed to mesmerize my audience with my story about the boy who shocked Harry Houdini with a magic trick. I did the magic trick in front of the audience where I held a scarf, then picked a watch from a lady, put it under the scarf, got a person from each table to touch the watch and then went up to the front to show the full visibility of my next move. I then swing the scarf around and showed them that the watch had disappeared! Half of the audience stood up wondering what had happened and how I did it. I turned the pockets of my jackets out so that they could see that I did not hid it anywhere in my jacket. Then I told them that I couldn't share with them how it was done and I said,"It's called 'Job Security'!". The audience laughed. The experience was truly fulfilling. Of course, I learned all that from my own learning investment attending the American Society for Training & Development Conference in Orlando, Florida in June, the year of September 11 incident. I created myself to be exclusive just as what Azman, the Millionaire said that being exclusive is key in becoming a successful person.

Hence, my night with the millionaire was a night to remember as it happened on The Day That Changed My Life!

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Silver Anniversary

Today, I am grateful to be alive to celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary. Yesterday, my daughter arrived from Arizona, enduring 19 hours of a long haul flight. She read Harry Potter cover to cover three times, did some calculus, and chatted with a passenger from California whom she did not even bother to ask his name. It felt good to see her again after leaving her in Arizona early this year.

Last night she wanted to see her cousins (the children of the late Rusina). It felt so sad that she did not make it to see her. One of the main reasons to bring her home at that time was to see the late Rusina. We brought chocolate brownies as a memento of my silver anniversary last night to see them. We had dinner together with the rest of the extended family. As we finished dinner, we cut the brownies and distributed to them. Then the late Rusina’s husband slowly mentioned to us that he thought he would be able to reach his 25 years of marriage next year.

Hearing him made me realize how precious life is and how blessed my life is.

Looking at the other side of it, in fact he is much, much better off as he has eight wonderful children and they are very well-mannered. The eight children are well bonded. They love each other very much. I was happy that I spent my time with them last night.


Today, my husband bought me a Nokia E90 communicator! I am grateful for this gift of abundance. Being someone who is so into gadgets, I bet my colleagues in the office will definitely ask me the same question of how many cell phones I own. In fact I have a few. After a series of Nokia and then Nokia 9300 communicator, I use the Motorola 3G and at times Huawei 3G. Since I am into 3G connection, I thought that my next move is the E90 that is a communicator, with 3G capabilities, wifi, radio, camera, video, wireless presenter and so many other extra features that I am yet to explore.

Today I thank God for the abundance that flow into my life and tonight ends well with dinner at my sister’s place with my brother-in-law who showed me his red Nokia E90.


Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Making a Difference

Yesterday was a heart-wrenching day for all of us. The late Rusina’s children stayed up all night for her the previous night, surrounding her with prayers for her soul. All eight of them stuck together around her bed facing her cold lifeless body. It would break anyone’s heart to see the pain in their eyes.

It was also far too painful for her parents who were together with her children. This is the third time they lost a child. The first was their first born son, who left this world due to high fever at a very tender age. Ten years ago, Ani who had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) passed away when she was 25. She was diagnosed of leukemia when she was 16. She went through rounds of chemotherapy and radiation therapy for a year. After that, she recovered and led a normal life for 10 years finishing high school and went to college to pursue her undergraduate studies. It was before her final year that she relapsed. She went through another round of treatment but it was too late as her body had weakened. Now, ten years after her passing, her eldest sister had Acute Myeloid Leukemia which took her within a month and was buried next to her yesterday.

For the late Rusina, many came to visit her. What touches everyone was the fact that four school buses of her students came to see her for the last time and prayed for her. It was a traumatic time for her children as they wept uncontrollably as they prepare to carry her away yesterday at noon.

She must have touched hundreds of lives. Her children, her parents, her siblings, her nieces, her nephews, her relatives, her friends, her colleagues, her business partners, and even the bus driver who sponsored the trip for the students to see her. She must have made a difference in his life too.

Today, July 24, 2007 is a very sad day for all of us.
Today, we were supposed to get the blood match so that a stem cell transplant can be done to save her life. The plan was to take her blood sample today at 8.00 a.m. and then all siblings will gather in another hospital at 9.30 a.m. to have their blood samples taken so that a match is sought. In a week, the results will be released and the right donor is identified. It will then take a further 6 weeks for the stem cells to be cultured and then transplanted into her body.

Today no one knows whose blood is the exact match for her, as today she is no longer with us.
Today, she has left us and God had spared her the suffering and pain.
All of us shall now begin our healing by staying strong.
We shall keep memories of her close in our hearts as she had made a difference in our lives.