My 100 List

1. jungle trek the Amazon rainforest in Brazil
2. visit the largest aquarium in the world
3. skydive
4. visit the 7 wonders of the world:
- Eiffel Tower, Paris
- Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa
- Colosseum, Rome
- Stonehenge, Bath
- Great Wall of China, Beijing
- Taj Mahal, Agra
- Pyramids, Egypt
5. travel around Europe on the EuroStar
6. keep a pet albino python
7. run the Penang Bridge International Marathon
8. be inked by Amanda Wachob
9. climb Mount Kinabalu
10. tour Scandinavia
11. learn to play the cello
12. take up photography
13. become a Unicef ambassador
14. pick-up painting again
15. revisit Jesmond Parish Church & CF in Newcastle, UK
16. participate in the Genting Trailblazer
17. be a missionary in Africa
18. view the Northern Lights in Norway
19. learn to scuba dive
20. do a WOD at CrossFit East Decatur, Atlanta Georgia
21. visit Angeliki in Cyprus
22. celebrate New Year's Eve at Times Square, New York
23. honeymoon at Santorini, Greek Islands
24. skinny dip
25. explore the ancient Pompeii in Italy
26. own a beach house
27. swim with fresh water dolphins in the Amazon river
28. conduct a Bible study camp for kids on the mission field
29. visit the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park
30. have a portrait of my first baby bump
31. join a rowing team
32. throw a garage sale
33. visit the Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy
34. witness dad's salvation
35. be a strat planner
36. swim in the Beijing Olympic pool
37. attend all F1 grand prix
38. go on a mission trip to Nepal
39. get over my fear of jumping off from high places
40. visit all of Gaudi's buildings
41. learn to pole-dance
42. start a Christian Fellowship in the mission field
43. work at the Droga5 Manhattan office
44. have a water birth
45. create a brilliant advertising campaign that will change the lives of people
46. work in a foreign country
47. act in a play
48. soak in the hot springs of Iceland
49. swim with sharks
50. attend the New York and Paris fashion week
51. meet Frank Gehry
52. take part in the NaNoWriMo
53. attend the CrossFit Games
54. try on a Vera Wang gown, just for fun
55. stay at the ice hotel in Sweden
56. ride on a crazy-insane-candiedotcom roller coaster
57. organise a 5-day *nomnom road trip around Malaysia
58. attend a wedding out of the country
59. learn capoeira
60. travel along the Fjord in Norway
61. make a cameo appearance in a Hollywood movie
62. go on a Bethlehem tour
63. ride on a bob sled
64. be discipled
65. disciple someone
66. decorate someone's home
67. read the Bible in a year
68. wear this Elie Saab dress for my wedding dinner
69. stay a week at any of the Oberoi hotels
70. brew the best coffee for future hubby every morning
71. shave off all the hair on my head
72. participate in the Terry Fox run
73. start my own business
74. go on a solo backpacking trip
75. raise funds for the African Foundation for Children with AIDS
76. watch a Broadway show in New York
77. read a poem to future hubby at the wedding
78. live in Melbourne for 3 years
79. party at Ibiza, Spain
80. learn to play tennis
81. take my parents on a US tour
82. travel along the Silk Road
83. learn to surf
84. shop at Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo
85. snap a pic with Neil Gaiman
86. visit a nudist beach
87. shoot a rifle
88. read 'Sleepy Kittens' to my little ones
89. observe Lent
90. holiday at Bora Bora Island, French Polynesia
91. conduct street evangelism
92. visit the LOTR set in New Zealand
93. stay a night at the Venetian in Las Vegas
94. sun-bathe nude
95. ride on a dog sleigh in Alaska
96. throw a themed party on my 30th 35th birthday
97. share a hot air balloon ride with someone I love
98. learn a foreign language (Japanese, perhaps?) Close enough...
99. white water raft in Sabah
100. start a fashion trend

Sometimes I wonder if I will ever get my happy ever after.

choosing you

Love is a choice.
I will meet others better than you
and others worse than you,
but I have chosen you
and will always choose you.

It goes the same for you; 
There will always be someone better than me,
and someone worse than me.
Remember, you chose me.

LDR

My head tells me to start the weaning process- so separation would be easier to handle.
But the heart says to spend as much time together as possible since I wouldn't be able to do so once I leave.

This is my 3rd time doing the long distance thing.
It really sucks.

five

three!

to love is to risk

Replant


There is something
we all forget
that only time
and the perfect
magnification
of hindsight
can replant in our
memories:
We are all
so much
stronger than
the things
we have
endured.
We must never
give
up.

-Tyler Knott Gregson-

the joy of loving

he allows me to love uninhibitedly

Just Listen

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying."

— Sarah Dessen

and then it was two