My New year's Resolution for year 2012

Now that the red flag for flood in Hatyai is lowered down, I have now peace of mind and enjoy this new year. I love the  clean slate each new year provides. Year 2011 was a great year for us- we have a blissful summer vacation in Philippines (it's Hyzyd's first time), my younger sister was granted 100% scholarship from Didyasarin International College here in Hatyai City (she's taking up AB Business English) , we're all perfectly healthy and we've managed to finish the year without debt! By God's grace, year 2012 will be even better!

I can stop thanking God for this new year. As always, New year brings hope and a new beginning. I'll continue to stay away from complaining and arguing. I won't let other people's negativity influence me. I work at tuning out pessimism and focusing on doing my best every day. I try to make myself indispensable by working hard, staying positive and contributing to the overall success of the school where I teach.

For year 2012, I will let God and His word guide me through : 'We...make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps' (Proverbs 16:9 NLT); 'Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.' (Proverbs 16:3 NLT) '...with God all things are possible' (Matthew 19:26 KJV). 

This year's gonna be AWESOME!!!

What are thankful for today?

What are you thankful for today? At this moment, I Thank God that flood hasn't reached our place. If you read HERE you'll know that some part of Hatyai City is flooded. We're perfectly fine!

How about you? The following vignettes (which have been widely circulated on the internet) can help put things into perspective and remind us of what we have to be thankful for:

1. If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of the people in the world.

2. If you can attend a church or synagogue meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.

3. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are more blessed than 500 million people in the world.

4. If you have money in the bank, money in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8 % of the world's wealthy.

5. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

a flood on New year?

Bye 2011! Welcome year 2012 and I guess it's time to download all our 2011 photos to CDs because our PC's hard drive is screaming RED already! We need the space for 2012 photos. After I could download all our photos to CDs and to our portable hard drive, I need to make about 2-4 copies (no need for me to look for cd replication shop because I don't need copies in bulk) to give to our family to be able to share to them what happened to us in year 2011. 

I need to go...News reached that a dam from Sadao will be opened and Hatyai is expecting flood..so sad...We need to prepare what needs to be prepared.

Happy and Blessed New Year 2012 to all!

God is sooo good! We're able to celebrate this special event with our family and friends. It's the first time for our family to really prepare something on the table late at night and still wide awake when the clock struck 12! Even our lil boy didn't go to bed. He enjoyed blowing his cutie party horn with a friend and witnessed fireworks from our friend's porch upstairs porch. Oh boy! It's New Year and it's raining cats and dogs in the side of our town! We're not able to capture the beautiful fireworks through our DSLR. But it's fine with us ..what is important is that we're happy and enjoyed the fireworks together, thankful that after 3 days, Hyzyd has finally recovered from fever (he's back to skinny and didn't enjoy his cracked lips:( ) and grateful to share our blessings to our love ones.

Let's start this New Year right.As we enter this New Year, let's stop and recall God's goodness, check the price tag on His will for our life against what we're already paying, and compare the rewards of both. Then, let's look in the mirror, and respect or correct what we're becoming:). We must let go of any old grudges that are weighing us down. Happy and blessed New year to all!