Wisdom-to-share

Note: This article was my writing speech for the Area J4 humorous speech contest on 28 September 2012. It was the first time I joined the humorous speech contest. I won the second place in my club, but suddenly I have to compete to area level. I won the second place. Honestly I didn’t follow all my writing but I did well at that moment. When I don’t have any burden in my mind to win the competition, I already win myself before the contest. After 40 A couple months ago I had a high school reunion party, it was time to show off a bit after more than 27 years.  I prepared for that night. I chose my best dress, so I would look younger and sexier. Unfortunately when I just arrived at the front door and wrote my name … one skinny lady came and said, “ Hi… Lina! Wows… long time not see…. Looked at you… O…  you have extra lines under your eyes. Do you use night cream? And what happened with your hair? Your highlight color is not right; you have silver color. Li...

“If your children look up to you, you’ve made a success of life’s biggest job.” Unknown.  Every time I met my student and he usually asked me, “Lina, how about your daughters?” I always loved to answer his questions. I always told him about my daughters’ achievement. He always smiled and said, “Lina, you are so proud of your daughters and you always full of love for them” I smiled and said, “I am blessed to be their mom” Both of us smiled and shared the happiness as parents.  One day, he asked me totally different question, “Lina, I have one question for you. You have spent money to send them studying abroad, what you will do if they die now?” O… I never thought I had to imagine about that. Sometimes in life, we saw people lost someone they loved and we never thought it would happen to us. Have I thought about it? Yes, 19 years ago I had an argument with my doctor when I wanted him to do the ligation because I wouldn’t have any more babies. My doctor came with an argume...

On July 21st is my mom’s birthday, I planned a trip to Singapore for her 77th birthday celebration. Two days before the trip I wasn’t feeling well at all. I needed to cancel a meeting with my friend. A meeting was set for my friend’s son who needed some advices. I felt so sorry I couldn’t meet them in person, but I really thought my health condition would affect my trip. My friend understood my reason to cancel the meeting. Anyway I shared with him about my trip for celebrating my mom’s birthday. My friend said, “Lin, I want to give something for your mom” He sent something for my mom. Just a day before the trip, my mom was surprised to get the gift from my friend. She just knew my friends by name but she might not know my friends in person. My friend sent his best wishes for my mom through my cell phone. He wrote, “Lina, please tell your mom… she has outstandingly educated you…so you become a blessing to people around you” It touched my heart. When I read that message to my mom...

My dearest husband Jozef, Today I will not write you the same notes. I always have thousand words to write about you and thousand stories to share with you. We have been sharing our life for twenty one years together. I am so grateful that we can go through problems and obstacles in our marriage. We still can enjoy walking hand in hand together. You are not a man who will give me a diamond ring, but you always give supports so I can shine in my life. You are not a romantic man who will prepare a candle light dinner, but you always make sure I can have my favorite food. You are not a man who will buy me the luxurious branded bag; you prefer to give me a simple present that I can write notes and articles. You show your love in a very simple way and it makes me so special. It doesn’t matter if you can not be so romantic, the most important that I always know that you always give me your support. I have your shoulder to cry on… I have your hand to hold me when I am weak. I alwa...

The title of this article came into my mind while I was standing in the middle of buildings in one area of factory outlet in San Marcos, Texas. It was the second times I drove from Austin to San Marcos, because my mom loved to go around the shops. I looked around the branded stuff and I was tempted to buy something. There was a battle in my mind every time my hand grabbed something, there was always a question, “Do I need to buy it or just nice to have it?” I hope I don’t need any more battles in my mind about shopping. There is no denying situation; I used to be the person who loves to collect good stuff. I have a collection of small things but now all my collection was sitting dusty in the cupboard. I remembered spending so much time to find my collection and I adored them so much when I got it. Then time goes by … The excitement was gone. Sometimes I look at my collection and brought the memories back into my mind… I remembered I spent so much time walking from shop to shop, I ...

Once Dalai Lama said, “The purpose of our lives is to be happy” The statement is very strong and simple. How many of us believe in that statement? How many of us think to be in that stage of happiness? I was in the talk show “All is well” from Ajahn Brahm the author of the book “Who ordered this truckload of dung? Or Opening the door of your heart” He is a great author and a great monk. In his book, he shared simple funny stories to open our heart to see happiness in every single thing in life and see problems in positive perspective. Ajahn Brahm told one story that in life we used to show our pictures, wedding pictures, and graduation pictures. All pictures are good pictures with happy faces or happy moments in life. We wouldn’t put our bad pictures. However we all like to keep the bad memories in our mind. It might be because we want to hide those bad memories from other people or we love the bad memories and they become our attachment. If we love to show the world, we are happ...

It was one of my busy days; suddenly I got a message, “Miss, do you want a chicken pie?” I was so hungry at that moment; however I couldn’t escape from my teaching time. The young man came to give me two pieces of chicken pie while I was starving during my teaching time. I was touched by that simple action. He is a brother of one of my students. We knew each other through a social network. World is so small and we met in the same building. I promised to have a chat with him during my lunch time. Right after teaching, I saw him standing and there was something in his hand. He gave me that box and I asked him, “What is this?” He said, “A cheesecake for you Miss” I was wondering, “Why do you buy me a cheesecake? “ He walked besides me and he said, “O… I saw in your status something about you want a cheesecake for your birthday” Ops… I forgot that I wrote in my face book about a cheesecake on my birthday. When I wrote it I didn’t think someone would keep in his mind. This young ma...