A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.

In our childhood, teddy bears are warm companions....good listeners, never critical, always reassuring. They are bear-shaped security blankets, huggable enough to fold in our arms, a perfect fit for our laps.

Age simply doesn't enter into it! The older the friend, the more he is valued, particularly when he shows so visibly the characteristics that we all look for in friends. You have only to look at a genuine teddy's face to see at once the loyalty, common sense, and above all, dependability behind it.

To a child, Teddy is a bridge between a human and and an animal. He doesn't mind being dressed in ridiculous hats, or even being read to. You can blame him for anything, and he won't deny it. His marvelous face expresses anything a child wants to feel or hear.

Lost In Dongdaemun

There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused, without a roadmap...The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days...Of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back.

But once in a while people push on to something better. Something found just beyond the pain of going it alone and just beyond the bravery and courage it takes to let someone in. Or to give someone a second chance...Something beyond the quite persistence of a dream.

Because it´s only when you´re tested that you truly discover who you are. And it´s only when you´re tested that you discover who you can be...The person that you want to be does exist, somewhere in the other side of hard work and faith, and belief and beyond the HEARTACHE and fear of what life has.

Gwanggali Beach - Busan

You ever look a picture of yourself, and see a stranger in the background?. It makes you wonder how many strangers have pictures of you. How many moments of other peoples life have we been in. Were we a part of someone's life when their dream came true or were we there when their dream died. Did we keep trying to get in? As if we were somehow destined to be there or did the shot take us by surprise.

Just think, you could be a big part of someone elses life, and not even know it.

Lupa kat mana..area2 insadong r..

If you could go back and just change one thing about your life, would you?

And if you did, would that change make your life better?

Or would that change ultimately break your heart?

Or break the heart of another?

Would you choose an entirely different path?

Or would you change just one thing?

Just one moment.

One moment that you've always wanted back

World Cup Stadium Lake Park

They said the rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart...


Why does a rose represent love, when a rose always dies?


I need an answer..

Boramae Park

I don't run from you. I walk away slowly. And it kills me because you don't care enough to stop me

They r so cute

1 Ramadhan

Yang buat aku terkilan tahun lepas adalah kegagalan aku untuk menyedari Ramadhan beransur pergi dengan perlahan. Sibuk dengan kerja, aku jadi leka. Atau aku sibuk dengan perkara lain waktu itu? Hmm. Aku lupa.

Tapi yang jelas dan yang aku ingat, bila Syawal menjelang aku seakan rindu Ramadhan yang telah pulang ke dalam kitarnya. Adakah itu tanda aku telah rugi dalam masa?

Tahun ini aku berpuasa seorang, raya pun seorang. Maksudnya tanpa yang istimewa. Dan aku jangka ia akan berterusan lama. Kerana aku telah penat.

Mungkin Ramadhan ini, aku akan temui mutiara yang aku rindui tahun lepas. Aku perlu bergegas untuk menuntut rahmat pemberian Dia yang di atas.

p/s: aku ucapkan kalian juga.

Ulsan - Rambut yg mmg kusut menjadi lebih kusut selepas meredah hujan yg lebat

The key to survive is denial. We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces.

We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world

Boramae Park - Seoul

At the end of the day, there are some things you just can't help but talk about. Some things we just don't want to hear, and some things we say because we can't be silent any longer. Some things are more than what you say, they're what you do. Some things you say because there's no other choice. Some things you keep to yourself. And not too often, but every now and then, some things simply speak for themselves.

Pain, it comes in all forms. The small twinge, a bit of soreness, the random pain, the normal pains that we live with everyday. Then there's the kind of pain you can't ignore. A level of pain so great that it blocks out everything else; makes the rest of your world fade away until all we can think about is how much we hurt. How we manage our pain is up to us. Pain. We anaesthetize, ride it out, embrace it, ignore it.. and for some of us, the best way to manage pain is to just push through it.

Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed, but sometimes the pain gets you when you least expect it, hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it, and life always makes more.

I did it just because I haven't seen a sunflower in black and white before, and because I like to play with the channel mixer.

Lying is bad. Or so we are told constantly from birth..Honesty is the best policy, the truth shall set you free..

The fact is, lying is a necessity. We lie to ourselves because the truth, the truth freaking hurts.
No matter how hard we try to ignore or deny it, eventually the lies fall away, whether we like it or not.

But here's the truth about the truth: It hurts. So we lie.

somewhere - seoul - raining

some said that silence is the true friend that never betrays

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

I think everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Anyang - Seoul

After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here’s what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown-up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own. But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us. And just when we think life and circumstances have forced us truly to become an adult, your mother says something like that. Or worse, something like that. We get bigger, we get taller, we get older. But, for the most part, we're still a bunch of kids, running around the playground, trying desperately to fit in.


I've heard that it’s possible to grow up, I've just never met anyone who’s actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don’t go our way. We whisper secrets with our best friend, in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope against all logic, against all experience, like children, we never give up hope.

Myondong - Seoul

Smile.

It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day..

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine

Someone smiled at me today..And I started smiling too

kedah - 05

Dulu aku fikir tidak mengapa aku simpan hasrat dalam diam, terbenam dalam-dalam di hati. Aku sendiri tidak tahu sebab aku masih mahu menanam harapan itu, walau aku tahu jika engkau inginkan aku lagi, aku tidak mampu bersamamu. Itu yang aku akan katakan. Mungkin aku sudah serik.

Bagai dalam gambar itu, biarpun teguh berdiri anjurannya, tetapi ia usang. Sudah hilang upaya untuk menjana kasih yang baru. Aku masih berdiri di sisimu, di sebelah kananmu dan dikau perlahan-lahan meninggalkanku. Daunan yang telah gugur, jasad yang kian berumur, tanda engkau membenarkan cinta terus terkubur. Tiada lagi engkau cambah untuk memarakkan perasaan lama.

Dan aku. Aku yang masih meniup api hajat ini, dibiarkan sendiri.

Cantik kan, jika kasih ini berterusan, jika kenangan itu dilawat sampai membuatkan kita tersenyum dan mahukan ia dicipta-ciptakan. Bagai dalam gambar itu, berlatabelakangkan langit lazuardi, terletaknya susunan rimbunan hijau melata, laut tenang yang terbentang entah ke ufuk mana. Indah.

Tapi seindah manapun gubahan perasaan dan seteguh manapun sesuatu harapan, jika tuhan telah menetapkan takdir, kita harus akur. Engkau sendiri kata, ini semua takdir dan engkau tidak tahu selama mana dikau mampu bertahan.

Dalam diam, di hujung harapan yang tertanam, aku mula melentur egoku, mengakui kenyataan bahawa tidak semua cinta bersatu. Dan kita tidak mungkin lagi seperti dulu.

Turning a friendship into something more is no easy task
Boramae - Seoul

The most enviable relationships are those that have friendship at their core ~ someone you can trust, talk to, and count on, will make the best partner. In addition, a friend is someone you have developed a mutual respect and enjoyment with. So if turning friendship into love is such a good idea, why is it so hard?

We are always worried that we’ll ‘risk the friendship’ – concerned that our advances will go horribly awry and the friendship will be lost forever..replaced by awkward exchanges. Although it is cliche, it’s a legitimate concern.

So if you know that there is no way a relationship could develop, then I would think twice before putting the friendship in jeopardy by professing your undying love.

If you think there may be a chance, however, I would suggest another cliche – follow your heart.


They said without great risk there is no great reward.^^

Drawing Lines In The Sky
Busan - Korea

At some point you have to make a decision... Boundaries don't keep other people out..they fence you in. Life is life. So you can waste your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross.

Here's what I know. If you're willing to throw caution to the wind and take a chance, the view from the other side is spectacular.

In general, lines are there for a reason.. for security..for clarity. If you choose to cross the line, you pretty much do so at your own risk. So why is it, that the bigger the line, the greater the temptation to cross it?

We can’t help ourselves. We see a line, we want to cross it. Maybe it’s the thrill of trading the familiar for the unfamiliar. A sort of personal dare. Only problem is, once you’ve crossed it’s almost impossible to go back. But if you do manage to make it back across that line you find safety in number

World Cup Stadium Lake Park - Seoul

For many of us, our aging is a source of grief and anxiety.

We fear aging.

The elderly people we see are for the most part increasingly senile, frail, and unhappy. As a result, rather than looking forward to growing old, we dread each passing birthday. Rather than seeing our later years as a time of harvesting, growth, and maturity, we fear that the deterioration of our health will so greatly impair our lives that to live a long life might be more of a curse than a blessing.

When we think of being old, our images are often ones of decrepitude and despair. It seems more realistic to imagine ourselves languishing in nursing homes than to picture ourselves swimming, gardening, laughing with loved ones, and delighting in children and nature.

anyway...It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me..

Happy Birthday

Couple - Cheonggyechung River - Seoul

I am so glad that you are a part of my life. It is a privilege...to know you...to share myself with you.. and to walk together on the paths that take us in so many beautiful directions.

When I am with you, I know that I am in the presence of someone who makes my life more complete than I ever dreamed it could be. I turn to you for trust, and you give it openly. I look to you for inspiration, for answers, and for encouragement, and you lift my spirits up and take my thoughts to places where my troubles seem much further away and my joys feel like they're going to stay in my life forever.

I hope you'll stay forever, too. You're my soul mate... My world is reassured by you, my tomorrows need to have you near, so many of my smiles depend on you, and my heart is so thankful that you're here.

I love u MOM..

Sonjeong Beach - Busan

I read and walked for miles along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life...

It never crossed my mind that that person could be me...