Please, Inspire Me.

Go now, and live.

10 Rules for Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.

My poor feets

I need a pedicure like..now!! Had a rough week, I walk a lot in my heels and my poor feet starts to horribly cracking that she deserves a pedi asap. I’m thinking of trying Nail Parlour as it’s the only one nearby I can think of right now.. or maybe I should push myself a little bit more to finish my intern reports and get a pedi right afterwards.. yeah, that’s sounds way better.

Love, Noor.

Master Cleanse: Day 1

“Dear me, may today mark the beginning of many new joys and accomplishments… and a continuation of all of the good things that you have already achieved”

Today is the first day I am doing the Master Cleanse. Up to this point of writing, I’m feeling real good. Hopefully will stay as it is longer possible. This morning I prepared 3 servings of the lemonade mixture with a substitution of maple syrup with blackstrap mollasses.. Drank my first around 10:30am and it tastes..erm..bearable.. not as bad as I thought it will be… just that the cayenne pepper gives a little spicy kick of the aftertaste. But all in all, I’m coping with it perfectly.. To early to comment on, but I will update more before the end of today. Check out Cherry and Ben with my master cleanse ingredients..

Update at 2.45pm: Feeling good Just drank only half of the serving.

Update at 10:00pm: A slight headache but, i did it! it’s a torturing day, i went shopping with family, gotta resist my fav waffles, KFC and many more scrumptious food but I feel proud saying NO! to each temptation.. The best thing, I am not starving at all!! I am happy and chirpy all day as if eating doesn’t really matter.. It was something new for me, now I really do believe, I am in control of what’s going on around me and it brought a wonderful sense of satisfaction.. I weight myself just now, (too early, i know but i just can’t wait!!) and to my pleasure, I lose another half a kg! this just motivates me to do more and be more persistent.

Another 9 days to go!!

By the way, today i bought these two cuties as well

Divine Remedy

It’s Saturday morning and I am relaxing around with a hot cup of tea while blog hopping.. wanted to read something beneficial so then I stumbled into an excerpt from the book ‘The Ideal Muslimah’ shared by our new sisters in Islam, Xania on her site reflections4muslimahs . If u know someone who complains way too much (like me!) this might be the best advice to pass on..

Fatimah al-Zahra’, the daughter of Muhammad (PBUH) and the wife of `Ali ibn Abi Talib (RAA). She used to complain of the pain in her hands caused by grinding grain with the hand-mill. Her husband `Ali ibn Abi Talib said to her one day, “Your father has brought some female slaves, so go and ask him for one of them to come and serve you.” She went to her father, but she felt too shy to ask him for what she wanted. `Ali went and asked him to provide a servant for his beloved daughter, but the Prophet (PBUH) could not respond to those who most dear to him whilst ignoring the needs of the poor among the Muslims, so he came to his daughter and her husband and said:

“Shall I not teach you something that is better than that for which you asked me? When you go to bed at night, say `Subhan Allah’ thirty-three times, `Al-hamdu lillah’ thirty-three times, and `Allahu akbar’ thirty-four times. This is better for you than a servant.”

Then he bid them farewell and left, after giving them this divine help which would make them forget their tiredness and help them to overcome their exhaustion.

Master Cleanse

I am preparing myself for the Master Cleanse process and I’m doing it out for 10 days. According to plan, I will start on this Saturday,22 May 2010 and will end on 1st on June. What on earth is Master Cleanse?

“The Master Cleanse, also known as the Lemon Cleanse and the Maple Syrup Diet, is a body and mind detoxification program created by alternative medicine performer Stanley Burroughs in 1941. Burroughs states that it is a detoxification program that aids in the removal of allegedly harmful, nonspecific toxins from within the body, as well as a reducing diet for loss of weight, a cure forulcers and a general panacea resulting in “the correction of all disorders.”

I am still familiarizing myself with this, doing some reading as well as watching other people’s experience doing this on YouTube.. This detox program is meant for me to kickstart my weight loss. After the 10 days detox, I will start doing workouts by Zuzana. She has tonnes of great workouts including for the beginners on her site.. Did I mention how solid and perfect her abs is? It ain’t an exaggeration! You better go check out yourself

Back with the Master Cleanse, here is what I need prepare beforehand:

• Water – Filtered or Spring Water
• Lemons (roughly 20 for one week) – checked
• Maple Syrup / Blackstrap Molasses ( i will use the latter)
• Sea Salt
• Cayenne Pepper – checked

The recipe:

A) Lemon juice+Blackstrap Molasses+Cayenne Pepper

-will update soon

B) Salt Water Flush

- will update soon

Dealing with the shallow mind of mine

Few months ago, I went to MPH Bookstore. While my eyes were lingering at the 25% discounted books, I bumped into so called  motivational book named ‘One Month to Live – Thirty Days to a No-Regret Life’. It was still covered in plastic, so I just had a quick glance of the book description at the back of it, and..pheww..off to the cashier I went and paid 25 bucks like there’s no tomorrow.

To cut it short, I reached home, eagerly teared the plastic, fixed myself onto the couch and suddenly spotted two small words on the price tag written:

Spirituality-Christianity

My first reaction was, what??? I just bought a book of Christianity written by the founding pastor of a church?? Then I thought, should I return the book to the bookstore? or give it away or just ignore it like it never exist?… While contemplating, I heard a Knock Knock on my head.. Yes, I am a Muslim and this book is written to inspire people on life and Christianity.. Then what?? Am I scared reading it will change my faith??? I was angry with myself for being so shallow. Ain’t Allah s.w.t give us aqal to think rationally? He asked us to contemplate things for that we are supplied with chickens not KFC.. because God knows that we are capable of turning chickens into clean, slaughtered, delicious Kentucky Fried Chicken. What I mean here, you are given the general ideas of life (for muslims, through the Quran) and you decide what’s good with it.. and most importantly, there’s no religion teaching you to be bad. We all know that relating Islam to terrorist is simply insane. It came from the mind of some selfish individual that is using the religion to cover their butt. Because if you really study Islam or Christianity or Hindus or Buddha, you know that these religions strive to generate kind-hearted, humble, knowledgeable, successful human being. Whatever you faith is, at the end, you yourself will decide. Just check this out, two great individuals in which I assume has close relation to their religion..

littlepinkstrawberris and joshuaandrachelconatser

Life is like a wheel

Clichè, I know. Yesterday Love told me that he feels one of my friend is living her life to the fullest, and he is sorry that I have to go through all the difficulty of life at he so called ‘tender’ age.. I don’t mind the difficulty part, (well who doesn’t has problem, right?) but i do mind about commenting on how others living their life to the fullest.. It is heart-wrenching (it really is!) to see my buddies travelling to different parts of the world and already earning their own income, but most of them who’s having this at the age of 23, doesn’t have a  degree to hold on later in life.. Coming from a family with a business background, I know that certificate ain’t everything. But if you are smart enough, will guarantee that you won’t live starving. But if you do have a degree and starve, dude, there’s something wrong with you, don’t blame the government.

Back to my point, I might not living my life to the fullest now, but I’m surely building the foundation of it.. As Love always says, achieve things is way much easier than keeping it. Hence the need for me to build a strong base so it will be easier to keep what i will achieve later on in life..

I am just 23, turning 24 this August. Yet at times, i feel like I am left behind. Just because I haven’t earned anything yet. and still depending on others. I sometimes feel like dropping out of school and start working bla bla bla.. but then again, it may work for 2-3 years, then what.. At this age, you are at the peak of the desire to taste the life. But I am reminding myself now not to rush. I am going to finish my bachelor degree this December for goodness sake! so just finish it perfectly and enjoy the fruit of your hard work later on!

The wheel is gonna turn itself around and you’ll be on the top once again. You will be just great so scrutinize what’s between your hand and at the end, you will be the one who will reap what you sow.

I want ya so badly, ya my only wish!

A sewing machine.. I badly wanna try to make all the pretty stuffs in ~Ruffles and Stuffs~ and I so wanna sew some clothes for myself and family on my own.. I’m aiming for nothing fancy, just this……

and……………maybe this one too??