The Inner Life

These days I'm constantly reminded of the book that I've read a couple years back, Ordering Your Private World by Gordon Macdonald. It emphasizes the importance of nurturing our inner life (spending time with God, getting spiritually refreshed). With the busyness of today's world and with a lot of things clamoring for our attention, we tend to forget to 'take care' of our inner life and take 'pride' of our public 'victories'.

Hmm.. writing about it now, makes me want to reread the book and seek more to cultivate my inner life.

Hourly Sale

I'm on a constant lookout now for Book Depository's hourly sale. This is only a 24 hour event where they offer a book per hour at great discounts. So, I have to make sure that I'm there every time a new book is offered so, I can avail of the discount. So, far I got an Usborne internet linked book for my kids at 60% off! I wasn't interested on some of the books they offered, while the rest are still outside my budget. You see, my budget is very low per book because I don't want to end up spending so much even if the books are on sale.

Anyways, I find this sale to be fun and exciting especially with the element of surprise of not knowing what's the next book offer is. I'm sure the company is doing very well today with their staff busy processing all the payments through pc america .

Okay, the new book offer has just been unveiled, it's a novel and I'm not interested.. have to get back online after an hour.

Chinese New Year's Eve at the Park

I've never experienced Chinese New Year in Malaysia. But last week, we were in Malaysia just in time for Chinese New Year. You can really feel the festivity of the New Year there since majority of the population there is Chinese ( I think). So, when we were going around the island, we decided to hang out near the port where there was a live show. My sis in law bought bubbles and lighted flying toys for the kids and they really had a lot of fun running and playing around the big field. We, the adults were just enjoying looking at the kids and at the same time listening ( and watching from afar) to the music from presentations. We wanted to stay until 12 am for the fireworks but the kids were already so tired and just decided to go back home.

It was nice to take 'part' of the Chinese New Year festivity ..it's a new experience for me and this makes me appreciate Malaysia all the more.