♥ Improve Your Emotional

Emotional health is as essential to our well-being as physical health. Mentally healthy people are in control of their emotions and behavior. Emotional health allows us to weather the roller coaster ups and downs of life, handle daily challenges and build enduring relationships to create productive, fulfilling lives. When life hits a bump in the road or disaster strikes, emotionally healthy people have the strength to keep moving forward and the resilience to believe that life will get better. While many Americans work at improving their physical health, few realize the equal importance of actively working to improve mental health.

People who are emotionally healthy share some common characteristics:

• They feel content. Life has meaning and purpose and is filled with satisfying relationships and activities.
• They enjoy life and people, laugh often and know how to have fun. They have created a comfortable balance between work and play, rest and activity, family and work.
• They enjoy learning new things and adapt readily to change.
• They have learned to cope with stress and adversity successfully, and when faced with problems are optimistic that life will improve.
• They have high self-esteem and project self-confidence.

There is a strong connection between mental and physical health. Adequate sleep, regular exercise, proper nutrition, a daily dose of sunlight, limiting alcohol and avoiding cigarettes and other drugs improve physical health while increasing energy and lifting your mood, contributing to positive mental health. Physical exercise releases endorphins that reduce stress and lift mood, helping to combat anxiety and depression. Adequate sleep decreases the risk of depression and increases resilience. Ten to 15 minutes of sunlight a day increases happiness.

It’s as important to nurture your mind and emotional health as it is to take care of your body. Try these strategies for decreasing stress and building positive emotions:

• Feel the world through your five senses.
• Explore your creativity.
• Share your life with a pet.
• Take time for contemplation.

LaVenDer

♥ 1st August

Harlo.. August coming ? Is August right now =)

Wow, my busy July finally pass, but I miss it so much. Full of activity & fun
Everyone must having great time ya. Cheer ~~
I had a short post here, read it for fun. If you have time. Hehe

Senior year
The day before prom she walked to my locker. My date is sick" she said; he's not going to go well, I didn't have a date, and in 7th grade, we made a promise that if neither of us had dates, we would go together just as "best friends". So we did. Prom night, after everything was over, I was standing at her front door step. I stared at her as she smiled at me and stared at me with her crystal eyes. I want her to be mine, but she isn't think of me like that, and I know it. Then she said "I had the best time, thanks!" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.

Graduation Day
A day passed, then a week, then a month. Before I could blink, it was graduation day. I watched as her perfect body floated like an angel up on stage to get her diploma. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn't notice me like that, and I knew it. Before everyone went home, she came to me in her smock and hat, and cried as I hugged her. Then she lifted her head from my shoulder and said, "you're my best friend, thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.

A Few Years Later
Now I sit in the pews of the church. That girl is getting married now. I watched her say "I do" and drive off to her new life, married to another man. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn't see me like that, and I knew it. But before she drove away, she came to me and said "you came!". She said "thanks" and kissed me on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.

Funeral
Years passed, I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my "best friend". At the service, they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years. This is what it read: I stare at him wishing he was mine, but he doesn't notice me like that, and I know it. I want to tell him, I want him to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love him but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. I wish he would tell me he loved me! `I wish I did too...` I thought to my self, and I cried.

LaVenDer

♥ Belly Dance

Last two week photos and I had no time to post it up. Sorry guys
I'm busy with the examination, just finished on yesterday
I'll face my trail on September soon, urggghhh =(
Hmmm...
We are going performers on December coming soon. Wuah, expectancy ya
In fact, I hope my belly costume will be nice. God must save me k ?
Enjoy below photo, I trying edit technique now. Not bad huh ?? Hehe

A best friend not only a friend, we have to prove it out

LaVenDer

♥ Chun Hau & Ghim Wah Birthday Party

Happy Birthday Sek Chun Hau & Chiam Ghim Wah ♥

Congratulation to this two fellow
Having a SWEET 17 years old and SWEET 18 years old
We had a small party at class, after recess time
They bought Blueberry Cheese Cake at " Zhi Qin "
For me, this cake consider not bad, but for Edmend ? HAHA
{ Make me laugh and laugh }
Practically he doesn't eat blueberry cheese cake. BUT....
Because of Sek, he force himself to finished it. See, this is what we call " TRUE FRIEND "

Can you saw the name ? That careless people wrote wrongly ==
And who are the took cake one, never check for it also, LOL.
When we open the box.... SHOCK ~!!!! " Hau bcome Zhi " Big different, weii..
By the way, we having a nice time celebrate this birthday ♥

LaVenDer

♥ Good Morning

In the end, I woke up earlier doing revision.
Hmm.. not enough time to do revision, absolutely
Because I'm blogger now. LOL
It's okay, try my best in other day ya..

LaVenDer

♥ Mirror Me

When I stare into the mirror
What is it I see ?
I see my own reflection
Staring back at me

But then I look deep within
The mirror of my soul
I see my present and my past
And what the future holds

I see myself as what I am
And what I could have been
I see the shadow side of me
That's hidden deep within

As I stare at my reflection
Staring back through my own eyes
I see myself as others do
But I also see the lies

Others cannot see, of course
This person I conceal

LaVenDer