8 Ways to Feel Good About Yourself

1. Picture it. Flip to your favorite memories in an old photo album. As you reminisce about fun times in your life and the people you really care about, you'll see how many truly fabulous gifts God's given you.

2. Focus on the positive. Focus on the positive. If you're in the habit of keeping nice notes, cards and letters from others, dig ‘em out. Or you can just listen extra-hard for encouraging words. Sometimes other people are better at identifying your great God-given traits than you are.

3. Make a change. Identify the behaviors and situations that undermine your self-confidence, then try your hardest to change them. Stop hanging out with people who make you feel crummy. Instead of criticizing your reflection in the mirror, give yourself a compliment. Smile more.

4. Come clean. Unresolved issues with other people or with God can weigh you down and trick you into thinking no one would love you if they knew the truth. Confession is tough, but it's a cinch compared to living with guilt. Plus, confession leads to forgiveness—usually from other people and always from God.

5. Challenge yourself. Read a classic novel. Start an exercise plan. Try a new sport, or pick up a musical instrument. Memorize a book of the Bible. In the process of collecting new experiences and finding a sense of accomplishment, you just might discover a talent you never knew you had.

6. Excel where it counts. You'll probably never be the most athletic, attractive, intelligent, popular person you know. But you can make it your goal to be something even better. You could strive to be the most caring, the best listener, the most patient or the kindest. These things won't win you trophies, but they'll lead to the best kind of success: becoming more like Jesus.

7. Lend a hand. Try to focus on the lives of others instead of just your own. Volunteer—whether that means helping a neighbor or caring for abandoned animals—and you'll be amazed at the results. Making a difference in others' lives has a boomerang way of making a huge difference in your own.

8. Remember who loves you. The ultimate reason to feel good about yourself has to do with the ultimate being: God. He's starry-eyed, open-arms, head-over-heels in love with you. Read 1 John and think of it as God's love letter to you. Here's a little sneak preview (1 John 3:1). "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!"

Hillsong Australia

Amazing song...

Ooooh.. its been awhile since i was here. Well, its been crazy over here lately. Handed in my project yesterday, one java paper due this saturday and 2 tests coming up this Friday and Sunday. So its just crazy!!

I'll write more when i'm done with all that. I took off my "writing and blogging" cap... lol for now, its "programming" cap and the "thinking" cap... lol wow.. i just created 3 different caps.. hmmmm...

Anyway, to you faithful readers, i know there's only one... lol come back next week!! hehehe..

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements and to store his few possessions.

One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. He cried out, “God! How could you do this to me?”

Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to rescue him! “How did you know I was here?” asked the weary man of his rescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.

The Moral of This Story:

It’s easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn’t lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.

Have you ever felt like you don't belong? And that the only person left in this world is just you and everyone else around you is fake?

How long will it takes before someone actually notices my existance? Will people even miss me if I just disappear? Does people even know my name?

Doesn't it just tears your soul apart when a person that you used to call "best friend" forgets about you and replaces you the next day?

And doesn't it makes you feel like killing someone when they accused you for no reasons? Doesn't it just makes you explode knowing that people choose to listen to the "devil" instead of you? How can it be so unfair? What have i done wrong?

Oh well, that's LIFE! We will just need to move on after all the complaining and stuff... You can't just stop and dwell in your misery. If people knock you down, just stand right up!

Remember, the devil never wins -- never pay evil for evil. Just be nice!! The victory is ours! muahahahaha!

Alright! So i was at the UNICEF Voice Of Youth forum and one of the topics were on Prostitution. One person was saying if prostitution should be legalized and i was like "WHAT?"

I mean, like, do you even need to asked if prostitution should be legalized? The answer is straight NO! Well, at least, that's what i think. Some were saying that it should be legalized so that people can have more "jobs" and stuff like that -- [ I seriously hope that the person was drunk or something, when he/she made that statement. lol] Yeah, sure. We'll definately need more doctors too! Why? More stds, more diseases and more patients. Thus, more doctors! -- hmm, maybe i should be a doctor!

And another person also said that by legalizing prostitution the rape cases will decrease. Well, i say "FOR SURE!! But wait, come to think about it, i don't think rape cases will decrease. I'm sure you'll have perverts prowling around every corner even if prostitution is legal. And we will have more murder cases too! Why, you asked? Well, you'll need money to get a prostitute, don't you? -- [I'm sure they are not FOC.] So, where are you going to get the money if you're poor? You're going to snatch, rob, kill and do whatever neccessary to get what you need. And trust me, people are already doing that even without legalizing prostitution.

Alright, so lets see what will happen IF prostitution is legalized?

1. You'll have an increasing number of girls [ uhh and guys? -- lol ] hanging around the sidewalk trying to seduce men that walk passed them. oh and by then, you won't be able to tell who's the prostitute and who's not.
2. cause people to be more lustful..
3. wife will probably get "fired" from their jobs because their husbands can easily find a replacement. -- lol and vice versa.

Alright, so that's about it. Interesting post i must say. what do you think? Should prostitution be legalized?

ps: Dab, i know its legal in Australia :)

And i thought that blogging was easy. It took me like 5 friggin minutes to come up with this lines.

I must say that blogging isn't really my thing, well, at first. But i changed my mind. I've been through so much and there are just so many things to tell people but i haven't got that many people to talk too. And the only way to can speak up, is to blog!! hehe.. :) Who knows,my stories might touched some lives.

I've read some really "bore-me-to-death" blogs, and i've complained and complained. Therefore, i do not intend my blog to be one of those "bore-me-to-death" blogs, but if it so happen became like one of those, i'm sure there's a reason to it and bare with me. lol

let the blogging begins.....