Thoughts of Nanushka IV

One day,

it will be time

for you to leave-

I only hope

I love you enough

to let you go.........

Nan Witcomb

Thoughts of Nanushka III

You stood upon the brink of life
then stepped back
to join the empty, shallow people,
the vacucous faces
and venomous tongues,
the sad, confused sheep
they call society-
Gold help you from ever knowing
what you have missed
by not stepping forward-

Nan Witcomb

Thoughts of Nanushka II

May the waters

where you live

be clear and calm

so you may see your way

up into the sunlight

of your mind-

Nan Witcomb

Thoughts of Nanushka I

All those years-
looking for happiness
in someone else-
never quite daring
to search my own soul
in fear what I may find-
then peace where I least expected-
the surprise of finding
I am not as bad as I thought-

Nan Witcomb

Moonson Rain & Icicle Drops

Another book "Moonson Rain & Icicle Drops" by Libby Southwell is a very inspiring true story about her journey and her spiritual growth.

Plunged into numbing grief after the death of her fiance and her close friends, she began to search the world for an end to her sorrows. Each and every places in the world that she travels, helps her to heal little by little.

And finally she found peace and happiness in her new home, Sri Lanka.

When the 2004 Tsunami hit there, she and friends started setting up charities to help rebuild Sri Lanka. She has donated proceeds from this book to further her work in rebuilding Sri Lanka and helping her people.

With the Karma Sutra under my arm

I just finished reading this book "With the Karma Sutra under my arm" by Trisha Bernard. It is a very hilarious outlook on her and a friend's trip through India, visiting all the palaces and places of interest and most of all the culture and the people.

It's quite a coincidence as the places she wrote about her travels are exactly the places I will be visiting with a group of belly dancers from Sydney to Rajasthan in November 2007 to celebrate the Festival of Lights.

The book acts as a prelude insight for my trip and I am so looking forward to this and the wonderful company of the belly dancers from Sydney.

Wholeness

Wholeness is the self realisation that you are born alone and you will die alone.

This is true for everyone and every living thing in this world and there are no exceptions.

So in the meantime make your life journey purposeful and meaningful as in this lifetime, you are meant to live and learn and experience the joy of LIFE.

And it will be a shame and a waste if you choose not for your present journey to be purposeful and fulfilling and to have the sense of WHOLENESS present within you.

Allow the Universe to fills you with joy and abundance.

And allow yourself the enthusiam to receive them with open arms and open minds.


ALICE 2006

My Garden of Life

I choose to grow beautiful flowers, not weeds
in my garden of life.

I choose to fluorish my garden of life with love, knowledge
passion and spirituality.

I choose to tend to my garden of life with all that I have
within me.

I am at peace and oneness, in my garden of life.


ALICE 2006

Beautiful Sunsets in the North West Shelf

I took these shots at the end of the days whilst I was on the rig in the North West Shelf. The location of this rig was about 45 minutes helicopter ride off Karratha. Being so isolated from everything, I am in total awed of Mother Nature and the universe. The tranquil waters and the beautiful sunsets and sunrises and the sounds of silence makes me feel so alive and at peace.

Healthy Belonging

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your

souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same

loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of

you be alone.

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver

with the same music.

Give yours hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stands apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's

shadow.

Kahil Gibran, THE PROPHET

Letting Go

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means that I can't do it for someone else.

To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realisation I can't control another.

To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To let go is not to try to change or blame another, it's to make the most of myself.

To let go is not to care for, but care about.

To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

To let go is not to be protective, its's to permit another to face reality.

To let go is not to deny, but to accept.

To let go is not to nag, scolds or argue, but instead to search out my shortcomings and correct them.

To let go is not to criticise and regulate anybody, but to try to become what I dream I can be.

To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow now and live for the future.

To let go is to fear less and love more

ANON

Revolutionary Words

From time to time I wil be posting inspirational quotes from the books that I have read and would like to share them with you all. This is one is written by Marianne Williamson for Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Speech in 1994.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves:

Who am I to be brilliant?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the

same.

As we liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Bamboo (Bambusa)

The gentle swaying of the bamboos. Such rhythmic motion of the stalks bending in unsion with the breeze. The russle sounds of the leaves and the fluttering motions almost as if ready to take flight when the breeze hits them at a certain angle. It is such pleasure to watch and being in such a soothing and meditative environment. In unison with the tickling sounds of the wind chimes in the garden, this santuary is my favourite spot in my backyard. This is where I take time out and to replenish the soul.

Lying in my Brazilian hammock, with my eyes closed. Listening to the gentle russling of the bamboo leaves and the soft chiming of the windchimes. Surrounded by my three beautiful dogs on either side of the hammock and the garden is abundant with birds flying around and chirping and the water trickling from the Shiva Head fountain. I am at peace with Mother Earth and Heavenly Father. There is no other place I wish to be but here and now.

The Seed

I am the seed
Plant me
Water me
Tend to me
Nuture me
Feed me
Love me
And I will bloom
As the universe
intends it to be


ALICE 2006

Inspirational

I met up with Tony Christiansen at the Gold Coast Seminar in Sept. Boy is this man inspirational!!!!!!!! He has done more being legless than any man with two functioning legs!!!! What a admirable person he is. He lost his legs when he was 7 years old in an accident. He has never let this be his disability. Of his life achievements, he has accomplished medals in the Para Olympic, fly planes, painter by trade, go karting championship, side car racing, speedway racing, black belt in Tae Kwon Do, life surfer rescue, wheelchair basketball, white water rafting, a loving father of three, grandfather and loving husband and he just climbed the highest mountain in Africa, the Kilimanjaro, and still he keeps powering on and on. Most of all he has got a sense of humour!!!!!! He is just a lovable rogue. and you just want to keep hugging him!!!!!

Being a mischievous person, I ask if I could get a photo with him, with me sitting on his lap on the wheelchair!!! Boy did everyone looked on with horror when I said that. Tony just grinned and said what lap???? Told you he was lovable. Not only did I get to sit on the wheelchair with Tony, he also autographed his two books for me. Check out his books "Race you to the Top" his incredible life story and "Attitude Plus" his secrets of success. Both are excellent readings. Having the opportunity to have met Tony and seeing for myself his achievements and his success and not letting anything gets in his way even without LEGS!!! and also withstanding the discrimination of people perception of his 'disabilities'. His sheer determination to follow his passion, makes me even more inspire and determine to achieve mine.

Mentors

This picture was taken at the Education for Life seminar with Jamie McIntyre the founder of the 21st Century Academy. I joined up with the academy in Febuary 2006 and have never looked back since. It was the best thing I have done.

The mind set and the direction I am heading now is well in sight. Things always show up when you are ready and I know this to be true when I found the 21st Century. I was definitely ready to recieve (with wide open arms)

This is Jason McGuiness the founder of MCorp

Property Sourcing and also M adventure (or Mad venture, depending how you look at it). When I first met up with Jason in July at a one day seminar at the Burswood Convention Centre, he blew me away when he told us about his near death experience and blandly showed us his scars, the zipper he calls it running up the length of his leg. How now after 7 years he had changed his life around and now a self made property millionaire and a world traveller and adventurer. One thing he said to us that hits home to me was "you only have one lifetime, so make the most of it and enjoy and follow your passion!!!! and don't let anything stands in your way to achieve your dreams" He also showed the Rio Carnival video that night and boy did I bowled my eyes out!!!!! The first clip was Manchu Picchu and I always wanted to go there. It was a dream that I had when I was at uni. But forever the excuses alway comes out...no money..no time....too scared to go by myself....(self sabotage most likely). So that night I made a promise to myself that I will go forth and achieve my dream and I will go to Manchu Picchu. So to cut a long story short. I am going to South America with the Mcorp team in Febuary 2007. Yippee!!!!!! Once I made up my mind that night in July, everything just flows and now I keep pinching myself to see if I am dreaming. So we will be doing Peru, Bolivia, Ecadour and Brazil. We will also be participating in the Rio Carnival, apparently wearing filmsy costumes. I did promised Leanne that I will take a photo of Jason in his G-stings!!!!!!! Hmmmmmmm...hmmmmmm.....So there you go. I promise lots and lots of photos from the trips in my blog to come. So stay tune!!!!

This is Nik Halik, the savvy share market expert.

I am doing his homestudy at the moment. He is an expert on technical and fundamental analysis of the share market. He is an excellent and easy to follow teacher. His philosphy is to trade only 8 months of the year and for the 4 months to rejuvenate and mediate and to play. In other words to enjoy life and to replenish the soul. What a good insight to follow. And by the way he is a dog lover as well. His baby is such a cutey!!!

Kayak Season

Rosemary just gotten her otter kayak from the shop and here she is posing with all her assessories before we got into the Canning River. Notice that she has her life vest on. Good girl!!!. Whilst with me, I am just sooooo casual...... with my Gizmo siton kayak. Now that the weather is glorious, we can't wait for the Sunset/Moonlight Kayak to start up again. This is a group of kayakers meandering the river ways of Perth for a casual group paddle during full moon......hmmmmmm strange things may happen, especially with Terry (the group leader) around. As our motto goes "Have Kayak, Will Paddle"

Kwan Yin

Kwan Yin is the Chinese Goddess of Mercy, Love and
Compassion.

Sofan quoted:

This painting will help create wonderful feeings of calmness,
and compassion wherever she is placed.

With her compassionate gaze,
this merciful goddess
holds the world with love.

Majority of Sofan's prints are placed on the mantle of the fireplace in the living room. As you walked into the house, you will get the first glimpse of these prints. Everyone always comments on them.

Dreaming in the Garden

As Sofan promised:

This painting will help you to create a life filled with the
blossoming flowers of the mind.


What a beautiful image she has created. She is truely a talented lady.

Live your Dream

Here is another one of Sofan Chan's gorgeous artwork.
Quoting from her again:

Is life just a sleep amongst a bed of fragrant flowers?
Are you dreaming your life or living your dreams?
Dreaming is a special time when all things are possible.

With its vibrantly flowing colours and tranquil lines this
painting will remind you of the unique power of your dreams.

Check out more of her artworks at
www.theartofhappiness.net

Mind Garden

I have been collecting art prints by Sofan Chan. She is an artist residing in Sydney. I came across her works when she and her husband had a stand at the Conscious Living Expo 2003. Since then I have been acquring her artworks from time to time. This is called "Mind Garden" and I would like to share the poem with you written by Sofan herself.

Your mind is a garden,
Your thoughts are the seeds.
You can grow flowers,
Or you can grow weeds.

Turn you mind into a garden where you can plant seeds that turn into laughter, joy, love and happiness

The Gang

Here we all are in our finest!!!!! Irene is on the left and thats me, the gorgeous cutey on the right. The girls are science major in chemistry and geology. The boys are computer geeks. Patrick, on the left and Kevin on the right. Both are in Information Technology. I am the oldest of the four and yet I am the shortest one in the family. Hmmm......genetic can be a problem!!!!

Mum & Dad

This is my mum and dad. This was taken when my youngest brother, Kevin graduated and the whole clan had to go and take graduation photos. All the kids have to be decked up with their graduation gowns and mortar boards. This is mum's lifetime dream to see all her kids have a good education. Both came from a poor family and could not afford to go on to further studies. Their dreams was to made sure that their kids go on to universities and get a good career. Suffice to say, all four of us graduated from Curtin University. For laughs we put the mortar boards on their head so they can experience the feeling as well. Without them and their encouragement and support, we won't be here today.

Shiva Head Fountain

This is me with Zack and Maya. Sabre hasn't come to live with us yet. I just completed the Shiva Head fountain in the background. It acts as a centre piece for the backyard. It is so soothing to hear the water running and to see the birds enjoying a water bath at the top of the head.

Flowerpower

This is the last pastel I did at the empowerment course in 2004. I have not done any more painting for 2 years. I think now I need to start letting my creative side come free again. So keep posted for more drawings in the near future.

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

ALICE 2004

Spirals

ALICE 2004
This is the second pastel I did. I always like spirals and concentric circles. They always comes up in my doodles. It seems to signifys karmic energies for me.

The Journey

This is the first pastel drawing I did when I was doing a Personal and Professional Empowerment Course at my work place in 2004.

This is a free flowing drawing that I did without thinking. I just let the hand movement flows to where it wants to go.

I called this "The Journey"

ALICE 2004

My Garden of Eden

Invest in my garden of Eden
Nuture, water and tend me with
loving hands and loving intentions
And I will show you a piece of paradise
called my Garden of Eden.


ALICE 2006

Our Journey

What we are is what we perceived and willed it to be.
Will it be a fullfilled journey or not is really up to us.
We are the navigator of our lives.
Do you want to travel on a lonely road or
do you want a road full of adventure, laughter,
learnings, fun and purposeful?
So put on that smile and determination and
prepare yourself for this adventurous journey to
discover who you really are and what you are
meant to experience.
Most of all, Go forth with
PURPOSE and PASSION.


ALICE 2006

Self Discovery

Knowing and acceptance of oneself is vital in discovering ones journey and purpose for this life.

ALICE 2006

ODE TO SABRE

SABRE

Weapon of mass destruction .
Chewing, chewing .
Digging, digging.
Retic, solar lights, pot plants, shoes.
It doesn't matter what.
Jumping, licking.
Butter won't melt in my mouth .
LOVE ME for me.

ODE TO MAYA

MAYA

Look at me
Look at me
Pet me
Pet me
Love me
Love me
I love you

ODE TO ZACK

My protector aka BB King impersonator

ZACK

Guarding, guarding
Protect the perimeter
Bark, bark,
Stay away intruders,
Where's the bones??
Fart,fart,fart
Waching, watching
Looking, searching
Feed me, feed me,
Fart, fart again,
Yawn, yawn

Break Free

The board breaking exercise at the 21st century academy was awesome!!! Broundaries and restrictions we boxed ourselves is literally 'broken free" when each of us smashed thru our board. The feeling was so euphoric as you can see on Leanne's, mine and Angela's faces. We are grining ear to ear. GO GIRL POWER!!!!

We are born Champions!!!

I met up with champion marathon swimmer, Shelly Taylor-Smith at the Gold Coast Sept 2006. She was one of the speakers for the 21st century academy. Her life story is so inspiring. She so generously let me and Leanne put on her gold medals to get the feeling of being CHAMPIONS!!!! Her ongoing motto is "If we don't give up, we will make it" and "have a sensational day"

Stairway to heaven

The sunset pic was taken when I was on the Atwood Eagle Rig in the Middle of the Indian Ocean. The reflections off the waters makes it look like a staircase going up to heaven. What a sight!!!! It looks so peaceful as well.

Peace with Goddess of Mercy

This picture was taken when I doing a spirtuality workshop up in the hills in Perth. I was wondering thru the lush gardens and I came across this statue. The serene face was beckoning me and I just wanted my picture taken with her. This is one of my favourite photo. Everyone seems to comment that I looked so at peace.

Journey of Life

I did it!!!! I started this blog to document my journey of life for myself. So far what I have set out to achieve has come true. Follow your Passion and follow your dreams and reality will soon follow. The Universe will grant you all your wishes.