Easy Life vs Difficult Life?

Elbert Hubbard once said:

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”

       
           

               Sometimes in our life, we often misunderstood the difference between the words 'easy' and 'difficult'. We tend to repeat the same mistake where simple and easy things being settled through hard and difficult way. Perhaps we didn't discovered the secret yet?

Easy is to get a place in someone's address book,

Difficult is to get a place in someone's heart.

 Easy is to judge the mistakes of others,

 Difficult is to recognize our own mistakes.

Easy is to talk without thinking,

Difficult is to refrain the tongue.

Easy is to hurt someone who loves us, Difficult is to heal the wound.

Easy is to forgive others,
Difficult is to ask for forgiveness,

Easy is to set rules,
Difficult is to follow them.

Easy is to dream every night,
Difficult is to fight for a dream.

Easy is to show victory,
Difficult is to assume defeat with dignity.

Easy is to admire a full moon,
Difficult to see the other side.

Easy is to stumble with a stone,
Difficult is to get up.

Easy is to enjoy life every day,
Difficult is to give its real value.

Easy is to pray every night,
Difficult is to find God in small things.

Easy is to promise something to someone,
Difficult is to fulfill that promise.

Easy is to say we love,
Difficult is to show it every day.

Easy is to criticize others,
Difficult is to improve oneself.

Easy is to make mistakes,
Difficult is to learn from them.

Easy is to weep for a lost love,
Difficult is to take care of it so you wont lose it.

Easy is to think about improving,
Difficult is to stop thinking it and put it into action.

Easy is to think bad of others,
Difficult is to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Easy is to receive,
Difficult is to give.

Easy is to keep friendship with words,
Difficult is to keep it with meanings.

             It is just a groovy kind of life, sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know some of you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith. 

            Perhaps it can be one giant leap to a better future.

P/S

To you whom I have met, did you know that happiness depends upon ourselves? Now and then, it's good to pause in your pursuit of happiness and just be happy because the happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Be like a child my dearest hummingbird. Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong". You see, everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

It is hard for me to be there with you in Malacca when I am far away at north in Penang. But they say, a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

And I am here, always with you, in your heart and mind. I love you Rin.

Loving you,

The Half Moon Serenades.

The Poems of Love

Dr.Seuss once said:

"You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

To you whom I have met,

          Some people said that love can be express just by simple words of wisdom, and as such, today I would like to dedicated a poem to you.

I love you like I love a day,

When everything goes right,

I love you like I love to lay,

And watch the stars at night.

I love you like I love the rain,

It's lustful calm embrace,

I love you like like I love laughing pain,

Until it hurts my face.

I love you like I love to drive,

With no real destination,

I love you like I love the thrill,

Loving the pure infatuation.

But most of all,

I love you like I love a cherished friend,

Who I hope will holds me tight,

Who I hope will dries my tears.

And love me till the end.

         Until then, put in your heart the fact that I had fallen in love with you way before we knew each other. Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. And I hope the man will be me, and the woman is you one day.

         Perhaps a groovy kind of love is just around the corner for us. Have a sweet holiday my hummingbird and cheers for the sweet five years of knowing each other and forever in love.

Forevermore I'll be the one to love you,

The Half Moon Serenades.

28th of May 2012.

Groovy Kind of Love

Oscar Wilde once said:

"Never love anyone who treats you like you're an ordinary."

          Love is a beautiful thing. You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

         She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can.

         She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give.

        Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.

         On the other hand, he’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.

         He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze.

       Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

       And hopefully, a groovy kind of love is just around the corner for you and your loved ones.

P/S

Dear hummingbird,

I am not a good looking guy, of this I am sure. I am just a normal man with normal thoughts and led an extraordinary life. There are no girls chasing me and my name will soon be forgotten when I am old, but I've loved you with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been one of the best achievement in my life.

It is amazing my angel, how love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess but at the end of the day, it makes them bond together. That's the love that I am sharing with you at this moment, and hopefully forever and always.

I love you Sabrina, there is only one paragraph left to write on about my feeling. I will fill it with words of only one syllable.

I love. I have loved. I will love.

Yours truly,

The Half Moon Serenades.

22nd of May 2012.

World Without Love?

Maulana Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi once said:

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love”

      

        Recently, my other half bought a book called 'World Without Islam' . And it makes me asked myself, what if there is no such thing called 'love' in this world? What if 'love' doesn't exist in this world. Well, I believe there is no such thing called a world without love.

        If there is no love in the world, we should work hard to make a new world, we will give it walls of happiness, we will furnish it with soft interiors from inside out, give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we can enjoy a world with love.

      Let there be love in your life with the other half of your sky. And let the winds of the eternal passion dance between you and her.

    

      Love one another but make not a madness out of the love. Let it rather be a slow moving blood between the beating of your heart. Fill each others life with happiness but never enjoyed it alone. Give one another of your joy but enjoy not the joy alone without her.

      Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of lyre are alone though they sang with the same melody. Give your hearts, but not into each others keeping. For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

       And stand together, yet not too far from each other. For hopefully, the groovy kind of love is just around the corner for you and your loved ones.

P/S

For the other half of my sky, in your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, I know how to make all the poems. You sang inside your heart where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do in my mind, and that sound becomes the source of happiness.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now. 

I fell in love with your courage, your sincerity, and your flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that you wasn't all you should be.

At the end of the day, I love you and it is the beginning of everything. Thank you for your beautiful love my hummingbird.

Loving you,

The Half Moon Serenades.

15th May 2012.

Happy Mother's Day!

John Lennon of The Beatles once said:

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every great idiot called man."

Dear mother,

           I believe that love is about being happy for the other person when they are happy, being sad for the person when they are sad, being together in good times & being together in bad times.

           I believe that love is about being honest with yourself at all times, being honest with the other person at all times, telling, listening, respecting the truth & never pretending.

           I believe that love is about an understanding so complete that you feel as if you are a part of the other person, accepting the other person just the way they are & not trying to change them to be something else.

           I believe that love is about the freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person, the growth of one individual alongside of & together with the growth of another individual.

           I believe that love is about the excitement of planning things together, the excitement of doing things together like the fury of the storm & the calm in the rainbow.

           I believe that love is about giving and taking in a daily situation, being patient with each other's needs & desires

           But most of all,  I believe that love is about knowing that the other person will always be with you regardless of what happens, missing the other person when they are away but remaining near in heart at all times.

           And that is the groovy kind of love that we shared together as time goes by.

           I love you mother.

P/S

For the other half of my sky, one day I hope you can and will be the mother to my kids. Sometimes when I look at you, I feel like I am gazing at a distant star in future.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And that's the love that I found in you.

I am good to you, but I am not an angel. I do sin to you, but I am not the devil within. I am just another guy who tried to win your heart three years ago and still doing the same things three years later.

I love you, just like how I love my mother. You are a part of me nowadays.

And at the end of the day, when I had finished all my work under the heavenly super bright moon, there will always be a beautiful serenade that I am longed to hear for the whole day, and that serenade is your voice.

You completed me in every way a man deserved to be loved for you are the moon that represents my heart.

Loving you,

The Half Moon Serenade.

8th of May 2012.

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What Is Life?

Virginia Woolf once said:

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

          Some say that the purpose of life is to seek happiness. Is happiness the purpose, or is happiness the result of another purpose? Is happiness the meaning of life, or is happiness the result of discovering what has heart and meaning for you?

         There is not one right answer to this question. The answer lies within each of us regarding what gives meaning to our life.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.  

               And perhaps, a groovy kind of love is just around the corner for you and your loved ones. After all, impossible is nothing. Sometimes, the question in life is hard, but the answer is simple.

P/S

To you whom captured my heart, love is a dream that comes alive when we meet. Within you, I had learned the real meaning of true love, something that I am searching for quite a long time in my life.

I believe that from every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.

And that is the love that we shared my dearest hummingbird. To see you was to love you, love but you and love for ever and always. Until then, put in your heart the fact that I had fallen in love with you way before we knew each other.

Paradise is where love dwells. You are my paradise and for that I love you Sabrina.

With Love,

The Half Moon Serenades

1st of May 2012

A Gift Named Loved

Mother Teresa once said:

"If you judge people, you won't have time to love them."

         When people think of “love,” in most cases they think of being loved by a man or a woman they like, or by their parents or children. In other words, they think of receiving love. When they do not receive sufficient love, they suffer.

          This kind of thinking is something that they have to change. If everyone wants to receive love and no one is left to give it, this will lead to a worldwide shortage of love.

          A society that is lacking love, a society that is based on an attitude that love means receiving is like a world full of invalids, all lying in bed, receiving treatment and saying, “It hurts here and here! Give me more medicine! Make me feel better!” If everyone behaves like this, it will cause problems; more doctors, more nurses, more medicine will be needed. But we can practice a kind of love called “Giving Love“ instead.

          It is important first to supply love. If everyone supplies love, then the world will be filled with love. You need to stop thinking only of what you can take or get.

         Try and give love wherever you can. Do things for others. Before demanding happiness for yourself, try bringing happiness to others. Start by doing what you can. Practice giving love and you will find that a path will open for you. People who practice giving love have already taken the first step toward happiness.

         Every day will be enjoyable, and seeing the joy of others will bring pleasure. If you can find happiness in seeing other people’s delight, seeing others achieve happiness, then you have already taken the first step to heaven.

         And perhaps a groovy kind of love is a happiness away from you and your loved ones.

P/S

To you whom captured my heart, five years ago, to be your friend was all I ever wanted but five years on, to be your lover is was all I ever dreamed.

I believed that one of the most precious gift that ever come to a man in this heavenly world is a woman heart. I love you, and you are one of the most precious gift from God in my life. The day you came into my life as a lover, you were like hummingbird and honey, and the image of you blanketed me with sweetness as endless as forever.

Put it in your heart that for every beautiful moment that you experienced, there is an eye somewhere right here in Penang to see it. And for every truth words that came from your mouth, there is an ear somewhere here in Penang to listen to it. Last but not least, for every love that you shown, there is someone here in Penang to received it with open heart.

Even though you are in Malacca and I am in Penang, we are like two people connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

Until the day we met again, I love you so much my angel. Forever I will be your man, Rin.

With love,

The Half Moon Serenades.

26th April 2012.

Of Birthday & Love

Janos Arany once said:

"In dreams and in love, here are no impossibilities."

Dear Hummingbird,

           You completed me, and your presence is the best birthday gift that I could ever asked from God. It is not and never easy to be in  a long distance relationship. But I believed the physical absence between us not only sharpen the love but strengthen it.

           You are the other half of my precious sky. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand.

              

            As we grow older together, as we continue to change with age, there is one thing that will never change and that is I will always keep falling in love with you, my sunshine. Grow old with me and the best is yet to come for you and me.

             Always remember my dearest angel that the life and love that we create now, will be the live and love that we will share together in future. Love is but for me, the discovery of myself in you, and the delight in the recognition. Since the first day I am in love with you, my night has become a sunny dawn and my day is full of rainbow.

             You see, the minute I heard a love songs or  story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was because lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. And that's the love I found in you.

             I miss you so much and if a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever. But I guess, sometimes we need to put aside this feeling and go on with our daily and wait till the day when our physical separation become the things of the past.

              There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

I love you forever and always. Thank you for the most wonderful birthday present that you gave to  me and most of all, for being the other half of my sky. Forever I am in debt to you for showing me that love is simple.

Loving you,

The Half Moon Serenades.

20th April 2012.

Of Garden & Love

Mahatma Gandhi once said:

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

              
                 For me, life is like a garden full of flowers. When you want to enjoy a beautiful garden of scents and explosion of visual colors,you begin with planting the seeds of flowers. Then you water, feed, and nurture them so that the seeds can blossom into a wondrous, uplifting garden of magnificent flowers.

                Relationships are no different. If you want to enjoy inspired and supportive garden of love, you must first plant those seeds of love. Those seeds begin with you. You water, feed, nurture your own soul, discover your own truth and what is right for you, then that love is reflected back to you through your experiences and relationships.

                 The truth is that is already true. So if you want to know what is really going deep within your heart and unconscious mind, look at your life. What is the garden that you have planted? Is it time to weed your garden of limiting beliefs and stories that you think are true? Is it time to water it with nourishing, loving thoughts. Is it time to consciously plant new seeds?

                 If you know nothing about gardening, you would either read books to learn, or hire someone who knows what they are doing. You would enlist support in some way. Yet, when it comes to relationships and love, most people think they are supposed to know how to do it.

               You know it from how you learned it, and if its not working the way you would like, it may be time to learn how to create the life you desire – enlist support in learning new ways to relate to yourself, the people in your life, and healthy, vibrant ways to engage in relationships and love.

              And perhaps a groovy kind of love is just around the corner for you and the other half of your sky.

P/S

For the other half of my sky,

Did you realized that even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth that 'you owe me'? And look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.

The love that you gave to me, I cannot tell you what pleasure this gave me, because I always feel so overwhelmingly in your debt, if there can be accounts in love.

What it has been to me to live all these years in your heart and companionship, there is no phrases that can convey it. Time passes swiftly, but is it joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together now, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful things since we knew each other five years ago?

Dear hummingbird, I love you. I want you to remember that where there is a love, there is life. Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song.

And together, I hope that our love will be forever.

Loving you.

The Half Moon Serenades.

9th of April 2012.

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The Compliments In Love

Lao-Tzu once said:

"To love someone deeply gives you strength but being loved by someone, deeply gives you courage."

          Is it hard for a guy to give a sweet compliment to someone they love in their heart? I am proud to do it to the other half of my sky but a question a lot of guy have is what are the appropriate places or moments to use romantic compliments to their hummingbird?  

         I just want to say that romantic compliments can be used at any time, to the special someone in your heart, in any situation.

         Start giving compliment to him or her everyday. Whenever you feels like you hate the world and you hate yourself and think your life sucks, you are not likely to give your special someone sweet compliments. You are in a place where you want to have a pity party and you just don’t feel empowered.

        On the other hand, when you are someone who gives compliments all the time to your hummingbird, it usually means that you are happy about her, that you feel good about yourself, and your life is going okay with her.

         As such, you can actually reverse engineer the ill-feeling ; you can become happier and feel better about yourself by giving more compliments, not just to her but to everyone. It can work the other way around.

         Make it something you do all the time, make it a part of your life, make it a part of your personality and who you are, you’ll have no problem being complimentary. It’s not going to be too hard or too difficult, and it will be second nature to you. And your other half of sky will love you more.

         Romantic compliments should never come from a place of need, but from a place of personal strength. And perhaps, a groovy kind of love is just around the corner for you and your loved ones.

P/S

Dear hummingbird, you're always beautiful in my eyes, even at the time when you just woke up early in the morning.

For your attractive lips, speaks words of angel to me,

For your lovely eyes, seek out the good personality in me,

For your beautiful hair, give the shines to me,

For your vivacious figure, makes it a wonderful hug for me.

Sometimes, you must remember that you are beautiful, not just in looks, not just in what you say, but in being just the way you are.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. And that's you in my eyes, my special sweetheart.

Until the day we met again, until the day we say our next hello, put in your heart the fact that I had fallen in love with you way before we knew each other. 344 love letters still couldn't described how much I love you everyday in my life.

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? I think both is happening at the same time.

Loving you,

The Half Moon Serenades.

2th of April 2012.