Live, Laugh, Love.

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Often, we get too caught up with our daily routines, our jobs, and our duties that life seems to be all about work, work and more work.

This week it had been a low point because of work stress. I had to pull myself out of the rut by remembering to live.

Living is about taking the time to smell the roses.

Every October, Tasmania has a Spring Tulip Festival.

Living is about not worrying and fearing about the unknown future, it is about focusing the good of the moment. Feast and wine, take joy in how minute your problems are compared to others who are less fortunate than you.

Every late February, strawberries, raspberries, apples and nashi pears are in season. Pick your own fruit in the farms of Tasmania!

Then I remembered to laugh. Mark Twain once said, “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

Laugh when you face people who dislike you, they are only jealous.

Laugh when you face stress, it will soon be over.

Laugh when you’re embarrassed, it’s creates a life story you can tell.

Laugh when everyone else isn’t, they’ll want to be able to laugh like you do.

There are also the people that I love and I reminded myself that life is not about work but the people on Earth we are meant to make a difference to. There are more priorities in life than it is about being in the rat race, and that priority is to live, laugh and love.

I love my family and I love my friends. I need to take time to nurture relationships, take time to speak to people and for once, not be updating my Twitter, Facebook or Blog. Life is not a constant status update, but about sharing experiences in person, in real time.

I definitely need that breather, find a perfect place to rekindle love & when you’re kinda strapped for cash to get a holiday, you use your wits to win one!

Tourism Tasmania is offering an opportunity to WIN a holiday!

In 100 words or less, Express Your Love for whatever it is that you love. It could be in the form of a poem, a passage, a song or a picture or video. Be as creative as you like and win!

Entries will be loaded onto Discover Tasmania’s Facebook page commencing on 10th February 2012 and the entry judged the most creative and best presentation with lots of Facebook "Likes" will win a holiday to Tasmania.


The winner is announced on 29th February 2012 and will travel with partner to Tasmania from 13th to 20th March 2012 – 6 glorious nights in Tasmania worth S$10,000.

Start preparing your entries today!

Escape from Drugs Land

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Last chance to play and win! The National Council Against Drug Abuse and Central Narcotics Bureau has been organising an Anti-drug Online Gaming Challenge on the ‘Life Does Not Rewind’ Facebook fanpage from 05 Dec 2011 to 26 Feb 2012.

There have been 2 games where iPads, iFly and Universal Studio passes have been given out.  If you don’t play this, you’re going to miss out. However, even if the gaming challenge is over, you can continue playing the games for another year on the “Life Does Not Rewind” Facebook page.

Looking like Monopoly except with mini games with each land, your score is based on the time you take to complete the board. You may encounter quiz questions,  and get 10 seconds added to your timing if your answer is wrong so check out the study corner at the game menu first!

Fun mini games are embedded within.

Word Search.

A mini game where the player has to move the boat through the river and avoid the floating items which symbolises drugs. The life bar will be decreased if the boat hits an item.

You can then submit your best score to stand a chance to win an iPad 2 (32gb) or a pair of Sentosa Adventure Park Combo package! There will be 1 winner and 16 winners respectively. To be honest, I wouldn’t pay to go on the MegaZip in Sentosa and the MaxClimb because it’s really expensive and for a very short while. Although got to admit I am an adrenaline junkie who needs extreme excitement to be pleased. BUT IF IT’S FREE, OF COURSE I’LL GO!

So you’ve to win this.

Quite impressed that this game, along with this and this is created by colleage students from ITE! Escape from Drugs Land is from ITE Central.

Speaking about “Life does not rewind”, I am sure all of you’ve been following the saga between famous bloggers recently. Many hurtful things have been said and written, many unfortunate misunderstandings have happened. Nothing can erase all that now, even if those blog posts have been deleted, I found out that if you use Google Reader, you can search out these blogs’ RSS feed and read the posts, even deleted!

However, if you ever use drugs, the damage you create for yourself will be permanent, the hurt you cause your parents will be permanent.

Life does not Rewind.