My favorite weekly magazine came today and I browse it immediately on the feature pages. I love reading the feature sections because of new things to learned in fashion, cooking, house, home, garden , technology and internet. There was an extra page about global quest on saving our environment. I read also about EcoQuest International which was awarded with certified space technology status. This group is dedicated to improving the spaces where people live by providing innovative products and services designed to enhance and improve the quality, safety, convenience, and beauty of living indoors. I also read some tips on electric and water conversation. I found a new recipe in the cooking section which I would like to try at dinner time. So for the moment, I will bade goodbye and off to the market to buy the ingredients for the new recipe. Hope I can make it. Happy weekend to all and See yah!
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The Salty Coffee
I was cleaning my cup board and found this tiny eypresso cup which I got last year in the new coffee shop on town. I remember the story I read in a magazine before. Its about the salty coffee. When I got done with my chores, I tried to searched the whole story so I can share it to you. Good thing I found it!
He met her on a party, she was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her,while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised, but due to politeness, she promised. They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, she felt uncomfortable, she thought, please, let me back home. Suddenly he asked the waiter: would you please give me some salt? I’d like to put it in my coffee.
Everybody stared at him, so strange! His face turned red, but, still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it. She asked him curiously: why you have this hobby? He replied: when I was a little boy, I was living near the sea, I like playing in the sea, I could felt the taste of the sea, salty and bite, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I will think of my childhood, think of my hometown, I miss my hometown so much, I miss my parents who still living there. Saying that, tears filled his eyes. She was deeply touched. That’s his true feeling, from the bottom of his heart.
“A man who can tell out his homesick, he must be a man loves home, cares about home, has responsibility of home,” she thought. Then she also started to talk, talked about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story. They continue to date. She found actually he was a man who meets all her demands: he was tolerance, kind hearted, warm, careful…he was such a good guy but she almost missed him! Thanks to his salty coffee!
Then the story was just like every beautiful love story: the princess married to the prince, then they were living the happy life…And, every time she made coffee for him, she put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that’s the way he liked.
After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said: “My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie. This was the only lie I said to you, the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It’s hard for me to change so I just go ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life, but I was too afraid to do that, as I have promised not to lie to you for anything..Now I’m dying, I afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth: I don’t like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste..but I have the salty coffee for my whole life since I knew you, I never feel sorry for anything I do for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness for my whole life.
If I can live for the second time, I still want to know you and have you as my whole life wife, even though I have to drink the salty coffee again.”
Her tears made the letter totally wet. Someday, someone asked her: What’s the taste of salty coffee?
It’s sweet. She replied.
What is Love?
I encounter this in the net and worth sharing for…
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
How do you define love? I am listening to the radio this morning and I got a smile on the advertisement where a son asked her mother what is love all about. The mother was tongue tight and surprised. When asked children now a days how would they define love, here are their answers
What is Love?
This question was posed to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds: “What does love mean?”
1. “Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets in the way.”
2. “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.”
3. “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
4. “Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.”
5. “Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.”
6. “Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don’t yell at them because you know it would hurt their feelings.”
7. “Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.”
8. “Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.”
9. “Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss.”
10. “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.”
11. “If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.”
12. “Love is hugging. Love is kissing. Love is saying no.”
13. “When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you’re scared they won’t love you anymore. But then you get surprised because not only do they still love you, they love you even more.”
14. “There are two kinds of love — Our love, and God’s love. But God makes both kinds of them.”
15. “Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.”
16. “Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.”
17. “During my piano recital, I was on a stage and scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.”
18. “My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.”
19. “Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken.”
20. “Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.”
21. “Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.”
22. “I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.”
23. “I let my big sister pick on me because my Mom says she only picks on me because she loves me. So I pick on my baby sister because I love her.”
24. “Love cards like Valentine’s cards say stuff on them that we’d like to say ourselves, but we wouldn’t be caught dead saying.”
25. “When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.”
26. “Love is when mommy sees daddy on the toilet and she doesn’t think it’s gross.”
27. “You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” from skywriting.net