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A winged visitor

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This lovely creature greeted and graced us with its presence this Wednesday morning when Izel and I went to look at the garden! Butterflies are my favorite and of course it inspired this post... Butterflies are one of the most amazing creatures in the insect kingdom... they don't live very long lives, some as short as 6 days while others can live as long as a year...yet butterflies have the most amazing transformation ever! They start out as eggs, then become caterpillars, then they emerge from their chrysalis into a beautiful winged creature the butterfly. Butterflies are a reminder to us that our lives may or may not last long but that we have to go through life and transform into something more that we are at first...to learn our lessons, to grow stronger, to break free from what imprisons us and be an inspiration to others. It is also a reminder to us that no matter how hard things may be, there is always something greater to look forward to. A bl

Half a siomai

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One night, a mother and son went to a dimsum restaurant to have dinner. They ordered two steamed rice, a side of quail egg siomai and 2 bottles of water. They then started eating and since the siomai only had 3 pcs, the mother cut the second piece into two. The other half unintentionally was bigger than the other one and in a moment of selfishness and human weakness, she thought of taking the bigger slice for herself... but her motherly instincts quickly t ook over and so she offered the bigger slice to her son. The son, upon seeing what her mother had done, refused to take the bigger slice and instead offered it to his mother saying, "You can have this slice Ma, I'll take the other one." The mother then asked the son why he wanted to give that siomai slice to the mother. The son said, " BECAUSE IT IS THE BIGGER SLICE."  😍 😭 😘 DO THIS: Try to close your hands and then open them. Do you notice that its relatively easier and requires