Happy New Year 2008

Christmas joy is still sounding in the air and soon gone will be the year 2007. We gladly welcomed the new year which is just round the corner.

What is your new year's resolution? For me, nothing is better than leading a good and simple life where in every acts I do, it is pleasing to God. At this very moment as I am composing this blog, the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi rings in my head.

I got sentimental whenever our church choirs sang this hymn on Sunday Mass or any Holy Obligation days. My whole being will be filled with emotion and silent tears rolled down my cheeks. To say I am sad, I am not. It's just that the words written in the prayer touched my heart.

My new year wish to you and yours is have a Blessed and Happy moments all year round!

The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying (to the self) that we are born to eternal life.

Amen

Oh Come All Ye Faithful

Let this Christmas season be a renewing of the mind of Christ in our thinking,

and a cleansing of our lives by His pure presence.

Let His joy come to our weary world through us.

~ Gerald Kennedy~

Wishing all dear friends and colleagues

A Very Merry and Blessed Christmas!

xxx

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Business-Cum-Holiday Trip to Brunei July 2007

The Oil and Gas Discovery Centre

At a recent course I attended which was held at Brunei Shell Petroleum's Learning and Development Training Centre Seria (the oil producing town), I took some interesting pictures of some of the oil and gas facilities structures erected within the vicinity of the Seria Disctrict.

A X-mas Tree on display at Brunei Shell Petroleum Training Centre.

One Billionth Barrel Monument

Production of the Billionth Barrel of Crude Oil July 1991 - Seria, Brunei

Along both sides of the walkway is a display of some awesome gallery of monument stone plagues showing the many past historical and current operations carried out at the oil and gas facilities at Brunei Shell Petroleum.

A close-up of one of the stone plagues.

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Camera Shots - More Pictures

These are a few of Nina’s favorite pictures taken at Lake Miramar.

From: NinaOA [mailto:ninaxxxx…com]Sent: 26 January 2007 01:05
Here are pictures taken yesterday at Lake Miramar. M..xx… went for a jog and I went for a walk, not with a dog but with my camera and these are my favourite shot especially for you and your blog . I have a filmstrip on it, will post it out soon. hugs, Nina

Picture of a woman walking her dog in silhouette tone.


Pictures in sepias tones.

Pictures taken in almost natural tones. Very beautiful images. :)

Nina dear, thank you for allowing me to share these pictures here. I am always impressed by your talent in handling your camera. Cool man! Like it so much that it almost tasted like vanilla ice cream?!! He..he...he... Well done and keep up the good job!

Camera Shots

“I left my heart in San Francisco.”

That is the theme my dear friend Nina used for sharing some beautiful pictures she took during her family trip to San Francisco, USA. A well thought theme for the awesome pictures taken by a beautiful friend!

I mentioned in one of my blogs about how I got interested in taking photographs with my Sony Digital Camera. Well, after looking at the pictures from the Internet, I was so impressed by how talented these photographers are. It doesn’t matter whether they are novice or professional photographers; their pictures are equally awesome!

Came Nina; she further inspired me to get my camera clicking and since then I make sure I carry my camera with me wherever I go.

Today I received an email from her and here I would like to show you some of the pictures that she took and shared with me.

What do you think?

~ The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it. ~ Psalm 24:1 NIV