- The Path you Choose Will Be Your Destiny -
Today's pretty different from the rest of the days where I'd lazed around till like late morning...well, I had to send my dad's car for servicing at 8am which means that I have to wake up at like 7am!!!!! My gosh, that's really early given that I usually sleep till late morning...but the exams' like just another 24 hours away on "auspicious" Friday the 13...cool...I mean that it doesn't really happen often anyway...and so I made my way to school to study after sending the car for servicing and it was like ready around 10am. Well I had to take this really bothersome ride on the good old and reliable bus back to retrieve the car. Half way there while transiting to the other bus, Yujing called and said she wanted to go school study and I told her I'd be in school. And so after retrieving the car, I drove back to school to study...(Gee, it's like running around in minotaur's labyrinth the "Amazing Race" style...!!!)
Meet up with Noah in the library to study...Yujing joined us like about 12 plus and the three of us were there working the last few precious hours to the limit...what to do, exams' like so near yet so far...the anticipation part is killing me but the unpreparedness part is killing me as well...*sigh* better hope all these paper qualification thing will get me somewhere where the big pot of gold is...
Then like in the near evening part, Yujing whipped out a little cute dreamcatcher and said it's for me and I was like what the?!?!?!?! Oh you know Yujing, you really shouldn't really have...now that's really sweet and it's like the first time I actually received a gift for teaching my fellow classmates...I really didn't expect anything as after all I sort of felt like I really suck at studying so it's better to mingle around a few smarter ones so I can figure out more...like understanding 1% of a millionaire and that's like a whooping $10,000...Somehow I felt a bit uneasy as it's sort of like I didn't really do anything that great to deserve a gift...THANK YOU YUJING!!!
here's a dreamcatcher link if u like
http://www.dreamcatcher.comand here's a few of the dreamcatcher's origin just for you Yujing for being such a nice friend...
"A spider was quietly spinning his web in his own space. It was beside the sleeping space of Nokomis, the grandmother. Each day, Nokomis watched the spider at work, quietly spinning away. One day as she was watching him, her grandson came in. "Nokomis-iya!" he shouted, glancing at the spider. He stomped over to the spider, picked up a shoe and went to hit it. "No-keegwa," the old lady whispered, "don't hurt him." "Nokomis, why do you protect the spider?" asked the little boy. The old lady smiled, but did not answer. When the boy left, the spider went to the old woman and thanked her for saving his life. He said to her, "For many days you have watched me spin and weave my web. You have admired my work. In return for saving my life, I will give you a gift." He smiled his special spider smile and moved away, spinning as he went. Soon the moon glistened on a magical silvery web moving gently in the window. "See how I spin?" he said. "See and learn, for each web will snare bad dreams. Only good dreams will go through the small hole. This is my gift to you. Use it so that only good dreams will be remembered. The bad dreams will become hopelessly entangled in the web."
Long ago when the world was young, an old Lakota spiritual leader was on a high mountain and had a vision. In his vision, Iktomi, the great trickster and teacher of wisdom, appeared in the form of a spider. Iktomi spoke to him in a sacred language. As he spoke, Iktomi the spider picked up the elder's willow hoop which had feathers,horsehair, beads and offerings on it, and began to spin a web.
He spoke to the elder about the cycles of life; how we begin our lives as infants, move on through childhood and on to adulthood. Finally we go to old age where we must be taken care of as infants, completing the cycle. "But", Iktomi said as he continued to spin his web, "in each time of life there are many forces; some good and some bad. If you listen to the good forces, they will steer you in the right direction. But, if you listen to the bad forces, they'll steer you in the wrong direction and may hurt you. So these forces can help, or can interfere with the harmony of Nature. While the spider spoke, he continued to weave his web.
When Iktomi finished speaking, he gave the elder the web and said, "The web is a perfect circle with a hole in the center. Use the web to help your people reach their goals, making good use of their ideas, dreams and visions. If you believe in the great spirit, the web will catch your good ideas and the bad ones will go through the hole." The elder passed on his vision to the people and now many Indian people hang a dream catcher above their bed to sift their dreams and visions. The good is captured in the web of life and carried with the people, but the evil in their dreams drops through the hole in the center of the web and are no longer a part of their lives. It's said that the dream catcher holds the destiny of the future.
For hundreds of generations, certain elements of Native American peoples' spiritualism have been, and continue to be, handed down. One of these elements was the hoop. Some Native Americans of North America held the hoop in the highest esteem, because it symbolized strength and unity.
A lot of symbols evolved around the hoop, and one of these was the Dreamcatcher.
Using a hoop of willow, traditionally, and decorating it with findings, bits and pieces of everyday life, it is believed to have the power to catch all of a person's dreams, filtering out the bad ones, letting only the good dreams pass through.
May they also work for you...
The Indians believe that the night air is filled with dreams both good and bad.The dreamcatcher when hung in your place of rest, swinging freely with the air, catches the dreams as they flow by. The good dreams know the way,slipping through the outer holes and slide down the soft feathers so gently that many times the sleeper does not know that he/she is dreaming. The bad dreams not knowing the way, get tangled in the web and perish with the first light of the new day.
And that Native Americans believe that dreams are messages from the spirit world.A dream catcher is said to attract dreams to its webs. The good spirits find there way through the centre hole and float along the sacred feathers to the people sleeping below. The bad spirits get caught in the web and are melted by the morning sun.
Okay I sort if ripped that off someone else's web...and once again I have to say, THANK YOU YUJING! Oh yeah incase anyone wish to get this sweet girl a present, please get it before 8 May and email me at
shiroidevil@hotmail.com... thanks and hope you don't mind Yujing...hehe

"Here's a dreamcatcher for you Yujing..."