{"id":2860,"date":"2011-12-20T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:45:46","slug":"its-more-blessed-to-give-than-to-receive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2860","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s more blessed to give than to receive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and yet, I am the receiver. I&#8217;m blessed. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>I believe I have been kinda out of touch with some of my friends in SG &#8211; I tried to keep in touch but since we don&#8217;t meet up often.. we drift apart. ah&#8230; it&#8217;s sad.. and inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad that I still have a couple of friends.. who always rem&#8230; it&#8217;s not the gift, it&#8217;s the thoughts and the intentions that touched me deeply. It may not mean anything to you but at that instant, I knew that I was in your thoughts \ud83d\ude42 What an honor!<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn sent me a Bra Bag &#8211; which I had been looking to buy for a long time! I felt that it is super useful for traveling. I LOVE IT TO BITS! She also got it in my fave colour \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m so glad&#8230;. Just when I thought she was so sweet&#8230; she made her gift even sweeter by giving me a pair of really retro cool earrings!! Double happiness.. I literally flew up to the sky!<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/gift1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/gift1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gift1\" width=\"258\" height=\"577\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/gift1.jpg 258w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/gift1-134x300.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caryn, knowing that I had been sick sent me VitC.. OMG!!! I was so touched that I could cry&#8230; She is so sweet.. she always rems&#8230; thank you!!! You shld have seen BH when he saw the Bak Kwa.. haha&#8230; he was like &#8220;I could eat all in 1 go!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caryn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/199.96.156.76\/~binghuan\/seattletimes_6eptember\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caryn.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"caryn\" width=\"370\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caryn.jpg 370w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caryn-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you&#8230;. and Thank you again \ud83d\ude42 I may be poor&#8230; BUT for 1 thing I know.. I am rich when I have friends like you! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Found this online and I just wanna remind myself and put it here..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do It Anyway By Mother Theresa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>People are often unreasonable, illogical,<br \/>\nAnd self-centered;<br \/>\nForgive them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If you are kind, people may accuse you<br \/>\nOf selfish, ulterior motives;<br \/>\nBe kind anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If you are successful, you will win some<br \/>\nFalse friends and some true enemies;<br \/>\nSucceed anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If you are honest and frank;<br \/>\nPeople may cheat you;<br \/>\nBe honest and frank anyway.<\/p>\n<p>What you spend years building,<br \/>\nsomeone could destroy overnight;<br \/>\nBuild anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If you find serenity and happiness,<br \/>\nthey may be jealous;<br \/>\nBe happy anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The good you do today,<br \/>\npeople will often forget tomorrow;<br \/>\nDo good anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Give the world the best you have,<br \/>\nand it may never be enough;<br \/>\nGive the world the best you&#8217;ve got anyway.<\/p>\n<p>You see, in the final analysis<br \/>\nit is between you and God<br \/>\nIt was never between you and them anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and yet, I am the receiver. I&#8217;m blessed. Thank you! I believe I have been kinda out of touch with some of my friends in SG &#8211; I tried to keep in touch but since we don&#8217;t meet up often.. we drift apart. ah&#8230; it&#8217;s sad.. and inevitable. I&#8217;m glad that I still have a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=2860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s more blessed to give than to receive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}