Dear Aria - Welcome to the world

Dear Aria,


I believe you would be arriving on 28 Dec 2012, what a beautiful day it would be, I can't wait to finally meet you.

You were supposed to arrive in Jan 2013, however, doctor believes it is better for both you and mommy for you to arrive earlier as mommy is suffering from gestational diabetes that caused by having you, but don't worry, we now have the best solution, you are coming into our arms sooner. :)

You are a brave little warrior and I want you to remember this, you can do and achieve whatever you want in life as long as you put your heart in it, because you are Aria, "air" in Hebrew and Italian,one of the most important elements in the universe. :)

Aria, we are waiting for you to be here, we are going to have so much fun together.  Daddy is a good cook and photographer, mommy is a beauty expert and I am your personal Wikipedia. Do you like this structure? ;)


  " 12月28日出生的人不僅能在事情上發揮所第，且又做得相當周延。這種練達是因為他們對於自己怪及所能完成的事，都相當有自信。即使他們的童年 是很多彩多姿，也仍然能提供足夠的穩定感，讓他們可以全力在事業上發展，最後建立自己的家庭。今天出生的人，很少會忘記他們從哪裡來，或嘗試掩飾自己的出生背景。他們的作風是立刻、直接，而且非常有力" 
http://lianchun.myweb.hinet.net/Birthday_password/


"Others find your way of expressing yourself especially intriguing and charming. You are forever curious about people and their relationships, and you have an intuitive understanding of relationship dynamics. You are an idealistic person, even if you come across as savvy or possibly sarcastic. It never fails to surprise you when people fail to act with good intentions, even if you can predict it will happen in advance! Somewhat of a worrier, you are often over-thinking matters. Although you are a bit on the dominant side, you can also be very considerate and peace-loving at heart. Famous people born today: Denzel Washington, Woodrow Wilson, Johnny Otis, Peter Finch."
http://www.cafeastrology.com/birthday/december28_2011.html



See you very very soon Aria
xoxoxo

Dear Aria, something about listening

Baby girl, you are most likely turn out to be very bubbly just like your daddy and mommy. Being bubbly is a good thing if you are good at listening in order to speak intelligently in all the right situations.

In general, people want to express themselves more than they want to listen, however, you can only get the most out of listening.

Through listening, not only that you would be able to get a lot of information, if you are a skilled listener, you would be able to detect lies and listen to what people truly saying between lines.

Here are the 5 good reasons of listening:

• There are situations that people won’t be able to always tell you the truth, which you could only figure it out with your own listening experience.

• Every person is unique, and they have their own selections of words that they prefer to use, from listening to them, you could be able to look at a person’s characters and a bit of their history (from their accents and manners)

• Since people prefer expressing themselves than listening, being a listener would bring you closer to people, people tend to enjoy talking to a listener

• You can only act the best and fastest when you get all your facts right, so listening could help you achieve more in your life

• You would stop talking when you are listening and you would be amazed that how beautiful the sounds of nature and the backgrounds are.

Here are 5 tips on being a good listener:

• Sitting in the same level with the person you are listening to, this bring you closer to that person and it makes it more natural for that person to tell you the information.

• Psychologically, People tend to feel nervous about disclosing their thoughts when they are looking up to the listener, and they tend to be careful about the information they want to share when they are looking down to the listener. 

• Making natural eye contact with the people you are listening to, make them know that they have your attention, and this make them feel respect and comfortable in telling you the information.

• Acknowledging the information you receive by nodding, smiling, giggling or saying, “ I see”, naturally. 

• Ask questions every 5-10 mins, either on “why” or base on the information they give you and ask for information that is in a deeper aspect.

• Be sensitive about people’s feeling and show respect. Do not laugh at people’s misery although you find it amusing.  lol Control your facial expression try not to show judgments.

Being a good listener makes your speech smarter, more informative and it shows maturity, and you would often get extra information when people feel close / related to you, which is one of the skills that you need to master in life.

X

Dear Aria, something about food

Food is like fuel to the cars, fresh good food is essential to all your developments and determine how good you do too.

You probably would have the most balanced meals during your breast-feeding period your whole life, because breast milk is self-formulated to fit all your unique needs as a baby.

The food supplies and farms are owned by businessmen, and they don’t know / care much about the nutrients we need, most of the commercials just advertise the “happy” life styles but they wouldn’t teach you what a balanced diet is like, so this is very important that you would be able to educate yourself first.

All those good looking celebrities in those soft drinks commercials probably don’t drink sugary soft drinks at all in real life, and children have Happy Meals everyday probably are the most frequent visitors to the clinics!

And for the diet pills and drinks, there is only 1 way to burn fat - exercise / staying active.  Eating anything would help you to burn fat (healthily), consider all food contain energy, how does it make sense that consuming food could help you to decrease your stored energy (aka fat)?  If they are not food, then you shouldn't eat it. You should take pills only when you are sick, Aria!

So what do we need? We need a bit of almost everything exists, whether you are an omnivore or a vegetarian.  Not a bit of everything in the Supermarkets, I want you to be adventure and passionate about fresh food in variety.  Because Supermarkets carry things that sell / low cost, in the end of the day, they are just stores and sales is important.  Supermarkets are good for groceries and some fresh food only, you should always go out to look for fresh vegetables, keeping your menu interesting and your life would be much more interesting too.

I want you to read a book or two every year to educate yourself with the latest food researches, learn how to maintain your health.  Healthy people perform better in almost every aspect in life, it’s a fact that you have to acknowledge.

But there are 5 golden rules when comes to food that you should keep in mind always: 

• For vegetables - Always eat those that grow on the tree / land.

E.g.: Mr. Juice / Fruit flavored popsicles – No;

Grapes / Home made fresh squeezed juice – Yes.

• For meat - Always buy those that don’t come with an Ingredient sticker.

E.g.: Luncheon meat / meatballs – No (unless they are home made);

Fish / beef – Yes.

•  Eat seeds (nuts / beans) – Jungle / forest are made of thousands of trees and they are all grown from a little seed. They are one of the best foods that make you beautiful and intelligent! J

• Eat in moderation – Look at your hand, every meal you have should be able to fit in your hand, you can eat up to 5-6 meals per day but don’t eat too much, too much of a good thing could be bad.  Remember this.

• Fresh clean warm water – 83% of a human body is blood, and it’s made of the water you drink. Blood keeps your organs alive, help with your whole developments, healings and detoxing. 

X 

Dear Aria, I’m gonna tell you something about friendship

Friendship is an interesting thing; it’s easy, natural and almost effortless, and it makes you feel like a walking million dollar sometime.

 It’s a lot like a love relationship but doesn’t involve commitment, means you can have more than one good friend at a time, and there are mutual friends that would team up and stand by your side when you need them.

 (We will get into this later, love is another amazing thing.)

 But don’t take it for granted, friends are like business partners, we all got something out of it, and we are happy when it’s “fair”.

 Friends are like little mirrors, they let you know who you really are, and it takes more than one friend to see your own reflection.

 May be one day you’d realize you’ve stopped seeing some of your old friends.

 May be you would become a vegetarian and would stop hanging out too often with your omnivore friends.

Some friendships last forever, but very rare. Because we are changing along the way of finding ourselves, a few grow closer, but most of them grow apart.

 (We will get into Finding self later, it’s a life long journey but you would never be tired of it)

 Don’t be too sad about this, because no one can take away what you had with your friends.

 The friends you have now are the best, the friends you had then were the best.

 People have their own life styles; as much as they care about you, sometime people just don’t spend every day together.  X