Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, never let it fade away.

I feel like a spectator to the world outside my window on a rainy night, as if a pause button has been pressed in my life. Where suddenly the chaos and hustling of the day comes to a pitstop.

As if in here, under the comfort and warmth of my sheets, and with pillows piled up around me, I feel safer. The tranquility and quietness. As if because of the rain, I'd have a pleasant dream tonight, of you maybe, and wake up smiling wanting to shut my eyes for it to happen all over again. Because dreams are the closest thing we have to reality now.

Here's hoping the sound of the rain lulls me to sleep and that a rainbow'll come after.

Goodnight.

xoxo, elvyna.

In my life, Your will be done.

Just finished my devotion tonight. Such a simple verse, one I've always read through and glanced upon but still, it has a profound meaning.

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Proverbs 4:23

I must admit, many a times i've strayed and my heart have been tempted. It is really important, I feel, to learn how to guard my heart because, well, all our actions and choices are driven by the desires of our heart. The heart shows and portrays who you are as a person. But somehow, I just find it really difficult to stay grounded in the world today :(

Therefore, tonight I said a prayer. A prayer to set my heart right with God, and to renew my commitment to love God with all I have. Everything I have. Because I can't do this alone. I need His help. I don't know what the future holds, but still I'll trust in His faithfulness. He's never failed me, He never will.

xoxo, elvyna.

Sunny day!

I rearranged my messy stack of books and papers! (: My table feels so ready to be in "study mode" now. Too bad I'm not! :P Church was great today btw! *lalalalala*

I feel really really happy today (:

xoxo, elvyna.

you make me smile (:

I miss the feeling I get whenever I sit down with a cup of hot passionfruit and peach tea in one hand and a book in the other. I miss the way I feel when I read and get lost in the tracks of time just lapping up each sentence on every page of a book. I've been fond of reading since I was a kid and I just never grew out of it. In fact, I might've grown into it, if that makes any sense :/

I guess I've always found it amazing how powerful words can be in telling a story. How in one moment I can be in my room reading and the next thing I know, I'm being transported into another realm, where I can feel what the characters in the book feels, or imagine a sunset so beautiful it makes me tear, or even feel a love so compelling through the story that I've never felt before in real life. Or maybe it could be like how it was when I was younger, where I would suddenly become a princess, in a castle somewhere far far away, awaiting the arrival of my prince charming to sweep me off my feet.

Anything is possible in a storybook. There are no boundaries, no barriers. Nothing to hold me back. Nothing to restrain my imagination from going wild. Nothing too big for me to grasp. I like the feeling I get when I can just let myself go, or at least my thoughts, whilst I'm reading a book. That feeling, I've missed it. Maybe that's why I can always spend hours and hours just sitting on a park bench or a coffee shop reading, oblivious to people passing by around me, just to hold on to that exhilarating rush of euphoria I get when I'm soaking up a book. It's like as if time stops for me, or rather moves too quickly when it happens. (:

So tonight, I'm putting the medical books aside for a little while (they've been overused anyways!) and I'm going to read a story book again, just to feel the way I always do when I read. No melanomas, no rheumatoid arthritis, no cardiac arrhythmia or Crohn's disease or any other disease for that matter.

It's just me and my book for tonight. And oh, my cuppa passion fruit peach tea (:

I iz happy, I iz very very happy (:

xoxo, elvyna.

:(

It hasn't been a great start to 2011, I must say. My first day back here in Southampton hasn't been going all that well. *sigh* Sometimes I guess no matter how hard you try to make things right, if it's just not meant to be, it won't ever happen.

As I'm waiting for my huge mug of 2 sachets of 3-in-1 Milo to cool down, I've been repeating the same song on iTunes for the past 15 minutes. Trying to clear my head of everything. The lyrics are so simple. It repeats over the whole chorus, but somehow I can just cry listening to this song. Again and again.

Amazed- Lincoln Brewster

You dance over me, while I am unaware

You sing all around, but I never hear the sound

Lord I'm amazed by You,

Lord I'm amazed by You,

Lord I'm amazed by You,

How You love me.

You paint the morning sky, with miracles in mind

My hope will always stand, for You hold me in Your hand

How deep, How wide

How great is You love for me

I guess sometimes when I try too hard to look for that silver lining out of everything I'm in and don't find it, I don't have to be upset. There may not be a silver lining to most things, but my God is always with me, and He loves me. Nothing's gonna change that. ever.

So come terrible days like today, come anything. I'll take them down. He holds me in His hands. Taking comfort in that.

xoxo, elvyna.

Your grace has found me just as I am, empty handed but alive in Your hands.

First of all, Happy New Year everyone! (: I hope all of you had an awesome time counting down the minutes and then seconds and ushering in the new year.

View of the fireworks from the London eye.

May the new year bring all of you more joy, more happiness, more love than 2010 did. May it also remind us of His greatness and the blessings He has so abundantly poured into our lives each and every day last year. This year, will be a better year, as we continue to strengthen our faith, trust Him more, love Him more. More of Him, less of me.

I've already made my resolution this year, which is the same every year. What about you? Make one, and keep it. Work towards it. Even if it's just a little one. It'll make a whole lot of difference. Baby steps, it's better than none.

Looking forward to all the great things He has in store for me this year. Ready to take up the challenges and obstacles of the year. Nothing to fear with Him that strengthens me. My heart is at peace knowing that.

Ahh. What an amazing, amazing God I have.

xoxo, elvyna.

May these memories break our fall.

Had lunch at a 1 star Michelin restaurant with aunt when we got to London from Greece.

This was at L'Atelier by Joel Robuchon in Leicester Square. The food was really nice and the portion was small so I wasn't overly stuffed (:Starter: Sauteed squid.
Main: Honey suckling pig.
Interior of the restaurant. Mirror reflection.

Dessert: Chocolate log cake with ice cream (:

Dinner that night was at ParkLane Hilton- Galvin at Windows, another one star Michelin restaurant. The ambience was nice, it was a pretty romantic setting and there was a view of part of London city.
Outside the hotel. So christmas-y all the snowflakes (:

Starter of the 3 course meal : Lobster Ravioli. Aunt's main: Foie Gras with orange glaze.Main: Steak with foie gras on a bed of spinach.View of the city.Dessert: Chocolate ganache. Heavenly (:Aunt's dessert: Chocolate souffle.Hibiscus tea! (:

Spent two nights with aunt at Marriott before she left and look what I discovered! (:

( I know they're referring to my aunt but it's not my fault we have the same surname) HAHA. so special (:

xoxo, elvyna.