Sunday, December 26, 2010

【我的女友是九尾狐】

应仲ing之荐,续【一枝梅】之后,看了这出剧。



典型韩剧,三角恋情,仅setting不同。

但此剧有可看之处-简单轻松,不是很复杂的恋爱情节;单纯青春帅气的主角们,还是吸引了偶的眼球。


(东朱老师竟然是以前the trax里的鼓手rose,哇!终于再见到他了,呵呵。这时候的他还真年轻呀!迷~^^)

Monday, December 20, 2010

大河剧 一

花了一年半,终于把我的第一部大河剧看完了。共48集的【龙马传】,看完时有感慨,即振奋,又沮丧之感。好像每次看完电视剧都有这种无奈的感觉。=/

(剧照一:坂本龍馬,福山雅治饰)

龙马传,讲述幕末时代一位土佐藩下士-坂本龍馬一生33年的事迹。他生性好奇,有着别人没有的思绪,没有着一般武士的蛮悍,反而珍惜生命,主张和平。江户时期,黑船来袭,西方人迫使日本开国贸易。龙马受黑船影响,渐渐开拓视野,虽然加入挚友武市半平太所组,以尊皇攘夷为主要的“土佐勤王党”,但仍对其保持怀疑态度。日后脱藩,成为一介浪人,并拜胜麟太郎为师,极力拓展自己的知识,接受反战,建立海军的想法。其后土佐勤王党被强力瓦解,海军操练所被关闭,促使龙马进一步的成长。龙马等浪人到萨摩替西乡吉之助开船,搬货。到了长崎,被纵横商场的日本与各国商人激发了新的视野,后结成了“龟山社中”,促成萨摩与长洲结盟,成功倒幕,推动大政奉还。最后龙马被刺杀,可谓壮志未酬身先死。

龙马跨时代的创新思想,改变了日本的历史,影响了日本的发展,从一个闭门封建的幕府制度,到明治维新运动,至现在民主的政府,成为了亚洲领先的发展国。

从另一个角度来看,如果他没有因年早逝,日本会有怎样一个情景呢?日本会不会走上军国主义的道路呢?二战的悲剧会不会发生呢?

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Kampung Baru Tiram Setia

Back again we were in Kampung Baru Tiram Setia, Tanjong Karang, Kuala Selangor.

A few new food stalls have been set up behind JKKK (our camp venue), one selling nice 雪花冰, one cooking tasty food.

Kids and kampung people are still the same, riding bicycles and motorbikes everywhere, every time.

We had 48 kids this time, most of them old kids who came for the last camp and there were also some new faces.

The kids' behavior is a lot better this time. The girl who was used to be so rude was no longer 'that' rude, she listened and learnt. The boy, little bumble bee, who could not sit for a second in the class can now sit more than a second, still not paying attention but paid a little, at least.

Parents' were more participative this time, judging from the number of parents attending our opening and closing ceremony.

My group won the best group this time, the kids were so happy, so did i.

The hardest kid in my group, 伟嘉, who did not care much on what was going on throughout the camp and liked to disturb others, was in tears when we were going to leave the kampung, to another teacher who were so closed to him, we cried too. I did not expect him to.

Pray that God will bless the kids. What they learnt during the camp will be planted deep into their heart and will not be moved by the temptations and bad influences that they are doing to encounter. Pray that they will continue being a good child in the family and good student in school. Pray that they will be loved enough, so that their heart will be softened.

Pray also God will bless the families there, especially the adults--parents and grandparents to take care and teach their children well, not having gender bias and too engrossed in their own business.

Pray for Siew Ching who travels from Subang to the Kampung every Saturday to teach English there. Pray for the revival in the kampung by bringing more Christian teachers in.

Thank you Lord for everything, especially throughout the organizing period and the camp--from the fund needed, people, transport, all were settled beautifully in the end. We can't thank you enough =D


(on the road)

(me teaching)

(us performing during the opening ceremony)

(lanterns!)

(Group photo in front of JKKK)

(me and my group)

(cutie bumble bee)


(last morning breakfast with the kids)

(our host family)

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

NO Monkey allowed!

Monkey oh Monkeys

You!

Mess around with my table
Give me no good rest when i am alone in the room with windows open
Sneak around outside my window early in every morning
Send an older experienced of your kind to do the attacks

Stole
away

My craft benang
My apple
My justea
My peach
My biscuit

and

My precious Chinese stamp given to me by a dearest friend!!!

I HATE you!!!

Bear in mind, this is

Don't mess around with me, i'm not afraid of you!

And don't come when i'm sleeping! Fight one to one like a MAN!!! [except you are not one =( ]

(This is now forever a memory...never took photo of the stamp...sigh...)

Stress

Never experienced gastric before entering university and didn't believe it has anything to do with stress, always doubted the doctor's opinion, until recently i see the connection...

First time it was the very first week i entered uni... stress la leaving home and came to the crappy lousy college and stupid university and senior pm around you just keep shouting and scolding (my thought that time)

Then a few time more in the previous two years, on and off, when i'm thinking too much and i guess all the negative particles went to my stomach and created trouble.

This time, again, when all the assignments, research, Shakespeare reading are pending and require a lot of time and energy to do...

Restless, stomachache, nausea, bloated stomach, loose cake...

Why, stress, leave me alone!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Prayer

Praying is not a rule
not something you are obliged to do
not for you to find words to talk to God

but

an attitude
a natural, spirit-filled conversation with God
He doesn't need fancy words
only those from the bottom of your heart counts.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Think.

Quotes to share:

1. Some people talk a lot but meaningless; some speak a single sentence but full of meaning and insight. Most of us speak hundreds and thousands of words in our whole life, but some people, like Lao Zi, Confucius, Jesus, talked less, perhaps thousands only, but their words are being passed through generations and still being quoted today.

2. Many pray and worship for objects, not God. Are we praying to want God understand and accomplish our will; or are we praying to understand and accomplish God's will? Understand God, not fulfill only our lust!

3. The spirit of LIE is working around the world. Politics, religion, business, education, science and so many fields are full of lies. Some use the name of God to start a war; some fake their research work; some cheated for power. Are we blinded by the lies around us, ignoring the whisper of truth from the spirit of God?

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Semester 5

Being in the third year is really like what seniors told us, not easy. I've never had my mind full of stuffs and worries in the very first week of the semester. Academics, emotions, all came about and haunt my dreams. What should i do?

Four weeks have gone with the speed of light and things are still piling up. Keeping a daily schedule is a good way to remind me of my to-do stuffs but i hardly follow it. Procrastination is a big question here.

Ten more weeks to go, short and compressed.

But if i were to put aside headache stuffs i still have some things to remember and smile at, bits of enlightenment at this period of time. Some are shown in pictures below, more in facebook.


(NVC dinner, last event in my batch.)

(Convocation week, a time when UM is crazily crowded, it's very hard to have fresh air down there with the people)

(woan zhao bi ye le!)

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Semester Break!

Coming to the end of semester break, there's a mix feeling of distress leaving home and excitement of a new semester opening. New semester means more challenges be it in academic or in managing life, something which i need to encounter but not sure of its process and outcome, hopefully not something discouraging.

Looking at my two-month semester break there is no less activities. Joining NVC trip in the first two weeks was another good experience to me. Being a senior who mainly supervised junior's work and did a little help out, there was less physical exhaustion but more responsibility was required. In all it's an exciting trip visiting places for the first time.

(Tip of Borneo, the northest point in Borneo, located at Kudat, Sabah)

After the trip i went back to Sibu, as usual, i needed time to hibernate and get use to the 'new' surrounding. So i hibernated for one week and a half or two, with my minds drifting aimlessly.

Mom's birthday! Right on the first day of Gawai celebration. Me and my dad made a surprise for her, brought her out for dinner that night and presented a cake out from nowhere! Mom said that's her first ever cake since small! I hardly believe it but i think she was really touched. Love ya mom :)


Then the rest of the break became normal. Going out with friends, staying home and watch movies, and most of all, endless sleeping, as if i didn't sleep for the whole semester in KL.

(outing)And watched 3 movies with Edwina, Prince of Persia (very lousy), Karate Kid and Legend of Ip Man (awesome kungFu!!!).

One of the most exciting activities would be swimming. Attended a swimming class for 8 lessons and now i can swim! Hehe but inconsistently, sometimes i remember how to breath while swimming but sometimes not. Hmm...

And attending taekwondo practice. So every evening i was either at the taekwondo gym or at the swimming pool. Healthy huh~ Sorry la for friends who wanted to have dinner with me at night.

Not to forget, Girls' Brigade 40th Anniversary Celebration! As a visitor to GB meetings and all i guess i was more a bystander than a helper. It's a merry and tiresome celebration by the whole company girls and officers. All of them worked tirelessly to prepare for the best for saturday concert and sunday thanksgiving service, all for the Glory of God!

(the big big cake at the dinner after sunday's thanksgiving service)

(wf cute mdm goh)

I guess i made more food this time at home =)

(Cheese cake -yi san's recipe. Since our old oven is heated with gas there is a bump on the soft cake... i called it volcano and mom called it nipple=P)

(butter cake -mom's recipe. Baked twice and this is the first butter cake. In the second baking i put excessive raisins and chocolate rice inside and it turned into chocolate cake, but i like it! HEhehe~)

(made californian sushi twice just because we bought a 50-sheet seaweed sheet, gonna make another time b4 going off, guess there are still 35+ sheets left)

(corn flakes cookie, made twice also for the sake of excessive ingredients left, like it a lot=D)

(cheese cake -ST trading's recipe. not very beautiful in its look but very tasty. like it a lot and my bro requested me to make another one but mom rejected saying it's fattish... yes it really is...)

(instant curry paste brought from japan by ingchan)

(and here it is, japanese curry chicken! the taste is awesome! but would be greater if it's a lil bit more spicy =D)

(this one is not made by me, but by mom, like it a lot... rojak!)

(finally, photoshoot my brother, shhh he shouldn see this photo up on the net)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

2 Months

This is 2 months from my last post.

Many things can happen in two months.

Many things happened.

Enjoyable, Fun, Grateful, Happy, Tiring, Memorable Things.

Thank God for all these that made a fragment of my life.

This year's CNY fell on a great date, we had a beautiful one week CNY holiday and me had an awesome time with my families and friends back home.

(CNY is always cake time. My stomach was basically full with cakes everyday, at home, over at relatives' or friends' house. Lucky joined badminton competition and kurus a bit, or else not balanced liao...)

A week after CNY holiday me joined our course camp in Pangkor Island. We gave it a high expectation and i think i won't do this anymore. Always have a neutral expectation towards a camp and see how it goes before getting excited. Me got to know my coursemates better in the camp. Came back from camp with a few stings from dunno-what-creature under the water and some scars and a stomach of unsatisfaction of the facilities provided at the camp site. Warning: Never go to Raudhah Camp.

(My fav pic among all pics from the camp, that was before we went off to kayaking and snorkeling.)

This semester am mainly forming assignment group with Amy, Melissa, KaiChur and ShinYen and we named ourselves PowerPuff girls. Made ourselves a hand gesture and we pretty much encourage each other with the group spirit. We're in this same group in our two most troublesome course this semester, L3U and AR (Nermin's one of us here in AR). Seeing each other in their up and downs, helping each other, encouraging each other, laughing at each other; this is the most awesome group i have so far. Hope our group-ship will last=P

(Taken during tarian kreatif's competition, sad melissa not in...)

Went to broga hill for hill climbing. I had better stamina this time, my knees didn't fail me until we came down from the top. Kept falling on the way down, blame the wet soil, luckily Jonathan helped... Climbing is all bout determination and the supports from friends around. So many complained about the decision to come to the climbing, some didn't feel well in the middle of going up, but in the end all of us managed to reach the top. Although we didn't get to see the sunrise, thank God there's only a few drops of rain or we would have trouble going down. The rain also gave us beautiful fogs, it's like we went into a different country.

(at the peak, yay...)

Had our once in a year MAZ. It's again a dress nice-nice and photo time. I like our venue this time since it provide delicious Chinese course. This should be my best meal in kl... so sad i couldn't have all the dishes cos have to take photo... sad also photos not complete, no time to take with everybody la...

(with hooi hooi=D)

June's bday + Teslian's outing. Had a great time in Chillis with all those crazy people.

(makan...)

Attended Tarian Cina competition after June's bday celebration and our college's performance's brilliant. Love it very much =D

(with Eric, he so talented in dancing la... dunno how he managed dancing in both tarian cina and tarian kreatif..)

Tarian kreatif 3 days later, i thought 7th, 9th and 5th will get the top three. In the end it's 5th, 12th and 7th get the top three respectively. Never thought 12th will get man... 9th also very good ok....

(our college team)

Helped out in Easter Production in the campus and it's a nice experience. Got to know each other better and really thank God for making it happening=)

(our one and only practice for handmime performance~)

Met a nagging old man during NVC donation drive (nightmare). Met nice people who brought us from the weird sri petaling station to UOG. After hours of walking around, met a dunno-who old man. Tried to argue with him his selfish philosophy and ended up nodding to his statements in the end. It's sometimes tiring to argue with an old man's EXPERIENCED philosophy.

IngChan came to KL for a few day before going off to Japan. So i basically threw everything away and spent time with her. We had good time together, going to the sane old places we always went, and went to the finale of festival seni also together with ackell and xin hui, photos pending. Had sushi zammai and okunomiyaki on the second day and the third day... learnt how to look at nice jap things.=) Watched Alice and Hw to train your Dragon together, had fun=P Again,felt distressed seeing her leaving... Ai...

(noob face...should have more pics but the camera memory card didn function and couldn't get more pics out, sigh...)

There's one more week before this semester ends. Next week we gonna have the deadly AR and L3U presentation, the things we've been working for all these while. Hope they went well. Yosh...

Monday, February 1, 2010

圣诗半曲

今早这圣诗的旋律一直在脑海中旋转, 忘了歌名,不记得整首歌词儿,想了很久把副歌给想起来了:

"赞美主 赞美主
全地听主声音

赞美主 赞美主
万民快乐高兴

请来藉主耶稣进入父家中
荣耀归主祂已成就大事工"


此曲让我心存平安;无论发生什么,做些什么,到要赞美那自在,今在,永在的主=)

February the First

And it turns to February before I know it and my January planner will be retiring from its service. January is a fruitful month. I had plans and some of them were fulfilled. Some were new and unexpected and I guess I handled them ok.

Joined our college badminton team with initial purposes to lose weight and have fun. Found it harsh and not as simple as I thought when I joined the training. Went tension especially when I couldn’t meet the standard and tried to accept it with an open heart and tried my best to keep up. Was disappointed each and every time when I lose. Overall I won one game with Lydia and the victory feeling was beyond explanation. In the end we didn’t make it into top three when we’ve a great chance. Mistakes were made and how nice if time could be rewind. For sure me is going to train and play more in the future and if there’s a chance I’m going to try out next year in a better shape.

Nuclear weapon-Transforming Human Spirit exhibition is held in Museum Seni Asia for two weeks and I’m helping yue min and her friends as an exhibition guide. At first I doubted my decision and I was concerned by SGM but I stayed after finding out the point of the exhibition is about the theme itself, not about SGM. Being an exhibition guide i just need to memorize or get familiar with the display panels and talk to people when they come. Visitors are few so it was delighting to see people coming and talk to them about the panels. So far I’m lucky of not being asked hard questions unlike Chris and other friends. Another four days will the exhibition go, hope more people will come and see for themselves what is peace and the threats of nuclear weapons especially for us Malaysians who live well here.

Attended Pastor Lee’s Critical Thinking course for the past three days and I really got something out of it. I thought it was plainly seminars until I saw the assignment paper in the course requirement. Ok I need to be serious about it. This course was definitely better than the one that I took in the faculty. Pastor Lee’s teaching is what I always imagine a university lecturer would be when I was in secondary school. And now have to think how to write the assignment paper.

So these three days went to pasar seni for the course and am a bit fed up with the place already, food, people. Now only I found Petaling Street an ‘ang moh’ street when it turns dark. It’s as if we locals are minorities when walking on the streets. I mean street, exclude those hawker and workers. Aiks…

Today is happily a holiday although there’s a great deal of assignments waiting for me. Am going to go into battle after I wake up later. Ciao. Night.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Jan 16

Jan 16 ~ 16th day in 2010
20 days from my last post
3rd week of lecture

Suddenly felt motivated to blog.

So,
Blog lo.

This semester is no less hectic. Assignments poured in since the very first week. Every lecturer has his/her own expectation on us (exclude those lazy ones), and expect something out of us.

(Most important thing is what you/I want out of yourself/myself.)

I think i'm getting better in managing time by fitting in little but time consuming errands into my day-dreaming time. Seeing KC endlessly doing her activity anytime, anywhere, has more or less taught me how to fit things better.

This is very not me. Although a (suppose to be successful) person need to be good in multitasking and time managing, but it seriously affect my rest hours.

Because day-dreaming is very important for me. A few friends said i have an old woman body which is mainly due to lack of sleep. I sleep approximately 5 hours a day, normal. So i don't understand what's wrong with me.

I suppose i don have enough day-dreaming time, or nap time, or i simply need to sleep more than anybody.

Therefore i'm not a superwoman type and i should cease myself from TRYING to become one.

Everyday, lying on the bed becomes a luxury.

Time? No.

And i need to be very bold once in a while to leave things behind and relax a bit outside the stuffy room, or push away all the stuffs and just sleep (this i haven't tried).

Which i think i'm doing pretty well in it, but i guess it's not enough.

Should think of a solution....

A few events i like to highlight here. At least these have made up my dull, boring routine.

15 episodes of Heroes during NEW YEAR weekend.

I miss the good old time when i could watch series like there's nothing else to do. I was really delighted.

Avatar on Dec 30 and Sherlock Holmes on Jan 1


Two most wanted-to-watch movies this month. Satisfied. Like the visual sense in Avatar, and the setting and background in Sherlock Holmes. Subarashii~

Visitation of Taman Megah Handicapped and Homeless Children home Jan 3

We visited it for proficiency project. This is a meaningful visit to me and Wang Shan, and i guess also with Jessie and Yuan. It's not exciting or new but rather it's saddening. Children who know nothing are being taken cared of by a number of selfless volunteers. Once i a while if i don't think about it i thought i was the most unfortunate person in the world. Now, who are?

PKV CM's Family Planning Retreat Jan 8 - Jan 10

We went to EL Sanctuary, Melaka. It's a super duper nice place. I escaped the routine in campus and had fun there. The food provided there is (un-describe-able). The spagetti on the first night was better than any spagetti i've eaten in KL (needless to say 1000X better than what i cooked). We successfully planned out whole-year programme, reminded ourselves with our duty in campus, and enjoyed ourselves very much.


(With li jye and the dogs cutie who accompanied us to the woods and looked out for peculiar animals for us human visitors)

Billie's birthday celebration Jan 15

Pizza Hut, my second time in KL. I went there for the first time last semester for Marilynn's bday, this time Billie's. Enjoyed the salad. Then had my (and Billie's) first Red Box. I finally know why IngChan said K-ing is addicting. So sorry la, last time kept rejecting your offer, IngChan. We had a great time, everyone sang her lung out. Then, went home reluctantly.

Edu Fac HaiNan Chicken Rice


Nowadays i have my lunch mostly at the faculty. Luckily there's this new stall, i heard it's from twelve college, that sells chinese taste. HaiNan Chicken Rice is my favourite (so far). Thanks to it, i don't need to eat the crappy oily with leftover-vege food every afternoon. Although now i'm starting to get fed up with it (ate 3 times last week, once this week), but it's still nice la. However i guess i'll not stand it for another couple of times gua.

Random good food

Guess i'm somehow like tomato said, looking to food for pleasure? Random food do enlighten me. The banana i bought at carefour makes me feel contended, the cheese cake tomato brought add some flavours to my sense of taste.

~.~.~.~

Too much of 'I' up there.

~.~.~.~

Pastor Tong said young people nowadays always thing of "My Ideal" but seldom thing of "The Ideal Me".

My Ideal = I want this/that and (who cares what happen).
Ideal Me = What do i have to do to achieve a better me.

This made me think.

And it all comes back to God after all that i've done. How am i going to honour Him in things i do? Some are so dedicated and faithful they do and try to throw away those unlawful in God's eyes. And i'm not doing good enough.

Not yet, i always tell myself.

Time is passing freakingly fast. The DAY will come, without anybody knowing it. When He knocks on my door, am I prepared to open it?

I always HOPE i am.

Do I?