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?