Wednesday, April 22, 2009

pink birthday

turning 22 at last! omg! I never thought this day would come so soon~! and next year would be 23 (omg omg!!) and 24 (omg omg omg!!!) and counting.. now i understand why ladies don look forward to birthdays as much… x.X

Had a peaceful one this year, as we have promised each other.. (hey it rhymes!) after all the egg yolk and flour and chlorineD pool water and scolding last year.. it’s time we mature and have quiet birthdays…?!

Anyway it’s always good to have ppl remembering our birthdays, esp when we are far from home, right?? That’s why it’s important to have friends! So that you don have to blow out an extra birthday candle alone!

Due to tradition, i had my share of cakes.. Zuzhang took the pain to go and get SR cakes of different flavours (smart!) so that we wouldnt puke by the end we finished it.. TQ zuzhang & angela!

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photos a bit blurry.. ^^ but enough to make me salivate again.. I like the one on the right most..! don know what it is.. cheese with oat kot..

Didnt get to take group photo.. don know why ya.. we just sat there at dug into the cakes and talked and talked and talked.. I guess I wasnt in the birthday mood.. hahaha

Then went to mamak to ‘break fast’… hahah.. ‘padahal’ dah break fast at zuzhang’s place.. everyone’s bloated after the cakes but we just wanted a taste of saltiness! And my 3.8 housemates brought along another cake pulak~!

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Saving my candle~!! Then came the awkwardness + gratitude + other mixed feelings…

having to celebrate bday at mamak place..! Thank God not many ppl’re watching (I think)… It’s gonna be some memorable bday.. :) but I still want to say a BIG BIG thank you!! to caryn & beeguat & doreen & peter & my beau… and Jong & Priya (huzmates 4ever!).. and Asmah! and to all who have wished me well.. thank you for taking the trouble to type me a message.. ^^

And what’s my ‘habuan’ this year?

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Mostly pinkish~ and hence the title.. ^^ Yaoyao’s got a new sister, MeiMei.. and I’ve got a candy box to rummage during my study week.. Ten Commandments in Dating to read to avoid conflicts with him.. and a Love Bank to deposit all the love ppl shower on me.. and some clip-ons to remind me of which course to attack 1st~!

Thank you peeps, once again.. It’s not very exciting to grow older.. but it sure is comforting to know you guys are growing older with me~!! Nyahaha…

and thank You Lord for leading me for 22 years, and please continue to lead me as I enter into 23rd… to grow stronger… and to know You better…!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

thank you: a tribute to my cell leaders

I thank God for the day we met for the first time, although you two might not realise that it was the beginning of t.r.o.u.b.l.e.... here goes!

Thank you for your occasional meal treats...

Thank you for sacrificing your afternoon rest and bringing us around to survey houses & cars & furniture & whatever we need...

Thank you for listening to me patiently when I am babbling...

Thank you for the effort of waking up early and fetching us to church for 3 years plus dy (oh gosh, that's how many tanks of petrol)...

Thank you for taking the trouble to fetch us back and forth when you take the risk to lend us your car... and yeah,

Thank you for taking the risk to lend us your Naza..

Thank you for telling us where all the nice foods in KL are and taking us there to satisfy our tummy...

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I just LOVE this picture I don know why.. hahhaa.. ^^ sweet!

Thank you for not reprimanding me even though I don't grow a lot after so long...

Thank you for being so tolerant when I go overboard...

Thank you for celebrating my birthdays so that I wont miss home too much...

Thank you for sharing my joy & pain & laughter & tears & silly lame jokes & everything that can be shared...

Thank you for your faithful prayers...

Thank you for your concern when we are not feeling well physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally...

Thank you for being my father cum big brother and mother cum big sister...

Thank you for not grumbling after all your sacrifices for us...

Thank you for teaching me the meaning of a shepherd...

Thank you for teaching me how to love...

Thank you for being my role models..

Thank you for being the ones I can always look up to...

Thank you for guiding me to love God more...

Thank you for the knowledge that you will always be with me through all ups & downs...

Thank you for giving me the chance to hug-hug & play-play with your baby before I graduate.. (or maybe babIES? hahha...) *wink wink*

and..

there are so many other THANK-YOUs that even thousands of words cant express them...

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...a glance of one of their best moments in life... if you know them, you'll love them too! hiakz-hiakz... :)

p/s to WeiPing & Angela: YOU BOTH MEAN A WHOLE LOT TO ME... 相璇COULDN'T HAVE SURVIVED IN KL WITHOUT YOU... LOVE YOU LOTS!!!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

desire love from God not men

The verse for today is...

Proverbs 19:22 What a man desires is unfailing love.

Where can you get love that never fails... Love that never disappoints... Love that never forsakes you... Love that never rejects you because you are a broken whole?

You get it from God. Because...

God never fails. God never disappoints. God never forsakes. God never rejects just because you are not up to the standard.

And men fail you. Men disappoint you. Men forsake you. Men reject you.

I fail you. I disappoint you. I forsake you. I reject you.

I saw the photo CT uploaded. And others' comments. And I'm suddenly confused. It seems ironic that now I'm looking for an answer... after 2 years.

Friday, April 3, 2009

nearing the end of journey with IPIK

Coming to the end of the semester... Everyone's oohing-aahing bout how time zooms. I entered college dreading bout how we're gonna survive being caged in a small college for 48 months before we could move on to UM; and just when I am starting to love my comfort zone, it's time to leave!

Wrote an article on Cohort 4 activities for the past 4 years for the Communique magazine that day and memories just came rushing back like a tidal wave. It feels as if Orientation Week was just last month..

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when we slept at 2 am and woke up at 4... when we dozed off listening to seminars and was awakened by annoyed seniors... when we had to greet seniors during lunch time by shouting "Selamat tengahari abang-abang dan kakak-kakak senior, kami lapar, kami nak makan, boleh tak?!!"... when we had to make sure our mosquito coil did not break so that we would not do too many kemahiran mendengar and tabik spring at night... when we had to get seniors' signatures by singing and dancing and entertaining...

It feels as if hostel life was just last week...

when the siren went off and we prayed hard that we did not have to go to TV room for meeting... when we were reprimanded for wearing too-short sleeved blouses, skirts and pants... when we grumbled because there was no water supply and electricity at times... when we visited each others' rooms so often because everyone's just next door neighbours... when we got scolded for being too noisy: "Satu kali tak cukup, dua kali tak cukup, nak saya bagitau berapa kali?"... when we had to tiptoe when it's past the curfew... when we have to wash our own clothes in the washroom with stalactites dripping water on you...!

And moving house was last week... lessons... tutorial tasks... presentations... assemblies.. assignments... workshops.. simulated teaching... lunches at kak som's cafe... occasional jamuan....

Nostalgic! that's all I could say... everything has come to the final.. the last assessment class... the last tutorial besar... and today we had the last tutorial hour for 2.1!

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We will always be 2.1 folks!

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And with everyone pitching in to help... Celus show-off!! Hahaha... And taking pictures (of the food and not the people!)...

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It's just a simple feast with unhealthy fried stuff and junk..^^ but we love!

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And finally our tutor Mdm Mohny showed up! Some speeches by Naren and her.. *be responsible for ourselves when we're in UM, take care, pursue higher education after B.Ed., come back and visit occasionally...* Ma'am, we will bear in mind all these! And I think all of us remember better that she actually said that we are the BEST cohort for her! Hurray~!

And Naren presented her with a souvenir from us... to force her to remember us!

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*what we gave her... with all our names of course!*

And this is one of the best shots of 2.1! GUYS, YOU ROCK! I'm so proud to be one of you! Hopefully we could still gather from time to time in UM later yea! *Naren, each of us really should get this framed nicely!*

Thursday, April 2, 2009

time to de-stress!!

haha.. I'm sooooooo hapie! Coz i've just finished my Sociology essays!! Yeah yeah woohoo~! And I dont know what I crap-lah! Nvm.. just submit into God's hands... that's how all things should be~

Actually I don know what to write now.. haha.. but I've got some pictures here (of food, mostly *biaselah ya*) which I have taken and have been meaning to blog about them but couldn't find the time so I think I'll just dump all of them in here! By the way, I just got myself a new handphone.. & I got a cute comfy racoon sleeping bag for it!

It's not the latest SE model, so it's supposed to be quite cheap.. the AP set is cheap, 550 and negotiable I think.. but Louis insisted the ori so I gave in at last.. another 150..! Still under my budget anyway, so not complaining here! ^^ Anyway I wanna thank Jong for introducing it.. haha.. I just want a good camera phone and this 3.2 MP camera's quite good!

Okay, let's see what else can I dump in here... how bout something edible?

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They are simply too beautiful to eat! Mdm Sheerin ordered them from dont know where for our Communique fund-raising. Their sold like hot cakes! Nah, better! Next time they should change the idiom to "sell like cute cupcakes"!

Image177     Image178

    Ah my favourite!!! McD breakfast is so indescribably yummyz!! Love Sausage McMuffin without the egg! Haha.. Eggs are too filling... You know I only get to eat this in the airport... haha.. coz too lazy to wake up early in the morning during weekends and grab one... :P

Image183  JSC in PJ offers very worth-it lunch sets!

Image185     Image186

This is my beef steak! They gave bread & butter with mushroom/chicken soup (not sure.. some soup), the main course, fruits as dessert (a big piece of watermelon) & coffee/tea (the coffee is really kaw), all for 14.80++ only! And I like the checkered table cloth! ^^

Image187    

Typical meals for Malaysians.. But I think this maggi goreng with telur mata kerbau looks extraordinarily inviting.. I must be hungry now!

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Wendy's baked potato with sour cream! I'm looking forward to staying in PJ suddenly! There are just so much good food around!

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Jong has blogged bout this.. It's porridge steamboat.. near Carrefour at Jln Peel. There's pumpkin in the porridge, and you add eggs after that... Slurrp!

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But the most bestest thing about the whole meal was the man-tou! ^^ It's sweet and arrghh, yummy to the max! I can eat just this for a month! And we ordered fried pork as well.. ^^

Okay okay! Enough is enough! I'm supposed to be in bed now and not inviting hunger pangs. Sigh... I really must go grab sth to eat 1st!

pink birthday

turning 22 at last! omg! I never thought this day would come so soon~! and next year would be 23 (omg omg!!) and 24 (omg omg omg!!!) and counting.. now i understand why ladies don look forward to birthdays as much… x.X

Had a peaceful one this year, as we have promised each other.. (hey it rhymes!) after all the egg yolk and flour and chlorineD pool water and scolding last year.. it’s time we mature and have quiet birthdays…?!

Anyway it’s always good to have ppl remembering our birthdays, esp when we are far from home, right?? That’s why it’s important to have friends! So that you don have to blow out an extra birthday candle alone!

Due to tradition, i had my share of cakes.. Zuzhang took the pain to go and get SR cakes of different flavours (smart!) so that we wouldnt puke by the end we finished it.. TQ zuzhang & angela!

 DSC00254   DSC00255

photos a bit blurry.. ^^ but enough to make me salivate again.. I like the one on the right most..! don know what it is.. cheese with oat kot..

Didnt get to take group photo.. don know why ya.. we just sat there at dug into the cakes and talked and talked and talked.. I guess I wasnt in the birthday mood.. hahaha

Then went to mamak to ‘break fast’… hahah.. ‘padahal’ dah break fast at zuzhang’s place.. everyone’s bloated after the cakes but we just wanted a taste of saltiness! And my 3.8 housemates brought along another cake pulak~!

DSC00256  DSC00257

Saving my candle~!! Then came the awkwardness + gratitude + other mixed feelings…

having to celebrate bday at mamak place..! Thank God not many ppl’re watching (I think)… It’s gonna be some memorable bday.. :) but I still want to say a BIG BIG thank you!! to caryn & beeguat & doreen & peter & my beau… and Jong & Priya (huzmates 4ever!).. and Asmah! and to all who have wished me well.. thank you for taking the trouble to type me a message.. ^^

And what’s my ‘habuan’ this year?

DSC00268

Mostly pinkish~ and hence the title.. ^^ Yaoyao’s got a new sister, MeiMei.. and I’ve got a candy box to rummage during my study week.. Ten Commandments in Dating to read to avoid conflicts with him.. and a Love Bank to deposit all the love ppl shower on me.. and some clip-ons to remind me of which course to attack 1st~!

Thank you peeps, once again.. It’s not very exciting to grow older.. but it sure is comforting to know you guys are growing older with me~!! Nyahaha…

and thank You Lord for leading me for 22 years, and please continue to lead me as I enter into 23rd… to grow stronger… and to know You better…!

thank you: a tribute to my cell leaders

I thank God for the day we met for the first time, although you two might not realise that it was the beginning of t.r.o.u.b.l.e.... here goes!

Thank you for your occasional meal treats...

Thank you for sacrificing your afternoon rest and bringing us around to survey houses & cars & furniture & whatever we need...

Thank you for listening to me patiently when I am babbling...

Thank you for the effort of waking up early and fetching us to church for 3 years plus dy (oh gosh, that's how many tanks of petrol)...

Thank you for taking the trouble to fetch us back and forth when you take the risk to lend us your car... and yeah,

Thank you for taking the risk to lend us your Naza..

Thank you for telling us where all the nice foods in KL are and taking us there to satisfy our tummy...

PB080026

I just LOVE this picture I don know why.. hahhaa.. ^^ sweet!

Thank you for not reprimanding me even though I don't grow a lot after so long...

Thank you for being so tolerant when I go overboard...

Thank you for celebrating my birthdays so that I wont miss home too much...

Thank you for sharing my joy & pain & laughter & tears & silly lame jokes & everything that can be shared...

Thank you for your faithful prayers...

Thank you for your concern when we are not feeling well physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally...

Thank you for being my father cum big brother and mother cum big sister...

Thank you for not grumbling after all your sacrifices for us...

Thank you for teaching me the meaning of a shepherd...

Thank you for teaching me how to love...

Thank you for being my role models..

Thank you for being the ones I can always look up to...

Thank you for guiding me to love God more...

Thank you for the knowledge that you will always be with me through all ups & downs...

Thank you for giving me the chance to hug-hug & play-play with your baby before I graduate.. (or maybe babIES? hahha...) *wink wink*

and..

there are so many other THANK-YOUs that even thousands of words cant express them...

 DSC_0732

...a glance of one of their best moments in life... if you know them, you'll love them too! hiakz-hiakz... :)

p/s to WeiPing & Angela: YOU BOTH MEAN A WHOLE LOT TO ME... 相璇COULDN'T HAVE SURVIVED IN KL WITHOUT YOU... LOVE YOU LOTS!!!

desire love from God not men

The verse for today is...

Proverbs 19:22 What a man desires is unfailing love.

Where can you get love that never fails... Love that never disappoints... Love that never forsakes you... Love that never rejects you because you are a broken whole?

You get it from God. Because...

God never fails. God never disappoints. God never forsakes. God never rejects just because you are not up to the standard.

And men fail you. Men disappoint you. Men forsake you. Men reject you.

I fail you. I disappoint you. I forsake you. I reject you.

I saw the photo CT uploaded. And others' comments. And I'm suddenly confused. It seems ironic that now I'm looking for an answer... after 2 years.

nearing the end of journey with IPIK

Coming to the end of the semester... Everyone's oohing-aahing bout how time zooms. I entered college dreading bout how we're gonna survive being caged in a small college for 48 months before we could move on to UM; and just when I am starting to love my comfort zone, it's time to leave!

Wrote an article on Cohort 4 activities for the past 4 years for the Communique magazine that day and memories just came rushing back like a tidal wave. It feels as if Orientation Week was just last month..

f.c_1.1

img021

f.c_1.3

when we slept at 2 am and woke up at 4... when we dozed off listening to seminars and was awakened by annoyed seniors... when we had to greet seniors during lunch time by shouting "Selamat tengahari abang-abang dan kakak-kakak senior, kami lapar, kami nak makan, boleh tak?!!"... when we had to make sure our mosquito coil did not break so that we would not do too many kemahiran mendengar and tabik spring at night... when we had to get seniors' signatures by singing and dancing and entertaining...

It feels as if hostel life was just last week...

when the siren went off and we prayed hard that we did not have to go to TV room for meeting... when we were reprimanded for wearing too-short sleeved blouses, skirts and pants... when we grumbled because there was no water supply and electricity at times... when we visited each others' rooms so often because everyone's just next door neighbours... when we got scolded for being too noisy: "Satu kali tak cukup, dua kali tak cukup, nak saya bagitau berapa kali?"... when we had to tiptoe when it's past the curfew... when we have to wash our own clothes in the washroom with stalactites dripping water on you...!

And moving house was last week... lessons... tutorial tasks... presentations... assemblies.. assignments... workshops.. simulated teaching... lunches at kak som's cafe... occasional jamuan....

Nostalgic! that's all I could say... everything has come to the final.. the last assessment class... the last tutorial besar... and today we had the last tutorial hour for 2.1!

DSC00123

We will always be 2.1 folks!

DSC00124 DSC00128

And with everyone pitching in to help... Celus show-off!! Hahaha... And taking pictures (of the food and not the people!)...

DSC00129 DSC00130

It's just a simple feast with unhealthy fried stuff and junk..^^ but we love!

DSC00131 DSC00135

And finally our tutor Mdm Mohny showed up! Some speeches by Naren and her.. *be responsible for ourselves when we're in UM, take care, pursue higher education after B.Ed., come back and visit occasionally...* Ma'am, we will bear in mind all these! And I think all of us remember better that she actually said that we are the BEST cohort for her! Hurray~!

And Naren presented her with a souvenir from us... to force her to remember us!

DSC_0048

*what we gave her... with all our names of course!*

And this is one of the best shots of 2.1! GUYS, YOU ROCK! I'm so proud to be one of you! Hopefully we could still gather from time to time in UM later yea! *Naren, each of us really should get this framed nicely!*

time to de-stress!!

haha.. I'm sooooooo hapie! Coz i've just finished my Sociology essays!! Yeah yeah woohoo~! And I dont know what I crap-lah! Nvm.. just submit into God's hands... that's how all things should be~

Actually I don know what to write now.. haha.. but I've got some pictures here (of food, mostly *biaselah ya*) which I have taken and have been meaning to blog about them but couldn't find the time so I think I'll just dump all of them in here! By the way, I just got myself a new handphone.. & I got a cute comfy racoon sleeping bag for it!

It's not the latest SE model, so it's supposed to be quite cheap.. the AP set is cheap, 550 and negotiable I think.. but Louis insisted the ori so I gave in at last.. another 150..! Still under my budget anyway, so not complaining here! ^^ Anyway I wanna thank Jong for introducing it.. haha.. I just want a good camera phone and this 3.2 MP camera's quite good!

Okay, let's see what else can I dump in here... how bout something edible?

Image162

Image165      Image164

They are simply too beautiful to eat! Mdm Sheerin ordered them from dont know where for our Communique fund-raising. Their sold like hot cakes! Nah, better! Next time they should change the idiom to "sell like cute cupcakes"!

Image177     Image178

    Ah my favourite!!! McD breakfast is so indescribably yummyz!! Love Sausage McMuffin without the egg! Haha.. Eggs are too filling... You know I only get to eat this in the airport... haha.. coz too lazy to wake up early in the morning during weekends and grab one... :P

Image183  JSC in PJ offers very worth-it lunch sets!

Image185     Image186

This is my beef steak! They gave bread & butter with mushroom/chicken soup (not sure.. some soup), the main course, fruits as dessert (a big piece of watermelon) & coffee/tea (the coffee is really kaw), all for 14.80++ only! And I like the checkered table cloth! ^^

Image187    

Typical meals for Malaysians.. But I think this maggi goreng with telur mata kerbau looks extraordinarily inviting.. I must be hungry now!

Image001

Wendy's baked potato with sour cream! I'm looking forward to staying in PJ suddenly! There are just so much good food around!

DSC00043     DSC00044

Jong has blogged bout this.. It's porridge steamboat.. near Carrefour at Jln Peel. There's pumpkin in the porridge, and you add eggs after that... Slurrp!

DSC00045     DSC00048

But the most bestest thing about the whole meal was the man-tou! ^^ It's sweet and arrghh, yummy to the max! I can eat just this for a month! And we ordered fried pork as well.. ^^

Okay okay! Enough is enough! I'm supposed to be in bed now and not inviting hunger pangs. Sigh... I really must go grab sth to eat 1st!