Happy New Year

HapPy New Year 2008

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Look back at the year of 2007:

Malaysia went to space

Malaysia celebrated 50 years of Independence

Organised Adventurun

I cycled 220++km from Putrajaya to Malacca

I found an infectious smile

Finished 2nd in Taylor's Business Plan Competition

Committee member of Tapah Church Camp

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Overdue post:

Dinner with Yihua at food foundry...
Den MCD's for supper...
crazy eat like crap
funny like hell nite..crazy woman!!!


*but still a great fren...

My lovely lil cousin for ya*, Alice Choi:

Happy Birthday Rachel!!


Thank you thats all I can say,
For every little thing you do,
To see my stumbles through,
Like your infectious smile,
Which lifts me up from all my trials.

Bring forth a brand new day,
And if problems may come my way,
Your support is where my worries may lay,
As today is your special day,
Your joy and impact I will pray.



Yu are a year older now!!!
ngek ngek^^
P.S. I think Buster likes me more :p

Tribute to the Spirit of Christmas

When a door leads no way out,
These are times when things fall apart,
We want to be weak,
We want to cry out,
There is nothing more we can do,
Till we turn to Him to see us through.

Time after time,
Tear after tear,
Our hearts are set ablaze,
We pray and we seek,
Hoping for an answer
or even a way out.

Till all hope fails,
No matter how empty a situation maybe,
My heart continues to cry out,
Hoping for You to set me free,
During this time of Christmas,
I lay down all my hope and trust.

*grant healing, restoring of strength and protection throughout this time of seasons and greetings*

*Merry Christmas*

Palate Palette

Great restaurant...

nice interior







Function room (Open on Saturdays and Sundays after 6pm or for private functions)

delicious and strongly favored food..


cap off with great company...


translate to a WONDERFUL NIGHT out..

*thx yihua for recommendation

Two questions to ponder:
1)Did you enjoy having sex with the bartender?
2)What is M to U

Nightview

Self esteem

Self esteem is defined as the confidence and satisfaction a person has in him/herself

Self esteem is at times considered a most prized asset as with proper balance of self esteem can help lead to a successful and goal orientated life. In addition self esteem can be used to help reduce poverty, unhappiness, crime and other social issues. Self esteem can also be a battle ground for religion.

Why?

Our self image is like a thermometer, where it would normally show 72 degrees. However, even though we do not want the weather to be 72 degrees, we would still want the thermometer to read accurately and not 102 degrees.

At times if we are asked to value ourselves from a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of our self value and self worth. Some might choose a 7 or an 8. We will tend to rate ourselves higher than what we assume we are or lower that what we assume.

Teenagers like you and myself form our self image from two kind of methods which are words and actions. An example of words would be when our parents speak highly of ourselves in front of relatives and other neighbours. An example of actions being a determinant is like an abusive parent which abuse or put you down lowly. This leads to a lower self esteem.

I am a person who has a moderate self esteem as I go through the stage of thinking I am unable to achieve anything in life. For example, those who know me in primary and certain stages of secondary know i went through a period of stuttering in my conversations. I used to be a public speaking winner in standard 1 to 4..but it started in standard 5 where the stuttering has came between me from taking part in more public speaking competitions. I even feared to say Good morning to teachers in primary. I feared my teacher cannot hear or understand what i just said.
This fear I carried it with me through my form 1, till i had a teacher, Mrs. Thas..she always told me to take my time to say out certain answers. She gave me encouragement to speak out and do not let my fear hold me back. Through her help and dedication i was able to improve on it slightly, where i will only stutter for the beginning of a sentence. When going through form 2 and 3, it was tough as well. I went through alot of teasing for speaking that way from the guys, they would pretend to speak like me and stutter out of fun. It became very upset for me, but as them being my friends, i just told myself they were just joking and I will just pretend to laugh al0ng with them.

These shows when people do not understand about an issue it worsens the matter. For instance, in Africa, there were massive killings of 60+ HIV positive carriers due to the fact the other people lacked information on HIV and feared these people as disease carriers. When I read it was very saddening, innocent lives were taken away due to the fear and lack of awareness. That is why, it struck to me to pick Malaysian AIDS Foundation as my beneficiary for the Adventurun.

The constant jokes i received made me felt lowly about myself. When I became a Christian, God has been a source of strength i can rely on in times of need. Recently during my business plan finals in Taylors, Genji said i was the best speaker among all three of us, it really made me so happy. Imagine a person like me who went through this stuttering when i m nervous to speak overcoming my fears in front of a crowd of 50 ppl. When we start to achieve success of overcoming your fears, we start to build our self confidence.

Having a high self esteem is never wrong, but its considered unhealthy level of self esteem when there is pride involved. Pride is referring to having a high self esteem without God being the center of it. For example, we have seen American Idol auditions, there are occasions we have seen certain candidates who are unable to make it to the finals. They would blame Simon for not knowing music and very good singers. In fact, these singers are the worse of the worse. Due to the fact, they believe in their own 'talents' they are unable to accept the fact they are horrible singers. When they learn to accept the fact, that is when these people will be upset and as though world is ending as their passion and full attention has been a lie the whole time. Pride makes us taking so highly about ourselves where other people's needs are not important as long as we get what we want.

In the bible, Numbers chapter 13 and 14, it talks bout Caleb asking the people go forth and conquer the land. The people involved were afraid, as the descendants of Anak were huge in stature. This happens so common among us. An example, if we were to have a tug of war competition against a fat guy and a skinny guy. It is normal to assume that the fat guy will overpower the skinny guy. However, at times people forget that there are other determinants to win this, like maybe the stance, the grip and others. Caleb was a person who had a high esteem as he wanted to forth and conquer these 'giants' of the land. While, the others felt like grasshoppers, Caleb was confident that God has intention for him to be a victor in this hurdle and also there must be an amount of effort placed in other to overcome this hurdle. The people who feared to take that step and overcome these giants displays a fear of man attitude. The other people feared the descendants of Anak due to their huge stature and did not believe they can overcome these giants as they considered themselves mere grasshoppers. It is also like the skinny and fat guy tug of war. People will assume straight away, even myself logically will pick the fat guy to win it. However, if we do not believe in our own capabilities, we are no different from those people who feared the giants.

Moving on, have you all seen Snow White? People has looked at Snow White as the ultimate love story, where she is adored by all and finds a prince charming and stuff. However, lets look at the queen now. The queen always like to ask a mirror, "Mirror Mirror on the wall. who is the fairest one of all?" COME ON man!! is she some kinda of nut job? However the mirror always reflects snow white's image. After the queen finds out, she took so much effort to try and kill her, from hiring an assassin to kill her and even disguise herself as an old lady selling apples to Snow White. Due to her pride, unable to accept anyone better than her, she died at the end. This can be avoidable if the queen only looked at a real mirror and ask, who is the fairest one of all. It will reflect her image. If we cannot learn to accept our own self, we will be looking unto others with a sense of jealousy or even a sense of pity for themselves.

In the bible, it is stated in psalms 139:13, we are wonderfully and fearfully made. This word wonderfully made hits me alot as we are all different individuals with different gifts and talents. There are no two people have the same finger prints even twins. We all have an awesome future and a wonderful heart of giving. We must realize our purpose is not just to prepare ourselves to enter into God's kingdom but also to help serve others needs.

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paying tribute to my sifu, Vin See(right)..she found my blog:p


Rachel and me at SMKSU prom..thx for the great time:p

CAMP SUPER STAR 2007

After much planning since late August to November....FGA Taiping Camp Super Stars 2007 is here!!!

This was my first time being part of a committee to organize a camp. Was really scared and afraid I might be 'holy' enough for camp...but I wanted to go ahead and give this camp a try for challenging my FAITH and gaining experience.

The camp commitee consists of Sin ying. Winson Lee, Joshua, Rebecca, Nataniel, Jared, Shu Xian, Joelle, Ian, Sharon and myself.. and of cos not forgetting Pastor Rose...

We gathered at church on Friday at 8.30am... after that we headed off to the campsite in Tapah, Perak. It was heavily raining. We went in the church van and church proton car. The proton car broke down in the middle of the highway!!!! everything jus stopped.. lucki it started again after a few seconds :P

These are pictures from the NS Tapah campsite..so different from what i hear from NS:

Our dorms

Dewan Makan

Campers

Campers

Worship session with jireh

We played some awesome games and sadistic games thruout the camp!

Imagine waking up 2.00am in the morning jus becos the camp commandant felt like torturing you by running 10 rounds around the tar mat and do star jumps up to 100 times!!!

We even played games like balloon war and obstacle course...ALL the campers got wet!! BUT, they ENJOYED every moment of it...thats so surprising..but they are SOO sporting...

I was in charged of Final Night and just for the fun of it.. I came up with a game...I implemented a fear factor element into it..i got a container filled with CHICKEN GUTS and CHICKEN BLOOD!!! Awesome right!!!!!
*infectious smile, we gotta go to market and have a try kei* I mixed it with sand to make it really muddy and murky looking. It looks like shit and mud! Awesome!!!

Games group leaders are required to placed their hands into the container to retrieve coins. From there on, I will blend a drink according to the number of coins taken out. Different coins represent different ingredients which consists of bitter gourd , water, taufu, cincau, garlic, condensed milk, and chili tuna!!!

All games group leaders drank sum horrible tasted drinks!!! :p The final night performances were awesome as well...Rosie and the Beast...funny shit!!!

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Hosanna unto the Highest, be revealed and renew me, that I will be found in Your grace, that my live be lived freely, Praising unto Thee!

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Congrats Suyi on passing your saving lives course!!! Are you ready to save lives? ^^
Thx for the prayers and support! Awesome and speechless!

After leaving Tapah, we went to a waterfall nearby. The waterfall looked majestic, however, it has been polluted by Malaysian's littering attitude.

Here are pics of the waterfall:

Butterflies

Butterflies

Upper part of the waterfall

Waterfall

Waterfall

Random

Babes of current obsession:

Heidi Klum

Lisa Foile

Liz Hurley

Elisha Cuthbert

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*Infectious smile*

Your words brought forth,
Every mile it takes,
Your words stay great.
This is what you bring,
Like a sweet melody to sing.

With every push,
Your smile comes to mind,
Where a sense of joy I will begin to find,
Pulling me through all my downs and weariness,
It helped me through my current trial,
Like a drug known as your infectious smile.

Daffy's smile a day keeps the doctor away!

OFF to Tapah Camp!!!

Ride For Life

IT'S FINALLY OVER!!!!!

I went wif Rachel on the Dec 1 to 3rd...organised in conjuction of World AIDS Day... organised by Malaysian Aids Foundation and PCC

Organiser for the event was Jenny!!! :p

Day1

Flag off began at 8am from Putrajaya Mosque in precint 1... Hannah Tan came for the flaggin off..but she din ride :( ...she had the highest platforms i have ever seen!!! i kept askin rachel how she walked..we made funny imitations :P

Joey G from Channel V cycled with us for the first day from Putrajaya to Port Dickson...

First day was from Putrajaya to Port Dickson...we cycled in a convoy for 10km heading to Dengkil...Our convoy consist of the Police Diraja Malaysia and Red Crescent...After that it was free for the cyclist to sprint off... i started at the middle of the pack...reached after 5 hrs of cycling..first day was over 120km..crazy!!!!

My Raleigh mountain bike

Me with the bike

Rachel was very unlucky to get a spoil tube for the first day :( ....but I'm still proud of you for going the distance...

Day2

We fixed rachel's tube on the spot..hehe one thing good being a girl..hehe ppl tends to help you out..hehe jus jk...hehe the cyclist were all very helpful and friendly by helping her out when both of us take a long time to settle it :p

We departed at 7am from Bayu Beach Resort in P.D. The next few 14 to 18 km were smooth flat road...lucki mee...scared my thighs might start to hurt...

Rachel was unlucki agen cos she had another flat tube :( ... well she kept asking me to go on ahead..

I reached Malacca around 12.15pm..The trail to Malacca was much smoother as there were constant uphills and downhills... Even though my thighs hurt but I had two kind of determination to push on...

At 1.15pm we cycled in a convoy moving into Malacca Town towards the First Church of Malacca... tht was when the ride was officially OVER!!!

Suyi with her bike:p

Rachel and me at the finish line

Around there we gave out pamphlets regarding World AIDS Day...Many cyclist went around stopped cards and asked them to open their windows to take the pamphlets...

After that we headed to Mahkota Parade and had the Chief Minister of Malacca to officially END the Ride for Life 2007.

Well overall it was an ENJOYABLE and TIRING . I managed to overcome physical exhaustion and conquered 220km in 2 days:p..Rachel might be unlucky but she did awesome!!! cheers..