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Reading news can be very depressing!

It's not fun, more you read, more stuff to pray for, all the more i backed my previous post to not sit and do nothing but pray for things to unfold in ya life!

Anyway, here's a couple of good pics!

Honorary Salutations #2

-Chan-
-For being best buddies since form 1 and sat beside me in class for 5 years!-

-HocMun-
-YukChai Classmate and Counterpart as He stated in his blog, wise yet nonsensical haha!--Daniel-
-6 year old classmate and friend, for all the times we annoy each other hohoho-

Abnormal

God isn't normal at all, He isn't!

If He is, you'd see lightning zaps every hour on bad guys and flash floods every now and then to wipe us clean so He can start afresh. He'd be like granting your every wish. I think Bruce Almighty the movie portrays a 'normal god', that is limited by our human minds, just like when Jim Carrey a.k.a Bruce got his power from god.

So if God is abnormal, He'd have a abnormal Son right? That's where Jesus comes in, since beginning of His birth, He hasn't been really humanly normal, born into a virgin womb, ditching parents to stay in the temple to debate with scholars and teachers, healing the sick, proclaiming to be Son of God, transfiguration, dying on the cross, resurrecting etc etc etc.

So, think one step further, God made us in His image, so we being called sons and daughters of God, are suppose to reflect God in our character, meaning we can't be normal!

Then why do Christians always run around being normal, hohoho, some of you gonna fire me for saying this! But really, think of it, passing by this earth living like any other human, is not what we were made to do.
Well, here is a passage from Luke that shows Jesus telling us that we should be different going against the flow of the world:

32 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' love those who love them.

33 And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that.

34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners,' expecting to be repaid in full.

35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
-Luke 6: 32- 36

In one way or another, this illustrates that Jesus meant us to be different, not in just those ways, but throughout the bible, we are meant to do a lot of things that are against the flesh.

Now practical terms:
Should we be contented to just scrape the day by, by just studying, going to church, grow up, find a job, get married, buy a house, buy a car, then have kids, retire and die?
I think not, we should do more, we have the great Lord our God as our Father, how can we just do all the small things and not expect bigger things to come?
We must pray for God's will to unfold in our lives, if God truly wants you to be a office boy or a toilet cleaner, then by all means do it with all your heart, but pray for more, more i tell you, so that your life here won't be in vain.
I'm not asking you to be a super Christian and save a thousand souls a day, i don't expect you to be Jim Elliott and change the world or be like Billy Graham. Just be who God wants you to be and not looking back with regrets.

I hope this post will make you think, if you have problems with it, i be more than happy to hear your thoughts.
Time is running out. Don't wait anymore. March on, soldiers of Christ!

2005

-Honorary Salutations #1 -
This goes out to Nesh and Justin for being there when it counts!

Hard to Die

John McClane is so cool, so so so cool.
Rewatched Die Hard the first movie, man, super cool for an 80's movie.

Finals are over! Can't say i did well, but i'm pretty sure i won't fail hahahaa!!!

What's next? Can't bum around, go work or something, start a venture. Meet friends who are flying off and coming back (Danny boy! you fool, come back belanja me stuff, a new transformers toy would be cool hehehe)

Apart from that,life goes on. A good friend made a good point, time is only time because we measure it, so time flies because we measure it, so stop measuring and just do stuff without hesitating and leave no regrets!

Man, comes this time again where i think a lot- Being a Christian is fine and dandy, you trust God that all things is in His hands, but then you see see your life not much changes and that things go awry and against you, but you trust Him, yet He is the God of abundance, and others received a lot, but you think again, God is fair, in His own time, so you wait, but waiting is painfully long, so you question Him again, and Jeremiah writes He has plans to prosper you, but in what ways we don't know, and maybe He did, with a good house, family and friends, but we are greedy creatures, we want more, and we can ask for more for God is so giving, but again, you don't ask for there comes humility and you are satisfied with God Himself and when you have God you lack nothing. Haha, it's so cool yet so hard, to trust but not being able to physically see that your trust is yielding anything. But oh well, trust and obey, that's what i must and will do. Keep the faith brothers and sisters! Spur each other on!


I am just quoting John McClane:
"Yippiekaier, mo**********!!"

Looking at you, holding my breath
For once in my life I'm scared to death
I'm taking a chance letting you inside
-First Time, Lifehouse

Making That Call

Finals in less than 8 hours, can't say am prepared, just jaded about it, short semester ain't really my thing.

Public Uni entry starts this week! Kudos to those who gained an entry, may God be with you all! For those who do not have an entry or chose to pursue some other alternatives, may the good Lord guide you too!

As the year moves into the 2nd half, a lot of shots have to be made, things are going to change, things have changed.

These few weeks, sleep have been awful, so have many waking moments where i could think of so many things, like, how would this year end? How would what i intend to start fare? Will all my friends who are scattered be fine? These nights are precious, it causes you to think.

The busyness of life really kills our spirit, we just are so caught up with so many things that we have not the time to think. Thinking is very important, we do it most of the time, and yet in those times we think so shallow.

I encourage you people to think!
Things i think about:
- Will Nesh really see that tsuname the pastor preached about??
- Will my friends who are flying off be alright?
- Will i ever be invited to any weddings at all?
- What if tomorrow i die, will i say i ran the good race?
- Are transformers real?
- and a lot of what if stuff...

Oh one funny thing, mom asked me just yesterday, in a very very serious tone




"Son, tell me honestly...... Are you desperate for a girlfriend?"

Malacca

Got home yesterday.

Highlights:
1) Fruit sushi
2) Almost died after consuming this candy, the last fruit caused an allergic reaction to ALL of us and we choked and couldn't breathe and was dying.
3) Smooth talked with indon waitresses to get a HUMONGOUS prawn during satay celup session, not kidding, really gila big. When i get the pic i'll prove it to you.
4) played cards till wee hours of the morning
5) sightseeing
6) almost killed my friends when i volunteered to drive home and was dozing off at some point.

Chasing Your Steps.

- Ok, will blog bout whatever happens if i tell a girl via sms,msn or face to face, like justin said, not anytime soon ler, hehe-

8 months passed me by, my 1st year of studies coming to an end, next sem will see me entering into 2nd year, lecturers come and go, friends are flying off (again).

The zeal to influence the people around me in uni has died somewhat. The new upcoming batch of uni people, who are due to leave in a week's time to public unis across m'sia , has made me realised what i have done and not done for the past 8 months. Someone told me that he wants to be an influencer in his uni and now is preparing by seeking God and reading books and praying.

For the past 8 months i've been been complacent, been struggling to find a place i can fit in, when i know damn well that i am not of this world, of course i don't belong anywhere but heaven. So i guess i have to buck up, only 2 more years! I hope you people also will influence others, good or bad, be one! let not the world corrupt you, but corrupt this damned world with ya zeal and passion for the better.

"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness." - CS Lewis

--The Weight of Glory

Question

Do girls like guys to confess their feelings over the internet, text message or face-to face?

So far info i've gathered indicated that girls prefer face-to-face.
One said depending on situation, if the guy she doesn't likes, then better over internet, internet rejection easier, if guy she likes then face-to-face more romantic.

Can girls really handle face-to-face??

text message seems like the lesser evil, but still girls say not good. Hmm, questions to ponder, must continue to gather info.


Prince Charming: You! You can't lie! Where is Shrek?
Pinocchio: Well, uh, I don't know where he's not.
Prince Charming: You don't know where Shrek is?
Pinocchio: On the contrary,
Prince Charming: So you do know where he is!
Pinocchio: I'm possibly more or less not definitely rejecting the idea that I undeniably
Prince Charming: Stop it!
Pinocchio: Do or do not know where he shouldn't probably be. If that indeed wasn't where he isn't!

Future Intentions

Last sat i went for my cousin's wedding, it was boring mannn, i know i know, i'm happy for him and stuff, but it was borrrinnnnggggggg.

I hope my wedding won't be this boring
His wedding was boring because:
1) super a lot of unknown people
2) draggy
3) didn't start on time - though it is quite common, but i think this was like late LATE!
4) no pretty girls
5) song selection lousy

But one thing though, my cousin know his HOT wife thru ICQ!!!! what the>>>~>!>$#>$~$>~%>!!

So, online love is possible, hehehe, too bad msn can't really randomly find people to meet, cis, i missing out on quite a lot.

So anyway here is my wedding plan to avoid boredom amongst my people:
It'll start on time, people don't come on time their problem, i ta pau the food they miss out for supper.
I'll dress in tight black leather suit and sing "I believe in a thing called love" by The Darkness.
I'll download some nice movies for them to watch while they eat.
Serve roti canais as main course, free refill all around!
Have food fight.
Have water fight.
Have my bride go on stage and tell the world why on earth she married me using 5,000 words.
Have my S.A.D. pals who are still single and no gf up on stage and laugh at their faces.

I think the basic outline is there, i still have time to improve that list.
Yea need to find a gf first.

...Continuing a Tale

Yea, thanks for the added content to my current tale in my previous post, click the comment section if you wanna read some insults and added jokes.

And yes, that accident led me to Dragonball Z, best anime of all time haha! marathon it kau kau when i was resting at home.

But that's not the point.

So i was in the hospital, no surgery needed, young boys can heal fast, so the doctor said.Pediatric ward was full, so i was placed in the cancer ward, surrounded by mostly leukemia patients, was an eye opener, really really kesian them, i felt my condition ain't so bad after all...

Well long story short, i stayed there for 21 days, everyday eat sleep, books, tv etc etc till i became a fat boy.. one day mom went home to do stuff and dad stayed to take care of me, well you gotta know my bandages were all the way from my toes to my stomach, on the right side of my leg, so the left side and my pissing equipment or family jewels were left in the open with blanket over them.

Well i won't go into how i piss and crap, but it was all done on the bed itself.

One day, the cleaners came by the ward and started cleaning stuff, then the lady ask if anything needs to be clean or changed, my dad without thinking took my blanket away in broad daylight,
my very first indecent public exposure of my family jewels. I was 9 ok? I was building a reputation of being a bad boy, and this was gonna ruin it! So i screamed "DADDD!!!!!!!!!!!"
and smart enough to cover my family jewels with the pillow, well, i guess the scream didn't help as everyone took notice and saw everything, sigh sigh sigh.

Yea, the good side is, this story worth telling, even better when i tell it verbally, i got other details that are too long to type, my students back in taman sea heard this story already, just had to tell them for fun haha.

since then, things never been the same, that memory haunts me everytime when my fly is open, when i take a bath, haha, okok, maybe not so teruk, but still.....
Not cut out to act in blue films.

My only regret was, i never found that issue of doraemon, sigh.... other than that, it was a cool LOOOOONG holiday, one of the best years, slept all i want, ate all i want, watch shows kau kau..

Oh well, another tale next time la..


From despair.com

Telling A Tale

When i was 9, or standard 3, i didn't much study, well, now too as well hehe

But when i do study, i pick up comics, and that time Doraemon was all the rage!
oops, wrong pic, haha, here is doraemon and gang!

so one faithful sat morning, i woke up early so i could watch cartoons, mom asked to go get me own breakfast. So i did, but waiting for the mee to be cooked may take awhile, so i brought doraemon! though i read that same issue like a dozen times, i was still highly entertained, talk about value for money!

So there i was walking down the street, reading while walking, no law against that right?
well, as i cross a deep drain, i slipped and fell in, my thigh hit the side twice because there was two layers to that drain. So obviously, okok maybe not so obvious, i broke my right thigh bone, there i managed to sit upright, trying to move, but couldn't, bruised and helpless, i called for help, to my dismay, uncles at the coffee shop just sipping happily and their coffee and didn't move an inch to help me, kudos to those uncles for trying to let a kid die!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, still quite pissed at them, this is what we call a bystander effect. Sigh. Oh well, sat there awhile sobbing while my doraemon book was lying somewhere in the ditch. Thank God, really i do and did, my kind vet doctor came and assisted me to the hospital...

This post getting long, i get to the interesting bit next time!

PBC Church Camp

It's that time of the year again where a couple of us head down somewhere other than church to have a camp to seek God.

We went to Nilai this time, drove down there with parents, was real sleepy when driving, but i managed to reach there without causing casualties. Don't think my parents knew about my state of drowsiness haha.

It was overall a good camp, because the speaker was chun, Mr. Bernard Hull. He speaks words of wisdom, deep stuff, perspectives we never thought of, it was really an eye opener, cliche as that sounds.

The only gripe i have against him is that he speaks soft and sloooooooooow. Real slow, at times i could just fall asleep and wake up and he still haven't finish elaborating one point. Really, staying awake was the biggest challenge for most of us haha, even more for certain people haha.

the fellowship was cool, the numbers were few. So we hung out together most of the time. We went to Giant, yea, GIANT. People actually go there to date, IN Giant. Town was so small that these people really got no where to go. Employment rate was high, one shop has like so many employees that it hardly made sense.

The waiter at a shop we went to was funny
"I want ice water please"
"huh? what?"
Repeat it 3 times. then..
"oh water, you want ice in it or not?"
"erm, yes, ice water..."

At night, we had picnic outside our hotel rooms, till the manager said it wasn't allowed unless we're in a room, but we had a girl, being gentlemen we are, we decided to keep the food and still hung around.

Sat the lift up and down, harassed hotel customers at the wee hours of the night, played games. It was good clean fun.
Then went and sleep.

Got home today, tiring, but the message was good so i guess it wasn't so bad after all, though it was super pricey, and the place ain't worth that much haha.
Well, it inspired me to go for next year's one. IF the speaker is any good haha.

Ain't No One

When i walk down a street, i see a guy who has weight problems and he sees me. He'd be saying, "Darn, this guy will never understand what i am going thru, no one does."

True, i don't. A girl who has been shunned all her life because of her unacceptable 'standard' of the world looks will think that a pretty girl would not understand her at all.

Everyday, everywhere, people just don't understand each other. That's why wars break out, fights, misunderstandings, cliques and things of the world that are detrimental happen.

You don't get me, i don't get you.
That's why we feel alone sometimes, and when someone does get you, that person becomes your friend, or even ya life partner.
But still, no one understands another person fully.

I guess, it is sort of comforting to know that God understands all, because he created us and knows us by name. I suppose that since he knows us so well, we are naked to him, and all that we do or think relays back to him, it is quite scary too.

More Hinder

Okok, that's like the closest title i can get to sound like a myanmar dish that actually makes sense. hahaha

Introducing...
Mo-Hing-kah!

Well it sounds like mo hing kah la, how i know what does it mean? supposedly one of the favourite dishes in myanmar.

Basically they prepare the nice soup that looks like curry but taste nothing like it. It's not even spicy, it is soooo good, they have their spices and stuff, then you just dump the soup on the mee, and there you have it!

Authentic myanmarese food, super super good, had a lot of it, better when got white rice to mix with, ooh, bliss!

Background info:
My church host a myamarese cf, so they meet on sunday evenings. their worship quite lively, and sadly i have no idea what the pastor preaches haha, but the cf-ers super super nice, and they treat us as if we're higher than them. It's just such humility that lead me to admire them in such a respected way.

This coming august i think they gonna have some cultural night! yay! and i'm invited! whoo-hoo! more cultural food and play dress up!!!

Sweet.

Sometimes, it's us, the majority that fails God.

Talk Talk

My 21s birthday came and went.

Nah, didn't get a peaceful one, well, not entirely.

Had dinner with cfers from HELP and high school mates and churchmates!

That was good fellowship hehe.

Oh the interesting was i got a G-string for my birthday, oh well, for those who don't know, well, too bad la. Lazy to explain haha.

Got balloon, a cookie jar, ice-cream!, cards.

But most of all, the good times we spent together.

We made a marriage bet among a couple of us.

Daniel and Naresh if you're reading this, i'm waiting for your entry. I wrote a draft using Word, for those who wants a copy please come to me!

Tired, guess a long entry some other time with more elaboration, maybe.

News

Courtesy of Getclippings.com

Hail

today rain rained on my parade, stones came down, in the form of ice.

Wind was blowing and rain was pouring as if heavens were bursting forth with tears, not surprising though, seeing the world as it is now, i'd be crying a flood too.

Sound and lights swiftly came and went, no time for company.

Then suddenly it ceased, the world was calm again. Confusing yet uncomfortably comforting.

But rain already rained on my parade.

Melt

The weather gila hot, why o why?

Well, thanks to mankind, we all are doomed to die sooner than we should!

Probably i should rethink my situation

lets see:
If i'm hot, then the ice are melting, those poor happy feet penguins gonna die soon and the world will flood.
Eh, wrong thinking!

If i'm hot, then other people who is working in the desert will be hotterm but they have to do it anyway, if not their families will starve to death, oh so sad.
I don't feel so hot anymore.
I'm good.

Image

This world we're in, image is everything... no?

Think:
Go to two different person, ask about coronary heart disease, both give you exact same details and description and treatment information. One dressed like a sanitation expert also know as janitor (lecturer taught me that) and the other has a white coat and tie. Who would you think is more credible?

Image or packaging is the "in" thing now.

Question:
You know playstation 3?

Do you know playstation 3 sales are not enough and they are in fact losing money? OKok, i lazy find reference, if i'm wrong because you bothered to check it up then correct me.
Then, if they are not earning money, why sponsor EPL? If you noticed, they have ps3 billboards by the pitch. First, we humans HAVE to read it even though we have no intentions, so we are programmed to think sony ps3. But putting up the ad there is wayyyyy expensive, but they did it anyway, to project an image that they are doing well? to make a firm statement they can make it? either way it works one way or another.

christians can in the same way be packaged into an acceptable image.
Note:
I bring bible to Uni everyday, then occasionally i take it out (but i do read for serious purposes), but imagine i took it out for show, and soemtimes i do ter-take it out to take something behind it, people who sees it will go "whoa, bible! Some more everyday." then they'll starts aying how good a christian i am and then they too bring a bible everyday.
So easy to just tell people i'm a christian.

I guess everyone can claim to be a superchristian without trying. But the bible tells us, its by grace not by works.
Let us work towards being a God follower rather than just a christian!
Amen!
whoo-hoo!

New Sem

Oh new sem has begun!
What joy oh what fun!
More work to do and read!
Late nights and more coffee needs!

Never truly having time
Always rushing 'cause of deadlines
Our youth being sucked away
Just so we could live another day


Man, new sem begins today, more work, more lifeless fun, more people to see, more people to not see.

i find comfort in old friends
and find frustration in new ones.
This blows! Uni life ain't so great! Hahahaha!!!!!

If only Shrek 3 and POTC 3 are out now, can go and laugh it out
oh well, stephen chau! Here i come!