Final Moments

Yes. I have not been blogging for a long time now. Some stuff happened and well, most of you know what it is. I would prefer very much to not talk about it here and now though.

Anyway, during the one month of my absence from this ol' blog, much has happened ever since I finished my A-Levels in KDU.

I vandalised Sterling by drawing on the walls.

I threw rocks into the pool in Sterling.

I went to KDU and turned all the tables and chairs upside down in one classroom, just for the heck of it.

I spread a nasty rumour about one of the lecturers to the juniors and now her image is ruined forever.

I turned down the offer to go to Colorado School of Mines because I got accepted into UCLA. HELLO CALIFORNIA BOYS!!!

I got casted in Glee and will be overthrowing that nasty and annoying Rachel Berry, because I am the one that truly deserve that gold star!!

Yay Glee!!!

Just kidding. None of the above is true. But I am guessing that all of u already know that anyway.

For most people, they would hit the town and celebrate the end of their nasty exams together with their friends. I did that.

Then they would be busy packing all their stuff from their hostels into boxes and bags and throw away the heaps of nonsense that they bought but used once only. I did that too.

After that, they would have some sort of reunion as a farewell together with their classmates. I did that too.

Lastly, they would go on a holiday and enjoy themselves to the fullest! I did not do that.

Sad no? Allow me to walk you down memory lane, of what has happened in the last month of my absence.

On the last day of exams, Hifzhul, Jeslyn and I planned to go out and celebrate. But before that, STUDY FOR PHYSICS FIRST!!!


Study study!!

My last meal in KDU. Nasi goreng ayam

It was the last day for the three of us, but the others still had a paper the next day. So, after exams, while waiting for the rain to subside, Jes and I took advantage of an empty classroom to do nonsense. Poor Amalina was dragged into the nonsense as well. Hehe


Gleek!!

Jessie's big ass

LOL obscene much?


After the rain, it was karaoke time!



Trust me when I say that Jeslyn Ling is the best person to go karaoke with. She crazy haha

Then there was dinner with Hiffy at Italianniese, followed by back to back movies!!

We ate so much! Such greedy people -.-


Salad!!

Hiffy eyeing the food longingly...

I woke up the next morning and started packing. I have so much stuff and I don't even know how I managed to end up with so much crap in this two years period!


The start of a tornado...

After packing and packing, and repacking again, I still could not bring everything back to Kuching. I ended up lugging two luggages with a combined weight of 29kg, one back pack full of stuff, and a laptop bag all the way back to Kuching. I had to give away other unnecessary things to the juniors, or throw it away. And I still have two bags that I left at Kautsar's place in Bangi.

On the day the Arts fellas finished their last paper, Ms Sathya and the other lecturers in pre-u department threw us a little farewell party. It was super nice of them to go through all the effort. And Ms Sathya even baked TWO cakes for us! We are loved :D


Us and the lecturers :)

Look at the food.... yum yum..

The science nerds and our favourite Chemistry lecturer :D

GUYS this nonsense is suppose to stay IN the house!!

With F4, Jie and Jessie :D

Our usual catfight over Derek Paul

Don't kiss me!!

The night ended in One Utama, where the Petronas juniors were uber sweet enough to buy dinner for about 20 of us!


Petronas Seniors + Juniors :)

On Sunday, I said a small farewell to my fellow sheep from Sheep United. The last time I were to see them before I go back to Kuching. But fret not guys, I will be back in a couple weeks time :)


Together with Papa and Mama Sheep, Beatrice and Rachel

Shiny Shin Yi :D

The reason why I did not go on a holiday immediately after exams was because of BTN.

Yup, on Monday, the Petronas gang from KDU and Taylors headed out to Ulu Sepri in Negeri Sembilan for the Biro Tatanegara course that is mandatory for all outward bound scholars.

One entire week in BTN.

In a jungle.

In the middle of nowhere in Negeri Sembilan.

It was not as bad as I thought it would be. The people there were very careful with their words, especially after the whole BTN scandal.

They fed us plenty, but had fish in almost every meal T.T

But the annoying thing were the bugs. SO MANY OF THEM. As if thats not bad enough, there were BEES!!!!!

BEES IN THE TOILET BEES IN THE BEDROOM BEES IN THE CLASSROOM BEES EVERY WHERE!!!!

I hate bees!!

One of the very reason why I was not completely attentive in class was because of the bees. They kept flying in through the window and would repetitively BANG their heads on the wall thinking they can escape by phasing through the walls. Stupid. And there was also a HUGE WASP!! The very scary looking sort!!

When BTN ended, I was so glad to get away from all them bees. Hmph...

Anyway, the Petronas scholars were not the only ones in BTN. There were scholars from MARA, JPA, and MINDEF as well. There were over 100 scholars over there.

BTN would have been boring if not for each other and the new friends that we met.



That is Hanif (guy in the middle) from Sabah. HE HAS THE CUTEST SABAHAN ACCENT EVER!!! He is an orang Sungai, not Malay, and he is very soft spoken as well. Haha I love to hear him talk because of his accent. Sounds almost like Indonesian. The others agreed with me too hehe.


On our last day in BTN.

Petronas boys together with the Penghulu

Official meeting of PERSATUAN BORNEO is in order. Some jealous people keep interrupting!! Hmph

Oops! Pendatang tanpa izin dari MINDEF!! Haha

I have to say, Petronas really takes good care of us. They provided us with a bus, to and fro! Some of the other scholars had to pay for their own transportation or relied on their parents to fetch them :s

I went back to Kuching a day after BTN.

Up until now, I still have two luggages unpacked, and have been lazying on my bed while playing with my laptop. My mother calls me a statue because all I do is just sit/lay there the entire day, not doing anything.

But I did accomplish a few things since I got back here:

- completed season 7 and 8 of the series 24
- read Breaking Dawn
- halfway through my VISA application
- unpacked only one of my luggage
- watched loads of movies in the cinema and on my laptop

Very lazy. And unmotivated. And bored.

Well, that was a brief summary of what I went through before I came back to Kuching

Until the next time, ciao people :)

Whoa!

Mix the following:

1. 10,000 christians from various denominations from all over the Klang Valley, and some from other parts of the nation

2. Stadium Melawati

3. A global event

4. A nation that needs to be prayed for

5. History was made

What do you get?

You get the Global Day of Prayer 2010 that was held in Stadium Melawati, where for the first time in history, all the churches in the Klang Valley gathered together to pray for our land, that is the land of Malaysia!

This is the first time I joined such an event. Look at all the people!











We had the usual praise and worship, preaching, testimonies, declarations, and of course, PRAYERS FOR THE COUNTRY.

The best part of the event was, seeing our very own Ps Chew from SIB KL go up on stage to close the event.

HE WAS SO SUPER HYPER!!

"WHOOOOAAAA"

NONE of us from SIB KL have seen him so super hyped up until he was basically shouting till he almost lost his voice. And the excitement that he had!

I quote again, "WHOA!!!"







The next GDOP will be some time around May next year.

Its going to be bigger. A whole lot bigger.

Whoa!

The Sign

If we ever meet again, I'll have so much more to say.

SIB KL :)

A church that is :

BIBLE BASED
CHRIST CENTRED
SPIRIT POWERED

No compromising the three!


Where the worship team leads worship, and where the pastors preach!

Home to some of the nicest kids on the block!



Ok this is not a promo on SIB KL.



Last weekend I took quite a few pictures in church, and I just felt like uploading them here :)

There is this nice big SIB KL sign on the fifth floor. You will see it the moment you step out of the lift.

I have always wanted to take pictures of and with that sign. And I finally got the chance to do so! *delighted*

So here goes :D


Yee Shien and I

Jon Jon

Andrew and his erm, signature pose

Chris stylo!

The handsome (sorry, God say cannot lie!) young men of SIB KL! With Aaron and Joel by the side

And last but not least,



Almost two years here.

No regrets whatsoever :)

I'm A Mum :D

Yes people.

I am a mother.

Since Mother's Day is tomorrow, I thought the least I could do was do share my joy with the rest of you :)

I have a son.

A healthy handsome choke baby son.

The apple of my eye (sometimes very rotten apple!)

I decided to name him Jonathan :D

And for his chinese name, Sien Long, because he is a very sien person.

Allow me to introduce to you, Jonathan :



Isn't he precious?

LOL how did this come about?

Well, this weekend, CouZ is organising the Mother's Day celebration in church. Everyone, well almost everyone, in CouZ had their hands on deck to help give out the free goodies for all those precious mums in church.

FREE GOODIES FOR MUMS ONLY!!

You have Crabtree and Evelyn hand lotion, vouchers from Kanebo etc.

All very very expensive goodies.

What more can a mother ask for?

Since this package is for mothers only, I quickly turned to Jon and ask him to be my son so that I can have one too :)

Hey, better than Andrew's idea of hiding some of the goody bags in Christy's car -.-

So from Friday night onwards, I am a mother. But Joe does not know though. Hmm I will have to introduce Jon to him as his son, although I am pretty sure Joe will definitely refuse parenthood of Jon!

My poor son, no daddy :(



Anyway, so isn't SIB KL awesome?

Where else can you get hand lotion that cost the company THOUSANDS of ringgits just to give out to 700+ mothers for free??



We love to bless :)

During service, Pastor Victor asked for all the mothers to stand up so that we can hand out the gifts and pray for them.

It was a very touching moment, including the part when Jon, Chris, Andrew, Joel and a few others went up on stage during worship to say a few lines about their mothers.

Huhu make me sad sad :(

Then when Pastor Victor was praying for the mothers, I saw husbands and children just hugging and holding their mothers/wives close to him.

I lagi sad.

Lastly, there was a photo taking session where mothers can take a polaroid picture with their families. I saw so many happy faces, enjoying themselves together with the mothers.

I even sad.

Why?

Because deep down, even though I do not say it often, I really do miss my mum :(

So yea, dear mother.

Thank you for everything that you have done for me, even though sometimes I do not show that I appreciate it. And I admit that I take you for granted.

But I forget you see, that God has truly blessed me so very much with such a wonderful mother like you.

Thank you for spoiling and pampering me so much. Everything that I want and ask for, you provide. I am so impossible sometimes, I really wonder why you put up with me? I know, its because I am your favourite daughter right? Hehehe

You know that I love you, even though I love to call you a COW (crazy old woman). And yes, I miss your hugs and kisses too :)

I like to tell you, "Haih, what would you do without me???"

But really, what would I do without you??

Love you so so much :)



Happy mothers' day :D

The 7 Stations

This is way past my bedtime, but I wanted to blog it all out while its still fresh.

SIB KL is having an event called 7 Stations of the Cross in conjuction with Easter. Each cell has a designated date to attend and Sheep United's turn was last night, 24th March at 8pm.



The seven stations were literally seven stations around SIB KL. From the 3rd floor all the way up to the 6th.

Each station represented Jesus' journey starting from the last supper up until the moment He hung on the cross.

Each station had a significant meaning, and was a time of reflection. A very interesting form of quiet time.

We came as a group but we went on our own pace. It was an amazing journey of reflection in solitude I have to say.

The stations were basically this:

Station 1 - Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet
Station 2 - The Lord's Supper
Station 3 - Gethsemane (where Jesus prayed)
Station 4 - The Arrest
Station 5 - The Trial (Jesus brought before Pilate)
Station 6 - The Way of the Cross
Station 7 - The Crucifixion

I will not go into detail about each and every single station, but I will go through the stations that really spoke to me.

I have to agree with what Rachel Thong said. The stations really made us think about everything that was happening. And yes, the stations that I went through challenged my way of thinking, and brought me into a deeper understanding of the scriptures.

Station 1 was where it all started.

We are all familiar with the part where Jesus started washing His disciples' feet right?

The act is in fact not a custom, but an essential practise during his time because unlike us, they had only sandals and had to walk through dirt and mud everyday. So they basically had very dirty feet.



The act of washing another person's feet is usually done by the servant to the master. But here we see Jesus doing it to his disciples. The master doing to the servants. A total role reversal here. Since the first time I read this passage many years ago, I always thought that all it meant was just about humility, until tonight.

The one important thing I missed out was that Jesus washed Judas feet, even though He knew that Judas was later going to betray Him for 30 pieces of silver.



Right here is a true demonstration of loving your enemies. I always thought that Jesus did it as some sort of cover, until I realise what God has been trying to say all along. Love your enemies.

Yes it is hard to actually go down to the lowest form of a servant on bended knees and to wash that stinky feet of the person you really hate. We all feel that way. But Jesus demonstrated true love here by washing the feet of he who was to betray Him.

And that really struck me and touched me. The rest of us including myself were inspired to forgive those who have hurt and offended us.

At that station, we were told to pick a stone from what I believe to be a bucket of pond water (it had fish smell all over it) and write the name of a person who did us wrong on that stone. We then proceeded to kneel down in front of a basin of water and "wash" their feet.

Wash away our hurt. Our grudges. And to love them just as Jesus loved His enemies. And I remembered something, even on the cross, Jesus did not ask God to strike the ones of persecuted them with lightning, but to forgive them for "they do not know what they do".

Station 2 was just as eye opening. It was a reminder of His faithfulness to us.

He took the cup of the new covenent, even though He knew that His disciples would betray, abandon and deny Him.



Imagine saying vows to the person whom you know would have an affair with someone else in the future.

Or promising to be best friends with a person that you know will betray you in the future.

Would you?

Jesus knew that I would back slide and sin, yet He still died on the cross for me. Willingly. I am just left speechless here.

Station 4 was confusing at first. They brought us through a journey of Jesus' arrest, from the moment Judas identified Him to the part where Jesus told Peter to keep his sword. At one pit stop, there were swords, and we were instructed to pick it up and hold it. And at another, there were cups. Again, we were instructed to pick it up and hold it.



What did the sword and cup mean?

Towards the end of the station I finally understood that passage.

Jesus had a chance to take things into His hands and escape (the sword). Who on earth would want to be arrested and then persecuted for something they did not do?

Yet He chose not to. He chose to, in complete obedience, follow God's will (the cup - the covenent).

Another reminder of how I should always say, let Your will be done, not mine.

The last station that really spoke to me was a rather interesting one, station 5.

At the entrance, they asked us 3 random and simple questions. At the next section, the answers were not given, but the statistics of the answers chosen by other people were given. Some answers were right, and some were purposely wrong. And then they asked us, do you want to change your answer before moving on?

Then moving on, we were asked to put some red paint on our palm to symbolise Jesus' blood on our hands. We were playing the role of Pilate.



In a maze-like section, and on the walls were multiple quotes by the people, asking Pilate to release Barabbas instead of Jesus. Towards the end were seates clothed in colourful and royal colours fit for a powerful person like Pilate.

Then we were asked, are we going to follow majority and wash our hands clean? Or to pick up the cross?



A very interesting motion here. It reminded and challenged us to decide if we were to just follow the majority or to stand up for the truth.

Well, those are the stations that really impacted me.

At the last station, after communion, we were all given a "letter from God". It truly reminded me of how much God loves me and what He has done for me. As I was reading the letter, it really felt as though He was speaking to me in person.

I wish I could have brought my camera with me and capture every single moment, but I do not think that it is allowed.

7 Stations of the Cross was the sort of revival I needed that I have been praying for. And now I truly appreciate what I have been taking for granted. And I feel and mean it even more when I say, "I love You Lord".

I love You Lord, and I lift my voice, to worship You. O my soul rejoice.