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 10 Sheep That Conquered

I was functioning on 3 hours worth of sleep yesterday.

I came home Friday night right after CouZ and just crashed on my bed.

CouZ was fun by the way. And I won the ice-breaker of talking AT people hahaha. I did not know I had that much crap in me :p


Sheep United and ChampionSheep United UNITED!!! Now from different cells but we still love each other just as much :)

I woke up at 3.30am on Saturday morning right after Marilyn texted me.

OMG 3.30AM??? WHADDA HECK AND WHY you must be thinking.

I missed my cell friends so much that I could not wait for sunrise to see them :)

Hahaha I love them loads but thats not the reason why. Please lah. I told you guys in the previous post that I love my sleep -.-

10 of us woke up super early in the morning to go on a cell outing, to CLIMB BROGA HILL in Semenyih!!! We had to leave early because we wanted to catch the sunrise at 7am :)

I left Sterling at 4am, made it to the Chew's nest at 4.30am, and we all left at 5am.


Rachel's sleepy face

Piling into the Twin's car

Andrew feasting on his McBreakfast. The first time I went through a McD-Drive Through! So ulu kan!! hahaha

When we arrived at Broga at 6am, it was super dark! Thank you Arsyad for the torchlight. Luckily we had four of them, otherwise we have to "walk by faith, not by sight" lolz.


So dark!

When we got there, the place was already filled with people who had the same idea. So there was minimal risk of us getting lost or robbed.

The climb up was super fun! It was fun helping each other climb all the way to the top, and I was Rachel's "torchlight" hehe.

We managed to reach the first peak at 7am, right before the sun came out. The sky was a beautiful mix of pink, purple and orange. Since it was on top of a hill and was really early in the morning, it was very windy and chilly as well. Just perfect for an early morning climb :)






The sky is Your canvas, God. Looks like pink, orange and purple are Your favourite early morning colours :)

The climb all the way up there was a challenge, but it was doable. This is the only time in my life where being short has its advantage and disadvantage, both at the same time.

ADVANTAGE : I have a lower centre of gravity. So the chances of me losing my stability and falling is very low compared to the rest.

DISADVANTAGE : Some of the steps were really high. Made my climb up even harder!

Despite all that, it was all worth it. The view up there was simply breathtaking. You have to forgive my small little camera that cannot compete with Marilyn and James' Canon DSLR. But I do my best, so bear with me.














We found three pairs of shoes hanging up there!


Not that bad for a compact camera right? Seriously, I cannot even begin to describe to you how beautiful it was. I felt like I was in China! You know, like those kung-fu movies where they are always travelling through the mountains and what not. But really, you have to see it for yourself to truly understand how beautiful it was up there.

There were lalangs, rocks, four peaks, lots of trails and CLEAN FRESH AIR!!


The view of the 2nd peak and its many trails from a rock on the 3rd peak

Splendid weather. Breathtaking view. Wonderful company :)


Jon Lee, Marilyn, Rachel Ang, Chris, Andrew, Rachel Thong and Cissie. Quan and James were next to me when this was taken :)

How often do you get to climb a hill with your fellow sheep who are willing to wake up at 3 in the morning and go through an hours drive to Semenyih, scale the hill that has four peaks and get such a beautiful view of nature in all of God's glory?

Not very often right?

Thus, we took this opportunity to take LOADS of pictures up there!


The happily married cell leader and zone leader :)

ROARING SHEEP!!

Benji and I

His zen moment

The twin monkeys hehe

Us :)

Them monkey boys

Jon-jon!! He melts in the sunlight!!!

Forced to do push ups on a rock on top of a hill!!

While Jon was doing the push ups, there was another group of people that were cheering him on!
Hahaha we give you good publicity Jon!

Btw, Jon, and the twins, Marilyn and Rachel are from Kuching as well! Hehe

And here, a few classic moments aided by the sun :)


This is a really beautiful picture :)

Again, I make you look good Jon hehe

There were so many people enjoying the view up there as well. Kids, old folks, teenagers, young adults, middle aged people, and yes, even a dog!


Super pup!!

Sadly, the fun came to an end, and we had to make our way down :(



I tell you!

The climb UP is so much easier than the climb down! It is a whole lot more challenging, and even more life-threatening!!!!

There were so many times when I almost lost my balance! The track was very very steep! Going downhill is bad for the ankles and knees hmph! Really I tell you! I would rather climb UP somemore than go down!


Broga in all its steepness. No this is not even the steepest part of the hill!!

If only they built like a lift or something to transport people down from the hill. I told Quan to bring banana leaves next time so that we can just slide down the hill hehe.


Took this on the way down for fun. Wanted to play with my macro hehe

Can you believe we were on top of that thing??

When we got back to James' place, we were pretty wiped out. And look at who we found fast asleep on the couch.



We tried whispering into his ear, plopping down onto the couch next to him and he still would not wake up! Haha

All in all, it was a very fun experience. I finally got a breath of clean fresh air here in Selangor. And this trip made us closer to each other :)

Can't wait for the next cell outing!