Merdeka!

Negaraku tanah tumpahnya darahku
Rakyat hidup bersatu dan maju
Rahmat bahagia tuhan kurniakan
Raja kita selamat bertakhta
Rahmat bahagia tuhan kurniakan
Raja kita selamat bertakhta

I wonder how is national day celebration back home.... With full-on fireworks? Lots of parties going on? hmm..... I'm not such a patriotic citizen... but at this time of the night, suddenly I miss home quite a lot. I miss the view from my living room window... I miss the rainy seasons... I miss the smell of rain... I miss Baby(my cat)...I miss playing with Baby... I miss mom's cooking... I miss hanging around the kitchen looking for junk... I miss watching wah lai toi with mom while sharing that packet of junk... I miss mom!

I miss mamak... I miss Mid Valley... I miss shopping with mom where she'll buy me lots of stuff :p I miss nasi lemak... I miss asam laksa... I miss tomyam... I miss hokkien noodle with lots of crunchy chu yao cha... I miss cheese naan with condensed milk (ngao lin)... I miss my friends... I miss chatting with friends in mamak with nothing to worry about... I miss chatting on the phone till early mornings... I miss HOME!!

I'm not complaining about what I have here and what I enjoy here. But I'm never gonna have both heh... Human are always greedy.

Absolutely amazing!

It was absolutely amazing! It was just perfect! The atmosphere was right, the look and feel of it was great, the place was comfortable, the food was absolutely yummy, the presentations were wonderful, the audience were awesome... The event ended 3 hours ago, but I could still feel the excitement in me! I hope the event had an impact on the visitors like how it had impact on me!

I started my day early today, drove around to bring decoration stuff to the event site and bought some last minute things like cellotape, ribbons, etc.... More than 10 people came to help out with decorations and food. From a 4-wall not-so-nice wooden place, it became a survivor-like village environment. Picture this: coconut tree branches on the wall, kerosene torches around, paintings of coconut trees and flowers on the wall, tables with 3 candles on top, synthetic grass carpet, dim lights, slight smokey environment. Everything turned out really well! :) The event started off with a cool survivor dance (not sure how else to describe it :p) by some CCM members, mainly africans. Andrew took part in the dance as well!! hahah.. it's just so funny seeing him, a skinny white chicken among the muscular african guys! haha.. After that we had our dinner. Oh man I tell ya, you can never get better dinner elsewhere in Brisbane for just 15aud. I'll list out the types of food that were served: prawns, oysters, mussels, sushi, coconut rice, beef rendang, crab stick salad, noodles, strawberries, cakes, sandwiches and etc. All this in buffet style! All you can eat! The food was totally impressive. Too bad I couldn't eat that much. That's why I never go for buffet often :p waste money

Later on we had some people singing and playing guitar, flute and piano. Very smooth indeed. Remember my previous post about my leader wanting me to sing with her?? I got away from that! haha... So she sang 'Born to Try - Delta Goodrem' by herself because I don't wanna steal her limelight. hahahah! After that, we had games! The most interesting game was that 3 guys were provided with cosmetics! Take a guess what they had to do. They were to make themselves up and the best will win! Our team didn't win but we sure did have a good laugh, seeing how the guys fiddle with the cosmetics wondering what on earth it was hahaa... One of the guys was really good at it, he made sure he gives us a wink once he did his eye shadows hahah!! when I get the pics from my friend later on, I might post them online heh...

After that, we had some people doing the bamboo dance and a leader came up and did the islander dance. (sort of like hawaiian dance where you shake your butt :p) We all had fun... we followed through the islander dance as well haha. Absolutely wonderful Survivor Night. We were just disappointed that it ended so early :p Can't wait for next year's event! Go CCM!

Blog thoughts

I spent half my day surfing through the Internet. Partly to research on my assignment and partly (unfortunately, the bigger part) I was surfing through other people's blog sites. Its really interesting to be able to read about what people think and how they react to life. Whats more interesting is that some contains dark thoughts... some contains inspiring poetic writings which would really set your mind to ponder... some were funny... some were full of anger. It seems like every blog has its own personality! It makes me wonder how these people really are in the real world. I'm not saying that they are faking it. What I mean is that everyone is different in their style of writing. Everyone has their own style of expressing themselves, online or offline.

I would say that this blog site reflects the inner side of me, but how people see me on the outside could be a different story altogether! My close friends would never agree with me on this, but frankly speaking, I'm more of an introvert rather than an extrovert. No matter how much I wish, words never come easy to me. Yeah, I'm those type of person who need to prepare my speech before phone calls. (maybe not for my close friends lar) That is why I'm mainly quiet around new people. Only when the wall is breached, words may flow a little easier, and probably I may talk a little louder. Maybe its a good thing I found my way to blogging, it exposes my inner self while giving me the time I need to reconstruct my sentences nicely hehe.

Anyways its going to be a busy day tomorrow because the long awaited event organized by CCM has finally arrived! Its called the Survivor Night and I just know that it's going to be a great night. Considering that I'm in the decoration team, I have to be there early to help out with preperations and stuff. So I gotta sleep early then. See yous!

Fear is a BIG issue

sigh... one long day in uni.. and I still have to stay up and finish up my tutorial work for tomoro's classes. urgh.. why do humans have to study? :P ok lar.. I'm not really complaining of having this opportunity to study but I guess I'm just tired. This semester is better than last semester actually, mainly because I have some familiar faces in my classes..... someone who can save me when I hit a dead end and someone to go through the boring lectures with! keke... and of course when I start 'fishing', I could use some nudges on the shoulder or maybe 'paper chat'? haha!

Anyway, to update you guys about myself, I'm currently pretty active in church and caregroups. For those of you who do not know, caregroup is a small church group meeting in weekdays for bible studies and fellowship lar. And the first BIG NEWS is that I just found out from my leader that she's putting me on the musician team and I'm suppose to play the keyboard on a coming meeting!! Oh my, although I learnt piano before but... but... I suck at it and... and I can't play in public! My fear will suck away my talents altogether!! The second BIG NEWS is that she wants me to sing with her on stage at the Survivor Night (an event organized by Campus Christian Movement). Well I do admit I love to sing and I have a not-too-bad voice (hehe!) but I have not conquered my stage freight yet! What if my voice cracked on stage? What if I sing out of tune? What if I forget the lyrics? What if................ Really don't wanna disappoint her since she put much hope in me, and only God can help me now...

hmm... don't wanna make my blog like an advertising place, but if any of you want to know more about the Survivor Night or grab some tickets, feel free to contact me okay! cheers!

Addicted!

Well, I'm back for another post! The whole day I've been thinking about what to share here and how am I going to beautify my blogsite further. I thought about it when I woke up, when I was taking my shower, halfway through my work.... Unconsciously, I've become addicted to Blogging! Not because I have many thoughts to share but because its something new and fresh! I believe that its something that happens to most of us. When we get a new game, we could hang on to it for hours even without food. When we run into a new relationship, we would spend hours on the phone just listening to each other's voices. I could remember when we first got internet at home, I would spend the whole night just chatting with strangers online! Things like these are really taking too much of my time.... time for my studies, time for my homework. I would really like to be able to concentrate on my more important stuff, but who can really stop their minds from wondering back to the addictives? I know I cannot. I hope one day I'll find 'studying' addictive! haha I REALLY wonder if that day will ever come.

Anyways today I had a free day at home. For your information, I only have 2 days of class in a week. Sounds good? Its 2 fully crammed day in uni with only 1 hour break from morning till 8pm at night! Its that 2 days that I'd lie dead on the bed when I come home. Not so good afterall huh! Hmm... instead of wasting my day again, I manage to discipline myself in finishing one of my practical exercises, cooked for my beloved housemates and got myself backache after spending too much time in front of my computer :P I wish I have a professional massage lady now! Anyway my housemates are having their mid semester exams tomorrow.... I wish them all the best and may God bless them!

My fav pics....

Below are some of my favourite pictures throughout the year!

Taken in Byron Bay.

Taken on photo session day in church. From left : Lorraine, Sharon, myself and Charlotte

A Human statue??! Cool... Photo taken in Sydney with Pooi Yian.

Ooo... yummy chocolate dip strawberries! Photo taken in Sydney.

Taken in Melbourne on the Great Ocean Road.

Taken in Tazmania with the bunch of people on our adventure tour! Ops... kindda forgot most of their names :P Look at us! Its that cold.... brrr..... But ain't it beautiful?

Taken on scarf day in church

my 1st blog

Oo.. my first blog! I've had quite a bit fun reading other people's thought and now its my turn to share huh... well... currently there's nothing in my site, as I'm not even sure how things work around here.. but I promise that I'll add more stuff here soon ;) Anyway LC, my blog site design is nicer hehe!

Hmm... what did I do today? Other than the bit of practical work I forced myself through, I've had a leisure day at home! chatting, gaming, pampering myself, setting up my blogsite...... no wonder I'm slacking in my studies. haih.. a day went to waste again. Anyway, today a friend showed me an article about the rescue of a baby in Petaling Jaya. Reading the article, there was a sense of happiness in me that the baby could reunite with his parent and they would live happily ever after. But there was also a sense of dread in me realizing that there are more and more such kidnap or murder cases happening in Malaysia. Think about it, what are the chances of kidnap or murder victims get rescued? I hear more and more stories from my friends of how their friends have connection with different cases. It freaks me out even more! How I wish my mom would leave that place and migrate to australia. But its not that easy lar. In the meantime what can I do? Move my lazy butt and get on with studies!