Sibu...(1) Borneo Cultural Festival

as a patriotic Sibu-ian, i think it will be nice if i show some nice things from Sibu... lately i've been to the annual Borneo Cultural Festival held in Sibu Town Square, which i believe is the largest town square in Sarawak, in front of the so-called tallest building of Sarawak, Wisma Sanyan...

it is nice to experience the unique cultural contributions of the various ethnic groups from around the region, as they converge in Sibu for a weeklong celebration of song and dance at the Sibu Town Square.

Besides the local overwhelming response, this festival also attracted tourists mainly from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, as well as other nearby countries.

In the last few years, several foreign cultural bodies from countries like China and Indonesia also performed cultural shows to further promote the festival. There was also participation from the neighbouring state of Sabah.

i wanted to go to this tatoo convention but i somehow miss it... i found out tat the tatoos on those ppl who came and participate in this convention were so cool eh... but i cannot find any pics anywhere... try to google it and see their amazing tatoos... some even got tatoos on their face...

The 2nd International Borneo Tattoo Convention
29 June-01 July
Venue : Bukit Aup Jubilee Park.
The 2nd Borneo International Tattoo Convention 2007, organized by the Sibu Municipal Council (SMC) and the Borneo Headhunters Tattoo, will feature the many advances in tattoos in the region. Sarawak, once famous for its tattooed people, plays hosts to this unique convention. Sibu has been chosen as the venue because of its strategic position for visitors who have plans to visit other parts of the state mainly located by the mighty Rajang river, where those who wish to travel to the upper Rajang to the Baleh Kapit rapids where visitors can see and experience the ibans, their longhouses and as one travels further up the river you get to see where the Kayan, Kenyah and Berawans dwell, or even take the tributaries to Punan and Kejaman territories. And yes, you can get a tattoo from tribal artists, just make sure you don’t lose your head about it.

Sibu aka Swan City...

a kebab stall by the Melanau-malay stall...

tanglung display

Traditional chinese wedding ceremonial place...

The newly weds bedroom...

The shy bride... haha

yeah!! foochow rocks!!

Tarian ngajat... the warrior dance of the ibans

The symbol of bravery

mahai... rm227... not even pure gold...

Ostrich eggs... they say can eat one woh... i don believe...

Some stalls at the trade and expo centre...

viva... mini awanza if u ask me..

Even the army got one booth...

Singing competition going on there...

Naive kids waiting to be scared...

haha... the ghost ride... bet u'll laugh ur head off after going in... the 'ghost' are hilarious...

food stalls... same old food everywhere...

bump-bump car... translate it to chinese

Children cheating game stalls...

Money cheating stall... haha

Eye of Sibu... kononnya lah...

Below are some interesting stalls i found there as well...

haha...

hope u enjoy it... do come to sibu to visit once in a while...

So bangga weh~~~

I had the worse holiday back in Sibu ever... since i came back, the whole neighbourhood start to renovate their house one house by one house... first it was my next door house on my left, then my next next door neighbour on my right decide they too, want to renovate their house... and the consequence is "sleepless mornings" for me... every morning i will be waken up by the thumping and hammering and pounding and banging and clonking and watever sounds tat ppl made when houses r being renovated... arghhhhh!!!!!!!! i'm at the edge of insaneness now...

anyway, i spend nearly half of my time here surfing the net and the other half, as u all noe, driving around tuition centres n driving academy in sibu... i think i'm good at stalking other ppl's blog this holiday... i succeeded in tracking down some ppl's blog... actually only ben's nia lah... haha... some other blogs are provided by our very own kedekut... reading blogs hav been one of my way of killing time coz i sort of get use to life without tv while staying in akasia... i haven been watching any tv lately coz there hasn't been any of my fav show on air... i rather watch some funny show on youtube... i'm slowly revolving into orang semenanjung now... help me!!!!

reading william's blog regarding his ex really inspires me... i keep nodding my head in agree when reading his post...

William wrote :
I started to understand actually what love is and what the feelings being in love are. I am just not ready for relationship now.

heck, tat's exactly wat i feel!!! and suddenly this song tat i juz sing during sunday youth service rang in my ears (i was the backup singer for the very first time in my life, if the first time singing wif lawson din count) haha... so bangga weh!!! we're singing "Blessed be Your name" and it goes like this...

Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing you pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

Every blessing you pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord Blessed be Your name

i use to sing this song juz for the sake of singing it, but then suddenly it hits me... y m i singing blessed be the name of the Lord, instead of blessed be sth else, like my studies, my family, my friends etc... and then i start to think, wow!!! my God is a great God, and stil i can bless my God... and then i am so proud of my God weh... God always blesses us no matter who we are, what we do, where we go and i never tot of returning anything coz who am i to bless the supreme God but then our God is different, we can bless our God juz like how He has bless us... He gives blessings and take away our blessings to him... ("You give and take away")

same goes in a relationship, we bless each others as well...

so bangga weh~~~~

Mari Kelakar Sarawak!!!

Ari ni, mari kitai sama sama kelakar Sarawak... Sigit, duak igit, tiga igit... Kinektok

for translations, plz click here

or ask eunice to translate for u...

Random stuff bout me... (1)

Music genre tat i listen to...

I m basically a neutral person... i listen to whatever which is pleasing to my ears... i grew up in a family whereby my dad is a super classic fan... so i got use to listening to those sleeping-pill effect classical music... however, some of the chinese oldies are really good and relaxing...

Teresa Teng, one of my all-time favourite... too bad she died young

Chai qing, my dad played her songs so hard that i can remembered the lyrics of nearly all her songs...

Abba, The Carpenters, The beatles and some other singer which i forgot their names...

oh so ever boring classical music... (sorry grace)

as i grew up... i start to listen to my own songs... during my time, boy bands are really selling good, for example, westlife, nsync, backstreet boys, 98 degrees, S-club 7, a-teens etc... so, like any other jiggly-giggly-sniggery teenage girls, i do listen to them, some are nice and some are just because of their cute members...My favourite boy band of all times... Westlife rocks!!!

during my secondary school, i started listening to chinese pop song, like Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai, David Tao, Angela Zhang, Tanya Chua and many uncountable taiwanese artists...

























at times i do listen to some rock music, either light or heavy i listen to all of them... if my fren say that some rock band are nice, then i go listen to it... most of the time i watch mtv or channel [v] to know the latest news on music...











From left : Artic monkeys, Fall Out Boy, John Mayer and The strokes









i don really like metal or even listen to them until when i reach college and met some funny frens... haha... (yes amir, i m referring to u) amir half-forced me to listen to some of his metal music (which he insists is GOOD music) and to my surprise, some of the metal songs are quite nice, if u ignore the part when u don actually noe what they are singing (shud i say mumbling and growling...) btw, germany very own metal band rammstein are quite nice...

Check out their music videos at youtube, but be careful, most of them are quite disturbing...

lately i m very into girl vocals... their songs are nice bcoz the singers have such strong vocal expression... ppl like joss stone, kelly clarkson, natasha bedingfield, katherine mcphee etc are really making the girls proud... some mtv-s of Natasha Bedingfield are very colourful and very interesting too... they always never fail to put a smile on my face...





Joss Stone












jazz is one of my favourite too... i first started to listen to jazz because norah jones juz won many awards at the grammys... and my dad at tat time was so into jazz (resulting in i can memorize more than half of the songs by norah...) then when spiderman came out, michael buble was a real hotty... i mean the songs... lately, after i watch mtv movie awards, i accidentally heard the song 'rehab' by Amy Winehouse and i was hooked up by it... the song was sooo cool, and i think she finally bring some sexy sense back into this world... go amy!!!

Amy's song currently tops my window media player playlist...

Norah Jones and Michael Buble

When will i start dating and my reason for breaking up...

this is juz a quiz tat i took for fun... i hope it won't turn out to be true...

You date like you are 31 years old. You are a very serious dater and are looking to settle down. You are probably already in a serious relationship, or are on the lookout for something very serious. Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Patricia Ting's lame-ass excuse to break up: "There is an assassin in my bell tower" 'What is your lame-ass excuse to break up?' at QuizGalaxy.com

this is so funny...

thanz to eujeen... now i hav sth to laugh about...

Patricia Ting -- [noun]: A person who laughs at anything (even this entry) 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

'What will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Local University

A VERY BIG CONGRATZ TO ROY, LAWSON, JONATHAN, JING TIEN and those who finally manage to get into the massive-competitive local uni... hope to see u guys really soon in semenanjung...

Rumah Selebang...

i love u Jesus
deep down in my heart
x3

oohh... deep deep down down
deep down in my heart
x2

This song keep ringing in my ears since i came back from a trip to a longhouse - Rumah Selebang... which is located somewhere in Sibu district... despite 3 hours of long, bumpy and car-sickening ride, it was very super extremely worth it... there were about 20 youths tat sign up for this trip, i was in shah alam when my fren ask me whether i wanted to join... without second thoughts, i immediately sign up for it coz there have been a lot of things going on for the past few weeks or months, i din get chosen for anything that i thought i will glorify God... but God wanted me to come back to my own roots and do sth tat will glorify him instead of going for mission's trip or become facilitator of the incoming juniors... sometimes man plan their own way but in the end, God is the ultimate decision-maker, He noes wat's best for u or me and He will implement it according to His ways... the longhouse trip was a life-changing trip... i was soooo encouraged after going and i never regretted having signing up for it... though tat super lazy joanne regain her laziness and chicken out even though her dad is part of the longhouse ministry...

We board on this nearly-30-years-old-bus from the look at it to the longhouses...

Youths who joined the trip to different longhouses... (most of them are quite old already... including me) haha...
From left : Grace, me, Lawson and Roy

The longhouse kids are super duper cute... i really learn a lot from them, esp the red-shirt kid, i think his name is Boniface. I remember when the advisors ask for a volunteer to read out some bible scriptures, some older kid were chosen coz they noe how to read... Boniface, although din noe how to read, he memorize some words when the older kid was reading and the second time he went out and only manage to blurt out some words he remembered... though at last he was booed down, i see the smile at his face, knowing tat he had did his best already... I was thinking to myself, these kids are so passionate about serving, they raise up their hand everytime the advisors asked for help... i look at myself and our youths, we were quiet, in fact too quiet at times when the church needs help... we really do need a child-like heart...

My fav was the kid on the right... His name is Apiz... he is 3 years old and did not went to sch... so he don't noe any other languages except Iban... and the whole night he is speaking to me using this alien language... but nevertheless, i say 'bagus' and 'ya' and 'pandai' the whole night... he is juz so cute!!!!!!!

Some low quality shots using my fon's camera... the light was not tat strong coz there is only one fluorescent light in a very big room... (this is a longhouse we are talking about, not your house where u got different kinds of lighting system) they are actually performing some songs for the mission's month in july... you can see tat they are actually in their best clothes every sunday school...

During praise and worship... again the lighting was not tat good... for your information they can only on the lights at 7.30pm every night because electricity is only provided at 7.30pm every night... but praise the Lord when we arrive at 6.45pm, which was so dark tat we can hardly see each other, the lights were suddenly on...

Joanne's dad in the milky shirt... joanne did not go due to some complications... duh

The place where they store rain water...

The corridor where the kids play street fighter in real life...

Forgot to post this up since last month... hehe

The most destructive habit....... ......... ......Worry
The greatest Joy......... ......... ......... ....Giving
The greatest loss........ ........Loss of self-respect
The most satisfying work........ .......Helping others
The ugliest personality trait....... ......Selfishness
The most endangered species..... ....Dedicated leaders
Our greatest natural resource.... ......... ..Our youth
The greatest "shot in the arm"........ ..Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome.... ......... ....Fear
The most effective sleeping pill........ Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease..... .......Excuses
The most powerful force in life........ ......... .Love
The most dangerous pariah...... ......... ...A gossiper
The world's most incredible computer.... ....The brain
The worst thing to be without..... ......... ..... Hope
The deadliest weapon...... ......... ........The tongue
The two most power filled words....... ........"I Can"
The greatest asset....... ......... ......... .....Faith
The most worthless emotion..... ......... ....Self- pity
The most beautiful attire...... ......... .......SMILE!
The most prized possession.. ......... .....Integrity
The most powerful channel of communication. ....Prayer
The most contagious spirit...... ......... ..Enthusiasm
The most important thing in life........ ......... .Almighty GOD

KAJANG

muahahaha... hey ALG ppl... don jeles me lah... now i m having the time of my life at my cousin's place... one word to describe kajang - sibu... i felt a very strong sibu-ness here in kajang, the building, the kopi-tiam all seems so familiar... oh ya, not to forget the Sugarbun here too... finally i find sth from sarawak here in semenanjung... so ppl, if u haven taste anything from sarawak yet (other than sarawak pepper) plz go and check it out lah...

Let me giv u a brief intro bout my cousins, my cousins are all from sarawak from a small town of Sarikei (the pekan nanas in Sarawak)... they r all working now and it seems like yesterday tat they were back at my hometown, telling me bout their childhood and now they are all graduated and start working already... things change and they change fast... now i felt like i can't actually connect to their conversation... don misunderstand me... its not like i felt neglected... its bcoz now all they are talking bout is whose and whose wedding, who is working at where, who is having her/his first baby... i began to reflect on my own self... i started to ask ques to myself, wud i be like them someday when i came back to malaysia and start working... wud i get wedding invitations from my frens for example erin and joash's wedding... wud i get invited to the 'full-moon-dinner' of eunice's first born baby... all of these seems so far and beyond my understanding... it emphsizes the greatness of God's plan to each and everyone of us... perhaps God has install the best plan He can had for me and all i hav to do is to obey and i shall receive the best of God's favor...

p/s: hard to imagine wat wud eunice's baby look like... haha... any0ne plz share ur thoughts or imagination...

CAMPS

after chatting wif roy last night about the LIFE game, and after i saw my sister's blog about how much fun she had during the YMCA camp...i felt ******** (not the 'toot' word lah, just cannot finda any word to describe my feeling now) LIFE IS JUST so unfair lah!!! even tat i-don-care-bout-anything-coz-i'm-lazy JOANNE TIONG JIA WEN go for tat camp leh!!!!! ciz de... all i learn here was programming, CAD, technical drawing, metrology and stuff related to engineering, not to say its not fun at all but compared to studies, its the most interesting things i've learned so far in my A-levels... but all of this cannot be compared to going for church CAMPS!!! how i miss church camps, how i miss the time when we all individual protons and neutrons become nucleons in Christ during camps... we learned a lot during camps, we learn to gain electrostatic force (which is a strong force in physics) and later binded tightly by the force to become nucleon... even my bodoh sister pauline had so much fun during tat camp... for more information click here

however, i'm glad tat today i hav a day off from my ever so hectic schedule... i'll be heading to my cousin's place later so chow ppl...

p/s: i will update more bout gmi later... this is juz a random post

haih... speechless

Sorry if i hav to say this... and the most sincere apologies to my frens who will be reading this post, i don intend to be racist or anything, plz don think beyond wat ur brains can sustain... this is juz a pure, non-intention blog to express my disappointment once again towards some Homo sapiens who is now ruling our country... btw, i'm proud to be Malaysian... juz to confirm my own status here... but here is what i wan to say...

"...It's ironic that in a majority Muslim country such as Malaysia, it is the Muslims who have the LEAST freedom."

from here

haih...

...

i always thought i will go to africa,
but i can't even go to pantu.
when is my turn?
i am ready...
sent me!!!

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ALIVE AND KICKING!!!

muahahaha.... after a week or tormenting exams which particularly took half my life away... i m officially back now... sometimes i really don't like the education system of Malaysia where everyone dig into their books and study and memorise their hearts out for the exams... i mean wat's wif the memorising thing... u are suppose to understand how things work, not memorise them!!! (excuse for ppl wif short term memory - tat's me) now praying fervently everything tat i wrote will be pleasing to the examiner's eyes coz they oweys and only look out for KEYwords (tat's another thing tat i dislike once again - keywords, stupid excuse for the lecturers to deny the effort the students put it so tat none of the question is blank)

yesterday was kind of unexpected to me - i watch the same movie for the second time for the first time of my life. confusing. let me explain again. i watch spiderman 3 in sibu before and yesterday i watch it in klang again. And watching 2 exact movies in the cinema doesn't really suits me but i did tat for the first time in my life. Honestly, i really don like the movie the first time i saw it - everything seems so wonderfully and perfectly planned. Flint was so coincidently at the particle physics lab when the experiment was conducted (and he is the killer of uncle ben some more oh) *roll eyes* and then ngam ngam ho tat eddie was at the church when the spiderman decided to get rid of the evil thing inside him. duh... everything jus wonderfully fixed into the storyline. However, having watching it for the second time, i become more observant to the things apart from the things tat i mention juz now, i realise y the producer use black colour in the beginning of the movie, y harry say tat het will die for his friends and it really hits me. I learn a lot from the movie, the importance of friendship and we shud not treat frens the way we wanted. I started to think of the frens around me, from sibu, from CA, from ALG, from church, from former schools and i realised tat i have been so blessed all these years bcoz God decided to put some ppl to influence me and to be influedced by me around me. Being wif frens and able to talk to frens suddenly become so precious to me, God opened my eyes thru this movie and i started to appreciate frens rather than taking them for granted. Now i m really getting more sentimental about eileen's and gloria's leaving for USA. The ppl here in INTEC, esp the sibu gang, started counting the days of their departure, starting to count every last time they do sth wif them together ( like last time eating wif them in cemara, last time seeing them studying calculus in their hostel room, last time seeing them in intec..) haih... they come and they go... frens...

appreciate every single living being beside u... whether u like them or not... God stil put someone beside u for a purpose...

Below is a german essay which i wrote months ago, ok lah say me perasan but i AM quite proud of it no matter how many grammar mistakes that i made throughout... its basically red all over the paper... haha

Was wäre, wenn es keine Krankheiten und keinen Tod gäbe? (What happen when they are no illness and death?)

Wenn es keine Krankheiten und Tod auf dieser Welt gäbe, würde diese Welt auch mit Leuten überfüllt. Eine neue Bezeichung, `die menschliche Verschmutzung´ käme heraus, weil diese Welt also mit Leuten überbevölkert wäre. Ich würde vom Leben auf dieser Weld ermüden aber könnte nicht sterben, weil es keinen Tod auf dieser Welt gäb. Wenn diese Situation bestehen bleibt, müssen Leute das Wissen benutzen, dieses Problem zu lösen. Zum Beispiel zu andere Planeten abwandern, damit die Welt nicht überbevölkert ist. Wenn sie auf anderen Planeten wären, müssten sie mit den anderen Lebewesen auf diesem Planeten wieder konkurrieren, um dort zu überleben. Außerdem gäbe es auch keinen Arzt, Chirurg und Krankenswestern auf dieser Welt, weil sie nicht dringend benötig sind. Zusammenfassend kann man sagen, wenn es keine Krankheiten und keinen Tod auf dieser Welt gäbe, wäre dieser Platz nicht ein guter Platz zum wohnen, weile es nicht genügend Platz gäbe, um jedes Leben wesen auf dieser Welt zu tragen. Wenn dieses geschäne wären die Konsequenzen hard zu ertragen.

this is the results of studying too much german... haih...

Lead me to the Cross....

Waking up at 6 a.m on a SUNDAY morning was never really my cup of tea... but i guess the stress is coming again, the fear for the finals which will be held in one weeks time, all the books standing untouched in front of me... believe me, i was never like this before, last minutes study is always my first resort, now it has become my last... but i decided to start off my day by reading ppl blogs and *ahem comments and found out tat they really lighten up my day... i read amir's and cannot stop laughing after seeing tat he actually post my sms to him... and yes ppl, tat was MY sms to him to check whether he is stil alive... and comments on ej's and found out a horrendous truth, six foot tall a***, who attends CA and is a drummer is after eve!!!! haha... must be funny if they are really together... and kedekut's post never fail to amaze me again and again... he is the most observative guy i've known of... eileen's comments really encourage me... gloria's as usual is fun and refreshing... ah fong, an old fren of mine who is constantly being 'persecuted' by her parents by not letting her go to church and mix with christian friends, is stil standing strong her faith and it was amazing to see how God works in her life despite all the difficulties she face... keep it up girl, u can do it!!! joash's stories... erhm... a bit long and sometimes i skip a few part or reserve it for another time coz really no ending mah, y read stories wif no ending... dorothy's post makes me homesick again... joanne's was boring coz i did nearly everything wif her so i basically know what she did the whole day inculding the perfume and blah blah blah... (Joanne : Pat, u r so dead when i go to church wif u later....) haha... don care, this is my blog, ni guan wo, next time u write sth diff loh, sth which i dunno... hehe... king ung's and sin wui's as usual is about their life overseas which also can be reference when i go overseas someday... (hoping and praying everyday for it) jonathan's blog was enlivening as well, sort of remind me of the one and only Anchor which we can hold on to in our lives... sihan's remind me of my studies and now i shall go back to my german mind boggling grammar revision...

a good day to start off by reading ppl's blog... try to do this next time when u feel down... i guess God really works in everyone's life, He even uses little little insignificant things to cheer us up... For those who blog out there, thanz for blogging!!!! U guys really make my day....

Those reading this : "GOD BLESS!!! until the blessings overflow and u in turn bless others..."

Yeah... finally i know how to upload videos to youtube... hehe

Below are 2 videos for CA...

watch American Idol - Idols give back yesterday and was very touched by it... I can sense God speaking to me, remind and confirm me once again of wat He has install for me in the future and in my life... i saw ppl suffering all over the world, poverty, aids, malaria, illiteracy, women abuse, and more uncountable worldly issues....

So guys,
Join me in fighting poverty!
I've just signed the ONE Declaration committing myself to help fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty.

I'm asking you to make that commitment, too, by adding your voice.

I think your name belongs on that declaration, too. You can put it there by visiting:

www.one.org

or simply click on the pic above...

ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans - one by one. So far, over two million have signed the declaration in support of a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world.

Together as ONE we can make a difference!

A night at the airport...

having not slept for the past 24 hours because of some unintelligent plans that i've made to save up a mere RM50 when i could just lied down comfortably on my bed and dozed off wif a sweet dream, i could actually feel my head now... i felt like there's liquid in my head before this, whenever i walk i could feel the liquid in my head colliding wif my skull...(squish squish) yesterday was the most nonsensical day i had... i went to the airport at 10 pm when my flight is suppose to be on 7am, really had to say sorry and thank you to joanne for being there wif me throughout the whole 10 hours there... there's so much to experience staying one night at the LCCT, we got chase out of the terminal building coz there's some fogging going on and then we had to sleep on the harder-than-cement benches which i could not by any chance sleep even though i was as sleepy as a kolar bear... and once again many thanks to king ung, whom by the way, is now in germany, entertaining our (joanne and me) never ending grumbling and whining over the msn... i could feel that he's been slightly annoyed by our constant complaints and moanings but nontheless he helped us make it through the boringest night... (me and joanne actually take turns using the msn so imagine how traumatise he is to entertain 2 extreme kaypoh's ranting... haha)

what an experience right???? although tiring, but somehow i kind of enjoy it... i mean i never done this in my life and now the chance have come and next time i can tel ppl who wan to do this "DON'T EVER TRY TO STAY OVERNIGHT AT THE AIRPORT WHEN THERE'S FOGGING" Everything was closed including the so called "24-hours" Mcd... i was as hungry as a cow btw and gulped down one bubur Mcd as soon as it opened again at 4 am... however in the end--> it all went inside the toilet ball... this time my airsickness starts to go way out of hand... i had airsick even b4 i board the plane, i vomitted about 3 times and really hate the sourness in my mouth which i think i can stil feel it now... ewwww....

tat's all for now... continue on for the second post today!!!

I never realise how important my family is to me until now... it took me 19 years to be conscious of the fact that family is the most important relationship in my life... too late huh, some will think... but i'm glad i finally know it beofore i left for another place ... i can't wait to go back and have kampua as lunch and dinner, kompia as breakfast, tea-break and supper... i can't wait to converse in foochow wif my grandpa and aunties and uncles and the customers that come to my grandpa shop either to criticize the government or to buy groceries ... i can't wait to go back to Wesley and meet all my church frens there... i can't wait to laugh loudly at the lousy and cold jokes tat my siblings made at ppl tat i know... i can't wait to meet all my primary, secondary, tuiton sch frens... can't wait can't wait can't wait can't wait can't wait can't wait.......

MUAHAHAHAHA... I WILL BE GOING BACK TO SIBU NEXT WEEK NO MATTER WHAT!!! I AM GOING TO GET AN MC IF I DON'T MANAGE TO ASK FOR PERMISSION TO GO BACK!!! i'll make sure i get sick next week... choi choi choi... **touch wood

huh!!!!!! when did i start to write emo entries like eunice... haha... sorry but no offence...
back to myself now....

its only 3 hours prior to the last CA of this sem... its actually a farewell CA to the american programme students and alm seniors... so glad tat today afternoon class got canceled so that i can work on the slide show presentation that i'll be displayed later as a surprise for them... hope none of them are reading this now... otherwise it won't be a surprise anymore... felt really sad that some of my very very best frens in intec are leaving soon... hope they enjoy the time that CA has install for them for tonight... and God bless them wherever they go coz its not the end of their life journey but its only the beginning.....

this post is specially dedicated to JOANNE TIONG JIA WEN... MY LONG LONG LONG FREN SINCE KINDERGARTEN

now in joanne's room onlining... she is now in a not-very-good mood... this is one of the fewest among fewest time tat she got depression... haha... find out more here... cannot imagine tat right??? but this is a scholar way's of life... its not easy being one - u had to have a high mentality and handle stress well... but anyway,

'Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Philippians 4:4-5/NIV

This is the verse tat really lighten her up which she saw here... it happens to be the verse of the day of tat site... wow!!!

and THIS is the verse tat we hear from a very powerful sermon on Sunday itself... it is really a blessing in disguise... God works in every little way to cheer us up and remind us always that He is always with us no matter what we are going through now...

So ppl... rejoice in the LORD now... coz the JOY of the lord is our strength...

finally finish moral test today... and since i had 2 hours of free time until my next class, this shall be one of the things that help me pass the time in the com lab... it has been quite sometime since i actually sit down to surf the net without any purpose, i kinda miss the time i use to surf the internet without any motive at all and juz go surfing the net for the sake of surfing, if u noe wat i mean... not those surf-the-net-coz-i've-got-assignment-and-i-need-information kind of surfing... this is juz so good... watch some news on sinchew and find out bout Lina Joy and Yeshua Jamaluddin... not tat i did not heard of them b4 but its the first time i can find time googling their name and find out more bout them but the more i look into it, the more i learn about my own country... sad to say i've learn too much tat i m actually quite dissappointed... but anyway, english lesson up next and i had to chow now... bye

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Guess i don't have to tel u wat happen to my internet connection this few days... all my money... haih....

updates....

sorry for the lack of updates this few weeks... had been quite busy wif CA because we're having 2 CAs in 2 consecutive weeks... maybe its the first in CA history but hey anyway, i hav great joy serving and by the way... Happy Good Friday and Happy Easter to all!!!

it has been yet another 2 hectic weeks despite some spiritual attacks and stuff... everytime there's a CA, there's me getting attacked again and again, sometimes i may feel it but sometimes i was too ignorant... last week i accidentally burned my hand during chemistry lab... it goes like this... i was chatting happily wif my fren when suddenly my hand tend to find a place to rest on and have a break and there's this tripod stand juz nearby so my palm juz rest on it relaxingly and unknowingly but 5 seconds later i felt my right palm burning and ta-dah... i can't write and do anything wif my right hand for 2 days... (sorry but i tend to write loooooooooooonnnnnnnngggggg sentences) the tripod stand is actually sizzling hot after 30 minutes of non-stop heating of some forgot-wat's-the-name chemical... so during tat time u can actually see my palm having a triangle shape bruise...

then this week, when i tot everything was going on so well... i was wrong!!! so very extremely exceedingly exceptionally WRONG!!! one night while i was walking merrily while humming a tune on my way to the study room... KA BAM... the next thing i noe, i was only a head above the ground level... i found myself suddenly inside a drain and i don't know why... tat time my hands and legs are bleeding but later it turn out to be quite mild for someone who always trips and falls down wherever she goes...

tat's all for now, wouldn't want to bored u all wif my accidents but i m now working on a project... (wow, huge word) haha... its nth actually... remember the Easter CA we had this week earlier on, we are actually having sth special on, as a matter of fact, we had a very touching skit about sacrificial love and i plan to compile it all into a movie... i'll probably upload it here as soon as i finish... till i see u next time!!! God bless!!!

Back to shah alam yet again...

skip ethics class today because of my headache... its only the first day of sch after the mid-term break and i had headache already... maybe i stil can't accept the fact that i had to go back to sch once again after a week of refreshing and rejuvenating holiday...

juz some show-off , for my own pleasure :

Below are some pics of the mouse and bible that my frens gav me on my birthday... Look at how the mouse change its colour each time...

its blue now...

then it turns green...

jus now u see green, now u see red... haha

The bible and the mouse... the best present ever

Thanks for the wonderful present!!! really appreciate them!!!

Why God Takes Young People

When God calls young adult to dwell with Him above,
We mortals sometimes question
the wisdom of His love.
For no heartache compares with,
the death of our dear child.
Who does so much to make our world,
seem so wonderful and mild.

Perhaps God tires of calling
the aged to His fold.
So He picks a rosebud
before it can grow old.

God knows how much we need them,
and so He takes but few.
To make the land of heaven
more beautiful to view.

Believing this is difficult
still somehow we must try.
The saddest word mankind knows
will always be Good-bye.

So when our young one departs,
we who are left behind,
Must realize God loves children.
ANGELS ARE HARD TO FIND!

Saw this in Susan Loone's blog and was quite touched by it... it certainly answer my ques and hope it can answer some or urs too...

i've been tagged by Gracie... i really don't know wat i m doing now but anyway...

Here it goes...
GETTING TO KNOW HER...=)

LAYER 1: ON THE OUTSIDE.
Name: Pat
Birth Date: 14 March 1988
Current Status: Single
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
Hair Colour: Black
Righty or Lefty: Righty
LAYER 2: ON THE INSIDE.
My Heritage : I'm a Malaysian chinese but my granpa is from china...
My Fears : No internet connection
My Perfect Pizza : Island Supreme

LAYER 3: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW.
My Thoughts First Waking Up : Want to sleep again...
My Bedtime : About 12 am
My Most Missed Memory: The days when i was in primary school

LAYER 4: MY PICK.
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
McDonald's or Burger King: McDonald's
Single or Group Dates: Single
Adidas or Nike: Can i choose both??
Tea or Nestea: Tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate (i don't like vanilla, it tastes like milk)
Cappuccino or Coffee: Can i not choose this?? Both i don like... but then i prefer kopi-O
LAYER 5: DO YOU...
Smoke: nope...
Curse: nah...
Take a Shower: yea!
Have a Crush: erhm...
Think You've Been In Love: eh... guess so...
Go To School: i'm in college now
Want To Get Married: Yup...
Believe In Yourself: yup, but there r times i doubt in myself though...
Think You're A Health Freak: Not really, i love junk food

LAYER 6: IN THE PAST.
Drank Alcohol: A bit of red wine and beer...(does it counts???)
Gone To The Mall : of coz... duh...
Been On Stage: Yea...
Eaten Sushi: Yup...
Dyed Your Hair: No.. but i want to do so...

LAYER 7: HAVE YOU EVER...
Played A Stripping Game: No!!!!!!!
Changed Who You Were To Fit In: I guess so...

LAYER 8: AGE YOU'RE HOPING...
To Be Married: before 30 hopefully...

LAYER 9: IN A GUY...
Best Eye Colour: Dark brown
Best Hair Colour: black, blond, brown... as long as they got hair... haha
Short Hair or Long Hair: short hair of coz... wouldn't want him to hav longer hair than me

LAYER 10: WHAT WERE YOU DOING...
A Minute Ago: Doing this
An Hour Ago: Attending german class...
4.5 Hours Ago: Stil in class...
1 Month Ago: Celebrating chinese new at home... (i miss angpao!!!)
1 Year Ago: eh... don remember exactly but shud be in form 6 clowning around in sch....
LAYER 11: FINISH THE SENTENCES...
I love : My family, watching movies, blogging, shopping, chocolates, beach, hanging around with friendS and EATING u-noe-wat...
I hate: liars, smarties pants who called themselves 'stupid'
I hide: i basically shared everything wif my frens... maybe not all...
I miss: Hanging out with friends and families~~
I need: to study hard and not sleep in class!!!
LAYER 12: TAG 5 PEOPLE.
1. Dorothy
2. Yi En
3. Li Fong
4. Gloria
5. Amir

~finally done with the tags! =)
it's fun but plz don make me do this again!!! haha

Thank you Amir bin Othman for the marvellous, magnificent, superb, lovely, first-class, delightful, wonderful (i m running out of words now) video he did wif a green and handsome dinosaur (forget wat's his name is but i reckon its dino if i m not mistaken...) by saying 'happy birthday' to me wif his deep, bass, sexy voice...

Boy, i m so proud of myself for writing the longest sentence in my blog...
dann prost Amir!!!

am i being sarcastic? no... definitely not...

The best birthday ever and the last....

Yesterday was kind of surprising actually... i had the longest surprisES ever with so many ppl singing birthday songs to me and i had to act as if i don't know they are going to do so... here goes the story...

Yesterday was my 19th birthday (i m soooo old d...) and i had the privilege to serve God on my birthday itself...I was helping out with a church camp organized by the churches of Sarikei as a Game master or watever it is called... 12 of us were divided into groups of different moral values such as love, self-control and others... I am in charge of a station and mine was called 'fu zhe' (in eng it means 'responsiblity'... its actually a game to to develope a sense of responsibility among all the group members... wat happen is tat the game master before mine actually told the groups tat if they sing birthday song when they come to my station, they will be rewarded wif extra points and i guess u all noe wat will happen next... i have all the groups singing the 'happy birthday' song to me and it was quite touching at first... however after tat, it was kind of paiseh but i appreciate all their effort and had to pretend to be surprised anyway...

When i tot everything was over, then all of my frens from wesley came out wif a cake out of nowhere and started to sing the birthday song AGAIN to me... then they get oliver to pray for me and it was the best present i ever receive tat day... thank you all who prepare this - i think sabrina was behind all this but nontheless thank you everyone - timothy, dorothy, grace, michelle, san san, melisa, roy, ah liang, jonathan, alen, sabrina, oliver, pastor lisa and all the pastor from the camp... really had a great time spending time wif all of u at the camp...

Thank you everyone who take the time to type a msg to wish me a very happy birthday - helen, alvin, grace ham, johnson, amanda, daniel, joanne, eileen, gloria, soibah, izzah, eunice, joash, erin, my evil twin sister evelyn, ah saw, happy wong, janice, dewei, ah fong, lawson, aaron, rachel, my cousin ah ing, tze qiang, and those who are yet to be named... thank you for all the birthday wishes and though i cannot thank you one by one, i really appreciate it!!!

This is the last birthday wif a 1 in front of my age... next year i will be 20... can't believe i survived this world for nearly one fifth of a century and i hope my years ahead will be a better one...

Finally!!!!! i get to post sth here... the hostel internet connection had been so bad that i could not even sign in for the whole of 2 weeks... only now in the airport i manage to get into the page and type some words!!! somehow i think that applying for the hostel connection is kind of wasteful... juz finish my german exam today!!! din finish the grammar part though... anyway, i did my best already and hope that i can get an A and i will be soooooo satisfied...

The journey back was quite an interesting one... this time i don't feel bored or agitated by the fact that my ears kept getting blocked because of the difference of air pressure despite how many times i swallow my saliva or close my eyes or blow my nose by covering the nose (don't try this at home... self-torturing) and yawning... i juz can't stand the awful feeling of ear-blockness or watever it is called... this time i get to force joanne to play scrabble with me... i could not remember the last time i play scrabble but it was funny teaching joanne how to count points u get from putting one word on the board... she could not understand at first and i had a very very hard time teaching her how to count but later james join in and was catching up easily, at least better than tat joanne tiong jia wen... (she is so gonna beat me up after she sees this... muahaha... but who cares!!! this is my blog!!!)

At last the 2-hour flight back home was like 2 minutes and we could not even finish a game... but somehow we had great fun making fun of each other...

SIBU!!!!!!! ich komme!!!!!