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insights from travelling...

i've been travelling a lot here in germany, to church, to meet up wif frens, to ikea, to outlet cities, to visit ppl and the means of transport i use the most is train... and one thing in common i shared wif other train travelers is tat we all carry bags or even luggages... before we travel, we need to make sure we hav everything, ipod, books, water bottle, wallet, money, camera, hand n face lotion, lipbalm, ricola, handphone, jacket, chocolates and anything we could think of in our bags... we felt like the more stuff we bring, the bigger the bag, the more we r prepared for anything... isn't life like this too? we take up things n responsibilities in our daily walk and as time goes by, they become a burden as every step we take n every station we stop by to change to a new train... we think we r prepared, but the fact is the our bags are getting heavier on our way to our destination... then i realise, i m actually on board a train where i don need any baggages, faith is enough to sustain me...

are you ready to board this train?

More beautiful you by Jonny Diaz

Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine
Says she wants to look that way
But her hair isn't straight her body isn't fake
And she's always felt overweight

Well little girl fourteen I wish that you could see
That beauty is within your heart
And you were made with such care your skin your body and your hair
Are perfect just the way they are

There could never be a more beautiful you
Don't buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump through
You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do
So there could never be a more beautiful you

Little girl twenty-one the things that you've already done
Anything to get ahead
And you say you've got a man but he's got another plan
Only wants what you will do instead

Well little girl twenty-one you never thought that this would come
You starve yourself to play the part
But I can promise you there's a man whose love is true
And he'll treat you like the jewel you are

So turn around you're not too far
To back away be who you are
To change your path go another way
It's not too late you can be saved
If you feel depressed with past regrets
The shameful nights hope to forget
Can disappear they can all be washed away
By the one who's strong can right your wrongs
Can rid your fears dry all your tears
And change the way you look at this big world
He will take your dark distorted view
And with His light He will show you truth
And again you'll see through the eyes of a little girl

nice n meaningful song... speaks to most ppl at our age, esp me...

Beautifully imperfect...

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

imperfect... that's wat we all are... and it really cost a lot to realise and to admit it... however, isn't all these make who we are? yes, although we are all imperfects, we are beautifully imperfect in God's eyes... of course we must strive to be perfect, but then again, who is?


this is a 2 in 1 post... the emo n not so emo post... the upper n bottom post...



ok, i hate to admit it...
i'm bored...

the girl from the opposite room, the one to whom i only speak is away for holiday, the one i m not talking to, is around too for whatever reasons he is not staying in his comfortable house... y is he still around?????!!!!!! i seiously do not noe...

spend 3 hours on one technische mechanik question... *bravo... claps claps... pat myself on the back... in the end still hav to refer to the answer online... *another round of applause... thank you thank you... curtsied and walk away...

enuice ding, eve aun, cat chan n qiao hui!!!! faster come loh....

introducing my new bf...

plz don mind the sun-burned face, juz came back from a bike trip n there's no whitening product in this country...

can't wait to open it...

ta-dah!!!

plz can anyone teach me some songs?

Psalm 121

Ich hebe meine Augen auf zu den Bergen, von welchen mir Hilfe kommt.

Meine Hilfe kommt vom Herrn, der Himmel und Erde gemacht hat.
Er wird deinen Fuß nicht gleiten lassen; und der dich behütet, schläft nicht.
Siehe, der Hüter Israels schläft noch schlummert nicht.
Der Herr behütet dich; der Herr ist dein Schatten über deiner rechten Hand,
daß dich des Tages die Sonne nicht steche, noch der Mond des Nachts.
Der Herr behüte dich vor allem Übel; er behüte deine Seele!
Der Herr behüte deinen Ausgang und Eingang von nun an bis in Ewigkeit!

i realise one thing important, that all this while i tot i was running away from my problems, in fact, i was running away from God...

it's time to turn around, don't stop, and run again... this time at the right direction! :)

Das Festival 2009

Das Festival 2009
(THE FESTIVAL 2009)

29.Mai -1.Juni 2009
(29 May - 1 June 2009)

HOFFNUNG Deutschland (Hope Germany)

4 TAGE HUMORVOLLE LEBENSPLANUNG MIT JESUS HÖCHSTPERSÖNLICH –

4 DAYS OF HUMOUROUS LIFEPLANNING WITH JESUS THE MOST HIGH

DIE IDEEN, (THE IDEA)
DER LEBENSSTIL, (THE LIFESTYLE)
DIE KONSEQUENZEN: (THE CONSEQUENCES)

ZULETZT
LACHEN

LAUGH THE LAST ( LAUGH THE BEST)

erm...

kinda lazy to blog nowadays, don get me wrong, i m not busy, somehow time juz flies like wind... whoooooosh...

can't wait for church camp tmr, to be frank, i hav issues wif myself, issues wif understanding myself or other ppl... i hav issues understanding ppl who do things they noe they shud not do but yet they still do it... i cannot understand them nor put myself in their shoes... i don understand myself too, like y is it a problem to me? y do i hav to go n involve myself in other ppl's matter?

well, maybe it is juz the nature part of me for being so kaypoh (busybody)...

hope i can hav things sort out soon... or else i will be dwelling in this for some more time...

random

introducing....

my tv...

occationally we will turn it on,
when the housemate is not around (as loud as it can be!),
when we felt that we lack of german listening skill (some german soap opera where real german are being spoken instead of being dubbed),
when we miss listening to english so much (oweys n forever mtv, bbc n cnn),
when we feel like annoying the housemate. ^_^

aaaand baked chicken wings, taste so much like mum's...

my first narcissism post

well folks, after i-forgot-how-many-months of persistance n endurance, i failed miserably n decided once again, i shall cut short my hair... i cannot stand the endless eye-piercing strands that covers my eyes all the time... there you go, da fringe is back... ladies n gentlement...

updates

guess it is time for updates...

i can't believe one year have passed since a-levels last year... it seems like yesterday when my housemate n i climbed over the fence in the middle of the night in akasia just to watch euro cup matches at mcd in shah alam during tat time... and right now i m in germany, struggling everyday to overcome all sorts of barriers (language, food, socialising etc..) and getting use to new things here (cycling/driving on the right side of the road etc)

now i've reach the phase where everyday is a routine, waking up in the morning, go to class, come back, eat lunch, skype with frens n family, ebaying, watch mtv (coz it's the only thing i understand) dinner, surf internet, read bible, turn off lights n sleep from monday to thursday, then friday, saturday n sunday i spend most of my time lepak at senior's place, do some random travelling wif my housemate, church n the cycle repeat itself... i guess this might be the so call 'settling down' which i was hoping to be since day one... and it is normal to me that everytime i go out, i hear ppl speaking german n realise i , too, speak german, eg ordering food, buying chicken n beef from the turkey shop, talking to classmate (singular) all this suddenly seems so - normal...

ok, enough of this, juz post this for the sake of updating... will see wat i shall post next time!

Offenburgers...

Liebe XXXXXXXXXXX,

schönen Dank für Ihre Anmeldung. Der späte Zeitpunkt ist kein Problem! Wir haben nun genug Teilnehmer und werden den Kurs sicher durchführen. Über die Details wegen der Kaution etc. informiere ich Sie demnächst per Mail.

Es freut mich, dass sich alle Studierenden von Offenburg für den Kurs angemeldet haben. Das ist bei keiner anderen FH der Fall. Die Offenburger sind halt besonders engagiert....

Liebe Grüße,

X. XXXXX


haha... names are not shown to protect the pricacy of the ppl involved...

why am i second?

because there's someone in my life who is first...

are you second? i know i am second!

nice

gosh i miss CA after reading the latest post in CA new blog... i read it like over 10 times since this morning n i find new things to miss everytime i finish reading... i can totally understand u seniors! haha... and to be honest, i don feel sad at all during my farewell (who can feel sad in a CA meeting??) but the feeling seeps in before and AFTER it... haha... so be prepare!

hiking at blackforest...

the most beautiful place and i felt as if i were in paradise, the different greens of the trees were juz so beautiful, indicating tat new life begins from now onwards... it was raining the whole day on friday n saturday n i nearly pull out of the hike for the fear of getting sick... it doesn't help when i woke up on sunday morning only to find out tat it was fogging outside, which was quite thick, but i went anyway... the trip was organized by the senior service of my uni and it is open to all international students, the group was really big, there were 30 international students from all over the world n 20 ppl from senior service... this is the first time i went hiking in germany and together wif so many ppl... we took a train and literally pack the whole train up... it was quite interesting to hear so many languages spoken at one time and in a train... ppl juz automatically strike a conversation like it is so normal, unlike in ehem class coughs wif hem germans... haha... and i was even amazed when i met a former malaysian student who works wif the uni branch now... we went like "malaysia!!!" n start talking bullet-train-malaysian-english... we also manage to converse in german wif the other member of senior services, although most of them were kind enough to explain more detailed stuff in english... i learn a lot about plants from them, i learn how to differentciate different fruit tress by the colour of the flowers and also by the shape of the tree bark... since coming to germany, i've grown a passion for plants here, esp since it's spring now n it is juz so inspring to see so many colours lighting the whole place up... we also manage to make friends wif other international students and to be able to understand jokes that they make is simply wonderful... for the first time i can actually join in the joke no matter how lame they are and laugh my head off...

now you might be wondering y this post is all words til now... n u might think that they might be photos posted up real soon... no, u r wrong!!!

because being a smarty pant *as always, i forgot to bring my camera!!!!!!!!!!!! n to make things worse, i even forgot to bring my handphone... seriously i feel like jumping down to every river tat i pass by n freeze myself to death or jump down from every slope tat i climb or knock my head agains all the beautiful trees... haih...

France...

the place which i've heard so much of but never actually been there and the place i nearly applied to instead of germany... well, from my point of view, i do think tat language is not a barrier there, so much for wat ppl say bout France, english actually can be accepted if u got the oriental looks... haha... here are some pics of Strasbourg, the capital of Europen Union... the architecture is totally mind blowing

p/s : it is juz 30 mins away from Offenburg...

New PM n new ministry...

Energy, green technology and water...

flippo, there's future for environmentalists in Malaysia eh... jom join politics! haha

well, changes are good... keeping my finger crossed for malaysia!

This is love...

Easter holiday is just around the corner and easter is quite a big thing in Germany because of the religious background of this country but i guess many ppl dunno the reason behind easter anymore... now it's all about the bunnies n chocolates n colourful eggs...

although i might not be religious on the outside and i do not fast during lent, one thing i know... that thousands of years ago, love came n conquer sin, tat all who believe shall not perish n live eternally...

click here if u r wan to know wat easter means to me...

anyway, one question here... is easter meant to be celebrated? got ppl die wat... can celebrate meh? haha... typical chinese thinking...

it's a brand new day

a fren once wrote

"all these hardships on earth are only going to make us treasure heaven more"

it encourage me so much tat i decide to share it here wif u all... thanks fren! for ur weekly encouragements, really learn a lot from u... and all ur experiences also reminded me tat i m not alone, i hav known ppl who are going thru the same thing, worse even but if they can make it thru, sure can i...

Thank you!

happy or not happy?

"eh, u look very happy there hoh?" (there as in Germany lah)

tat is a question i found really hard to answer sometimes when ppl keep asking me over n over again... the problem is, it is really hard to see my unhappiness wif all the facebook pics circulating around... even during cny, when there r relatives visiting my house, my siblings will automatically click onto my facebook profile n show them my pics...(i famous mah, so ppl will ask about me naturally... ahaha) and of course, all the pics will depict happiness in a more visual way, which is more impacting... usually, the reaction wud be like "wah, so fun there, visit mercedes benz museum, go munich drink beer n eat pork leg, wah so nice..." of couse it wud be nice when u were treated like kings (queens) with all ur needs being taken care of... but that is only the first month, i repeat FIRST month ONLY in germany, then slowly n gradually, the excitement fades n confusion starts to seep in...

i wud be really n truly happy if -
i can understand whatever my lecturer taught in class
my lecturer can understand the questions that i try to ask in class
my classmates start talking to me
i dare to step out of my comfort zone
i manage to overcome the fear of both my german guy housemates
i can express myself freely without worrying bout vocabs n grammar mistakes
my allowance comes in april instead of may

those, u can't see in my facebook pics...

p/s : i lost count of how many times i edited this post... yer... so many grammar mistakes... it is bad enough wif my german, now my english... sigh

another accident tat nearly took my life...

after the stupid-big-german-shepherd-tat-bit-me-in-my-waist-n-now-i-cannot-wear-bikini-incident, this is the second accident tat make me realise -- boy, m i glad to be alive! the big paper bin below my hostel nearly got burned, if not for the stupid arson who decide to burn the paper bin of the other building first...

the whole green paper bin melted weh!

kesian rumah nih!

if this were my bicycle, i will cry!

the arson din manage to burn the paper bin of my hostel... but there's traces of burned papers... he/she even laid out the papers evenly so tat he/she can burn it...

only first 3 weeks n i've already witness 2 accidents... first it was the car accident during my first day in offenburg, the bus tat we took wham into a car, causing the rear window mirror to break into pieces...

Gossip girl is back...

Gossip girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of the east side elites...

Gossip girl here welcomes you to the new life of shah alam elites in Germany. When the shah alamites flew to Germany to study, means I have a lot of catching up to do. Word is, with everyone in different places, Gossip girl never fails to bring you the latest happening around south Germany.

They say, love surpasses everything, even time n space. One thing about being in a land so far away from home, it brings 2 ppl closer together. Pop quiz, who are they?
Just a lil hint. Greed n black. Looks like L is not lonely n homesick anymore in Germany. When fate throw 2 lovers together, it simply works in the most unexpected or expected way. Signing off.

XOXO
Gossip Girl

bumi putera/i

i m all out for bumiputera rights if they r really given to the 'real' bumiputera (princes n princesses of the earth)... they deserve it! not because they are being pitied at!

pfft! politics!

Germany part 1

amazing facts about germany:

1. everyone in class seems to noe wat r those shiny little things shown on the pics above...

2. und? (and?) is like a secret questions among germans... the first thing they see each other every morning is asking this secret question, n the conversation goes on for hours....

3. everyone in germany seems to hav to same handwriting... (since they r all unreadable, so i assume tat they're the same)

4. germany's exam pad is in brackets instead of lines...

5. be very very careful when u took a train in germany... they actually seperate halfway n go different places...

to be continue... (hopefully)

Spring oh spring...

one of the things offenburg offers is the sunshine, which germany really lacks of... but do not equal it with heat, u will still feel cold into the bones irregardless of the brightness outside... this misapprehension leads to less layer of clothes u wear every morning when u r deciding wat to wear to class...

finally we r here...

compare to the jakunness when we first pass by offenburg to frankfurt...

no doubt

no doubt ...
i look oriental
i speak no dialect
i talk differently
i wear t-shirt n jeans
my hair is black
my skin is yellow
i use a dictionary in class
i don understand a thing in class sometimes
and i hav to ask my neighbour everytime
whether there's tutorial the next day...

but i never give up trying to get to noe you...
would u plz be my fren n sit beside me?

base on a true Malaysian story...

one day, in a place far far away covered wif snow...

indian : Tolong! Tolong! (Help! Help)
cina : what happen?
malay : come and see this!
(open the door n went into a room wif 3 cubicles)
everyone : arghhhh!!!
cina : we must do sth!
indian : y shud we? it is not our fault?

nonetheless, everyone walk in together as one... malay took the brush, indian took the water, cina keep the door open and the british took the liquid detergent...

malay : argh!
indian : shaisst!
cina : ewwwwww!
british : hehehe

5 minutes later... maruah malaysia berjaya diselamatkan!

(u don't wanna noe wat happen exactly!)

the unity among the malaysians, irregardless of race n language n skin colour, saves the day... the end...

You make all things new...

Walking, stumbling on these shadowfeet
Toward home, a land that I've never seen
I am changing
Less and less asleep
Made of different stuff than when I began
And I have sensed it all along
Fast approaching is the day

When the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
When the sky rolls up and mountains fall on their knees
When time and space are through
I'll be found in you

There's distraction buzzing in my head
Saying in the shadows it's easier to stay
But I've heard rumours of true reality
Whispers of a well-lit way

You make all things new

Brooke Fraser - Shadowfeetpics of sigmaringen...

freundschaft

well, it simply means 'friendship' in german... it is also a short form of 'the principle of conservation of friendship' which consist of ALG10C... all goes well until ppl who don't understand the whole concept of it start to question the motive behind it... well, sorry to dissappoint u (those names whom i shall not name here) there's none! just pure friendship bond among 15 (now 14) ppl... and being part of this friendship, we hav our own tradition, namely birthday treats from the birthtee (if ever such word exists) and sorry if i offended anyone by trying to continue this tradition even in germany... i am greatly distressed by the fact tat there's ppl (who i think from the other class) who try to influence other ppl to go against this friendship... which, in one way of another, stopped me from treating ppl for my birthday as part of the tradition... sorry i could not treat EVERYONE bcoz of financial reason... it's not like i treat ppl because of the present i m going to get, it is merely a tradition...

i.am.dissappointed.fullstop

this is my blog n i shall write whatever however whichever wherever.

settling down

i was always wondering y on earth did i choose offenburg in the first place? usually when ppl ask, i will juz simply giv them the answers which pop ups in my mind during tat time, and to different ppl i will giv different answers, although deep down inside me i doubt whether my 'answers' are real or i am juz giving excuses for choosing offenburg... complicated eh...

but since i arrived here, it all seems so clear... it is a nice place! and seeing seniors graduating really add a bonus to it... if they can do it, sure can i! (of coz got other reason such as free tv and spices from malaysia... haha)

oh... and the senior who will be graduating is performing for a gig this friday evening... those who are free, do drop by n support our very own malaysian performer in a german pub...

p/s : i seriously prefer swäbish than badish...

21

21st birthday

and thanks to facebook, i was reminded again n again tat i m 21 yesterday... and thanks to facebook, i got wishes n blessings from all over the world in a place so far away from home... u guys surely made my day, even those who din actually wrote on my facebook wall but who seen it and thought, 'oh, it's pat's birthday today!' thank you too!

n esp to the sigmaringen group and others, u noe who u are... thanks for the present! not sure whether i will use to frequently but i really like it~

Stuttgart

a very interesting city...

Einkaufstraße - meaning shopping street in english...
- but it's also a place where u see beggers and grand shopping malls...

Mercedes - Benz museum - been there twice, n still learning new things from it...

Hauptbahnhof - meaning main railway station in english
- met the 'Edward' and other ppl from CDC, makes me miss Radolfzell even more

Swabstraße - Got lost on my way to church for nearly an hour in the rain in winter... every building, road, shop etc look the same to me... but only 2 months in Germany, what do you expect?

Weather - it can be snowing in the morning when i just woke up and then suddenly when i'm outside, I see blue sky and white clouds... german weather, crazy!

Woohoo! Spring in Offenburg!

another week to go before i move away from this kampung...

a glimpse of where i will be staying for the next 3 or 5 years...



i will be staying in second floor on the left...
(don mind the posers! they r my coursemate for the next 3 or 5 years... haha)


i got a big window! woohoo!

n a big heater!

n most importantly! a big wardrobe!

kitchen!


finally spring!
(although it's still snowing in sigmaringen)

Malaysian celebrities...

there's no kidding bout this... we are in German newspaper... how cool is tat...



Die Gaststudenten aus Malaysia schunkelten mit den Sigmaringer Narren.

Fasnet für Malaysier
Narren begrüßen Gaststudenten aus Fernost
Sigmaringen – Eine Unterrichtsstunde der besonderen Art erlebten 15 Gaststudenten aus Malaysia am Dienstag, 10. Februar. Die Lehrbeauftragte für Chemie, Marion Hahn, erschien im Häs der Traditionsfledermaus und in Begleitung drei weiterer Sigmaringer Narren. Die Studierenden begrüßten die Kostümierten mit Applaus und verfolgten mit großer Neugier die Erzählungen von Marion Hahn über die Tradition und Bräuche der Semerenger Fasnet. Ein Student nahm alles auf Video auf. Zwar hatten die Asiaten schon etwas vom Karneval gehört oder im Fernsehen gesehen. Wie die Fasnet allerdings hierzulande gefeiert wird, war ihnen neu. Während ihres sechswöchigen Vorbereitungskurses an der Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen haben sie nun Gelegenheit, neben Mathe, Physik, Chemie und Deutsch auch die Kultur ihres Gastlandes und insbesondere die fünfte Jahreszeit ein wenig näher kennen zu lernen. Marion Hahn erklärte die Kostüme der Traditionsfledermaus, der braunen Fledermaus, des Schlossnarro und des Fanfarenzüglers, die mit ihr gekommen waren. Diese traditionellen Sigmaringer Figuren leiten ihre Herkunft vom Schloss ab. Den Ruf der Narrenzunft „Nauf auf d’Stang“ musste Marion Hahn erst einmal auf hochdeutsch übersetzen und dann natürlich erklären, dass die Bräutlinge auf der Stange um den Brunnen getragen werden. Dann gab es noch einen Fahrplan mit den wichtigsten Bällen: dem Hemedglonkerball am Donnerstag oder dem Ball am Fasnetsmontag in der Stadthalle. Die Malaysier waren begeistert und wollten kommen. Sie berieten sich noch untereinander, wie sie sich verkleiden sollten. Vermutlich werden sie in traditioneller malaysischer Festkleidung auftauchen, das wäre dann auch für die Sigmaringer Narren eine ganz neue kulturelle Erfahrung. Zum Schluss stimmten Marion Hahn und der Fanfarenzügler auf seiner Querflöte das Sigmaringer Fasnetslied „Freut Euch des Lebens“ an. Die malaysischen Studierenden und die Sigmaringer Narren hakten sich an den Armen ein und schunkelten dazu im Takt der Musik.
Autor: Arne Geertz	Datum: 12.02.2009

cold~~~

The cold is killing me.
must get use to it as soon as possible...

it has been (counting...) erm... 1 month? or more than one month since i reach germany n i sort of lost track of time... u noe, time flies when u r having fun... going to class has been my only source of entertainment now (see how irony it is) but i really like classes here coz going to class is not only about learning academic stuff but also cultural stuff... everywhere i go, when i eat in the canteen, going for grocery shopping in supermarket, peeing in the toilet etc etc - there r juz so many new things to learn... all so different from where i grew up...

will update more soon... running out of ideas n update this for the sake of updating...

alive

helo,
i'm still alive despite of the cold...
susahnya tak de internet...


glimpse of where i m staying now:

most dangerous place in the world...
better keep ur wallet in a safe place before u go there...