clashes

God, You rock!

well, just something to share here about God's answer to my prayer again. i know it's God's answer because it is kinda a miracle too.

Previously, my debating trainings or tournaments always clash with my church activities, services, or even my Christian Fellowship's activities, due to the fact that most people are free on weekends, that's the best time to get people to come for some trainings (i personally take tournaments as trainings). the thing is, the basic thing as a follower of Christ is to attend church. Some people may say it's not a sin if you don't attend church. But to me, attending church and listening to sermon is important, for that's when your heart is not listening attentively to God's voice in your heart, He'll put it in an audible way, cakap terang-terang and get the message across. That's why i'd try to sleep early on Saturday night and drag myself up every Sunday morning to attend church service.

The thing is, i also view debate training very important to me too. Continuous reading on issues sure help a lot, but the saying of "practice makes perfect" still proven standing. i really need a lot of practices to speak in front of my seniors to let them correct me, method and manner wise. How my speech structure is, how my facial expression and gesture are, etc. maybe one can record his or her own speech and play it back, to correct oneself, or look at the mirror while giving a speech. something are lacking here : how well you co-operate with others? how your real performance is when you are disturbed by your jumping-up-and-down opponents who want to ask POV (point of view). it's too much to work alone. i need real people to practise with. besides, i miss those people there, although i will have to travel that far to Bangi for training...

My problem is, everytime it really clashes with activities which will help me grow spiritually. every training or tournament sure clashes with those activities. i've been asking God a lot of time why these things happened, and it appeared that God continue to challenge me on which one i choose, Him or debate. i picked debate, everytime... At the same time, i also asked God's direction, because although i chose debate rather than the activities, He still showed His great mercy on me in my debating life. such as easy opponents during match-ups in Royals. there's once also during the Royal tournament, i was asking God about this same question until i came across this sentence in Bible : ..."Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For i am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because i have many people in the city." [ACTS 18:9-10]. i was doing my daily Bible reading and the instant i came to this sentence, it just struck me that it's God showing me sign. It's hard to explain, but i really felt that Jesus is talking to me with His word ( He said this to Paul. ) i kept repeating the sentence. "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking..." i told myself. Yes, God, i won't stop speaking. i'll strive harder to become a good debater. i'll make You proud and i want to proove that You bless Your children in every way, even in debating! You've made me in this way at the first place. You've led me into UKM English Debating Team ever since i enter this university.

But the problem of clashes still happened. i became confused. i've been giving up chance to know God better, but He still bless me in debate... i know something wrong here. i prayed about it again. then here comes, a speedy answer too. i was suppose to attend this IIU open on last weekend 20-21 jan. then Jun Hoe who had contacted IIU people said that it's better for us to attend the coming rounds, which are on 24-25 feb and 3-4 mac. CF camp was on 20-21 jan... it clashed. at first i didn't think of going to that camp is because i have no money. although it's only RM50 per person and it's in Pulau Pangkor!! such a great place with fabulous price! another reason that pulled me back is my study. now the debating team is planning to have training once every fort night. so that very weekends suppose i'm free, should use it for my studies or clear up stuff for other activities. then came the x factor : I AM SICK. yea, am. i'm still having cough and flue, with occassional sneezing. The sore throat period had finally passed.

Anyway, come back to the clashes. So, this is the first time they didn't clash! too bad i attended neither. i went to starbuck to search for information for my assignments. i have 2 assignments at hand. thank God for the fast wireless there, i enjoyed my surf that saturday afternoon.

Then on Sunday morning, i received a message from Jerry, the one in-charge of our debate training this weekend. He's the one prefers to have it on Sunday, as well as most of the people. i was very surprise to get him informing me that the coming training will be on Saturday!! Again, they didn't clash! i can attend the training then the next day i still attend church service! at least, this time i'm more willing to travel to Bangi :)

Then on wed, I received a message from stella saying that we managed to get a van from UKM, even without a letter to support as a proof of our “legal” training, haa. That’s great.

God, i know You really care... i'm touched because You have shown me great mercy and grace. i want to thank You sincerely and want to tell the world, starting from this blog. May those with eyes can read. Amen.

feeling

Feeling

i think this word best describe my day, as i was overwhelmed with loads of feelings today. this may be a less structured post, or, well, same as usual, less structured. what's going on my mind?

19/1/07 :

as i told you, i have a crush on someone. i know it's a crush because... i realise another shadow is still inside my heart... i thought i've given him up. it's been many times i tell him and myself that i have moved on, living a life that's without him. it seems quite so, and i thought i'm doing fine with life like this, without him.

Albert has been my ex for one and a half year. it really took me some time time to move on. he knew that too, he was very sorry. but it was way after we broke up then only it occurred to me that he's actually someone sent by God, to make me leave my previous boyfriend. it's just so happened, that when we first met, we were kinda clique together already, have loads of conversation, and having really good time with each other. i personally enjoy his presence. yea, enjoy, a present tense.

maybe i sounded like a bad girl in this, i couldn't explain, i really broke up with my 1st bf. i knew my heart was not with him anymore. after a week, Albert confessed his feeling towards me. i was surprised he felt the same way too. but we were happy couple for only two days, due to some reasons. honestly, it was a really tough time for me. i had lost my direction, but i liked him so much that i'd willing to give in to him. it took me a few months to heal. for several times, i thought i was fully recovered, then it appeared to be i was just covering up the cut, it's not healed. at the last time i think i was healed, i thought it's the last stitch. i really felt like i've moved on, for some distances already, and i was happy for myself too. i can take him as a usual friend and talk with a usual tone, have some casual conversation, sms him, went out for movie with him ( only the two of us )... i really thought i was doing fine...

until today. i saw him with another friend. i know that girl's not his special someone, because that girl is taken by her senior buddy. Albert was just there to accompany her for shopping. i suddenly feel like... i missed him. all those memories just came flashing back and not to mention the emotions. i'm not jealous, i don't even feel mad, just plain sad and, emptiness. another friend and i went to timesquare today, same as Albert and Jing Xian. i didn't know they were heading there too. my heart started to jump up and down when i noticed they didn't get down at Bukit Bintang station, so the next possible station would be Imbi, where Albert always likes to watch movie during weekdays after class. i went to the sony dealer to ask something regarding my new MP3 player. then we went to Borders book store. i wasn't feeling quite well this afternoon, due to the sore throat. we did sms each other in timesquare, when i was in book store and he's accompanying Jing Xian to buy shoes. my heart was warmed by every message i received from him. we didn't meet up in time square though. when i was leaving, i also sent him a message. i didn't expect him to reply, because he used to say that some " unuseful " messages doesn't need to reply. this time, he replied. even as short as " k...". this make my heart even heavier to leave that building. why?

this is the last semester for Albert and other Medicine 2nd year friends studying in my campus. around March or April they'll be leaving to HUKM, Cheras. this is also another factor i felt quite down today. i may not be meeting him , ok, them, after this separation. i thought i can let him go just like this, without any sadness... until today. the feeling just came to me, and i can feel a clock is ticking, telling me every seconds is passing me by, do i want to do anything?

on the way back to my campus to take the shuttle bus back hostel, i kept thinking...my brain didn't stop spinning. asking the same question : is he only a friend to me? or i still have a crush on him? or ... is he more than a crush to me? why he left such an impact in my heart? i didn't feel anyhthing towards my 1st ex anymore. but for Albert, sometimes i still care about him, now i still listen to the songs he likes. after Albert, i also had a few crushes with other guys, short-lived crushes. when the feeling gone, my heart still came back to him. i thought i've wipped him out of my life when every new crushes happened. there's a period when i have no crush towards anyone, then only i was feelin "normal", haa...

just now, i sms Albert again, asking him to watch movie for the last time berofe he leaves for HUKM. i just know that i'd regret if i didn't go out with him for the last time. he says yes. should i tell him how i feel towards him? it's been so long and this feeling doesn't seem to diminish. he's heard loads of time from me about this, it's when we just broke up and he understands it's very tough for me to recover. the thing is, i used to tell him that " i think i've recovered.." now suddenly come back to the original point, i wonder what's his reaction to this...

i think, Albert's more than a crush to me...the previous crush i mention? he's just a crush.

debate training

debate training

ok, i just want to scribble (type) something here, before i give up to put them in words.

14/1/07, sunday morning, i went to Kolej Tun Hussein Onn (KTHO) in UKM, Bangi for english debate training, together with Gab and Stella. we departed from KTSN around 0845, or before 9 am.that means i woke up around 8 to get ready. and the night before i slept at 2 am sth. it's not that i want to stay up late... i kept reminding myself to sleep early, because i know i need to get up early the next day and the day ahead will really strain my brain -- to keep alertness while traveling all the way from KTSN to Bangi campus, and for the debate session. the thing is, i set my hair for the dinner ( hey, i was the MC, it'll be very akward if all the girls there set their hair nicely and me as the MC just went there with plain, straight hair ), so when i came back, i have to wash my hair, and waited an hour and plus for my hair to dry.

waking up early on sunday morning is not a problem for me, like it or not, i have to wake up this early in sundays because i'm going to church. although i knew the training is at 10 am, till know i still can't get a rough estimated time to reach there. it all depends on the traffic and the train we take. walking out from KTSN, if we didn't get to flag down any taxi, we'll have to take a 10 min walk to the nearest bus stop and take Rapid KL bus to Titiwangsa Star LRT station, which costs us RM2 with just a short distance. although the bus fare is for to and fro, we didn't get to use the back trip because by the time we come back, it'll definitely be quite dark for us to walk back from the bus station to hostel, and this spells the word "dangerous", if not "snatch thieves".

Reached Star station, we met Jo Ee, who's going to a church in Bangsar. yea, he's late for the service, haa, same as us at the end of the day. there came the train to ampang, we had to wait for the next one which headed to sri petaling. i couldn't believe we wasted quite some time in waiting Star train! it never let me down, you know, at least i never complain to travel by it because the waiting time is not significant. finally we were on the train, it took us about 20 min on the train itself to reach taman tasik selatan station. from there, we had to take KTM to reach UKM. i always dislike taking KTM, because it's a place with very high reported snatched thieves cases, and heard loads more unreported ones, told by friends. besides, it IS slow, slow in arriving and travelling. we just missed the previous one, so we waited around 15 min ++ for the next one, and travelled around 15-20 min on the train itself again. i really surprised with the fact that we've departed earlier than previous experience for debate training in Bangi but still, we were 30 min late for it! i really sorry we were late, but i hope they understand what we have gone through that morning, not to mention the money spent every time we travel to and fro like this. on transportation alone, we spent RM10 ++, which means i have to cut down expenses in other days. sometimes i like to buy the economist or newsweek when i think the articles in it might be interesting for that edition, sometimes i might like to visit Border or kinokuniya and buy some books. my resistance to purchase book is quite low, but i never regret in the books i bought, i really sure i'd like what's in the books then only i buy them, but one book can cost a lot too. yea, we can't always get what we want in our lives right?

when we reached Bangi, Jun Hoe came to fetch us. we caused him to be late too, because he waited to fetch us... sigh... as we entered the memorial room in KTHO, fea and the rest were already there. they were playing pictionariy to kill time. pictionary is my all time favourite, especially with that bunch of people, but of course, we couldn't expect to continue a round with them, because we already wasted some many people's precious time that's for debating.. of course, from what fea first said when she saw us, i know she's mad, i've expected that when we were still waiting for KTM as my watch showed 10am back at KTM station. but i really didn't mean to be late. it's not easy to estimate the time to travel with so many transaction to make. i really wish if only they'd put themselves in our shoes...yea, to counter this, just say : you can always wake up earlier to come in time, just count in the time for waiting and on train, you'll be safe. sigh... it's easy said than done.

my last round of debate before that was on 5th dec 2006, yes, during Royals debate in UiTM Kuching, Sarawak. it's good to have this training session though, or else i'll soon forget how to debate or structure my speech. but this still happened, haa, when i became the first speaker for the first round in Asian Style. i've forgotten the mechanism. i thought i've put everything in, the problem, solution, objective, feasibility, asking those why, how, and etc question to reason, left out the practicality. honestly, i didn't know what does "comprehensive" mean, and it really didn't occur to me to explain or define it a little in my case set up. and haa, i didn't even mention the motion of that round, which is the role of a prime minister, sigh...too rusty.

after that, we decided to debate in British Parliment Style. it's my first try. the 1st BP is on outsoursing, which i have no idea on what's it, but i had anthony to explain to me. next BP, we did on corporal punishment. i was the weep for closing gov and i rebutted a little, then gave an argument, haa.. i've forgotten as the 2nd speaker in closing gov team means i'm the weep, shouldn't have any point to elaborate and should rebutt all still standing arguments from the opposition and sum up the case for the gov but focus on our own closing gov. again, i cause the lost to my team. well, at least it's a lesson to remember. somehow, i just couldn't deny the fact that i became more frustrated towards the end of the debate training, with the tiresome and an unappreciated trip from KTSN still lingering in my mind. but i have to clarify here that jespreet did express her appreciation at the end of the debate.

and another factor is... i realise i have crushed on someone in the UKM english debating team... this is not something exciting because i just feel that we're not going to have spark. that's it. fear comes together with crush, because you'll always fear that your deepest secret might be revealed. either people around you notice your abnormal behaviour towards that crush or that person himself (yes, it's a he) see it in my eyes. i'm not good in hiding feeling, you see... i can keep a friend's secret if i ever promise to keep, but not my own feeling. i'm too used to not wearing mask. the worst is..in some where deep in my heart, i heard it says ... he knows. God! what is your purpose in doing this to me? attract me to debate? great, then why did You keep clashing my debate schebule with church camp or Christian acvitities previously?... You know my soft spot right at the beginning, don't You?... You knew if only he asked, i'd travel all the way to UiTM Shah Alam by myself, where i've never been and which i've never had the experience to travel that far alone yet. still i just simply gave in when he only persuaded a little. i know it's for my own good, but the problem lies here, i feel safe to follow what he said. i was confused, yet i didn't admit i have crush on him until yesterday. have mercy on my, Lord, either You allow it to work out or allow this to be kept as a secret between You and me forever, or whatever, You have my best interest in heart and You knew what's best for me.

after the training session, we went to have Kajang satay. i was the one suggesting to have food other than fast food, which KL already has abundant, because they were there suggesting fast food already, which i don't quite like. during most of the training session we had fast food as our meal, either lunch or dinner. i know it's convenient, but it's not a very firm excuse to have fast food, especially when you're not in a hurry and other restaurants are available and easily accessible. to me, fast food just unhealthy. maybe it doesn't hurt to have it once in a while, but the lesser you consume, the better for yourselves. so there we were, Kajang Satay! it's not bad la, but according to Lisa, the satay in her place, cheras, tastes better. i have no idea how cheras satay tastes like, but hope to try it one day :) i celebrate the food variation we have.

after dinner, they sent us to Kajang KTM station, so we can pay less and reach tasik selatan station with a station less. when we were on Star LRT, it rained! quite a heavy rain, and it's difficult for us to flag a taxi in this weather, plus we'll get ourselves soaked in rain while just waiting for taxi. so we called Yann Shan, but he got to pick up his bro in PJ, we called other friends, but they were not available : somebody drove his car..he's outside, not convenient to go LRT station to pick us up... alas, we managed to get a cab. when we get in the cab, then only the driver said this trip is going to cost us RM 10 !!! !!! !!! HEY! that trip normally cost at most RM3 ok ? just because it's raining and we were desparate to get home, that evil taxi driver took advantage on us !! that's not fair !!! it's such a luxurious ride. i was very mad at these things happen to us. we've paid so much for the trip, now the final attack is even worse. i hate the taxi in KL.

that's all for my debate training experience in Bangi last sunday. somebody please give me a hug?

my fave song 3

here's a song from (late) Luther Vandross, buy me a rose :-)

i like the way (late) Luther Vandross sings. in fact, i realise Black people sing very well in sentimental songs, they really make my heart melt with their songs. let's check out the lyric of the day...

He works hard to give her all he thinks she wants
But it tears her apart 'cause nothing's for her heart
He pulls in late to wake her up with a kiss goodnight
If he could only read her mind, she'd say...

Buy me a rose, call me from work
Open a door for me, what would it hurt
Show me you love me by the look in your eyes
These are the little things I need the most in my life

Now the days have grown to years of feelin' all alone
As she sits and wonders if all she's doin' is wrong
'Cause lately she'd try anything just to turn his head
Would it make a difference if she said, if she said...

Buy me a rose, call me from work
Open a door for me, what would it hurt
Show me you love me by the look in your eyes
These are the little things I need the most in my life

And the more that he lives the less that he tries
To show her the love that he holds inside
And the more that she gives the more that he sees
This is the story of you...and me

So I bought you a rose on the way home from work
To open the door to a heart that I hurt
And I hope you notice this look in my eyes
'Cause I'm gonna make things right for the rest of your life

And I'm gonna hold you tonight, tonight
Do all those little things for the rest of your life

*** very touching lyric huh? plus the feeling he sings the song, great!

places

since i was a kid, i've always liked the year end holidays, because it's the longest. due to this fact, my family and i mostly will go somewhere for a trip. a "trip" here means spending over night at tourism spot of other places, like melaka, johor ( sigh, these two places are facing great flood now, not to mention it's Christmas + new+year+coming. there goes all the festive mood of the residents there. ), genting highland, cameron highland, seremban, KL, penang island, hattyai, singapore, ipoh...i think that's all.

penang island and ipoh will be the frequent tourism spot i visit because they're the nearest. i always like penang because of the great food and i am from penang, (but mainland) so i don't have dialect difficulty.

ipoh also gives me a good impression because ipoh is a very clean place. i'm not saying other places are not, but ipoh gives me a particular strong sense of cleanliness, together with the peaceful neighbourhood as well as on the road. as if the drivers are not in a hurry, and you don't have to worry you're not fast enough to make your decision to turn left or right (since we're foreigners there). there you go, a place to real relax and escape from the hassel of cities. hmm.. why am i promoting ipoh? ennie and jun ling will be very happy to find me telling this here, but hey, they have more than ipoh chicken rice to tell you about their hometown!

however, if considering the number of times i visited, the place top in the list will be subang jaya. it's not in KL but just take it as KL ok? because when we stayed in SJ, we visited KL too. everytime my parents travel all the way from penang to KL to visit me or my sister who are (for my sister case, were) studying there, we stayed overnight in Hotel Summit Utara Subang Jaya (USJ). then the next day only go back. it's so frequent that we almost take it as our second home, haa! no, not that frequent, but believe me, all of us are quite familiar with the hotel as well as the shopping mall next to it, speaking as someone who has no sense of direction, it is an achievement. these days i don't see KL as a tourism spot because we're just merely traveling back and forth KL and penang and USJ.

i'd also be glad if kelly (my UKM debater friend) would bring me around sabah or just around her place to enjoy some delicious food, meet some friendly sabahan, visit some great places there. kelly, you got to proof that sabah has all these things! next will be Daniel (also another UKM debater) from miri, sarawak. i wonder how my childhood would've been different in sarawak because sarawak doesn't have Gardenia bread... for i had it every weekdays when i was a kid.

well, this post is not for promoting tourism, but i'm glad ( and greatly surprised ) if it will :-)

my holidays

this holiday has been a relatively great one, for I did go out with friends and family, enjoy some books, songs, movies and TV program, have enough rest and do whatever I like for the past few weeks.

The greatest memory would be my Royal debate in Kuching. I couldn’t call it a holiday trip because we didn’t really visit a lot of places in Sarawak during the tournament, although we take it as it is one. After the night we spent chatting at Bing, a café in Kuching town with cool Christmas decoration, I realize that it’s not the place itself that make it great, but the people you be with, and the things you did together, that make you remember the place, the conversations, your memorable moments in life and the atmosphere there, make you want to visit the place again. Those bunch of people really have me learnt a lot from them, effortlessly. Debating skills aside, they’ve thought me to open my heart to them, and I really enjoy every moment to be with them. Fea particularly, I find everything from her is funny, don’t know why, but she’s really adorable in every little action she did. The same goes to Alia, I’m really grateful she came back to attend this tournament with us. Just having her around is enough to make every moment enjoyable. As well as the rest of the team like Kelly, Violet, Meng Fai… ( oh, do I have to name them all? I believe they want some right to privacy.. I’ll edit the post if they leave comments to protest that their names are not here, hee! ) they really can make me laugh or smile from the bottom of my heart.

Next, after coming back home, I’ve gone to watch Dejavu at Gurney plaza in penang island with Thompson, June, and Su Yin. No, it’s not a Hindi movie, which was how I thought about the movie when June suggested it. I believe I’d enjoy a Hindi movie more if I’m watching it with my Indian friends than with non-Indian friends, because they’ll tell me more about the actor and actresses in the movie, and also I can’t really trust the subscript at times, they did glaring mistakes sometimes. We enjoyed a delicious meal from Breeks before the movie. Tasty food, comfortable atmosphere, but a little lousy service. Again, it’s the people we be with that affects our memory to it. The waiters are part of the “people” I mean here. The movie? Complicated plot, but not to the extend of confusing. I’d call it sophisticated. Jun Hoe’d hate this word, I can tell, haa haa! I find the plot an interesting one, telling a story in this way, very creative, and I find no difficulty in understanding it. On the way back we have some ice-creams from McD, with the benefit of 10% off from June’s member card. Thanks June!

And at the very next day, I received a message from Selvi, my old friend, asking for a little gathering! Now that’s what I call holiday, because every time coming back home I also expect to meet some of them and catch up with what they’re up to these days and how they’re doing in their university respectively. That night we also met Sheue Fen, a filthy rich friend who has further her study at Manchester U but will come back Malaysia EVERY holiday, about twice a year. Loaded is thy name, dear! we always have difficulty to make decisions such as where to eat etc, because our topic of conversation also deviated away, accidently. We’ve had a cheerful night. And I’ve finally bought a Sony MP3 player for myself too! I know I want it quite bad since I first saw it, but it took me quite a long time to make the yes,-now-is-the-time-to-do-it” decision. I really like it, and I can manage the transferring songs process myself, not as difficult as pei aun has describe, but I did face some problems though. Small problems whom a technophobia person like me can solve J

Again, at the very next day, dad took leave from company and brought the whole family to Queesbay mall at penang island. It’s a new mall since 1st Dec 06. there’re loads of shops haven’t open yet, June says maybe because they want to open it before Christmas. Yea, that’s the time where people have an extra reason to spend their money, or maybe just window shopping. Honestly, their Christmas decorations are quite beautiful, at least nicer than Gurney plaza. You can’t believe it? Go check it out yourself then. Gurney only has a barely visible small Christmas tree in the central concuss and some not-so-artistically-appreciated hangings from the ceiling, compare with Queensbay mall three large Christmas tree and beautiful hangings from the ceiling and the trees, the atmosphere’s greatly different. It’s been long didn’t come to penang island with family, hence I was very satisfied after the day, with my dad driving and me dozed off behind, like what I used to do when I was a child, everything just felt so good J

Other than these three events, I just spend my days with books, DVDs, TV, internet, music ( especially from my brand new MP3 player! ). Now I’m reading To Kill A Mocking Bird. It took me some pages to discover the fun in this book. Everyone saying it’s a good book, I really doubted it at the first few pages. One of the reasons is because I’m slow in interpreting when it comes to complicated sentences and tough vocabularies. After that, I’m fine, can catch up with the events happened in the book now. Another creative author. I’d say.

That’s it for today, quite a long blog already. See ya people, in my campus I guess, will be where I write my next blog.

christmas wish..

Being a Christian since this Feb, suppose this's my first "meaningful" Christmas..but now, on Christmas eve, I'm sitting here, in front of this computer, writing blog, listening to michael wong's songs. Not even in the festive mood.

I'm never in the count down for whatever occasion. May it be independant day, Chinese new year, new year. Nah..always not thinking of waiting to watch the fire works. only after a few minutes of the fire works then only drag myself to search for it. It's not that I don't like these celebrations, in fact, I'd love to join them, but some worries like security, safety etc hold me back. I don't want to be snatched, robbed, molested during the moments of count down. Maybe I need a body guard, haa..or I just need somebody?

I'm doing fine single, but not when your best friends' boyfriends replaced you in their life.. or they've had a crush on someone and their situation have reached "more than a friend" stage, honestly, it's not the same anymore. They'll talk about the one they keep thinking of, and less on themselves or..us. I can only listen then, for i don even have someone for me to have crush on, ha..pathetic? Not me, those guys around me are, ha!

Nah..I do have a little crush on someone these days. But I don't think we're gonna work though. Why I'm talking about this thing here? It'll be my biggest secrets! well, simply because nobody knows about my blog here. I'm the only visitor I guess, haa. It's the place to be myself because nobody's gonna bother what I am crapping here.

My christmas wish? I'd wish for a friend who'd invite me to their christmas celebration next year, may it be in a church or family, to really feel that I am celebrating the birthday of Jesus Christ.

Merry Christmas everyone. Have a blessed and warm Christmas fill with joy and love! And to Jesus, happy birthday :-)

my fave song2

this is another song's lyric which i just found, from lite fm's lyric station too. you may notice both my fave song1 and my fave song2 are songs that are quite old. well, like i say, they stay in heart no matter what. i simply like the lyrics and the passion of the singers when they sang the songs. i've been loving these songs since few years back. thompson says his favourite songs changed every week. mine? they'll change, but not all :-)

Dying Inside To Hold You ---- Timmy Thomas

It's turning out just another day
I took a shower and I went on my way
I stopped there as usual
had a coffee and pie
when i turned to leave
i couldn't believe my eyes

standing there i didn't know what to say
without one touch
we stood there face to face

Chorus
(And) i was dying indside to hold you
i couldn't believe what i felt for you
dying inside i was dying inside
but i couldn't bring myself to touch you

you said hello then u asked my name
i didn't know if i should go all the way
inside i felt my life have really changed
i knew that it would never be the same

standing there i didn't know what to say
first time looked away when i whispered your name

Chorus 2x

one hello changed my life
i didn't believe in love at first sight
but you've shown me what is life
and I now i know my love
(i know it's coming right)

Chorus (fade)

my fave song1

this is one of the songs that will always be my favourite. i've copied it from lite FM's lyric station. maybe in future i'll post up more lyrics. i post the lyric of this song first because it really touches my heart everytime i hear it. try to spend some time to read it, will ya?

Butterfly Kisses ---Bob Carlisle

There's two things I know for sure
She was sent here from heaven
and she's daddy's little girl.
As I drop to my knees by her bed at night
She talks to Jesus and I close my eyes
andI thank god for all the joy in my life
Oh, but most of all

For butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer;
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair;
"Walk beside the pony, Daddy, it's my first ride."
"I know the cake looks funny, Daddy, but I sure tried."
Oh, with all that I've done wrong,
I must have done something right
To deserve a hug every morning
And butterfly kisses at night.

Sweet 16 today
She's looking like her mama a little more everyday
One part woman, the other part girl.
To perfume and make-up from ribbons and curls
Trying her wings out in a great big world.
But I remember

Butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer;
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair.
"You know how much I love you, Daddy,
But if you don't mind I'm only gonna kiss you on the cheek this time.
"With all that I've done wrong I must have done
Something right to deserve her love every morning
And butterfly kisses at night.

All the precious time
Like the wind, the years go by.
Precious butterfly
Spread your wings and fly.

She'll change her name today.
She'll make a promise and I'll give her away.
Standing in the bride-room just staring at her.
She asked me what I'm thinking and I said
"I'm not sure-I just feel like I'm losing my baby girl."
She leaned over.gave me butterfly kisses with her mama there,
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair"
Walk me down the aisle, Daddy-it's just about time."
"Does my wedding gown look pretty, Daddy? Daddy, don't cry"
Oh, with all that I've done wrong I must have done something right.
To deserve her love every morning and butterfly kisses
I couldn't ask God for more, man this is what love is.

I know I've got to let her go, but I'll always remember
Every hug in the morning and butterfly kisses.

God's favor in Royales debate

Here i want to share with you the testimony to God :-) I fasted and prayed for God's favor for the tournament. and He answered them in a miraculous way:

First round, we met UTM2, we as gov, debated over selling organ issue. Luckily I'd read sth on it in The Economist and used some of the facts from there. At least we have experience with this motion, and the oppenent didn't have structure and substantive argument, we won.

Second round, we as opp, against UTM3, debated over water privatisation issue. The gov set a very narrow case, said they want semi-privatisation in water supply, which's already in the status quo, just that they want it to be implemented state by state, like Selangor first, then Kelantan, and they said every state has different private company to govern the water supply, hence they claimed they are not proposing status quo, just some improvement on status quo. Luckily we prepare a "full-privatisation" case (we thought they'd come up with something like re-nationalise thingy, as the motion stated " should not be privatised") and we won over them for this round.

I think two rounds of winning is enough to boost our self-esteem. I think that's how God prepared us, to face UiTM1, in our third round, haa haa, and it's a humour round. Sooner or later we're going to meet them anyway, so i still think it's God's favor for us to meet them during humour round. We didn't know what they as d gov were proposing until the 6th min of daniel's speech. Motion : Frailty, thy name is women. They went with it as it is, saying women are weak, hence they want them to cover up themselves with black cloth (like those saudi arabia women we saw in KLCC), justified by the fact that it's in the teaching of Islam, and two more justification which i've forgotten. and women who do so will be pampered, like, they were to follow their husband wherever they go, so (i think this is funny) the husband has the responsibility to chauffer them around ..etc. we came out with something like discrimination to women thingy and..we knew we were skrewed. jerry and anthony still able to came up with some funny things, but I was too panic to e funny. and our stance wasn't strong enough la, luckily the margin is clear, not thrashing.

Then fourth round, we met UMS 3, whom we met again during quarter round and both round also defeated by them. we debated over protectionism by WTO on the ground of environment. we were gov. we set the case very wrongly. We set it in US instead of 3rd world countries, and want the latter to accept GMF technology so they would need less land to produce crop, hence cut down less trees, hence decrease deforestation rate. later alia expalined to me what does this motion actually mean. no wonder the chair, mr omar, was kinda pissed of wt us. suppose protectionism is on 3rd world countries, not 1st world, hence we were to give the former a say in their countries' development, whether to sascrifice their environment or not. because under the control of WTO, we should reach certain development stages as they have set for us, rite? we don't know much about this WTO and protectionism thing, and didn't quite understand what did it mean by " on the ground of environment", we set up our case on the 30th min prep time, and we let jerry veto it because there's no point to argue further. and we learnt a hard lesson from this round.

fifth round, we met UTM 3, again. fea's team also met UTM1 before, hence we say mildred's team and us became enemy in this tournament, ha. we debated over prisoner in guantanamo bay should be trial in military tribunal. we know what's guantanamo bay for, but didn't know how military tribunal function..we as gov, saying it's justified to punish those war criminal harshly if they found guilty, and those innocent will be released after the trial, rather than keeping all those "suspected" war criminals in there, torturing them for terrorist group information. it's a silent round. we won. as a whole, we manage to break by 3-2.

in quarter, we debated over "hired surrogacy mothers". we as opp. but we didn't quite argue with the "hired" term, rather, we say we should allow surrogacy mothers..which's not the point of the debate. it didn't quite occur to me until during the DPM's speech that i realise it's money that we were clashing. but my argument didn't really have anything to do with it, and we couldn't come up with anything to save our case,i talked about the right to parenthood and positive ramification of surrogacy. the point is, both sides already agree on surrogacy, just that the gov argued that surrogate mothers should do it voluntarily, not being hired. besides, jerry already told our split..then anthony came up rebutting "we served both desperate parties by hiring surrogate mothers". Mr latiff said this point came in too late, hence we lost. i agreed. we learnt a great lesson though, finding the crux of the debate.

I have to admit i learnt even more by sitting there and watching people debate. observing the way they argued and analysed the case, really feel the gap between us, down the stage, and them, on the stage, and the trophies in their hands. more trainings? definitely. but it's not enough. we should try out every possible way to improve ourselves, like watching video clips of final round in several tournaments and learn the way they debate. all and all, this's God's favor in us for this tournament, not to mention the great time we spent together in Kuching town , hee hee

homey girl

well, alas, i'm back home! the last return was in mid september, more than 2 months i was away. of course i missed my home, not only the comfort staying at home, but the home town i'm familiar with as a whole, together with the great food she has, always call me back home whenever possible :-)

though i do think of getting myself a job during this holiday ( well, if i can help up in a pharmasi, it'll be a great practice for me to avoid me from forgetting what i've learnt during my last semester ), but my holiday is just too short... till january, i have around 3 weeks' time. but previously i couldn't even get myself a part time job for my 2 months holiday! hence, for that 2 months, i took up guitar lesson instead, hee hee, didn't earn money but spent money instead...

then i'm thinking of continuing my guitar lesson during this sem break. it's been so long i didn't practise my plucking skill. besides, i didn't bring my guitar back from KTSN this time... i always think it doesn't worth it if i only get to practise during the guitar lesson, because u've paid to learn new things, not to practise the theories which i've known. plus, i'd prefer to learning struming than plucking because one can play more songs, in front of more audience, with struming. and the purpose i took up guitar at the first place is to serve my church, you denifinitely need more struming than plucking ok? i've even bought a pick for struming! but to me, my teacher was like refuse to teach me struming... it's been several times i requested from him that i want to learn chords, but he still went on with plucking... maybe it's still too early for me to learn plucking, or maby it's his job to teach me classical plucking. guitar lesson for holiday? still considering...

one thing for sure, i'm going to finish up few books i've bought: The Witch, and Danny the Champion of The World, both by Roald Dahl, and The Bible's Greatest Story. i just finished The Witch this morning, man, i can't help to love children storey books even though i'm 20 years old now. reading, for me, pleasure comes first than knowledge. getting my English improved or my scope of knowlegde widen are only the side benefits, compare to the pleasure of plunging myself inside the thoughts of the author and indulging with the creativity, not to mention the ability to read and to comprehen are always blessings to me :-) there's another book which i borrowed from my friend Kimberly -- To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. hmm..it took me like 10 mins to read the first page, great. but i still want to read it, because it's about children.

last but not least, maybe meet up my old friends and have a movie together, or mayb a lazy afternoon in starbucks, or a long night in mamak. whatever it is, i always like to meet up with them to see how they have changed, or what they are up to these days. Say Li says she's permed her hair, wow, that's a change! but i haven't got a chance to meet her yet, soon, i hope. then Kai Lee's been to bangkok last week and today's still in KL, meeting ex-matric friends. both Say Li and Kai Lee are my old school-mate now studying in USM, Pharmacy. there are loads of friends i'd like to meet up, too, especially Hsin Lin who's starting her first year in UMS, Sabah, this July. i wonder how did she find Sabah? i wonder how did she find Air Asia.. ha, because i don't quite like it la, although it's a lot cheaper compare to MAS, but for me, if i can afford, i'd rather choose the comfortable MAS to fly.

talking about luxurious life, i've always wanted a Sony MP3 player, especially the latest water-proof, cylinder-shape model. i think it's 2G, but i don't need that much memory space ok, i also don't need the water-proof function..i only like the design..the last time i checked its price, it's RM499 - 500. i know it's expensive, but i like Sony because of its good reputation in quality and it's the first ( and only ) MP3 player that can squeeze the file size of a song to a smaller size, hence, compare to the other brand of MP3 player with the same memory space, you can save more song in Sony! man, and the design of the lastest model is really cool, if not killing me, then it must be making me go insane to spend large sum of money just to purchase it, then go on diet for weeks. there's another model from Sony which i quite like it. i don't remember the model ( sorry guys, i have bad memory, even to people's names! ). it has sufficient memory space ( with the squeezing function i told you), reasonable price RM3++. the design is ok la, more stylish than other brand. so..maybe i'd just opt for this instead? Jun Hoe says the original price is RM7++ le, now is RM3++ , ha! so if i bought the latter, also considered worth it la.

and not to forget, Christmas is coming, and i've asked Thompson to take me to his church for Christmas celebration. i got to wait till he comes back from thailand then only ask him again la. hope my mum'd let me attend this festive celebration.

to end with today's blog -- Merry Christmas everyone, have a warm and peaceful Christmas full of love and joy!

OPKIM

OPKIM 4/9/06 - 9/9/06 Langkawi
During my mid semester break, I went for a community service in Langkawi. Langkawi, wow, sounds fun. Well, it was fun, but not the tourist-kind of fun though. This community service only ran by students from my faculty, which is Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, in short, FSKB (Fakulti Sains Kesihatan Bersekutu). we went to this Kampung Nyior Chabang, at Mukim Bohor, Langkawi. We departed on 3/9/06, 10pm, from my hostel (we call our hostel as college) - Kolej Tun Syed Nasir, in short, KTSN, which situated in KL.

4/9/06 Monday
We reached Kuala Kedah around 6am if not mistaken, and then we took the ferry after we loaded every luggages and stuff onto it, to cross the sea to reach Pulau Langkawi. Although I was not sure whether I have motion sickness or not, I swallowed 2 motion sickness pills 30 min before I took the ferry. I think it's the medicine that made me so sleepy that throughout the trip crossing the coast, I was asleep and unwilling to get up when we had reached.
After about an hour, we reached Pulau Langkawi and unloaded our stuff from the ferry. A terrifying incident happened to me... I lost my luggage!! With my brain still in the sleepy mode, I had to accept the fact that although I helped up with the loading and unloading thingy, emm, selflessly, I’m the only one lost my luggage out of 120 people, great... then after searching over and over again at the jetty, we received news from other committee members saying that, well, somebody has helped me to bring my luggage to the bus already, ha, wow, phew! But till now I still don’t know who that person was though.
The bus took us to our village, where we gathered at the mosque first. Before reaching there, we stopped by a shop producing and selling minyak gamat. What’s that in English? I don’t know. It’s a kind of herb though.

Here’s the wok boiling the minyak gamat behind the shop. We could see the steam evaporating from the liquid surface, but we can dip our fingers in it, it doesn’t boil our fingers. Amazing? Not all liquid boil at temperature of 100˚C ok.

We started our opening ceremony at the mosque compound shortly after we reached there. Each of some 60 families had been assigned 2 students from UKM as their foster children. My friend, Maher, and I, were assigned to a six-siblings family led by Ahmad Long. But our father didn’t turn up for the ceremony; he’s at the paddy fields. So we met with our mother first. I was very glad that my foster sister brought a car there so we could have a comfortable ride home. After all the bus and ferry trips, it’s understandable why I was so sick with my once-lost luggage. Besides, our home was quite a distant from the mosque.

Before departing back home, we could experience the intimacy among the villagers. They greeted everyone they met like old friends , which is something not really happen among the people staying in cities or the modern housing estate. They even start knowing their foster children’s names too, so sweet…

Reached home, finally… our brothers were with their friend in the living room. We didn’t go and say hello. I think it’s the Malay’s culture that boys and gals who were strangers don’t really talk or even bother about each other if not necessary. My brothers didn’t even look at us when we entered the house. Later we sat at living room to chat with mum, and Maher, who always has good manner, didn’t look uncomfortable didn’t greet my brothers. However, to me, well...they are a part of the family too, really feel awkward didn’t greet them, seeing I was entering their house, and they are my elder siblings. I was “trained” so.

Bathed, tidy up our stuff in our room. Oh, haven’t told u guys how surprised we were when Maher and I entered our room! Every inch of the floor’s covered with carpet, and our bed looked so elegant that you’d carefully and gently put your butt on it to avoid messing the comforter. Yea, it’s the comforter with beautiful Malay culture’s design that makes the different. Overall, the room is cozy and I felt so lucky. Things here were better than I expected.

Coming days, busy with activities. My activities were not really that much, but not for Maher, she had damn lot of activities, almost every slot she’s in. So, I just put my nose in every activities of hers when I was free. They needed extra people to help up too, why not? Hee hee! This also saved the hassle for my sister to fetch us to the mosque compound for our activities. We went together and came home together in spite of different schedule. If not because of my busybody nature, I wouldn’t really enjoy my OPKIM this much. Through these activities, one would get to know the villagers better, meeting all level of people there, from baby, toddlers, primary school kids, secondary school teenagers who start to have dreams about their future carrier and field to strive in, then the adults, and grandmas and grandpas.

We had cutest babies contest, teh tarik competition, game slot specially for primary school kids, net ball competition for women, which my sister’s good at ( UKM students against villagers ), tug-of-war and football for men ( also UKM students against the villagers ), which...UKM students lost in all 3 sports competition if I’m not mistaken, what happened?? ha~ then colouring contest for kindergarten kids, pertandingan gubahan, what we call that in English? Something to do with creativity and altering something into something, ha~ the theme is on Malays wedding. My elder sister and I were in a team, Maher and our younger sister were in another team. My team won the 4th place! But I did nothing much to our “ product”, it’s my sister’s idea to pin sweets all over the pineapple. It’s simple and easy, but the end product really made u “wow”, as well as others’ creativities. Here’s the pineapple:

The other creative products:
Maher (on the right) and Siti’s work.


I really like this one, very sweet, but forgotten which prize they won.

Pumpkin. Actually inside there’s not the real pumpkin if not mistaken, that’s why we call it gubahan .

Hand bag, using cloth to fold it.

Fruits, obviously.

This one also very nice, maybe because of the soft material thingy.

Other than the activities mentioned above which were held were talks, exhibitions, and clinical. For me, as a Biomedical Science student, we provided free blood test (only blood grouping, glucose, cholesterol and red blood cells levels), and blood pressure check-ups. For other courses, like Nutrition and Dietetic department, they checked their body weight, BMI, body fat levels, and give consultations on healthy eating habit. Pharmacy students also provided consultations on supplement and healthier life style; Optometry students checked their eye sight and other eyes-related diseases. Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist also had their special way to serve the community there, which I admit, more interesting, because you got to play the “toys” and actually they were looking at how smooth were your actions, whether you have any problems with your joints that you never realize, and your hand and eye coordination and so on. They even taught the villagers ways or steps to handle heavy boxes to avoid back ache.

Here are some of the pictures taken during OPKIM:

That’s me, with Amirul. He’s only a kindergarten kid but his cute face was in every gal’s hand phones, since the first day we were there! I think he’s aware that he’s cute too, ha, he’s good at posting for pictures – the peace sign was his, not mine, see? So cute...

A field near our place where we had our volley ball match.

Here we have a pair of twin babies, Daniel and Danish. Forgotten who’s who though. For them, I think their faces were in every gals’ handphone too, but I’m even sure they were in everyone’s arms too, ha~ they are everyone’s heart throb, we’d do anything to make them smile or laugh! But they cried a lot too, especially Daniel I think, they will suddenly show the symptom of “unstable emotions”. , which meant : u better hand me back to my mum!! We liked to kiss them on the cheeks because babies always smell good, because they drink milk I guess. Better start drinking milk now, hee

Here’s one of the twin, with their mother, trying to grab my phone.

This is Yazid, the one doing the blood pressure test on my younger brother, Annuar. Kids are too young to measure their blood pressure though. But never mind, Annuar’s pretty healthy, he’s very active, in spite of the fact that he’s a “special” kid. He’s special, in the sense that, he has only a foot, running around with the aid of an extra wooden foot. His fingers were joined together when he’s born. He went through surgery to split them. Now his fingers don’t really grow nicely, but can grab the rubber seeds faster and firmer than I was when playing congkat. Believe me, he’s good in it, not just gals play it, ok? He’s so familiar with the game that by looking at the lump of seeds, he knows exactly how much there were and which hole to start with. He even taught me tactics to beat him! Ha~ how on earth can we not love kids like him? He thinks fast, moves fast too, likes to run around, ride his bike around village often, polite and obedient. My family is indeed blessed with obedient children. My mum says she doesn’t have loads problems raising the 6 of them up.

We celebrated Maher’s birthday together! My sisters were so sweet that they went out secretly to buy a birthday cake for her. It was only the second day Maher and I were there and we only stay there for a few days, but they put the effort to celebrate her special day. Even I myself am touched. Starting from the left, my eldest sister, kak Amy (now working), kak chik, means youngest elder sister I think, then Annuar was half hiding at kak chik’s back, he’s shy in front of camera, not like Amirul, then Maher, next to her was siti, our youngest sister, sitting her SPM this November, and lastly, our mum! I wasn’t in the picture because I was the one taking this picture, with my hand phone; this explains why the pictures posted here are not very clear and have lower quality. Just bear with me la.

This is our kitchen. Notice there’s a little square thing on the floor near the stove? It’s a stool they sit on when cooking. Bet you cannot imagine a house with this kitchen will have this beautiful room:

I took this picture on the day we depart back UKM, after packing all our stuff. That’s why it’s neat, or else...ha ha~

One of our meals with my family. They insist on eating together if possible. There was once, our activity ended quite late, and there’s only 1 bathroom. We didn’t know they actually waited for everyone to finish their bath so that we could have dinner together! That was way past their usual dinner time already… although these dishes were not prepared by my biological mum, but they tasted like home food though, which I never know someone other than my mother would know the secret recipe, hee hee! That’s family..

My family members:

My mum and I.

Maher and Annuar.

From left, eldest sister Kak Aini, then second eldest sister Kak Cik, Annuar, birthday girl Maher, youngest sister Siti, and finally mum.

Adorable Kak Cik and Siti.

From left, behind row: Brother, Siti, mum, Kak Cik. Front from left: Annuar and I.

Dad, watching TV.

Look at this herd of geese. When you look at they walk, you’d feel like they have very fat and heavy body but very short legs! Dunno why I find it quite amusing, and every time I looked at them, I always ask God from where He gets the idea to create such cute animal with this special walking method, ha~ I was actually chasing behind these geese to take this picture, they can run with their short legs! And you’d stare at their butt, swaying site by site. These geese also quite noisy some times. This happen when human are gathering around too.

This kid is a standard six student, just finished his UPSR, we call him ah long, because he’s the elder brother in his family, and people here also call him this way. He likes to sing and he really sings well! He’s a bright kid, quite mature compare to kids at his age, especially kids in KL, who put great attention on latest model of hand phones or some other materialistic stuff. He has good manner as well, respectful, and innocent J they’d laugh at the comics in leaflets and would show it to you and explain to you why it is funny, “ look at the dog! It’s also pressing its nose beside the smokers. Look at its eyes! Bulging out like it’s going to fall out...” this leaflet was from the clinical site, on smoking, to increase awareness on the bad effect of smoking.

This is Maher, we were at dataran lang, one of the tourism hot spot in langkawi island. We only have time to visit it at night, our schedule were packed with activities, remember? Even our brother now also voice out his complaint about our hectic schedule, saying no time for us to go around langkawi or do some shopping, ha, as if he’s the one busy with the activities, but very sweet. It’s normal that when people from other places come to your place and you will have the strong feeling to show them around this fabulous place you call it your home, the place you grow up, and the island where tourists never stop visiting, in spite the motion sickness one might have. Dataran lang is an ideal place to go when you were tensed, you can have the breeze gently blow on your face and brush through your hair. There is a gigantic eagle, but they didn’t on the lights there that night when we visited, so unable to take picture if it.

Here’s the colouring competition, held in the kinderganten there. The kids were concentrating on their pictures.

That’s me among the kids, with Syukri standing at the back of right hand site in stripes shirt. Erm..dunno that black shirt guy on the left though, he was posting for his camera I guess. Those kids like to take pictures, dunno why, they were very excited when we said we want to take group pictures, they’d ran up to the front of the camera to make sure they were in the picture and had all those peace signs and funny posture, ha! This picture was taken after Maher, who’s holding the camera, warned them to calm down and don’t go any nearer the camera or she wouldn’t take the picture

Look at the kids! Especially the one on the left, with head scarf, she looks so innocent! Kids are kids, and notice Amirul in red shirt among the boys in behind? But some of these kids also quite tough to handle too, ha~ but the teachers are good at handling them. when the class’s too noisy and the kids weren’t seem like paying any attention on what the headmaster was talking in front, the teacher would say “ everyone, raise you right hands! Raise them high in the air.”. And amazingly every kid follows her instruction instantly. Then “show me the number ‘one’ now, how does number one look like? “so the kids followed, and we were still stunned by the way the teacher can put the situation under her control so easily. “alright, now put that finger on your lips, on your lips, dear.” Hee, so guess what? It’s the action you do when you mean “ shh..” brilliant, brilliant..

Here’s one of the mak cik near our house, she makes and sells Malay delicacies. She did all this by herself! But I’ve forgotten the name of this kuih, ha, so sorry.

We also had gotong royong with the villagers. We never know we’d “discover” a drain when we clean up the compound of this surau. It was stuck and covered with mud and rubbish, and a few trees actually grow up there, breaking the semen drain!

Here’s Maher, and Khai, our friend. We were at the paddy field. I swear we didn’t mean to steal some time to go there and took some pictures of this breath-taking scenery… Maher and I were planning to go home, and Khai and her friend turned up to fetch us home on their motor bike (no, their family’s bike ) but the problem was...ha~ do I want to admit it here?? Ok, we were bad with directions, in fact, we have no sense of direction at all, seeing the fact that we’ve been there for quite some days and everyday to and fro the mosque compound from our home, using the same route…and now we say we cannot recognize the route...it’s so embarrassing! But never mind, we just laughed it off, hee!

Some other pictures from the paddy field:

Buffalos bathing in...river?? Ok, river. It took me some gut to take a picture this close. I dislike zooming with my phone camera, because the picture will be blurred.

Look at the paddy field and the sky above..

That’s why God didn’t create human arms long enough to actually let us hug the mother nature, or everybody will be hugging this sight, and how are we going to do this without slapping others on their faces with such long arms?

Here are some pictures of the village, the views:

The road which’s taken…

Chicken prints.

Yup, these are some pictures taken during my OPKIM 2006 in Langkawi Island. On 9/9/06, we took the ferry cross the coast to the main land. Some pictures taken on ferry:

This is the view taken when I was facing the breeze. Took bad pictures can’t tell the feeling of mine when I was on the ferry, on the deck some more. The scenery of the sea was so cool and breath-taking that it really made us call upon our God to praise Him sincerely from our heart. Staring at the view makes us feel humble and glad at the same time, because it reminds us that we are one of His creation that are as beautiful and worth-loving as this scene. The sea breeze blew on my face and ran through my hair and lifted them up from my shoulder… then my thoughts of OPKIM and journey back KL was wiped away instantly, I felt so satisfy to be alive and left my mind not worrying about anything at all. It’s such a wonderful feeling! It’s great to keep long hair, hee hee!

Then we reached the jetty at main land. Loading and unloading stuff, and finally, headed KL with bus!! This is all about my community service in Langkawi during the second year of my uni life. After reading this must leave comment ya!