Old sleep+read room..
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
It's someone b'day
Just a note here to wish you all Merry Christmas. happy birthday to Jesus!!! ok, gotta go church now. cya :)
Saturday, December 22, 2007
some pics
^KLCC Twin tower
"tifany: ello.. plz stop taking my pic!!"
^meeting
musical drama^
^beef noodle
"tifany: wow!! nice chapfan.."
christmas lunch with collegue on 19/12^
^johnny's birthday on 19/11. he's my ex-housemate from shandong, china.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Home by Westlife
Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris or Rome
But I wanna go home
uhm
May be surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know
And I've been keeping all the letters
That I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
I'm fine baby, how are you
I would send them but I know that
It's just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that
Another aeroplane
another sunny place
I'm lucky I know
But I wanna go home
I've got to go home
Let me go home
I'm just too far
from where you are
I gonna come home
Let me go home
I've had my run
Baby I'm done
I gotta go home
And I feel just like I'm living
Someone else's life
It's like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why
You could not come along with me
This was not your dream
But you always believed in me
Another winter day
Has come and gone away
In either Paris or Rome
And I wanna go home
I miss you, you know
Let me go home
I've had my run
Baby I'm done
I wanna go home
Let me go home
It'll all be alright
I'll be home tonight
I'm coming back home
Monday, December 17, 2007
slamdunk!
today after work went to play basketball with my housemate. very long didnt play basketball. last time when in secondary school, use to play every evening 4.30pm-6.30pm.. i mean everyday.. unless heavy rain. we will jump up&down under the basket try to reach the ring and do a slam dunk like jordan (left pic), or practice backward shoot like kobe bryan (right pic). those day, dream of every boy (beside having a mountain bike) is to be basketball player. if u represent school, u r the star. hope one day can form a team to play. but here in kl, futsal is more popular than basketball. actually i hate fulsal, kaki bangku wht to do. haha.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Travel Preparation
Grace@Work eCommentary:
Death is extremely rude. It respects no one's timetable. This was a busy week. I was trying to kick off a new ministry and preparing for a trip to Singapore. Then the news came. A good friend's father had passed away.
So I found myself in Penang, witnessing again first hand,the elaborate traditional funeral rituals of the Malaysian Chinese. These rituals had to be carefully done so that the soul of the deceased could reach the next world safely.
Intuitively, many cultures and religions view death as a journey from this world to the next. More than that, it seems to be universally recognised that this is not a journey to be taken without help.
Since death is the universal journey, it would seem prudent that we be prepared for the trip. Unfortunately, death is a taboo subject, even in the church.
What help can we expect for this trip?
1. Maps are difficult.
Imagine an eskimo trying to describe his/her home country to Bedouin who has never left the Sahara desert. There would be some parallels but many things would behard to describe.
John tells us something about the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation. But images of square cities with twelve gates mean little in a techno age largely ignorant of Jewish symbols.
And apart from John, and the other bible writers, everybody else is just guessing. It is hard to describe the nature of life after death. While maps are difficult, we do have a guide.
2. There is one reliable guide.
There is only one person who has successfully traveled the journey from this life to the next and come back to talkabout it.
Jesus said in John 14:1-3:
"Don't be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me. Thereare many rooms in my Father's home, and I am going to prepare a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am." (NLT)
Death is a journey into the unknown. But there is one reliable guide. His credentials are impeccable. He died...and rose again. He knows the safe way from this world to the next. He will guide us.
Are you fearful of death? Jesus' call to us, as always, is to trust. Trust in God. Trust in Him. He will see us through.
3. Meanwhile it makes sense to prepare for the trip.
Have you climbed Mount Kinabalu? If you are serious about making the climb then it would make sense to prepare yourself.
What will life be like in the next world? Wrestling with John's metaphors, we can safely conclude that heaven is a place where the focus is on God and on people. Material possessions are meaningless there since God provides all that we need.
Are you training to go there?
Then it would make sense for your life to revolve around God and people. And not material possessions. So that when the departure call does come, we will be ready and will not experience excessive culture shock when we makethe trip to the other side.
Focusing on God and people - that feels like a foretaste of heaven. I have only one more day to prepare for my trip to Singapore. Where is my passport? Do I have enough Singaporean currency?
Every trip requires preparation.
Tan Soo Inn
2 August 2000
Death is extremely rude. It respects no one's timetable. This was a busy week. I was trying to kick off a new ministry and preparing for a trip to Singapore. Then the news came. A good friend's father had passed away.
So I found myself in Penang, witnessing again first hand,the elaborate traditional funeral rituals of the Malaysian Chinese. These rituals had to be carefully done so that the soul of the deceased could reach the next world safely.
Intuitively, many cultures and religions view death as a journey from this world to the next. More than that, it seems to be universally recognised that this is not a journey to be taken without help.
Since death is the universal journey, it would seem prudent that we be prepared for the trip. Unfortunately, death is a taboo subject, even in the church.
What help can we expect for this trip?
1. Maps are difficult.
Imagine an eskimo trying to describe his/her home country to Bedouin who has never left the Sahara desert. There would be some parallels but many things would behard to describe.
John tells us something about the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation. But images of square cities with twelve gates mean little in a techno age largely ignorant of Jewish symbols.
And apart from John, and the other bible writers, everybody else is just guessing. It is hard to describe the nature of life after death. While maps are difficult, we do have a guide.
2. There is one reliable guide.
There is only one person who has successfully traveled the journey from this life to the next and come back to talkabout it.
Jesus said in John 14:1-3:
"Don't be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me. Thereare many rooms in my Father's home, and I am going to prepare a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am." (NLT)
Death is a journey into the unknown. But there is one reliable guide. His credentials are impeccable. He died...and rose again. He knows the safe way from this world to the next. He will guide us.
Are you fearful of death? Jesus' call to us, as always, is to trust. Trust in God. Trust in Him. He will see us through.
3. Meanwhile it makes sense to prepare for the trip.
Have you climbed Mount Kinabalu? If you are serious about making the climb then it would make sense to prepare yourself.
What will life be like in the next world? Wrestling with John's metaphors, we can safely conclude that heaven is a place where the focus is on God and on people. Material possessions are meaningless there since God provides all that we need.
Are you training to go there?
Then it would make sense for your life to revolve around God and people. And not material possessions. So that when the departure call does come, we will be ready and will not experience excessive culture shock when we makethe trip to the other side.
Focusing on God and people - that feels like a foretaste of heaven. I have only one more day to prepare for my trip to Singapore. Where is my passport? Do I have enough Singaporean currency?
Every trip requires preparation.
Tan Soo Inn
2 August 2000
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Melaka day trip
time flies.. it's end of the year.. and it's rainy season, hopefully will not flood.. today public holiday (Sultan's b'day) so went to jalan-jalan at kl, bought a 4gb kingston pendrive, now the price at lowyat is abt 1gb-rm30, 2gb-rm50, 4gb-rm80, 8gb-200.
early this month went to melaka for a day trip..
11am. zoo melaka (i heard is biggest in m'sia), have a good 2 hours walk on sunny day.. good exercise and relaxing js a bit hot.. the show is nice. this picture take with elephane, they will pose for u but hv to pay rm2 for the snap.
2pm. went for the famous hainan chicken rice ball. hv to que abt 10 minutes for it. i think the food that u hv to que taste fantastic.
3pm. walk around the town to see unique hadicraft, antique shop. and historical mosque, temples, hv a good dose of sunshine.
historical a farmosa ford, the Christ church. now there is shopping mall opposite a farmosa, something like sungai wang.
6pm. stroll at jonker street & hv some gula-melaka-enrich's cendol
9pm. after 20 minutes depressing que beside the road and facing danger of hit by car&bike, finally can eat the cannot-miss-satay-celup. pic: peter,ahwah,amy,liley.
~~~~
my camera cant start after the last genting trip. so now considering to get a camera phone. this one look good to me.. it hs one cool feature call 'photo blogging'
sony ericsson k800i
3.15mp
xenon flash
rm780
Ok, that's all for now, Merry Christmas!! God's bless.
early this month went to melaka for a day trip..
11am. zoo melaka (i heard is biggest in m'sia), have a good 2 hours walk on sunny day.. good exercise and relaxing js a bit hot.. the show is nice. this picture take with elephane, they will pose for u but hv to pay rm2 for the snap.
2pm. went for the famous hainan chicken rice ball. hv to que abt 10 minutes for it. i think the food that u hv to que taste fantastic.
3pm. walk around the town to see unique hadicraft, antique shop. and historical mosque, temples, hv a good dose of sunshine.
historical a farmosa ford, the Christ church. now there is shopping mall opposite a farmosa, something like sungai wang.
6pm. stroll at jonker street & hv some gula-melaka-enrich's cendol
9pm. after 20 minutes depressing que beside the road and facing danger of hit by car&bike, finally can eat the cannot-miss-satay-celup. pic: peter,ahwah,amy,liley.
~~~~
my camera cant start after the last genting trip. so now considering to get a camera phone. this one look good to me.. it hs one cool feature call 'photo blogging'
sony ericsson k800i
3.15mp
xenon flash
rm780
Ok, that's all for now, Merry Christmas!! God's bless.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The Quarter-Life Crisis
by unknown
It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared.
You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so great after all.
You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not. You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough to get to know better. You love someone but maybe love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you are not a bad person.
One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.
You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for yourself and while wining the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.
It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared.
You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so great after all.
You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not. You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough to get to know better. You love someone but maybe love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you are not a bad person.
One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.
You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for yourself and while wining the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
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