Uluwatul, Bali - A Pictorial Journey

Uluwatul, Bali

13th March 2007

Group Pic

Uluwatul, Bali

Tanah Lot, Bali

The two Esthers right at the front, Esther 1 on left, Esther 2 on right

Thats Tanah Lot Temple at the back, if it were'nt for high tide,

we would be able to enter a special cave where the water in there ain't salty.

Notice something yellow at the bottom left? That's the cave

Cool eh, our shirts? xD

Crazy Parents, Uluwatul, Bali

Trying to impersonate Bollywood somehow

Just the Guys, Bali

In da bus

Somehow, I'm much better being the photographer

At the Airport, Notice the Board?

Four Machos xD

My Sister, Uluwatul, Bali

My Sister

MTV Live : Good Charlotte

Whoohoo ! I'm back ! Managed to go for Good Charlotte eventho didnt intend to go at first. Thanks for the Tickets Sonul !

Currently getting into the songs by them, but the more contemporary ones namely Hold On, really good meaning in it.

The crowd was really siao. It'll be like a never ending journey just trying to exit in the middle of the concert.

We were typically like an ant colony, filled to the brim. And imagine, they were selling 7-Up, Coke and the like for RM5 !

Jason Lo ain't bad. Old Newspaper and Malaysian Invasian were songs i generally enjoyed jumping to. Malaysian Invasian was written for the Merdeka Celebration.

Wait awhile longer and it'll be on Malaysian radios already.

Help College Debate

Me took part in this debate competition due to interest in debating. xD

Held by HELP College on the 19th of April 2007

My team consisted of : From left, Mrs Jancie, Nanda, Myself, Hafez & Sonuljit (not in pic)




I enjoyed myself la personally because i love the thrill of preparing for a debate
and working with my team. You guys are such good friends.

Thanks for accepting my invite into this competition. =)

Well, our first round topic was 'To Meet the Challenges of the Future, this house would make Religious Education Compulsory'

We felt confident as we step foot on the government's side. But unfortunately, we were not prepared enough in delivering our speech and I couldn't catch the oppossition, SMK Sri Cempaka's stand against us failing to rebut them.

I was the 3rd Speaker, did well in POI-ing but failed to deliver. We all failed to deliver as our speeches were too wordy.

Nonetheless, we enjoyed ourselves when we were all together at my place, preparing for the debate and watching Good Charlotte the night of the debate.

Thanks so much Mrs. Jancie for all the time and hardwork put into this debate. Without you, I wonder how we would be able to manage ourselves.

What Drives Your Life ?

Just started reading Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren


Looking back at the year,

I really wanna thank God for everything he has put forward for me.

• Joined BB

• Went for 30 Hour Famine

• Planet Shakers

• R & R Camp

• 1st PJ YEC

• Vacation Bible School
  
  
  
  
  Learnt so many things
  
  Especially in BB,
  
  Really Really Thank God for helping me in this decision ,
  
  this life-changing decision on joining BB
  
  
  
  I guess my one and only new year's resolution for 2007 would be
  
  Putting God FIRST in all that I do
  
  
  
  

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose,

life has no meaning.

Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.




The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.





Hope is as essential to your life as air and water.

You need hope to cope!

Those with a deep sense of life are the ones most likely to survive.

Hope comes from having a purpose.

So......

What Is Your purpose in Life for 2007?




Life Changers

Life Changers

This marks my 60th post !


It's been a great time @ Planet Shakers tonight

a-plenty new songs, more of which had wonderful meanings


Jesus

Beautiful Savior

God of All Majesty

Risen King


Lamb of God

Holy and Righteous

Blessed Reedeemer

Bright Morning Star


How Wonderful How Beautiful

Name above every name

Exalted High


Truly indeed ! perfectly describes my one and only King, Jesus


I asked God to show me what my light in his path for me

I asked him, what should be my

tuition and music centre be named

After a great time of worship, tonight on the 13th December,

God spoke to me


Life Changers


What a great name indeed !

This would be a name that would impact lives forever

As my vision in this hope of mine, is to

create a centre for learning and music



A tuition centre at sunrise, a music centre at sundown

From this, I would guide young kids to music

From this, I would lead them to know the true meaning of life

To know and discover my best Friend, Jesus Christ

To live for him every second and to have the courage

to speak up for Him



That's the challenge that God had set onto me

And that's the challenge that I'm going to embark on

Let my heart be broken,

by the things that break the heart of God

The year 2006

Current Situation : Diagnosed with Chronic VBS Blues

Feeling : Dreadfully Missing the kids ><

Well I had a nice week


Today just played keyboard / synthesizer for main service,

had a wonderful time


Just found out that I have lots to do for December . Dang! And I hafta tidy my

room for next year, which will still be a mess


Oh ya! and Becky's cured of Dengue Fever! Praise the Lord!!


Approximately 30 more days till school reopens..

Haih! SPM SPM ><

There goes my Form 4 Relaxing Year

It Had To End

Vacation Bible School 2006

Arctic Edge (where Adventure Meets Courage)

Had A Wonderful week with the kids! Love Them All . They Are:

We Are Black Bears !
1. Wesley Peh
2. Jonathan Sin
3. See Tian Juin
4. Eugene Ong
5. Nicholas Fu
6. Aaron
7. Zachary
8. Hong Lit Yang
9. Chong Jia Lun
10. Tang Kah Chun
11. Joshua Yeoh
12. Brandon Low
13. Stephanie Chew
14. Zoe-Yi
15. Ho Zan Mei
16. Ann
17. Ailyn
18. Ng Wei Mun
19. Esther Ong
20. Ethan Chee
21. Ariel Cheah
22. Ashley Lum

And Guess WHAT! The Ones in ORANGE are the ones that Accepted Jesus Christ!

Praise the Lord!

Some Random Pics :

Wesley!!! My favourite one =P

TrailBlazer Rachel, XPOs: Esther, Ann, Stephanie & Zan Mei

TrailBlazers: Me & Jonathan

XPOs: Wesley!! Eugene, Nicholas & Tian Juin

Our Class! Black Bears with TrailBlazer Mui Fong

More To Come, So Stay Tuned !

Whoopee! =D

- Joke for the day -

Kinda had fun throughout the week where

I'm supposed to study for the latest of all latest final year end exam ~.~

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- Saturday -

Stayed over at Lauren's place with Chris, went out to buy DVD and guess who i saw?

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MR. LOH! my physics teacher pampering his small boy to PIRATED dvds..

so funny watching him, "Boy, you want ah?" =D

Then chit-chatted about loads of stuff till 4am .. hahaha

din know that Chris was hyper hyper too

oh ya, THANKS CHRIS CHIA! for helping me out in studies for the past week,

and sending us around, was blurring that you could drive =)

really appreciate it !

and i'll never forgot yestd, the unlucky day for you ! 4 misfortunes in a row!.. hahahaha

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- Tuesday -

New flooring came! haha.. it's about the time those holes in my room were patched and cleaned up.

Looks brownish and good la =)

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- Today! -

Went to church to help out in decorations for Vacation Bible School, my goodness the LOGO was super hard to pain, suffering from chronic ankle joint and neck pain.. heh

Imagine painting this on a styrofoam board, 4 hours and we're still not finished

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Hope this year's VBS would be a life-changer for those lil kids i'm going to teach in Std 3 & 4 =)

Came back home for makan, then about 7.30pm, Sarah Lee called saying that I should go for

Add Maths tuition NOW! heh.. and class starts at what time? 7.30PM which is NOW ! ><

luckily the place was nearby, found out that Isabel & Su Jean goes there too

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Had Kurma with rice for dinner today, and talking about food, my mom whoah!

she gave me this lecture in the afternoon

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I was complaining that I was going to have ROTI PITA for afternoon lunch.. then she started la

i give u a 30 hour famine today then you know! hah! so much for going for camp

she went on,

"Those kids in those countried no food to eat, some even dying every second and all these things and you are the one who told me that! Somemore wanna complain about food =.=' "

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i think she wanna brainwash me cause she lazy cook another tastier meal for me.. =)

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and that ends my laffable day..

And I almost washed my face with toothpaste just now ! ><

My Greatest Experience by Far..

Moon Cake Festival 2006

Whoah! It’s finally over *tears of joy* =D

First and foremost, I would like to thank the Chinese Society for helping us, for their full support and efforts. Especially, MS FOH for the best suggestion and guidance throughout this project.

this project started since the day i went to penang for the st. anne's feast.. suddenly the idea of having a moon cake festival come forth, and thus my major fund-raising and school service project for the year ^^'

Through these past few months, I learnt a lot especially about myself

I learnt:

- How to deal with irritating and annoying people who will just drive you up the wall

- How to irritate them back =P and make them feel the same way

- How to cook myself in a stuffy room for 3 long hours with these monkeys

- How to ignore the ranking of a person (sounds bad but yeah, just had to) because their ideas are just plain stupid

- How to argue your way through just to get things straight

- How to be patient and explain a million times to get a simple message like this is the layout of the security ~.~ , imagine me in every meeting for the past 2 months

- how to explain in so many creative ideas just to get the message thru
from drawing diagrams to using my voice level, the degree of loudness etc. etc.

ok that was actually all negative things that i learnt =D,
now for the positive side

I learnt:

- That my LEO Members are a bunch of committed members, sometimes over-committed too. =) Thank you so much to those who massaged me, destressed me in times of trouble, those who followed me around during the final week before the project no matter how troublesome it was. Thank you guys! You know who you are =)

- How to ignore irritating people, learning to accept that they just wont listen to you no matter how hard you plead or beg

- I learnt that they aren’t the only one in the world and that others may also be capable of doing what they can do


- That some things just won’t go your way and I learnt how to twist and turn and yet reach my destination

- That some people just love to poke negative comments for the fact of bringing you down, maybe out of jealousy perhaps?

- how to deal with stress! i finally managed it =)

- To appreciate my poor little stomach when it starts howling and grumbling, I did not have a proper evening meal and no dinner at all during the event and had no supper and breakfast after that. By the time lunch came, gastric came forth and thus my stomach thought me a lesson * wonders how to survive the coming 30-hour famine camp *

- What it felt like to have gastric

- to stick up for yourself, to be stubborn *yes it does help * and stick to ideas that you already planned and thought of the consequences to it

- To appreciate God more, thanked Him so much that the weather was awesome that night. He was always there during times that I needed endurance.
* especially during meetings, …. get my drift? =D *

- to appreciate my parents more, I finally understand that it’s not through verbal that they support me, but it’s through their actions that they do
* will not elaborate any further due to sensitive issues * =P

acknowledgements:

- All my LEO members for your utmost dedication, without you guys I do not think that that night could ever have happened. Thank you for sticking up to our club eventho u know, all those negative remarks from *others* , i appreciate it till i wanted to burst into tears during the night of the project seeing that the event is actually brought into reality

- thank you for bearing with my absentee of blogging due to the fact that i was super bz during the past 2 months, organizing this project and tutoring my friends for pmr too

- My faithful BODs and my trusted friends too, going out to KOK CHUN, ALEX, YUVANES, KOK HAN, ARAVINTHAN, WINSTON, and EUGENE for staying with me to the very end =) Thank you for your sacrifice but please GET BACK ON YOUR STUDIES! xD

- Teachers and everyone who really had touched my heart and supported me – Pn. Han, Pn. Teh, Pn. Ong, Mr. Raj, Pn. Sushila, Ms. FOH and individuals who have helped me throughout my project

- Julian and Richard for helping me with the designing of the badges eventho you guys had PMR =)

- Not forgetting John Thomas too for all the time spent on my flyers =) and Paul Levigne for taking snapshots!

- **CHINESE SOCIETY for agreeing to join the project with me**

- Those who came that night! Sorry for not being able to greet you guys as i was just soo busy

- Everyone else whom I missed out. So Sorry! YOU for reading this post of mine that is just plain text.. xD

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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT !

* My decision to be a teacher in the near future is FINAL *

* Pn. Han is retiring on the 19th of October, to those who know her, please do contact the school for more information *

Rest and Relax Camp!

Rest and Relax Camp 2006
2nd Subang Jaya Company
Date: 24th - 26th August 06
Venue : Orchard Hill Lodge, Bukit Tinggi

-> Day 1 <-

0800 - Me went to Lau - Ren - Zhia's House to tumpang her car, then later we picked Ruth at Church and we headed off to Subang !

0830 - Arrived at Subang and saw a few people gathering there already, heard that WO Seki and Benji was waiting there since 0730 hours. LOLz!

0930 - Bus arrived and we stuffed our belongings into it. Went off to Bkt Tinggi! Everyone was filled with excitement, not knowing what the two nights and three days would bring us.

From now, i donno the time.. Lolz =)

Arrival & Briefing

We were all like WHOA! it looks like such a nice place, only thing bad is that we had to walk like 10 minutes just to get to that place while carrying our "light" lugagges. Firstly, we unloaded our bags at the top floor, then had some technical errors in communication and we all pindah our bags down again ~.~"

- + The Hall + -

Sgt Wei Zheng gathered everyone at the worship hall, and my my it was such a nice hall! Drum sets , a piano and ping pong tables awaited us. Sgt gave his briefing and told us all the rules. Wasn't it obvious that Boys cant go near Girls dorm and vice versa? heh

Lunch Time =D

Food at last! To fill our tummies, I think we were served rice with normal lauk-pauks. After being stuffed we proceeded to Ice Breakers.

Ice Breakers!!

Cprl Josef conducted the ice breakers. We gathered at the upper deck where they had this TV which no one watched during the entire camp for reasons unknown. First game was the Octopus game where we tangle our hands up. Now, this time with a slight twist which was to remember all our group members birthdates! I was in Sgt's group where we stumbled to free ourselves from that tanglement >.< lot =")">

-+ The Upper Deck where we gathered +-

Swimming Time!!!!!!

After the ice breakers, we all RUSHED to the pool, literally that is. Everyone started toying with the diving platform especially Jimmy.. I was startled at the height at first but what the heck? You won't die right? Well, Wo Ther Kua thought otherwise =) [Explanation on 2nd Day] I jumped! Lolz. Then everyone started pushing those sitting near the poolside off. We then made Dana and Ruth to jump too. Dana was very very reluctant. and in the end. i think someone pushed her of the "cliff" or either she jumped. Luckily, she din take that much of a time than WO Ther Qua .. =D


-+ I need not say anything, the pool is just too magnificent +-

Yummie Time

Dinner was up next, after swimming for a few hours, everyone was HUNGRY! shown by the fact that food was ALMOST .. hehe almost only, to finish. We were given this SPICY and i really MEAN SPICY! sotong goreng. Everyone was crying, literally.. i was! Lolz sweated like a man person.. Dinner was better than lunch definitely

Time to Praise the Lord

Worship was lead by WO Seki, Cprl Benji and Pte Jon Ng. It was a nice worship. I stoned next to Jon, helpin him in any way i could cause he din know the chords to Yang Terutama.

Supper

If i am not mistaken, it was supper after this, we were given biscuits and we made either MiLo / Nescafe to quench our thirst.


-+ Dining Area +-

OPEN TALK

This is by far one of the best things that happened during the camp, something new to me that i will implement in my prefect camp. Everyone was supposed to comment on somebody / something / speak in general about the company. Many interesting topics flew past namely :

1. Ruth's topic on Samong
I think everyone would remember this one. Ruth told Samong that he was CUTE! get that! that's all that I'm going to touch on this post =), due to reasons that cannot be told =D

2. Rachel cried when she was accepted into BB
Yes! the truth is out, Rachel almost fell into tears when she knew she was accepted into the Junior section!! You see, how much one's passion in BB may bring. The reason behind this was because she was not accepted the first time. So guys! Think twice whenever you feel like you're slacking in BB ! Remember RACHEL! Lolz

3. My Topics! =)

i. Talent

I first started my cheung-heiness by touching on talent. I told everyone there what is the reason behind BB becoming BORING. Due to the fact that everyone is not serving in areas that they are talented in. Imagine if, everyone starts serving, even if it was just plain playing the piano or just helping another in drill? Wouldn't our company prosper in a short term? our company will progress. but the question is : How Fast?

I also brought up the fact that once youre good at something, why not bring it to a higher level . Picture This : a 5kg block of iron worths only USD10 . Once it is moulded into a horseshoe it is worth now for USD50. Once made into 1000 needles is is worth USD100. Adapted from Uncle KC's sermon. You see, our talent is just like that! For example, if youre good at piano, why not teach someon who dont even know where is C on the piano, to learn piano? that's for first, then u go on to coaching others, from that level, you begin to start to worship lead and lead others to serve God.

Another example, would be drill. if you're good at it. why not change other's perception on Drill, those that hate drill, why not teach them and finally I'm VERY sure that they WILL enjoy drill once and for all. These kinda things do make a BIG difference if everyone starts doing that in our company ya know?

ii. Puppy Love

Lol, this is a funny topic which i thought of.. PUPPY LOVE, as you guys frmo BB2SJ know, our company is FILLED with it especially ni the younger generation. I tried warning everyone that what is the point of getting into a relationship if you dont know where it's heading to? A relationship needs commitment, hell lots of it and your maturity. If not I guarantee! It will end up in a broken relationship where hearts would be broken for weeks and friendships lost. WHAT's THE POINT?

Well, i'm not saying it's all that bad, it is a good feeling to fall in love, but yeah, guys and girls pls do KNOW your LIMITs. when i touched on this topic i could see that some people in the crowd "felt" something or should i say "terasa", no names mentioned. I got thumbs up from Seki for mentioning this =)

iii. Advancement of Christ's Kingdom

Lastly, i spoke on the actual meaning of BB, what's the point of us bragging about our BAND? or DRIL? or even our singing competitions and trophies, after all it's just a piece of plastic, as said by Benji. What is the REAL object of BB? it is stated in the very first line. The advancement of Christ's Kingdom!

We, constantly forget all about it, therefore i urged everyone to start bringing in non-christian members to BB bcuz i am definite taht our current company members had heard about the good news. Invite them and let the Holy Spirit do the work. Remember our soul duty for Christ!

Let us not be a company who brags abour our physical achievements. But let it be because of our spritual achievements. Let us tell others how many came to know Christ through BB, not how many people who know how to play the Trumpet / Drums through BB. I'm definite that this is God's wish for us BB members. After all, trophies are just PLASTIC!

Well, that concludes my thoughts. Just my two cents..

Lights Out T.T

WO Seki summarised all that we said and then we sang the vesper as it was already around 12 am. I didn't wanna sleep so early at first, therefore we had a tutoring session with the PMR students, Those who passed PMR helped around. But in the end, at 2am the lights went out =.='

Oh well, that concludes DAY 1 .. check again for updates on DAY 2 !

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Food Review 1 : Sushi King! =D

Today, Darul, one of my good friends took me and Alex out to Sushi King for lunch.. such a kind person, kinda belanja-ed us around RM150 for the meal =) here's my first and simple food review....


Those plates were finished by me... joking~!


The food that all 3 of us ate which amounted to RM150! =)


Salmon Steak : Wow! The set meal that I ate was yummy!! The salmon is absolutely fresh with that grilled sensation.. They serve it with a bowl of rice, steamed egg which has mushroom stuffing in that cup on the far left, yakult! xD and Miso Soup.. omg the soup was horrible! talk about mixed taste, there was bitter, sour and sweet all added into one bowl of catastrophe.. eww

 

Sushi King!

Endamame : Japanese Green Peas, very very yummy! especially as a snack eaten with a little salt added


Tempura Snack Plate : Crunch, crunch.. green peas, prawns, golden mushrooms and brinjal fried with tempura flour.. dipped into one kind of sauce, a must have!


Ebi : Prawns skin peeled off, dipped into that sauce there.. couldn't really feel the taste of the prawns


Ebikko : Yummie!!! Fish roe (eggs i think) another crunch crunch crispy crispy, it taste better without wasabi.. another one of my favourites