impromptu outing...

So my day start off at 1pm, half an hour after I woke up *smiles innocently*.
At around 1:20pm, I received a surprise phone call from Sin Yee. A couple of thing came into my mind.

1. She needs me to help her with something or...
2. She wants me to be her taxi driver for the day.

However I was wrong! Haha! That's why I say it's a surprise for me.

She sounded as if she's like a kettle that is waaaaaay over the boiling point. In short, she sounds stressed up. So I try to listen to her properly while playing WoW (hehe!). Apparently, she had a bad morning and wants to devour food to release her stress. Ahh...ok, sounds like a lunch invitation...but then she added that if I've already taken my lunch (breakfast pun tak makan lagi..=P), I can go and drink water while she makan. Hmm...I wasn't given any option but to go as a scapegoat for her to pour the boiling water. Nah I'm just joking about the scapegoat part. Anyway I'm really really glad that this invitation is given to me as we haven't had any real talk with each other for sometime already. As in we didn't update on each other's life with one another.

Well, I picked her up at around 2pm...been trying to think of a place to go to but the time isn't on our side cause most makan stalls are closing around that time. I asked her where she wants to go and she says somewhere that she haven't been to before. Instinctively I drove towards town since there's a higher chance to find a makan place (also to buy more time for me to rack my brain to find a place to fill her criteria & our stomach). In the meantime she was telling me about her rough day she had while at her final year project discussion. Unfortunately, she & her lab partner aren't working together at the same frequency. Their calculations couldn't tally and Sin Yee was trying to explain what could be the cause but partner & the lecturer couldn't quite understand what she's saying.

That's about the time I've figured out where to go makan (after she say she wants to makan laksa). One place that I've been wanting to bring her, Kah Wai & others there. I've forgotten what's the name of the road but it's somewhere near Jetty. There's just 2 stalls there, a laksa & a drinks stall. It's quite famous for it's "ai gaik" or "or gio" (no translation for English). There's shaved ice (think ice kacang or chendol), a slice of lemon (probably like 1/10 of lemon) and some jelly-like thingie. It's really unique if you've only tried chendol and ice kacang. Excellent to consume when you're thirsty during hot weather. You'll feel the burst of lemon in your mouth. The texture of the jelly is firm but soft that blends really well with the lemon flavour and ice. How I wish I've a digi cam with me, my 0.3MP on my phone just wouldn't do. As for the laksa, there's nothing much to shout about but one thing I like about this stall's laksa is that you can see chunks of fish meat amidst the soup! Overall the 2 dish are able to satisfy your stomach for a total of RM3.30, RM2 for the laksa and RM1.30 for the "or gio". Oh and Sin Yee just couldn't resist when she saw a "roti bak gua" stall nearby.






Later on we proceed to Gurney Plaza, hoping to catch a movie. We sort of decided to watch....




















Resident Evil : Extinction! We look at the show time, only 2 are suitable for us, 4pm or 4:45pm. We look at the time, 4pm.

Sin Yee, "The starting trailer takes up 15 minutes right?"
Me, "Right...then we watch 4pm wan lah."

Sin Yee, "Eh! I didn't take out my student card!"

*stares at each other for awhile*

Then we both dash down the escalator towards my car, grabs her student card an run back towards the counter. Whew! I haven't run around shopping complex since when I was like...15? @.@
One of the best part was, I don't have my student card. Sin Yee's student card is attached to her matrics card or something so it looks as if there's 2 pieces of student card there. When I told the lady, "2 tickets for Resident Evil...4pm", and at that same time Sin Yee shows her card. The lady took 1 look at it and then she click there 2 student tickets! Whee! I got to watch the movie at student price without my student card! Alright, you all might think it's lame or cheap but things like these are a bonus that makes your movie experience special. The surprise doesn't end there, inside the same auditorium, I bumped into my old course mates back in TARC (Ah Ping and Ah Zhuang). What's more, they are just sitting right next to me in the cinema! Now this is like 2 rare chance in a day.

About the movie, the show gives you very little room to rest your heart. However the scary scenes are pretty much predictable, you can almost know when exactly the zombies would jump out to make you jump out from your skin. One of my favourite scene was...

*WARNING SPOILER AHEAD*

when the black guy was sitting down on the bed after popping off a zombie in a room, he look up and saw another zombie in front of him. He stand up and shoot at it, however, what he just shot was just a mirror...so I leave the rest for your imagination. =D

*END OF SPOILER*

Mainly the show is catered for those who played the game or those who loves wicked cool slicing technique ala Combo-Hits-With-A-Cool-Finishing-Moves. It ends with an open ended ending. My guess is there's gonna be another episode somewhere next year.

Overall IMO:-
▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▫▫▫ (7 out of 10)

Updating Patch...

Version 1.09.24 (built 2007)

• new item : webcam
• new item : scientific calculator
• error : pencil case missing
• new item (GIFT) : 2 wallet (missing from previous patch)

• removes profession "cyber cafe caretaker"
• add new battlegrounds : PSDC
  
• add new profession : computer engineering student

• friend/buddy list updated
  
• weight remain unchanged
  
• age : 22+ years old
• guitar skill : apprentice to (56/300) from (53/300)
  
• removes maplestory
  
• no longer have to pay car loan due to changes in profession

• new anime list : Seto no Hanayome, DGray Man, Sky Girls, Nagasarete Airantou, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, Zero no Tsukaima and Kaze no Stigma.
  

one year later...

Upon seeing the date couple of entries back, September 18 2006. That's exactly 1 year ago. Last year's was on Monday and this year's on Tuesday. Seems like just yesterday? For my blog...maybe...but for me...nay.

I remember how fired up I was together with the youths after the retreat. We heard the calling, we were blown away by it, we take it in, we talked about it, we planned about it, we prayed about it, we caught fire! We tried to light up the torch around the assembly but...we...just...sort of burnt out before succeeding in doing so. Where have we gone wrong?

We didn't stand together. The wind of hesitation toyed around with us. We wanted to move forward but each of us held back a little, fearing that the rest wouldn't follow up. Fearing we'll be a laughing stock to the people. Fearing of losing our comfort-zone. It wasn't too hard for the opposing force to blow off our fire. Soon everyone just stared at the phone, occasionally someone picks it up but that's just it, no one talks about it anymore but some did still have the ember to continue to pray for a re-revival.

The second Sungai Ara Retreat is upon us...just how are we going to respond to it?

Life patch updating...

Version 1.4.2 (built 2007)

• new item : handphone (cheap!)
• new item : 1GB pendrive
• new item : 1 x 512MB DDR RAM
• new item : World of Warcraft (original)
  
• new storage space : to keep gifts/presents/valuables!
• new item (GIFT) : guitar pick album (hand-made)
• new item (GIFT) : books, e.g. : The Shadow of The Almighty
• new item (GIFT) : Renoma sling bag
• new item (GIFT) : photo album w/ a photo of me n a friend
• new item (GIFT) : sweets n chocolates
  
• new item (GIFT) : candle (and a blue, heart shape deco)
  
• new item (GIFT) : cross-stitch with my name on it (hand-made)
  
• new item (GIFT) : clips
• new item (GIFT) : scented cotton rabbit (hand-made)
• new item (GIFT) : t-shirts
  
• new item (GIFT) : 2 water bottle
• new item (GIFT) : cup w/ meaningful words (hand-written)
• new item (GIFT) : pen w/ bright blue LED light
• new profession : cyber cafe caretaker
• new favourite game : o2jam
  

• friend/buddy list updated
  
• weight gain to ~57KG from ~54KG
• age : 22+ years old
• guitar skill : apprentice (53/300)
• mount repaint : 660 kancil (green)
• maplestory character level : 49
• made several greeting cards
• now have to pay car loan
• attends 2 different CF in a week
• attends classes 2 days a week
  

• removes MP3 from harddisk (total of ~20-30GB)
• removes many softwares from harddisk
• removes damaged Bible cover
  

• bug (fixed) : unintentionally hurt someone, communication fails
• known bug : caught in a crossfire
  
• known bug : occasionally misses quiet time
  
• known bug : sharing testimony/Gospel with family members/close unsaved friends ability not working as it should be
  
• known bug : sleeping time shortens over time

and many more...

Back from a retreat...

...and it's time to march forward in our work for the Lord!


Truly, everything is made possible with God in the picture.
The whole retreat started with a mess...traffic jams around Sg. Ara.

That means the whole thing starts an hour later.

The worst part of it is that I'm suppose to fetch Rachel and Vivian from USM hostel around 6:45pm. I picked them up at 8:10pm due to traffic jams and other complications.
Man, they have waited for at least 1 hour n 25 minutes !



To Rachel & Vivian : Verily, verily I say unto thee a thousand apology! >.<



On the funny side, I fetch Sin Yee first from Sg. Dua McD before picking up Rachel & Vivian. She too, waited there for quite sometime but then she makan her dinner in McD, so no need to kesian her so much...LOL! She so stress n desperate cuz she is the one who asked Rachel n Vivian to wait for me at 6:45pm. She calls me a few times as I'm on my way to fetch her, everytime oso ask where am I lah...remind me that both of them is waiting for me lah. Out of that many times, there's one when she calls me and..


Sin Yee : Wei! Where are you now? Faster come lah...I waiting outside McD with all my blankets and pillows like I wan to lari from house like that! People all walk pass me also look at me one kind! Faster lah!!


Wah...after hearing that I cannot tahan from laughing already cuz I imagine her, looking like malay, so people probably assume she's a maid from Indonesia who's running away from the master or she runs away from the mental hospital or something as her hair is so messy.

Anyways, I'll try to post more of the retreat as soon as I receive the photos from the retreat. Until then....cya!

Tick tock tick tock....

It’s been over a month since I started working as a temporary assistant in my college’s computer lab. It’s too boring here, so I’ve decided to blog a little about it :P

The time couldn’t be "better" when I punch in for my first day, new computers arrive from KL to replace the old computers in some of the lecturer’s room and the computer labs over here. That means we’ve to carry all those computers around in college, replacing the old computers in the lecture room, which is situated on the 3rd floor and there’s NO elevator! So which to speak that we’ve to carry those computers up the staircase all the way up to the 3rd floor. This is the not so boring stuff as we get to move around.

As soon as we’re done replacing all of the lecturer’s computer (took us like over a week I guess), we’re assigned to jaga the computer labs. Before you say “Wah! So nice, can go online…”, let me tell you that the computer labs doesn’t have internet access, only one specific lab called the Internet Lab have internet access but the speed is on par with the speed of a crawling siput babi (snail). So most of the time, I’m just sitting there waiting for lunch time and to punch out (time to go home...whee!). Basically our job is to keep a record of the student’s attendance for their classes in the lab and also to keep a record of the students who uses the computer to do their assignment. Occasionally we’ll help the students who is pretty much clueless about how to install the pendrive driver (it’s running on Windows 98!) or to print (cuz the printer is really capalang and you can only feed it with 1 paper at a time, and also print one page at a time cuz if your file contains more then 1 page, after printing the 1st page, the 2nd page’s alignment would be out!). Well, I’d prefer to help them rather then just sit down, but the problem is most of them speaks Mandarin to me and I’ve to struggle through the conversation! Even the Indian students here speaks fluent Mandarin (*malu-fied*) and some can even speak Hokkien! Ok lah, enough about this.

This year’s CF is kinda fun for me. Mainly because there’s people I’m familiar with is in the CF (namely, Vincent, Hooi Siang, Sher Anne and occasionally Swee Kit =)) or probably it’s due to the fact that I’m a committee? =P Hehe! I really thank God for putting Hooi Siang (and the rest) in our CF as he’s like the “noisemaker” in the CF! Without him, probably it won’t be that lively already. Anyway, I think I didn’t really played my responsibility that well yet. As I’m the Prayer Coordinator, but yet to start the weekly prayer meeting or “prayer box” thingie where people can pop in what they want us to pray for into the box. Numbers are dropping from the member list, a common sight in our CF =P but still we need to pray about it (note to self). Recently, our CF's topic is regarding "Character and Gifting". The speaker, (whose name I terlupa >.<”), gave us a bunch of questions to answer (a total of 140 questions @.@) in order to find out what primary and secondary temperaments do we possess, such as Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholy and Phlegmatic.

I’ll try to get the questions posted here, or maybe somewhere else so that you guys may try it out too =D but then somehow I think my primary temperament is wrong lah cuz through that test I got Sanguine as my primary and Melancholy as my secondary. I think it should be the other way round or another combination, but then, doing 140 questions at 5pm, it raises a lot of doubts in my ability to process and understand what I read from the questions =P I might do it again when my brain’s tuned to the right frequency hehe!

Watchfulness...

Luke 12 : 35 - 47

³⁵"Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, ³⁶like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. ³⁷It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. ³⁸It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night. ³⁹But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

⁴¹Peter asked, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?"

⁴²The Lord answered, "Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? ⁴³It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. ⁴⁴I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁵But suppose the servant says to himself, 'My master is taking a long time in coming,' and he then begins to beat the menservants and maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk. ⁴⁶The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

⁴⁷"That servant who knows his master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows.

*Bible verses taken from http://bibleresources.bible.com

Actually, my devotion verses for this is from 35-40 but somehow, I read further until verse 47. I believe this is lead by the Holy Spirit as the verses that pry open my eyes because when I read verse 45-47, it certainly rings the alarm inside of me. I've been too careless that our Lord's second coming is near and He'll come when you least expect Him to.

Upon reading that few verses, I'm able to relate myself to the servant who knows (or doesn't know) his master's will but didn't prepare himself. I'm saying this in the sense that I'm taking my life on this earth too casually and am not really grateful that I've been given yet another day to further prepare myself for the Lord's second coming.

With this, some questions pops into my mind.

1. How do we prepare ourself?
2. To what extent is prepare count as prepared?

This devotion have greatly challenged me as I always behave as in verse 45a. Never let our guard down.