Meaningful Birthday

A special birthday for me. More so for me, i believe it's a moment that i felt it so much at home someday in few months ago that i believe it's a calling for me to fulfill one of my life missions. "Life helps lives. Life touches lives. Life loves the lives of others."

To initiate and organize it wasn't tough but it was the coordination part that challenged me lot. As i looked back and reflected the process with the moment when my hands were held by those old folks, i am telling myself and God that it was worthy all along. It was and will be worthy. This moment you might see them but who knows the next round we revisit, people will be different already.

Sometimes, it isn't always about money, it isn't always about what's the return, it isn't always about we being busy, but it is just to fork out a few hours of our time, or even just a few minutes for these abandoned ones. Physical appearance meant so much. It's enough to see the wrinkled faces lit up by happiness and joy. It's enough for them to find some young faces to chat and it's more than enough for them to feel themselves as a parent to some of us (just for that few secs), for them to give us some strokes of hair, for them to give advice like a mum or dad. It is also reasonable for us to put words into action for the community.

I was happy because my minimum expectation was made. A friend was rightly mentioned that not a lot of people are of the same direction. Therefore, I didn't even dare to make a great expectation. All i know is we still can start somewhere, especially we, the Canossian Convent girls should do a lil bit more further than the rest because apart from the old folks, it is also about the caregivers (the sisters) that we could visit. Start small. Give a lil bit more. That's all they need and that's also what we can do :)

Psalm 18: 28-29 - "You, O Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light. With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall."

It was a special birthday that i created for myself, first time ever.

Happy Birthday :)

p/s: The photo above was a surprise souvenir from one of the sisters. Appreciate it.

SDCU Retreat 2011

It's SDCU Retreat for real! =) It was an interesting gathering with... insects, animals and jungle for 3 days 2 nights! Haha! =) Managed to see fireflies that lit the jungle like christmas tree :) It was indeed a greater one as compared to the previous round when i went. Nevertheless, the fee has increased drastically. -_-"

The six of us that made up the firefly trip to RM 90 @_@"

For your info, we didn't even bathe when we reached on Friday night.
We went straight for firefly! Check out the t-shirt we wore o_O"

虾膏饭 in the morning market in Pasir Penanmbang! :)
Yum! with the sambal!

Actually, i quite like Firefly Park Resort :)

Then, we headed to Sekinchan, around 1/2 hour drive from Kuala Selangor :) So, finally we got to see the real paddy field :) Love the greens and the sky! It was scorching hot but the sky somehow filled with bit and pieces of gloomy clouds :)

Very first group photo =)
It's quite challenging for a short hand person to snap a group of six.

Then, we headed to Fish Village :) Nth special but smelly.

We never felt a single second of hunger. Kept on feeding ourselves with good food. Lunch was covered with seafood, eg, shark porridge (plain soup and spicy styles)

Very interesting dish: Spicy fried shrimps! Fresh!

Kung bo Sotong! :D Yummy!

Big kid (Amy) was playing bubbles :)
Fatt Mee bought us bubble stick for this trip purpose!

We went to Bukit Malawati in Kuala Selangor in the evening after the rain :)

Met many of our ancestors in black and brown. Mostly in blacks :D

Lighthouse on the hill- Historical heritage

Have you seen Malaysian version of Spice Girls? Here they are... XD

I like this group photo lots :)

It was windy and happy.

Then, we headed to Jeram for Ikan Bakar, namely Aroma Ikan Bakar. It is a huge place to makan ikan bakar, operated by malays. Very affordable to have seafood here.

On the last day morning, we had our own sharing session. On and off we did have our programme on our own for bonding purpose, which include self-discovery and get to know each other more. So, that particular morning, we shared our view on ourselves and our job. We also drew on the stones for each of us as a form of encouragement that never fade.

So concentrate except Ker Shin =X

Before heading back to KL, we went to Klang for Bakuteh. I must say this is the most delicious one by far. The dried and the soup ones :D

I believe it must be a momentous trip for me because it is our first time spending 3 days 2 nights together as a team out of office. More to come, i hope! :)

Raya Break in KL

Colleagues and i decided to do something crazy. We went to Putrajaya for night photoshooting and playing lanterns! Putrajaya never failed to amaze me though i've been here for quite some times. This time round, we managed to see an upgraded version of the bridge. The colours changed in few seconds. It's really interesting and colourful! :) We did some jumping shots.

Betty crowned the best shot for this bridge :)

colour changes

Humongous! :)

Then we headed to a few government buildings just to wander around and snap pics for 4 of us. It's such a pity that i forgot about the tripod. Then i realised there's this function in the camera (frame) that i never used before. Hmmm, nevertheless i still wished to get a hold of my camera and come back here to adjust the functions of the camera.

Serene and I- pattern liao-liao! :Dthis group pic was great! :)

Amy said she looks smaller behind me -_-" so profound wasn't it? and all my fat revealed! ROAR! Anyway, it's quite a great pic too! 温馨 :)

That night, the 3 of them looked really great in any of the photos taken with just the 3 of them.

so, we played lanterns too! :) Some kids came by to see tanglung :D

hehe the camwhore us :D

Serene brought us to this Mewah Club. It's located in the hilltop, houses swimming pool, tennis court, yoga place and a cafe. We chilled at the hill top during wee hour. Witnessed some fireworks. :) Nicey :)

Met Jaden boy at Boulevard Hotel :)
boy boy was a bit cranked, maybe it's the long journey from Penang.
aunties brought him to Toy R' Us! immediately after we came out, he zzz'ed! @_@Betty and i :D

It was very very eventful after i reached KL. @_@ I wonder where does my energy come from but i really thankful to my friends around who always teman me always. God bless everyone! :)

split personality

Sometimes, it's great that we can gather together, just to have some moments of insanity. I appreciate my team a lot, they're the one who pull me through thick and thin (when i said thick and thin, it really means it). What's more to say besides I LOVE YOU ALL? :)

Like i said, counsellor is also a human being :)

don't you think sometimes a bouncer-looking counsellor are also quite stylish?
From right to left:
Fatt Mee: the most gentle counsellor ever, transform to be a "gentle bouncer" as well.
Chyun Fang: the naughty ones also look quite evil with this look.
Ker Shin: People asked her to look like bouncer, she did her own modeling pulak!
Amy: We can only label her the typical "BIG SISTA!"
May: We said, you're like a serial killer that kills the lens!
Shan Na: They said, i'm like the coward type who only dare to act cocky but not daring to do!

Give thanks 感恩

爸爸&妈咪，相信神原来是一件很开心的事。很多时候，我们都不明白这种感觉，因为只有亲身体会到的时候，才会去相信那份感觉。我希望有一天，你和妈咪都能够体会到那种感觉，就好像在我四月二十三号晚上体会到的一种推动力。我希望有一天，我们能全家一起祈祷，让神再次感动我们，让祂带领我们，让我们的家更有凝聚力，更有爱，更有神的爱，更有安宁的心。


这几晚的我和妹妹，都在为家人祷告，希望一切都能顺心。有时，很多事情可能我们没办法解决，我们让祂帮我们安排吧~



希望你们会读到我这篇部落。
我今天很感恩，因为爸爸说他想要个信仰 :)
祷告回应了！


感谢您。
amen :)

believer

I've been wanting to share this last week, but too many things happened in a week, too brain consuming, therefore, hardly have the inspiration and mood to pendown something here :)

Anyway, it's a message that i heard from church invited speaker the other day. This pastor is a chinese, i believe he also understands very much what a chinese will think, how's the mentality and all in this community.

He shared with us this message. It's said that people only choose christianity, choose to believe God when things happen. Disastrous thing to be exact. Previously, I also heard from others that, christians comes to you when you're at your weakest point of life. When you're super sick, you seek for god(s). When you're poor, you pray for wealth stuff like that.

I always wonder, why we, chinese can be that selfish? It's nth about religion here, but it's the culture that we've brought into. Why are we so selfish? When do we wanna give ourselves a change? My mum used to tell me we need to 还神 when we receive good thing. It's just like how a pastor will tell u to praise God in prayer for all the blessings that you've received. I could agree no more. We seriously need to learn how to praise Lord. He protects us when our lives are at stake. He plans for us to go through difficulties with strength. If we can go through all these, we should thank Him for all these. Not only to think about our own welfare, we gotta think of His words too. When we receive thing, we shld say thank you. That's very common and that will be common when it comes to spirituality too.

I'm grateful that i choose to be a believer at this period of time when i am ready. It's not a period whereby i NEED him, but it's a period i WANT to be with Him. I hope i can continue to uphold this spirit :)

my energizer

Going back to hometown, my time is always dedicated to family and friends. I believe they're the ultimate energizer of my life. Going back home is all about resting, putting work aside and to solely focus on memory recollection and updates :) It's great to be able to catch up with some friends, though the moment was short, but it was good enough for me :) Looking forward to other opportunities by any means! :D

Finally, get to see Ern :)

my sis, cousin and ern at Old Taste

the cousin gang :) Thanks Dear for the bookmark :) Donno why, it gives me a peaceful sign :)

I think i need that very much! :D

met Mei and Yeekiat for a quick breakfast on Sunday morning :)) Really missing those crazy form 6 days with them :) Met Yuanhui and girlgirl. We brought Wanxin out for yoghurt ice cream! She was thrilled! :) So am i! haha! This lovely girl gave me 2 kisses on that day :) felt so loved! =D such a cheerful lil girl :) oooo? Where is my ice cream? :)