The possibilities are endless!

My hero! =) and it so happened I found out (through Wikipedia) that he likes 'If' too...

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And — which is more — you'll be a Man my son!
—Rudyard Kipling

Lovely lovely, it's like the Proverbs. And then upon entering it's Wikipedia page, I discovered that the poem got translated into the Burmese language, and who else did it but Aung San Syuu Kyi, oh joy!

(Cantik! XD)

I realized most revolutionaries end up assasinated or excuted. I pray it's not so with Aung San Syuu Kyi,...althought if I'm not mistaken, she's still under house-arrest. Each time I see her in the news she appear to be more frail and sadder... =(


P.S.Thank You Lord for the treats, now I just have to find a way to get to Bandar Utama Sri Pentas. =/

The Music Shuffle Tag
1. Put your iTunes/ music player on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must put down the song name no matter what.
4.After you’ve answered all of the questions, tag 5 other people and then let them know they’ve been tagged to do the tag themselves.


What would best describe your personality?
Free Falling (accoustic version) -John Mayer

Shes a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus and america too
Shes a good girl, crazy bout elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too.

Awww.

What do you like in a guy/girl?
Sweet child O'mine- Guns and Roses

I not paedophile!

How do you feel today?
Touch-Delirious

I've been torn again,
The curtain's been torn again

What is your life's purpose?
Devotion-Hillsong United

I'm believing, trusting in creative hands,
I am praying for our world to bow to your plan
And this one thought is unmistakable
To take up my cross and follow You Lord

What is your motto?
Animal Instinct- The Cranberries.

Ish, this song is always haunting me. XD

What do your friends think of you?
Second Chance- Hillsong United.

Yes! I always gives second chances. =D

What do you think of your parents?
Smooth -Carlos Santana and Matchbox.

Haha! how apt. XD

of your best friend?
For the Lord is Good- All Together Separate.

Amen!

What do you think of your crush?
Help! -The Beatles

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me.

Oopps, no comment.

What is your life story?
Seemingly Sleepy- Late Night Alumni

Gosh, it can't be that boring...

What do you want to be when you grow up?
My desire- Jeremy's Camp

You want to be whole, you want to have purpose inside
You want to have virtue and purify your mind.

What do you think when you see your crush?

Forever-Chris Brown. (Oh man, I think my music player's being very cheeky today!)

It's like I waited my whole life for this one night
It's gon' be me, you and the dance floor
Cause we only got one night
Double the pleasure, double the fun

What do your parents think of you?
My future decided-Hillsongs united.

Yay! they know I got future one.

What do strangers think of you?
Rainy Days -Late Night Alumni

Yes, I'm that scary and dreary..

How's your love life?
Waiting for the summer-Delirious

Waiting for the summer,
We'll be laughing, We'll be dancing,
Shining in the sun,
You're my beautiful one.
Waiting for the summer,
We'll be laughing, We'll be dancing,
Nothing more to say,
It's a beautiful day.

What will they play at your funeral?
Halo -Haley James Scott (Ganas song...)

I never promised you a ray of light,
I never promised there'd be sunshine everyday,
I give you everything I have, the good, the bad.

What will you dance to at your wedding?

Gregory Shan't -Michael Battersby.

So sentimental.

What is your hobby/interest?
My soul finds rest in you alone-All Together Separate.

Resting in Him! =D

What do you think of your friends?
Lovin' You-Minnie Riperton (Aww.)

What song do you listen to when you are sad?
Mas Que Nada-Sergio Mendes feat The Black Eyed Peas.

Yeah man, it makes me dance.

What song do you air guitar to?
Go Through Changes-Michael Battersby.

There's no guitar for this song...

What should be your signature karaoke song?

Lord, I believe-All Together Separate.

haha, I don't even know where this song popped up from.. XD

What is your greatest desire?
Let's Stay Inside-Ivy. (nooo!)

What's your outlook on life?
You-Hillsong United.

He's all I look at!

How will you die?

Meant to Live-Switchfoot.

LOL. this is the bomb lah.

Do people secretly lust after you?

Midnight Sun-Ivy

You're still the only one who sets me free
just like a midnight sun
shining on me
You're still the only one
who sets me free
just like a midnight sun
shining on me.

Haha, maybe someone does afterall. XD

The best advice you will ever get:

Found-Hillsong United

Amazing Love, now what else shall I need?And you'll still be here with me

What will your future mother-in-law be like?

Sunrise comes too soon-Late Night Alumni

Scary.

What is the favourite song of the doctor who will help deliver your baby?

Eternal flame- The Bangles

Not bad, good taste.

If you wrote a book, what would it be about?

This Is Our God-Hillsong United

That'll be an honour indeed.

What sort of world ruler would you be?

Black or White-Michael Jackson.

Protection
For Gangs, Clubs
And Nations
Causing Grief In
Human Relations
It's A Turf War
On A Global Scale
I'd Rather Hear Both Sides
Of The Tale
See, It's Not About Races
Just Places
Faces
Where Your Blood
Comes From
Is Where Your Space Is
I've Seen The Bright
Get Duller
I'm Not Gonna Spend
My Life Being A Color

Will you ever get a dog or cat?

Thriller-Michael Jackson

What would you say at your Oscar/Nobel prize acceptance speech?

Standing in the Rain- Jamie Scott.

What is your superpower?

Winter Spring Summer Fall -The Postmarks

Why are you attracted to enigmatic brooders?

I've got you memorized- Ivy (I'm sick of her! )

Tagged List:
-Kia Hooi
-Sue-Ann
-Shuet Yi (I'm your fan from now!)
-Loon Wern

Hocus-Pocus!

[I have trouble deciding what kinda 'mood' shall I start off this post with, so let me quote my favourite from this play I just finished! ]

Mr. Raham: If the law were always wise and reasonable it would be obeyed so easily that to obey the law would become an instinct. Now, it is not for the good of the community that the people should be too law-abiding. So our ancestors in the wisdom of their hearts devised certains laws which were vexatious or absurd, so that men should break them and therefore be led insensibly to break others.

William: But why is it not for the good of the community that the people should be too law-abiding.

Mr. Raham: My dear sir, how else would the lawyers earn their living?

William: I had forgotten. I see your point.

Mr. Raham: I hope I have convinced you.

William: Completely.

It practically reeks with satire! They were discussing the procedures needed to file for a divorce and having found them pretty incredulous, William asked Mr. Raham (the lawyer) why so and this was PART of his answer. William's such a bimbo. XD This one was from Home and Beauty.

Here's another one from a play titled Lady Mereston, in an exchange between two besotted lovers...

Rose : ...When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

Gerald : When a woman's in love she can put her heart on a slide of a miscroscope and examine how it beats. When a man's in love, what do you think he cares for science and philosophy and all the rest of it!

Rose : When a man's in love he can only write sonnets to the moon. When a woman's in love she can still cook his dinner and darn her own stockings.

Oooh la la~, shortly after they kissed! XD Okay, enough, enough. I shall just have to mention the author, W. Somerset Maugham. God bless him! Also, I FINALLY finished The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. Usually after having a good read I like to quote my favourite parts, but Screwtape Letter's was so good, the entire book was quoatable! I can't make up my mind. Haha, little snippets later. =D

Oh ya, click HERE to stalk the girl who sits next to me in school. XD I heart her! She's made of laughing gas lah that girl, everyday laugh laugh laugh. Speaking of school, some of us girls had a slumber party ( sounds much more glamorous than sleepover leh...) in Hui Ern's house and it was pretty wild. Definitely something I'll never forget, whats with the rolling and human pyramids, checking out remote controlled toilet bowls, the girly chit-chats and uncontrollable laughters, even the end-of-the-world talk. We talked a lot about our class too. It's good that we're all conscious of the current 'condition' of our class. So in a move to strengthen our class unity and break the barriers, Eyo and Si Ying suggested a makan besar, tentatively set on 5th of Dec. I hope I remember to bring it up in school this Friday, I keep getting distracted by my own 'businesses'!!mm....like playing chess. (which mind you, I've never won so far!) All the best 4S3, we've still got one whole year of being stucked with one another so meanwhile, let's make it a blast. =) Who knows we might start a class blog! ahhhh...(time to call for an AGM!)




P.S. I somehow feel a lot of outings and events are gonna collide next week, so don't blame me if I ffk. =D

Tis the season to be merry!

This is so thrilling, I get to blog this often now! =D

I've been surfing through some friends blogs and reading all them pre/post-exam posts can be pretty amusing. Haha, like 'oh I screwed this paper and that paper!'...'last minute studying doesn't work!'...'I missed an A by 1 mark!..'...'Pn so-and-so is the lousiest BM paper marker.' Amusing...and saddening. To be honest, I probably also did say something like the above at some point. XD Really, you can't blame us Chinese-school goers, 'kiasu-ness' is inherently us! Sometimes when we get our papers and everyone's comparing their result, you could smell the the air thick with competition, gosh, the disbelief at someone else's extraordinary performances, the discontentment from missing an A1 by a few marks, the disappointment of hardwork yielding less than expected. *shakes head* Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating, in my class, many of those who failed any subject seemed pretty happy, haha, like literally they were announcing their results to the whole world...thank God for them flippant guys to lighten up the mood! They fail yet no one ever doubts their genius'es. XD

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, to those who sees these kind of situations and finds it rather a turn-off, bear with us. We (referring to kiasu's) have been taught since kindergarten that exams is everything, it is the rock-bottom! There is no future without them straight A's. Most of us has this subconscious underlying assumption that not acing a subject means that we're stupid. Of course, such assumption is verily (got such word ar?) wrong but it doesn't help that some parents actually do seem to agree to that! In primary school, academic achievement was probably the only goal we had and that was further weighed upon by teachers offering rewards or worse, punishments for not meeting their standards. So really, we're the victims here, don't hate us for being such nerds. (I hear the nerd sitting at the front row of class saying 'amen' to this! XD) Really, it's time to be more gracious and try understanding. The fact is most people don't get to choose what to think and what exactly would they like to do, they're just told to do so. And it's downright mean of them to get us all-out for exams, tell us to work our asses off to get an A, but nobody told us what do we do when we fail... What do we do when we fall short? Yeah yeah, 'keep working', 'keep trying'...how far do they expect us to go? Literally, I see girls in tears walking down the corridor, probably after getting their results and it's just...you know just so...sigh. XD Pressure giler.


I always love to tell myself this, (you know, just to downplay the 'kiasu' spirit...), when you get to heaven, it's quite unlikely that God will ask you how many A's did you get. Haha! XD Chill la people, chill, must pasrah a bit. Next year we 'piah' again! =D

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-Bryan, I'll do the tag! In due time. =P
-You! I've got a hundred and one questions to ask you, starting from...'how are you!?'
-Sleepover with girlfriends this Friday! YIPPY!! 'I'm bringing PINK nailpolish, you leh?'

Cows of Bashan

Sooo..there's this MAJOR 'issue' that's been bugging me, probably for the past one month. It's something my sister told me, which is something her friend told me, which I'm gonna tell you and you ARE gonna tell somebody. Generally we all know that in restaurants or shops or any sort of labour jobs out there, foreign workers usually get a lower pay than local citizens, right? How much lesser, we do not know, but probably good enough to keep them flocking into our countries. But what I'm gonna tell you, people, is so shocking, so outrageous, so piss-ifying, it's just plain wrong. Wait, I haven't even mention the perpetrators. It's this particular Japanese restaurant in this particular mall in Klang lah okay. (can I make it any more obvious?)

THEY PAY THEIR FOREIGN WORKERS RM 1.00 per hour.

Do the Math people, say they work for 10 hours per day, they earn RM 10.00 per day. That's barely enough to cover food and rent in Klang or KL or any city for a day! Plus, some of them aren't just any foreign worker, they're graduates from their home country. The currency exchange rate is so high they'd rather go for laborious jobs than settle for white-collar jobs in their own country. It doesn't take an economist of sociologist to know that it's an unhealthy system that will break down eventually. Gosh, consider their living conditions (barely livable, ask me next time...), the money they have to sent back to their children and wives at home, the fact that they're engineering graduates doing the mopping and cleaning up in a restaurant, in a foreign land that accuses foreigners for every little crime commited. The exploitation and prejudices held up against them is big enough to spark riots. (and there goes the self-fulfilling prophecy of an increased crime rate!)


We are seriously bringing judgement upon ourselves.

It's like global warming. The superpowers like US, China, Japan are the ones with the highest carbon dioxide emission, yet when the glacial ice melts and the sea level rises, is it not the little islands and shore-lined countries that suffer? In India, whole villages would be swallowed by the rising waters. Already third-world countries are experiencing flood and droughs and tycoons brought by climatic change. Yes, we can 'cuci tangan' and say that we're not directly involved with any of these, but here's the fact, we will suffer the consequences together. Already, we are. Thanks to that stupid manager in the sushi restaurant, we now have a bunch of very angry and repressed foreign workers in our midst, try multiplying that by every factory and restaurants in Malaysia that underpays their foreign worker and we get a Malaysia on very 'good' terms with it's neighbouring country. Oversimplified but you gotta admit there's some truth in it...

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Hope, nevertheless.


But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! -Amos 5: 24

My personal favourite: Many seek an audience with a ruler, but it is from the Lord that man gets justice. Proverbs 29: 16


For references: Isaiah 56, 58-61; Amos 4-6

Modes of Perception

Let's say A put on a pair of blue sunnies, and then A looks at a yellow object which A didn't know was yellow, it would appear blue to A right? Then, let's say B, who has on a pair of red sunnies then looks at another object, which is really blue, it would appear to B as dark red instead. So here goes the conversation,

A : Hey, nice shirt! It's so blue.
B: Blue? Haha, a bit bluish lah, but it's actually red. I like your red shirt too.
A: Red meh? Where got, it's blue lah. And hello! I'm wearing blue too.
B: Huh? I'm in red..yada ya da yadaa..
A: yada yadaa

and then they started raising their voices, grabbing each other's collars, wrestling on the ground and so on, each sure that they were the right one. Considering their condition, each was being perfectly logical but still both were wrong and the sunnies impaired their judgement. Haha, ponder. =D

P.S. By the way, A was actually wearing a pink shirt, and B in yellow.

Almost slipped up.

Aha! Baby faces! XD

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And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3: 17-19

Ahh, the highlights speaks volumes. =)