I Am Exhausted

Just came back from Adelaide.

One word:

BROWN.

Yay!

I'll be going off to AYC (Australian Youth Convention) tomorrow!!! Anddddddd I have to wake up at 3am!! (boo) Plane's gonna be leaving at 6:30am, arriving at Adelaide at 7:10am. Whoo. I pray that I won't get sick during camp so I'll be healthy when I go back to Msia. K, gotta go pack up. byes.

I Cannot Survive Without...

TELFAST!

I need my daily dose of hay fever drug relief. Otherwise I'd be clawing my eyes and sneezing my nose off every. single. DAY. during Spring...

You know I love you Spring, but sorry, it's just too hard...

I will now *gasp* post pictures of flowers (from our manic oversized flower breeding ground garden) - yes. The very ones that try as they like to make Spring miserable for me.

Most photos are taken by Esther - she takes all the credit (why do I fail at taking photos?) Oh wait, I take some credit too because she used my camera! Hahahaha. K.

Photos taken during Winter and Spring of this year.

I actually like this picture...
I wonder why...That's it! IT HAS NO FLOWERS ;B Just the leaves.
I think I took this one...during one cold cold Winter morning. Hah.


Nice blue and red contrast.
The blue bit is part of our front porch.


Aw, triplets!
This pic is, dare I say, pretty nice.


They look dangerous.
Careful, they bite. Rawr!

Seriously, we have way too many flowers. I had to go through a couple hundred photos of our their garden. By 'their' I meant the rest of my family.


Last pic. Rather symbolic I think.

Conclusion...I think I may have a love-hate relationship with these buggers lubly flowers.
:D


I need a change of pace -
Presenting, CityLife! 2nd (or is it the largest?) largest church in Melbourne.

I was happily taking photos here until I saw the sign that said "no photography".
Just testing out the panoramic options in my camera. Too bad I wasn't sitting exactly in the middle, otherwise this pic would have been better.

And finally...

Taken on 'free dress day' in the one of the Art rooms of our last couple of days left at school before the exams.
Will miss these guys :(
I just realized that everyone's wearing glassed 'cept for me and Steph. Hmmm.

Of Birthdays & SMG

This post is a little overdue - internet too slow. Used up most of our bandwidth allowance this month watching (whisper it) Super Junior videos and (whisper it) re-watching Winter Sonata. Hah. But I cbs waiting for it to reset this Saturday so here we go!

Last Saturday (the 15th) was dad's birthday. We wanted to make his birthday really special to encourage him as he had and still is having a really really tough year this year. There were countless physically, mentally and emotionally challenging situations that he had to face and us as his family could not do a lot to help alleviate his metaphoric pain. So we wanted to do something extra special to cheer him up; reminding him that we will always be there as a family to support him through all the tough times.

~The Plan~

First off - the present - what does dad want/need? Methinks cologne- gives him that professional-ness. lol. Tie??? No way, he has enough already and it's so generic as well, I want something that he has never had before. So cologne it was. Second, the cake. Cheesecake? No, not again. Getting sick of cheesecake. Why not an ice-cream cake? Homemade- extra special - cos of the effort put into it. Good idea. Goes and buys ice-cream, well, technically its yogurt ice-cream.

~Friday night~
(Ice-cream Yogurt ice-cream shopping)

hum dee dum deee dum. *walks into Safeway, Foresthill; heads straight for dessert section* Hmmm, Bulla's - no...Cornettos - yum - but not what I want...BULLA'S YOGURT ICE-CREAM - SCORE! Now what flavour? Mango. Perfect *continues browsing frozen dessert section* OoooH! Hazelnut gelato! Never tried that before, 99.5% fat free also! Bonus! (lol) Two different flavours enough? Yeah, why not. *hurries to biscuit section* Biscuit base? Uhm. oatmeal biscuits and Oreos *yummy*

Arrives home, attempts to hide ice-cream in fridge. Success. Nighty-night.

~Saturday Morning~

Still haven't bought dad's present yet. Planning to get him cologne. Difficult objective. Do not know what smell dad likes. O: Wished dad a happy birthday during breakfast. I went to the doctors with bro and dad (Mark had to get his big-ol'-ugly-gash-on-his-left-brow-checked). Had a ball making fun of his single eyebrow (the other eyebrow was covered in band-aid) and the fact that he'll get a permanent scar similar to Kovu's scar from Lion King 2 but it doesn't extend till his eye) Next up, to the market for groceries and what-not. Grabbed two 1L carton of soymilk (my favourite) at this cheap supermarket thingo. I also managed to persuade Mark discreetly to come with me to Knox to get dad's present. My 'excuse' to dad to let me off at Knox Shopping mall was that I wanted to go to the library. Which was true.

~Saturday Afternoon~

Went straight to business; actually, I stopped by at Game to get my longed Wii games (Okami and Super Mario Galaxy) and thankfully there was a sale on; but I couldn't find Okami *cry* but the latter was easily located; anyway, managed to purchase SMG for $20 less off it's original price! Score! Was originally $99.99. Then I saw De Blob for $49.99 - original price $79.99. Definite buy. And guess what? Mark paid for it!! Hahahaha, didn't need to spend my money. What? He has like more than $2000+ in his account! But I did have to shout him a Fruit Flo from New Zealand Natural (too overpriced!)

Back to business. Found the right cologne for dad. I was glad I bought Mark with me cos my nose wasn't functioning properly yet and we chose a really subtle Pal Zileri. Had a hard time choosing between the 50mL bottle or the 100mL bottle as I was worried that dad might not like it and I'll just be wasting money buying the 100mL bottle if he never uses it so we opted for the 50mL bottle. Paid the 44 something odd dollars for it and went hunting for a birthday card (I would have preferred to make it myself but I didn't have time to buy card and make it in time for dinner. I could have gone out and bought the card earlier during the week you might ask. Well, problem was, I still had my exams. Also bought a nice, little, snug bag -for the present mind you, not for me, though one would be fine too :D. Walked 20mins home from the mall. I had to sneak the present in. Then I quickly wrapped the gift, made the ice-cream cake, got everyone to write in the card.

~Saturday Evening~

Ate a measly dinner of instant noodles; didn't have time to cook an extravagant meal as mum was working and dad was not allowed to cook anyway since it was his birthday. Besides, time wasn't in our favour that week. I urged them to hurry and eat and clean the tables and dishes before we bring out the cake. I made two separate ones. Of course I did not mix the mango yogurt ice-cream with le hazelnut gelato - they just don't go well together. The hazelnut ice-cream cake was mixed with a packet of Oreos (crushed) with an oatmeal biscuit base; the mango yogurt ice-cream was just that, nothing added atop same oatmeal biscuit base.

The result?

(Dad's getting really old D:)

We sang 'Happy Birthday'. Took some photos. Dad got uncooperative and did not blow out the candles, instead he did the frantic wave of the hand thing...sigh...then we dug into the cake, everyone liked it. I loved it, haha, 'specially the Oreos one (I love Oreos) Then I made everyone go to the living room for sharing and stuff. We had 'fellowship' together saying encouraging stuff to dad and I (whisper it) cried. Dad too shed a few tears. I told him that (I'm paraphrasing cos I can't remember exactly what I said) "We just want you (dad) to know that we know every little thing that you do for us; cooking for us even though you come home from work exhausted and drained; looking after me during my exams, 'massaging' my feet (it's an Chinese thing - like acupuncture but without needles. Apparently your big toe is your head and if you have a head ache or smtg massage it. Haha) when I was sick; praying for me; encouraging me; going to the market every Saturday to buy food for the family; all those that you do for the family even though you have a lot on your plate and we don't thank you enough. So I, we, just wanted to thank you and let you know that we appreciate you and continue to tell you that we are here to journey with you through your hard times etc etc." All that was said through many pauses because I kept wanting to burst into tears...IT'S SO HARD CONVEYING WHAT YOU WANNA SAY WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE CRYING. GAH. But I managed. Yay. Then dad was allowed to open his present. And I immeadiately went and smelt it cos I wanted to triple check that the perfume was the right one. Thank God dad liked it, (I high-fived Mark) it had a really nice, not-too-strong smell that suits him. Thank God we chose correct.

I guess that was it for the day, we finished off with a thanksgiving prayer. Just giving thanks for God's numerous blessings then dad went off to take a shower. As for me, I Super Mario Galaxy-ed all night (finally) LoL. Mark went off again, to his beloved Albatross18 game...Esther le...I think she watched me SMG-ing...Mum went back to reading this Chinese romance novel. hah.

All in all, we had a very meaningful day; I think it was a much needed day after everything we'd gone through this year.

Happy 47th Dad! Love you!!!

Pre, During & Post - Exam Feelings

Last week has been pretty miserable for me. First, I got sick- AGAIN - (ate too much salted cashews and not drank enough water). So the sore throat came. What's more, I had a cold as well...that time I was thinking God must have hated me/wanted to punish me/test me/other let that happen to me when I had 3 more exams to go. So I was pretty down after I did my Vis Comm exam on Tuesday and had no motivation at all to study for my Art exam coming up on Friday.

Thoughts like: I'd do badly no matter how much effort I put into my revision so why bother in the first place? I might not even get the score I need to enter into Health Science and Deakin. So why bother at all?? were constantly cycling around in my mind. I could not bring myself to trust in God and His guidance during my exams and of my future; I felt that God does not want me to do well in my VCE because of some other 'greater' plan that He has for me. A plan that I will not be happy with.

But then this reminded me of the Israelites and how they complained and opposed God and His plans for them to enter into the promised land. They were faithless and ungrateful- they were proud, they did not trust God to lead them - just like me. And what did God do? He punished them again and again, still they argued and complained - too stubborn and forgetful.

That's right, forgetful of all the great things that God had done for them during the journey through the dessert - He gave them manna and quail when there was no food; water from a rock; pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day to guide and find suitable camping grounds for them; devine protection and strength against enemies and sooo much more.

Anyway, I've finally finished my 12 years of school on Friday the 14th. Amazingly, given the limited time I had to revise due to my being sick, I was able to write well for it. I guess, like Dad said, God wanted to test my faith in Him. Even though it's all over, I don't feel 'happy'. I guess I'm still a bit uncertain about my future. I don't know if I did well enough. I'm convinced I stuffed my exams...and consequently...my future. *crai* BUT in reading Exodus through to Deuteronomy; it taught me to fear God more and to humble myself to Him, letting Him drive the car that is my life. And also to not forget the countless blessings He has given me during hard times and to be patient in waiting to see the 'big picture' God has already painted, just not unveiled fully. I will continue to trust in Him, knowing that whatever He plans is in the end so much better than my own.

Polymer Clay

Since it's my very last year at school, I wanted to give my teachers a gift but I didn't know what to give that's meaningful and long-lasting (of course I want them to remember me!) So I decided to hand make cute keychains/charms out of polymer clay (some sort of clay-like material that you can mold into different shapes based on PVC).

I went to Riot to get some after my study session at the library. Discovered that they were on sale for $2.99; if not they'd cost about $4.75 per 56g (picture 6 blocks of Cadbury Old Gold - yah, very exp for so LITTLE) I went and bought six different colours at once *piggybank cries* without even trying it out first because I did not wanna pay the full price (sale ends tomorrow, see)

Haven't experimented with them yet but I'll get around to doing that either sometime during this week or the next depending on how much revision I've done. I've never used polymer clay before so I don't know whether my gifts will be successful. I don't even know what I want to make...

Look at some of the sculptures. How can they look so real???? It's clay wadddd...

AND LOOK AT THAT!

(professional clay modeller - Garie Sim from Sg.)

I wanna get good like them....someday....someday....

English Exam and Reflections

Well, today was the day that I had been dreading -- the English exam (my last one. EVER.) Could not sleep at all night before, maybe I did drift into stages 1, 2 and 3 but not the fourth stage of sleep.

I was too busy worrying about what the prompt would be; how I will approach it; whether or not I will get a high English mark...whether or not God will be with me during exams...had my doubts because I was convinced that I'd be punished because of my lack of motivation during preparations - now I know that that was the most ridiculous thing I could think.

I'm touched by my family's faith in me and God that He will (and did) lead me throughout this exam. They took the time to pray for me and with me. I thank God for a loving family.

I also thank God for being with me before and throughout the exam. He kept my nerves in check (otherwise I'd be hyperventilating and be experiencing psychologically induced physical symptoms - stomach aches) Yeah, I was pretty calm. Even though I had ONE LAST SENTENCE to finish before the woman overseeing us grabbed my paper away (literally). She snatched it out of my hands *cry*

My thoughts? Well, I would be elated if I got over 40 out of 50 for my English...otherwise I'm just happy that it's over. PHEW.

Oh and reflections. I'm grateful that I don't have to suffer like my friend did. My friend...lets say 'K'- well, K- she- uh- has seizures- O.o

After the English exam, I found K and she told me she was feeling very sick (was already very sick during exams - worst thing that could happen to you because the exam results determine which uni and which course you will take. A bit like STPM/SPM) and wanted me to go with her to the health center. So I did, asked her how she was feeling (I knew she was generally unwell; get's sick often and faints often and that's about all I knew) So we hurried to the health center. Nurse wasn't in. She was having lunch. We were told to go into the room first and that the nurse will be with us shortly. We went in to the room then K just sort of fainted and started having seizures, I panicked. Thankfully the nurse came in soon after and told me to move away anything that could hurt her. Her seizures lasted about 3 minutes? Then she went into a semi-comatose state for about 10 minutes or so before she could respond to anything.

I was pretty flustered by the end of it, but somehow I was calm (I guess it's cos of the nurse being there, hahha.) Anyway, I got to speak to K after that when she was feeling much better. Asked her about her seizures; the frequency of it (average about 2 every week *gasp*); when it started happening to her et cetera. K told me that it started happening a year ago. But before that for 3 years she had non-stop headaches (from when she wakes up to when she sleeps) and that made me go - "Wow, that must be...so...difficult to endure (FOR 3 YEARS!)"

So reflections. Yeah, I'm really blessed to have a healthy body and to not suffer headaches and seizures! It was an interesting experience for me. I know what to do in situations like those now, haha.

*Note: If you do come across anyone having a seizure - MOVE any object away that might hurt the person. POSITION them in the recovery position - it's essential so that they won't choke on their tongue (yes, that happens.) And I guess, call the ambulance. But in K's case there was no need (partly because the nurse has previously been informed of K's condition)
So if you are feeling like you're the unluckiest person on Earth, there are bound to be others worst off than you.

More exams for me...I have 5 more to go

Psycholody is on the 6th.
Methods 1 - 7th
Methods 2 - 10th
Visual Communication and Design - 11th
Art - 14th

PRAY FOR ME!

Oh and Esther's 14's birthday!! WUAhahha. She doens't know I posted her photo, let's keep it that way, eh? XD THE CAKE WAS DELICIOUS.

Can't believe she's 14!

Because I am a Boring Person

Hi again, I'm back from my hiatus, actually not really, just wanted to let y'all know that I'm still here and have not abandoned this blog (might, not sure yet, maybe after my exams)

Well, it's been a while. I don't really know what to say. Actually I want to post about a camp I went to just two weeks ago but I'm super lazy and I'm supposed to be studying for my exams (coming up on the 30th Oct), still.

No photos to upload. Actually I've uploaded some on facebook, so go check it out there.

I'm planning major renovations to the blog. But that's undecided. Well. Over and out.

Grace.

GL is going on hiatus

I should have done this a few weeks ago. Anyway, I'll be back...soon?

If GL was defined using an image, this should be it.

One comment: WOW

I can't believe I'm actually doing this...but I deemed it worthy to share with you guysers =D

Just when you cannot possibly think of any more ways to be creative with your hands, someone comes up with this:

The Million Dollar Question

Should I go to the school formal?????

If so, what the heck am I supposed to wear???

A dress? WHAT DRESS?? OMG

The idea of finding a nice dress and wearing make-up just unnerves me...what to do??

I don't want to miss this once in a life time opportunity to attend a school formal!

I Feel Sic!

'cuse the pun. Yes, I was sick by the time I came home from school on Friday. The constant sneezing, the uncomfortable, itchy feeling in my throat - a cold!

Saturday, I was bed-ridden (not really, but I didn't feel well enough to be talking and going out etc, so I stayed at home) I communicated through sign-language with a few croaks now and then because of my sore throat, it was comical though...=D

Despite that I had fun, especially getting others to bring me drinks and get stuff for me. I also sat in front of the computer the whole day drawing...I finally finished the picture on Sunday...even though I was supposed to be doing homework :X

I'm happy with it I decided to share it with you guys... ;D It's fan art of newly released Vampire Knight anime about vampires, humans, love and what not.

Kaname Kuran & Yuuki Cross- VAMPIRE KNIGHT
(lovers? I don't really want them to be..haa...)

It's only a sample picture, hence it's covered with heavy watermarks, sorry guys, I'm a bit paranoid when it comes to my artwork...heh...If you want to see the complete, rendered image you'll have to go to my Deviantart page but not too soon, I haven't started rendering it yet...but I will maybe in the end of term 2 holidays..(July i think)

Ciaos-su

I Will Follow You

I have been rather stressed out lately - school, youth...school. Nothing I didn't expect except for the stress part =D. Unfinished holiday homework just made it worse, come to think of it, I regretted wasting my ample holiday time in front of the Wii playing Twilight Princess (still am, hahahahaha. It's nearly finished though) I have a bad habit of reading/playing something that interests me until I can't do anything else unless the game/book is finished. It seems like I cannot function properly until I get it over and done with, which is what happened with Twilight Princess and my 2 weeks worth of term break. GAH

Now, a week into term 2, I have to catch up with English essays whilst knowing that I have two important English SACs (school assessment coursework) on the 21st and the 28th April (yes, ppl i'm hinting that you pray for me, =D) And now I'm stressing over how incompetent I am in English etc etc etc. It's the same with Art, since we have too much freedom to do anything we want, I get lost and confused with what I should be doing. It's way better with all the rules and the time limits.

Conclusion: I AM WAYYY BEHIND

I also had a Psyc. SAC today and I totally and utterly stuffed up. Geez, how could I get parasympathetic nervous system and sympathetic nervous system mixed up??? I am so angry with myself because I just blown 10 marks out of 50 marks because of that. It's worth 50% of my enterscore!!! *gasp* *shock* *faint*

I guess I'm putting too much pressure on myself. But I should, it's my last year of highschool and I want to go to a decent uni. I've had it with my attitude to learning in the last few years, especially back in Msia. You don't know how lazy I was back then. I didn't finish any homework on time. The only thing I was good at (or I thought I was good at- which I'm not) was English, and what good did that do to me? I had to constantly "copy" (and edit) off my friends in essays and homework (not English though, I don't think I even finished my essays let alone hand them up). Gosh, I'm appalled at myself now that I reflect upon it.

So whilst I contemplated these things;

E.g.
"I stuffed up Psych SAC, what to doooo *palm-forehead*"

"What am I supposed to do in Art? What themes shall I pursue? What mediums to use? But I'm bad with paint, I only know pencil sketching which ain't that good enough"

"I need to finish my English essays, but I find it had to sit there and concentrate on it cos it's hard to understand"

"I must do well in all my subjects to get a good enterscore to get a Commonwealth support place for when I do uni"

"I'm not good enough to be president"

My sister too had me worried and feeling helpless. She's been having negative thoughts and it's so hard to help her especially when she wakes you up in the middle of the night and you just want to sleep but you can't anymore cos you're worried about her and ahhhhhhhh.

Stress stress stress stressstressstressstressstressstressstressstressstressstress

And now i have a big ol' red ugly pimple on my nose D: and I want it gone! Lol.

I advised Esther to stop worrying, trust in God etc etc etc. My parents too said the same thing but in different words.

But only now did I truly realize the full meaning of the words I utter so thoughtlessly to Esther. I really do need to let go fully and just lay in God's presence, with not a care in the world knowing that God has by burdens. He will look after me even though it's so hard. Even as I write this, I am still coming in terms of with what I just wrote.

Thus, I am reminded of Matthew 11:28-
"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest."


"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you REST."

How wonderful is that? "I WILL GIVE YOU REST" A sermon was preached on this topic just two weeks ago. I guess I thought it didn't apply to me then, but now, oh-ho it's applied to me all right, all 54 letters of it.

I heard a voice say, "Who cares about getting a high enter score, what matters is how you will serve Me by applying what you learn in uni later. You can still go to TAFE and learn the same thing, sure it will take an extra year or so but as long as whatever you're studying can be used to gratify Me then do not worry." (which means I need to focus on pleasing God and serving Him, not about getting to Uni with high enterscore so I have 'face')

That reminded me of Matthew 6:33
"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."

Again, another bible verse I know well but sometimes I lose the real meaning of.

So maybe if i focus on serving God, then maybe all the other things will be added unto me. Sure I would love to get a good enterscore but that's not the real point in discipleship. (I miss disciple classes. Guys if there's one near you, GO FOR IT! It was the only intense bible study that really got me knowing the REAL God not just God-is-good-He-loves-us kinda thing which He does, but that He is definitely way more than that. Disciple classes made me fear Him and made me more aware of my surroundings and what I am doing wrong or not doing at all...so yah...go disciple class! I also want to redo EE and complete it properly. Sigh, no chance here)

I know y'all just skim through the post, but heck. I feel so much better writing it. Haha. I am revitalized!! Whoo!

*scurries back to do homework*

Tagged by Dory

Instructions: Remove ONE question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged. Whoever does the tag will have blessings from all.

1. What's your favorite anime at the present time?
^ Ouran ftw!(I dare you to watch it, really it's good. At least try the first part of episode 1 and the second part and the third part) Even though that ended a while ago...but I'm still not over it (bring on season 2 ppl!...pls...?)

2. Given the chance, what special ability/power would you like to have?
^ Power mimicry like Peter Petrelli (referring to Heroes =D)

3. If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 3 blog buddies you would take with you? Why?
^ I will try to fit all into my luggage and smuggle them aboard so that when I get stranded they will also get stranded with me. Heh. Too ambitious?

4. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
^ Right now, I want to go back to Sibu so badly. =(

5. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
^ That all my other dreams will come true?

6. Do you believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain?
^ What sort of a question is this? Yes?

7. What are you afraid to lose the most now?
^ My enthusiasm for Christ (stress is getting to me...*gasp*)

8. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
^ Pay the mortgage, refurbish house (yes, I love my houses), pay for our uni fees, go back to Sibu every year, get my notebook, legit software (haha, shhhh), new Wii games (The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess!), a new digicam...so many more things that I want but not need..(can't follow the ways of the world!)

9. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
^ Weird question...hmm...I don't know...seriously.

10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
^ Godly, enthusiastic, beautiful.

11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
^ Must be God-fearing, Godly, loving and humble.

12. Which type of person do you hate(hate is a strong word; me no likie) dislike the most?
^ Immature, irresponsible, selfish, stuck-up people. (I am all those too, smtimes..xD)

13. What is your ambition?
^ Disney!

14. If you have fault, would you rather the people around you point out to you or would you rather they keep quiet?
^ Of course, w/o criticism, how are we gonna improve? Sometimes a good kick in the bum helps =D

15. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
^ Knowing the purpose of my life (to serve, praise and worship God)

16. Are you a shopaholic or not?
^ No, I'm a certified fantasy-book-and-movieholic (anyone watched Flight Plan?? It's good innit??)

17. Find a word to describe the person who tagged you.
^ Inspiring

18. If you have a chance. Which part of your character you would like to change?
^ Laziness def. I'm supposed to be doing homework now...

19. Is there anything that you have done which you regret?
^ Yeah. No, I will not elaborate, tyvm.

20. Do you love your life at the moment?
^ Yes, even though it's hard to live my life.

I don't have people to tag...Dory, you stole my preys! Haha.

I Can't WAIT

CoN - Prince Caspian

(the vid is so tiny!)

Go here for a bigger one =D

LOL

Yeah. Okay. My friend and I were chatting about what we should give my other friend for her birthday - which is TODAY the 29th of February - and we got to talking about ipods (since she mentioned to
identity_****@hotmail.com that she would like one...)

So whilst I considered it, identity_****@hotmail.com inquired about whether or not Dick Smiths Electronics does indeed sell ipods...and...herein my reply that followed:

graceliong90@hotmail.com says:
its dicksmiths man <-(meaning that they sell just about everything electronic) identity_****@hotmail.com says:
lol me and my friend were talking about the name before

identity_****@hotmail.com says:
how their logo has dick then a head following it

identity_****@hotmail.com says:
xD

graceliong90@hotmail.com says:
lol <-(took me a while to understand the full meaning- hence the non-capital reply of 'lol') graceliong90@hotmail.com says:
LOL <-(yeap, sure is funny, but regretfully crude D:)

sorry~! Can't help it! :X

But seriously. I feel sorry for the company...XD

On to a more...'appropriate'...topic - SWIMMING CARNIVAL! It's a yearly thing that most schools (that I know of) have one at their local swimming pool. Ours was on the 22nd, I was gonna post about this earlier but haven't had the time to do it. For many, it's a special day where they can turn up in their house colours (my house is Rees which is red) dressed in a variety of costumes and gigs that would cause them to be shunned by the society - that is if it had been a normal Friday - but nay, it wasn't, because it's the swimming carnival! Yeah, all the older students (year 11s + 12s) came up dressed for action - ninja outfits, teenage mutant ninja turtles, hippies, Hawaiian girls, sailors, fish, kids, tribesmen etc. (basically anything weird and wonderful you can possibly imagine!)

I found this group amusing in a wrong sort of way...hahaha. Just look at 'em! Note the guy in red...this reminds me soooooo much of Borat and no, I haven't seen Borat. *smile*

They look like they time-warped from the 60s to now. I'm still trying to figure out why they even bother doing something like this...mmm...culture? Mayb.

The reason they're jumping is so that other students +teachers could take a photo of them and I just so happened to be sitting right beside them. How convenient.

Sailor girls...and a school of fish behind them D:

Bad quality...my camera hates me and decided at that time to lose battery power. So I had to take this with my mobile. Sigh.

Our group decided to go with a look-like-a-child-theme. Apparently I did not find this idea entertaining, so I opted to wear a cheap necklace and have zinc painted on my face. Yup, I look fat, pls don't remind me. =D

Though it was fun at first, we soon got bored and sat there and wasted time...then it rained and we all rushed inside for shelter and we sat some more and I drew. Btw, Esther entered the swimming competition for breaststroke under 13s and she got 4th which is last. =D AND I MISSED IT COS I WAS OUTSIDE!!! I wanted to watch them raceeee.....*sniff sniff*

Enjoy.

Conclusion

It's the first time in a looong time that I had to rely on God every second of my life especially after being elected- surely a plus. Anyone watch Kid Nation???

I have a Psyc. test tomorrow...sigh...pray.for.meeeeeee. thanks. =D

Eclipse Mints - Cinnamon Flavoured = YUCK

I'm wondering if Msia sells 'Eclipse Mints' - you know, the ones in the metal tin? No? They look like this:Anyhoo, I tried the orange flavoured ones and fell in love with them, then my friend suggested I try the cinnamon ones. Quote: "They are my favourite, try them; very nice." End quote.

And this is what I concluded after the first mint. Chilli-ish hot + mint + sugar = worst mint flavour ever.

Ughhh, but I still want to collect the tins (I have two more to collect, the peppermint and the spearmint flavoured ones): they're the only reasons I bought them anyway. =) It costs $2.50 for a tin of 50 mints.

Then there's the 'me being the president of JMYF (Junior Methodist Youth Fellowship)' thing. Yah, we had our yearly elections last Saturday (16/02/08) and apparently I got elected to be the president for this year. Whoo hoo..Not that I didn't expect it; I am the oldest now since all the older ones moved on to EMYF (English Methodist Youth Fellowship) so I guess it is kinda my responsibility to serve. Plus, I do want to serve God in anyway possible and this year, it's through being president.

Hopefully I'll be a good president. I have so many worries and fears and I don't know a thing about leading the comm.

Please pray for me and my committee members!! JMYF needs your prayers and support to:

• Grow spiritually mature in fellowship and doing bible study
  
• To get more ppl to come and stay in JMYF (we only have about 8 regular members le!)
• JMYFers (ppl who come to JMYF) needs to be more enthusiastic and to serve too
• basically all the above and loads loads more...

We also just had our first committee meeting of the year last night - man was that tiring. We came up with a theme - COOL (yes, I 'ripped off' 2004's Msian Youth Convention theme. But not intentionally! Cos the pastor suggested to have a theme like COOL and make it stand for something, so I just said why not "Christ Our Only Love?" and everyone agreed and decided to stick with it - sorry!)

98% Human, 2% Avian

Hi guys...I know, I know- haven't updated for a loooooong time- actually, not that long, only 2 weeks. =D Okay, that's a bad excuse.

Ima gonna try and condense what happened in the past two weeks.

Last Wednesday we had a 'lock-down' in our school- a real one. I was in my Psyc. class then and the bell started ringing, we thought smtg had gone wrong with the bell cos it wasn't lunch time so we ignored the first ring..then it started ringing again and the teacher said that it might be a drill so we promptly crawled under the tables near the middle of the classroom, laughing and joking along (didn't know it was real) until a teacher came to our classroom and said that it was and that it wasn't smtg to be worried about cos no danger to schl. Apparently, there had been an armed robbery near our school and the guy was heading towards school. Come to think about it no wonder there was this police helicopter flying for a while before the lock-down...hmmm...

A friend of mine said that the robber was actually caught in her neighbour's yard, complete with an entourage of unmarked police cars and all. That was pretty interesting...wondering why we had huddle in the middle of the classroom and not near the walls? Well statistics say that in Aus, you are potentially in more danger to be attacked by knifes (knives?) than a gun(s)...cos unlike the US, we can't purchase guns unless you get a special license (very hard to get). So hence "stay in the middle of the classroom under tables." Heard got another uni shooting yesterday in the US...again...geez...don't they ever stop? Hoh, Phebs, you musta heard it on the news..right? I feel scared for you :X Mmmm.

Other than that...I've been busy busy busy...doing 2 art folios, psychology...METHODS AH (I hate permutations and combinations- what cPr and nPr ) Oh and my favouritest hobby- reading....seriously, I'm such a book lover that when others are busy being distracted by TV and computer games, I get distracted by books (extremely easily). Like on Valentine's Day, we had no school cos of the teachers strike and stuff and I promised myself to catchup on my homework...which I did..sorta. I started doing homework at 9-ish then stopped at 11:30-ish read a bit of "The Magician's Guild" by Trudi Canavan, ate lunch and chatted with Phe a bit then continued reading till I finished the whole book at 8...all 500+ pages of it...O.o Remind me to not do that again..I get headaches for reading over an hour...why??? Do you guys? So whole day I got a headache..but I didn't care cos I wanted very much to finish the book....AND I DIDN'T FINISH MY HMWRK! AHH. Now I want to find the other 2 books in the trilogy and read and read somemore. =D

I also read "Maximum Ride and the Angel Experiment" by James Patterson - another really interesting book. I love the characters and their sense of humour: very funny! It's part of a series...Go check them out if you have a chance. Guess what?? They might even make it in to a movie!! Whoot!! I love good fantasy books, love 'em *hint hint*
If you go and recommend Eragon to me I'll puke. Eragon is - oh pleaaaasee, I couldn't stand Eragon. En'tho the ideas are good, his story writing isn't to my taste the way he describes every single bit of detail of Eragon and his surroundings just makes it long and boring...and and and bah...he needs to give the character more 'oomph' Eragon is a country boy yet he talks like like some well-literate person from the city or smtg- what planning is that?? Okay, I'll stop criticizing.

Sigh...now I'm tormented cos I cannot find the other 2 remaining books in the trilogy by Trudi Canavan..oh where are you??? I'm desperate to read them...I might even go the the local library to search later...hah...

ME WAN

I'll leave you with quotes from Maximum Ride series....lol

This is my favourite (whilst introducing Gazzy/The Gasman):
"He'd been the Gasman ever since he was a baby. What can I say? The child has something funky with his digestive system. A word to the wise- stay upwind!" - Maximum Ride.

and another quote (this is when Max- le main character/heroine, was talking about their pet dog they found called Total):
"Did I want a dog? No.

Did I need a dog? Also no.

We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from! Could we afford to feed a dog?

Wait for it- no!"

- Maximum Ride.


Oh, the sarcasm *smile*

I are maths stupid

School finally started on the 30th, a day earlier than most students because...why...'cos we're year 12 - the last year of school, also the most busiest cos we have exams! Whoo~ We have this thing called VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) which is pretty much equivalent to STPM (no, we don't have SPM cos then we won't have to waste our time and money studying foundation :D)

These 3 days has been surprisingly tiring for me...mainly cos I sleep at 11+ (haaa...it's healthy wad...better than some ppl *eyes Eric*) and cos I think too much when I'm in bed...like what themes I want to explore in Art and VisCom (VCD/Visual Communication and Design/design stuff), how I'm gonna do this, do that...argh!

Art is not as easy as you think! You gotta do brainstorming, annotate them, do research, annotate the research...more research, trialling of techniques (painting, sketching, etc etc) annotate all the stuff you do, then have to produce the artwork, keep record of how you actually do it, take photos...more annotating..and by the end of it all, you have one big fat A3 size folio and several art pieces that have to be handed in for the examiners to mark you..AND I WANT TO GET THE TOP SCORE OF 50! And that's only for Art! I also have VisCom le also require all the things I just typed down!

So at night I can't sleep cos I think about ideas and stuff...=( and I have bad bad dreams...like last night I have this dream where I was on top of a building and then dunno why, the building starts to break and collapse (terrorist attack I think, haha) and then you're hanging onto the railing and the whole building goes crashing down and you feel the inertia and your stomach flying and you scream your lungs out and then it goes black and you actually think you died...then I opened my eyes and realize that it was just a dream. -_- Also I've had ridiculous dreams like getting married off, what's more, arranged marriage at like 20-22 and you think to yourself, "but I'm still so young!! I don't wanna get married! Why is this happening?? I don't love this guy, am I gonna be stuck with him the rest of my life etc etc." LOL it was actually quite unnerving really...

I still hate Telstra, still can't believe that they even count the upload rate wjakjdawijdawj;ljdjkhiouewoauiof!

Now, I'm rambling on about different stuff...like MATHS. I do not like maths, I'm bad at maths, I don't think I'll ever fully understand the fundamentals of maths and I definitely will get crap at maths...I got a D (I think) for maths even though it was way easier than the maths we did in form 4 ><. I NEED A TUTOR (no, Mark cannot be my tutor, namely cos he can't teach properly and I have to keep repeating his name over and over and over before he responds to me and I find that extremely annoying!)

I want to do good at maths, I want to get As and A+s for my tests and exams so I can get a good enough enter score. I am now forcing myself to finish any maths homework A.S.A.P. and be patient enough to ask Mark for help (gosh, he needs a social life) and to study and make a log book (notebook) of all the many graphs and equations like the derivatives of f(x) and whatnot. Please pray that I'll be really hardworking this year and do well in maths and get As and A+s. For English also! I got a C! I think that was cos I wrote out of topic...but still! A C is a no-no, so again, pray that I'll be able to write essays well, to be able to express what I think into words which I find hard and yah...and you're probably skimming through the post cos you're bored and lazy to read what I wrote cos I do that too, sometimes...=D

I'LL SHOW YOU MY TIMETABLE!! WHEEE

I have 5 subjects - English, Mathematical Methods, Psychology, Art and VisCom. The subjects are spread throughout 2 weeks...so it's week A and week B ( don't get mixed up later bring wrong books) and the blanks parts are the times where I have no classes so I can either go home earlier or go later to school, and there's this mentor group like home group but they changed it to mentor group and we have to meet once every week (highlighted in orange). I named it 'mental' group cos it's a waste of time, you just sit there and do exercises that supposedly will 'help' you with school.

You read it like (subject) (teacher's surname) and the (room it's in)

Like if it's English (my class is English B) and my English teacher is Ms. McIntosh and our English class is in Room H1 then the timetable there will say

ENGB MCI H6 (H is the block the room's in)

Sigh...pray for me ya??

I'll add a bonus picture of my school planner....hahas...=.=

To add, I might not be updating as much...maybe...depends whether I'm busy or not...hopefully I'll continue to update.



Oh, and GIMME THEMES TO EXPLORE FOR ART!!

I have

• Emotion (how we hide what we feel - having masks)
• Movement (how it is expressed, through colour, line, point)
• Nature vs the opposite of nature, lol dunno what it's called. (How nature can coexist with buildings etc.)
• Social status (rich ppl and poor ppl and how they treat each other, kinda cynical) Mark is really cynical...-.- he has this black aura around him most times...dunno why...haha
• ??
• ???
• ????help???

Depressed...

I felt sad after checking our daily usage of bandwidth on the 'net today...I don't think I will feel better unless you guys help me by joining me in prayer that dad will change the internet plan to the 25GB one! PUH-LEASEEEEE!!!

We are now on the 12GB plan thing and that's TOO LITTLE!!! HOH?? PHEBS YOU AGREE?? You also watch a lot of Korean/Singaporean dramas and with 12GB bandwidth allowance per month you cannot freely click on a link and watch the drama right??? YOU AGREE?? SEEE! kasjdwiajdjajd;wa DADDDD CHANGE THE PLANNNNNNNNNNNNNN *SIGH*

Anyway, we were originally on this 21GB plan with a different internet provider - Optus, now dad changed the plan cos he thought that the deal was good (a salesperson came to our house one day and persuaded dad to change to their company - Telstra - for reasons I cannot fathom, oh wait, it's to win back customers, well why do you want to win back customers unless it's cos ppl don't like your company cos Telstra badeth! No seriously, they are, got lots of bad publicity on TV last year)

What's more, we were promised unlimited bandwidth and sureeeee we got unlimited connection, just that the speed will be slowed down to 64kbs after you pass the 12gb limit (64kbs in layman terms = extremely slow) Terrence, you understand my plea, pray that dad will change plan quick! Cos we used up about 8+ gb already and it's not even been a week!! :S

Below is a screencap of our daily usage... AND I CANT BELIEVE THEY EVEN COUNT THE UPLOADS!! WHAT IS THIS TREACHERY??? HOW DARE THEY NOT INFORM US?? Now I will look upon salespeople with hate discontent in my eyes, you'd better watch out salesppl! I won't ever trust you!

Go on, click it

So kids, if you are ever here in Aus. do not seek Telstra for their products or services :)

Australian Open mens finals today! It's Novak Djokovic world no. 3, also happens to be my favourite player versus this unseeded guy Wilfred Tsonga which beat Nadal (2) in straight sets!! (Djokovic(3) beat Federer(1) in straight sets too! Like, woah)

Women's finals was yesterday...Maria Sharapova won..she's really good, she even beat Serena at 17 to win Wimbledon!

School's gonna start on the 30th, I'm so not looking forward to school...plus I haven't even finished my English homework yet! Ahhhhh.

I'm going overboard...

LOL, yes, definitely. 3 posts in 1 day? @.@ I guess I'm bored...sigh...I got someone to introduce you guys to!

This is my baby. I got her in Dec 2005 when we went to KL, I practically begged my parents to get me one and made excuses reasons to convince them to buy. It cost RM 300+, but I bet it's even cheaper now.

My baby, a short intro.

Now, about 2 years later, my baby is old enough to face the world of the dusty ComputerDesktop with more dust than the average store room (not really...but still v. dusty) and more grime than that of ComputerDesktop's most common inhabitant- Mouse. Together with it's neighbouring ally- the Keyboard, they pose a threat to mankind and their hygiene. When in action, Mouse and Keyboard will work profusely to collect dirt, dust and grime and annoy mankind as they frequent ComputerDesktop for reasons unbeknown to us. How do we stop this monstrosity? Experts believe that by separating the inhabitants, either by hiding them or by removing them from their habitat, mankind will cease to visit ComputerDesktop and hence mankind will not be buggered by the resulting grime of Mouse and Keyboard's daily routines and-

Eh? Sorry, was on the wrong track. I'll restart. :)

My baby, a short intro.

Now, about 2 years later, my baby is old enough to face the world of the dusty ComputerDesktop with more dust than the average store room (not really...but still v. dusty)....etc..etc..etc..

blah -_- I cbb continuing anymore. This is what I really meant:-

I took off my baby's protective plastic covering today that came with together with my baby which I raelly should have taken it off as soon as i started using it, but I couldn't bare to see it her so exposed so I left it...and now I'm showing her off because one, I'm terribly bored, two, I'm a proud mum and three, wait, no number three. I also hope that she'll stay with me at least until I get to Uni. or until I get a proper job, in which I will be needing a new baby like the one below ;D (Buy for me ya?)

Wacom Cintiq 21UX aka My Dear (LOL)

Woah, this is really cool.

Click here


Thanks for the link Dory!

Your Last Opportunity

I went to Camberwell Methodist Church yesterday for their English service. I enjoyed the sermon Rev. Gan was preaching that day about opportunities and how important prayer is.

This is kinda what he said (shortened)...it's not word for word but it should be alright.

Even if it was the last day of your life, nothing is more important than prayer. Through prayer, we keep in communion with God. So if we had one last opportunity, what would be the most important thing to do? Pray. Or in other words, to keep in communion with God by keeping the relationship alive through devotion, prayer and worship.

Rev. Gan then went on saying that most Christians are too busy or lazy to have that dedicated time for prayer and devotion (like me...but I'm trying!) and that nothing, nothing is more important in Christian life than prayer, no matter how busy we are. He then quoted from his friend/cousin (I forgot) which I thought, was worth a double thumbs-up goes like this:

"Ordinary people wait for opportunities, wise people look for opportunities but the very wise create opportunities."

Right on!

This reminded me that I should really dedicate a time just for prayer and devotion, not that I haven't, but dedicate a little more of my time...like say...30 mins? It that little? I want to be a very wise person by creating opportunities for myself to pray....XD

And again, devotion time is not because I have to do it or because I feel like doing it, but it's mostly because God is God and HE is the one worthy of all this attention, just like worship. We can't say, "Oh...I don't feel like worshiping today because I don't feel like singing etc etc." We worship because God is...well...GOD! The LORD of the universe! We are only His created beings! We have no right to say, "Sorry, I don't want to worship you today." (I learnt that from camp last year when this pastor was telling us that we worship God because of who He is not because of whether we want to or feel like it. Cos ppl were tired and all and weren't joining in the worhip...hehehehe)

So...yeah...SING PPL! and pray!

The downside of AO

NO MOVIES!! All the time slots for channel 7 is taken up by tennis (below, high-lighted in green. Sighhh) They normally would have movies and other interesting shows...but I'm kinda bored with all the tennis action. Hey, you would be too if the it's on morning, afternoon and night! At least it ends on the 27th. *click on pic to enlarge*

I'm bored outta my wits! But wait, there's Mythbusters! YAYYY, okay, me go watch =D

A (cold) Summer's Day (warning, long post!)

I met up with Jia Han on Sunday, I think it was the happiest I've been in a long long time-lol. It's nice to meet up with someone from Sibu again; to talk to each other in- as Phebs had put it- 'rojak language'; to pester her for every ittle wittle bit of information whether important or unimportant about friends and church; to gasp and laugh at stuff she told me and to somewhat feel a bit disheartened on the whole.

I asked the night before if she wanted to join me for church the next day, she agreed and I told her how to catch the train from Flinders Station to Mitcham Station (which is nearer to our house in Wantirna) We were promptly late for church, haha, as JH missed the earliest train and had to wait 30 more minutes for the next but we got there in the end. After church (it was at Grace Church, also near where I live...walk 15mins can get there) we went back to our house, chatted a while and then mum and dad took JH, me and my sister for lunch at a Vietnamese cafe at Box Hill the so-called 'Asian' town (sort-of, since that's where all the Asian food is). The food was good. I love Vietnamese noodles! I also wanted to post pictures of the food but I can't because I don't have any pictures to post, lol.

Me and JH then took the train from Box Hill back to Flinders Station which is in the city. The train ride took about 30 mins (very normal time spent on travel if you live here, you get used to it) so we talked a lot on the way...about youth worship, church, SPM and all that. Now I feel sad again...=( Miss you all!!!

We then walked to JH's hotel (yes, she's staying at a hotel for now until they find a house. Pray for her!!) Gosh..I wanna talk about Australian Open but not yet..calm down, Grace... -_-;; Anywayyy, we freshened up in JH's 5-star hotel (Crown Towers Hotel)..wahh the room there so nice...even got a flat screen 40-42 inch tv in the hotel room @.@ The hotel foyer was 'wahhh' lolol. Seriously, I gotta stop that. MMMmmmm. I asked her why not stay at another hotel where it was cheaper and she replied "Well, let's just say my dad knows how to pamper himself" and I laughed...lol, it was comical wad...

Since there wasn't anything much to do; we didn't wanna go shopping or walk around the city so we opted for a movie: either 'Enchanted' or 'Atonement' in this case, we chose the latter because the time slots for Enchanted weren't suitable as JH's dad had invited us me for dinner afterwards. So Atonement (side) it was and besides, JH wanted to watch it.

Surprisingly it was pretty good, that's a big compliment from me because I'm not the type to go for romance or war but I enjoyed Atonement thoroughly. I loved the cinematography: it was extremely unique in a way as some parts of the movie were told from two different perspectives which was the main reason why I liked the movie. The other reason is the lead actor - James McAvoy (he has an intense glare and extremely pretty blue eyes. Don't look at me like that! :X and oh! He's the guy that plays Mr. Tumnus the faun in CoN:LWW!!), ermm lead actress Saoirse Ronan (no idea how to pronounce that but wow, she's really good for her age, 12 I think?) and the other lead actress Keira Knightly, yah..her... Don't worry, no spoilers...and for those who have watched it...I closed my eyes the entire time the..erm..MA 15+ scene showed...ah-ha-haaha................*nervous laughter* mm. For those who haven't, go watch, it's nice =D

After that we took photos using JH's camera (she hasn't sent me the photos so no photos) and then then went back to the hotel for dinner at Koko's: the best Japanese cuisine restaurant in Melbourne (here) ...$79 per person for the Teppanyaki set menus and that was only the second cheapest! But I guess the experience was worth it because the chiefs cooked the meals right in front of you on the hot stove that's built into the tables so we just sit around it and wait for the chiefs to cook..makes you feel like a princess...hahahaha. The other thing is that since the Australian Open (yes, finally!), the first of the four grand slams was starting the next day, famous tennis players come and stay at Crown Towers, so if you're lucky enough, you get to meet them.

Fortunately me and JH were lucky enough that evening to be sitting on the same table as Patrick McEnroe a former professional tennis player who is now the captain of the USA tennis team which won the Davis cup in winter '07. We found out because the chief who cooked for us loves his tennis and so he was congratulated Patrick on the win last winter and me and JH were both O_O and so we ate and listened to Patrick and another guy...forgot his name...who apparently works as a sports commentator in ESPN sports...wow...lol...but we didn't meet any other tennis players...JH did! She met saw Rafael Nadal world no. 2 tennis player (men) at her hotel foyer but she didn't get his autograph....sigh...JH la you...

World no. 1 is Roger Federer =D

I think I need to explain myself about this tennis business...I fell in love with tennis after watching the Hopman Cup last year...then it was the Australian Open which is held in Melb. in which Federer won..again (in '06 and '07)...no wonder he's world no. 1 player...aha-ha-haa....gahh...I WANNA GO AO NEXT YEAR! I'd better stop...later y'all get bored...

After dinner I had to head back, it was getting late so we bid our farewells and I walked back to Flinders Street...had to wait 40 mins for the train...so I played games on my mobile..haha..I guess it was an interesting day for me. Here's more of AO..XDXD
(I wonder who's gonna win this year...)

Venus Williams (USA) rank no. 8 female (her younger sister, Serena Williams is no.7) Just look at her bling! Real diamonds le..

This one here....Rafael Nadal...nice shirt~ and when there's a slow-mo of him on TV ahh...you can see all his sweat flick off his hair...uh...
Roger Federer! He's such a nice guy...very humble for his rank.

Okayyy!! I'll stop! Geez..