This is my name

These has my name on it, teehehe.

That's a mandarin orange. It's know as 'kam keat' in Hokkien. A colleague of mine gave me two. (Thank you, princess Lily!)

And that's a Golden Arches Beanie Bear!

Aeroplane

It is a bliss and awe
To see and hear such a big creature
Rising up into the clouds
Tons of metal defying gravity
Across our heads everyday.

House Train Me

The evenings of this past weekend has been spent visiting the new house.
Yeah, finally an 'own home'.
I'm so excited about it. No more town pot holes!! Did you know that from the Jln. Sungai Rambai traffic light until the railway gate to town there's 7 or 8 pothole areas? Each area has 2 square metal pothole covers. So you have to bounce 4 times *bump bump bump bump* because of front and back wheels. I personally play 'avoid the metal bump bumps' while I drive, and once in a while I get a straight strike of smooth drive. Bingo!

The bad news is: I'm going to have a room half the size of what I sleep in now!

Ahhh.....!!! Eek.......!!!!!

And because of that, the only thing I can bring from my room now to the new house is my bed, my Billy shelf, and a small table cupboard. The one comforting thought to compensate that is that I'll be getting some new built-in furnitures. Haha!
I'm sad yet excited. To leave behind these furnitures that has come all the way back from KL with me, and what more some are built by my dad with his own two hands.
Don't have emotional attachment to things, he said.
But I remember way a lot more of the past with these furnitures here with me!!, I believe. And considering how young I was when we moved here, I don't have that much memories to recall. The more reason to cling to these physical objects.

Anyway these are some views from my window. The sound of people talking in their back rooms or kitchen or bathroom can travel loud and clear thru the back alley. I used to spend some time in my brother's room just to spy on or hear what's going on in the houses behind ours. There was a house that had an alarm clock that rang loud and long for full minutes. Either there wasn't anyone around to shut the alarm clock off or the person's a really deep sleeper! And back in my college days, there was a kid in the house behind who practice his/her violin only about once or twice a week. So terrible. Hahaha!

From the back alley, a curvy perspective.
The house is painted in warm red and cream colors. Even the rooms are a little off white, which I'm glad of else it would have been so boring.

Overheard in New York

That Skirt Really Brings Out Your Eyes

Girl: Excuse me! Do you have a girlfriend?
Guy passerby: Yes [keeps walking].
Girl: But does she appreciate you? You're beautiful!

--Broadway, near City Hall Park

Overheard by: just walkin

via Overheard in New York, Nov 22, 2007

Ahhh.......beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. But I seriously love how gutsy that girl must have been to be able to say that to a perfect stranger.
I don't want to think she was drunk, on drugs or something. That would have been sad, so sad. An awesome dare, if anything else.

What's going on?

Quote of the day:

'I am too blessed to be stressed'

I just realized in these past few days that I've worked for a year.

ONE YEAR!!!!!

I love my job. Most of the time.
Where else no need punch in time card?
Where else can you sleep during lunch time?
Where else you can go to work late if you happen to have errands to run (or in my case have a hard time waking up!)?
Where else can you swirl your chair round and round while brain-storming?
Or dangle your legs all over the place?
Haha!
I've had of course my share of disagreement with colleagues.
And justifying my every hour to a certain person can be tiring.
Maintaining and developing 3 different projects at one time is tiring.

But deep down, I still love it here because God gave me this.

What has changed with me? A lot.
I know now that God can build new relationships to ease the hurt of old ones.
I know now that some friends are timeless.
I know now that God loves me, therefore I shall love myself more.
I know now that words can't hurt you, unless you allow it to.
I know now that although surrendering is hard, it's easier than carrying that burden.
I know now that certain things doesn't have to matter, as long as you matter the right things.
I know now that unrestrained laughter isn't a curse.
I know now that the more I work with logic, the more the illogical amazes me.
I know now that time management is important.
And I know now, that we always have a choice.

However, knowing and doing is two completely different thing.

Cheers to another year of work!

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Revelation

It goes like this the fourth the fifth
The minor fall the major lift

-Lincoln Brewster "Another Hallelujah"

I just love it when I understand music!

Quote of the day:

"Our expectations of other believers will always disappoint us unless we base our confidence on the Lord's work in them"

Amen!!

Laughter

Yeah, I think I just produced enough laughter in this last weekend to last me enough 'best medicine' for sometime.
What have I been up to?

Attended San's dance jam on Friday night.
I went with Jen. It was great watching people dance. But as the night went on, I got more and more anxious about the next day. How the dance workshop was going to work out for me. Worry worry worry......one comfort I found was in what Jen said, 'You just dance la'. Like it was nothing. And there's a truth to that. There's no need for deep thinking in everything. So then...

Attended dance workshop in GROW on Saturday.
This is where all the laughing started......hahahahahaha...........can you imagine ME dancing? The problem was I couldn't. And I laughed and laughed because it was just madness to be there, to be doing the movements that was taught there. And I felt a tiny bit guilty for laughing so much, because what must the instructors be thinking? At one point the main instructor broke out laughing too.....but just once in all the many many times I broke out laughing.
It was cool though. At the beginning, the pastor reminded us that if we forget everything else there's only one thing we need to remember about that day. How we danced that day, won't matter as much as who we are in Christ, something like that. And he's right. I went there to learn what's it's all about..... to be undignified.
There wasn't enough tamborines, so half of us were using plates as pretend tambourines (hahahahahaha, I swear some moves is applicable in washing plates in the kitchen!!!). And we were pretty much rushed through 8 or 9 different patterns. (Full Gospel, Acts, Gladness, Rejoice, Miriam, Full Rejoice, Ruler, I think I miss out one more). I was deliriously happy the first time we were ending a song because THE END IS NEAR. Hahahahahahahahaha!!!

The lesson that I learnt is:
It's a choice of letting yourself go. And maybe I didn't find it in the movements, but I think laughing did a big help of unleashing myself. And laughing is contagious. I think I have made people laugh more often at me for laughing then for whatever it was I am laughing about.

2 Samuel 6:22 And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight.

Worship CG and practice on Saturday night
This is where I was hysterically laughing at everything I myself said because I was so tired after a full day of dance and then it's just full blown madness to continue on with practice for the next day because my focus was blurry, I swear the strength I have that night can only truly have come from God. I was aching all over, even my arms were so heavy to just keep practicing. And it ended later than usual.

Sunday service.
It's amazing what a good night rest can do for ya. God's outpouring can never be described in enough words. Ta da!!!!!


I just realized at the end of writing all that down,
'Laughing Lohera' rhymes a little.
*laugh out loud*

Botanical Garden and Mengkuang Dam

It's funny how I find myself waking up early to go to these places but waking up late to work (almost) everyday. Botanical Garden on Thursday and Mengkuang Dam on Saturday morning.

Here are some of my favourite shots.

There's a monitor lizard sun bathing on the tree.
It's amazing how it blend in so well to the tree trunk that I even thought at first that my eyes were seeing things because it was really way up high.
It looked like it was part of the tree!
Here's a close up. (Thanks, Bee for letting me steal these, my hp cam couldn't possibly capture these clearness)

The rest of these shots are mine.

I was afraid of the monkeys in Botanical Garden for once. So, no pictures of them. I don't know why I was afraid. There was this tribe of monkeys (including a mother with her baby) coming down from some trees and I pretty much rushed Bee who was calmly taking pictures of the monkeys to get up on the main paths. All I could think of was the speed they could advanced onto us and how they can strategically surround us and.......ATTACK!!! Do monkeys know attack strategies? Why can't these monkeys just be cute and cuddly or something?

Next, Mengkuang Dam.
There was a few photographers with tripod (and 3 of them came in an MPV loaded with sport bikes....which makes me wonder what sort of photographers are they) taking shots there.
Which I couldn't stand! And more or less motivated me to go back to the car and get out my hp.

I'm not sure why all my shots with the sun in it turns out all dark and gloomy.
But I just love the reflection I manage to capture of even the clouds with this shot.
Shooting tips, anyone?

The major spread of stones more or less surrounding the dam.
I took a couple of shots of different stone colors I saw and the different textures too.
How are rocks made, I wonder?

My focus for this shot was how magnificent the branches rise up.
Sometimes I think I must be mad, seeing the beauty in my surroundings.
Even plain perspectives like below excites me.

Yay, there goes my first scenery post!

On a Sunday morning

In one accord, in unison.
The harmony, the blend.
Taking turns, taking lead.
The range, the chords.
Becoming alive.
The vocals, the sounds.
Spiraling into worship.
I don't ever want to leave that.
How could you?
Frustrated tears.
Screw ups.
Condemnation.
Cockroaches.
It takes patience.
It takes sacrifice.
It takes time to forgive oneself.
Most of all, it takes love.

Driving from BM.....

takes about 43 minutes to get to my workplace. I started out at 7.25am and reached the car park at 8.08am. The good news is I get to park quite close to the entrance, being this early and also because yesterday was Deepavali, so a lot of people take leave today in order to have a long weekend. Coming over the Penang Bridge there was a lot of cars and a little bottleneck right after the toll. Traffic was pretty slow moving on the bridge, but once I got into Bayan Lepas coastal road there was a big difference in the number of cars on the road.

I thought today was pretty fun although I had to wake up nearly 45 minutes earlier than I usually do if I was at my grandma's. The estimation of time, deciding what roads to take from my home, driving over the bridge in the morning, it was all a good experience in case there comes a time when I need to do that everyday. You never know. Even though the traffic is much much less than what a normal day will look like, at least now I have a picture of what it's like.

It's such a quiet day at work today.

Yesterday morning, I went to Botanical Gardens with my cousin. The pictures of that will be up soon (once she transfer/publish the pics so that I can steal some!). My hp cam is good on far shots but is pretty blur for close ups. And this below is food again. Not all went into my stomach, I swear!! Haha! I had to touch up a couple of them because of the low lighting at where I went for dinner. Actually, I brought my bro's camera there, but because there of the low lights, it auto flashes on my subjects, and well....basically I wasn't used to using the camera, so I went back to my hp cam instead.

food food food food......

I could have had another scoop of green tea ice cream actually...... =P

Yay, I did it!

Haha, I finally have the guts to change the background color of this template, and it works!!!

Do you know how hard is it to call yourself a 'programmer' yet be totally terrified to alter codes?
Reading is fine. I can explain or randomly guess what some codes are doing. It's the alteration to fit to your own needs that's a problem. And sometimes, doom can come with just forgetting a single ; !!

For example here, they have a template for you to compose. But there's no underline, no background color to highlight the text and the text size and font is limited. Once u start changing sizes or colors or fonts, (without having written everything already) strange things happen. And it's sometimes difficult to undo/alter without editing the HTML. I tried not to do any edit, but by the time I got to my 4th post where I copy pasted from my imeem account, I couldn't help myself. Because it wasn't appearing like it did in imeem!

And I thought blogging would be easy. Instead it is a sort of (forced) avenue for me to brush up on my HTML and CSS. This is suppose to be for pleasure after all, not to learn up codes that I might later on need to...... use in work. *sigh*

I got cake!

Yes, literally. But what I also meant is that it is not often that you get proof of being,

Greatly blessed, Highly favored, Deeply loved.

Like I do this last week or so.

I got a card all the way from Singapore. Though late, it arrived in time for my dad to bring over from BM on his weekly visit over here instead of waiting until I get back to BM itself. I am again surprised, because Vi had already wished me earlier on. Thanks, Vi!!

Later on, my cousin got me 2 pieces of cake!!

Thanks, Bee!! Haha, that totals the number of cake I've taken in the last one week at 6!!! Yeah, Ko will be proud. I've eaten enough cake for both of us!!!! Did you guys know, cheese cake can stick to the spoon so well even while you're driving and holding the spoon in one hand?

Anyway, the card and the cake made me reflect back on the 14 years in BM.
I still remember;

the first girl my standard I was introduced to/saw close up and more or less gave me the shock of my life because I thought all the girls in the school was going to be like that. Haha!

the ruler activated radio.
the first birthday party.
the ballet lesson.
the libraries.
the suppers.
the school cats.
the 'chikadees' Ah Kong always have.
the firecrackers.
the tong sampah that brought alot of laughter.
prayer meetings.
the make ups after years of drifting apart.
the forgiveness.
the beach.
CF camps.
Christmas celebrations.
a lot more that I can't list down here because some are way too embarassing and others makes me laugh non-stop and other more reasons.

Most of all, I remember all of you who have grown with me!

So how can I not am greatly blessed,highly favored and,deeply loved just reflecting on my past, the people and how much I've grown especially after Christ has set me free. I am saying what I think I'm saying. And it's a joy to say it. Haha!