Wonders of Christmas...

Merry Christmas everyone!!
well...today's already the 26th....
past few days have just been crazy...
now i'm just going out loads..friends ..hanging out...just relaxing...

hehe...Augustine got me this really really cute pink tiger from Russ..

got him a pair of gameday soccer socks and perfume -Armani code...I'm so proud that i picked it out...it spells so so so so good....hehhee...got it for my dad too...of course the money comes from mum so it's practically my mum's gift to them..Adrian got a Spongebob stuffed toy form me and a remote control car from Augustine...mum got this set of pans from Tefal...hehehhe could see that gleam upon her face...

hahahhaa....can't believe mike trusted me with his car...at 12.30 am...atleast he was there in the car...btw, sorry again lun...hope i dun scare you like that again...hehhe...dex really thought i drove the car into a ditch..=) i didn't for your information..

Tian's car broke down on the way to magenta!!!what??last thing i'd imagine would happen to Tian..according to mike, it ironically happened when he was accelerating at the traffic light so that he'd be ahead of people..hehehe...



anyway, just helped mike make an oreo cheese cake...yum....it tasted good...just have to wait for the cake to stiffen up in the fridge.hehehhe...funny thing is, yesterday mike tried to bake a california cheese cake yesterday but the butter from the cake mixture leaked out while it was baking...it was because he read the instructions as one a quarter cup of flour instead of one AND a quarter cup of flour...ahahaha...so the cake ended up about a centimetre thick instead of 2 inches (or more) thick... it's ok...admire mike for baking...he's had many successes anyway...including the cream cheese tiramisu he made yesterday (cream cheese with whipped cream, some sweet berry compote and a sponge finger...the combination is scrumptious...*drool...)

can't wait till all of us go out for a nice day together....*dreamy....

In a nutshell..

A supernova of emotions has just occured in my life...

Everything is just going so fast...REALLY!...time flies...

This concoction of joy, exhilaration, disappointment, frustration, anticipation, annoyance, and excitement is killing me!!!

If life continues this way, i'll have a heart attack by tomorrow!!*laughs...

Keep going...keep striving...keep believing...keep praying...

*sigh....

*sobs...

*cries...

*sighs...

then i'll have to just get over myself...

disappointment..in myself..experienced by my parents even if they don't admit it...i feel like i've betrayed them.they've worked till their blood and sweat has stained me...the ground i live on...the food i eat...

God...pray that you guide me..just to be grateful and appreciative of the blessings..to learn from mistakes and to rise up from them...not to fall deeper into Satan's hell hole...

most importantly, i want to congratulate Sjane, mtyp, Cel and mel for their excellent results...you gals worked ur butt off and deserve it...*hugs...i'm so proud of them...Louis too....*(even if he can't get the official ENTER, from his grades,he definitely has achieved something to be very proud of...)...mike and khang too!!you guys will be such great engineers...=) Jeremiah...without much effort is still able to pass his physics and get the offer he wants..=p

VCE RESULTS>>>

well...had a wonderful night...bbq, talking with frens, playing bridge..laughing loads!!!!!!!!!

thanks sally and jasmine for being there for me...feel kinda like a coward...=p..you know what i mean...

anyways, 3 hrs and 35 mins,,,,

till then...

KL

now i'm here in kl....

freaking plane experiences turbulence so many times....felt like puking..luckily movies kept me company...Stardust is nice!!No reservations as well...=)

i'm such a movies addict..muahahahahha

woohoo!!reached kl night before last night...

seeing that my family of four had TOO much luggage the reception at the budget services told us to get 2 taxis which was bout $135 in total (the other choice was the van which was$180..=p)..me and augustine rode in one taxi while adrian and my mum rode in another...
our REALLY nice and funny cab driver noticed our seperation and revealed that we could have taken one budget taxi which was cheaper!!he told us that that taxi had a modified interior specialised for max of 4 ppl and lots of luggage.grr....

but anyway, we talked bout his experience as a taxi driver...

he was actually previously a BANK MANAGER....i repeat...BANK MANAGER with 9 tellers under him.but the stress and high blood pressure he encountered from all his work led him to quit his job...he then got to know the roads in KL through the tau ket service and then upgraded himself to the airport services...he says he earns MORE money than when he was a BANK MANAGER...hahhaha

what a worth while change...

he told us of one of his regular customers...from Japan.This Japanese couple comes twice a year to KL for two days at a time...2??all the way from japan...an average or RM 5000 EACH for only the PLANE tix...he says he drives them to their hotel from the airport.after a night at the hotel, he would drive them to Genting in which they gamble.then they go back to Japan!altogether , he says, his transportation services cost(with tips) RM500...once, the cab driver asked if he lost or won at Genting and he revealed that he lost RM20,000...that Japanese guy was as quoted "calm and still smiling"!!That couple must be filthy rich!ah...

He told us plenty about his life as a airport taxi driver for the past 2 years...having even to drive to penang and Terengganu before which takes about 4 HOURS each!or even learnt Thai through his Siamese colleagues...frustrations as a taxi drover...for eg. there was once this Iranian family family who asked the taxi driver to carry their bags up 5 floors at their hotel.of course the cab driver refused to seeing that it's not his job and that the bell boy could do it.Then the Iranian said to him," We're Muslims and Muslims help each other." *laughs...The cab drier told him that this is malaysia and we do not discriminate any religion, colour or race!

THAT's a true Malaysian...hehehheh

Anyway, yesterday was ok i guess...ate breaky at the hotel and lazed around in the apartment till 10 o'clock.went to BB plaza and shopped till bout 2...ate lunch...(prawn mee noodle...yum...)then me and my mum headed to back to our shopping(we expanded our vicinity for shopping to Lot 10 as well)till bout 7...then we meet up with my father and bros who went swimming before...
ate dinner and spent the night watching television...

btw...i can't believe i bought heaps today...never expected to..=p

let me see...i bought a shirt from DFO(banana republic with the words 'happiness' on it, 2 hoodies from abercrombie(one is black and white stripped and the other is brown) ,2 dresses(one is bright shocking pink and another with diamond motives printed all over..)...,a pair of nice sandals(black and white..)..erm...hahha...can just imagine it...dunno where in the world will i possible wear the dresses tho...=) is that even heaps?i think to me it is...haahaha

today...will be MEGA MALL DAY!!

i better control myself..otherwise my dad will need to file for bankruptcy soon...

*Jingle bells, jingle bells*

Christmas is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!

presents, scrumptious feasts, decorations, caroling...

but ofcourse the most important thing about christmas is the birth of our dear Lord, Jesus Christ..

let's start it off with a bang ei?

By laughing!!








so SMILE!!!and have a great holiday everyone!!

cant believe it..

Went out with my mum a few days ago to buy some groceries and my mum unfortunately (in shock might i add) revealed that she took the wrong keys to the house!!well that means we couldn't open the front door!

so....we tried to open the side door to the back yard...luckily it could open but i had to experience some pain squeezing my fingers through that small tiny gap...=p

then i had to climb in through the window by the kitchen sink!!augustine had recently stripped an old bicycle he found to it's skeletal form...so with this wheel-less bicycle my mum held it in place while i attempted to get into the house ( the base of the window was at eye level by the way...another misfortune...*sigh)

the funny thing was my mum made me laugh (who wouldn't!!) and i was dangling in the air while trying to contain myself otherwise i would have to start over!mum gave me a boost too...thank god..by the time i was inside i released my pent up laughter...

then i realized....my mum brought the wrong set of keys right??

although it didn't have the front door key, the key ring had the back door key...so if we got past the side door...we could have just opened the back door with the key we had!!!!

what an unnecessary need to risk my life....(hahhaa...jk....exaggeration)...it was still a waste of precious energy...

But i can't believe my mum and I were THAT blur....

*laughs...

*laughs...

Here's the perfect picture that incorporates both the down side and the joy of being old, wrinkly and grey..someone posted it up on facebook...hahahhahah...even my mum laughed...*smirks..

enlightened..

Mine was in a cone but this picture seems so much more delicious and scrumptuious!!hehehhe

At first i thought today would be another boring day...

eating, sleeping, tv and mass...that's why my increasing weight becomes an issue...hahhahaha..

anyway, augustine left for sydney with the other EMYFers at about 4 plus this morning and their plane took off at bout 6 plus...=p...can't believe i'm missing this trip...nah...everything happens for a reason...=)

after mass, i checked my phone to find Xin had suggested we go out for lunch of smtg to discuss plans for his tutoring sessions next year..he'll be my mentor...hahahha...kinda scary ...having to teach students seeing that i will still be one in uni.. instead of lunch we just went out for gelato since he had to meet up with his other frens and i had already eaten lunch..=p..

the great thing bout Xin is that he's such a wise fellow..he's earning tons of money writing reports on the economic field at his tender age of 24...(not exactly sure bout his age..it's about there)..(he reveals that he writes reports that cost his clients about and average of $10,000...what the!?!?!?might i remind everyone that it's PER REPORT!) successful in work is one thing to admire about but his most admirable attribute is his ambitious vision to make an impact in the world...even through his tutoring centre!!(trying to touch on human development...for example getting our generation to love learning and how to learn so that this individual can succeed in all aspects of life..he uses the quote "give a man a fish,feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed a man for a lifetime"...) he's a relatively young christian (president of EMYF i might add) and already he's planning big things for his community and the world...

best thing is i can't believe i have the privilege to know him and that he's a friend of mine!!hope he won't find out how terrible i am at explaining things...hahahah...need to learn before my weakness shows...

oh ya!!had a lovely passionfruit yogurt gelato...yum....*smack lips..too bad the shop we went to was doomed to be closed soon...smtg bout business being not so good...well...glenferrie's like that i think...i guess the old shops need to make way for new ones due to it's student dominated vicinity...

after Xin brought me home, followed my mum to send out catalogues to neighbouring houses...it's supposed to be augustine's job but he's bored of it AND he's in sydney anyway...but the job's kind of a rip off anyway...but it's a nice walk though...=)

tomorrow, goin out with Karen for lunch and then we're gonna visit Joon Hui..i'm kinda nervous actually...i really loathe being helpless in the presence of someone who's in pain or suffering...it really is heart wrenching...

anyway, today was a mind opening day...although i already know it, xin confirms my most obvious weakness..ofcourse that's for me to keep a secret..(not gonna reveal to the entire world my flaw!!=P)..not playing the blame game but i know it's cause and like he said...

"Like in Newtons 3rd law, whatever that can be proven scientifically has a cause(action) and effect(reaction)*laughs...however, in life it's significantly different. There is a cause and effect but in between there's also the choices in life...one person can react to a tragedy by getting all depressed but another individual who experiences EXACTLY the SAME situation can rise up from his haunches and be empowered by his mistakes and learn from it...it's the choices that we make that determine which direction we take..."

Another interesting thing he said was "Why can we all walk?As babies we keep on trying regardless of the people around us...falling a MILLION times, we strive until we reach successfully pick up our tiny feet, taking those milestone steps in our lives...As adults, we unfortunately encounter the meaning of 'embarrassment' and 'fear'.no longer the daredevils when we are children, we find ourselves fearful of making mistakes...that's what draws the line between somebody immensely successful and one who's not...It's a cycle...Good decisions stems from experience.Experience originates from bad decisions. Bad decisions comes from mistakes...so the MORE we make mistakes, the MORE we are equipped with the knowledge and experience to make GOOD JUDGEMENTS...therefore success...a simple concept yet we all struggle with it..."

A lot to take in right? it takes so much strength and courage to accept the truth about ourselves and absosball these ways to improve on them...but it's takes even more to transform this information into action....

inspiration

third album..

Delta goodrem...powerful, strong, beautiful and she just got engaged!!

listen to her songs...it's empowering..

In this life is my favourite so far!!but all her songs are great..

"In This Life"

I was nurtured I was sheltered
I was curious and young
I was searching for that something
Trying to find it on the run
Oh and just when I stopped looking
I saw just how far I'd come
In this life
In this life

You give me love
You give me light
Show me everything that's been happening
I've opened up my eyes
I'm following
Three steps fight an honest fight
Two hearts that can start a fire
One love is all I need
In this life

I have faltered I have stumbled
I have found my feet again
I've been angry I've been shaken
Found a new place to begin
My persistence to make a difference
Has led me safe into your hands
In this life
In this life

[Chorus]

I was put here for a reason
I was born into this world
And I'm living and I'm believing
That I was meant to be your girl
In this life

[Chorus]