Hiatus....

Due to my assignments and some other reasons....i will temporary stop blogging...till when i've not decided yet. Do hang around the chat box i will still check it but wont be updating the blog. No worries, by the time i post something there will be loads to read=)

Work overload....

I'm so gonna be busy over the next few weeks...i have an assignment due this friday, next wed, the mon week after next, the first mon of oct, 3rd wed of oct, and 13 online test for the next 9 weeks....u c...another reason why some students go crazy=P

Fathers day...

Hmmm...is either u must be wondering y am i typing about fathers day or u think aint fathers day in june....well it is true fathers day is in june and has pass but that applies to Msia and i dunno which other country is the same. But here in Aust, yest was fathers day. So !st week of sept is fathers day in Aust, and 3rd week of June is fathers day in Msia. So back to the topic, since it was a sunday ususally go to church lar. Then during church, they had the kids leads the congregation to worship, which i think was cute...haha...and they even had a dance presentation, which of course simple dance move but nice=)

7.5/10.....

Woo hoo...got back my first assignment from here..haha..and to tell u the truth..that work is like 8 hours serious thinking n typing and also last minute work=P Well actually before that i had some thoughts on how i can do it and rough idea how i can do it but that is like just few minutes the serious work is all in the 8 hours. And i think it is a good thing that they return the assignments coz there is where we can learn to improve and know our mistakes. Well hope i do a better job the next 4 assignments T_T

Reunited....

Finally after 1 month and half month here....i've reunited with some my clothes...haha. Well i miss my t-shirts, all this while i'm in Aussie , all i've wear is long sleeves and long pants everyday. And with my shorts and tees has arrived i would feel more like home=)

Peace....

What does peace means to us?? is it when there is no quarrels, no wars, no conflict is peace?? yeah that is a kind of peace but wat i wan to focus on today is on individual peace. When we often face problems in we always feels that the problems is overwhelming that we frustrate ourselves jsut to solve it and at times when we sleep we even dream/think about it where is that peace of mind u might say.

I was reading Philippians 4 and v7 says And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. How does God's peace feel like?? like mention in the verse, that peace will guard your hearts and your minds. I would say is a special peace that is a peace that we want over and over again, it is so peaceful that somehow your problems is solve and there is no more worries about it. So how do we get this peace of God?? Believe in Jesus. And in the same chapter v6 it says Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Well that verse is just what God's peace is. For me personally i like Psalm 23:

The Lord is my Shepherd, i shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me besides quiet waters,
He restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
Even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil,
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff,
They comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,
And i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

This psalm always reminds me with all my troubles come over me, all i need to do is just trust in the Lord and He will get me out of it giving His peace.=)

Target...

As i have mention earlier with the thoughts...i've come up with somethings...as a reminder of wat i wan=)....at elast for this few months...

1) To grow closer to God while i'm here
2) To encourage some friedns back home to do quiet time
3) To study hard for this sem and change my old ways of studying(which is near impossible=P)
4) To control my spendings for target no 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
5) To contribute to the growth of God's family=)
6) To pay off my debts...ermm..more of expenditure...haha
7) To earn/ save enuf money to get air ticket back to Msia in Dec(i wan to spend my Christmas back home with my frens n family and of course hopefully CNY too=P)(anyone willing to sponser me?? 100%, 50%, 30%??)
8) To achieve what i hope for when i get back(if i ever get back that is)
9) To somehow contribute back to the family(both sides)
10) To help my youth back home to grow even I'm here.
11) To hopefully get use to the churches here though i'm not so keen with how things is done.
12) To find people to compose a song....i've been saying about since the beginning of the year...sigh=P

i think that is all for now haha..anything will just add up here...=P

Merdeka!!...

In case u r wondering wat that means it means independence. Well yesterday....31/8 was the independence day for Msia and as of yesterday Msia is 51 yrs old. Well for a Msian in the older days i think it would be soemthing very happy and proud for everyone. But for now i think many has change thier mind about it. Yes Msia is a country with multi race in it with the multi religion everything multi lar...the best part of the multi is the food!!!=P(muahahahahahaha) and next in line is the holidays we get=P. The benefit of this is we learn diff stuff about each other's culture and learn to tolerate among each other's do and don't. But i think that has been disrupted over the years. Over the years the tolerance is slowly faded this is cause when there is obvious unfairness to certain people and the rest gets nothing to say coz they will use the law and etc to shut ur mouth up. I think is time that people realise that Msia had it's independence base on unity of differences and battle thru to get this independence, and after 50 yrs, on surface it might seems still standing firm but internally it is all battle for being the top over the other. Sooner or later this will definitely become a mess....pray for a change fellow Msians!!

Juwita Suwito...

On Saturday nite, went to church to listen to Juwita Suwito sang, since she was invited by the church. And if u r interested in her bio data...go Google fore her=P...dun expect me to blog it here...i blog not post people's bio data. Anyway back to the topic, she is definitely a good singer, few of the songs she sang was Love Song(by Sara Bareilles), No One(Alicia Keys) and few other which includes oldies as in really oldies for the older generation. And after that the church provided Msian supper...haha(i think partly she is from Msia and also coz the next day is Msia's independence day) We had Bubur Cha Cha(is this how u spell it??..correct me if I'm wrong), which i didn't fancy much and Pisang Goreng!!! yeah that is the most memorable food from back home but then again, it taste different coz of the banana they use. Oh i also forgot they had fried sweet potato too.

Flooded mind....

well actually this happen on Friday but just didn't had the mood to post it here that day. That day all of the sudden all sorts of stuff came into my mind making think and usually this doesn't happen to me often coz somehow i always find reason/ ways /explanation for each prob/stuff according one at a time. But that day it was so different that it all flooded into my mind all of the sudden that i ended up with a migraine. then of course in the end i manage to get everything clear out one by one which took me the whole day. With every stuff i reminded myself with Psalm 23, well that is my personal psalm that i learn when i was a small kid and it has always help me through and again and again i reminded myself that everything will be alright. But i think when everyone comes to a situation like mine, it will sometimes gives u another thought on whether wat is happening is rite or wrong. For me, i didn't thought that i will ask this question again after so many years, 'am i taking the right road??', 'do i wan to go down the same road again??', 'should i proceed with what i have decided??'. Well this is not a question of my believes but rather something that I've experience before and somehow that fear of what happened to me before repeats which i think everyone would definitely feel the same. Everyone of us makes decisions before, to some, after they made the decision and go on thru with the decision half way then they regret with what they have decided and say ' damn I've should have taken the other option.' After many yrs of having that thinking in me all of the sudden it came back to me the other day. And the trouble with that is like reformatting ur computer where u have to install everything all over again and update your com. Similarly on Friday i ended up spending the whole afternoon clearing up my mind reassure myself that i cant regret with what I've decide, even if I'm taking the same road and facing the same fears again.

From that day too i realize that we as humans we often regret with what we have decided, and there is always the 2 possibility, which is wither we fail o learn which ends up regretting our whole life or we learn and make the good out of what we have decided. And of course occasionally we learn ans we always tell ourself not to take the same road again but ended up in it again. As u might can c that i've type this kinda long but wat the heck..this is the filtered version anyway=P so imagine how much i've thought on that day...sigh...

Only 1...

Well i got his form Matthew 6:24, it says 'No one can serve two masters.Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.' Basically it means that if we love our money we will eventually neglect God.

Let put it this way, imagine u have a servant, and u r the master. Wat would u do when u find out ur servant has another master?? i bet you will be thinking whether ur servant can perform the duties. And to ensure that to be done u demand a full focus on ur housework only and thus the servant have to neglect another. Similarly, when we love our money, and since money is use to buy/ pay etc. We tend to look for more money, till it come to a point that money is like our life. And resulting we neglect God.

Well u may argue that without money how to survive?? Yeah is true without money we cant survive the daily expenditures. But when we turn money into the very reason that we are on this earth, then there is where u r wrong. We are created for God and not for money. besides we humans created money, so u wan to be a slave for money?? Now when we follow God, it is written that he will provide all our needs - Philippians 4:19 : And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. So when we follow God serve Him whole heartedly and do everything according to His word, He will provide us with everything we need.

Heroes....

No i'm not taking our personal heroes, i talking about the tv series. Well it has been years since i chase after a tv series. I like this show since the first season and currently waiting for the 3rd season to be out which seems very interesting. And i'm wondering when will it be out in Aussie. worst come to worst go back Msia watch pirate=P..haha. Well basically this show is about a bunch of norml people discover they have super abilities, like time travel, teleportation, stop time, super strength, super speed, mind reading, fly etc. So i find it nice and interesting!!

Prayer...

Wat is prayer to us?? To some it may be kneeling infront of an image of their god in their own religion and start praying asking for blessing and help with a repayment condition at the end. To some might be burning of offerings/ sacrifice. well there is so many religion in this world that all has its own way of praying. But for us Christians we too hav a habit of prayer. And the typical way we do it is by closing our eyes and head bow down to show our humbleness and pray to God. Well read Matthew 6:5-15 and Luke 11:2-4, this mainly about the Lord's prayer as we call it today but it lays the very foundation how our prayer should structure. But first i will touch on other point in the verse.

Matthew 6 verse5, it says '...do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men....' Well this doesn't mean we can not pray outside in the public but where as what is referring here is the motive of praying outside. If we are to pray outside to show people how 'holy or how good their prayer are or to show how prayer-ful they are' the motive there is wrong. We do our prayer is mainly for God to hear our prayers and be answer according to His time. And our prayer should be from our heart and we should be humble as i think we are asking form God. And in verse 6 it says we should go into our rooms and pray this to show that we are humble when praying, not to show off to people. I think it is base on this verse that today's Christians are taught to pray with thier eyes close and heads bowed. I also once heard that another reason y we close our eyes is so that we wont be distracted by the things around us. Since it is a prayer and it is for God, we should focus our hearts unto God.

Now the more important part is the prayer. In Matthew 6:9-13 the prayer goes

"Our father in heaven,
hallowed be Your name,
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one"

Now that was from Matthew in Luke it is similar but with a little different as Luke was a Physician by profession and the purpose of his writing the Gospel was for the high rank Romans at that time to read. But for me over the years in church i've been saying that prayer this way

"Our father in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us of our sins,
as we forgive those who sins against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are Yours,
now and forever, Amen."

Practically it has the same foundation as been laid by Jesus. As i mention earlier that this the very foundation how our prayer should structure as the prayer covers every point that we should everyday pray for. Look at first sentences of the prayer, when we pray we are acknowledging God as our Father. Then it goes on to say that we surrender everything to Him, 'Let Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven'. And follow on the prayer goes on to say 'Give us today our daily bread' which means that we are to be taught about His word everyday. And this prayer also consist of forgiveness, 'Forgive us of our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us'. This is not only asking for forgiveness but also to be taught to forgive others. 'Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil' And this is the part we ask for protection against the devil's work on us and to provide us with everything we need to prevent us from sinning. And the last line, 'For the kingdom, the power and the glory are Yours now and forever' it means that everything in this world is God's and we are laying it all into His hands.

Now u may say that wat is this the prayer that we are to pray everyday and cant pray about others??...yes we could pray for other things but then this prayer is useful for it covers most important things that we as Christians should grow on. Besides it is the prayer that is taught by our Lord Jesus!!

Grand opening....

...for public toilet!!!.. haha...thanks to Lilian for forwarding the mail. When i was reading and and later on find out that Back in Msia they had an grand opening for a high tech toilet in Bukit Bintang area. First of all of all places there...u c lar soon how dirty the toilet it will be. Then to the deputy PM is there to open the toilet...come on lar...do something more meaningful for the country please. As in bigger matters lar. Then according to the mail...the speech says that Msia heading to a new area starting from the toilet...so it either means that Msia had enuf money to dev high tech toilet...or...that Msian is not smart enuf to use toilet that needs a high tech toilet=P Well it is good too that they are trying to improve the quality of the public toilets ard KL(if u hav been in KL, is not easy to fins a nice clean, smell-less toilet) Just hope the users know hows to take care of it.

A diff lecture...

had an hour lecture today and it was done differently....coz it was done using a video, the lecturer said that she wan to do it differently and she ask us to watch a video and then we are to answer some questions, basically is own study lar for once is something different than wat i had back in Msia. Ms Ng...haha...mayb u could use this method...stop spoon feeding the students=P