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I sang here... you guys should check it out... you probably won't be able to see me but it's really good... let me know what you think... hehe :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoronNmoG1M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJPgvfVtoxw&feature=related

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I thought I'd take some time off my studying to update my pitiful blog a little bit...
Finals week is creeping up slowly but surely... actually faster than I thought it would but good news is one more week and the semester is over... for you STPM people out there.. CONGRATULATIONS ON A LONG 1 1/2 YR.. you guys did well and good... be proud of yourselves as I am very proud of you guys... Take this period before your doom's day arrives to enjoy a little break... spend time with family, friends (in town or back for holidays) ;) and enjoy Penang for people like Gim, Paul and myself that have to suffer the 'wonderful' American food.... :(
I heard about the reunion for 5 Science 1 and wish that I could be there... :( I'm sure Gim and Paul feels the same way.. Those that are in town, please try your best to make it... bowling sounds like fun.. maybe.. hehe.... oh yes, btw, go get a job you post-STPMers... just because you guys had a long year and a half, doesn't mean you guys can sit at home and shake your legs... :)
And yes, to confirm the rumor... We will be meeting up in Phoenix, Arizona for this Christmas break.... 2 weeks... short but it'll be good.. it'll be good to see both of them... maybe... i don't know :p haha... then after that it'll be back to school again.... I'm gonna make a public gratitude to Pauline Khoo for her kindness in requesting a shelter for all of us at her relative's place... so KAM XIA, PKPC.... hehe
ok.. this is the best I can do.. bed is calling out to me... until then.... peace out...
P.S. - All the best to all the college people that are having exams days before Christmas... ;)

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My sincere apologies to all of you as I did not write a post as promised on my birthday... which i shall make up for now...
yes, indeed, i have an amazing birthday...only thing missing would be you guys... :)
let's see, where should i start... a Malaysian friend from ACU(another college) had a small get together with some other Malaysians and locals and cooked a Malaysian meal... NASI LEMAK...IT WAS GOOD... REALLY GOOD... and there was also green tea cream puffs, tiramisu cake, ayam kurma, sambal ikan bilis, yum yum, to have all this in a foreign country is haven... no kidding.. then i get to play video games.. so that was really awesome.. hehe
wish you guys were there with me to celebrate my aging another year... haha
nothing is the same without you guys, sad to say.. haha
but thank you all for your wishes... and the birthday card which arrived centuries ago but you know me, never got a chance to post it up on the blog.. so thank you all for remembering even though i'm millions of miles away...
school has been usual.. moderate... not too busy.. and not too unbusy either.. :)
That person who cooked the nasi lemak, is having his birthday soon... we're planning a surprise birthday party for him... potluck.. i'm gonna cook porridge just you know to show my appreciation because he cooked so many things on my birthday.. i know not appropriate but it's the easiest thing! mix altogether, stick it in the slow cooker.. hehe
and btw, we had a Malaysian cookout this past weekend... bak kut teh.. believe it or not... haha curry chicken.... hehe..muar chee... yea, get this muar chee... hehe
so hopefully my porridge cooking goes well, it will be this Thursday... thanksgiving is coming up too.. so that means holiday for me and turkey and gravey etc.... food...ah... okok
that's about the updates i owe you guys...
for those of you taking STPM.. all the best... try your best and God will do the rest... it's almost over... and those that are in college... well, semester's almost over... for me anyway.... but hang in there... do what you can... don't forget to enjoy life in the midst of the things that you guys have to do.. alright..
peace out..

Birthday Eve

Birthday Eve

Technically, it's not my birthday yet cause i'm not born until at a later time... so, anyway, i just wanted to write about how well my day went... i finally got around to taking my Calculus test which i've been meaning to take for almost 6 mths and managed to get it out of the way... it's basically a test which if you pass, gives you credit for that class and you can skip that class and go on to the next level... so i'm excited and relieved that it's over and i passed... next would be my macroeconomics results that are back.... i did really good and i'm happy about it..... and i also got paid for helping a friend in my class study for a test tomorrow.. yes, test on my birthday... beat that... it's ok though... haha... and as for Gim and Paul, so sorry for not being able to answer your calls as i was studying but i promise to call you guys back tomorrow... and as for the rest of the people that wished me one way or another... thank you so much for remembering and keeping me in your hearts... it'll be a good birthday even though i'm away from home... i'm pretty sure cause God always provides.... thank you all once again and i'll put up a post for the real day!

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I just came back from a Christian conference over the weekend. It's called a Focus Conference. It's a conference where college kids and young adults from around Texas get together once a year to worship and reconnect and focus their lives on Christ.
It was really refreshing and a reminder of how God has been good to me and how He has been in my life, changing me, shaping me to be more like Him...
Friends out there who are interested to find out more about this conference... go ahead and google.. 'Focus BGCT'.

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It's been a while, guys. I just had a thought. Am I or am I not a serious person? I mean I know i joke and fool around a lot but seriously. Am I really that playful? Do I not take life seriously? What do you guys think I'm like? Someone who's just not serious all the time? The joker of the group? sigh... so much to think about it in one night.... sigh....

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Ike vs Katrina?
Before I go on to explaining the differences between (after much research, mind you and also putting off folding my laundry just because my cho beh asked), I would first need to make a public interrogation on Jaslyn about her new found love that I didn't hear about. I'm expecting an e-mail, Jaslyn Saw Wei Wen or we're getting a divorce... grrr
Here's the link about the differences... some what.. let me know if you still need to anything more, Cho Beh... hehe
http://kathleend.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/hurricane-ike-vs-hurricane-alicia/

“Your father and I were without power for two weeks,” my mother tells me in her usually quiet voice as we talk about Hurricane Ike. I opened the conversation by saying that I read online that nearly 90,000 people stayed behind. It was as if Hurricane Katrina was happening all over again except this time in Texas. My mother’s quiet reply from the table across the room was, “Correction, honey. It’ll be like Hurricane Alicia.” She then went on to tell me about this hurricane that came through my birthplace of Channelview, Tex. She pulled out an old album with newspaper clippings as she started her story.

“It was 1983 when Hurricane Alicia hit,” she said as she flipped through the pages. She pulled out a clipping from the Houston Chronicle. The headline is “Alicia Pummels Houston Area”. I read the article as i listened to my mother speak.

“We were living in Channelview, where you were born and we were living in a trailer.” For those that don’t know, Channelview, Tex. is about 10 miles outside of Houston. As I read this article, I was astounded to think that after something like that, Texan officials would be willing to let the populstion just hunker down and wait it out. According to the article Mother handed me the then-mayor, “Kathy Whitmire called on Houstonians to stay indoors until the danger passed. ‘We do not recommend that people get out of their homes unless they absolutely have to,’ she said”.

In the paragraph after that I read “Houston firefighters frantically fought a wave of fired across the city early today, many of which were blames on sparking electrical lines ripped loose by the howling winds.”

This article was written the day Hurricane Alicia hit landfall. According to articles throughout the small stack my mother accumulated, everything from toxic spills to the crushing death of a 71-year-old woman by the name of Elisa Lopez Flores was blamed on the hurricane.

” It was horrible and Ike is just going to be worse,” she stated. “Your father and I were out of power for two weeks and it was absolutely horrible.” She then got up, walked to the living room, and proceeded to read the current newspaper.

As I sit here and think about what’s happening in the Gulf right now, it makes me glad that I live in northern Louisiana. I hope I don’t have to experience anything like this. I hate it when it rains here. I feel sorry for the estimated 90,000 people attempting to ride out the storm. I hope there are no instances like the late Elisa Flores, who “was crushed to death in her bed when a falling tree fell on her home. . .”. For native Texans, native Houstonians or Galvestonians even, this must seem like nothing new but Hurricane Ike is coming. It will hit hard and it will amass quite a large amount of damage.

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Thank you all for your concern and I'm sorry for not getting back to it sooner. Hurricane Ike did hit Texas over the weekend. It hit Houston and Galvaston really bad. Thank God it didn't hit Abilene, the place where I am but it rained non stop for a whole week.. that's about it. People were asked to evacuate Houston but there are still some stubborn residents that refused to do so which is why there are people stuck there. Rescue teams have been out for relief so that's good. They kinda underestimated the Ike but it's all under control I hope. It's not as bad as Hurricane Katrina. It's heading up towards Canada now, I think. But don't worry guys, i'm still alive and kicking. haven't drowned in the storm yet. haha classes are still going on as usual unfortunately.. haha so everything is good. THANKS FOR ASKING!

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frustration..... sigh.... that's what i feel tonight... i'm so messed up or rather my emotions are... i'm beginning to wonder if i'm an angry person... i have been so angry lately even i can't comprehend it.
sigh... tell me, my dear friends.... am i an easily angered person? do i 'ki siao' over the slightest things?
i'm so confused... it's taking a toll on me and i'm getting a little stressed out about my moods... sigh
it's Friday night and i'm glad that the week's over... i always look forward to the weekends in college.... i'm sure you people out there can relate.. haha... but it's a study weekend though... haha tests next week... fun stuff... haha

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i agree with ah lau... if there's nothing to write, how do you guys expect us to update our blogs???

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woohoo! working again... getting lazy again... not reading as i'm supposed to... haha Pauline started her class yesterday (Wednesday).. don't know when Gim will be back....should be back this week... I called Pauline and apparently she's at a friend's house and she said she'll call me back later... yea, you hear that.. "i'm at a friend's house. Can i call you back later?" haha.. see? that's how it is now... haha it's been a pretty gloomy day for me today... my emotions and head are all messed up, i don't know why... could be that it's the time of the month...i don't really know.... haha alright i'm gonna munch on my chocolate and possibly start studying... sigh... oh btw, i have a room mate already for those of you who knows that my room mate bailed out on me last minute... haha...

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Today's another brand new start of the week. oh boy... i'm not looking forward to this...not at all...i feel a whole lot better after being forced to take multiple medication... so... yea...and there's 2 idiots at my workplace that's yakking and playing music which is so distracting and i can't freaking study.... !#$%!#$^!#$#%$
they're gonna... woohoo!
i'm watching a movie at the theatre tonight! that's exciting.., i haven't watched a decent movie since i came so that would be fun........ok signing off... yadatata

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it's 11.32pm and i'm officially sick... sigh.. i just finished my computer programming homework which i'm really glad i got it done cause i've been putting it off the whole weekend.... hehe...
so anyway, it started off with a sorethroat... and i knew right away it was going to lead to a flu or rather as some people would like to put it, a cold... and after that comes the inevitable fever... i'm now at the flu/cold stage, waiting for the fever to sink it... hopefully it wouldn't... sigh... so much for wanting to enjoy my first weekend after a school week... i'm now at the computer lab not on my own computer.. i don't think i would ever blog from my own computer cause i would have too much to occupy myself with on my own computer that i wouldn't even be bored... haha and so i heard, fernie-bernie has a blog too... haha and i know ee ping and pin yin are extremely glad that i have a blog...haha... now all we have to do is wait for gim and paul to each have theirs respectively...haha oh well, i'm gonna shut down here and go look for my textbooks online... btw, Happy Merdeka Day! haha

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Here I am again, at work, bored out of my wits... i get off in another 45mins.... then it's shower and dinner time!!! woohoo!
sigh, i know i should be reading but i just can't get in the mood to do so... sigh.... and i'm having a sorethroat... i'm pretty sure i'm getting sick....oh well, sigh.....
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I've received a piece of news that I don't know if I should be happy about. A part of me wants to be happy but then a part of me knows that I shouldn't be.... sigh....dilemma....
ok so i tried reading and my eyelids just dropped! sigh
ok i'm getting off blogging now... it's making me sleepy too...

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Almost done with the week! woohoo! yes you guessed it right... i'm working and am bored out of my wits which is why i'm blogging.... not that i don't have things to do.... i actually do have some reading that needs catching up on but just am not motivated to do so.... i have 50 mins left of work... hopefully the person relieving me will be 10 mins early so i can catch the caf before it closes... so hungry...if not tonight have to eat apple again...haha
my internet's working again so that's exciting... so this sunday is Merdeka Day.. the Malaysians here will be putting up a little celebration at another Uni close by together with the Malaysians there...cook some Malaysian dishes and get together....from 3-10pm... still deciding about whether i'm going or not....i'm reading and blogging at the same time.. and came across something interesting, "most professionals believe that people are products of how others treat them and of the messages others send them". i think this is fairly interesting... Do you agree that when someone throws you a nasty comment, that's how you feel about yourself and when someone praises you, you feel good about yourself and tend to be more confident?
so anyway, drifting away from topic as always.... Moving on... This day has been typical... classes... rushing here and day.. I almost missed my work time... I decided to take a nap before going to work and somehow my alarm didn't go off! or maybe i snoozed it in my subconscious mind or i just didn't hear it! Thank God a friend of mine called me 5 mins before work and asked that shouldn't i be at work, and i found out that i'm almost late! so i jumped out of bed and rushed to work.. thank God it's not too far... just 1 min walk... haha So, I guess I just wanna thank you, dear friend for calling me and interrupting my sleep... haha i was pretty sure i was having a nice dream when i was rudely awakened.... okie dokie... i probably should be getting back to my books....

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oh boy, can't believe i'm actually starting a blog.. haha
well, this is for ee ping and pin yin who constantly bugs people about blogging... now that elizabeth has succumb, i shall join in... as the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them...
i'm back in the States as most of you would now know, apart from some people that had the impression of me going back the week after... tsk tsk tsk...
i had a really good weekend back here... tiring but good...was busy moving in but i had a tremendous amount of help from my adopted family here so i'm really thankful... they are angels that God has put in my life and most importantly a million miles away from home... i can never thank them enough... i feel so loved that even though it was a little depressing to be leaving home, i have a 2nd family to look forward to...
Classes start today... nervous initially definitely but it turned out to be good and a friend was constantly encouraging me throughout this day so it was really good.... it feels pretty weird to be going back to school after working around professionals for 2 months.. guess i need a little getting used to.. oh and somehow somewhat my internet in the dorms work but i can't get connected to anything except for skype... sigh... so i guess i'm writing this to let you people at home know that i'm ok.. and i'm still alive and that i've not forgotten about you all even though i'm away...
another good thing is that now that Pauline is also here... i get to talk to her pretty often.. and i'm just glad to know that i have someone from home that i can call and talk to...because gim being gim sigh... is hardly ever available....haha
i'm basically just bored because my work place is so quiet! which is why i decided to blog.. so everytime i do blog it's because i'm bored at my work place... that's it for today i guess.. i get off in 20 mins.. i survived the quiet 3 hours!!! so until then, pin yin, ee ping, be nice to this blogger starter here... haha aren't you glad i joined you, ah lau? and yes i guess i'll be like you to not come up with titles haha