Clarence's world

Health is wealth

2009-06-24T21:24:00.000-07:00

I believe most of you would agree with me. What's the use of having the big mansion, 10 luxurious cars, 7-figure bank accounts when you're dying of deceases? You're no where close to enjoy them if your health is deteriorated ! Healthy living means healthy lifestyle and diet and I would say that healthy diet begins everyday in the morning in your breakfast.

What do you have for breakfast?

Like most of the people, you have either a simple carbohydrate ‘meal’ such as toast, cereal, nasi lemak, roti canai, or you skip breakfast entirely (usually leading to mid-morning snacking).

Both of these approaches lead to rapid increases in blood sugar and insulin, carbohydrate cravings (snacking) and a drop in energy.

Carbohydrate-based breakfast…

In the morning, simple carbohydrates (sugary refined cereals, white bread, toast etc) cause an immediate surge in blood sugar, which results in a substantial release of insulin from our pancreas.

The insulin removes most of the sugar from our blood, turning any excess into fat. The result is a decreased level of blood sugar, and thirst for more carbohydrates. This cycle repeats itself 2-3 more times during the day.

This vicious cycle constitutes one of the major reasons for diabetes, high blood pressure and extra weight.

Skipping breakfast…

When we skip breakfast, blood sugar drops below the normal level , leading to cravings and a drop in energy.

You again revert to simple carbohydrates (bread,biscuit,rice and sometimes junk food!) to achieve a quick surge of blood sugar and to overcome hunger and a drop of energy. Simple carbohydrates will cause a immediate surge of blood sugar level and a substantial insulin emission. The insulin removes sugar from blood turning it excess into fat. Then this cycle repeats itself 2-3 more times during the day.

This vicious cycle constitutes one of the major reasons for diabetes, high blood pressure and extra weight.

Balanced healthy breakfast

Such a breakfast supplies our body with all vital nutrients and energy without increasing blood sugar and insulin levels. It helps to avoid dependence on carbohydrates during the day. In this way, appetite stays under control, craving for carbohydrates (snacks, chocolate, pastry, junk, soft drinks, etc) diminish and the body uses its own stored fats to get more energy.

A healthy breakfast …

A balanced healthy breakfast should do three things:

Rehydrate the body, to replace the fluids lost during sleep.
Provide the body with energy.
Provide the body with all vital nutrients while helping to maintain a normal blood sugar level.
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Price
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Overview

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Price

240g-RM112

Overview

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Details

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Usage

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Price

50g- RM125

100g-RM217

Healthy life begins with everyday's breakfast !

2009-05-25T21:36:00.001-07:00

God Cares How Much You Give by Rev. Kong Hee

2009-02-25T03:57:00.000-08:00

So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that thispoor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury; for they all put in out oftheir abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”Mark 12:43-44

One time when Jesus walked into the temple, He watched how the people put their money into the offering. He saw how many who were rich put in much. But what moved Jesus deeply was the attitude of a poor widow. Jesus said that the poor widow who sacrificed her two mites was the most generous giver of all, because her gift was large in proportion to her available money supply. Jesus was moved by her giving.

Money is a spiritual subject. God cares how much or how often you give into His house - your church. Otherwise, He wouldn’t have included so many instructions in the Bible concerning the methods, the time and the proper attitudes for giving.
He instructs on the specific day of giving: “On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper” (1 Cor. 16:2). He cares about the quantity of your giving: “He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully” (2 Cor. 9:6).

Most of all, He cares about the quality of your giving. When the rich “tipped” God out of their abundance, it didn’t move Jesus at all. But when the poor widow”“put in all that she had, her whole livelihood,” it touched the Lord greatly.

Most of us are afraid to talk about money. But more than 20 percent of the Holy Scriptures deal with money, wealth, finances, property, land, possessions, tithes and giving. The Bible is clear that “the blessing of the LORD makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it” (Prov. 10:22). David says, “Let the LORD be magnifi ed, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant” (Ps. 35:27). If you read Deuteronomy 26:1-12, you will see that God says tithing and giving offerings are specific worship services before Him.

Money is also an effective tool to help bring the gospel to the lost throughout the world. When you put your money to good use according to biblical principles, it becomes a sacred thing.
Your money is your life. Every month when you are paid, the salary you receive is your employer’s way of reimbursing you for the part of your life that you have spent in service to him. As a saint of God, when you give part of your holy life to your employer, the money he gives you in return is holy money. Money is a spiritual matter. Be a good and faithful steward in managing it.

Simply contradicting

2008-11-21T22:36:00.000-08:00

It's now coming to the end of 2008... 21st century... where we can pay bills via internet, with current technology, it has brought the mankind to the highest level of convenience they can be...a mansion built up of 20,000 square feet, a car with 500HP worth of millions, hotel in Dubai that costs RM 50,000 a night yet on the dark side of the mankind, there can still be people with no roof over their heads, no cloth wrapping their bodies and no food comforting their stomach.

Last night I was invited by my friend to help him in "street ministry" where we brought food to the beggars found along the corridors, road side and bus station around Penang island. We found those beggars aged from young kid, middle-aged and up to old people, consisted of both genders and varied races of Malaysia. Some of them prefer to beg than to work despite of their ability, one of them prefers to bag with his young child than to send him to welfare department. Whatever it is, it stirred up my feelings of compassion for them.

Along the most happening areas in Penang where people park their shiny luxurious vehicles along the road, dancing like there's no tomorrow in the clubs, drinking beers and having fun in the bars and lounge, we found all those homeless people sleeping along the corridors. Such a contradiction isn't it? Didn't the authority do something? Yes they did, by capturing all these people and sent them to the welfare department. Some of the beggars who came out of it told us they prefer to beg on the street as they 'earn' more and have more freedom. One of them told us, "does the authority really care about us ? Do they really know what we want ? All we need is just a pair of ears listening to our sorrows and heartaches."

So next time, when you want to complain about the taste of a food, think about they have NOTHING to eat, that your house is too small, they have NOWHERE to stay, that you don't have new clothes to wear for party or dinner, they don't have A PIECE of cloth to wear. Be grateful, be thankful, there always are people who are much unfortunate than we are.

Something to share...

2008-10-06T04:52:00.000-07:00

I have been having this desire in my heart that I wanted to share to the world what God has done in my life. Finally I decided to pen down this ‘adventure’ after listening to Ps. Robert’s sermon pertaining to Christ witnessing. For those who are aware of my experience, please bear with me ^^

Here goes:

I was diagnosed with this illness called ankylosing spondylitis and here are the links to its definition, symptoms, causes etc.

http://www.medicinenet.com/ankylosing_spondylitis/article.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankylosing_spondylitis

Due to this illness, I was suffering greatly in pain because of the immobility and stiffness of major joints such as joints in the lower & upper back, ankle, both shoulders and hips. It hurts every single second and it hurts even more when I tried to move. They severely affected my daily activities such as getting up and down from the bed, passing motion, getting on and off a vehicle, climbing stairs, picking up objects from the floor, wearing socks etc. Hence, I could not have a good rest at night when the pain was attacking me second by second and minute by minute even though what I did was just lying straight on the bed.

I had been to endless medical treatments, therapies and the effort was in vain. From government hospitals in Penang and KL, Chinese traditional doctor in Johor and up to specialist in Beijing, China could not help me much in my suffering. Not to mention about the number of people giving advice that they think could help.

Experiencing every second of pain, I cried out to God- why is this happening to me? When I’m in the peak of my life to get a career and enjoy life, You stuffed me up with this illness and all I can do is seriously hoping my life to be taken away, away from this suffering. This is what I did every night. I cried out to Him, exactly like what Job did, “Why don’t you just take me away???, Why you brought me out of my mother’s womb in the 1^st place???”

Yet, God is merciful and though He seemed silent throughout my hardship, His blessings still could be seen. Here are some of the pictures of the darkest days of my life:

Still could soar high with AirAsia^^

Thinnest ever in my life- 43KG. Don't be jealous ladies ^^

In spite of my disability, I still could travel to Pangkor island to stay in the forest for 4 days and did some stunts such as jungle trekking, abseiling, night-walking and canoeing. Don’t ask me how I did it; I just knew I was heavily protected by the angels of God!

Despite my disability, I scored the highest CGPA of 3.83/4.00 in my 4 years of studies in my education course!

Despite my disability, God did not give up on me but to continue using me to fetch others without transport and serving in the church. Imagine I did all these when I had to use a walking stick wherever I went. Hard to believe? God is magnificent and indescribable.

After suffering for some time, God finally sent His people to aid me. I gave up on following a treatment last year thinking there would be no way for me to fork out RM 49,000 to undergo the treatment. One day I received a call from a drugs agent asking me about my current condition and whether I still want to undergo the treatment since financial aid can be applied. Sensing strongly she’s a child of God, I agreed. I was really amazed of God’s wonder when she told me she decided to reopen my case when she realized there was no follow-up action done. Months after that, I had my 1^st treatment in HUKM with God’s mercy. The treatment works tremendously well in my body despite the mentioned side effects and I started to walk, run and jump! It has been a year now since my 1^st treatment and I’ve completed a course of it. Whether to continue for another year, I have no idea at all and I’m not worried at all. Since God has brought me to this, He will bring me through it. v(^.^)v

Philippians 4:13

I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

:: BE ALERT :: BE CAUTIOUS ::

2008-08-15T21:21:00.000-07:00

When I thought my life has reached the climax and at its best, God just brought it to a whole new level. God can make 1 million and 1 things to happen to make your life interesting, take my word for it.

There was an attempted break-in in my backyard last night between 2.30a.m. and 3a.m. I heard the dog of my neighbour started barking but couldn't care more as it stopped after a while. With a heavy head and fatigue body, I forced myself to plunge into my pillows. Suddenly, something fishy was immediately sensed when I saw the glare of a torchlight shone into my room ! I thought I was still in my dream until the second time occurred ! Swiftly I got up from my bed and grabbed my spec ! Upon realizing waking the person in the room, he got out of the hole of the fence and silently went off.

With my heart pounding hard, I rang 999 and the cops arrived within minutes. After doing some slight investigations, they went off. Though nothing was lost, nobody was hurt, it was traumatized enough for me as this was my first experience and I was all alone at home!

So, my dear friends, please be very very cautious and alert at all times that don't ever let your guard down no matter in this area, relationship with your spouse or your loving Father.

Some pictures to share:

This was how closed the guy was to me and this is my newly set-up 'trap' ^^ If you wana sneak in , make sure you don't trip

Hey all

2008-07-22T22:40:00.000-07:00

Greetings all,
Sorry for keeping this blog dead as I didn't have time to update it following a series of events such as termination of internet connection, trips and holidays. To keep y'all updated, I'm doing real good and still adapting myself to this brand new learning environment in UM. I did have slight cultural shock when I got in here as the lecturers are definitely different from what we had in teacher's training college. Lecturers here with the title of Professor/associate prof/Dr. are always busy, busy and busy that you really don't have sufficient time to talk to them personally but only to approach them through the Internet. Yup, everything is done online here including the submission of courseworks, comments, blogging, video clips, resources, everything ! This is quite hard for me till now as we haven't got our internet connection fixed. Hope this will be history as soon as I get a call from the person in-charged. Alright, think that's all for now and I will do some updates on the trip to Gold Coast as soon as I have the time and internet connection. Take care everyone !

Gold Coast trip day 1

2008-06-10T04:36:00.000-07:00

Arrived at the airport hours before departure and all I could do was wait, wait and WAIT. The flight took us about 7 hours to reach there. It was uncomfortable during the flight as the seat was in upright position for me to lean on. What to do, AirAsia cheap ma ^^
It is winter season in Australia but the weather was just too good to believe. Average temperature was around 18 degree celcius. (slightly cooler than Genting^^) As I didn't sleep well at all on the plane, the first trip was awfully tiring. Our coach driver brought us to Seaworld theme park and everything was about the ocean. It was interesting that we could watch dolphin show, sea lion show, polar bears, sharks and water acrobatic. Not to mention the roller coaster rides that is more thrilling than those in Malaysia ^^
Things in Australia are cheap IF you're working there. If you're spending RM in Aus with the exchange rate of 1 AUD= RM 3.1, a bottle of 600ml mineral water that costs 3AUD and a slice of carrot cake that costs 6AUD aren't cheap at all. Branded goods such as nike, esprit, adidas, CK etc. are seriously cheap. (more info on day4's post). I notice something that's different about their goods in Australia which is 2 products that are same can have different price tags due to their availability and year of production.
Australian are very friendly, helpful and courteous people where they would stop walking just for you to take pictures. Cars would also stop just for the pedestrians to cross the road while in Malaysia, you better run for your life before they hit you ! They really enjoy their lives and I think that's the motto of their lives. I could hardly see any stress on their face and they keep smiling even to strangers. Stay tuned for day 2 ^^

A groovy kind of love...

2008-05-19T00:47:00.000-07:00

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
—I Corinthians 13:4-8a (NIV)

This verse describes the characteristics of true love.
These qualities can certainly be found in the person of Jesus Christ, and they can be found in all
truly loving relationships. The problem with trying to “find” love in our dating lives, is that too often
we don't look for these characteristics. Rather we look at physical appearance, popularity, or wealth.
These are not the qualities that God looks at and neither should we.

But the LORD said to Samuel, “…The LORD does not look at the things man looks at.
Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
—I Samuel 16:7b (NIV)

Love is best seen as devotion and action, not an emotion. Love is not exclusively based on how we feel.
Certainly our emotions are involved, but they cannot be our only criteria for love. True devotion will always lead to action—true love.

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with ACTIONS and in truth.
I John 3:18 (NIV)

Christ was devoted to us enough to give his own life for us (Romans 5:8), even when he didn't feel like it (Matthew 26:39).

Sex is not love!
Our culture has taught us that sex and love are one in the same.
This is a lie.
Sex is a beautiful God-given activity that is wonderful when practised within the boundaries of a Biblical marriage.
Sex is the completion of the binding of two people within Biblical marriage; it is a God-given gift.

Thank you

2008-05-06T00:56:00.000-07:00

Thank God for being so faithful and sustained all the strength and focus I needed for this semester's exams.

Thank God for all the friends He gives me who continuously support me in the areas of studies, health and relationship.

Thank God for all the circumstances that happened recently that I was drawn even closer to Him.

Thank God for my health that I'm still living and kicking and my body is only to be used to serve Him.

Thank God for everything that I have as everything comes from Him. He is the alpha and the omega. Amen.

I understand.

2008-05-01T00:07:00.001-07:00

I understand I must love myself before I can love others.

I understand I must be open so I can open others unto themselves.

I understand I must be honest if I expect that of my friends.

I understand I must speak truth if I am to hear the truth spoken.

I understand that I must reach out to people if I am to be touched.

I understand I must share If I am to be given.

I understand my knowledge must be used if I am to grow.

I understand you must have freedom if I am to be free.

(Walter Rinder)

Hillsongs United LIVE in KL !!!

2008-04-23T09:55:00.001-07:00

Date:	Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Time:	8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:	Glad Tidings Petaling Jaya
Street:	No 6 Jalan 13/4
City/Town:	Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Contact: 012 387 9938

Hillsong United will be performing a LIVE concert at Glad Tidings Petaling Jaya.

Tickets at RM 50

Organized by Youth Alive Malaysia & Glad Tidings Petaling Jaya.

Waazzzup for this month ?

2008-04-14T02:11:00.001-07:00

Well, finally i've ended our semester's classes last Friday and handed in the last assignment of this sem this morning.^^ Having study break now but still need to attend revision classes...
So upcoming challenges are our final exam, practical training and house-moving missions. Thank God for giving us a house that suits everyone's need (6 of us) in PJ. It's located in section 14 and it's near to UM as we'll continue our adventure there.
I'm not sure when i'll have the time to go back to my hometown and i really want to T.T Hope that everything can be settled as soon as possible so i can enjoy home cooking ^^ Ciao~~~

Switch off your lights when it's not used

2008-03-31T01:51:00.000-07:00

Typing Speed Training

2008-03-29T23:50:00.000-07:00

Found this site from my friend's blog which is really useful and fun in training your typing speed ^^ Enjoy !
73 words

Speedtest

The power of black

2008-03-28T08:06:00.000-07:00

Teacher trainees in my college here started the media player craze instead of the popular gadget- handphones. (top picture): iPod nano 8GB on the left, iPod touch 8GB on the right and my black tumbler at the top^^. Have another Creative Zen 4GB and Creative Zen vision W 60GB which weren't taken picture of. (bottom picture): New clothes for my baby ^^

Ups again

2008-03-28T08:01:00.000-07:00

Thank God that i just bought a brand new motherboard which can support DDR2 RAM. My joy can be understood as i had been struggling with the old DDR RAM for 3 years...

Downs

2008-03-28T07:58:00.000-07:00

Just days after getting my iPod, i burnt my pc motherboard by connecting 2 external hard drives to it T.T The system just crashed right it was connected to the second HDD and i smelled smoke. It was simply awful for it to crash at that moment as i had a major assignment to be submitted days after that. Thank God i have friend who was willing to lend me her second laptop without thinking about it when i asked for the favour ^^

Ups

2008-03-28T07:32:00.000-07:00

Recently just added a gadget to my collection which is apple iPod touch which has 8GB of capacity. Bought it RM200 cheaper than the market price as i won the auction on lelong site. Item was brand new and came with apple warranty. It has the basic functions such as music,video playback and photo viewing. The best part is surfing the net will never be the same again as you can surf anything even chat with your friends through MSN messenger at Wi-Fi hotspot with its 3.5-inch touch screen keyboard. Kindly view its tech spec by clicking this: http://www.applemalaysia.com.my/ipodtouch/specs.html

Easter celebration 2008

2008-03-20T00:52:00.001-07:00

As Jesus Christ was crucified, He 'visited' hell and fought the devils and Satan to get back the key of life to save the world... Want to know more ? head down to Gospel Esplosion Presbyterian Church (GEPC) at taman connought, Cheras, KL this Saturday (22/3/08) at 5pm to witness the grandest Easter extravaganza ever happening in town !!!
p/s leave a message if you have any enquiry ^^

Still living and kicking in Jesus name !

2008-03-16T23:58:00.000-07:00

Just discharged from the hospital on Sunday after my 5th infusion. Thank God everything was fine since i wasn't able to be infused a week before due to the abnormal increase of my bilirubin index. Left the hospital with injection scars here and there T.T but i would not be infused again for now since i have completed 5 times. It will just be an appointment with my doctor in 6-week time v(^.^)v
What I'm doing now ? Assignment-test period again. Having 5-6 assignments, 3 tests and 3 simulated teaching to be done in March ! Everything will be over smoothly by the grace of the Lord. Hopefully will feel more relaxing after this month.
Went to SK Taman Midah 2 (Cheras)today to submit the letter for approval regarding our 14-day practical. Can't believe I'll be teaching so soon in primary school >.< That's all for this time (head back to complete assignment) God bless you all ! ^^

Discipleship training @ Kluang

2008-03-01T07:16:00.000-08:00

Was immediately interested to this programme once it was announced by uncle Ven in the esplosion camp 2007. The speakers - Pastor Victor & Kelly are the one who made me confirmed that i wanted to go for this training.
Truly it was my first time to Kluang (yay! I love to explore places). Four of us- Eliana, Joseph, Sharon Foo and me rushed to the bus station right after our Friday class and took a three-and-a-half-hour journey to our destination.
Kluang is a peaceful and relaxing town if you compare it with KL town. I felt that kind of relaxation right after i alighted from the bus. We had Bro Jit brought us to Oasis to settle our baggages and one of the dogs there greeted me with freshly baked 'cake' =.=|| malang betui. Then, we headed to the youth center for the training after our dinner.
We had around 18 people from various churches such as GEPC (KL), AJPC (KT), PD and Agape church (Kluang) respectively. This training was a packed yet effective one as we learnt ample of effective ways/strategies/techniques to follow up with young christians, interact with strangers and even evangelize to them. We did our practical training which was evangelism in Kluang hospital which was the 1st ever experience in my life to approach a stranger and evangelize !
On the last day of our trip (Sun), we attended the beautifully designed Agape church and received our certificate for the training ^^ It was really a good one and I'm looking forward to level 2 training. People out there, spend some time and money for this, you won't regret.

Down the memory lane ~~~

2008-02-04T19:51:00.000-08:00

It was really good to meet up with all my F5 friends after we graduated from high school for 5 years... We first met at 'mat dou yao' shop in Jelutong then shifted to 'Kayu' in Bukit Jambul in Penang. Glad i could make it as i wasn't in the mood to join as there usually won't be people turning up for gathering but this time we had 9 people ^^
We first shared what we are doing at the moment with some people taking civil engineering course, nutrition course, horticulture, aerospace and some even opened up their own shops selling handphones.
After 5 years, we don't really remember who is who especially those we didn't really mix with in school. So we managed to get our school magazine to see faces ^^ and surprisingly, we have a friend from other class who is now a father! that's young ^^
It was really exciting to recall what we did in our classroom especially when i was reminded i used to sleep in the class most of the time with my helmet blocking the view of our teacher ^^ And how one of our friends was woken up by the headmaster and got a 'present' from him ^.^
We'll meet again this Sat at Queensbay mall with more people joining ! See you guys then !

Floor Ball

2008-02-03T19:32:00.000-08:00

Yep, you'll have a ball that rolls on the floor if you infer the meaning from the name of the sports^^It's more like indoor hockey but the difference is the end of the stick and the ball are made of plastic instead of wood. Yup, for over 20years, this is my first experience in playing this game v(=.=)v
We had the game at Kompleks Belia dan Sukan located on the opposite of USM main gate. It was really exhausting under the training of the coach. We had to sprint to and fro a checkpoint for warm-up session. Then we had some ball passing practice, shooting the goal and lastly, a real game. Well, honestly i enjoyed it a lot as it was truly fun and exciting ^^

4th infusion~a disaster~

2008-01-29T06:31:00.000-08:00

This time wasn't so smooth like the previous one as there were some unexpected incidents happened. For every infusion, usually i would have to undergo 3 pokes of syringe which are to test blood sugar, normal blood test and to insert a connection tube for drugs dripping. For this time, i underwent 5 pokes in total ! Thanks to an inexperienced doctor. In the middle of night, not only she woke me up, she wanted to inject the connection tube (which is the most painful jab) but took it out after that. I asked her "what was that ?!" She said, it wasn't injected properly... walao eh !!! Why not you use your arm and test 1st =.= Then she took blood pula, due to her carelessness, not only she left a bruise on my arm, the blood she took wasn't enough and rejected by the lab. That means i had to take another blood test the next day because of her =.=||
Next, i was supposed to be discharged after 1 night. Thanks to another irresponsible doctor who was supposed to do a check-up on me and discharged me didn't turn up, i had to stay another night and missed 5 hours of lecture in total and my lecturer set an important assignment in one of those hours ! Grrrr
So, doctors out there, please be professional as your patients are already suffering from illness, please don't worsen it.

Nice

2007-12-19T18:55:00.000-08:00

3rd drugs infusion

2007-12-18T05:19:00.000-08:00

This was the 3rd dose of my drugs therapy of the year. It's slightly different for this admission as i was given 1st class accommodation v(^.^)v which was a room of my own with private washroom. It was because all the beds were occupied, so they had to give me that room.
Well it's indeed quite lonely within these 4 walls as i couldn't see and talk to others but i took this opportunity and spent some quality time with God ^^ Besides, i could talk on the phone as loud as i wanted to =p
There was this Chinese uncle who has stroke and wasn't really conscious with his utterances. He kept yelling and kicking all the nurses and doctors who approached him. They had to tight him up to prevent him from getting down from the bed in case he falls down.
Below are some conversations between that uncle and another uncle who slept at the opposite bed who disturbed him^^
Uncle 1(stroke): Ah Yeng ! Ah Yeng ! kiu koi dei fong hoi ngo ! (asked them to release me!)
Uncle2 : Lei lou po fan zho hui la (your wife has gone back la)
Uncle 1(stroke): lei you mm you fong ?? ( you wana let me go or not ??)
Uncle 2 : Mm fong ! Tang lei hou fan di ngo tai lei hui wan ding (no! i'll bring you to
Genting when you recover)
Uncle1(stroke) : sei er lei, kong ti kam ke ye, kam tor yan sei mm kin lei sei (go and die, say
things like this, so many people die why weren't you one of them)
Uncle2 :pat yu fan hiong ha, yee poh leh (what about your hometown, ipoh)
Uncle1(stroke):kong kong kong %$#@!*&#!! (say somemore)

Wasei, we had a great time last night with other visitors listening to their conversations ^^ Luckily i had my own room, if not i couldn't have slept well with all his senseless yellings throughout the night. Next infusion will be on Jan 28th. God will be with me,Amen !

The Curve- Christmas season

2007-12-15T22:59:00.000-08:00

This is my 1st visit to the Curve after staying in KL for more than 3 years ^^ It's indeed a wonderful and enjoyable experience.
The Christmas decorations were like Wow (look at the pictures). It's sooo beautiful and romantic^^ The moment i got in there, i just felt i was in a theme park...it's huge and open-air with various stalls, restaurants, cafes, clubs and bars. We went to Mache restaurant to have dinner and believe me, this place is not any closer to the word 'ordinary'. Walked through the door with a 'passport' given to order food, the restaurant is like a market inside where ingredients are placed right in front of you and the chef prepares the food behind it. I enjoyed food that i have never tried before such as rosti honey glazed turkey and scone. This is a swiss-concept restaurant which i find it...lovely. Of course, the price is equally 'lovely'.

Days after Esplosion camp 2007

2007-12-11T20:38:00.000-08:00

Thank God for Esplosion camp 2007 for His continuous blessings and presence throughout the camp. Lives were transformed, souls have been revived, spirits have been lifted up and refreshed. I always learn new things from Esp camp, it has never made me disappointed. I'm looking forward to Esp7 next year^^
We only took 40minutes to reach home from Nilai...thank god for that. Now life is back and i believe every campers is having the same feelings as me...boring...missing the camp>.<
Woke up at 11sth this morning(after 10 hours of sleep^^) and found out that our results for this semester is out ! and i got....*drum rolls*... 'lulus cemerlang' !!! wooohooo praise the Lord ! I really thank God for His guidance and blessings throughout this semester and it finally ended with me passing with flying colours. Hallelujah!

Surprise~~~

2007-12-05T07:14:00.000-08:00

Yep it's a surprise, a bad one, like hell. When i was about to go out this afternoon, someone 'gave' me a present- a big black padlock locking my grill. You can imagine my expression when i saw that thing (what tha???). I couldn't think who would do this to me but it must be some free rich brainless people.
Thank god our security guard was very helpful that he got me a locksmith's number which later i found out i will be charged RM70 to unlock the darn padlock. =.= The price was not negotiable even though i'm a student and i had been victimized !
Thank god again to the security guard who found some construction workers to set me free using electric saw... Thank God ^^
So to all of you, please lock your grill with padlocks whether you're in or out so the 'tak han mou si zhou' people have no space to lock you up.

Life Church Melbourne's concert

2007-11-12T05:54:00.000-08:00

Dated Nov 11st and held in 3K hall in Sri Kembangan, it was the first concert i attended in my life ^^ Surely i was v excited and i enjoyed myself to the fullest ^^
Life Church worship band was made up of a group of talented (seriously) musicians. Though they're not as famous as Hillsongs and Planetshakers, they're really good in music and i believe their will gain their reputation v soon.
We were rocked by them all night as i jumped until my leg cramped lol. The speaker- Pastor Nicholas was a gifted and blessed person... He's really gifted in preaching in d sense that he caught our interest and attention... I was v touched by his story...and the best part is he even danced and did "worm" before he preached (look at d pic below) Wow!!!
Indeed, we bought their album and got all their pictures and signatures ^^ sure i'll be there when they come again next year. You guys rock !!!

3 days 2 nights in ...hospital

2007-11-07T01:00:00.000-08:00

1st ever admission into Hospital Kebangsaan University Malaysia (HUKM) wasn't something as fun as i thought it should be lol. The feelings i have when i was discharged is totally opposed to the excitement i had before i was admitted.
I was admitted on Nov 5th 5pm, to undergo drugs infusion for my illness. Once i reached my bed, a welcome gift from my neighbour- awesome smell as he was passing motion. walau eh... quickly ran to the window for some fresh air^^
Life is so realistic in the ward. You don't hear music, positive things but sounds of machines, patients cry out in agony, terrible coughing and others. The connection with outside world is totally cut off. I couldn't really feel i was in HUKM, Cheras with all the familiar places surrounding me, no, i felt i was on an island more. I was really psychologically disturbed as the time past by, feeling wanna rush out of the hospital. I believe i'll go insane if the doctor were to hold me any longer.
Patients here could talk to each other easily without barrier as everyone is on the same boat. The 1st usual question would be "sakit apa?". Oh yeah, i was the youngest in the ward. Blood pressure was taken every 5 hours. I was disturbed by the nurse to take my blood pressure at 3.30am for these 2 nights ! Not to mention BP was taken every 30 minutes during my infusion.
Life here wasn't peaceful AT ALL. Nurses woke me up at 7am to have breakfast...walau eh, i sleep until what time i suka la.>< I was interviewed by like 30+ doctor trainees in these 3 days regarding my illness as it's very rare. One doctor even brought her students to have lecture on me.
Before i end this post, i was poked for 4 times during my stay for blood test and the infusion took 7 hours. I will get back there in 2-week time for 2nd infusion. sigh...
Thanks to all the friends who visited me during my stay. CK, joann, zi xin, chiat, sam, con, jamie, chip, lim, samuel, jacob, peter, christine, yue ting, jasmine, wilfred, josh and friend. You guys rock ! without you people i would be so lonely. Arigatou !

Exam period 2007

2007-10-30T02:36:00.000-07:00

It's that time of the year again...
3 days of exam before we end our beautiful semester ~~
Honestly, time does literally fly this semester, it's the fastest semester ever to pass !
May be due to endless assignments and tests, this semester is ending seriously fast !

Really thank God for upholding me and granting me strength in this semester as i was seriously
ill in July and Aug. Thinking to suspend my semester to undergo treatment... but thank God
It's going to be over now !!!

Alright, exam week. Ha, spending time in front of pc more than books. Due to boredom, started an account in facebook and whoaaaa this thing is really addictive... i'm spending everyday to play the applications, update this and that... hehheheeee. But it's sure more hella fun than friendster^^

what else i did this week, oh yea, went clubbing lol~
with 3 other friends to ruums...oh yea ~~dance and party !!!!
alright, that's all for now, completed 1 paper today, 2 more to go, gambateh !!! ^^

me(left) and Josh @ ruums 27.10.07 (Sat)

Esplosion 2006

2007-10-16T07:15:00.001-07:00

Esplosion 2006 dated from 9^th of DEC to 12^th DEC was one of the memorable camps for me. It was my first time to attend a camp organized by Presbyterian English churches. Port Dickson was selected to be the venue and indeed it was a beautiful place.

We departed from GEPC(Cheras) in 7-8 cars in the afternoon. Thank god for giving us safe journey that we reached the destination in time for the registration. All new faces I met at the resort were from various churches such as Agape(Kluang), Kuala Terengganu, Holy Light, Hebron, Ipoh, Kuantan and others. Surprisingly their average age was ranged from 15-19.( I’m considered ‘old’ lol) Despite their age, they were really energetic and enthusiastic in serving god. I was really encouraged by them.

Praise and worship sessions were just wonderful. I could feel the presence of god in every session and we did have a great time! I was also amazed by the age of some musicians from other churches that they were really talented!

I also felt grateful to have a great speaker in this camp who was Pastor Victor and his wife, Pastor Kelly. They both were really gifted pastors in youth ministry. They truly understand today’s youth problems that they can cope with it very well. I gained a lot in every session they held.

A small issue I would raise is they didn’t plan any games for the camp throughout 4 days. Other than that, the food we had, room we stayed was really good and comfortable. Nice work!

A visit to KL badminton stadium lol~

2007-10-16T07:14:00.000-07:00

It was a Sunday when i was on my way back after sending my friends back to the college. Suddenly i remembered there was this Malaysian open badminton championship happening at KL badminton stadium which is just 1km away from my current location. So i decided to take a look since all the champions like Lin Dan, Taufik Hidayat and others were there. It was a fullhouse at the parking lot where i couldn't find a place for my little Kancil to squeeze in..(just imagine that ! ). I saw all kinds of luxury cars like Merz S-class, BMW 7 series and even the latest Nissan Skyline (syok) believed it belongs to the VIPs guarded by traffic police. When i was about to leave, a man suddenly appeared and asked me to take his place since he's leaving. wow, just nice, i thought.
I was walking briskly to the entrance after i parked my car. There were glaring notices saying ' tickets sold out ! ' everwhere. great, i thought. i could only listen to the cheering outside the entrance instead to spectating inside, darn. i was wondering could i ran through that VIP entrance when the guards weren't watching, lol. The whole incident ended with i watching the live telecast competition on TV screen back at home, clear and comfortable.

A new story plot

2007-10-16T07:13:00.000-07:00

Just moments before i fell asleep last night, i just had this idea of a new story plot. It goes like this...
There is this human accidentally discovers this secret entrance to a majestic kingdom location somewhere in the space(something like 'Narnia'). In that kingdom, he finds out that the ruler is busy preparing a biggest war ever happened in human history that is to destroy the earth and terminate every living things on earth.
After several attempts, this human manages to get back to earth the entrance where he got into that kingdom. He tries any way he could do to warn the world's leaders, organisations and people about this war. Logically the people couldn't accept this message. Without giving up hope, this human starts to recruit members and form elite groups from the soldier forces, air and navy respectively. This person knows what it takes to fight the 'secretive kingdom' as he has infiltrated the kingdom's top secret military base.
After months of preparation, the biggest, most cruel war has begun in human history ...

*that's what i have thought of generally... usually i have ideas of writing a new song, but this time, lol... heheee hope you enjoy it =)

Smart Teacher Workshop

2007-10-16T07:12:00.000-07:00

It's a workshop for trainee teachers regarding the usage of SMART board as a teaching tool in the classroom. SMART board is an interactive whiteboard where it's connected to a computer. You can explore a website, give a science presentation or take a virtual field trip. The key to this experience is touch. You simply touch the surface to select menus and icons. To write notes, pick up a pen and write with either the pen or your finger. You don't need batteries or special tools that fail or go missing. It was indeed a tiring day as the workshop went from 9am-5pm. It was held at the various parts of the faculty of education,UM.
The first session was the most interesting and entertaining of all where trainer- Firuz gave us a lecture on basic understanding of psychology on e-learning environment. Firuz is a knowledgeable and witty lady. She knows what she is doing and is really good in it. "no one has ever fallen asleep during my lecture" and it was very true.
After taking a group photo, we moved to the multimedia lab and 'wow', UM has got the facilities to accomodate world-class standard of learning environment. So if you can't excel in UM, the problem is in you. UM has provided complete facilities for teaching and learning.
Then, came the luncheon part. Wasei, i wonder if the organisers who did this workshop and in charged of food and beverage were the same group. They did a fantastic job in organizing the workshop but what we got for lunch was rice with a slice of cucumber and egg. And of course, kuih ! Luckily i brought my bread. Ha!
Next, we had to prepare a lesson plan by incorporating some theories we learned in the first session and maximize the usage of SMART board. It was good but tiring. Before calling it a day, we registered ourselves as the Malaysia SMART board user group and we received a gift for that. Guess what, a 256mb pendrive!
Finally, heard that this board costs a few K (may be 8 or 9). Who cares...the ministry of Edu. gonna spend the money and we teachers are just gonna use it...adiosssssss

Called up Fly Fm

2007-10-16T07:11:00.001-07:00

Decided to participate the contest organised by Fly FM which is called "wake up your brain". The question goes " What are 18% of people in the world capable of?" The prize money started at RM100 and snowballs at the pace of RM100 a day if answers given are incorrect.
It was the 8th day since i started calling the station every morning and it finally got through. Wow, you know that kind of feelings...nervous+excited...wasei !
So i answered phat babes+Ben (DJs) ''access the internet" and guess what ...
one loud buzzzzzz WRONG!!! sigh... it was RM1400 on that day if i get it correct...
nevermind, i'm still glad as i called through that day... how many people has that kind of chance like me... adiosss~~~

http://www.flyfm.com.my/flyfmbbbshow01.asp

here's the link... answer 19th is mine...wahahhaa