last post of 2009

It's my 30th post and it's my last post of the year 2009. Hallelujah.

So, 2009... sucked?

Yeah, pretty much.

Firstly, PMR marred my whole year. Not because I wasted lots of time studying. It's just that I got countless lectures, reminders, scoldings all because of PMR. Even got into pointless arguments over the amount of time I spend studying. -____- Exams cause stress and fights. Pfft.
PMR not only cause stress and fights, they sap your joy away during Christmas. Notably when you've just missed out on straight A's and the results came out the day right before Christmas. *rolls eyes*

Spent too much time on the computer, as usual. Dota, facebook, soccernet, watching Liverpool on Sopcast. Minimal time blogging though. Oh, and recently, playing poker on Facebook. Come play with me and donate me some money. =) But I don't promote/encourage gambling, unless it's virtual money of course. Lolz.

Furthermore, no major sport events which I liked took place this year. Even SEA Games failed for me. Although Malaysia soccer team did win gold, I don't care much about Malaysian soccer. The way they play is like, very disentertaining, if there is such a word. No Euro, no World Cup. Champions League without Liverpool is like, pointless. Duh.

I can go on and on about how 2009 sucks... like Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett's death. How the icebergs are melting in the North Pole and how global warming is gonna affect our planet Earth soon. And how we're gonna get betrayed by the Presidents of each country when they will be safe in a modern "Noah's Ark", defying the prediction that all men will die by 2012. Lolz. I'm being lame. -__-

2009 sucked to the max!

Lol. Just joking. Haha. But seriously. I've been talking enough crap.

2009 has been a decent year la. Looking back...

I survived. Aweeesomeee.

I'll be hoping and praying that 2010 will far better than 2009. I hope I can keep my fire burning for God as He has poured abundant blessings upon my life in the year 2009.

This is my 30th post, I just ate 30 super delicious sticks of satay at Tampoi. And it's 30 minutes to 2010! Notice the number 30 keeps popping up?
Lolz. I should seriously stop being so lame.



Let's see that the glasses are full, even though they're half empty. =)
Another lame catch phrase.

GG 2009. Hello 2010!

crunched

First, that awkward dream. Then came the rain early in the morning. Not very good signs.

Then when I stepped into school, I was chased back home for not wearing uniform. What the heck? Another bad sign. -___-

The results were announced at the canteen, which was obviously a very weird place to hold something as important as this. Maybe because it was raining. I reached barely on time, as the MC teacher went, "Sekarang, saya akan mengumumkan nama pelajar-pelajar yang mendapat straight A's. Sila tampil ke hadapan apabila nama anda dipanggil." I knew I wasn't one of the 14 straight A's students but I kept hoping and hoping, until the last name is read out. Soon, the last name was announced.

Whoosh.

That little faith of mine died right then.

Then I listened carefully for the 'near-miss' students. 'Near-miss' students are the ones who got A's for all subjects but one.

Not one minute later, my name was read out. Feeling a little dejected, I walked up to receive my PMR result slip.

Bahasa Melayu smeared my PMR slip. Crap. Nevermind. I never loved the language anyways.
Talk about consoling myself. Lolz.

I should blame myself for not taking the time to study lo. My supposedly 'chiong study September' never did succeed. Blame facebook. Blame facebook.

Never mind =) It is not the end of the world. Not even in 2012. ~_~

Still, I thank God for his mercy and faithfulness. All glory to God. (=

Okay. I'm gonna go totally off-topic here.




Great movie. Better than 2012 imo.
Woe to all the 2012 fans out there!
It was rated 18PL so I had to lie to get in. Forgive me, Lord.

Lets go starbucks to destress/celebrate?

christmas is coming

Fa la la la la la la la la.

It's December! What is the first thing that comes to my mind when I see the word "December"?

Christmas (:

November, as usual, came and went in a flash. Holidays are always like that. Pfft.
Yesterday was my first guitar lesson with a teacher, ironically also named Daniel. After testing me out on the piano, drums and guitar, he chose to teach me the guitar. I specifically preferred the guitar or the drums since I've already picked up piano during my primary school days.
The lesson's not bad, learned some interesting chords. I wanna master all those weird chords 'cause they sound really... special!
Hopefully, one day I can serve God using the guitar. (:
Ah. And I hope I get decent results for PMR so that I can get that guitar I wanted so much. It's pure awesomeness wei.

If I recall correctly, it looks something like this :P


Back to Christmas,

JC Radix's 'Spectacular Spectacles' night? XD
I can already picture some of us putting on weird, weird spectacles. But we have to make the spectacles ourselves. All the more weird. :S

Examples:


Distorted Cyclops' spectacles



Harry Potter style



Mad scientist style


Or something like this...


I will never be caught wearing these spectacular spectacles.


Instead, I will probably be wearing something like this...



Fuyoh! Fuyoh!


About the 'Spectacular Spectacles' night, it will be held on the 18th.
Target : 80 new friends, 20 new believers.

Please do remember this event in your prayers (:

LPN (Local Prayer Network)

Do pray for the mall presentations and the Christmas services at church too.


It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ~W.T. Ellis

small update

Trip to museum and zoo organised by my school.

Half-regret going for this trip seh. I should've known. But it's my own fault really. My friends went so I just tagged along.

With no iPod nano. No JS or Hillsong to listen to. =/

Pretty much predictably boring, right?

Museum. Absolute boring-ness.
Zoo. Well, the animals were half-dead. Looks like they've not been well-fed or taken care of.

....

Obviously.

Johor lah. Whaddya expect?

Never mind. Forget the forgettable.

As usual, slacking has been my favourite pastime. Facebook, Dota, CS, Youtube. And more Youtube. Didn't catch any movies recently, or follow any tv shows for that matter. So later, I'm gonna try Fringe. I have too much time on my hands anyways. Never really watched any series after Prison Break ended. Aw.

Still procrastinating, and procrastinating, and procrastinating. To work. Gosh, I was offered a simple job with daily pay, and I still don't wanna work. I still prefer wasting my time away, fingers on the keyboard, right hand on the mouse, eyes on the screen and getting that 'beyond Godlike' streak or buffering videos on Youtube. Oh. And simply enjoying the sheer awesomeness of Fernando Torres. Not to mention Liverpool's form of late.

Bleh.

I wanna learn more songs on the acoustic guitar. I badly want a new one too. That sunburst guitar looks so tempting lah. Gosh.

...

Writer's block.

Btw, Mocha Praline Frappucinno is dang fantastic. Starbucks anyone?

october

A month full of happenings. Half filled with the joy of accomplishing success. The other half, the disappointment of failures and not getting what I hoped for, albeit I was wrong on my part.

PMR = Dead and gone

Though I never did revise enough. Though I never really put my heart into studying. Though I thought I lost it during Science paper 2.
I am fairly satisfied with my answers. (:
Pray that God will help me to get into Science stream, at least.

Yesterday, I turned 15. A decade and a half. I know I'm getting old. Had a low-profile birthday yesterday. Many are starting their final exams this week. Had a great lot of food though. :P
A big thank you to everyone who wished me. Appreciate it.

October is gonna end soon. Sooner than I realized. Two holiday months, November and December are beginning to look so inviting. I'm looking forward to the Youth Conference this December. Hopefully, I can make it. These are the days when a 15-year-old spends his last slacking days before SPM.

By the way, the best and last birthday present I received yesterday. [Liverpool 2-0 Manchester United] YNWA.

Don't wanna elaborate too much on this month. Far too lazy. Sorry for the terrible grammar, distorted sentences and whatever that puts you off.

God has punished me this month. I did not faithfully do my devotion. Procrastination was the main problem. I did things I shouldn't have done. I've lost myself during some conflicts. Not a good example of a what a Christian should be. I cannot serve God if I cannot simply devote and commit myself to him.
I need to get back to God and have that simple faith a little child has.

moonstorm - accomplished

Accomplished. I hope so.

Weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks of brainstorming, planning and working things out. It got a little messy during the station games due to the timing of the teams reaching their stations. Some hiccups here and there. Thank God we were able to sort all of them out later on. I actually knocked into someone when I was hurrying around. I hope her back isn't hurt that badly. I thought it was quite a nasty knock.

On a brighter note, it was so much fun watching them drink those yummy drinks, bursting those ear-deafening balloons, biting biscuits off the limbo pole, sacrificing their hands into worms/frogs/onion+garlic+entah apa/dandruffed hairs/Dyi Shin's so embracing hand, doing the duck and caterpillar walks. Blah blah blah. Kesian the people who drank the super "yummy" drinks. Revolting lah, seriously. One of the yummy drinks is [coffee+raw egg+vinegar+tobasco+white pepper]. Stir, stir, stir = one yummy drink! Seems super appetising. Third floor was spooky to the max. Crazily scary seh. People would be freaked out if it wasn't in a church.

A. lot. of. fun.

Final result was beyond what I expected though. Positive feedbacks from others. Happy (: I guess everyone had the chance to participate in everything we had planned. Patrick, Dyi Shin, Mabel, Yin Kuan, Jasmine, Steven and Catherine all did very well. Tracey and Ben, our leaders, helped us a great lot. Wan Yean and Samuel chipped in 'cause we were short of people. Honestly, all of them made Moonstorm a success.

I can't elaborate on everything that happened. Too much to explain. All I can say is, all wasn't in vain. Many people turned up. Far more than we expected. 80 people is like, way beyond what we were expecting. We only expected around 60 people.

Last but never least, thank God for His great and mighty work through this event. I hope that the newcomers will learn to know God as a loving, caring and a fun God. That Christianity is not a boring, lifeless, full-of-cannot-do-this-and-that religion. It's our simple faith in our ever-loving, ever-faithful, everlasting God. Greater things are still to be done here in COP!

temporary hiatus

Hiatus. Again. This time it's gonna be a long one month or so due to my PMR exams. I have to stop my daily online visits now or else. I have to catch up on 3 years of study syllabus within 30 days. Looks like fun (: I don't know if I can do it, but I must do it. Slacking for almost 3 years by dota-ing, cs-ing, youtubing, facebooking, blogging, reached its limit already. Time to start getting serious.



After I'm done studying all these books...


Expected online return is on the 13th of October 2009. Til then, that's all folks!

pmr trials: fail

I screwed up my trials. When am I ever gonna start studying?

PMR PMR PMR
Study Study Study

How I wish they don't go together.

Too much expectations from people around me. Everyone expects straight A's from me. Blah blah blah. Except for those who know me really well, they'll know i dropped like 15 or more places from my form 1 position in the school.

Trials results:

Malay B
English A
Science B
Maths C
Sejarah C
K.H. A
Geography B

I know it's real disappointing.
I know Chinese should score A's in Maths and Science.
I know if I work hard enough I can score in Sejarah and Geography.
I know I don't put enough effort.
I know I should stop spending too much time on the computer.

I heard loads of stuff like "It's for your future", "It's for your own good", "How are you getting to a good class if you don't do well?".

I know lah. Tak de inspiration to study lah.
Distractions. Big factor. Sleepiness, laziness, hesitation, and the list goes on and on and on.

People around me are already starting to study like mad. So intimidating seh.

When the heck am I gonna ever start studying?

it's never overcoming me

It seemed like just yesterday. In the backseat of the van, she was reading a form 1 History textbook. While waiting for her 'chauffeur', her full concentration focused on the textbook, leaving any form of interaction with people around her until necessary. The night was silent, except for small bits of chattering and occasional grunts by vehicles along the road. Seriousness clearly etched on her face, she was trying her best to put in as much information as she could into her memory. It may not be the perfect place to do so but time was already creeping up on her, and real fast. A minute lost seems like an opportunity gone. For her at least.
If she had realized it earlier, she wouldn't have been in this pathetic state. But how could she? Distractions butt in whenever she tried and temptations were everywhere. There was no way to escape the influences around her too. It's late but not the end.


I'm exactly in this situation.

a long, long month

Phew. Pant. Sigh.

What a long month it has been. A full month with no internet access in the comfort of my home. There's no other reason why I'm blogging now except that I hate seeing the dead state of my blog.

Well, there's too much to type out here, what's been happening the last four weeks. Can't really treat blogging as an online diary. That would take up way too much time and energy. But just to summarize it, the incidents in the recent weeks changed my perspective a little toward certain stuffs but not enough to turn me into a totally different person.

Things I had not expected from others happened. Things I had not expected from myself happened too. But sometimes I feel these happenings are just occasional surprises and I will revert to my old self sooner or later.

I'm hard to change. But I hope that people will see me differently and not how I act on the outside. It's way different from my inner character.

I can't continue this post anymore.


Liverpool vs Tottenham

Yes, blame it please.