The Days During Chinese New Year. (V.1.5)

A lot have been going on these few days that has been preventing me from accessing the Internet and getting my soon-to-be-dued assignments.

Today, my dad took us for hi-tea at The Regent Hotel to celebrate Ernest's 20th Birthday. A high-class area with an interesting selection of food. For about RM48++, i think it's a place worth returning to another day.

Basically, the past few days, i've been going place. To be precise, since Tuesday (Feb 20). A lot of moving around.

After visiting Alwin's house for his mom's delicious spagetti on Tuesday evening, some of them came up with the idea to go up to Genting Highlands. Without much thinking, i decided to tag along with Rowen, Alwin, Angeline and Sui Li to go up there for a cup of coffee (? - i know, i can't stomuch coffee!).

We arrived there only to realise that there were too many people and too little parking spaces around. With little time left, we headed down to Gontong Jaya, grab some snacks and sent the girls back around 1am.

We learnt a few things from this episode:

1. Don't ever go up to Genting Highlands during Chinese New Year (or any other public holidays for that matter)

2. Make solid, proper plans before going anywhere.

3. Make proper, solid contingency plans if Plan A fails.

4. As long as you have a good company with you, failed plans matters not.


Rowen and i finally sent Alwin back home and had a good, in-depth chat on relationship while chowing down on the last plate of spagetti. Yummy.

The next day, Dewgem and i went up to Melaka to meet up with David. Not only did we meet up with him and his hospitable family, we also met up with Justin Tan, and by God's divine plan - Ian Lee and his girlfriend, Sin Yee (not really sure how her name spelt. Even i thought it was Cindy at first!).

Anyway, while we were there, we had Satay Celup, visited places, had long chats about (once again) relationships, and more food... even while David, Dewgem, Justin Tan and i were coming back home from Melaka.

On Friday, i made an impulsive decision to visit Chee Been's house. Thus, Alex Hooi, Pek Mei and i traveled to his place, had some snacks and drink, played a few rounds of Big Net Two and Black Jack, and later headed down to the mamak stall in Desa Petaling. There, we talked about (drum rolls, please) Boy-Girl Relationship (BGR)... and of course, other stuff like why we are in UTAR and things like that.

It's not that we're busybodies. It's just that it's interesting to hear people's views and stands on BGR.

Later that night,i brought Pek Mei and Alex Hooi to my house for dinner. They got Ang Pows and also got to watch the couple first episodes of Trigun, one of the coolest animes ever!

That's all for now. I need to get some shut eye for tomorrow's service, where i'll be up front on stage with my Sayang, for the first time ever! *yawn*

*Since Dewgem took a lot of photos during the Melaka trip, i'll come out with an entry using solely on those pictures. Look out for that entry!


"...Today today I live for one thing
To give You praise
In everything I do
Yeah all the praise goes out to You..."

Excerpt from The Time Has Come by Hillsong United

Love & Peace!~

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They Rock!

The new intro for the anime BLEACH, Rolling Star by Yui totally rocks! I guess this rockish song fits the feel of the anime like a glove. She also sang an outro for Bleach as well, entitled Life. It's slow and mellow, it was an okay ending for the anime.

While watching her video clip, i did some research about her - she's as old as my brother Ernest! Can't believe she'll be 20 this year! For more info about this young singer/songwriter/actress, click HERE.


Well, she may have a wide mouth, and she sings as though she's in pain, but it's the singing that counts!



Here's the shorter version, used for the OP the anime Bleach. Subtitles included. Mind the language though.


This is one song currently stuck in my head now, besides The Fray's How to Save A Live and Casting Crowns' Who Am I and several others.


*Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year to all blog readers celebrating this festive occasion of family reunion, exchanging of cash prosperity and fortune. May the Year of the Pig Boar bring happyness, good wealth and health!


Love & Peace!~

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Happenings This Week.

Can't believe i woke up with a nightmare today! And i'm grateful it's nothing more than a nightmare... for if it was real, it would be deja vu for me- to face my sins once again.

February 17 (today)

As many know, it's the eve of Chinese New Year. After doing my morning devotion, i had a hearty American breakfast (courtesy of Rowen) and cleaned my house a little. And for some strange reason, it was raining today. A strange sight during the Chinese New Year period.

Will be going for our family dinner soon.

Anyway, the past few days was an adventure for me.


February 16 (Friday)

After spending the afternoon in uni distributing oranges and cookies with Dewgem, David and Ms Louise to the FAS lecturers who are still around the campus, i found myself in Mid-Valley Megamall to purchase tickets for Ghost Rider.

Yes. Rowen, Julius, Fergersen, Alwin, Sui Li and I watched the movie along with Alex Hooi and Wei Yee. And IMHO, i think the movie was good, but not good enough to be paying RM11 for it. It was a little too short lah.


The Spirit of Vengence. He's just... hot-headed! (pun unintended)

The saving grace was the way Nicholas Cage portaryed Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider, and the flaming bike and the weapons, including the freaky Penance Stare! And watch out for witty lines (and signs) along the way.


February 16 (Thursday)

Official, school's out for the festive season, and on the same evening, the Talent Night Committee had a small barbeque with the contestants and the other stage performers.

We did enjoyed ourselves over some BBQ chicken wings, sausages, calamari balls and an overdose of lame jokes all around. It was not only a bonding event, it was to celebrate after the effort put into making this year's Talent Night a success.

Simple, clean fun without alcohol!

February 14 (Valentine's Day - Wednesday)



A day of flower-receiving and chocolate-giving (namely, Ferrari-Roshes!) most of the time to someone you admire or significant in your life; all in the name of love!

While many of the PR students who came on that day for Culture and Communication class wore many shades of red, us JRians totally forgot to wear black.

That aside, i'm glad i'm still single. Little or no planning needed for this day.


February 7 (Wednesday)

I can't believe more than a week has pasted since the UTAR Talent Night Jan 2006 has passed, when it only seem like yesterday. Themed "The Unmasked Myth", the event was more of a drama than a typical talent competition.


The poster for the event, with the contestants' faces all over it.


The plot revolves around the White Bird, who is own by the Forest Gods and admired by the animal spirits (the contestants) of this mystical forest. One day, the White Bird met a new masked friend (the Creature) and began to fall in love with him, only to discover that he's ugly and rejected him.

Realising that she loved him not for his looks, but for who he is, she felt into depression, while the animal spirits tried to cheer her up. The creature, in the end, showed up, and the White Bird begged him to be with her.

After accepting each other back, the decided to runaway. This is where the Forest Gods intructed the animal spirits to capture and kill the creature.

Initially, both the White Bird and Creature were supposed to be dead, impaled by spears at the end of the drama. But since the ending was disapproved by the higher authority, they had to quickly re-edit the ending. (not wanting to give the impression that suicide is the way to solve any problems in life.)

So, the new ending was the animals decided to drop their spears, but the White Bird was struck dead by the Forest Gods (just like a heart-attack scene from Death Note). Feeling sad, the spirits sang together, and life was brought back into the White Bird, bring everyone to a tear-jerker ending.

The End.


The animal spirits, along with the White Bird and the Creature.

In the end, it was Ruth the Bat who won the competition with her creepy yet talented acting of a vampire bat, followed the crowd's favourite, Vicky the Leopard and Su Mei the Doe (deer).



Ruth and me, after the event's over.


Well, i must say that this is the best Talent Night that FAS has ever come out with. Not only was it the best throughout the history of FAS, but it was definately better than the other two faculty put together.

Just take look at the stage and decoration, and you'll be amazed by the amount of money, sweat and time invested in it. Not to mention the numbers of late night we had to endure to make sure practice makes perfect. And finally, all this is over.

For me, i want to take one day at a time, enjoy the things and event God directed to my life. Bliss.


"...'Cause these are the days worth livin'
These are the years we're given
And these are the moments
These are the times
Let's make the best out of our lives

Even if hope was shattered
I know it wouldn't matter
'Cause these are the moments
These are the times
Let's make the best out of our lives..."

Excerpt from The Calling's Our Lives

Love & Peace!~

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So Sad?

Pokemon #44, Gloom - As downcast as he looks, he's just sleepy. Someone get him some tissue!

Earlier today, i bumped into Jun and Zikang sitting by the back stairway - shocked that there are people sitting around such areas revising. (Worry not, nothing indecent happened. Thank goodness!)

As i make my way down, Jun asked why my recent entries sounds depressing, and if i was going some kind of problem.

I told her, yes, i had been through some problems a few days back. But i'm currently doing okay.
As i was walking down, i blurred out that without problems and conflict, life would be boring. Zikang, as a phychology undergraduate, jokingly replied that he wouldn't have any job if the world was problem free (in which, he made sense).

Before i exited, i told them,

"The issue is not whether or not you're facing any problem or not. Rather, how you overcome the problem that really matters."

As i closed the door behind me, i started to wonder on what others think about me. Am i a cheerful person with clouds of problems, or a trouble person putting on a smile to carry on. That thought let me to this question - am i wearing a mask to hide who i really am? Or does the mask really represents who i am.

No doubt, we wear a different kind of mask in every different situation. A smile during the happy times, a frown and tear during times of troubles or a furious, Hulk-like face when angered. Every circumstances calls for a different role, and we subdue to it to blend in.

But one thing is clear - no matter whether i'm happy or sad, i must always remember to summit myself to God. Knowing that things both good and bad happens for a reason; a purpose that human mind can't comprehend.


A scene from Kubo Tite's manga, Bleach. Here, Shinji Hirako enlightens Ichigo about the existance of the Vizards.

"I can do everything through him who gives me strength."

Philippians 4:13 (NIV)

Yes, all things are possible if i put my everything in doing something and trusting God and His promises every single day of my life. There's hope and life in doing so.

Jun, thanks for being concerned about me, but i'm pulling through and i'm well. Happy i am, and gloomy i am not.



Never can i get over Gloomy, the gore-loving, violent teddy bear. Bloody!

Love & Peace!~

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Everyone Loves Elmo! (ver. 1.5)

Last year, Dewgem told me this this interview where this TV show host Rove McManus had with Elmo from Sesame Street! Not too long after that, i decided to check it out myself, and boy, was it funny!

I told other friends about it, and some laughing to it. Others were just dumbfounded.

Anyway, here's the video:



Oh, and here's the interview with Kevin Clash, the puppeteer for Elmo. And it's interesting to know he does both the voice and the movement! One comment stated "Elmo is black! Revelation! LOL".



I couldn't stop laughing the first time i heard this,

"Elmo loves wasabi.
"That's why Elmo doesn't have any eyelids
"... wasabi is a sometime food."

Elmo is cute and funny... but Cookie Monster is still my favourite. Of all the muppets, he's the only one that eats... cookies! Mmmm... cookies.

I believe there's still a child in everyone of us. The question is if he/she has grown out of it yet.


Love & Peace!~

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Crushing Down The Earth

"...It ain't pretty
After the show
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you
With no place to go
If you think you want it
Here's the place to get it
But it ain't pretty...."

Taken from INXS' Pretty Vegas

The truth hurts, but nonetheless, the truth sets you free. Opening your eyes to what reality is about.

Not only have i got down from euphoria, but now i realised that there's another demon living within me. A sin that i never would have found out if it hasn't been the events that have been going on these past few weeks.

I'm definately in no way or shape really for a relationship, unless this demon of mine is destory or under control. Another indication that i need God more that ever. Like i mentioned before, i don't one another person to live through the hell i'm going through - to be dragged through something i alone must face.

"It's better to grow in love than to fall in love"

Ruth, thank you.


"I can still hear it.

"When he came out during the fight with Byakuya (Kuchiki), I was able to drive him away. Until then, no matter how many times i threw the mask away, it would always come back but after the fight, it suddenly disappeared.

"From that point on, I've kept hearing him. And from that point on...

"Deep inside of me, he's... calling out to me...

"It sounds a lot closer lately. It isn't like a daily thing.

"It's much more than that. But now it sounds even closer than ever. From when i was talking to with (Shinji) Hirako.

"I can certainly tell that much, at least.

"He wants to swallow me up... erase me...

"What... what the hell am i suppose to do?!"

- Ichigo Kurosaki

Taken from Kubo Tite's Bleach (Chapter 190 - Crush The World Down)

Love & Peace!~

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Brand New and Test

Oooh! Blogger has a new look. I guess there'll be a few new options for me to tweak with.

Tomorrow's the grand day - Jan 2007 Talent Night here in UTAR PJ campus! With the theme "The Unmasked Myth", do expect to be blown away not only by the contestants, but by the decorations and performances! Plus, spending almost half my time in meetings the last short semester and most of my time in the training and practices of the contestants, it should be mind blowing!

*yawn* I have had only three hours plus worth of shut eyes since Monday. I'm exhausted. But my mind still going on and on and on....

And with the Talent Night, comes the part where the committee have been teasing about being with one of the contestant. I totally understand what it means when people are talking behind your back and laughing in front of your face.

Those people are those know about this little infatuation of mine.

Which i would want to tell my buddies about over dinner sometime this week. It's not to brag, but to inform of what have been happening in this interesting life of mine. And for crying out loud, she is not an accessory which i hang by my side - she's another human being with feelings.

Indeed, a human being who belongs to God. I must remember that i don't own her. Thus, the gift of free will each of us has. I shouldn't be possessive over her, or i wouldn't be any different than an obessive stalker.

"It's better to grow in love than to fall in love," she told me over an insightful and delightful date breakfast last weekend.

One thing i need to do is to think twice on the actions i take, as each move affects another. I should be balancing the thoughts that have been going through my mind and my heart - thinking through the kind of judgement i been making and will make. Perhaps too little blood is up there as it's running down the southern region!

Prayers and guidence from God is what i need every single day, that i may grow in wisdom, knowledge and maturity every new day - a predicament in which God is putting me through a test of faith and patience.


"Convinced of my deception
I've always been a fool
I fear this love reaction
Just like you said I would

A rose could never lie
About the love it brings
And I could never promise
To be any of those things

If I was not so weak
If I was not so cold
If I was not so scared of being broken
Growing old
I would be...."

Excerpt from Jars of Clay's Frail

Love & Peace!~

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Living On Vague Emotions. (v1.5)

I was supposed to put this entry up days ago. But now isn't too late.

"...I'm watching you watch
Over me and I've got
The greatest view from here
I'm watching you watch
Over me and I've got
The greatest view from here

Now that you know why you feel like you do..."

Taken from Silverchair's Greatest View

The lyrics above explains a lot about me now.

For the past few days, i've been living in a state of total euphoria and ignorance - blissful about my surroundings and others has this mutual connectivity when online. The center of emotion when haywire, while the nervous system was unable to comprehend the information overload. Eye to eye electricity. Wonderful.

In laymen's words, I'm infatuated. I'm ambiguously in love.

Love & Peace!~

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