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Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Promise of a Lifetime
Lately, I've been listening to this song by Kutless - Promise of a Lifetime. It's a really nice song.
Kutless - Promise of a Lifetime
I have fallen to my knees
As I sing a lullaby of pain
I’m feeling broken in my melody
As I sing a lullaby of pain
I’m feeling broken in my melody
As I sing to help the tears go away
Then I remember the pledge you made to me
Then I remember the pledge you made to me
Chorus
I know you’re always there
To hear my every prayer inside
I’m clinging to the promise of a lifetime
I hear the words you say
To never walk away from me and leave behind
The promise of a lifetime
(2nd Part of Chorus)
Looking back at me
I know that you can see my heart is open to
The Promise of a lifetime
Will you help me fall apart
Pick me up, take me in your arms
Find my way back from the storm
Pick me up, take me in your arms
Find my way back from the storm
And you show me how to grow
Through the change
Through the change
I still remember the pledge you made to me
I am holding on to the hope I have inside
With you I will stay through every day
Putting my understanding aside
And I am comforted
You know, man can always fail you but God will never fail you. God will never break his promises. As a humble servant, a mere mortal - I'm weak in character and I have failed Him countless times.
I'm sorry that I have failed to keep my promises.
I'm sorry to dissappoint you.
I'm sorry that I hurt you.
All I can ask for is forgiveness...
today...
@12:33 pm
Monday, 30 July 2007
Meet my friend Ming!
Meet my friend Ming. I met him on one hot sunny day under a tent while we were volunteering for orientation at Uni. He was a bit crazy because he was trying to sell tickets for the ISC Discovery Perth Tour that day... and he also had an exam that day - what therrrrr...
Ok, so fast forward here we are in Sydney 5 months later. For some reason, one day he started to *pinch me* and of course in self defence I have to pinch back right? He pinched me so hard until I had one bruise on my upper left arm and one bruise on my upper right arm!!! omg... and this was before the NLC Gala dinner where I had to wear a dress!!! >=/ Not happy Jan! It looked absolutely ridiculous!!! How can I possibly wear a dress with arms like this!!!
SEE!!!!!
From then on, we went on a pinching crusade from Sydney to Melbourne and back to Perth... I lost count of how many bruises I got. His tattoo work is just too good. Sometimes he doesn't even need to be near me for me to get a bruise. It'll just magically appear the next day!!! At least he bought me some bruise cream... haha!
I'm so defenceless and innocent =( The strength of my strongest pinch is not even equal to his weakest pinch *sigh* To be honest, when he pinches, it super duper really really hurts - like so much!!! I wonder if he even feels my pinch through his thick skin? Anyway, so here we are again, always trying to pinch each other! Ming has a bad right shoulder *pinch* weiwei is ticklish everywhere *pinch pinch*
Disclaimer: Just to let you know, Ming is not an abusive guy... he is actually very, very caring and a nice guy. We just like to play fight too much =)
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@1:00 am
Sunday, 29 July 2007
All for a picture...
This photo has a funny story (or lame story) behind it.
While we were in Melbourne, we all went to Coles to buy some groceries and we all slowly left at different times and met outside the bakery. Upon walking to the bakery there was this apparent "hot-looking" basketball player standing in front of Coles with a basketball in his hand and his phone texting someone. I thought he was just ok looking...but upon meeting everyone at the bakery, Dorothy and Jill were excitedly asking me to look at the guy because he's so hot.
Dorothy is so funny, she walked towards him as though she was going to talk to him, and then she walked straight past.
So enough goo-goo-gaa-ing over this guy, we all went back up the escalator. Then everyone wanted me to take a picture of him, so I go back down the escalator and I have my camera ready to take his picture from the escalator looking down... but then he suddenly looks up and me, and obviously I have to pretend like I'm looking at the pictures on the camera so it's not suss.
So then I walked around to Coles and hid behind some flowers... and this is the picture that I took (ok not the best composition - but I had to make myself look like I was doing something), while I was trying to get a picture of him. By that time, he was already walking away... =( So no picture - my paparazzi style is not sleek enough.
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@6:30 pm
Saturday, 28 July 2007
tick-tock-tick-tock *BOMB*
Here I am at Melbourne Central for some retail therapy. OMG... did you notice the size of my face compared to the clock??? I think it's a sign...Ever since landing in Melbourne, it's been an eating fest all the way. There's not actually much to do in Melbourne but soak in the culture, the coldness and the FOOD! One night, in four hours, we ate at four different places... which explains why my head has grown to such huge proportions!!! Plus extra-double-chin at the bottom =( Dorothy said my head is like, "tick-tock-tick-tick *BOMB*" My head is about to explode because of it's massive size. hahahaaa!!! That's where the joke came from, from this photo.
So sad...anyone know any exercises to decrease the size of my face...it's so fat =( Some say chew gum... some say keep talking... what therrr....
I also get told I look like a turtle when I wear my green jacket. haha!!! Do I look like a turtle? haha! Maybe if I stick my head out a little further? hehe... but turtles are cool. I like turtles =) And my cute bag... hehe I love it. I got it at The Basement in Melbourne. People say it looks like my other bag... or it's the same style... but I like it. =) What I don't like... is the size of my face! *depressed*
So anyway, I guess since I'm on "holidays" for the next few months (as I won't be looking for a full time job yet) - I should really take some initiative to wake up early and go jogging or something! haha... sounds like a joke right? *hai... imagine me getting up at 7am to go jogging in the park. *LOL* The problem is having dogs running around which makes me feel like a little anxious of going alone. Then it's been raining these past few days, I don't want to get caught in the rain, otherwise I'll be sick like everyone else! So maybe I have to resort to doing exercise at home... haha... doing what? eee... I don't know. Last time I attempted to do sit ups... I did about 4 and fell asleep on the floor!!! =S
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@4:34 pm
Friday, 27 July 2007
Darling Harbour in Sydney
From this...
to this!
This is a panorama I did of Darling Harbour in Sydney. It's basically three photos I took and stitched together using a program called autostitch (very handy!) So I just put the three photos into the autostitch program and this is what comes out =) Plus some "photoshopping" along the way. I love doing panorama's and it's always exciting for me to see the outcome of the photo... that is, when I take the photos properly. =)
Anyway, when we were in Sydney we were so blessed to have beautiful weather for the 5 days that we were there. Prior to us arriving in Sydney, it had been raining and storming ~ buuu* but when we arrived, God blessed us with sunshine all around! yay! Our stay in Sydney was fun fun fun to say the least!
Arhh I'm still in holiday mode! Don't feel like doing anything, don't feel like going to work either. Though... I miss uni for some strange reason even though it hasn't even started yet. *sigh*
I'm going to miss seeing everyone at uni =( I should technically be "out in the real workforce" now ... but I've been too slack to find a real job. *sigh* I don't want to start working yet... I still wanna play!!!
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@1:41 am
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Belgium waffles in Max Brenner
Who the heck is Max Brenner? I only started hearing of this guy's name upon arriving in Sydney... who the heck is he??? Well Max Brenner apparently sells some of the best chocolates... or super yummy chocolates according to lots of people! Everyone was telling me I needed to go to Max Brenner in Melbourne... and so I did!Michelle and even my cousin Alex recommended the belgium waffles. So here I am, with my belgium waffles... ready to scoff it down. Ok... so I don't know what the big deal is, but personally I think Max Brenner is overrated. My belgium waffles were tasty... and of course would beat Gelares any day, but I think people make too much a fuss over Max Brenner - to me it was nice, but not uber nice for me to rant and rave about it. =)
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@5:14 pm
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Zoophobia
Kelvin, me and Dee at the Caversham Wildlife Park for the Discovery Perth Tour organised by ISC Curtin. For those of you who know me well, you will know that I'm scared... I'm scared of everything. You name it, I'm most probably scared of it. The first thing I'm scared of is animals. I'm afraid of all animals big and small, except for maybe ants and flies and mosquitoes... other than that, I'm scared of EVERYTHING. People don't seem to understand the immense fear I feel when I'm close to an animal. it's actually a phobia I have. As defined on the net somewhere: A phobia is an unreasonable fear that can cause avoidance and panic. Phobias are a relatively common type of anxiety disorder.
I have zoophobia. Zoophobia may have one of two closely related meanings: a generic term for specific phobias to particular animals, or an irrational fear or even simply dislike of any non-human animals. Mine would be the latter...I'm afraid of all animals. But it's not like I want to be afraid of animals, I really like cute dogs and I wish I could go pet them, but this phobia just gets in the way...=(
People often asked me if something happened in my childhood that might trigger this behaviour... but honestly I can't recall ever being attacked by any sort of animal that would cause me to be zoophobic. I've just known since young, I've always been afraid of animals. The earliest memory I had was when I was in year 2 and a "farm" came to our school, so we all sat around in a circle and there were all these animals that we could pet. The teacher then passed around some chicks... omg... I was so terrified but had no idea why I couldn't get the courage to hold it. It's not like it did anything to me... but I just knew I was afraid.
I would say that birds and guinea-pig-like-rodents are the worst. It's ok if the animal is behind a cage or behind glass... but I had adverse reactions to animals when there are no barriers between me and the animal. It's so sad...
Other things I'm afraid of include... well... if I told you, then people would be constantly on my back trying to scare me... so I don't think I will share what else I'm scared of! =P You can try to find out though.
Anyway, this picture is quite siginificant for me... as this is about as close as I can get to a wild animal. WOW! I've never been this close to a kangaroo before! Kelvin and Dee practically had to drag and hold me down. Thank God the kangaroo did not move... *phew*
*be proud of meee*
One day I hope to be cured of my phobia so I can own my own doggie ^^
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@11:04 am
Tuesday, 24 July 2007
Introducing winterlove-weiwei
Oh no!!! I've been caught out with the blogspot virus... everyone has a blog spot account and *sheepish grin* I've been sucked into getting one for myself too... *tee hee*
Well this is my first blog, so it shant be anything exciting.
Why did I decide to create one?
Well:
1. Everyone else has one... and I like to copy cat and imitate people... hehe =)
2. Today is a boring rainy day... so there isn't much to cure my boredom but create a blogspot!
So basically, I decided that this will be a-photo-a-day-blog where I'll post some of my favourite photos from whenever I took them along with a short story.
So first pic, for the first blog is me in Sydney (since I just came back from my holiday in Sydney and Melbourne!) The lighting was half decent so we were all able to take a picture with the Sydney Opera House.
Hope you all enjoy ~
luv weiwei
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@1:44 pm
bye bye~