today...
Wednesday 28 November 2007
Can't sleep XD
Can't sleep since 3am...bored...
1) What is your phone brand? Samsung E700 (top of the range...like 4 years ago! haha)
2) What are the last 3 digits of your phone number? 356
3) What does the second message in your inbox say? Ya, confirm. Don't worry I give you a call later. M in the toilet now (Tan Wei Yue)
4) Who's the first person who came up under the letter M? Madeline Chee
5) Who's the last person you rang? Last person I attempted to call was Ming... but my credit expired so *fail*!!
6) Who was ur last missed call from? Tan Wei Yue
7)Who's the second person who comes up under D? Decytha Sugianto
8) What does the last msg in your inbox say? 'the secret of loving is living loved.' -Max Lucado :-) heey! am so amazed how quickly time is passing by this year .. am so grateful to God that we've become good freinds in such a short period of time. i will really really miss you girls (and your dungu-ness =P) if i'm not here next year :'( whatever it is, we shall always remain dungu kay - dont let me be dungu by myself la *whacks arm*;D nyekz! you know you love me, heee! love you.. mwahs! Pauline Pao Lin Tay 01 November 07 (mind you I recall this being sent 2am in the morning!)
9) Who comes up under J?
James Seaford
Jason Abbott
Jason Eow
Jason Phang
Jason Wong
Jenny Lee
Jessica Liew
Jia Jia Lee
Jillian Yeo
Jimmy Kartadinata
Jing Wen Chai
Joanne Noh
Jocelyn Foo
Jock May Koo
Joey Fung
Joe Ann Teh
Johannese Prasetyo
John Cham
John Paul Lam
Jonathan Lai
Jovin Wong
Joyce Lee
Juanita Pereira
June Wong
10) Go to your sent messages, What does the 10th msg say? no sent messages
11) Who's the 4th person who comes up on S? Sara Lee
12) Who's your network provider? Optus
13) How many messages are currently in your inbox? 13
14) Who's the 2nd person who comes up on R? Regina Teo
15) Who have you got on speed dial 3? My sister
16) Who's the 1st person who comes up on C? Cakes Delight in Applecross
17) How many bars of signal do you currently have? 4
18) What do you have as your ringtone? Child's Mind
today...
@5:29 am
Hello weiwei!
Look it's meeee!!!! XD Dorothy drew this for my early birthday present... and I have to say it's one of the best birthday presents ... or at least memorable birthday presents I've ever gotten! =) How can I not remember it... it's ME! hahaha! Doesn't it look so cool... looks just like me! I love everything about the drawing because it's so me. She noticed all the small details like the angle of my hair parting... keke!!!
I was so ecstatic when I saw this for the first time. I never ever had my picture drawn... well not that I can remember anyway... and not this good either! Chichi has talent =)
In my mind, I've always wanted a drawing or caricature drawn of myself from every town and city that I've ever visited in the world (which is not a lot of places) but I haven't made that into reality yet! Gotta go to more markets, I saw one in Melbourne though, but I didn't get my picture drawn there. Oh well... there's always a next time for Melbourne =)
today...
@4:51 am
Monday 19 November 2007
Life is Precious
"Ladies! This is not a coffee shop!
Do some work!"
-Mrs Law
Do some work!"
-Mrs Law
Oh to hear her pester these words to me and Priskilla during art class was a gem...we'd go into fits of giggles and to hear her pester it to us now would be even funnier. I miss those times in art class. I don't know what we had so much to talk about... I think it was back in the days of mIRC and we'd always talk about what we talked about online the night before... lol... I don't even know why it was so interesting.
It's always good to have a friend that motivates you... her name is Carol. It's also good to have a friend that challenges you... her name is Priskilla. Ever since art in highschool, we've always been challenging each other I guess - who's the better artist... of course and I was not winning the battle... I never did. EXCEPT - that time I won People's Choice Award for Best Bathroom Design... but I must admit, her art has always been so much better than mine. God has really blessed her with the talent to draw. I'd always be in so much awe of her drawings and wish that I did it... the amount of time I spent making my portfolio look good... she could do it so easily and effortlessly.
And you know even though *this* many years have separated us, even though oceans separate us, even though after you left we hardly even talked for years - I always remembered the promise we made. I know that one day we'll be reunited in some holiday destination catching up on all the days we've lost and even when our paths separate again, I know that one day we'll be kicking it with Jesus! haha... I can't believe how much you've changed and become a better person on the inside out and I'm so happy for you and so thankful to God.
And you know, I think I honestly have to be thankful for facebook (of all things) which has allowed us to keep in touch again after so long. I'm so happy for you and I even envy you for having the job I want... but we still have three years to go =P So we'll see then huh?!
Love ya kiki.
Sometimes I wonder why God takes away my closest friends. All thoughout highschool and up until now, the people that I've grown closest to the most have left me within 2 - 4 years. So that's why I gave up the idea of ever having a best friend at all. I know that He's planned a calling for them elsewhere and if so, who am I to say? I trust that He'll take care of my earthly angels. =)
I know I'm really lame and slow with movies sometimes. I only saw Transformers two weeks ago. Wow ... it really blew my mind. Then I only saw Click yesterday. I have to admit that I don't fancy Adam Sandler and I've never really liked any of his movies at all. But Click was so touching it made me cry just as much as Titanic made me cry! I can't believe that Adam Sandler could make such a touching movie with such a life lesson, and I must admit that it's now become one of my favourites. I can't believe how sad it was. *shakes head*
It's like that in life I guess, we want to fast forward all the pain and suffering, all the sickness all the arguements with friends and family, all the bad times. But it's through all these bad times that help us to focus and help us to build our character so that we can become better and stronger people out of it all. We have all been put into our situations for a reason and when times are tough I always refer to my favourite verse "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength." People who have been blessed with much, much more will be expected and Adam Sandler- I can't even remember his character's name, but he set aside his priorities wrongly. It really shows us that life is short and precious and we should really appreciate the time we have been given on this Earth and the people that we've been given this time to spend with.
There are so many times that I wish I could turn back the clock and go to those memories - the good and fun times. But there's no point to keep looking back into the past when it can't be changed but only mesmerised. Why waste energy on the past when our futures are so bright?
One little fella named Jason taught me something today. He said, "We know we've learnt something when our actions start to change," and I think that's so true. It's only when we admit and acknowledge our failures and mistakes and actually take charge to change by actioning it that we can really begin to move forward.
today...
@9:07 pm
Thursday 15 November 2007
A dead mouse?
Just another ordinary night... mum bugging me to write out stuff for her and message the aunties for "family stuff" while I'm playing on the computer - facebooking and MSNing - as you do. So I'm in the study room happily plodding along and...I hear...
"Anne, Anne-ah... lai.... I smell sai!"
"What sai?!?!" *leaves the study room and goes outside to investigate this smell.*
I do one walk around the dining area sniffing and then one walk back to the study room sucking in air with nostrils flared.
"I don't smell anything...! What sai smell?!?!"
*weiwei goes back onto the computer to continue chatting...*
1 minute later...
"Anne! I've found the smell!!! It's behind the old TV"
*weiwei the study room to investigate the smell behind the old TV*
*SNIFFFFF* And got the shock of my life it smelt like a dead mouse!
Suelynn enters the room... "Whhhatttttt! We have a dead mouse in our house?! How can that be?!"
"It's not a dead mouse laaa....dungu..."
*weiwei goes back into the study room to continue chatting...*
Mother mumbles something.... and I walk back outside to discover my mum squatting in front of the TV with tissues stuck up her nose!!! It was the funniest sight ever!
weiwei goes into an uproar of laughter!!! ...
and resumes back to playing on the computer...
today...
@9:34 pm
Sunday 11 November 2007
I must be made for more than this
Once you get into the working life... life just seems like the sound of a buzzing mosquito. Monday to Friday you commute half an hour to work. Then slog it out from nine to five... always looking forward to lunch as soon as you get into work, and once lunch is over, look forward to going home and then it's another half hour commute home. Friday is the best... because you can look forward to the weekend relax on Saturdays and go to church on Sundays! In the end it turns out that everyday is almost the same routine.It's funny, because I take pretty much the same route to Curtin in the mornings and the same but different route back home... Monday to Friday I will see the same family sitting at the bus stop on at 8:10am, I will always see the SIGNMAN van go past me and the coffee man van...I even see the same cars driving along the same road as me with the same number plates that I saw yesterday at roughly around the same time! Depending where they are on the road and where I am... either they're late or I'm late! But it's amazing how we can all slip into a routine like this... actually it's almost quite dangerous.
I was watching TV the other day about Dr Victor Chang one of Australia's leading cardiac and heart transplant surgeons of his time in 1990 who got gunned down because he followed the same routine everyday. His assassins were able to follow his route everyday and that's how he got gunned down. Quite sad really...
But aren't me made for much more than that? Aren't we made much more than to go to work and come home everyday. Aren't we made for much more than just routine and working to sustain ourselves and our spouses and families?
In fact I was talking to a work collegue. I shall call her Jane. Jane's job description is basically photocopying, emailing, PDFing, sending out letters and filing. Day in day out her job doesn't change and yet she feels content with her job - even happy? Maybe she's a person that doesn't like change. I asked Jane if she had aspirations for something better in life or even something more challenging and stimulating... and in fact she didn't! She was happy with the statud quo and the routine she gets into everyday as though her life reached a stage of stagnant learning.
I hope that I never become like that though. I know I'm super lazy and I procrastinate... but I hope that I can always look for bigger and better opportunities to help others and make a difference in myself and for others as well and our world. And it's my hope that all my friends and family strive for this as well. What is life if we don't continue to keep learning, and keep reaching for a better future for yourself and others.
I really believe in the career woman. There are women who go to highschool, uni, get married and have children and that's the end of their career. They become housewives for the rest of their lives and I always wonder if they wanted to be something more. Didn't they have dreams of becoming something too? I'm sure everyone has. Will they be content with just doing house duties and going grocery shopping for the rest of their lives?!
I was thinking what I would do if I won $30 million! hahaha..... well... I'd invest a whole lot of it. I'd take all my friends around the world travelling with me. But then after all that? I think I'd really pursue what I've always wanted to do but maybe never had the courage to do because of financial constraints and risks involved. I've always loved the arts, bright colours, textures, patterns and furniture. No wonder I love freedom so much... and it must be a crime that I've never in my life visited IKEA! Anyway, I always wanted to be an interior designer of sorts. Buying run down houses and then revamping them and making them beautiful. But it's difficult when owning a home is so difficult now...
I've always wanted to go to a third world country... or second world country (maybe I can't cope in a third world country)... and really experience the lives they live. I've always wanted to help build a school and teach English. To make a difference in the lives of impoverished children.
Then I have aspirtions of being an Events Co-ordinator of sorts as a career, though it would take years of experience to get to that status. I think the way I see life is unconventional compared to others. I'd rather be out there in the sun and dirt and doing things with my hands than be stuck in an office. I'd rather be planting trees and painting walls. There are a lot of things I'd rather be doing than *this*...
Life is challenging and Melvin from church said some very profound words!
It's not our name that defines who we are but what we've done with our lives that will define us.
Similar to what Jackie Friedberg said at Maximum Impact. When we die and have a look at our tombstone, there are two sets of numbers on there. Both numbers we can't choose - that is, the year that you were born, and the year that you died. We can't choose when and who we're born too and we can't predict when we're going to die right? What we can do is to enhance the quality of the "dash" in our lives, make our dash significant and have meaning - and it is with that dash that will have defined who we are.
today...
@2:30 pm
Saturday 10 November 2007
Summer holidays are just around the corner!
*sigh* My computer has been "down"and out of use...so currently I'm using the old computer which is super super super slow to the max! I can't stand it... but at least I can still use it. All my photos and "stuff" are stuck inside the other computer. Can't wait to get my laptop. Then we can network the whole house and get wireless woo!
Can't wait to go for holidays already! I got informed last night we're going to Thailand!!! wooo... Tom Yum and Tom Kha...mmmm... dreaming already. I'm going to Ipoh, Penang, Melacca, Kuching and *fingers crossed* maybe Singapore too!!! =D Weee what a holiday for me! I can't wait... and I can't wait to do all the shopping too and the sight seeing and seeing all the relatives of course and the family dinners. Wahhhhh!!! I have butterflies in my stomach thinking about it already!!!
What I really love about holidays is going sight seeing! Seeing the country side and just ordinary people on the street doing their normal daily activities. I'm a nerd like that =P I really want to do, I think they call it photo journalism... but I need to know how to use the DSLR first. *sigh* Haven't been bothered to go read the manual and practice. I was shooting bees the other day but haven't had the chance to upload the pics to check them out because of our "computer situation" which was not my fault this time =)
Can't wait for tomorrow because... wahhhhh it's going to be 37 degrees of stinking-ness! I get so excited when its hot...I complain, but heck I still love it! I should head to the beach before I go back to Malaysia.
I miss everyone... who has exams!!! haha... well all the best for all your exams! I'll keep you all in prayer =P I'm so glad I'm over and done with exams for the rest of my life. Such a freeing feeling that I don't need to study anymore and that I'm so free when everyone else has exams! hehe yay!
Picture: I took the picture of the bee a long time ago... probably with my Olympus and then posterised it. It's one of the only pictures I have on this computer. =(
today...
@11:49 am
Sunday 4 November 2007
love angel
I was a bit *contemplative* last night. hehe... thinking about a lot of things and the friendships I've made with people this year in such a short amount of time.
I can't believe how we've become such good friends in such a short amount of time and the things we share with each other. The laughs, the stupidity, the fun, the food, the conversation, the slaps, the dungu-ness...
I'm truly blessed and grateful that He thought enough of me to let me meet you even if it's going to be this short while...
I don't want you to go. It makes me so sad to even think about it...
today...
@1:56 pm
bye bye~