Breakthroughs!

It’s been a crazy and busy week for Brigette!! I’ve done loads of stuff this week. One thing in particular, but will go to that later.


On Friday…

My very dear Yeat Teng came to Australia for vacation! Actually, she came here with her family to visit her second sister and brother. Her family lives in the city, so she’s there, that means…. I need to get myself there….. ALONE! Which totally crazy and outrageous! Those who know me well will know how “good” my sense of direction is.

Brief records of “good” sense of direction:-
1. Will always get myself lost in 1 Utama
2. Heading home after cell group in Ah Ci’s house in Kelana Jaya, and ended up in NKJV express way
3. etc.

So… I took the BIG challenge, went to city just to meet up with me dear Teng. Remind you, I only went city once with my big sis, which is on February. So, that time is the 2nd time the little timid mouse enter the city. Haha…

So yeah, after my 11 o’clock class, I went to bus stop to catch the bus. I actually pray hard to God the day before, that I won’t end up in some country place. And guess what? God’s been great. I met an old school friend from Malaysia when I catch the bus, and she’s heading to Melbourne Central as well. [Haha… God knows my “good skill”]
Succeeded in getting myself to see Teng!

She permed her hair, and she looks so pretty and mature!! She actually looks like a doll. ^_^ Get to catch up with Teng, and find out that our dear Bey Ern also start to “ban leng leng” already. Hehe… really can’t wait to see the new Bey. Kei Wan….. the Shopping Queen. hehe… Memang know that you like to “ban leng leng” already, and yeah, get to know more stuff about Aaron from Sunway too… *cheeky smile*

Well, Teng’s family is actually planning to go to Melbourne Zoo, so I was invited. [Sigh… been intruding in a lot of family day lately] Yeah, it was fun! ^_^ Get to see a lot of animals, cute cute penguins, ugly baboons, lazy lions, swift seals, kangaroos [can’t find a description for it, but it was my 1st tie seeing a kangaroo], miserable koala [because there’s only one koala]. Basically, I enjoyed the day a lot, really happy to see familiar faces again. Thank you for meeting up with me dear, appreciate it a lot… ^_^

At about 6, bid good byes and hugs, and head off alone back to Clayton. Sat at the wrong bus station but luckily I didn’t get on the wrong bus and manage to run to the correct bus that is about to take off. I was the last to get out of the bus, which last stop is in Monash Uni. Awesome experience! I actually kept all my transport tickets where I took my first rides to some places. Hehe… Eden & Andrew keeping movie tickets, I’m going to keep my bus tickets as well. ^_^



On Saturday…

Need to head to city AGAIN! Because my aunt from Malaysia came to visit my cousin and she want to treat me “dim sum”. So…. I head to city AGAIN. And guess what, I didn’t go there alone again, just so happens, I met “si si” and her sister at the bus stop, they were heading to city as well, am I blessed or what? He’s really watching over me all the time, love the feeling. So yeah, the sisters went to city with me. [Haha… God don’t trust that I can get myself to city alone.]



On Sunday….

My halls “Talent Night”. To cut it short, on Friday, I was asked to go to Selene’s room. [She’s my Residential Advisor (RA), a senior student, an Australian, she’s really nice.] Out of no where, she asked me whether I got any talents, and randomly, she asked me to sing. I was really blur, wanted to be bit open and sporting, so I just simply sing a song, and BANG! She signed me up for Talent Night and even got me a guitarist [Nihal, an Indian, senior student and a Christian], pianist [Peter, German mix Chinese] and another girl [Sarah, and Australian, Nihal’s GF] to sing with me. I don’t know them at all, but it was really a great to know them.

I was really blur, and didn’t think of to really sing on stage. I’m really not a stage person, I was, but that was when I’m really young. I even refused to sing with my sisters on my dad’s company annual dinner. How can I perform in front of all the people, especially when they are all westerners? At the same time, I’m can’t seem to study or progress in my assignments, because I’m caught in watching “Small Ville” and God is not near. I was really stressed up on Saturday, and didn’t feel like doing it. But Both Selene and Kevin [A friend that lives in the same stairway as me, a senior from Malaysia. Being a very blur person I am, he helped me a lot with loads of stuff, owe him a lot!] have been a really good encourager. ^_^

Then, God appears in the picture. He sort of convinced me to do it as well. He taught me something new. I’ve always been a really timid and introvert person. Whatever stuff I want or like, because of me timidity, it often holds me back and I always do not have the courage to grasp it or pursue it, and that’s when I miss out and miss something that are important to me. Like singing is one of the examples, I like singing, but am too timid to do it on stage. Well, this was really my test and my breakthrough! And joining the “Talent Night” is my first step where god had prepared! I was thinking that even if I really fail this, I’ll just leave the halls for next semester, haha…

Believe it or not, I sang TWO songs. One with Sarah; another one Solo. Haha… for those who sang with me in band in church before will probably know that I always had problems entering song, always depend on musicians to nod their head to ask me to enter. Well, I’m still the old Brigette and I entered wrongly again when performed on stage, but it was all right, because Nihal back me up. Haha.. Well, it turns out really well. I actually got positive feedback from people. *cheers! God’s grace*

The “Talent Night” is not a competition, no winners or prizes it is just for fun and for people to gather and get to know one another. And it was really fun with all the crazy performances! Glad that I didn’t miss it or even miss the opportunity to be on stage. Here are some pictures, taken by Kevin. These are not all the performance, I just picked some.

One of the Residential Advisor, his name is Bawa, from Sri Lanka. He's telling jokes in the middle of the break. [I rarely laugh at jokes, but I reckon it's quite funny, because everyone was laughing] At the end he did an Indian dance as well, which was really funny and nice.

Woa... this group is doing a salsa and swing dance, really awesome! They really can swing!

Well, nothing beats a group of cute guys lip singing "I want it that way" by Backstreet Boys, and a bit of dancing. haha.. Yee!! I got a video of them!!

My singing partner doing her solo part, singing Falling from Alicia Keys.








The guy in the orange shirt, Sam, he lives two doors next to me. He's reciting all the 100 numbers on the paper hold by the friend beside him.

A guy acting hilarious. I think he's trying to imitate someone, but I don't know who. He purposely dress up like that and he even coloured one of his teeth black. His actions and all are totally hilarious. Basically, he's not there to sing but to entertain. Haha..

Yes... That's me.

Performance by a girl together with a guy pianist. She's talented, can sing while playing the guitar.

This group is doing a song presentation with whistling, really cute! The guy in the middle really can sing quite well, a typical good looking ''kuai lou"! ^_^

The last group was performed by all the Residential Areas, performing a musical play "Summer Day".

That’s basically what I did for the week, awesome experiences!! Now it’s time to turn on PRODUCTIVE mode and start working hard on studies and assignments. So, am going to concentrate. Hope you all are doing well too. Mel “jia you”!

p.s. Heard from Jane that you guys have always been keeping me in prayer during cg, really appreciate it. Prayers really work! Thank you guys! Will do the same for you all too. *hugs to all*

Lots of Love,
Brigette