Guess you all might be wondering where is the music player??!!
Bwahahaha... I purposely hide it away so you cannot press the green button!
I was doing my asignment when I got so tired and went in to check out blogs, heard the song from Mel's blog, and was CRAVING to get one too. Anyhow, I feel that it'll be nicer if I put on some music while you all are reading, and must thank Mel darling for teaching me how to get it work. *hugs*
This song is 就是爱你 (jiu shi ai ni), by 陶吉吉 (David Tao), it's Bri's song!! MINE!! Muahahaha....
Yeah.. hope you all enjoy and if you got sick of the song, can request me to change in "3 8 Box" or if you want to comment on the song, welcome to do so! ^_^
就是爱你们，
-Bri-
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
First time Cooking
Don't you think my blog is getting boring without pictures? I'm trying to wait for pictures to come in only then I'll update mar. Plus, now I have a camera phone, hehe... can snap pics anytime de lor. Wahaha... yes!! My phone is pink! Sony Ericson Z610i! Although it's not the pink I had in mind but it's good enough, as long as it's pink!
The place I'm living now, has a canteen downstairs that sell quite nice food in reasonable price. But I'm Brigette Lim! I want to COOK myself!! Besides, if I cook my own food, it'll be cheaper compare to buy food outside everyday, and they rarely have vegetables, except salad. SO!! I start cooking. Honestly speaking, another reason I want to cook is because I miss playing "masak masak". When I was young, I LOVE "masak masak"! Now, I get an opportunity to play REAL "masak masak". Of course I won't miss it. I'm nuts when I'm really young, I love to iron clothes when I'm really bored or chop garlic, fold clothes. So basically, I like to do house chores, so I don't really mind doing my own chores now.
Hehe... thought I've get myself ready to be able to cook when I get here, because I've been spending a lot of hours at home standing beside mummy & maid, observe how they cook and all. BUT!!! I was so wrong.... WHY? You know auntie auntie, the food they cook need A LOT of ingredients & preparations. My mom is a auntie, so the food she taught me all need very very long procedures to get it done. I definitely don't have the time to cook those lor. Plus, I'm eating alone. Here, I need to create my own simple & nice food. So, I'm like experimenting food, hehe... it's fun!
Every Saturday, there are two vans that will send students to the nearest super market. I didn't have any cooking equipments with me, so I need to organise and buy everything separately in few weeks, because it'll be impossible for me to carry everything. I have a funny feeling while I need to choose types of frying pans, rice cookers, even Lee Kum Kee and all.
My first time cooking wasn't that smooth, as I said, I don't have all the equipments that needed. I cooked macaroni with minced beef, because ingredients that needed are quite simple. Was cooking with my H.Kong & Macau friend and it was pass dinner time, so no one else is in the kitchen besides us.
I borrowed my friend's chop board to chop the garlics & onions but it wasn't cut nicely, because my friend wanted it back to cut her stuffs, so I just simply cut lor. When I was frying the onions & garlics, I saw big chunks of onions in it, so I wanted to use the ladle to cut it, then...... I put too much force..... Shok.... all the onions fly..... drop all over the place. hehe... I scared my friends.
After cooking, then I know "masak masak" is not THAT fun. I was inexperienced, a lot of uncertainties. From marinating the meat [never done it b4, just follow my friends brief instructions], boil the macaroni [I never cooked this b4, was experimenting], get the shredded cheese melted in microwave [never operate a microwave before]. To get all these done, I was quite stressful, because never done it before. I was exhaust after all the preparations. I sat down looking at my bowl of macaroni that fills with uncertainties, then I literally shout out and say "thank you God for the food". Never thank God so much for the food before, really appreciate every bite and before this, I think I sort of took food for granted. I took my mom for granted as well, when she use to cook back home. Hehe... I know I might sound silly and spoilt to some of you, but yeah... this is my experience, not ashamed to share it. I'm still learning what... ^_^
Next year when Yeeng Yeeng come join me or anyone else that is coming here, can come and taste my home-cook food, going to let you all feel homely, because by then I'll be super pro, because I'll keep trying. I will be happy to cook for you guys! [But u all must pay me la or help me vacuum my house] ^_^
Pictures TIME!
These are the new faces:-
Paul koko, Emily & Julia jie jie (family that's been a blessing to me) ^_^
Peter koko, Ching jie jie (Peter's fiancee) with their new lovey-dovey house behind.
The few pics below is on the First Day of CNY, We went exploring in a park, something like jungle tracking. It was so much further than Bukit Kiara hill. Luckily got trained beforehand. ^_^
Great View in Great Ocean road with families & family Friends
My Personal Favourites
Saturday, March 3, 2007
The Start of Something New
friends & family? They are all at Malaysia.
Yupz, new life starts now!
The first night when family left... no need me to say a thing, but you guys who know me well might have guessed that I'll be crying there. The atmosphere was not that bad, and I was just tearing. Didn't get to cry much because of the 3 Cheng Brothers giggling there at the sight of me crying. Anyways, nothing bad, they sort of help me control myself. Guess guys & girls are really from a different planet, hehe... After that, Peter koko sent James; Paul koko & Julia jeje sent me home. On the way back, both of them kept giving me useful words of encouragements. Even got bear hugs from them too! They are one of the biggest blessings god had for me in Australia.. ^_^
Next day (22 feb, Thursday), went to school for last day of ori, where they separate all students into different faculty. Was in desperate situation of course! Don't know anyone! Well, in times like these, you would practically talk to anyone who's around you which have a nice& friendly face. Cut it short, We had free lunch (subway) after the briefing of ori. While eating, we sort of like formed a group and start talking about normal stuff. God is so awesome! I get to meet 2 girls that goes to Clayton church of Christ (Paul koko's family church). One of the girls even offers to give me a lift to FOCUS (Fellowship of Christians Uni Students), which is on Friday; The other girl, asked me to go over her house and have dinner with her family. She pitied me, knowing that my family just went back yesterday. ^_^
Basically, that is how I spent my first day in Australia. When I got back, it was quite late, was tired, so slept straight away.
Sunday (25 Feb), went to my first service in Australia. Paul koko, Julia jeje & Emily girl girl ^^ picked me up from my place! So happy to see familiar faces again! The procedures of the service is very different compare to Mega & need to get use to it: Besides the pastor is a "kuai lou" (miss pastor HO!!), they had holy communion every week i guess.
After church, there is a Clayton festival. A lot of people from church joined in the crowd. I never been to a festival before, so it's actually kind of a good experience. Paul koko they all are staying for the festival, so I joined in too, but I followed the youth around.
Now to describe the festive. A certain long road in Clayton is closed for the festive. A lot of food stalls, game stalls, drinks etc all are placed along both side of the road. At the end of each side of the road has a stage. Announcements are made there, there are also singing & dancing performances too. The church youth participated in the performance with a group of people doing break dancing. There are a lot of amusing games, one of it is the jumping castle (basically, u just get into the big air balloon castle with a group of people and start jumping inside bumping each other).
At night, had dinner at Julia jeje's parents' (Uncle Arthur& Auntie Anne) house. HOME COOK FOOD!!! T_T
We had mi rebus!! I never love mi rebus much back in Malaysia, because the gravy is all watery. But!! Auntie Anne's mee rebus was really awesome!! Yum yum.... I'm always surrounded by good cooks, e.g my mom& Aunt Liz. Here, there's aunt Anne! So lucky... ^_^
How's 1st week of school? Met a lot of people. New faces in every tutorials & lectures. Don't really get to mix with Malaysian, mostly with Aussie people, people from Hong Kong & China. I got BIG exposure! People from these 3 places, all had different slang. And I get to play around with the slang, it just comes naturally. While speaking chinese with China people, out of nowhere, you'll follow their slang, same goes to people from Hong Kong speaking cantonese, but australia slang, bit hard to pick up, hehe.... but soon, I will! Yeah, it's really fun to play around with it.
Had joined FOCUS for 2 weeks by now. About Focus... There are mostly chinese people that are born in Australia, quite a number of their motherland is from Malaysia too. So, they have a mixture of culture. I'm one of the YOUNGEST there!! My gosh, back in Malaysia, everyone is like calling me big sister! Here?!?! Like baby only.... But yeah, another BIG exposure. Actually, Focus based more on uni students that is an Australian. And I'm supposed to be in the IS (international students) Zone, but I can choose to be wherever I want. But!! I'm sort of stuck in Focus, because there's this really nice girl name Mandice, she was like so sad when I say I might want to tryout IS. Hehe...
Anyhow, I do had thoughts to tryout in everywhere& honestly I do have negative thoughts on that group. But, during one of my devotion time with God, I read my daily bread, and it said:-
Is your local church plagued by problems?
Feel like running away to a church that appears to have less problems?
Then wait. Perhaps this is the word you need to remind yourself that there can be no growth without pain.
Haha... so that is one of my testimony. And I'm very sure that god is asking me to settle down here... ^_^
That is what I felt on the first week I been to Focus.
Back in Malaysia(again), I'm always surrounded with people I know. You'll feel belonged &feel excited to go for fellowship & gathering with everyone. Here, don't know anyone much, it's kind of difficult for you to feel excited to go for gatherings. So, on the second week before I went to Focus, I prayed to God, asking Him to give me excitement & sense of belonging. And guess what?
Hoho... God really did his work!! I had a different perception on Focus now. He opened my eyes once again. I found out that I really need to work on humbleness & also found out that there are so many good qualities in the people in Focus that I can learn from in terms of spiritual maturity& how they live their life. I'm no longer the oldest, temporarily need to stop giving but receive all that I can. Sense of belonging? I had it already.. ^_^ I know it's unavoidable that sometimes I might feel left out but I really hope I'll grow to like this new family more. (hope you guys will help pray about it)
Yesterday night, Ester gave me a ride home from FOCUS. She's a medical student, doing her fifth year. We enjoyed our talks so much, that we purposely took a ride down to Glen Waverly to continue our talks. Her parents had divorced only last 2 weeks. She shared on her experience how she faced it and all. Amazed on how she handle it.
Mmm... that's about it I guess. Hope I have not put you all into sleep.
But yeah, I believe god will continue to equip me in Australia. And I still believe that I'll do great things here with God at side. So... you guys back there better stand up & move on, don't lag! I'm definite that when I come back this year, you'll be able to see a new Brigette and I would love to see a new you too... ^_^
p.s try to post some testimonies. and I haven't receive much updates from you guys in blogs. If this continues, i'm paying back k?
Yupz, new life starts now!
The first night when family left... no need me to say a thing, but you guys who know me well might have guessed that I'll be crying there. The atmosphere was not that bad, and I was just tearing. Didn't get to cry much because of the 3 Cheng Brothers giggling there at the sight of me crying. Anyways, nothing bad, they sort of help me control myself. Guess guys & girls are really from a different planet, hehe... After that, Peter koko sent James; Paul koko & Julia jeje sent me home. On the way back, both of them kept giving me useful words of encouragements. Even got bear hugs from them too! They are one of the biggest blessings god had for me in Australia.. ^_^
Next day (22 feb, Thursday), went to school for last day of ori, where they separate all students into different faculty. Was in desperate situation of course! Don't know anyone! Well, in times like these, you would practically talk to anyone who's around you which have a nice& friendly face. Cut it short, We had free lunch (subway) after the briefing of ori. While eating, we sort of like formed a group and start talking about normal stuff. God is so awesome! I get to meet 2 girls that goes to Clayton church of Christ (Paul koko's family church). One of the girls even offers to give me a lift to FOCUS (Fellowship of Christians Uni Students), which is on Friday; The other girl, asked me to go over her house and have dinner with her family. She pitied me, knowing that my family just went back yesterday. ^_^
Basically, that is how I spent my first day in Australia. When I got back, it was quite late, was tired, so slept straight away.
Sunday (25 Feb), went to my first service in Australia. Paul koko, Julia jeje & Emily girl girl ^^ picked me up from my place! So happy to see familiar faces again! The procedures of the service is very different compare to Mega & need to get use to it: Besides the pastor is a "kuai lou" (miss pastor HO!!), they had holy communion every week i guess.
After church, there is a Clayton festival. A lot of people from church joined in the crowd. I never been to a festival before, so it's actually kind of a good experience. Paul koko they all are staying for the festival, so I joined in too, but I followed the youth around.
Now to describe the festive. A certain long road in Clayton is closed for the festive. A lot of food stalls, game stalls, drinks etc all are placed along both side of the road. At the end of each side of the road has a stage. Announcements are made there, there are also singing & dancing performances too. The church youth participated in the performance with a group of people doing break dancing. There are a lot of amusing games, one of it is the jumping castle (basically, u just get into the big air balloon castle with a group of people and start jumping inside bumping each other).
At night, had dinner at Julia jeje's parents' (Uncle Arthur& Auntie Anne) house. HOME COOK FOOD!!! T_T
We had mi rebus!! I never love mi rebus much back in Malaysia, because the gravy is all watery. But!! Auntie Anne's mee rebus was really awesome!! Yum yum.... I'm always surrounded by good cooks, e.g my mom& Aunt Liz. Here, there's aunt Anne! So lucky... ^_^
How's 1st week of school? Met a lot of people. New faces in every tutorials & lectures. Don't really get to mix with Malaysian, mostly with Aussie people, people from Hong Kong & China. I got BIG exposure! People from these 3 places, all had different slang. And I get to play around with the slang, it just comes naturally. While speaking chinese with China people, out of nowhere, you'll follow their slang, same goes to people from Hong Kong speaking cantonese, but australia slang, bit hard to pick up, hehe.... but soon, I will! Yeah, it's really fun to play around with it.
Had joined FOCUS for 2 weeks by now. About Focus... There are mostly chinese people that are born in Australia, quite a number of their motherland is from Malaysia too. So, they have a mixture of culture. I'm one of the YOUNGEST there!! My gosh, back in Malaysia, everyone is like calling me big sister! Here?!?! Like baby only.... But yeah, another BIG exposure. Actually, Focus based more on uni students that is an Australian. And I'm supposed to be in the IS (international students) Zone, but I can choose to be wherever I want. But!! I'm sort of stuck in Focus, because there's this really nice girl name Mandice, she was like so sad when I say I might want to tryout IS. Hehe...
Anyhow, I do had thoughts to tryout in everywhere& honestly I do have negative thoughts on that group. But, during one of my devotion time with God, I read my daily bread, and it said:-
Is your local church plagued by problems?
Feel like running away to a church that appears to have less problems?
Then wait. Perhaps this is the word you need to remind yourself that there can be no growth without pain.
Haha... so that is one of my testimony. And I'm very sure that god is asking me to settle down here... ^_^
That is what I felt on the first week I been to Focus.
Back in Malaysia(again), I'm always surrounded with people I know. You'll feel belonged &feel excited to go for fellowship & gathering with everyone. Here, don't know anyone much, it's kind of difficult for you to feel excited to go for gatherings. So, on the second week before I went to Focus, I prayed to God, asking Him to give me excitement & sense of belonging. And guess what?
Hoho... God really did his work!! I had a different perception on Focus now. He opened my eyes once again. I found out that I really need to work on humbleness & also found out that there are so many good qualities in the people in Focus that I can learn from in terms of spiritual maturity& how they live their life. I'm no longer the oldest, temporarily need to stop giving but receive all that I can. Sense of belonging? I had it already.. ^_^ I know it's unavoidable that sometimes I might feel left out but I really hope I'll grow to like this new family more. (hope you guys will help pray about it)
Yesterday night, Ester gave me a ride home from FOCUS. She's a medical student, doing her fifth year. We enjoyed our talks so much, that we purposely took a ride down to Glen Waverly to continue our talks. Her parents had divorced only last 2 weeks. She shared on her experience how she faced it and all. Amazed on how she handle it.
Mmm... that's about it I guess. Hope I have not put you all into sleep.
But yeah, I believe god will continue to equip me in Australia. And I still believe that I'll do great things here with God at side. So... you guys back there better stand up & move on, don't lag! I'm definite that when I come back this year, you'll be able to see a new Brigette and I would love to see a new you too... ^_^
p.s try to post some testimonies. and I haven't receive much updates from you guys in blogs. If this continues, i'm paying back k?
The one who still keep you guys in prayer,
Brigette
Monday, February 19, 2007
An adventure to the city...
*waves to everyone madly again*
First of all, if you are wondering why am I not online regularly, it's because I still don't have an Internet connection in my room yet, so it's kinda difficult for me to go online. I'll try to update you guys through blog though.
oK.. it's Tuesday! The second day of Orientation!!! Where all the international students get together and will be given an important session. Yipeeeeee!!!!.... and I ponteng it! *laughs like Andrew* Wait a sec, I have reasons for it.
Like I said, I don't have an Internet cable in my room, but mostly all the important stuff that I need to get it done requires the Internet. Normally, people get all these done before the orientation starts, to settle down and therefore they are free to attend all orientation activities. But I came in real late, therefore I need to attend school's ori, attend residence's ori (the hostel I live, they had orientation too), buy the stuff I need & also do all the necessary applications. I even wrote down a long, and I mean LONG to-do list, to remind myself of everything.
Examples of to-do stuff:-
SO! Because of all these unforeseen circumstances, I am force to ponteng. (kids, dun do tis at school k? *guai guai*)
Yesterday night after dinner with the families, Julia jie jie took James, big sis & I to the K-mart, where we get all our groceries done. (owe Julia jie jie a lot, she's super kind! ^_^) BUT!!!!! The FAN WAS OUT OF STOCK! *faints* So, another night without a fan, but like I mentioned, the wheather was quite cooling, love God!
Next morning, get a pink doughnut for breakfast and head for the library computers to get my classes registered. Oh yeah the subjects I took was quite interesting, can't wait till school starts:-
First of all, if you are wondering why am I not online regularly, it's because I still don't have an Internet connection in my room yet, so it's kinda difficult for me to go online. I'll try to update you guys through blog though.
oK.. it's Tuesday! The second day of Orientation!!! Where all the international students get together and will be given an important session. Yipeeeeee!!!!.... and I ponteng it! *laughs like Andrew* Wait a sec, I have reasons for it.
Like I said, I don't have an Internet cable in my room, but mostly all the important stuff that I need to get it done requires the Internet. Normally, people get all these done before the orientation starts, to settle down and therefore they are free to attend all orientation activities. But I came in real late, therefore I need to attend school's ori, attend residence's ori (the hostel I live, they had orientation too), buy the stuff I need & also do all the necessary applications. I even wrote down a long, and I mean LONG to-do list, to remind myself of everything.
Examples of to-do stuff:-
- Allocate my subjects (register for lectures, tutorials& labs online)
- Get a cell-phone (can't get it until my bank account is activated)
- Go for the bank (to check out whether my bank account is activated)
- Register for a library tour
- Get Student card & planner
- Get Book lists (can't be done if I dun haven't done step 1)
- Register for "Big Day Out" for international students
- Get OSHC card (that's my health card. Dunno wat's it for, to prove I'm healthy I guess. But it's compulsory for international students& it's super expensive! The country just wanna eat our money)
- Get groceries (FAN!!! hangers, detergent, laundry basket, kettle, etc...)
- Find out where's the laundry room & vacuum cleaner in my residence (I missed the Residence's ori, it was on 16 or 17, was in Great Ocean Road)
SO! Because of all these unforeseen circumstances, I am force to ponteng. (kids, dun do tis at school k? *guai guai*)
Yesterday night after dinner with the families, Julia jie jie took James, big sis & I to the K-mart, where we get all our groceries done. (owe Julia jie jie a lot, she's super kind! ^_^) BUT!!!!! The FAN WAS OUT OF STOCK! *faints* So, another night without a fan, but like I mentioned, the wheather was quite cooling, love God!
Next morning, get a pink doughnut for breakfast and head for the library computers to get my classes registered. Oh yeah the subjects I took was quite interesting, can't wait till school starts:-
- Psychology (Definitely gonna Major tis)
- Socialogy (This may compliment my major as a minor subject)
- Anthropology (hehe...tis one's cool! And according to my sis, it's quite difficult, so I took it as a challenge, it'll be one of my electives. Get to study culture, power & globalisation)
- Korean (haha...tis is definitely for the fun of it! According to my sis, my above subjects are quite difficult and taking a new language as a subject can be quite easy to score, plus is just an elective! I'll just tryout for one semester. If I dun like it, most probably will continue chinese)
My timetable... Not really satisfy with it. I get Thursday off & for Friday, one morning class only. But... *sigh* Monday & Wednesday is ok; Tuesday? Got 6 hours of classes straight!! A lot of tutorials are full, so I dun hav much choice. I dun think I'll be ale to concentrate much in such long hours. Oh well, no complaints! God's will!
To cut it short...
In the morning, I've done some of the above stuff in the morning with my sister. Others, like getting CELL PHONE, printers, internet cables, fan heater etc. Well, I need to go to the city & get all those, & just so happens my sis intends to meet up with her doll mates to polish their dolls together, so... I went with her. Besides getting my stuff in the city, I need to learn my way to the city, because according to my sis, everything I need, can get from the city. It was a long way to the city from my school. And being a "easily get yourself lost" Queen! It's really hard for me to memorise all the roads, but.... I need to get use to it!
I never ride on a public bus before, never sit on a train before and never see a tramp before. Today, on my trip to the city, I get to sit all of them! ^_^ Bought a daily ticket from the bus conductor & it brought me from bus to train and from train to tramp! YAY!! all my first rides in a day! The city is full with people! Hehe... I felt like a country mouse entering a city.
Anyways, I just hope that I know how to go the ciy next time without my sis's assistance. Enough of updates!
p.s Haha... There's really a lot of stuff that needs to be done when you are in oversea studying & an international student. You cannot be blur like me! Thank god I have my big sis to guide me in everything. If anyone of you younger one's are planning to come to aust, i'll definitely will be willing to help you out! ^_^
A different lattitude
Here I am!! I'm in a kangaroo land!! *waves madly to everyone*
Life now?! it's a big challenge
15th & 16th Feb
There are currently a few new people in my life now. First, Paul (James's big bro!) , Julia (Paul's wife), Peter(James's 3rd Bro), Ching (Peter's fiance) & not leaving out the cutie Emily!
Paul & Julia are the ones that pick us up from the air-port after the long hours of flight & my family are also currently living in their house while Uncle Stephen & Aunt Liz live in Julia's parent's house.
The next morning, we had breakfast at Uncle Arthur& Aunt Anne's (Julia's parents) house. This is the first time I had a typical Aussie breakfast, beacons, eggs, bread, cappuccino, Avogadro fruit (Emily's favourite)& some grains with milk which i think it calls "Missues"?? But it was a great breakfast.
After breakfast, we get to go to...... MARKET! It is to buy the food for tonight's barbecue at Paul gogo's house. And guess what? Those selling all the meats, fruits &vegetables are really "kuai lous". I get to see with my own eye! *cheers* Oh yeah, they don't call out "lelong! lelong!" while they sell the goods, instead they say "fresh fruits for sell! one melon for 2 dollar!".
After we done shopping, went for "Dim Sum". Yum yum... Found out that Emily likes Pau, but not the filling.
Here's the scary part... After lunch, I'm suppose to go check-in to my hostel & also open a bank account in Australia. I am SO blessed by god!! I've no need to settle all these by myself, daddy, mummy, big sis, uncle Stephen(drives) & Julia jie jie (lead the way) accompanied me to finish up everything, really can't do anything without them.
Night, was barbecue night. Peter, Ching & James join the group! The food was really yummy too! We had lamb, beef, sausages, chicken on stick, pork, prawns, salmon, another big yummy fish (bought by only the fish profession- uncle Stephen) and also salad. The barbecue was also cooked by the profession Paul.
After meal was fellowship. I get to know the brothers & sisters more, very nice & kind people! hehe... can say the brothers are just the older version of James, very similar. You'll know what I mean when you meet them..^_^ Paul "go go" even suggested I can go tryout his church this Sunday. Hope I can really settle fast in a church!! *cross fingers*
ermmm...I'll try to cut it real short!!
On the next 2 days, We had a family trip to Great Ocean Road. 3 hours drive there, but I get to see various scenic view. [Sorry! won't be having pics in blog de, cuz no camera!! but will try to convince my parents to get me one]
Well, life here now is a blur &sometimes feel alien, especially after I done my first day of orientation. (haha... guess I'm having culture shock.) There are a lot of things I need to settle, bank accounts, changing faculty (no more double degree! setting my mind on psychology alone!I'm firm about tis choice), places around (I got lost in campus today while trying to get to campus center from my hostel to use the Internet, but I found my way, that's why I'm here updating blog), etc. Problems & all the blurs are emerging everywhere in every second!! And lately, I kept telling myself this "I need to get use to this", e.g sharing a washroom with people around (including guys), the weather & just last night, when it's past bed-time, there's still people around making noises, guess i need to get use to that too.
Sigh...but I know eventually I'll turn out fine, guess this is how I'll grow to a really cicak girl (being able to adapt to anything)! And even although all these bad circumstances emerged, I can still always feel god's presence! When I'm weak, He shows his presence and makes me strong!
E.g Yesterday was the 1st night I moved in to my hostel. God didn't dumped me alone there but He brought my my big sis with me! As u all know, it's summer here, and it's real HOT! I don't have a fan! All I have was a miserable one sided window that hardly blew in any air. And the room was not actually hot, but stuffy. Then, I know I'm pampered by the air-conditioned. But at night, it actually rained!! My gosh... God is just great! I had a comfy sleep although I need to sleep on the floor with my sis because there is only a single sized bed in my room.
There are a lot of things I want to thank god for! When I'm here, I always think of you guys, how much I was blessed by God with all the company I had in Malaysia. But I'm here now, and I know I need to move on and continue to allow god to mould me. Hope you guys will keep us in prayers! And I pray that you all will continue to grow too.
Ben Soon once told me something that touched me, which I felt it's very true. He said, Your "Home" is where your "Heart" belongs. Well, my heart belongs to my biological family & also to my family in Christ! Well, this is to my family in Christ. Leaving you all is hard for me, but I really really thank God for putting me into your world. I do not know you guys since birth but less than 2 years. I got to admit, at first, mixing with you guys was really difficult, especially for a very timid person like me. However, I know what are true bros & sis in Christ when I met you guys. Thank you so much for allowing me to be part of the family, I love you guys.. ^_^
Life now?! it's a big challenge
15th & 16th Feb
There are currently a few new people in my life now. First, Paul (James's big bro!) , Julia (Paul's wife), Peter(James's 3rd Bro), Ching (Peter's fiance) & not leaving out the cutie Emily!
Paul & Julia are the ones that pick us up from the air-port after the long hours of flight & my family are also currently living in their house while Uncle Stephen & Aunt Liz live in Julia's parent's house.
The next morning, we had breakfast at Uncle Arthur& Aunt Anne's (Julia's parents) house. This is the first time I had a typical Aussie breakfast, beacons, eggs, bread, cappuccino, Avogadro fruit (Emily's favourite)& some grains with milk which i think it calls "Missues"?? But it was a great breakfast.
After breakfast, we get to go to...... MARKET! It is to buy the food for tonight's barbecue at Paul gogo's house. And guess what? Those selling all the meats, fruits &vegetables are really "kuai lous". I get to see with my own eye! *cheers* Oh yeah, they don't call out "lelong! lelong!" while they sell the goods, instead they say "fresh fruits for sell! one melon for 2 dollar!".
After we done shopping, went for "Dim Sum". Yum yum... Found out that Emily likes Pau, but not the filling.
Here's the scary part... After lunch, I'm suppose to go check-in to my hostel & also open a bank account in Australia. I am SO blessed by god!! I've no need to settle all these by myself, daddy, mummy, big sis, uncle Stephen(drives) & Julia jie jie (lead the way) accompanied me to finish up everything, really can't do anything without them.
Night, was barbecue night. Peter, Ching & James join the group! The food was really yummy too! We had lamb, beef, sausages, chicken on stick, pork, prawns, salmon, another big yummy fish (bought by only the fish profession- uncle Stephen) and also salad. The barbecue was also cooked by the profession Paul.
After meal was fellowship. I get to know the brothers & sisters more, very nice & kind people! hehe... can say the brothers are just the older version of James, very similar. You'll know what I mean when you meet them..^_^ Paul "go go" even suggested I can go tryout his church this Sunday. Hope I can really settle fast in a church!! *cross fingers*
ermmm...I'll try to cut it real short!!
On the next 2 days, We had a family trip to Great Ocean Road. 3 hours drive there, but I get to see various scenic view. [Sorry! won't be having pics in blog de, cuz no camera!! but will try to convince my parents to get me one]
Well, life here now is a blur &sometimes feel alien, especially after I done my first day of orientation. (haha... guess I'm having culture shock.) There are a lot of things I need to settle, bank accounts, changing faculty (no more double degree! setting my mind on psychology alone!I'm firm about tis choice), places around (I got lost in campus today while trying to get to campus center from my hostel to use the Internet, but I found my way, that's why I'm here updating blog), etc. Problems & all the blurs are emerging everywhere in every second!! And lately, I kept telling myself this "I need to get use to this", e.g sharing a washroom with people around (including guys), the weather & just last night, when it's past bed-time, there's still people around making noises, guess i need to get use to that too.
Sigh...but I know eventually I'll turn out fine, guess this is how I'll grow to a really cicak girl (being able to adapt to anything)! And even although all these bad circumstances emerged, I can still always feel god's presence! When I'm weak, He shows his presence and makes me strong!
E.g Yesterday was the 1st night I moved in to my hostel. God didn't dumped me alone there but He brought my my big sis with me! As u all know, it's summer here, and it's real HOT! I don't have a fan! All I have was a miserable one sided window that hardly blew in any air. And the room was not actually hot, but stuffy. Then, I know I'm pampered by the air-conditioned. But at night, it actually rained!! My gosh... God is just great! I had a comfy sleep although I need to sleep on the floor with my sis because there is only a single sized bed in my room.
There are a lot of things I want to thank god for! When I'm here, I always think of you guys, how much I was blessed by God with all the company I had in Malaysia. But I'm here now, and I know I need to move on and continue to allow god to mould me. Hope you guys will keep us in prayers! And I pray that you all will continue to grow too.
Ben Soon once told me something that touched me, which I felt it's very true. He said, Your "Home" is where your "Heart" belongs. Well, my heart belongs to my biological family & also to my family in Christ! Well, this is to my family in Christ. Leaving you all is hard for me, but I really really thank God for putting me into your world. I do not know you guys since birth but less than 2 years. I got to admit, at first, mixing with you guys was really difficult, especially for a very timid person like me. However, I know what are true bros & sis in Christ when I met you guys. Thank you so much for allowing me to be part of the family, I love you guys.. ^_^
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
I am a Healthy Girl
Yes!! I am a healthy girl! And don't you go say I'm not, because I rarely do sports, because I started jogging lately. *grins proudly*
Hehe... if you have read other people's blog, you'll know that 5 of us went jogging last Tuesday at TTDI park. Honestly speaking, I will always turn down my parents if they asked me to go for a morning jog with them, but if they put it as an order, then I'll follow, just to make them happy. So, when I told my mom I'm going jogging with them, my mom was looking at me like one kind, sigh...
Mmm... last tuesday wasn't that bad, we shouldn't put it as morning jog, but more like a morning stroll, for me &eden that is. The path in the park was amazingly short. Hehe.. the funny part is we get to see different people with different weird weird jogging patterns, quite interesting. We even see few group of old folks doing "tai chi" with the energetic Kung Fu music playing behind. Then, I was randomly suggesting to den den whether we the group of "old folks" from MJYF will be attending all these "tai chi" classes together in the morning when are all old in age. Hehe... After that, we went for chinese mamak. The rest of the story, you all know lor...
We went during this Tuesday morning too, but to the more challenging path. Which is the deadly, never-ending, torturous, insane..... KIARA MOUNTAIN!Woke up at 6:40, picked up eden &went to James's house, because both of us don't really know the way to get there. As usual, we were all late, but the weather wasn't so bad, the sun was not shinning madly, instead the breeze was quite cooling. We started off without drew & aaron, but waited for them at the center point. [center point is where we reach a point, where there are 3 cross roads that leads to different tracks. Names of cross roads are: Healthy pathway, Short-cut path &.... hmm... I don't think the third path has a name yet]
While waiting, we saw a BIG family of monkeys! Then, we start naming all the monkeys. We saw James's family first. A papa monkey, mama monkey with a baby monkey(James) hanging onto the mama & 3 stronger child monkey came along(which is the 3 brothers of James). Then we start to see all the cousins coming along!! Eden, Pastor Ho, Lucas etc... Oh yeah! we even saw Joey's family. Because we saw one super tiny with a bit bit fur baby monkey, so we named it Jayden& just so happen it only had a papa& mama. Basically, this is what we do while waiting for drew& aaron. K... here comes the serious part. I only been to that mountain not more than 5 times & I never NEVER EVER finish the whole route before. They all suggested that we go for the "Healthy Pathway"! *faints upon hearing that word* I think if you are jogging with friends, that actually makes you have more urge to go further. So without you guys, don't think I can make it too. Well, it's an experience though &gain something from it too.. ^_^
Not long later, the guys wanted to jog up the hill, so off they go. Halfway through the hill, I remember I was panting already. Guess who we met?? Aunty Jeannie! Then!!! She started pulling me & eden to jog with her up the hill?!?!?! huu... was indeed an experience, but I made it!! *cheers* Rested for a while at the center point again, then walk back down the hill & off for FOOD!!
Walking up hills& all the mountains always make me think of life. Was thinking about it when we were halfway through the middle point, because eden was listening to her mp3 &I want to save my breath so we didn't talk. This was the first time I finished the route & it sort of explains to me about my life going to be in Australia.
[Before reaching the centerpoint=Beginning a life in Aust]
Not tired, actually enjoy! Exciting life awaits with all the new life enviroment, new people, new school, new church, new culture, new lifestyle, etc...
[Moving on to the Healthy Path=Mid-year in Aust]
Stressful life ahead. Get to know people around better, but burden with asignments, assesments, tests, etc... However, there's still someone that will pull you to go forward along the road.
[After centerpoint=End of the year in aust]
Feel peaceful after the rest, actually kind of enjoy the route a lot. Looking forward to come back home!!
Just felt that God gave me a rough revealed about my life to come in australia while walking the hills. Hmm.. if you guys don't understand the previous part just skip it k? Because I find it a bit abstract & I can't really express properly.
Some Pictures We Took on That Morning
Hehe... if you have read other people's blog, you'll know that 5 of us went jogging last Tuesday at TTDI park. Honestly speaking, I will always turn down my parents if they asked me to go for a morning jog with them, but if they put it as an order, then I'll follow, just to make them happy. So, when I told my mom I'm going jogging with them, my mom was looking at me like one kind, sigh...
Mmm... last tuesday wasn't that bad, we shouldn't put it as morning jog, but more like a morning stroll, for me &eden that is. The path in the park was amazingly short. Hehe.. the funny part is we get to see different people with different weird weird jogging patterns, quite interesting. We even see few group of old folks doing "tai chi" with the energetic Kung Fu music playing behind. Then, I was randomly suggesting to den den whether we the group of "old folks" from MJYF will be attending all these "tai chi" classes together in the morning when are all old in age. Hehe... After that, we went for chinese mamak. The rest of the story, you all know lor...
We went during this Tuesday morning too, but to the more challenging path. Which is the deadly, never-ending, torturous, insane..... KIARA MOUNTAIN!Woke up at 6:40, picked up eden &went to James's house, because both of us don't really know the way to get there. As usual, we were all late, but the weather wasn't so bad, the sun was not shinning madly, instead the breeze was quite cooling. We started off without drew & aaron, but waited for them at the center point. [center point is where we reach a point, where there are 3 cross roads that leads to different tracks. Names of cross roads are: Healthy pathway, Short-cut path &.... hmm... I don't think the third path has a name yet]
While waiting, we saw a BIG family of monkeys! Then, we start naming all the monkeys. We saw James's family first. A papa monkey, mama monkey with a baby monkey(James) hanging onto the mama & 3 stronger child monkey came along(which is the 3 brothers of James). Then we start to see all the cousins coming along!! Eden, Pastor Ho, Lucas etc... Oh yeah! we even saw Joey's family. Because we saw one super tiny with a bit bit fur baby monkey, so we named it Jayden& just so happen it only had a papa& mama. Basically, this is what we do while waiting for drew& aaron. K... here comes the serious part. I only been to that mountain not more than 5 times & I never NEVER EVER finish the whole route before. They all suggested that we go for the "Healthy Pathway"! *faints upon hearing that word* I think if you are jogging with friends, that actually makes you have more urge to go further. So without you guys, don't think I can make it too. Well, it's an experience though &gain something from it too.. ^_^
Not long later, the guys wanted to jog up the hill, so off they go. Halfway through the hill, I remember I was panting already. Guess who we met?? Aunty Jeannie! Then!!! She started pulling me & eden to jog with her up the hill?!?!?! huu... was indeed an experience, but I made it!! *cheers* Rested for a while at the center point again, then walk back down the hill & off for FOOD!!
Walking up hills& all the mountains always make me think of life. Was thinking about it when we were halfway through the middle point, because eden was listening to her mp3 &I want to save my breath so we didn't talk. This was the first time I finished the route & it sort of explains to me about my life going to be in Australia.
[Before reaching the centerpoint=Beginning a life in Aust]
Not tired, actually enjoy! Exciting life awaits with all the new life enviroment, new people, new school, new church, new culture, new lifestyle, etc...
[Moving on to the Healthy Path=Mid-year in Aust]
Stressful life ahead. Get to know people around better, but burden with asignments, assesments, tests, etc... However, there's still someone that will pull you to go forward along the road.
[After centerpoint=End of the year in aust]
Feel peaceful after the rest, actually kind of enjoy the route a lot. Looking forward to come back home!!
Just felt that God gave me a rough revealed about my life to come in australia while walking the hills. Hmm.. if you guys don't understand the previous part just skip it k? Because I find it a bit abstract & I can't really express properly.
Anyways, I find that we are really aging already!! We begin to do all the stuff that only done by "uncle& aunty". Morning jog in Kiara Mountain during morning holidays? Sounds like only aunty only will do. Hehe.. still remember another aunty thing we did was waking up super early in the morning on the second day of God @Heart camp to see the sun rise at the beach. (the aunties were mel, yeeng, eden, pei minn & yours sincerely) However, while we were walking to the beach we met other uncles & auties who came to join us. (other uncle & aunties are chris, jon, lucas, hor yan& michele)
But we were so blur back then because we forgot that we are actually at the west coast, that means, we can't see the sun rise from here.
Some Pictures We Took on That Morning
(just for fun!)
The Story of Pei Minn KO Lucas!
Sunday, January 28, 2007
God gift siblings!
Ahem!! I really wanted to post something, but but... I just can't seem find anything interesting lately.
So!! I finally made up my mind to post something about my siblings, since lately I've been spending a lot of time with them. ^_^
So, here it goes...
My siblings... They are really God gifts! Like everyone else, we had fights, quarrels, tear moments, disagreements, even age gaps! But we also have laughs, fun, lot of hugggies and all. We even have totally different personalities!
Big sis& I with the chicken wings bones!
Yeeng &I on 2006 Christmas eve
So!! I finally made up my mind to post something about my siblings, since lately I've been spending a lot of time with them. ^_^
So, here it goes...
My siblings... They are really God gifts! Like everyone else, we had fights, quarrels, tear moments, disagreements, even age gaps! But we also have laughs, fun, lot of hugggies and all. We even have totally different personalities!
FIRSTLY!
This!! Is my very sweet "da jie". Aw... I love this pic! She always had this baby face, doesn't look like she's in her twenties at all, makes her cute! And she's NOT a budak!! She just look young.
My big sister is the one who brought me & my whole family to know Christ, so without her, I may not be able to find the true meaning of living, Zillion thanks to her!
When I was young, I admired her a lot, and I mean A LOT! I follow wherever she go, eat whatever she puts into her mouth, follow practically whatever she do!(As told by my little sis) Although I'm being such a glue-stick tightly to her, I never recall any experience where she shooed me away.
When I was young, I admired her a lot, and I mean A LOT! I follow wherever she go, eat whatever she puts into her mouth, follow practically whatever she do!(As told by my little sis) Although I'm being such a glue-stick tightly to her, I never recall any experience where she shooed me away.
Maybe because she's the big sis in the family &so much older than me, so she's always the one with all the wild ideas& games for us to play, creating our own rules. You can NEVER imagine what games we play together, and I'm not going to explain it here because it's really REALLY embarrassing. But yeah, one of the game u all might know is the "Mermaid" game, that is not the worse, but you all are already laughing your lungs out. But yeah, the fun always begins with her. She's the one who make my childhood days memorable.
In movies, we can always see the older siblings will not play or get along with siblings that are much younger than they are. Well, on the contrary, my sis never does that. She never look down on us. She even play PS with us! I notice that friends in her age also like her a lot, yeah, everyone calls her "little girl" and all but everyone tends to sayang &protect her a lot. ^_^
My sister is very good at drawing too! I grew up with her drawing skills &hehe... I like to show off her pics to friends& I'm going to do it now! So here are some of her recent drawings. Get AMaZeD!
NEXT!
Well, here's my pretty little sister! She is a very random girl, can super gloomy at one moment & super happy the next second (cuz she forgets why she is gloomy). Hehe... some say that she is emotionally unstable, but I say she's just a sincere girl that is not afraid to express herself! ^_^
My little sister, has really LOW confidence but a very HIGH pitch voice! Like I said, she's a very good company. She's the one who has a similar interest with me towards movies. Without her beside to complain about the bad character or squeal when the handsome character did a very handsome act, the whole movie watching activity will be very dull. So, no Yeeng, no excitement!
Among the siblings, she's the Miss Clean & Tidy Queen. She's very responsible in keeping her things in order too. Something out of the ordinary about my sister is that she always force anyone (basically, it's my big sis& I) who wants to snuggle into her bed to wash their feet, before we even get a centimeter near to her bed. Sigh... but we usually ignored her, but sometimes we do follow her orders, just to make her happy. You might think that I'm a very tidy person, who keep my room as tidy as she does, but you are so WRONG!! I'm always the one who turns her room upside down once I enter &I'm always the one who misplaced or lose her stuff.
Among the siblings, she's the Miss Clean & Tidy Queen. She's very responsible in keeping her things in order too. Something out of the ordinary about my sister is that she always force anyone (basically, it's my big sis& I) who wants to snuggle into her bed to wash their feet, before we even get a centimeter near to her bed. Sigh... but we usually ignored her, but sometimes we do follow her orders, just to make her happy. You might think that I'm a very tidy person, who keep my room as tidy as she does, but you are so WRONG!! I'm always the one who turns her room upside down once I enter &I'm always the one who misplaced or lose her stuff.
My sister has a really cool gift by God, which is being able to make a new person feel very welcome. I learn a lot from her on this. I'm not very good with new enviroments, especially when we are with people that we are not familiar to. She's always the one who introduce me to a new group of friends and she rarely left me alone, maybe because I stick on her too tightly.
LASTLY!
The only boy in the family... my adorable little brother! ^_^ He has a very warm& loving heart, love hugs a lot. Unlike other little boys his age, he's never shy to talk to anyone. And he's always giving all the aunties & uncles bear hugs.
I took care of him a lot. Some say I'm like a second mother to him. (Hehe... guess I get to practise to be a mother) He respects me a lot too. I can always hit him, but he can't hit me back! Because I brought him up that way! Bwahahahaha.... No la, I'm not that evil, am I? I just taught him not to hit girls that's all & he agrees, respects &listens. Sometimes, he does hit me for fun, but after he hit me, automatically he'll whack himself back the next second, to test whether he hit me hard. Mmmm... you can say he's a gentle boy. (or dumb)
Actually, he taught me to be a more patient person. Since young, I'm the one who help him with his homework, especially MATH. When I recall those days, it was definitely torturous to both me & him, because it's difficult for me to explain math to him& He can't seem to understand, so... he gets a lot of scoldings from me. Sigh... poor boy!!
It's going to be hard to leave him, knowing that he'll change so much in his teenage when I get back from aust. Hehe... Lately, he's trying to convince me to continue my studies in Malaysia. He says he needs me to go through PMR with him. Grr... so selfish!
Here are some memorable pics with my siblings.
Big sis& I with the chicken wings bones!
Yeeng &I on 2006 Christmas eve
My bro&I sleeping in car(That's my pillow!!)
My sis's graduation!
My big sis forced my bro to put on that kinomo,
forced him to pose that sissy pose,
& forced him to put on that happy smile
Basically that's all! Hope that I didn't bored you guys, but this post is specially made for my god gift siblings, to make them happy! ^_^
p.s Sorry, I rarely post something about all my god gift church buddies! But I promise I'll make up something real good & soon specially for all you guys!! *hugs*
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