Ninja ♥

The making of my little felt Ninja. 18 July 2010. =)

The end product of my lovely Ninja! :) New my profile picture for Facebook. ♥

Made it into a necklace. I love it so much! Oh Ninja.

Ninja.. Beauty is like Ninja. It does not reveal on the outside. :)

Being born shy, I describe myself as a Ninja.

Sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I hide.

Like a ninja, I do things without announcing it for the world to see.

But sometimes, people could see me and understand me.

Since I do not show, people may mistaken and criticize or pull me down in life, but go ahead because it doesn't work. I'm in His armour. :)

Well, not anyone can see me, not anyone can understand me.

Only some who sees my inside would know.

Unlike usual, we understand things by its surface, proof or what is shown.

I, hardly show or say what I mean deep inside of me.

Sometimes, I think negatively because I hope to be proven wrong.

Sometimes, I hurt myself by being a Ninja.

The wounds, the blood. Hardly anyone notices them either.

Hidden behind the black cloth, only what I put on can be seen.

As my definition of Ninja, it is quiet, shy but daring, weak made strong, hidden or invisible to many people.

It does good things behind people.

Sometimes, people may kill me for being mistaken for doing something bad, but I'll take the blame and pray for them.

Only to certain people or certain times, I'd take off my black cloth.

But I'll never show the whole world how I look or what I do, for I'd rather stay unknown and unhide happily with close people than to stand infront of a crowd of acquaintences being praised or over complimented on.

I will not take the colorful, sweet candy, I will not be fooled for it.

I, will stand strong on a rock in the presence of my Saviour.

I.. was inspired by this site since I was a small kid, which includes;

Matthew 6:1-8

1"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

2"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

5"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

:)

Switchfoot - She Says (The Black Eyed Blues) Lyrics

Looking for reasons

To believe instead of doubt

A way in instead of out

There's got to be a reason

Looking for answers

For the hatred and pain

When they both start to feel the same

There's got to be a reason

Only one breath at a time, she says

All my tears are falling on the floor, she says

I've never felt it rain like this before, she says

I'll sing these black eyed blues into the storm instead

I'll be waiting for the new eyes to arrive

One breath at a time

Kings and queens and little dreams

Are stuck inside these nightmares sometimes, sometimes

And the fairy tales we play

Seem so far away from where she was tonight

Sometimes

I hear her talking to herself in bed

All my tears are falling on the floor, she says

I've never felt it rain like this before, she says

I'll sing these black eyed blues into the storm instead

I'll be waiting for the new eyes to arrive

One breath at a time

Oh, one breath at a time

Oh, one breath at a time

Oh, one breath at a time

Oh, and I'm holding on to you

And I won't let go

The world is torn in two

But I won't let go

You're the only thing that's true

In this whole world of black eyed blues

And disillusioned points of view

When the pain feels like a knife, she says

I'm not giving up tonight, she says

Oh, she says

Oh, she says

I'll be waiting for the new eyes to arrive, she says

She says

Oh, she says

Oh, she says

Oh, she says

I'll be waiting for the new eyes to arrive

Love this song.

The Unseen

In life, people may celebrate for the people who did something good.

The people who had been credited and given the name.

Sometimes, they may be hypocrites.

Sometimes, they do it to show people.

Sometimes, they do it for their own benefit, not others.

Sometimes, they put on their best dress and make up to show the world their beauty.

But..

What is true beauty?

Well in some cases, you'll have to look deeper in the heart.

Some of my thoughts were always these..

Those who did all the preperations behind the camera, behind the stage curtains.

Those who does not want any credit for their own benefit.

Those who do not dress up to fascinate people.

Those who keep their priorities, identities and origins.

Matthew 6:2-4 says..

So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

The truth..

Monday

A random camwhore picture of me. :B

School today. Exam next week. Only one week to study, didn't had he time before that because of the so many activities we had in school. Hope I manage to do better this term. :)

Enjoyed Connexion yesterday. I like it because I understand what they preach about the Bible, and I get to hear the views and opinions from people of other nation, race, background and experiences. The discussion was great.

I tod my friend who is a new believer about what they talked about last night. I explained and try to make her understand. She told me, if I didn't explain to her all these, she would have never understand or know more about Him. :) Although I'm no good in it, but thank God for speaking for me so that she could understand =)

Had a great time.

Passed up my poster art to teacher today, the competition for posters with the theme 'Reading is Fun' or something, don't know the exact translation to English. Something like, reading is a good habit. It's in conjunction with the library week or whatever they call it. Spent a lot of time on the poster.

Oh, can't wait for my order to arrive! Then I could create more things :B But exam is next week! Oh exam. Good thing is that it's just a small exam. Finals would be scary.

Oh please, give me the inspiration to study? Attending a seminar called 'Study Smart', but it's exactly the week after exam is over >< Nevermind, from there I hope I'll study smart for the rest of the times. Yes I don't like studying hard, just not my nature. :)

Life is short, the world is our temporary home. With the hope of Eternity, how would you change the way you live on earth? My motto says, live simply, give more, expect less! :)

Have faith!

Happy :D

Last few days, I was feeling lifeless and without mood. I don't know what to do or what to feel. Wasted many hours doing nothing.

Then on Sunday, Janning asked me to go to Connexion. Well maybe He's calling me. So I just went, although I felt quite lazy, lifeless and tired. But all the more I should go right?

So I went. I really had a great time there. Received the message told. Got back my inspiration to life. Felt like I have life again. Knowing that God has His master plan for us. And all we got to do is just trust Him. Trust & have faith in Him, and one day when hindsight is 20/20, we'll feel so great and know that His plan for us is just, so, amazing. :)

So today, Monday. School. Brought my little Bible along. Our class and a few other classes had to sit at the open hall for an hour or something because we did not lock our class on Friday I guess? Ah, that make my leg so pain, because we already sat for an hour listening to the morning talks.  -.-

Well, after recess, we had this seminar by Edmira School of Success. At the beginning of it, we each received 2 papers. We were asked to fill in the little form at the bottom of one of the paper for lucky draw. And with my happy and a little high mood, I entertained myself. Alright, write with neat handwritings because I'm going to be one of the lucky 5. And at the end of the seminar, true enough, I am! xD Hahaha. Same thing happened when I was at Daniel Yoong's album launch. I was with my cousin buying his album, and the person infront of us got this entry number 88 or something and immediately my mind was like, aww man if only we were one place infront from where we were because they're going to win the lucky draw. Cool enough, the very first lucky draw winner was them. Haha! Funny la. I remember when I was really small. My family and I went to Tadika Diyana's lantern day event or something. My mum told me to hold he lucky draw paper and if we win, I'm supposed to go and get the prize. So they announced many many other winners. And just out of randomness my mind read the number of the lucky draw I'm holding, number by number, as the speaker followed what I said. Then being small and blur, I just went to the speaker, gave the little paper I was holding, and I took the prize. Haha so funny la.

Yea so anyway, had fun today during the seminar. I think 80% of the time I was laughing. Eddie Lim was the speaker and he was just so funny xD

Stole this picture from their Facebook Page  :P From Edmira School of Success by the way. Eddie is a former national exponent and was a professional athlete as well. And he's going out there to reach out and motivate students :)

Oh, guess this is the first time I posted an image of myself in ICT uniform. x) Shh, I folded my sleeves! Okay it was really stuffy and hot there. Crazy stuffy. ._. Really.

Okay that's all for now. Ciao!

God Bless!

Sunset At Home

Couldn't capture much nice scenes since it was just infront of my home, but just love the sky color!

This was yesterday evening when the sun was setting.

Dark picture. Well, yesterday rained really heavily with really strong wind. Lightning was scary. Sounded like a storm. This was after the rain. That's a raindrop on a bamboo leaf. :)

Love sunsets.

Small Eyes See Big Things

Spent yesterday morning in the garden searching for little things to capture. You know, us humans are so used to viewing the world's dimensions with our own eyes. Now with digital SLRs, we capture what humans hardly notice :D

Getting closer to nature, creeping out like the little creatures do. I took the camera along and do what I do as myself. These pictures would be nice if I remembered to change the picture resolution to the highest. -.-

But oh well, it's just my first time taking bugs :) Had to crop, plus the image size that was set in the camera was 2352x1568, the smallest size. That's why this time around the picture quality is just bad, and so I'll just publish them in this size.

Housefly. Garden always has it. Even when I was little. I'll always remember going to the garden and getting tickled by houseflies on your legs.

This one has funky red and yellow colour.

It says: Pray that I won't stand on your food. Temptations, temptations.

Red eyes. Reminds me of Switchfoot's song.

Bee.

So hard to capture a bee, it just flies non-stop and stop like a second. -.- Picture would be nice if the background is the garden. See how the bee grabs hold on the petal.

These red insects, I have no idea what they are. Never knew they look like red ants. I only know when I was little, I saw these red mini bugs one day on the seeds and got a fear of touching the seeds. -.-

Had to tip toes while taking this shot. Other plants and potswere blocking my way. Couln't reach my left hand over to block the contrasted sunlight. Yeah, both pictures are rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

Look at the bokeh! But I don't really think this picture is good because the colours are very similar and blends in with the background.

Three beautiful flowers. Like the colour :D One petal of each flower has yellow and blue in it.

And that's for yesterday. Look forward to take more pictures :)

Images are endless.

Domo-Kun! :D

Yeah man, domo! Love it, so cute xD

Wanted to make one super long ago like a year ago, but didn't have the inspiration to do so. So finally, yesterday came when I suddenly felt like sewing again.

I always wait for my inspiration to come before I make something. If I don't have the inspiration, I won't have the heart and patience to put the effort in. So last night, with full of heart, patience and inpiration, I did my sewing without poking my finger for the first time. Yup, that patient! *But I poked my finger while cutting the felt with my craft knife instead -.- Heh, but it didn't cut me so no worries :P

If I were to have that mouth, I'd be in anime world. Then Domo will come kill me for stealing his mouth.

The end product - Awesome! :D Made with T.H.E. (Time, Heart, Effort.)

Proudly present it to my blogshop! :D

Wee, check it out here!

Thanks for the support! :)

The Gardens & Mid Valley

Dad finally brought me to The Gardens & Mid Valley! After so long of waiting. Since last year man. Was awesome, went from about 10am till 4pm! xD First time mum and dad so patient shopping so long. Haha!

(Picture - Inside The Gardens mall)

Bought some stuffs, stationaries and craft tools. Jusco department there is so huge they have so much variety! Bought a moleskin-like book at a much affordable price, a square grid jotter pad, and a 1/4mm hole punch :D

Later on, had to search directory, here and there, just to find Art Friend.

I tell you it's like wonderland, they sell most of the things I never knew Malaysia would sell, I spent so long looking around! Too many things man, awesome! Bought a lino cutter, sad they don't have Speedball brand. Saw my dream watercolor travel kit. ._. RM79.90. I'll need to prove myself I will make good use of it before I allow myself to buy one. I asked if they have the Aqua painter paint brush, or the Pentel one, whatever similar, but the guy at the cashier don't know anything, and just asked me to look around and see. I looked but I didn't find it, so oh well.

(Picture - The bridge connecting The Gardens and Mid Valley)

Had an amazing lunch at the same old food court at Mid Valley, near the exhibition halls. Crispy chicken chop at RM9.90, huge piece of chicken, really satisfying. Most people who bought western food bought that.

Overall, had a great time. Thanks daddy and mummy for finally bringing me there :D Loves!

For A Cousin

This post is dedicated to a cousin of mine who is going to study further on public health at Harvard. :)

Wei Aun!

Picture taken at Pantai Seafood Restaurant, during his farewell dinner on Sunday.

He's an awesome cousin, and in some ways a nice role model.

- Shot taken in Kuala Terengganu inside the car.

Thanks for the happy and sad times, the ears as well as thoughts and advices, the fun and laughter, the risk taking and adventurous times, the motivations, the teachings and guidance, and so much more. You're a great cousin, so many things I want to learn from.

Thanks also for taking me out for a one week trip to Kuala Terengganu together with our bigger family at Uncle Koshy's place. It was an awesome trip and I really enjoyed myself and appreciate that unforgettable holiday. It is also unexpected that many of my dream wishes were acomplished there. Amazing moments!

Nice shot. Laughing pictures look happy! :D Haha. Made you a little meaningful gift. :)

(Picture after dinner at Pantai Seafood)

Thanks for everything. Take good care of yourself, have fun wherever you may go, forget BMI's without bone weight calculation, stay strong always and may God Bless You all the time. Have a great study there! =)

(Picture of Wei Aun and Jeremiah during sunrise in Kuala Terengganu.)

Keep in touch!

Lil Handmades For Heart Eco

I love rainbows! :D Hand drawn on a mini paperbag book of 20 pages. Added a butterfly charm on the top right corner too! Know what I like about my paperbag books? You get to do anything you want in it and get creative! Doodle, scrapbook, notes, memories, etc! And best is, using black or white pens on it are awesome! As in, you can't see white ink on white paper right? Yeah. :P

'Teddy loves' bookmark card, I call it! Yup. Don't know if such bookmarks exist, but I somehow invented 'bookmark cards' because anyone may use a bookmark if they read a book, and would hardly slot a greeting card in a book to bookmark it right? So turning a card into a bookmark is kinda cool(to me at least) because the receiver would use it instead of keeping it somewhere untouched for a long time. So I guess it would be great to have a bookmark card, if you're not afraid you would lose it while carrying around xD

And guess what? I am actually giving them away! Yup, through Heart Eco! :D

 Checkout my giveaway post here or simply click the above banner! :) Spent one full day on the computer just to create the banner. Love it! :P Anyway, the giveaway is in conjuction with Heart Eco's very 1st Anniversary and our Facebook page launch! Good to know that it is open to Malaysian AND International bloggers. Awesome! Do check it out! Thanks! :)

Thanks for all the supports from everyone of you, really appreciate them! ♥

Garden Greens

Getting my first few tries of snapping pictures with the Canon EOS 500D.

Some settings aren't that good, but well, it's a good start! :)

6/29/2010 4:57:43 PM, Canon EOS 500D; 1/10s, f/5.6, ISO 400, at 55.0mm.

This was my first best picture taken with the camera. Love the dramatic focus of the object and the blur background effect! Wide aperture and small depth of field, that is. :)

 

6/28/2010 3:22:41 PM, Canon EOS 500D; 1/50s, f/4.5, ISO 640, at 33.0mm.

This is a Blood Lilly from the air well in my house. Or to understand, an indoor garden with no roof. Haha ._.

Yeah. I like this picture of it, the fact that it is taken halfway instead of the whole lilly like those on google images. :P

6/29/2010 4:53:10 PM, Canon EOS 500D; 1/10s, f/5.6, ISO 400, at 41.0mm.

A peek of the deck at the front of the house. :)

More pictures to come - stay tuned for upcoming posts!