Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Life Purpose


This is your life, are you who you want to be?
What we do, counts. Your one single life matters, whether or not you realize it.
Our creation is not an accident; And it is only through our Creator that we can find our purpose of life. :)

I'm slowly starting to see my purpose in this life God has given me.
It is really amazing to see how the little imperfect puzzle pieces go into place as we grow.
It takes time to see these revelations. I am amazed and delighted. ♥

You know, life can be really hard.
It's not easy, it can be a struggle at times.
But, it is only during the darkest times when we could see how bright the stars are. :)
For if we didn't fall, how could we get up?
If we never failed, how would we learn?
If we never felt pain, will we appreciate love?
You may have heard, 'we never know what we've got till we've lost them'.
It is true, because it is our nature that we take things for granted.
But no, that's not how we should be!
I am writing this to you who are reading it and also to myself. I am honored that you're reading this, and I believe it's no accident that you're reading this post now. :)

Talents. We are all given this gift. It's a matter of when do we open it, and how do we choose to use it.
I'd like to use it for the good and right purposes, and share it. So that...
" When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything You gave me." ~Erma Bombeck "

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose. :)

Thanks for reading! ♥

God Bless You.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

That's a teardrop I painted, and the words written around it is the title of this blog post.

I like the music of Coldplay's current latest song - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall.
Plus the lyrics of the first two sentence and the wonderful Koss earphones, I just have to shut my eyes and it feels like I'm in some music world.
"I turn the music up and shut the world outside."
It brings me to Lalaland.
Yup.
That's the title of my iPod playlist - Lalaland. :)

Here's the lyrics:

Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
I turn the music up, I got my records on
I shut the world outside until the lights come on 
Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone
I feel my heart start beating to my favorite song

And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night
Until Monday morning feels another life
I turn the music up
I'm on a roll this time
And heaven is in sight

I turn the music up, I got my records on
From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
Don't want to see another generation drop
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop

Maybe I'm in the black, Maybe I'm on my knees
Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes
But my heart is beating and my pulses start cathedrals in my heart

And we saw oh this light
I swear you, emerge blinking into to tell me it's alright
As we soar walls, every siren is a sympohny
And every tear's a waterfall
Is a waterfall
Oh
Is waterfall
Oh oh oh
Is a, is a waterfall
Every tear is a waterfall 
Oh oh oh

So you can hurt, hurt me bad
But still I raise the flag

Oh
It was a wa wa wa wa wa-terfall
A wa wa wa wa wa-terfall

Every tear
Every tear
Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall

Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Oh, Sister

I grow up, listening to a lot of commotions; Right here in my very own room, yet not made by me; But another member in my family, my second sister.
All these years, I never understood why, why would she treat me this way. What have I done wrong? Is my presence bothering her so much, she just couldn't leave me with my own peace of mind for once? It is not like I would touch or take her stuff like how she still tend to do it to me, which she warned me not to back when we were still young and she still talked to me.
Hey, sister. It is not like I done anything wrong to you or looked at you which you would puke seeing me, as you told your friend to tell me that, a year and a half ago. It is not like I still buy things for you and try to give it to you which you would totally ignore me and not take my gift for you, as if I were a ghost. I learnt my lessons not to act as if I'm older than you and buy treats like how a proper sister would do to her younger siblings, since it brought fear to me by your response. I still struggle trying to live this life, and not hate you but love you inside and pray to God for a miracle one fine day, though after exactly 10 years God still says wait.
Do you know, you play such a big role in this life of mine, I am not proud of my childhood. But yet I couldn't erase it, but to accept this challenge God threw me. I almost gave up life because of you, ever since I was nine years old. No one knew, just myself and God. And the very moment I attempted myself with a knife in the kitchen, God's grace fell upon me, I saw many scenes flashing back at me, with a message telling me straight into my eyes, saying that there is more to life than this! All of a sudden I felt guilty, a feeling of mixed emotions, and as though I became much mature, I had a sudden rush of understanding, and I felt that I gone too far wrong to do such silly things to myself. Washing the blood from the minor cut on my index finger, I apologized to God. I thanked Him for saving me, and it felt that I lived again, like a second chance.
Though after that I still do silly things to my physical self, the pain I feel still can't beat the pain I feel inside. Till one day, a friend of mine told me that I would go to hell if I were to kill myself. I was told that we are God's special creation, and suiciding is totally offensive, like destroying His wonderful creation.
Again, I felt guilty and sorry to God. But yet He still forgave me despite of what I've done in the past to myself, His beautiful and detailed creation. This was a year plus ago, and ever since then I never hurt myself again.
I am now seventeen years and two months old. My life this year had changed a lot, my walk with God was greater than ever before, and life began to be so colorful, as if I was colorblind before. Sometimes I would feel like crying because I'm being so blessed, so so blessed by God... His love never stops overflowing, and I am nothing compared to Him, but yet He still loves me.
I am stunned, He is more amazing than words could describe. Now I start to see what life is and slowly recognize my purpose here on earth. I am much stronger, because He is my foundation.

I don't know how to say this, but...
Dear sister, I hope you forgive me if I have done anything wrong, or whether it is just my face problem to you. No matter what happens, our blood has connections, and nothing can separate our relationship. I hope and pray for better days, and that you too stay strong in life and look at this world with a different view, and be positive. We got to count our blessings, or we'll never know how blessed we are.
I know you'll never read my blog, but I still want to try my chances.
I, love, you.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Stationary Shopping




I didn't go to school today. Partially because my eye hurts and I do not know why. It has been 3 days from now.
But anyway, I went to One Utama with my parents. Last minute. :)
I looked through the vouchers I had.(I never usually do this because I don't have any :B)
I had to use my MPH voucher before it expires so... There was where I went! :)
I bought my favorite Pilot black ink refills and some other random stuffs. All together, they cost me RM20.30. But I only paid RM1.30. :D Yup, I had an RM19 voucher! How cool is that.
I know this post is really random, but that's not all.
I also had an RM5 Mc Donalds voucher, so I bought an apple pie and a beef burger, and only paid the tax, RM0.30. Yeah man.

Okay thank you. :D

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Sushi :D




Oh yummy goodness :D' *Drools!



Just ate at Sushi Q at One U. Good stuff man :) Paid half price because we bought the voucher from Groupon :D



I enjoyed every bite of them, been a while since I ate these stuff! Especially the salmon! <3



So cute :D Their Eco chopsticks.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

ATCEN Young Entrepreneur Workshop

I think the last time I blogged was like when there was a blue moon. Exam was three weeks. And now I'm in my second week of my holidays! :)



I was supposed to go for this entrepreneur workshop, so I agreed to go in the end. It was on Monday and Tuesday. I'm glad I went for it, was fun! :) I have to thank my tuition teacher, Ms Ang. :)



I dragged Fariha along. Haha x)




This is Marilyn, I met her there. She's nice to meet, spent quite a lot of time with her. :)




And Jia Sheng, 2 years younger than me. :)

Along with the others which I didn't manage to get a picture with, Sherilyn, Ivan, Ian, Lam, Kar Mun, Melessa and more. Really nice to meet them but sad is, it's only for two days. And then we'll be going back our own ways. :( But oh well, God gives and takes away. :')

And that's for now. I'll try to get the official
pictures from teacher. :D



Friday, April 8, 2011

You :)

At first, all the "you's" were in the bubble, and "me" outside the bubble. But then I thought, hey maybe I should switch all the "you's" to "me" instead. :P
Hahaha. This is called, perasan. ;D

Inspiration. :)

Sunday, April 3, 2011

My Ukulele! :)

Aloha! :D
Based on my previous posts on the intro of a Ukulele and the reasons why I want a Ukulele, you may already know I'd get one pretty soon.
And here you go, I got mine yesterday!

It is a Mahalo U30G - brown. Yup, came with a black gig bag! :)

Did you notice the dolphin tuner heads? Cute right! :)

Everything about it is cool. I just love it. ;)
And there goes this Mahalo Ukulele in my instrument family!


♥ Xoxo!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

UP CLOSE WITH SWITCHFOOT 2011

Whaddup people!
SWITCHFOOT is coming to MALAYSIA, again! :'D
Grab your opportunities, don't miss this second chance!
They're SW♥TCHF♥♥T!!!
1st May 2011, 3 days before my birthday! They'd be my birthday present this year! Haha! ♥
Check out some of their awesome lyrics HERE!
Best song of all time for me would be Dare You To Move, Stars, and many more!
They're like the best band I've ever knew! ♥


UP CLOSE WITH SWITCHFOOT 2011
You just gotta make time for this, guys!
1st May 2011, Sunday at 8pm-11pm!
And you just gotta get there somehow at Dewan Mutiara (4th floor Kompleks Mutiara), Jalan Ipoh!
Don't know where? They've made a MAP for you! :)
Get your tickets HERE or at Rock Corner & Victoria Music outlets from 1st April onwards!
And guess what, early birds get 10% off on ALL TICKETS from 1st - 5th April 2011!
LIMITED TICKETS ONLY so what are you waiting for? :D

Thank you so much, Jupiter Projects! :D

Monday, March 28, 2011

Best Week Ever!

Alright. In this post, there will be a lot of links. Feel free to click 'em to find out more! :) Alright!
Here's a summary of the week that just passed. :)

Youth World announced the results for the competition...
In case you don't know about it, check out the post here! :)

Here's the results:

I got FIRST PLACE! And I won an iPad! ♥
Oh the joy! :'D
So glad that my efforts did pay off!
Appreciate all my friends and family who supported me all the way!
♥ xoxo! :'D


Mosaic is like the best place man. ♥
Anyway, me and my band of silhouettez (The Silhouettez), performed a Bruno Mars - Count On Me / Jason Mraz - I'm Yours Mashup that I made.
The people of the silhouettes this time around are myself, Janning (bass), Benroy (drums) and Joe Ong (guitar).
So we had our first practice the day before the event.
Cool part is, Jann doesn't play the bass, neither do I. Benson was supposed to be the bassist but he's having test and won't be around.
So I had to listen to the song and figure out the chords. Not even the chords actually, but where to press and strum. Haha! It's totally played by ear. Then Jann took down which string and what fret to press, and then we started practicing. Had fun jamming around and performing! :)
Really nice to be at Open Mic, a supportive crowd of lovable people! ♥ Haha :P
The performers were great, really enjoyed the other performances as well!
Actually recorded the video of our performance and have the soft copy of the recorded audio but I don't think I'll be posting them up because there were some technical problems especially the electric guitar, maybe the connection was loose so some parts were like cut off. But it's okay, what's important is we had fun and a good experience! :D


Power Chef competition @ KDU!
Yeah this one, you gotta read the blog post!
But in the end, my team managed to get through the next round! ♥
:')


That's not it, there were more! But I'll just blog about these :)
I think this is the best week ever man!
And I can't wait to collect my iPad!
I would finally have a dictionary or helping tool while doing homeworks! Oh gosh. I can't do homework in front of the computer, because it wastes electricity. Scared of getting scoldings. :l
Can't wait! iPad! :D
And pray for the best for the next round of cooking competition!
And pray hard for good heath and blessings!
And pray hard for time management and studies!
And praise God for all that He's done, whether or not we realize them!
:) ♥

Loves!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Power Chef KDU - Competition!

Had chef competition yesterday morning at KDU!
There were 63 teams, 2 person per team.
My team is called Chefstruck, and my team mate is Hanna.
So... Firstly, they showed us a quick demo on how to make mayonnaise. There were too many people crowding around that small table, so Hanna and I missed out the first few steps. :(
Then right after the demo, we had to do it ourselves.
It was something like this (if only we watched this before we did it hands on -_-):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-_Oi8p3Mb0
Well, I guess we did some steps wrongly because after whipping and whipping and whipping till times up, THE TEXTURE WAS STILL WATERY. Pretty disappointed about it, but glad to say our presentation and decorations were awesome! :D
The next round, we had to make California Rolls, up to our creativity.
This time around it was much better! But time was too short for it to be better.
But it was great, really! :) We decorated the previous 'mayo' on the plate artistically instead of spreading it in the roll though.
That dish must have boosted our marks a lot :)
Well, after about half an hour of introducing KDU to us, we were called back into the auditorium, to our respective tables.
That was when they announced the teams that made it to the next round.
Apparently, 50/63 teams made it through, so I still had my hopes there. :)
As they announced the many many teams, I was getting a lil more hopeless... I held my hands tighter and tighter and kept praying...
But thank God, we were the last group they announced! They sure did make us worry so much! :')
I was just so happy, after such a stress in the morning! A lot more happened actually, but they all ended well afterall! :D
After the results were announced, we were forced to eat up our own California rolls. WHY?
Because many people spam wasabi in it and killed the judges! Hahaha! Well, Hanna and I sure did enjoy them! Ours were good... ;D
While eating, (a lecturer?) someone wearing KDU shirt came to take picture of our team, us posing with our thumbs up eating our delicious California Rolls. Then she 'interviewed' me and threw some questions like how was the competition, what have I learnt, etc etc. ^^
So, next week would be the next round. :)
Would be more competitive. Pray hard, do our best, and hope for the best! ♥

Thank you!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Reasons Why I Want A Ukulele! ♥

I've promised a post on why I want a Ukulele, so here it is!
If you didn't read my previous post about a Ukulele, you can read it HERE.
:)

So, here's 8 reasons why I want a Ukulele:
♥ It's cute!
♥ It's small and convenient! (I like 'mini' things ☺)
♥ It makes you happy!
♥ It's price is really affordable!
♥ It sounds great!
♥ It's cool!
♥ It's really easy to play!
♥ It's FUN!



It's true! ;)



Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Ukulele!

Today, I'd like to share this lil' amazing instrument.
You may already know, it's a Ukulele! :D
For a wiki answer on what it is, click HERE. ☺
I would say the best way to describe is that it is something like a smaller version of a guitar, with only 4 strings. The one I'm looking at is the standard(soprano) ones, which are higher in pitch from that of the guitar.
And to have an idea of how it sounds like, think of songs like Jason Mraz's - I'm Yours and listen to the instrument played!

The look of a white Mahalo Ukulele and the gig bag.

Some of the amazingly sweet colors they have!


The tunings for the strings are G' C' E' A'.
It is said that it will go out of tune once in a while, but like a guitar, you'll get used to retuning it time to time. ☺
Below is a picture of some chords for the Uke(the abbreviation of Ukulele):


I like this instrument so much, I'd like to get one of these!
Do stay tuned for my Reasons Why I Want A Ukulele! ♥

*Strums~

Sunday, March 20, 2011

iPad Winner! ♥ :')

I was doing my homework this afternoon when I got a text message from my dear friend, Marissa.

I read it, and my heart pumped real fast as I ran into the hall to tell my parents!
Mum, Dad, Jann & Benson was there at the scene, and we were all surprised and excited over it!
They told me to go online and check it out, so I immediately went on the computer.
And then all of us crowded around the screen and saw that I won the iPad, we all had another round of excitement! We were really happy! After 3 months... My efforts finally did pay off! :') ♥
Here's the screen shot of the result on Facebook:


I'm really happy and thankful for it! Thanks Youth World once again, my dear God, my lovely family, and my most amazing friends! Thanks also for all the wishes sent to me! I appreciate everything, from being here for me to supporting me, I wouldn't be where I am today if not of all of you! :D

In case you didn't see the blog post about the event which I submitted for this competition, here it is!

Here's my thank you speech;
"I dreamt of this little gadget in my bag. Small in size and very compact. Simple in design - with functions so hi-tech. It's none other than this thing called 'iPad'. Today, my dream came true! ♥ x')

Thank you Youth World and everyone who supported me and my blog! I really appreciate it! ♥"


I can't wait to get hands on the iPad; I literally dreamt some time ago that I had an iPad, and my dream came true once again!
It really relates to what I've learnt in the Future of Success seminar:
♥ Sometimes, it's okay to be crazy. Dream BIG- Prof Dr Dato' Chin See Keat
♥ Believe and work towards your dream, then you will succeed- Mr. Saiful Nang
I would always remember this event! :D


LOVES! ♥


XOXO

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Bruno Mars - Count On Me / Jason Mraz - I'm Yours MASHUP! :)




Finally uploaded the mashup!
Took me like one day for recording, 2 days for the photoshop generated graphics, and another hour for creating the video.
This mashup was originally created to sing with my dear friend Marissa. :) ♥ She's also the one who introduced me Bruno Mars - Count On Me! :D
Enjoy the video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCfzOozZBME 


♥ xoxo