Archive for July, 2008

Frustrated …..

{ July 28, 2008 @ 1:28 pm } · { Announcements }
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Hey Y’all ,

I wasn’t online yesterday and earlier today because …..Well before I go to that I need to thank God first !! Well I thank God remember the list of things I wanted that I posted, well thank God for his blessings as now I have a router and a notepad cooler…ok ok don’t get all excited or jealous…Hahaha….Well the best part is I didn’t have to pay a single cent. My mum got me the notepad cooler and my dad got the router!! Hahaha….Well the notepad cooler is a normal sized one, so it looks a bit funny but anyway I don’t mind how it looks just want to use the functions of it only. Then I don’t know what got into my dad that he was so willing to get a router so soon…Thank God for his blessings !!

However…..My bro and me has been trying out the router since yesterday and…… … continue reading this entry.

Able to access internet with my Eeepc !!

{ July 24, 2008 @ 2:41 pm } · { Announcements }
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Well Well after the super duper long wait of being able to use the internet on my Eeepc on my own account…hehe ( not curi-curi use ppl’s wireless ones’s ) haha I’m finally able to use the internet on my dear laptop…..Well don’t get too excited for me….its not that great coz its not wireless actually….not yet…. … continue reading this entry.

Just a thought

{ July 21, 2008 @ 1:15 pm } · { General }
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Today I was told by a schoolmate, that he got an offer to enter training as a pilot and would be leaving the “world of form 6 soon”. He took the test already and managed to get into the training. I didn’t write this post to talk about him, but I was just wondering to myself, how would things actually turn out if I were a pilot. I mean not literally a pilot, but ok…wait let me explain first.

To be a pilot, the expectations in training is high, and even more so, when one graduates from training and can finally fly a plane, there is a whole lot more responsibilities a pilot holds. Looking beyond the big  paycheck that a pilot receives monthly, a pilot actually holds a huge responsibility , the responsibility of mending the whole aircraft. Yes, other people such as the technical engineers, and other crew are also responsible for ensuring the safety of a plane, but the person who navigates it and brings it from point A to point B is the pilot. The whole plane and all crew and passengers on board depend on the pilot.

So when I was thinking about this, I was connecting it with how I should be in everyday life. I hold lots of responsibilites as well. Not only me but everyone of you too. Though we are not pilots, we still hold huge responsibilities in actions we take, decisions we make, even what we walk and talk about every single day. The world has become a place, if I may say, where almost everyone is selfish and self-seeking. There is no more close bonds, where we would go all out for friends or relatives, and what more for what we believe in. As I continue to observe around , I see that we are getting worst by the day, not thinking of responsibilities for our actions. We behave as if there are no pro’s and con’s to anyting that we do.

Therefore friends and dear readers, bear in mind that we do have to take serious responsibility on whatever we do, say or make decisions. It is never easy, but by taking a baby step in thinking before acting, and being careful and aware on how loud our actions can speak before just jumping into doing something, just because everyone else is doing it, think whether or not you can hold the responsibilities of yr actions.

Just as if a pilot fails to control the plane, the plane will crash. However if a pilot can control the plane well and come out of turbulence well, then the plane and passengers in it are safe. Its the same for us. If we cannot control ourselves, we may influence others to follow our silly ways, or even stumble others, but if we are strong and can stand up for what we believe in, eventhough we don’t have support, or have the worst troubles such as in a turbulence, we come out stronger , and we hopefully can touch a life or change a life for the better, even our own.

exams…and chamber choir ??

{ July 7, 2008 @ 1:32 pm } · { Sword Squad }
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I’ll be having exams next week. Its the first time having exams for me after so long, and bearing in my mind that its all new formats just freaks me out….but anyway I’ve to master the art of remaining calm. I don’t know why but when it comes to my exams tend to pressure myself too much and worry to much and in the end it actually affects the outcome of my results. I tend to panick too quickly. However, someone recently told me that i shouldn’t worry so much and not stress myself, coz the more I stress myself the worst it gets. So therefore, i won’t panick, and after I write this post, I’m going to study with a clear and calm mind.

Switching on to a nicer note :-) I would want to share my experience of listening to the chamber choir last Saturday. It was a combination of the Klang Chamber choir, and the JB ChamberChoir. It was definitely en event worth attending. Th choir performed so well. The blend of four parts was lovely, and some of them had really powerful voices and great control of volume. The presentation started off as a sweet serenade of oohh and ahhs and halleujah praises in such a sweet manner , tht it felt like I was sitting in a cathedral and their voices sounded so angelic. It was beautiful ( their classical pieces ) And I nearly cried at one song, but managed to kee myself composed. One of my favourites of the night was the song Amazing Grace, which they sang in a slightly jazzy manner. It sounded great.

I was really blessed to see howgood they were, and by seeing how good theywere, we would know that they hard hard gruelling practices, and I’m sure failures too, but they came out of it well. And now they’re praising God with their talents. All glory to God !!

Beautiful ? Handsome ?

{ July 2, 2008 @ 1:14 pm } · { 1 }
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As I flipped through the newspaper this morning, page after page I see advertisements after advertisements portraying beautiful woman, and occasionally, handsome men. Is this what we call beauty ? Woman with super-ultra thin bodies ? Flawless complexion’s ? lots of make-up ? Smooth skin and long shiny hair ? As for the men …..A six-pack body ? Muscular arms ?

Are these truly what being beautiful is all about ? I think the ” beauty ” in the eyes of many today have been strongly distorted by the media , and in time it is going to bring a heavy cost to society and everyone around us. Coming to think of it, I was and is still very disturbed by the fact that youngsters especially are being drawn into this ways of so called looking ” beautiful ” . It is happening everywhere. Right in schoolfor example, I see girls hardly eating during recess or during extra activities. All for the sake of being thin and ” beautiful ” . Some would do crazy things all for the sake of beauty !! I think the world has gone too far in promoting that women are only beautiful if we all look a certain way and weigh a certain weight.

I totally disagree with all these, as I find that even fat people or an average size person can look good too. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not justifying that its ok to be fat, or hitting out at skinny people ( who still eat but can’t get fat ) but I’m talking about people who are not comfortable with the way they look or how heavy they weigh. I believe weight is something of a choice. If you think yr fat and need to slim down or want to slim down, then there is always the means of exercise. I honestly have people I know around me that has put in great effort to exercise and are now looking all healthy and great. There is no need for plastic surgery or starving yrself to death to look beautiful. We don’t need tons of make-up norhave to have our hair and skin to feel or look like what we see in the newspapers and magazines. let me remind you that all ads are computer enhancedand therefore models look ten times better than a normal person.

In my opinion, we are made ” …in the likeness of  God’s image ….” and therefore we shoule appreciate ourself for who we are just as how God made us to be. SOmetimes i understand the struggle of not liking a certain part of our own bodies. Even I struggled with that too. But now as I continue to mature and grow-up, I see that these are all mere labels given by people and made up by u humans. In God’s eyes, we are all His beautiful creations. And if any of you are struggling with how you look and don’t appreciate, ” that big nose, small eyes, thick eyebrows, or you think yr fat ” and so on…..Stop trashing yourself already and tell yrself, I’m made by the most powerful Creator and He made me this way, and I should appreciateit.

If we all just would stop being influenced by how the world terms ” being beautiful and handsome ” today, the world would be a better place and we would start noticing truly how beautiful and special each and everyone of us are made, and we would start appreciating our natural beauty, that God has granted us.

I’m not saying that we have to walk around looking all sloppy and unkept, but I’m saying that we don’t need to overdo all this things. Skip the advertisements in the papers and magazines :-) it does make a difference, because unconsciously we are being absorbed into what the ads portray and we also tend to look at being beautiful or handsome in that way. Bein beautiful and handsome is something in my opinion, which is more than the surface. It comes from within. A person who is beautiful fromthe inside out is really what being beautiful /handsome is all about .

* This post I hope my dear readers would be an encouragement. BE it a guy or a girl, young or old, I know the challenges we face in the outside world of not fittingin the context of ” beautiful or handsome ” . But I hope after reading this post, you’;; all be encourage to step up and be confident for who you are. Stay healthy and strong, and walk closely with God. It makes all the difference :-)