Sunday, April 27, 2008

timbaland

zoo v says:
u heard that ayo technology song rite?
iSha says:
yup
zoo v says:
the music sounds like the sound that u hear when ur computer game jammed
iSha says:
HAHAHAHA really?
zoo v says:
u listen again on you tube
zoo v says:
haha
zoo v says:
i dunno la... last time my super mario game jammed it sounded like that
iSha says:
HAHAHAHA
zoo v says:
timbaland is so bloody creative... i wished i was as creative as him
zoo v says:
purposely jam the mario game, record the music, collaborate with 50 sen, and there u go, a hit song

(on The Way I Are)

zoo v says:
and then think of a song title which is grammatically wrong
zoo v says:
and Aih, i have to tell my students all the time... it's 'I am' , not 'I are'
zoo v says:
thanx to timbaland
Sha says:
HAHAHAHA tell them timbaland didnt have a masters in english
zoo v says:
HAHAHAHAHA

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Shine

I told you about the GHM camp right? Here are some pictures.

The way to the beach. I can just picture white satin, flowers, wooden chairs and...stuff lah!


Duck for cover when you see someone filling a balloon with water.


Water balloon fight. *tingles with excitement*


Photogenic Joyce
Joyce eating a Unidentified Floating Object. We suspect it's a rotten mangosteen.


She also kicked some waves...


...and requested for a silhouette picture.


Thinking of her next joke to crack.


Then we agreed that she should break a rule and I take a picture of her commiting the crime.



Stuff in the Sand





^This one was actually a full heart, then the wave came and took a half. "My heart lies in the depths of the sea,"

It was a great camp. I like the preaching a lot. Totally makes sense. Pastor Koon Hee said we should burn bridges.

Like, pour gasoline on the bridge, light a match, throw it in and watch it all burn.

How many of us actually have the courage and the wisdom to burn the things of our past which hinders us from the future that we can have?

Some of us would rather linger in the memories of our past because it's a whole lot better than our present and future. That's what we all do sometimes-and I especially enjoy looking back.

But Pastor said by looking at our past, we have our backs on our future. We will not be able to see nor anticipate what will come as we are so absorbed with our past.

That sucks doesn't it? Looking at the past and not wanting the better future, just because we thought we already have it all.

But there is more to come, so burn it!


Isaiah 43:18-19 sums up the whole camp:

"Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.

See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert
and streams in the wasteland."



PS: Out of courtesy, link me back if you use the pictures.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

"we are free we are drifted in the sea"

Mun Khea's blog (http://munkhea.blogspot.com) has this thingy which shows what level of education you need to read her blog. Hers says "College" so I decided to try out with my link:

blog readability test

Movie Reviews





This is how smart you need to be to read Kenny Sia:
blog readability test

TV Reviews


No need to be smart, easy to read. Okay, okay.


Now, check out how smart you need to be to read my sister's blog:
(http://the-road-is-now-a-sudden-sea.blogspot.com/)
blog readability test

TV Reviews



POST-GRAD?!

Monday, April 21, 2008

In conjunction with Earth Day 2008

TOP FIVE THINGS TO AVOID ON YOUR NEXT SHOPPING TRIP

1. Polyvinyl Plastic (PVC)
PVC is in everything you see-clothes, toys, iPods, shower curtains, the cute plastic bag you get from any shopping outlet.



As any human being with half a brain will tell you, PVC is hard to dispose of and totally toxic. So we have to cut down on our dependency on plastic bags and stuff.

Bring your own canvas tote to shop. Blook, Treats, Jusco and Converse give out their own canvas totes with purchase, and these bags are too cute to be left at home to rot, so put them to good use.

Next time you buy a pen or a candy bar, say no to the plastic bag and drop it with environmental conscious style-o into your tote.

2. Ancient Forest Pulp

What's ancient forest pulp? It's stuff that makes up some of your tissues, office papers and paper napkins made from 10,000 years old ecosystems like the Boreal Forest in Canada.



What can you do to avoid the lumbering of these historical trees?
Reduce, reuse and recycle. It doesn't get any more simple than that.



Use your school announcement papers to calculate maths problems. Print documents on both sides of a paper. Use both sides of toilet paper when you're in the toilet. lol.

3. Genetically Engineered Food

There have been no long-term tests done on the impacts of GE food on human health.



Some potential health risks associated with GE food include the development of antibiotic resistance, allergic reactions, nutritional changes and the creation of toxins.

Say no to food which genes have been manipulated by money-seeking companies!

4. Excess Packaging

I cringe when I see a perfume wrapped in plastic film, placed in a thick cardboard box with bubble wrap surrounding the bottle. I think, dang, don't these manufacturers have brains?

Think about it. All that plastic comes from petroleum, which is a very very rare resource these days.

And where do these packaging stuff go to after you sift through them? TO THE DUMP. Maybe even to the rivers, or the seas, where some poor otter or dolphin would choke on it to death.



That's why I shop at Body Shop-they don't have packagings for their products. WOOT go Body Shop!

(Also at Body Shop, they practice fair trade blah blah blah which supports poor communities. And that's a different matter.)



Besides that, Body Shop is also having this promo-reject a plastic/paper bag from them this month and they'll donate 50 cents to the Malaysian Nature Society.
(Return your empty Body Shop bottles to them and you'll get a 10% discount on the same item!)



You can also take your own coffee cups to your coffee shop to avoid packaging, BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag) and shop and take a spare food container the next time you want to take away some food.


5. Meat

Meat wastes other sources of food. The Worldwatch Institute estimates that the total amount of food and grain fed to livestock in the US each year could feed everyone on the planet five times over.

Animal production also wastes massive amounts of land, energy and water.

Did you know that by eating steak, you actually contribute to the emission of gasses much more than driving a car? It's true!



I thought it was bullcrap at first until I thought of the amount of methane a cow farts in its lifetime till it gets chopped, marinated, oiled and cooked. Bad cows.

Say no to steaks!

Go green at least once a week.
Try out vegetarian restaurants.
Eat a fruit salad with honey and yoghurt for a change.


Conclusion:

Take care of the Earth. Shoulder the responsibility and reduce your carbon emissions. Watch The Inconvinient Truth and get scared, because it's going to happen sooner or later.



All info edited and copied from:
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/take-action/greentips/what-to-avoid-when-shopping

Sunday, April 20, 2008

orang-orang seperti ini tidak boleh ditahan

http://weknowwearecute.undebug.org/2008/03/19/lala-mui/

Lalas: It's not about you acting cute, it's you acting immature and childish.

All I can say is, I'm glad I don't have any friends like them.

And if you're reading this ZW, I actually wiki-ed love. Bosan-lah! Love should be 1 Corinthians 13. On another note, if we do get stuck on an island, remember to grab your guitar or an ukulele. ;P

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Monday, April 14, 2008

swallow my pride and kick its hide

I miss being at school.

I miss...

...the teachers who don't come into class, leaving us to do whatever we please.

...the guys at the back who'd be talking about Liverpool and watching Heroes re-runs on the phone.

...the girls who'd be cracking their heads open with Add Maths tuition homeworks written neatly in Delta notebooks.

...Yin Xian running around from one engagement to another and juggling her responsibilities as the class monitor.

...illegal Christian Fellowship meetings on Fridays and the loud hoots we'd make.

...the famed couple of the class whispering into one another's ears.

...the obscurity of the political arena while we were at school.

...being sleepy in class.

...traipsing in rainwater, sh!t and waste water to reach the class.

...discussing *ahem* about the socialites at school.

...blogging about school? But that is absolutely MUNDANE.

...PEKA and Add Maths folios.

...Come to think of it, I don't. Okay, I miss the people. I don't miss the stress and the assignments. Here's to a great year for those who are still in school! You don't have to:-

*pay your bills

*miss your afternoon power naps

*worry about getting robbed with a walletful of cash (if you do I doubt it's your fault)

*rot at home with no jobs while waiting for your SPM results

being seventeen, you get the license to be mean

I'm working today up till Thursday, then God blessed me last week to have the weekend off. Wootness! This is what I'll be doing on the three days:


Grace Harmony Ministry camp at Port Dickson. Oh yeah, the BEACH! We're going to do some serious beach-ing (in a good way) and Taboo-ing. I can't wait.


(Cherating picture by Cherylyn)


Playing dress up.
My friends all want to look nineteen until they are twenty, then they dress twenty-one and stay that way till they hit forty.

At forty with three or five kids in tow they want to dress like nineteen. Hey man, it's your kids' turn to dress nineteen, let them play dress up for a while lah.

o maiden you art so fair; with braided golden pleated hair

Oh noz. Khadijah's flying off to Terengganu for five whole days. Leaving me alone in Klang with the Klang maniacs. Have fun you!

Klang people right-they are one of the most indescribeably inhumane species i've ever met in my whole life. Some are absolutely, you just cannot believe them because they are so nail bitingly annoying-and the other ones are the absolute angels you just want to be friends with. You don't know what I mean, and no thanks, I don't want you to know what I mean.

So. At cell the other night, we watched this documentary on lurve. Ever since this year started, the topic of love has been bombarding my life left, right and center.
Well.

Not really.

I mean, stuff have been hitting be left, right and center, but you don't need to know what.

It went:
The way we should enter a romance is by selfless love. Nowadays, you see people jumping into one relationship, getting bored and moving on.

Is that the way we should handle love? Is that the way we should be handling humans, as fragile (or as tough) as we think we are?

Selfless love is not selfish-it thinks for the other person in the relationship, it doesn't compromise for the good of the other half, and in everything, it puts the other one first.


~Love is patient, love is kind.

~It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

~It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

~Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

~It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.


That, my friends, is how we should treat each other.



Imagine what our immediate world would be like if we PUT THE OTHER ONE FIRST.

If we stop being Generation Me and start being Generation For-The-Good-Of-The-Other-Party.

(Party as in, it can be a boy or a girl or both, and definitely your family as well)

Do I sound old, cranky and fifty? Are you that thick so as to define everything by the standards you set?

~Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.


1 Corinthians 4:13-17
John 15:13


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Khadi : A Troubled Woman says:
i'll be the 30-dresses-girl-because-she-enjoys-becoming-a-bridemaid-girl-and-has-a-happy-and-healthy-life-girl.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

201st post

The God who gives rain in both spring and autumn
...maintains the rhythm of the seasons.
-Jeremiah 5:24 MSG

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

=) tagged me

Instructions : Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged



1. At what age do you wish to marry?
54



2. If you have the chance, what would you probably say to your beloved one?
Who's a beloved, someone departed or everyone I know?



3. What do you fear most in life?
My sister PMS-ing. Weh, no joke okay.



4. When you pangsai, which position you prefer? Sit or squad? And Why?
What kind of question is that. Sit lah.



5. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Santorini, the little island off Greece.



6. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
No more global warming.



7. Do you believe you can survive without money?
Doubt it, as much as I like to say "Anyone can survive without money,"



8. What are you afraid to lose the most?
My life.



9. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
Fund a global warming prevention programme.



10. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
With a sappy love song, red roses and a box of chocolate? That's HIS job, not mine.



11. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
pL: Smiley, laughable, cheerful.



12. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife"-sorry that camp song is stuck in my head.



13. Are you ready for marriage? Why not or why yes?
No. No one is. Marriage is like a truck coming in your lane when you're driving. No one is prepared for that.


14. What is the thing that will make you think he/she is bad?
Hmm...That he may not have a relationship with God. That, and the gang affiliation tattoo on his arm.



15. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
God's grace.



16. If you have a chance, which part of your character would you like to change?
The character which is negative.



17. Are you a shopaholic or not?
No.



18. 10 years down the road, who will you become?
Still a human, hopefully.



19. What is/are ur trademark(s)?
Don't have one.


20. What do you really want to do right now?
Eat Haagen Dazs at 1pm with them until 6. But it's 7.

I tag:
Khadi
Iona
Marcus
Joyce
Joe Jian
Six
Seven
Eight

dabomb

Last Saturday the phone rang. Miss Teh asked if I could kindly present my butt at a scholarship interview next Wednesday (WHAAAT my birthday lah you want to stress me). Of course I prayed for that day, what would something be without prayer?

I applied for this scholarship under The Star Education Fund. I still remember this guy, a business tai kor graduate from Michigan Uni telling me the standard for this scholarship is dam high, like sky-high, and one should only attempt to apply should one have numerous amounts of As in their SPM slip, like say, Su Ling (who eventually went on to get one at KDU).

So anyway I got interviewed by three people at HICT where I tried my best to gain my composure. The four walls were stiffening but the words made it seem not so. Three words: Articulation, composure and relativeness.

Did they offer the scholarship? Do you really want me to spoil the fun for you?

This is one of the best birthday presents from God, ever.
One of.

Next to salvation, and the easter party last year where they threw me into the pool despite my leg kicking and screaming, and all the other stuff, this is da bomb. I hope.



This is nice^


This is nicer, got lots of cream. Mmm....fattening cream. Me like.

pictures from sosweetpliz.blogspot.com

Monday, April 7, 2008

The pot calling the kettle black

So, after INTI where I bumped into Shannon (she looks so red, like an Alias commercial-in a good way) we took a detour to Sunway Pyramid's new wing. Oh it was so pretty and empty, kind of like Aeon shopping center.

Carl's Jr. or Subway's sandwiches for lunch.


Italian BMT in Hearty Italian bread.
I can munch on that piece of carb for the rest of my life, so tasty!

CARBS ROCK.


Mom had this, the Subway club.


What I like about Subway is the add-whatever-you-want concept: Add your own choice of toppings (mayo, thousand island, olive oil, etc), choose your own type of bread (they have at least five) and choose your own veggie-OLIVES!woot, onion, tomato, pickles, salad, etc.

Gosh it's delicious. The outlet is pretty cute, too.


Marakesh section, pretty cool-skies painted on the ceiling and ciri-ciri Andalusia in the place.


J.Co Donuts and Coffee . Also available at Pavilion. The layout, uniform and the frikin' donuts look similar to Big Apple Donuts and Coffee.

Another MPH is also at the new wing. Malaysians -a book with a girl on the cover-basically pictures, snapshots of Malaysians.

If you guys ever do chance upon it (RM 149.00) PLEASE turn to page 190. That's one real hot guy there. (I flipped through the book page by page to look for this-lame I know)


J.Co donuts SUCK! Okay, they don't, but they are so terribaly sweet and disgustingly sweet! So heavy too-plump and filling, so unlike Big Apple's light and savoury airy donuts, which I prefer more.

Here's a few pictures of the culprits which cause diabetes:

See the similarity?


We also had this chocomint like SERIOUSLY if that's not expensive ice-cream, Starbucks has to be.


*This post was edited. A LOT.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

the things you get in your mail






Oh Joyce you crack me up.

So I was strolling by my sister's blog the other day...

'cikgu ade tak orang sampai umur 30 belum datang haid lagi?'
teacher: *shakes head* tak mungkin begitu lama
serene: stupid that one is man lah



(enlarged image)

So. There I was, waiting for Desperate Housewives (scandal! scandal!) to come on, listening as this caller won The Kuda Air merchandise on the 8TV Quickie.

I had a feeling that the other CD there will have nothing to do with me, because I was soo tired and exhausted.

And then my sister asked me politely (read: shoved the phone into my face) to join the 8TV contest to win that Panic!, oops sorry Panic At The Disco (no more "!")CD, which I thought was rather amusing. We were once those creepy kids who had nothing better to do than to listen to the radio or watch the TV mindlessly day in, day out waiting for our favourite band to be mentioned.
Deny it all you want, that only strengthens my point.

DUDE! Do you know how frikin' hard it is to get through to 7729 6011? Like, really hard! I tried to call in for Nidji's new album but all I heard was *tooot tooot tooot* with three "o"s.

Anyway, to cut things short, she got what she wanted lah. And it was fun to talk to Phat Fabes and Nas, as crazy gila as they may sound.

Oh, and Grace Youth Church is starting tomorrow! (6th of April) It's going to be on every first and third Sunday of the month. Tomorrow's maiden service will see Pastor Henry speaking, with free lunch afterwards. Second hall, remember that, second hall, how hard can it be to remember second hall anyway? If you see my sister loitering in the main service PLEASE drag her upstairs. I grant you the permission to do so.

TTFN

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

YOU...are on my mind.

I am not a cynic. I believe in love but I don't believe it's necessary to find your spouse in your pre-teen age.


To be honest. Let's put it this way. For you kids right, if you have this boyfriend/girlfriend. I'm sure you'd spend hours on end, days and mintues, even seconds unseparated. You'd have each other on your minds, thinking thinking thinking about what the future holds (cheh so cliched), what you two could become.

Thinking about the promises both of you make to one another. Thinking and proclaiming your undying love and steadfast faithfulness towards each other (wah so poetic), close to worshipping one another by means of pictures, videos, scrapbooks and public displays of affection.

Now. Imagine this.

You guys fight.

A break up ensues.

You heart *cough* breaks.

You stumble into *cough* darkness.

Your blog posts are dotted with black backgrounds, songs about break up, images of broken hearts in various colors and photos of your sad face. And you do the most unimaginable thing: You delete your blog because it holds too much memories. (OK, so that's not drastic and it wouldn't change the rotation of the Earth one tiny bit, but it proves that you don't think deep)

How can you prevent this from happening, you ask?

Simple.

Don't get in too deep.
You won't know what you'd get yourself into, and you'd get yourself out of that stuff earlier.

Be smart.

YOU can make a difference.

I can say without a doubt I am not vulgar, and I don't use curse words for no reason. Can you?



Thank you again all who made it happen! God bless you all lah. Please remember the date is ninth, and not second.


As of today, I've seen 27 Dresses twice. Getting sick of it. We watched it at the couple's seat-which is no different than the normal ones, except you have to fork out an extra ringgit to use them. Quite comfy though-no dividers in between.
But if you and your partner get into a quarrel halfway through a movie, you can always pull down the arm rest.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

You are so shawt

I do not believe that a teenager can find true love in a life partner. It's just impossible, you can test it with economic recessions, children with ADHD, financial restraints and so on.

As such, I believe that it is only possible for grown adults who have matured considerably through such circumstances, and more, to find a life partner. Honestly, can you imagine that 13-year old boy and girl holding hands taking care of one another for the rest of their lives, if the girl is only holding hands with that boy to fill her time and "hole" in her heart, and the boy is holding hers to look cool?

To have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, kids, is to cut short the freedom you have. Like he says, "Why have ONE girlfriend when you can have GIRLFRIENDS?"Why tie yourself to only one when you can drool over others?
Okay, bad image, but you get my point.

Don't burden someone else with your troubles if you know that someone also has their own problems to deal with. You may be smart, but are you emotionally-equipped?

Question.

(ikh I sound old)

"Everyone knows you and no one...knows you better." We all think about that line so often, it's starting to feel like waiting for the paint to dry.

"Do NOT lose it, do you hear me? DO NOT!" the girl screamed into her phone. Everyone around her glanced at her nervously, checking the floors once in a while to see if she'd lost her marbles.
"Have you?"