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Zlwin and Pastor John at Summer Bash. So wrong in so many ways. Picture form Janielle.

I got tagged by Iona and am untagging myself. She's so shweet...

[Seven Things I'm Thinking About Now]
1. SPM
2. I am so not prepared for SPM.
3. The paper and plastic I have to get for art later.
4. The time left until the rally.
5. God
6. Piglet
7. I can't think of seven things at once, you know! Try that yourself!

[Seven Things I'm Worrying About]
1. Global warming.
2. Environmental issues-destruction of habitats, kepupusan flora dan fauna.
3. The rally. Matthew 6:25-27
4. The girls.
5. SPM. Especially Add Maths and Sejarah.
6. My parent's future.
7. My future.

[Seven Things I'm Happy About]
1. I know I'm loved.
2. My talents and abilities.
3. My friends! Every single one of the picit picits.
4. My family.
5. Iona is still Iona.
6. I live in Malaysia
7. I have a home.

[Seven People I Treasure]
1. (if you dare to, insert your name here)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

[Seven Things I Always Touch or Come In Contact With]
1. My self, duh
2. Justin Timberlake.
3. Things
4. Books
5. Junk. What you gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside that trunk?
6. Study table
7. Water

[Seven Things I Want to Improve]
1. Additional Mathematics
2. Time management.
3. Being an influential person. Admit it.
4. Less PMS outbreaks during school hours.
5. Communication with the people around me, social skills
6. Bible study
7. Being kind to others.

[Seven Things I'm Weak In]
1. Additional Mathematics.
2. Mathematics
3. Time management
4. Anger control
5. Choosing my future.
6. Making decisions.
7. Anything related to charitable works? Performing arts? Giving constructive critisims? Internet?

[Seven Things I Adore Eating]
1. Edible junk
2. Chocolate. CHOCOLATE. chocolate Chocolate
3. Fast food
4. NASI LEMAK!
5. Roti canai-any kind. Except Bom.
6. Good chicken rice
7. Free food.

[Seven Things I Adore Drinking]
1. Water
2. Justea
3. Milo ais
4. Liang teh peng
5. Ice lemon tea
6. Melted ice-cream
7. Free drinks.

[Seven Things I Detest]
1. The current environmental situation.
2. People who don't care about recycling/environment.
3. Additional Mathematics.
4. Closed-minded people.
5. Timid, shy introverts at a social events.
6. Bugs. But I like Grissom!
7. Hypocrites.

[Seven Things I Cannot Live Without]
1. (what do you think? Still want to put your name here?)
2. Food
3. Clothes
4. A home
5. Financial stability
6. CSI, CSI:Miami, CSI:NY and Heroes. Or education. It's a tie.
7. People

[Seven Things I Fear to Show]
1. My birthday suit. Like, DUH.
2. My love for Him.
3. My love for the people around me. Even teachers and pastors.
4. My anger towards them.
5. My opinions and thoughts towards them.
6. My ability in Add Maths.
7. What I REALLY do online. AHAHAHAHA.

[Seven Things I Want to Do]
1. Save the environment with Cherylyn.
2. Be a human/womans' rights activist in the far corners of the earth.
3. Go for Meta camp 2008!
4. Tell them
5. Shopping spree with my mother and my friends on separate events. AHAHAHA.
6. Scream at the rally.
7. Get married?

[Seven Things I Wonder About]
1. If what I sing in "Hapus Aku" will come true.
2. What happened?
3. Can she really change her mentality?
4. Nisha's story
5. Are Charlotte and Joshua related?
6. Do people read my blog?
7. Khadi and Iona's true opinions.

[Seven Questions I Hope My Friends Would Respond To]
1. What do you really think of me now that I'm a Christian?
2. Why don't you listen to what I have to say?
3. Can you tell the truth?
4. What are you afraid of?
5. Vanilla or chocolate ice-cream?
6. Is it ok if I tell the truth?
7. Am I a good friend to you? (like Iona's)

[Seven Things (or People) I Would Love to See]
1. Taj Mahal....in white color. Not yellow like how it is now.
2. Him
3. Masi Oka or Hiro Nakamura. Both oso cute-cute wan lah!
4. Whales.
5. My grandparents
6. A beautiful sunset/sunrise
7. Corals and fishes. At Pangkor pun bolehlah.

[Seven people I should tag]
1. Bawanie
2. Su Ling
3. Keik Wee
4. Ridzwan
5. Joyce
6. Kenny Sia
7. (insert your name here)


number 2

XOXO

MGS canteen day 2007

Before I continue, I just want to say that I am a hypocrite. We are all hypocrites one way or another, so what the heck!

MGS canteen day was...predictable. I for one am not a supporter of IU/Canteen Days so I'm rather pessimistic about the whole thing.
70% of the people who attended the canteen day where either showing off their boyfriend/girlfriend to the miniscule crowd, pleading for attention in lala garbs and blue hair color, camwhoring like mad and/or pretending to know everyone at the event.
Well, there was this one attraction I saw by my sister's class-it cost RM 4 to go into a dark room to be groped by girls. Admission is only open to girls, though. SUSPICIOUS...! They call it the Magic Maze or the Haunted House or whatever but I thought it was a cheap thrill for weak-hearted girls. Some even came out CRYING earlier in the morning. How scary can being groped by girls be?

The foodstalls were attractive but the service by some where horrible. I went to this stall selling fruits in chocolate sauce for RM 1. I was standing in front of FOUR promoters, ok. The coupon was in my hand. I waited for 30 seconds. They STILL weren't looking at me! Goodness, someone teach them about customer service, please! I even WAVED the ----ing coupon in front of the promoter and she was definately somewhere else because she didn't respond to that. GOODNESS!
Then there was this stall run by Form 1 girls. I tell you, they are like.... "...". These are just the opinion of one person, mind you. The service was slow. The girls were just interested in something else. The cup of RM 2 float was less than half filled! I can go on and on but I have something else to complain about. Complain is a very underrated word here, ok?
I'm not saying all the stalls were horrible. My cousin and a few of my friends were running some of the stalls.

The next thing I'm going to complain about is regarding the Public Announcement person or the whatever you call it person lah. Sorry to say, listening to her voice was like having nails and sandpaper on my skin. The English is less than standard and her punctuation in sentences are so wrong. And to think that MGS has a fantastic debate team. They should have been in charge of the PA. The dedications were 99% love and 1% corny. Or vice versa. Whateverlah! There was this dedication that goes like this:

"To all the Convent girls, from the La Salle boys, you chicks are hot! Muacks muacks! Tomorrow's Convent canteen day will be much better than todays'. See you there!"

I don't know who is the stupid one here. The "La Salle" boys giving free publicity to Convent in MGS (can you say catfight?) or the Public Announcement person for actually airing the message that one way or another degrades MGS.

There was also news about counterfeit coupons being used to buy stuff. Like, wow. Who on earth would be so desperate to actually print out fake coupons to use at a fund-raising canteen day? Talk about desperation! I smell sabotage here...

Anyway, those are just my ramblings on the canteen day. I'm unsatisfied and that's that. Goodnight!

XOXO

What if...

(picture from xkcd.com)

What if there was no light
Nothing wrong, nothing right
What if there was no time
And no reason or rhyme
What if you should decide

When every step that you take
Can be your biggest mistake
And it could bend, or it could break
Well that's just the risk that you take
What if you should decide

(Coldplay's What If)

http://interschoolrally.blogspot.com

Choir pictures

Jalan Kebun ^

MGS^

Convent^

If you want to take the pictures and repost it, CREDIT qwertilicious or I'll skin you alive.
Enjoy!
XOXO

Maroon 5 review

It Won't Be Soon Before Long is Maroon 5's latest album. The Malaysian edition contains a 13th bonus song.
To make this review simple, this album is hot and shiny. Have you seen the MV for Makes Me Wonder? It had red, blue and purple neon lights and was funky, wasn't it? Though it had little musical interpretation, it was an entertaining MV nonetheless. I still wonder though: some reviewers said that Makes Me Wonder has political references in it. I've gone over the lyrics but still can't find it.

Among the songs in this album is A Little of Your Time, one of my favourite songs. Catchy, loud and fun, it leaves an imprint in the musical part of your brain. If you listen closely to the lyrics, it mirrors a stalker after his prey. Ohohoho.

Other songs in the catchy range include Can't Stop and Kiwi. Both equally appealing but very single-themed. Ahem.
Anyway, this album isn't just all about fast tempo songs and attractive beats. There are also a few thought-provoking (depends on your level of understanding-lah), soulful songs like Back at Your Door and Better That We Break. The one song that got my attention is Goodnight, Goodnight: emo without sounding whiny, it won't leave girls with running mascara lines.

A nice surprise from this album is Nothing Lasts Forever. It has the melody from the 2004 Kanye West/Adam Levine hit, Heard 'Em Say. IWBSBL has lots of 80s influence-just read the tags at Amazon.com for the album.

Overall, IWBSBL may not bring up world issues or thoughtful thoughts but it's aenjoyable to listen to nevertheless. 8.5/10

I got my copy from a contest, so I've got nothing to complain about. XD

"...forfeit the grace that could be theirs..."

They will stop laughing
When the first drop from the heavens
Fall from the endless skies above

They will stop laughing
When they hear the pitter patter of the rain
Bringing the days of the floods along

They will stop laughing
When they tread in waters and mud
When water rushes down the slopes

They will stop laughing
When the water exceeds the rooftops

They will stop laughing
They will stop being merry






A/N:The picture is from chatallot (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chatallot/). The poem was inspired by a few lines I heard.

people reject what they should have

The best pictures of people are taken when they don't notice they're being shot. Au natural, some may say. Unfortunately, due to certain photography ethics by a certain someone, I'm prohibited from publishing that shot. However here are a few with *ahem* ethics.






The Dato Hamzah group. No offense, but if Pn. Maizon were in charge, she'd be hentaming them: "Apasal kamu tak boleh goyang dengan seimbang?!"


DH pancaragam. We agreed that the conductor had a sexy back. AHAHAHAHA.


I like this picture. Everyone's so humbly happy here.

XOXO
PS: If you want to take the pictures and publish them somewhere else, credit me, ok? EG, credits to qwertilicious.blogspot.com. Thank you.

"Shine your light in me"

Emily was right, Lift Your Name Up by PlanetShakers is very danceable. ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm
If you get any e-mail stating that you have to send an e-mail to a number of people, don't waste your life. The article above says "MSN 'to charge user fees'"

Come on people. the " ' ' " signs obviously means that it's not implemented yet and most likely will not. It's like a sarcastic statement by Microsoft. Call me dumb, but I didn't know Microsoft owned MSN.

On another note, summer bash was very succesful. I had lots of fun and so did everyone. We finished painting the backdrop in like, what, an hour? The backdrop ate 8 pieces of mahjong paper by the way, so you can imagine how big it was. It's very cute. What's cuter was the fake palm trees by Jason. I'll post pictures if I can find them. Goodness, they even bought in real coconut leaves to hang on the tree!

Motherhood must be very stressful.


XOXO

Summer Bash

Event: Summber Bash! (Birthday Celebration)
Venue: Second Hall, Grace Klang
Time: 1.45 pm to 4.30 pm
Date: 23rd June 2007
Day: Saturday
Dress code: Colorful Hawaiian Style clothes-surf pants, sarong, etc
Entrance fee: Free! Just bring yourselves and an empty stomach.

There will be unplugged guitar performances, fun games and tasty food! So come one come all.


This is an event brought to you by Youth Energy. All those born anywhere between the month of January to December are most welcomed to join us. See ya!







XOXO

That's the song I hear

Okay. I have lots of things to do but am postponing them. Here are two things I'm blogging about today:
The Golden Days
I know Golden citizens are senior citizens, but as Shannon puts it, our childhood should have been our Golden years. U-Mae's post on 20th June was seriously seriously a wake-up call. Well, it was more of a back to the future kind of call.

Childhood is but a sweet memory as we are pushed into a world of different perspectives. Corruption, scholarship, jobs, marriage-will we ever find a time to rekindle old memories and make new ones? I guess we shouldn't be looking backward but looking forward-imagine, in another year, Iona will be allowed to get married and have kids! Legally! And thus a new story begins....*gosh that sounds emo/poetic*

LOVE, LOVE ME-Mika
This was the day all of us at the choir have been waiting for. It was an okay daylah. The contestants included Jalan Kebun, MGS, Convent, Bukit Kemuning and Dato Hamzah. Tahun lepas macam ada lapan ke sembilan sekolah yang take part. Tahun ni semua orang takut kat Convent dan MGS. LOL

The MGS team. I think they recycle their costumes. Ione wore the same one when SHE was in the choir. They sang a Whitney Houston song. It was great when they harmonized. They got second place. The conductor was none other than U-Mae. I remember her saying she screwed up when she auditioned for the conductor...


Convent sang You Raise Me Up and Gemilang. Eventhough they were short on tenors and basses, they brought it out man. I tell you, the singers were passionate and sang softly when they had to. As for the conductor (Jian Quin) she was telling a story to the singers with her hands-the epitome of a conductor. She won best conductor also. I do notice a similarity between the Convent school choir and the African Children's Choir. If you know it, don't say it.
My dad says they won because of their song choice. It is partly correct as Malaysia is a country that theoratically should raise up its citizens. LOL


We sang I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing and Tanah Pusaka. I think we did fantastic. Our choir team had NO professionals to train us 24/7 and the piano pieces were all composed by Cherylyn (http://cherylynthejazzgurl.blogspot.com). Cherylyn is the head of the choir. It is not surprising that she was the one who did all of the arrangements and harmonizing of the english and bahasa songs as she loves music. You should see her music book collection! Anyways, Cherylyn, you did a great job. And I say you HAVE to come back for Form Six next year. HAHAHAHA JK.

pink=YX yellow=Cher
Yin Xian was the conductor. She really made eye-contact with the singers as I suggested her to. Good job!
The only professionals we had were Kak Deli (one of Malaysia's national choir member) and Kak Rai (last year's conductor). Both only came in four times in six months to help us out. Even Afiq wasn't present all the time!
And to all of the choir members who might or might never be reading this, you guys rock. And remember, "Everybody's got to love today, love today, LOVE TODAY!"


We may have gotten third place, but we are the champions~Quote unquote from a fighter

XOXO

this house

These are a few pictures from a house in BJ.







This is where our ex-PM stays:


And this is Linkin Park:




XOXO

this saturday

There will be a big big big birthday bash this Saturday at Youth Energy. Be there and be square, because there will be sand, palm trees and fun under the sun!

XOXO