Christmas!

Its finally Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone!

Funny to say that this year's Christmas is different! Back in KL, Christmas decorations are off the roof! And Christmas songs play and play and play all day long.. But now, coming to Laos, it surprised me that decorations are very few, there were no Christmas trees except for at my friend's place, and there were no songs playing!

No matter, I have a destiny I shall fulfill! =P haha! And I shall! This is the update for today... XP God bless you all! Have a great year up ahead! =D

Simplicity at its best!

I miss Malaysia.. T-T"..


But yet, I don't want to go back there and have to retake form 4 again.. XP


The advantages of living in a city like KL is that, there are tons of things you could blog about(like how Jo blogged about his life with his best friend, Mid Valley Megamall.. XP)..
Here on the other hand.. There is NO Mid Valley! =.="... While Malaysians have football clubs and officially trained football players to represent their country, Laos has Tuk Tuk drivers to play for their national team(As I've heard from an unreliable resource..XP)!




Halloween party in my school was held on friday.. Just a few days back.. I, wanting to join in, dressed myself up as a mummy.. Actually I wouldn't say dress myself up.. Its more like I was just thinking of rolling myself up in toilet paper.. XP
But my mum bought some bandages that I could use, so my cousin started rolling them over my hand, and then my face.. But the prob is, instead of looking like a mummy, I look like someone who just came out of the hospital.. =.=".. But I was in need of something to dress up as so yea, hospital ghost or mummy, I'll take it anyway.. And yes, I was confronted with questions like "What are you?" =.=".. Strange enough, some kid really thought I was injured and kept pressing my hand, trying to hurt me.. XP

Update~!

Home alone...

My parents recently left for KL last sunday, leaving me and my siblings at home with my uncle and aunt... It was a pretty different experience.. It seems like suddenly I'm in a completely different family environment.. But its a good thing I get to contact my dad via his Lao mobile nowadays.. and they'll be back tmr! Its kinda uncomfortable tho, cuz the time they left, I suffered the rash!(which turned out to be flea bites.. =.="... So painful at times) But it gives me the feeling they trust me enough that I could take care of my siblings.. Wahaha..

Thats enuf for now I guess, I can't think much cuz I'm blogging amidst my classmates in ICT period.. XP

Till then!

Two things that bothers me much..

Ahh, its good to be able to blog again(about something that is.. haha)

Just yesterday, I was awaken by a terrible pain of rashes 4a.m in the morning! No idea why suddenly rashes started to appear all over my body.. And it irritates me like mad cuz it made me stay up till 6am! Which was when I just couldn't take it anymore and went straight to the showers and prepare for school.. And it still hurts even until now.. Argghhhh!

However, another thing which I confronted this past week was something my friend posted up in her blog, something about false prophets.. To be honest, I've never confronted someone who actually "claimed" to be the "Messiah".. So it was kind of a surprise when I read her entry regarding that.. Then she came up with a kind of complex question, which was, why ppl choose to follow those false prophets anyway when all the time they've been reading The Bible, it says "beware of false prophets", why is it that they want to take the chance of taking the one-way ticket to hell. What's more interesting was that, not only do ppl follow, the attendance of that Church increases each day!

Which was what led me to the parable about the seeds... Not because they were planted there, its because they chose to be planted there.. And also, I recalled what Jesus' said "unless you know what I'm made of, You'll never see the kingdom of Heaven". Simple enough, that was all that was needed to do, know who Jesus really is!

{Still no internet connection! XD}

After a long while..

Pondering Stream: Malaysia finally enters the space arena.. I wonder how long we'll last.. XP

School's been pretty tough in terms of language so far, first time ever I've been given an assignment to write a 500 words long essay(Not that I can't do it, just that no one ever told me to do it.. haha!) on the future, but in a team, so yesterday I went to my friend's house to do our assignment along with three other classmates and we all planned on what to do and started oin our work, but before that, we had a race to see who can type the fastest and the fastest would have to type the essay... Pretty easy job, I thought to myself, but after carefully planning on what to write, my enthusiasm turned to what I call boredom-ism.. While the rest sang karaoke after they've down writing down and giving me the papers of their essay for me to write, I was busy typing and carefully making sure the essay was super.. Haha... Man, I shouldn't have typed so fast in the race in the first place! XP

Other than that, school is really fun and interesting, got to really improve my english alot, now I notice that I seldom use "lah" and "aiyo" XP I wonder how different it'll be when I speak to my friends in Malaysia if this continues... Haha..

What I learnt in youth that day really somehow revived my conscious.. I just found out that I somehow like to just take everything in my bare hands.. What I haven't realize for a while now was that I had to rely on God, no matter how small or big the problem is, it doesn't change the fact that God is still the Alpha and Omega and He knows best, and who am I to make decisions that I don't even know what the consequences are? Especially when you're in Laos and officials are everywhere to hunt you down.. XP I was quite glad to hear that they are actually opening up lil' by lil' to the gospel.. Hallelujah! XP

One mistake God simply pointed out to me was that I take things for granted too much.. What I failed to see was God's will for that particular "small" thing... This is it, no more looking down at things, gotta focus more on what God wants me to do about that, rather than look from the sideline and complain about it... Praise God for showing me my mistakes.. Can't imagine what I'll be without Him pointing out my mistakes!

The truth does really set YOU free.. Haha.. God Bless!

Update

Woohhh... Its been a long time since I update... I couldn't really update much nowadays cuz still no internet..

On my birthday however.. Things were abit different this year, with me being here in Laos.. But this year, my classmates bought a cake and we ate it during recess! haha.. that was one of the most surprising thing my friends ever done for me.. But other than that, I received alot of wishes and also one really encouraging message from Jo Ng.. Haha.. That itself its such a gift..

In a country where I just can't find the spiritual nourishment that I need, I just learn to trust on God's strenght and stand still and wait for Him... The incredible thing is that I can rely simply on God's strenght as I carry out each day's work... I know He'll make a way..

Well I think thats all for now.. XP Keep praying for me guys...

God Bless!

UpdaTE

Its bee awhile since I blogged about Laos.. And I suddenly got the itchiness to blog about a place where I recently went with my family and it so happens that they were holding a vietnamese fair there... ITECC is what they chose to name it.... Seriously no idea who came up with the weirdo-fying name but its actually and most probably one of the only places Lao ppl(who happen to stay in the capital) go to hang out.. XP
Its actually not bad, with a bowling alley, a go-kart *ahem* deserted, a place to play snooker and the only cinema in Laos(yea, the ONLY cinema in LAOS.. Awwwsome!... Not.. XP).. Put it all together and you have Itecc... If you want to call it itik, then by all means, call it itik.. Some people from the radio station calls it Ee-teck.. I call it i-teck.. The sign outside the shopping mall reads "ITECC".. Errrr..... X-X"...
The funny thing is, this place only opens when theres a fair... It actually looks like one of those Thai fairs in Mid Valley, the one held in the convention hall before.. Yea, exactly like that.. The one part about this place that I don't get is that for every fair there is, theres bound to be some stalls that are always there during whatever fair there is.. =.="... "Modern life fair" you appear, "Vietnamese Fair" and "Furniture Fair" also you appear... What fair will you NOT appear?? XS Especially those stalls selling clothes that came all the way from Thailand.. They must've applied for the platinum-gold membership in that place.. XP Either that or they were influenced by Jo Ng's "Saya (n)anti-rasuah" XD
Fortunately this time there was some difference and it was according to the theme "Vietnamese Fair".. THOUGH those faithful stalls still appear... XP Hey... Who am I to interfere between a merchant and his faithfulness to Itecc? XP
As I was walking and taking some pics here and there(while trying not to look like I'm taking pictures for plans to break in and rob their merchandises) my eyes spotted something...
Is this for real you asked? Lets get a closer look...
Vacuum chinese sausage.. O_O"! This must be a warning to all chinese boys to zip their pants! XP *Gasp* Then what happens to guys who don't have zip in their pants? XoX" *holds on to shorts*
P.S: Beware of any vacuum devices.
Anyway, I noticed Vietname is actually a pretty modern place.. I had no idea Vietnam looked like Penang.. XD
You all must be thinking Laos is not really that bad cuz still got cinema and stuff right... Well I've never been to the cinema la but after hearing the experience my cousin had, I'm not sure I want to.. XP He said about hearing the sound of bowling pins getting smashed and the sound of the movie playing at the other side while he was watching a movie.. Haha! Thats cuz the bowling alley its just next to the theatre while theres only two rooms to watch movies.. XP And it'll be like a month before the movie thats showing in Thailand comes out.. Spiderman 3 for example..
It'll be great to at least have starbucks here in Laos.. XP At least can have a lil taste of being in Malaysia.. lol.. BUT THERES absolutely none! T-T"... Well theres something called Dao Coffee, which I thought would taste like any chocolate shake would taste like, with cream top, but being an optimist that I was turned me down.. XP I present to you, Dao cocoa shake:
You can still see a lil of those small ice chunks.. XP Made it hard for me to drink it.. and the cream wasn't cream at all! =.=".. It tasted like what you get when you blend milk and ice.. XP How sad-tisfying.. XD ok la ok la, shouldn't be that mean.. XP But goodness, they even have a plasma tv in their shop! Make that two plasma tv! =.="..Don't tell me they don't have enough money to buy a proper blender and whip cream maker.. XS I don't have a plasma tv and I still can buy(well not now la, no money yet... lol) what ppl call whip cream in a can.. XP Why don't you give me that plasma tv and I'll sell it to buy a blender for and whip cream for you and the rest of the money goes to my wallet.. You happy, your customers happy, I also veli veli happy.. XP
Merdeka celebration this year for me was one of the most loneliest ever.. XD Heard that Malaysia low on budget till can't display fireworks.. XP Chatted with Vince and Vicky till midnight and was bugging Vince with the Jalur Gemilang song.. XD I was practically singing tanggal 31 to myself, alone in my room.. lol.. What a celebration.. Well at least I bought back a souvenir from KLIA.. "I Love Kuala Lumpur" magnet.. LOL.. Swt-ness of me..
Evan almighty was a fun movie.. I really like the dance.. XP and the way "God" in the movie talked was also life-like.. The surprising yet funny thing was at the end of the movie.. "Thou Shalt Do The Dance" LOL... I remember hearing it from somewhere before.. Forgotten where... Oh well that ends my post for now... Take care guys..

[Pictures next post]
[And..... updates on school]

The things in life..

Well I don't usually blog about this sorta stuff so cherish it while it still lasts.. XP

Its already been 2 months since my last visit to KL and still can't stop thinking about
Malaysia.. XD Bad part is that tmr's independance day and I can't even witness as Malaysians wave their flags below the fireworks litted sky... T-T

Well I recently got a chance to catch up with a close pal of mine from
Saujana.. I began to realize just how different or lonely things can become or should I say have already become when I'm here in Laos.. I found out that I seldom get a chance to keep up with those whom I usually spend my time with when I was still there..

TIME SURE CAN FLY!

At one moment, you're celebrating the end of PMR with a sigh or relief with your buddies and the end of Chandran almighty's wise commandments for Saujanians and suddenly, you're in a different part of the world and you're friends seemed like a world away from you and you see the changes they're going through each day... Its depressing to not being able to be a part or witness it with them... how saddening hor.. XP

I just wished I could be more independant and have more time to spend with them while I was still there... Kinda regretted not being able to treat some of them like I should.. XP Its either my own fault or being in Laos just really sucks out the character in you.. XP

But on the other hand, I shouldn't desire to grow up so fast hor... I just feel like I want to be independent so fast that I overlook the
"Slow Down" sign that was right infront of me.. Well if I want to live my life to the fullest, might as well live it the right way hor? Deny myself, shoulder my cross and follow God..

Thank You Lord for being my guide and for
showing me where I went wrong...
You know me better so Lord, lead the way...

Still longing to be back home.. XP

Alright after much delay... I finally got the chance to come online and blog! But after much usage of the time to chat and check mails... Theres barely anytime to blog.. XD But just to update you ppl (especially Jo Ng.. LOL) about my life... Well to conclude it all, its a bumpy ride.. I would really appreciate it much if you guys would pray for me and the church here... I seem to want to get myself involved doing something, work or anything but there seem to be not much.. XP I'm just to use to the situation back in Malaysia where I'm filled with things to do... coming here... Nil work! Well I bet I'll be getting much of them soon enough.. Haha.. Well... All in all, God's grace and love is all that is keeping me alive right now.. XP Theres incidents after incidents that just knock me down(referring to my spiritual well being) but God's love in the end make it all nothing but simple stones caught up in my shoes... But I still need your prayers guys.. School's starting and really looking forward to it.. haha.. well.. take care and God Bless!

Mundane modern-civilisation needed! XP

What I still can't get off my mind is the years left till I finally leave this wrec- err I mean this.... Country.. XP Having not much modern place to hang out is bad enuf, till there comes a time when internet dissapeared from my house without warning.. T-T".. And now I'm spending my holidays away from the comfort of internet to comminucate with my friends back there in Malaysia.. XP

So sorry people if I didn't reply your msg and stuff like that.. My internet hours are sadly, limited.. T-T I have to earn it but thanks to my mum's mercy, I got to use the internet without using my well earned RM 1.50.. LOL.. Don't cry for me Malaysia! XP

But however... One thing I'm so thankful of is the presence of God just being wherever I go.. I just can't live without that living water that comes from God alone... Everytime when I'm just worned out, theres always a way God will refresh me.. Well... I gotta end here.. time's run out.. =.="... Jo Ng ar.. save me.. XD

The will to change

Man... Must it get so hot here everyday.. XD

There are just some things in Laos which makes me desire to rather spend my holidays somewhere else.. Malaysia would be most recommended! Oh pls take me back to KL once more before school starts! XP the bad thing is, if I won't be going anywhere till school's starting, I'll be rotting my body away for the rest of the holiday at home.. T-T *recalls the chorus of a song that goes: "Don't cry for me Argentina" and Ben's mind happily twitches the word "Argentina" to "Malaysia"*

But recently, this book that I read really took my thoughts towards things to a whole new level. I actually learn to prioritize the important things and discipline myself further to push myself to do things I would thought of as "rare habits". I just decide to change my devotion time to instead of doing it in the night, when my brain is all tired and unable to concentrate much, I decide to take a step to do it at 5 in the morning(which is 6am for you guys back in KL).. Call me crazy, but I'm thinking of it as a boot camp, since I'm on vacation..

Might as well make the best out of my time and do something that can help me grow this seed that God has implanted in my life. I also decide to put more effort to schedulise my time doing stuff and make sure I dun get carried away.. Like even tho its the holidays, I have to make myself to get some sleep early and not past 10pm.. Why? Cuz this acne's are irritating me.. XP Haha! No la, not only that but I have to get enough sleep so that I could focus more when it comes to my 5a.m devotion.. and was it worth it? Well yea, I could say that its worth every effort cuz by the look of things, I can start my day off with a fresh new start with God's spirit shaking things up inside of me and my notes seem to be longer than usual.. hahaha.. and I just slowly begin to see everything with God in it.. Its worth it..

And I gotta take exercising seriously too.. lol.. need to lose this flabs and make some packs.. XP I look fit, but no packs.. lol.. But these decisions that I made, I just commit them all to God, I just know that He'll help me true and prepare for me what I need as I continue to abide in Him.. and I'm just praying that they'll be positive results and I'll be able to extend my potential to be fruitful to the max.. these books really helps! Haha.. Well its titled "Be all that you can be" by John C. Maxwell.. and also for those who are in leadership field, theres a book I got from the same author which is "Leadership 101".. It really helps.. and I should've bought it from the beginning.. Haha.. What a waste..

Well guys.. I'll end it here.. I need your prayers! Laos needs your prayers! Thanks guys.. I really hope to meet you guys again!

The "MAD" in the blog link does not refer to the word by itself, nor is it also because he couldn't think of a better blog link, mind you! lol! It's an acronym that stands for - Making A Difference. Meet Ben. Currently studying hospitality but has a heart for a dream, a vision and a destiny. An Entrepreneur in the making. Born in the year 1991, 27th September. Loves cats, NOT!! Dares to dream because he believes in a God through whom all things are possible. Stops at nothing to see his dreams come to pass. Lives an abundant, blessed and favored life because of his heart for God and His people. Attending His Sanctuary of Glory (HSG), a dynamic, vibrant and passionate Church who dares to live their dreams. A leader, an encourager and a friend. Has a sweet tooth and a CRAZE for desserts! NOT fat.

And believes that if God's for him, who then can be against him? With that, he takes on the world.


Of genes and DNAs

Breaking news: I got white hairs(notice the "s"? Yea.. Plural.. XD)! So annoying, just wanna burn them! XP I actually asked my mum how to get rid of it, then the most(sort of) insignificant answer came up.. "How to get rid of it? You got it cuz dad's side of the family all got it"

ToT"... How can this happen to me? XP curse those genes! All their fault.. XD

How boring can it get over here... I can't even work part-time to earn money.. So that means no more trips to KL during this hols.. T-T"..

Pics!

An intro message: Guys as you can see in the previous post that I've been troubled with stuffs and have to go thru my parent's surveillance and etc etc, which caused me not being able to visit you guys or fulfill some of the things I promised you ppl, I'm just very sorry to have let you guys down and treated you badly or in a way that I shouldn't or that I've never did before.. Very sorry, forgive me guys! What I can promise you is that, as long as I'll ever visit there for studies or for solo trips(meaning if I'll ever be there for more than a few weeks alone or a few years for college or stuff), I'll definately put more effort to meet up with you guys and treat you like I should as a friend.. Real sorry guys.. Really am! I hope that you'll understand..
Prove that I was stuck at serdang.. XP


The statue right outside the Golden Horses.. err.. it looks more like a donkey.. XP


Palace of the Golden Horses lobby.. Ahaha..


Look at the awesome view I had at the mines palace of beach and spa.. XP NOT


My room at the mines..


My Guitar! Haha... Man I love this sunburst..



Me, stuck in serdang.. XP




Just right at the bridge to the plane, KLIA was raining.. Must be crying cuz Ben leaving.. LOL




This was the car I was talking about.. Haha.. man it rox la..




My last day @ McDz

Drat, I'm back here again in Laos.. >< the scorching heat is dreadful! 40 degrees celsius man! _____________________________________________________________________


Anyway, my trip to KL was awesome! But was not fulfilled.. T-T There are a few things that I didn't fulfill while I was there.. Sad, but amazingly, God began to put each things into place as time goes by, just when I thought I couldn't even fulfill the half of them. This trip to KL actually brought me closer to some of the guys back there in youth and I actually met face-to-face with some of them who I only talk in msn to(some rarely, some always.. XP) and boy do I have to deal with things that made this trip not a 100% filled joyful one..


I arrived on thursday and I felt bad I didn't sms the others that I came down, just couldn't recall what was it that stopped me from doing so.. Maybe I wanted to surprise them.. XP The first two days was tiring, we stayed at our old condo but all slept in one room! Cuz the house is already rented and that person who happens to be my parent's friend is still there at the moment.. We had dinner, which we had to walk all the way down with some of the bags.. XP My dad was wearing formal with his leather shoe carrying a laptop.. lol! Look like we're uncivilised like that.. XP


There was so many things to do... Pack the stuff at my old house, follow my parents to pay for this and that, renew my sister's and my passport... Ugh.. The next time maybe I should save money and come alone.. Ahaha.. The first person I was eager to see again was Vincent, cuz he stays at the same condo I used to live in! Haha.. Man.. I was so glad to see him.. That pink-hamster-loving boy.. lol...


Then later we went and stayed at the mines, 4 days(I think) at the palace of beach and spa and then to Golden Horses.. the palace of beach and spa sucks.. =.=".. Theres barely anything to do there.. Watched english movies at the mines there till got nothing else to watch.. XP and Pirates of The Carribean 3 totally rock la.. haha.. but not all the parts.. XP I still dun understand how the Davy Jones and the woman became traitor to one another..

I went to CF 1 day after I arrived that time and I was so glad to finally see my friends again! Well some of them.. XP

Then later on, I bought an electric guitar! haha.. Rock on man! I believe its one great instrument to praise God with! And behold!


I wanted something different from the others.. haha.. So I got this! Man it really burn my parent's money for this.. I better make them not regret for buying this for me.. XD

Then I went to my old school to take my long, webby, dusty PMR results, which was still in good shape.. XP waited there for awhile and Michelle Lam suddenly walked in and she was looking at me like some type of UFO like that {Unidentified freak object} Then later on more and more people starting to come.. Haha.. So surprised to see Jeffrey, Park Leng and the rest of the people there.. At one point, I checked the sijil and my english sijil wasn't there..

So I went and look for En. Saravanan, and boy does he look sort of surprised.. XP The more surprising one was meeting Pn. Salbiah at the post office.. lol.. So awkward.. and En. Saravanan even forgot my name... O_O"!! Lol.. Now I see how insignificant I am to the teachers.. XD Except for Cik Margaret.. LOL.. Crap wei.. I dun think she's ever gonna forget me... *gulps* The horror.. {Gary, if you're seeing this, you better not give her my e-mail.. XD}

The next CF meeting I went, Renee and I actually took so many pictures! Haha.. My friendster profile is filled with them.. Wahaha.. Finally.. After a long long time of posing lonely like some loner cam freak.. XP and I actually learnt quite some things from Stephen who was sharing..



By the time I was about to leave, I kinda felt down cuz I didn't manage to meet the rest and those who expected me to come and meet them and actually, I really wanted to go for at least a youth or a sunday service in HSG.. I just need something so that I can bring it back as a tool to Laos and use it to impact others.. But time and my mum just wouldn't let me.. >< What I manage to get was a coaching session with Reuben.. That alone really helped me... But just as I prayed, the next day itself, I can see that God heard my prayers and HE actually made things the way I never thought would happen! and because of that, I managed to fulfill much much more things that I never thought I could cuz it was already gonna be my last day there!

I felt bad when I bought the guitar cuz its like so expensive and I'm sure my mum and dad would want to buy some things of their own.. Unfortunately my mum didn't bought much things for herself but saved the money to get me and my brother what we wanted.. But she did say that she'll buy it for me.. lol!

A day before I was about to leave, which is the day of my second visit to CF, after the CF, I went to the LRT station in Bukit Jalil.. Surprisingly, this Yi Hui appeared from nowhere.. Lol! And we had a nice chat throughout our 10 minutes journey.. XD Cuz I was about to transfer to KTM to MV which was in Tasik Selatan{I think} and after buying tickets and stuff.. all no thanks to the que at the ticket vending machine, I saw the train which I thought was my train arrived and I was so eager to get on the train that I went to the wrong place.. LOL.. now I was like 4 stations or something away from MV.. So swt'd.. The train even re-open the door just to let me in.. how embarrasing.. lol..

On the day when I'm about to leave, I was glad and also sad cuz just in a few hours, I'm leaving and no longer in the presence of my buddies.. T-T I actually felt more sad than the last time I left KL.. XD So awkward.. Having fun and so happy all week till the last day you feel as though they were just a dream.. XD Its just not the same anymore when I'm all the way here and my buddies are all the way there.. ><

In KLIA, I took my last breakfast in KL at McD's.. lol.. McD breakfast is not something you wanna have for breakfast.. XP I'm totally against McD breakfast.. XP but the hash browns are nice.. XP The annoying thing was that just after my dad ordered the food, the changed the menu thing and they're now serving the normal meals.. SWT'D!! I wanted the McD chicken!.. XD I also saw this cool car up for grabs there.. Brabus SLK something something.. XP No surprise that KLIA is also nominated as the best airport in the world! Haha! We Malaysians rock!! {I'm a Malaysian la for you all who thinks I'm not.. =.= Borned in Malaysia, carries Malaysian passport, and a Malaysian IC! XP}

When I arrived at this weird looking new airport in Bangkok.. I had ice-cream at this shop at the airport.. Surprisingly, this airport is so big, you'll be thinking you're walking in circles cuz they have the same shop at almost every corner.. and it'll take you so long till you can reach the other end of the building.. XP nice shops.. but bad structure.. XD KLIA still rocks.. Wahahaha.. XP

Anyway back to the ice-cream, I had this ice-cream named "rocher" and it looks yummy and I'm a fan of chocolates so I tried it out.. and it taste exactly like the chocolate filling inside the ferrero rocher expensive chocolate! XP Yummy but so sweet.. Had to eat it with chips.. XP But the ice-cream made me think of Renee and Daphne who I still owe ice-cream.. lol.. So I didn't had a pleasant eating experience at all.. XP I felt so bad and sorry that I made this to show my sorries to them:


(Ice-cream: Ice-cream sad, cuz Renee and Daphne not eating me.. sob sobs
Ben: Sob sob, me sad too... T-T *eats*)

I'm really looking forward to my next visit to KL! Maybe I should consider saving some money to come alone for PB 2008 or MAD camp! Ahaha.. Need your prayers people!

(more pictures to come in the next post!)

Malaysians appearing on tv

Recently, Malaysians have been appearing in tv.. In documentaries, and surprisingly, in ESPN sports centre! The funny thing is that, even though they're gonna be watched by thousands and thousands of people, they still use "ah beng" english! O_O".. I wonder if they'll appear in CNN.. XD For those who doesn't know what "ah beng" english means, its the sort of slang chinese Malaysians use in their english.. For example

Chinese boy: Eh! Today can go playground ar? (instead of saying, hey Mutu, could you come over to the playground today)

While Chinese people stick to their ah beng-ness, Malay Malaysians also have their own unique "Malaysia Boleh" style of talking Malay. They tend to include english words when they're speaking malay, like its one hip culture of Malaysia.. XD A normal malay conversation goes like so:

A: Eh, you boleh datang nanti tak? I nak tengok tv dulu la.. bestnya tv ni... datang nanti ye?
B: Ok ok, boleh.. (boleh blah! XD)

Seriously, they appeared on tv and talked with this slang!! HAHA.. on ESPN summore wei.. and got subtitles at the bottom.. Gratefully, someone has been professional enough to translate.. XD

Dropping by KL next week!! WAHAHAHA.. Catch me if you can, err no, I'm not the merdeka man from hitz.fm, you won't win a prize from hitz.fm if you catch me.. XD my deepest condolences.. XP

The power of humbleness

Wah cool... I didn't know blogspot can save your drafts automatically.. haha... Technology these days.. XP
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Just came back from swimming competition.. and sad to say, but I got last.. lol... outstanding victory(sort of).. But I learnt pretty much alot during the competition.. and whats more surprising is that my bro got first! lol.. So proud of him..

Well about the topic.. This week, God had really showed me what it means to be humble.. Last Monday during sport, we had this high jump and currently, I was leading with 140cm(it was the highest that time for my class) and suddenly two people from my class jumped and they passed my record! Another surprising thing was that, both of them were younger and shorter.. One was a lil shorter than me, another was way shorter than me.. ><"""
This time, it was different, I failed the 145cm and up but on the bright side, I felt good that I didn't let my pride on the loose and ruin my day, and I got to see my friend, Denai(way shorter than me) succeed the 150cm... XoX"... How is this possible.. lol..

Yesterday, I watched a really cool film, "Meet the Robinsons" LOL.. Well its cool cuz I kinda like the science technology and stuff.. haha.. so high tech.. and I learnt something thru that film itself that has to do with humbleness! Freaking weirdsome(weird+awesome) huh?

So its about this villain who got convinced by his future self(kinda complicating.. XP) that he should keep in his failure(he was in a baseball match, and he could've got the winning catch but thanks to his room mate who's creating all the time, he fell asleep and kena wallap-ed by his team mates) and turn it into hatred and stuff like that.. and the result, wanting to destroy his room mate's destiny of making the world a better place...

Things could've changed to the better IF he only became humble and forgive his room mate and moved on, who knows, he can be a star baseball player if he took his failure and changed it into some worthy.

Things could've changed to the better IF Judas Iscariot could just be a lil more humble and understand that Jesus could forgive him of what he've done.

What I believe is that a servant would never learn or climb to a higher level unless he humbles himself to his master's teachings and apply it to his life. As I humble myself, I learnt by seeing my brother pray before his match, and its awkward that I didn't pray before the match but earlier I did. Being someone more mature and higher position than someone doesn't mean they're completely hopeless when it comes to teaching us a thing or two... God is with us all isn't He? If He is for all of us, who then can be higher than one another? No one... So humble yourself!

Not much...

Since everyone's updating, even PMR students, maybe its time I update too.. XP
Recently this stupid tarantula appeared when I was using my dad's laptop in my room playing some songs with my guitar, I moved it to my room for the moment cuz it was just too hot to use it outside.. And suddenly this stupid tarantula appeared and crawled so fast that I jumped to my feet, on the bed. It was freaking scary.. lol..
K la I admit then, Tarantulas are one of my fears. I even wonder why they exist.. lol.. I was so freaked out till the bulu(s) on my legs stood up.. XP and all of the suddenly a cat meowed and I was so shocked, I jumped up, thought the spider suddenly appeared(cuz it went behind my bed.. lol) then after spraying shieldtox here and there, and acting like Lord of the rings with my flute as a sword and tissue box as a shield, it appeared again..
Note, shieldtox doesn't work on araignids.. =.=".. then after luring it to the corner, I smashed it(finally) with a tissue box. Then I rejoiced and went to sleep.. XP I woke up early and couldn't recall that I got tuition 10am.. So tiring..
One topic I couldn't agree more with Jo Ng is the topic of chain letters and stupid friendster names people make for themselves... Who these people think they are ar? Bomoh ar.. =.=".. and about the names.. Don't you guys have better names to put.. like err hmm.. I dunno.. Your REAL name maybe? XP Rather than putting dunno what -lonely- la, SmiLe, Bleeding heartz(uh huh.. =.="..) , Mui Mui(no comments.. =.="..) and even worse.. Who puts their friendster name as Managing? SWT...
I finally discovered that French people really do pronounce "the" as "ze" lol... It happened when one of my friends was asked to read for this literature evaluation thing.. And all the way, she pronounced "ze" instead of "the".. haha.. and I didn't know "bulbs" is pronounced as "boobs" LOL... According to my french-thai friend during literature today.. XD
Laos people on the other hand.. They have problem controlling the sounds "s"... Like err.. I once told someone the translation of a word. It was "pulut" la.. you know that sticky rice they put in bamboo in Malaysia? ahha.. yea that.. and the guy was like "pulus pulus".. =.="...

Interesting topic!

Adapting to the new nation of the WORLD..

Now this topic just burst into my mind one day as I was thinking. Being in a completely, and I really mean in aCOMPLETELY new world is so hard to adapt to. Maybe its the few companions that I have at school or even in Laos, or the different clothes I wear to school, or maybe its even the stupid freaking bugs in house.. =.=" Whatever it is, I think the first thing my heart wants to do the moment I reach Malaysia and step on Malaysia's ground is to kiss the floor....Oh Tanah Airku!!~ XD

But I wouldn't do that of course.. lol.. People would think I'm some kind of outcast who's been out in the sea for way too long. But I seriously miss it there.. Aih.. so diff la here.. My crapiness level has went down to 80% since I left Saujana..

Life in Laos.

-I don't have much buddies as much as I have back there in Malaysia.

-I don't even use any manglish word anymore.. >< {ex: "aiyo, you stupid kah?"}
-I don't crap as much as I do back there in KL.

-I don't have a good internet connection like I have back there.. XD-I don't have an experienced and merciful english teacher like En. Saravanan to teach me in class anymore.. XP
-I don't have friends who I trust to tell secrets here.
-I wasn't as busy I was in KL (ex. follow-ups, coaching)
-I don't stay in a condo anymore.. sigh... no more swimming pool.. XP
-Theres no more Chiak Fan or Nasi Campur or rice mix.. XD
-Theres no more like "Its the weekend! time to prepare for youth and sunday service! whee!!~" its more like "oh crap.. music class, tuition.. greattttt.... *sarcasm*"
-Youth service is not as it is in KL anymore.. No more jumping, not much clapping, bowing, kneeling, whoo-ing..
-No more GSC cinemas and lovely caremel popcorn.
-No more astro.. T-T
-No more ice kacang-No more Kuchai Lama food court spree.. =.="..
-No more school uniforms and identity in school..
-No more half day of schooling or choir competition.
.-No more cell groups.
-No more Mid Valley... ><
-No more CC.. XD
-No more wacky youth games.. T-T
-No more Negaraku or bacaan ikrar.. LOL
-No more CFs... yet.
.-No more school jokers to make school lifely with their Malaysian accent..
-No more after school mamak or CC
-No more Nov & Dec holiday.. Sigh...
-No more freedom religion
-No more Bah Kut Teh.. XD
-No more lala zhai's kena beaten up by discipline teachers... lol
-No more Paramjit's complaining (miss that.. XD)
-No more people protesting against governement's plan for Seri Petaling highway.. LOL
-No more ikir Barat(or whatever they call it).. XD
-No more nasi lemak.. T-T
-No more crazy fellas shouting to promote their highly branded oranges in pasar malam.. XP
-Heck, theres not even pasar malam here..
-No more proper Tau Foo Fa.. XD Guess what.. these people here put ginger in their tau foo fa.. XD
-No more proper haircuts.. swt...
-I don't get much smses like I get in KL anymore.. =.="...
-No more cozy bedrooms to sleep in with thick blanket.. XP
-No more PlanetShaker concerts.. =.="..
-No more ice-skating..
-No more Sunway Lagoon..
-No more Ramli Burger.. lol
-No more beautiful night sightings of KLCC and KL tower... =.=".. I miss KL City Life...


{And more... so MUCH more.. lol... I could tell you slowly all of them but I got things to prepare}
Life in Malaysia.



Well actually they're all the opposite of what I mentioned in Laos.. lol.. Well.. Life seemed to be way better in Malaysia.. Way WAY better... XP And the visit Malaysia year poster and advertisement makes my desperation to go back there worst.. lol.. But make no mistake, some things changed to the better when I came to Laos, not much, but its meaningful at least.. haha.. like my relationship with my family I guess..

Well guys.. I would need tons of your prayers! Hopefull I can get my butt out of French school and find at least an english school to blend in.. That itself would be paradise(for a month) for me.. XD

But I believe that this is the cost that I must pay to follow Christ.. I just feel it.. Everything happens for a reason.. Don't you believe so too?

New background

Referred to what I wrote in my xanga and this new chatterbox here, some people *ahem* Vince has been nagging all day with his "superior" blogging skills and being sucha know-it-all, as you can see.. XP if you look at the first message down there in the chatterbox, you'll see that Laureen is commenting on how empty it is.. she was referring to the previous background I uploaded for this site.. but anyway..

The blogspot name I chose for this site is born2mad, and it actually stands for born 2 m=make a d=difference.. Its not that I failed english or anything k.. hahaha... I'll try to make it more not empty.. but tell me what I can put k..

Hmm...

I need some time to decorate this place up.. haha
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