Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Fernando

and so we met Fernando last night.... for some reason i wanted to name him frank (but it sounds too much like my dad's name)

And he WAS HUGE ....appeared and surprised us. Ja and i.... we screamed in unison.... (together and very loudly i might add) ANd i think he appeared one more time after which i attempted to poke the cupboard to find him with the fishing rod. He never showed up again.... (which either worries you or does one of those 'absence makes the heart grow fonder thing')

so that was our encounter with Fernando....
We share our living space with some others (resident silverfish which i've killed).... like that Jensen... one time, and the other guy... what's his name...buffy. R.I.P fellas.

So no prizes for guessing what Fernando is.

Monday, October 30, 2006

The thumb

i have realised something.

that if i had to vote for the most important finger... the finger that helps me to function in everyday life... it would have to be the THUMB.
After losing the normal functionality of my right thumb on sunday (due to a freak accident that involved a basketball, a hoop and several other people) .... i cannot do alot of things.
Turn the tap, the door knob, the shower tap, use the scissors, hit someone hard, write for long periods of time.... all of these things which i previously took for granted.

i was wondering, so why is my thumb so important? I have concluded that all the other 4 fingers can put pressure in one direction, but the thumb.....the thumb is the finger that goes in the opposite direction-- which is so essential in order to pick things up, to open the door or to even maintain my sanity.

So Jack told me that only humans and apes have opposable thumbs. (means can bend lah)
and now, i'm more handicapped than the normal ordinary apes which are sitting in the rainforest. great.

it had better recover before i sit for my 40% exam on saturday.... otherwise i can get an extra half an hour or something... (yay) which i don't want to have to do... cos examination halls make me feel extremely claustrophobic and yelpy. (yes, that's the word for describing you yelping)

ok, enough about my thumb.

like vs love

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

=p

i got greatly fined... i was highly poor, but i guess i'm still deeply loved.

-_-

!

I can't... for the life of me remember what i was annoyed about on monday at work.
It was work as usual at the courts.
I just remember my colleague being the most annoying ever.
She had a perpetual grumpy face and just made my long day at uni... worse.

Glad the season's over.
Hopefully won't see her next yr. haha.

ok the deadline is 12 noon on friday....
Thanks for praying people =)

Monday, October 23, 2006

Rest

Find rest my soul
In Christ alone
Know His power
In quietness and trust

Father You are King over the flood
I will be still and know that you are God

Congrats!

Apart from the hype about my "bad" photography skills.....

Congrats to Nikki! =) Go and ask her. haha.

and Congrats to Marianne!!
For completing the gruelling year of thesis writing and finally submitting it today! =)

Congrats to Ting, who is experiencing new life over in Collie. =)

Congrats to me... i have 4 more days!

The weekend... in colour



Musing and mulling



Hee hee
See Flickr Sidebar for FOOD pictures. =)

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Bro

I think my lil' bro has an aversion for people nagging him.
(which i don't of course! i really try not to!)

But more then that, he is paranoid and afraid that he sounds like he's nagging me.

HAHA.

Bro:"ok drive safe"
Me:"okay, see you!"
Bro:"i'm not nagging ya?"

Another scenario

Bro: "Don't worry about me ok? and don't study too hard"
me: "haha do i look like i study very hard?"
Bro: "Ya"
Me: "ok you take care too"
Bro: "I'm not nagging right?"

Actually his nagging quite cute. haha
I like.

****
On another note, I thank God you're healthy and of a sound mind.
There are alot of things to thank God for even when you feel like there are so many things that are going wrong. Remember that. Don't be disappointed or discouraged. Keep your head up!

"But you are a shield around me, O LORD; you bestow glory on me and lift up my head."
Psalms 3:2-4

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Home

i don't want to look at my work when i'm home....

leave me alone!!

arggghh.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

:)

Well, at least i'm still delicious.

Guest Speaker

Dean H. Harvey

Dean H. Harvey was saved in 1951 while a member of the U. S. Navy. He pastored his first church in 1954-55, after which he attended Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri from 1955-1958. At this same time, he pastored a local church and was ordained. Returning to the Navy in 1958, he was commissioned as an officer in 1963, and pastored two more churches while on active duty, until retiring in 1971.

After retiring from the Navy, he pioneered a church in Portsmouth, Virginia which grew to 300. He faithfully served there for 11 years, before leaving to pioneer the School of the Bible for Youth With A Mission, Tyler, Texas. After seven years there, he moved to Rockford, Illinois in 1988 where he became pastor of the Chapelwood Community Church, where he has ministered for the last seventeen years.

In addition to pastoring, Dean has a devotional teaching radio ministry, instructs in a Bible College at the undergraduate level, and teaches at Agape Force. He often travels to Puerto Rico to train the YWAM staff in the material from the one year School of the Bible and somehow finds the time to teach in YWAM Nicaragua, YWAM Chapala, Mexico and YWAM Costa Rica. He is presently serving his second term as the President of the Evangelical Ministers Fellowship of Rockford, and also serves on the Board of Directors of Evangelical Education Ministries and frequently speaks at their annual conferences.

Pastor Harvey and his wife, Shirley, have been married for fifty-four years, and had four children, two of whom are deceased, and additionally have twelve grandchildren at this time. Their daughter, Cheryl, and her family were for eighteen year missionaries in Peru with Wycliffe Bible Translators until Cheryl's death from ovarian cancer in 1998.

He will be preaching and sharing on 'The Broken Heart of God'.
Keep praying for a new revelation of God's love!
Everyone is invited.
4:30pm on Saturday 21st October- Murdoch Lecture Theatre UWA
10am on Sunday 22nd October- Hadyn William Lecture Theatre, Curtin Nursing Building

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Bobby!

Australia made a BIG mistake last night by voting Bobby out of the competition.

=(

boo hoo...

i thought his performance was super good!

To catch him on video- just google Australian idol and check out the performances.

Lantern and I

Monday, October 16, 2006

Thank You Samina=)

I want to write my thesis in the simplest manner, but become caught up by all the fancy ways of wanting to make my argument that i've forgotten the essence of what i wanted to write in the first place!

So anyway, today i returned to that place that i visited a couple of months ago- in which i decided to write about my topic in the most passionate sense ever, simply because i enjoyed what i had to write and what i had to say, and what i had discovered through reading the literature.

And it seems like i'm back to square one- just with tons of information at hand... and 11 days to sort it out. Thank You Samina for all the love, care and many cups of tea we've shared! I will strive to do my best for this... =)
All Glory to God!

little voices

Friday, October 13, 2006

Of bombs and delinquent behaviour

'You have learnt to live with other nuclear powers, So why not us? We really want to coexist with the United States peacefully, but you must learn to coexist with a North Korea that has nuclear weapons.'
-Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan, North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator

About 2 years ago, i did a simulation exercise in school regarding the threat of nuclear proliferation and looked at North Korea in detail. In my words, N Korea have nothing to lose and the US have nothing to gain- from a full-scale nuclear war.

All the N Koreans want is a re-opening of bilateral negotiations with the US (and the most effective way was to stage a nuclear test). A compromise has to be reached on the financial sanctions that would reopen N Korean access to the international banking system, offer large-scale energy cooperation and remove N Korea from the US State Department's list of terrorist states, thus opening the way for multilateral aid from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank, all of which N Korea is actively seeking to join.

Anyway, you cannot fight an idea with arsenal. And violence begets violence. So the US have to re-think their exhuasted diplomatic skills to draw the sting out of N Korea's nuclear pretensions.

: )

Thursday, October 12, 2006

8 things

Tagged!

Warning- completely random bits of information that slide off the top of my head.

1. My receiving love language is appreciation, encouragement and hugs. =) My giving love language is quality time and giving gifts (smallish things, cards and such)

2. i like to be challenged to do better. I like to get better at stuff, be smarter, grow wiser, be more resolute, groom my organisation abilities, increase my leadership skills... etc. I like challenges.

3. Out of the 5 senses, my favourite is my sense of smell. I like floral aromas. i like sweet incenses. Explains my array of nice-smelling moisturisers, perfumes (altho i rarely wear daily). I choose alot of products based on smell. haha. including food.

4. i actually enjoy writing. i like the process- the flow, the words linking together. Ideas... imagery, thoughts, emotions, facts, information-laden.

5. i am in love. With an honest, a responsible, gentlemanly, loving, amiable, good-looking, passionate, down-to-earth, committed, god-fearing man who loves me too! =)

6. i have size 5 feet.

7. In sec school, my 4x100 relay team won gold for 4 years running with the same team members.

8. Motto: To bring out value in people, to promote and maximise their potential. I want to make this the core of my being. Another quote that i love: "Wisdom is pursuing what is eternal in a shifting world."

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Progress

Brought Sharon for a short climb today at the gym =)
Still managed my 20... a couple of 18s and 17s.
Ran into Kenny and Keiti! Been such a long time with all their travelling....
Keiti said she cldn't recognise me. haha apparently it's the hair.
good progress... need to build up my endurance... =p

On another note:
Thesis is due in 16 days... (same date as Jason's thesis duedate as well)

Do pray! wisdom and flair is needed.

= (

i hate to admit, that i miss you so.

HAHA


The words in the article say:
Baby Mops
"Make your children work for their keep"

After the birth of the child, there's always a temptation to say 'yes its cute, but what can it do?'
Until recently, the answer was 'simply lie there and cry', but now babies can be put on the payroll, so to speak, almost as soon as they are born.
Just dress your young one in Baby Mops and set him or her down on any hard wood or floor that needs clearing. You may at first get things started by calling the infant from across the room, but pretty soon they'll be doing it all by themselves.
There's no child exploitation involved. The kid is doing what it does best anyway, crawling. But with Baby Mops he's also learning responsibility and a health work ethic.

(at this point i was rolling on the floor laughing my lungs out- the japanese think of EVERYTHING man.)

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

ouch

ok i dragged my very bad back to the physio today.
Now i'm convinced that my posture is lousy, and my "computer" habits are horrible.
Plus, the love for climbing has cautiously towed the line towards becoming "crazy" or "insane".
E.g "wow, that was an insane move!" as opposed to "Mishi, that was very unglam"

In the words of Kenny (fellow climber), "Bouldering is a good way to damage yourself"

haha will put up some bouldering videos soon. =)
And i've got homework stretching to do- as directed by my friendly neighbourhood physiotheraphist.

sit straight people!
it'll save your spine the trouble of rebelling against you.

Grace

Met Faitheee today for luncheon in northbridge=)
We wanted to eat at Tak Chee, den we realised they had moved. (to where i'm not sure)
So we crossed the street to eat at Penang food. my first time. haha.
Yummy.

After which i went to pay for my air tickets down the street.
Man, when i came back to the car... i saw a guy in a bright yellow vest- marked CIty of Perth- with a PDA looking at the front of my car. (heart drop!)
Anyway, long story short... i had no idea i parked in a motorcycle bay! (no wonder, no car was there) and the guy looked at me and said i was lucky he hadn't keyed anything in yet!
haha... oh my. 30 seconds short of a fine, and i'm so thankful that he wasn't mean about it.

lesson learnt.
look b4 i park.
and of course, give thanks when grace is extended to you.

Monday, October 09, 2006

Breaking news

North Korea has tested their Nukes.

Beware.

Last lap

Last laps are a determinant of how u have run your race.
It doesn't matter if you've started well, clocked a good time for ur middle laps, or saved up sufficient amounts of energy.
The key is finishing well.

Anyway.. my eating, sleeping and working time has all been mashed up into one lump.
I am closest to obtaining the most sleep i've had in my entire life.
Yet, i don't feel rested most days, in a sleep-wake kinda state.
The worst is that editing my thesis has become blurry and seemingly endless.

****
930pm Met my Supervisor for like 2 hours! we had the session at University club! nice place... and headed to work at 7pm....Just got back from work- so tired... Now i gotta fix up the thesis. Very encouraged by Samina, as always.... she was wondering why i didn't apply for a scholarship to do post-grad. and i told her about my PR woes. =)

***
Did you ever wish i wasn't me?
That i didn't do the things i do, or say the things i say?
i wish, sometimes.... in the dreams that i have.
Your voice is so gentle, and your touch so familiar.
i want you to embrace me. Yet i want to run away.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

A Matter of the heart

"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." Pro 4:23

How?
1. Guard your mouth (vs 24)
James 3:9-10 "With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth some praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow out of the same spring?"

2. Guard your eyes (vs 25)
Heb 12:2 "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith..."

3. Guard your feet/ values (vs 26)
Ps 119:105 "Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."

BUT
"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" Jer 17:9

Our hearts cannot be changed, it can only be replaced.

Ezekial 36:26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And i will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws."

What causes a hardened heart?
Hebrews 3:7-14
1. Unbelief
2. Deceitfulness of sin
3. Wilful disobedience

The only remedy for a hardened heart is a broken heart.

Psalms 51:17 "A broken spirit and a contrite heart, You will not despise."

Ask for a new revelation of the cross today. =)




hard

It is harder to be loved, than to love.
think about it.

when you think you know

when you think people can change.
when you think things are simple.
when you think it's easy.
when you think you know.

they cannot.
they aren't.
it isn't.
you don't.

Chilling.

What's a girl to do with grreat cookies and cream cheesecake??
Gobbled it up! *yummilicious!*

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Full time editor

Yeah.
i would like to think i work in some huge-ass newspaper firm as an editor.
unfortunately, all i'm editing now is my 13,000 ++ word dissertation.
and will be doing this until the end of time ( 27th October).

When that end of time comes, please drop me a card/ sms/ email =)
Just to say... CONGRATULATIONS, you made it.

haha.

ok.... til then.

toodles.

Monday, October 02, 2006

Crunch time

But we have this treasure in earthern vessels to show that this all-surpassing power is from God
and not from us.
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.


Therefore we do not lose heart.
Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

1 Cor 4: 7-10, 16-18

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Take Time

Take Time to think;
it is the source of power

Take time to read;
it is the foundation of wisdom

Take time to play;
it is the secret of youth

Take time to be quiet;
it is an opportunity to seek God

Take time to be aware;
it is an opportunity to help others

Take time to love and be loved;
it is God's greatest gift for you

Take time to laugh;
it is the music of the soul

Take time to be friendly;
it is the road to happiness

Take time to dream;
it is what the future is made out of

Take time to pray;
it will move the heavens.