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That's it folks.

Once again, I am uprooting myself and am moving on to greener pastures.

No, I won't provide the link. It's more of a secret now. Can't guarantee if I'll tell you even if you ask.

There, I've said it. Good bye~

I'ma back :)

Sssups. I'ma back!

Back from APIIT CF Retreat 2006.

What to say and how to say it?

I learned a lot, gave a lot, took a lot, and ate...just enough :)

Many thanks to Ewilly and her family for their hospitality, for letting us waste all the water (=_=" gomendasai~) and for messing up the house...much and many apologies for tripping the alarm at 5am (>_<) pls forgive me

Many thanks too, to Mr Loh, for preparing and giving such insightful teachings. Hope you like your gift :D

And also thanks to 33 and Daniel for pitching in, helping with the planning and all.

And last but not least, thanks to all who came and attended, hope to see you guys in CF more often :D

God? He is always thanked :D For all, everything, before and after, many thanks to Daddy God :D

Okay, I'm supah tired, drove for like 6 hours, coz of a stoopid jam near the Gombak exit. Thank God I'm safely home, in one piece. My first drive outstation :D And my first camp in which I was the leaderman/commandant/chairman/PIC. Whatever.

Pictures? You'll just have to wait until I get the rest from everybody else :D

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p.s. humps in Kuantan == skyscrapers

never drive a car with lower suspension or a full body kit there...your sideskirts will live to regret it...

Rawrer

Remember last year's camp?

"When siblings pray, miracles happen"

If you're praying over there, and I'm praying over here, won't miracles happen?

:D

Even though I'm super busy, nothing can take away my prayer time. So...if you're praying over there, expect miracles, ya? :)

ROFLOLMAO!!!!111!!!!

I was laughing till I cried when I read this from the official FormX blog. These dudes are so laugh-out-loud...i dunnoe how to describe them, they're just one big silly laughable frat-like bunch of dudes...read on...

PENANG

The trip to penang was awesome lar..Catch fish, Eat, Eat, Swim, Eat, Eat,
Wah damn stim.. BUT.. The highlight of the event was no other than MR TAN TECK JHIM!!

Back on the beach was some plp playing those small small tiny tiny short short (like jhim) kinda fireworks.. The ones that goes 'puuuuuttttt' in the air.. like davids fart..
And every1 was going like "WOAHHH, Dat has gotta be THE most amazing thing ever"
While back in the MPV david had this ultima box of explosives which had 138 shots dat would make dat wan look like 'pei si'
Make us soooo furious...

So the next day we went to the beach to play lar..Before dat we all held hands promising each other dat no matter wat, NO MATTER WAT, through thick and thin, up's and down's we will do this together.. Get caught together and all dat rubbish..

So being formx(No brain)
we played somewhere near the rocks, near the hotel lobby...
Brave and awesome luke lit the fireworks.. So 3...2....1.. BOOOMMMM
Im talkin real BOOOM!! as in the armagedon kind..
1st shot "Wah quite nice wei.."
2nd shot "Hmmm abit loud lar..."
3rd shot "Oh crap were gonna kena"

So naturaly like all human beings would do.. we decided to pretend to be 1 of those couples hugging on the beach so they wont catch us.. Unfortunately all guys lar.. But nvm.. Modern times.. anything goes.. Daniel, David Luke and I started holding hands and pretented to be 1 of those couples admiring the fireworks..

Except jhim..
Haih..
He had to be some legolas or aragon.. forgotten he is gimli..
slumberly walking towards us looking back at the fireworks like damn macho like dat..
FUH the face.. i tell u.. super yeng.. for like 30 seconds.. until the guard came running towards the dwarven sniper..

Guard: Eh boy... u yang main fireworks ar??
Jhim: (macho face magically disappeared, replaced with teary eyed cute face jhim)
No..
Guard: siapa main??
Jhim: (gonna cry kinda jhim) Dunno..

EVENTHOUGH SUPER OBVIOUS it could only be him...

THE COUPLES AREA

Luke: eh should we help him ar??
David: stupid ar!!! Say we dunno him onli lar..
Aaron: should we run now??
Daniel: No lar.. Dun like dat, help him lar..

No one remembered the promise..
Suddenly we go to help...

Guard: (Shouting) Eh u budak dari bilik 907 kan??
All : wat the heck?? how the fella know wan??
Guard: Oiiii sembilan kosong tujuh kan?? (apparently tujuh sounds studio to daniel)
So at dat he decided to make use of his half white looks and pretend to be english..

Daniel: (With heavy english accent) Studio?? wat studio?? I dun understand, Im from
England!!!!
Haih
Who also know dat the fella pretending rite?? Except jhim.. For a while daniels acting fooled jhim as well.. At dat moment of time jhim really thought he was from england and doesnt know malay..EVENTHOUGH he talk to him so long dy...

Jhim: No guys.. He means are we from room 907??
All : Can this idiot be anymore stupid..
Aaron : eh jhim how he knows our room wan??
Jhim: dunno...

Later on we found out he told the guard earlier.. Super idiot man..

Guard: U tahu main mercun dilarang mengikut akta 15..
Daniel: (Forgot he was impersonating a white boy) Tapi bang.. semalam kan.. ada orang
main..

All: 'silence'..daniel forgot he is supposed to be mat salleh..

Guard: Ok tak apa.. u budak dari mana
Jhim : (proudly answered) Malaysia boss..
Jhim: (whispering) dun worry guys.. i wont tell the full truth..i just tell half truth onli

Dat time.. The guard also laughing with us... Like we were friends or somethin..

This scenario took place while the fireworks was still blowing..

Seriously lor.. super loud lor.. the whole hotel was erupting with the sounds..

Fortunately we got away without our faces on the headlines of PENANG TIMES..

Den at 4AM some other guy was playing an even more powerful wan at the beach like trying to frame us like dat..
Haih... Good memories lar.. K lar.. forgive me if too long and draggy and all dat lar.. I did my part..

Fx: ultima!!!

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Yes, Shades, I did get your letter, just yesterday :) Many thanks!

The red wax seal was awesome~ couldn't bear to break it, so I just opened the letter by cutting around the seal :P Silly me...

Nice to know someone so far away thinks of me, thanksx1000 :)

@#$%!

I'm on the verge of tearing my hair out...

SAD Assignment...

MMT Assignment...

MMT GROUP Assignment...

Upcoming VB Assignment...

Struggling with CAS...

Camp stuff to settle...just printed booklet, need to photostat, then buy mahjong paper, pack paper plates w/ plastic spoon & forks, air mattress, stationery, etc...

And no semester break for my class this semester =_=" I wanna cry dy...

And it's now 12:51. I should be in bed, coz tomorrow I've to wake up at 6. But I was stayin' up putting teh lyrics into teh CAmp booklet. Nutzz...

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Rawrer, dun need cry wan lar, just grit your teeth and bear it la. Everybody takes that many attempts before they pass wad... just take again lor. I know life is hard, but dun la despair so much. We're all praying for you ya, distant in body, but always present with us in our hearts and minds. Love you so much, silly sister :)

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God save us all.

Quizz~

Your Values Profile

Loyalty: You value loyalty a fair amount. You're loyal to your friends... to a point. But if they cross you, you will reconsider your loyalties. Staying true to others is important to you, but you also stay true to yourself. Honesty: You value honesty a fair amount. You're honest when you can be, but you aren't a stickler for it. If a little white lie will make a situation more comfortable, you'll go for it. In the end, you mostly care about "situational integrity." Generosity: You value generosity a fair amount. You are all about giving, as long as there's some give and take. Supportive and kind, you don't mind helping out a friend in need. But you know when you've given too much. You have no problem saying "no"! Humility: You value humility highly. You have the self-confidence to be happy with who you are. And you don't need to seek praise to make yourself feel better. You're very modest, and you're keep the drama factor low. Tolerance: You value tolerance a fair amount. You are open to new cultures, beliefs, and ideas. You have very few prejudices that you're aware of. And while you are tolerant, you do stand true to what you believe.

The Five Factor Values Test

Sixty Four

"So you wanna be a knight?"

Yes, with all I am, I wish so.

"Are you a knight?"

I think so, in some ways, yes.

"Knights have to be sworn first before they become knights. They have to be knighted by authority too."

So...I have to be sworn? Isn't that like making a vow or covenant or something?

"Yup."

Are we not supposed to initiate covenants? Isn't that solely God's power?

"Yup."

So...I can't be a knight?

"Nope."

Not ever?

"Maybe later."

When?

"All in good time."

*sighs*

"Oh, and one more thing."

What is it?

"You always wanted to die for me, right?"

Yes, of course. You did not spare Your life for us, so shall I not spare mine.

"Heh. You can't die for me, unless you have lived for me. Tell me, little knight wannabe, when have you ever thought of living for me, so precoccupied about dying you have been."

Umm...

"Ha. 'Umm...' is not a good answer. Little page, you cannot die unless you have lived before. You know, like the undead in fantasies. They can't die because, well, they've not lived before. Same thing here. Live for me. Then, and only then can you die for me."

Okay...

"Good. We'll talk again later."

When?

"All in good time, little one. All in my time."

Okay...you'll be watching me, right?

"Always always."

I have Your word then?

"You doubt me?"

No.

"Good. Do you know what you need to do?"

I need to live for You?

"Correct. Keep that in mind always."

Okay...

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CF Camp in 5 more days...

Whether good or bad, time will tell, yeah? Toodles...

More Zeroes

Many of us, if not most of us, take zeroes for granted.

Everyday, we deal with numbers, and everyday, we'll encounter the zero. We use it without even thinking, without pondering what in the world does a zero mean.

In maths, zeroes are used in many ways, usually as trailing zeroes behind numbers to signify the value (e.g. 100, 1000, 10000). But when a number substracts a number of it's own value, we are left with nothing, and we represent nothing, with a zero. Interesting eh?

A zero is the abstract representative of nothing.

Or if you want to, you could say a zero is the avatar of non-existence. Like it or not, we human beings live in a rich world that exists. We have not experienced, we have not even come into contact with true nothingness. We can come up with ideas of it (black holes, space voids, etc), but the fact is, once God created the heavens and the Earth, non-existence just did not exist anymore!

So, being unfamiliar with nothingness, but yet needing something to represent it, we use a zero. 6 - 6 = 0. I have six doughnuts, and I eat it all, I am left with no doughnuts. I am left with nothing. You see, zero has no value at all, but yet we cannot live without it! How paradoxical.

Imagine a world without zeroes. Fact is, we cannot imagine it, because we have not had any experience without zero! (People who lived before the advancement of mathematics probably might, though, but not us). We need zeroes. Fascinating.

It makes me wonder, what is human, that they use something to represent nothing?

Why do they build idols, to represent deities that are not there? Deities that are nothing, non-existent?

And yet reject the opposite, because our God, who exists, chooses not to represent Himself in any concrete form, save as man himself. Curious, indeed.

Why do human beings accept representing nothing with something, and reject representing something with nothing?

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Plus point:

Human beings like heroes. They hate zeroes.

We need to be zeroes. For when man is nothing, then can God be his everything.

People have always liked zero to hero stories. It's time we had some hero to zero ones. (lol, get the pun? zero ones, lol!)