The Five People You Meet in Heaven

So, you might be wondering what the title is all about...(if you're well read, u should know..haha)...okie, for those of you who don't know, it's the title of a book, by Mitch Albom...Jade and Laura (from my church back in KK) introduced me to it..and I haven't got a chance to read it until reasonly...

Two days ago, I went to Mid Valley...and I borught my badminton racquet...YEAH!!!! Cost me about RM 170 for everything...hehe....The story has to start with the racquet, because without the racquet, I wouldn't have gone into MPH...

It was like this, it was about 3:50pm, and I have just paid for my racquet... and I have 2 hours to kill because I was waiting for my racquet to get stringed...so having no place to go, and being the kind of person that I was, I walked into MPH, figured I'll just find something to read for 2 hours... I was walking around the shelves, wondering what to pick, then suddenly this book just crossed my mind and I went to look for it... I was supposed to finish it there, so that I didn't need to buy it...but as things turn out, I didn't finish it and I was so intrigued by what will the five persons tell Eddie that I decided to get it in the end...

So yea...erm...the book is about this old guy, Eddie. In the beginning of the story, he died... and he was going to heaven... Now, Eddie led quite a sad life (or at least he thinks so)... he felt he was unimportant, and that he didn't achieve anything...he didn't understand why some ppl treated him the way that did, and he didn't understand why certain things happened to him...(if u want to know what happened, go get the book. If I tell you all the details then it wouldn't be fun)..sounds familiar right? I think all of us will feel like that at one point or another in our life...

Anyway, he went to heaven, and he met five ppl there...these ppl weren't neccessary ppl he knew, or was close to, but they were ppl who knew him, and were there to explain why certain things had to happen, why he lived and what he lived for...and I can tell you, starting from his 3rd person, I just couldn't stop crying in spite of myself...but I had to control my tears as I didn't want my roommates to think that I was nuts...lol..why did i cried? I'm not sure...touching? I don't know...maybe because it speaks of stories familiar with our own...it's not the facts that are the same, but the feelings, the emotions, the longing for love, the longing to be HOME (with God in heaven)...

If I may quote...

"...he floated up above the sand and above the broadwalk, above the tent tops and spires of the midway, toward the peak of the big, white Ferris wheel, where a cart, gently swaying, held a woman in a yellow dress - his wife, Marguerite, waiting with her arms extented. He reached for her and he saw her smile and the voices melded into a single word from God: Home."

"...that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are one."

It comforted me, in the sense that God knew what He was doing with me (and us)... sometimes we feel we have achieved nothing, or what we do is insignificant, but rest assured, God didn't put you anywhere else because you were meant to be there...you may not know why you are there (or here), and if you don't get the answer while u're on earth, u wil get one in heaven..Meanwhile, you just gotta do what u have been given faithfully... The book reminds me that I have to trust God, that I don't have to think or worry too much about my purpose, because ur purpose, like Eddie,may be small and insignificant in many's eyes, but none the less has saved so many lives....It reminds that my home is not here, but somewhere so much more better...

Happy Merdeka and and have a blessed day~

The book I was talking about...next on my list: Tuesdays with Morrie!!!
btw, I have decided not to load a picture of KarMen.. athough I have it already...in case some psycho serial child kidnapper/rapist/killer sees it...(I'm serious)

Kar Men leaving KK...T.T

T.T ...... Kar Men leaving KK...and I m not there to say goodbye.....T.T.....I'm so sad o...Wong Kar Men is a little girl (i think 4 turning on 5 years old) who goes to my church's Sunday School...or as they call it GS Kids (Good Sam Kids)...I have been looking after her in GS Kids for a few months...really got attached to her...because she is just sooooooooooooo cute and adorable...cant tell you how cute she is just using words, but when see her u will know why every1 loves her....my bro told me that she will be leaving on thursday for KL, coz her father got transferred here... and I don't think her parents are Christians or church-goers, so equals I won't see her again...wa...T.T...my bro who's in KK, can at least say goodbye to her...he said he took picture with her and give her and her bro a bookmark each and prayed for her also....yer.....I'm going to miss her....(sob sob) hopefully when she's in KL, her parents still let her go to Sunday School and also prayed that God will heal her of her sickness (she is epileptic)...right now waiting for my bro to send me a pic of her...then hopefully I can post it to let u guys see.....

Hai~ so sad..T.T

Mid Sem Break Story 3

Hmm....so what to say about today?I practically spent my whole day in churches...and today, when I started my day, I prayed to God and asked Him to help me be happy no matter what happens...I don't know what lighting struck me, but I was just determined to be happy, I don't want to allow anything to upset me...mayb because today is church day...

Started my day at St Mary's Cathedral...which is my buddy, Marianne's church.... the church is B-E-A-U-tiful..mayb because it's more than a hundred years old and has that old historical architectural feeling...hehe... everyone say it is THE church to get married in, and it is rumoured that you have to book one year in advance if you want to get married there. Personally I wouldn't mind getting married there, because it's so pretty...but it doesn't really matter if I don't because first, I think that the church setting of a marriage is not so important, so long as it's a church (Anglican preferbly) and second, I don't plan to get married...but mayb that will change as I will explain later... Well, the first talk was about the achievement of the cross (that is Jesus dying on the cross).. What really stuck with me about the talk was that through the cross you will see God's love...you can't read God's love through your circumstances, ie if your day was good God loves u today but if the day is not good, He doesn't... If you really want to know about God's love, go to the cross, it's the ultimate love....

After that we had electives where we were supposed to choose between evangelism, BGR talk and studies...i was actually indecisive bout which to choose initially, but in the end I chose the BGR...somehow I felt that it bore some significance...call me crazy but I felt like I was making some sort of huge dicision, like if I didn't choose this it will be eliminated from my life forever.....and do I really want that? I really can't give you an answer....at least not now, because I really don't know the answer myself....

Anyway, reached college at bout 3:45 pm..straightaway took my bath because I was supposed to meet my sis at station university at 4:40 pm... but because it rained so heavily,she ended up coming to meet me...haha..somehow, over here in KL, I seem to look forward to go to church...and I have also decided to join this Deep and Strong programme...cant tell you what it is exactly (because I havent attend..haha), but just felt that I should go....

Today's sermon was about how does God call me...I seriously do not know how God is calling me and to do what... I know I really have to give this serious thought...but then again because I'm a high C person, mayb I shouldn't think so much, and just do it...problem is I don't know what to do.....T.T

Whatever it is, I really just want to be thankful for everything, especailly for being here in KL (initially I didn't want to come)... I've also made up my mind, I want to be happy...live everyday for God,and let Him use me and mould me...

Mid Sem Break Story 2

Today I managed to do a lot of things....I woke up quite early (early for hoilidays lar)... why? Coz I need to go to clinic pergigian pelajar, to check my jaw, which produces clicking sounds when i open my mouth - wide. Actually it's not such a big deal, been having it for over a year now.. I'm doing this for my sis, so she can use me as her patient for plaque counting (or whatever it is called)...Anyway, walked all the way from 1st college to the hospital, got confused bout whether to go up or down at the hospital lift (see how i manage to get lost everywhere..hehe), then was all over my sis's fac... even went to her cubical where she drills ppl's teeth (but i dont think she can do that yet...lol)...Life is going to get more troublesome because the MO said I can't eat crispy and/or hard food (no keropok, no nuts, no fried fish and chicken...don't ask me, t'was what she said...), can't open my mouth BIG BIG (includes laughing and yawning and eating burger) and have to put hot pack on it at least 3 times a day...then have to go back for check-up in 2/3 weeks...and my appointment is one hour before my lecture...I dont plan to go anyway...I just wanted to help my sis get her marks, used this as an excuse to open a folder and walah!...landed myself in this sticky situation....lol

Anyway, the whole session at the hospital took up my whole morning. After coming back, I went SHOPPING with my room mate at Times Square...haha...I brought 4 shirts and a pair of sandals slipper thingy (whatever you call them)...had McD for dinner instead of spicy college food and I also brought Famous Amos no nut chocolate chip cookies (my fav. ...yummy!!) ... The only down side of the whole trip was the trip back to KL Sentral via monorail from Times Square....terrible....there were SO MANY people that we couldn't get into the train until the 7th or 8th train came by... even then, we were just able to squeeze in...I stood right next to the door and nearly got squashed by the train door...lol...and the people here are so GANAS...you should see how they push and cut your "queue" (there was no queue actually but they were pushing in from ALL sides, like water pressure, until they were in front of you, hence cutting my queue)... seriously, I thought this was a civilised city...not so after all... but got this teenage boy who was so nice, he let me go first coz i didn't want to be separated with my friend...haha...after boarding the monorail train, we were squashed like sardine fish in a can...then at the next station, I was pushed left and right because I was standing near the door and they were a lot of people coming out...and I got no where to retreat to...really was uncomfartable..too bad I can't sue them all for the tort of battery, how bout hostile touching then??? lol

So that was my day today...tomorrow really gotta start studying liao..still lots of tutorials to prepare for...

Mid Sem Break 1

Today supposed to do hubungan etnik project, looking up some journals and books for reference... before that, my room mate and I tried to search for available books in the library online... but apparently all the stuff we want is in the Peringatan Za'ba, only some are at the main library.. but because we dunno where is the Perpustakaan Peringatan Za'ba so we decided to try the main library first....but end up still need to go to Za'ba.... so 麻烦...have to ask 5 persons only can get there successfully...A
After main library, we got lost in Arts and Social Science Faculty, then we got lost again in the Business and Accounting Faculty (Ding, if u happen to read this, I HAVE BEEN TO YOUR FAC!!! lol) while trying to find that Za'ba libraray...but finally made it...

This Za'ba library also one kind de....everything also so strict... wanna refer to a book also have to fill in a form, then need to get a marker card to mark the position of the book when u take it away..so that when u finish u put it back at the exact same place....then we wanted to do some photocopying, we asked the counter guy and u know what he said?????? can only photocopy 10% of the book...i.e if the book has 100 pages then u can only photocopy 10 pages.... how absurd!!!! After choosing the pages we want, the counter guy only told us that if we want to photocopy we need to pay RM 2.00 service charge for the whole day and then it's 10 sen for each page.... 我真的差一点被他气死。Couldn't he have told us earlier?

But thank God we still managed to get the information we want...should have taken a pic at the Za'ba libraray...I don't think I wanna go back there if I can help it, too many procedures and it's quite far also..Law library is good enough...hehe....

Anyhow today we did our fair share of exploring... now I can say I have been to the Arts and Social Science Faculty, the Business and Accounting Faculty, the Za'ba Library and we also passed by the Economics Fac and Education Fac...haha...next time should not get lost la....

The Beginning of My Blog

Have been inspired by my friends to start a blog... saw their blogs and thought it was an ingenious way to keep them updated on my life here in KL, while studying my LLB at the Faculty of Law at the University of Malaya (for those of u who dont know what I'm doing)....I'm still not sure how this whole blogging thing works, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon enough....Meanwhile, please bear while my "barely there" blogging skills..