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I'm lying on my bed now, blogging while Switchfoot is playing over and over again...
In about 24 more hours, I wouldn't be here, not for another 5 months...
I still have a thousand million things to pack, but I really don't know where to start...
And why did no one tell me that a fringe was so hard to maintain? Now I'll have to take a dumb bimbo comb (and probably scissors) around....

Btw, do check out my playlist if you have time, I'm so thrilled that I've finally figured out how to post it on my page (yeah, you more IT-able(d) people go ahead and laugh out loud), but I did it alone, without asking help from someone, so I'm pretty pleased with myself....:p
Anyway, the songs are all by Switchfoot, Jon Foreman really writes good songs.. one of them, I think the second track "This is Home" is used in the Narnia movie, and my favourite is no.?? ( I don't know, forgotten), "You", it's got touching lyrics...XD

"God, can You give me one good reason not to quit?"

I didn't write this, but thought I'd like to share it...

One day I decided to quit...I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality... I wanted to quit my life.

I went to the woods to have one last talk with God.

"God", I asked, "Can you give me one good reason not to quit?"

His answer surprised me...

"Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the bamboo?"

"Yes", I replied.

"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them.

I gave them light. I gave them water.

The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo.

In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said.

"In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit.

In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit." He said.

"Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant.

But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots.

Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle."

He asked me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots".

"I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you."

"Don't compare yourself to others." He said.

"The bamboo had a different Purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful."

"Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high"

"How high should I rise?" I asked.

"How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked in return.

"As high as it can?" I questioned.

"Yes."

He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can."

I left the forest and brought back this story. I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you.

Never, Never, Never Give up. For the Prayer is not an option but an opportunity.

Don't tell the Lord how big the problem is, tell the problem how Great the Lord is!

Your Little Whacked World

Yeong Sheng is right..... you do live in a whacked world of your own.... sometimes it's not like I don't want to try to understand, but it becomes so hard when you're trying to make us all fit into your little whacked world... but the funny thing is, I will still end up conforming to whatever whacked thing it is that you want me to do....sometimes I think you protect me just a tad too much (not that I'm entirely ungrateful), and trust me too little, and sometimes (well sometimes) I think you're responsible for killing off whatever interest I have in the outside world, as well as trying to make me do stuff according to your principles (some are good I know, but the others are just whacked), which in turn is slowly destroying whatever principles I have tried to built up while not under your cover; trying to make me into your "perfect girl", which I'm not and never will be....

I know that after a while, I will forget this and think that I'm so silly to say these things about you, I do love you after all (at least I think I do, if not I wouldn't be trying to please you)... I guess I'm just trying to vent this somewhere, but no-point trying to tell you, you live in a whacked world of your own, I'll just be told to "shut up", but of course you don't say it that way... you just say it in a way that I know it's my cue to stop talking...and that I shouldn't have said anything in the first place, and I should have nod and agree and admit that I'm the one wrong (and I'm always wrong, for some reason....)

At the end of the day, maybe you're right (well, sometimes not), but I guess I live in my own whacked world too and I have no right to pass judgment on you.... after all, I'm the one who is deemed as the one who has the problem...

Oh well, I just hope someday you'll know and just accept me for who I really am, flaws and all....

I'm Getting Olde.......

Yes...I'm getting OLD...read the title again....

I mean, I used to have a better memory, I used to remember things easier and I certainly used to enjoy certain animated movies......okie, the last one wasn't that convincing but the point is I'M GETTING OL-DE.......

5 minutes ago I was checking up on my facebook account, there was a friend request... and I took 15 seconds to try to remember who she was (and I knew her, not those freaking anonymous people who you think you might or might not know), and this is not the first time this happened...crap.... this kind of things just don't slip your mind.....!!! I'M GETTING OL-DE!!!! I'm telling you: I really am losing my memory........

Fine, I'm being a bit dramatic....but I gotta inject some drama into my dead boring life now....but that's my fault too, coz I've been lazing around doing pretty much nothing (constructive)....=p

Btw, I'm even too lazy to upload my Mt. Kinabalu photos...not that I have anything else to do....I'm just...lazy.....:) *cheers*

Malacca Trip

Aha!!! So I'd said I will upload photos of my trips... normally I would be too lazy, but since I'm not going out temporarily, the reason being I have a TERRIBLE complexion now....ugh.... (*not thinking about it*....ugh...pisses me off...ugh) Right.... so I've tried to arrange the photos in sequence from the first place I visited to the last, there are of course other photos taken in between but I'd just uploaded the important ones so u get the gist of it....*lazy...lazy....* heheh XD

First place we visited was Malaysia's biggest ferris wheel - Eye on Malaysia.... pretty, ain't it?

Yikes..I look hideous in this photo, but just thought I showed you how it was like in the little cabin... XD

Next day, first thing in the morning, we went for a morning walk at a place called Tun Fatimah Stadium and then we climbed St. John's hill (which was just a slope btw...haha) and at the top there was this fort complete with canons

Next is the famous Jonker Street, just that we made the unusual "day trip" (people usually go at night, where the atmosphere is much more 热闹）...Ah~ anyway, I just wanted to see the place..

Somewhere on Jonker Street.... we were told that the main difference between the daytime street and the nighttime street is that the shops put up stalls at night like pasar malam, other than that they sell the same things....

Then, we crossed this bridge, which I *think* is the Malacca River.... it was all built up and really pretty along the banks...

Erm...I don't know what is this actually... I mean I know it is a windmill (albeit a fake one), but I do not know it's significance in this scene... probably just tourist attraction....

Then across the street from the fake windmill we have the Red House thing.... which I dunno what's it's proper name... bler...:p... you get it... the Red House thingy...lol

The pretty (gosh, I have to STOP using this word, I sound like a little girl) fountain....

Taken at the entrance of the Red House....

We were going to visit the Tombs and the A Famosa Fortress....

This picture was meant to look like we were all having a good time, sitting on the grass, enjoying the "cool weather", not unlike one of those photos you can find in overseas universities' prospectuses....haha...but I guess the umbrella gave us away... it was freaking HOT....

This is better...in the shade....

I like this photo...view of the old church....

The walls of the old church....

Those stone tablets on the side walls are tomb stones.... they are really pretty....

At the back of the church was this coffin/cage thing....

Taken at one of the huge church windows.....

Me, with the tomb stones.....

After that, we descended the hill, and if you can see below, it's the A Famaso Fortress....

There is it..... Kota A Famosa....

Next, we went to take a ride in the Manara Taming Sari, which is a tower which goes to the top spins around a few rounds (slowly lar.....), so tourists can see the view...

This was taking from the top of the tower... this is Dataran Pahlawan.... I *think* (see, I'm losing my memory....) it's the shopping mall we hung out at for the air-con after the hot, hot weather.... XD

After that, we visited this place where there were all these models of trains and aeroplanes... forgot what else was there.... this was before we head off to eat Satay Celup...

Now for food.....

Cendol....but I still think Penang's cendol is nicer....XP

Chicken rice ball.... actually it's just the rice ball that's special.....haha

We also went to eat cake at this shop (which name I have forgotten) where they make cakes that have A LOT of layers... I would probably have enjoyed it a lot more if I knew how to appreciate cheese...apparently you can only find it in Malacca, it made me think of Veda Blu in Sabah, probably it's a local thing????

Ah~...okie...that's it for Malacca, we only hung out in the town area, and I didnt even go to the Portuguese Settlement... but really want to thank my seniors (who were local Malaccans) who brought us around.... maybe someday I will go back to visit the outskirts.... =)