Fire and passion...

After the holidays and especially the Chapel retreat, I've found the passion again to do my best for God. Over the past few months, I felt that I was slowly drying up. With so much homework.. not that much actually, with school activities, tuition, duties and a very routine life. It's like school, tuition, homework and studies (though I rarely study).

Life was very hectic and everything seemed so routine. As days past, the fire seem to have slowly died out..

Anyway.. I've now found the fire and passion again. However, I'll have to keep a close walk with the Lord to ensure that this fire will not die out again but instead keep the fire burning.

As STPM trials approaches, the stress and heat is up. Without Him, I'm not sure how I'll be able to continue journey. He is my source of hope, my source of strength.. is Christ alone.

School life..

I'm back to school after 2 weeks of holiday. The holiday was neither too long nor too short, or maybe, a lil' too short.

I'm back to school. It's the first Chapel today this school term together with the Lower 6. There were a handful of them. I remembered when I was in Lower 6, I was so exited that there was Chapel Service. It is so beautiful. It is indeed a time for us to quiet down our heart despite the busy school life a reflect on whether we have been focusing on the right things throughout the school week.

The Lower 6s' just started their orientation. Some have got their personal seniors signatures but some are still yet to start.

Have fun Lower 6s'.. Enjoy your Form 6 life in MBS..

Apple pie and pop corn

The lite 'n' sweet cinnamon popcorn

The apple pie in the process

Apple pie.. The one me and my mom baked..

Left and Right Brain Equal..

I just did a test on which side of my brain is more dominant and this is the result..

You use both sides equally.

Right brain individual: Right brain individuals are intuitive, creative and imaginative. They are flexible and are concerned with the bigger picture rather than details. They are impulsive and spontaneous and do not like time limits. They have difficulty explaining ideas verbally and prefer illustrations to verbal instructions. Careers: Architects, Artists, Salespeople, Psychiatrists, Musicians, Politicians, Teachers. (Interpersonal, Emotional, Musical, Spiritual, Talker.) Left brain individuals are analytical, articulate and to the point. They like identifying details and are more logical than intuitive. Left brained people have good communication and persuasion skills. Careers: Engineers, Systems Analysts, Technicians, Accountants, Librarians. (Administration, Conservative, Organization, Planner, Structure.)

TRY doing this

My apple pie

I learned how to make Short crust pastry yesterday.. It's half fat to flour. plus egg, cold water, sugar and salt... Then u knead, knead and knead.. but not too much. Don't handle the flour too much or else it'll turn 'rubbery' when it's baked...

Here's the recipe:
Ingredients - For dough

• 1 egg
• 2 bowls of all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda/Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 tbs Icing sugar
• Cold water to bind the flour
• 1/2 bowl shortening
• 1/2 bowl butter/margarine

Method:

1. Sieve together flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and icing sugar.
   
2. Add in shortening and butter.
3. Use a butter knife to cut fat into small pieces to blend with the flour until it resembles fine bread crumbs.
4. Add in the egg yolk only.
   
5. Add in cold water a little at a time to bind the flour together using hands.
6. The dough is ready when it does not stick to the sides of the bowl and your hands.
7. Now, knead the dough with the palm of your hands.
   
8. Roll the dough with a rolling pin and place it into a pan.
   
9. Done.
   
10. Pre- bake the dough for 5 mins at 150

Sieved flour and fat.

Fine bread crumbs...

Add in egg yolk followed by cold water and bind it together; then knead

The dough is ready

pictures taken fr:http://www.pastrywiz.com/cakes/piedough.htm

THE DOUGH IS NOW READY.... YEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH......

Ingredients - Filling

• 6 Granny Smith green apples
• 1 lemon
• 1/2 bowl raisins
• Ground Cinnamon
  
• 1 tbs soft brown sugar

Method

1. Peel and grate the apple
   
2. Add in the lemon juice, the raisins and the sugar.
3. Sprinkle the cinnamon onto the mixture and mix it thoroughly
4. Done

Then,

1. Add the filling into the dough and baked for 15-20 mins.
   
2. Keep an eye to make sure you don't get a burnt offering.. Hahahahahahhahahahahaha.

With the short crust pastry ready, my mom and I made the apple pie filling.. Yum, yum...

While pre- baking the pastry, I made pop corn. Cinnamon popcorn to be exact, it was not bad. Lite 'n' sweet popcorn with a slight cinnamon taste.

Took pictures of the pastry and popcorn.. Will upload it later..

Dinner...

Had dinner at a restaurant called the Golden Triangle yesterday.. The food there was not bad, spicy but not spicy enough. Overall, it was nice, especially the environment and interior design was good.

My cousin and his new toy..

My cousin WK just got a new toy yesterday.. Yeh!! *clap* *clap* It's a Yoga Ball.....

He did all sorts of exercise with the ball. The exercises look simply for it's not easy. Hey, I actually took some picture of him with the Yoga Ball but I promised him that I'll not post them, so too bad....

Haiz...

The second week of the school holidays has just begun. I'm learning to play the song "To Zarnakand" in Final Fantasy on the piano.

Yesterday, my cousins and I went for a movie entitled "Night At the Museum 2". It was ok, not bad, funny. I'm waiting for the new Harry Potter to be out in the cinema.

........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... don't know what to blog about la...

Tomorrow. Tomorrow perhaps I'll have some ideas..

A long long day..

Dinner was awesome yesterday..

Petai Sambal with Prawn, my favourite dish

I woke up at 6.15 am today because we needed to send my cousin, WK to his SAT at KDU, Penang. We actually reached quite early, about 7.15 and the exam only starts at 8am.

After dropping him off and settling him down, we went to Bali Hai to eat 'dim sum' for breakfast. The 'dim sum' there was good. Shortly after that, we came back to fetch my other cousin WL to KDU also for his Anime gathering.

I can tell that WL is really into it. He stayed up till 2.00am something to complete his sword. Salute him for that, for his determination. He said he was going to play something like Amazing Race at the anime gathering.

Well, I personally am not into anime. No offense, but I think some of the anime are quite evil, but it also depends on how you look at it. Later while waiting for my cousin to finish his SAT exam, my mom and I sat at the lobby to observe those people who dress up like anime characters.

As I observed, what crossed my mind was this. These people are trying so hard to dress up to be someone their not. Anime is a world of fantasy, and these people trying so hard to be someone their not because they are so influenced by them. I was thinking, would these people try too hard and end up being confused between reality and fantasy? Of course, not all are like that. Some just like it because of it's graphics or just for the fun. So I think that it's really important that we are able to find a balance between it.

Well, anime aside, after dropping WL of, we went to Gurney Plaza. There we went to Jurin for lunch. It's a Japanese Restaurant. I ate Unagi Stone bowl, my mom and aunt both ate tepanyyaki seafood combo and venison respectively, while WK ate cold soba.

My cousin looking half dead after his SAT during lunch

The chopstick at the restaurant

After lunch we went to Cold Storage. Later when we were on our way home, WL called and said that he'll be done in 45mins, so we detoured and went to Coffee Bean. After 50 mins, when we wanted to fetch him, he called to say that he wanted to join another anime competition. So we decided to come home first. We reached home at about 5.45pm. That's almost 12 hours out.

It's quite a long day but not that long also because I've been out for longer hours... Well, this sentence makes no sense does it? It's was a long day but not that long???

*clap* *clap* Had Sambal petai with prawn and sotong again for dinner today..

I can't belileve that I'm Actually writing this

I want to go back to school.. I miss school.. I miss my friends..

During the mid-year exams, I was longing for the holidays, but now when I'm in the midst of the holidays, I want to go back to school.

Oh ya, I read all the comments posted in facebook about the Chapel Retreat, looks like everyone did learned something.

Are we really having another one after STPM in December? I don't mind, I really looking forward to it actually if there's going to be one.

NUBE was a really nice place. I don't mind going there again for the next camp..

Hey, is Chapel going to have another retreat next year? Can I join? Will I be over aged??

Just Random..

Just the other day, my mom and I went to Great Eastern Mall to run some errands. Upon reaching, we needed to photostat something. So we went to LG(Lower Ground),they had a booth there, however the were out of paper.

Well, too bad then I thought. So I went up to 3rd floor, a computer shop. I went in but there was no one there. The shop was left there without anyone and with all those computer gadgets, laptops...

I was like wow.. The owner just left these things here????

I waited for about 5 minutes but no one turned up.

After that, I saw a name card on the counter and I decided to call the person.

Me: Hello, is this Mr Leaw.
Mr. L : Ya..
Me: I'm at your computer shop here at Ampang, but no one is here.
Mr. L: Are you sure? There should be a Malay girl there..
Me: I really sorry, but I don't see anyone. I was here waiting for the past 5 minutes.
Mr. L: 5 MINUTES!!!! Ok, ok... I'm so sorry. I try to get her.
Me: Ok. Thanks. I called you because I saw your name card at the counter so I thought you would be the one in charge.
Mr.L: Ok.. Thanks. I so sorry.
Me: Thanks. Bye
Mr. L: Bye.
I was at the shop for over 5 minutes actually, but no one was there. But later the girl turned up, and the photostat cost RM 1, only two sheets of paper. Black and white.

Whatever, the conclusion is I got my things done..

Emo-ing... after camp

I miss camp. I really had a wonderful time there... the sessions, the fellowship, the games, the group discussion...

Never mind, even I myself too don't understand. I just feel that I've learned so much at camp.. but there is still so.. so... much to be learned and I can't wait to learn them all..

But then again.. Humans can never ever learn everything about themselves what more to know everything about God. There's so much to be discovered about oneself and about God.

I just hope that God will reveal Himself to me according to His will and time.. I too hope to discover more about myself..

Chapel Retreat cum Leadership Camp

Chapel Retreat cum Leadership Camp


29th May 09 - 31 st May 09

At N.U.B.E. Port Dickson

Matthew 16:24-25
24Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever wants to save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.

Can you imagine this, yesterday after camp, i was so tired. But I somehow had enough strength to do my quiet time and this was the verse for the devotion. I just returned from camp on how we should listen for God's calling and seek His will, and this was the verse God gave to me. I totally know that this is no coincidence, it is God reminding me about what I've learned at camp.

I shared at camp during the reflection time on how reluctant was I when I first knew there was this Chapel Retreat, but truly, 100% no regrets attending it. THANK YOU TEACHERS for your dedication, love and time in making this camp a success.

When we received the schedule for the camp, I was like WHAT!!!! Devotion at 7.00am, which means waking up at 6.30 am, ok..ok.. that's still fine, I wake up at 5.45am during school days, so shouldn't be much of a problem, then breakfast followed by session, the morning tea, then session again, then lunch, then SESSION, then afternoon tea, the session, next is bath and dinner, then session.. I was like. Ok, It's totally and completely going to be a stressful camp.

Anyway, on the second day, surprisingly, it's wasn't that stressful after all but tiring because we slept at 2am something the night before. Later that evening, we had games. We played Captain Ball by the beach. So cool.. But a few of us had a very "memories", Joyce had a ball flying straight into her face, Deborah had two blue blacks on the legs and I had a elbow tackle on my head. Hahha.. But overall it was really fun and all of us had a good time together, and really lovely memories.

On to the sessions..

The sessions were all very good. All of them impacted me in different way. Do you know how great is our God? His greatness is far beyond the comprehension of the human mind.. With the same message and words spoken during the sessions, each and every individual is impacted and touched in different ways according to God's will. We were very privileged to have so many facilitators to speak to us which enable us to learn different thing from each of their experience. The was a session on Career by Daniel Tan, it was very informative and funny, really learned some new from there. There was the X generation by Mrs Ng who showed a video clip which also impacted me, it made me reflected and was really a wake up call from God to me to come out of my comfort zone, there were sessions by Mrs Low on how real our God can be in our life, and also Chaplain Sally. Her session were also very good and there was lots of hidden meaning behind those words that she spoke waiting for us to slowly analyse and digest those message.

Oh ya, we also did a temperament test, which was good as it helped us to discover our self and to maximize our strength and overcome our weaknesses for the Lord. Besides that, I also had a good time with my friends, all of them were truly a blessing to me. I was able to different things from each of them. I was also able to mend a relationship with a friend whom I found out was a lovely person. I guess it was also God's will for me to attend this camp to repair this relationship besides learning lots more of other stuff.

Sweet memories..

We sang a beautiful hymn during the camp entitled "How Great Thou Art" . Had an really good fellowship. There was a debate on "Are leaders made or borned?" .... N.U.B.E. was also a beautiful place, very serene and realxing. Nice place to have a camp.... and many many other priceless and precious lessons learned..

In the bus..

When we were leaving KL to N.U.B.E, everyone was like full of energy, chatting and laughing away. But on the way back, it was quiet. Everyone, well, most of us were flat. TIRED and really low battery.... I too slept throughout the journey.

CHAPEL RETREAT ROCKS!!!

I truly feel like attending it again next year if there is, but I'm not sure whether I'll be over aged. There is still so much more to learn...

THANK YOU TEACHERS, THANK YOU GOD..

PRAISE GOD THAT THE CAMP WAS A SUCCESS...