It's another one of those days

Where you just sit down and talk nonsense all day long, crack jokes, snap random photos, run up to random strangers and tap them on the shoulder just to smile at them, wear springy Christmas hats, speak chinese.

And well, just have fun.

(insert cliched line here for joy and happiness)

Cup full of sarcasm

Home!

Well that's the thing about home - you can be away for so long: days, weeks, months, or even years. But once you get back, it's as though you have never left in the first place.

With Christ in the vessel

Promo: LOUD Christmas!

This face will ring a bell in most of your heads.



Many apologies for the very unflattering picture but it was the most not-unflattering picture I could find from her website.

Well the look aside, Juwita Suwito has always been THE local artist for me. Ever since seeing her performing in HUGE Camp way back in 2004, I have tried downloading a few tracks that she sung (I only managed to download one in the end), and I thought that she was pretty good!

So after saving up an amount of cash, I bought her first album - titled Brand New World in 2005 for Rm28. If you knew me then, I would've rather skinned myself than to spend that kind of money on anything, but I bought it, and I was definitely not disappointed with her amazing vocal performance on that CD.

"If there were singers, there were singers. Juwita Suwito is more than a singer, songwriter and overall superstar to many.. she's also a friend. Thanks for never forgetting us Juwita! Your fan, stan. I mean JFK"
- JFK (Hitz.FM)

Well, after a period of being on hiatus(?), I finally saw her again, this time right at my doorstep - in HSG's International Music Night. There, she sang her awesome power-packed rendition of Rihanna's Umbrella, which I am still desperately trying to find it on youtube, imeem - everywhere! up until now.

And who would have guessed that four months down the road, I will be seeing her again, at the same place?



This December 19th, Juwita Suwito is in the house, performing live at HSG KL! With tickets priced dirt cheap at Rm8 - Rm15, you have GOT to be kidding me if you say you would rather be doing something else.



And of course, the other notable artist who will be in the same place, performing alongside Juwita is our homegrown R&B artist, Liang.

It's a little tricky to find his name if you google it up, because of many other well-known figures like Guang Liang or even Zhuge Liang. But from what I have heard, he is one of Malaysia's more prominent artists.



Liang has won the AIM award, which is the highest honors in music as far as Malaysia is concerned. Well, if he can win that, he has to be something, right?

I personally am not such a big fan of R&B music, but you can still check out his music video, and you decide for yourself.



This December 19th: Loud Christmas... It ain't going to be a silent night.

It's the 6th day

And I'm still home alone!

What is wrong with the world?!! AHHHHHH!!

Well, according to elder sis, dad's confirmed coming back today, but the rest of them are going to be half here and half there, so they're not even sure if they want to come back and save me from eating out again or not.

But overall, I feel pretty proud of myself for surviving the past 6 days! Over the almostweek, I've learnt to:

1. COOK!
2. Clean up other people's mess. Pffpth, melancholy me coming up from within.
3. Sleep alone in an otherwise empty house. Well to be honest, I was just too freaking tired to do anything else but crash. But it counts okay!
4. Do my own laundry! I officially hate ironing clothes by the way. I need more clothes that require minimum ironing. Ish.
5. Do SOMETHING apart from being online for 6 hours straight in a single day.
6. Play cash flow!
7. I would've added something here but I'll kill myself before I let any of you know about it.
8. Read fast! I can read 1.8 times faster than the average human with the same comprehension rate. Heh heh heh.

I feel so accomplished =)

Well...

100 words
This was my score on the first try.

Come on, dare you to beat me. =P

Me & McDonalds

Fine, so I'm too lazy to cook my own dinner.

I was just calling McDonalds' delivery service earlier, and they put me on the usual annoying waiting tone. And it was interesting because the conversation went something like this.

Pre-recorded voice: Please be notified that your call will be used for training and monitoring purposes as we continue to serve you better. Please hold while we place your call in queue.

*annoying music plays*

*annoying music loops*

Pre-recorded voice: I'm sorry, all of our call agents are busy at the moment. Please hold on.

*annoying music plays again*

*annoying music loops again*

Pre-recorded voice: I'm sorry, all of our call agents are still busy. Please hold on.

*annoying music again*

*loops again*

Pre-recorded voice: Traffic is very heavy at the moment. Thank you for your patience.

*annoying music plays*

And FINALLY! someone picked up my call! You have got to love McDonalds for that. The best part about the whole event was that after I placed my order and put down the phone, I suddenly received a call on my handphone only a few minutes later.

Guy from McDonalds: Hello Mr Joseph, we are sorry but we seem to be sold out of what your ordered for.

Whoo!

iThink...

Therefore iCook.

If you remember some time ago, I attempted to put burger patties into bread instead of the burger bun.

Didn't turn out too well.

I had always been intrigued by cooking: How was it that those people in restaurants can cook with seemingly the same things i use to cook at home, and theirs always taste better?

When the mamak guy cooks Maggi Goreng, it always turns out well.

When I cook Maggi Goreng, it becomes a blackened lump of viscous, sticky... thing.

When Pastor Cheah cooks fish, the plate is licked clean.

When I cook fish... well actually i've never dared to try.

So about an hour ago I was in a dilemma: Order McDs, Order Nandos, or heat up last night's food?

McDs is not filling enough, Nandos demand that I order mroe than Rm25 worth before they're willing to deliver it over here, and last night's food... is, well, last night's food.

So inspired by a Nando's recipe, I decided to try my hand at making cheese-baked rice. No one's at home, so no one's gonna complain ahahaha.

After a lot of pots and pans and cackling oil later, my cheese-fried rice came out! Yeah, I know it was supposed to be cheese-baked rice, but the oven is so worn out that I don't know which knob is which anymore. I figured that frying is just as good as baking.

Well what to say... it came out much better than I expected it to! =D Apart from the overwhelming cheesiness (or is it supposed to taste like that?) it turned out to be a great meal! =)


I'm gonna cook again tomorrow! Ahaha run younglings run
Jo

iThink...

I am going to spend the next 5 days alone! =O

My family is leaving tomorrow at 9am (says my mom. I bet they're going to leave at 11am earliest gahahaha) for Bekok in Johor until Tuesday afternoon.

And I'll be left all alone! *audience gasp*

Well on the bright side, I can start doing all those things that I should have been doing through the week. One of which includes me finding something to wear for prom!

Anyone wants to go shopping? =D

SPM is over!!

...now what?

More great movies!

Over the past 48 hours I have been on a movies spree. Some of my personal reccomendations, and why you should watch it too! =)

1. Liar Liar



It's quite an old movie (1997) about a guy who cannot tell a single lie, not even a teeny-weeny little white lie for 24 hours! Sounds interesting? =P An awesome movie. It's Jim Carrey after all!

2. Get Smart



Four words: Anne Hathaway is sexy.

Lol! Just kidding =P Though she is lar. A very very fun movie, sesuai untuk tontonan umum =)

3. The Reading Room



This one's about an entrepreneur who gives up his business to start a reading room to help the people living in a notorious part of town. The storyline may be a tad bit too slow for some, but a very heart-warming movie nontheless. Watch it if you've nothing better to do or just for some feel-good moments.


Till I watch more movies,
Jo

Move it!

Don't chase things that you don't know =)

With Everything!

Absolutely awesome!

Windows Live Writer?

This shall be my first post. My very very first post editing directly from Windows Live Writer Beta.

If you have no idea what that is, I understand. Just a few days ago I was on Kennysia.com, and he said something like “Bill Gates told me to tell you that the new Windows Live Messenger is awesome, so go and download it”

Well, so I did.

The new messenger looks awesome, alright – after quite a bit of customization. While I was trying to install it, came a whole flurry of other programs that wanted to be downloaded together with it as well.

Windows Live Toolbar… nah.
Windows Live Phonecall… nah.
Windows Live Video Conferencing… nah.

Then I saw this thing called Windows Live Writer, and I was curious, of course. So I took a look at it and it said it will help me create beautiful blog posts. It was only about 20MB, so I tried it out.

So what do you all think?

PS. This entry was written and published at 6pm Malaysian time, I’m setting it to appear tomorrow. So let’s see if this works. Shall elaborate more on its features AKA what can it do that blogger cannot when I have used it to its fullest extent.

Know what goes well with BK?

Chocolate chip cookies! =D

Ipoh!

We all love Ipoh. Well, us being us, we love it mainly for the food there.

So I was there two weeks ago with my family, and I was half-expecting my dad to drive up to a relative's house where we are going to stay for the next 3/4 days because it's cheap lodging, but no! We came in front of this super canggih-looking hotel that even has the red carpet rolled out for us!



Okay, I didn't get a picture of the carpet. But the hotel was cenggih okay! You know things are going to get interesting when the first thing you see once entering the hotel doors are two escalators.

They're so canggih, even their security cameras looks canggih.



Even their rooms use scanners!



Okay, the canggih-ness aside, the hotel had this weird and wonderful collection of various sculptures and whatever the heck you call those ancient artistry things.



By the way, everyone meet John. John is my younger brother. John is camera-shy, and John likes to read Doraemon comics.



Using his free time, John likes to sexually harass wooden statues of ancient chinese warriors.



We had one ball of a time just checking out the stuff around the hotel lobby area. Even the receptionist was so thrilled to see us.



Service with a smile! =D



Oh, and if some of you remembered my sister's tortoises that went missing, I think I've found them.

Dang, where's the wildlife society when you need them!

Why?

Now honestly I didn't want to fill up my blog with tags but I saw my sister doing it earlier today and it was gao interesting, so I asked her to tag me. So I can do it for the heck of it.

Shall start once I figure out how to put Windows Media Player on shuffle. Hmm...

Ahh okay, here we go.

RULES:
1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, ETC on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5.Put this on your journal.


1. If someone says, " Is this okay? "You Say?
Highway Blues. Windows XP Sample Playlist =X

2.How would you describe yourself?
Still - Hillsong. Hmm am I? Haha!

3.What do you like in a girl?
An Introduction - United. Lol! Attraction upon meeting meh xP

4.How do you feel today?
Came to My Rescue - United. Haha my calculator came to my rescue during maths =P

5. What is your life's purpose?
Jesus, Jesus - Skillet. Yes indeed! =D

6.What is your motto?
East to West - Casting Crowns. I'm gonna travel the world! Haha!

7. What do your friends think of you?
From God Above - United. Yes yes I know xP

8.What do you think of your parents?
From the Inside Out - United. Hmm why do I have so many songs by Hillsong?

9.What do you think about very often?
Salvation is Here - United.

10.What is 2 + 2?
None but Jesus - United. Hmm. Deep.

11.What do you think of your best friend?
Refuge - City Harvest. Haha so ngam kah? xP

12.What do you think of the person you like?
Better than Life - United. LOL! Yeng sial =P

13.What is your life story?
Center of my Life - Hillsong London. Self-explanatory xP

14.What do you want to be when you grow up?
Name Above - Generation Unleashed. Jo Almighty! Hahahaha nolar don't want to get eaten by worms =X

15.What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Beautiful Girl - Jojo. Haha!

16.What will you dance to at your wedding?
Turn it Around - Israel Houghton & New Breed. Hahaha! I can almost imagine xP

17.What will they play at your funeral?
Be Our Guest - Disney Original Soundtrack. Oi! You guys better don't get creative xP

18.What is your hobby/interest?
The Show Must Go On - Queen. Lol! There's no business like show business =P

19.What is your biggest fear?
Ever Ever After - Carrie Underwood. Haha! Afraid of commitment? XD

20.What is your biggest secret?
In my Daughter's Eyes - Martina McBride. Daughter?? Gasp! Who was the mother?? LOL!

21.What do you think of your friends ?
That's What You Get - Paramore. Oh my =S

22.What will you post this as?
Why - Nichole Nordeman. Hahaha!

Whoever want to do it, do it lah =P It was all for fun anyway.

Mamma Mia!

It's 16 hours away!!

Brainwashed!

I love add maths now! =D

Oh no, another one?

Stop tagging me lar. People want to study one you know >:(

The last person to tag you is?
Li-Anne

What relationship of you with him/her?
Platonic =P

Your 5 impression towards him/her
1. Uh oh...
2. Why so noisy one?? xP
3. Hyperactive
4. Popular
5. Camwhore =P

The most memorable thing that he/she has done to you
Let's see ahh... Give me nasi lemak for my birthday a long long time ago? Lol! I remember coz I got sick the next day and I blamed the nasi lemak xP

The most memorable words that he/she has say to you
"HI!!!" Yeah xP

If he/she becomes your lover, you will..
Oh my.

If he/she becomes your enemy, you will..
Hide

If he/she becomes your lover, he/she has to improve on..
Der...

If he/she becomes your enemy, the reason is..
Can't think of any. Lol! I don't have enemies. I'm sucha nice guy =Pp

The most desirable things to do for he/she is?
Get her a pooh bear toy? xP

The overall impression to he/her is..
Just needs to tone down a little =P

How do you think the people around you will feel about you?
I'm a very nice person? Hahaha I don't know!

On contrary, the character you hate of yourself is?
My stuttering fit. Pffpth. And me speaking too fast.

The most ideal person you want to be is?
Most ideal arr... Well we fix the stuttering and we'll see =p

For the person who cares and likes you, say something about them
Awh, I love you too! Lol!

ten people to tag. I don't care if you've done it already I'll just go by my blogroll.
1. Benjamin Soo
2. Christina Cheah
3. Audrey Liaw
4. Fionna Tan
5. Jason Chong
6. Joseph Cheah
7. Li-Anne
8. Rebecca Shishi Lee
9. Sharlene Chee
10. Sharon Kee

Who is number 2 having relationship with?
Li-Anne? LOL!

Is number 3 a female or male?
Female

If number 7 and 10 be together would it be a good thing?
No O_O

How about number 5 and 8?
HAHAHAHAHA

What is number 1 studying about?
Some strange European language. Lol!

When was the last time you had a chat with them?
1. Benjamin Soo : A few days ago I think
2. Christina Cheah : A few WEEKS ago
3. Audrey Liaw : Ahh... honestly I don't think I've said anythhing past "Hi Audrey" did I? xP
4. Fionna Tan : A few YEARS ago? Hehehe
5. Jason Chong : Just yesterday
6. Joseph Cheah : Earlier today on the phone
7. Li-Anne : Earlier this morning when she said her trademark "HI!!!!" xP
8. Rebecca Shishi Lee : 3 hours ago
9. Sharlene Chee : This morning while passing her stuff
10. Sharon Kee : It was in January... was it?

Is number 4 a single?
Sometimes I wonder =p


Nah. Stop tagging me before I cry T__T

Before I hit the books

Just one tag before I go. I'm only doing this because it promised me that I will receive blessings from all.

1. What’s your ambition?
* WRITE WRITE WRITE!

2. Who is more important to you? Friends or boy/girlfriend?
* Friends friends friends

3. Have you done something in this past week that you are proud of?
* Checking....... yeah.

4. Do you think you have enough confidence?
* I'm definitely egoistic enough =P

5. How many babies do you want?
* Very good question

6. Do you believe in seeing a rainbow after the rain?
* Well I can explain to you in physical terms why the rainbow appears. You see when the light ray passes through the rain droplet it is refracted and diffracted and it forms a complete spectrum of colours when the light hits your eyes-

...Nevermind.

7. What is your goal for this year?
* Leave high school with no regrets. Only 1 more to go now =)

8. Do you believe in eternal love?
* =D

9. What's a perfect girlfriend/boyfriend like to u? (List 10) So many kah ==" Okay, here we go.
- Patient
- Kind
- Confident
- A strong Christian
- Loving
- Talkative (?)
- SE =P
- Fun
- Talented
- Err... pretty? xP

10.What feeling do you love most?
* Food....

11. What are your embarrassing moments?
* Well there was this once when I was in Mid Valley... IM me for the rest of it =D

12. Is there anything you wanna tell the people you hate ?
* Wanna see a magic trick?

13. Do you cherish every single friendship of yours?
* Like heck YEAH

14. If you could make 3 wishes, what would it be?
- More chocolates
- More chocolates
- More chocolates MACBOOK AIR!

15. What do you crave for the most currently?
* CHOCOLATES AHHHHHH!!!

16. Who's hotter,Chace Crawford or Kevin Peake?
* Who?

17. Describe the person who tagged you in 7 words.
* Christina: Awesome friend and a VERY sweet girl =)

18. What have you done to yourself make yourself happy?
* I've eaten McDonald's choco sundae =)

19. What will u become in another 10 years to come?
* Myself. Only better.

20. What is your favorite subject in high school and why?
* English woots! Coz it's the only subject where I can show off in =P

Instructions: Remove one question from above and add in your personal question. Make a total of 20 questions and tag 8 people. List them out at the end of the post. Notify them in their cbox that they've been tagged. Whoever does the tag will have blessings from all.

Blessings from all! Who wants to do this tag next? xP

Ordinary Miracles

So you see that I've added a new tab to my entries.

Well how do I say this... I feel that it is something very practical and very, very relevant especially in today's world. Amidst all the gloom, doom and bloom, we need something that we can hold on to - something that we can look upon and it sheds light into our vision, giving hope for tomorrow.

We need something that we can look back upon and really know that God is indeed good. We need the assurance that no matter what happens, there are these little moments that we can take and draw inspiration from.

Because there comes a time when you need to stop and smell the roses. No one has ever conquered Mount Everest and not take in the view from the summit. No one has ever took to the skies without gazing out into the clouds in wonder.

Write your worries in sand; carve your blessings on stone.

*

It’s not that unusual
When everything is beautiful
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

The sky knows when its time to snow
Don’t need to teach a seed to grow
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

Life is like a gift they say
Wrapped up for you everyday
Open up and find a way
To give some of your own

Isn’t it remarkable
Like every time a rain drop falls
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

Birds in winter have their fling
But always make it home by spring
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

When you wake up everyday
Please don’t throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart
Cause we’re all a part
Of the ordinary miracle
Ordinary miracle

It seems so exceptional
That things just work out after all
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

Sun comes up and shines so bright
And disappears again at night
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

-Ordinary Miracle, Sarah McLachlan-

Let me tell you a story

Last Thursday I was sitting in a cab. Yes, the ones sporting the yellow "Jemput Naik" stickers. So I was sitting on the cab, trying to get back from Carrefour to HSG.

Four of us in the car, the rain drizzling outside the cab. The driver was a pretty nice guy. Loud, but nice anyway. He was cracking some jokes in BM which I didn't quite understand but ah, laugh with him anyway.

And this was the plan: we drop people off one by one, but we pay the accumulated fees only when the last person gets off, to cut cost lar. Then halfway through the journey, taxi driver suddenly said,

"You know, actually it's legal to reset the meter whenever someone gets off. It's legal, know?? I'm not cheating you! If I wanted to cheat you, I would just tell you, 'TWENTY RINGGIT!' and you'll have to pay me that much. But I don't like cheating people, so people don't cheat me also!"

And he burst out laughing again.

Well because SOMEONE *cough*Sean*cough* didn't want to pay some extra Rm5, I had to start walking from the Parkson area all the way to HSG - it was about a 30 minutes walk.

*

Then so happen this girl found out that she'd left her wallet on the taxi. IC, cards, cash - all inside. All lost.

Then one day, as she said it, "An angel appeared at my front door". Because right there was taxi driver, with her wallet, delivering it right to her personally.

*

An excerpt from Evan Almighty:
God: How do you change the world?
Evan: One single act of random kindness at a time.


You can be a hero. Heroes do what's right.
Jo

Nah, a long post

This is how I spent my day yesterday.

Woke up, went out for breakfast, came back, did add maths, played some games, ate dinner, did more maths, played some more games, download lotsa songs, ate some more, sleep.

Man, I love holidays.

*

Oh, has anyone saw this before?



Maybe I'll join it. Maybe.


Not really a long post also,
Jo

Wanna know what's a joke?

This is.

Faust!

I'm so going to use this concept one day for writing.

Dance, dance, dance

I love the rain! =D

Raindrops keep falling on my head

2 hours ago.

I was buying food from this mamak near Saujana, and the rest of the CF people were chatting away around the table while waiting for my food to arrive.

And so I noted.

"Err... you notice that the sky is turning very dark, very quickly?"

Ah, that got their brains working. So they all ditched me and ran off in the direction of Isaac's house. I got my food, turned back to get a plastic fork, stepped out on to the road-

And the heavens opened. In a non-spiritual way.

Cut the drama, we all made it into Isaac's place, soaked and everything, and after we have eaten and had a change of clothes...

THE SKY CLEARED UP!

Not only the rain stopped, the sun started shining all so brightly as though nothing happened. We got caught in a friggin' 10 minutes-long maddening downpour, got soaked to our bones, and the sky clears up!

Whoever said God does not have a sense of humour, they were wrong.


By the way, rainwater tastes oddly like watermelon,
Jo

All For One

Earlier on Wednesday I was on my way back from Carrefour to church for BK class. BK Class starts at 1. I was outside Carrefour at 12.50. 10 minutes to cover 5 kilometers.

Not good.

So I stopped a cab.



Now on every taxi there is always this yellow sticker on the side window that says "Jemput Naik" or as a crude translation, "Welcome in".

So you'll be thinking it means "Welcome in so that I can get you where you need to be professionally, effectively, quickly and pleasantly"

WRONG.

It means "Welcome in so that you can hear me swear in six different languages at other drivers that I don't know as I pass down the road, speak in dialects you don't understand and grunt for my payment at the end of the trip"

Bah.

*

Oh, and on a happier note I've just watched



Yes, I know it's one month to SPM and I really have to study and yes I know the movie was already out half a year ago, but what the heck. I have more lined up for me. HA.


Toodles,
Jo

Ennui?

This is what happens when you cross a holiday, me and photoshop.





All images were made using photoshop and photoshop alone.

I should really go back to my add maths now.

Isaiah 53:2-5

He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

Pictures!

There, the pictures =D





Oh If you don't see the significance of the two pictures, it's that we're wearing the same colours! Black and white. Geddit? Geddit??

And yes, I have small eyes. Big deal -_-" It's probably one of the better pictures I've taken since



So don't complain.

Flip a coin

I had this brilliant idea of wishing all the PMR people out there good luck in their exams but what the heck, they're not gonna read it until probably after the exams are over.

But go for it guys =) I'm sure you'll do great!

*

Oh and I suddenly have this overwhelming urge to take a trip over to London. Well I have to admit, it was only after reading Kenny Sia's blog and seeing all the nice photos from over there that I wanted to visit that part of the world.

But it looks so NICE! Soo... anyone up for a trip? =D

*

And this is how a particular MSN conversation with Victor Lai went.

Jøsëph Ñg [pH]² says:
flip a coin flip a coin!
ViCt0r heRE ~Mysteries of Life~Nudge for a Sandwich. =) says:
=.= for?
ViCt0r heRE ~Mysteries of Life~Nudge for a Sandwich. =) says:
coin for?
Jøsëph Ñg [pH]² says:
designs or relations
Jøsëph Ñg [pH]² says:
XD
ViCt0r heRE ~Mysteries of Life~Nudge for a Sandwich. =) says:
You and your Harvey Dent-ness
Jøsëph Ñg [pH]² says:
welll
ViCt0r heRE ~Mysteries of Life~Nudge for a Sandwich. =) says:
admit it, Harvey Ng
Jøsëph Ñg [pH]² says:
noway
Jøsëph Ñg [pH]² says:
eh tell me what should i blog about

*Vic goes offline*

=.=

*

This is what goes on in my house on Sunday night at 9.40pm.

Mom: Aik! Haven't filled car with petrol yet!
John: Supper?
Mom: Petrol.
John: Supper!
Mom: Petrol!
John: Supper!
Mom: *starts singing* Petrol!
John: *starts singing* Supper!

And they became one harmonious sound in the orchestra of petrol and supper. It sounded something like:

Supper! Petrol. Supper! Petrol. Supper! Supper! SUPPER!

Me: I'm so going to blog about this.


We should make a movie one day.
Jo

You have got to be kidding me

We need more people who can do this.

Bye bye

Rain, rain go away
Come again another day
All the world is waiting for the sun

*

If you missed Dr Naomi Dowdy's conference, buy the CDs! =D Really, you'll never know when are you going to hear something that will so inspire you and change your life forever.

And more importantly, help me earn some cash lah.

Whoever said that there is no drama in church, they were wrong. Who would have thought that sticking a few stickers (if you consider 200+ few that is) could be so much fun?

*

Now it's always around this time when people start announcing on their blogs that they are not going to blog until SPM is over, not going to be online until SPM is over, not going to play games until SPM is over...

Yada, yada, yada

Not me though. So I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other, eh? =P Well at least until December 29th, if you know what I mean.


Toodles,
Jo

Dum de dum

So many things to do, so little time.

Pictures. Words. Concepts. Visualizations. Characterizations. Calculations. Facts. Formulas. Theories. Notes. Keys. Pens. Ink. CDs. Stickers. Food. Plastic. Hot water. Makeup. Marker pens. Sounds. Lights. Bags. SMSes. Calls. Blankets. Sleepyhead. Pillow. Clocks.

You.

Just a few of my favourite things.

I heart Jack Neo films

So yesterday my brother brought back this VCD (shh... don't tell), telling all of us, "Very nice one!! Very funny!"



Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was on at 10pm, Batman Begins was on at 11.45pm. Choices, choices...

So in the end mom took the initiative to decide that we will all watch Money No Enough 2.

If you don't know who Jack Neo is, he is the same person who brought you



And also



I was initially quite skeptical about the film - it even has errors in its title! (Yes I know that it was intentional) And when the show started, I noticed that I couldn't understand the subtitles, PLUS they were speaking in some dialect that I don't understand.

So I went off to MSN.

And like I do to all movies I don't quite like, I only started watching it near the climax. 


"It's all about sending a message..."

Like how wikipedia says it, "...help us to reflect at our own priorities while giving us a chance to laugh at ourselves." 

If I were to come up with a list of my favourite films, all three will make it to my list - not because it has amazing action scenes or oscar-worthy actors, but because every one of his films has, in one way or another, taught me a very valuable lesson. After all, who can forget the importance of kind words after watching I Not Stupid Too?


"I'm not stupid. Really."

I love it for the same reason I love those Chinese short stories that I used to read - it can entertain you, it can make you laugh, but at the end of it all there is always a lesson to be learned.

After watching intense, thrilling, car-chasing, gun blazing, building collapsing films like The Dark Knight, it was a really, really relieving and fun film to watch.

You have just got to watch it for yourself =)


I really should be studying,
Jo

Decorum, please

I've learned a new word today!

I'm so excited

Tomorrow! =D

So you see

I should be freaking out over the fact that SPM is like in one and a half month's time. I should join the rest of the gang burying myself in books, buying workbooks, doing workbooks, tearing up workbooks and stuff like that.

But I'm not.

Oh, and I've changed my diet. More calcium this time. I need bigger bones =S While half the world is worrying about getting smaller I'm trying to make myself bigger. Pffpth. The irony.

*

I so happened to get bored this particular day and I decided to search up the most unexpected words one would search for in an online dictionary. Here's what I found.

=D

I think I'm going nuts

What do you call someone who has this overwhelming urge to pull out his hair?

No, it's not a trick question. Here we have people screaming over going bald and here I am willfully pulling it out strand by strand.

Man, no wonder SPM stands for Sijil Penyakit Mental.

Romans 8:28

And we know that in all things
God works for the good of those who love him,
Who have been called according to His purpose.




You hold my world in your hands.

Psalms 18:35-36

You give me your shield of victory;

Your right hand sustains me;

You stoop down to make me great.

You boarden the path beneath me,

So that my ankles do not turn.

I love you, O Lord, my strength. (vs 1)

After one week...

...You would've think that I'm dead already.

Just to sum it up, in the past 8 days I have:

1. Met up again with Christina =)

2. Got my very belated birthday gifts

3. Learn how to do differentiation using the multiplication rule (hohoho profound!)

4. Done an Add Maths paper which I described as "Brain-frying madness"

5. Signed up for prom

6. Gotten swarmed by people who got excited at the idea of me going for prom

7. Played with photoshop

8. Stepped into The Gardens for the first time in my life

9. Went to Italiannies

Yup, it has been one heck of an interesting week. The highlight of the week, though, was most definitely youth service on Saturday when Marie Brown personally came over to speak to the youths. Needless to say, it was a very thought-provoking session and I left the place that day completely refreshed.

What was interesting though, was when she told us to jot down in our bibles/notebooks/whatever a statement promising that we will never give up at what we are doing right now. I was with my pen all ready to write it down just like everyone else when the thought hit me.

This sounds familiar.

And immediately this thing which I drew last year came into my head.

This would be familiar to maybe some of you who took the liberty to look into MY notebook without MY permission. But at that moment I was completely blown away. Things don't coincide just like this.

And I just knew that it was God - because I am not that smart to think of something like that by myself. When I drew - or rather wrote that out, I did not even start to comprehend the impact that simple statement - Never S.T.O.P. had on my life as I went about this year.

There had definitely been times this year when I was just worn out and fatigued from everything that was coming at once, but each time I look back upon this statement; this promise I made to myself and to God, I pulled myself back up and right on track again.

There is so much more truth to this statement than what I know - simply because I know I'm not that smart to think of something as simple yet as powerful as this.

Never gonna S.T.O.P;

Jo

It's your fault, Hazel

Now I'm stuck on that song too. No not the video, just the song.

T.T

10 Years and Counting

So I was walking back from school just earlier today.

What with me and walking, I do not know. There was once, I remember, when I walked from my house to Saujana (4km, 50 minutes walk), sat there for a while, and walked back again, all in the name of burning time.

There was even once in the holidays when I got so bored, I came up with this crazy idea of scouting the area of Taman Yarl and drawing a map out of it. Then again, according to some friendster survey long ago my deadliest sin is sloth, so you guessed it - I've never went along with the plan.

I have never got that bored, see.

Anyway, back to me walking home.

I was just walking past this restaurant where I vividly remember tasting very bad yam cake, and that taste subconciously jumps up my throat whenever I look in the direction of that restaurant. Not very pleasant. They had good fish, though. I've never took the initiative to remember how the fish tasted.

Then there's this bend right around that said restaurant where I have to go left then a quick right and I will exit from the Happy Garden area to Taman Yarl. Then something to my right caught my eye.

Big. Yellow. Wheels. Windows. Open automatic door. Bored driver.

School bus.

That was when I noticed the print beside the words "Bas Sekolah" - a little picture of (presumably) a mother duck and three ducklings. And from there a whole stream of memories came flooding into my head.

This was the same bus I wanted to get on during my preschool years so badly because I wanted to follow my elder sister to school. I remember screaming and screeching, trying to pull away from the maid and just hop on the bus and be off with it. And by the time it zoomed off, leaving that trail of carbon smoke behind, I would be wailing already.

Strange. I never remember what happens before or after that.

That was also the same bus that drove me back and forth Tadika Happy Garden (was it?) when I was 5 or 6. There used to be this geeky kid who liked to stand near the open door as the driver drove at a full 50kmph on the roads. There was once when he got so excited upon the sight of his house, he literally hopped out of the bus.

The bus was still moving.

Within what might just have been the time it took to blink. the driver hit the brakes and already had one hand outside the open door, saving the kid from certain death.

We used to call it The Donald Duck bus, for a lack of better words. Thanks to cable TV, Duck + Blue = Donald Duck. So the Donald Duck bus it was.

And the driver? Uncle Donald. I've never got around to finding out his real name.

I remember the seat where I sat on and absent-mindedly left a Rm5 note on the chair and I just got off the bus, not knowing I had been sitting on it in my semi-slumber. It was only about three seconds after I got off the bus that I remembered.

Crap.

I also remember the good old days where we had Childrens' Day, and one day I was carrying this whole bag of goodies and was all ready to open it when I got home. I stuck my hand holding that bag out of the window...

Crap.

Then there was also this other time when I was absently sticking my hand out of the window when the bus brushed past some leaves, and so did my hand. Duh. Then I felt something slimy between my fingers.

I was rolling it around, wondering what was it for a good 10 seconds. Then I looked.

A little, furry worm was being rolled back and forth between my fingers - by my fingers.

Crap.

The next few moments of the bus is comical to look back upon now, but back there it was a moment of sheer terror. I immediately let go and snapped my hand back, and the furry little creature sailed right through the air-

-and landed on someone's bag.

"Kill it! KILL IT GAHH!!!"

So I grabbed my trusty 500ml Coke bottle and smashed it. And it laid there, squashed by the might of the 500ml Coke bottle, on the yellow bag on the seat in front of me.

I recall my sister saying something about the worm's intestitial fluids being corrosive enough to melt a hole through my bottle. I never saw that bottle again.

Whoa, that's a lot of memories.

So I was looking at the driver - that same old driver who had driven the same old bus with the same old configurations, and he was looking at his seemingly empty wallet. 10 years, and he did the same old, same old.

10 years... what dreams could he have possibly forsaken, all in the name of maintaining the little that he had and was contented with.

I walked until the bus was out of sight.

"I won't become like you" I muttered under my breath.

Oh my.

So I was browsing through blog skins when I saw this.


Click on image to enlarge.

Someone tell me why do I find this so utterly disturbing.

0.8

This is the movie that I watched 3 times in the same week.



Yeah I know the movie already came out since I was only 10 and 4 feet tall but man, those people can SING!

Having listened to Light and Easy (Lite fm) all my life, most of the songs came pretty familiar. It's super SUPER cool the feeling you get when they start singing and you go, "Hey, I know this song!!"

Oh, and while I was flipping through the newspaper yesterday, guess what I saw?



When I told my sis about it, she only had one thing to say.

"Is he singing again?"


LET'S DO SOME ADD MATHS!
Jo

Birthday?

I forgive you if you forgot that it was my birthday yesterday =)

No, that does not mean you don't have to get me my present.


*hint* *hint* =D

The day was pretty much uneventful. I woke up to the sound of my mom waking me up for my accounts tuition. So here we see two problems with that already.

1. Tuition class on my birthday?!
2. Mom? I thought you weren't home yet when I went to sleep last night at 2am!

So it turns out that my mom took off from the house in Raub at 6.30am in the morning and my accounts tuition teacher really don't know/don't care that it was my birthday. So off I went.

The fun started when I reached home.

I was just like minding my own business trying to walk into my house, then came this blue car and out came Kok Jen, Samuel and Laureen and they went all, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSEPH!!"

Go home lar.

So after they finally calmed down, there was this awkward silence that hung in the air. It was literally like, "...now what?"

But hey, it's the thought that counts right?

...right?

This is so deja vu from what I said about my sis' birthday last year.


I feel older already,
Jo

I don't have any pictures to show you.

This had got to be the most uneventful Independance Day ever.

Probably it's the fact that I'm stuck at home alone with nowhere to go. Probably it's that I'm freaking out too much over the trials (which starts in two weeks' time by the way) to even care about it.

Well



Happy 51st birthday, Malaysia.

Guess what?

I'm blogging from the church office!!!


Toodles,
Jo

Wow.

Just saw this off Sharlene's blog. Yeah that's how often I read your blog. Hehe.



Absolutely amazing.

Restoration and detoxification

While the rest of the world watches the closing ceremony of probably THE most memorable Olympics ever...



It would be a good time for me to blog about Church Camp '08 while my mom is busy watching it. Heheheh.

This year's camp was by far one of my most memorable experiences ever. What with the food poisoning, half-basketball court, green swimming pool, Rm7 per hour only! internet connection, wild boars, dinner plate-sized moths and the giant TV at reception.

Just one of those times when I wish I had a camera.

The only other church camp that I went to was way back in 2004 in Cameron Highlands, where my snoring deprived Pastor Reuben of sleep for nights in a row. And in his own words,

"Jo Ng, go away. Go far, far away"

So after 4 years, I am finally back where it all started!

Will be back as soon as I get some pictures to show you.


To be continued,
Jo

While you were sleeping

=)

And I thought my jokes were bad

I'm gonna drive someone crazy soon if I don't stop impersonating The Joker's voice.

You know it's bad when you talk for two full hours and no one understands a word you say. But then, have you ever wondered how some people in their blogs they can rant on and on and on and on and on...

And never, ever stop.

Well at least not until I fall half-asleep in front of my computer screen trying to make heads or tails of what they're saying. The fact that Hillsong United's Solution is blasting on my speakers is not helping.

My sister just turned 19 yesterday. And like the circus that came during the latter part of yesterday said, "You're one year older!!"

So while they ripped the house apart guess what was I doing?



6/10 this one. Couldn't hear the dialouges coz the CD quality basically sucks.

What with the increasing population of ants in my house and the evolution of their diet I cannot understand. When I put my food on the table, it's alright. I put it on the floor, it's still alright. I put it in front my my monitor, it's still alright.

But when I put anything edible beside the keyboard, the ants are all over it like there's no tomorrow. You name it - curry, salad, prawns, mee hoon and even plain water!

Weirdos.

Better stop before I become like one of those bloggers I mentioned earlier.


Can't wait for Church Camp 08!
Jo