 Tuesday, July 31, 2007
hm. i wonder, why is it what happened what do i guess. Monday, July 30, 2007
i am still excited. i know it's time to get on back to life.
but i am still so DARN EXCITED. yeah my body hurts like crazy, my left knee is a bit wonky, my butt hurts, my arms can't be lifted up. and i have 4 hours of classes straight tomorrow. even though i'm still some super noob. but i am left with this AMAZING hyper spirit and thankfulness and feeling ULTRA blessed. and and.. i thought i was already on the way to leaving uni/study life. like i've met a reasonable amount of people, joined some stuff, learnt stuff.. but after this trip, i went with a WHOOOOLE buncha good pals, and then met SO many new awesome people there as well, it's like.. THIS IS WHAT IT IS ABOUT. you don't get these kinda things outside. you don't get to do silly things, giggle profusely, make wacky conversations, bond, just cause. hahah, and i haven't even begun to mention the purpose of the trip itself. good job, iess. Monday, July 30, 2007
my battle scars i want to write about the trip, but that will be later on.
just a few words: snowboarding kicks some major ass. i'm all groaning now because snowboarding literally kicks ass, but maaaannn, HOW AWESOME IS SNOWBOARDING!!! i can still do nuts, but hey, with practice comes greater power HAH! skiing can go away lah, boarding is my love now. - i spent 5 minutes today laughing. on the way back home that is. HOW MUCH COINCIDENCE is there for this to happen! darn it la, the silly incident that happened in my first year, first semester is actually in my tutorial this morning; in my last year, final semester. it involves taking a picture. ohhhh, the embarassment. too much to handle. wah, damn shy. ok. that's it. *grins. Friday, July 27, 2007
flashbacks & reminisces you can only be in one place at a time. what do you choose to do? if you could be anywhere other than here, where would you be? anyway, i'll be giving up the international students' lunch after church on sunday, missing our first ever(&probably last) 3 second appearance on church news - and me having to do the lala V^^V pose hahahahaha, and maybe work. in place of that, i'll be hopping on a bus come 3pm with a whole buncha cool people to the mountain for that first experience boarding. and i cannot wait. blessed weekend ahead, yous! the fact is that i now have 11 weeks of my final semester left.. ----- wrote this some weeks back(yes, how very excited of me) and was considering leaving it as a draft. quite emo packed cos i was a bit emo that time, so uh, read(or not) with caution. If a picture could paint a thousand words, I want mine to be that and more. I was just looking at some old ski pictures(and other holiday pictures), and this whoooooole flood of emotions overcame me. It was like being transported there all over again, I look at particular pictures I took and remember exactly what I was feeling, where exactly i was on 'The Summit', and I felt just exactly what I was experiencing then. First time ever skiing, what more on the beginner slope, which to me was AWESOME enough. A bit of a steep hill to get you the momentum to get off the ski lifts, so the first challenge as it is for me was to get down that small hill on my two feet! Then it'll be off to start 'racing' with a few of my skiing buddies(ira&enoch mostly) on a bit of some flat area first. That required LOTS of pushing and heaving, and then you start to pick up speed. That euphoria of just skiing halfway down, whizzing left and right, just pushing your ski poles to make you go faster or closing your skis into a V-shape to slow down was such a blowaway. As we practised more during the day, the challenge was not to fall down from start to end! It was too much fun. The shrieking winds against our faces as we gained speed was priceless. The speed itself was just massively awesome. Stopping midway before the 'steepest' part of the hill, before just whizzing down to the bottom. So i do remember very clearly what i was thinking when i took the picture. That is just why I love photography. It's the best way I can express myself, show people just what I'm thinking in regards of how I see things. Limitations by the camera functionality and skills would hinder this; my pictures time and time come out bland and not exactly how I wanted it to, not justifying how beautiful the situation actually is. Or how beautiful I see it to be. And so what may blow me away may not to you. I do that in all my pictures(or most, since narcissistic ones don't require much thinking) I always feel like the images in the pictures I take are so naturally beautiful as it is, it's just how you see it, that differs in the pictures that we all take. My pictures are from my point of view, how they appeal to me, how I want to share just how beautiful the world is, from my eyes. It goes beyond just wanting to take a picture as a remembrance, but to really capture the essence; to embed meaning into them. When I look at pictures, I want to be blown away, I want to feel the picture, to imagine what it would be like to be in that spot, exactly at the time it was taken. To know why it was taken in the first place, to find out what triggered that shot. And to share with everyone how I felt when I took that picture. How blown away I was feeling. I get transported back to when I took the picture; how I would take enough, and then get on to the real deal, enjoying the situation as it is, immersed in my own thoughts. And that was what happened. For a good few minutes, I mulled over the beauty of the hill against the sky, calmed my beating heart, enjoyed the cold wind whilst balancing on my skis, then pushed off to end my first ski experience; feeling the wind against my face as I increased my speed going down the slope. So I guess it does make me reaaally happy(hahahaha i go into grinning spasms) when anyone compliments me, cos it feels like I've gotten something across, and they understand it. Like you reading a few thousand worded essay and understanding it. Liking it, even. I'm still learning how to perfect my essay.   *giggles Wednesday, July 25, 2007
light hearts and nimble fingers.
ugh i'm already bored of doing this. but it's not for meeeeee so i.must. routine does not work for me. my span of concentration is zilch. i can't wait for the weekend. seriously. AHHHHH. can it come ANY SLOWER. ok back to doing this. Tuesday, July 24, 2007
part 2.  gambling is a risk to take.  hoping against hope.  whatcha looking at?  spot the girl amongst the crowd.  lantern lighting - the chinese way.  check out fu shen's awesome expression.  prep time for lantern game.  line of lanterns  brotherhood.  the edge of the squares.  blow, baby, blow.  champion blower.  look at her go!  leftovers. ----- do you think it's coincidence that some things keep repeating itself? hm. Tuesday, July 24, 2007
part 1.
MUOSS event - Around the World in One Day. i hope there are no muoss people reading this. sorry! still compiling & editing all the pictures heeeheee. some pictures i really like.
 meet my old pal fu shen on the right!  min hau - a team leader  ira's team & poor team leader 4 in the background with one member - fu shen  fu shen & his spanking team members  hubert signing the checklist for checkpoint #1  checkpoint #2. skippin' rope!  additional marks for creativity in getting across the ropes.  checkpoint #3. vin li playing the game.  checkpoint #4 with ralph.  it's the carrot man game!  crossing the road to checkpoint #5!  checkpoint #5 with tony & joel! shoe cricket. Sunday, July 22, 2007
hey sweetie.
been too busy. this cracked me up. but it is possibly my fav post ever from his blog. hahahahahahah *grins. can't ask for anything better. give it a go. AND READ THE DISCLAIMER IN THE COMMENT BOX. NB: i woudn't have supported MU even if he went in there! well, mostly cos i know so much more about liverpool compared to any other club. *click. no regrets.  so nolar, not THAT superficial okay! but you gotta admit, smokin' hot RIGHT RIGHT? *grins. it's been torres all the way since worldcup last year heh. - update: got my bible back whoohoo, NAB banks in cheques mighty quick, thank God. all set for the final semester. star comparison: the stars in Frankston are a bit brighter than the ones from my apartment floor, but nothing beats squeezing yourself out of the window to look up at the stars in Newcastle or gazing at the stars in the middle of the forest in pure darkness in Grampians. random did you know: according to joHann over coffee, the current ratio is 5 girls to a guy, and in 5 years, it'll be 22 or so girls to a guy. minus all the gay ones(multiply the number by two) and all the unsuitable ones, it'll probably be 50 or so girls to a guy. oh-kay.
make my day: getting the hugest hug ever from a teeny tiny sweetie. waiting around to find some stuff to do for ushering today and i get this small pair of arms wrapping themselves tightly around my waist. looking left right and then down to see the sweetie grinning up at me. hahah it was SO cute. she stuck by me the whole time on duty; helping me distribute flyers on the chairs and then collecting them after the service, giving me my excercise of the day with races, giving me mini hugs along the way, high fives on my part and exchanging cheesy silly grins with each other. man i haven't had to put my arms around a shoulder belonging to someone the height of my waist for ages. brings me back to form2 to when a buncha us worked for this 4 day english camp thing for primary school kids. there was this girl in my group who held on to my hand the whoooole time. ok, it scared me a bit cos i didn't have much experience with kids, not like i have a lot now hahah. but i had an awesome time with this cool kid who was so younger brother-ish. Saturday, July 21, 2007
shreds of insight
so.sleeeeepy. but i can't say that i didn't enjoy yesterday tremendously. 2 events back to back. it was a bit of an excercise for me too, who can complain about that? i even saw KFC MELTZ which made me happy, and hungry. pfsh. yeah saw. MMS. thanks cheeeese. and to end things with a slam; bright shiny stars after 12 hours out of the warmth. whooohoo. prep time for long day ahead. too many jamdonuts out on the table, i'll probably bring them to the race. Thursday, July 19, 2007
standing on the edge it's like a disease, really. poison.
and everytime it happens i berate myself. i have so much to change. it's going to take more than all of me. on another note, i can't find my bible. i really hope i left it in church and is safely in lost and found. will find out soon enough. cos it doesn't seem to be in my room. sighhh. if not, people who keep asking me what i want for my birthday and still plan to get me something after all the times i told them i have nothing in mind cos an external and perfume is quite out of the picture hahah, i'd like a bible please. the size of my old one, but not necessarily the same colour. cos i'll be getting one on my own at any rate then. SIGH. and there's this nagging thing that's going to be stuck in my mind for the next few days. does anyone know exactly how long it takes for NAB to bank in a cheque? sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh. poor and pissed. not appealing one bit. will be extremely busy the next few days, what a way to start uni. with a wave of activities. i'm really going to miss this about uni. THE HOLIDAYS + ACTIVITIES will be out of the house from 12 till late night tomorrow and saturday, and then there's ushering on sunday. man it seems like only last week we ushered. but last week was cafe and lunch courtesy of the ushers lunch. my stomach hurts so bad it was something i ate. okay happy thoughts happy thoughts. dinner just now with some people i haven't seen in ages; another mouth that never stops talking, the grandfather figure, the supercellgroup leader and a coupla new people. i got assigned to a routine badge making job this afternoon. okay i think i realise this that in life, i cannot do routine for long. figures. i can't make the 10 similar cards; same layout sorta - which i am actually attempting to now. darn it la. i need to start. it was my holiday project and holidays are over. okok, positives. it was good though cos i managed to just talk to the other people there - get to knows. when you stop joking around kind, which always is happening and i'm not complaining about it though. and once again i get the same comment i always do about how my first impressions to people are. i'd give up all the bush dances in the world for all the frankston trips and lifegroup meetings. that's how high i rate the two. well, not that i rate the bush dance any high, ahem, but nah, i wouldn't give the world to do what i was doing wednesday - frankston day3 and lifegroup at night. as much as people keep raving about how good bush dance was, all that was going on through my head was.. "hahah, if you think THAT was good, you don't know what you are missing out on, honey". you can't lose with a bunch of oldfriends, lifegroupmembers and God on your side now, can you? *hugegrin. if this is what a church community is like, i'd like to introduce you to my lifegroup. seriously. prop your leg up on the second train seat next to you, smile with me all you shorter legs people, grab an MX newspaper and munch on that birthday lindt chocolate for a very satisfying train ride home. now how awesome was that train ride. thanks for the choc wk, that was how it saved my ride! i know the cure to having a bad sense of direction. for me at least. it's to actually lead the way. now that i think back, i don't remember roads/paths cos most of the time i'll be following people and will be distracted by other things; mostly talking. and then we'll have reached the place and i have no idea how to get there. a-ha! good one step! okay, tmr afternoon is going to be a bit exciting and a bit nervewrecking cos i get to do the most fun thing ever! well to me la. and tmr night is going to be a first time experience. more later. have a good weekend ahead! i'm going to listen to some emo music and clear my room now. hopefully my bible is in here somewhere. i really miss reading it, which i really have been tryinig to do every night. it feels weird that i don't have that to do before i sleep. i miss that angel inside too. oh, and after that, attempt on that 10 card thing, you know.. make a start. oh, and ps some pictures. i need a to-do list.
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