Saturday, December 26, 2009

My Precious

I've been home for a week now and it has been wonderful!

Highlights:
Thurs: sushi yukari for lunch, new town buffet for dinner, music practice at church
Fri: church christmas special
Sat: christmas get together at our house
Mon: Jessie and Jake's wedding
Wed: Tony and Mei's wedding

Christmas gifts '09
Jerry: Digital photo frame keychain
Kathy/Meixuan: Express shirt and ring
Ken: pen
Michelle: Body Shop home scents
Shui Bing: AE gift card
Tracy: Swarvoski heart necklace
Yixuan: HIMYM season 2&3, A&F perfume
(did i forget anyone? i deeply apologize if so)

Depression:
Thurs (Christmas Eve): i tried installing windows on my precious mac through bootcamp, it didn't work, i couldn't turn it on afterwards...
Fri (Christmas): apple store was closed
Sat: apple genius tells me everything was deleted from my hard drive, so 3.5 months of my life in michigan (pictures and journal entries) are all gone...for some reason, i kinda think they were meant to be deleted...hahaha, but my pictures from friday night christmas service are gone too, and the two weddings i went to...sigh...so sad...but i guess...it's a new beginning? =/

that's all the updates i have now...i like being home.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

DONE

Passion Tea Lemonade!!! I AM DONE WITH FIRST SEMESTER OF COLLEGE!!! this semester actually flew by, it was quite amazing...everything is great tho! i THINK my grades are nice and pretty, good friendships have been established, church life is good, everything is...God ordained and wonderful!

SO, shall we have a stupid-Jocelyn story? yes, yes we shall. HOKAY! so yesterday i was supposed to have my psychology final at 9am, i set my alarm for 815am...now usually when it goes off, i put it on snooze, but yesterday, (for the first time ever) i turned it off because i was afraid of waking the roommate! why?! i don't know! i never turn it off, it's supposed to go to snooze like 3 times!!! sigh, anyways, i finally woke up at 945am, and freaked out, nearly cried...but immediately emailed my prof...she replied around noon telling me i could take it today....but it meant that i had to take three finals today...BUT they're all over now, so praise Jesus! tomorrow at 550am i'll be on a plane back home!!! YAY YAY YAY! that is all, i actually gotta finish my sociology take home final...because i don't actually wanna take it home...

Monday, December 14, 2009

3...2...1...BLAST OFF!

edit//my widget says it's gonna be rainy/snowy these next few days, BUT cloudy on thursday, let's pray it'll be like that so my plane will fly on time!

i'm technically done with first semester of college!!! didn't have class or finals today, so i slept in till 12:15...no mundane events to report cause this weekend, fellowship was canceled and i didn't go out at all cause i was being uber studious and studying for my finals! i'm determined to kick these finals' butts, but i feel like such determination might lead to disappointment...hahaha either way, i've been studying, so whatever happens, happens. (maybe my IQ 就這麼高,沒辦法) whee! anyways, time to study again...4 finals in 2 days, and then HOME HOME HOME!!!

Tuesday:
9:00am: Psychology Final
1:30pm: Sociology Final

Wednesday:
9:00am: Math Final
1:30pm: Religion Final

p.s. I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND WITH THE LU KIDS AFTER CHRISTMAS!!! SO EXCITED!!! at first, i was like poop, i won't be able to go on all the fun rides cause they are too small...BUT then, i thought, during my first visit to disneyland, i was already pretty big, so my parents/bro took me to all the "big kids/adults" ride, so i've never been on the kiddie stuff, so this'll be fun! PLUS, one of the attractions that drew me to Concordia University was its distance to DLand, but hey, i still get to go even though i chose the freezer! Passion Tea Lemonade! ;P

Monday, December 07, 2009

Christmas Dinners To The Max

this past week was a very relaxing and gluttonous...hahaha, when ming was in grand rapids wednesday, we went to ruby's tuesday, on friday night (yaf was pushed to sat) i had the AHANA (minoirites) dinner in school and then saturday night went to pastor's house for dinner, had curry, i've never tasted this type of curry, it was interesting...delicious nonetheless...and sunday night i went to the ISAC (international) christmas banquet and ate more...i better not gain my freshmen 15 in one week >.<

i had fun in all the mentioned events tho...i dunno if i should go to anymore international events, i feel outta place...lol, but i hung around koreans last night, and most of the time i just fa dai-ed because i didn't understand what they were saying...it was still fun! for most of the girls it was like and ALL out dress up thing...i kept my hair and make up from church and just changed into 1 of the 2 dresses i brought...but still fun! ha.

oh and last week, my speech class was canceled all week, so i wasn't motivated to work on my speech at all, so after the banquet last night, i started working on it...till 4am...@.@ but i did it today and i'm glad i got it over with! but now that the relaxing week is over, this week's gonna be a little tougher with 2 papers due and finals week coming up! but "我靠著那加給我力量的,凡事都能做!"

Thursday: Religion Paper
Friday: Sociology Paper
Tuesday: Psychology Final (morning) Sociology Final (afternoon)
Wednesday: Math Final (morning) Religion Final (afternoon)
Thursday: 5am: FLY HOME!!! 12pm: ARRIVAL! =D

Monday, November 30, 2009

Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap

edit// my mommy told me that she told susan ahyi i was sad bout how i haven't talked to anita in so long and she probably already forgot about me...and susan ahyi tells me mom bout how her 3 older kids play role play and anita would shout "我是嬌嬌姐姐!" thinking she was the oldest and in control, she was ready to give orders, and his older brother, anthony, stands there and waits for orders thinking anita really is "me"...bahahahaha!!! I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THOSE CHUBBY FACES!!!

original// SUPAH thankful for thanksgiving break!!! oh man, it was definitely legen-wait for it-dary! nothing amazing or incredible was done, but it was a relaxing (though i didn't get a lot of sleep) and bonded with amazing people!!! it's been a while since i did the "mundane" post, so i shall.

wednesday: guh, karen, and elean got to calvin around noon when i was still in class, after class, i took the girls on a horrible wonderful tour in which i got lost of our campus! then we had lunch with enoch to "talk" to these high schoolers so we can get free stuff...wahahaha, then we went to the admissions office and enoch helped us steal 3 free calvin shirts, and we went on the road! we stopped at Toledo and picked up marissa, then went back to columbus (i'm keeping these concise)

thursday: guh changed his time on me, so i was all prepared...to do nothing, but then later a group of us went to go see Ninja Assassin, a very horrible movie indeed. afterwards, guh took me to the Sung's and had a feast!!! oh man! it was SO good! i literally got food coma cause the boys just played katamari and COD MW2 after dinner...mmmm, then it was back to karen's, sleeping over with marissa too!

friday: was supposed to wake up at 630, none of us did, anna arrived, all of us freaked out, and the two poo faces tricked me into getting ready and going first, but when i got out, anna and i decided to wait for the two poo faces since the other girls were gonna be late anyways! so then the adventure began! at polaris we met up with katie, jacqueline, and bernard (the one boy amongst many girls) but then we split ways soon...hahaha i finally got the AE vest i wanted for so so so long, super happy! and then i also got the warm and fuzzy boots from AE because...they were comfy and i need a pair =P then kohls, petland, nap, filene's basement: got another coat!, marissa's for pot luck, ate, watched Anchoreman, watched HIMYM, home.

saturday: had DELICIOUS lunch with guh, went to his office to facebook, fell asleep in his office for a few hours, yg/college thanksgiving potluck, chris' for fire pit, home - helped karen on college apps, in which she was crazy because it was "late"...it was hilarious, but i'll keep it at that

sunday: church - oh man, haven't had a good english service in so long, uber enjoyed it! then lunch at arirang, then victor and anna dropped me off at toledo and harry picked me up from there and i pretty much died on the car...

man, in words, break doesn't sound that exciting at all, but it was, and i uber miss the girls now! and i probably won't see the ohioans till possibly spring break? anyways, praise Jesus for a good break and wonderful people! now i can't wait for christmas break!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES

the past weekend was just filled with movie watching...hahaha, it was fun, but kinda bad...on thursday (yes, that was already my weekend since my class was canceled that day...) so i watched Ghosts of Girlsfriends Past, it was alright, wasn't terrible, but wasn't great too...nothing exciting happened on friday, and then on saturday i saw Star Trek for the fourth time!!! hahaha, it was showing for free at Calvin, so why not? but after that a few of us went to go see 2012, which was also only ok to me, it wasn't great or anything...VERY predictable...hahaha, anyways, then i came The Ugly Truth, which was also only mediocre, i liked the duo, but the story was...too quick and slow at the same time...then on Sunday after church and dinner at a vietnamese restaurant i came back and watched Paper Moon, a black and white movie for sociology...so i watched 5 movies the past weekend...crazy.

this week is really chill too, i have nothing due in any class, so it's just been playplay for me! hahaha, i even went out to IHOP at midnight yesterday with Enoch and Carson...and then tomorrow, Guh, Karen, and Elean are gonna come pick me up!!! i'm so excited! hahaha, this break is gonna be legen-wait for it-dary!!! but now, i'm done blogging and gonna keep watching 30 Rock. =D

Sunday, November 15, 2009

A Quickie

i actually don't have time for this, but procrastination is my best friend. this week/weekend was pretty chill, no hang outs, no nothing...haha because this past week i got back all the exams/papers i had two weeks ago, and all of them had very pretty grades on them, so this weekend was spent studying to keep these pretty grades...i have a psych test tomorrow, i don't feel ready, but i started studying on thursday! which is crazy cause i never start studying so early! haha, anyways, on friday i was retarded and texted yixuan instead of tracy, so the info about me going back home is no longer a secret...after keeping it a secret for 1month, my own stupidity speedy texting ruined everything! hahaha, SO, i'll be home on december 17th, 2009 around noon...YAY! SO EXCITED!!!! ONE MORE MONTH!!!! and a little more than a week till OHIO with my karen ("愛" 小姐) then two weeks after that is HOME WITH MY COUSINS/GIRLS/ANITA/HOME MADE DELCIOUSNESS!!!! oh man, so exciting! ok so before all that can happen...i needa study hard to get pretty grades which means this blog entry has come to an end.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Not Quite Break Yet

wow, time for an update eh? (haha, first one to agree: tracy) i've been procrastinating/post-poning my updates, cause...i dunno, just didn't feel like it...anyways, nothing EXCITING has happened lately, i survived my death week last week, but because it was so "much" that this week i'm kinda just like "break time!" hahaha...it's been pretty "warm" lately, and warm means michigan warm and tucson freezing...haha, but i'm really enjoying it! the moment it's over 50, i'm like SHORT SLEEVES AND THIN HOODIE!!! i even went a little extreme and wore capris...lol, it's just that exciting to me...native michiganers are saying that usually by now we should have quite some amount of snow, but it hasn't yet, they say it's global warming, i say Jesus loves me. hahaha, i mean, i'm "excited" for the snow, but i know that once it comes it won't stop, so i think the snow can wait a bit longer =P so, now that i'm down to the last month of this semester, i've been getting "lazier" in doing work, but i mapped out my 3 year plan yesterday and i know if i want to succeed, i better get my act together...sigh, but thanks to yixuan's netflix pass, i've been watching so many movies...it feels like summer again...(without the heat...) i'm done.

p.s. parents came home yesterday, when my caller ID said "mama" i was overjoyed, i'm so glad she's back. =D

Monday, October 19, 2009

Nerdo?

the past week flew by, well actually, school is just flying by...i mean already 7th week, so i'm half way through my first semester!!! i got all my test results back last week, i'm off to a good start! haha, praise Jesus! hopefully...no, i WILL keep this up! i haven't gotten "pretty" grades in so long...haha anyways, weekend run down!

friday: yaf without adults (yes!), it was alright...group was so tiny, hahaha, i really enjoy fellowshipping with the kids from yaf, but i kinda wanna find a white fellowship for me to join...i'd still go to yaf, but i want something else too...i'll see, gotta keep on praying~ after yaf, we had practice, it was hectic and i realized at the end it was cause we didn't start out with prayer! it's funny how such a little thing can be so powerful, so fail on our part. then came back to dorm, skypped with beloved anita and anthony (i forgot to put it on full screen before taking a screenshot...hahaha, he was SO cute tho~) then after that, i skypped with yixuan and tracy till 430am...<3

saturday: woke up at 645am cause i was supposed to go play basketball with 3 boys at 7am, but they texted and said 730, so i slept till 720...went and played bball...IT WAS SO COLD! but, it was fun, hahaha...then mcdonalds for breakfast, then came back and talked to mom for half an hr (-sigh-, would've been so much longer if it wasn't an international call...=/) then sometime later, took a nap for 4 hrs =D...then wasted my night away...

sunday: church - played for worship and taught youth group sunday school, went to apts to bake a cake (i miss all my baking materials...it was so much harder without everything...), celebrated chia-wen shushu's bday, the kids put on skits, i was the camera-woman...then came back to dorms and wanted to cry...hahaha, because i procrastinated so much saturday that i had homework left to do at 1030pm sunday, i didn't even have a lot of stuff, but i freaked out cause i KNOW i had time to do it saturday...the weird thing was, all of senior year i was so used to that kind of living, i didn't care, but now that i'm actually TRYING in school, i freak out about things like that...hm.

i really miss my mommy, she should never go out of country for so long...it makes me sad. =(

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Jiow's Night Out

Regardless of what others are choosing to call my friday night, i'm still gonna call it Jiow's Night Out. So on friday, we didn't have yaf this week cause we were gonna go apple picking/fall color tour saturday morning...i asked Yang if he could take me to the mall, but he was gonna be super busy, so instead, the Navy Honda Civic car keys were handed to me! (actually, he didn't wanna explain to me how to get to the mall, so he drove me there and wanted to walk back, but i said i wouldn't allow it, so he drove me to the mall, i drove him back, and drove back to the mall...good thing mall is less than 1mi away...) the mall was really small, but it was sufficient, as in the stores i usually shop at were all there...except for A&F, but that's ok, i can't afford anything without my mommy anyways...hahaha so after shopping at the mall i went to Kohls and Target and "harvest" of the night: Band Aids from Target! hahaha, i ended up not getting anything from anywhere because 1) the stuff i actually wanted were too expensive/not on sale 2) the stuff that were on sale were just stuff i wanted and not needed 3) without a job, i feel guilty spending money...so after shopping, i went and treated myself to a very delicious bowl of Chipotle, boy, was i satisfied! after that, i drove around a bit more, just cause i had a car, so might as well...haha (no worries, i filled up his tank before giving it back) then later on that night 5 of us went to Culver's and it was entertaining, i don't really remember what was done/said i just remember it being a funny hang out...the rest of the night is unimportant.

saturday: woke up early to go pick apples (i drove yang's car again, cause he didn't go)...it was so cold...if you guys ever visit me, even though they say it's a "michigan must" we're not doing it. the fall color tour was beautiful tho! i loved the colors and the sky was beautiful that day!!! praise Jeebus! =D then later that night we went to downtown g-rapids to eat a asian restaurant, the only reason i was persuaded to go was cause i checked out the menu before hand online and saw abuncha southeast asian foods and was like ALRIGHT I'M GOING! i got curry! yay! that made me happy, i mean it wasn't as good as mom's/malaysia, but being able to taste curry just makes me happy, thank you Jesus! then after dinner we went to Carson's to play Rockband, that made me happy too! hahaha, it was a good night...

sunday: typical church day, it was funny hearing Pastor Ting mention "lee dao hong mu shi" cause i'm like puahahaha, i know that dood. anyways, then it was back to dorms to do hw...so nothing exciting. but weekend was good overall, mainly cause i got to drive so much =D

It's getting colder and colder here, BUT i'm not complaining (yet.) i'm actually rather enjoying it, and i'm not just saying it to make myself believe it, i really am enjoying it SO FAR...so that's a plus! also, i realize that i'm getting dumber and dumber...not school wise cause there was already no hope...hahaha, i think the problem is that my other half is usually the dumb one and without her here, i have to bear the burden of being the dumb one too...maybe that's why she's being so smart over there too because she has to take on the responsibility of being a smart person too...please, let us reunite. we complete each other =P (you know i only play play ;) ) ok, i'm done, this is possibly the fastest i've ever written an entry...quite surprised.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

"Short" Entry

been slacking on these blog posts cause i've been doing hand written entries in my journal! hahaha, anyways, a quick weekend update.

Friday: had pot luck at yaf for moon festival celebration, after that had worship practice, then went to enoch's for "sleepover", which really meant eating party...haha but i had self control and did NOT eat, because i do not want freshmen 15/look like a gugu! =O

Saturday: was woken up at 10am, went to go play bball, lunch at Ichiban (eh...), came back, pooped around, studied for religion, blah blah, bed

Sunday: church, played piano, hard to understand sermon (the canton accent completely threw me off), signed up to teach children sunday school, it'll be interesting cause i signed up for the young kids, and i haven't taught that class in a few years ><, then we went to Yang/Alex/Chia-Wen's to cook, watched Stephen Chow's movie, went out to buy some stuff, GOT A STARBUCKS (haha, but no cool kids to get it with =/ and i had to get a hot drink) ate dinner, watched funny/stupid videos on youtube, blah blah, end.

anyways, this week i have 3 exams, i already finished 2, and i've got one more friday...i'm pretty sure i owned the religion exam, haha, it wasn't "easy", but i knew my stuff PLUS i studied! and had the math test today, i'm not SUPER confident, but i know i didn't do bad...i'm not that sure bout friday's oral rhetoric written test tho, will have to do some extra studying...uhm, also, on monday my grandpa passed away in malaysia...i was really sad when i first found out, but now, i'm "happy", as in i know this is so much better, for his health condition and his "memory" this is so much better for him and for the aunts...plus, we know where he's at ;)

on a side note, i'm SUPER excited for winter break, i can't wait to go home! i really miss my girls....haha and my GIRL, ANITA <3!!! then, if everything works out (pray pray pray!) i'm super excited for spring semester! hahaha, but that's all i'm saying. life has been good tho, God has been awesome, everything's been taken care of, He's in control and it's awesome to know He's by my side =D

Monday, September 28, 2009

Firsts

edit// I LOVE MY PARENTS!!! hahaha, i got their GIANT package of food today!!! i could not stop laughing...at one point at unpacking, i had to stop just so i could laugh...my mom packed EVERYTHING!!! i'm SO happy! =D YAY YAY YAY!!!//

-i did my own laundry for the first time ever last night! i'm real proud of myself no matter what others have been saying on my facebook status!
-i took my first exam of the semester today! i actually just got back from it about 30min ago...this blog post was actually postponed because of this test! (look, i'm even straightening out my priorities!)
-yesterday marks first month away from tucson! so this post was supposed to happen yesterday to make it more exciting...haha oh well.
-today was also the first day i wore long sleeves (hahaha, i just wanted another "first")

i was told that my "friday: blah blah, saturday: blah blah..." was mundane, BUT i'm still gonna do it...hahaha

nothing exciting happened during the week except that on wednesday night i got to webcam with anita (thanks again, tracy~) and that made me SO happy, her laughs, her smile, her fat chubby face...TOO cute. i love that little cutie pie~ other than that, it was a typical school week...

friday: typical, yaf was interesting...our group pwned. =D then there was worship practice afterwards, oh boy! i love the feeling of just "jamming" even tho we were practicing...cause even tho i get to practice in our basement almost everyday, it's different with others and going all out, fun stuff! now all i need are the 4 other stars and that moon. ;P

saturday: woke up at 9:50, picked up by yang at around 10ish to go to church cleaning...blahblah, we barely did anything since they started at 9...then went out to lunch with the usual kids to MingTen, the only good asian restaurant here...it made me appreciate New China...hahaha, but the sushi was good, so i was still satisfied...then i came home, watched season 9 of friends AND studied psychology, haven't studied on a saturday since freshmen year of highschool...i'm in the "freshmen mode" again...hahaha

sunday: typical church, nothing exciting or i can't think of anything...soooo...yep, i did enjoy our worship tho...haha, Light of the World in chinese...bahaha, i can't think of that song without hearing it in chinese now...One Way's like that for me too...two english songs that have officially "translated" in my brain and can't be "translated" back...=/

This is 4th week of school!!! i'm quite surprised, haha it's also super exciting because it means winter break is coming up, which means home!!! eep! excite excite! and before that, thanksgiving break in ohio!!! yay!!! =D God is good!

Monday, September 21, 2009

He Loves, He Cares, He's There

edit// i forgot to add, on sunday after church, i was just bored so i asked Liu Yang to let me drive is car to the front...and after i did, he's like "why don't you drive?" and i was like "really? ok!" so i got to drive it for the rest of the night, it made me really happy, finally being at the wheel again...ooohhhh, good feeling...haha//

There is None Like You

There is none like You,

No one else can touch my heart like You do,
I can search for all eternity Lord
And find, there is none like You.

I remember just a month ago (or maybe a few weeks ago) i was blogging about stuff like "i know He has a plan for me, i just needa step out and find out"...stuff like that? stuff that i wrote to reassure my decision to come out here to "The Freezer"....it's silly how us humans have to go through something TOUGH to finally realize "oh! He's here!" when really, He's been here the whole time! Man, i've got so much testimonies to tell now...but i'll just compile it and share it sometime. In short, I've never felt this close to Him before, and it's AWESOME, feeling His presence, realizing afterwards that He had already thought about this way before i did, and knowing that I needn't be afraid cause He is there. Boy, do i love our God! =D

now that i'm done with that, onto my weekend update!

Friday: I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS DAY ALL WEEK! when class ended at 330pm, i was jollificated! then i went to yaf, it was their "normal" routine this time, i played piano for worship...i didn't know whether i should be playing the chords or the melody so i did half-half, like the chords when i heard them singing, so i knew they knew the song...anyways, then after it i came back to my dorm and wanted to shoot myself in the face...cause i was SO used to going somewhere after church that coming straight home i was like @.@ this is a new feeling! and so i felt...poopy. which also led up to a lot of complaints (my b.) i won't go into further details.

Saturday: slept till 1:30pm, i was trying to waste the day away by sleeping that way i don't spend a lot of time being in a poopy mood on how there's nothing to do...so then at dinner, i ate with Jessie, who i like to call the Indowanese (Indonesian + Taiwanese) and it made me happy to know her as i am Malaywanese...hahaha, so we had quite a few things in common, then after dinner we had this Taiwanese gathering consisting of Me, Jessie, and Jacky...then Ivy joined so it wasn't taiwanese anymore...we chilled at the lobby of SE for like 30min talking about nothing, then Jessie said that she was gonna go watch a movie with her friends, so i went with her! went to go see The Proposal eeeeee, it was cute and funny, i'm not exactly the biggest fan of Sandra Bullock, as in i really don't like her, but she wasn't too bad in this movie! Ryan Reynolds is good as always, good looking too, so the going out and watching a movie part made me really happy, as God took care of my "blah" from friday night. =)

Sunday: woke up at...12:45pm, got ready for church, wore new shirt from express, all this "wearing new clothes" is making me happy, i like pulling tags of these clothes, makes me smile, especially when i see the price too...hohohohoho...church was weird, there was a promotion for a "loving couples camp" which i obviously need, you know? so i was NOT paying attention. HOWEVER, after church, some of yaf kids decided to go cook at Tiff/Karen/Teresa's apt! so a crew of us went to go get the ingredients and a crew went back to get ready, when we got back, we got down to business! Jesse cooked ma puo tofu, and this other tofu thing, Liu Yang cooked this lotus root thing and the Jap curry was a collaboration of us two, but he was the 大廚 fasho. anyways, so it was (alphabetical order...haha) Alex, Chia-Wen 叔叔, Enoch, Jesse, Joshua, Karen, Teresa, Tiffany, and Yang at this gathering, it was fun and definitely some bonding time! i can already see some interesting, definitely amazing, quirky, friendships coming up these next few years! I'm so glad God's blessed me with this church, He's definitely providing~

I had a wonderful weekend if this post wasn't clear...it started out with quite some complaints, but that was a waste of my breathe as He had already had my weekend planned...so once again, PRAISE JEEBUS! He is good, and He loves me way too much =D

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Passion Tea Lemonade

edit// (09.17 10:55am) i forgot to mention that on sunday i was also told that i'll be the pianist for the "youth worship team" that leads on sunday every other week! sooo, this week is us! i'm excited! i also found out last night that they want me to play on friday too! this is one of the reasons i'm starting to feel "at home" with this church cause i have stuff to do! Praise Jeebus!

original// Passion Tea Lemonade (i want some.) aka PTL aka Praise The Lord!

Today makes 1 week and a day at Calvin College! For those of you wondering/been asking...classes have been alright, i don't see them being a pain in the butt...YET, i think a few classes will annoy me cause of the "stuff" there is, but i know they're not HARD work...so PTL! My roommate and i are getting along better, not that we weren't before, but we kinda just didn't talk at all the first week, but we've been talking more now, so PTL! Now aside from the complaint of last week's fellowship at this new church of mine, i REALLY enjoyed sunday service, PTL yet again!

Sunday: service was very simple, church is supah tiny, but that's ok, it's what i'm used to...they sang oldies, hahaha, but oldies that i knew, so hoorah! anyways, after service (that started at 2:30pm) they had a bbq/pot luck and i was introduced to 2 Malaysian Families, 1 Singapore lady, and a buncha other people that knew about me before i came...hahaha, and 1 of the Malaysian family knows of my parents! it was so weird! the moment i mentioned our JB church, they were like "OHHHHHHHHH!!!" O.o but it was awesome, it made me feel very much at home...=) and after church i went with 4 other youths the the grocery store and i got myself some junk food...haha, enoch's predicting that i'll gain the Freshmen 15 and he WILL make fun of me...and i said it won't happen....(hopefully! ><) sunday made me really like church and look forward to church this weekend! which is a good sign cause it means i'm starting to treat this church as home...so there's no more homesickness because i got one here =D so PRAISE JESUS!!! He is good~

I have Oral Rhetoric class because it completes a core and i thought that this would be most helpful for my future career than like...science education studies or art (which everyone knows i fail at...) and we had our first speeches due today, and since i had sent my speech to my teacher the day before for her to "edit"...she knew i had it ready, so she called on me...haha, it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, but i spoke a lot quicker than i practiced...=/ oh well, i'm glad it's over and i don't have to worry about it for another day...one class tomorrow! yay! so all in all, life is pretty good...it's also starting to get cold...59 degrees right now...isn't this tucson winter?! @.@

Friday, September 11, 2009

Strengthened in Him

滿有能力
我的盼望 就在耶穌基督裡
在你裡面 滿有平安
生命泉源 就在耶穌基督裡
有主在我 裡面活著

我宣告在我裡面的
比世界一切的更有能力
我不屬這世界
我高舉耶穌的名

我宣告在我裡面有
活水湧流滿有能力
有耶穌在我裡面活著
我勇敢站立

有主在我裡面
沒有懼怕能戰勝仇敵
有主在我裡面
沒有懼怕還得勝有餘

this is a long one! color coded!
Today marks 2 weeks and 1 day since i've left tucson...and of course the past 5 days have been the hardest...but instead of writing about all the boo-hoo stuff, gonna start with praise!

the past weekend in ohio has been legen-wait for it-dary! haha, i'm so happy i got to spend those few days in ohio because 1) i had a really good bonding time with a few of the girls 2) it kept my mind off the whole "moving" thing 3) i saw a lot of growth in many of the youths in just half a year...anyways, for those ohioans that are reading this, i had a REALLY nice time with you guys and i even told my mom "dang it, i should've went to cedarville" (but no, i'm glad i didn't go there...hahaha) i can't wait to chill with you guys during thanksgiving break =D oh, and this trip to ohio was kinda weird...to me at least, cause i got "close" to all the people i wasn't exactly close with before...like, even though karen and i talked occasionally, this trip...WOW. hahaha, we had some intense talks. and anna too, somehow was able to talk about a lot more things this trip...and then bernard, i told him we better talk this trip cause we didn't talk at all my past two trips, and we did! so it was cool finally talking to "BMW" also got to hear a lot of his retarded stories...hahaha, i was just kinda surprised at how easy to was to get close to them even tho this is only my 3rd visit...but then again, it's cause 因著耶穌我們成為一家人!!! annndddd yeaaaahhhh, it was really nice being the ohioans, gave me that "home" feeling =)

Monday: dropped off by family around evening...didn't start the tears till the last hug with parents...anyways, later that night we had a "Dorm Mixer" so i went downstairs and stood awkwardly away from the little groups of friends that had already formed while i was in ohio...but then randomly, this girl starts talking to me, with the usual "name, major, hometown" and then asked if i was gonna go back to AZ for thanksgiving and i was like "no, but maybe ohio, cause my brother is there" she flips and says "Where?!" me: "columbus...." and it turns out, that's where she's from! hahaha, the awesome part is, i've found myself a ride to columbus during thanksgiving break! =D praise Jesus! the first night and He took care of my "biggest worry"

Tuesday: first day of class, only one class, Christian Theology, EXCITING! haha, i was also the only "religion/pre-seminary" major in the class, so professor was like =D...then the rest of the day was like reading/food/boo-hoo/etc...

Wednesday: had the other 4 classes...they all seem interesting...haha, sociology, oral rhetoric, math, psychology...i'm not sure how i REALLY feel about them yet, because i always judge a class to quickly and end up not having a good time...so yeah, i'll wait and see...i can't recall anything exciting happening here too....

Thursday: can't recall anything, and it was only yesterday...just remember calling my mom about 4 times throughout the day due to: 1) questions 2) decisions 3) home sickness 4) just because...hahaha not in that order tho....but then my mom told me the story about anita looking for me...oh my goodness, could not help but cry hearing about her...gah, i miss that little tadpole...=(

Friday: was excited for yg all day, i REALLY wanted to see what it was like and i was hoping to rely on the yg for "comfort" as i did with my yg and as i did with the ohio yg...so waiting outside at like 6:50 even though they said 7 (and they were NOT on time) i was just SO READY to go to yg...but today was the first yg of the semester so they didn't do a typical yg, they just played games the whole time (not exactly fun games...hahaha, but it was alright) and honestly, (i hope none of them reads this) i was quite disappointed... i guess i just had too high of an expectation, but praise Jesus! i got to know a few people (asians) that go here too...and that does comfort me a bit more...but after yg, i couldn't help but miss yg (MY yg) SO SO SO SO SO much...and i couldn't call any of you because all of you guys were AT yg...so that made me even more sad, and that was probably the first time i really missed yg as a whole...-sigh-. keep up the good work guys, i hope to see big, wonderful changes in the winter.

Tomorrow morning is chaos day...i finally decided to buy a dorm shirt, and they ran out...OH WELL. haha, keep on praying for me guys! i need to learn complete dependence on God! =D

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Keep Moving Forward

edit// i miss my 小蝌蚪, i was gonna wait to post her pics up, so that i can post my "moving pics" too, but these are too cute tot wait! =P

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” - Sir Walt Disney


As much as i like procrastinating on my blog posts, i do think that i need an update. (i color coded it again for you lazy readers =P)

Thursday: early in the morning, my 2 xuan-xuans and winston took me and my parents to the airport, they literally just dropped us off, which was fine, and completely not sad...haha ok, not competely, but it really wasn't that bad as the xuans have left me and i've left the xuans, and winston left us before too...anyways, one of my luggage was 12lbs over weight (what the fart, it had the lighest things inside too...) and so we had to take some crap out and that was real fustrating...oh and jerry appeared at that time, his eyes were water filled...i thought he just didn't get enough sleep but my mom claims that he was crying...hmmmm...(sparknotes version here) left tucson, transferred in Chicago, arrived an hr late in columbus, picked up by brother and jacqueline, went to Oo's residence to drop off all luggage, ate dinner at this korean place, went with brother to OSU while him and some youths played tennis, end.

Friday: woke up at noon (9am tucson time, be proud of me) to have lunch with bro at Tensuke (sp?) then came home, (the highlight of my weekend...so far, as there's still tomorrow) so in the spare time between after lunch and 8pm yg, i watched 2 disney movies! haha it made me so happy to see the mini collection of disney movies here (which i think xiao qi jiejie would be really happy to see too) i started with Meet The Robinsons just cause i haven't seen that yet, and at first i was like @.@ but then it became O.O it was so good! hahaha, it totally surprised me (i won't go into detail so i won't ruin anything for you yet-to-watch-it-ers...) but in it "keep moving forward" was like the main theme and at the end they put the quote by Disney that i put in the beginning of this post....and after the movie i felt like it was God telling me something too, cause the night before i left i started freaking out so much that i couldn't even sleep all night, shocker right? (details some day) but now, KEEP MOVING FORWARD! anyways, then i also watched The Little Mermaid...i couldn't decide which one, but then since she was the only princess one i decided to watch it...left for yg, played redonkulous game, stm testimonies (thumbs up), came home, end.

Saturday: had lunch with Rev. Oo's, went to Easton with anna, bernard, dianna, jacqueline, katie, marissa, mj, shirley, si chu, and later met up with steven and victor (bahahaha, it's alphabetized...i hope i'm not missing anyone) during Easton (sparknotes) bwen became obsessed with jam and steven is extra shady and almost got in trouble...oh and Tiffany and Co had free food <3! after Easton, went to park near katie's house, went to katie's house for dinner, came home, end.

Overall, it's been a good transition, and i'm getting a little excited to see what my classes are like...haha, but the whole parents leaving thing still scares me a little, so keep praying for me kids! i needa "keep moving forward!" (向前走呀! 努力向前走!)

p.s. if you girls see starbucks "vanilla bean truffles" YOU MUST BUY, SO DELICIOUS, i had one here at Oo's place, almost died from it being so good...dark chocolate on the outside and vanilla yumminess on the inside. =P

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Major. No Longer a Minor

PRAISE THE LORD! for: 1) amazing family 2) awesome (and beautiful, might i add) friends and 3) a wonderful day

Today, morning i woke up at 10:15am and before i could REALLY wake up, my dad told me happy birthday and then prayed for me (couldn't help but teared up)...after that i checked my facebook/gmail to clear all the notifications/emails...hahaha then talked to my mother for a bit, then got ready for the day with my beautiful girls! got to the mall late, waited for meixuan, and began our amazing/fun photoshoot! then we went and got our tickets for The Time Traveler's Wife, ate lunch, checked out our pics, and watched the movie. The movie was really cute, sweet, adorable, but sad...haha i won't say too much about it tho...i really enjoyed seeing Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana tho...hahaha. anyways, then we shopped for a bit, i got a a hoodie from A&F for $12.90!!! haha and yixuan and meixuan also gave me an abercrombie hoodie (thanks~)
Then after getting home from the mall, i left again after about 10min, went to Sushi Yukari with parents, it was super delicious! and Yukari made a special dessert for me, oh man, super fattening...chocolate/banana cake, vanilla ice-cream, topped with whipped cream and chocolate cake crumbs...haha, then we came home.

I had a really really really great 18th birthday!! thanks to all who wished me happy birthday, each and every wish made me smile =) i'm especially thankful for The Girls tho...i think this birthday celebration was pretty downlow for an 18th birthday and we decided to do a birthday celebration that we used to do when we were like 12/13, haha when we couldn't go anywhere but the mall...but it brought back so much good memories and built so much more today~ thanks girls, it was legen-wait for it-dary! true story.
<3 Yes, it's true, we're that beautiful.
haha, posting this one just for kicks.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

The Fantasmic 8

As previously written, (most) of youth group went on a road trip with Rev. Ongs//Lim Parents//D.Lu family last weekend...

Thursday: (IDIOT) Tony came to our house at like 6am something, when we emphasized 7:50am...(geez, he never gets anywhere on time, but that day he had to be early...) so that started off both my parents off in a pretty bad mood, cause they didn't go to bed till like 3am wednesday cause of 餐館團契...anyways, after getting to CA, we went to eat at 金都, SO DELICIOUS...then drove another hour or two to Torrance, practiced for a bit, went home, SPA-ED.

Friday: practiced from morning to night, except with lunch in between...ate a buffet, i thought it was hilarious that they'd treat us to a buffet when they KNEW we had a buffet owner with us...@.@ anyways, our New China PWNS. Praise night was pretty awesome, God really did some work...it seemed like the congregation was pretty dead, but we only got positive feedback...and parents with younger children are all hoping they'd grow up to serve in church, so praise Jesus for setting examples! then SPA-ED at night.

Saturday: REDONDO BEACH! had SO much fun riding the waves...hahaha, the boys were such wimps, all the girls jumpped in before they did, and that fatty mcfatfat winston took forever to join us...=.= after that went home and went to Q&A...blahblah DID NOT SPA. =O

Sunday: church, my babies left me =(, wanted to punch annoying lady in the face...talked to ex-SOP members, went home and "napped" (i did not, i poo-ed instead) then left for good korean food with a few adults, went home and SPA-ED with Nathan...went back and chilled.

Monday: DISNEYLAND!!! i want to live there...oh man, like yixuan said, there's no describing, it'll just ruin it...it was so amazing, and the company was great. it was a good birthday thing. thank you guys for making it awesome.

Tuesday: left early in the morning...DIED on the car...haha. done.

i have yet to upload pictures...but i will...tonight, maybe tmr...oh and i LOVE anita. she's here with me now (at church) boy, is she adorable. i think her nickname should be 嬌嬌...she is so much better at it than i am...

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

To The Left, To The Left

so last thursday, i started packing...haha i can't believe how soon my "moving date" is coming...AND i got my residence hall assignment yesterday...haha, but all the stuff i packed were just winter stuff, so it's making me rather excited =P, i'll save my recent "college transition" experience for my last bible study

yixuan, mark, dean, and i went to go see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on saturday, SUPER exciting stuff! i really can't wait for the 7th one! practice after that, then tracy, yixuan, jerry, tony, and i went to applebee's...hahaha there were so much funny stuff, like voice-automated car...i love this group, can't imagine college life without them =/

for some reason, before blogging i had a lot to write about, but now, i'm stuck...haha oh! today, woke up at 10 (crazy early...hahaha) to have breakfast with parents at Good Egg...was pretty delicious, and i couldn't finish...which was really surprising...O.o then i came home and went online for a while and fell asleep...=P then left for the most entertaining and fun practice ever...my mouth is feeling crazy uncomfortable right now, for the past 3 weeks since the surgery, i've been fine...but tonight it started swelling and hurts...boo. i guess i'll just sleep tonight rather than watching a movie...haha

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Movie Fanatic

nothing much has happened the past weekend, except the fact that i got to go swimming with the most adorable kids on saturday...i had previously written a whole blog about those kids, but then i decided that no on really needs to read it...haha, so that's all i'm saying on that subject...

so i haven't written anything about this yet, or i don't think i did yet...but we're going to cali for a praise night on 08/06 (poster on side) and leading sunday worship, so if you know people around torrance, CA (or even if they're not) make sure to tell them we'll be there!! oh and the time is 8pm not 730pm...i'm not sure how this'll turn out, haha, i've never organized a mainly chinese songs set (well, except for my brother, but it doesn't really count, cause i just pick songs) so yeah, pray pray pray!

we had our first praise night practice tonight...it was just really a run through/get a feel of the songs...without all the instruments there, it's really kinda hard...but may God help us!!! after practice i went to blockbuster to switch out a movie, as i do almost every night, and my two favorite guys were there! i only know one of their names tho...but the one that i'm not so sure's name asked me about Watchmen (rented it two nights ago) when i walked in and asked what i thought of it and said he knew i'd think it's a too slow of a movie...then when i checked out Alex helped me and asked me how The Heartbreak Kid (the dvd i was swapping out) and when i told him that i was surprised, seeing that it was a ben stiller movie, he was like "THAT'S WHAT I SAID!" hahaha, i just found that really funny that he was so excited...but yeah blahblahblah more bout the movie...i've been watching so many movies lately, but been watching "new movies" from last year...and my blockbuster guys are awesome critics, i wish i was their friend...lol, just because my OH-SO-AMAZING-AND-AWESOME-FRIENDS now aren't into the whole media thing, like movie stars blahblah, movie details blahblah, behind the scenes blahblah...hahaha...why don't i have cooler friends! just kidding guys. (maybe.) i think that's all, i've just been watching SO many movies, trying to catch up on all the movies i missed last year when i cancelled my pass...i don't know what i'm gonna do in college without this pass, although i am paying for it myself now...but i won't have this extra $23 to spend every month...i should just work at blockbuster...=D ok i'm done rambling...i should start jounaling again rather than blogging....

p.s. rented Pineapple Express tonight...not having any expectations cause my blockbuster guys laughed at me when i got it...@.@

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Preparation

"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil." Ephesians 6:11

it is now 3:00 am and this time i'm not awake because i can be, but rather i was kept awake by
omgpop HOWEVER, i was not up playing games on it...i was at first playing "Blockles" on it, but then this player said "religion is a joke" and most of you know, i pretty much will never run away from a chance to get into a religious discussion! so i started just saying a few things here and there as i kept playing, but as he kept throwing questions at me, i created a chatroom on omgpop and continued the discussion with him there...i REALLY praise God for putting this chance in front of me, because i do love these discussions, and i got a taste of what my future life will consist of! and i praise Him for not allowing any anger, not even a little bit, to enter into the conversation, as i was constantly reminded before by mommy to never get fustrated at the "evangel-ee" so it was good no anger was in it from both sides...anyhoo, we talked about a lot and he asked a lot of questions, in the beginning those question were easy beasy (not being prideful, just have heard these questions/answers a lot from those mission trips) but then he got into evoltionism, which i only understand the surface level of it...so my answers were rather weak, but i told him i'd get back to him after i consulted with someone else (as mommy told me before to never let the evangel-ee feel like they've lost) but when i knew my answers were weak, i felt disappointed, but hopeful at the same time...because starting this fall, i'll be able to be more fully equipped and learn more about how to deal with these situations, which is making me excited just thinking about it!

(i just read the above, and i think it was written more for myself...haha) i might as well update now as i'm already here...these few days have been fun with the aunts, but every time it get quiet, i think about how i have to leave so soon, and it makes me sad...i even told my mom two days ago that i regret choosing Calvin because it's so far away and so cold...i really didn't want to go there anymore...but when i know it's where God wants me to go, disobeying Him will only bring more troubles, haha, and He reminded me again with the song "Trust and Obey" so that's what i'll have to continue doing, and i hope that you'll continue to pray for me too.

p.s. one of my excuses to elminate Calvin out of my list when i was choosing colleges was that the major i'd had to go into there is "Religion" rather than "Theology" but today when chatting with dood on omgpop, he mentioned other religions (but not too much as he wasn't that familiar with it either and he mainly mentioned buddhists and muslims - which i'm rather ok on) and i was thanking God for allowing me to be able to go into Religion! so point of this random update so early in the morning is that, i really gotta be more prepared! =)

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

"I hid under your porch because I love you."

first of all, just to clarify about the title, i'm not that big of a stalker, it's just a quote from UP by Dug (rather than Doug, weird huh?)

on saturday morning, my parents, tracy, mark, dean, jillian, and i went to go see UP in 3D and i really really really ridiculously like it! it was SO cute!!! and the most unbelivable thing is that i cried! ok well, i didn't cry, i shed like 2 tears...first movie (aside from The Passion) that i cried at...it was so good, i'm glad i finally got to see it (after being promised by mom 2 months ago) and the company was great =)

sunday was good too: great sermon by mom, sunday school was enlightening too! and after lunch yixuan and i went to the mall BECAUSE (not to buy more things) we went to AE and got price changes on our skirts and yixuan exchanged for a different color at a cheaper price, so we got about $15 back!!! felt so great! hahaha, then i went to work very tired...=.=

today was fun: we drove to phx early in the morning and chilled with my 2 older aunts, laughed so much and got a good ab workout =P...i can't even think of anything they said tho...oh well, it wouldn't be funny as text anyways...then tonight my older aunt taught me how to apply makeup so that i don't look like a clown when i do need to wear makeup...haha, ummm...that's all i can remember from these few days that i have to write about...so till later on~

Friday, July 17, 2009

Updatezzz

FINALLY updating...it's really long, so i color-coded it, like the sparknotes version =D

Last week when my parents were gone for the week in cali, i cooked for myself (and yixuan)! haha, i was so proud of myself...made japanese curry, didnt' turn out exactly the way it was supposed to, but still tasted good...=D quick review of the week of things that happened aside from work:
Monday: dinner at chipotle with Mark and Dean, i think Mark is getting more and more homogay...=/
Tuesday: went shopping with yixuan, but came home and ordered stuff online instead cause of free shipping/cheaper prices/more sizes (because we needed the smaller size not the larger)
Thursday: cooked japanese curry xD
Friday: yg, watched Marley and Me, was cute, not as sad as i thought it would be, haha maybe i'm just heartless? was still fun...

Saturday, i flew out to cali early in the morning, almost missed my flight =X, but arrived safely and had a very delcious Korean lunch with parents, then went to EFCSB to teach kids...wasn't supposed to at first, but was suddenly put to work, which i gladly did...once again, i was faced with a class of boys...haha, but good thing i've had my fair share of training from the all boys group in malaysia and the all boys class here...had fun teaching them, then Sunday, played piano with EFCSB's worship team, was once again suddenly told to teach Sunday School...haha, but it's ok, cause i think God used this weekend to clearly show me what i'm gonna do in the future, i'm more excited about it and i really enjoy doing it! Monday was pretty boring, i had to sit in my parents' class for about 3hrs, in which i just watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which by the way, i really liked it, Brad Pitt (46) is still hecka good looking....haha, i even rewinded some scenes just to get a better look =P, but around evening, i got to hang with the Twins, of course we played some omgpop first...but then went to Yogurtland afterwards, yummy! after that, went to LAX to pick up the two hilarious aunties...next day, went to dentist for check up, made an appointment for later that afternoon to get wisdom teeth out, went to eat a GOOD lunch, shopped at japanese store, went back to dentist and got my smart teeth out...then went shopping again, then went to dinner, in which i ATE...slowly, but surely...hahaha, i wasn't gonna not eat those amazing food!

so aside from having chipmunk cheeks, i've been fine...getting fustrated at the slow eating tho...haha usually a super fast eater, so having to slow down SO much is killing me....oh! update of tonight! we had worship practice tonight and afterwards we all went to Starbucks (as usual) had for some odd reason, i had a REALLY good time, haha we do these kinds of hang outs so often, but tonight made me especially happy, maybe it's cause i didn't see them last weekend...either way, i'm really gonna miss this youth group =( what a "special" bunch.

edit// finally got to drive in monsoon today!!! so much fun!

Monday, July 06, 2009

Southeast Asia Pride

every night when i sit in front of the computer, i open blogger and click on "new post" but every night i end up not posting anything, and yesterday when i really felt like writing something i convinced myself to just write it at the end of the week...so here i am at 2:09am blogging =___= haha...

the few days before summer began, i was sorta dreading it just because i really didn't want to go back into full time working...but i'm enjoying it so much now! hahaha, especially this weekend of the Forth, Dillards had a sale, so went shopping on Saturday with mom, 2nd aunt, and yixuan...got another cardigan from express and got a pair of sunglasses from Dillards, and because i'm working, i don't feel bad when i spend money cause 1) it's my money 2) i still have money 3) my hard work is paying off, but don't worry i only allow myself to spend a certain amount of money from each paycheck so that i don't spend everything...it's been exciting tho! and work is not terrible anymore, especially in this economy where people aren't really willing to eat out, it's not busy = it's not that tiring...and my co-workers take care of me! michelle made pandan cake (picture on right, yes, it is green cake! yum~) for me one day then two days later made pineapple tart and these little cheese flavored biscuits type thingy (no idear what they really were) for me! the pandan cake thing totally made my day, i haven't had that since elementary school (which i ate everyday) so it was so awesome! then she also had steven buy lunch for me when he went out to get their lunch...man, working was supposed to be where i worked out, but they keep feeding me...>< haha, oh well, and the jokester servers never stop entertaining me, they said they're my entertainment monkeys. and that's pretty much my week. oh, and i'm starting to learn Indonesian/Malaysian from my Indonesian servers again, it is SO fun, i'm already beginning to understand MOSTLY what they're saying, but i wanna be able to talk to them too.

only thing different from all the work update is that today, Han Wei visited from NYC, so after work we went to eat with him (it was his like 50th meal today @.@) we went to Zachary's for deep-dish pizza (seriously deep-dish...) and laughed A LOT, after that very filling "dinner" we went to cold stone and got ice cream...oh man, i only ate like 3 bites tho, was so full ice cream could come out my nose...but we definitely had fun chilling with him, such a funny guy. AND yixuan and i finally got to use all our HIMYM references!

parents are gone this upcoming week, yixuan's baby sitting me. hahaha, i'll be flying out to CA on saturday and will be there till wednesday...kinda excited, my 1st aunt is coming, gotta prepare the ear plugs! =P

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Tucson Love

wow, what kind of title is that? haha...it's been crazy hot lately, and it's not even the hottest yet...but crazy hot weather also means MONSOON season!!! which is absolutely the most amazing time in Tucson! but the monsoon we've been getting these few days weren't very big...so it's kinda disappointing...i love driving in a huge monsoon storm, dangerous, but fun...=P on saturday while driving to work, it started raining, but the sun was still super bright! haha only in tucson...all this driving and living so far away, gives me a lot of time to enjoy the amazing tucson scenery! AND today, after cleaning out closet (i say closet because, after cleaning closet, my room is now messy...@.@) i went to go see Transformers 2 with Tracy, 2 Xuans, Mark, Aaron, Sam, Charlotte, and Melody....haha i won't say anything just because i didn't want anyone else to say anything after they saw this move too...but i will say: 1) they overdid the MEGAN FOX thing...like WAY too much...i used to think she was pretty, but now, i do NOT like her face, everything else about her is fine tho, haha 2) they were so racist!!! that's all. it was fun tho, but exciting stuff is that some of those scenes were filmed in Tucson!!! AND filmed in DM right by house! where i drive by EVERYDAY! hahaha, felt so at home! =P

my life has been so repetitive lately, since i work every other day then all weekend..so it's like a cycle...i need something exciting to spark my life right now...OH! I CANNOT WAIT FOR HARRY POTTER!!! the trailer played today and AH!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!! O.O i need someone awesome to watch it with tho -coughcoughxiaoqijiejiecoughcough- anyways, so after finishing Heroes in 2.5weeks, i'm super obsessed with Milo Ventimiglia now @.@ and the fact that his name is my favorite drink makes me laugh...i really wanna re-watch season 1 of heroes tho! definitely the best out of the 3 (as almost everyone told me when i first started watching...) cause i have yet to find another tv show to start...haha thought about starting gilmore girls cause Milo's in it for 2 seasons or something =D ok must sleep soon...too tired to even blog properly...

edit// i rented the first transformers last night and watched it at 2am and finished around 430am-ish...haha, but i woke up at 130pm today...felt so good, but this just leads to my point that, only 30min after i went to bed, mark woke up O.o

Friday, June 26, 2009

Malaysian Love

I think today is worth an update, because my life is usually pretty boring...haha =P

i didn't have to work today, which meant sleeping till i naturally wake up...BUT that didn't happen, because i set an alarm for 8:55am so that it'd be 11:55pm in malaysia, so that i could text ahBin happy birthday and by the time i finished the text/sent it it'd be around 12am there! so i forced myself to wake up that early, sent him the text, read his reply, fell back asleep...till about 130pm when my mom woke me up, so that i wouldn't sleep till like 3pm...hahaha...so i pooped around for a bit (includes: "lunch", piano, tv, etc etc) then around evening we went to Kohls so that i'd be able to get some work clothes, in which i did! so that made me happy, i also got a pair of skinny jeans for 13.99...i super like cause they're crazy dark wash, and my mom made beef curry before we went out, so when we got home, it was all ready to eat!!! yum~ (that's right, stop rubbing it in my face that you get delicious malaysian food =P) so that was exciting and super delicious! then after dinner, i called ahBin for his official birthday blessing, talked to him for about 15min only cause he's at work...but i had fun nonetheless, i miss that kid...(過來吧!)but yeah, that's pretty much all the malaysianness that was in tonight, but those two bits of malaysian made my night =) tomorrow's friday! hooray for youth group~

p.s. 啊彬,生日快樂!21歲了哦,成人了 O.o...哈哈,認識你也夠就了,該絕交了對嗎?哈哈哈,不要煩!!!thanks for always being there to make me laugh, you're an AWESOME friend, and i'm terribly sorry for not being able to make it back this year, but there's still plenty of chances for us to celebrate...like...YOUR WEDDING?! =P anyways, 生日快樂!上帝祝福你!今天晚上別玩的太瘋哦!!! =D

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Nope, I Gotta Work

edit//the floodgates of dissdom opened...all these are by the previously mentioned disser...
- "u are just as fat"
- rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr "wait for it...STUPID YOU." (rawrs = putting in context)
- "i really REALLY want to think better of u, but u are not helping me"

i understand that none of you think those quotes are anything, infact when taken out of context they are just hecka mean...but the disser is really just made of pure evil sooo =/ haha but i found those 3 hilarious still =P

original// "Nope, I gotta work" - Eric Forman in the one about him working at Fatso Burger.

I've been working at the restaurant since last wednesday, and i'm having so much fun again! hahaha, my indonesian coworkers are hilarious (not that i don't enjoy working with you, yixuan =P) and my uncle is back as my manager, so it means easy going work again...yay! i some how can't think of anything exciting happening this weekend except sending the ong family off, except that wasn't exactly exciting, although i got to see the girls one last time =D

i don't have anything to update about cause i've just been working...but i need to record these few things down, so i don't forget...hahaha, so stephen and michelle, the only married couple out of the servers i work with...and as i was taking my random break that my uncle told me to take, i told them how cute i thought they were, and stephen hides his face in his hands like a little boy, and i was like "you got a good one!" and stephen in his very strong indonesian accent says "nooo, not good!" and i'm like "what!" he's like "got the best one!" AWWWWW...haha, and michelle smiled and walked away...lol but then stephen being the 5 year old that he is...randomly said "i'm spiderman!" and begins "shooting webs" out of his hands...@_@ and my favorite server, alex saw Land of the Lost and insisted i go see it...he kept laughing as he tried to tell me about it...haha, i like how immature my coworkers are...had fun working these few days, i just don't like how it's taking away my weekend time...but i do get tues and thurs off =D

my mom almost sold my piano this weekend...=_____= but she didn't and isn't going to...good.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Mini Vacation

for the almighty weekend details got to tracy's or yixuan's BUT one thing they missed out was winston said: "root beer froat" in perfect american english...hahaha good stuff...oh and vivien wanting to hit winston/tony with branches...haha

so we left for california right after church on sunday cause there were this couple who were teachers at Singapore Bible College that were visiting LA and wanted to see us, so we went and had lunch with them on Monday, but it was fun in cali...the weather is quite cold actually...haha, well i just wasn't prepared for it...anyways, ate a lot of good food, probably gained 50lbs, haha, and monday night we stayed at this crazy place...it was up a mountain...literally and it was a mansion! it was giaganticus! my mom kept telling me it was a mansion, but i thought she was just exaggerating, but it was so big! hahaha i did't take any pictures tho, cause i didn't wanna walk around their house taking pictures of everything...creeper to the max. but yeah, it was nice visiting cali...but getting back to work immediately! working at the restaurant tomorrow, hooray! but for 10 hrs...O.O off to bed, already 2:14...good thing i slept on the car...=P

Sunday, June 07, 2009

No Goodbye Yet

nothing really happened this week except that i worked at the restaurant (yay!) and got tipped $7! hahaha, yes, that is a lot for my job and for the kind of customers we get...

friday: youth group, i was very happy with the discussion, it seems like our youth group does better discussions when we require them to come in with something...haha, i'll try that more x) anyways, then after youth group i SO wanted a park-a-thon...so we went to frost then went to Udall Park, and it was really fun, but then i was retarded and tripped over this metal thingy and killed my knee, so now my right knee is crazy messed up (but i'll now match my brother's knee...haha it can be an Ong thing) and it sucks cause it hurts AND it's ugly...=___= but yeah, so i didn't get to partake in the jumping pictures...super sad. haha, next time! then afterwards, yixuan and tony came back with me and we talked till 4am...from celebrity hair, to celebrities in general, to food, to i don't even remember anymore, but whenever we switched topics i would map it out...haha

saturday: practice with uncle Ong, he said some touching words at the end of practice =/ then came home, at lunch, PF-ed, finished heroes season 1, napped, then went to kathy's house for lian-see ah yi and my farewell party with all the sunday school teachers...hahaha, i'm already getting a farewell party >< it was cute tho, they had all the kids make cards for us, and since my class is all boys, it was cute seeing all the cards that they made...but the fact that i'm leaving has not hit me yet, so i'll live in denial till it happens...(so don't start the goodbyes yet...please) then i had a really good discussion with the Ong couple, they're so cool, i want my family to be like them (but more awesome of course =P) cute couple, cute kids, pretty mom/wife...-sigh- hahaha, but yeah, the farewell party is rather weird just cause 1) i'm gonna see everyone again tomorrow 2) i'm gonna see everyone for another 2 months 3) am i really leaving? O.o i'm rather sad that the Ong family is leaving tho...oh well, mmmm, well, this is it~

p.s. pray for my $4000! Calvin says they can't tell me for another few weeks...oh and pray for my knee, i don't want a nasty scar like my brothers...=X

Sunday, May 31, 2009

New Celebrity Crushes

this past week was just work and work and work...but on thursday, yixuan, tracy, and i decided to go get el guero after work, i like spending time with my girls~ (at least those who are here and are usually willing to chill =P) youth group on friday was cool, haha i did not expect so many people, but praise God these kids are still willing to come! after yg, yixuan, tony, and i puzzle fighted till 2am then on saturday, there was on practice so yixuan, tracy, jerry (since he missed out the first time), and i went to go see STAR TREK again!!! AH! I CANNOT GET OVER THAT MOVIE!!! the first time was SO amazing, but the 2nd time made it even more awesome! and i'm over James Mcavoy (cause there hasn't been any new movies with him in it...) and so so so in like with Zachary Quinto/Chris Pine! (not the best picture of them, but i wanted to use one where both of them were in it, so that i didn't have to post 2...) i also watched the rerun of SNL last night cause there was nothing on, and it happen to be the episode where they appeared! i was so happy! hahaha then after the movie i came home and napped, then we went to the Lu's...ANDREI IS BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL!!! OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD! he's still pretty sick, but well enough to be home, so keep praying for him, as his mother is a little discouraged...=/ Anyways, i finally got to see my little tadpole, Anita after 2-3 weeks of not seeing her, and as she is more comfortable being at home, she's much more outgoing, gave me so many hugs <3 then we left and went and got El Guero AGAIN, then went to church cause the phoenix church arrived...then today, the phoenix church led worship/choir presentation, which was pretty good, the little boy was ADORABLE! (marry Anita, please =P) but after church, the Lu's and Lim's seemed to stay for a very long time so yixuan and i played with the Lu kids for quite a while, Anita is SO adorable! i wish she would stay this small and cute...hahaha...soooo, nothing exciting has happened, but it's not boring either, so it's good. =)

p.s. i'm still waiting on $4000 from Calvin or else my tuition's gonna be $6000, so pray pray pray!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Life As A Graduate

I had an awesome weekend with my other half, it was our 兩人世界 time! we had a power weekend! hahaha

Sat: short practice, went to mall to go get $1 flip flops from Old Navy, but the line was so long that yixuan and i decided not to wait and went home to eat Beef Curry (oh so delicious) then we went out again to take family portraits/graduation pictures and i took 3 pics with my other half too! (it's from the website, so there are watermarks...)
The Whole Family
The Parents
The VERY GOOD LOOKING Siblings
The Other Half (we're not holding hands...hahaha)
There's a lot more pictures, but these are the more favored ones...anyways, after taking pictures, yixuan and i shopped for about 4 hrs...she had a 大收穫! I got a shirt from Hollister and then we came home and ate dinner and pooped around...

Sun: church, guh preached in chinese, it was my first time hearing it, excluding the recordings i heard on 4C's website...it was pretty awesome, he's improving, i'm proud of him! then sunday school, lunch, went back to mall to order more prints, then came home and took a nap, then bbq! haven't had guh's bbq in the longest time! so delicious!!! then after bbq we went back to sau guh's house and had a puzzle fighter tournament! supah fun! and yixuan converted! =D

Mon: went to phx for lunch...literally...we got there, ate lunch, went to the hospital to visit Andrei and then shopped at Leelee's and came home! it wasn't very exciting, but adorable Andrei's getting A LOT better and is absolutely adorable! praise God! BUT i begin work tomorrow...and i'm sad because i have to work at the office...i hate working at the office because i have to drive so freakin far, and i got my task list today and i don't understand what i'm supposed to do at all!!! boo. i wanna work at the restaurant. =/

Saturday, May 23, 2009

The Beginning

the ending of high school and the beginning of summer!

wed: graduation was ok...haha it was pretty boring actually, but the whole mood of being at graduation is fun! can't wait to graduate again...? i'm glad my brother, cousin, and tracy got to attend (parents are a given, so not mentioning...) so hooray, i'm officially done with my diploma; therefore, i don't care if they pass my absecnes appeal or not...cause they can't take it back! (and as ahbin would say: neh ne neh ne bu bu! =P)
~my three closest friends in school~
haha i literally ONLY took pictures with them...cause had to leave pretty quickly after graduation to go eat, because both brother and cousin were starving...went to el guero to eat delicious fatty food, went to church for 餐館團契...so yep, my after grad party which pretty much SUPER awesome...hahaha nope, not complaining.

thurs: went to phoenix at around 930am, got there and had lunch with dad's side of the family...we were never too close to them, so i didn't talk at all unless they asked me a question in which i had to answer...after lunch got a "haircut" i wanted it to be a "thinning" cut but she said if it was that then i shouldn't pay for it, so she cut a bit more trying to not shorten it...then went to mall where i shopped around and couldn't find anything, but then went into abercrombie and fitch and found some crazy cheap stuff!!! i got a sweater that was originally $70 that was on sale for $9.90!!! so happy! then a dress shirt for $15.50 that was also originally $70...was so satisfied that i decided to not try and get anything from AE...haha

fri: came home after lunch, pooped around, went to church, came home, played puzzle fighter with cousin...sorry i meant, kicked cousin's butt at puzzle fighter...then i'm here writing this...

tomorrow family's gonna go get a family protrait taken...haha i'm rather excited~ although, not completely satisfied with the new "haircut"...so i'm not quite sure how the pictures will turn out...oh, who am i kidding? it'll never turn out ugly! haaaa! =P yeaa, this is it, i begin working again next week! boo!

p.s. a quick update on Andrei, he's now in a hospital in phoenix with a specialist, they performed another surgery on him today that put a thingy in his stomach to control his appetite...=/ keep on praying!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

THE END

LAST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL!!! i'm done done done! unless my appeal for my excessive absences doesn't pass then...i'm lying haha, so hopefully it passes =P i concluded my high school career very nicely, i wrapped it up with a nice meal at in-n-out with Yixuan, Meixuan, and Tony (Jerry was gonna come too, but technical difficulties he didn't.) and then watched Star Trek with them! OH-EM-GEE, it was the best movie this year!!! it was SO awesome! i wish i watched it in 3D though, would've made the experience even more amazing! Captain James T. Kirk is super awesome and Captain Spock (or "Spark" with an english accent as Yixuan thought...hahaha) was pretty spiffy too, haha, that bowl cut is an excellent touch too~ I CAN NOT BELIEVE ERIC BANA WAS NERO! WHAT WHAT WHAT! i still can't see it...but the movie was LEGEN-wait for it-DARY! so if you guys haven't seen it yet, i strongly urge that you do. too amazing, i'm absolutely willing to go spend another $7 to see it! but i also really wanna see X-Men Origins: Wolverine and opening this week Night At the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonians...i think Will Ferrell's Land of the Lost can be waited till DVD tho...haha OH AND CANNOT WAIT FOR TRANSFORMERS and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!!! exciting!!! this will be a good summer before college...hopefully...though since Yixuan and I will both be working it's gonna be hard to schedule hang outs...=/

GRADUATION TOMORROW! whoo hoo! i'm not sad at all...hahaha all the school kids are all getting depressed and crying, but i'm super excited! but when it comes time to leave my yg kids, oh no. T.t

Monday, May 18, 2009

2 More Days

edit// 1 day till How I Met Your Mother season finale!!! and yes, it's VERY important.

2 more days till the last day of high school! but more importantly, 2 more days till guh comes home! and 3 more days till graduation! 4 more days till phoenix! 7 more days till california! then it's WORK time!

man time flies, each year of high school went by quicker...i think the only time that i want time to slow down a bit is this summer...haha 1) i don't wanna leave home 2) i don't wanna leave the people (ok, that's a lie =P) 3) i don't wanna cook for myself...

Anyways, friday night was Senior Night at Italia, i literally called every restaurant in tucson to get a place for us...finally got Italia, which was actually pretty nice AND we got a private room even though they told me we couldn't, so praise God!
how are my girls so pretty?
after dinner, came to my house and gamed and chilled and had fun, haha, the whole gaming thing reminded me of Ohio when we were all gaming at my brother's house, hahaha...

saturday was dinner of the Ongs! hahaha, had dinner with Uncle Ong's (pronounced as "ang-kuh oh-ng" for the singlish affect) family at olive garden, i love his daughters! such cutie pies! and not once did they mess around at the restaurant, such good kids, i want my kids to be like them~

sunday was good, chilled with sau guh for a little bit, and it's been a while and it's always fun...haha

update on Andrei: he's fine now, still in the hospital, but daniel shu shu said he's gonna check out before wednesday, susan ahyi is now worried that this sickness might affect his brain and make him slow...=/ so please continue to pray for him...

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

About Time

I think it's about time i've had a new post...nothing has really happened lately so that's why there's been a lack of updated...so Monday was supposed to be my Bio AP, but i totally backed out of it, because i don't need it for college...haha but then i just didn't go to school since i'm already marked for "school business"...so i slept till 2:40pm, yea, i'm pretty much THAT amazing. So this week is such a waste, i don't have APs anymore, therefore all AP classes are done, that's 4 of my 5 classes...so i just go to school and sit there and text or play on my macbook, but there's no wifi so i can't do anything more fun like omgpop or beat bwen/joshyen's tetris scores on facebook...lol

Andrei: we literally visit him everyday and i take pictures everyday, but i'm getting lazy of uploading them...he's such a cutie pie, but too bad i'm leaving soon and he won't even know who i am! sad. but he's getting better! and the doctors are stupid! haha so we'll just keep praying that God heals and we won't rely on those useless doctors...

this was really weird, on the way home from visiting Andrei tonight, my parents and i started talking about our 4 years in the dorms of Singapore Bible College, and man, the life was probably the worst we've ever had to live through, but it was so much fun and we laughed at so much stuff...like we had this floormate who was Indian that literally (i'm not even exaggerating this time) cooked some type of gooey brown thing that smelled SO bad, it was like baked poo (I'M NOT KIDDING) and there were so many other things that really brought the family together...so then my mom was like, hm, we should all go back and study again, afterall, we want your brother to get another degree, your dad and i are still studying now, and you're about to go to college, we might as well go back as a family again! puahahahaha...that would be...i dunno, no word would really fit...haha

Friday, May 08, 2009

Sick Babies

edit// my mom was making me research some stuff near Calvin, and there's a Kohls <1mi away, a mall <2mi away, and a Costco <3mi away! haha i love it! those are the only 3 places i need! hopefully there'll be a few good restaurants around too =P
lol, that's my favorite picture of him from all week cause 1) all the crap is off his face! 2) his eyes are open! 3) he's so pissed off that i would even dare take a picture of him...hahaha
so Andrei's been doing much much better! praise God! he's been brave going through all this too! but his liver is still swollen and the doctors don't know why, so keep him in your prayers!

so yesterday morning my parents took a couple to look at houses, and there was this random bird that kept following my mom so my mom decided to take it home, and it even let my mom do that! so i woke up from my nap and there was a random bird in our old hamster cage...
then we gave it to Pat ahyi/uncle John cause they know how to take care of birds, and i'm scared of birds...but apparently the bird is a little baby love bird that hasn't eaten in days...so died today...haha

10 More Days Till Graduation!!!

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Praise God Almighty!

Praise God! Andrei is getting better without the help of the doctors! we still dunno what is/was wrong with him, but he's recovering!!! they took the sleeping meds off today, tubes/machinery go off tomorrow, and out of the ICU! yay! when we were at the hospital today, he was semi-awake, he was so adorable, wiggling his tiny fingers and toes, and getting angry at the nurse for messing cleaning his mouth...hahaha, so it's good! God is good! when we got to the hospital, Daniel shushu was standing at the door smiling, and immediately we knew that was a good sign~ Praise Jesus!

whee! as of yesterday, i've had a new, beautiful, lovely, 2.4 MacBook! it's awesome, can't stay away from it...hahaha...i'm trying to think of a name for it, suggestions? anyways, this macbook does more than be amazing, apparently, it has some kind of defense mechanism to fight against the previously mentioned "disser"...hahaha quite special...

tomorrow's the stat's AP, i don't really feel ready, but i don't think i'm gonna study anymore...some practice tests are SUPER easy and some are crazy hard...so i never know how good i actually am doing...oh well, at least the AP isn't in like 6 in the morning...pray for me! mmmm, that's all for now, school is winding down and temperature is heating up...=/

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Healing Hand

i just came back from seeing Andrei for the second time today...and this time i got to see the nurse do stuff on him...they poke his tiny little finger every 15min to check his blood stuff...and the nurse was messing around with the tubes around him...it was so sad, and i saw the pain in both parents, so while my mom was praying for him, i couldn't help it and started crying again...the worst of all is, this morning they performed a spleen surgery on him, and after the surgery found out there was nothing wrong, AND THEN tonight, another doctor came and told us that the surgery was completely pointless! now Andrei has absolutely no strength to regain health from the surgery, so it's even harder to heal from whatever sickness he has right now...it's so sad, he's only 8 months old...so please please, i don't care what you're doing, just take 10secs to say a simple praying for him and the Lu family...