Shopping with Mother

Yes! I went shopping with my mother to buy me a dress, shoes and shawl for my graduation in JS. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT!!??

Okay. Just joking around.

Yes, indeed, it is true I went out with my dear mother to shop for myself a new knee-length dress, shoes that match and a shawl that doesn't spoil the whole matched outfit. It was absolutely a splendid experience and time. We went to JJ Aeon Bukit Tinggi mall and spent nearly 3 hours shopping for just those items. 

Before we left from home, I prayed. I even started praying when I was told that we girls need to wear dress. In my whole life, I only owned 5 dresses. 3 when I was pre-school and below and 2 between the ages of 7-12. Since 11 years old, I have not owned any dress. So you can get the idea on how I feel when I wanted to get a dress. I didn't know the basics of shopping for a dress. Okay, so we got the dress first. We went searching the whole mall until we came to a special boutique called Cruz. There was only one dress which is knee-length and it fitted me perfectly. It was definitely God answering my prayer. It's purple some more. Double blessing. 

We then got the shawl from Brands Outlet. And the shoes!! I tell you I hate shoe shopping because I can hardly get my size!! But all glory to God I now own my first high heels shoes! They are called wedges and it fitted me 'ngam ngam hou'! And I don't feel awkward walking in them and I especially don't feel extra tall. Hehe... At first my mum and I were considering flat shoes but they look quite ugly on me cause my right foot is bigger than my left foot and my right toe lines could be seen while my left one was totally covered. Really sad... Until I found those wedges. 

Praise God my mum was so generous. After a very long time, she finally started using her credit card on me. *sniff *sniff. I was extremely touched. Tried not to cry by reasoning in my mind. She promised to give me RM50 for every A I got for PMR. So that's all settled. But my inner being can't think that way. She has worked hard for the money and CNY is coming up. Papa really has to start giving me the allowance he owes me. He has given Zan 3 times more than me. Twice when I was away in JS! *grumbles

Anyway, today was really fruitful. I did my quiet time before breakfast and actually held to "No Bible, No Breakfast" principle. I must now do my quiet time. Hmm... I'm having this tiny desire to start a private blog to do my journaling. Maybe I should. 

I'm gonna renovate this blog some time this week and start writing in a different pattern. It's time for a real make-over! 

Thank you Lord for this day

Your abundant grace and blessings I felt today

I did not waste my time unwisely

You granted me that request I made this morning

O Lord how loving You are to me

I can't thank You enough for every kind deed

I received from You, my Daddy in Heaven

I bless Your name and confess widely open

YOU ARE MY GOD, SAVIOUR AND FRIEND!!

AMEN!

Jeremiah School 2011 (Week 1)

Wow... One month just flew by so fast! It's a sad fact but life must go on. *sigh...


Week 1: 4th-9th January

          OKAY!! These are the things that I went through during the first week of JS. The beginning itself was full of funny memories. I 'tumpang' PJ Trinity church's van and there were 5 of us in the van excluding the driver: Zhi Wei, Ian, Joel, Cindel and myself. We talked on the way to PD but we got lost in PD. We were supposed to go 12 o'clock at the roundabout but we entered 9 o'clock instead. That way led us to the highway back to KL! It was seriously funny and Zhi Wei (who was giving the directions) was starting to panic. But we managed to get back to PD using the Lukut exit on the way and we got proper directions from a mate who was already there. We actually got the right directions but from a wrong perspective. The good thing is that we arrived safe and sound. Orientation day was not really eventful except that we got into our groups and were briefed on the rules and regulations. 

          The next day we started our lessons right away. We learned about "Love of God", "Knowing God the Father" and "Personal Development Plan". And we watched Columbine that night. It was about the Columbine shooting that took place in a the Columbine High School. And the story was mainly about a girl named Rachel Joy Scott who was shot dead and her funeral was on CNN and her family was invited by Oprah to go on her show. Here's the video clip I found. 

I cried so hard that night watching this video. Many people shared how she was an angel to them. She really shone for God in her school and church. People could never say a bad thing about her. Her story and eulogies spoke to me and I was moved to really shine for Jesus more. Reflecting back on my life, I've lived a really dull life and I don't think I've impacted anyone. I surrendered my life to God fully and through the 4 weeks in JS, I've learned a lot and I'm back now with a blaze not a fire but a blaze. That's for Day 1. 


Day 2! 
          Meditation... Yeah, sounds really chim and "yoga-ish" but it's not at all. We went out to nature. We all stood in the field facing the sea and we did some kind of activity where we were led by a mentor and a stick. We were asked to close our eyes all the way and listen to every instruction we hear from the mentor that was leading us around the field. It was quite scary at first cause we don't know what's in our way and the fear of tripping. But I managed to follow through with a few peeks =P 
Still, it was really meaningful and it gives a really metaphoric illustration of our lives and how much be trust God to lead our lives. The following sessions were "Meditation: Scripture" and "Reflection". We had "Chapel Time" at night. I remembered the first 3 people that 'preached' were Titus, Ruth and Eva. All of us were required to preach a sermonette for 10 minutes. It was quite scary at first but we all managed. There's still the other half of JS after CNY and there are a few more of us who have not preached yet. Hehe... looking forward to that.
             That night, I fell sick! I had fever and the next day: Day 3, I had food poisoning. I threw up 3 times and I rested in the dorm the whole day till dinner. And everything was a blur that night. I can't remember what exactly we did that night. 
             
           The next day, we traveled to Seremban and visited Beautiful Gate and heard the history of Beautiful Gate. We helped clean up the place especially the ceiling fans and the windows AND we weeded the whole compound! We discovered many creatures that inhabit the compound. For me, everything was tiring and I didn't really enjoy doing the weeding. I was recovering and my body was weak. We then visited Seremban Wesley MYF and played 'human foosball' with them and captain ball. 

Playing Human Foosball in Seremban Wesley

Playing Captain Ball in Seremban Wesley

           We had our dinner there and we had to split into half. My mentoring group which consists of: Ruth, Becky, Denise, Beatrice and Vennesa plus the guys mentoring group: Titus, John, James, Bryan, Zhi Wei and Austin. The 12 of us went to Taman Unjung Methodist Church. It is a small church and consist of many older generation members. But they have their own youth group too. And meeting and interacting with them made me feel grateful for my Youth back home. We have all the facilities and space. They have one confined room to themselves with a keyboard, guitar and a small percussion instrument. They used praise and worship song books. It's more like a cell group style. It was meaningful though. I actually enjoyed my time there until we had to leave. 
        The later part of that day, all of us spent 4 hours in Seremban Aeon JJ. The layout of the building is quite similar to the one in Bukit Tinggi. Couldn't really eat much cause the smell of food really made me wanna puke. And I spent most of the time talking with my best girl-pal, Su Ee. We were talking and reading through Cloe magazine in MPH. We got to know about each other more. I really regretted not snapping any photos that day. But these are the only ones I could find from my JS mates who took. 

Taman Unjung Methodist Church
Fr left: Denise, Beatrice, Me, Becky

Fr left: Becky, Beatrice, Vennesa, Me

I enjoyed the first week despite being sick and feeling a lil left out. But everything went so smoothly and we all bonded so fast. It's totally a great experience. Week 2 will be up soon I hope. So much to write about!!   And OH!! We celebrated one of our mate (Eva's) birthday on that Sunday. She was born on the same date as my dad and my neighbour. Here's a group photo of all of us and her with her cake. She's the Indian chick by the way =P

Eva's Birthday!! 

Youth Quake 2010 & Jeremiah School

YOUTH QUAKE 2010
ROCKS!!!

It was just simply amazing!! 

Made new friends and had so much fun!

But the best thing of all, my spiritual being was reignited. The passion and heart to seek God grew despite the occasional quiet time nowadays. Those who went from SOS Youth, we all bonded. We learned more about each other and the most amazing thing was we prayed together as a whole group. It was just wonderful when we all started to cry one of us prayed. We all do care for our Youth Ministry. So, that was the important part.

It is through the team building that I learned how a grandma feels when she starts to ache all over. Thanks to our dear Segar's brother-in-law, I suffered joint pain (knees), I couldn't stand up straight properly (abs too tight and tensed from vigorous exercise) and I couldn't stand up or sit down as swift as a normal teenager should. 

And thanks to the dance instructor, Wei On, I have gained a temporary 2 packs  on my abs. 

"Let's do some warm up before we start!" he said.

10 minutes later...

"Push! Girls don't go on your knees! It's useless"

"Aarrhh.... Uugghh...!"

And the outcome, I experienced a temporary state of being an A-ma. 

Isn't this a lovely part of God's wonderful creation?Sunset on the first day(26.12.10)

JEREMIAH SCHOOL 2011

I really don't know what will happen to me after Jeremiah School. Most of my older friends who had joined JS became a better and different people after the whole process. So I don't know what will the end product of me will be... 

Still, my motive of going is to focus on God and seek His will for me. I'm not entirely sure of what to do after SPM despite receiving many letters of college promotions. So yeap...

And spending 6 weeks together, it's gonna be a blast and a heartache at the end. *sigh...

And mixing around with guys too! 

I'm very sure we're all gonna get attracted to each other.

But I'm a really tough fish to catch. 

So I'm not that worried about that part.

But maybe who knows... 

Someone there could actually succeed. 

Nevertheless,

The motive and objective of going there

is NOT to find for my soul mate

It is to SEEK MY SAVIOUR. 

Take care my friends...

=)

I'll be back by: 29th of January and 27th of February
I'll be gone by: 4th of January and 9th of February