As the tears of Heaven fills the earth, puddles of water depict the presence of a rainy day. Frightening flashes of lightning accompanied by the sounds of a rolling thunder fills the sky causing the branches of trees to sway fearfully yet forcefully directed by the power of nature. Only innocent little creatures hidden in the depths of the drain croak with glee.
But, in the heart of B606,lies a pair of pure Reebok shoes, anxiously worrying about its cleanliness of abstaining itself from the dirt of the earth, having to bravely go through unhygenic puddles of water to protect sensitive and dainty Sarawakian feet. But, the Reebok shoes knows very well that the master will wipe off every stain that brings a sore to the eyes of the master, unlike some souls who do not know how to treasure precious white Nike shoes.... :)
Monday, 30 March 2009
A Shoulder to Cry On
Another day has gone,
and you're still all alone.
Deep in your mind,
How could this be?
That no one's here with me.
When you're feeling sad, your heart gets colder.
Your hero never comes to you, when the days are getting hard for you.
You need someone when you're feeling low,
You call your friends, but nobody's home.
Nobody wants to be the last one there,
Cos everyone wants to be like someone cares.
There got to be somebody for me like that!
Everyone wants to know they're not alone.
Your can run away,
But you can't hide through a storm and a lonely night,
Brothers and Sisters,
You know what,
The best things in life,
THEY ARE FREE.
There is someone that says
"If you want to cry, cry on my shoulder"
He can show you what real love can do,
saying,
"I promise you, I will never hide,
I will always stay here by your side"
and you're still all alone.
Deep in your mind,
How could this be?
That no one's here with me.
When you're feeling sad, your heart gets colder.
Your hero never comes to you, when the days are getting hard for you.
You need someone when you're feeling low,
You call your friends, but nobody's home.
Nobody wants to be the last one there,
Cos everyone wants to be like someone cares.
There got to be somebody for me like that!
Everyone wants to know they're not alone.
Your can run away,
But you can't hide through a storm and a lonely night,
Brothers and Sisters,
You know what,
The best things in life,
THEY ARE FREE.
There is someone that says
"If you want to cry, cry on my shoulder"
He can show you what real love can do,
saying,
"I promise you, I will never hide,
I will always stay here by your side"
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Investment
When I say investment, what is the first thing that comes into your mind? Do you think of investment in economic terms? Well, there are many things in our lives that we can invest in. However, the investment that I would like to stress on today is investment in people’s lives.
I decided to blog about this since my pastor was preaching about living 2009 with no regrets. One of his points was to actually invest your life in others to see them come to know Christ of grow in Christ. In other words, take a step of faith to share the love of God with my friends. It really captured my attention since I find joy by putting joy into others.
My church leaders from ECFD really portray themselves as good Christian leaders. I am truly touched by their commitment to fetch my friends and I to church every week, to check how things are, pray for us when we are having exams, bring us out for meals and many other blessings. They really need a humble heart for God to just spend time with my KBU friends despite their busy schedule and the petrol cost to drive us around.
Overall, I plan to be like them, to actually reach out to people around us that seems alright on the outside but may be hurt on the inside. I want to share the great love that I experienced from above to all my friends around me because I feel that is one of God’s calling for me in KBU. BUT…the biggest obstacle that I must conquer is my LAZINESS! Haha. God Bless and have a great week ahead!
I decided to blog about this since my pastor was preaching about living 2009 with no regrets. One of his points was to actually invest your life in others to see them come to know Christ of grow in Christ. In other words, take a step of faith to share the love of God with my friends. It really captured my attention since I find joy by putting joy into others.
My church leaders from ECFD really portray themselves as good Christian leaders. I am truly touched by their commitment to fetch my friends and I to church every week, to check how things are, pray for us when we are having exams, bring us out for meals and many other blessings. They really need a humble heart for God to just spend time with my KBU friends despite their busy schedule and the petrol cost to drive us around.
Overall, I plan to be like them, to actually reach out to people around us that seems alright on the outside but may be hurt on the inside. I want to share the great love that I experienced from above to all my friends around me because I feel that is one of God’s calling for me in KBU. BUT…the biggest obstacle that I must conquer is my LAZINESS! Haha. God Bless and have a great week ahead!
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Chinese New Year Eve
Mr D, our beloved English lecturer told my class that a post in our weekly post has to be at least 5 paragraphs of words. Therefore, for this post, I will post mainly pictures and not words as ' a picture speaks a thousand words'. As I post more than 5 pictures, I will surely surpass the word limit for my post!Yipee!
I will be describing the pictures of Chinese New Year Eve that I have posted...
Ladies and gentlemen..this is a picture of Nicholas Eu cleaning his house fan so that visitors will not get choked of dust during their visit to his home.
Nicholas was one of the main chef's of CNY eve's dinner. In this picture, he is adding liquid flour into beef to make the gravy thick and starchy.
TADA!! Nicholas's whole family is enjoying the annual CNY dinner! Please note that although Nicholas cooked most of the pictues, nobody suffered from diarrhoea..
Up next, I would like to show you a spetacular display of fireworks in the land of the Cats
Deep inside the heart of Nicholas, lies a passion to light up some fireworks, and by God's grace, it came true.
The fireworks shooting up!!ZOOP ZOOOP ZOOP!!!
As the saying goes, all good things come to an end. All the fireworks were blown up and Little Nicky was left dissatisfied and disappointed on a Kaboom-ing Chinese New Year.
I will be describing the pictures of Chinese New Year Eve that I have posted...
Ladies and gentlemen..this is a picture of Nicholas Eu cleaning his house fan so that visitors will not get choked of dust during their visit to his home.
Nicholas was one of the main chef's of CNY eve's dinner. In this picture, he is adding liquid flour into beef to make the gravy thick and starchy.
TADA!! Nicholas's whole family is enjoying the annual CNY dinner! Please note that although Nicholas cooked most of the pictues, nobody suffered from diarrhoea..Up next, I would like to show you a spetacular display of fireworks in the land of the Cats
Deep inside the heart of Nicholas, lies a passion to light up some fireworks, and by God's grace, it came true.
The fireworks shooting up!!ZOOP ZOOOP ZOOP!!!
As the saying goes, all good things come to an end. All the fireworks were blown up and Little Nicky was left dissatisfied and disappointed on a Kaboom-ing Chinese New Year.Well, that's all for now. KBU AUSMAT life, here I come after a great CNY!I hope I can survive for the rest of the year!!!
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Hello blog! I am so sorry that I have not updated you, merely because I am a lazy Sarawakian who does not know how to express thoughts into words..unlike some people, who have God given talent to do so. I need to say my sincere aplogies to Mr D because of my uneffeincy of updating my blog.
Anyway, I was thinking very hard and praying at the same time on what topic should I blog about. Finally...(with sounds of a magnificent, glorious and grand opening), the glimpse into Nicky's mind today would be about:-
Well, I decided that it would be terribly unfair for Mr D to celebrate Chinese New Year away from his hometown. So, the least I can do is to sparkle up his CNY mood by sharing some thoughts of mine about CNY. However, I would really want to apologise again if reading my blog would cause Mr D to draw away more from a CNY mood, probably because of my randomness and like I said before, my inability to express.
Have your ever wondered how a Sarawakian would celebrate CNY? Well, Sarawakians would decapitate people and scrap out the innards of the head to make room for candles. The CNY head lanterns would then be hung on the ceiling as a symbol of prosperity. Then, Sarawakians would splash the blood of the corpse all over the wall to make red designs to invite good luck into the house. The bones would be made into noodle strips and those that eat alot of Sarawakian noodles would get a disease called Sarawatitis (I pity those readers who cannot stand the horrible and disgusting description I am giving). Actually, the only Sarawakian that would celebrate CNY like what I have described would be a Sarawakian by the name of N****L*S E*.
Let's get real and simple now. Below are some of my likes and dislikes about celebrating CNY. There are all together 8 of my likes and dislikes about CNY ( 8 is a lucky number isn't it?)
LIKES
1) FOOD
There are some delicacies that appear once a year only, and that time would be CNY! Mouth-watering delicacies like 'Mee Sua' and others that are not 'halal' in which I am not able to say would carve a smile in my heart and of course, my tummy! It is really a time where I can savour good chinese home-cooked cooking.
Anyway, I was thinking very hard and praying at the same time on what topic should I blog about. Finally...(with sounds of a magnificent, glorious and grand opening), the glimpse into Nicky's mind today would be about:-
CHINESE NEW YEAR
Well, I decided that it would be terribly unfair for Mr D to celebrate Chinese New Year away from his hometown. So, the least I can do is to sparkle up his CNY mood by sharing some thoughts of mine about CNY. However, I would really want to apologise again if reading my blog would cause Mr D to draw away more from a CNY mood, probably because of my randomness and like I said before, my inability to express.
Have your ever wondered how a Sarawakian would celebrate CNY? Well, Sarawakians would decapitate people and scrap out the innards of the head to make room for candles. The CNY head lanterns would then be hung on the ceiling as a symbol of prosperity. Then, Sarawakians would splash the blood of the corpse all over the wall to make red designs to invite good luck into the house. The bones would be made into noodle strips and those that eat alot of Sarawakian noodles would get a disease called Sarawatitis (I pity those readers who cannot stand the horrible and disgusting description I am giving). Actually, the only Sarawakian that would celebrate CNY like what I have described would be a Sarawakian by the name of N****L*S E*.
Let's get real and simple now. Below are some of my likes and dislikes about celebrating CNY. There are all together 8 of my likes and dislikes about CNY ( 8 is a lucky number isn't it?)
LIKES
1) FOOD
There are some delicacies that appear once a year only, and that time would be CNY! Mouth-watering delicacies like 'Mee Sua' and others that are not 'halal' in which I am not able to say would carve a smile in my heart and of course, my tummy! It is really a time where I can savour good chinese home-cooked cooking.
2) VISITATIONS
Usually on CNY my family would visit around 8 houses per day. However, when my secondary schoolmates go for visitation on the third day, we would do a CNY marathon, where we would visit roughly 20 houses a day. We would start our jouney from 8am to 2am the next day. It will be a very tiring day but trust me, it is fun!!
3) ANG POW
It is great joy for me to receive ang pow from friends and relavites and at the end of the say, I usually say a prayer of thanks for God to bless them in their lives. How much I get each year is private and confidential. Hehe.
4) FIRECRAKERS
My friends and I would basically explode everyting we see from oranges to dustbins and empty firework boxes. Luckily, I am still alive.
DISLIKES
1) CLEANING UP THE HOUSE
Some of you may be wondering why can't I fly back to Sarawak on Friday instead of a Thursday. Well, I think my dad wants me to help him clean up the house to prepare for CNY of course.
2) MY DOG WILL BE SCARED OF FIREWORKS
In my opinion, the one time of the year that my dog hates will be CNY. There will be fireworks and firecrakers bursting and shooting everywhere and being a dog, I can understand that my dog is scared of loud noises because he will not be able to cover his ears with his paws.
3) HOMEWORK
I think everyone will understand what I mean by this. So it is redundant for me to elaborate on this point.
4) BEING A 'BANANA'
For me to be a chinese that cannot converse in mandarin or in any other chinese dialect, I sometimes feel left out in conversations in my family and friends.
Well, this is all I have got to share about my CNY celebration every year. Ultimately, my Chinese New Year celebration would still be focused on being close to God as Chinese New Year without the presence of God is not Chinese New Year for me!!
HAVE A BLESSED CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY EVERYONE!!!FGFDERGGGG
Friday, 9 January 2009
My Artzy Futzy Study Habit
Shalom! First and foremost, I would like to stress that I have no experience in this alien world of blogging as it is a boggle for me to enter this world of blogging. Therefore, I urge you brothers and sisters,
PLEASE DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM MY BLOG
and if you fall asleep, you are forgiven. (chuckles) :p
Everyone seems to be at a craze to blog, including my English lecturer who requires me to blog as part of my assessment. This is not an irony nor do I imply any subtle meanings in my previous sentence. Looks like I will have to enjoy blogging and I hope to be pumped up in exploring this trendy world of blogging! I will try to keep my blog in line with Mr. Derick's phrase of the year which is "Keep it simple, keep it real". Cheers!
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Sorry for the long introduction. I shall now describe my study habit for my lecturer to have a glimpse into my unique art of life.
Throughout my six months of studying in KBU, the place where I find is the best for me to study is none other than the only room in 'Centrepoint' that is inhibited by a Sarawakian - My very own room! It does not sound convincing to you does it? Well, let me patronize you, as quoted from my English lecturer.
The reason why I choose my room as the best place to study will be an ubiquitous answer, that is my room has all the study materials I need (text books, reference books, files and dictionaries). I can conveniently take the study materials I need from my shelves and study them rather than having to bring all the study materials I need to the library or to an eating outlet like McDonald's or Starbucks. The second reason of choosing my room as my favourite study location is because the atmosphere in my room is as peaceful as the nature in the hidden paradise of Borneo. ( I wonder if my simile is valid). Unlike the atmosphere in student houses which is always joyful and cheerful, I am able to concentrate fully in my studies because my environment is pretty silent.
However, eventhough my room is quiet, I usually struggle to overcome the 'enemy' of distraction. There are countless things in my room that can distract me from studying effectively. I would like to share one of my enemies with you as this enemy of mine is like 'sheep under wolf's clothings' and can be related to 'sleep under soft clothings'. This enemy of mine is none other than my BED! It does not take long for my bed to seduce me to lie on it's soft mattress and when I am engrossed with the comfort of my bed, I doze off to sleep and abandon my studies for the night. Sheesh...sickening..
I personally find it very effective for me to pray to my omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient God before i embark on my journey of studying for the night. Once I have prayed, I somehow feel peace reigning over my mind so that I can study effectively with great understanding of concepts and I will be able to recall alot of facts that I have memorised. So usually, I will advice my friends to pray before they study. God should be the centre of our lives in everything we do. Can i get some agreement with what i have just said?
In conclusion, this is a brief overview of my study habits. I have written more than 5 paragraphs and it will be enough for my lecturer to enjoy. Before I forget, you are welcome to comment anything in my blog as long it is of no vulgur of filthy language. Keep my blog clean please! Thank you for your time to read my blog and God Bless!
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