I'll Be Going...

Away, to a far away place, so far even driving there sounds crazy, insane, siao! The horror!

No, not the North Pole.

I'm going to Taiping, Perak. Attending Glo School for the whole month of January. It's like a Bible school where you, err, learn more about the Bible and God? It'll be my first month in my 17-year life spent without my family nearby. Oh gosh, it feels like I'm in Survivor or something.

Oh-yee-yeh-yeh-oh-yee-yeh-yoh!

I'm not mourning, it's the Survivor theme song. By the way, the school doesn't have those tribal-free-you-from-agony voting.

Well, initially I wanted to join Glo because my two sisters had already joined the school before. They spoke about how the lessons were good, enjoyable (I think) and fun the people they met there were. So I, in my rotting year, decided to join it also. I really do want to learn more about God and also to find another 17-plus-year-old guy who is going through the same things I'm facing, a guy whom I can relate to spiritually and a guy who is firm and makes me realise the wrong things I'm doing and prompt me to change them.

It's not like I can't relate to my dad or any young adults in Youth or anything. It's just that they have probably been through what I am starting and it can be a wee-bit lonely sometimes. Gosh, I talk like I'm just entering puberty and got menstrual issues. To make it simple, take a look at Shuen, Sin Yee, Melissa and also Hwei, Sin Lan, Chen Li, Juliana. I too hope I can have that friend as well. Shaun and someone else. Hopefully the dude's name also Shaun, great name and what a pair we would be. SS! or maybe S-squared!

So yeah, going to Glo tomorrow. It's a rather sad thing that I'll see Marcus, Jeremy, and Livia for the last time tomorrow if the bus leaves for Taiping after church service. Jeremy and Livia will be going back to New Zealand on 1st February while Marcus will be on 3rd. I'll be away from Malacca for a month. It was fun to have them here again. Marcus being crazier, Jeremy has left his trademark 'Bapak lu!' and gone for a new accent where 'yes' sounds like 'yeast' and 'what' like 'whot' while Livia is talking more often than when she left which is really good!

So that's it. Keeping my fingers crossed at what is ahead. Hopefully I'll be able to find my way there.

I Watched...

Avatar today. It was quite a fun and nice movie to watch although the blue skin got a bit geli-fying after a while. Not to mention guys wearing G-strings... oh noes!

Yep. Faces like that the whole way.

It's an interesting place with unique concepts. They have USB-port-like hairs to interact with animals and the humans for once look advanced with those machines (In Terminator, the humans were lagging behind). Everyone was so blue, it was definitely a place where Beast in X-Men wouldn't feel left out.

The graphics and the story were good and it was a relief to see Michelle Rodriquez back again after some time. The first movie I saw her acting in was Resident Evil and since then she's slowly faded until now. The action part of the movie was also satisfying and for once the bad boss got an overkill. He was shot in the heart twice. Normally the bad boss does lots and lots of bad things before getting a mild kill at the end which would make you go, "WHAT?!?! Kill like that only?!?!". Not this one though!

For me, the only down part of the film was the colour of the tribe and their clothing. I thought they would wear more decent clothing than just some G-string. You got USB-port hairs so you can probably come up with better clothing!! And the scene where the hero and heroine were kissing just felt..... wrong.

Something like that. The main characters were in thinner versions. Imagine another hippo making out with this one.

Then again, it's just my opinion. They had to differentiate the humans and the aliens, so what better way to do other than change the skin colour and add some dots on the face? Good movie overall though. Go watch it when you have the chance okay?

Oh Ya...

By the way, I wanna thank those who prayed for me during my SPM. Even those who sent in an SMS or two to wish me all the best, thanks a bunch!

This is going to be another one of those acknowledgement thingy, so I would to thank my family for their continual nagging when I was procrastinating so that I would study.

Not forgetting some of the teachers whom I felt really really helped me. And also to the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The names of all those turtles helped me gain some 2 marks in the Sejarah paper. The question was on the people who contributed in the Renaissance period and the turtles were named after these guys.

To save the best for last, God! He gave me a good mind to remember stuff and to do those dreadful Biology questions. 'A' or not, I still don't know. Anyway, it's over now and thanks again to those who even thought of me during the exam.

Then again, it's not hard to think of someone awesome like me right?

I'm Back...

From my youth camp! I enjoyed myself there. Definitely better than last year's (wahahaha). It was fun meeting the Wongs, Benjamin, Wei Ming, and Kiat Siong again. Really got to know them better this time. They're all a crazy bunch of people with weird habits, especially Richard, in a good and funny way.

I particularly liked Session 3 which talked about the 7 sayings on the cross by Jesus. It's always good to remind myself of what God did for me. Being a Christian, there's a tendency to forget or downplay the impact of the cross so it was a timely reminder to myself; Jesus dying on the cross for me, and that's how important I am to God.

So, all-in-all, it was an awesome 4-day camp.

Awesome people.

Awesome activities.

Awesome camp T-shirt.

And....

I look awesome in the camp T-shirt.

But then again, I've always been awesome haven't I?

And again the dots appear.

The Blog...

LIVES! Not literally, because it's like kinda 'dead'. Anyway, for those who did not know, I had SPM during the past 4 weeks so blogging was a bit tough. Oh well, at least Sijil Paling Mudah is over and my paper is probably sent somewhere far far away and beyond. My rotting season officially starts now where I do absolutely nothing. Hmm, blogging is something. So I guess I'll be doing some things. It'd be fun to wake up when Ken is going to school and sent him off though.

I Watched...

This movie called "Facing The Giants" during youth yesterday. It was a very good movie, though a little unsuitable for non-Christians. It talks about how problems that arise in our lives are labelled simply as 'Giants' that we find so hard to defeat unless we depend on God.


There were two parts that really moved me in the movie. The first was the part where the coach blindfolded the lineman (those big tank-like humans) and asked him to do the death crawl for 50 yards. In the end, the lineman went the whole field, which is about 100 yards, which is 91.44 metres to be exact. It really touched me because it was a bit like the situation in the church, with the small number of youths. If only I would be 'blindfolded' when doing things, not looking at 'Giants' but God instead. That way, I'd probably do so much more than what I'm doing right now in church.

The second part was the wife of the coach talking about how much she wanted kids; How much she wanted to read books to them, protect them when there's lightning and all. Nahh, I'm not interested in having children yet, but it was the following line that caught my attention:

"How can I miss someone so much whom I have not met?"

Although the 'someone' was pretty much referring to the kids, I couldn't help but feel as I pondered about that line that the screen-writer had God in his mind when he wrote that.

I struggle with that. Saying I miss God so much even though I have not met. To say that requires a close relationship with God. That's something that triggered me. Where is my relationship with God? Has it grown stronger? Or has it become bitter? I'll keep the answer between myself and God. If wanna know, then wait till we go to Heaven ya?

Signing off with a bang now,

BANG!

My Brother And...

I got chased out of the house today.

By a dog.

A stray dog.

That likes to sleep at the entrance of my house.

When Ken and I went out for dinner, we saw the stray dog lying down so very happily. Ken even asked the stray dog to protect the house. I was recounting the possible situation I would be in if I was bitten by the stray dog. Mad dog disease maybe? It did looked mad, and stray.

The store wasn't open, so we went home. I raced Ken to the house and the mad and stray dog suddenly activated and barked at us. Then it came out of the house and we had to move back. It really looked like attacking us already. I almost wanted to tell the mad and stray dog that it was chasing us out of our house but I didn't think it understood English very well. Kinda regret thinking what I thought before that, it was like getting what I wanted, though it wasn't really what I would have hoped for.

Anyway, the mad and stray dog was scared of me, so it went for Ken. All I could do was shout at it while Ken did some force thing to the mad and stray dog. It was like some "Star Wars" kind of thing. Ken reached his hand out and almost touched the mad and stray dog's head, Then suddenly, the mad and stray dog became mild and left us alone.

Ken did something like this. Just without the lightsaber and the table was a dog. I was just standing there like the dude.

I never thought I would get chased out of the house today.

By a dog.

A stray dog.

A mad and stray dog.

What a day.

I make the day seem so cool.