Entries for October, 2005
October 2, 2005
100205
langkawi aftermath:
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hmm..it's been months now, so the timeline of events of this past summer is fading from my brain. But i think after langkawi, it was school again for the mmu fellas. And so i followed Andrea to mmu after much coaxing, with kooAiling along for the ride as well. she was going back to uni for a cf meeting. that was when we found out she was (and still is i guess) the president of the cf in her uni. since she was stuck in the car with andrea and i, she kena interrogation lah in short..hahah!! the 3 of us had a very informative discussion and we came up with a TOP SECRET experiment regarding girl behavior and the issues of the heart. hehehe..wanna know what this profound revelation is? not telling..muahaha..we're one step ahead of all you guys out there..
hmm..i think andrea wont remember what the revelation was, so i'm one step ahead of you too, hah! anyway, reached mmu, went to Andrea's apartment and was introduced to his housemates. they were friendly, and not to mention DOTA players through and through. i was fortunate because they seem to have a housemate that pays rent but rarely comes to the place, so i got to use his mattress and table. talk about God's providence.
In the following 2 weeks i was living like a college student all over again. every single friggin day eating indian food..aiyoh..and after every meal at Hassan's, i felt like puking. what's more, these guys go for supper in the wee hours of the morning to the SAME PLACE and have the SAME killer food. and to think i had to guess why these guys were speaking indian ever so often. it was during my stay at cyber also that i had a true feel for the level of injustice and bias that is malaysia today. NO PORK IN CYBERJAYA??!
i got to go to the cf in mmu as well. met gim han and siva there. funny, i never actually talked to gim han before when we were in smi, but we chatted up like we knew each other..hahah..and siva's still the nice guy that he is. i also dont remember actually talking with siva before (yea siva from acs, went to mr ng's physics i think, and also mr leong's chemistry tuition).
cf was interesting, it was their first official meeting of the sem i think. they actually had plugged instruments which is cool. it reminded me of cg meetings in myf a long time ago. it made me miss acoustic guitar worship in gatherings like this. but they had keyboard, lead and base guitars (no drums), which is pretty impressive and sacrificial i think. they also had a dance to 'Extreme Days' by Toby Mac (DC Talk frontman)
..and a song by a girl named audrey.ppl actually went up to the newcomers and welcomed them and talked to them, which was encouraging. i didnt think that this culture would exist in msia, guess i was wrong. was introduced to audrey but didnt talk to her, she was too busy smiling and chatting up with andrea, so i just stood aside and kept quiet....oh there was this new girl in cf, i call her the 'OC girl' cuz she looks like mischa barton man! i'm so not kidding..for some reason i could still tell she was chinese..wow amazing, chinese mischa barton look alike..as hot as my DOTA skills i'm telling you..sadly, i'll probably never see her again.
oh well, her loss. :p
this andrea i tell you, like my dad only, the stuff he did in cyber. the fella seriously layan me like i'm his kid lah..hahah..gave me apple to eat lah, gave me chocolate milk to drink lah, gave me dried sotong and junkstuff to eat lah, breakfast cooked burger patties for me and cheechew lah, sweep/mop the floor lah..joker..owe u one la hahah! aiyoh, if u girls are reading this, i dunno lah, u better take a closer look at andrea lah, cuz if you think you're gonna be a career woman in the future and you have no time to fix up your future home, i'm telling you andrea is the guy you're looking for lah. the man every household should get.
shaun and cheechew also came to cyber during the weekend and stayed for the 2nd week i was there. more late nights till the wee hours, more killer indian food at Hassan's, more DOTA, etc.
'The room of love' aka gshyn and mike's room. Those who trespass its door shall have their innermost thoughts stripped bare like your naked behind. and then there were some nights after supper when gshyn would go hyper and start scribbling words on the dust of audrey's white proton wira aeroback. i wonder what the deal was...
oh went to their dumc cg meeting as well..hehe..met another bunch of happening ppl there. gshyn led worship, ah yes, just like the good old days when he was cy leader in myf. audrey was the cell leader but she didnt come. after cg went to some famous place for garlic cheese naan, the name of which i cannot recall.
there was one night we somehow managed to coax mike to go dota with us..hahah..kena con..we promised him we'd play only one game but he didnt bite at first lah, he knows the drill all too well. ah mike, gave in in the end anyway cuz he's the man lah! anyway, we stuck to our word ler, one game only..heheh
Written by cap at 12:10 AM.
October 5, 2005
100505
caplang ~~> cap ~~> commercial airline pilot
Written by cap at 02:00 AM.
October 9, 2005
100905
so what's your major?
biology.
graduate, or..?
undergraduate. what's your major?
music therapy.
wow! music therapy?? what do you do with..?
hehe..every time people will ask me that..we play music for sick people, elderly, children..
what, er..what kind of music? classical?
depends, like for children we would play children's music
ohh..so you're a graduate student or..
yea
do u play like a musical instrument?
yea i played oboe in a wind ensemble when i was in taiwan
oo..what made u pick oboe?
i didnt, my parents picked it for me, you know, parents always decide, i never get to pick
ic. how long have u been in the States?
erm, one month
you just came this semester??
uh huh..hehe..how long have u been here?
3 years.
oh..
yea
so are you going to stay for graduate school?
i dunno, havent decided yet
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so what did u do for your undergraduate studies?
social work
huh?? are you serious?? what made you choose social work?
i want to help people, and..
and you have to get a degree to do that..?
YEA...and i didnt like math, and..
well, how bout the sciences?
of course not
erm..how bout, like history?
history's ok, but i dont want it to be something i do for a long time
in the future, i think i shall tone down on my sarcasm and skepticism (i.e. be less of a numbskull) when i meet new people..
i miss that town
i miss the faces
you can't erase
you can't replace it
i miss it now
i can't believe it
so hard to stay
too hard to leave it
{ music } nickelback - photograph
Written by cap at 10:59 PM.
October 13, 2005
101305
About a year ago, Jerry (a friend of mine) and i went to visit a church. He was looking for a church to join, while i tagged along. Before service, we joined a bible study group for college students. The leader was a big but humble man, and his slimmer older brother was co-leader or something.
At the beginning, i didnt know they were brothers, so when the older one kept making sarcastic jokes and poking fun at the big guy, i almost felt that he was going a tad overboard. but the moment i thought that, he suddenly said "he's my younger brother btw, for you newcomers, in case you're wondering, so it's alright that i'm ripping on him like this" or something like that lah. so it all made sense..hahah
ala, dont worry, there was another guy in the group who helped the younger bro get even. needless to say, it was all in good nature la.
anyway, big guy said something that i thought was interesting at one point during our discussion. He was sharing about a point of struggle in his life where his son was diagnosed with leukemia. He didnt know what to do, who to see, which doctors were good, etc.
He prayed to God for help, and among the things he said goes something like this lah:
"I'm pretty dull when it comes to listening to God. A lot of times i dont know for certain whether it is the will of God for me to do a certain thing or not. So, i prayed that if it is really Your will Lord, i pray that You will open doors of opportunity, and that You will open them wide enough so that a lug nut like myself will be confident and know it is trully Your will. If it's not Your will, then close those doors for me."
Sounds pretty radical to me even when i'm typing it now. But the way he put it was very humble and dependent on God. In short, he found good doctors and his kid has been doing well since then lah.
Anyway, after thinking about it, i did a similar thing lah. Since then, a lot of things have happened, things that not for a second would i doubt it was God. Today was one of those.
Not something very drastic lah ok, lemme pop your bubble now before i make you float too high.
Was listening to Ps Joseph Prince message, and no matter how many times i have listened to the same message, i always get hit in the heart by the points. like a double-edged sword. One of the "hit" messages for me was this:
(verse 6)
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Now if the ministry that brought death, which engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
after listening i played abit of warcraft. then later i did my quiet time. i've been reading a chapter of the bible every time lah, that's how i've been doing it for quite some time. today, i was scheduled to read
2 corinthians 3
scheduled by God that is. coincidence? naw. like a double-edged sword.
Written by cap at 01:56 AM.
October 13, 2005
101305
I've heard a tale of how a man would climb a mountain just to be with the one he loves. How many times has he broken this promise? It has never been done.
I never climbed the highest mountain, but I walked the hill of Calvary.
I've heard a tale that a man would swim an ocean just to be with the one he loves. All of those dreams are an empty emotion, it can never been done.
I never swam the deepest ocean, but I walked upon the raging sea.
Just to be with you, I've done everything. There's no price I did not pay. Just to be with you, I gave everything. Yes I gave my life away.
I know that you don't understand the fullness of my love. How I died upon the cross for your sins. And I know that you don't realize how much that I gave you. But I promise, I would do it all again just to be with you.
third day, love song.
Written by cap at 10:57 PM.
