the past weekend

Friday

bumper to bumper traffic in subang jaya, thanks to the roadblock and rally

Saturday

phoebe and carmen's school carnival. brought back memories of school days :)

Sunday

looking at old photos in church and reminiscing good l' days =) it was a good laugh. lol

By Your Side

Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you

Look at these hands and my side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world's sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life

Cause I, I love you
I want you to know
That I, I love you
I'll never let you go

By Your Side - Tenth North Avenue

mixed-feeling

so adrienne and i were all set and prepared for this day. we have been talking bout this since last year and started preparing since beginning this year. finally they day arrived for us to submit our visa applications. i got up at 6am just so i could i meet tim & ad at ampang park on time to reach the high commission at 8.30am. 15mins into the bus i suddenly realised i left my whole file (forms, docs, photos) at home! -_- great. of all times. anyway, had to get down and wait for my mum to send it. ugh. thank God i was only bout 5+ mins late.

we arrived the high commission and noticed a bunch of bout 15 odd ppl waiting outside. we panicked a lil as we didn't expect a queue or whatsoever. nvm, tim quickly dropped us off while he went to look for parking. we got down and went to stand among the ppl but were curious why didn't anyone go in. not too long came a lady who seemed a little agitated, she asked if we got the numbers. ad and i looked at each other "numbers? what numbers?" the lady then said that apparently the 100 spots for this visa has already been given out. given out?!! this is impossible we thought, the office just opened at 8.30am and it definitely didn't look like there were 100 ppl then. so we decided to go in to clarify and was told that apparently ppl started queuing since 4.30am! it's insane! we suspect that these ppl were the ones who tried last year and knew the trick of queuing up in the wee hours.

anyway, there was nothing we could do. most of us were dumbfounded. we even heard two girls had just quit their jobs for this and in that sense, we were thankful we didn't but it was definitely disappointing and saddening after all the trouble we had gone through in preparing for this application. if they had at least accepted our application though didn't approve, we'd at least have some hope :(

oh well, we couldn't do anything so we left and headed for Levain for breakfast. then met up with some of the boys for lunch at Village Park followed by dessert at Snowflake. they headed home while tim, ad and i went for our spa appointment at kota damansara. let's just say being a first-timer, the spa session was preeetttty 'interesting' and not to mention maximum awkwardness :p

ended the day with pizzas for dinner at home fellowship =)

see what i meant by 'mixed-feeling'. first half of the day just went all the way down hill while the second half was meant to be enjoyable, we were just going through the motion, numb :p in fact i wanted to document that day with pictures but lost all motivation and only took a few at levain. haha

having said all that, i believe deep down that this is not the end though i feel aimless now :p i know He has some awesome plans installed for us and i'll hold on to that hope! =)

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

flora

all taken at MARDI, Cameron Highlands :)

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apples

my 'favourite'

fruit/vege vandalism

me!! :p

second half of June

Accompanied Phoebe & Carmen to David Choi's gig here at UCSI. Our two girls were so cute running their 'little business' selling DC's tshirts. haha. We also managed to sneak in towards the end of the performance :p - perks of knowing the manager ;)

Meatballs @ Ikea with mum!

Thick smoke along Old Klang Road

Stepping Stones children so graciously performed a few songs for us during our visit there last Saturday :))

Clear blue sky on a Saturday morning :) I have no idea why I cant rotate this photo :p

interesting weekend

so a day before church camp as usual you'd expect a lot of last minute preparation and sure enough there was, except this time round it was a lil more interesting for the four of us :p

we stayed up the whole night helping adrienne at her workplace. haha. we arrived at bout 7pm and left there 6am the next morning. besides the 45 minute nap we were literally working the whole night. mind you i have never stayed up the whole night prior to this, not even during assignment and exam days. this was the first and not in a context i'd expected - working for my ex-company on a weekend night which so happened was a public holiday as well -_- interesting? oh definitely. lol.

tired boys

that seemed like the longest sunday ever but with that said, i had lots of fun nonetheless! =)

out of reality into serenity

it's been almost a year and we're back again on that beautiful mountain. cool breeze, fresh air, company of ppl you love, first bball game, tasteless oatmeal, lotsa photos, great worship, good times of sharing, fun with the young and old and the list goes on...

that was basically how camp went the last three days and oh how i miss it :( see the only thing i don't like bout camp is how it makes me feel after it ends. gloomy :p haha.

anyway i had a superb time spending those days with my church family and as i have mentioned, nothing makes me happier than spending time with them! =) when with the church everything seems possible. somehow i don't know why and i love that feeling =)

okay as promised here are some very few pics of camp from the eyes of my camera and phone. there are more from the other lenses =)

view from the near-death crazy bus ride (as phoebe calls it)

pweety! :)

it was heart warming to see church members of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds come together to bond through a common tie, Jesus Christ. God's presence was definitely there. i know it, see it and feel it.

all in all, i'm glad i went =)

happy happy joy joy!!

wee....it's friday friday friday, gotta get down on friday! :p

ok i super do not like that song but it's the only lyrics that promotes the excitement of fridays. haha. so anyway...i'm super excited bout the coming long weekend!! =D can't wait for camp! nothing makes me happier than skipping work and spending time with my church family! =)

hope to post some photos here after the camp but till then happy weekend all! ♥

fabulous weekend!

so after that lazy friday last week, i had a great weekend which could be summarized as follows:

i) learnt a new addictive board game from the Bengs called Apples to Apples. fun and easy =) after all the series of addictions, im starting to think starting a game ministry would be a good idea :p

ii) finally got my passport done on saturday morning. thanks to wilson, adrienne and tim for accompanying. hehe.

iii) visited Royal Selangor Pewter for the first time. interesting :) would love to visit their factory some day.

handprints of RSP employees who served more than 5 years

founder of Selangor Pewter

a KLCC model made out of 6000+ pewter cans

iv) celebrated Ps Daryl's birthday in chinese style i.e the whole embarrassing-birthday-song-played-in-a-chinese restaurant thing. haha.

great food and fellowship - the former also confirms what i meant by chinese style :p