Ribbons

"Opening a box full tied by curled red ribbons. My heart was beating fast. What could be inside??. As promised, I untied each ribbon carefully, I didn't want to tear the wonderful gift wrap which concealed of the present. Finally, after the last ribbon my hands were trembling with excitement, and i opened the wrapper and i dropped the box. Tears came to my eyes as the box slipped out of my hands, gravity doing the rest of the work as it dropped to the floor. Grabbing the hand of the person that gave the present to me, I thanked Him."

Whats inside? A lesson. For the first time in my 3 years of being a 'true scholar' in a higher level learning institute, i failed a subject. Well during the exam, a month ago, I already knew I would do bad, but not fail. Sigh, I guess this failure does have many deep lessons installed for not only me, but probably everyone else. I know that I did try my best but it proved that it wasn't enough.

A lesson learnt. The subject was about memorizing stuff, and spitting them out onto the paper. I was never good at it, I preferred exams that were more mind taxing. Now I know that, God as given us all, yea all these gifts and the devil just tries to trick us by telling us "You can't do it", and foolishly, I complied. I learnt that when Paul said "I can do everything through Christ Jesus who strengthens me." He literally meant it. And I thank God for letting me see this through :)

Mr. Vista

Whoa, I feel like I'm a kid eye-ing those massive trains sets when i was a small kid. The excitement of finding something totally new and innovative is extemely inspiring in various ways. "Microsoft has done it again", oh that phrase does not go without the massive support that they have. The billions of dollars spent hiring software engineers like me paid off well.

I downloaded a copy of Windows Vista myself the other nite and now im using it! To those skeptics out there, no worries. As long as you pc is a clean format, I can guarantee that the system will not crash / cause problems as long as you read / follow the instructions properly. What do you think they're for anyway? :P

Well, I guess alot of you have no idea how i feel. After using the same operating system for 7 years (yeah xp is old) its good to finally get my hands on something new =).

All i wanna say is.. Im happy hahaha :P

Is it worth it??

Sometimes I just think to myself.. "Is all this worth it??". Well I could always just slack and bum around. Just be plain lazy, it would be such a joy. For the past few weeks I've been thinking of the time I've spent on various things, whether they were worthwhile of my time or not. Games, Books, Movies, Mamak, CG, Church, Friends, Slacking Time and my "Programming Life".

Suprisingly, I could reminist of those memories and tell myself that God has been extremely good to me, every single second spent was not wasted. And I, by faith, can say that it came to pass bacause it was His awesome plan, yeah from the start.

My ultimate prayer now is that my efforts would not go to waste, whether it was helping a friend out, being an assistant, and finally all the time I've spent in the past months putting the website I'm creating together.

Well for one thing I know that God put me through these circumstances are prehaps to prepare me for the future? But I know for one thing that He's holding my hand, guiding me along and eventhough it has been tough and hectic, I'm not giving up just yet. :)

A box of Chocolates

I think the term used in forest gump is quite realistic. Sometimes I think my schooling days are quite dull and just plain boring. But, considering this year, I let God take the reigns and it has been quite a rollercoaster (which is a good thing btw :P).

So, whats been happening? Many things, too many to write out. But I'll just point some out as a summary. My life's been turned around 180 this year, why? I'm still trying to figure it out myself :P, but I think it all has to do with the Lord's sovereignty over me. I've been disciplining myself in various ways, learning self control, thats a good way to put it. Controlling my desires seems to be the hardest, in James it says that from a desire > sin > death. So, by experimenting, I found that if i controlled my desires, nothing can tempt me! (well that depends on the situation) but the gist of it is there.

Aside from that, my weeks are like working days at school, 8am - 5pm (at school). 18-20 our days.. everyday! So it seems my weeks are extremely long. And saturdays are my only days of R&R.

Oh yea, I'll start updating this blog more frequently. (I'll try to, no promises :P), my other virtual posession is in need of more care compared to this one. Watch out for a flashy flash intro into the site later on.

"It is finished!"

I can barely wait till I -really- launch my current project! It's nearly done and I'm getting pretty excited. During the past 2 months of solo development, I've learned a whole ton of stuff. And when I think back 2 1/2 months ago, if God didn't plan this, -noone- on earth would have. "His will be done." Amen. :)


The past week has been tiring, long hours at school (uni in my case), and my upcoming group assignments. Pray for me, that all goes well, even though I have doubts, this time I'm putting my faith in Him cause I know He'll see me through. One way or the other. Thats His promise for me.


As for the World Cup. I will say, with utter pride, and confidence... that England will not win! :P hahahahaha.

Cheers! :)

Note to my dear leaders

Okay, I think its really sad using my blog as a place to give out information for our system. But it'll be a good and reliable source to turn to if you find the site down for the next couple of months (beta stage).

Firstly, the site would have a rough 80% uptime.. meaning it might prolly go down once in every 4 days or 5 (maybe). So, I'm sorry that I can't always keep it up because Streamyx doesn't allow me to.

2 URLS: if one doesn't work, try the other.
links are posted at my "Link" section. go click.

To all leaders which have added wrong information, don't worry, you'll be able to update your own cg members in due time.

Other than that, i think thats about it... Link me to your blogs pls :P

cheers! :)

Parties!

Attended a huge birthday party today, which was interesting. Compared to the "mamak" and other "dine out" birthday parties, this one proved itself to be fun and well co-ordinated. Why?

Well, i say this because it just was! I can't really explain it tho. It's like going to a party or outing which just enjoyed throughout. Even when you went home, thought about it, you'd still think "Wow, that was pretty good". Or something like that.. but if you don't get what I'm saying, then nevermind :P

As for the website, its coming up pretty good. But i'm saddened that its progress is so slow. And I need a team! Anyone interested? :P Two heads are always better than one. Programmers / Designers, i'm calling out to you!

As for my blog, which looks pretty sad, i'll update it with a chatbox and whatnot when i get the time to do so.

Till next time.

First Post!

Woo,
after some thought and external insite i've decided to put up my first blog!
somehow i never thought it would be fun putting up my thoughts on the web
hehehehe =P