Birthday

Hey readers (if there are any left)!!!
I'm finally blogging again after a really long break...
Anybody miss me?

Anyway, I've just been back from my church's PAG youth camp in Genting...tiring...but rested well...
So many things happened within this interval when I was off blogging...will update about all those things next time, kay?

But anyway...this first post after so many months is specially dedicated to my sayang, KATHY CHANG YI SHUEN.

Her birthday was...two months ago...on 30th October...one day after mine...this is really late...but, at least I did it...at least its up in my blog, right ? ;D
So now, she's officially 15!

Muax!

And my birthday, was on 29th October, just one day before Yi Shuen's brithday...

Just had a small scale celebration with my family, nothing much, really, but at least there was something, though =P

Ang pau from my parents, uncle and grandmother

Pizzas and a cake my parents bought

My piano teacher bought this box of mini poppers ice-cream for me...guess how she knew my birthday? Answer : Facebook!

And a cake from Zi Xiang's mum

Thanks to everybody who bought stuff for me...and those who wished me too...

And to my sayang, which is really overdue...

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!

God bless you all!!!

~Christ does not want us simply to be good, he wants us to be saints through and through. However, he wants us to attain that sanctity not by doing extraordinary things, but rather, through ordinary common activities. It is the way that they are done which must be uncommon--- St. JOSEMARÍA ESCRIVÁ ~

Save The Environment

Finally I'm back to blogging after such a long break from blogging.

Well, today, this post is going to be about the winning short video clip of the 'Jerneh Friend of Green Malaysia Short Film Competition' organized by, well, Jerneh. The theme is 'Energy Conservation'.

My group consists of Danial(Videographer/Editor), Jenar(Graphic designer), Zi Xiang('Psychologist') and me(Main actor).

Actually we didn't know about this competition at first until Pn. Doris introduced it to us and in the end we had to do it because it became part of our assignment to get 20 marks for our exam. All the other classes whose EST teacher is Pn. Doris had to do it also. She made t compulsry for all of us. Didn't want to do it at first. But in the end we still did it one day after school. Can't remember when it was, quite a long time ago, a few months I guess.

Danial mostly came up with all the ideas of filming techniques. He provided all the cameras, did the editting and gave the idea of the stop-shot technique and most of the other techniques too. Zi Xiang, Jenar and I basically just acted and helped out here and there only, nothing much else. We finished the filiming, editted it and sent it to Jerneh, not expecting much.

Only one or two weeks ago we received the news that we won. Danial and Jenar went down to Pavilion for the award ceremony. My group won first place for the under-18 category. Nazneen's group won second place too. Congrats! We got a camcorder, certificate, trophy and RM3000. Bangga! XD Thank God for his blessings! Seriously didn't expect to win. We didn't even try to win. We just did our best because it was our assignment and that's all. Didn't think about winning at all.

The news was even repoerted in Bernama. Check out http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=430846

Here's the video. The accompanying song is 'How To Save A Life' by The Fray.

~God has blessed us; may all people everywhere honour him. --- Psalms 67:7~

Back

Hey readers!

Sorry for the really long one-month-plus hiatus.

Had so many stuff going and and had been very busy.

The August exam just finished about a week ago.

I will update about the happenings in July soon. So many things going on but not enough time to update. It will be a really long post, I think.

Stay tuned and God bless! ;P




~A lamp from the LORD is the breath of man; it searches through all his inmost being. --- Proverbs 20:27~

Notre Père

I just found a wonderful video on Youtube.

It is a video of the Lord's Prayer sung in French.

The music is slightly slow but very expressive. Just enjoy the melody although you don't understand the lyrics.

Anyway, here's the translation.

Our Father in heaven (Notre Père qui es aux cieux),
Holy be your name (que ton nom soit sanctifié),
Your kingdom come (que Ton règne vienne),
Your will be done on earth as in heaven (que Ta volonté soit faite sur la terre comme au ciel),
Give us today our daily bread (Donne-nous aujourd'hui le pain qui nourrit),
Forgive us our sins (Et pardonne-nous nos offenses),
As we forgive those who sin against us (Et à ceux qui nous offensent, nous pardonons),
Do not bring us to the test (Garde-nous d'être tentés),
But deliver us from evil (Délivre-nous du mal),
For the kingdom, power and glory are yours (A Toi seule le règne à Toi la puissance, la gloire pour toujours).
Amen.

(Not in the Lord's Prayer,but part of the song, below is the rough translation)

Que l'ésprit de vérité vienne sur nous maintenant - May the spirit of truth comes to us now
Pour que nous puissions te ressembler et savoir prier - So that we can be like you and pray

~But when you pray, go to your room, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And you Father who sees what you do in private, will reward you. --- Matthew 6:6~

A Day In The Library

Hey guys!

As usual I was in the library yesterday with a few friends for the weekly librarian duty...

Had nothing much to do so my friends and I started playing with my phone and in the end we ended up taking lots of pics...btw, phones are totally banned in school now, for some ridiculous reasons that don't even make sense and they even issued a circular for that...but I'm still taking it to school occasionally...don't worry, no bad intentions...

These are the pictures taken last week which Shi Hui has been telling me to post again and again...

Lots of ss pics...This is Shi Hui's new look with her hair straightened...

Take 1. failed.
Take 2. blurr.

Take 3. just nice.

And these are the pictures of me and Shi Hui pretending to be so hardworking...it's just for the Pendidikan Moral Kerja Amal homework which we have to take pics of ourselves doing whatever we write about in the homework...

Pretending to be recording something

Pretending to arrangde the books which have already been arranged a long time before

Putting the books back in their places

Ok, done with the Pendidikan Moral work...and now back to taking ss pics...

Me and Shi Hui, and the girl in the middle in Yen Ling who is camera-shy...this is the only pic that she took with us...but with her face covered...

Why so shy?
Skylar rocks?

Lunchtime

I think Shi Hui was doing her Pendidikan Moral work also by taking pics of herself crushing tins and recycling them...or is she just posing?

Think before you throw

Both of us

Shi Hui thinking she's very pretty...just joking...but her new hairstyle looks so much better...

And these are the pics just taken yesterday...

Take 1. not too bad.
Take 2. picture perfect.

Shi Hui taking pics of herself when I was doing something else and thinking she's very pretty, again...don't take it seriously...haha...

Found this poem on the notice board outside the library...read it...click on it to enlarge...

Seriously so true...dark-coloured people will always be black their whole life, but white people will have different skin colours from time to time...so why call black people coloured? Haha...

But we are all uniquely created by God, coloured or not, right? So be proud of your colour!

~Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live. --- Genesis 2:7~

Motherchurch

Since it was the holidays and we had a less tight schedule my family and I went to St. John's Cathedral in KL last week for evening Mass on Saturday. We were just going to other Catholic churches around the area to take the opportunity of the hols. Seems like a church tour, last two weeks the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe and last week St. John's Cathedral.

This church really has the traditional church's architecture. It was built more than a hundred years ago. Once I went in the size of the church just simply depicted its grandeur. And its design also actually has good effects on the choir's singing. The music echoed throughout the church harmoniously because of its size. Lovely.

The front

Twin spires at the front

Maybe the church's bells are up there. I'm just guessing.

Side view

While going around the church I found this statue of Mother Mary somewhere near the altar

Picture of the Divine Mercy

The altar. Notice that its design with many steps is pre-Vatican II style. Rarely find this kind of altars nowadays.

The crucifix

Side view

The Mass in process with a few altar boys in front of the altar.

After Mass all of us also had a procession around the church carrying candles because it was the Corpus Christi(Body of Christ) Feast Day.

The candles were quite small and melt quickly. The wax burned my hand a little and stained my pants when it fell. Oh well, nothing much anyway.

And I also found this (see below, click to enlarge) a few metres in front of the foot of the altar. At first I thought that this is just to commemorate the first Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur, consecrated in around 1955 I think. He died just a few years ago. But then I found out that his body is actually underneath that slab. He's buried there. It's his tomb. Wow. Didn't know that before.

R.I.P His Grace Dominic Aloysius Vendragon

~But the wise shall shine brightly like the splendor of the firmament, And those who lead the many to justice shall be like the stars forever.--- Daniel 12:3~

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

Hey,
My family and I went to this church today, the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Since it is the holidays and I don't have sunday school so we decided to visit some other churches in the diocese like this one.

We went for the evening Mass.

It's quite a new church, just recently completed a few years ago. Its interior was quite nice, and from the outside it looked kind of modern...it doesn't have the traditional kind of church architecture. Hope the new St. Thomas More Church will be as beautiful as this one!

The altar

The crucifix above the altar

The statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Another statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the church's compound

A mosaic of Our lady of Guadalupe. Yeah, there are many statue and artworks depicting her, the church was built in her honour.

A statue of St. Michael on the upper floor

The church from the outside at night

The cross in front of the church. Sorry, last few pics not that clear.

Actually Our Lady of Guadalupe is just another title for Mother Mary. The title came about after the apparation of Mother Mary to St. Juan Diego in Mexico in the 16th century. The name Guadalupe comes from a native American word meaning 'the crusher of the serpent'. In one of the apparations the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe like those depicted in the pictures above was myteriously painted on his tilma (see below). Until today nobody can tell how it was painted. And the image is also a very close description of the women in Revelation 12:1-2 (http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__P12V.HTM). The apparations led to a chapel being built nearby the place where the apparations took place and the conversion of millions of native Americans.

Read more about it at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe

The original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City

Next week, hopefully, I'll be going to St. John's Cathedral, the archbishop's church. Another church that I haven't been before.

~I will demonstrate, I will exhibit, I will give all my love, my compassion, my help and my protection to the people. I am your merciful mother, the merciful mother of all of you who live united in this land, and of all mankind, of all those who love me , of those who cry to me, of those who seek me, of those who have confidence in me. Here I will hear their weeping, their sorrow and will remedy and alleviate all their multiple sufferings, necessities and misfortunes. ---Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego in one of her apparations~