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~

Awards

Hey!



Just recently got these photos from William's camera...

Finally received it after so long...
Photos of PMR result day somewhere last year...

Bunch of friends and me


Mum and me holding the results...=)

And these are the photos of Hari Kecemerlangan this year...

Before the prize giving ceremony started, as usual there was the long speeches etc...
So my friends and I took some photos of ourselves with my phone...

This is Choong Hou. Unbelievable.




Me and Yi Shuen

No comment.

Finally the prize giving ceremony begins...

At first they the lower secondary students went up first and my batch (students with staright A's for PMR) was somewhere near the end...

The certificate I received in the pic is a fake...just a blank piece of paper but the plaque is the real thing...they only gave the real certificate later because they didn't have time to print it...

Poser.

That's all for the awards. Thank God that I actually got staright A's in PMR.

~The Lord, the Most High is to be feared; he is a king, ruling over all the world. --- Psalms 47:2~