I just signed up for this and I'm wondering how it will all turn out. My eyes hurt from staring at the PC screen since 2pm. I've been trying to figure out HTML! Thank God for Meg and her link...
Worship in church today was awesome. We sang one of my favourite songs, "I Offer My Life," which really encompasses everything I want to say to God. All that I am, all that I have I lay them down before...
Got a blinking headache. I hardly ever get headaches, which makes it worse when I actually do get one. I think it's due to sleep deprivation - have been leaving the office really late lately. And STILL not accomplishing anything,...
I've been working on my webpage again. I'm getting better with HTML but there is still so much stuff I want to put up there... it looks like it'll never be finished!! Arrgh! And I'm seriously considering graphic buttons instead...
This morning, I got news in my email that a friend, and dare I say it? spiritual mentor has passed away. The unusual thing is that this man lived on the other side of the world from me...
Almost all the department store chains are having sales. Went to Isetan and heroically restrained myself from buying any more shoes, although I did try a few pairs. The last time I counted, I had like 37 pairs, so I...
This afternoon I checked my guestbook and was stunned to discover this entry:Umm, you make a living writing? Highly doubtful. You have all the wit and originality of a retarded 12 year old. I've long believed that only the mentally...
I was still brooding about yesterdays incident with the unknown message-leaver. Then this morning, I had another message, from a man named Russ:Don't worry about (that person)... The only people who think religious people are mentally deficient are those who...
I am soooooooooo sleepy! I know it痴 not interesting news, but I really am! Janelle and I went swimming this morning. We have decided to swim three mornings a week, before I go to work. Went on Monday morning but...
This is so cool: Blind people can already surf the Web using screen access software that translates information into synthesized speech or Braille. A new technology could change the way they use the Web by allowing them to feel electronic...
Saw K-19: The Widowmaker on Saturday night with two other friends. I wanted to cry me, who almost never cries in movies! So many deaths, so much suffering and for what? It was all so unnecessary. For those...
I need to start writing poetry again. I came across this site while reading comments left at Chronicles of a Poet Warrior. (Yes, I read other people痴 comments! Curiosity may have killed the cat, but I feel relatively safe coz...
Yesterday I said that I didnt have any of my childhood scribblings with me at the moment. I was mistaken this morning as I was clearing out my desk, I discovered a file buried under the mountains of papers....
It's been an eventful weekend. Bob (whom I've been pestering to enter the blogging world) has been helping me to redesign my current personal website. It looks great, and he has drily reminded me that he normally charges 120 bucks...
My all-time favourite Christmas song: THE STABLE OF OUR LIVES In a place with the smell of musty hay There was born the Son of God that day He came in such a way As to say, "I'm one of...
I just popped into one of my Yahoo! groups and discovered that someone had posted this article: Blair Slammed Over Iraq War By His Own Priest Excerpt: After the service Fr Russ, a family friend, told the Daily Mirror violence...
I just got a call my cupboard's arriving tomorrow! I'm so excited. And I still haven't decided where to put it. *rolls eyes* The new place is really taking shape. I'm still unpacking, but I've got my figure-skating calendar...
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I've begun a five-month course of Hebrew classes. Supposed to have lessons once a week on Tuesday nights. See, it happened like this: Janelle's church (Anglican) has a "daughter church", where the Hebrew teacher is worshipping. He offered to conduct...
I bought a book entitled Science Facts For Kids today. Hey, like I told Jonathan, I'm not at all sure that I'm now an adult... I'm still in denial! But it's seriously cool... I love this stuff! Here's some information...
Very interesting to read Jen's "Anniversary Musings on Love" at blogs4God this morning. I watched Just Married yesterday. In case you don't know, it's about this couple who jumped into bed with each other almost at the first meeting, moved...
Russ has a link to a website that allows us to "adopt" a member of the US military in prayer. Like Russ, it is easier for me to focus and feel connected if I pray for a person with a...
Warning: The following text will contain spoilers. But you won't regret them, because the movie is so bad you'll actually be acutely grateful that you've been spared the ordeal of watching it. Or at least, that's the theory. :P I...
The war is over, or so they say. British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned, "This conflict is not, however, over yet." This particular report, however, is worrying: US tells Iran, Syria, N. Korea: Learn From IraqROME (Reuters) - The United...
And now I can finally talk about the stuff I've been working on over the past few weeks. Today's issue of the newspaper's weekly youth section tackled the topic of abortion. Abortion, by the way, is illegal in Malaysia unless...
I'm having template and CSS-related issues. Apparently this blog looks OK sometimes and doesn't look OK at other times. One sure way to tell is by the post title size. I'm tearing my hair out over this. Jonathan and Bob...
(As suggested by Matt - in response to this, the subject of discussion here.) One day, as the angels bowed down in worship, God looked around and realised that he was lonely. "They don't really love me," he thought, feeling...
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that my own story would set off a controversy. I see it as borderline blasphemy. - from a post at Bloggenspiel She mostly feels that my story makes God too "human" or "ordinary"....
DO NOT, on any account, watch Lizzie McGuire. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, do not... go anywhere near that movie! Y o u h a v e b e e n w a r n e d. I went for...
Last week, I sat down at a computer terminal in the office and stared at the colleague at the next terminal, who was wearing a thick sweater. "I feel obliged to warn you that I have a very bad cold,"...
Consensual sex between a young man and his underaged partner is NOT the same as statutory rape. This was the finding of the Shah Alam Sessions court in the case of a 21-year-old man who admitted "raping" a mentally-retarded underaged...
You know that story about the Malaysian guy who cut off his, erm, "member", fried it, and ate it? I've seen the story mentioned in a fair number of blogs over the past week. But today I read the report...
Nokia mobile phone bursts into flames in woman's hand. And apparently this has been known to happen before. Good grief. I'm beginning to look at my mobile phone in a completely new light! (link courtesy of ...
Sometimes I really hate myself. I always tell people that we are hardest on ourselves because we can see all our own weaknesses and failures, and I believe it. But then of course I think my faults and failures are...
Wow, they provide free Internet access for us here at the event venue. Coolness! First impression of the weather: it's like Genting Highlands! As the plane prepared to land, we were told that it was 10 degrees Celcius on the...
Tomorrow is a public holiday — the Muslim festival celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan. In case you didn't know, Muslims fast every day from dawn to dusk during Ramadan, not touching a drop of water or...
Since everybody is posting about Christmas shopping, and Christmas traditions, I decided that I'd better feel sorry for myself on my own blog so that I won't need to repeat myself on every blog I visit. *grin* Dan Johnson recently...
I always intended this to be a "proper site", not just a blog. But I've been so busy I haven't had time to restore and rebuild the pages I lost when my free site went down a year ago. However,...
Having recently discovered that my mobile phone network enables sending SMSes -- also known as cellphone text messages -- via email, I started wondering: wait a minute, shouldn't it be possible to set up a contact form that would email...
...not that I had any doubts, mind you. I sent myself dozens of messages when I was testing & tweaking the form :) Thanks to all who sent messages and good wishes: Hal, Viceice, Wena, Andrew (I hope I got...
Remember my tech support guy, Bob? He and his wife are the ecstatic parents of a 3kg baby girl, born this morning at 3:30am. Smooth birth, "very fast" (according to the mother), no complications. I got the wicked pleasure of...
Warning: Geek alert I swear I'm getting geekier by the day. However geeky I get, though, I don't think it's ever going to be enough. That is to say, I need help! Once upon a time, there was an organisation....
Ever since I wrote about Malaysian Idol on February 12, I've gotten numerous search hits for the phrase and this site has become the #1 result on Google for that query. I've also gotten a few emails asking for more...
Did you know that the word "guru", as in somebody who's really good at something, or knows a lot about a certain subject, is Malay for "teacher"? It originates from Hindi, which derived the word from the Sanskrit. While we're...
You know, sometimes I think males just don't fully realise how vulnerable women feel when it comes to issues of personal safety. Our prankster's reaction underlined this: he hadn't expected us to react in fear. He thought we'd laugh the...
Sometimes I read blogs and the ensuing comments, and wonder about Christian behaviour. Or sometimes something sparks me off and I realise just how un-Christlike I am. We can be very unkind, can we not? So when Bene Diction emailed...
I've heard some say that I'm "real" and "open" and "honest" in my writings here, but I don't think I could ever be as "real" as this guy. He's on the same journey I'm on, but on a far more...
Thailand: Tsunami warning suppressed to protect tourism This was a front-page article in a Thai newspaper, The Nation, on Dec 28. Excerpt: "The very important factor in making the decision (whether to issue a tsunami warning) was that it's high...
I received an email from a lady called Kathy from Louisiana, USA who has been trying to contact a friend who was back in Malaysia visiting his family at the time the tsunami hit. She doesn't have his contact number...
I woke up yesterday to a phone call from Lady Snoflek, telling me my site had been suspended. To be honest, I'd expected it to happen any day, so it wasn't exactly a surprise. The suddenness was a bit of...
Visa International -- the credit card people -- are threatening a Malaysian blogger whose blog is using the domain name visa.com.my (.my is the code for Malaysian sites). The blogger in question received a warning from a local legal firm...
Am back! No time for a more "serious" post, so... *grin* Daphne writes about asking colleagues two questions:If you could be extremely beautiful, extremely rich or extremely intelligent, which would you choose? (Note that whichever you qualities you don't choose...
A rare post with lots of pics :) Yesterday was the year-end party for the students in my church's tuition club. Each class was supposed to give a presentation, and mine recited a poem about two little kittens & a...
Hi, this is Bob "hijacking" Sunflower's blog for now (kinda returning a favour or two). Since both Sunflower & I will be away for quite a bit for the Chinese New Year, and this has coincided with a rash of...
Somebody just forwarded me -- AGAIN -- the email about NASA scientists discovering evidence to support an incident in the Bible where time stood still for a day. (Read what NASA had to say about that.) Getting urban legend emails...
Everybody is talking about The Da Vinci Code. I even got an email from Mom asking me whether I'm going to see the movie. No, I don't plan on seeing the movie because I've heard/read the reviews (by non-Christians, therefore...
There's a seminar this Sat (June 3) in Kelana Jaya: EQ in the Businessplace. Anybody interested in going? It's about helping us relate better to the people we interact with at work, teaching us how to manage our emotions and...
My grandparents and great-grandparents were immigrants from China, people who came to Malaya (as it was then) in search of a better life. My parents grew up in hard times. Dad used to tell us stories about living in a...
Did anybody else see the unusual cloud formations over Damansara / Kelana Jaya area this morning? I was giving my housemate Emmy a ride to work at 7:45 when I looked up and saw this. Rows and rows of clouds...
Being in journalism certainly gives one some different perspectives. I realised that whilst watching the World Cup matches recently. Yes, while I passed through the last World Cup in a blissful, uncaring daze, this time I actually watched 2.5 matches!...
Watching Superman was nostalgic. I still remember they used to show the old Superman movies on tv every year. This was back in the late 1980s, when the law prohibiting cigarette company advertisements wasn't so strict yet, so once a...
Went to KFC for dinner & there was a guy standing outside handing out flyers. A glance at the flyer showed it was for a church event. "I'm a Christian," I said, handing the flyer back to him. (Implication being:...
Tonight my housemates Meera, Emmy, and I were in the living room. Meera was sitting on the floor doing some work on her laptop which was placed on the coffee table, Emmy was reclining on the couch reading, and I...
I was thinking about leg & underarm hair yesterday (the bane of many women's lives). Yeah, we're constantly trying to get rid of all that hair, but aren't we lucky that we don't have to keep TRIMMING it? I mean,...
Judith, my housemate, is moving out on Nov 30. Anybody wants to stay in my house? -- I'm serious! Another housemate, Adeline, said, "If you can get a job via your blog, maybe we can get a housemate via your...
One of my duties in my current job is to make name tags. In doing so, I get to look at hundreds of photographs and marvel at how different each person looks. Really, you don't get any two people looking...
Every Malaysian parent who thinks that A's are the most important thing in their childrens' universe and that everything should bow to academic results needs to read this: Studies rarely find any correlation between success in school (i.e., good grades)...
"Most people consider spring onion an inoffensive garnishing," commented Erna, eyeing me. I was painstakingly removing every scrap of spring onion from my food. "I can't believe you didn't know I don't eat spring onions. We've eaten together so many...
Karen said she's started to think of life as being a matter of givers and takers. This triggered a deeply-buried memory in the depths of my brain. I vaguely remember grumbling to God, "Okay, so I'm encouraging others, but who's...
There's this eating place nearby my office which I visit two or three times a week. I go there to buy breakfast, and I always ask for the same thing: fried meehoon with a fried egg, and a little sambal...
It's a pity that the I'm always on a business trip every time I check into a hotel, and therefore am always too busy to even take a soak in the bathtub, never mind sample the other hotel facilities. I...
I'm well-known among my friends for carrying "ridiculously small" handbags. Even then, I have quite a few items inside: My purse, which has my identity card, driver's licence, ATM card, and moneyA packet of pocket tissuesSmall notebookPenLip balmTwo mobile phonesCar...
Nowadays I read the newspapers almost every day because my boss says I must. This is a ground-breaking development because I didn't even read the newspapers daily when I was working with the newspaper! So usually I find weird things...
I remember now the second thing I was going to write about yesterday. What was that saying again? Better late than never? Well, I've been on holiday since April. From studies, that is -- yes, I've still been toiling away...
Sometimes I think that if I could just break through to someone, I would be able to make that person view things differently, from a new perspective. This would solve a lot of problems. I think that if I could...
I like being numb and emotionless. It means: Not feeling guilty for not doing the things I should have done or for doing the things I should not have done. Not feeling crushed when the boss scolds me. Not feeling...
My 5 favourite places to eat around here:Murni's, SS2 Petaling Jaya: I don't know how to classify Murni's. It's like a mamak, yet it isn't, because it serves Chinese and Western dishes too. I always go there for their cheese...
On Monday, I answered 19 phone calls and made 15. On Tuesday, I answered 21 and made 2. On Wednesday, I answered 8 and made 9. On Thursday, I answered 12 and made 3. On Friday, I answered 22 and...
In solidarity with the people of Burma who are rising up against the military dictatorship of the Yangon regime Today is the International Bloggers' Day for Burma. My friends and fellow bloggers, join the campaign to show your support...
"I Believe in You", duet by Il Divo & Celine Dion I haven't been able to stop listening to this song ever since my friend Faith posted it on Facebook last week. Normally I don't listen to songs I...
Found this story through Facebook's 'Blog Friends' application. A disturbing story... very disturbing. Briefly (because I know some of you lazy to click the link), it is about this 13-year-old girl, Megan, who had a history of depression and attention...
Christian music is changing so rapidly in my generation that, if you don't go to church for four months, the next time you go, you might not recognise any of the songs anymore. I was in Damansara Utama Methodist Church...
I have a question for you guys. If you had bad news or disturbing news, which you knew would upset someone, and you only had the choice of breaking it to them at the beginning of the day or the...