STUDY STUDY STUDY

I must confess, I have been so ill discipline this time round. I've Bomed almost all of my promise everyday. There goes the saying " What I should do I don't do and what I should'nt do all I did...

So dissappointed with myself, I am facing a at least 3B's this year yet the spirit to work towards that was far far behind. I definately need some accountability and planning on my studies so that my days will not go in Vain.

Mock exam has been scheduled on 18,19,20,21 December 06. 6.15pm local time ;). So I have told Irene my plan for this year mock exam coverage. Please help me to get back to my study mood and "DO HURL INSULT AT ME IF I DON'T" So that I will take it seriously.

I shall be back to my all times favourite British Council.

Here's a summary of my Weekly Schedule:-

Monday : Sit Debrina BB Study unless there is a replacement to British Council
Tuesday : Study day British Council
Wednesday : Class and Church
Thursday : Christine BB Study
Friday : Group unless hang out to BC
Sat : Class, study in Library & Date
Sunday: Church,Class, Study

Pls keep me accountable Everyone.

Love,
Eve

Stuck in between the Earth

Sometimes things are just too difficult. Stuck in between things and facing choice and trials of many kinds. Between selfishness and selflessness, between worldliness and holiness, between wickedness and Righteousness and on and on...

This two weeks was really a testing of faith in the office. Case after case that my superior require me to tell lies. I thought to my self why is this thing happen again? It was not something new yet it was just so difficult everytime.

Why out of many she choose me? Oh God why you put me in situation like this? I remain silent and ignore her.

So Hannah advice me to tell her and uphold what is right. Definately in my heart I do not want to offend her nor my colleugue. Not doing so, I will then offend God. oh dear...battling in my heart, God can you make it easier?

No make a stand! What Kind of disciple are YOU? What can men do to you? ok ok I finally surrender and decided to talk to them on this. I shall not compromise for the sake of how they felt.

QT God says:

1 Peter 1:6-7

6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

So I decided to take up the courage to talk to them about this and shall make it clear to them what I believe. As expected nothing good will turn up, they reason that when we are stuck in between things we have no choice but to tell lies and it is not too big a sin afterall. I told them " I'm sorry but this is what I believe and I hope you guys understand"

Today office look so gloomy, maybe my mood also affected when people start to label me oh she is holy, we shall not say this or that it is against her. Oh better don't say that it is so bad...and for a moment I felt I am an Alien in the office.

Mat 5:11 "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.

Mat 5:12 REJOICE and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Hmm...Be happy then for my God is bigger than any of my troubles!!!!

Love,
Eve

Pillow Talk

She ask, Eve you like soft pillow? So I replied er...my pillow is made of feathers you know. She ask again in disbelieve, what? Where you get that? There must be alot who have sacrifice for your comfort. I tot not comfortable actually I wanted a new one, just that it has follow me throughout so I shall keep it. My answer then therefore, my brother bought it I was given the privilege to use it :)

What in the world " nothing better to debate but pillows? " that is sisters main topic of the day to come up to their daily words quota, what you wear, what you use, what is the price, where you get it etc etc...

Not my intention to blog about pillows but I can't help it, that now I'm thinking of how they actually process that pillow oh Gosh. I want a new one...

So I can put it right in place and start reflecting about the holiday. Then I shall update my blog but meanwhile please wait k :) If someone were to get me a new one I shall progress faster ;)he he

How much does it Cost!

Luke 14:25-40:

The Cost of Being a Disciple
25Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. 27And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

28"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30saying, 'This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.'

31"Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. 33In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.

34"Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? 35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out.
"He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

What you think it cost to be a disciple?
Relationship?
Desire?
Renounce Possession?

Updates

weeky update :) weekly? or how?

Work is like usuall nothing much to do....sitting too much is no good...so must walk to the Loo every hour to do reflections..Opss look at the mirror lah....

So I'm taking sometime to read my Advance GTG memory scripture. I'll be typing and typing and re typing for God sake. Meanwhile it was a real good excercise for the Brain cum the Heart. So many to go.....

example: Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ

..Fuh tired men.... As for the assignment I completed mine just looking for a printer to print it out. Thus, I'm almost done with GTG.

Class? Emm the subject getting bulkier, assignment piling up, physically and mentally oso tired. That does not meant to be an excuse....no excuse for me this year...shall have no Grace. Good News is our night class on Thursday has been approved to be replaced on Saturday morning " Wooohoooo. Thus no more class on Thursday!! Hip Hip Hooray....

But Face the fact tonite class till 9:30pm...I need pain killer. Today Foo Weoi told me very long did'nt see me in college. So sad :( I wish I could be in college all the time as a full timer...but there are reason for everything...So those who have the chance to study full time be grateful and don't complaint.

So its time to say good bye and see you all again in due time.

Adios!

Love lots and lots and lots :)
ME

Good Old Days - By Irene Suresh

Especially for us borned and raised in Malaysia (esp. fond of the memory of the Milo truck coming to school once in a blue moon to give away free packet-chocolate-milk at school!). Miss the good old days - despite its low-tech nature....

For your reading pleasure...some might be true. Hope you will all enjoy reading it. This might bring you back the old memory especially during those school days.....

Signs that you are a 70s' or 80s' baby:
You grew up watching G-Force, He-man, Transformers, Thundercats, Silver Hawk, Woody Woodpecker, Chipmunks and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget Ninja Turtles, Mask, Smurfs and Voltron too.

Girls watched Japanese cartoon like My Little Pony, "Xiao Tian Tian", "Hua
Xian Zi" etc. You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in primary school after recess time. You squatted by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brushed
your teeth with a colourful mug. Remember the days when the school nurse, comes with a list for the dentist appointment, the sound of the drilling when your friend has a fill in his tooth. You remember the packets of milk we get in primary school to encourage us to drink more milk. (It cost only 30 cent per pack)

In secondary school, girls go to the library to borrow their favourite romance storybook. In secondary school, girls altered their school skirt to shorten it and guys will go to the school appointed school uniform tailor shop to tailor make their school trousers to the then fashionable "baggy pants"!

During primary school days, the teacher will punish you using a ruler to hit your palm. A bowl of noodles soup cost only 30cent in primary school days. When you were in primary school, girls like to go to the bookshop to buy cute stuff such as animal erasers, various shape sharpeners, colourful notebook etc.

Hankyu Jaya, Yaohan departmental stores used to be a favourite hangout for
families during weekends. In secondary school days, you buy the Bata BM Turbo or Pallas Jazz school shoes. Some guys like to wear those china made ankle high shoes. Some even like to wear those very thick socks with their school shoes. Internet? E-mail? What the hell is that? So you thought a decade or more ago, your friends don't have pagers or handphones in school.

CDs? What's that? Cassette tapes were the norm. Movie tickets used to cost less than $5 last time. The goodies from Mama shop used to be Chickerdis, Mamee , Kum Kum, UFO,
O-Ya, Ding Dang chocolate balls with toys in the box, colourful hard "egg",
"cigerette" bubble gum, KIKI Bubble Gum, pink bottle of bubbles c/w a small tubes with yellow sticks to blow "more lasting" bubbles that you can pop more air in or slam it on.

You never forget 'Ti Kam'. When exams are over, the board games (e.g Monopoly, Donkey, Transportation Comparison Card) & held video games will be all over the class room.Your favourite sound is the bell For it's the homemade ice cream man.
The cream that tops Haagan Dazs! And the other peddler you love is the old lady who sells juicy Muah Chee and thick olden syrup rolled in a balloon the tip of a chopstick.

Another bell is the recess bell, a time to get away from school work and to eat. Another time when there is no bell but all guys will anxiously wait for it...The PJ (Pendidikan Jasmani), PE time (time for football) Your favourite childhood games were playing "guli"(marbles), five stones, five bottle cover, zero-point
t,atching, "Pepsi-Cola one two three" and/or "Police & Sentry"!

The best thirst quencher of all times is the yummy colourful ice tubes you can buy from provision shops for only 10cent. To eat them,break the tab and suck while
holding the freezing tube! All gals have a girl doll/strawberry shortcake/my little pony/pound puppy, while all boys have a soldiers figurine (combat) or a rubber band catapult that shoots folded paper!

Once was the era whereby ice-cream sticks were valuable items, then came the paper aircrafts, chalk fights. Some boys made their own guns from wood, and used 'Bacali' as the bullets. Some even used matches to shoot and burn kids'lanterns during MoonCake Festival. And your favourite holiday was Lunar New Year! New clothes, Ang Pows, shopping, junk food and family outings!

Let's see, the majority of students in universities today were born in 1987
/ 88.... They are called "youth".

For them, they have never heard of the song "We are the World, we are the
Children..." And the "Uptown Girl" they know is by 'West Life' but not 'Billy Joel'.

For them, there have always been only one Germany and only one Vietnam. AIDS exists since they were born.

CD exists since they were born. Michael Jackson is already whitened.John Travolta is always round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. They believe that Spiderman and Incredible Hulk are just new films. They can never imagine a black and white screen for a computer. They never know what is Atari or 'Game & Watch'. They can't believe a black and white television ever existed and they don't even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control. And they never understand how we can go out without a mobile phone when we were in university...

Let's check if we're getting old...

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. Most of your secondary school friends are getting married.

3. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with
computer.

4. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.

5. You spend less and less time talking on phone with your friends daily.

6. When you meet your old friends from time to time, talking about the good
old days, repeating again and again all funny stories you experienced
together.

7. Lastly, having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some
other old friends. You think they will like it too.....

Hahaha!.... Yes! We are getting old too...........

Brings back old memories huh?

Cheers to the 70s n 80s babies!!!