Phone-phobia

“Phony, is that you?”

“Phony!! You look SOooooOOOOooooOOOOooo hot!!”

” Everytime I look at you I see a handsome, sexy rat!!”

“slurp, slurp..smooch…oh yea!! You’re so hot!!”

“Slurp”

” TaHHAHAHA!! Phony!!”

I know I get on people’s nerves, because it takes me forever to reply someone or sometimes I don’t even bother to pick up calls.

I have a bit of phone-phobia. Why? Reasons:

1) When people call me, it’s always about work.

2) I don’t really like receiving text messages that says, ” so, watcha doin now?” I find it’s a waste of money when there’s not much of an importance replying.

3) I only have RM30 to live on my phone per month. Moms extremely strict. So have to be really stingy when it comes to calling or sms-ing.

4) The phone is always place at least 2 meters away from me before I go to sleep.(So I can run to shut the alarm the next morning, then go back to bed again)

5) I normally often put my phone on silent. Just in case it suddenly rings in the most unsuspecting times – like in church (very malu wan.)

6) I don’t like the buzzing feeling in my pants when I got a message or a call. It was because of a guy whom I met in the hospital during my surgery 3 years ago. He was having cancer and was warning me not to put my phone in my pants or too close to me. He passed away a week later.

7) Because my rat’s in love with it.

I do carry my phone around everywhere. Because it’s a necessity. But sometimes I really do wish I don’t have a phone.

FULL BURSARY!

Got some good news from my dad when he came home from work.

Sime Darby, the company my mom’s working for, was generous enough to offer me a full bursary. I thought I couldn’t get it.

That means:

My whole foundation year is paid off! Plus, the bursary is also paying my Digi.A. course and all the stationeries and art supplies I’ve bought (If I’ve kept the receipt, that is). It could even pay my degree program.

We had a dinner celebration today – Adeline’s and Karen’s good results and my bursary!

heheh… No wonder I’m always drumming to my dad’s ears on how blessed is he to have 4 “good” daughters. (evil smirks)

Couldn’t be more happy!! hehe. eh, quite cool. My parents need not pay college fees for both my elder sis and I for at least 2 years!!

Back home again

Went back to SU to check out what the Cf’s been up to.

Knowing Mr. Jacob, his always bound to invite someone special every year.

Liang was talking about “potential”. A lot of the stuff he said was pretty much sensible.

Without God there’s not much of a point if you’ve got the best skills, the right strategy, the experience, etc. Understood what it meant, but you can never be too much of a know it all.

Lessons in life needs to be learn and relearn.

Oh yea! also met Amanda, our 2004 CF President. Can’t believe she’s from TOA! I’m so blur wei. Hmm…CF Presidents according to chronological timeline :

2004 Amanda

2005 Li Teng

2006 Grandfather Chu Joshua

2007 Ji Ming

2008 Jimmy Ong

All moving on to separate ways, but still striving for a common goal.

zzzz….

Smiles just illuminates into your heart when God touches you through someone.

Flashing back into my memories. Again.

Woke up at 12.00pm. Sweet. Who knew how lazy ‘d had become during the holidays. Randomness just came oozing through my brain.

My sis sms me, ” Happy Birthday Rachel! So! What so you want for your birthday?”

R: ” A Star Wars action figure!! haha. Just joking!”

A: ” Well, we can get that on the way to Toys R Us”

R: ” Wha?? You sure?”

I didn’t know she was serious. Honestly, there’s nothing I really want for a birthday gift. I have everything I need already. If my olds mates ask me this question I would just tell them to always have Jesus in their heart. That gift is good enough. But I love to ask for the most bizzare things girls don’t normally ask for. An action figure would be quite cool!!

Yesterday Michael ask me, ” What’s the first thing you think of during the morning?”

Hmmm…really tough one. But to be honest, there’s only about 3 things I think about at the morning during this sem break :

No. 1 : Going back to sleep for at least another hour

No. 2 : Morning jog around my area

No. 3 : to read finish my Star Wars books

Don’t think too much bout deep stuff at the morning. Mornings are the time of the day when I’m really blur and groggy. I’m more alert at the afternoon and night.

Yesterday I’m officially 18. Wow. That’s old. The number 18 is so different from 17. okla, I always felt like an old woman. Haha. Maybe cause everyone used to call me “mummy” last time.

Just finished reading my whole collection of Star Wars series. Went straight to reading Harry Potter. Why am I in such a hurry? Time’s running out. I only have one more week left to enjoy doing the things I wanna do. Gotta be fast.

Get twisted

Kids, don’t try this at home.

Stop making things so complicated

Honestly, I don’t like obligation days or strict traditions. I don’t understand sometimes, why do people have to make faith so complicated?

Stupidity. really. How every “thing” people place in the church has a specific meaning. Then people start saying it brings so much of an symbolic importance. Importance of WHAT? It’s still just an object. I guess I don’t give that much  respect when it comes to things the priest carries and wears. What more that I dislike, is that oldies just tend to restrict youngsters like us from other denominations, saying that other denominations has different methods and styles, and not to simply follow them, etc. It’s like saying that my Christian brother is from a different religion and I must not be too close to him. Or maybe my Christian sister is an alien and if I associate with her I’ll turn to one as well.

What is the outmost basic thing that we SHOULD practice in Christianity?

The Law of Love.

Since God touch me when I was in Form 2, I discovered that faith was THAT simple. I just needed to have faith in God, establish a relationship with him, let him mould be, carry me and use me. All the Catholism that I have been practicing for the last 8 years of my childhood would have made me hate Christianity throughout my lifetime. I couldn’t understand it. I felt it was a waste of time. Who knew that God would be so kind to change my perspective.

There was lots lessons that thought me, to open up my mind, trying to understand both religion and faith. Trying to crack through and asking myself why? Why does these things happen? Or is this or that true? There’s still so much mind boggling questions in my head, that sometimes doesn’t really have or need a specific answer.

Yet I felt privilege. Because I feel I’m both Catholic and Protestant, not siding on either. As much as I hope for a revival in the Catholic Church, I know that one day the Christians would be united, regardless of denomination.

Developing a Vision Board

I took Earnest’s advice and started making my own vision board.

Pictures of my favourite concept art, animation, visionary people, athletes, illustrations from seniors, anything that inspires me when I’m lying dead doing work on top of my desk.

I’m not the kind of person who would like to paste stuff on the walls(cause I think it clogs up lots of space, making my room look more messy than before). But this was exceptional, and inspiring.

I’m really enjoying my holidays a lot. Just discovered that some of my old worn out PC games can still be played. WOOHOO!! Prince of Persia Sands of Time and Star wars the Phantom Menace here we come!! I enjoy old games as much as new ones. WHY? The amazing concept, that’s why!! I’m more interested in the world they create rather than getting into gameplay.

Oh yea, Anwar has just gave me a birthday present, winning the Permatang Pauh seat! It was already predicted. Whether or not people like him, his our hope for change, and hopefully he’ll keep his word. Lets just pray for a better Malaysia, a new Malaysia, a united Malaysia!

Going ga-ga all over again

“A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…”

The first movie I’d ever watch on cinema was Star Wars Ep.1 – The Phantom Menace, when I was 7 years old.

Who knew 10 years later I would still go crazy over it.

It was Star Wars that took cinema realism into a whole new level. George Lucas, to me, could possibly be the “father” of digital animation. He was the one that establish Pixar. Holding on to his vision, he let people to experience fantasies far beyond their imagination, making dreams come alive.

LOTR wouldn’t be LOTR if it wasn’t for Star Wars.

King Kong wouldn’t be King Kong if it wasn’t for Star Wars.

There might not be Toy Story, Shrek, or Monster’s inc if it wasn’t for Star Wars.

Computer gaming might now even be as advanced as today if it wasn’t for Star Wars.

These books are priceless!! Thanks to my sis who was more of a Star Wars geek than I’d ever was. I wanted to know everything about it all over again. Still wishing I had the complete series and egads!! I don’t have Episode one and 3 the movie!! NOOO!!!

Watching the movie and behind the scenes, replaying it again, looking at the whole concept, the details, the precision, the characters, the sound, the music was just breathtaking. I really love the concept of the whole story, where every planet you step foot on is a different world, a different adventure.

Adventures that revolves around with lots of mystery, detective work,Jedi philosophy and human emotions. Telling a long saga of how good triumphs over evil. Teaching about universal principles of wisdom, strength, courage, hope, and unconditional love.

No other movie can really beat Star Wars. It’s a timeless classic.