What had happened since last post?

Hi, I am back to blogger again, been through a long long busy marathon that I cant even feel that I am now in Malaysia...Okay, since there were lots of things happened within one month time, I just briefly talk about it...

First of all, I did really bad in my final assignment, which is Dynamics and Control System, because I was lack of time to finish it (2 assignments to submit in 2 days, but I cant blame anyone because it is my fault...) However, I cant imagine that I get 81% for my essay...Well, I dont care whether the lecturer "give water (cantonese)" or not, I just happy because it helped me to pull up the average mark...Thanks God...After the final submissions, my coursemate and I went to have a movie called "Kiss Ass", which made me wanna really kick the producer's ass...Its boring and meaningless, and the actors and actresses are suck...After the movie, we went to Pizza Hut for "brunner" (breakfast + lunch + dinner)...Nice pizzas and I had a great bolognese there too...XDXD

After the busy week, I had the most busiest month...Final exams + Final year project...I was wrong, I should pay more attention on my revision, but its too late...FYP was killing me softly and slowly...I was busy modelling and analysing, but you know what, the software I needed to us is out of order, so I waste few weeks doing nothing...What the...

Just before I went back to Malaysia, I rushed and rushed, slept 3-4 hours for 3 days...However, I still cant finish the report...What to do, I needed to bring back to Malaysia and finish it...However, I was wrong again, it was my brother's wedding, so I was busy helping my family doing the preparation...I had no time to do the report, until all these dinner finished...I was just finished it and sent it to my friend who still in UK, and asked him to print it out and submit for me...Now, everything is over...hopefully...

Suppose, before I went back to Malaysia, I should be happy and counting the days, but the FYP made me worry more than happy...What to do, last last report liao what...haha...Hopefully I can get a 60++ for my FYP...

PS: Will go back on 21st June...2 weeks to go...

Marriage in Christ~~~

Yes...This post I would like to share about Marriage in Christ, which means both of the bride and groom are Christian...In my church, marriage in christ is strongly recommended by our preachers and other members...Last two days, I attended a service in Birmingham, and some members from Leicester Church are there too. After the service, Deacon's wife and I met at a kitchen and suddenly she asked:

Deacon's wife (DW): How old are you?

Me: 22 this year...

DW: Oh I see...Don't misunderstand me, I don't mean anything...

Me: (What???Misunderstanding what???) Okay....

DW: Well, I am the person in charge for Leicester's youth matchmaker so that the youth can marry in Christ...And because you are still studying, so I didn't introduce or match you with other sisters...

Me: (smile awkwardly and sweating...) Okay...

Well, from this conversation, you can know that marriage in christ is an important thing that a church must concern about...You should understand the situation at my churches in UK...I am not sure whether I had mentioned it before or not, but I tell you one more time...In UK, the youths are married at the average age of 23 or 24...Right after they have a stable job and income...The age above is the groom...Therefore, the deacon's wife was asking me my age so that she can do her job...Luckily, she doesn't know that I am going to graduate next month, because I don't want to marry so early...23 or 24? Don't be silly...

However, they have the reasons to do so, which the reason is the environment now a day...Lots of temptations out there especially western country like UK, the people are very open minded, so the churches scare the youth will be tempted and leave the church...Therefore they are encouraging the youth marry early...well, I agree at this point, but marry early also has the problem inside, which is less understanding, immaturity and so and so...Anyway, here are the benefits of marriage in Christ...

Benefits of Marriage in Christ:

1) Blessing from God

In True Jesus Church, if the couple is not our church members or haven't been baptised in our church, they are not allowed to have wedding in our church, which means they cannot get the blessing from God. Blessing from God is unique, special and different from the world's blessing. With this blessing, the couple will be blissful.

2) Same religion

If the couple have the same religion, they can go to church together and their faith will standfirm. When one of them is weak, the other one can help each other to stand up. They will not alone along the way to the heaven.

3) Save the next generation

Bible says that religion/faith is a heritage, which should be carried on to the next generation, because this heritance can save their souls.

Well, I believe there are some other benefits that I haven't mentioned...I want to marry in christ, just not that age...Anyway, I will just follow God's will, let God to decide my marriage, because I believe He will give me what He thinks is best for me...Amen...

PS: What do you think about married in Christ? Mind to share about it?

Talentime~~~

A few hours ago, I was impressed by a funny commercial in Malaysia, and I thought it was made in Malaysia, but unfortunately, it was Thailand...Anyway, I searched it on Youtube and found out there was a good director, who named Yasmin Ahmad...This woman died last year, and only that time, I heard her name...Therefore, I searched for her directed film, and one of them is Talentime...

Talentime was made in Malaysia (of course...) and the story is really interest...An Indian guy, who are deaf and dumb, falled in love with a Mix-blood Muslim girl...However, in Malaysia, if we marry a muslim, we are "forced" to be a muslim...As a result, most Chinese and Indian in Malaysia won't choose Malay as their wives or girlfriends...However, this Indian guy didnt mind of this matter, he kept on connecting with the muslim girl...After a while, his mother found out and scolded him...His sister was supported him...

From this film, I feel that Malaysians are pathetic...Falling in love with Malay/Muslim is same as betraying your religion...Because of this rule, we are always saying that married a muslim is betraying your own race...From this aspect, you can see that Malaysians are pathetic...I can only choose our own race or Indian or other races instead of Malay...It doesnt make sense at all...

Anyway, I dint mean that I falled in love with Malay or Muslim, but I strongly disagree that marriage = changing religion...Let's say, one day, I fall in love with Muslim girl, but I dont want to betray my God, so between the girl and God, for sure, I will choose God, but the problem is there...How about the girl?

PS: This is the fact...Unchangable fact...I repeat, I am not interest in Muslim girl...

Life = Uncertainties~~~

"I don't know about tomorrow, I just live day by the day"

Yes, we don't know the future, we can't even know what will be happened next second...Life is full with uncertainties...Only God knows these uncertainties...

Recently, I was told that my second brother is getting marry this coming June...When I heard it, I was surprised because now it is already April, how come they have enough time for the wedding's preparation? Well, I knew something was happened, and I knew what was happened...After confirmation with my mom, well, my guess was correct...Thats a fact that hard to accept but I knew this day will come...Anyway, I was confused whether I should go back or not, since I have plan in UK, which is job hunting...

After receiving few opinions from my friends, I think I should attend the wedding and come back to UK AGAIN after a few week...I changed my way of thinking that I treat this trip as a graduation holidays, so that I can easily accept the fact...Hilarious right?

"But I know who holds tomorrow, and I know who holds my hand"

Uncertainty is thing that happened at an unexpected time...As a christian, only I can do is praying to the Lord who "holds tomorrow"...He will guide me according to His will...

PS: I have to pray for my brother and his fiancee, hope their marriage can last forever...I am quite worrying them since they are not married in Christ...May God bless them from now till forever...

PPS: I had booked a round trip ticket back to Malaysia...See you all there, my hometown friends...

Heidelberg, Germany~~

Well, if you have my facebook, you probably knew that I went to Germany last week to attend the student convocation and spiritual convocation. For this week, I learnt about how to study bible...We were taught by the preacher and preacher-to-be from UK in theoretically, after that, they gave us some "housework" so that we can practically use the methods we had been taught...

Observation:
Read through a passage in the bible, observe the passage whether it is complete story or not, and then get as much story line as we can...

Analyse:
After observation, analyse the passage or versus by using Where, Who, When, Why, What and How.

Explanation:
Using bible versus to explain bible versus is the best explanation...

Application:
Applying examples or telling how to do so that people can learn the lessons in the passage and apply it into their lives...

On 28/03/2010, I didnt sleep for the night because the daylight saver (one hour set forward), I took a bus to the airport...It was a cold morning and the road is turning into silence mode...It was just 6.30am...I reached the airport about 9am, and I waited for Johnny (preacher-to-be) since we were travel buddy to Germany...

We took Lufthansa Airline to Frankfurt, Germany, and I found out, the aeroplane is very small, just like the MAS small plane travel from Penang to KLIA. Anyway, I cant complain much about it, although it was really small and spaceless. After an hour and a half, we reached Frankfurt airport at 1pm. Then we waited for a shuttle bus to Heidelberg for 2 hours.

Because it was sunday, the street was very quiet until I can hear the bird's singing...Johnny tried to call someone to pick us up to the church, but there were no one answer the phone, so Johnny decided to walk to church with luggage (burdens)...After 20 minutes walk, finally we reached church. It is an apartment, with 2 rooms and 1 dining room. It doesnt look like a church but in bible says that, when they are 2-3 persons get together and say "in the name of Lord Jesus we pray" Jesus will be there...The one who opened the door for us is Sis.Siglinde, who is Pr.Ko's wife and she is German...She speaks well chinese (impressive)...

After a few talks and introduction between us and other brothers and sisters, we had dinner together and prepared for the next day. At that night, I realised that I need to prepare a presentation (sermon) for the student convo and they arranged me on the next 2 days...1 sermon in 2 days...Fortunately, I remembered I wrote a sermon in my blog (Wall & Bridge) so I took it and elaborate it...

The next day, we woke up early in the morning, and Johnny took me to the city "street" in Heidelberg...Its located beside a river and surrounded by mountains and it is beautiful...You can see it in my facebook photo album...After that, Sis.Siglinde brought us to the uphill because there is hostel there where our convocations were hosted...From there, I can see the river and the city...

During the week there, I met a lot of members who live in Europe country such as Germany, Holand, Austria and Italy. They treated me very nice (of course, they are my bro and sis) and the food was very delicious (Taiwanese Beef Soup Noodles!!!). I was also scheduled to do some duties such as cleaning toilet and kitchen, washing plates and etc. Well, I am not complaining because they are actually giving me chances to get blessing...Then I found out, in Heidelberg, all the citizens have to catagerise the wastes and rubbishs and throw it into different bins...Impressive again, they are environmental protectors and we should learn from them...Therefore, I learnt what wastes are catagorise in biomass, plastic, papier (paper) and etc...Bones are not biomass, it was general rubbish, because its hard to dissolve bones...Interesting?

During the week, I saw many mix-blood children at the church, which I never see so many at the same time...They are cute...haha...

Anyway, my ticket to Germany is worth to its price...I gained a lot and knew a lot of friends...Hopefully I can go there some days in future if and only if I manage to find a job in UK...XDXDXD

PS: The effect of the week is I woke up automatically at 8am....haha...

Housemates Problems~~~

I am not sure whether my housemates will read it or not, but I just spit out what I feel these days since this is my blog...I can write whatever I want, right?

Talking about housemates problems, there are plenty of it can be told...Maybe I am a subjective person, so I have these problems...Well, judge yourselves, my friends....

I have 3 housemates and 2 of them are sharing food with me. Since we are sharing food, everything we bought for the dinner, we paid equally for the receipt. Since these food are shared, means we can only use it in the presence of the other two. However, they are not obey the rules, so I am also not to obey the rule too. Actually I don't mind them to take small amount of the food, I don't even bother about that, but one of my housemate started to haggle on me...

CASE 1:
Housemate: Err...Louis, can you please buy your own oil, since you always use the oil to fry food, and we are not really want to use the recycled oil...

Louis: Well...Okay...

CASE 2:
Housemate: Louis ar...Why you use so much oil to fry thing? (I used it to do Sweet and Sour Chicken, for sure I need to fry the chicken...)

Louis: (since he is so "appreciate" the oil, I won't cook this dishes anymore...)

CASE 3:
Housemate: Hey, our CNY stuffs totally up is £60...

Louis: How come...What thing had you bought? (looking at the receipt...)

Housemate: Seafood, pork-leg,....etc

Louis: Why you bought so many thing? We are just guests for the event, why you want to do so many things?

Housemate: I cook, not you cook...

From these cases, what do you think? I never bother about him for taking the shared veges or rices, I never bother about his girlfriend come to stay at our house for weeks (supplied with food...) But Oil? You haggle with me because of oil? What the world...I dint argue with him since we are housemate...

In case 3, I really speechless. When I asked him what he wanted to cook for the CNY event, he dint answer me. If he answered me one week or two days from the event, I can go to wet market to buy the ingredients in a low price, so that it won't cause us so much. He never discussed with us or think or ask about our budget...£20 per person is really expensive for a student...Some more, the output of the ingredients...failed, especially for the "cha siu" he made...Well, I had to show my support to him, so I ate it...

Maybe I was overreact to these matters because of my subjectivity as I always put a standard toward people around me, or I should say, expect other people to do as following to my standard...If they dont reach my standard, I might be angry or unhappy...Well, this personality is really annoying me, which I can't change it eventhough I hadn't try plenty of times...However, in case 1 and 2, I really can't accept that...

As a result, don't share too much things with your housemates, it will cause you lots of problems...Maybe just me...Judge yourselves...

PS: Drinking Carlsberg while writting this post...XDXD

First time met Minister~~~

Just now, I went to Birmingham Hilton Hotel to attend a conference with Dato Sri Mustapa Mohommad (Minister of International Trade and Industry)...Since the UNMO chairman in Birmingham asked me and my housemates to attend it, so we just went there to listen what the minister wanted to tell us (actually we went there for dinner, its FOC...XDXD) I was wondering why they will ask us (chinese) to go there because last year, they just asked Malay to attend the conference...However, when the minister started to talk, I knew the reason, which is to spread the concept of "1 Malaysia"...

Okay, when we reached the conference room, I was nervous since this was my first time to meet minister face to face...I shook his hand, and also his "leng" (penolong or kakitangan...whatever)...They were very nice to us, talking to us...bla bla bla...After a few minutes, more and more people came in the conference so they started the conference...

Here are the summary of what he told us in the conference:
1) Explanation about the condition of Malaysia's politic and the concept of 1 Malaysia
2) Emphasize that Anwar's case is not related to government
3) Asked us to go back to serve Malaysia after graduate

Then Q&A section, 3-4 peoples asked the minister some questions:
1) Education inbalance (Quota system & Bumiputera issues) in scholarship or SMK and SJK
Ans: "We need time to change it..." *sweat*

2) Economic in Malaysia
Ans: Agriculture is needed to improve in future...Koridor Utara...bla bla bla...

3) Education in Malaysia now a day (SJK and SK schools)
Ans:" Its hard to change this, you see the US need so many years to accept the black...bla bla bla..."

4) Kebebasan bersuara
Ans:" Don't really believe in those 'mosqitoes' suratkhabar...bla bla bla" not really answer this question...

Well, actually I wanted to talk about the education issues such as MARA scholarship, JPA and etc, because its really unfair for us non-bumiputera, but one of the students had helped me to ask, so I just listened what the minister said...However, this minister's answer was disappointed me, because he said this bumiputera issue need time to change...Well, how long? Since this is the very basic thing for the concept of 1 Malaysia..."Won't let the other races felt minimised..."

After 2 hours conference, my housemates and I had a little chat with Chris Tan, Senior Vice President of Korindor Utara...Since I am from Padang Serai, Kedah, so I had interest in this plan...Chris told us that the program offers us a help to find internship from the companies around Malaysia, which I think quite good for students who just graduated from University...Somemore, I got an interest in the Kulim Hi-Tech park, which is near my hometown...He told me I can get a job there since they need engineers...Well, these information are what I get from the conference...

Then we went to eat the FOC dinner, mostly seafood but not really taste good...XDXD...During the dinner, we also talked with Chris until we left the table...He shared his experience to us, which was quite interest...(I know he is now under government, so I just keep back on what he told us...)

Well, its not bad for the first time, the minister is quite impressive for me...However, what we talked in the conference, mostly it won't reach to the ears of Najib...Anyway, it won't change at the end, but I think we still need to tell them what we really think, whether they listen or not...Some more, we all are already at legalised age, we have the right to poll...XDXD...

PS: Bought lots of fruits recently, oranges, grapes, apple and etc...Grapes really cheap here...XDXD