October's summary

2nd October

Celebrated church 30th Anniversary.

As usual - performance, sermon, fellowship (lunch).

One unique thing - water baptism (4 youths)

6th October

My colleague's mother admitted to hospital due to fatigue and fell from the bed.

8th October

Run for the nation, with Shan Shan, Joyce, Adam & Kevin (same team) - great experience (I became team manager-the one who drive, Yes! they run, I drive - for security purpose and also provide drink when they need along the way, good thing I'm not alone while driving, sitting next to me is Albert - who is studying in MMU - our first aider). The run is 5 km long and we passed the baton (prayer cards) to the next team at next station, then its done. We had breakfast at where we stopped, great fellowship. Drove back to where we started running - also where we received the baton from previous team.

10th October

Visited my colleague's mother at HUKM.

Also got the news that my eldest uncle is admitted to Glen eagles, Ampang due to tiredness and have breathing difficulties.

13th October

Visited my uncle - he looks good, but attached with pipes all over his body, heard from his immediate family member that he is using 20% of the heart to pump the blood, to circulate whole body also for kidney dialysis. He has been under dialysis for 6 years. 

14th October

Worship training by 1 a.m. (one accord ministry).

Fever on that night, next day recover - but not fully - consult doctor few days later.

18th October

My first JPJ test for motorcycle, failed at the bridge, passed on the road.

21st October

Worship training by 1 a.m.

Playing a role of attendance taker.

22nd October

A great man from Singapore gave brief introduction on inductive bible study (IBS).

Many different  versions of IBS were introduced and explained.

I have attended and continuing IBS since two years ago.

Now studying on the book of Daniel Part 2.

Its interesting because the book of Daniel is related to the last book - Revelation.

26th October 

Happy Deepavali to all who celebrate.

My aunt got news from the hospital saying my uncle in critical stage, my dad and a few of them went to visit my uncle, I wanted to, but mother said you and another sister visited before, so both of you stay at home (also because the car has no space to fit us).

I stayed at home whole day, praying in my heart for him. 

Then when they came back from hospital, I heard the news that my uncle's heart beat stopped, then doctor injected him for his life to sustain.

30th October

After church, had lunch with youths at the RM 3.50 chicken rice stall.

Then I received called from my sister saying that I have to go back Dengkil home town. 

Because my uncle just passed away. I remembered the time was around 1 pm.

He passed away in Dengkil house after seeing his father, also my grandfather.

I went to trained for repeat JPJ test after the lunch - but just for a while, because have to be at home town around 5 pm, and could not concentrate well also after receiving the news - reached home at 3 pm - waited for my siblings together go back Dengkil. We fetched eldest sister who just flew back from Singapore, then only proceed to grandpa house. 

As we reached the house, we paid respect to my late uncle, who is lying in the coffin. We went back home after hanging around with the other family members who arrived.

31st October to 2nd November

We went back home town every night after work until the day when my late uncle is going to be buried at the cemetery also in Dengkil, that is 11 am on the 2nd November. They posted the obituary in newspaper - Sin Chew Daily (KL & Selangor).

Thanks for all who came - families, relatives and friends. 

My repeat JPJ test was scheduled on 1st November, failed tremendously - my feet touched the ground on the first round - number 8 test, immediately I was called to get out from the place. Failed again - heart broken, money gone - reported and went back to work after that, there gone my half-day leave.

Blessed are those who mourned for they will be comforted.

  

The 'bow'

It was when we were on the way back to Cameron Highlands on the first day of Raya...it appears while we were on highway - I expressed, particularly to my mother,  "Mom, look! Its rainbow, on your left!" (being the youngest in the car, that's how I express myself - never seen rainbow for very long time)

The 'bow'

That time when I saw the rainbow, I remembered the covenant that God made.

In the bible God mentioned that the rainbow is the sign of the covenant which God make between Him and Noah, and every living creature that of all flesh, what is in the covenant is: waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh - the covenant was made after the flood which destroy everything except those in the ark.

Below is the extract taken from Genesis 9:

⁸ Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: ⁹ “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants^[b] after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. ¹¹ Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 

¹² And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: ¹³ I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴ It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; ¹⁵ and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” ¹⁷ And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.” (Genesis 9:8-17, NKJV)

September 2011 summary

7th - 8th September

Meeting at Shell House, Damansara.

7th September night, after meeting - meet with my fellow university friends: Kath, Kelvin, Jenny & Lin. 

We talked about what is happening now and our future plans.

16th - 21st September

"ALWAYS BE PREPARED" seminar, by Haggai Institute Malaysia.

20 participants including myself, people of different background met and share their experiences as leader in places of their influences. Equip and taught by seven facilitators from Thailand, India & Malaysia.

Great experience as we learn from, share and care for one another.

"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect" (1 Peter 3:15)

21st September after seminar, attend dental appointment at 5 pm to 'clean' my teeth.

24th September 

Bible quiz & study at church.

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Its Malaysia day, HAPPY MALAYSIA DAY!
Its My friend's birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NPM!
Is My holiday, HAPPY HOLIDAY!
Its My leaving day, I'm going to attend 6-day seminar at Premier Hotel, Bukit Tinggi Klang.
Thanks people for your support, I will be back reporting after 22nd September.
See you then. :)

what happen in August 2011

2nd August,
Great time & sharing with university's friends at Pappa Rich, Wisma CKE.
Updates each other on what's going in our life, as well as other people's life.

6th August,
Attended a seminar 'Navigating Through Crisis' at Metro Tabernacle, near Batu Caves.
The church's pastor taught us some Hebrew language, however- I don't remember any of them now- reason is I didn't practice, and its rare in Malaysia. But, I did enjoy the worship in Hebrew language.
Two important things to apply during crisis:
1) We must know how to read the bible and extract the truth from it, precept upon precept & understand what it says.

2) We must know how to go to God in prayer and hear what He says especially in the morning - that will give us strength for the the rest of the day.

Freedom not equal to independent.

7th August,
This is the day that I started fast & pray, together with a few of my church members.
My father and I attended Healing Rally by Roy Durman in Praise City Church - My father got healed and he accepted Christ right there after the healing took place. However, he did not stay for follow-up because rushing back for dinner. Anyway, praise God - for His miracle and power, all glory to God. All I did is just asked, then God do the rest. Amazingly a week after that my sister (who is also my room mate) accepted Christ! Same thing, I asked her, then she said, "Yes." These bring joy in my life and also to my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. However, until now- there is no follow-up after that, their life goes on as usual-I did asked whether they want to go to church, but they did not show interest. Although I bought and gave them bibles but the bibles look the same as today as the day I bought.

14th August,
Attended concert by Coliation 58 at DUMC, its awareness and action on hardcore poverty.
Reminded us the youths to care for our 'neighbours' especially the poor ones.

15th -16th August,
Shell Meeting @ Genting.

19th August,
Giving out flyers with my new colleague, Joey Lai at Wisma Shell, Cyberjaya.
We stand and give flyers at the entrance since 11.30 a.m., felt hopeless for 2 hours until we 'call for help'.

Shell has strict law, we (visitors) are not allowed to enter the area without permission, not even the cafeteria. All we need is the 'pass' - that is a card (work like the touch 'N' go card at LRT station). This pass need to be scanned at the barrier or door in order to enter the place.

The entrance, according to one of the Shell staff, its like 'hell' - no one will pass by there unless there is visitor or they come out to collect delivery, or courier documents or parcels (as what we observed). There is 'hidden' elevator inside the building - connect their work place and parking area (so they need not pass by the entrance).

The Shell staffs are more willing to spend time and allow us to explain about the promotions in the flyers when they are in cafeteria or in other places (not at the entrance, or the so call 'hell'). Really can see that their attitudes and behaviours are different when they are inside compared to outside (at entrance).

Good thing we managed to went in the building to give the flyers, thanks to Phyllisia, who brought us to the cafeteria. And thanks to Derrick Lopez and Sharon who are really glad to let us goes in to customer call centre and convenient store  to give out the flyers.
We managed to finish giving all the flyers around 4.30 p.m.

The rest of the days - goes on as usual.

30th - 31st August,
Raya & Merdeka Holiday with parents and eldest sister at Cameron Highlands (mother's home town), stayed in the 'stone' house at Cactus Valley - this belongs to my uncle. Everyone is doing quite well in their own business except one who addicted in gambling.

Meeting @ Genting

It's my second meeting with Shell's team and fellow distributors from Peninsular Malaysia (PM) and Singapore  in Genting Highland. The first time was last year around this time also in same venue: First World Hotel, date: 15th - 16th  August 2011. It's a meeting review of first half of the year performance, every channel (B2B, B2C) is doing well as commented by the Shell's GM.

The main point is to grow the business, and there is 'syndicate' session on the second day of meeting.
The first day of meeting touched a few things: HSSE, first half performance review,  distributor national average (DNA), together = trust, logistic, e-learning, marketing, & HR.

The 'syndicate' session is merely discussion in groups for future marketing activities and funding.
Brainstorm session for ideas, upgrades and solutions.
My role as learner and observer most of the time, its a learning ground for me.

The most 'crazy' moment during dinner, where everyone has opportunity to sing karaoke and perform on stage. The performance that I like most is the 'wonder girls performance' by Shell's staffs a.k.a wonder girls.

Besides that, one of the highlight is farewell for Joanna - my company's ICAM, she's leaving to Beijing, China for career development (B2B China).

I stayed in a 2-bed-room, sponsored by my employer (Thank you, boss!). The room include, a TV, toilet with bathtub, 2 beds, 3 seats sofa. I was by my own almost all the time because no one share room with me.
(its both pro & con, pro: I have privacy, con: I am lonely - no one to talk to - however, I did have the so- called-last telephone conversation with my dear friend, Wai Siong who is leaving Malaysia to further her study in New York). I was blessed instead (one of her last word was: I was inspired by you - love you Wai Siong!)

As previous year I didn't have chance to enjoy the theme park games however, I enjoy playing XBOX 360 degree games during break time- in between the meeting. It's cool and good way to exercise! (you really sweat when you play the sports games - without remote, its sense your movements - kinetics). In additional, there were one massage chair and a foot massage machine in each of the meeting room (such a good facilities compared to previous year).

The pros: get to know and understand people especially during dinner, whether they are of other channel, distributors or Shell's staffs (BTW, I did not sit in same table with my employer during dinner - its a good way to get out of comfort zone or have more freedom or even be less introvert).

The cons: venue for lunch is quite far - Coffee Terrace at Genting Hotel - had to use a few escalators to reach there from First World Hotel (total around 15 minutes walk).

Overall, it's good!

July updates

First of all, I have 2 sisters having birthdays in July - on 23rd & 24th July...happy birthdays to them. One had celebration outside Malaysia, while another celebrated in Malaysia.

On the 15th July, I went for training in Shell, Cyberjaya with my colleagues, three of us.
We visited Shell's call /customer service centre, learned some tips on whole customer service process.
It was indeed an eye-opening experience for me because I never seen such big group of people handling calls from customers, the center is separated by region: Singapore, Hong Kong & Malaysia and department: Retails, Lubricants, Suppliers, Delivery, etc. Their motto: customer first.

One thing I learned is that as a customer service personnel, one should not have bad emotions (should have very high EQ), eg. you cannot work in bad mood, if you really in bad mood you should calm yourself and be happy again when receive calls. Another thing is that, they have certain target to meet, and its good if they can settle customers' calls in one attempt, which means if possible they will avoid follow-up calls. Tone of voice is very important because as customer service personnel, people listen to your voice, but cannot see or read your face and body language - the key is to have variety of tone: not too monotonous. And they listen to calls using headphone with microphone attached to PC (with SAP software) in front of them and connected to the phone, they can actually identify who you are and which language you are using, also your call history. The best thing is three of us were given chance to sit with the customer service personnel (each one attached to one person). We too have a set of headphone with microphone which also attached to the phone. So when they receive call, we are able to listen to whole conversation. Usually, their supervisor will check and evaluate on them using the tools. The whole system is so sophisticated and it is so cool!

Finally, we got to meet with a group of people who usually answer our calls when we call to Shell customer service, majority are ladies. Customer service personnel treat us really good even though we met face to face, they are trained to be like that - friendly. One thing special is the building's air-conditioner is from the floor, therefore their floor is fully carpeted, and it is cold too, very cold actually.

It's amazing!
And final week of July (Friday - Sunday) my friends and I went to prophetic seminar in Hope church, near P.J. SS2 mall. It's so amazing we learned hearing from God and prophesy to others: to edify, encourage & comfort others. I was blessed and so do the people there. It's great to hear from God through other people (sometimes God use other people to tell, remind and encourage us - God can use donkey - what more when we are human). Learned the protocols too, what can and cannot do.

That same Friday 29th July, I was in Sunway Pyramid for Shell Ferrari Roadshow from morning until evening.


    
 

June 2011's summary

The highlights of the month of June is celebrations:


#1 my birthday.
23rd of June is my birthday, my dear colleagues celebrated my birthday in the office, after meeting. (surprise!) :)
But, I wasn't in a good condition because having stomachache on that day.
So, it wasn't as good as I want it to be. (it was my worst celebration -  sick on birthday), I guess my birthday wish from this year onward is have healthy body.

#2 cousins' weddings
I have 2 cousins who got married in the month of June,
One of them on the 1st week of June, another one was on 3rd week of June.
One got married to Chinese Scotland man, another got married to local Chinese.
Hope they live happily ever after.

End of the month I went to EFC Gospel Centre with my fellow friends for social network talk by Nick from Generasi Gemilang.
It was great, as it highlights on the danger of social network:
Example: we publish our personal details in the internet without realizing what will happen next or what can someone do about our details, someone is watching you (spammer).

Also, we can actually report on cyber bully and there is law in cyberspace.
Finally, think before you click!

May's activities

1st weekends of May I was in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

2nd weekends I went for night towerthon, which I have to run 800 meters then climb more than 2000 steps of stairs until I reach the top of KL Tower.

This is my result

3rd weekends I joined the 'Apologetic' event at church - FAQ from parents to children/ teenagers and vice versa, its a great time spent understanding both parties. My parents wasn't around (they went to hometown with 2 other sisters) my sis, my bro (their 1st time enter my church, praise the Lord!) and myself attended this event.

Grandpa birthday at the 16th May 2011, we celebrated at Chinese restaurant like previous year, then we went to snowflakes.

Beeping UFO - vibrate when your dessert is ready for pickup at the counter

4th weekends I had retreat with the rest of the youths (16 of us - if I remember correctly) to Asian Water Sport at Puchong. Activities we did: Kayak/ canoe, Wii, Table footsal, Carom, Mahjong, BBQ. 

BBQ set & fish SPA/Jacuzzi

The scenery

Kayak/ canoe boats

Final weekends of May I spent in Singapore - Sundown Night Race: the race was not bad except the traffic jam when travelling back from Changi Expedition Centre (running event was held there) to Changi Village Hotel (where my sisters and I staying).

before run

at MRT Tanah Merah station

The 1st night we stayed in York Hotel at Elizabeth near Orchard road - a lot of foreigners stays there.

York Hotel

Borneo Run & KK

It's labour day and I'm running on that day and it's Sunday (you should be able to guess which date it is).

I would say its the best run so far for this year because along the way there are people cheering and some of them are from befrienders, they are very supportive. One of them shouted, "The stadium is there only (pointing to the stadium) keep going, you are so near!)  Besides, water (not cold water though, its room temperature - maybe the organizer should improve in this) and fruits stations are enough for my category 10 KM run. I began with very relaxing way, running at my own pace enjoying the scenery (seaside) and the people there, some people walk along pushing the wheelchair (looks like from charity society). It does boost up my mood of the day. :) The run starts at 6 a.m. sharp (and the sun is risen, the sky is bright), I reached around 7.15 a.m. to be accurate is 1 hour 12 mins 05 seconds (according to my result posted on the website). My morning run is always faster than my evening run (reason maybe the morning me is not as heavy as the night me - lighter therefore run faster, the truth is yet to be discovered).

The night before I ate quite heavy dinner (fried rice and fish with gravy, hot-dog with cheese inside) at Maple, Damai, with my friend and my sister.

After the run we went to Skyline, the church in a 5 stars hotel (Sutera Harbour), nice scenery outside - beach, seaside, boats, ships, etc. Met beautiful people in the church, they treat us very well - serve with food and drink at fellowship corner after morning service. We chatted a while there, gathering info and knowing each other. Then we had lunch together at Kedai Kopi Jia Siang - we had pork noodle (famous and recommended) and cendol.

It's night and we had seafood for dinner - lots of variety and it costs RM70 per head, there were two tables booked by the runners, we joined in because my other sister knew them quite well. The runners are mostly jokers - laughing all the way with alcohol effect (beers), but not me (I had orange juice).

Monday morning we had breakfast together with the fellow runners at Kedai Kopi Melanian, also famous with pork noodle, same area as the place we went on Sunday.

Left to Right: Shan Shan, myself and my sis

sun set

At playground

Notice - its green flag on that day :)

Caution!

Back

Oh, Pineapple!

Burning lemon grass oil in washroom - smells good

Where the S.T.A.R-S. shine, the 'Sky's the Limit!

after run

                                      

Afternoon, we had KFC lunch at the airport, then flew back to K.L.

1st April 2011

Hello,
It's April Fool day.
Have you being fooled or have you been fooling others?
As for me, both apply however not all are craps, there are some serious things such as news of person's death (is not a joke or a thing to be fooled about).

Have been discussing with my fellow colleagues (of all races) about death and how they carry out ceremony for the death, interesting! Seems like the Malays & Indians have similar practice: bury the corpse and have ceremony there and then if possible on the day of the death itself. However, for Chinese they could wait until the 3rd day or 5th day (counting from the day of the death) then only bury the corpse. One of them shared that one should quickly bury the death body so that it doesn't affect much on the present living relatives (putting the body at home for several days: wasting place), besides, it also help in quicken the judgment of the dead person (life after death - go to heaven or hell, really?). On the other hand, burying the death body at later day is actually for giving chance for all relatives to 'see' the person for the last time before the body is buried/burned.

Another thing is to bury or to burn? As I know, the Chinese and the Indians accept both, Malays only accept burying the death. The reasons behind all these, I do not know simply because I didn't find out and I have no concern about this yet (why do I want to trouble myself with all these reasoning?).

Another point being discussed is life after death - one of them said she doesn't want to be human after death, want to be a bird instead (talked about believing in karma?).

Lastly, how or where do you want to die? One of them said, "I wanna die at my home - sleeping." (peaceful)
Another one said, "I wanna die of accident." (so terrible, are you sure? with brain damaged and etc.)
Well, who knows how or where will you die? Its all in God's hand.

My colleague always say,"We can only plan, but God decides what happen in the future."

A time for everything

For everything there is a season,a time for every activity under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace. 


Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NLT)

What The Hell -Avril Lavigne

Lyric for Januari

Because it is January, so I post this lyric.
I would say it's a nice Indonesian song (you can search and play through Youtube), although I don't understand 100% the lyric.

Januari by Glenn Fredly


*courtesy of LirikLaguIndonesia.net

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