Happy New Year!

As 2004 ends with a tragic event, 2005 ushers in a new hope that lights the lives of those affected by the tsunami. As more and more countries send more aid and help, either I sense one another each country is competing against the other to see who donates more or teamwork, efforts joined to bring food and aid to those badly hit by the tsunami. As death tolls increase every day, what can we do but pray for them, to ask God to send His peace and loving kindness and grace to the victims, to bring comforting to those mourning over the deaths of their loved ones. In all these chaotic moments, one can only rely on hope and this hope drives us humans forward, to overcome challenges and to learn from past mitakes. Know this and keep this in your heart. God bless! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ok it may not be that entirely happpy for me thanks to a certain blind referee who couldn't see that blantantly obvious handball in the penalty box by a certain defender who plays for a certain blue team! Honestly, Liverpool deserved the penalty and by the way they are playing they could have won the game. But woe is the curse of injured players on Liverpool, as Alonso has become another victim of this evil curse. Well we can only lick our wounds and cry foul or look towards getting a couple of replacements and work harder to achieve a decent standing in the league as well as the highly coveted Champions League spot.

Testing

Finally getting back in to the mood of blogging. Firstly, just a
simple test to make sure that I can actually post on my blog using my
email address. Well of course doing it through the normal way will be
just too obvious at work but I like to have other options of posting
and this is one of them.

Christmas is coming and you know what that means, its someone's
birthday on Saturday. Someone very very special in my heart and
without him this day I would be lost. He is none other than Jesus.
Christmas is not all about presents and santa claus or christmas trees
or mistletoe. No it is about the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ who
came to earth this very day about 2000 years ago to give His life so
that we may live. Just live it up and enjoy yourself for the festive
season has arrived!

Hey hey hey

Hey guess what? I got my letter published on the News Straight Times the other day. Not too bad for a guy who wants to start a little journalism on the side. Check out the link here.

Some thoughts for you

Ever felt like you want to know everything? If these thoughts don't come to mind, then what does? Head over here to read through some really zany thoughts.

• Why do we say "heads up" when we actually duck?
• Whats a question with no answer called?
• How do "do not walk on grass" signs get there?
• When a store has double doors why do they only let you use one of them?
• If there was a crumb on the table and you cut it in half, would you have two crumbs or two halves of a crumb?
• "What was Captian Hook's name before he had a hook for a hand?"

If only the world was flat so sattelites wouldn't need to orbit the earth....

Milo Shake? Chocolate Shake? Nah, planet shake!

Attended the first night session of the Planet Skakers conference here in Malaysia. Not attending the second one? Well I am at work updating my blog :P. Anyway the concert was great, finding a parking space wasn't. The crowd was huge and the change of getting in front was near impossible so I settled at the back with Chuen. Split up from my cell group members (well I didn't see any of them except those whom I saw before I came in) I was so far from stage that my camera could hardly take a decent shot but I will still post some pictures up soon. The music wasn't that familiar (due to the fact that I hadn't listened to any of their 3 new albums) so I wasn't drawn or possesed by the music or the tune but I knew God was telling me that true worship comes from within and not from the music. So slowly I began to absorb myself and concentrate on worshipping God instead of worrying about what the next line of lyrics is or am I singing it correctly.

The main significant thing of the whole event was the ending part when the pastor asked everyone to call on to Jesus. Little did I know how quiet I was or how shy I was to even let go a squeek but after a great deal of convincing myself I managed to shout out loud! Now that is what I call getting God's attention. Once the event was over, I headed over to the shop out front and bought 2 CDs, well it is payday anyway and the money does go to helping in certain ministries. And what do you do when you buy CDs at a concert? You get them signed of course. So onward I headed to the signing booth where I managed to get both my CDs signed. After a full day out from home, I managed to struggle back home around 11.30pm and slept pretty soon.

Missing? No, just occupied.

Greetings after a long period, almost 16 days to be exact since my last post. Well as the title suggests, I have been occupied with mainly work, some DoTA and of course, thanks to my good friend Yee Seng, "Settlers of Catan". Its pretty much a very very very addictive board game dealing with resources and trading. The game board changes every game and according to Yee Seng, there are like over a billion combinations the board can have so the game never gets boring. This I am totally serious about. Risk? Nah you get the same board all the time, the missions are the countable and after a while you may get bored. But with this? Never have I ever gotten bored playing this game. Seriously. Here is a sneak preview of how the board game looks like.

Looks complicated? Well it does at the beginning but it only takes one game to learn it all about rules and loads more to learn about tactics and strategy. Ok besides that, on a more less high profile note for me, Half Life 2 is out already and I can't wait to actually play the game. I have a coupon lying around somewhere thanks to my recently purchased ATI 3d card but I am considering selling it online to people who actually can use it to its fullest potential compared to me. Time has always been a factor for me and I just have been busy with work due to current deadlines.

Other than that, managed to catch the latest showing of Alexander on Saturday with my colleagues. The show was pretty interesting, something resembling Troy at the beginning but this time the show follows the history pretty accurately but what I didn't fully like was the non-continuing storyline as in everything was not followed through. You will get what I mean when you catch the show. Anyhow, the main difference between Alexander and Troy was that, Alexander is more down to earth in terms of the main character. Alright enough ranting about that, just go and watch the movie and tell me how you like the show.

On another note, did you notice the article on TheStar.com.my regarding eBay Malaysia? Check it out at http://www.ebay.com.my. Hey its no spoof and of course since it just started the number of bids and selling items are pretty low. The funniest thing I saw was that people are trying to sell off their Gmail invitation for around RM100. Now who would be so stupid to want to buy it? Actually there are other people who offered around RM1-RM10 for the invite as well.