Hence, A Thermometer

I paid RM12.70 for Guardian Digital Thermometer just now... Umm... I guess it's the right time for me to add on a thermometer to my collection. LOL! Oh well, my temperature was 38.5 C when I went to see doctor, and I sorta surprised the doctor and myself when he found me with that fever. I looked healthy and still able to laugh somehow... But of course, I felt tired.

I couldn't really determine the actual temperature of my body, whether or not I have fever if I don't have a measuring apparatus, so I guess this is it. Haha!

The doctor's diagnosis - possible streptococcus infection of the throat... Checked on google... You can clicked here to know more about Strep Throat on Wikipedia...

It's just plain rambling today... Not giving much thoughts on the topics... I know I'm being random these days... Gonna reply the messages from friends in FB and then head to bed... I'm flying off to Sandakan early tomorrow morning... And after that, everything is history. LOL!

My dear friends, do take care of your health as H1N1 is definitely spreading like wildfire in Malaysia, though on the news, it seems everything is cooling down... Well, you know how true mass media can be at times!

H1N1 Alert

Here's part of the article by xinhuanet about condition of H1N1 in Malaysia...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia reported the fourth death of A/H1N1 flu, for the first time involving a female, a health official said near here on Wednesday.

Health director-general Mohd Ismail Merican of the Malaysian Health Ministry said that the 20-year-old victim died on Tuesday morning of severe community acquired pneumonia, bringing the death toll in Malaysia to four.

Ismail directed all medical practitioners to assume a high index of suspicion on pneumonia patients so that treatment could be given in a timely manner.

The four death cases in Malaysia revealed that the doctors did not give the patients appropriate treatment in time and it was saddening to learn that the victims had all died in hospitals, he told reporters at the ministry in Putrajaya, administrative center of the Malaysian Federal Government.

Ismail thus made it compulsory for doctors to check for possible A/H1N1 flu contraction for patients, especially the high risks individuals, with severe pneumonia.

High risks patients referred to those who had diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory problem and low immunity, explained Ismail.

Click here to read more...

It's high time we really seriously consider taking safety precaution for our own health, dear friends! It is not longer an embarrassment whatsoever to talk about this influenza that may cost us our life. So be alert!

-H1N1 virus- courtesy of topnews.in

Dreamy Doulos

Earlier on, I met with a few new friends from Doulos, the book ship that sails around the world to sell books, bring hope and love to the people of the world. One lovely dream is to sail and work in Doulos for three years to experience living in a multiracial, multicultural community, serving and outreaching to the worldlings. This is a dream, the reality is the sponsorship I would have to find in order to sponsor me for 3 years working with Doulos. How I wish there's a job where I can write and earn money for living by writing about stuffs! That will be perfect. Haha! But definitely not blogging about gossips of stars in Hollywood~~ I know living and working on Doulos will a perfect experience. Please, if anybody knows of any job or sponsors who are willing to sponsor a kid like me for 3 years in Doulos, let me know!!!!!

I have a lot on my mind, but I somehow am at loss of words to write. Pray that my house's streamyx is well tonight~

McDreamy+McGirlfriend-McDog=???

Well, when there's such equation...

The answer is: T.T for a moment.

Have a great day! God bless!

Follow-Me widget

Finally I got my follow-me widget... But I choose to name it "My Blogger Friends" because most of followers tend to be bloggers as well, so why not rename to something nicer than just followers? Hehe! Anyway, as you all can see, I have only one follower - Eddie. Thanks for being my faithful blogger friend, Teddy. Smile... So now, people, you can follow me. HUGS!

Recently I've been thinking a lot about this place, and I started wondering what could have happened if I chose to accept the M.S. offer proposed by Professor Park Zee Yong during the 6th week of my intenship.

And it reminded me the 10 weeks I spent in this part of the building - the Mass Lab together with 6 lovely lab members. This was Ssongs' lab bench...

Not forgetting the friendships with these two lovely, intelligent, yet humble friends - Song Hye Jin and Kwon Ho Keun uppa.

Truly, what could have happened if I chose to stay instead of leaving GIST? Blame it on my courage and ego for not staying. Oh well... Only God knows what could happen... His plan.

Carrots, Eggs and Coffee

A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee...You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up, She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil.. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, ' Tell me what you see.'

'Carrots, eggs, and coffee,' she replied.

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.

Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, 'What does it mean, mother?'

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently.. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

'Which are you?' she asked her daughter. 'When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?

Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.

Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

You might want to send this message to those people who mean something to you (I JUST DID); to those who have touched your life in one way or another; to those who make you smile when you really need it; to those who make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down; to those whose friendship you appreciate; to those who are so meaningful in your life.

If you don't send it, you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone's day with this message!

May we all be COFFEE!!!!!!!

Perfect Teacher

I'm not a perfect teacher, and I'll never be. This I know perfectly.

Self-Explanatory again...

Tonight's McDreamy

This is my McDreamy for tonight, Mr. Kwon Ho-keun, PhD. student in GIST's Life Science Department. A guy-friend who touched my heart deeply when I was in GIST for Internship.

P/S: There's no McDog though... Tsk tsk tsk...

Time to Praise God!!

I posted this entry in my personal blog (journal) and it is high time to ctrl-C the entry in order to glorify God's name, despite everything else...

November 22, 2009, Saturday (after Friday Life Nite)

Vision of Baby Presentation by Golden Angel

As we prayed for Felix and Yvonne Teo for their belated wedding anniversary just now, I saw this vision -- There was an angel, golden in colour, carrying a baby angel. The angel placed the baby onto Von Teo's arms and smiled. It reminded me of the Zaccharias and Elizabeth (cousin of Mary), parents of John the Baptist and how God promised that He would give them a son. At that moment, I had a strong feeling that Yvonne Teo will conceive with a child very soon and by this time of next year, there will be an addition to their current family.

A voice spoke to me in my mind, telling me not to tell anybody about the vision I had. In a year the vision will come true, then I can praise God for His goodness and His blessings upon this couple.

This vision seemed to be further affirmed by Von Teo when she said she felt like graduation from the school of marriage when we took photos with her bouquet of lilies. They are married for 3 years, seems timely for "further studies".

I shall be patient and wait until the day when the vision comes true. Then I shall praise God for His abundant blessings upon us all!

Thank You, Lord Jesus, for granting our prayers that stormed the heaven. Amen to the great I am!

Movies: Raving, A Film by Julia Stiles

This is a great short film by Julia Stiles! Enjoy!

Movies & TV - Raving, A Film by Julia Stiles Video - ELLE.com

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Save the Last Dance (2001)

As I've posted earlier on, I found my old stack of burned CDs somewhere in a paper bag covered with dust. How glad I am to have found that precious collection of movies of mine! I love watching movies, and there are some which will forever stay as my constant favourites. Well, one of them is "Save the Last Dance" starred by Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas. What I really like about this movie? Like what the movie tag I saw on the image: "The Only Person You Need to be is Yourself."

Many-a-times, we tend to be "plastic people" even in our own home and ministry. Last night as I shared with a sister after LifeNite, it was like a sudden realization how "plastic" we can become as we mature into adulthood. And without a channel to let out all these plasticity in life, we will eventually become human wax. Why so? When the sun comes out and shines upon us, our personality melts, like how wax melts under intense heat about the melting temperature of the wax. What is left is a puddle of formless wax dried up when the sun goes down in the midst of nowhere. And there goes our life!!!?! No way I'd be the human wax!!! I made a decision to choose a different path (like how Robert Frost described his life journey in "A Road Not Taken"). I chose to remain real even when it means people think of me otherwise.

Perhaps many will say I'm just a fool, but I'd rather be a fool for God than to be a plastic people. I may be misunderstood often, but I know my life will never be faked, even when people accuse me of being temperamental and strange. I know I am me, and I'm known to my Father in Heaven as who I'm called to be. Though life can be a struggle, but it is beautiful to struggle for a reason as big as meeting God at the end of the journey in life. And I want to be prepared for such a meeting with Him when it is my time to meet God.

So, dear friends, be who you are, because that's all you need to be. As what Jesus said immediately to His apostles when they were terrified seeing him walking across the lake one night, "Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid." (cf. Matthew 14:27), we should not be afraid to be ourselves. It will not be easy, but all things are possible with God (cf. Matthew 19:26).

Till then... God bless!

It's Self-Explanatory

Ever experience this kind of condition?

I guess I'm in it.

Trapped in Warfare

Okay....... This is one of the days where I feel trapped everywhere, and everywhere seems to be like distorted and disoriented, especially in school. Besides, it is as though everything I'm doing is becoming more and more meaningless. It has been happening since I came back from school break... When things started to get from bad to worse...

The Devil is indeed working very hard in this battle. And today I feel totally defeated by anger the first thing in the morning. And it continued until this moment. People, please pray for this only private Catholic mission school in whole Sabah which I'm working in now. The warfare is thickening as the day goes by. Many things are happening, not only to me but to all teachers, principal and the school's management. Everyone is affected but many do not understand. What is the effect of having a non-practising Catholic as the head of the school? Will he be transformed? Will he lead the school further and further away from God? Will this school be infested with worms and locusts? Will this school becomes a gathering of demons and evil spirits? Or will this school be filled with sunshines and rainbows soon? What can we do besides praying?

This warfare is worsen as day goes by... The negativity is building up... I need prayers, we all need prayers and intercessions from everybody who is reading this entry today. Just say a prayer for my school, my students, my colleagues and myself... The management of the school needs to start listening and understanding the plight of the teachers and the students instead of listening to craps everywhere. Who would understand the need of the students if not the teachers teaching them in school? Who would understand the need of the teachers if not the fellow teachers? If we're not being protected, are we not being swallowed by the Great Whites? I don't want to see the school eventually suffers the possibility of closing down due to man-made conditions. The school was started as a mission to evangelise to all and bring people closer to God... Are we doing it right?

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Mother Mary, pray for us.

St. Michael, pray for us.

All the holy angels and saints, pray for us.

Please be a prayer warrior today and start praying for my school (and maybe yours too). God bless all and thank you in advance for the prayers!

My New Baby - Maxtor

I'm so happy... Besides it's a rainy Friday (with possible rainbows production), it is also a day to celebrate the addition to my computer gadgets... A Maxtor Onetouch 4 500 GB external hard disk. I've named it!! It's a HIM!!! LOL! His name is Max (same as his brand, but of course, he's my new baby Maxtor). After meeting him for the first time in 1Borneo, P.C. Image computer stall, I kept thinking of having him. Of course, my good, ol' pal, Inspiron 4150, must first be the judge. So today, after work, I brought along Inspiron 4150 to meet with Max and see if they can work happily together. Yeah, yeah... I'm bias... I'll only bring Max home IF Inspiron says yes to him. Oh well, since Max is my new baby, that means Inspiron said YES. Smiles... Now I'm the proud mother of Max.

What I'm doing while blogging about my new baby are checking the product review of Maxtor Onetouch 4 (got a quite positive product review conclusion) and also transferring archives from Inspiron to Max. It is time for Inspiron to slim down a bit after being choked by info since ages and ages ago. Smiles... Now I'm relieved, in fact, I think my ol' pal, Inspiron, will stick with me for a longer period of time. Yay!!! :D

Stalker Online

I just got a message on my cbox noting that my own student confessed that she is stalking me on my blogspot and Twitter.. Haha! What irony! The moment I've decided to post entries on blog, I know that it is basically public. Not to mention "my involvement" with Twitter and Facebook and Friendster... Not forgetting the comments I posted on various blogs too.. LOL! Well... I found an interesting cartoon online when I typed the word "stalkers" on Google Image. Smiles... The original idea of having this blog is for me to murmur about things, especially God and my journey to be more like Him. I welcome everybody to read me on my blog. In fact, I'm happy that my student is keeping a blog. She loves writing and I do pray she'll be a great journalist one day =)

Individualism? Making a difference?

As I was checking inside my tiny pea brain, I came across a few words - individualism, selfishness, making a difference... What I'm not sure I'm under which category. Today wasn't a sunshine & rainbow kind of day. It was a real stormy uncertain day, with lightnings and thunders (on my part). So then I start to wonder... I prefer watching movie alone spontenously, eating good food just because I'm upset with things or stressed out or just out of boredom, never really have friends who would call me out for a drink, and the list goes on... Next I wonder more deeply... Am I just being different from others? Or I'm disliked because I'm me? Or just because I'm different, I make people super uncomfortable?

But I also know the TRUTH: I'm still loved by God no matter how I am, what I am, who others think I am. Thank You for loving me, Daddy God.

Movie-wise, I always welcome company. It is just that I kinda dislike all the hassles of calling and confirming and calling and double-confirming and calling and triple, quadruple confirming... Endless calls. No decision made eventually. Sigh! Worse still... Endless calls etc. eventually causing the people who had wanted to go to decide not to go. That's why I prefer spontaneous watching movie. Glad that I found a kaki like that, just that recently he seems a bit occupied with something. Is this attitude an act of selfishness, individualism, or just being different-minded? I'm asking about myself. Maybe I'm just having the negativity due to all sorts of storms that happened throughout the day.

Better go bath now. Have to pick up tickets in Cathay for Transformers. I guess I better pick up a book to read, since I'll have an hour to wait for the movie to start... Oh Mirina, Jocelyn, Nicholas... I pray you guys will come earlier to friend me!!!!!!