One King - Point of Grace

This is a very beautiful song by Point of Grace for Christmas... It was introduced to me last year by someone. I fell in love with this song right after listening to it, begging him to burn it into a CD so that I could listen in my car. So fast time flies!! Well... Here I'd like to share this song of this season of Christmas, which touches and warms my heart every time I listen to it.

I just can't help but to share with you all~~

Kiki, The Chipin

KIKI the Chipin

I just found out that high chances the cutie at home in Johor is a Chipin (chihuahua/miniature pinscher hybrid). Apparently this hybrid is a type of recognized mutt and rather popular, but many things remain unknown, until I find more info online...

This is Kiki and myself on 13 Dec before I left for Senai Airport. One of his "still" moments, since he was sleepy already when I played with him...

Kiki is one of the most adorable creature I've ever met... He's 3-month old, born somewhere in September 2008 and brought back to my house on my birthday... My parents told me he was the size of a palm when he first arrived. Now, he's about 30 cm long, with a cute waggy tail. Being so small, he has pride the size of an elephant (in his "territory"). But out of his territory, he shivers and trembles so much that he's like a massager on my hand. He knows where to pee and poo most of the time, but when he's too excited, he has problem controlling his bladder. He loves drinking water from the tub in the toilet, and apparently my dad had the belief that Kiki doesn't drink water, until the day I arrived and found that Kiki has this thing for the water from the tub. Toilet water drinker. LOL!

My lovely mom and Kiki... Now they are best friends~~

Kiki loves to cuddle and nibble our fingers... And knows when my mom is back. If he happens to be outside of his "box" or "basket" he would be waiting at the staircase from the living room to the kitchen. My mom who wasn't a dog lover herself is now mesmerized by Kiki. He loves climbing onto my lap if I sit on the floor. However, I'm suspecting he has "attention deficit disorder" because he would never be able to be still and until now he could not learn to "sit", "stay", "roll", etc... I guess it takes time~~~ Well, I've tried taking him out for a walk, but he trembled so much that he wouldn't move when I put him on the floor. All he did was to stay there with legs apart and shivered like crazy. I wonder where was his elephant-size pride at that moment.

Kiki and his chewing bone at dad's rocking chair on his favourite spot of the green floor mat...

O ya, not forgetting, he will hide under my dad's rocking chair (Kiki's refuge) whenever my mom slaps him with a rolled one-piece-of-newspaper. Besides that, anything to play or to eat, he has this thing to carry it under the chair, or minimum to the green carpet at the rocking chair. Haha! Indeed, that is Kiki's refuge!!

I've uploaded a video of Kiki drinking from the bath with my dad. LOL! He's so small and my dad seemed so huge with him. I wonder what is there with the water that Kiki loves it so much... Hehe! I've also uploaded a video on Youtube.

I shall upload more about Kiki when I'm free... Still have so much to talk about... I wonder how big Kiki will grow?? I guess only time will tell... They said Chipin can live about 12-15 years~ Wow!

Till then... God bless!

Sisters Session after a Long Silence

Yaya... We're planning on a session for some of the sisters from WoW... Namely Yvonne Yee, Karen Chin, Joanne, Brenda and myself... I've asked Von Teo to join us...

After lengthy sms session with Joanne (we gotta save our sms credit already~~~), we finally decided to meet up on this Friday at 11am in her house... (Thanks Joanne for offering to "house" our crapping session!) We'll pot luck our lunch... LOL! I wonder what everybody is bringing... I can't wait to see them all... Really miss Yvonne Yee and Karen la... It had been so long since the last session with the sisters of the CG... The fun of crapping n sharing... It's just sooooooooo fun~~

Tomorrow having another "sisters session" with my colleagues~ meeting up at Steph's house for christmas gifts exchange... GOsh~~ I gonna miss them who left MN la!!! *sob*

Alright, I want to bath and get ready for mass... 1 hr b4 mass can't have solid food, so have to have early dinner, since there's dance practice at 7.30pm...

Osteoporosis - How I'm Linked to It?

Tonight I'd like to bring to your attention about OSTEOPOROSIS, big word, isn't it? I just found out recently that my dad's second sister, who is my aunt, has osteoporosis and she broke her ankle some time back. As a rather junior member of the extended family of my generation, I'm rather concerned about genetic inheritance of certain diseases. (I'm a graduate in Biotech, naturally I know about all these inheritance stuffs... also there was an article in Dec '08 issue of Readers' Digest about inherited diseases!) All these while I know about osteoporosis, a disease that infects many women above 40 years old by "giving" them fragile, porous bones. In other words, this disease causes gradual loss of bone mineral density... Here's an excerpt I "ctrl+c" from Wikipedia...

Osteoporosis is a disease of bone that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of non-collagenous proteins in bone is altered. Osteoporosis is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) in women as a bone mineral density 2.5 standard deviations below peak bone mass (20-year-old healthy female average) as measured by DXA; the term "established osteoporosis" includes the presence of a fragility fracture.^[1] Osteoporosis is most common in women after menopause, when it is called postmenopausal osteoporosis, but may also develop in men, and may occur in anyone in the presence of particular hormonal disorders and other chronic diseases or as a result of medications, specifically glucocorticoids, when the disease is called steroid- or glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (SIOP or GIOP). Given its influence on the risk of fragility fracture, osteoporosis may significantly affect life expectancy and quality of life.

Osteoporosis can be prevented with lifestyle changes and sometimes medication; in people with osteoporosis, treatment may involve both. Lifestyle change includes preventing falls and exercise; medication includes calcium, vitamin D, bisphosphonates and several others. Fall-prevention advice includes exercise to tone deambulatory muscles, proprioception-improvement exercises; equilibrium therapies may be included. Exercise with its anabolic effect, may at the same time stop or reverse osteoporosis.

(For more info, please click here --> Osteoporosis)

What's my precaution to prevent myself being a victim of this disease that kills silently? So they said, intake of high calcium products, e.g. milk, helps to delay the onset of osteoporosis. As I had been slightly disturbed about it and noticed that I suffered minor backache after dance practice yesterday (yes, aren't you surprised, teddy & phoebe??), I've decided to do something about my lifestyle, on the food consumption part. Firstly, try to eat at home as much as possible although I still think cooking for one person is such a hassle, but I'll try myself to accommodate. Secondly, to do more exercises and lose a few kgs to reduce the burden of my heart and skeleton. Thirdly, the purchase of this:

LOL! I bought the 19-50 "version" of Anlene in Servay Likas on my way back from Yvonne Teo's house. We had fun working out on her dance mats. Thanks Von dearie!

Oh! It's 10pm already... I wanna watch TV... Since when I become a TV Buff? Always had been, just never wanted to be a TV Addict (I'm so prone to it, duhz!). Oh No! Tomorrow has dance practice at night... Can't join caroling... "To go or not to go, that is the question..." (Copy-meow-ed from Hamlet)

Till then... Merry "advance" Christmas!!!

I'm Back! =)

After two weeks of break from everything in KK, I'm back once again on 13th evening via Airasia. Surprisingly the flight was ok, nothing special except the announcement by the pilot somewhere an hour prior to landing woke me up from my neck-aching sleep! The outcome: Inability to sleep early after a huge supper at my favourite "mee bab*" shop in Lintas with Felix, Von Teo and Ah Boon. Smooth landing, I'd say - Thumbs up for the Captain!

So what have I been doing since 1 Dec 2008?

01/12/08

• Checked all my mails, clearing everything and packing in the morning.
• Had dinner with Mel in airport (thanks for the treat, gal!^__^)
  
• In the air for 2.25 hours and touched down safely around 11.30pm, went for supper with parents.

02/12/08

• Arrived home at 2 something in the morning. Introduction to Kiki and played with him for a moment. Realized he's not-so-chihuahua. (Update: I just checked online and 80% confirmed that he's a min pin/chi mix (miniature pinscher + chihuahua mix).
• Slept late and woke up to the sound of my aunty from Kuantan with her grandchildren (age 8, 10 and 14).

03/12/08

• Visited Batu Pahat (Including the Pantai Minyak Beku and Perigi Batu Pahat).
• Petted humongous "dragon fish" in some temple in BP.

04/12/08

• Visited organic farm (near entrance only) nearby my hometown.
• Went to Pontian to visit my uncle then headed to Kukup for a wonderful seafood meal after strolling on the tiny "roads" in between houses on water. Saw magrove swamp... and wonder why people just don't like to take good care of the ocean environment~

05/12/08

• Met up with my ex-classmate (form 1-6) who was to be married on 07/12/08 to get my invitation card. Had a chat with her and visited our ex-classmate's parents to enquire something. I was rather freaked out by the time we wanted to leave... but thank God everything was alright.
• Stayed at home at night... Just lazing around... and lots of GOOD FOOD!

06/12/08

• Met up with some form 6 ex-classmates at Heidi's to crap a while... Then left for Kluang Parade to lepak for about 45 minutes before sending everybody home and attended mass in St. Louis.
• Was rather panic when found out it was a BM Mass... Kinda weird because I rarely attend BM mass and it was once of those times when I didn't have my daily readings (The Light) with me... When I realized I do know some of the mass parts sung I was really happy... Thanks for my KBHK friends... :P
• Right after mass I went over to Bee Yean's house for a night of crapping and catching up with ex-classmates. One of them I didn't meet since 1999 after SPM (that was like 9 years ago)
• Arrived home with "white-attire" crisis because Byean wanted us to wear white attire in the morning of her wedding... Managed to solve the crisis, thanks for Mommy dear! :D
  

07/12/08

• Woke up about 6.30am... Practically dragged myself off the comfy tilam because I was totally exhausted the night before...
• Was ready and arrived at Byean's house about 7.30am. Had breakfast with bride and others...
• The groom and his team of "brothers" arrived at 9.50am (approx.), 20 mins later than the agreed time of 9.30am...
• We, the "sisters", had some fun before allowing the groom to enter the house, including the request of shouting "I love you" to Byean (she was at 1st floor), pole dancing, singing the 1st song he sang to her and some "tips" for us.
• Then we went over to groom's house, continued feasting and crapping. LOL!
• Evening came and we went for dinner reception... The food was great... Catching up was fun. I met one of my ex-classmate who shifted away after form 2. Wow! My age is catching up I guess!

08/12/08

• My aunty and her family left for Seremban after lunch. So left us at home with Kiki... Kinda bored but was acclimatizing fast with Kiki running everywhere at home. He's just too adorable!

08-11/12/08

• Life is good - just at home, waking up late, eating, watching tv, playing with puppy. I even bathed Kiki (without prior knowledge of bathing a puppy)!
• We even brought Kiki for a walk (I was holding him like a baby though) around my neighbourhood. Duhz! He trembles whenever he leaves his "comfort zone" lah!

12/12/08

• Finally decided to get out of my nutshell and meet up with Byean and Tyan Huey for a drink. I had so many types of food in a day... including super spicy thai tom yam, takoyaki, pau, fried kueh tiau, etc... Not forgetting the ice-cream in the morning!
• Tyan Huey brought her adorable baby daughter out with her when she met us up. She's so beautiful... just slightly loud... as babies are always! LOL! :D
• Arrived home in time to watch "The Little Nyonya" on Channel 8 (Mediacorp, SG) then continued on and on... LOL.
• Slept late again...

13/12/08

• Woke up late, still managed to give Kiki a bath before I bathed.
• Dickson came over at 3pm and off we went to airport. Arrived there about 4plus, had a drink and entered departure hall at 5.20pm.
• Everything went smoothly and touched down at 11plus.

14/12/08

• Woke up 10plus, washed bed sheets and blankets. Was informed by dance classmate of additional dance practice so decided to attend it, after informing my dance partner (thank God he said yes!).
• Had my most "challenging" two hours in dance school because of my poor memory on the steps (thank you, Samantha and Phoebe for revising with me and being so patient with me...)
  
• Went back for a shower and headed for mass in St. Simon, then to SHC for choir practice... Oh gosh! Christmas is coming... How would my Christmas be this year? Last year I spent it with a much-cherished companion and some other friends... I think we went to Bishop's Open House after Christmas morning mass. After that I forgot what we did, maybe just crapping at home... I pondered about that on my way back from SHC... I wonder why. Oh well, reconciliation will not come that easily because of the deep hurts we've inflicted on each other. At least for me at this moment, whatever said and done hurt me and I'm still recuperating from it. To him everything might come easily, cheerful and happy-go-lucky now... Haha! Good for him sincerely! Hope he still remembers our happy times instead of condemning me in his own ways because of ............................ Even if he doesn't, I can only wait for God's timing for His will to unfold. I just know His way is the best way... No explanation required on this statement. Just believe He'll make it right. Haha! I'm learning not to doubt... Seriously. I got serious warning during my quiet time on the mountain...
  
• Painted my nails with Elianto's Party Nail Color (Champagne Gold) after removing the "shimmering purple". For the first time in history I'm keeping long nails, painting them and having fun trying to type with long nails (got stuck in between keys a few times and kept having the accident of pressing caps lock when i pressed shift).
  

15/12/08

• Updating blog...
• Schedule including meeting up my principal in school, Dot Leong in her office for lunch, Von Teo at her house for afternoon exercise. LOL! I gotta spend time with the Lord before anything! :D

I'll upload pics later on la... My schedule is packed with activities and pre-school reopening work to do and I've to find time to compress them...

Till then... Pax et Bonum.

Inner Healing and Transformation Seminar (27-30 November 2008)

I was away for almost 4 days in Bundu Tuhan for the seminar... Last night I was excited to share everything on the blog but was too exhausted to do so... Today I have energy, but after second thought, decided to withhold some because I have yet finished digesting it. And yeah... I'm flying off tonight at 9.05 pm to Senai for a 13-day trip back home. I can't wait to see my parents and the new addition to my family - a male Chihuahua - which we named Kiki!! I shall post his lovely photos here when if I ever get internet access in Kluang... LOL!

Ok, back to the seminar sharing... The food was great, the inputs were heart-opening, the counseling was relieving, the prayer for healing was miraculous, the praying over was joyful. I guess that's my summary... Actually the whole experience was speechless if were to put them in words...

Like Thomas (John 20: 19-31), I had doubted... But Jesus forgives all. I had my share of time to just be with the Lord in Bundu Tuhan, and I really appreciated what He had done in order to prepare me for the future He has in mind for me. I really feel so loved by God and thank God for the chance He had given me. I believed He had yanked all the root causes away from my life, and I've been given the second chance in life by God. It was very painful when we were being led to prayers for healing by the speakers (Uncle Tony Lim, Uncle Joe Chee and Uncle Daniel Kong), but very very relieving once the sins/bondages were being released.

I've discovered so much, some root causes I didn't even remember that it happened in my life, but I just asked God to take it away and I want to forgive whoever who had done it unto me. I still couldn't figure out but I would just let God be God to deal with it.

I've always been drawn to the picture of Divine Mercy (Jesus I trust in You) but I never knew what the picture signifying... After attending the seminar, what I gathered is that Jesus came into our heart and in the darkness His light shines and all the evil spirit run away in fear for Jesus is the light of the world who comes to save. It has connection to the picture of Jesus knocking on the door... The door doesn't have a handle, so it can only be opened from inside... That door signifies the door of our heart, only we can open the door and welcome Jesus to come in to clear the impurities in our heart... If we are willing, He will come. Jesus will continue calling us from the outside until we hear and open for Him to enter. Once He enters into our heart, He will shine His light to save us from damnation. That's the mystery of God... A saving event... Our salvation...

Oh yeah, before I log off for real... I FOUND THE FREEDOM CAMP 2006 CROSS IN BUNDU TUHAN!!!!! I was so shocked when I saw that very cross which brought me to encounter Lifeline Ministry... And so happy, of course!!! Here are some photos of it...