a random joke:)

What did the apple say to the orange?
Nothing, apples don't talk.

THAT VERY DAY!

We (Me,Ryan,Michelle,Amanda and Eythan. John came laterJ) went to the cc after the discipleship conference. The discipleship conference was great. The words that Rev Edmund spoke really impacted in me. The greatest thing I’ve learnt is CHANGE ME! And not to expect others to change themselves. So back to the cc, well, if you have read their blogs (except for eythan) then you’ll roughly know what I’m talking about. But oh well, since this is my blog, I’ll say it again but from a different point of view. Well, the last time I went to a cc was like 2 years ago? But nevermind that, what happened was something like this. I was titled “loner”, which is rather sad because it isn’t really fun to be sort of left outL I started of with fifa and for a minute, I was known as the crazy guy who suddenly shouted “Goal!” for some no apparent reason to them. They said that I was loud ( BUT JOHN WAS LOUDER!). But it happened because I actually scored a goal and my ear was muffed up with the earphones and I thought and heard nothing else. But thankfully the cc didn’t really care anyway ‘cept for the few people beside me especially ryan, who got annoyed (don’t blame youJ) Then, I played on quietly by myself, which is how I think I got that title :P There were 6 of us. They were playing this game called

Left for Dead (L4D)

Eythan played one round then sat out, then the rest of them played on witout me cuz i haven’t finish my match. So I did actually want to join them but they just had enough for 4 survivors so I played on with fifa (which is also quite fun, I’ve got a life too, ryan:D). And when I had the oppurtunity to join them, I was still halfway stuck in a match-.- so they played another round without me. Then after I finish my game, I WAITED till they finish and joined them as infected, which wasn’t really fun cuz they all kept teaming up (KILL JOEL!) to turn their backs on meL then I shifted to survivors and shifted back to infected and it went on. Well, it was me first time so I don’t blame myself for not being like the most pro or anything. But I learnt one thing: don’t go to a cc alone, bring friends with you and it’ll be awesome. I took a while to learn that but like that old saying

‘Better late than never’.

BUT I PROMISE MYSELF TO NOT GET ADDICTED! Can’t afford to (not money!)

But I learnt a few other things: 1) Don’t irritate Ryan. He doesn’t like noise. 2) John is the craziest fellow when he played. Louder than me! 3) Girls can play this kind of games 4) Don’t sit in that smoking room. 5) Don’t play fifa when the rest are playing L4D. Play along with them. 6) Listen to orders. John got irritated quite often. (not me though, actually there was once:P)

So conclusion is play FIFA only when there is nothing else to play:D

my 3 holidays in one:)

The journey to penang.
This was why I missed that wedding makeover thing at xyz like 2 weeks ago:P

We went to penang for a wedding (an actual one:D) that Dad conducted. All the photo are lined up randomly:)

We were greeted by this guy. Actually, he's not real. Just some dummy they put there to wave the red flag because of some construction going on.


this was during the dinner using the little gift box. and that drink is awesome.


rather cool picture. not me. the puff.


since it was valentines day, i did this for two reasons:
1)no valentine
2)nothing else to do x)


uncle ricky is awesome. he kept posing like some super model. there were more but all blur. this was the only good one.


picturesque


flowers.


Then we headed to Ipoh for a night stay before heading to Gopeng. The hotel we stayed at was a new one called Tower Regency.


this is not a broken lamp. it's the design. cool eh??


we met koh2 jon-tjin and his wife at ipoh so we went out for dinner with them at the hawker stall.


jeanine calls this 'cucuk'. the real term for it is conch.


conch..:D


food. the crab(the one on the left) is awesome. ate ate and ate, and seriously finger lickin' good.


curry mee.

Now on to Gopeng, it was a leisure trip we took from ipoh. so summore picture:D

white water rafting. it was scary to think of it at first but it obviously was really fun. the guide told us that tide was low so it isn't as fun as high tide. dissapointed:( and got stuck quite many times.


the briefing given by yus. another guy followed him. his name is quite cool: tats. seriously. and my brother just couldn't seem to understand:)


the specialty. bamboo soup.


body rafting was much more scarier. cause your in the water instead of the boat, which haas a higher dying risk:P



the reception


BBQ!


I like this picture.


flower.


this is cool. the person who ran that place, anuty adeline, said that she was gonna do something special and I thought what could it be. and this was the thing that would never even have comed into my mind.


outside, entrance.


the rates for activities.


our kampung house. yes, we stayed in that.



bodyrafting. how it actually works:D

no dream can satisfy.
Joel:D

we walk-ting tings

You never alter
You'�re always you
Everything'�s breaking
But I don�'t care

Smash the rest up
Burn it down
Put us in the corner �cause we�'re into ideas

Take these edges
They�'re inside out
No one will notice
They�'re looking elsewhere

We can'�t be honest
We call it off
We got the choice if it all goes wrong

#We walk, we walk
We walk, we walk

You see the changes
In things that come
It�'s how you deal with it
When switching off

Make a decision
A precondition
We got the choice if it all goes wrong

#We walk, we walk
We walk, we walk

Bridge:When nothing makes you feel good
Then nothing makes you feel good

a rather late CNY post :P

I know, i know its been like so long time ago since chinese new year has gone. but here they are anyways. the pictures that speaks more than a thousand words :) (maybe ten:P)



My sister and my nephews and niece. *cute*

They were so cute to the point of my sister taking a picture of herself pinching my little nephew's cheek-.-

This is not me:D

well, gotta admit it was tough to do the "yum-cha" thing especially

dad's side of family (1/4 of them only)

dad has a huge family. he's the youngest of 15! can't imagine myself being that, since i'm already the eldest:P the one behind me is my 3rd uncle, left to him is my 5th aunt and the one in yellow is my 3rd aunt.

gramma's turn

this was way much easier to say something. haha. i said "gong xi fa cai", i think. and that was about it.

at a friend's place

rather scenic:D

little ninja

my cousins decided to make use of my brother and make him look like this. rather weird-.-

my COOL lil nephew!!

no idea how this was made up:P

CREAMPUFF!

this is what i call "awesome"!!. aunty evelyn, your food is the greatest! especially this, which i requested for:D


chocolate mini tarts

*no comments* X)

chopsticks

courtesy of my sista, val

bowls. mangkuk.

courtesy of me:D

the three drinkers! *yum seng*

this is rather awesome too. we had a dinner with a CG that we're with at Ah Yat Abalone Restaurant. and to make it all the better, there was karaoke. and we sang and sang and sang. the songs were rather old. like i don't wanna miss a thing by aerosmith and uptown girls by westlife. and to make it all the BETTER, there was my other ah beng, keng ian and brotha, calvin, who sings like the BEST (not!-.-) rocker eva.

wine. best drink ever.

it's said that when you take it with dark chocolate, it's healthy :) no idea whether it's true or not

wine.

mine!!

"Ducky" ian-.-

This is also rather cool. he took the napkin from the table and came up with this stupid idea of looking like that.
ian, please don't insult the ahbengs!

Like will draw like:P
Joel:D

feeling weird. and mahjong

weird??!! mahjong is AWESOME. but me, joel tan, being kinda good boy, doesn't use money:D sometimes i think blogging is so hard for me to think up of anything to say. but oh well. its a holiday today, must enjoy self abit. so i played fifa, got trashed like 3 games by some random people that i play against online. but on a good note, MAN UNITED ARE BACK ON TOP OF THE TABLE! and i had to make a new header, mich's fault-.-, haha so the idea for the header came from me and john used it on his msn!:( the sentence goes like that: its not the box that matters, its the sweet that counts. cool rite? X) yea, john's new creation is call handericsson (pronounced as hand-de-ric-sson). He drew it during service last week after the toe drawing from sereena and amanda gave him an idea. and he began drawing, not on his feet:) and it looked better than my phone although fake. and its cool:P

big deal is that mahjong's got boring after a while, especially when my cousin got a foosball table (the thing with stick that you turn and hit a ball into a goal:). I hated it when i lost to my cousin, who's like 5 years younger than me, but it was a humbling experience and reminded me, don't underestimate the power of little boys!:D haha. my cousin who was playing alongside me said this: I'd rather die than lose to a little kid. but me didn't think that. so we played 3 rounds won one lost two:( but i still don't like that guy who partner my cousin as he's arrogant, proud and a real little fella! since it was still chinese new year on my cousin's b'day, we played with fireworks, which i didn't cause i played basketball instead, and we litterally "bomb" the playground, and my dad got a shock, when the biggest one, gave a huge KABLAM! (i found out that we still had like 10 more of that firecracker, which was more like a grenade:P) I learned this: don't let little kids (below 11) play with fireworks. They go crazy and start throwing the spinning bombs and pop-pops at your feet.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
-Anonymous

Little kids-.-

Joel:D

lost and mahjong.

stupid, you may think, but that was how it was in finding that "park." haha. so in the search of the park, we went. my tuition friend and i went in search of a kiara park. we did actually find a kiara park, but to our dismay, no one was there. oh i forgot, my tuition was actually having a treasure hunt, you may think of it as weird or cool, but it dosen't really matter cause we did it anyhow. so back to the story, we went to the park and waited for like 15 mins, then looked at our watch and realized that we were late by 15 mins++ then came the annoying calls. urm. it was some other tuition friends, who were thinking where in the world were we??, who called. The conversation goes something like that...
(ME, Friend (next to me), other friend, teacher)

Friend: where on earth are you guys??
Me: at kiara park. where are you people?
Friend: we're already at kiara park. why can't i see you people?
Me: we're at the entrance wating for you.
Friend: heh?? i don't see any of you.

(Then the friend standing next to me thought that there must be some other entrance. and i remembered that there was another entrance right at the other site of the park so we began walking, walking..to make it worse, the weather was already rainy, gloom and getting dark:( so that's how it continues..)

Me:okok, oh yea i do remember that there was another entrance. alright, we're walking there now
Friend: where are you????!!!! i still don't see you. (oh yea another thing, her brother also goes for the same tuition)
Me:we're walking to the "main" (as i thought:D) entrance!
Friend: okok..
Friend:we're walking down the road now. why can't we see you?

(Then we walked out on the road, and all we saw was some random people feeding monkeys. haha)

Me:i don't see anybody. apa jadi??!!
Friend: ARGH!! just tell me where you are at now!!!
Me: ok. we're now opposite a school
Friend: yes, so are we. urm. do you see a taxi stand?
Me: yea yea..

(and then we start to walk to the taxi stand)

Friend: i still don't see you.
Me: i'm wearing black.
Friend: are you the one in black with the green umbrella?

(my friend goes hysterical laughing like the monkeys standing in the middle of the road)

Me: gosh. no, i'm not. i still don't see any of you.
Friend: *getting REALLY irri* oh nevermind. omg !@#$%

(hangs up..)
Then i looked at my friend and both of us laughed cause we felt stupid yet funny:D

Then, the phone rings again. And of all the people in the world, it was the tuition teacher herself.
My friend standing next to me begins to laugh, for i don't know what reasons, and picks up the call.

Teacher: where on earth are you people?
Me: we're halfway..reaching the entrance soon.
Teacher: huh..oh..where are you people now?
Me: WE"RE WALKING TO THE MAIN ENTRANCE NOW!! *grrr*
Teacher: where are you people at now.
Me: *getting madd* we're halfway walking to the main entrance at kiara park.
Teacher:omg, what's happened to you people?

(i think it was when i said kiara park, that it became all clearer:P)

Teacher: okok..guys, hold on at where you are ok??
Me:alright. going out now.


(we begin to walk back 600-700 metres back to the main entrance)

My friend next to me begins to laugh even more. and then, we wait by the taxi stand that was just outside the school.

Teacher's car comes. and we get in.

Teacher: where on earth did you people go to??!!
Friend: we went to kiara park. and we didn't see any of you.
Teacher: okok. nevermind. now let me explain.

(goes on and on explaining about the treasure hunt)
(reach the destination)

so in the end, we started an hour late. and went home late. wet and sticky and horrible. but still managed to find the lesson of it all: get lost, make tuition start later and still go home with a prize:P

don't do what i did. cause if your parent's find out...X)

I'll talk about mahjong some other time then:D

joel:D