JustinASecond

You've got to read this. Seriously.

2011-07-23T17:37:00.000+08:00

It's been 102 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours 5 minutes and 6 seconds since I last updated my blog.

And guess what?

I'm NOT updating my blog.

My apologies.

Not for not updating.

But for wasting half a minute of your life reading this pointless post.

MUAHAHAHA!! :)

oh yes.: Senior Year. (a teenie weenie extract from Syd's blog)

2011-03-02T19:36:00.000+08:00

We always thought that being "seniors" of the school would be so many words:

Popular,

Glamorous,

Powerful...

And so many other things.

In all honesty,

It is.

It just depends on how and when you make it happen.

You don't have to be popular by doing all the wrong things.

You don't have to be glamorous by having the most sought after items.

You don't have to be mean to be powerful.

What happened to the days where respect was earned and not made fear by?

What happened to the smiles and waves we'd return instead of bitchy looks and spiteful sneers?

Quoted from Sydney's blog: WritingsInTheRain

2011-02-12T13:27:00.001+08:00

I'm back. Well, for now. Felt the heavy guilt and burden to update my pretty dead blog. I've been bogged down by school work, homework, and what nots. (I know it's a lame excuse cuz every student blogger has theirs too.)

Anyway, first week of school after my CNY break. I didn't even get to feel lazy and *snap fingers* school starts again. FAIL. The holidays were definitely too short for me to rest (the good part) but (the bad part) I still had to get fat. And who's fault? My mum's cookies. She just had to make it look so nice and shiny that I would feel sorry for myself if I didn't eat it.

Andddddd. My all-new Lee Cooper glasses. :)

...when you look me in the eyes. ~Jonas Brothers~ (okay. that was freaky.)

I'm gonna stop blogging soon. Like.....now. Okay. No. Now. I mean like. Now. Okayyy. Stop. Bye.

woohhh!!!

2011-01-25T16:38:00.001+08:00

It's been nearly ages since i last blogged. Have been really busy with stuff and what nots. Writing essays for moral, frequenting the gym and writing essays for moral again. I'm not quite sure what I've been busy with. :D

Anyway, it's been a tiring yet exciting first three weeks of school. Homework, essays, treasury work; among the things that bog my time. A great new start for the year though. Looking forward to a new church environment. Building new relationships with God, family and friends. Hoping to see life from a higher and more matured level after learning from my past experiences.

Gonna be leading worship for chapel this week. Hoping to see a revival in chapel service. Through Him, nothing is impossible. :)

Nothing is impossible.

2011-01-05T19:06:00.000+08:00

Through you I can do anything, I can do all things, cuz it's you who gives me strength, nothing is impossible.

Worship leading tomorrow in school's chapel service which is also the first chapel service of the year. Gonna be introducing a new song which hopefully won't be sesat. Looking forward to God's hand on chapel in tomorrow service. Nothing is impossible! :)

2nd day of school.

2011-01-04T18:13:00.000+08:00

School's pretty darn tiring after the long holidays. It's been awesome how school started. With the warmth of friends welcoming each other back in the coldness of classes. Having the whole "we-will-conquer-ass-pee-em" spirit. It's nice how seeing my class, the arts class (being the infamous one of not studying) actually sits in class to study.

I'm leading chapel this thursday meaning practice tomorrow. Just praying that everything goes well.

2011-01-02T23:07:00.001+08:00

Last day of my holidays. Which means less time to blog. Goodbye justinasecond. We will meet again someday. Like...tomorrow. :)

twenty-eleven.

2011-01-01T19:32:00.000+08:00

Dear friends, we will conquer SPM. :)

Time passes so quickly. Still remember the day I step into Standard One in Sekolah Rendah Sri Sempurna at the Brickfields campus then. And now, I'm already Form Five with a whole load of history of my schooling life behind me.

It doesn't matter how well or badly we did in the past. What matters is how we finish the race.

Thank you 2010! :)

2011-01-01T19:06:00.002+08:00

For once I didn't make those super long posts to end the year. Well i didn't, so live with it. :)

Anyway, just want to show appreciation firstly to God for being faithful throughout the year 2010. The God who never failed to teach me a lot in a unique way called life. The God who doesn't fail you doesn't mind you failing just to teach what he wants to.

To my family also for providing me with physical and emotional shelter. Ever being there to fall back on in case whatever happens. To my dad, for being the person i look up to. To my mum, for all your nagging which has guided me somehow. To my sister, for stopping my mind from going into an idle state everytime.

To my brothers of brothers, hao, don, sam. Thank you for making 2010 such a joyous year. It's been a great friendship. Also a great experience having our own business for the first time. To sam, for being able to 'chui sui' about anything at all. To hao, for always lending me your room to sleep when it's too late to go home. To don, it's been 11 years bro, gonna miss you.

To my sisters of sisters, lyn, deb, mun, jo, fi. Thank you for all your support and encouragement throughout the year(s). You are really special friends to me. Special in a sense that i can say nobody will ever have this kind of a friendship i have with each of you.

To kenneth, for being there to talk to when i needed to. To sydney, for forcing me to think whenever i talk to you. To bryan and jynee, for still keeping close company with us after so many years.For once I didn't make those super long posts to end the year. Well i didn't, so live with it. :)

Obviously i can't mention it all so whoever i left out, thank you as well. :)

oh crapp..i just said i wasn't gonna write a long post and i did. XD

Professional footballers blame laser light beams for their match loss? Talk about professional. :)

2010-12-29T14:21:00.000+08:00

JAKARTA: Tensions remained high in the Indonesian capital as football fans awaited the much-anticipated Asean Football Federation Suzuki Cup final second-leg match tonight. Indonesian fans are upset with the Malaysians, allegin that laser light beams had been shone on the faces of the republic's players to distract them in the first-leg match at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Malaysia won that match 3-0.

I found the issue pretty funny. Sports, being a medium that was known to have brought people together since ages is actually causing all the arguments, fights and tension.

Laser light beams made you guys lose a match? My gosh. Couldn't you have come up with a better excuse for losing? Laser light beams wouldn't have caused any distractions unless it was shone into the eyeballs which isn't very likely. I don't think people can actually do that with the huge excited crowd and the footballers running at high speed. Unless, of course, there wasn't a huge crowd and the footballers were just standing around. But I gotta say if the accused did actually shine the laser light beams into the eyeballs and caused this big hoohah, they should be sent to the army or police force or something. They have darn good aiming. :D

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police are serious about keeping peace and and are deploying 10000 policemen at the Bung Karno Stadium.

Police have also banned the use of lasers.

Big LOL. What are they gonna do now? Shine the laser lights back at us as revenge?
We're indeed one civilised and matured society.

2010-12-26T23:49:00.000+08:00

Another week to go before school starts. Excited. Doubtful. Mixed array of emotions.

Jesus wasn't born on Christmas?

2010-12-25T00:00:00.001+08:00

Just came across this piece of information that Jesus wasn't born on Christmas. He wasn't even born during winter or anytime close to winter. The Bible said “shepherds keeping watch over their flock by night” which could only mean Jesus was born during spring because shepherds watched their sheep during Christmas. In fact, you wouldn't even find the word Christmas in the Bible.

So how did Christmas come about? Since the Bible did not give no actual date for Christ's birth, it's a topic left for interpretation and debate. Early Christians didn't bother to pinpoint the date of his birth because they were more interested in deaths and feasts then. In the fourth century, church leaders found a need to compete with the other festivities of the non-believers during the winter solstice. So they settled with December 25th which directly challenged the festival of a birth of another god. The god of the Cult of Mithras, infant god of light.

To me, it doesn't actually matter whether Jesus was born on that day or not. It is more of a day to remember that we should give because God gave. We should love others because God first loved us. Whether you are a believer of the Christian faith or not, let's take this Christmas to spread some love around this world. The world doesn't need another hateful soul but it definitely needs way more loving hearts. Give a hug, treat someone to a meal. Just go the extra mile to make someone's day. If everybody did this, the world would be a darn good place this Christmas. Tweet or Share this message of love NOW! It only takes 5 seconds to do this.

It's Christmas Eve.

2010-12-24T20:55:00.000+08:00

It's Christmas Eve. Gotta keep telling myself that cuz I hardly get the Christmas in me.

Christmas Day being an important day, makes Christmas Eve pretty unimportant in contrast. Then I counted the days and realised that Christmas Eve marks the beginning of the final week of every year. It's SEVEN more days till the end of 2010.

2010 has been a really adventurous year for me. Full of ups and downs throughout the whole year, filled with heavy suspense and great decisions along the way (some still not made). I'll save my 2010 farewell speech and 2011 welcome speech when the time comes. For now, we shall just stare at the kids that came over to my house for Christmas before leaving for midnight service in church.

Anyway, come back from my Christmas post at 12am.
A pretty controversial Christmas post. :)

Lose Weight NOW!

2010-12-23T16:22:00.000+08:00

Just got back from Bangkok a few days ago and man, i gained _ pounds. So there I was sitting on the sofa that nigh, exhausted from the trip staring at my enlarged tummy saying to myself I will go to the gym tomorrow. And to my frustration, the gym is under renovation.

Sitting there on my couch with my laptop on my lap (well, that's why they call it LAPtops), I came across these pretty stupid weight loss tips.

When eating donuts - only eat the center part.
Don't eat your evening meal before breakfast
Attach Full-Length Mirror to your Refrigerator Door.
Remove wheels from your grocery cart.
Run - running to the refrigerator doesn't count.
If you work at home.... walking to work should not be considered as daily exercise.
Stop reading this stupid post and go work out.

Selangor bans 1Malaysia concept from being used in advertisements.

2010-12-23T16:01:00.000+08:00

The Selangor government has banned all symbols and logos related to the 1Malaysia concept from being used in advertisements.
The state executive council passed a ruling that 1Malaysia was political in nature and as such, its symbols were not allowed in advertisements which require permission from local councils.

Read more: Selangor bans ads that bear 1Malaysia logo http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/7eal/Article/#ixzz18v4d5k00

LOL! I found this pretty amusing. Selangor, being part of Malaysia, ban the use of the 1Malaysia logo because they found it politically inclined.

So..are we still one? :)

2010-12-13T23:14:00.001+08:00

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2010-12-04T21:54:00.002+08:00

back from Hong Kong. Hope I get the time to blog about it soon. Currently dead.

Zhe Jiang's birthday @ Hoi Tong Steamboat Restaurant.

2010-11-29T16:05:00.001+08:00

So the day started after band practice without lunch, waiting for the other peeps at McDonalds Midvalley with Kin Hang, Ben and Zil. Ordered a beef burger which turned out to be more like a lump of baked flour.

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Right after that, our journey to Hoi Tong steamboat began. Reason we were going there? It was Zhe Jiang's birthday. We used Jessie's blackberry GPS which wasn't very efficient cuz the screen did not follow where the car went. We had to scroll manually as the car moved. It also didn't reroute when we went out of track. That was when I tried my phone's GPS which, to my frustration, I realised that it uses an internet connection. So we sticked to Jessie's BB which wasn't very efficient but got us there though. Paid a fare of RM19.60.

Just a little bit about Hoi Tong Steamboat Restaurant. It's located at Lot12, Jalan SK13, Sri Kembangan. Basically an eat-all-you-can steamboat and BBQ restaurant which costs between RM23-RM28. Way worth it. The boss' children are my schoolmates too. :)

Sausages.

2010-11-27T12:45:00.001+08:00

Recent bbq party at my house (which is so recent) to celebrate the last day of school and also Brandon's last day. Special thanks to munneyy

People invaded my room.

Showing off their manicures.

Sausages. Which I had to eat the rest of the week cuz there was so much leftover.

People invading my room again.

A few of em decided to buy a whole chicken to barbecue. What a smart idea.

Also some who held DSLRs and pretended to be photographers.

Posers.

Posers again.

Brandon giving his farewell speech.

and a whole lot of Hug Me Tees. :D

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.

Full moon?

2010-11-22T22:21:00.000+08:00

Full moon? Just caught my eye that a full moon appeared today. :)

Beef noodles. :)

2010-11-22T22:18:00.000+08:00

Lai Foong beef noodles in Cheras. Best thing in the world. The feeling you get from every sip of the soup is a satisfaction to your soul. Just so coincidentally the daughter of the boss is from my school. Random post it might be but it was my first date with my all-new Canon 60D.

Back to the beef noodles. We got to meet the father of the boss today who is the founder of this whole beef noodle business that was initially started in Petaling Street. He's ninety years old and still strong. So my dad had this whole conversation with him about his family and business and when asked where he stays, to our surprise, he no longer stays in Malaysia. He is now staying in his hometown, Hainam Island, back in China.

Oh happy day!

2010-11-18T21:35:00.001+08:00

Finished my Grade 4 Drum Exams. Wee!

Got my long awaited, brand new Nokia E72. Even wee-er!

Thank you so much Mum & Dad! :)

Sionteldekomarination

2010-11-04T22:43:00.000+08:00

Haven't been blogging much recently probably due to my busy schedule. Selling tshirts, preparing for drum exams, chapel, talentime. It's been fun. Sad to see Form 4 already coming to an end. And before we know it, we will be leaving school already. Time flies when you're having fun.

A day without sunshine is, you know, night?

October 19th

2010-10-19T18:56:00.000+08:00

It's just those days where you run out of blog titles. :)

Accounts paper today. Super duper freakin tough (London standards according to Mr. Nigel). Only two students out of sixty managed to finish. It got all my brain noodles tied up in a few hundred knots.

Anyway, many birthday wishes I left out. Eesh. Firstly, happy birthday to my long ago classmate, Jyn Ee. :)

And also happy birthday to my mummy whose birthday was actually yesterday. Celebrated it with her nieces (my cousins) at Secret Recipe. (no pictures at the mo but just to tell you we had a great time.) Above all the fun, (I felt like writing a long post but exams...) thank you mummy for everything and for your existence in my life. Or rather bringing my life into existence.

Lastly, remember to visit MatchTees and make your order for a pair of Hug Me T-shirt.

Spread the love. <3

ABSOLUTsusu's Guide to SPM streaming

2010-10-16T17:57:00.000+08:00

CLICK HERE TO READ THE POST

Wanna especially quote these parts of the post:

The main difference between both streams are the way you are taught to think, not how wide your future career options are.
to follow your dreams and not be bogged down by reality.
Go with whatever that INTERESTS you, not what you think you wouldn't need or your bad in. If you have the passion in whatever your doing, I believe you would excel in it. But if your forcing yourself in doing something you have no passion in, you would just end up a bitter Man, dissatisfied with life.

The common misconceptions:

-Stereotypes
Science stream are for smart students and Arts stream are for the not so smart students.
-Friends
Just cause your boyfriend / girlfriend / best friend went to another stream, it doesn't mean you should follow them.
You say you wouldn't jump off a building if they asked you to, then why follow their stream?

My personal opinions and stands for Art Streamers:

To the students:

Arts stream are not for not-so-smart students only.
Just because art streamers do not show better results academically doesn't make us any less smarter.
It also doesn't make us any much more a failure in life.

We may be more talkative or indisciplined at times. But that is the nature of creative people.

To the teachers:

Maybe if you started thinking more highly of arts streamers, it would be easier for you to teach. We are not all that bad.
Stop giving the excuse that we do not want to study and then stop teaching us.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE POST

Exam fever. :(

2010-10-14T21:00:00.000+08:00

Oh great. Exam fever is here. I just have to get sick every exam. :(

Anyway, had "whole lot of fun" sitting for exams this whole week. To add to the fun, we are gonna continue our exams for the next whole week. Moral paper tomorrow. Not sure if I'm going to school.

Oh well, remember to order a Hug Me tee from MatchTees.

Spread the Love. :)

2010-10-11T00:04:00.000+08:00

My 50th Post. :D

WEE! What an awesome way to write my 50th post on 10-10-10.

First of all, I got a merit for my Grade 8 Piano Exam (when I thought I was about to fail). All glory goes to God, my parents and my teacher. Thank you so so much.

Second of all, just got into selling Hug Me t-shirts with Brandon, Hao, Sam and Joshua. Awesome much. We pre-sold 29 pieces within two days. (pre-sold = not printed).

Hug Me Tees - Match Tees

RM35 for one / RM60 for two.

100% cotton

Comes in a box so it's perfect for gifts.

FREE GIFT: Hugs. :)

So spread the love. Place your order now.

For more information, click here.

Alright back to my life.

Thirdly, finally got to sit down and blog a little after studying sejarah for hours. It's my little moment of relaxation before I start again. :)

So, spread the love. *hugs*

I could really use a wish right now.

2010-10-02T22:28:00.002+08:00

Could we pretend that airplanes in the night skies are like shooting stars?

I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now...

such a desperate craving for that piece of machinery.

The Glorious Canon EOS 550D.

Thank you Joshua and Jia Ee for tempting me. :(

and maybe..

The Nokia E72 as well. :D

Form Four's Tanjung Karang Trip 2010

2010-09-27T16:31:00.003+08:00

Goshh. Accounts project is killing me. Anyway, took a little time off just to upload this photos. A little time = No blog writing. Just pictures. Enjoy. :)

P.S. Click on the picture to view it in its full-sized beauty. :D

The accomodation.

ooohh. heavy.

2010-08-27T21:28:00.000+08:00

Grade 8 is over. Finally. No more practises and mum's nagging. :)

Prefect Appreciations' Day today. All the planning, fights and tears; we got through. We grew stronger.
New committee announced today. Not gonna comment. :)

I'm all tired out...

LIfe.

2010-08-19T16:29:00.000+08:00

Blog has been recently dead. Why? I am currently tied up with 10,241,567 things. In other words, life has been so busy for me. So tiring as well. Especially when the things I'm tied up with are pretty crucial stuff like Grade 8 Piano Exam. Relying on God for strength. Relying a lot on family and friends too. So, if you fall into the category of my family and friends, try not to give me a hard time. I'm counting on you. :)

Jo's birthday just 3 days ago. Joshua's too. Would so much wanna blog about it but sadly I gotta go. So stare at this picture and get a thousand words. :)

Will be back just in a second.

The week that was...

2010-08-01T22:29:00.000+08:00

Wellll...doesn't time fly. It's already August.

So, Monday to Friday was such a blehh. Had BB on Saturday where we had a fireman to give his talk. We are working towards Fireman Badge where in the process we have to learn to put out fires and stuff. They are really gonna put a building on fire. :D

Today, Sunday, is the happening day. Went to City Harvest Church for the first time. Met Kenneth at Sunway before taking a cab to church. So City Harvest...smaller than I assumed, way better than I thought. Everyone there's just so friendly. It really amazed me what their church members bother committing to. The way they actually bother to produce a whole video just for announcements. That was cool. Everything was just so awesome.

Anyway, was over at jo's house with lyn to discuss and hopefully film part of the P.A.D video. Which didn't really turn out very productive because I went for lunch first (the spaghetti took really long), i lost my way (again. I have a bad sense of direction), we only had three hours. Anyway, thanks jon for taking me as your apprentice (sort of).

Buhbye.

Accounts Project.

2010-07-17T22:12:00.001+08:00

I shall now OFFICIALLY start on my SPM Accounts Paper 3 Trial. :)

Happy Sweet 16th

2010-07-12T00:00:00.000+08:00

Yes. I'm referring to you Brandon Chin. I seriously do not know why we clicked on to each other so many years despite the fact that we have both very very different personalities. You are outspoken, I'm quiet. You are dramatic, I'm reserved. You are popular, I was an unknown. You didn't like to study, I was labeled studious. You were a sportsman, I'm a musician. But we were good boys back in primary school. :D

Have known you since I was Standard 1 and you've changed so so much. I remember the time when I was in primary school, I was that little loser sitting by the corner and you would be the one talking to me although you were popular with other people. Probably it was because the school was so far last time (Brickfields) and we had to come super early to avoid the jam because we were staying at the other ends of the world. Then we had nothing better to do than to play chess and I do not know why I always agreed to play when I only win you once out of every million times.

When we moved on to secondary school, funny that we still clicked to each other even as we matured into our very different personalities. When we were in Form 1, I had that personality which is really hard to fit in to a new school and adapt to a new environment and ironically, you had a whole gang. I knew nobody and you were the one who protected me, who watched over me and would try very hard to fit me in. I pretend not to see but in my heart I knew it and I will always remember all you did for me at those times. Including me in conversations with people I don't know, or in social gatherings or outings. Sometimes you would even force me in a game of basketball with your friends that I do not know.

Well, soon enough I grew up. I got my group of friends. Walked through my own journey of school life. Became a prefect. Got into a lot of trouble in my period service to the school. While you, got another group of friends. Got into discipline cases every now and then. Sometimes we grew apart but it never broke our friendship. There may be times teachers look down on you, you are not bad, you are just special.

You know, there are times that I feel awkward yet very good. They are the times where you preach about God and the gospel of Christ. The many times you try so hard to prove the existence of God to your friends but never have I heard you claim you were a Christian. You always have a whole group of people under your influence, whether good or bad. There's just so much leadership and potential in you, way more than I do, that I just hope and pray everyday that before we leave school, I will one day get to serve God working together with you. That's my very utmost wish. Brandon, I seldom talk with you about God, afraid of what you might think of me, but on my blog in public, here I am feeling so strong to write what has been in my heart for so long. I really wish that one day you will publicly use the gift and talents that the God you speak about has given to you, and live according to his ways and purpose, and to actually make a difference to the many many friends you have under your influence. I know you really believe in what you preach about God always, I just know it. And it's my prayer that one day you'll live it while you preach it. It's just so great.

Thanks so much for being there for me always. And yes Brandon, you are right, you are one AWESOME guy. Thanks for being my brother for the 10th year already. Hope you enjoyed your sweet 16. May God bless you.

~Gonna blog about the birthday celebration in Sunway Lagoon by tomorrow I hope.

SMSS Recess Revo 2010

2010-07-09T20:10:00.001+08:00

The first day of RECESS REVOLUTION in Sri Sempurna. Being a Christian school, it took us long enough to get it started finally.

I was very very moved at the way a simple concept such as this can bring so many people in; many of which I never expected would get involved. God works in a very special way. I knew Ivan (the one who initiated this revo in our school) since primary school as a very domineering, gang leader who threatened people type of person. Many would make him their big brother to be protected under him. But those days were long gone and never did I knew he changed so much till today. He, standing in front there, using the leadership qualities he had as a gang head sort of person, for the glory of God. For God to work in Him like that was really amazing. What amazed me even more that the people who were once his "followers"(many which who were non-believers) joined in this revolution. God really has his way in this.

Our assignment for today: Say "God bless you" or "God loves you" to everyone that passes by.

The virus of sharing God's blessing and love spreaded quickly enough around the school. Within the first day of school, I could already feel the revolution. God's power was so great in such a simple task as this.

To Recess Revo members of the nation:

You are a very powerful tool of God. You might not feel it or see it and sometimes it may not work as you have planned it; never give up because it is your calling for this job to revolutionize and God's job to produce the result. You are making a difference in someone's life and this one live you touched might eventually pass on to schools, families, nations, country and the world.

To my fellow Sempurnians:

We indeed had a very fun time speaking words of blessings and love of God. But speech without actions is of no use. As you speak words of love and blessing, BE the words of blessing. Actions will always speak louder than words. Live right. Clean in thoughts, words and deeds. Whether in school or out of school, whether with friends or when you're alone. That is the strongest testimony of Christ's love that you can show to anyone.

Don't be noisy testimonies

BE a living testimony.

God taught me a lesson the hard way.

2010-07-09T00:20:00.001+08:00

After a long 6 months of prefect probation and my position has been reinstated. Without this "demotion" to a probationary prefect, being the new school prefect policy, never would I have known how much being a part of the board meant to me.

When my prefectship was initially taken away in the beginning of the year, never had I felt so disappointed in the school and in myself. It was a very painful and unsure 6 months of waiting for my result if I would get to wear that blue shirt again. I started putting a lot of pressure on myself. Blaming teachers in the process, neglecting studies, compromising principles and discipline as I absorbed the bad influences of my friends.

I lost sleep at night. Sometimes praying, other times just worrying if I would ever get it back. Late nights = Performance slack. I slacked in school causing my prefect appraisal to get even worse. My prefect teacher advisors started to reprimand me and I just sticked to denying my mistakes and instead blaming them for picking on me.

My two special friends..they got their blue shirts, and that's when I felt the lowest. I felt so discouraged. I felt so much like giving up and just resigning on the spot. But these two people encouraged me and keep reminding me of my duties to be up to expectations and standards. I felt really bad. Reason being despite the good intention they have to try pulling me back into the board, I scolded them for being bossy. I ignored them. I got into countless fights with them. I was just pure jealous.

My prefect teachers, kept telling me they saw a potential in me and encouraged me not to give up. At the same time, they also told me they had no choice but to dismiss me from the prefectorial board if I wasn't up to standard.
I blamed them, ignored them, and went my own way. They gave me chance after chance and finally they said it was the last chance before they have to dismiss me. That night I was really scared. I prayed, I cried. I made my promise to God, my parents, my teachers and my two very special friends I would commit to being a prefect once again.

For the final two months, I worked hard, not compromising on my principles that I held to the previous years. I worked hard on being the prefect I was; the one who committed to the job and would do anything for the sake of the board. I tried hard. I had nothing to lose anyway. In this process, I was really afraid of losing friends or sacrificing the pleasures in school life. Not only that, I was really afraid my position would not be reinstated after this two months, putting all my hard work to waste. It was scary. But I tried. I changed my mindset of the teachers whom I assumed were picking on me. I made up with my two special friends as they pushed me on. I got even better quality friendships. I realized that my teachers were not picking on me. Instead, I found out they really cared for me and really wanted to bring out the potential they see in me. Who am I that they would spend so much time picking on me? I realised the world did not revolve around me. I learned to trust God even more. Knowing very much He has revealed very clearly to me in camp about what He had in store for me.

21st June 2010, the day my position was reinstated. A very special type of assembly that was. The assembly was done over the PA speakers. Together with my fellow probationary prefects, I was reinstalled. My hard work paid off. My trust in God never failed me. My two special friends' encouragement to push me forward paid off. The chances that was given by my prefect teachers never went to waste.

I hated the whole situation initially but it this setback really pushed me and brought me out of my comfort zone. It really put my friendships, my faith in God and my principles to test. It really made me value my part in the board. God indeed has a purpose in everything He does. It may not be the most comfortable way but God has his own ways in things which we do not understand sometimes. That's where my faith in God came in. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

I do not know who will be reading this super-long post. But I hope these people are reading it. My utmost special thanks to:

God
Who was there when I needed Him although I turned my back on Him so many times. Who never let down my trust in Him after revealing his purpose in me.

Parents
Thank you for trying to understand what I was going through. Although I refrained from telling you what I was going through in school, you did not push and force me to tell, but instead gave me the space I needed to reflect on myself. I really do hope you understand that I do not share with you because I'm trying to keep my school problems in school and my home to rest and reflect and to segregate school problems from the family so I can enjoy my family instead of having to face the problem in school and at home. Thank you for being so supportive in everything I did.

My two very special friends
Joanna and Celine who pushed me forward. Sorry for scolding you and letting you down time and again despite the good intentions of wanting to see me in my blue shirt again. Thinking back, I feel really bad for thinking of you guys as bossy people when all you were trying to do is to keep me on the right track. Joanna, every word of your encouragements made a huge difference in me. It was you who kept me going on. Not telling me what to do, but made a difference by just giving little bits of encouragement during our shift every single day. Celine, thank you for being so understanding and forgiving despite scolding you so many times when I found you bossy. Everytime I ended up in tears, you will pray for me and sometimes even shedding tears with me. I have so much more to say but I'm afraid I might bore my readers. A big, large, humongous, enormous thank you from the bottom of my heart. :)

Mr. Nigel
From the time I first met you in Form 1, you have been taking care of me. Pulling me up when I'm down. Encouraging me more like a friend than a teacher. Being my spiritual mentor, instilling Godly principles in me that made me who I am today. Sorry for the times where I even scolded you very rudely during my emotional turmoils.

Mr. Andrew and Mdm. Nicole
Being my teacher advisors, sorry for blaming it on you all this while. Thank you for giving me chances after chances despite the many mistakes I made. Sorry if we had any previous misunderstandings of any sort. I do see now your good intentions of lecturing me and pointing out my mistakes.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished the race, I have remained faithful.

Now it's a new race.

Full of vision and enthusiasm for next year's board.

I will never let the board down again.

Teedeedum :)

2010-03-28T18:42:00.001+08:00

Whoa. My blog is so dead.

Haven't even got the time to sit down and breathe lately.

Current things I'm busy with:
Boys' Brigade
Arranging songs for band. Drill practises. Band practises. Tiring stuff.

NO GREATER LOVE
Smss Easter Musical Presentation. Stayed on quite a number of evenings and skipped many classes just to practise for this drama. Tedious work. If it wasn't for the sake of God's glory, I would have quit way earlier.

Piano
Grade 8 isn't easy stuff. I really need PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. Especially when I'm involved in so many other things, time for practices are so rare. Praying I won't fail. :)

Useless Stuff
Facebook. Sleeping. TV. They keep me busy as well.

Kuantan

2010-03-15T23:10:00.000+08:00

As stated in my previous post, my blog is pretty dead. Reason being, I had been really busy with a lot of involvements that I've committed to. BB, Chapel, School, Prefect, Studies, Church, CF Easter.

I have the time to finally sit down and finally blog right here in Swiss Garden Hotel, Kuantan for a family vacation. Just got here this afternoon and it was a pretty tiring day.

The past month has been...nevermind. I'm tired and I wanna rest. I'll update some other time.

Teedeedum.
Justin C.

Dead.

2010-03-07T21:39:00.000+08:00

i declare my blog ~~officially~~ unofficially dead.

haven't been posting since ages.
much going on in life.
very very busy days.
none which are of much significance.

really wanting to get back on track with God in life.
really wanting to do something significant in life this year.

Toilet Paper

2010-02-16T19:21:00.002+08:00

Have been down with a flu the past few days of CNY. Saddening I know. And as we all know, when we have flu, we have toilet paper. And it suddenly reminded me of a quote I read:

2010-02-14T18:47:00.000+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day to the person who apparently landed on my blog.

Keeping a blog alive during school days isn't an easy job. Especially, when you get that writer's block when you're bogged down by so many other things in life. Finally, I've got the time to sit down and keep the heart of my blog beating.

And now...*writer's block*

JustInRandomFind:

Connie Talbot

Goodbye.

Smile.

2010-02-11T22:36:00.002+08:00

Finally, I'm back on my blog. Haven't posted for a million years or so.

Anyway, January has just passed (well, not just...but it passed) and much has been going on. A new year, new friends, new BB Company, new subjects, new class. It's a NEW new year for me.

Just so many things on my mind. Can't seem to put it down into words. I promise I will when I can.

Chinese New Year coming up. A time to gather with your distant family members. Smile and wave hoping to maintain a good reputation of your immediate family. My mum is currently into baking New Year cookies (not something which she does often) and I helped (to eat).

My mum's newly learnt recipe. Pineapple Cookies.

Picture on the right. Picture taken from the carpark of the school during devotion. (which means I didn't do my devotion.) Well, the lighting was awesome that day and I just couldn't help capturing that picture. It was just so wonderful. To justify myself, I would just think of it as admiring God's gift of light which means I was kind of doing my devotion.

Post Discipleship Camp. Recently over.

Checked in and out during the camp. I was attending two camps at the same time at different places. Didn't really get to enjoy the whole thing.

I'm awesome.

For the sake of posting.

2010-01-24T22:26:00.002+08:00

For the sake of posting.

To my loyal readers who actually bothers coming to my blog everytime,

My apologies for not updating for so long. Will be back soon. I hope.

Blogger,
Justin C.

To feel scared or To Stand Up?

2010-01-11T00:27:00.000+08:00

Today would be the first time ever in my entire Christian life that I enter into my very own church with a policeman at the entrance. It was so saddening to realise that Malaysia, being a democratic, multi-race/religion, free-to-worship country, is no different from the uncivilized countries that uses violence to solve issues.

It was a Friday when churches around the city of Kuala Lumpur were under arson attack. It is believed to be caused by the controversy on the use of "Allah" which made the Muslims upset and ended up firing Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs).

Whenever we bring up this issue of church attacks we tend to blame the Muslims, the Malays, the UMNO or whatsoever which I think is very unfair. They shouldn't be blamed for the damage done. The damage was done by cowards who couldn't be brave enough to go up to the church leaders and confront them but they would rather damage church buildings, tarnish the name of their own Islam religion, put the national political situation in a chaos in revenge of the use of one word: ALLAH.

In conjunction with these arson attack, there was also a rumour passed on that there were car windscreens with car stickers containing christian wordings being smashed in Bangsar. No one knows if something like that really happened and even if it did, smashing of car windscreens is a very common issue everywhere. But there were some Christians who tried to protect the safety of their car at the expense of their Christian faith. They would rather deny they are a child of a living and Almighty God than getting their windscreens smashed. It proves that many of us as Christians declaring the "real-ness" of God everytime don't actually believe the existence of God.

As the song goes: The time has come, to stand for all we believe in. This is the time, for us Christians in Malaysia after having the freedom to worship our God for the past 50 years, is now put to test of our faith. It is the work of the devil, passing rumours about windscreens, firing bombs into churches, threatening the Christian faith with the intention to weaken the strengh of Christians in this country. But that's about all they can do. They can damage church buildings, but they will not damage the church. But are we, the Christians, going to go according to the devil's plan, whose intention is to weaken us, going to deny our faith by simple acts like removing our car stickers or removing the cross from the entrance of our house or skipping church this week afraid there might be an arson attack? OR are we gonna stand up for what we believe in and show them who's boss?

They can can try to weaken the Christian faith by threatening the Christian faith but it's not up to them if the Christian faith weakens. It's up to us. It's our choice whether to weaken our Christian faith.

First Day of School

2010-01-04T22:45:00.000+08:00

*knock knock*
*groans*
*knock knock* wake up!
*groans* *buries head in the pillow* I don't wanna wake up.
It's the first day of school. Better be early or we'll get caught in a traffic jam.
OH. YEA. I forgot. *drag my feet to the bathroom*

Oh well. It's the long awaited first day of school. I've always wanted school to start during the long holidays and when it's time to get up 6.15am in the morning, it's still a dreaded experience even in the tenth year of schooling.

It's rather exciting yet awkward with all the changes I'm have to adapt to this year especially the start of this schooling.

#1 F4 Arts
As you may have guessed, I have already taken my PMR last year with pretty okay results and I'm now in Form 4. With the new subjects like accounts, commerce and all the rest of the subjects, it's gonna take a lot of effort to adapt to the change after studying the same subjects for the past nine years. And yes, for the last time, I went to the Arts stream. People have been asking me, "Why Justin why? You are good student what. Shouldn't you be in science?" or like this morning, "Eh Justin, science class upstairs la. This is arts." I don't know where the culture came from but there seem to be this culture of science students are nerds and arts students are stupid. Oh for crying out loud, arts students can just be as good as any science student. It's just a different set of subjects. So what we're not taking Chemistry or Biology. Will that make you any smarter or any more successful in the working world. Well, probably if you're a chemist or a biologist. But that's not the point. The point is, it is unfair to discriminate the art students. Contrast and balance are what makes the world goes round. Imagine if everyone was a scientist, doctor or a computer genius. The world would be without music and art and Ipods (the creation of technology geniuses) would be usesless without music.

Prefectorial Position
After going through all the news that I'm gonna be back to a probationary prefect this year and going back to school wearing my white shirt and my undersized Form1 vest used up a lot of my mental strength thinking "it'll be fine". And when I stepped into school, I realised I'm not even a probationary prefect. I'm officially demoted from all positions in the organisation that used to work so hard for and it's all gone in just a snap without a single word of appreciation or respect due. I felt really upset and the way our batch of fellow prefects were handled as it wasn't only degrading for us to have people questioning us about our demotion but it was also disrespectful for us to be treated this way after all the effort put in. Our fellow prefects who are younger than us and looked up to us as leaders are now our seniors. It's pretty ridiculous.

Then, I thought about it, maybe there's a bright side to it. It's finally a break for me from all the hassle and burden. At least, now as a normal student, I can see things from a different perspective; the perspective of my peers. Then, if i were to ever get reinstated of my position, I might be able to handle things wisely from another perspective. I guess if God allowed it to happen, it is part of God's plan and He'll be there to provide for me.

Boys' Brigade
After 2 months of resigning from 10th Kuala Lumpur Company, I have finally officially transferred back to 4th Kuala Lumpur as a Lance Corporal. 4th KL is a company very close to me and my family's heart and it's good to back where I belong especially at the state the company is in now. I believe 4th KL is going through a revival once again after 50 years in existence. It was really encouraging for me to see the difference in how the NCOs with only ranks of Lance Corporal and Corporal running the company with the officers serving as advisory roles only. 4th KL members, you're doing great. Keep going and trust God in all you do.

That's all for now. Actually not all, but I have to sleep.=) So...toodles.

Justin.

December Life

2009-12-31T15:17:00.000+08:00

起身. For the bananas out there, it means "wake up".

That's what my mum will call every morning around 10am (or sometimes in the afternoon around 1pm). Holidays are meant for sleeping in till late morning (or sometimes afternoon).

Christmas
Christmas this year was spent with my family and cousins as usual. Didn't really get the christmas mood this year somehow. Everything was passing just so quickly and didn't have the time to get into the mood. Or maybe it was because of my...

PMR Results
Of all the days to get results, our AWESOME government chose to put it on the 24th of December aka Christmas Eve. But it was no big deal. Didn't really feel worried about my results maybe because I wasn't putting high expectations on myself.

New Year's Eve
It's New Year's Eve today. That means we have a few more hours left living in this awesome year 2009. As I sat year reflecting back, it has indeed been a really rough year for me and as it ends, I really can see how God was there for me in my life although I couldn't feel Him during those times. I guess all things happened for a reason and the reason I had a rough year this year was because God was dealing with my weaknesses one by one. And as the year ends, everything seem to come back to its original awesome state.

The Highlights of my 2009 life

School:

PMR '09

F3AR Productions

F3AR '09

Form 3 Tanjung Sepat Camp

Discipleship Camp 2009

Boys' Brigade:

Promotion to Lance Corporal

Resignation from 10th Kuala Lumpur Company

The Highlights of my 2010 life

School:

F4RT '09

Discipleship Camp 2010

Back to probationary prefect

Nerd year.

Boys' Brigade:

Pesta 2009

Transfer back to 4th Kuala Lumpur Company

Looking forward to a new year with many changes to adapt to. I guess this wraps up everything.
Goodbye 2009.
2010 here I come.

JustInASecond.

My gosh. So many words and no pictures. Apologies. =)

2009-12-16T13:26:00.001+08:00

MLIA. MLIA. MLIA. Just found out what that meant last night. After seeing it like for the millionth time on everyone's facebook statuses, I finally decided to google what it meant.

My Life Is Average. I just noticed that it's a website with people submitting their weird and web-worthy stories of their daily life; waiting for facebook users with no idea what to put as their status updates, duplicating the stories that amuse them.

Then....I had a thought.

My Life Is Average. Everyone says we are average. Everyone tells us that we live like average people, doing average stuff, having average friends, and well, have an average life. Everyone now tries to be an average so they can fit into that "average" clique.

You call it cool. I call it ridiculous. Everybody is trying to be like somebody just to find out that the somebody is trying to be like everybody and nobody is actually their original "me". The equation:

ME = Somebody = Everybody = Anybody = Nobody = Me

We have only ONE life that is granted to us here on this planet. Why waste it becoming somebody else rather than being yourselves? Is life so superficial that we have to act as someone else everyday? We try to live up to people's standards to satisfy others. Where's the originality and individuality of everybody?

Life is indeed average now. With everyone like everyone. The world is getting really boring don't you think?
Why not be an original and live life according to your own dreams and ambitions. We try to satisfy the world by being by the world, but the world is not satisfied because you are just like the world. We don't need another everybody. We need originals in this world.

People laugh at me because I'm different,

I laugh at you because you are all the same.

Sick.

2009-12-13T19:23:00.000+08:00

*sniff* *sniff*
Just recovered from a high fever, flu and sore throat.

Of all the days to fall sick, I had to just when I was on worship duty in church. I woke up all groggy from all the medicine the previous night. It was like a million miles away walking from my room to the hall and I live in a condo. When I finally reached my destination, I just melted there feeling all blur. Then my dad, in the midst of my blurness, said, "hey, I'm gonna bring you to the clinic for injection. You'll recover faster." And in the midst of my blurness, not realising what he just said, I said, "owh, okay..."

I went downstairs, opened the car door and slumped into the car seats trying to get myself into the best position for comfort. Lie down on two seats - no; recline the seats and lie down - no, maybe I'll turn my body to the left - no. Finally, I decided to just sit up and act alert. Well, the "acting" did make me alert and by the time I reached the guard house, I realised I just agreed to take an injection. Oh well, I'll live.

At the clinic, I was all uncomfortable again. With the smell of medicine and leather chairs; the sound of fans, nurses chatting, and a pump of a fish tank; I felt all queasy at the thought of being in a clinic. The nurse was rummaging through the stacks of blue manila card trying to look for my name. Nope. They didn't find it. Great isn't it? So they took out a brand new form, with all the blanks waiting to be filled with my details. So they said,

Nurse: Can I have your MyKad?

Me: I didn't bring. (How am i supposed to remember my MyKad when I was barely conscious)

The first blank said name, and as expected they asked me,

Nurse: Okay then. What's your name?

And since my dad remembered my name, he helped me answer that one

Dad: Justin Chen Heen...

Nurse: Whutt? How do you spell that?

Dad: H - E - E - N - J - U - N

The next blank said "IC No, and again, as expected they asked,

Nurse: What's your MyKad number?

Me: Nine. *sniff* Four *sniff* *sigh* *inhale* Zero (barely able to breathe and they are asking me to recite my 12-digit IC number by heart? Why can't they have shorter ones like they used to last time?)

The next blank stated gender, and I was about to answer "MALE" only realizing that it obvious and I didn't have to answer that.

Then I was asked to sit on the couch and wait for the doctor. (They just have to make you wait and make the doctor feel all important and make us feel all desperate for them.)

Well, I'll save the details on what happened in the room. That's because the doctor gave me an injection on my butt and I would like to reveal to anyone about that. Wait, I just said it. Oh well, I will live.=) The doctor also had to check for urinary problems so I shall not say anything and I shall leave you to guess which body part he had to check on.

After the injection, I could hardly walk. Not that it was painful but I felt all weak and my muscles cramp. All for the sake of making it for worship duty in church.

2009-12-07T17:23:00.001+08:00

It's 7.42am of a Saturday morning. Waking up in my freezing cold room under the protection of my soft comforter on my very own bed realizing that I'm not in STM after 5 days. If you do not know what I'm talking about, I'm talking about my 5 days in Discipleship Camp at Seminari Teoloji Malaysia.

Before the school holidays started, I was already bored out by the Post-PMR feeling. With nothing to do and nothing to be bothered about. Life just got so empty suddenly. Besides the fact that I had to run errands for Mr. Nigel for the preparation of camp like typing letters on typewriters, printing name tags and laminating them, scheduling worship teams and all of those behind-the-scene jobs where no one can be bothered to do.

I really have no words to describe this year's discipleship camp beside saying it rocked (which we are not allowed to). Anyway, God really moved in this camp and I believe it has touched many many lives even those who came with wrong intentions or a closed heart. God moved very differently this year compared to last year. He moved in a very soft and gentle way compared to last year where He moved really powerfully.

Camp Speaker/ Co-ordinator

One different aspect of this camp compared to last year was the pride of the school that was instilled into us this year. The session where we talk on the relationship between us and our school, I think God really spoke to many of us. Especially with the emo version of the school song, the song suddenly became so meaningful that many broke down into tears.

Camp Commandant

We celebrated this year's Fun Night a little differently. Red, green and white. Snowflake decorations. Gifts lined up at the back. Christmas carols. Yup, our theme was Christmas. The only thing missing was a Christmas tree. The whole intention of having the Christmas theme for this year was to give people who do not have a chance to celebrate Christmas an experience of the Christmas celebration.

I think what made the night so memorable was the serious ending. Where we were asked to hug each other and express appreciations and apologies. It really enabled us to feel the true meaning of Christmas to give, to share and to reconcile with one another rather than the commercialized version of Christmas where there is Santa, Shopping and Sales.

Never managed to get a picture of Aolani

The two people I spent most of my time in camp with.

My awesome roommates

2009-11-25T13:50:00.003+08:00

Had nothing to do yesterday. Well, had nothing to do practically every other day of my holidays.

So, out of randomness while sitting at Jalan Mutiara 5 at 7.02pm, I decided to take pictures of the sunset.

The Tanjung Sepat ones had clear skies with dead mangrove trees jutting out here and there.

Tanjung Sepat Post-Pmr Camp. (It's a sunrise not a sunset)

Well, this is a Jalan Mutiara 5, KL sunset with cables and lamp posts jutting out here and there.

2009-11-24T22:15:00.000+08:00

It's the end of the school term. I can just feel the weight and spare tyres coming into my body. I just know that I'm gonna put on weight and get fat anytime soon. So I've been on a strict diet of facebooking, sleeping, eating, watching tv and facebooking again. Try that. Works for me.

Anyway, my batch ended our year with the Tanjung Sepat camp. Pretty cool. Except we didn't get to spend our last few days with our other schoolmates. But I think the camp was a great one mainly because we really got to bond with friends we weren't so close to before.

Well, I guess my school year was really rough but I guess it ended very very well. I really loved how it ended with all my good friends right beside me. A big thank you my friends. Reeaalllyyyyy appreciate your each and every friendship.

Now, looking forward to Discipleship Camp...=)

camp, camp, camp. Post-PMR @ Tanjung Sepat ( Part I )

2009-11-23T14:26:00.001+08:00

Hellow people of the world. :D

I have totally no idea how to start. Right.

So on the 18th of November, we went to Tanjung Sepat for our Post-PMR camp. Oh ya oh ya, so we planned to wear the same tee. The journey there was like WHOAAAAA. Because we, the smart asses sat at the last row. How smart of us, right? So whenever there's a bump or something, we'll all fly up. Awesome. :)

I'll skip the breakfast part cuz it was like hell. So we reached the Bagan Lalang beach or something like that and got seperated into groups. Group C rocks, I tell you.

group photo. <33

this is Group C aka CYU

proves that we rock huh? :D

After that, we headed to our homestay. On de way there, obviously we camwhored. :)

So we reached the Ganofarm Homestay. After resting for one hour, we're supposed to gather together. It was about 2pm but it looks more like 6+. The sky was damn dark. And thennnnnnnn.........

I chilled. :D

Stay tuned for more of our craps. :)

Message from the owner of this blog:

This post is entirely by Carmen Wong, the personal blog secretary of JustInAsecond, and the owner of this blog, Justin Chen, will take no responsibility whatsoever for this post. Thank you.

2009-11-15T15:50:00.000+08:00

It's the END OF THE WORLD!!

Went to watch it the other day. The story was crap. The acting was err...

But the effects was SUPERB!! I guess that was what we were paying for.

The whole story was a little ridiculous. I mean if it was the end of the world, why bother escaping? And if people are able to escape the end of the world, then I guess that wouldn't be the end of the world, would it?

The effects were pretty cool. Seeing historical and famous buildings like the Eiffel tower collapsing. Seeing roads crack and sending cars flying around.

Just love the name. Austin. I should name my son that someday.

The coffee was great but I'm sure it is crap to coffee lovers. Mainly because it isn't as strong as Starbucks and it's sweeter. But I definitely like it better because it's cheaper than Starbucks.

Talking about Starbucks... Starbucks is so overrated. Why would people pay so much for a cuppa coffee? Nothing special about it to me. People are paying just because it's a branded place. As in, you would rather tell people you are in Starbucks than you are in Austin Chase because of its glamour. Come to think of it, YOU are paying way more just because THEY get the popularity. Crap..

Bought the Cheer You Up t-shirt from Giordano together with my other friends. They plan to wear it during Post-PMR camp in Tanjung Sepat. Bunch of losers. Wearing the same shirt as each other when we already do that in school every other day. But guess what? I'm one of those losers too.

austin chase is the new starbucks. <3

2009-11-14T00:42:00.002+08:00

woots. went out with people of the world today. spent time at the new starbucks, austin chase and played poker with uno cards. awesome eyh? :P i <3 austin chase. sounds gay though, but who cares. :DD watched 2012. i find it lame. but the graphics were awesome. :) anddddd, not to forget, there's two malay freaks which went into the wrong cinema hall and claimed dat we were wrong. eff them.

austin chase. <3

pokerrrr.

goodbye. :)

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This post is entirely by Carmen Wong, the personal blog secretary of JustInAsecond, and the owner of this blog, Justin Chen, will take no responsibility whatsoever for this post. Thank you.

November Life

2009-11-07T22:07:00.000+08:00

Wooh!!

It's November.

Much stuff has been going on in my October life.

And finally everything's settled this month.

Studies:
No studies.

Boys' Brigade:
Finally a burden lifted off after deciding to officially resign from 10th Kuala Lumpur Company. Now deciding on when to go back to my home company, 4th KL.

Friends:
I love my blog I tell you. My friend who I treasured very much and had a row with recently read my blog. And because she did, she finally saw my point of view. Thanks to my blog, another friendship have been saved. To that friend, thank you for being so open-minded to accept my point of view for opening yourself to second opinions after so long.

Maybe having a fight with my good friends had a good side to it. I got to know many new people, new friends.

Personal:
I made it a point to smile everyday after this crisis. Why? In life, there are ups and downs. We can't choose that. But we can choose how we want to go through it. With or without a smile there are always barriers in life. I have chosen to live life with a smile.=)

Conclusion:
I am currently very happy with life. After a whole month of crisis, I did a whole lot of thinking. Maybe it wasn't a bad thing after all. It really built my character and helped me see my weaknesses and a whole new aspect of life. I began to trust God more during my crisis and now I'm getting back on the right track with God.

Happy Birthday Carmen

2009-11-02T00:00:00.040+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARMEN WONG!!

also known as:

- mun

- C<3

- loser (to me)

- smiley (to me)

- dai ka jeh

- chubby cheeks (to me)

- girlfriend of the LEE's

- a great friend.

- the person who always makes my day

Also known as:

THE FIRST STAR OF F3AR PRODUCTIONS

Sorry...that was the best picture i could get..

The girl who peed in her pants in primary school.

No hard feelings for sharing it with the whole world online? =)

The girl who can't live without her phone. tik, tik, tak, tik, tak. *message sent*

My Starbucks buddy. *That's her shoe swinging there by the way.

A person who wishes to bomb the world.

And probably a very very good friend.

And as you would probably make me say:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.=)

Good luck flying around the world bombing and rescuing people.

You don't always get what you want in life.

Have a great 15th birthday bomberwoman,

JustInASecond.

2009-11-01T23:16:00.002+08:00

Just came back from Carmen's be-earlied birthday at Sunway Pyramid.

Legs aching after 9 hours of walking.

I seriously need to get a camera soon. No pictures.=)

Come back at 12am, 2nd November and there comes Carmen's birthday post.

Weird

2009-10-30T21:52:00.001+08:00

Weird.

October Life

2009-10-26T18:25:00.003+08:00

Ooh.

Haven't posted for some time.

And currently...i'm so overwhelmed with thoughts I just don't know what to write.

Putting it into categories.

Studies:
PMR was over around 2 weeks ago. Yes I know I'm a bit outdated. I was just wondering why were we all so relaxed during exam season. I actually felt guilty for not being stressed.

Boys' Brigade:
Recently promoted to a Lance Corporal on the last Awards' Day. A lot of pressure that I'm feeling in making decisions whether to transfer company (not the Boys' Brigade, I'm proud to be one). However, I will not say much about why I'm thinking of leaving the company out of respect to the 10th KL (not wanting to defame them).

Back to promotion. Recently, I was promoted along with my peers. It is quite an honour but not as much honour compared to when I was in 4th KL where it's NCOs are promoted based on leadership.

I have friends telling me to quit BB. Well, I am proud to be a brigader. Maybe because I was born into Boys' Brigade and let's say I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for BB. Literally. My mum and dad met in Boys' Brigade so I guess without BB I wouldn't be sitting here blogging. I was pretty much involved with the whole glamour and honour of BB and I guess that's what makes me so proud to be a member. My dad, a person whom I have great respect for, is a loyal member of BB and has been in the brigade for more than 30years. Much of my life is revolved around BB and honour to my dad. To my seniors, I may not seem to be very much outspoken and active in the company, but BB means way more to me that it is to you. Maybe I'm not as loyal to the company because I was born into 4th KL and not 10th KL. Or maybe it was the fact of how much hurt and disappointment the company has left to my dad.

Me and my dad when I was a toddler during a 4th KL Enrolment Service.

Friends:
Well, recently had a pretty big row with a group of my good friends. And made up with them. And separated again. That's how long I haven't been posting. Well, it was mainly my fault on whatever happened at first. But as things got worse, I was accused of everything that was possible to happen. I'm very willing to apologise and give in whether it was my fault or not because of how much they mean to me. Just that, I'm not even given a chance to talk to them now.

To the people-whom-I-hope-to-call-friends, if you're reading this, let me make a public apology and say I'm sorry for however I have disappointed you. I really took you all for granted and there might be a chance I'll be losing you forever although I hope otherwise. But let me tell you guys, you were really great friends and I hope we'll come to a day we'll just forgive each other.
To the rest of my loyal blog readers, if you have friends now, treasure them with all your heart. Tell them you love them NOW because you'll never know when you might lose them. Do not take them for granted as you will really regret not appreciating them enough when you lose 'em.

Prefect:
Is currently slacking after lazing around for weeks during PMR season. Too lazy to get back on duty. Since we're on this topic, you know, there are people who thinks that prefects are teacher's dogs who love to report students, chat hai (polish shoe) of teachers and act like a total snob. Well, to me, we're not teacher's servant, but God's servant, we're serving Him and the school. To the students, we do not love to report you, in fact, we hate reporting with a passion, but out of duty and responsibility we have to. Friends, do what is right and don't put us in a tough situation of reporting you. And to those who think you can discourage us prefects by peer pressuring us, let me tell you, it's not succeeding, and I'm gonna say it loud and clear, I'm proud to be a prefect.

Next year, will be going back as a probationary prefect due to the new system the school is implementing starting from our batch. WHY US? Good or bad? Good and bad. I'm pretty much looking forward to be being a white again but somehow the feeling of being of demoted is still there.

Conclusion:
I am facing a very hard time in life. Making decisions in every aspect of life. Feeling very empty and down at the moment. Can't feel God in this situation. But I believe it is these barriers in life that builds my character and my faith in God when I don't feel His presence. Now, putting myself into a helpless situation where I can't do anything to get back with my friends. I believe God has a plan for me though. It really taught me to lean back on God and trust Him in leading me to the life He wants me to live.

Don't take life too seriously.

You never get out alive anyway.

God bless. Take care.

Justin.

Happy Birthday Jyn Ee

2009-10-17T09:34:00.003+08:00

Went to JynEe's birthday gathering in MidValley.

Watched Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.

I'm so tired and I don't feel like writing at all.

I'll just put pictures instead. =)

Pizza Hut.

Ransacking BORDERS bookstore.

Showing off phones

Bryan, an old friend, was there too.

Starbucks.

Posing with the birthday girl.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JYNEE!!

Time's fun when you're having flies.

2009-09-27T17:04:00.006+08:00

Time's fun when you're having flies.

Graveyard

2009-09-24T17:16:00.002+08:00

Ever seen a graveyard? It looks plain and sometimes creepy.

The land is all bare with tombstones sticking out here and there.

But the most important "thing" in a graveyard is what lies 6 feet under.

No, not the dead people, but potential that lies within.

Songs unsung

Poems unwritten

Inventions uninvented

Smiles unsmiled

Hearts untouched

Lives unlived

These people are as dead as they ever were.

They never lived their lives but merely existed in the world.

It's better to die empty-handed than to die full of unused potential

Which are you going to be?

Empty or full?

Loneliness

2009-09-23T21:29:00.001+08:00

Loneliness is the worst crisis a social-being can ever face.

And humans are social beings.

Old Priest

2009-09-22T12:24:00.003+08:00

The old priest lay dying in the hospital...
For years He had faithfully served the people of the nation's capital. He motioned for his nurse to come near.
"Yes, Father?" said the nurse.
"I would really like to see Khairy and Samy Velu before I
die", whispered the priest.
"I'll see what I can do, Father" replied the nurse.
The nurse sent the request to them and waited for a
response. Soon the word arrived. Khairy and Samy would be delighted to visit the priest.
As they went to the hospital, Khairy commented to Samy "I
don't know why the old priest wants to see us, but it will certainly help our images."
Samy couldn't help but agree.
When they arrived at the priest's room, the priest took Samy's
hand in his right hand and Khairy's hand in his left. There was silence and a look of serenity on the old priest's face.
Finally Samy spoke. "Father, of all the people you could have
chosen, why did you choose us to be with you as you near the
end?"
The old priest slowly replied "I have always tried to pattern my life after our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
The old priest continued... "He died between two lying thieves.
I would like to do the same."

Choosers.

2009-09-19T22:08:00.002+08:00

In life

We have many

luxuries

distractions

advantages

ups

downs

whatever not.

Sometimes it just tightens our life so much that we don't know what our life is for

We tend to live the things in life rather than living life itself.

We become slaves to the things in life

torn apart by them

lose our life to them.

And eventually get KILLED by them.

For the past week, I have been pulling myself out of the comfort of friends, luxuries, studies and everything.

Trying to come back and seek myself and God.

We are not born winners nor losers but choosers.

And i chose to live life with a smile.=)

Complicated Life?

2009-09-18T23:45:00.003+08:00

Life is complicated to many with social, physical, emotional, spiritual aspects to consider. In biology, the science that studies living organisms, "life" is the condition which distinguishes active organisms from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, functional activity and the continual change preceding death.Living organisms undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations. More complex living organisms can communicate through various means.In philosophy and religion, the conception and nature of life varies, and offer interpretations in the frameworks of existence and consciousness, and touch on many other related issues, such as, ontology, value, life stance, purpose, conceptions of God, the soul and the afterlife.

WHY IS LIFE SO COMPLICATED

or rather

WHY DO WE LIVE IT SO COMPLICATED-LY?

Let's all live life with a smile.=)

PMR

2009-09-07T21:52:00.001+08:00

PMR in exactly 30 days.

I should feel stress.

But I decided to smile and be happy about life.

Life

2009-09-04T23:37:00.001+08:00

Only one life to live in.
What are we here for?
To be born, exist and die?
Or are we here for a purpose?

I know my stand.
I'm here for a purpose.
Not to merely exist.
But to live my life.
According to His will.

It's hard.
But I will run my race.
Fight my fight.
Keep my faith.

Or am I?
It's just so hard.
Just feel like giving up.
Everything is going wrong.

Where are you God?

Hols

2009-09-01T00:40:00.001+08:00

Last day of holidays.
Two weeks to trials.
Still blogging.

Trying to feel stressed and tensed.
But here I am relaxing and blogging.

JustInASecond.

Merdeka!!

2009-08-30T22:06:00.002+08:00

MERDEKA!! MERDEKA!! Those were the words that were shouted victoriously 7 times by our first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman 52 years ago as a sign of independence from British colonialism. It was indeed a proud moment for the people of its land.

52 years later, our prime minister, Dato Seri Najib Razak (above) , came up with a new theme, 1Malaysia, hoping to unite a nation that has been facing political, economical, social and ethnicity turmoils. This campaign is based on the motto People First, Performance Now. This theme is followed by many propogandas through commercials, blogs, news etc. There was even a 1Malaysia theme song contest to add to the publicity. It is just the perfect image for any nation.

But. Is it so perfect? Is it even close to perfect or even on the way to perfecting it? Our whole 1Malaysia theme was to promote rakyat unity. People first, performance now. That's what it says. However, the way it is now, Malaysia and 1Malaysia doesn't seem to match very well.

From our simplest borangs (forms), we have to include a race and religion box to be filled. Same with public exams and all other documents that has to do with our government. If unity of multi-races is what our Prime Minister wants, what are the use of these blanks?

Why is it that our universities and colleges have quotas and ratios of percentages of races?
Why is it that there are Malay rights?
Why is it that Malays has better chances of getting loans?

Okay, in our country there are bumi rights since history. But, don't our BUMIPUTERAS consist of East Malayisians too? What happened to our Sabahan and Sarawakian friends? Let's be honest. Do they get the same rights too?

Why talk so much about unity when our government themselves are putting so much attention into differentiating the races?

People first, Performance now?
OR MAYBE
Talk first, it's just a performance.

1MALAYSIA. People first, Performance now.
OR IS IT?

Unless they comprehend this and GENUINELY CHANGE for the better, Najib and his entire Barisan Nasional will never be successful in achieving the ideals of 1Malaysia, let alone a united Malaysia. Slogans are going out of fashion and so will the BN.

Introduction

2009-08-30T21:52:00.001+08:00

Hi readers-who-happen-to-land-on-my-blog,

presenting my new blog

http://JustInASecond.blogspot.com

For your information, my old blog http://SometimesIJustHaveNoIdeaWhy.blogspot.com has been deleted some weeks back due to many reasons which I'm not gonna talk about.

Anyway, this is my new blog and that means I have lost all of your blog links.
If you happen to drop by here, go drop by at my Cbox as well with your blog link so I can relink you. Okay? Okay.

Cheers,
JustInASecond