The LAST DAY


On the 2nd of September, seven Royal Rangers (Zechary, Yu Tjin, Bryan, Hosanna, Renee, Diane, and Victoria) finally received their Gold Medal of Achievement (GMA) award. I witnessed the Council of Achievement (COA) in the main service. Gee whiz, do you know how many SEVEN people are?! It’s quite rare for seven people to earn the GMA at one time. It’s the highest award in the Royal Rangers achievement list. So far, in the KL #1 outpost, only one person (Hansel, I think) is getting it, but incredibly, he managed to complete it in only ONE YEAR! Usually, “normal” people take about 2 years at least to do it. But still, I agree, seven is a good number. =P Good job to you guys who managed to complete your GMA. =D

ARGH, guess what? I’m fuming with rage now. On Sunday there was this march pass presentation by the Rangers in conjunction with the GMA thingy, and I took a video of it. I thought I’ll post it up today, but guess what?! The video is lost! For no reason at all. Argh. Dang. The video is supposedly, “corrupted”. So I just lost a priceless video. Grrr… You can’t imagine how peeved I am now.

The 2nd of September also marks the last day I got to see Denissa, Hosanna, and Cmdr Deanna. The LAST day! Can you believe it? And unfortunately, I’ve only got to know them for a few months. Nevertheless, I’m still very glad and grateful to God that I had the chance to meet them before they are leaving for Abu Dhabi. (Yeah, I think you would want to check the encyclopedia if you’re unsure of where or who Abu Dhabi is.) AHAHAH. They’ll be leaving on the 6th of September (this Thursday – TOMORROW!). Yeah, TOMORROW!

And they’ll be missing this year’s Cookarama! Ahaha. Denissa got extremely desperate during Rangers on Sunday. (I shall not want to explain further, though. =P) Anyway, fortunately, I brought my camera along with me on the LAST DAY. So here are some of the pictures that we took. Sad la, a lot of it was blur because I was in the picture. (That means, since I’m in the picture, there’s no one expert enough to hold the camera while I’m in the picture and take a nice clear picture with me in it la!) Haha, kidding.

So here are the shots. Enjoy. =)



Deni, Amanda, Isaac (Amanda's brother), and I. Our first jumping picture. And also, the clearest picture of all. (Credits to Janice)



Kisses for the girl-who's-gonna-leave-us.

Kaitlynn (Credits to Deni. I quite like this picture. The table is piled up with our stuff!)

Adrienne and Abigail doing merits. (Or rather, rushing to finish their merits... =P)

Amanda, Grace, and Deni

Amanda and I
It was supposed to be a "stressed" looking picture.

Aw man, I wish Janice took a clear picture of this. (Points to Zoe - the first blur figure on the left)

Zoe, Denissa, and "little blur figure", Ashley. Ahahaha.

Abigail and Deni

I didn't take this picture OK...

Someone wanted to squash Zoe's camera.

Sorry for the really blurr pictures. I put the camera to the "continuous shooting" mode. But we were moving too fast, so yeah, our faces are blurr. Gah.

Mind you, I actually have a lot of other pictures. But since they were kinda blurr, and we looked kinda mad in the pictures...

Attempting "lala" poses.

Haha, I was changing the color modes to experiment. =P Shaina, Me, Deni, Zoe, Amanda, and Janice.

Ashley and I
Ashley and Janna

Hosanna and I

Dear Hosanna and Denissa, I pray you'll reach Abu Dhabi safely tomorrow. And please, don’t get too desperate, Deni. AHAHAHA. =P God bless you loads. See you sometime soon! =D Toodles.

By the way, to those of you who'll be crashing KLIA and doing your "operasi" to block KLIA or something to stop Denissa from hopping into the plane tomorrow to fly off to Abu Dhabi so that she can bring oranges and durians and be our main chef for Cookarama this Sunday, I DO hope you're successful. Really, really. =D

Expect the Unexpected!

Whoopee doo! I’ll be going for this GRC Rally. Here’s the flyer. All the details are in it. Make sure you try to come. It’s a rally organized by the Grace Resource Center homeschoolers. And it’s a combine rally including PJ, USJ, and Klang.

A few days ago I was chatting with Naeden and he asked me whether I’d be going for the rally. I said I wasn’t sure whether I could go or not. Then guess what he said?

“Come la… If you come, sure a lot of people will come wan.”

Ahahaha. I was laughing my head off. Eh, but quite true also right? Hahaha, kidding. xD But still… OK anyway, just make sure you don’t come because of me. =P Well, the reason I really want to go is because it’ll be a good chance for me to meet up with my old home school friends again. =D AND, I’ll sure be bringing my camera this time. So once again, BE THERE, or BE SQUARE!

- I’m having a beautiful day -

Breaking Free

“What’s with the title?” you ask. Ahaha. It just came to me when I was typing this post. And so, you shall find out why it’s entitled “Breaking Free.” (It will be a bit “awkward” when I start this post.)

Do you agree with me that kids, imitate, their parents?

Well, I’m sure such a thought has come across your mind before: Next time when I grow up, I’ll never become what my mother is today. She’s such a nagpot! (I think I just invented a new word. OK, I suppose “nagpot” means: a person who nags a lot.) AHAHA. =P But of course, without our dear mothers nagging at us frivolous youths, we’d be arriving our doom’s day already. Really! If God didn’t send us mothers to nag us and remind us to do all that “bothersome stuff”, we’d be waking up late and staying up all night on the Internet playing stupid online games and forgetting to eat our dinners. xD

But still, we’re still the worst rascals ever, sometimes. EVEN with our mothers nagging at us! My goodness. And remember, I’m also referring to Janielle Beh. Though she might be more decent than some of you. =P AHAHAHAH!

The first few paragraphs were just a “starter” to get you going with what I’m “hitting at” in this post. Over weeks and months and years you are slowly imitating the people you frequently hang out with. Oh my, that makes you wonder, for homeschoolers like ME… WHO exactly do I frequently “hang out” with? Muffins and maggots, I think I’m really quite doomed now! AHAHAHA. But yes, it’s quite true. Who do YOU often hang out with? Are they good company? Perhaps, they are causing you a lot of trouble and discomfort…

Now here’s when the verse comes in:

“Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.” – 3 John, verse 11

Do you know how you imitate someone? The definition of imitate is: to try to be like, or to pretend to be someone else. Hmm, does that ring a bell? Often, we tend to “try to be” like someone else. And very often, we try to be like the WRONG person. And that is a serious offence, I warn you. You’re not only copying God’s COPYRIGHTED handiwork, you’re also not striving to be who God has intended you to be! But really, many times we can be a real nutcase when we try to imitate someone just because he/she is seemingly in a “higher status”. That may be true, but the point is, God created you FOR A PURPOSE (to be here on earth sitting in front of the computer and reading this lovely post). =P And your DUTY is to fulfill that purpose and score rewards in heaven.

It’s no use chasing after someone else’s destiny when it’s not meant for you. (Aha! Another quote! Yay! I’m getting good at this weih.) xD

My parents always tell me and my sisters: Don’t pick up our bad habits; but follow our good habits. We must learn to leave the bad stuff ALONE. For many of us, we’ve already picked up a lot of the bad habits. So like my dad often reminds me: we must learn to BREAK FREE from all that rubbish. Really, we must. Or else, when we grow up, we’ll become worser than our parents. Oh my. Please, dear friend, you don’t want to end up a walking disaster in the future. ;) Teehee.

Those who do good are of God. But those who do evil have not SEEN God. Now why didn’t the Bible say, those who do evil are of the devil? Well, it’s simple. A lot of villains in this world today haven’t SEEN God. In other words, they have not received Jesus Christ because they haven’t encountered God’s grace. But why haven’t they? That’s because they can’t SEE God in the right “perspective”! But WHY can’t they see it?! Well it’s because they’re spiritually BLIND!

But why are they blinded in the first place? That’s because their vision is too clouded by the carnal things of this world, and their hearts are too hardened by their past evils and history. That’s why we’ve got to BREAK FREE from all these evil and wickedness and nonsense!

1 Peter 2:1-2 says, “Putting aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the Word that you may grow in God.”

Hey buddy, you gotta break free from all these trash in order to sing your freedom song. Keep that in mind. =) And not to forget, you gotta start getting desperate for God’s Word. Oh c’mon, don’t just stare at the computer like that! LOL.

- Whoopee doo! I’m glad I posted this. -