Monday, August 10, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
mt buller
14/07/09 Unigroup trip to Mt Buller
4:00 wake up
4:30 at kevs
4:50 depart
7:30-45 hire snow gear
8:30- arrive at Mt Buller
9:00- on our way up Blue Bullet chair lift
12:00 - lunch at Village
1:30- Continue skiing/ Snowboarding
2:30- Trying some Blue runs
3:30- Family run, Howqua, Summit
4:00- hiking back to The top of Holden express
4:15- Mr snowmobile offers me a ride on his bike
4:30 back at Village
5:00- depart Mt Buller
6:00- Returning hired gear, toilet stop
8:45- Boxhill for a late dinner
10:00- Home
So yes, that was pretty much our itinerary. It was insane! the conditions were quite shocking. Ice particles (icicles) would stab into your face for a good 5 minutes on the Holden express chair lift. It was a painful experience for many of us. Other funny things such as the boys failing to go up the T-bar. It was t-bar 6 kev 0 . Poor Kev, he even grazed his knee on it. Another funny thing was when Rosalie started to slowly snowboard down the hill, Brian follows saying "I'm next!" and instantly stacks it face first. Many other funny things such as colliding, and getting skis and snowboards tangled when getting off chair lifts.
It was one long 20 hour day. But an extremely fun, and exhilarating experience. Fun Fun Fun :)
4:00 wake up
4:30 at kevs
4:50 depart
7:30-45 hire snow gear
8:30- arrive at Mt Buller
9:00- on our way up Blue Bullet chair lift
12:00 - lunch at Village
1:30- Continue skiing/ Snowboarding
2:30- Trying some Blue runs
3:30- Family run, Howqua, Summit
4:00- hiking back to The top of Holden express
4:15- Mr snowmobile offers me a ride on his bike
4:30 back at Village
5:00- depart Mt Buller
6:00- Returning hired gear, toilet stop
8:45- Boxhill for a late dinner
10:00- Home
So yes, that was pretty much our itinerary. It was insane! the conditions were quite shocking. Ice particles (icicles) would stab into your face for a good 5 minutes on the Holden express chair lift. It was a painful experience for many of us. Other funny things such as the boys failing to go up the T-bar. It was t-bar 6 kev 0 . Poor Kev, he even grazed his knee on it. Another funny thing was when Rosalie started to slowly snowboard down the hill, Brian follows saying "I'm next!" and instantly stacks it face first. Many other funny things such as colliding, and getting skis and snowboards tangled when getting off chair lifts.
It was one long 20 hour day. But an extremely fun, and exhilarating experience. Fun Fun Fun :)
Friday, June 26, 2009
2 month review
I do believe it is time for another post. It's been quite a while, and heaps has happened. Let me try to recall what has happened in the past 2 months. hmmmmm ahhhh .... *thinking very hard*
I really can't believe time has flown by so quickly to think about it I'm already 1/6 of my way through uni 5 more semesters and I'm finished, that is quite insane. I wonder what I'll be like in that time.
As for now, I've put in my application for Melbourne uni next semester, that will only happen if I get a 75 GPA. let's hope I do get that, but if I were not to get it, I guess it is God telling me that Monash is where i should be.
It's really funny how God speaks to us, sometimes God gives people visions, or even a voice. But lately God has really spoken to me through passages. Let is be devotion books, the bible, or even simply the blog of another.
There was one time when a uni friend was giving me a lift home when we got into a conversation about 'fearing the lord'. I had been pondering about that for a while, and I was told that fearing the Lord was to honour him, and please God. I totally agreed. Afterwards, God once again spoke to me through this book I'm reading now called ' The uncommon woman' (making an ordinary life extraordinary). And there's this passage that just reaffirmed my questioning.
When we sin and we are quick to repent to both God and man - We are walking in the fear of the Lord.
When we are considerate of others' fellings without giving them the power to decide our value- we are walking in the fear of the Lord.
When we are willing to step out in faith to places that are beyond our reach- regardless of the cynicism of others- we are walking in the fear of the Lord.
When we pursue a holy, obedient life and entrust our reputation to the Lord Almighty- we are walking in the fear of the Lord.
I found that extremely relevant to me, those words just spoke truth. And once again God continues to amaze me:) Praise the Lord!
University life at Monash has been quite good. I spent the last week going to uni every day to study Management. And thankfully everything i had studied for did come out on the exam :)
Toy's R us is opening soon and i've been given a few training shifts before the grand opening :) I'm quite excited. I do believe I will be working at the registers, so that shall be a new and exciting experience.
Well that is all from me now.
- Jessie's 18th at Eve
- Mid sems
- Asean Ball
- Felicia's birthday
- Toy's R Us orientation
- Baptism classes
- Baptism
- a few meetings here and there
- Exams!
- After exams partayyyy :)
I really can't believe time has flown by so quickly to think about it I'm already 1/6 of my way through uni 5 more semesters and I'm finished, that is quite insane. I wonder what I'll be like in that time.
As for now, I've put in my application for Melbourne uni next semester, that will only happen if I get a 75 GPA. let's hope I do get that, but if I were not to get it, I guess it is God telling me that Monash is where i should be.
It's really funny how God speaks to us, sometimes God gives people visions, or even a voice. But lately God has really spoken to me through passages. Let is be devotion books, the bible, or even simply the blog of another.
There was one time when a uni friend was giving me a lift home when we got into a conversation about 'fearing the lord'. I had been pondering about that for a while, and I was told that fearing the Lord was to honour him, and please God. I totally agreed. Afterwards, God once again spoke to me through this book I'm reading now called ' The uncommon woman' (making an ordinary life extraordinary). And there's this passage that just reaffirmed my questioning.
When we sin and we are quick to repent to both God and man - We are walking in the fear of the Lord.
When we are considerate of others' fellings without giving them the power to decide our value- we are walking in the fear of the Lord.
When we are willing to step out in faith to places that are beyond our reach- regardless of the cynicism of others- we are walking in the fear of the Lord.
When we pursue a holy, obedient life and entrust our reputation to the Lord Almighty- we are walking in the fear of the Lord.
I found that extremely relevant to me, those words just spoke truth. And once again God continues to amaze me:) Praise the Lord!
University life at Monash has been quite good. I spent the last week going to uni every day to study Management. And thankfully everything i had studied for did come out on the exam :)
Toy's R us is opening soon and i've been given a few training shifts before the grand opening :) I'm quite excited. I do believe I will be working at the registers, so that shall be a new and exciting experience.
Well that is all from me now.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Church camp 2009
Church family camp 2009
Date: 10-13 April 2009
Camp site: Rawson Village
Theme: Cross
Speaker: Doctor John Juster aka Doc John aka our youth pastor to be!
Clue: Intense
Camp to sum it up in a word would be, awesome, actually awesome does not even come near to how great it was.
After a long ride taking the wrong "scenic route" I had my head spinning around in circles. Not ready to leave my life in Melbourne behind; the feeling of getting sick once again, after getting better from a months worth of sickness, my uni assignments and mid sems creeping up, worrying about making uni friends, keeping up with being a youth leader. Everything just felt like a burden.
Being a leader i'd been asked many questions from my kids such as "what's happening at camp?", "what are we doing at camp?" "Are we having games, will there be free time?"
And my answer was "I honestly don't know"
When Doc John announced that it was 'Inspection' it meant: no mobiles, no electronics, no magazines, no homework, no books, no FOOD! ( i bought $20 worth of food), no beloved cup noodles!I shrieked, my kids were in shock, everybody wasn't happy. I felt empty, ninja-ed, and i don't think anybody likes the feeling of being ninja-ed. Although it was not the first time i had no reception( fungus camp at camp Howqua had no reception) but it was a really hard experience for me as i was waiting for that one phone call for my job offer I'd been waiting for 2.5 months. I prayed and said to myself, it's okay, have faith and God will provide. During the camp it actually felt good not having my phone around, less of a burden, something I didn't have to think about, something I didn't have to worry about losing.
The first night we sat around in our camp groups. My group consisted of Matt, Clarie, Michelle, Paul, Lillian, Jonson, and myself. Doc John imposed questions challenging us about our church community. We discussed upon topics of, feeling inferior, unity, fusion services. Whilst this was happening Sam (one of the camp committee organisers) pulled people one by one to our prayer stations. I had absolutely no idea what Doc John had installed for us. The worst thoughts came into my mind, being blindfolded, and the feeling of being placed outside in the cold somewhere in the middle of the night. My mind screamed "no! im not ready for this!" It was my turn. My eyes read 'fear' Sam knew i was scared. He asked me "are you ready?" and I replied "NO!" But it was my turn to go. He lead me out into the cold, I hesitently baby-footed my way down to the stations with the voice of "It's okay, i'm here, I won't let go, I won't let you fall" It reminded me of God, the times that we fail, the times where we are so low, the times he doesn't seem to be there; God is carrying us. At first when i got lead into the room, and had to read the directions, i was scared. After reading the instructions I was blindfolded again, and lead to sit. Someone came out to get me, lead me into a room, and it was Clifford. This station was about letting go of our idols, I knelt infront of the box of distractions we all face everyday, from everybody's mobile, to cup noodles, It really made me reflect on how many things we place before God. I apologised to God and felt very bad for the lifestyle i'd been living in the past. After completing the rest of the stations, it was my bed time 1 am! now call that intense
The next morning we had breakfast, and Sharon lead us in worship. It was the day where we
to be continued
Date: 10-13 April 2009
Camp site: Rawson Village
Theme: Cross
Speaker: Doctor John Juster aka Doc John aka our youth pastor to be!
Clue: Intense
Camp to sum it up in a word would be, awesome, actually awesome does not even come near to how great it was.
After a long ride taking the wrong "scenic route" I had my head spinning around in circles. Not ready to leave my life in Melbourne behind; the feeling of getting sick once again, after getting better from a months worth of sickness, my uni assignments and mid sems creeping up, worrying about making uni friends, keeping up with being a youth leader. Everything just felt like a burden.
Being a leader i'd been asked many questions from my kids such as "what's happening at camp?", "what are we doing at camp?" "Are we having games, will there be free time?"
And my answer was "I honestly don't know"
When Doc John announced that it was 'Inspection' it meant: no mobiles, no electronics, no magazines, no homework, no books, no FOOD! ( i bought $20 worth of food), no beloved cup noodles!I shrieked, my kids were in shock, everybody wasn't happy. I felt empty, ninja-ed, and i don't think anybody likes the feeling of being ninja-ed. Although it was not the first time i had no reception( fungus camp at camp Howqua had no reception) but it was a really hard experience for me as i was waiting for that one phone call for my job offer I'd been waiting for 2.5 months. I prayed and said to myself, it's okay, have faith and God will provide. During the camp it actually felt good not having my phone around, less of a burden, something I didn't have to think about, something I didn't have to worry about losing.
The first night we sat around in our camp groups. My group consisted of Matt, Clarie, Michelle, Paul, Lillian, Jonson, and myself. Doc John imposed questions challenging us about our church community. We discussed upon topics of, feeling inferior, unity, fusion services. Whilst this was happening Sam (one of the camp committee organisers) pulled people one by one to our prayer stations. I had absolutely no idea what Doc John had installed for us. The worst thoughts came into my mind, being blindfolded, and the feeling of being placed outside in the cold somewhere in the middle of the night. My mind screamed "no! im not ready for this!" It was my turn. My eyes read 'fear' Sam knew i was scared. He asked me "are you ready?" and I replied "NO!" But it was my turn to go. He lead me out into the cold, I hesitently baby-footed my way down to the stations with the voice of "It's okay, i'm here, I won't let go, I won't let you fall" It reminded me of God, the times that we fail, the times where we are so low, the times he doesn't seem to be there; God is carrying us. At first when i got lead into the room, and had to read the directions, i was scared. After reading the instructions I was blindfolded again, and lead to sit. Someone came out to get me, lead me into a room, and it was Clifford. This station was about letting go of our idols, I knelt infront of the box of distractions we all face everyday, from everybody's mobile, to cup noodles, It really made me reflect on how many things we place before God. I apologised to God and felt very bad for the lifestyle i'd been living in the past. After completing the rest of the stations, it was my bed time 1 am! now call that intense
The next morning we had breakfast, and Sharon lead us in worship. It was the day where we
to be continued
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
the blog has arrived
yes! the blog has finally arrived. lately ive been busy to blog, or just cant be bothered blogging
HMMM ill fill you in about the pat few months or however so long i havent blogged for later but for now. being at the matheson library all by myself suduced me into blogging.
this week has been a reallly busy week. on friday i met up with melissa, and her friend yanie, shi ting and karina, talking about carrot cake, char kwai teow etc. all the good food over in singapore. it was a really fun time
sat- i cant really remember, gym or something, and diner with the girls
sun- church, fusion was worship sunday, then an extensive rehearsal for camp, then dinner for my cousins babys one month party
mon- uni
tues- uni at 8:30 am, then uni, then boxhill to buy camp stuff, then drinks with the girls for jessies birthday, then rehearsal at 7:30 for camp all night long
today, got up super early because i was to study for my economics test, but, i convinced myself to stay in bed, and study on the bus. so i did. the test went alright. i guess
OHHH good news! my first stats assignment ETC1000 and i got 43/50 and that was the max in the class, mean was 32, and standard deviation was 8. something. hehehe very statistical hehehe
ok, going to meet up with rosalie for rehearsal, then dinner with unigroupers
ill blog in detail soon. probably after EASTER CHURCH CAMP YAYYYYYY
i canttttt wait!
bye
HMMM ill fill you in about the pat few months or however so long i havent blogged for later but for now. being at the matheson library all by myself suduced me into blogging.
this week has been a reallly busy week. on friday i met up with melissa, and her friend yanie, shi ting and karina, talking about carrot cake, char kwai teow etc. all the good food over in singapore. it was a really fun time
sat- i cant really remember, gym or something, and diner with the girls
sun- church, fusion was worship sunday, then an extensive rehearsal for camp, then dinner for my cousins babys one month party
mon- uni
tues- uni at 8:30 am, then uni, then boxhill to buy camp stuff, then drinks with the girls for jessies birthday, then rehearsal at 7:30 for camp all night long
today, got up super early because i was to study for my economics test, but, i convinced myself to stay in bed, and study on the bus. so i did. the test went alright. i guess
OHHH good news! my first stats assignment ETC1000 and i got 43/50 and that was the max in the class, mean was 32, and standard deviation was 8. something. hehehe very statistical hehehe
ok, going to meet up with rosalie for rehearsal, then dinner with unigroupers
ill blog in detail soon. probably after EASTER CHURCH CAMP YAYYYYYY
i canttttt wait!
bye
Saturday, March 7, 2009
he's finally 18
Yesterday was Gabriel's 18th. FINALLLLLLYYYY!!!
Because i couldn't stay til late, i joined him with a few others (Gina, Karina, Kelly, Guo Hao, Eddy, Brian) for a kind of pre party thing, if you wanted to put it that way.
As it was Guo hao, Eddy, and Brian's 'holiday' over in Melbourne we decided to take them to do 'touristy' stuff. Firstly starting off at Maxbrenners, however after big fail trying to find a spot at QV and melb central we decided to go to this place near by the Maxbrenners at Melb central. The iced chocolate was not-so-good, while the tiramisu slice was quite good.
Afterwards after canceling my plan to go to docklands, we instead decided to take the 3 sg boys to Flinders street, yes a lot of touristy stuff to see there.
With no other plans we somehow walked our way further down crossing the bridge and then tada, we ended up going to Mooooooomba. Rides were insane there, they had this version of the Singaporean reverse bungee, but the take off was 100x slower than the one in Singapore. After a lot of persuading of the 3 sg boys, we discovered that Gabriel, eddy, and Brian have no balls. Guo Hao being the 'man' went on a ride himself, and it looked damn scary, but he didn't think it was scary at all. Afterwards the boys finally gave in and decided to go on a ride which they thought would be an appetizer, but boy were they wrong. All of them came out like, oh man that was one big main course.
We then met up with Sandra, and walked back down to the other side of the yarra, stood on a hill and saw this other ride which was 3x as tall as the one the boys chickened out on. We were making offers like, if i pay you 1 million dollars would you go on? and eddy would say "no, noway!"
So it was time for Gabriel to go to LAH camera and meet up with his dinner guests, and it was my time to retire home for an early night.
Yes, the 3 sg boys are great fun, with different personalities and YES i still can't believe they're only 17 *shocked face* they seriously look like they're 21 or something, it must be in the Singaporean lifestyle.
Because i couldn't stay til late, i joined him with a few others (Gina, Karina, Kelly, Guo Hao, Eddy, Brian) for a kind of pre party thing, if you wanted to put it that way.
As it was Guo hao, Eddy, and Brian's 'holiday' over in Melbourne we decided to take them to do 'touristy' stuff. Firstly starting off at Maxbrenners, however after big fail trying to find a spot at QV and melb central we decided to go to this place near by the Maxbrenners at Melb central. The iced chocolate was not-so-good, while the tiramisu slice was quite good.
Afterwards after canceling my plan to go to docklands, we instead decided to take the 3 sg boys to Flinders street, yes a lot of touristy stuff to see there.
With no other plans we somehow walked our way further down crossing the bridge and then tada, we ended up going to Mooooooomba. Rides were insane there, they had this version of the Singaporean reverse bungee, but the take off was 100x slower than the one in Singapore. After a lot of persuading of the 3 sg boys, we discovered that Gabriel, eddy, and Brian have no balls. Guo Hao being the 'man' went on a ride himself, and it looked damn scary, but he didn't think it was scary at all. Afterwards the boys finally gave in and decided to go on a ride which they thought would be an appetizer, but boy were they wrong. All of them came out like, oh man that was one big main course.
We then met up with Sandra, and walked back down to the other side of the yarra, stood on a hill and saw this other ride which was 3x as tall as the one the boys chickened out on. We were making offers like, if i pay you 1 million dollars would you go on? and eddy would say "no, noway!"
So it was time for Gabriel to go to LAH camera and meet up with his dinner guests, and it was my time to retire home for an early night.
Yes, the 3 sg boys are great fun, with different personalities and YES i still can't believe they're only 17 *shocked face* they seriously look like they're 21 or something, it must be in the Singaporean lifestyle.
Friday, March 6, 2009
the blog has arrived
let's see where i left off, hmm quite a lot has happened since the last post.
1. O week
2. Uni starting
3. Agnes leaving :(
4. more driving lessons
5. migraines during boring lectures
Aside from those not-so-good events there have been fun things such as Cindy and Lisa's 18th party. It was a really good catch up session with all the high school friends. arghhh it makes me miss all you guys so much more, everyone is just separated :( and yeah a lot of whinging and complaining about how uni sucks compared to high school. Also Cindy has a rabbit! i cant believe she just let's it on the loose to run around and poop anywhere. There was a lot of drinks last night, luckily wendy and i didnt buy a bottle of moscato, we were going to but luckily when we were in liquorland the ladies were promoting this other sparkling and it was i think a type os moscato but pink, very sweet and nice indeed. i can say that midori shots isnt nice at all eeeek soo strong and icky. other thatn all the drinking that went on, there was a lot of chatting about life, uni, friends etc, and making and eating food. People also gradually made their way such as Gabriel and friends, Linda and finally Kaki and Eunice. However i left early as i had a driving lesson the next day :(
oh yes, special mention to Gabriel, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! he's finally finally finally 18
i guess that's all i have for now OH YES my room is STILL CLEAN yeahhh!!! *hands in the air* :P
1. O week
2. Uni starting
3. Agnes leaving :(
4. more driving lessons
5. migraines during boring lectures
Aside from those not-so-good events there have been fun things such as Cindy and Lisa's 18th party. It was a really good catch up session with all the high school friends. arghhh it makes me miss all you guys so much more, everyone is just separated :( and yeah a lot of whinging and complaining about how uni sucks compared to high school. Also Cindy has a rabbit! i cant believe she just let's it on the loose to run around and poop anywhere. There was a lot of drinks last night, luckily wendy and i didnt buy a bottle of moscato, we were going to but luckily when we were in liquorland the ladies were promoting this other sparkling and it was i think a type os moscato but pink, very sweet and nice indeed. i can say that midori shots isnt nice at all eeeek soo strong and icky. other thatn all the drinking that went on, there was a lot of chatting about life, uni, friends etc, and making and eating food. People also gradually made their way such as Gabriel and friends, Linda and finally Kaki and Eunice. However i left early as i had a driving lesson the next day :(
oh yes, special mention to Gabriel, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! he's finally finally finally 18
i guess that's all i have for now OH YES my room is STILL CLEAN yeahhh!!! *hands in the air* :P
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