Monday, December 25, 2006

AYC - Agape Youth Camp 2007



My dear busy (who have the time to surf the Internet) friend:

I am writing this on behalf of the Agape Youth Camp 2007 Organising Committee , to invite you to come and join in the Agape Youth Camp in March 2007.



This Youth Camp is supported by the Peninsular Malaysia Mission and is listed as one of the official mission-wide youth programmes for next year.



The Venue is at The Air Keroh d'village Resort, in the state of Malacca , Malaysia .

The dates are from March 14th to 18th, 2007, Wednesday evening to Sunday morning. This period falls within the Malaysia school holidays.



The main speaker, Dr Ron Du Preez, holds a Double Doctorate degrees in Theology and in Ministry, currently he is working towards a PHD in New Testament Studies. An ordained pastor, he currently serves two churches near Andrews University, Michigan. We believe that he has a timely message for our young people.



The Conference registration fee includes the boarding and lodging during the conference and a T-shirt.



This is a bilingual camp meeting, we will use both English and Mandarin throughout the meeting.



You may send in the registration form by post or by email. ( Please ensure that you receive an email of acknowledgement in reply when you register through email.)



If you register before 31st Dec 2006, your fees will be partially subsidies by some generous rich uncle. That means, you will be saving lots of money if you register early!



What you can expect from AYC:



Seriously, that video is just a small teeny-weeny glimpse of it. You can expect more. Don't believe? That is why you need to register and find out!

So don't forget. BOOK A PLACE before DEC 31, 2006!

Yours in Christ,
Esther Cheng Pui Kong ( Chairperson ) &
Chong Lee Poh ( Secretary )
Agape Youth Camp 2007
chengpuikong[at]yahoo{dot}com
lpchong[at]gmail{dot}com

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

THe advantage of Infinite Thinking Machine



The Advantage of Infinite Thinking Machine

Infinite Thinking Machine….Isn’t it machine smart? Aren’t we as human beings smart? Someone once said that Infinite Thinking Machine is an organization that helps teachers and students by giving ideas. It gives teachers ideas on how to teach students, who are considered unintelligent in the 21st century, to be the crème de la crème of the society. Nevertheless, will teachers have that many ideas to teach the students?

Sunday, November 05, 2006

india.the exotic land

Oh, how I just missed India.

I missed the curd.

I missed the Rs25 rice.





I missed Darling residency.



I missed Rava Dosai.

Yes, I missed Dr. MGR university!



Of course, I missed the people.









But what I missed most is this:



...the honking and the auto driver!

enjoy India! Nan-diri

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

THIEF

When I was at home doing my work, two men on a motorcycle stopped beside the fence. My brother thought that they wanted to ask for directions. My brother stared at them for a long time .One thief got down from the motorcycle and took away our rugged T-SHIRT which was hang at our fence.My brother cry out loud and so is my dad. The thief threw the shirt away and ran away with the bike .We are puzzled and asked "why on earth will the thief steal that old shirt?"When my brother went to take a look at that T-shirt, it has the BOSSINI tag on it.After that incident, my dad wears the T-shitrt every week.

missing girl

I got this message from Daniel a few days ago:

FW: Emergency Missing Classmate of ours
Message: ----------------------------------
Original message from Leong:
>
> Anyone know where Tang Kuan Yee is ??
>
> On wednesday, 18 oct 2006, she told her parents
> that she was going out to meet some friends at the
> Hill City Shopping Complex in Ipoh. She left her
> house (driving alone) at 11 am. Later at 1 pm when
> her parents called her, she said she was going to
> have lunch at the Hill City Shopping Complex and
> was going to meet her boyfriend Ah Fai later in the
> evening.
> But she never turned up to meet her boyfriend. She
> has not gone home since, and we are unable to
> contact her on her handphone. Her car was found
> still in the car park of the shopping complex.
>
> A police report has been made, and the CCTVs in
> the complex checked, but there was nothing on
> Kuan Yee. Her parents have gone around to
> several restaurants at the shopping complex,
> asking if anyone had seen her, but nobody has.
>
> Anyone with info about this 21 year old UTAR
> biomedical science student, please contact
> 0125055473, 0125276618 or 0125276618
>
> As for the rest of us, i hope you can repost this
> bulletin to help spread the word and maybe help
> find kuan yee.
>
http://www.friendster.com/14773367 (the main
> detail of Kuan Yee)
>


Arrgggh... another useless forwarded message. I received many of this kind of e-mail and I hate it because I believe that non of these kind of information is true. Who believe in the Internet? No No. I am not going to forward such message and neither I want to waste my inbox space with these useless piece of information.

I AM WRONG!

But, what if, this is true? What if the poor girl, Tang Kuan Yee is really missing and really need help. So I message Daniel to verify. Daniel replied:

yes she's my classmate, pls spread the news, now as time reli matter, the longer there isn't any news, the slimmer the chances of gettin to her alive... we r very worried for her

thks
Daniel


???!!!

Seriously, I don't know how it feels when my closest goes missing. I can not imagine the horror of not hearing one of my friends or family members for days.

blog search for Miss Tang

Our evil world is ain't merciful to anyone.  Even, riding cab is no longer safe.

Google search


From the press

I bet you don't understand what Tang's dad has done. Her father, according to Star, das distributed thousands flyer of her daughter.



CAN YOU PLEASE put your lecture notes aside and start memorizes and study Tang Kuan Yee’s face so you can identify in case you found her:



But seriously, please remember Tang in your prayer.

updated, today from The Star: RM10,000 reward for finding bio-medic student.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

En Yi here!

My younger brother,14 year old, En Yi, will be the new author for this blog.

Let's welcome him. :)

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Happy Deevali-Raya! : You gotta keep some nice dosai for me. My fave is masala dosai. Also, remember to keep some ketupat for me, okay?

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

identity crisis

A parcel with my name printed on it reached me via courier service yesterday morning. I ripped the packaged off immediately, and guess what is inside?


MONASH MALAYSIA UNIVERSITY BILL DEMANDING ME TO PAY RM 37 750 in 10 days time.


?!

okay, the fact is, I got an offer to Monash university.

Yup, that is my 1st and (to date) the only birthday present I got for my 21st birthday. (yes, I am complaining.. ~hint ~hint)



I finally officially got an offer from Monash University to their MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) course. I have been confirmed that I am accepted to the course by phone by Monash University about a couple months ago. However, at that time I didn’t feel “secured” because I didn’t receive any” black-and-white” yet. Anyway, I am happy about the offer (plus, unfortunately, with lots of financial hurdles ahead)

I really thank God for His goodness and mercy.

I have not been studying for the pass 2 years after completing Alevel in TARC. This is because I have been turned down by Christian Medical College Vellore India(CMC), National University of Singapore medical school (NUS) and Hong Kong University medical school(HKU). With exceptional to HKU, the others (CMC & NUS), I was shortlisted but turn down at the final part of the selection (which is the interview). In another words, I am last at giving people a good impression.

William Huan, suggested that perhaps I should wear a piece of nice Prada suit during my interview.



Nice suggestion.

But, I guess my failure lies because of I lack of some mental maturity. Even though, I have the good grades, can answer difficult question, or discuss about latest issues; I face a problem: I don't know or not sure with myself.

If the interviewer ask me to say something to describe me, I am not sure what to say. I don't know much about myself. I don't know where I stand and I don't even know my identity.

This may sound funny to you but it is true. I don't aware of this problem until at the end of my 2 'unschooled' years. (How got aware of that? email me to hear the juiciest experience of my life.. hehe)

Again, God has been good to me. seriously and honestly.

As for Monash University interview held few months ago, Wei De and Jeff have really help me a lot with many of their keng tips and advice. But no doubt, the full credit goes to those who have been really praying for me-those from Sabah, Melaka, Penang, KL, Ipoh, Kedah, Johore... etc.

If you have been praying for me, I really thank you. Please continue to pray for me.

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Bonus post:




This is taken from here.

This slide help us to aware that there is alot of things we can(should) do to help the unfortunate.

Seriously, if we got the luxury to surf the Internet, we are consider rich. We are born rich.

If we do nothing to share our wealth to others, I believe, God will be not hesitate take legal action against us "super-duper detail-ly" at the judgement day. Think of the sheep and goat parable in Matthew 25.

Listen to sermon on helping the poor by Pastor Dwight.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Gtalk

Okay, I am still under the spell of kembang mood. Kembang mood is a kind of euphoric feeling after being very much flattered. Who-knows-who and sounds-familiar, Aiko actually read my blog!?


really miss those college days...

You see, I nicely scored U ( U means ungraded which is worse than E) during my Alevel years for my General Paper in TAR college. That means, in Alevel standard, I am hopeless when comes to writing and I can be rightly diagnosed as graphophobia.

So, I do assume that every post I posted here will readily drive people off. But, lo and behold, someone is actually reading my post.

How motivated. How proud I am! (please forgive my perasansiness ler...) hehe


ganas?

Anyway, my church pastor, Pastor Bruised Lee told me that he had recently brought a 250GB brand new hard disk for his computer. 250GB!? Why should we need that much?

I do not know that we have come to a point that digital storage is never enough.

It used to be that the largest storage we can enjoy is the 1.44 MB 3½-inch floppy-disk where I can store pretty much MS Works documment.

But now, megabytes are never enough for us. In fact, I quickly used up more than 100MB of my hard disk storage just to design a poster for Farlim Evangelistic Seminar. (by the way, if you are happen to be in Penang, please come to the evangelistic seminar.)



You can't do much with something under 2MB these days. Wrong.



Google talk download size is just 1.5MB. That means, this program is super compact small and undoubtly using less of your computer resouces.

But please do not under estimate Gtalk. It is powerful.

Gtalk is:

1) It is small and clean. My computer is pretty old and can't afford to run programs which consume lots of my PC resources.

2) Free. Nothing better than free.

3) Fast. I was "on the phone" with Eric via Gtalk and at the same time, I was heavily downloading lots and lots of mp3. But the talk is seamless and there is lack of interuption. I bet, Gtalk is better than Skype - at least, in my own opinion.

4) Can email offline voicemail. I enjoy this feature. Instead of tediously typing a long letter emailing to your friend, with Gtalk, you can just talk by send your voice over email easily.

wanna try? gimme your email, and I will send my voice over. But, I guess, it work best if you got a gmail.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

the power of music

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I hold firm to the believe that music can powerfully influence a listener. By listening to music it can potentially shape, our emotion, believe and intelect.

Kai Yoon, my ex-Alevel coursemate, which I only manage to talk to her online after about a year after both of us completed Alevel. I didn't even talk to her in the real world before face to face. Yup, that is how hopeless I am. I am the by-product of the internet-obsessed generation who is totally nuts on making the first move to start making friends.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is Christine sent me a youtube clip link on David Phelps.

While I don't like some of his song, but I have to admit few sang by him is really beautiful.

By David:



This song is really really beautiful sang by David Phelps. I really enjoy every bit of it.

But let me highlight the fact that some of the audience keep wiping their tears off while listening to David Phelps. It is amazing on somehow music able to stimulate our tears gland to start working.

O Holy Night by David Phelps:


Notice one of the comment post by regarding to this clip:
Even though I'm not a christian anymore, there's something about David's voice that always pulls me back to gospel music. Simply superb!


Isn't that amazing how powerful is music which can even able pulls to a faith or believe?

But what worries me is the music which promotes immorality and bad influence which is so popular and able to shape the believe system of the huge community.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

the three 1/3 statistics

I am troubled by this 3 statistic I learn recently

1) According to a report by UN that 1/3 women in the world have been violently or sexually abused at least one point in their life.

2) 1/3 (up from 1/4 previously) of Malaysia population will eventually be diagnosed of cancer

3) George Barna reported that 1/3 kids 8 to 12 years want to spend more time with their parents

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Mind Map

Hi!

Anyone here use mind map? You find it useful?

I use mind map during my A level after being influenced by Tony Buzan's book and I find it 60% useful. The another 40% is due to my laziness of creating a mind map.

But truly, I fine Mind Map is useful.

But the problem is some times, I find it difficult to arrange and cramp all the "branches" into a page.

I found a solution:

Introducing the OPEN SOURCE FREE MIND software.

This is too great for me because:

1) it made mind mapping so much easier
2) it is both free and open source
3) and the mind map is very close to what is describe by Tony Buzan. contrary to the bubble map

Lets have the look at some of the screen shot:





and







What I dont like about the software is there is some problem with the print function... i guess



Cheers

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Singing praise to expensive new drugs

Pointed out by Medpundit (with emphasis) :

"...The largest diabetes prevention study ever done has found that a drug already used to treat the disease also can help keep ''pre-diabetics'' from developing it. But many experts say losing weight and exercising remain a safer, cheaper approach.

"...The drug can cause fluid retention, which can lead to heart failure in people with a weak heart



But, by the pharmaceutical companies sponsored the research:

"...The effect was also observed when a more stringent definition of normal fasting glucose concentration was used. In total, 50.5% individuals in the rosiglitazone group and 30.3% in the placebo group became normoglycemic.



MedPundit concluded:

"...Those improvements sound impressive, but they are the same improvements and the same rate of improvement that can be had by diet and lifestyle changes, a fact the authors freely admit in their conclusion. Watching the diet and walking a half hour every day is certainly less expensive than the $175 a month it costs to take Avandia at the 8mg dose in the study. Not to mention, it's healthier, what with the congestive heart failure and all.

Monday, September 11, 2006

This blog is not DEAD

Blog wise, I know I have been hibernating for a long time.
Honestly, I really have nothing to say about myself.

However, I have set up a new blog with a purpose and mission.

http://memoryverse.blogspot.com/



I know that most people hate to memorize. But memorizing scripture is very important and beneficial.

King David in the bible realized that:
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.Psa 119:11(KJV)

This new blog serve a purpose to encourage people to memorize scripture by suggesting methods to memorize scripture easier.

I hope you will be blessed by this newly form blog. I will try to update it as often as possible

cheers,
Isaac

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Love


1 Corinthians 13:1-20 NIV



1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Sunday, January 22, 2006

when small means keng...

We often ask why God create us "small"? Why not smart enough? Why not cute, rich, handsome, pretty, tall, fat enough?

Let us hear God's reply via nature.

Nature is the most interactive class room where God teaches us about many things. There are many precious truth in life we can learn by carefully observing nature.

Particularly, I am very excited about the chilli paddy (direct translation from Malay language, cili padi).


http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/images/Capsicum/Capsicumchilies2.jpg

Cili padi is one of the smallest kind of Capsicum. It is so small that you manage to stuff five of them in to your nose. However, it is the most hottest chilli known to me. A small bite on its tail can easily ignites your nerve. I bet you, panadol don't help either. I tried it.

You know, God is so excited in you. He makes you small.Because by His power, He gonna transform you to be the most hottest, kengest and powerful person ever live if just we depend on Him. ...like the cili padi...

One of my fave bible quotation is:


(1Co 1:27) But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;


In a small country, there is a small state, and there is a small province, small town and a small church -- the Kulai Chinese Church had made big things, and still making it bigger. God had used it wonderfully. (by the way, Kulai is in Johore, Malaysia)

One of the bible worker from Kulai, Ta Ying, came to Kuala Lumpur couple weeks ago and stuned those BIG guys from BIG churches, on how the Lord had blessed them.

He reported that in his presentation, small ( means young) people from his church had been ambitious in big projects constantly pray earnest for rival and transformation in their own personal life. That means, they wanna experience the power of God changing their character (ie from a bad boy to a good boy).

And that's how they get everything started. God's hear their prayer, and bless them more... and more... and more... and turning them to great cili padi for God.

The BIG DEAL blessing in Kulai Church, as reported in Ta Ying's presentation:

1)personal life transform in God's love, as requested in member's
prayer.

2)this infecteous love spreads among church members. Most got infected. The
bond of love between church members strengthen. Visitor's have high
risk exposure to this infection.

3)the agape department is form to fuel the boost of infection.

4)members venture outside to widen the infectious love scope. Many hate Christ become love Christ. I personally know a guy who tell me how he dislike the idea of Christianity. Now, he got infected with the love of Jesus and became a faithful Christian.

5)youth have vision on medical missionary who said that they willing to dirty their hands to minister the poor and the sick.




Their website for banana people (like me).




And the original version of it.




My point is this, when you feel you are small. Here is the good news for you. He will make you hot!

check out their projects on Pathfinder:
http://sdakulai.blogspot.com/2005/09/2005pathfinder-zone.html

and photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdakulai/45481742/

by the way...

Contrast with the BIG chili,cili padi remains small and humble as it grows and matures.

Big chili face down and small cili padi spike up, constantly praising God!












Blessed are those cili padi!

Sunday, January 15, 2006

For Sale >> STEP TO CHRIST

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BOOK TITLE: STEP TO CHRIST Youth Edition

PRICE:
RM6 includes shipping to anywhere in West Malaysia and
RM10 which includes shipping to Singapore and East Malaysia.


Back Cover:

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Over 100 years and still selling it hot:

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Ideal for personal devotion, cell group, prayer meeting, youth meeting, baptism gift, bible study..etc

Includes real and thought provoking story which can relate to youth:

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Bible text for reference and discussion:

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Topic includes straight forward truth for truth seeker:

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Suggestive application to our Christian Life:

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Q&A


For Christian only?
No
. This book is touch the very basic and core topic of Christian believe. As a Christian, all our belief is centered on Jesus Christ; our very understanding of life, reason for living, reason moral and ethics, philosophy and principles, all of them, are all link to the foundation which is Jesus Christ. Reader will understand the basic of Christianity.

This book however contain Christian jargons (eg. Salvation) in which non Christian will find it difficult to understand initially. It is however few which can be easily solved by just asking your Christian friends. Rest, it is easy.


Why selling this book?
This thin booklet had tremendously change my life. Serious and honest. It is all about reason of living. In times of trouble and affliction in life, I have been comforted in Christ.
I am sharing this book to you. :)

How to buy it from you?
Send me your house address via SMS ( +6 016 636 4405). Please include your name and the number of copy you plan to purchase.

If you are 016 user, you can pay me by transfering credit to my phone (RM5+RM3). The extra RM 2 will be into my pocket. ~grin

Or you can bank-in/send cheque/money order to me. I will give more info via SMS.


Buy in Bulk do you offer discount?
Yeah. But need to gimme a call to talk bout it.
(Don't send me SMS then ask me to call back. I very poor one. hehe)

Cheers and Happy Chinese New Year!


Monday, January 02, 2006

moo.bile.addict

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my phone : SE 290i

I can't keep myself noticing kids as young as primary 1 got themselves a private mobile phone. Nearly all teens got one. Some even got 2. I remember during college, one girl I know got 3 mobile phones.

I got my first mobile phone is during after SPM (Secondary 5). That also because, I am staying in campus during A level and I was starting my own business.

But I warn you, mobile phone is a really addicting. You probably had realized it. I didn't until I borrow my phone to my sister for a week, 2 years ago.

Not having your phone around you for just a day is like feeling disconnecting to the world.

Handphone helps us to keep in touch

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Encouraging each other

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Asking friend out

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Greetings

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Scripture quotation

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Learning how to play piano

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making new friends (my tuition agent)

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giving excuses not replying (just joking)

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asking add math question

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doing business

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being a loan shark

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receiving weird msg ( me=banana)

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looking for job

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key pads

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and....

sending wrong msg.. from my student.( I didn't tell my student bout it.. just don't wanna get her embarrass)

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haha.. dangerous huh? just careful