Tuesday, May 27, 2008

my cross

Do I sing what I mean? Do I mean what I sing?

I have decided to follow Jesus,
No turning back, no turning back.

Though none go with me, I still will follow,
No turning back, no turning back.

The world behind me, the cross before me,
No turning back, no turning back.

My cross I'll carry till I see Jesus,
No turning back, no turning back.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Must Be The Sea-son

Mask, check.
Fins, check.
Wet suit, check.
BCD, check.
Regulator, check.
Gloves, check.
Tank banger, check.
Torch lights, check.
Knife, check.
Dive computer, check.
Dive log, check.
Flight ticket to Sipadan, check (well, Tawau actually, if we want to get into technicalities).

Apologies in advance if I can't reply your sms or return your call instantly.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Secara Rawak

It's interesting the kind of things people say when ordering their Subway sandwiches.

"Don't want so much meat, please give me more veggies."

"You don't want olives, you don't want pickles, you don't want green pepper, then might as well don't eat."

"Do you have thousand island sauce?"

"No onions where got nice?!"

Thomas & Uber Cup is on! Bumped into the national team during their team-building camp at Port Dickson, at the exact same resort where we had our department retreat. Our ladies team did well to beat New Zealand yesterday, so did the men who had it easy with England. The real test for our men's team will be today, when they play the scarily unpredictable and strong South Korean team.

Iron Man was a good watch. I recommend it. All-round entertaining, great performance by the cast especially Robert Downey Jr, nothing corny about the romance that goes on, humorous, and really cool CGI...loved the part where Starks ran a test-check on his new prototype silver Iron Man suit. Slick, real slick.

I had to do something way out of my comfort zone yesterday evening. Way out. Hopefully, with more practice, it will become better. But, ugh, it's gonna be hard work for me. So unnatural. But yet, got to make it natural. Ugh. Things we need to do. Story of our lives.

Thank God for the upcoming Sipadan scuba trip. I think I really need the breather (no pun intended).

P/S - Guatz is having fun teasing me about doing out-of-comfort-zone stuff.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Happily Tired

I'm tired.

:)

My heart is quietly grateful to God.

I had an awesome weekend up in Perak. After arriving back from JB on Friday, we went up to Ipoh on the same night. After putting up a night there, we headed to Gopeng on Saturday morning where the guys at Riverbug took us to the starting point of our white-water rafting route on the Kampar River.

The weather was superb for being outdoors (another hallelujah point!). Kampar River is beautiful! Water's actually quite clean....of course, nice and cool and refreshing, with lots of lush greenery along the river. Rapids weren't as rough as those in Padas, Sabah, but they were still "syok" :) This time around, we even paused halfway to do some body-rafting, laze around in the water, climb a tree and jump into the river.

After lunch, we had a short trek in the jungle before we returned to Ipoh, where we just indulged in good Ipoh food...right until the point where we returned to KL on Sunday afternoon.

A tiring but fulfilling weekend, what more with Sunday night (last night)'s rehearsal ending at its latest ever time @_@ So here I am, sitting tired at the computer. Grateful and happy, nonetheless :)

This weekend, my department's having a 2D1N retreat to Port Dickson :)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain

It's pouring outside. I'm in Nusajaya, Johor now. Much work to be done in a short period of time. Decided to take a break and take in the "pitter patter" outside a bit and do something that I haven't done in ages: blog :P

What a busy time it's been! Not that I'm complaining :) When I get back to KL this Friday, I'll be heading off to Perak for a weekend of trekking in the forest and white-water rafting down Kampar River.

I had an awesome 4 days in Tioman last Thursday to Sunday doing the
Reef Check Eco Diver course. Thank God I passed! Substrates (i.e. corals, rock, sand, algae, etc) in particular gave me quite a hard time and I seriously thought I'd fail that section. Am very happy to be part of a reef monitoring programme. Just trying to contribute whatever I can to take care of God's beautiful creation and our country's national treasure. Thank God for the good weather and good company in Tioman too.

I should get back to work.

Anyone interested to go see
The Canticle Singers?