20100224
So on the 24th morning, I got up, and final check that I had everything with me, Aunt Nancy sent me to Johor Bahru KTM station. Daniel was surprisingly late. But expectedly the train which supposed to arrive at 8:47am also delayed for like 15 minutes. So we boarded the train and we were on our way from south to a little up the globe. It was a Express Rakyat train, and to my surprise, there’s squad-toilet in the train. And although I was half a globe away from Germany, there were two Germans sitting in front of us. We didn’t dare to uhmmm… talk to them. But I guess they’re everywhere, just that previously we didn’t know the language, so we didn’t ‘catch’ their words. Assumption.
tsk tsk tsk ;)
But anyway, the train arrived at Tampin around 13:30. Daniel called Michelle and well, actually I wasn’t informed about anything. But anyway, I made sure to call mom, Aunt Nancy and Stephanie to tell her GongGong PoPo, to tell them that I was at my supposed destination. I wondered if they would really ‘send’ a squad to retrieve me. Anyway, not soon after that Michelle came with her new Proton Saga 1.3cc. So she drove us through the ‘only’ main road in Tampin to her house. And her house was big. Pretty much like those Sibu/Kuching wealthy people. Damn rich people. So we parked in, carried our stuffs into her guess room, and waited for her mom to finish the cooking. Okay, I did offer to help. Just that well, it’s common to be rejected, given drinks and being ‘ordered’ to sit down at the living room and waited. So I used her laptop to surf net for a while. And lol, I couldn’t recall when was the last time I touched a Windows XP powered laptop. A little diverted: A lot of people thinks that Windows XP is the most stable OS. Well, that might be true, the only thing is the ‘wifi connection after awaken from sleep’ problem. It wasn’t solved? I don’t know. I just think that Windows 7 by far is stable to. And as far as I see from various aspects, it is better than XP. But we’ll leave that to Microsoft to deal with that ;)
Not long after that Michelle’s dad arrived, along with her younger sisters Magdeline and Melissa. So lunch was cook and we all ate together. Wonder what were on the menu?
I think I missed out one dish =(
After lunch we were at the living room. Browsed through some childhood photos albums. Chubby lovely those kids were lol. After that we all went out together to get don’t-know-whose fixed necklace, at the same time look around the places. I saw big bears and felt like buying one, to accompany James’s lonely boy. But reality stroke me that I had no more space for anything. Sigh. After a while Daniel, Mag, Michelle and I sent Lisa to piano lesson and we went for some pearl milk drinks (珍珠奶茶) and sight-seeing.
their church
Dinner time we had ‘longkang mee’ and dined outside the house at the compound. We chit-chat ted with her parents, but I was little quieter. I guess I am not that kind of daring to speak anything/jokes/magic tricks/haha like Daniel. =.=” But after dinner we waited Lisa and Mag (is it to informal? lol) to come back and we went to A-Famosa Resort to see the 21:00 fireworks show. I love to see fireworks since I was a kid. Imagine the hopeless dark sky being covered by bright warm particles, awesome =) I even had the thought to have fireworks as my birthday present lol.
Love the light. Just that my camera isn’t capable of capturing what I saw in my eyes =(
After that we went for satay. The satay was nice, the dip was superb, the meat condition was good, and we chatted and laughed. The only flaw was that I let the dip fell onto the NUS polo T-shirt that BingHan gave me. It was the first time I wore it. Argh. I wonder if the stain was still there, forgot to check after putting my laundry to wash. Anyway, after my stomach is fed, we went back. We stayed outside of the house and surfed net, chatted with James, and Jan, confirming stuffs about Campus Alive. They camho-ed but I guess I didn’t join in. And someone didn’t want to take photo with me =(
Daniel, Michelle and I chatted and I-don’t-know how long before we decided to sleep.
20100225
The next day I woke up, the first thing I saw after opened the door was to see her father. Sweat. I went into the bathroom, had myself splash with some water, before I realized I forgot to switch on another pump for the hot water so it was cold.
sorry this is 18-rated picture of me, and camho-ed without Steph again. And those who said I’m skinny, think twice again ;)
After we got ourselves prepared, stuffs carried downstairs, we were served with dark WanTanMee as breakfast. 9:30am we took off. Michelle and her parents and us went up from Tampin. It was quite a journey before they dropped us at Kelana Jaya LRT Station. Before we bid goodbye we took a photo with her, and I guess that was the only picture with her. =(
come to think of it, the photo was nice. Taken by her mom.
We took train to KL Sentral and transit to Shah Alam. Then we took cab to Kolej Cemara and went to the office to get our room key. We placed our stuffs in and Daniel took rest. I wasn’t that tired at that time so I took out my camera and went around to familiar/memorable places to just reminisce all the unforgettable memories.
Kolej Cemara Entrance --- The new futsal field --- the place where the wounds were slowly healed
where our internet came from --- The goal that I failed to score --- the place where the love started to grow
The place where I used to live --- the place where you used to live
Not long after that Zhang Zhi arrived. So after a while he drove us to Campus Alive! at New Life church. And as usual, before CA started, we went to eat, as part of our tradition.
After dinner we went up, got welcomed by the ushers. The worship team was preparing the song. And Zhang Zhi, the ex head of Coordinator was ‘angry’ at the not-punctual-anymore start.
The worship team rehersal --- Clearly, his hands tells it all?
So we started with ice-breaking game. Adopted from the outdoor church activity in Germany, it’s a game that we have to put in everything just to make longest possible queue. So they were excited and made long lines, and we told them that the winner is the team fastest to keep everything back. And the awards were chocolates from Germany. After that, Zhang Zhi shared his testimony in Germany.
The queue --- The price giving
“So I guess you all are cool, no worries about overseas” – Zhang Zhi
And then we had worship session led by Jan. Arh I forgot the songs, I only remembered “’Til I See You” because tears went down my cheek =S And we had sermon from Pastor Michael Ngui from Damansara Church with sermon title ‘How then shall Iive?’
We read in the Bible about love the Lord our God with all our mind, strength, heart, soul, basically everything. So in this sermon Pastor tried to dissect the content by tackling on the word ‘everything’. A lot of times we do say ‘Yea, we love our God and we will give everything of ours to Him”. Pastor Michael challenged on the vague word ‘everything’ and yea, to think about it, that was the standard answer that we always say, but we didn’t carry anything in the ‘everything’. Then he talked about the heart – where we set our heart to make God as the number one priority in life. The soul is the invisible quality of human character and a balanced soul is needed. Loving God with all our soul is to:
1. relate ourselves authentically to God
2. love Gdo with all we are, all our inner being
3. open up all that we hid in the closet to Him
Pastor Michael Ngui --- The CA people --- another view
We all are a soul with body. Therefore we should live before Him holistically. That includes surrendering ourselves in whole to God. Surrendering to God only on certain part of us can be best described as fragmenting our life and that creates tensions in us. But we are all sinners and fall easily. That’s why we need allow God to bring balance into our life. That includes constant conversation with God and to seek Him passionately. And we should love our God personally, as who we are, not to be someone else. Lord, I want to learn to love You. I want You to be at the center of my life.
It was an awesome night, just to be back in CA again. Thank You Lord for bringing me so much changes in life.
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That’s all for now, again, more to come.
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3 comments:
Wei when blogging about kl area? lol
ada apa kat kl except u orang?
Ada saya la xD
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