Petronas CNY Ad 07

Beside the few Petronas CNY ads that i've posted last week (click here if you have not seen them), this is the 2007's.

I will go home soon ......

Arsenal vs Cardiff City (FA Youth Cup) QF

Remember a few weeks ago, I blogged that I would have the chance to go to Emirates Stadium to watch a match (if you can't remember, click here), be it Arsenal vs Tottenham or Brazil vs Portugal, which I really look forward to it. Unfortunately, I did not go for the two matches mentioned. For the first match against Tottenham, no left over ticket for general sales (rightly so cause it's the North London derby match). Then the 2nd one, international friendly, i was asked not to go to attend meeting. *sigh* ... n since then i did not blog about it in any entries, in order to save 'face', since i've proclaimed so 'loudly' that I will make it to one of the match :P

As i continue to wait, and do what I usually do, I will click on www.arsenal.com once every few days, to see any tickets on general sale. Lo and behold, Arsenal vs Cardiff City (FA Youth Cup) quarter final match will be held in Emirate Stadium and each ticket only cost £3! Yes, you see it right ... 3 pounds! At once, I started to send out news and invitation for people who is interested! Alas, just now, 5 of us went to the match: Harry (my loyal Arsenal companion), Jacey (although she's my "enemy" who support the Blues, she won't miss the chance to visit other stadium), Rudy ("deflected" Red Devils fan ...slowly converting to be the Gunner, finger-cross) and Candy (who sole mission at the match was to look at cute guys).

I was so proud of my stadium. Maybe it's new, right from the outlook, box office, the Armoury (Arsenal shop), to the turnstile, toilet, gates, even the seat (with cushion) impressed me alot! I can just imagine when the stadium is 100% full with football enthusiast, cheering on the team. No wonder football industry is a big business in UK! I also think of the scene when the stadium is filled with people praising and worshipping God in unison! How awesome and magnificent that would be! :D

Although it was only a FA Youth Cup quarter-final match, the football atmosphere was really there. Many parents take the opportunity to bring their kids to the match (£1 for kids). I witnessed a rather amusing scene, when a young Gunner junior actually sang the supporters song to the opposition supporters. Indeed, a very impressive "football education" to the next generation.

The players for both teams, really fought well to win. These young guns who one day will shine in the big games and become a big gun! I was particularly glad that I was able to see a penalty being saved by the keeper!

The final score of the match was 3-2. We've paid £3 for the ticket ... so each goal is worth 60p! Really a very good deal we've got this time (instead of £20 a goal for Chelsea match, which Jacey n Henry watched few weeks ago).

If you are interested of watching football, (of course i'm gonna source for cheap ticket), please keep in touch with me! You'll not regret it! :D

ARSENAL RULEZZZZZZ!!!

2007 02 19 - Arsenal vs Cardiff (FA Youth Cup)

Valentine + Chinese New Year!

Although today is the 2nd day of Chinese New Year, i'm back in college to continue my work already. Nevertheless, last week was really a great week, celebrating Valentine day as well as Chinese New Year! Most of us felt that this year Valentine and CNY are much better than previous years while in UK :D

We had our Romantic CG on valentine day itself. Was surprise that many people turn up :P We had candle-light dinner .... and we instantly understand why couple like to have candle-light dinner, coz in the dim surroundings, you can't really see each other so clearly, meaning all the pimples, 'defect' can't be seen easily! We then split into 2 teams, guys and ladies, for games. Because it's valentine and the guys are so gentlemen, so we let the ladies won the games ......

We then discussed abt the characteristics of our Mr and Mrs Right. Some of the characteristics of Mr Right that the ladies listed out are: God-fearing, same wave-length, caring, understanding, loyal .... which are quite common! For our Mrs Right, we want them to be: low maintenance, high output, can do housework and cook, good mother ... which also sterotype into looking a full-time housewives :P Most importantly, for all those seeking your 'ideal' partner out there, be patient!! Don't rush into relationship (word for an 'old' and 'experienced' me) :D We ended the CG with chocolate foundue ..... left over chocolate from Sunday's Valentine service.

2007 02 14 - Romantic CG

Chinese New Year, my 3rd CNY not spent at home! Don't really feel the CNY atmosphere here actually prior to it .... but really felt so good during the steamboat dinner on Saturday! On Friday, the Hatfield CG and me, we bought so much ingredients from the chinese store and ASDA, even invested in a big steamboat ... in order to feed 25 people! :P Oh, by the way, the CG on that night in Hatfield was good .... where we spent more than 1 hour playing a 'share-your-experience-based-on-the-card-shape' game! Good game to dig out lots of secret :D

Saturday, was in the mood to do spring cleaning of the house ... alas housemates were not really keen, so ended up doing it myself. Anyway, felt satisfied though. People started streamining in around 4pm. Hatfield CG proved themselve to be superior when come to food, especially steamboat! They cut the garlic, sliced the meat ... they are just so pro! By 7pm, most people arrived and hence the feast started! People chatted, joked and enjoyed themselves! For 3 hours, we ate and ate and ate! We then setup the karaoke machine to sing ... when i started singing 'As Long As You Love Me' by 'budak-di-belakang-lorong', all the people in the room playing games suddenly dashed out to see who's singing! Hahah ... so proud actually! My singing can draw people's attention :P

As promised, I sent the Hatfield CG people home. These people were just so high and excited (they didn't have any alcohol). In the van, they were singing on top of their voice, all the way from my house to their house! I was really glad that these people were enjoying each other company and they really looking forward to come every Friday for CG! I am really glad for what God is doing in Hatfield! :D

2007 02 17 - CNY Dinner

And last night, after church service, we went to Chinatown to have dinner! Again, we were having so much food and fun! Had so much food, even now i feel so full :P

2007 02 18 - CNY Dinner at Chinatown

I'm already looking forward to Chap Goh Mei ... where we plan to have another steamboat dinner! haha ....

Touching CNY ad from Petronas

Today while having my break, I search youtube for CNY ad from home. I am really glad that Petronas did some great, touching advertisement! Almost wanna cry after watching them :D

Although this for Hari Raya, but the message is the same: Be good to our parents! :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WAN JIN!

Today is my youngest sister, Stefanie Then Wan Jin's 12th birthday! She had a huge birthday party at home, where 30++ people 'give face' and attended, including her tuition teachers. And apparently the theme of the birthday was 'The Princess Party' (i think), even her birthday cake got a picture of one of the princess in Disney cartoon (Cinderella if i'm not mistaken)

Anyway .... HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Remember, I sang birthday song to you just now already yea! :P

Looking at the pictures, guess what i miss the most?? F-O-O-D!!! Got satay, fried chicken, pizza, red-coloured eggs, icy-cake (you can't imagine how nice the cake in Kuching is) ..... i'll be home soon .... *swallowing all my saliva*

Valentine Sunday

This is our monthly combine service with Hope Ealing Fellowship, as well as our evangelistic Sunday. The place was beautifully decorated! The ice-breaker was refreshing: 10 secs of one song will be played and you need to call in to the mobile number displayed on the screen (which the chairperson had prepared)! The response was 'overwhelming' .... very fun looking at the congregation all dialing in. I led the worship, but feel quite disappointed with the sound. It was really messy ..... will improve on that, especially for the PA man!

The highlights of the events were the photo booth (photos were taken using Polaroid camera) and the chocolate fountain! Ah Sun and I were standing at the chocolate fountain dipping marshmallow, fruits into the chocolate! So happy ... so happy until i forgot to snap the photo on the refreshment time :P Nevertheless, the chocolate fountain things are at my house now, gonna do it for our Valentine CG this Wednesday! Will take some photos for those who might not know how does it look like!

After the service, we went to the chinese takeaway shop to have our dinner! Really enjoy the fellowship with one another! Glad to see Harry back from Vietname as well! :D

Ah Sun, Yanti and Kenny preparation the decoration of the stage

The polaroid photos of US!
'Family Photo' of G-hood
And for the rest of the photos, please check out this online photo album

2007 02 11 - Valentine Sunday

Lee Valley Outing + Valentine Sunday

Last Friday, Kenny, Esther, Candy, Scott, Jessie, Guo Jing and I went to Lee Valley for an outing! We're forced to go again at this odd time because we overbooked the previous time (Lee Valley Outing Dec 06) so we have some unused balance left. And comically, the poor management of YHA never informed us regarding the validity of the carried-forward amount until I made an inquiry. Nevertheless, now it has been settled, but we're left with quite a big sum of loss.

However, it was a really pleasant trip. We had care group, played UNO stacko (this is addictive) and monopoly! We watched movies (X-Men and Apocalypto) until 3am in the morning! We went cycling as well! Guo Jing and Scott, who were supposingly not feeling well due to fever, recovered fully without taking any medication and went on cycling for an hour with the rest of us! God is good! It only rained when we cycled back to the hostel, so none of us were drenched!

By the way, I've increased the storage of my online photo gallery at http://picasaweb.google.com/EldosThen to 6GB, so most of my photos can be viewed there!

2007 02 10 - Lee Valley Outing

A video clip when Guo Jie taught us how to act cute :P

Another video clip, moment after Candy fell off the bike! Thank God it's just a light fall! No medical attention needed!

Convert, Mission Trip n Birthday

Hatfield CG Convert

Last Friday, at Hatfield CG, God's work was soooo amazing! As usual, we started CG with some 'Hi, how's your week?' talk, but somehow it went into an Q&A session then later a teaching session! Without using the teaching i've prepared, I started to share while more questions were asked. You just have to experience this, cause when God is with us, the answer n sharing that I gave that night, surprised myself as well. We went on for almost an hour in the teaching. Praise n worship was really great as well. So before we wanna end the CG, we going to have communion.

God just prompted me to ask Guo Jing (a new visitors who join us for abt a month), 'Do you wanna have this communion with us? It simply means you want to commit your life to Jesus; in another word, to be a Christian!'. Without hestitation, she said 'YES'. At that moment, not only the angels in heaven are celebrating, the whole CG was filled with joy! Yes, it has been a while seen we have any convert! We prayed the sinner's prayer, we blessed her, we had communion together ... n we keep singing the song 认识你真好 (It's good to know You) from 赞美之泉. It just become soooo meaningful to everyone that night! God is good!

by the way, she shares the same birthday (6th Nov) as me .. but of course she few years younger than me! :)

Nottingham Mission Trip

The next day (3 Feb), Kenny, Candy and me, we went to Nottingham for a short mission trip! I always like mission trip, not only we can bless the brothers n sisters who are pioneering at the land, we ourselves will be so blessed as well. No exception for this trip. I was just sooo blessed! Upon arriving at Nottingham, we met up with Sin Li (Hope BP) and Lamia (Hope Labuan), got our lunch (takeaway fried chicken), then proceed to the so-called 'Robin Hood Castle'. We went there because it's a high place so that we can pray over the city! Powerful prayer, really wanna conquer the city for God! Then we had lunch ..... Kenny and I had 4 1/2 pieces of fried chicken (big one okie) while the 3 girls has only 5 pieces combine!

Next, we went to Beeston to meet up with Ariel, a Taiwanese sister who seriously wanna plant churches for God in Nottingham! We went in groups of two to street evangelise! I was so blessed that they took the initiative to make invitation cards, which prove so useful in approaching people on the street! We managed to know many new contacts, who willingly gave us their contact detail.

After street evax, we proceeded to the chapel at the university to prepare for our CG. Although it's only 6 of us, but the atmosphere was good! They are such a good team. Again, I have the priviledge to share the WoG. It was so awesome how God is able to use me to encourage everyone! Frankly, I think I was the one who got encouraged the most! We ended our day with delicious chinese food! God really take care of us so well .. the food was fantastic n the price was cheap (£5.20) each! :D We got home in London around 12am! A truly fruitful trip!

Little note here: Candy (who was saved 2 years ago), i truly see her transformation, particularly after this trip! She has the opportunity to witness the pioneering work n this just inspire her. Hey .... involve everyone in mission trip!!

Yan Yee's Birthday

God is amazing! Another 'soon-to-be' sister in Christ, Yan Yee was so surprise that we actually remember her birthday! She was kinda 'on and off' in attending CG previously, but in her birthday wish, she actually pray that she will now join CG as often as she could!

You can also view the album by clicking on the photo below.

2007 02 07 - Yan Yee's Birthday

CG is just so powerful when everyone is able to show forth love n care to everyone! I shared in CG about Galatian 6:1-2, that we must bear each other burdens and look after each other (physically, emotionally, spiritually). It should be our first priority as leaders to ensure this happen in our CG! If not, work for it, pray for it! Every life is a miracle! Guo Jing is one, Yan Yee another .... so do Kenny, Yanti, Yoppy, Harry, Anita, Candy, Gemmy, Louise, Wilson, Adeline, Ah Sun, Nat, Mengshi, Samson, Tommy, Ivon, Janet, Yong Wei, Hui Ping, Wee Kee ... Esther, Scott, Jessie, Tom, Bill, Chen Chen, Wang Wei, Annie! Thank you, Lord! I'm so blessed!

SNOW!!!!

2 weeks ago, there was the snow, which excited me so much! Today, it was a heavier snow!!! hehe! Again, those back home for holiday (Yoppy, Adeline, Harry, Alicia) and those who already go back for good (Wina, Leanne, Peishan, CN, KK), and those yet to experience snow .... I'll be 'kind' enough to post up some photos for you to see! If you wanna feel how snow is like, go to the ABC or metahon store, ask the uncle to make u some ice flake! It's exactly the same!

Just click on the photo below, and it will bring you to the photo album! I was with Jacey, on our way to the college, so we decided to talk a longer route, by going through Hyde Park! Hence, all these photos! We'll leave college early today, to have hot food (so cold actually) then go home to change our socks (wet feet now), and might drive around to Hamstead Heath or outside London to see more snow view!

Don't be jealous! :P

2007 02 08 - Snow in London