<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078</id><updated>2011-11-28T08:51:05.062+08:00</updated><category term='Random Thoughts'/><category term='My Life'/><category term='My Dreams'/><category term='General Issues'/><category term='My Love'/><category term='Depression'/><category term='My Wedding'/><category term='Mother Earth'/><category term='Education'/><title type='text'>LoVaBle mnm</title><subtitle type='html'>Proverbs 3:5-6- Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-3903356727343414106</id><published>2009-12-09T22:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-16T13:23:37.882+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Mood</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sx-1CHXe4SI/AAAAAAAAAN4/bq3zEnZTXzY/s1600-h/Merry_Christmas_1024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sx-1CHXe4SI/AAAAAAAAAN4/bq3zEnZTXzY/s200/Merry_Christmas_1024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413244325064532258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;WOW!!! Earlier on,I was celebrating 2009 and in a blink of an eye,time passes by so quickly that it is now coming to end of 2009.One of my favourite time of the year,Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love the joyful and happy jingling sound of music being played at shopping malls,bright,colourful and even winter-like decorations being decorated,Toys R Us is a happening place once again with little children and their parents entering the shop to buy presents for themselves or other people. I love it when Christmas trees are being put up or some of us enjoy wearing santa's hat or clothes,candy canes,gingerbread man,mistletoe,reminds me of Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For many years,I have always thought Christmas was about Santa Claus,North Pole,giving and receiving presents,helping the ones who are less fortunate than yourself.As I became a Christian,I started to find out slowly the true meaning of Christmas,which is the birth of Jesus Christ and remembering him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Till now,the memories I cherished the most are all the times that I spent my Christmas with my close relatives in Singapore,be it with my mum or my dad,my grandma or having all of them there, laughing and enjoying ourselves,cooking all the Christmas food especially turkey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-3903356727343414106?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/3903356727343414106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=3903356727343414106&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3903356727343414106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3903356727343414106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-mood.html' title='Christmas Mood'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sx-1CHXe4SI/AAAAAAAAAN4/bq3zEnZTXzY/s72-c/Merry_Christmas_1024.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-6906055886490441091</id><published>2009-10-13T21:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T15:44:32.591+08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Inner Struggle-Fear &amp; Faith</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/StSK6c481RI/AAAAAAAAANQ/oqA50E-rvws/s1600-h/fear.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 154px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/StSK6c481RI/AAAAAAAAANQ/oqA50E-rvws/s200/fear.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392087390661432594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:courier new;" &gt;Last weekend, I attended the 'Prayer Conference' from Fri-Sun which was preached by Pr Dr Philip Lyn (Skyline SIB KK). I learned a lot about faith and the power of prayers.I had a breakthrough and realised that God revealed to me where I went wrong with some of my prayers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:courier new;" &gt;A friend of mine revealed to me something which I wasn't aware of or more like, I choose to bury it deep inside me and ignore it.He messaged to me last Sunday evening whereby he told me during our worship celebration, he sensed the word fear inside me and that I should be bold and just do God's will.At that time, I didn't think too much about it although I did think what is it that I feared. I just prayed over it. It wasn't until today that something deep inside me just stirred and it was FEAR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure most of you fear of something or someone, at one point or another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that He knows my heart well what are some of the things that I been longing to do. However, a lot of things kept me from not doing it due to fear.I know that I have a heart for people who are less fortunate and a part of me yearning to reach out and help in some way. I have also thought about short-term mission trips including the ones by OM International when George Verwer came to DUMC last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, si&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/StSUJbwFhCI/AAAAAAAAANY/VPwjHBrZE7A/s1600-h/faith.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/StSUJbwFhCI/AAAAAAAAANY/VPwjHBrZE7A/s200/faith.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392097543658505250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;nce I still have debts to be paid off and mission trips are at your own expense, I fear I will not able to raise the money and that my mum will disapprove of it since I am still in debt and my wedding is next year.Moreover, as my current job is on contract, that means if my short-term mission trip is more than 2 weeks,I have no income flowing in, which means insufficient funds to pay for my bills.A lot of my fear is money related although God has proven to me repeatedly when He provided for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The other fear is the fact that I have not even shared John 3:16 and evangelise to anyone before although I have attended 'Type-A-Evangelism' leadership session in DUMC.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;My innermost struggle is that I fear that my faith is not strong enough to pull myself through.To have faith in God seems so easy for some and struggle for others.As you know, faith is being sure of something which you can't see.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;A part of me is longing and yearning to serve God too but my fear and faith is at war inside me now....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Will I be able to overcome it? How much do I need to pray and will He answer me?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-6906055886490441091?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/6906055886490441091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=6906055886490441091&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/6906055886490441091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/6906055886490441091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-inner-struggle-fear-faith.html' title='My Inner Struggle-Fear &amp; Faith'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/StSK6c481RI/AAAAAAAAANQ/oqA50E-rvws/s72-c/fear.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-2606552786296064384</id><published>2009-09-23T09:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T15:43:55.994+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>Lost in Thoughts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Srl9eJMmAoI/AAAAAAAAANA/irpAjH1dAyU/s1600-h/happy-face.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 158px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Srl9eJMmAoI/AAAAAAAAANA/irpAjH1dAyU/s200/happy-face.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384472786316427906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Now that the long weekend holidays are over, most of us are back to work today. Traffic is still smooth with majority of them away from the city and schools are closed till next Monday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;I come to realised that holidays can be fun and enjoyable, yet boring as I found out yesterday.EJ and I attended one of his friend's wedding dinner on sunday night.He had to helped out the married couple but I still enjoyed my night sharing with some of our friends from PJ EFC.We reached home quite late almost to midnight and we were tired out. Furthermore, we planned to go up to Cameron for day trip on Monday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Monday came as I groggily woke up at 6.30am and get ready before I woke my mum and EJ up too.We left my house at 7.30am and soon EJ and I were on our way to Cameron. Traffic was so smooth that let's just say, I was zooming away :-P We stopped by Bidor at around 9am for breakfast before we continue driving to Cameron.Weather was cool and it was nice to drive except when we reached there, the jam start. There were many cars up there and where ever there are shops and attractions, the traffic was almost at a standstill.I think we were in the car more than we were at the attractions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;It has been more than 10 over years for both of us since we last went up to Cameron Highlands. Lots of development and commercialisaton took over.Many things have changed.However, for us, there we found nothing much to do there and I think both of us wished that we didn't organised as day trip instead but at least an overnight stay.We drove back down around 5pm and decided to go to Ipoh for dinner, which took us another 2 over hours due to traffic.We only reached back Subang around 11pm and went to kopitiam to have a drink before heading back home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;It was still worthwhile as both of us get to spend some time together and enjoying our day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-2606552786296064384?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/2606552786296064384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=2606552786296064384&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2606552786296064384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2606552786296064384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/09/lost-in-thoughts.html' title='Lost in Thoughts'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Srl9eJMmAoI/AAAAAAAAANA/irpAjH1dAyU/s72-c/happy-face.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-3959968384511575432</id><published>2009-06-25T08:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T12:48:15.940+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Movie Review-Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;One of the most anticipated movie of all time for summer this year, I wasn't surprised that tickets were sold out quickly for the next 1-2 weeks. It was fortunate that a friend of ours had managed to book those tickets at TGV cinema. They were the first ones to release the show yesterday as the other cinema are only opening today. For a 10.30pm movie, cinema was packed. It was also one of my long-awaited movie as I have always been a fan of Transformers since I was young.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Story started off with 2 years after Autobots saved earth from the Decepticons. Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) is now leaving his house for college and away from his Mikeala (Megan Fox) and his faithful companion, Bumblebee.Since the Allspark were destroyed, the Autobots work hand-in-hand with Mejar Lennox (Josh Duhamel) and USAF Master Seargent Epps (Tyrese Gibson), the NEST Team to hunt down the remaining Decepticons that are still hiding on earth. However, they found out that they may not be accepted well by the humans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, came National Security Advisor Theodore Galloway (John Benjamin Hickey), who believed that all Transformers should be banished from earth, and do what he can to close down NEST. Optimus Prime agreed to leave earth if that is the wish of the world governments, but warns him to consider what will happen if Decepticons do fight back, as humans have been proven to be defenseless against the machines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, Sam is adjusting to college life with his pushy roommate, Leo (Ramon Rodriguez) and aggressive hot female, Alice (Isabel Lucas). Sam tries to adjust to college life until he keeps getting visions flashing across him occassionally. Sam didn't realise that he holds the key between the good and the evil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon, Sam found himself being pursued by Alice, who is actually a Decepticon in disguise and later, they begin to uncover the history of Transformers' presence on earth with the help of NEST and an old adversary who then turned ally, former Sector 7, Agent Simmons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My review is that it's a good movie and it's definately better than the first one. Only one complaint I have is that sometimes, there were so many fighting scenes between the robots that even I got confused.However, note for hardcore fans is that do not place such high expectations on the sequel. Overall, I find that it is a good movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-3959968384511575432?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/3959968384511575432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=3959968384511575432&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3959968384511575432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3959968384511575432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/movie-review-transformers-revenge-of.html' title='Movie Review-Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-467432120718373893</id><published>2009-06-22T09:45:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-22T11:26:42.720+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Alert, Alert...Warning Sirens....</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;I really dreaded this. Somehow I knew this is gonna happen sooner or later. Someone just told me that I am becoming more like my mum because I seem to have gotten some of her characterization, which I have never, ever liked in the first place. During my years of growing up, there were some things which I didn't agree and I even told myself that I must not replicate what my parents did. Unknowningly, some of the traits is starting to be visible based on my actions and my words when I do it. This is hard, this is hard.....Not an easy one to overcome. :-((((&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-467432120718373893?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/467432120718373893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=467432120718373893&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/467432120718373893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/467432120718373893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/alert-alertwarning-sirens.html' title='Alert, Alert...Warning Sirens....'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-2244683751809451404</id><published>2009-06-09T07:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:04:29.410+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Education'/><title type='text'>Is English Important?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Si2yB2Z0mSI/AAAAAAAAAMk/5jxEO0S39uA/s1600-h/1184809_79081312.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 155px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Si2yB2Z0mSI/AAAAAAAAAMk/5jxEO0S39uA/s200/1184809_79081312.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345124077612079394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;If you have read today's The Star headlines which says "Ministry to deliberate on English paper for SPM", I have to say, it is about time someone take notice. In the current business world where English is the main medium communication, it is sad indeed that I find Malaysia, which used to be a British colony, that generations these days are still struggling to grasp the common language. I believed that English were more difficult and standards were higher during the 50s and 60s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I started to join the education industry as I wanted to explore what is it like working in a different industry compared to the corporate sector, I was indeed surprised by the number of changes made to Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM). Needless to say, I had a stunned look when I was told that they have even lowered the standard of passing rate for Bahasa Malaysia (BM) whereb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;y students are only required to get a pass in BM and not even a credit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironically, for a country which emphasizes so much in having BM as the national language and yet reducing the standard to a mere pass, then may I know where is the question of quality of education then? Aren't you contradicting then whereby some have wanted the selected subjects to be taught back in BM, yet it is not mandatory to get a credit for BM paper?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was so different back then during my school days slightly over 10 years back that in SPM, it is a MUST to obtain a credit in BM and I feel that the quality of education were much better. These days, from my observation, I see most parents sending their children to tuition classes for almost all subjects and at the same time, placing them in extra-curricular activities like piano lesson, organ lesson, dance classes and so forth. When they are back home, there's homework to be done and study time too. Most parents are so focus on academic and the pressure students faced that they need to obtain as many As as possible while sacrificing their youth life away. In simple terms, students don't get to enjoy the life of their teen years like we used to. Students are so focused on academic that some resorted to memorizing that when they enter colleges and universities, they struggled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, I lauded the ministry for wanting to introduce English in selected subjects, which I find it reasonable. Reason is that I find that students struggle to study these subjects that has been taught since school days when they enter colleges or universities. That just shows how poor their command of English. I am not saying that my &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;English is fantastic as I am well aware that I do make grammatical mistakes but I am still willing to learn from my mistakes and correcting it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, you be surprised by the fact that when I attended some interviews with major corporate companies, the Human Resource Manager or the hiring manager of the department commented to me that they have interviewed so many potential candidates with qualifications of a Degree or Masters and they can still fail the interview process. Do you know the reason to this? They were surprised that these graduates can still obtain a degree and yet still unable to even answer simple interview questions or worst still, they answered back in improper English. That tells you the com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Si2zMz0qlVI/AAAAAAAAAMs/TXzVfeV17_o/s1600-h/1168056_89855414.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Si2zMz0qlVI/AAAAAAAAAMs/TXzVfeV17_o/s200/1168056_89855414.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345125365409551698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;mand of English among the graduates  Mind you, established companies will not merely ask you questions like "What can you contribute to the company" or "Where do you see yourself 5 years from now". Some will even ask "If you were put in to this situation or problem, describe to me based on your past experiences or from what you have studied, how would you solve this situation?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you as a graduate is unable to communicate in simple English, what's more when you need to deal with business investors, your CEOs, MDs, Directors and so forth? Some of your job will require you to even do presentation to the higher management or doing work process flow or amending contracts and etc. How do you then get the message across, least of all convincing them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, I think it is time that our education set an expectation where students can strive and compete in the working world and not going backwards instead to stone age. Hence, if they decided to have English as a must pass paper in SPM, I find that it will benefit everyone and not just minority of people. In the fast paced environment that we are in, Malaysia need to evolve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-2244683751809451404?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/2244683751809451404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=2244683751809451404&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2244683751809451404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2244683751809451404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/is-english-important.html' title='Is English Important?'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Si2yB2Z0mSI/AAAAAAAAAMk/5jxEO0S39uA/s72-c/1184809_79081312.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-7840155690889072149</id><published>2009-06-08T17:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:10:19.574+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Random Thoughts'/><title type='text'>My Thoughts.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Wow, I completed five journals and on to my sixth one in just one day &gt;_&lt; This is indeed a feat for me as I've never complete a journal within a day unless it's a short one. That shows what kind of mood I was in, not a very good one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I reflect back this year, it came to my realization that I have had an emotional year so far. I seemed to break down more than I did when I loses the people closest to me. There were too many things which I am unable to take the load anymore as I feel as if the burden gets heavier and heavier that it weighs down on me to a point when I feel suffocated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps, the fact that I hardly meet up with my pet brother and my best friends as we used to due to few of us are currently in a relationship or even work and the late hours that some of us are putting, makes it sometimes not possible to meet up on weekdays. I admit, yes gals (I miss hanging out with you gals too) that we used to have so much free time to meet up and go shopping or movies or mamak even. I even rarely meet up with my former Amex or Maybank friends anymore. There were few whom I was particularly close with as I trusted them when I need to confide or talk on certain things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not saying that I don't confide with my fiance too.In fact, I talk to him just about everything under the sun :-P. I just wish that I could also meet up with these friends once a while even with my fiance coming along. I don't mind and I know, most of my friends don't too as long as I can see them more often.It's also partly my fault as I seem to have things to do almost every weekend, which is related to our wedding surveying at times or if not, it has got to do with my mum or personal time that I need to do my own shopping or our times just clashes. I felt that I am beginning to be just like one of those many people who ignores their friends once they are in a relationship and I don't want to be that kind of person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sighhhhhh................................yep, a long sighhhhhhh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-7840155690889072149?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/7840155690889072149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=7840155690889072149&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/7840155690889072149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/7840155690889072149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-thoughts.html' title='My Thoughts.....'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-4593974796361614863</id><published>2009-06-08T15:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:10:19.574+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Random Thoughts'/><title type='text'>Men I Respected Currently</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;So far, in my journey of life, there are only few men whom I respected; Uncle Sze Kuan, Pr Chris Kam, Pr Gan, Pr Chris Hodges and Rev David Pawson so far. No, most of them do not have a direct influence in my life other than my uncle, who I was quite attached to since young. As for the rest of the men, I respected Pr Chris Kam for who he is; very much a family oriented man who loves his wife dearly other than God and also his children. He also has the fatherly look which makes him easily approachable and the stories of his own experiences with his children which he shares with us or even during his sermon about his past experiences, which I thoroughly enjoyed listening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;As for Pr Gan, although I only conversed with him when I attended his class sessions on My New Life, Type-A-Evangelism and two of his other classes; Prayer as a Lifestyle and Spiritual Warfare which I have yet to attend or when I happen to crosses his path in the church, I find that it was his past experience of losing someone whom he loved dearly that makes me want to emulate him. I was able to relate to him as I had gone through losing two people whom I was very close with before. It takes a lot of healing and time before one can really move on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Next on my respected list is Rev David Pawson when he came to DUMC early this year for our Easter evangelistic campaign. He is an elderly man yet I find that he is so wise and full of wisdom and still so knowledgeable. I enjoyed his sermon a lot when he preached and he talked about his research on when did Jesus exactly died and ressurected again and of his journey to Israel. He resembles a lot like a grandfather who enjoys telling us his story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The most recent one is Pr Chris Hodges who came down from U.S. last weekend as he was the main speaker for the 13th MCCC. I regretted not joining this time round, for I like his sermon and preaching too. He has a good sense of humour and he knows how to reach out the the younger generations here other than the older ones and still able to send his message across. I had a great time listening to him speaking about Church of the 21st century. He related how he was just a below average kid with average results, always get picked on at school and also sort of an introvert. When God chose him to do His work, he shares of his persecution and constant attack on him and his family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;However, he shared something which is very much related to a lot of us which was if we are to do His work, there are 3 kings that we all need to defeat:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;1. What we have done to ourselves-SIN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;    Overcome it through humilty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;2. What others have done to us-WOUNDS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;    Overcome it through honesty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;3. What the enemy has planted for us-CURSES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;    Overcome it through Holy Spirit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;I know then that it touches on one of the things which I failed to overcome in baptism encounter, which was the wound inside of me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-4593974796361614863?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/4593974796361614863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=4593974796361614863&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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type='text'>Dedicate 2 D Luv Of My Life ....</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kdX15209s6A&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kdX15209s6A&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Holding Hands by Steve Green&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;One day, far away, you gently won my heart&lt;br /&gt;And one night, by candlelight, we made a vow to never part&lt;br /&gt;And then it seemed just like a dream&lt;br /&gt;When wide eyed, side by side&lt;br /&gt;We faced the future holding hands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Years fly, they hurry by, the simple times are gone&lt;br /&gt;Bills due, a kid or two, a week can feel eight days long&lt;br /&gt;By fading light, let's kiss goodnight&lt;br /&gt;And then we trace God's daily grace&lt;br /&gt;Thankful we're still holding hands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's a hope that won't let go&lt;br /&gt;There's a truth we know&lt;br /&gt;God is holding us&lt;br /&gt;In His arms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thoughts stray far away to all that lies ahead&lt;br /&gt;In frail days when strength fades&lt;br /&gt;Will we still mean all that we said?&lt;br /&gt;Our love's secure, so rest assured&lt;br /&gt;Come what may 'til that day&lt;br /&gt;We'll walk forever holding hands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By God's grace 'til that day&lt;br /&gt;We'll walk forever holding hands&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-8803275808442779426?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/8803275808442779426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=8803275808442779426&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/8803275808442779426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/8803275808442779426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/dedicate-2-d-luv-of-my-life.html' title='Dedicate 2 D Luv Of My Life ....'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-2552565793015872146</id><published>2009-06-08T11:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:26:25.710+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>Birthday Gals and Men</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Siy4rzjG94I/AAAAAAAAAMc/ck0XDdGOxsI/s1600-h/_MG_0911.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Siy4rzjG94I/AAAAAAAAAMc/ck0XDdGOxsI/s200/_MG_0911.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344849920493287298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SiyzXKUJNmI/AAAAAAAAAMU/vUtVfeb5jgI/s1600-h/_MG_0870.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SiyzXKUJNmI/AAAAAAAAAMU/vUtVfeb5jgI/s200/_MG_0870.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344844068269143650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;My cell group recently organize a birthday bash sometime mid-May among the members for April-June 2009 babies. I know Chriselle and few others have been planning for slighly a month. On that day itself during our regular CG night, I was shocked too see that they have bought so much food. There were around slightly more than 10 of us that were present that night with 4 birthday babies although there were supposed to be few more birthday babies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We started off with the blessings of the food (we only started around 8pm+ nearing to 9pm, I think) and then we just ate and ate and ate. Unfortunately, there were still so much leftover by the time we finished almost to 10pm. We rested for a while before Sharon brought out the almost too good-to-eat chocolate brownie cake ^^ . Eric, Abbey, Guat Seng and I gathered around the cake and we blew out each of the four candles, meant for us. Later, our members did a birthday prayer for the 4 of us before we savoured the brownies. EJ was there too but he was the so-called volunteered photographer for that night, which explains why his photos aren't in here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-2552565793015872146?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/2552565793015872146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=2552565793015872146&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2552565793015872146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2552565793015872146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/birthday-gals-and-men.html' title='Birthday Gals and Men'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Siy4rzjG94I/AAAAAAAAAMc/ck0XDdGOxsI/s72-c/_MG_0911.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-6476931874176778217</id><published>2009-06-08T08:06:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T13:54:45.261+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Depression'/><title type='text'>Wound Wrapped in Bandages</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sixb8lQXELI/AAAAAAAAALs/NkULB6Rbf2Y/s1600-h/1183922_65264032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 205px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sixb8lQXELI/AAAAAAAAALs/NkULB6Rbf2Y/s200/1183922_65264032.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344747954132947122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Have you ever so far, in your life experienced from someone; be it from your own family, friends, bosses, colleagues who sometimes criticizes you or given you a remark where it constantly puts your self-worth down? How did you feel then? Do you feel like what the person say may be true? That I am not good? Or do you feel that you have try to give your best, but it wasn't enough for that person? I know that some of my friends have been through that and would know what it feels like.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I, for one, have been feeling like that for a very, very long time. It was something that I have kept within myself and suppressing it. In the beginning, I was able to shove it off and not think too much about it. But, as I grew older, the criticism, just gre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sixlt-4ZtxI/AAAAAAAAAL0/LDagE6nroEM/s1600-h/1155518_45592859.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 90px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sixlt-4ZtxI/AAAAAAAAAL0/LDagE6nroEM/s200/1155518_45592859.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344758698430019346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;w louder and louder. In fact, it came to a point where I am like wearing a mask to cover the hurt inside me and pretended that I am fine. I am always known to be a strong person and persevere whatever that comes my way.But even the strongest will also have his or her weaknesses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was as if, everything that I do is either never good enough or that why can't I be like this person, or that person. Comparing me with someone else is something that I can still tolerate but to put down my self-esteem is something that I have been holding on inside of me, for the longest time.I never realize how much it hurts when it comes from someone closes to you until recently this year. I confessed that there were times when I retaliated back to protect myself. But there were also times when I tried to withhold back my anger and not said anything knowing that it will make the matter worst. After all, it was clearly stated in one of the Ten Commandments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Baptism Encounter Weekend in April was a good one for me as I did confessed and repented all of my sins and healed one of my wounds. I thought I had resolved my wounds too as when my baptism took place in May, I had buried my old self and promised that I will be renewed. It wasn't much later when I realize that when it happened again just a while back, that the hurt was worst than before. I totally felt as if my heart was stabbed with a knife.The only time I felt peace inside me is when I do my daily quiet time and prayer with Him. I know He has reassured me before through pastor's sermon and also through friends whom I am very close with, yet, I find it a struggle to pull myself through this one. For the past few days, I felt my fortress just starts to crumble down and I was prone to crying when I am alone. When I am with friends, I built up the wall around me so that the vulnerability side of me will not appear. It takes a lot of self-control to be able to do that. I am unable to even discuss it because I know I will end up breaking down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is easier said than done.....&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-6476931874176778217?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/6476931874176778217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=6476931874176778217&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/6476931874176778217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/6476931874176778217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/wound-wrapped-in-bandages.html' title='Wound Wrapped in Bandages'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sixb8lQXELI/AAAAAAAAALs/NkULB6Rbf2Y/s72-c/1183922_65264032.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-1264327115695885725</id><published>2009-06-05T13:07:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:22:43.998+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>A New Me?......</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Six7APb-lPI/AAAAAAAAAL8/uTbXcAjHgLI/s1600-h/_MG_0935.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Six7APb-lPI/AAAAAAAAAL8/uTbXcAjHgLI/s200/_MG_0935.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344782101856031986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;1 Cor 12:13- For by one Spirit, we were all baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greek, slaves or free, we were all made to drink of one Spirit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yay....finally, I found some time to load up the photos taken by my fiance and saved it in to my external drive. For DUMC, it was a pre-requisite to either attend one of the basic School of Leadership  (SOL) course. Being a renewed Christian and I was eager to know more about Him, I attended 'My New Life(MNL)' and 'Basic Doctrine 1(BD1)' .I took BD1 class for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;my own benefit as we can choose to attend either one before we can attend the 'Baptism and Membership Encounter Weekend' (BMEW). I attended the April's BMEW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; and few weeks later, I was interviewed by my Zone Leader. I did pray to Him first saying even if you know that I will eventually move on to another church, if you know that there is still much for me to learn at DUMC for now to groom me for the future, then please answer my prayer request, which He did when my Zone Leader approved the baptism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BMEW was a good get-away as we stayed at Empress Hotel in Sepang for 1N/2D. There is absolutely nothing for you to do there, which was a good thing as you put your focus on God alone and also repenting your sins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" &gt;May is one of the most memorable and special month for me. Not only do I celebrate my birthday but the date 23 May 2008 was a happy date for two reasons. One, was that I agreed to be his girlfriend after he had asked me two weeks earlier before the date to be his girlfriend. I was contemplating at first and even told him that I need time to think even though we were clearly attracted to each other. It so happened at that time, Focus on the Family was having a charity event at GCS 1 Utama and he received 2 complimentary ticket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" &gt;s to watch Narnia.At that time, I couldn't imagine how difficult it was to mainta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Six7Z60iFgI/AAAAAAAAAME/QPcrSg7sk8o/s1600-h/_MG_0950.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Six7Z60iFgI/AAAAAAAAAME/QPcrSg7sk8o/s200/_MG_0950.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344782542998476290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" &gt;in as friends in public.I had to keep reminding myself at that time, especially more so when I have yet to give him my answer. Therefore, I am unable to show my affectionate to him. Thinking about it now, I find it so funny keeping my appearances as a friend, hehehehe...I finally agreed on this special day.Secondly, it was also the day of my baptism ^^.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The baptism and membership ceremony came and was held at DUMC during the worship celebration on 23 May 2009. I arrived early on that day as I had Bible Study class to attend earlier. Prior to that, I also messaged my best friends and my fiance to attend. I was happy that my mum, one of my best friend, Doris, my fiance and one of my cell member, Abbey attended. Roland was there too since he had to be part of my baptism, hahaha. It was a first for both of us and we couldn't contained our excitement. Friends I had made during the BMEW and I were all excited about the whole thing. As the time got nearer, I was calm and excited on the outside but my heart was thumping loudly inside :-P from nervousness and I was so scared I will make a boo-boo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All 40 over of us with majority from the Youth Group met at the auditorium an hour before the celebration for briefing. When the auditorium was opened to public, we sat at our designated seating. We started off with worship for about 20 minutes before our senior pastor, Daniel Ho spoke about the church baptising a large group, the largest they have by far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our turn came to go up on stage as our names were announced one by one. We proceeded to declare our loyalty to Him and then came the dunking part XD. Oh, did I mentioned that the water was cold too. :-P It was supposed to be heated but apparently not. Being one of the early ones to be in front, I had time to changed. Hahaha, I was suprised that the youth took longer time to change to a new set of clothes compared to us older ones. After all of us have settled down, we went up again for the final part, which was declaring to the people of our allegiance with DUMC and its vision, mission and so forth as a member of the church.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, it ended and celebration went on as usual with preaching. Roland, Abbey, Chriselle, EJ, my mum and I celebrated by having dinner at Lucky Restaurant in Paramount Garden. It was so sweet of them to spent time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Six-oQVrbnI/AAAAAAAAAMM/QQUCkvdb7zA/s1600-h/_MG_0973.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Six-oQVrbnI/AAAAAAAAAMM/QQUCkvdb7zA/s200/_MG_0973.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344786087827697266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; with me and celebrating it and also thank my mum for paying the dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To summarized it, it is easier to remember few occasions in one date instead of having one too many, hahaha...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-1264327115695885725?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/1264327115695885725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=1264327115695885725&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/1264327115695885725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/1264327115695885725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-me.html' title='A New Me?......'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Six7APb-lPI/AAAAAAAAAL8/uTbXcAjHgLI/s72-c/_MG_0935.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-3361792011760324189</id><published>2009-06-05T10:37:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:22:43.998+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>Morning Blues</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SiigAmjTEuI/AAAAAAAAALc/Q6DtfRlThxA/s1600-h/alarm_clock_03.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SiigAmjTEuI/AAAAAAAAALc/Q6DtfRlThxA/s200/alarm_clock_03.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343696890084135650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SiifoKzfVXI/AAAAAAAAALU/kKbMYBF5g6M/s1600-h/clock_radio_1.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 137px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SiifoKzfVXI/AAAAAAAAALU/kKbMYBF5g6M/s200/clock_radio_1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343696470318994802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Half of us will have an alarm clock or for some, a few at least to wake them up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Some may have the new alarm clock cum radio as shown in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;picture, or some of us may still use the conventional alarm clock as shown on the right.&lt;br /&gt;However, with technology nowadays, many of us tend to use our mobile phone. Even our own alarm clock tone has various types of ringing sounds. Mine, instead of the "tringggggggg" sound, it is in Cantonese dialect. Simple translation to English, it says " Wake up already, time to wake up". It will keep repeating till I put it to snooze or I shut it up permanently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many have the shock look on their faces when they ask me what time do I wake up and I replied, 5am :-P. Honestly, it isn't easy to wake up at that unearthly hour, on a working day and I reach home late at night.In fact, I have been trying to wake up earlier than 5am as I wanted to initiate my Bible Study, to no avail. Everytime it rings at 4.30am, I keep snoozing it til&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SiijybHxrAI/AAAAAAAAALk/hzuXW9W2Bvw/s1600-h/coffee_mug.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 99px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SiijybHxrAI/AAAAAAAAALk/hzuXW9W2Bvw/s200/coffee_mug.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343701044544252930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;l 5am, hahaha....These days of late, I have been having morning blues due to lack of sleep even on weekends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only thing that keeps me awake for a short while is when I have my cold shower in the morning and for breakfast, I must have either a cup of Teh O or Nescafe O.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need motivation to wake myself up early morning.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-3361792011760324189?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/3361792011760324189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=3361792011760324189&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3361792011760324189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3361792011760324189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/morning-blues.html' title='Morning Blues'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SiigAmjTEuI/AAAAAAAAALc/Q6DtfRlThxA/s72-c/alarm_clock_03.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-7943979401444526062</id><published>2009-06-02T08:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:24:29.032+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mother Earth'/><title type='text'>Cruelty Beyond Imagination</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mCqPXhhxZIg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mCqPXhhxZIg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Anger and cruelty is what I best describe of my feeling when I read today's Star paper http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/6/2/nation/4025007&amp;amp;sec=nation. It is totally unbecoming now to read in paper about illegal poachers and buyers that buys from them. Words cannot express how much my dislike is for these people who hunts down for profit and medicinal purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For once, I wish the cabinet will impose tougher and stricter laws to the poachers who are caught smuggling endangered species. Fines should be increase to RM1million and jail with caning should be more than 10 years. In fact, for me, I think monetary fined is of no value once a life is lost. But, I think that those fined can instead go to NGOs like WWF, MNS and etc that help in ensuring these species are preserved for the generations to come. As for buyers, they municipal and government ought to close down their business and license revoked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can show you countless of videos documented by National Geographic, BBC or even those posted from YouTube how these beautiful animals are being murdered (is more what I term it).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will remain to be a strong advocate of WWF and other wildlife NGOs in educating people not to eat these protected animals, let alone buy the products. Animals are of God's creation and everything is interlinked with one another; us as human, animals; nature. If one go into extinction, there is imbalance in the cycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I been wanting to ask, "What happens when you wipe out the whole animal colony from earth?" "Where do you plan to get these so-called 'medicinal herbs' then?" Are you then going to hunt down your own species, which is the humans and consume it?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Same goes for our natural resources."What if we have all used up the resources on this planet". "What then?" Looking at how far we have come, we are in no way as advance as the movie in Star Wars or Star Trek or Stargate where technology is concern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever stop to ask yourself "Will my future generation to come be able to see these animals or it will only be another mere exhibit display in the museum once upon a time ago." Therefore, I strongly urge that each and everyone of you play a part in ensuring that our generations to come can still enjoy going to the zoo, national park and etc and not museum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-7943979401444526062?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/7943979401444526062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=7943979401444526062&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/7943979401444526062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/7943979401444526062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/06/cruelty-beyond-imagination.html' title='Cruelty Beyond Imagination'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-1042841020151057623</id><published>2009-05-08T07:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:25:39.908+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Wedding'/><title type='text'>My First Wedding Trial Make-Up</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgYzmukufWI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/GT3SO-GXU6M/s1600-h/07052009%28001%29-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 176px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgYzmukufWI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/GT3SO-GXU6M/s200/07052009%28001%29-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334007549097049442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                          "Let's Get Married"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I came across this tagline in one of the sho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ps in Mid Valley and couldn't resist taking this as I rarely see this sort of tagline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;I still remember when EJ proposed to me at Opus Restaurant in Bangsar. It feels like yesterday to me. How the clock just continues to tick away and it's coming to 6 months now.I am beginning to worry as there are still many things to do and $$$$ to save. I admit that I have been so tied-up with work and other things that I sidelined my wedding preparation.We still do attend the Wedding Fair that are held in hote&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;ls and recently we attended Home Exhibition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt; at K&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;LCC Convention Centre. Not to shop for things to buy but I want to be current with what is being offered in the market and the cost for installin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY5ZvirBXI/AAAAAAAAAKE/KY5RBbjiJF0/s1600-h/_MG_0688.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY5ZvirBXI/AAAAAAAAAKE/KY5RBbjiJF0/s200/_MG_0688.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334013923088336242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;g, renovation of houses and what is the in-trend now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a personal note, things changed too as we find ourselves facing challenge after challenge; money, family, wedding preparatio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;n, differences in taste and opinions. For two person of totally somewhat opposite personality, it amaz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY8MHkc6zI/AAAAAAAAAKc/mOoLjr3jzVI/s1600-h/_MG_0702.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY8MHkc6zI/AAAAAAAAAKc/mOoLjr3jzVI/s200/_MG_0702.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334016987554966322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;es me that we can still work things out. I definately have "Pre-Marriag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;e Counselling" wh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;ich I am going through at the moment to thank for. This course truly have helped us out so far &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;in deciding for our future and planning.I highly encourage all courted couples who will be getting married to attend this course even if y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;ou're a non-Christian so t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;hat you will know what to expect of your marriage and how to work out the differences between the two of you and your in-laws too. It teaches you from communication, financial planning, in-laws, savings, our own personality and how to work with each other and compromise and many more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is scary if you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt; kn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY7mgIuyQI/AAAAAAAAAKM/RCH2eVvCGmM/s1600-h/_MG_0684.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY7mgIuyQI/AAAAAAAAAKM/RCH2eVvCGmM/s200/_MG_0684.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334016341314554114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;ow the statistics for divo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY7-BpOvKI/AAAAAAAAAKU/_b5PHMxt9QU/s1600-h/_MG_0699.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY7-BpOvKI/AAAAAAAAAKU/_b5PHMxt9QU/s200/_MG_0699.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334016745446227106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;rce rate in Malaysia for both Muslim and other races keeps increasing year after year. I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"&gt;believe that when you walk down the aisle and make your wedding vow, it should be forever till death do us part as this is the promise you made to God,unless, due to certain circumstances such as abusive husband/wife, then it is best to split.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to my topic ^^, few months bac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;k, when I was attending Carcosa Wedding Fair, I got a complimentary free make-up trial with Bridal Glam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;.They contacted me a week later to set an appointment. However, du&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;e to my busy work schedule at that time, I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;keep changing dates and so did Lee Kuen since both of us seem to be busy one way or another,hehehe.A trial which I was supposed to have co&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;mplete 2 months ago, we finally come to a date in April a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY8a5XwAbI/AAAAAAAAAKk/X1pEq-qfDv0/s1600-h/_MG_0707.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY8a5XwAbI/AAAAAAAAAKk/X1pEq-qfDv0/s200/_MG_0707.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334017241441632690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;nd we did it at her house instead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; on the 22 April.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier on, I had shortlisted some of my preferred make-up artist and Lee Kuen was one of them as I saw a picture of my ex-colleague's in her website and I was impressed with the work th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;at was done on her. Even another friend of mine, Vanessa highly recommended her. I was obviously excited since I have not done any professional make-up for a w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;hil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;e. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The day finally cam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;e and EJ and I drove to her house aft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;er work. Lee Kuen is a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; very nice, friendly and humble person and she makes us fe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;el at ease after a short while.For me, one o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;f the most important criteria is that I need&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY95t4cS8I/AAAAAAAAAK0/55zi6quw_T0/s1600-h/_MG_0727.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY95t4cS8I/AAAAAAAAAK0/55zi6quw_T0/s200/_MG_0727.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334018870445099970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; to feel comfortable with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;person and the chemistry must be there and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; secondly, make-up must be natural enough that the artist is still able to transform me from my dull loo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;k to classy and different.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a long process when I started at 6.30pm. As from the photo above, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY86KCM2ZI/AAAAAAAAAKs/bAin29xIrlw/s1600-h/_MG_0714.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY86KCM2ZI/AAAAAAAAAKs/bAin29xIrlw/s200/_MG_0714.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334017778490595730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;she started off with trimming my eyebrow first and then she proceed with applying fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;undation, concealer, p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;owder and the whole works&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;came the eye shadow application and fixing of fake eyelashes which took quite a w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;hile to glue. It was my first time that I had fake eyelashes put on. Oh, not to mention I didn't feel comfortable with the eyelashes and I constantly have to ask EJ to remind me not to rub my eyes,hahaha.....It felt funny because I was wearing contacts and I remember putting mascara on my eyelashes before when I tried it and I didn't like it one tiny bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;After that, comes blusher and lipstick and the final touches to my face. Both EJ and I enjoyed ourselves since he was having fun taking photos while we &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;chatted with Lee Kuen at the same time. Next, it was time to do my hair and it took me a minute to think what sort of hairstyle should I do and we were discussing over it. I wasn't able to make up my mind for a moment.I know fre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;nch hairstyle looks good on me too and so is leaving my hair down. I guess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; it depends if I am planning to wear a covered veil or half veil or to wear a tiara or to have some flowers on my hair. Finally, I opt to have my hair tied half down and curl my hair instead and end result was satisfactory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ta da....after 2 over hours, I'm done and here's a glimpse of how I will look like on my wedding day without the wedding dress :-P. I even had to go to SS15 in this look when we met with some of our friends. Needless to say, I was feeling a ackward that I had full make-up on and wearing only blouse and pants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY-W_7VmgI/AAAAAAAAAK8/OsVEuH9Z-JQ/s1600-h/_MG_0734.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 179px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgY-W_7VmgI/AAAAAAAAAK8/OsVEuH9Z-JQ/s200/_MG_0734.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334019373505288706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-1042841020151057623?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/1042841020151057623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=1042841020151057623&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/1042841020151057623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/1042841020151057623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-first-wedding-trial-make-up.html' title='My First Wedding Trial Make-Up'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SgYzmukufWI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/GT3SO-GXU6M/s72-c/07052009%28001%29-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-3349512082627370167</id><published>2009-05-03T14:54:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T13:54:45.261+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Depression'/><title type='text'>Fighting A Battle &amp; Overcoming It</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This morning, I decided to accompany my mum and attend the church celebration with her at DUMC other than the fact that I needed to register for this month's upcoming event, "Worship Central" lead by Tim Hughes and Al Gordon on the 19th May 2009. Somehow, my heart also prompted me to attend this week's sermon and I have always liked listening to Pr Chris's sermon too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sermon was about Nehemiah's mission 2:1-20 back to Jerusalem to rebuilt the gate and its walls that has been crumbled by the fire. As per Pr Chris had said earlier and even during my encountering weekend last week that all of us need to have a Sabbath Day, a day of rest. The King of Babylon noticed Nehemiah's sad face and he probe and found out the reason for his sadness. The King was gracious enough to even allow him to have a sabbatical leave for 12 years for him to go back to Jerusalem and complete the task that God had wanted Nehemiah to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I reflect back my own situation, I used to have my day of rest especially during weekends, be it a saturday or a sunday by lazing around at home doing nothing. However, for the past few months, my weekends have been busy with plan after plan that I ended up not having enough rest. Family and friends who are close to me will know how early I have to be out of my house and how late I come home and being the only driver in the family, I tend to accommodate to most of the requests even when I am doing it unwillingly. Furthermore,I felt as if that the house I am staying now is more like a 'bed and breakfast'. I haven't been cleaning my room and the house, although partially it is because my grand uncle was in town for almost 2 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition,Pr Chris ask us a question "Pick a number from scale from 1 to 10 on how do you rate your current job satisfaction. Why do you think you are at that level? What can you do to have a higher level of satisfaction?". He then preached that the three most common understanding of work is that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Thank God it's pay day&lt;br /&gt;2) Thank God it's Friday&lt;br /&gt;3) Thank God it's Monday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is true that most of us always end up doing work which we don't like to be in but usually due to parents' pressure and other factors, we end up giving in and hence, most of us have job dissatisfaction in our lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;"Never underestimate where God has placed me"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;However, we need to start by asking God and praying to Him if "This is my calling in my workplace" since God entrusted some of us to do ministry in workplace and not just missions,NGOs or churches alone. If it is, then "What is it that you want me to do or to overcome or my purpose here before moving on" or if it isn't, "Guide me then or show me where you want me to be".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to say, it relates to me a lot as my very first job, I was with this financial institution for 7 years and by 4th year, I was already getting frustrated as I wasn't moving up at all. In the end, despite uncertainties in the economy early last year, I decided to ignore God's prompting and His hints of asking me to stay and moved on to a better paid salary and position. Little did I know that I faced the consequences of making the wrong choice. I struggled in my second job and I call it quits after being with the company for only 6 months. Economy was then starting to go downwards and for 2 months during my so-called sabbatical leave, I was worried and panicked.I could also felt Him testing my faith and trust in Him as I continued to pray and look to Him despite tremendous pressure from people close to me. It was indeed one of the most difficult test that He has given to me knowing well that my faith in Him has always been up and down and up and down again all the while. I finally overcome it when I realised that God only opened the current door for me and he closes the rest. It really took a leap of faith to accept this job that I am doing now and with my salary reduced by almost 40%, it wasn't an easy decision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even when I took up this job, I was still hesitating and contemplating and hoping I would be able to get a better offer, which I did but I wondered again if this is another test for me.In the end, I opted not to take the job after weighing some concern.Moreover, I was going through a lot of difficult battles ahead especially where financial area is a major weakness for me that spiritually, it pulled me down completely. I noticed that when I am at my weakest, it was a vulnerable one for me too when I was sleeping. Yet, somehow, because I believe in Him, that I was able to overcome it.I know He has placed me here for a reason which I have an idea of why I am in this job now but it sure isn't an easy battle for me to overcome knowing what my weaknesses is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As DUMC emphasize on journalling this year, I come to realised that journalling is very much needed in our life for Him to speak to us. For me, I know that I faltered when I stopped doing my journalling due to tiredness and having lack of sleep and stress from worrying about $$$$ and my wedding and future too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After today, I got a prompting that I need to get back into journalling and my quiet time with God to help pull me through what I am going through now financially and the baggages that I have in me and His plan for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I only need to find time to reassess my goals and expectations and my budgeting properly for the next second half of this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-3349512082627370167?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/3349512082627370167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=3349512082627370167&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3349512082627370167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3349512082627370167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/05/fighting-battle-overcoming-it.html' title='Fighting A Battle &amp; Overcoming It'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-2887528492268060355</id><published>2009-05-01T10:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T13:56:57.961+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Dreams'/><title type='text'>My Dream Holidays Around Ze World</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;As a start, &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I am going to post something different. After all, you wouldn't want to keep reading my utterly boring life, would you? :-P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Therefore, since one of my favourite hobbies is travelling, I am gonna talk about the places I would love to travel and photography too as I am keen in scenic photography.Now, I just wish I can afford telephoto lens to take photos of animals too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a gentle note that these photos taken are from people from the sources that I have extracted.Hence, credit is given to them for these wonderful photos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Maldives&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfpzxHNLQ6I/AAAAAAAAAHc/x4ulfTSifqg/s1600-h/male.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfpzxHNLQ6I/AAAAAAAAAHc/x4ulfTSifqg/s200/male.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330700396531499938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;One of my favourite to-be diving sport&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;s and romantic get-away in the world.Since I love beaches and anything to do with nature, it's quite obvious already.With &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;clear,blue crystal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;waters and full of corals and all kinds of fish, left much to be explored with Baros Island Resort and Hilton at Maldives(very intriguing to see the underwater restaurant) as my choice of hotels. My two favourite One of my top destinations for my honeymoon ;-D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;2. Canada&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been wanting to travel to Canada &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ever since my grandmother migrated there to Vancouver.Couple of years back, my 'Tua Ee' subscribe for me British Columbia magazine and everything you want to know a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfvA4EnH_UI/AAAAAAAAAH8/7ugjYQ-Dzek/s1600-h/canada.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 140px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfvA4EnH_UI/AAAAAAAAAH8/7ugjYQ-Dzek/s200/canada.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331066653466164546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;bout their lovely continent. Immediately,I was mesmerised and awed by their&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; surrounding nature and their well-kept forests.I hear many good things about Vancouver too.To sum it all up, I hope that when I do go there, my aim is to backpack for a month or two at least, to selected cities,stay at relatives' place in Vancouver and Toronto and lastly, cruise to Alaska. My aim is to try and cover as many states in Canada as much as possible. This one, I am hoping to achieve it within 2 years time of my savings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Disneyland Florida&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfvEM9xwMDI/AAAAAAAAAIE/wUSJVvG1hyw/s1600-h/Disney-World-Orlando-Florida-USA-Photographic-Print-C13023125.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 115px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfvEM9xwMDI/AAAAAAAAAIE/wUSJVvG1hyw/s200/Disney-World-Orlando-Florida-USA-Photographic-Print-C13023125.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331070310943830066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I have to say that so far, I have never, ever been to any Disneyland before. Intially, I wanted to go to HK Disneyland but from what I heard from my friends who have been there, I was advised that it isn't worth going compared to the other Disneyland counterpart. Furthermore, my mum has been there once many,many years back during her younger days and she mentioned that Florida is more fun and bigger and better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. South Korea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been wanting to travel to this country ever since the K-drama craze started. I hear good things about this country from my Canadian pen-friend who is currently working there and I, too, hope to visit him someday :-P One of the few attractions that I like to go is Jeju island and also their many skiing resorts and their DMZ area which is open to tourists. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfvI1EXI5MI/AAAAAAAAAIM/DziRxou7zhM/s1600-h/new-zealand-tours.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfvI1EXI5MI/AAAAAAAAAIM/DziRxou7zhM/s200/new-zealand-tours.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331075397952529602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;5. New Zealand&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I been eyeing to travel here ever since LOTR movie. Superb scenery and I would truly love to backpack or have free-and-easy get-a-way kind of thing with bed and breakfast and driving leisurely. I am longing to try out some of th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;eir activities which I watched on tv.However, I do know that the things there is expensive and I can foresee the amount of $$$ I need to spend there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.Australia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I consider this country very laid-back and worth to travel to with group of close friends or family. As I have relatives staying in Melbourne, I can take my leisure time to travel before heading to other cities like Perth, Gold Coast, Sydney, Adelaide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Fiji&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like I said, I just love clean beaches as I can do snorkelling and hopefully in 2 years or less, scuba diving w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfvMePdJuEI/AAAAAAAAAIU/3LG-yUG8Ndg/s1600-h/moses-our-guide-navigates.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfvMePdJuEI/AAAAAAAAAIU/3LG-yUG8Ndg/s200/moses-our-guide-navigates.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331079403840059458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ill be one of my additional hobbies too. The only problem is that I never knew how much it cost to do underwater photography until recently only :-&amp;amp; Anyway, I am crossing my fingers I will be able to achieve this dream in maybe 10-15 years time,hahaha.May I also add that Fiji is also one of the honeymoon destinations. Of course, the next one is Bora Bora XD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.Europe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most expensive destinations partially because, almost everything is expensive there in relation to our currency exchange. I am fascinated by their history and their historical buildings and their own culture and differences and food too!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only countries I can think of visiting without much problems will be Switzerland and Germany as my mum's long-time girlfriends and my relatives in UK are staying there. As for other countries like Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark,Austria, France, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal, I may need pen-friends who are from there or to travel in small groups but free and easy too.If possible, I would like to include Monaco too,hehehehe..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. China Silk Road&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is one of my must to-travel-places list as I hear wonders about the upper North China and their cultures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. South America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I decided to add this continent in after hearing of my cousin's trip to South America :-D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Asia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As this continent is the nearest to Malaysia and not overly expensive, one can always travel once every year to places like Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12.Mauritius&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although I have visited here last year, unfortunately, somehow all photos taken went missing or can't be found in any of my fiance's drives.What's worst is that, I didn't even manage to upload to FB or Friendster at all. Looks like I have to revisit this country all over again and to its tourist attractions. It was also my very first time that my mum and I were so adventurous that we went 'quad biking'. That was truly a tough experience with me having to steer the bike uphill and downhill in the rough terrain. By end of the biking trip, my hands were hurting from blisters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. Africa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only place I am looking forward to visit in Africa is Johannesburg, where Sun City is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-2887528492268060355?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/2887528492268060355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=2887528492268060355&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2887528492268060355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2887528492268060355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-dream-holidays-around-ze-world.html' title='My Dream Holidays Around Ze World'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SfpzxHNLQ6I/AAAAAAAAAHc/x4ulfTSifqg/s72-c/male.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-228153348346375783</id><published>2009-04-27T08:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:22:43.998+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>Just doodling, *dum di dum*</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The peacefulness surrounding my house makes me realise that I truly miss the quiet time that I am enjoying now. It is Labour Day holiday and all is quiet,even the factory across the apartment.When I think back, it has been a while since I even feel like I am at home. My busy days have kept me busy and the fact that for past few weeks, I consider myself like I am staying in a bed and breakfast hotel. Reason being is that I am out of the door by 6am and I only come home at 10pm to sleep and shower. Even on weekends, I had no time to relax or take time to clean my very dusty house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, when my grand uncle leaves tomorrow for Singapore, it is time that this month, my mum and I should start cleaning up our house once more.Oh, another reason is that my dvd player isn't working and my fiance is suppose to help me repair it (if it can still be repaired). If not, time to buy a new one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My wedding preparation has slowed down. We are still viewing the venues for dinner. We realised that it isn't easy to save money for the wedding as temptations in buying stuff is at every corner. :-P For me, I am still trying to meet my aim in a debt-free cards by year end. Knowing that I can't seem to save much now, looking at another alternative source of saving makes it easier for me and with so many insurance companies and banks offering various types of savings or investment which will allow you to have a second back-up down the road makes me feel relieved. I agree that insurance isn't one of the best alternative but at least it is still some sort of saving for now first. Being in the current situation that I am, I feel that it is the best solution for the moment, at least till my financial planning is stabilise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that almost half year is gone, it is time for me to re-look into my goals and to strategise for the second half of this year of my plans and changes I need to make.Now, all I need to do is to make sure that I am free and not doing things at all.Hmmm...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-228153348346375783?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/228153348346375783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=228153348346375783&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/228153348346375783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/228153348346375783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/04/just-doodling-dum-di-dum.html' title='Just doodling, *dum di dum*'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-6446056600232145916</id><published>2009-04-19T17:23:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:22:43.998+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>Last Post 2 Yesterday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Ser9b0iHr6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/YfRbWF72PvQ/s1600-h/08042009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Ser9b0iHr6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/YfRbWF72PvQ/s200/08042009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326348163719081890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Ser9B4BcT9I/AAAAAAAAAG0/uuqwnVwzUU4/s1600-h/08042009%28001%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Ser9B4BcT9I/AAAAAAAAAG0/uuqwnVwzUU4/s200/08042009%28001%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326347717979164626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;It's another hot, hot afternoon. Past couple of days, the weather in KL has been crazy especially at night. Worst when there isn't any air-cond in your own room or anywhere else in the house !!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been very tied up with work, as lately, I am required to travel occasionally for school fairs. So far, I have travelled to Melaka once and rest were within KL/PJ area. I have to say I missed Melaka food. I had two of my part-time working student who followed me and one of them brought us "makan-makan". I went to Melaka a few times and I never even knew there is such a thing called chicken rice ball as per the photo which I took with my phone camera. The restaurant is just across from Jonker Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, I have been going on leave for past 3 Mondays in a row too (lol) as April has been quite a stressful and tiring month for me. Hence, I feel the need to take break occasionally to relax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will post more later after I come back from Bukit Tinggi later today XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-6446056600232145916?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/6446056600232145916/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=6446056600232145916&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/6446056600232145916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/6446056600232145916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/04/last-post-2-yesterday.html' title='Last Post 2 Yesterday'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Ser9b0iHr6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/YfRbWF72PvQ/s72-c/08042009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-8230911091512167066</id><published>2009-03-16T13:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:22:43.998+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>Gruelling Week</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3pI9Ih6HI/AAAAAAAAAFs/XYY5DIcmUxo/s1600-h/_MG_0086.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3pI9Ih6HI/AAAAAAAAAFs/XYY5DIcmUxo/s200/_MG_0086.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313659475425618034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Last week was a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;gruelling week indeed. I was busy preparing for the education fair &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;which was held from 14th-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;15th March at KLCC Convention Centre. Never have I felt so drained and tired out from working on both weekends with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;no break at all. Did I also mention that I was wearing a killer high heel shoe and to be standing for 5 hours on my first day was 'whoa'. At the end o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3tKk1UxKI/AAAAAAAAAGM/vwUvy59t9q8/s1600-h/_MG_0250.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3tKk1UxKI/AAAAAAAAAGM/vwUvy59t9q8/s200/_MG_0250.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313663901308863650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;f my shift, I decided to pamper myself by heading t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3td48gbiI/AAAAAAAAAGU/eGDODBkG9WQ/s1600-h/_MG_0256.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3td48gbiI/AAAAAAAAAGU/eGDODBkG9WQ/s200/_MG_0256.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313664233125211682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt; Haagen Dazs &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;instead of Godiva and b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;ought myself 2 scoops of ice-cream. Yesterday, my fiance pampered me to Choc Lounge at Bangsar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3pimdIOjI/AAAAAAAAAF0/UKjjc4mgrfM/s1600-h/_MG_0090.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3pimdIOjI/AAAAAAAAAF0/UKjjc4mgrfM/s200/_MG_0090.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313659916014598706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Village, which was truly a bliss in heaven.What's more, after having finished my shift in t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;he evening, my fiance and I had plans to meet up with our friends from Singapore on saturday who were down for a short holiday and yesterday few of us met up with another blogger too at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Bangsar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3qDkkEHKI/AAAAAAAAAF8/BZJcj6mN4pk/s1600-h/_MG_0159.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3qDkkEHKI/AAAAAAAAAF8/BZJcj6mN4pk/s200/_MG_0159.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313660482442501282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Full House, which is located at NZX in Ara Damansara is basically a similar concept to The Apartment. However, the food was better and I like the fact that the setting is very comfortable and relaxing. I want to say to Daphne and Elise that it was nice to meet up with both of you ^^ and I certainly hope our hospitality was up to your expectations :-P As you realised,a lot of amateur and half-pro photographers too that were clicking away endlessly (including me,hehehe) I had a good&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3rIQzwPsI/AAAAAAAAAGE/NK8LQTLy378/s1600-h/_MG_0233.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3rIQzwPsI/AAAAAAAAAGE/NK8LQTLy378/s200/_MG_0233.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313661662550572738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; time too meeting up with pinkpau though I apologised if I have been very quiet yestrday night. I was just too exhausted from working that weekend :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Now that it's a brand new week for me, there's more travelling to do this peak period. Tomorrow, I will be heading up north to Ipoh with my colleague for the fair on the 19th March for 2 nights. Oh,not to mention, it's also the best time to savour all the yummy food in Ipoh :-D More food shopping spree for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I am looking forward to this weekend as I won't be working this saturday and I can't wait to try the free make-up trial from Lee Kuen which was highly recommended by few friends who have used her or intending to use her. Finally,another wedding fair this coming sunday for me to look ^^&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-8230911091512167066?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/8230911091512167066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=8230911091512167066&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/8230911091512167066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/8230911091512167066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/03/gruelling-week.html' title='Gruelling Week'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/Sb3pI9Ih6HI/AAAAAAAAAFs/XYY5DIcmUxo/s72-c/_MG_0086.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-3818295144104799397</id><published>2009-02-18T08:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:26:10.392+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='General Issues'/><title type='text'>Society Today</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;One can clearly see the society around the world today. Yes, it is true that selfishness, greed, moral issues, arrogance and the list goes on and on has been around since mankind. However, the difference between decades back then and now is that you can see what technology can do in our lives today. Technology can somehow be a setback to us when it is use in the wrong manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don't need to go far to another country to take an example. In fact, you can see the change now in your own home country looking by what has been happening lately. I think the question lies not only integrity but when you have a stranger or even a known person close to you invading your own privacy, at your very own home, in which each and everyone of us consider our own solitude and safe place, it is a clear cut that this has gone out of the line. It is up to us as an individual of what we want to do or wear in our own house as none of us expects any CCTV or any camera bugs, simply because we should feel safe in our own house! How would you feel if your own daughter or son has their privacy invaded by unknown camera bugs or CCTV when they are in a shower or sleeping and later to be posted on to the internet or distributed to the public? Would that imply that he/she would need to leave her current job or school and not do anything about it then? Does this imply that we can't even do our own things freely at our own house (unless of course, if you have a family or even single, there are still rules in your own house which you have set) or that one won't mind having his/her photos being taken in the nude during shower or sleeping? Some needs to understand that arrogance and pride will go nowhere. I always believe in the saying "Pride comes before fall".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each and everyone of us has a right to do whatever we want to do within the confined space that we all have, that is our house without having to worry of photos being posted out anywhere. Although a person may, at that time, have the consent from the other party to record or take any photos, but one also needs to be aware that it is solely for own private viewing. That means, you may have the right to view it on your own but not to the extent of having it made known to public. That's clearly violating a human's right and privacy that all of us uphold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apart from that, occasionally, you can see of minor teenagers getting pregnant due to unprotected sex when they should be studying, it just shows that some parents these days are getting too liberal with their children. As much as we want our children to have freedom of speech and rights and so forth, teen years are also a time when they are still not mature enough to know what is best for them. Parents sometimes, need to learn to say NO to their children, not for the sake of saying it but because they love them, that is why they need to say no. However, parents, too, need to be more open to conversations and educating them about sex and love and relationships and etc and not be shy about it. Be honest with the children when they ask you a question as any question which is left unanswered or ambiguous, as children, they will then be curious to explore further, either through friends, entertainment or even experiencing it themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-3818295144104799397?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/3818295144104799397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=3818295144104799397&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3818295144104799397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/3818295144104799397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/02/society-today.html' title='Society Today'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-439664421849556813</id><published>2009-02-04T08:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:10:19.574+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Random Thoughts'/><title type='text'>More questions......</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In a blink of an eye, we're coming in to the eleventh day of Chinese New Year. I still remember clearly that during my younger years, my parents and I used to go back to Taiping and Ipoh and I used to enjoy the liveliness of us playing with firecrackers and the fun of going to our neighbour's houses and big family gatherings in these small towns and me playing with my cousins who I was closed back then. As I reflect back all the good times, all of these changed when my Ah Cho (my great grandmother) passed away and eventually most of us moved out of Taiping to KL or Johor and Penang and we went separate lives. I certainly do missed the good, old days and I misses Taiping a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, most of my celebration are done surrounding the big, huge, metropolitan city of KL. Once in a blue moon, my mum an&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;d I do go back to Penang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year, is no different from last although this year is a relatively quiet Chinese New Year for me although last year was a little chaotic due to some family problem. I had my first 'lou sang' a week before CNY with a group of friends from my first workplace by having it at Marco Polo Restaurant. It was a good gathering. I did some house visiting on first day of CNY. However, second day onwards, I stayed at home most of the time. It wasn't only till night that I decided to visit a church friend and few of us gathered at TGIF and ate first before we drove to our friend's house and we ate and we played with numbers. ^__^ I finally got bored the next few days that we decided to go visiting on the fourth day of CNY. Oh, one can usually hear fireworks on and off but this year, presumably due to the long weekend holiday, no fireworks was heard. In fact, for once, it was peaceful and quiet (I am sure I can hear an owl hooting away if there was one) ^_^ I spent my days watching my CSI-New York Season 1 and completed it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subsequently, I attended two more 'lou sang', one was with my fiance's family only as we celebrated his grandma's birthday and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; the other was between his family and mine. Did you know that "Lou Sang" was invented in Malaysia and then it spread to Singapore. Wow, for the first time ever, something original was invented by Malaysians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that CNY is coming to an end, I only have another year &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;to go to collect before my turn to give, give, give and not take, take, take :-P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a good CNY break for me and also a good time for me to reflect back. As the economic slump worsens by the day and each day, without fail, I read in the newspaper of jobs being cut and people retrenched, from small to big MNCs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Latel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SYpDaM7_igI/AAAAAAAAAFU/QuHjJjFT3nU/s1600-h/1man331-med.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SYpDaM7_igI/AAAAAAAAAFU/QuHjJjFT3nU/s200/1man331-med.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299122028983323138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;y, a lot of things has been on my mind and at the crossroads in where my work and salary is concerned and internally also trying to justify why I am being placed here and reason. This reminds me of the song from Bone, Thugs N Harmony, "The Crossroads" where one section of the lyrics, I have been prayin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;g and praying everyday and hoping for solutions and yet I am facing more crossroads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My heart is so mixed up that one part of me wants to maintain the lifestyle that I have now. Yet, my brain processed saying that look at the reality now. With a high chance of the world going in to recession period as per the economic cycle after the last one was in 1997, it is illogical to upkeep certain things in life. It is true as the last thing I would want is to have my car and my house repossess by banks. These are one of the two basic things in life that is a need. Yet, another part of me is also contemplating to leave for a better job and pay if a better offer comes along. However, I am also weighing the downside of it is that if I do take up a better offer, the consequences will be there. Good or a bad turn, even I wouldn't be able to predict. Who knows, the very job that you decide to take may be the job which may or may not be at risk of being retrenched in due time. Being in the corporate sector for a long time, I know how the ball games is played. That is, companies will use the FIFO method of first in, first out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe things would have been a lot different for me now had I only listened to my former ex-boss to stay in Maybank as she has foresee of difficulties in finding a job this year and being in the financial institution and still protected by labour union, my position would have been a very secure one with pay still coming through and bonus still given out last year as I was handling a specialised and niche product in the market. Unfortunately, I paid the price for not listening and chose th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;e wrong path instead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's done is done and cannot be undo back. I am still lucky compared to some people around the world as I still managed to have a job at this time and pay may not be lucrative or attractive but it still feeds me and my family and I am thankful for that. Even if I have objection from my family about me remaining in a job with less lucrative pay, yet, somehow, deep within me, something's telling me that among all the industry, education is still one of the most secure market as despite of bad times, students still need to study and is not badly affected. On the other hand, the commitment that I have says otherwise. There are times, when I dislike the fact that I do not know which direction am I heading in the short term. In the long term, yes, I know what my ultimate goal is but one that is not easily attainable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SYpECqVWRVI/AAAAAAAAAFc/ovWUBHzOU6c/s1600-h/1man232-med.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SYpECqVWRVI/AAAAAAAAAFc/ovWUBHzOU6c/s200/1man232-med.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299122724069066066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Mentality of an Asian is difficult to change as most of us still belives that education is the number one priority. Unfortunately, some parents tend to take it one step too far by asking their own children to study in the skills that they may not be interested in. Of course, I agree that one needs to have at least a diploma or degree or even masters. But, these are not the only thing that an employer in the market look for now. Not only experience matters to them, but your character and skills and especially communication skills is one of the value that an employers looks for. A student may have the qualifications but if they lack the ability to be able to speak English well, an employer may not even be willing to hire as English is an essential part in all companies as one needs to be able to write reports and presentation skills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you were place in my shoes, what would your choice be?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a) To remain what you are doing now and do not leave till a better offer comes along and maintain the current lifestyle that you have.&lt;br /&gt;b) To remain and work here for a year first and acquire the necessary experience before you leave for a better prospect and lower your standard of living by sacrificing some things and when you are in a better position, then you can go back to the lifestyle that you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-439664421849556813?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/439664421849556813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=439664421849556813&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/439664421849556813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/439664421849556813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/02/in-blink-of-eye-were-coming-in-to-tenth.html' title='More questions......'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SYpDaM7_igI/AAAAAAAAAFU/QuHjJjFT3nU/s72-c/1man331-med.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-4269503841871235889</id><published>2009-01-20T08:10:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:22:43.999+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SXUsEkeRtFI/AAAAAAAAAFE/wF_W5NpBIB4/s1600-h/clock.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SXUsEkeRtFI/AAAAAAAAAFE/wF_W5NpBIB4/s200/clock.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293185394065650770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Wow ! How quick time comes and go. In a blink of an eye and coming to 3 weeks since I started working. Not to mention that Chinese New Year is just around the corner. As always, people are doing their last minute shopping spree and the traffic is unusually higher and congested in shopping malls. However, I noticed that people are not spending as much as they used to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I love about Chinese New Year is the excitement and rush hour of shopping at the last minute, its festivities and the oranges and the thoughts of seeing my relatives, the yummy food, holiday and last but not least, the joy of receiving "ang pows" :-D Better collect as much as I can since next year will be my last year before my status change from single to not single anymore :-P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember during my early years of childhood, I used to go back Ipoh and Taiping every year and I remember my "Ah Cho" when she was still alive and I used to play firecrackers with my cousins and I love the kuih bangkit and kuih kapit and not forgetting my all time favourite, pineapple tarts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that I am all grown up and I don't go back to Ipoh anymore though it be nice to go back to Taiping again, so many things have changed. My cousins and I don't hang out like we used to and we just say hi and bye and back to doing our own things for the rest of the year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming back to the reality of life, what is different about my current part-time job is that it's flexible and their busiest time is between March to August. Environment here is casual and easy going. Unfortunately, the salary isn't nicely packaged. My fiance and I discussed about our finances and sigh....as much as I like what I am doing now, when I did my estimation of my expenses, I never realised that I am going to exceed my expenses by more than 50% @__@ I've not even taken into consideration when my mum retires too in few months time. As what was taught to me in the church, it isn't that I don't want to have faith in God, I have tried and yes, God do answer my prayers when the time is right and as much as I am willing to commit my whole life and let Him steer me, it is more difficult where finances is concerned. My burden and commitment is so high that I pray for miracle to happen. Now, it looks like I need Him to place me in a place where I will not only enjoy my work but the salary is reasonable for me to be able sustain my expenses. I may be a Christian for 10 years now but I am still relatively a young and growing Christian and everything is put to test. Yet, I know time and time again that He has never forsaken me and still answer my prayers despite my lack of faith in areas which I am struggling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's hard now is that being adult is not easy at all. More so if you're planning to start a family. I've learned throughout my growing years that money may be able to buy you a comfortable life but money has also turned family apart. In the end, children are the ones that end up suffering. Yet, I wish somehow, I could have both money and also time with my loved ones. Both are equally important to me but I know, in my heart, time should always comes first as we can never turn back the time. Once lost, you can never recover it back. I always wonder if balance is ever possible between these two context. Have you ever have the problem of wanting both at the same time?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not sure if I will be blogging during Chinese New Year. So, I just want to wish all of you who will be celebrating Chinese New Year&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glitterfy.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img35.glitterfy.com/19/glitterfy182840T852D34.gif" alt="Glitter Words" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glitterfy.com/"&gt;[Glitterfy.com - *Glitter Words*]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-4269503841871235889?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/4269503841871235889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=4269503841871235889&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/4269503841871235889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/4269503841871235889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/01/wow-how-quick-time-comes-and-go.html' title=''/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SXUsEkeRtFI/AAAAAAAAAFE/wF_W5NpBIB4/s72-c/clock.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-1043535041931049093</id><published>2009-01-13T08:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:22:43.999+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>Any Difference ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SWvvIYBHtLI/AAAAAAAAAEk/zEglBCGsx3s/s1600-h/_DSC9102.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SWvvIYBHtLI/AAAAAAAAAEk/zEglBCGsx3s/s200/_DSC9102.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290585114441921714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;As a child and to my years of growing up, I have always fantasized of a proposal just like what I saw in the movies; horse carriage proposal or my boyfriend springing me a surprise by bringing me to a nice countryside like New Zealand or Paris or even in a beach filled with candle lights and rose petals or something out of the ordinary (LOL). Then, as I grow up, I said to myself that my expectation of my own proposal happening like the movie isn't going to happen.It may not be as romantic as I hope but I can still live up to it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SWvxW38WuFI/AAAAAAAAAEs/cMz8BZptYZ8/s1600-h/_DSC9107.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SWvxW38WuFI/AAAAAAAAAEs/cMz8BZptYZ8/s200/_DSC9107.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290587562553292882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;My then boyfriend, who is now my fiance, isn't quite the romantic kind of guy as I wish he was when I started knowing him as a mutual friend who then became my partner. But, he do know that I am a somewhat romantic and hence, he tries to come up with ideas from time to time which is buying practical stuff for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I guess the biggest surprise which I didn't expect as I was doing another birthday surprise for him too on the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SWvyjmDq5NI/AAAAAAAAAE0/lMYA-jWot84/s1600-h/_DSC9113.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SWvyjmDq5NI/AAAAAAAAAE0/lMYA-jWot84/s200/_DSC9113.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290588880602064082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; very same day he proposed to me.As some of you know by now is that the proposal was done at Opus Restaurant with our close family and friends with us, same night as his church carolling.I was to co-ordinate with his church friends to have them sing the birthday song after carolling.Hence, when Vanessa invited EJ out to the front, I thought perhaps,they have another one last Christmas song to sing and performed by EJ.He sang "Everything" by Michael Buble. Little did I know,halfway through the songs,one by one starts to show their own placards and then,in my mind I was like "Oh my goodness"....Completely dumbfounded and disbelief that he would proposed t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SWvzhfnLVqI/AAAAAAAAAE8/UpXQKnKPScY/s1600-h/_DSC9149.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SWvzhfnLVqI/AAAAAAAAAE8/UpXQKnKPScY/s200/_DSC9149.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290589944023832226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;o me so early when he told me he was going to propose to me later this year only.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Fortunately for him,I said yes too quick,awestruck that he was romantic this time :-P I should have pulled some sort of a prank for a minute before agreeing to it,hehehe...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;After the proposal and all the excitement in between, Vanessa prompted the choir to sing Happy Birthday song to him with the lovely cake from JustHeavenly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A surprise with surprise. I think, the biggest surprise was me and not him since he kind of figured it out. It may not be the dream proposal that I wanted but this is good enough for me ^_^&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Now that it's coming to a month after proposal, life still goes on except both of us have to consider so many things from all aspects like wedding preparations,budget to expense and so forth. When we were single, both of us didn't have to worry about those yet.Now, we need to think before we buy&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-1043535041931049093?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/1043535041931049093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=1043535041931049093&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/1043535041931049093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/1043535041931049093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2009/01/any-difference.html' title='Any Difference ?'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16D4Ais1Ee8/SWvvIYBHtLI/AAAAAAAAAEk/zEglBCGsx3s/s72-c/_DSC9102.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-2155740615743992209</id><published>2009-01-01T10:36:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:22:43.999+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>Welcome 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mycutepictures.com/" target="_top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/8104/200901011208582653ck4.gif" border="0"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MyCutePictures.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A brand new start to a brand new year as I welcomed 2009 in my church yesterday night.I was expecting it to be full house but only half the sanctuary were full.Not as packed as I anticipated compared to Christmas celebration.Yet,I still met some of my church friends and my zone leader and another friend that I knew from a Bible class gave his and her testimony.Only problem was that I parked my car in the church compound and didn't expect the road path to be blocked too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My goals for 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clear my remaining credit card debts.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Save up for my wedding.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gain weight by 5kg.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Plan for my wedding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Set an expense budget for some of my main expenses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Think, think and think again before buying things.Only buy when needed or when it is on sale or buy at budget/boutique shops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For Christmas, to select 4 NGOs or charitables to donate and fulfill the wishes of the less fortunate.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;To be somewhat actively involve in my church activities for this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be patient when driving.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do not do things at the last minute.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;To cook more often at least twice a month.^^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-2155740615743992209?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/2155740615743992209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=2155740615743992209&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2155740615743992209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/2155740615743992209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2008/12/welcome-2009.html' title='Welcome 2009'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-8124389741528976328</id><published>2008-12-25T23:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T14:25:00.412+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title type='text'>Colourful 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;MERRY CHRISTMAS &amp;amp; HAPPY NEW YEAR !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a while since I last blog. You will also notice that I have changed my blog outlook and deleted most of my previous posts except the poem which I had specially done for my then boyfriend.As year end comes, I reflect back on all my trials and tribulations and mistakes that I have make. There were tears of frustrations and the joy of loving and giving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first half has been what I identify it as a rocky ride.I chose not to listen to God's advice and instead resigned from my somewhat secured job and joined a new company instead. It did provide me the career and money that I wanted. However, as I went through a tough 6 months, it began to dawn on me that money isn't everything and sadly to say, I felt even more miserable and soon fall into a slight depression later part of the year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It wasn't much long that I resigned from my last job without a job in hand yet, knowing the fact that the economy is looking bleak. I was scared at first yet I felt like I could not breathe if I am to stay just a little tad longer, fearing that if I do, I may end up feeling more depressed. Yet, when I did tendered, for once, I finally feel the peace and calm that I been craving for the longest time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been patiently doing some job hunting and I know the pressure is there on me to be working very soon. Yet, I refuse to give up faith in Him and continue to pray and present my requests to Him for the right door to open for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and of course not forgetting the stalker that has been harassing me and it was an excruciating 4 months for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the contrary, first half was also a blessing for me when God answered my prayer for a boyfriend cum life partner.I realised that God did hear my prayer after all and in fact, He gave more than what I asked for. If it weren't for my boyfriend, now then, fiance, who has continue to guide me about living it right as a Christian life even when we were just friends, I would not be where I am now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second half was a better time for me. Spiritually and steadily, I began to grow as a Christian.I started attending leadership courses in my church and attending cell group. I even participated in activities like carolling within my zone area.I got to know more new friends and soon even hang out with them. I'd say that I am hunger to know God and Jesus now compared to my past 10 years as a Christian.My faith and trust in Jesus is stronger and I am still continuously learning the ropes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to thank this new friend of mine who I got to know from church. She has been an encouragement to me and likewise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, another unexpected thing was that my boyfriend proposed to me last week in front of our loved ones and church and close friends, to my surprise as I was told by him that he would only propose next year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first time doing carolling was an exciting one as I enjoyed our practices and hard work that we all put in to ensure that we can also be part of God's work in spreading the cheer and goodness during Christmas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To summarise it all, these are the key things that I have learnt:-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  My learning curve, I prefer to call it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Never, ever reply an unknown sms which you aren't sure of or isn't in your contact list.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Never resigned without a job unless you have income kept aside or you have plan it well ahead to resigned and do spent your so-called holiday by upgrading your skills.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Never, ever use your credit card to buy things that you cannot afford to pay back in full.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I still have lots to learn to keep my temper cool and calm with my parent.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Realises that nothing comes easy in life and God is grooming me slowly to be like him.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Try not to go in to sales if possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  My good things&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;My prayer has been answered. A boyfriend cum life partner who fits the qualities and characters that I asked for.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;My faith and trust in Jesus grew stronger now.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I am motivated by the need to do my Quiet Time with Him and that He is important in my life.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Grown spiritually and effectively as how God is showing me the way now.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1615663700552274078-8124389741528976328?l=lovablemnm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/feeds/8124389741528976328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1615663700552274078&amp;postID=8124389741528976328&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/8124389741528976328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1615663700552274078/posts/default/8124389741528976328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lovablemnm.blogspot.com/2008/12/colourful-2008.html' title='Colourful 2008'/><author><name>lOvaBle mnm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07390283999567949745</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJFCU-5WqJY/Thw3oqdysKI/AAAAAAAAARg/6KOvjZ3OuFg/s220/bb9.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615663700552274078.post-6031024165222257311</id><published>2008-09-13T22:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T13:55:23.213+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Love'/><title type='text'>My one &amp; My Everything...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My dearest love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I am not good at writing rhyme poem.So,I hope you will like it.I dedicate this poem especially to you....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My love,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I have never felt so blessed and fortunate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;To have know you in my life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;And to have my prayer answered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;You entered my life as friends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;And eventually we are now together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;As we carve the path together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Be it easy or difficult&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Happy or sad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Adventuring things together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Sharing things together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Supporting one another&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Being there for one another&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;There is no one that I would rather be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;than you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My love,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Like an eagle soaring high and proudly in the sky&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I am proud to shout out to the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;that I am your girl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;that I belong to you and you only&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;As quiet I may be at times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Well, most of the time...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I am however, seldom shy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;In showing my affections to you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;be it at home or in public&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;One who believes in you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;and trusted you wholeheartedly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My love,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I believe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;That God has brought us to be together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;With a purpose and a reason&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;For when you came into my life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;You have no idea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;how much you have make me anew&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;And I am slowly transformed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;And changed into a better&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;And happier person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;And because of you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My faith and strength in God&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;grew stronger by the day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;As you make me realised&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;how much God loves us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Like the sun that shines in the morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Or the moon that glows brightly at night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;You are always here for me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Anytime of the day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Where ever you may be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;You are always proud to have me with you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Side by side and never behind nor in front&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Even my flaws and weaknesses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Have not keep you away&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;When I am weak or sad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;When I am almost giving up or faltered along the way&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;You give me hope,strength, courage and love in my life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;You encouraged me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;and supported me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;To help me carry on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Likewise,so am I in your life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Like the calm clouds passing by slowly on a sunny day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I learn to be patient, thoughtful, selfless, to understand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;To love, cherish and appreciate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Most of all to forgive and be giving&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;You and also my close ones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Whenever I see you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My world just lights up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Like a rainbow up in the sky&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;It always feels like even with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;all the hours in a day and week&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My special time spent with you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Is never enough&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;No matter how hectic, crazy or simple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Our life can get&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;All I can say is that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I adore you, I cherish you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;From the moment I fall in love with you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I knew that you're the one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I want to share my life and journey with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Be it this moment or all the moments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;From today and the future&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;My love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I have given my whole heart away quite a while back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;To the one I truly love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;And that person is YOU!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;You're my one and my everything&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I love U from the bottom of my heart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br 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