with the iPod touch, I get to listen to music, watch my Korean dramas, put photos, watch youtube, calculate, browse contacts, and even
blog! all of these while lying on my bed! omg. yes I'm blogging from my itouch now and I can't believe it.
technology seriously amazes me sometimes.
woot. amazing gadget.
take a look at this sexy thing at the apple website man.
and it's like less than 1cm thick??!

they say when you lose your memory, you lose your soul..

Grace, is being happy for your friend.
Grace, is to walk by the side of your brother, not trying to overtake him, nor let him walk away from you.
Grace, is forgiving even when there's hurt.
Grace, is not knowing envy and jealousy.
Grace, is leaving little room for hate in your heart.

am into korean dramas now. watch and watch and watch and watch.
malay paper was a breeze yesterday.
thank God.
and the compo. part! yes!

i need sleep.
sleepppppppppppppppppppppppp!


dear friends,
one more month please.
and then i should be out of my shithole.


when will i smile again?

The times of trial are judged to have been profitable. They were good for me. The agent of the humiliation was not others, not events, not even myself. It was the work of God. And the purpose of the process was continued schooling in God’s law; to help me to learn the ways of God. It is impossible to conceive of anyone being wise without their having been through hard times. It is the discovery of God’s surprising closeness when everything goes wrong, that leads to genuine spiritual wisdom.

Father Michael Casey O.C.S.O.

BACK! phew... one more paper to go and im done with my first semester as a 2nd yr chem student.
exams are the main cause of my hiatus from blogging.
well anyway,

DO YOU KNOW???
The Rubik's Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974[1] by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the "Magic Cube" by its inventor, this puzzle was renamed "Rubik's Cube" by Ideal Toys in 1980 [1] and also won the 1980 German "Game of the Year" (Spiel des Jahres) special award for Best Puzzle. It is said to be the world's best-selling toy, with some 900,000,000 Rubik's Cubes and imitations sold worldwide.[2]

Typically, the faces of the cube are covered by 9 stickers in 6 solid colors; there is one color for each side of the cube. When the puzzle is solved, each face of the cube is a solid color. The cube celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2005, when a special edition cube in a presentation box was released, featuring a sticker in the centre of the reflective face (which replaced the white face) with a "Rubik's Cube 1980-2005" logo.

The puzzle comes in four widely available versions: the 2×2×2 ("Pocket Cube"), the 3×3×3 standard cube, the 4×4×4 ("Rubik's Revenge"), and the 5×5×5 Quinn Hancock version ("Professor's Cube"). Recently, Greek inventor Panagiotis Verdes patented a method of creating cubes beyond the 5×5×5, up to 11×11×11. His designs, which include improved mechanisms for the 3×3×3, 4×4×4, and 5×5×5, are suitable for speed cubing, whereas existing designs for cubes larger than 3×3×3 are prone to breaking. As of June 1st, 2007, these designs are still being tested and are not widely available yet, although videos of actual, working prototypes for the 6×6×6 and 7×7×7 have been released.



yes im currently into the Rubik's cube, thanks to my sis for offering me 50bucks if i can solve it in a day. hahaha.
still cant solve it, but ive been researching on the techniques and practising like some weirdo being so intriqued by a cube.
well, soon, i'll solve the damn cube right infront of my sister's eyes. heh heh heh.

"At the heart of every genuine pearl there is a worthless bit of grit. Sometimes, a problem comes into our life and we ask the Lord to take it away. But the Lord says, 'My grace is sufficient for you.' then a coat goes over the grit, and another, and another and another, till a pearl is produced."
-Lance Lambert
[courtesy of gareth]

econs exam next wed.
gotta buck up and try to stay focused.
been very distracted this entire semester.
alot of things going through my mind.
and i need to clear them.

things will get better though.
it will.

my cousin, mandy, stayed over at my place for a few days.
and the little brat jazzlynn is coming over later too.
hahha, it's so boring here, i wonder why they enjoy staying still.

there's these few friends who sent me sort of like inspirational phrases/quotes etc via sms on quite a regular basis.
and i just want to say, thanks.
appreciate it.

the words that people say to you, can make you or break you.
even if that person's intention wasnt to hurt you, but sometimes, it's inevitable that the comment or simple remark made can make one close up, and hide away.
but, yet at times, a compliment or an encouragement can really lift the spirit up. or at least, help someone to hang on amidst the problems in life.

but we cant shut people's mouths can we?
well, just shut out the nonsense then.

looking forward to a new life ahead.
hope that everything will be a fresh start from 2008 onwards.

Please pray for Dr. Chen Hong Yu.
because he is going to faint when he sees my inorg. chem paper.









yet another breakup in hall.
how can the guy be so cruel to break when exams are in a week's time?
haha oh well...

nothing's forever i guess.

pray for my dear friend.

Why Do We Talk to God?
By Phyllis Zagano

The first thing we need to know and believe is that prayer—any type of prayer—is real, and that God knows our needs and always answers our prayers
Most times, when we think of prayer the prayer of petition first comes to mind. It is a commonplace to say that sometimes God’s answer to our prayerful pleas is “no,” but that, come to think of it, the “no” we seem to hear is in fact a “yes.”
God always affirms who we are as humans. That is, when we pray in petition for things we want, God kindly teaches us who we are by supplying what we truly need. In other words, we may want a new car to impress friends and neighbors, but what we need is a security in God’s creation of us as loved in his eyes. Once we accept that gift—a gift born of prayer—then the rest becomes easy.

So the first petition we must present to the Lord is a genuine petition to see ourselves as God sees us. And God sees us, always, as perfect for what we are to do and how we are to be, so long as we cooperate in God’s plan and with God’s will.
Often, people want to know what the “best” type of prayer is. I do not believe there is any “best” prayer, provided that every prayer is rooted in an understanding of our dependence on God and his unconditional love for us.
There are four essential movements of the heart that follow our accepting that God exists and God loves us. They are adoration, petition, contrition and thanksgiving. Each is a separate movement of the heart and of the head, and each is “best” for a certain time of life, or even for a certain time of day.

Loving and Being Loved
Adoration is at once the easiest and the hardest type of prayer because it requires that we do nothing but love and be loved. That involves giving up control, which most of us do not like to do.
But think of the wonder in a baby’s eyes as the child looks at you. And think of the wonder in your eyes as you look at the child. This is how you are with God, and God with you, in the prayer of adoration. No words—at least not many—just a sharing of love between two beings for whom there is nothing and no one else in the world at that moment.
Contrition is another familiar type of prayer. With contrition we acknowledge that we have made a mistake, denied God’s perfect creation of us and tried to remedy the pain of that denial.
Sometimes we do this with excessive alcohol or food, or sometimes we misuse our sexual faculties. Sometimes our insecurities cause us to lie or cheat or steal. These are real forces in everyone’s life, and we need to apologize to God for denying who we are and forgetting that our real security is with God, not with creatures or with creature comforts. So we say “sorry” in a deep and genuine way, and move on.

Answered ‘in Love’
Petition, as we said earlier, involves simply asking a favor of God. Sometimes the favor we ask cannot be granted—the loved one will die, the job will end, the illness will return. Here we can feel quite angry with God. That is actually very healthy, for we have the right as God’s beloved to complain and to complain loudly. As we do, we might hear more clearly how God has answered our prayers in love (albeit in the negative), and how God wants us to have lives that mirror his love for the world.

Thanksgiving is the final mode of prayer, and one that deserves much more attention than we give it. Thanksgiving is more than simple manners—like the thank-you notes after birthdays and Christmas. Thanksgiving is a minute-by-minute attitude that brings us to the place of conscious dependence upon the Lord and joyful acceptance of God’s will in our lives. “Thank you” must always be in our hearts and on our lips, from morning until night.
The attitude of gratitude makes sense of adoration, petition, contrition and thanksgiving, and brings us joyfully to the understanding that everything we know and have is given by God in love.

So when we pray, we find God’s gift of joy in life—without our even asking for it.

[Phyllis Zagano is the author of On Prayer: A Letter for My Godchild (Liguori Publications), which has been translated into Spanish, Italian and Bahasa Indonesian.