A Loooooooong Time? Nah, Just A Second, Dude!

"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. "
- Mark Twain

A tremendous trend I have seen ever since I stepped foot onto this land...

A land so beautiful, yet in deeper sense, not so...

A land so huge, yet in retrospect, not so...

A land so blessed... Or is it?

How many broken families i've seen...

How many people, children barely in their teens witness a separations, events with such a lasting impacts that they never recover? That they never comprehend the true meaning of love? Of perseverance? Of holding on and being with someone who's a friend, one who would stick with you through thick and thin? One whom you could get angry with and then come back to and apologize, and say that you love, and mean it with all your heart?

How many of these children... Crave this kind of love? Search everywhere, even in all the wrong places for this love?

Why do words like "Oh, I can't live with her anymore", "Oh I can't stand him", "He takes advantage of me", "I don't love him anymore"... WHY... WHY do these words appear? Why do they even exist?

I cry out on behalf of those who are victims... I cry with you...

I am blessed... I truly am...

Mummy always loved, and always loves Daddy, and Daddy always loved, and always loves Mummy...

I am thankful, and always will be for this day, 26 years ago, when in a small church, halfway across the globe from where I am now, two lives were intertwined in holy matrimony...

Two lives which unknowingly, have always been teaching me to hold on to what I believe in... To love unconditionally and to wait for God's calling in everything I do...

To be responsible in all I do, to never fear, but trust... To know that there's One above who has planned my whole life ahead of me, to believe that in all I go through, He knows best...

And above all...

To love =)

To Mummy and Daddy...

Cheers! Because of love, Kerana cinta, Ying wei ai =D

I love you Daddy, I love you Mummy...

I always will =)

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!

MAL

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The End? What Do We Do Now? =O

There's all this hype about how the world's gonna end in the year 2012... (influenced by 2012, the movie I went to watch with my seniors... Btw, i must say, not bad movie...)

So, honestly, here's what I think about it...

Ok honestly now...

Really...

I think...

NAH!!! Not gonna happen, sorry... xD Not at least till I get my degree from vet school hahahaha xD

Okay let's be serious now...

Inasmuch as don't believe everything from that show, it got me thinking...

And it made me realize one thing, one thing I should always practice... (ALL of us for that matter...)

Live everyday as if it were your last day on this earth...

Life is... Not as long as a lot of us would want it to be... I mean, anything could happen to anyone, at anytime...

So go ahead! Tell your parents that you love them... Tell that friend of yours that you love him/her... Tell your neighbours you love them in spite of their loud parties every night and their crazy drinking habits...

If you've never done it (or in a loooong time),Give your mum and dad a hug... Give your friend a hug, say sorry for those things that you've wronged them with, forgive them for those things that they've wronged YOU with...

Call that guy you haven't talked to in years because of some silly thing between you and that guy...

Appreciate those around you, those far away, those nearby...

And most importantly, spend everyday as if it were the last...

I feel like doing that...

MAL

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P/S : Shoutout to all of you readers out there!!! I love you!!! *Group hug!!!* xD

I Never Did Realize...

Never did realize think it that way...

I mean yeah, sure, I always thought that you know "what you do now will influence the future", yodda yodda yodda, blah blah blah...

But today it actually struck me...

I can do something...

I can actually change the world...

I mean think about it...

How many people in the world have no hope, have no vision? How many people in the world fall into corruption? How many people in the world know not love? How many people in the world are orphans, victims of AIDS? How many people in the world slit their wrists, jump off buildings due to depression? How many people in the world sell themselves to feel like they "belong"? How many kids turn to wrong avenues because their parents went through a divorce? How many people try to get intoxicated every night to be one of the "in" group? How many people seek? How many people try to become human "do"ings instead of human "be"ings?

How many people need God?

I know I did...

And I know I still do...

And more so, I know I always will...

Do something.

MAL

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Today was pretty weird...

Got up, walked around and suddenly it dawned upon me...


I MISS HOME...


Especially since half of the time, half the people here don't understand half a word i'm saying...
Especially since half of the year, half of the day is half of the time back home...
Especially since half of the week, half of the people are half-dressed with half-decent clothing...
Especially since half of the night, half of the residents are half-drunk with half-screaming, half-yelling voices...
Especially since at half-time, half the people are already half-drunk and the other half asleep...


The other half...

They're okay =D


But really now...

I need to physically see someone who can speak manglish to me...

When you miss someplace, it seems to fly farther and farther out of reach...

It's at times like these where I wish I could take out a pair of ruby slippers (not that it's my fashion taste or anything...) And knock them together and say "there's no place like home, there's no place like home"

Oh and I miss Chicken rice... And dim sum... And nasi goreng kampung... Oh and Sup kambing... And... I better stop, i'm salivating over the library comps already...


MAL
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P/S: To Canadians reading this... It's probably not you I was referring to... It's just some people who tarnish your good reputation... I do like it here =) I really do =D

The Awesomeness of Your Creation...

he sat there today, in awe and in fear...

he read through Your word, and so did he hear...

"Your people", he read, from a scream and a tear...

You brought to Yourself, and You, You drew near...

so many rules, he never did keep...

in so many ways, his death could You seek...

no way he'd come close, what he sowed, he'd reap...

but yet for this boy, in all ways, You'd pick...

it caught his eye, how far they'd go...

how much they'd take but then still show...

that though they saw still would they grumble...

and so in turn the heavens rumbled...

he looked back his life and all he's done...

and thanked Him for sending down His Son...

that in his place the Son be punished...

and at the cross cry "It is finished!"

and as he sits now typing down...

he knows he'll never get a frown...

for where more sin, more grace abounds...

he looks outside...

and...

Snow came down...

How awesome is Your creation, oh God my Father =D

MAL

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Kids! =)

Haven't been around for awhile... Well, been rather busy with exams and quizzes and assignments and stuff... So sorrryyyyy bout dat *gomenasaiiiii*

But anyway...

It's over! Woohooo! Midterms I mean =)

So well, i've been doing rather good actually, for those of you who are asking =) I've been enjoying myself, making lots of new friends, experiencing new stuff, and basically yeah, having lots of fun =)

So okay! Halloween!

Yeah so well, before anything happened, I was pretty worried about the idea of this "Halloween" thingy... Didn't really like the idea of celebrating the belief in the occult and stuff... But well, I learnt something this year =)

Halloween, in all its' scariness...

It's a merchandising ploy... A big one, and nothing more, from what I see...

Don't get me wrong, but well, when it comes to the crux of it, it's like... Christmas trees, Santa Claus and The Easter Bunny...

Aaaaaaanyway, myself, Rob, Will, Noor, Sara and Patrick took part in this operation called "Trick or Eat", a program by "MealXchange" to gather non-perishable food items for the local food bank...

It was pretty fun, but really the thing that struck me was this...

The kids =)

As we went about collecting food items, kids were going round doing the regular job of "trick or treat"ing, collecting sweets from people around their neighbourhoods...

I don't know why, but every time I saw a kid walking pass, I smiled... I guess it's the fact that these kids had costumes on, or the fact that they're so young and lovable =)

Pat mentioned how kids get so scared at the decorations (of which some people actually go all-out doing...) And it was fun seeing the children avoid Patrick and his ??? costume...

This morning's church service included the dedication of Jamie Strickland's son to the Lord... He was sleeping soundly, even on the arms of the pastor, and again, that made me go "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" inside xD

Kids, really, they are cute =)

And that brings me to late last night, when some of us were sitting there in my tower playing "the game of LIFE"... Pat and I were so serious about it, and sometimes even a little upset over how the other 3 were not paying attention, but rather fiddling around with cameras, talking loudly, making weird bawling noises when they lost money and stuff... It was fun...

But one thing I learnt from all of that...

Somewhere...

It might be deep inside, but it's there...

Somewhere deep inside us...

There's our childhood...

Sometimes we just wanna say "grow up"

Or sometimes, we just can't...

What can I say?

We still love kids =) Or just being one =D

MAL

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