January 23, 2009
Mummy asked me how would I wish to celebrate my birthday as soon as I entered the car at the wharf.. Hmm.. I told her no need to celebrate also, coz maybe I've grown up le, don't really seek for a birthday celebration. So then she told us tonight one of the Hokkien association held a dinner, so many of our relatives would not be there. So all of us - my sisters and I as well as our other cousins, representing our granny, uncles and aunties who won't be attending the dinner - following daddy and mummy (they had their own tickets) went for the dinner. When we reached home before the dinner, mummy's 'sharp' eyes saw the ripened water apple behind our house.. And she asked me to climbed over the veranda, stepping onto the roof to pluck some of it.. ==" Mummy I know you strongly believe that your daughters are not any worse than any son but.. "All right, I think I can climb too.." I thought to myself.. and..  ..see! I did it! Wei wei.. I didn't cheat, I really was stepping on the roof.. ==" Just that mummy didn't snap till my feet..  Yeah yeah.. Water apple in the box.. All I plucked one o.. ^^" Er.. But got one whole big bunch dropped onto the roof and rolled down into daddy's fish pond down there.. ==" All right, enough about plucking the water apple ==".. So this chinese new year celebration, all we cousins are here in Kapit. Thus it will really be a BIG gathering and celebration with granny.. ^^ Then mummy told me she has invited Soon Gu (uncle Soon) and his family to our house for supper as a little celerbation for me tonight at 9.30pm. Hehee.. Then last minute-ly, we invited our cousins as well.. As usual daddy doesn't really like eating restaurant food, so I went back earlier with him.. Didn't finish the dinner yet.. ^^ Then after about one hour, mummy winnie amelia and my cousins started comingto our house.. (Dinner was just over ma) I was quite happy because it has been quite a long while since the last time all the elder cousins gathered at our house. Then we took our favorite photo again - arranging according to age.. Hehee.. We always took this type of photo together since young..  ..found me? The only tiny one in the middle.. Lol.. But now when arranged by age, the height is really not in order.. From the eldest.. Cody, Winnie, Cheryl, Audrey, me, Alicia, Jason, Amelia, Wei Qian.. Those younger than Wei Qian didn't come.. Now let's arrange by height.. :P  ..lol.. But ehem, (whispering to you only, don't tell winnie o..) winnie should be after me le.. Hahaa.. Hope she won't read this.. ^^  Then the girls..  ..and the guys.. Wait.. daddy also joined aa.. hahaa..  ..my family.. ^^ but why I look like the youngest le.. ==" ^^, in short, I am very happy.. This birthday is really simple but meaningful to me, with my closest cousins celebrating together.. Hehee.. More pictures to be uploaded from Kuan Ee's (aunty Kuan's) digital camera.. Will post them later.. Father I thank you for such a blessing.. Thought celebrating birthday without friends would be a bit dull but then, I miss the warmth of celebrating it with my beloved ones at home.. ^^ Thank God for my family..
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January 23, 2009
The bus departed at about 11.10pm last night.. Sometime after that Rick called and wished me happy becoming birthday too.. ^^ But the funniest part was, I was sleeping in the bus when the clock stroke 12am.. Hahaa.. It was until about 2am that I finally saw few messages in my inbox wishing me Happy Birthday, sent at around 12am one some more.. Hahaa.. But then I slept back la ==", was quite tired ma.. Then finally I reached LCCT at about 3am. When I woke up, wa.. Back pain aa.. Coz the seat of the bus not very comfortable, for me personally la..  Mineral drink given by yoyo bus.. There was a caption on the wrapper - safe, convenient, enocomy, comfortable - .. ~ the driver speeds like what le.. ~ hmm.. yea maybe it's quiute convenient coz can book online.. ~ economy..? This one.. I have no comment coz I think that's the standardized price for most of the bus company.. ~ ha this one, back pain n neck pain le.. Hehee.. No la, didn't mean to give bad comment.. Just found it something 'nice' to write about ma.. Then I started to feel hungry.. So I went for breakfast.. Wanted to enjoy myself at coffee bean, but then it's closed and will only open at 5.30am, when I will be checking in.. So I walked for quite a distance to this Food Garden..  And these were what I had as my super early breakfast at about 4am..  ..two pieces of chicken mayo double cheese sandwich (but I ate one and a half already when I suddenly thought of taking the picture.. lol) with hot chocolate.. ^^ And here's my luggage..  ..still the same bag and the same box when I returned from Sibu to KL early of this year.. ^^ Tik..tok.. The time passed.. I 'flew' to Sibu, then I 'swam' to Sibu.. till I finally reached Kapit at about 3pm.. Praise God for a safe journey back.. But haiz.. When I reached Kapit, I only had another 9 hours of birthday left to really enjoy it.. Half the day was travelling and travelling.. Quite tired also.. Oh yea, I bought a super small blueberry cake from Sibu and it swam with me all the way back to Kapit.. Lol.. Haiz, time spent in Sibu was limited, and the choice of cakes in the only cake house that I managed to stop by was limited as well.. Wanted to buy a cheese cake one.. T_T.. But looking at all those only-blueberry-cake bakery, then knowing that daddy won't like to eat cheese cake, so I just bought it. Afterall haiz.. No cheese cake also there in teh bakery.. Anyway, yes I reached home already! Thank God for the whole journey..
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
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January 22, 2009
This evening at about 4.30pm, Aaron called me saying that he was ready with the van besides V5K. And yes, my journey back to Sarawak for Chinese New Year break started there. My bus to LCCT was at 11pm last night, thus after discussing about it with Aaron, we decided that I followed him back to his house in Ipoh as he drove the church van back to COP main church this evening. Hmm, I was quite worried to be alone at the bus station since evening time. Travelling out from UTP at night alone also is something 'scary' to me. However, I was also paisey to bother Aaron's family. But haiz.. Well, praise God for the heart and willingness of the family to 'keep' me at their home for a while. ^^ First thing I remember when I reached their home was the shock that Jingle Bell - the cute little dachshund at their home - gave me, by running here and there around me.. Well, I was a stranger to it also though..  ~ picture cropped from aunty claire's blog ~ Having been rearing two dogs at my house since young, I thought I won't be afraid of dog like I do when it comes to cats.. ( Owh.. Don't wanna think about cats now.. ==" All right, back to the story..) And I always thought Jingle Bell is quite big in size, then only when I saw it that I knew it actually is quite..cute! ^^ So after bathing, we went out for dinner at a place called Glamour Square. The food was nice.. Thank God for the blessings.. Then during dinner suddenly darling Dreschler called me and sang me an edited birthday song.. " Happy becoming birthday.. Happy becoming birthday.. Happy becoming birthday.. Happy becoming birthday.." It was so surprising and nice.. Thanks Dreschler.. ^^  ~ Dreschler and I, taken during our form 4 at mrsm kuching compound ~ Then we went back home, and Aunty Claire started blogging.. While waiting for time to pass, Aaron and I watched TV downstairs and chatted. Oh yea, ==" I was frightened by Jingle Bell's movements for many times.. Yet hahaa.. ==" still felt like touching it for once but too bad, didn't dare to try even once then.. Then at about 10.30pm we departed to bus station. Oh yea, below is the orange given by Aaron and his family as new year 'gift'.. ^^  Thank God for the blessing and also to Aaron's family for their hospitality.. Though didn't have any special earlier birthday celebration, but I really thank God for this blessed, peaceful birthday spent with Aaron and his family.. Thanks Aunty Claire and family.. God bless you all.. And to all, Happy Chinese New Year o! ^^
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
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January 21, 2009
Hmm.. The Chinese Orchestra had its new members recruitment last night. There were 3 songs performed altogether before the registration started - 凤阳花谷, Joget Anak Udang and 欢庆丰收.. Then Henry Yew our president-cum-conductor explained briefly the history of our orchestra.. This recruitment, I wasn't really busy because I had others to help me in doing many of my responsibilities as I was quite busy with some church commitment. Thus, last night, most of my time was to sit at the registration counter and wait for people to come and register. So relaxing.. ^^ (But at first nia.. ==") Then half way when people started moving around to try different instruments, I finally couldn't sit still anymore (well, being able to sit aside for about an hour is really good enough an achievement liao le) and started 'making noise' here and there.. ==" I got to try few instruments last night, like 二胡 (Chinese two-string fiddle) and 中阮 (Chinese alto four-string lute).. Hmm.. Just that both require my finger tips to 'press' the strings, a bit painful lo.. But still thank God for He created so many talents and instruments for us to express our passion in music.. ^^ Love you so much Father.. Then we also took some pictures.. ^^ My favorite la.. Hehee.. (Though I'm not so photogenic.. ==" Yes I know that..) Here is one which our batch took together..  ~ so red.. ==" lol.. ~ More pics to be uploaded once I take it from others.. ^^
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January 14, 2009
Today is Xiao Ci's birthday. Thus, as early as twelve midnight, we girls gathered at the kitchen in our apartment to get ready the doughnuts - as a replacement for cake.
We were quite happy and all that for the simple but sincere celebration when I finally found that my room was locked! Man.. It was about 12.30am already and we had a 'good' surprise like that.The funniest part was when Xiao Ci joked and said, "wow, I didn't know you all prepare this surprise for me during my birthday. It's really much more surprising than the doughnuts just now!"
A Hoo then suggested to climb up into our room as luckily our windows were opened widely last night. We are staying at the first floor anyway. But then it seemed to be quite dangerous to climb aa.. But after a short discussion together, most of the girls said finding fellow would be a better and safer idea. So A Hoo and I walked to the guard room at V5 cafe in pyjamas.. ==" And to those close ones who knew the 'hidden mystery' when I'm in pyjamas, you would know how much I didn't wanna walk out of the apartment in it. Well, I had no choice but to go with A Hoo to the guard room at V5 cafe.
When we reached there, there wasn't anyone inside and again, we walked back. Shih Gin and Jia Lin offered us to stay with them for a night as their roommates weren't back yet. But well, considering many things, we still insisted to get into our own room last night.
When we almost reached our block, we saw a guard walking by.. ==" Then we followed her back to the guard room again, in my pyjamas (==" sorry I have to stress that) and took the contact number of our fellow. Thinking of how was he a person during our room registration last few days, we were quite reluctant to find him. Still, I prefer to climb into the room. And A Hoo assured me that she's good at climbing. And she wanted to climb, too.. Praise God aa.. ^^
Hehee.. The next scene was superb! A Hoo used someone's clothes dryer which we found downstairs as her 'ladder'! So we helped her to hold and support the ladder as she climbed.. Though I was quite worried too if she got injured or anything, but I chose to give her my trust because her confidence assured me that she can do it and she did it!
Wa.. At that moment I just felt like shouting out to her "A Hoo I love you!" and I did.. Hehee.. Then before we slept, A Hoo joked, " should take my video when I was climbing..". Hahaa.. I am afraid if we really did, then we may have more intruders in the future.. ^^
Really praise God that everything went nicely and A Hoo wasn't badly injured, just a little scratches on her palms and arms. Haiz.. I am very touched for what she has done. Really thank her a lot last night.. Thank God too for a new great roommate like her.. ^^
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January 11, 2009
Yesterday we went out to Tesco Ipoh to shop for stuff that we needed. And praise God, I bought my first multi-purpose cooker! Hehee.. Have been wanting to own one since long time ago..  This one, nice le.. Got steam tray some more, so can steam dumplings liao next time.. ^^ Thus after waking up this morning, I started to prepare the ingredients.. Like taking out the frozen fish fillet, cleaning the cooking utensils, soaking mushroom etc..  The lunch ingredients.. Fish fillet, seaweed and mushroom.. At about 11am, I started cooking. After cutting ginger and mushroom, I boiled the seaweed soup. When the ingredients of steamed ginger fish were ready, it's time to cook rice and steam fish, using my new cooker-cum-steamer! Ngeh3.. (too excited to cook ==")  The seaweed soup.. Think I put quite a lot of the seaweed, thus we have enough of it to be reserved for tonight's dinner.. Seaweed soup again, hohoo..  The steamed ginger fish.. At first the gravy was too salty, then I drained out some of it and added some more water.. Hehee.. -phew- This final one turned out to be quite tasty o..  Yeah! Finally it's lunch time at about 12.30pm.. Praise God for the food and fellowship.. ^^
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
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January 11, 2009
I was suddenly woken up by my tears in the midst of the night..
I dreamt of my late grandpa! Man.. In my dream, I knew clearly that he should have passed away but he appeared in the midst of my conversation with grandma.
I remembered Grandma was taking out some cookies from an almost-empty glass jar for me to taste. Then Grandpa suddenly came out from the room and said something to Grandma.
All of a sudden, I stunned.. Looking at that gentle face which I have been missing so many years, I really kind of lost my ability to speak, or think. But he acted as if he didn't see me at that moment. I just couldn't open up my mouth to call him. After talking to Grandma for some time, he finally turned to me and smiled. He smiled at me!
The next second, I was already in his warm arms, hugging him tightly with my tears rolling down. I really miss him so much.. Every time thinking about him, I just can't really hold my tears.. He was such a great man in my life. In fact, to everyone that knew him he was a great man.
Many times when we were down in life, he was the one who continuously gave us his smile and encouragement to go on living our life meaningfully. One thing which I believe till this day is that, he is now in Heaven with God.
Though the families at my mother's side seem to all be non-believers, but I remembered once during a Church concert, mummy brought Grandpa there to watch me performing. Then during one session the audiences were asked if they believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior and repent. Grandpa raised his hand high and stood up among the many people who attended the concert that night! Praise God for saving his soul..
Some people may think that accepting Christ alone and not carrying out the lifestyle of a Christian will not bring one to Heaven. But I strongly have faith in this one verse..
"He who has the Son of God has the life.." ~ 1 John 5:12
Yes, I miss you so much 阿公..
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
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December 22, 2008
I was helping mummy baking 包 (dumplings). So I asked her to teach me how to bake it without the mixer. Hehee.. Because I planned to bake dumplings in UTP aa.. So after baking hers, she suddenly prepared the ingredients for me on the baking table. "It would be quite hard for you to mix these ingredients without a mixer, but since you wanna learn.."
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
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December 21, 2008
Growing up in a family with the presence of a great cook (mummy), I really have almost zero chance to cook something for my family. All I can do is to stay aside, observing mummy cooking, and then try to make up a list of ingredients used in her different dishes by tasting one by one after that. Well, my mum is very 'secretive' that it's really hard to catch the scene when she puts any behind-the-scene ingredients into her dishes even when I am observing closely besides her! Wei wei, not that I am not observant enough aa.. Observable ingredients like onion or ginger of course I know le..
Hehee.. But I am really thankful that she finally agreed to teach me bake our homemade butter cookies when i was in primary school. Ever since, during visiting seasons like Chinese New Year, I would be the one baking that particular cookies if I celebrate them at home.
Erm, actually I wanna share my recent experiences of 'working at the kitchen'.
Last two weeks when I was still in Kuching, I kept telling my sisters that I wanna make something nice for them to eat. I call that cheese omelette. To be honest, I got that idea from the Omelette Special at v5 cafe in UTP le.. Hehee..
But it was only after my elder sister Winnie went back to Kelantan (she studies there) that I finally got a chance to shop for the ingredients for my cheese omelette. And yea, only my younger sister Amelia got to taste it and that made Winnie a bit bei song.. Sorry lo.. What to do..
Hmm, but.. My first omelette looked terriblly ugly! See the photoes and you'll understand.. ~ sigh
~ this one really looked too ugly liao.. But one good thing about it was that, the cheese all melted out and the taste..! Man.. That was soooo delicious! ~
~ this one, I know it's still ugly but hehee.. At least it was shaped better la ~
Then I was too innocent to think that I could make tasty potato cubes. But after 'exploiting' the whole kitchen, I couldn't find any potato and thus, I decided to replace potato with yam.. ==" Sometimes I am just 'too clever'..
~ Amelia didn't even wanna try half a cube, so I ended up forcing myself to finish the whole plate. And the taste was too NOT DELICIOUS! Luckily I wasn't greedy that I chose the smallest yam and it turned out to be just these few little cubes.. ==" ~
Then two days ago (I have reached Kapit), daddy suddenly offered me to COOK FOR LUNCH! I was so excited that I quickly went to the fridge and searched for any raw ingredients. You know what I found? Only chicken wings, hotdogs, crab meat, 2 carrots, a fish, 2 cucumbers, a bag of tomatoes and half a pack of dry bean curd (the one mixed with my favorite barley one ^^).
Looking at these ingredients, I had no choice but to choose to cook chicken ginger soup with the bean curd and cut some cucumber and carrot. I would prefer to cook fish than chicken, but I don't know how to ma. Then I thought the carrot might be too hard to be eaten, so I boiled it after cutting it into slices. And, our rice cooker has a small problem - the rice at the bottom part will always get hardened. So thinking that my idea to solve this was brilliant, I kept stirring the rice every few minutes while it‘s being cooked.
All right, so when my dishes were out..
Me: Aiya! Daddy, why this rice so hard one.. Like still uncooked le.. Daddy: You don't know how to cook lo. Me: .. ==" Amelia: Jie, lu ei theng ka na bo bi ei, bei ho ciak (Sis, your soup like no taste like that.. Not good to eat..) Me: ..==" Wa mai cu cin kiam ma (I don't want it to be too salty ma.. ) - excuse only - Amelia: Ci lei msi mai cu cin kiam, si bei kiam a (This is not that don't want it to be too salty, this is not salty at all a..) Daddy: This one is not enough garam (salt). You go get some more salt.. Me: ..==" Oo.. Daddy: Why your carrot bau sabun (smells like soup)? Me: Yea meh? Oo.. I boiled it just now. Maybe it's because of the pot.. Amelia: Sei pun bei hiao sei cheng khi.. (Wash also don’t know how to wash cleanly..)
Sob sob.. am I that bad at cooking? Early hands-on experience ma.. All this while I wash the cutlery also very clean one ma.. Just this time too nervous ma.. Don't wanna eat, I eat lo..
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
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December 21, 2008
Last few weeks, on the 3rd of December, I landed in Kuching at about 12pm. After having a simple lunch alone at home (it's my kuching relatives' home, not mine), I was called to help clean the back yard together with my sisters, mummy and aunties, who had been cleaning since this morning I guess. It was a 'little garden' left by my late kuching grandma, who just passed away on last 30th of November. That explains why there were many relatives back in Kuching. Actually, just recently before she left, grandma wanted to clean her 'little garden' behind the house. She loved gardening. And I remember her favorite was orchids. Thus, my aunties agreed to help accomplish her will by cleaning her garden. One thing that touched me that afternoon was the oneness that I could feel as we worked together, offering all kinds of skills each one has while helping in cleaning the garden. All right, there might not need any special skill to clean a garden, but.. Anyway, I think it would be better explained by some photoes taken that day..  ~ mummy rearranging all the plants - her expertise ~  ~ aunty ai chinn, cleaning most of the pots ~  ~ winnie and lingko, about to move the big pot! Strong people, huh.. hehee ~  ~ amelia, using some kind of 'kiap kiap' to collect dry leaves.. I seriously don't know what we call that gripping device ~  ~ me? Only brushing bricks (as the platforms for the pots) and sweeping skills to be offered lo.. Wei, I didn't purposely choose my photo of the biggest size to be put here o ==" , it just happened to be taken vertically ma ~  ~ the hanging pots, looks quite crowded though ~  ~ pots arranged by lingko ~ The fellowship that day was another thing that made the gardening very meaningful. Should have more of this kind of activities next time yea.. p/s: I have written 6 times about this family gardening, due to system error, and the 6 family-gardening posts all are different as I really can't remember what I wrote before ==" I almost gave up posting this gardening moment but well, praise God for this time that it is successfully posted. ^^
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
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December 3, 2008
==" About 3 hours ago, I was excited, knowing that after 2 hours, I would finally be in the flight, flying back to Kuching. Well, yes if that was so, then I wouldn't have been here typing this 'follow-up' post.
What actually happened was, I have mistaken my 9.45am-flight as 7am-flight. Yes, I had been serving as unpaid free guard since 12am till 8am here at LCCT.
I was checking in when I was finally told by the lady at the check-in counter that my flight is at 9.45am, and not 7am. Well, I missed a chance for my faith and patience to be tested by God just now, because I was a bit upset that if I were to check carefully about the departure time, I wouldn't have wasted my whole sleeping hour here at LCCT. But I thank God for He taught me that real patience endures always. Thus, I still cannot claim that I am a patient person.
Hmm.. Guess I have to be extra careful and learn to be more patient in circumstances next time yea.. Praise God for the lesson.. ^^ But now am feeling better already, because I entered the boarding lounge already! Meaning that in a short while (actually still another 1 hour time) I will be boarding on the flight already! Yoohoo.. I love God!
Oh yea, and finally, I received calls from my family already. ==" They promised me that they would keep calling me up to check on me yesterday. And the 'good reason' they gave when I asked about them not answering all my calls was, "hmm.. very tired ma. My sleep last night was great. Sorry yea, that's why I couldn't wake up to call you".
Okay.. All right.. Whatever it is, I am going back soon.. ^^ praise God for everything..
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
travelling
December 2, 2008
I am now at LCCT, since 12.07am just now..
Hmm.. I always thought travelling alone would be something very very impossible for me to accomplish until one by one so-called LONELY journey approached me recently.
It started on last 18th of November, when I made an appointment with Pastor Angela for my first counseling session with her, specially regarding my personal struggle in my academic performance. However, really thank God that He sent Michelle (a sister in Christ) to drive me out to Ipoh and then back to UTP. Oh yea, I have some great testimony for that trip. I shared it under 'my journey with God', with the title of the post, 'A test of Faith, again'.
Then on the 29th of November, finally, I had my first trip travelling alone down to Ipoh again, for my follow-up counseling session with Pastor Angela. This time, I shall say I didn't actually make it through all by myself as throughout my journey, many siblings in Christ supported me mentally and spiritually. A great thanks from me to all of you yea.. Thanks for the prayers and the encouragement.
All right, now I am making through my next travelling-alone-trip. As I am slowly enjoying my sweet time here in McDonald's at LCCT, I really didn't expect myself to be this able to make it till this stage! Really praise God for this. A huh, another testimony to share about this trip, also under the posts in 'my journey with God', with the title of the post, 'My REAL journey of travelling alone'.
Well, honestly I am feeling a little sleepy since 2am just now. And now it's about.. Yea, 4.27am. Hopefully I can stay up till the time to board the flight. Anyway, I couldn't get through to all my family's handphone numbers. Wonder if they have forgotten me.. T_T
All right so now, erm.. Let's calculate.. I have spent RM14.70 at McDonald's in this 4-hour time! Er.. A bit too much I think.. And yes, now I kind of can feel the nature call already.. ==" Well, those of you who knew me, it's pretty cool that the call has delayed till now yea.. Ahahaa..
All right, I really have to leave now. ==" Praise God for I never have the problem of having constipation aa..
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
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December 1, 2008
" Father, I have finished my paper! And I did study for the last paper last night, instead of giving it up like I did the whole four and a half months ago.. Thank you Lord!!" At this very moment, I just don't know why do I feel a bit like touched.. Recalling what happened last night, hmm.. Must post it here and share with you all. I was a little keener to study now if compared to what I used to be. I made a little change for God after I made my decision to meet Pastor Angela (my youth pastor's wife, also a counselor) and talk to her about my problem of 'LAZINESS', which I more nicely called it as 'lack of passion for study' before this. Still, I wasn't having a 180 degrees of change though. Thus, this scenario might still show that I am a little lazy ( ==" I better admit it here first). All right, so last night I was about to give in to the temptation of being lazy again when the clock struck 10 o'clock. That time, I was really feeling lazy again, and the most evil thought came again, tempting me to give up my study once again. I was negotiating within myself, either could I just sleep then and there or should I at least discipline myself to continue studying till 12am.. Thank God, I finally decided that by hook or by crook, though I felt lazy, I MUST continue my study (note that I didn't call that a revision because I hadn't even done my reading for quite many chapters - minus 10 from a total of 20 plus chapters for this particular subject. Yes, I was THAT lazy before.) because this would be my last paper for the final examination. Furthermore, I ain't doing well for this paper all this while. So as I studied, inserted with a few breaks (I fell asleep few times ==" my most effective learning method is not through reading after all), at about 11.10pm, I suddenly came across something I didn't really experience before - I could answer almost all the application questions, covering that particular chapter which I just finished studying, in Test 1 and Assignment 2 and Test 2 which I scored very terribly bad before! Then I just suddenly got motivated to study more, knowing that if I study more, surely I could answer more questions without writing nonsence on my answer booklet. So I decided to proceed my study as long as I could stay up last night. But then at about 2am, I realized that I was physically very tired already, thus I stopped and went to bed. And thank God, He granted me a peaceful sleep. This morning I woke up early and proceeded with my last-minute preparation. After my last final examination paper, at least I could tell myself unashamedly that, I could answer much more questions than I did during Test 1, Test 2, Assignment 1, and Assignment 2. Praise God aa! And I consistently reminded myself that I have to scale down my high expectation on the result like Pastor Angela told me to. She told me to be realistic - realising that I only started my study recently, thus should not put too high, unrealistic expectation on the outcome. And now, I would be really happy even if I could score only a 70 marks for this paper. I just enjoy the feeling of putting some effort on my study rather than ignoring that responsibility. God taught me a lot: reaching out + serving - fulfilling my responsibility as a student = unbalanced spiritual equation God wants me to be balanced in every area of my life to be called a good daughter of His. ^^ That's why I am excited to make a new start next semester. Thank you Father. Love you so much for your grace from the moment I was born till this day.. Just to share how 'serious' was my 'nonsence answer' before this, here I insert two pictures. The first picture below is what I answered during my test, it was a graph..  Then it was only last night that I knew how to sketch the correct graph, as shown below.. (Now I understand why my lecturer put that question mark on my answer d.. ==") 
Posted by Nie Cristal. Posted In :
academic
November 26, 2008
I am excited to face the next semester. I am just too excited to wait for it to approach.
To me, stepping into January 2009 semester means climbing one more step up my mount of Faith. Can't stop thinking about what I will be start doing as the next semester starts. I am going to face new responsibilities, new challenges, new tests, new lessons plus growth, and the list goes on.
Frankly, there's a glimpse of nervousness in me too besides being excited. Because I know I will really need to make a choice of growth - either to continue holding on to this baby faith or to decide to grow spiritually. It may sound weird or silly to some people, but this is a struggle I have.
I have been wasting my whole foundation (in fact, my whole 16 years of attending schools are wasted - I started attending school at the age of 2, yes I'm not kidding), missing chances to grow in term of having the 'sense of responsibility' as a student. It's not anyone's fault, though. It's my own issue of lazyness. But praise God, He is dealing it with me now.
Well, let past be past, and it's really time for me to make a change, to grow up (not physically, of course =="). God wants me to change in order to serve Him the way He desires. And this time, I am also preparing myself to be a good and faithful servant of God. It takes time, I know. But I want to take that step of Faith that I can make a change if I am to do it with God and for God.
Again Stephanie, you don't just say it and do nothing about it aa.. It's your actions and heart that count and not your words..
"Faith is justified by actions!"
All the best, Stephanie Cristal..
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