Froggie...!

Had funny weird dreams these few nights X)
(arghhh...) I wanted to tell you about all the dreams I had actually...
but too bad, I could only recall one.. which is the dream I had last night.. ><" It was about.. hmm An adventurous team (of course I'm one of them, but I couldn't remember who are my teammates, lol) in my grandpa's house (errr... it doesn't look like my grandpa's house at all actually.. but I just don't know why it appeared to be my grandpa's house in my mind that time)... It started with a scene of my grandpa freeing a greeny red disgusting froggie out of a cage, and our (the adventurous mighty team's) mission was to hunt the ugly toad before the sun sets..! o.O alright, catching the toad should not be a big problem but then we realised.. OMIGOSH, THE STUPID TOAD KNOWS CHINESE KUNGFU!!!

It jumped and fought with us when we tried to catch him and then quickly he leaped away..!
and so we lost him..! arghhh... this was tough man... the house was getting dimmer and dimmer. Luckily the toad was stupid enough that we could still hear his stupid endless croak though he was hiding. So we kept pin-drop silence to track him.

And finally, we met again. He performed a leapfrog attack (lol) in a sudden, and wow! luckily my response was fast enough, I did some open hand blocks and ended the combat with a rising punch counter attack, (yeah! Chinese Kungfu HUH!? LoL) [for your information, there were great graphic effects as well as sound effects in my dream during the fight, which I could hardly describe, lol..!] Hmph! then the ugly toad flew backwards and hit the door gate (oops!) His not-very-big size enabled him to pass through the locked gate but I bet it was very painful as I could see the pattern of the gate printed on his face. And now he was lying on the ground outside the house.

Yeeeha! Chinese Kungfu huh? So what! Haha...! While I was so pleased with myself for hitting him down, he suddenly jumped up, turned, looked, and winked at me, then immediately he.. LEAPED AWAY AGAIN!!! (WHAT THE!!) My heart sank deeply with my mouth opened widely when I saw him leaping away from the house infront of me. And we could no longer hear his stupid croaks.. This time was different. He was outside the house and we were all inside the house. The only way was to unlock the gate and search everywhere for the ugly toad before sun sets, but the key was with my grandpa and we clearly knew that usually these sifu(s) (kungfu masters) would only appear after the mission ends! MEANING, our mission FAILED.

The scene then changed to the next dawn which we were leaving the adventure house while the other new dumb dumb team came in, and I saw my grandpa holding the cage which looked so familiar but inside it were two Koala Bears, one big and one small. They were kinda cute, I thought, but I wondered what kungfu or what skill they had, and if they were stronger than the kungfu froggie which caused us no dinner to eat as penalty the night before.

What I heard then was a very familiar tone. It was neither the froggie's croak nor my grandpa's voice (for that he might be explainning the game rules to the new-came dummies.)
And so it was 6.03am in the morning, I woke up and stopped the alarm.
No more froggie, No more koala, and No more adventure.
It's time to go to the school.

Logic vs Faith

I don't want to... but it just can't stop popping up into my mind..

Forgive me, my Lord..

寂

Beautiful Tones - East & West | 《东声· 西乐》 演唱会

For those who love music, The Spring Choral Concert is COMING!
I know it's quite late now, but still, I posted it out. Because.. It's never too late! X)
haha...!
This concert is what you should not miss and if you are really keen to know, read the description below, they were all written clearly ^^
and ya, CHKL Choir is in, that means... my high school choir team is in!!
So please show your support ya
Thanks in advance.
hehe.. (",)

In fact, it's quite late now, if you are interested, you'd better purchase the ticket A.S.A.P, there are not many tickets left, that's what I know, and that's all. May you have a good day :)




Host: CHKL Choir, La Voce Choir, TTC Choir

Date: 21/2/2009 (Saturday)
Time: 7.30pm-10.00pm
Venue: Stadium Chinwoo Selangor & Kuala Lumpur

Date: 28/2/2009 (Saturday)
Time: 7.30pm-10.00pm
Venue: Hin Hwa High School Klang Zhao Yang Hall

Description:

Our local renowned choir conductor and Soprano vocalist, Ms Tang Hui Kung will be leading Chong Hwa KL Independent High Shool Choir (CHKL Choir), La Voce Choir and Tarrega Teenage and Children’s Choir (TTCC) to present you with a range of songs from the well-known composers, John Rutter (English Composer) and Lu ZaiYi (Chinese Composer). We would like to take this opportunity to take you on a musical journey to experience the culture of the East and the West which blends perfectly together in music.

Other than Ms Tang, the noted local choir conductors Mr Chew Hock Ping and Mr Lim Hock Siong will also be conducting the concert.

• 21-02-2009 (Saturday) 7.30pm @ Stadium Chinwoo Selangor & Kuala Lumpur
• 28-02-2009 (Saturday) 7.30pm @ Hin Hwa High School Klang Zhao Yang Hall

ATTIRE: SMART CASUAL

Ticket pricing:
• Adult price: RM 33.00
• Student price: RM 17.00

**Group's Bonus：Buy any 10 Tickets and Get 1 FREE Adult Ticket


The seats are limited and our tickets are SELLING OUT FAST. Visit our website TODAY and place your booking IMMEDIATELY.

Website: http://dshengxyue.evobar.com

Online Ticket Box Office: http://dshengxyue.evobar.com/onlinebooking

Contact us: Mr Tan 012-6938606, Ms Tan 012-2291408, Ms Sia 016-9757182, Ms Lee 016-6377439

Email: c-committee@googlegroups.com


Proudly brought to you by:
The Concert Committee of Beautiful Tones-East & West

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Chong Hwa Independent High School (Kuala Lumpur) Choir
Chong Hwa Independent High School Choir is founded by Mr Chen Luo Han, a renowned musician of Malaysia on January 1980. It has been 28 years since. The prime objective of the choir is to instil and improve choral techniques among the school’s students as well as promoting choral music. The choir has been lead by many music teachers in the long run. Various activities regarding choral music are held from time to time. In 1997, the choir had their first in-school concert and received a positive response from its audiences. The sequel to this concert was held in year 1998. Concerts which are open to public are held in year 2002 and 2006 as well. The choir has participated in the National Chinese Choir Singing Competition for numerous times and won prizes in various categories. In year 2004 and year 2006, the choir came off as champion. They were 2nd runner up for the choir competition held in Johor Bahru in year 2007. Other than that, the choir also took part in the KL A Capella Festival during June 2008. Under the guidance of Ms Tang Hui Kung, the choir is striving for more achievements.


La Voce Choir
Malaysia La Voce Choir was formed on April 2006 by approximately 30 music lovers. The newly found choir is conducted and coached by Mr. Lim Hook Siong and Ms. Tang Hui Kung, consisting of youths from the Selangor and Kuala Lumpur area.

The choir sings in different languages and genres, such as: folk songs, contemporary music, jazz, etc. In year 2006, La Voce choir was invited by KLPAC to participate in KLPAC Sinfornietta to perform “Candlelight Christmas”. They had received positive comments. The choir’s 1st concert “The Premier Voices” were held at KLPAC in May 2007. An album with Christmas as its theme was released by La Voce last year; they also held a musical banquet called “A Christmas Tale”. Mid year of 2008, KLPAC once again invited the choir to be The 6th Young Singer Choral Festival’s performing guest. At the same time, the choir was also invited to participate in the KL A Capella Festival. This year end, they are going to perform in the KL musical festival for the second time.

TARREGA Teenagers and Children Choir (TTCC)
TTCC was founded in January 2008 by TARREGA Guitar House. The 40 members currently in the choir include students from primary and secondary schools. Coached and conducted by the Malaysian renowned teenagers and children choir conductor and soprano vocalist Ms Tang Hui Kung, the choir has a wide repertoire of traditional, folk, classical as well as modern arrangements and this versatile choir can also perform in a variety of languages.On June 2008, the choir participated in a competition at KLPAC which is organized by the Youth Choral Academy, and was awarded silver Diplomo X, 2nd runner up for this competition. At the same time, the choir was also invited to participate in the KL A Capella Festival.The choir also takes part actively in various activities organized by TARREGA Guitar House and its branches.

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For more details 更多详情：

Composers 作曲家:-
Lu ZaiYi 陆在易
http://dshengxyue.evobar.com/2008-11-01-17-18-28/2008-11-07-17-51-16
John Rutter 约翰· 卢特
http://dshengxyue.evobar.com/2008-11-01-17-18-28/john-rutter

Conductors 指挥:-
Mr Chew Hock Ping 周扬平
http://dshengxyue.evobar.com/2008-11-05-18-33-23/mr-chew-hock-ping
Mr Lim Hock Siong 林福祥
http://dshengxyue.evobar.com/2008-11-05-18-33-23/mr-lim-hock-siong
Ms Tang Hui Kung (also Music Director) 陈惠群
http://dshengxyue.evobar.com/2008-11-05-18-33-23/ms-tang-hui-kung

Pianist:-
Abel Chin 陈维忠
http://dshengxyue.evobar.com/2008-11-05-18-33-23/pianist

Hillsong United - Still

Hillsong United - Still

Hide me now
Under your wings
Cover me
within your mighty hand

When the oceans rise and thunders roar
I will soar with you above the storm
Father you are king over the flood
I will be still and know you are God

Find rest my soul
In Christ alone
Know his power
In quietness and trust

A story of a little boy

動人心弦的小男孩 (Little Boy Touches Hearts)

I was walking around in a Target store, when I saw a Cashier hand this little boy some money back.
我在「塔杰」商店閒逛時，看到收銀員將一些錢退還給小男孩。

The boy couldn ' t have been more than 5 or 6 years old.
這男孩不過5、6歲。

The Cashier said, ' I ' m sorry, but you don ' t have enough money to buy this doll. '
收銀員說：『抱歉！你買這娃娃的錢不夠。』

Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him: ' ' Granny,
are you sure I don ' t have enough money? ' '
小男孩轉向他旁邊的老婦人：「奶奶！妳也認為我的錢不 嗎？」

The old lady replied: ' ' You know that you don ' t have enough money to buy this doll, my dear. ' '
老婦人回道：「親愛的！你知道買這個娃娃的錢是不夠的。」

Then she asked him to stay there for just 5 minutes while she went to look around. She left quickly.
她要小男孩呆在那裡5分鐘，她一下就回來。 她迅速離開了。

The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand.
小男孩的手仍然握著娃娃。

Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to.
最後我向他走去，問他這個娃娃你想給誰。

'It ' s the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for Christmas.
『這是我妹妹的最愛，非常想要的聖誕節娃娃。

She was sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her. '
她一直認為聖誕老人會帶娃娃來給她的。」

I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus would bring it to her after all, and not to worry.
我嬖V他不用擔心，聖誕老人最後可能會帶給她的。

But he replied to me sadly. ' No, Santa Claus can ' t bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there. '
但他哀傷地回答我『不！聖誕老人不可能將它帶到她現在的地方給她。我必須將娃娃交給我媽，當她去那裡的時候可以給我妹妹。』

His eyes were so sad while saying this. ' My Sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister. ' '
他說話時的眼睛是哀傷的。『我妹妹已經和上帝在一起。爸爸說 媽媽很快也將要去見上帝，因此我認為她可以將娃娃帶給我妹妹。』

My heart nearly stopped.
我的心臟幾乎要停止了。

The little boy looked up at me and said: ' I told daddy o tell mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the mall. '
小男孩看我說：『我叫爸爸告訴媽媽現在不要走，讓她等我從購物中心回來。』

Then he showed me a very nice photo of himself. He was laughing. He then told me ' I want mommy to take my picture with her so she won ' t forget me. '
然後他拿出一張他自己非常漂亮的相片給我看。他笑著告訴我『我要媽媽帶著我的相片，這樣她就不會忘記我了。』

'I love my mommy and I wish she didn ' t have to leave me, but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister. '
『我愛我的媽媽，我希望她不要離開我，但是爸爸說她必須去找我妹妹。』

Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly.
然後他安靜地用哀傷的眼睛再看著娃娃。

I quickly reached for my wallet and said to the boy. ' Suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll! ' '
我趕緊摸著錢包對小男孩說『我們再檢查一下，說不定您有足夠的錢買玩偶! 』

'OK ' he said, ' I hope I do have enough. ' I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and even some spare money.
『好呀！』他說『我希望有足夠的錢』。沒讓他看見，我塞了一些錢到他的錢包中，我們開始數錢。買娃娃的錢足 了，甚之還有剩餘呢。

The little boy said: ' Thank you God for giving me enough money! '
小男孩說：『謝謝上帝給了我足 的錢!』

Then he looked at me and added, ' I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that mommy could give it to my sister. He heard me! ' '
然而他看著我補充說『昨晚睡前，我要求上帝讓我的錢能足夠買這個娃娃，因此媽媽能將它帶給我妹妹。祂聽見我了! 』

'I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mommy, but I didn ' t dare to ask God for too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose. ' '
『我也想有足夠的錢買一朵白玫瑰給我媽媽，但我不敢要求上帝太多。但祂給的錢足 買娃娃和一朵白玫瑰了。』

'My mommy loves white roses. '
『我媽媽喜歡白玫瑰』。

A few minutes later, the old lady returned and I left with my basket.
幾分鐘後，老婦人回來了。我也就提了購物籃離開了。

I finished my shopping in a totally different state of mind from when I started.
我從一開始就在完全不同的心境下購物。


I couldn ' t get the little boy out of my mind.
小男孩一直無法離開我的心境。

Then I remembered a local news paper article two days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck, who hit a car occupied by a young
woman and a little girl.
我想起兩天前當地報紙的一篇文章，提及一位醉酒卡車司機，撞上了一輛載著年輕少婦和一個小女孩的汽車。

The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical
state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the
life-sustaining machine, because the young woman would not be able to recover from the coma.
小女孩當場死亡，母親呈現彌留狀態。 這個家庭必須決定是否要拔出維持生命機器的插管
，因為年輕少婦不可能從昏迷中恢復。

Was this the family of the little boy?
他就是這家庭的小男孩？

Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the news paper that the young woman had passed away.
碰到小男孩的二天之後，我看了報紙年輕少婦過世了。

I couldn ' t stop myself as I bought a bunch of white roses and I went to the funeral home where the body of the young woman was for people to see and make last wishes before her burial.
我不自主的買了一束白玫瑰，來到喪家，年輕少婦的遺體在她埋葬前讓人瞻仰與最後許願。

She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest.
她在那裡，裝在棺木中，在她的手中握著一朵白玫瑰和小男孩的相片，娃娃則放置在她的胸口。

I left the place, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed for ever.. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister is
still, to this day, hard to imagine.
我離開了這裡，眼淚奪眶而出，覺得我的人生已經永遠改變了。至今，小男孩對他母親和妹妹的愛，仍然難以想像。

And in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.
就在一轉眼工夫，一位醉酒司機奪去了他的所有。

[Special thanks to Joanne for sending me this great story, and so I got a chance to share it here with you (",) ]

Wake up, my friend.

Just turned on my computer and wanted to post something about my orientation day in Apiit, but then something in my inbox aroused my curiosity, that was "FW: Fw： Pls respond ASAP‏"



As you can see, I still have 2211 unread mail in my inbox, but this doesn't mean I seldom check my inbox. (In fact, I check my inbox everytime when I sign in to my Windows Live Messenger, using Windows Life Today :P) It's just because I always choose e-mail to read, and to be frank, I usually don't read forwarding e-mails (especially those starting with "FW" or "FWD"), unless the topic catches my attention, and unless the content is meaningful, or else I usually won't continue reading the whole thing. And then until one day when I think they're a bit too many, I will start deleting them page by page.

Oops, I think I went a bit too far... back to the topic,
Yea... and so I clicked on the "FW: Fw： Pls respond ASAP‏", and scrolled a long way down to read the content, okay, I'll show you the content,

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Hi my name is Amirtha

I am 7 years old, and I have severe lung cancer ... I also have a large tumor in my brain, from repeated beatings.. Doctors say I will die soon if! this isn't fixed, and my family can't pay the bills.

The Make A Wish Foundation, has agreed to donate 7 cents for every time this message is sent on.

For those of you who send this along, I thank you so much, but for those who don't send it, what goes around comes around.Have a Heart, please send this.

Please, if you are a kind person, send this on. PLEASE HIT FORWARD BUTTON NOT REPLY BUTTON.

YOUR'S FAITHFULLY,



DEAR FRIEND,

PLEASE SEND THIS MESSAGE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU CAN. WE CAN SAVE A LITTLE ANGEL GIRL LIFE.

THANK U

GOD BLESS

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and the moment I saw this I was like "uhhh.... not this again...", I've been receiving this type of e-mail for quite a few years and the only thing changed was just their names, before this were something like Jessie Anderson, Amy Bruce, Bryan Warner etc, and now came a new name, Amirtha.

This e-mail is definitely a hoax.

Why?

1. The Make A Wish Foundation would never lend its support in such a ridiculous e-mail-based charity campaign. In fact, the organization had clarified that they do not participate in such thing and even had long-listed out some other similar hoaxes in the official website. Refer http://www.wish.org/about/chain_letters

2. If you bother to use a few minutes to check, here're some websites:
- http://www.hoax-slayer.com/amy-bruce-charity-hoax.html <- This is very well written
- http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/mydek.asp
- http://chainletters.net/chainletters/amy-bruce-cancer-hoax/ <- This website is rather cute, it's the final resting place for over a thousand e-mail forwards, funnies, hoxes, jokes, surveys, and every other form of forwarded e-mail junk imaginable on the Internet. X)

and then you'll realise that often times, our compassion for the needy is ill-used, how cruel we humans are.

I know most of you might think that it's okay to simply forward these e-mails regardless if it's true or not, because if it's true, then wow, you are doing a painless great deed, pat on your back and praise yourself, well done! ; but if it's not, then it's okay also, since it's just a forwarding e-mail, and you might be thinking again, "Hello, what's wrong to forward it though I didn't know it's fake!? I could've saved a child's life by doing so you know?"

Well, I cannot say you're wrong, but I think you are wrong.
1. You didn't know you are actually generating multiplicating so called rubbish in the internet.
2. You didn't know you are actually spreading helping to spread rumours everywhere.
3. You didn't know you actually causing trouble for our charitable organizations, such as American Cancer Society and Make A Wish Foundation, for that they have to devote valuable resources to answering queries about their supposed involvement.
4. You didn't know the real identity of the child in the photograph and that her image may have been added to the hoax without the permission or knowledge of her parents.
(There's actually a photograph of a cute little indian girl attached with the e-mail above but I did not include it, and that's why I did not include it, she's innocent.)
etc.

This e-mail above was just a small case. I believe you have received quite a lot of forwarding e-mails saying something like if you don't forward this e-mail to other people, bad fortune or whatsoever will fall on you, but if you do forward, good luck will always follow you, depends on how many people you forward to. This is worse, it not only deceives, but also threatens.

So...
Please think twice before you do or trust anything, or better yet, do some research. It doesn't cost you much time to check, just simply google a few keywords and you will know if it's true or not. Why spend so much time selecting you friends' e-mail addresses to forward while you can actually do something that is much better and smarter?

p.s. Please don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that you should not forward e-mails. I mean, if it really can save or help somebody by doing so, I definitely will do whatever I can. And you should, too.

p.p.s. If an organization is willing and able to offer financial help, they will do so directly and the amount donated will not depend on the random forwarding of an email. Any message that claims an email is being tracked and that money will be donated for every forward is virtually certain to be a hoax.

Verdict:
Check if it's true before you forward any e-mail.
If you found that it's a hoax, please delete it without forwarding and ensure that you let the sender know its true status.

p.p.p.s. If you really want to help a sick child, make a donation to the Make-A-Wish foundation @ http://www.wish.org/ or alternatively, you can also always help the poor creatures who can't even voice out their rights to anyone when they are suffering @ http://spca.org.my/ (and visit also http://patapet.zeneng.net/ ! haha.. ^^)

Starting my college life tomorrow..!

excited. :)

Happy Niú Year

As title, Happy Chinese New Year..!! ^^
There are quite a few posts that I wanted to publish actually, but just didn't manage to write... (due to some "unforeseen" reasons, hah!)

Some of them are...

1. Pray for my brudder who went for plastic(oops) surgery
Haha, just kidding. Not plastic surgery lar.. =_=
It's just a normal surgery for shoulder dislocation..
In case you didn't know, his left shoulder was dislocated, and this is the fifth time.
Basketball was the cause. haha!
Anyway, thanks God, everything is okay now and he is recovering fast X)

2. Slamball
Turned on the television and found out this new team sport (erm, not really new actually, but at least it's new to me, to you also, maybe? :P)
Pressed the "info" button on the Astro Remote Control and what it showed was something like this
"Imagine a mash-up sport combining the best of basketball, football, hockey and gymnastics and you get slamball"


sounds cool huh? (",)
Since my bro has blogged it out,
Further details you can see here or here. ^^
Hmm.. that's all. Just feel like sharing it because it's really fresh to me, hehe..!

3. Things to ponder
- What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free?
- It doesn't matter what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
- Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?


to be continue...