 Tuesday, August 02, 2005
SWITCH BLOG I'm sorry to say that I decided to switch my blog again. http://melissa-ning.blogspot.com Kindly change your link Your co-operation is very much appreciated. Due to the stupid dumb code each time you need to enter on the tagboard, for you guys' sake, I decided to switch again. So say thank you. Sunday, July 31, 2005
Trust in God, because He is forever faithful. I was flipping through The Star this afternoon. I read StarMag, and came across this successful man Tan Sri Francis Yeoh, YTL Group's managing director. He is a very successful and wealthy man just like other tycoons. But one thing that makes him truly different from others and special is, he puts all his trust unto God's hands. I believe that his staffs must be feeling really lucky and honoured to be able to work under him because he treats all of them as a family. Just like what the bible says,''Love your neighbour as yourself.'' He's indeed put into practice. Why am I blogging about this man whom I do not even know? It is because I respect him for his strong faith. He believes that Jesus Christ directed him towards God and found himself worthy of being God's servant. It's amazing that for a 16 year-old school drop out, is much more successful than most degree holders now. Why? Not that he was outstanding, it's his faith towards God which contributes to who he is now. I came to know that, when he first converted to Christianity from Buddhism, needless to say, he had to bear with all those negative comments and reactions his parents and siblings thrown to him. Instead of ignoring or arguing with them, he gave his siblings a Bible each. As he strongly believes in God's mighty power, a miracle happened eventually. His siblings, one by one they became believeres. Amazing huh? It may be a very long process, but he waited as God gave him the patience. Imagine, just a bible, he managed to bring all his siblings unto Christ. Even I myself has not done this before in my life. Come to think of it, I hardly bring anyone to come to know about Jesus Christ. I didn't even take the courage to do so, shame on me. James 2:17 says, ''faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.'' Yes, we may be very strong believers in Christ, but if we do not share the gospel, reach out to people out there, we're just no difference with the non-believers. The faith is dead. As believers, we are this group of people who sent by God, to fullfill His heart's desire, bring the people into the house of God, the kingdom of God. In this society full of temptations, it is very difficult to find a successful man who trusts God with all his heart just like Tan Sri Francis Yeoh. He succeeded not because he's incredibly capable, it's God's strength. God has blessed him as he has honoured Him. James 1:12 says, "Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.'' Philippians 4:13 says, ''I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me.'' James 1:5 says, ''If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.'' In short, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. Saturday, July 30, 2005
YA today was fun! I've just changed my blog skin. It looks better. Plus it's one of my favourite colours, PINK, pretty love it. Hopefully you people can view my posts now. And yeah, I think you people need to type the stupid code when you want to post on the tagboard now. If the stupid code still appears, kindly inform me thank you. Today, woke up very late..as usual lah. Can't help waking up early on a Saturday morning. As I said I woke up very late, there's not much food left for me to eat. Therefore, I cook myself. Nah...just something edible, don't expect me to cook big fish big chicken big prawn..I'm not up to that stage yet, I'm still at the frying egg and maggi mee stage. My laptop was sent to my cousin for repair because it failed to receive connection signal. It's troublesome not having internet for even one day, plus I had my econs research for the past few days. Thank God there are plenty of computers to use at home...dad's laptop (not allowed to use though, his ''rice bowl''), mum's laptop (cannot use msn, but I'm always smart to find other ways..msn2go, iloveim) and desktop in my sister's room,I hate using that desktop anyway, just for printing and stuff, if no choice gotta use loh. Not even a day, my laptop is back to normal now, wow...efficient cousin! Drove to church for YA. My parking has improved I must say. Finally Ps Nirhal is back for YA after 3 weeks. As usual, we had praise and worship, testimony and all. The only thing was, we didn't have sermon today, but we had games for the rest of the time. Toefl was the game master today. We started off by writing everyone's names on a piece of paper. Oh my gosh now only I realised that XP's name stand for Xien Puo, before that I really thought that his name was XP in different spelling because everyone's calling him XP ever since I joined YA. And then, we had to use ONLY one word to best describe that person...pretty tough task. Anyway this was just an ice-breaking thingy. We handed in the paper, then we're expected to guess that person with a few descriptions written by anyone of us. It's very funny though, listening to those funny doesn't make any sense descriptions. Describing Min Jun as boxers? Yi Jiang as theif? Chin Hoe as dress? Haha..! Then we had this lame game. Guessing movies name with the first alphabet given. It's proven that guys watch too much of movies, not that you are smart...haha! Later, we had this human tic tac toe. 9 chairs were arranged. We're divided into guys and girls, and were given a number. That means, someone from girls, and someone from boys would have the same number. When the game master shouted a particular number, a girl and a guy were supposed to rush out and sit on one of the chairs. The game became more fun when the first person who came out was not allowed to sit at certain places. This was afterall a speed game. Johanan shouted my number for the first seating, I shared the same number with Jason. We ran and sat on the same chair at the same time, our butts hit one another, everyone laughed. Someone asked me to push him away but I just sat behind instead, don't want bully small boy lah. When Ju-ping's number was called, she rushed to this seat and was about to sit on it. Suddenly, Min Jun being aggressive..well I really didn't know how to describe, grabbed the chair like rugby or as they said american football, eventually Ju-ping fell on the floor, haha...funny scene! I dislike games somehow, call me anti-social. But sometimes I just dislike participating in games, unless I'm playing with my close friends, good friends, that's a different story. It all depends. I prefer chit chatting with friends rather than playing games. Had dinner at Nam Heong. Nice food. Wanted to go shopping but dad later decided to visit my 3rd aunt. So dad dropped my sis and I home. My mum asked whether she can use my denim bag. Haha...she's feeling young, I gave her the bag anyway because I seldom use it now since I bought a new purple bag from Converse. Barney just came to my house. His mum had this uni friend reunion near my house, didn't expect him to actually dropped by as I thought he was kidding because he just enjoys joking. Just like Wooi Chen and Jerm last time, called me and said they're outside my house now. Barney, your sis is cute. Happy 19th Birthday Swee King aka the Maths King. Today's his birthday and Cher Wei banged to his car, a very unique birthday wish. LOL. Friday, July 29, 2005
Is it Saturday yet? Finally, handed in my Econs research assignment today at 9am. Stress level reduced. Stayed in college until 7pm yesterday. I'm glad to have my daddy who can actually help out in my Econs assignments. He has full of experience in the business world and so pro in explaining about the Multinational Companies to me. Thank you daddy! Today, normal. Luckily Poh Yee has eventually found her bag. Maths mini project starting next week. I'm grouped with Poh Yee, Diana and Sheng Wei my leader. We had the best ESL period ever. Miss Prem showed us a comedy by Peter Russell. We had the best laugh ever. Although I didn't really understand some parts, I did laugh my lungs out at certain parts, especially the chinese part. Thanks Miss Prem for releasing our stress. After ESL was break again because NO MORE LAN FOREVER. Me, Pei Sem, Choon Luan, Juliane, Mei Chia and Chi Yao went to Inkafe to chill. I ate chocolate fudge cake again, it's just simply lovely. We played Uno stako. So fun...we took the challenge by purposely taking out the 2 sides. The base was pretty unstable though. We played two rounds. Juliane made it fall during the first round, while the second round...me! It's noisy when the whole thing fell. We'll definitely play it again next time. Yayy!! It is Friday...it is Saturday the next day. Weekend...yeah...!!! I'm lazy to blog in details lah...till then...bye! Monday, July 25, 2005
Updates For the first time, I woke up earlier than the time I set on the alarm clock. For the first time, I fetched my cousin, Kimberly to church. Wow...I'm a big girl now. I ushered yesterday in church. The most relaxed ushering so far, because I didn't have to run down to make drinks and prepare food, need not to serve the people with food and drinks too! Haha...self-service. Coolness, our coming youth retreat T-shirt is PINK. I love pink! I ordered 2 of this t-shirt. While I was enjoying my TV show, Eastly called me. She needed BIG HELP, which was to fetch her home because she was dumped by everyone else in church. Most of them went to Seri Kembangan for vocal training and she's alone. Yeah so I went back to church and picked her up. Once again, I'm a big girl now. For the first time, I did not take my afternoon nap on a Sunday afternoon, that's a miracle. Somehow I managed to control myself from being tempted by the stupid bed. Guess what? I did Maths. Wow..I'm a big good girl now...*smiles to herself* Watched ''Journey with Jason'' on AEC last night. Jia Ci's father was on TV. Yeah, he's being interviewed to tell people about his stories. He was once a drug addict and member of the kongsi gelap, very bad guy. Throughout the years, he's changed and now he turns out to help other drug addicts and youths with problems out there. He's set up numerous youth centres and drug rehabilitation centres. Although it seems not profitable with unfixed income, he's touched people's lives. I truly salute him. Have been chatting with Wai Lam recently, catching up with each other after not contacting for quite a long time. Very nice and funny partner to chat with, we often get into pretty serious topics like career, relationship, life and all. We don't talk about band stuff like competitions to avoid misunderstanding. So I pretty enjoy our conversations after all. Now my family knows him, because he's out in the newspaper for getting the Best Drum Major in the national band competition. Wow...feel so honoured to be his friend. Haha...! I feel sick. I am currently suffering from flu. I HATE running nose. It makes me suffer madly. It makes me sneeze non-stop. And it makes me look like I'm always crying. Somemore, I need to carry tons of tissue with me. Troublesome personified. I feel weaker after I left band. My mum said it's because I have insufficient exercise, unlike last time I used to march a lot and sweat everything out. I think it's kinda true, considering the fact that I sleep a lot too! My cells have become as lazy as me. Isn't climbing the stupid stairs up to the highest floor in Taylor's everyday an exercise? Anyway, I really have to sweat it all out again. To re-build my long lost stamina that has been built for the last 5 years. Argh...we have to do Econs research again....I don't like it. It makes me go blind and nuts. Friday, July 22, 2005
Crap... It's very depressing, reading the posts on voteband forum. I shall just copy and paste from Adeline's blog. " I’m pretty hurt abot the vicious comments people are throwing at my band. It makes me wanna cry. I saw my members’ effort, I saw everything they did, I saw how hard they worked to overcome difficulty over difficulty. And when they won, finally a moment of joy, people make mean, vulgar comments. I hate it when I see it. Saying my band is a clown band? Saying the judges are blind? What happened to sportsmanship? Everyone used to be super anti-VI, now once we won, we’re the target of everything. People are making comments that are not constructive and are just there to hurt us and pull us down. I don’t understand what’s their problem? " " I don't understand what the hell is wrong with everyone. Seriously. Every band put in hours and hours of practice. We should understand each other and respect each others’ feelings! But what happens? When someone wins, they become the target of every single gossip around. Which is why, I hate the band industry. Sore losers and hypocrites everywhere. And seriously lousy English. I should go give them tuition. And all the contradictions. First they say our music is lousy, then they say that drills should be given more emphasis then music in marking. Wtf.. if you side with whoever who loses, I say you have no mind of your own. And I genuinely am proud of them. " Yeah, I don't understand what the hell is wrong with everyone too. Some people are just not civilised and sporting. Every year's champion has to be stepped by people. What's the point of posting stupid stuff, you think you can make a difference? Totally bull shit. These people are just plain stupidity. What's the point of comparing with the world class bands and professional bands? We are just ordinary high school students who are still eating books. I don't understand why. Cheer leading can get tonnes of support and sponsors from people, but band industry....people keep backstabbing you. I shall not make any judgement. We know it ourselves and we just keep it in low profile. We have good virtues and qualities. We are certainly not those stupid dumb brainless people who speak shit. Conclusion, ignore that page. Enough said. Action Speaks Louder Than Words. Friday, July 22, 2005
Updates Yesterday was the first day for this ELC Workshop where we're taught about study skills, learning skills and all. Miss Chin, was our speaker. We were taught on note-taking skills, memory skills, exam preparations and essay writing skills. Most of them we've known it long time ago, so it was pretty boring, but somehow meaningful, I think. Anyway, M2 being lazy and playful, only 8 of them (including me) left after lunch, how terrible! Other class had full attendance, malu saje. We had quite a lot of breaks in between. Diong, Pei Sem, Choon Luan, Mei Chia and me were together most of the time. We had breakfast at McD during the first break. Then we had lunch at InKafe, Barney joined us. We played Uno while waiting our food. It's been a long time since I played UNO. Since I just ate something at McD not long ago, I just ordered Chocolate Fudge Cake with ice-cream and coleslaw. The cake was super delicious, I just love chocolate! Barney left and joined those ponteng people for movie at Pyramid. The rest of us played uno stako at the sofa, fun lah. We made a lot of noise. I went back to CHS with Xin Yi after college. Mum dropped us at Amcorp because the band has not arrived KL yet. So we just chilled around. Waited super long for the band to return to school. For the sake of Miss Sherry's request, they went to Taiping Zoo to look at pitiful animals. Unexpectedly, one of the 3 buses broke down in the middle of the highway. Needless to say, they delayed. Li-ying came to pick us and we went to some place in PJ for dinner. Around 9pm, they have finally arrived. I can't believe that we actually waited since 4:30pm. How can you get such good and supportive seniors/ex-members like us? Anyway, it's really great to see them return along with great achievements, the trophy is much bigger now. The piala pusingan is super huge. Today, as usual, went to college for this ELC workshop AGAIN. I thought we got to learn some effective reading strategies but no...ended up reading the long passage and answering questions. Super bored. As I came home late the night before, I was really exhausted that I wanted to sleep. Therefore, I called my mum to come fetch me home at 10am. Yeah...I ponteng, it's like once in a blue moon that I ponteng, but I'm still a good student. Good student needs rest and beauty sleep too. Pei Sem msged me and said they went to explore ADP building and the library. How can? Go explore without me? How can??! Dumped me lah...??!!! Tomorrow's Saturday. Yeah...the starting of Mega Sales Carnival. Gotta get mum go shopping. At the same time, I need to revise my work. Wednesday, July 20, 2005
No words can describe how I feel now... Updates. Yesterday -went to Penang for the band competition semi-finals with Siew Mun and Li-ying in her dad's car at 10am -arrived after 3.5 hours. -da pao KFC as lunch and rushed quickly to PISA Stadium. -Malaysians being Malaysians, will never be punctual. -Competition started half an hour later, could have taken our own sweet time having lunch. -First band, Victoria Institution from KL. -Many bands have the similar colour on uniforms: RED WHITE BLACK. -Many bands have improved tremendously, especially St Joseph, Chung Hwa Wei Sin and Jit Sin. -improvement of these bands gave us a shock, a good one. -CHSB performed well, Weil Xuan didn't drop his mace at all. -Top 6 Bands entered finals: *VI - Kuala Lumpur *CHS - Selangor *Nan Hwa - Perak *CHWS - Terengganu *St Joseph - Sarawak *Jit Sin - Penang -This year's competition was a tough one. Each bands has their own style and all. Strong rivals. -btw, finally met Wai Lam and friends from Nan Hwa after...2 years! -needed to go back to KL, how sad. I had LAN Moral test the following day. Today -feeling tired in college as I arrived home at 12 something midnight. -feeling nervous and wondered what was happening in Penang. -I wanted to go to Penang. -sad case, ZERO supporters buses from CHS went to Penang. Reason-->JPS rejected. -less cheerings in Penang, I wanted to go so badly. -wanted to call directly to Penang and listen to them play. but Malaysians are always late, delayed the competition again. CHSB performed during my test! -more nervous during the test. kept looking at the clock, kept praying. -called to Penang immediately after I left MPH. -tension-ness, haven't announced the results yet. -CHSB and Nan Hwa got Gold Medal while the other finalists got Silver. that means, Nan Hwa would be our only rival to fight for the champion title. -waited for very very long for the final results. patience level 0. nervous level 10. -Nan Hwa got best uniform and best drum major, congrats wai lam! -most tension time of all-->final results -3rd: KL (dskhdkjfhasdfhadsbsdnaf...cheerings by the impolite supporters from VI) 2nd: (this is killing me) Perak (dsjfsfsdfjsmnmxnhfa...cheerings by nan hwa supporters and us, big chance for us to win!) 1st: (I'm going nuts) SELANGOR (AHHHHHH...WOOOHOOO....YEAHHHHH....cvjouwesdfsfjhsjhsjhf...nv ending cheerings). Believe it or not, I was actually listening to the results directly from Penang, as in ''live'' through phone. Thanks for the canggih-ness of technology. I was really going nuts, I screamed and shouted my lungs out, my parents were happy too! I even cried, it's been a long time since I shed tears of joy, it's PURE. I wanted to fly to Penang so badly and immediately. I wanted to shout and cheer, I wanted to congratulate and cry with them, I wanted to hug my sis...very emo I was. Even till now, I'm still feeling hyper and excited. my feeling is indescribable. Our fall last year, I'm glad that it's all worth the fall and failures that we have gone through. We climbed up from the hurting and disappointing fall, never give up to prove that we are still the best among the best after all. It's so cool and great! I'm VERY VERY VERY proud of my fellow juniors. It has indeed cured my hard feeling of last year's fall. They have never let us down, truly CHSB spirit! Bridge of the song Conquer the Best As we break the dawn to achieve new light with some barriers with no hope at sight When there's no support and hope seems not tall we will keep to our promise and refuse to fall Very meaningful lines of the song. I'm currently speechless as I'm just too happy to say anything. If it's not today's test, I would have probably party with them in Penang. ~POWER PRECISION PASSION~ Wednesday, July 20, 2005
CHS BAND THE NATIONAL CHAMPION 2005!!! CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL BAND THE NATIONAL CHAMPION 2005 Monday, July 18, 2005
The Lord's Prayer Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
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Profile I'm Melissa Leong Shu Ning. Born on the 15th of February, currently 18. Lives in Subang Jaya. Am doing South Australian Matriculation in Taylor's College. Proud of being who I am. Known as Mel or Ning among my peers. I am: a christian, a chinese, skinny, tanned, quiet, cool, mysterious, girlish, emotional, sensitive, fussy, hardworking and lazy, moody, neat and tidy... I love: God, church, my family, my friends, my classmates, F504, ice-cream, chocolate, autumn, musicals, riverdance, shopping, driving, keeping my room neat and tidy, playing the piano, digging up old stuff, looking at pictures, beauty sleep, dancing, singing, dreaming, freedom, being alone at night, watching tv, online, chatting with friends, great conversations, psychology, romance, love stories, being loved, being cared, being protected, listening to people... I hate: greediness, selfishness, jealousy, bitchy girls, backstabbers, rude people, being left out, exams, feeling down, being moody, it when things don't go according to plan, it when my target is not achieved, it when my sutffs go missing, it when people simply take my things... I wish to: have more blessings from God, be the top student, make a difference in the world, impact other people, be forever young, be a successful in the future, have a loving husband, have 4 kids, be the youngest, reach the stars, have my very own car, turn back time, be smarter, be a better sister...(human is never satisfied). "Good work is seldom an accident, it's done by people who care." "When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realise my friends are my energy." F-V-ZERO-IV: li-ying. shu ning. sze hui. swee wen. seak lee. xin yi. kim yoong. jermaine. keng zhi. hun chee I'm feeling... |