天冷你就回来

从前对着收音机 学唱旧的歌
我问妈妈为么 伤心像快乐
妈妈笑着 说她也不懂得
我想出去走一走 哦妈妈点点头

天冷你就回来 别在风中徘徊
哦妈妈眼里有明白 还有一丝无奈
天冷我想回家 童年已经不再
昨天的雨点砸下来 那滋味叫做爱




















































唔唔~ 别在风中徘徊.. 唔唔~ 天冷就回来..

渐渐对着收音机 学唱新的歌
我问朋友为么 做梦也快乐
朋友笑说 她从不相信梦
我想出去走一走 哦朋友点点头

天冷你就回来 别在风中徘徊
朋友的眼里有明白 还有一份期待
天冷我想回家 年少已经不再
今天的雨点砸下来 那滋味就是爱

winter is finally here

after all the talks about how strangely cool and sunny may's weather had been when its suppose to be turning winter, it has finally arrive tonight. abit later than before but yes gloomy winter is back again. the temperature is sitting at 6 degrees now and i just went to the balcony to smell the chilly winter air. niceee. :)

i have frozen fingers and feets now though.

after wrestling with Toyota and Ford for one and a half weeks (and it was a hell of one and a half week), im now looking at McDonald's hotel for a marketing report. yes, it is McDonald's and hotel. McDonald's as in the Big Mac, McChicken, sundae MacDonald's. you didnt see wrongly. haha.

if you are interested you can google about it, they use to have a McDonald's hotel in Switzerland in 2001 but the idea flopped and the hotel was bought over in 2003, so Mackers is essentially back to food again. we are just exploring the possibilities of having another one in the US now. won't it be so interesting if it is successful? sleeping with Ronald MacDonald's and friends. :)

okay back to the report.

ps. i am so gonna have Grainwaves now. ahhh horrible weather making me all greedy again.

holy fridays

just had the best lifegroup/bible study/youth fellowship yet tonight. it was so awesome to exchange, share and learn so much more about Christ through discussions as simple as tonight's. no paper, no bible (well a little), no pens, no notes, just pure thoughts and discussions.

still remember there was this phase after i've just decided to receive Christ, i was worried if i can stay faithful and committed to my decision, i was worried if my decision was a rash one because everything happened so quickly. like in a blink of eye. like how can you change all that you've believed in your entire life in just one month? i find it hard to believe myself.

but things just happen, things just change. through God's grace of course. felisha gave me this book called Being Christian and there are five categories of christian experience in it; earnestly curious, recently committed, suddenly saved, lapsed but returning, committed but seeking reinvigoration.

i would say mine for sure to be suddenly saved. like literally suddenly saved. Thank You Lord more than anything else for that, and for filling my life with so much more now.

right i digressed. the point is my initial worries are redundant on hindsight. praying the saving prayer (which huishan lead me unknowingly into, i thought she was just gonna pray for me! haha well not that i wouldnt if i knew it's the saving prayer. looking back the whole thing's so funny now haha) isnt the end to the battle of Christianity. but really it just mark the start of our lifelong journey with Christ.

there is so much to learn of and so much to think about. even tonight's 3H discussion isnt enough, its amazing how each topic just link to the next bigger topic and how every one of them are as exciting as the previous's. i am just so intrigued to find out more about everything to not stay committed and faithful. its a lifelong journey! :)

then it came the issue of my church hunt in melbourne. what else can i say other than be thankful and more thankful? so many large and established churches in melbourne city catering to uni students; CrossCulture, LifeEx, PlanetShakers, so on, and i ended in this small church in Boxhill which requires a 30mins train ride to get there.

the church is so small everybody just knows everybody after at most 2 sunday services. but its really amazing just how much the values of that church coincide with my desired values of a church, and how fast i just sorta settled in and down. and the initial 'right' feeling when i got into the church. everything just fell nicely into place.

i'm now blessed with a group of kind-hearted and nice bunch of youths to support and grow spiritually together with, and with each passing day i just feel my faith strengthening and myself learning so much more. what else can i say?

Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus, Thank You Lord!

awesome thursdays

sleep in thursdays are the best. waking up without the alarming ringgg of clocks. stopping by the window, taking in yet another beautiful day granted. leisurely prepare brunch. leisurely prepare for the afternoon lessons.

no rush , no hurry, no temper.

how nice to start a day like this everyday.

enjoyed brunch today. its baked apple oats with cinnamon sugar and garlic bread. eating oats make me feel healthier than i am.












check out my new school bag. :)












and i went for mama mia's musical yesterday night. all i can say is...

"mama mia~ here i go again. my my, how can i resist you? mama mia~ does it show again? my my, just how much i missed you"

social EQ module

you know i am doing this extra module called EQ module this sem, very useful for my marketing path in future. it basically teaches you how to interact and deal with people in the best way to make them feel comfortable and at ease. no lectures, no tutorials, no assignments, no exams. just practical experiences.

it is so difficult to be nice all the time. to strangers, to acquaintance, to difficult people, to angry people, and especially difficult to mean beans. it gets really frustrating after awhile and you just start questioning, why should i be nice to them? who are they to me? why must i put up with all these shit when i dun even know you or like you.

sometimes you just feel like being anti-social and put on an angry, agitated and super unfriendly mask. scold vulgur. scream and shout like a crazy pms bitch.

i know, only God has the ability to judge. difficult people teaches you tolerance and acceptance. teaches you how to love even in extreme times. gives you the greatest challenge in the EQ module.

so i try very hard. to master this module. no, there is no master in this module.

so i try very hard, to keep up in this module.

but after tonight, damn. just let it out yumin.

can i just take a damn break from this module. i am tired of being nice and giving chances all the time. can i just scold and judge like a crazy pms bitch, make personal attack comments, scold vulgur, anything that can let off some steam?

after all the effort, i am still so mortal, so human, so far away from God.

not distance, but difference.

rainbow-lifex

this is my second rainbow in last week. so love rainbows, because they're short-living. rare, special, yet simple.














one lazy and sunny afternoon (this afternoon)














one chilly and rainy night (tonight)

love sunny breezy afternoons; love chilly rainy nights.
love the night view from my apartment.

simple and at peace.
loving everyday of my life.

When I Think about the Lord,
How He saved me,
How He raised me,
How He filled me,
With the Holy Ghost,
How He healed me,
To the uttermost

When I Think about the Lord,
How He picked me up,
And turned me around,
How He placed my feet,
On solid ground

It makes me wanna shout,
Hallelujah,
Thank you Jesus,
Lord You're worthy,
Of all the glory
And all the honour,
And all the praise

It makes me wanna shout.

breakfast lovin'

it's ANZAC day today (a PH), the weekend feels so much longer. :)

the weekend breakfast special continues from saturday. had hot choc, hashbrown, scramble eggs, garlic bread, nutella with banana, and peanut butter with banana for brunch (what a feast!). and you so gotta try oven-baked nutella with banana! recipe from mich dear who kop-ed it from some babysitter show? haha.

imagine now, you bite into that soft bed of thick toast, a generous spread of the world's favourite hazelnut spread, and with the caramelised banana melting in your mouth. what are you waiting for? go bake it for breakfast! :)











we prepared our very first home-made western food last saturday. had oven-baked red wine garlic and onion chicken with steamed brocolli, baked wedges and sweet potato mash. to top it off, mic dear prepared one of her best dish - the green and healthy salad. yummy-licious!













the is a photo taken outside of Old Raffles Place, the restaurant i was talking about in my previous post? heee. the only decent photo i've taken that night. Sonie's dying on me really. i can feel, her time's almost up. if i were to buy a new camera, Sony's definitely out of my consideration set.










it was raining over the weekend, and kinda turned cold as well. but i like it. love sunny days, love rainy nights, love autumn in melbourne.

snapped this photo on my way home from church yesterday. how long have you not seen a rainbow? and what is rainbow-lifex.blogspot.com without a rainbow? (hahaha)














/looks out of window as i type

it's sucha beautiful sunny day today, and i have to slog my ass off the biggest and most complicated management assignment i've had so far.

well no complains, i'd rather do this 5000 words report and struggle with supply chain issues of Ford than finance anytime.

the little red dot

to continue from where i left in my previous post, had Japanese quiz 2 last friday after the presentation and i prolly might just fail it again. it was horrendous! extremely terrible dictation, could not catch most of it.

had the usuals tutorial presentations this week and a mid-sem test yesterday. went out for singapore food after the test and the place's called Old Raffles Place! haaa one of the rare authentic singapore restaurants you'll find in melbourne. the food's really alright, you would probably not even pay $2.50 for their chicken rice but its really one of the best in melbourne already.

chatted abit with the boss at the cash register and he was like so unpro singapore. he was a singaporean but migrated to melbourne for some good 20 years. he was telling us PAP = pay and pay and so many more altered acronyms that was really funny haha. i cant remember off my mind now.

afterwhich it really struck off the patriotic feelings in our hearts. like we were saying singapore ain't that bad right. at least it is freed from all natural disasters, has the lowest crime rates in the world, is safe, blah blah blah. only one factor which put all our hands down during the discussion on pros of singapore. can you guess it already? it starts with W. w_ _ _ _ _ _. let's play hangman. haha.

and val dear was so cute she went to dish out this article on the web that explains why singapore is the world's greatest city. haaa. and from there i came to this website/article that states 40 Singapore foods we can't live without. i was thinking 40? do we have that many? and then i was like, yeaaaa! really! see it for yourself.

1) chicken rice
2) char kway teow
3) wonton mee
4) carrot cake (chai tow kuay)
5) chilli crab
6) bak kut teh
7) sambal stingray
8) fried hokkien mee
9) rojak
10) bak kwa
11) economy rice
12) kway chap
13) oyster omelette
14) katong laksa
15) fish soup bee hoon
16) yong tau foo
17) bak chor mee
18) peranakan kueh
19) bak chang (rice dumpling)
20) kaya toast
21) BBQ chicken wings
22) chin chow grass jelly
23) teh tarik
24) satay
25) ayam penyet (i duno what this is though)
26) ngoh hiang
27) nasi lemak
28) mee siam
29) indian mee goreng
30) popiah
31) roti prata
32) murtabak (this totally remind me of the RK house video hahaha)
33) otah
34) fish head curry
35) nasi padang
36) briyani
37) curry puff
38) goreng pisang
39) ice kachang
40) chendol

how long have you not had these food? well then what are you waiting for? its rated 40 singapore food we can't live without! haaa.

power distance

it was a hell of two weeks since after Easter, and i only managed to breathe properly tonight. haha. well well well, what can i say, fantastic weather everyday! its sunny, cool, breezy and niceee. even with all the work, i feel good everyday! no stress, no frustration, no anger, just RELAX. :)

had my very first presentation in uni last thursday (i knoww right, yes it's my first official presentation not counting tutorial presentations, don't be surprise) on a service firm that we have to audit for our Service Relationship Marketing (SRM) assignment. i dun want to go into details about our pre-presentation work but all i can say is it wasnt at all that smooth sailing. but yea! thank God all was well in the end! :) no need for formal wear because quote Browyn our tutor, 'Australia is a relax country, so no need to wear formal, just appropriate' :)

/sidetracking in process
i never notice this until i was back for holidays and i think it was renee? whoever, we were talking about school and she was like Prof. ___ said blah blah, i was like Prof. ___? she said it was her tutor and i was like, you call your tutor Prof. ___ or Doc. ___ (whichever the degree is)? was very surprised by the title one have to add in addressing their tutors or lecturers.

i was telling her we address our tutors or lecturers by their first name, like POONAM (this OB tutor from India, a very nice lady, and renee cannot stop laughing at her name i duno why haha), BROWYN (my current SRM tutor who cannot control not to share her experience at a jazz club today after a group's presentation on a Gay Club) and Augstin (my Supply Chain Management tutor who was telling us about his marathon last friday, on how he had to abseil down this really steep slope and have people rolling down the slope beside him as he went down, haha).

the differences in culture sneak up to you in such subtle ways you often don't take conscious notices of them. but as they appear every here and there, thought it would be nice and interesting to share.

if you are in Marketing, Management, or have studied culture before, guess that dimension of culture difference (the one about titles) is Power Distance, and unfortunately Singapore is ranked the highest power distance country in the world! it means the degree to which a group values equality in relationships, and a high power distance country means people expect and accept that power is distributed unequally in their society, based on status, age, wealth, education and so on.

and right there in front of our eyes, a living example of how Singapore has a higher power distance than Australia (because if you see everyone as equal, why would you care about his status whether he's a professor, doctor or even toilet cleaner?). haha. we've not only accepted the inequality in relationships, we've also taken it so deep that we must address every teacher Mr. so-and-so (last name) or Doctor Kua for example (is sick.. haha kelsey), so much so that if we don't include their title, it's like a form of disrespect to them (which essentially is just their education status isnt it?).

it isnt disrespect, really. just culture differences. so its fine to call mr lam, boon seng yea? hahaha.


well that was one long sidetrack. so this post has to be continued tmr for the benefits of your eyes. ;)

laughing bomb

hmmmm, im drinking freshly squeezed apple, orange and pear juice. *slurps super awesome, i can open my own juice heaven stall already lah. haha. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acS4o5XbByY

wanted to post this video here but cause of some unknown reason i cant download it into my lappie, hence you are seeing only the link here. do click on it or cnp into your internet explorer!

anyways THIS.VIDEO.IS.SUPER.HILARIOUS. i've already showed my mum and she too cannot stop laughing. its about an auntie driving a lexus trying to park a car. apparently her skills aint that good so she took super long and unknowly caused a jam behind. the person who took this video sounded super frustrated and his commentary is totally the laughing bomb! HAAAA.

the new maid is causing quite abit of uproar in the house btw. just realise the way she washes our clothes and table cloth. oh wait, washes? should be rinse mildly only.

okayy, back to the annoying PM assignment. :(