Gaining knowledge

This morning I woke up at 10:06AM by the call of Ying Zhen. She was calling me to say that she will be in college together with Elvin and asked me if I wanted to come to study accounting together. Since I'm very weak in accounting, I woke up immediately and I got ready to go to college.

Once I reached the college and start to revise my accounting, I noticed that I've been forgetting a lot of stuffs taught in class. There are some basic chapters that I couldn't recall. But fortunately I received help from my accounting friends! You know, life in college is made of different people with different fields. So if we don't mix and relate to them, we might not get a help if we are in need. Here is an example of myself.

I know that I'm really weak in accounting because I was from a science stream before. At least that I make friends with accounting people. The more I get to know them, the more I can learn from them. Human is not perfect in all fields, that's why we need to learn from others to be able to be wise and full of knowledge. When people look at you with such a great knowledge, they will admire you. That's what I'm trying to do. I make more friends from different streams such as music, accounting, mass comm, psychology (my field), business, medicine and pharmacy. Who knows when I'm in need, they will be there for me? Of course if you're a good friend to them, sure they will help you! hahaha!!! Well that's what happened to me today. I asked Ying Zhen to help me in my accounting before and today she called me and told me to come, if I still want help in my accounting.

I praise God because I'm learning from friends with greater knowledge. After my previous exam paper, I was feeling quite lazy to get back to study but today, thank God, that I have the strength and motivation to study. Today I'm so concentrated that I didn't even feel hungry when it was dinner time (7pm). It's a good thing because I'm motivated to study and I'm staying focus and not being distracted by other things. Gaining knowledge can only be achieved when you relate with other people with greater knowledge. [quote from Robin :p] - haha I'm becoming a philosopher now! :D

Good Frenchy day!

Today I had a very nice day! I woke up late! hahaha!!! Not very late of course, it was around 9 something. It's a good thing because I had a very nice sleep. It's been a long time that I haven't slept like that. It helped me to start the day in a very good mood.

Today I went to school and I gave my passport to the passport visa department to renew my student visa. I've finally did everything so that I can stay in Malaysia one more year! :) I was so happy that I completely all my checklist for last week. Now it's time for me to get back to serious matter which is my studies!!! Exams are coming soon and I really need to study else I'll die!!!

Today it was a great opportunity for me to teach French again to my friends. This time was to my student council friends. It was a very good thing because I enjoyed myself in teaching them and laughing at their wrong pronunciation! hahahaha!!! The reason for me to teach French today is because my friend, who is the last person in the student council, knew that my first language was French. Last night we were talking about blogs. We were asking each other if we had blogs. She said that she didn't have one but I did have. So I asked her if ever she would have a blog, in what language she would write it, in English or in Chinese. She replied that she'll write in English. I said most of the time I would write in English too. "Most of the time?", she asked. "How about the other few times?", curiously wondering. Then I replied that for the other times I would write it in French! :D hehe... She had the greatest shock of her life!!! She didn't even know that I can speak French! Then she asked me to teach her French on the next day in school. Well that's what happened in today's "French class". The funny thing is that she wanted to learn about the difficult words to the easier! It's unbelievable but I must admit that she's learning quite fast! I can't wait for tomorrow and see if she can still remember! hahaha!!! Most of the time when I teach French to Asians, they'll forget on the next day! hahaha!!!

Well I had fun today! What a good frenchy day! :)

- Blog dedicated to Ying Zhen who's busy learning French :p -

Pop up

There's something that just popped up my mind. No no no... I'm not talking about the pop up window. The thing that just popped up my mind is my friends. Not any type of friends, but my friends that I lost contact with. I'm talking about my past friends whom I knew since I was very small. Most of them went overseas for tertiary studies while I was still a teenager doing high school. Some came back but most of them had their one-way ticket to their land of destiny. These were my cell group friends, our old and only one EL Shaddaï Cell Group!

Friends, if I lost contact with you, it's due to several reasons. I've lost your email address. Some of you no longer use your previous email. My PC was crashed, so all my contacts were gone!!! :'( This is why now I use gmail, coz it's the BEST! It can store emails online and can receive a large amount of email and I never had to delete my mail! hahaha!!!

Well anyway, dear friend, if you're reading this, I would like to keep in touch with you. Who knows that I might be where you are now, in Australia, Canada, Singapore, China or I don't know where you have gone now, please keep in touch with me! Suddenly I realised all the good things we enjoyed together during our cell group: the camp, the games and lots more. Memories are still here, do you still remember? If you do, please send me a pop up message! :) GBU!!!

EMERGE

Hello All!

It's quite difficult to update on blogspot. Sometimes I have no inspiration to write down anything. But let me tell you that there's a lot of things happening in my life. My life is full of fun, happiness and sadness as well. I'll seldom put my sadness on my blog, because I don't want people to feel sad too. So better be a happy blog! :) hehe...

EMERGE - is the largest youth conference ever in Malaysia. It is organized by City Harvest Church and during the conference, there won't be only speakers talking and concerts, there's gonna be more than this! The amazing thing is that there'll be a lot of competition going on. To be able to compete against each other, we were classified as different teams which we call it clusters, according to our universities. There's the Sunway-Monash Cluster, Metropolitan-INTI-Nilai-Taylors (MINT) Cluster, Local Universities (LU) Cluster and the Various Universities (VU) Cluster and I'm in VU Cluster! :)

It happens once every year at the same period. Unfortunately I reached the land of Malaysia on the last day of their conference. This year I'm happy that I finally made it! Here are the competition that we're going to do as follows:

1. Sports Mania
2. Parade of Schools
3. Beauty Pageant and Manhunt
4. Transformers Competition
5. Acrylic Painting
6. Talentime
7. Fashion Streets of Tokyo
8. Lightning English Chess
9. Lightning Chinese Chess
10. SMS Shootout 2007
11. Nintendo Wii Challenge (Boxing)
12. Nintendo Wii Challenge (Tennis)
13. PS2 Challenge (Winning Eleven)
14. LAN Gaming Challenge (Counterstrike)
15. LAN Gaming Challenge (DOTA Challenge)
16. Who wants to be a Missionary?
17. Essay Writing
18. How Smart Are You? IQ Test
19. Spelling Bee
20. Word Power
21. Personal Testimony
22. Preaching Challenge
23. Photography Competition
24. Shoe Design
25. Multimedia Trailer Challenge
26. Multimedia Short Film

I had the chance to join the Preaching Challenge and the Talentime. For the preaching challenge, there were a lot of good preachers, all young adults like me! I was preaching on Evangelism. It was my first time to preach on stage in front of many people and it was a very good experience. It was not so good but at least I tried. Better to try than to give up! For the Talentime, it was a time to show our talents on stage. The Talentime competition was yesterday morning till afternoon. I was amazed by all the performers there. Most of them were really good, I must say very talented people. This competition was divided into 5 different categories: Vocal, Song Writing, Dance, Hosting and Freestyle. Guess which one I've join? :p hehe.. Yeah I joined for the vocal. I had to present a song without music. It was my first time singing without music and everyone was looking at me. Wow!!! What a good experience!!! I really enjoyed the competition. The competition was a bit similar to American Idol and Star Academy but there were no voting. It's just the preliminaries. So I was number 88 and when the hosts said my name, I went on stage. This is how I went through, "Hi my name is Robin and I'm from VU cluster. Today I would like to perform a song called I believe I can fly by R. Kelly." Wow! Everyone applause!!! I was so amazed and I started to sing. "I used to think that I could not go on..." Suddenly I stopped because I forgot the lyrics completely!!! Oh my goodness!!! Then 2 of the juries who I know, encouraged me to continue. Then I sang the song. When I started to sing, everyone was shocked and amazed that I can sing and I could see them cheering and applause!!! Wow!!! What a feeling! I enjoyed it very much! The reason why I forgot my lyrics is because I was so amazed by the other performers before me and I was cheering up for them. Most of the performance were really good and I must admit that even better than I! Wow wow wow!!!

At the end of the Talentime, I was congratulated by my friends saying that I did very good. Some came to tell me that they were shocked to see me singing and said, "I didn't know that you could sing. You're so good, I hope that you go for the finals!" Some of my competitors also came and said, "I'm sure I loose, definitely you'll go for finals!" Those who were better than me also told me that. Before the church service start, I got to meet one of the juries who is the worship leader and told me, "You did very good, you got a very good voice!" Wow!!! For the jury to tell me that, then it must be true!!! I'm not being proud of myself but I thank God for giving me such a good voice and for people who encourage me to go further. After this, it motivates me a lot to join the worship ministry so that I can serve God.

Today I finally got the results for the Talentime competition and I was not selected. Well I was expecting that I won't be selected. If I was selected, I would be really shocked!!! It's better to be like that. I went for the competition just for fun, to get back this experience of being on stage again and singing solo.

Well that's all from me and that's all the competition I'm participating, it was fun and I enjoyed it. That's the most important thing. At least I try so that I can be better! :)