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The ??? and The !!!Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-6749318950291237622009-11-16T18:17:00.001+08:002009-11-16T18:34:31.659+08:00<a target="_blank" title="ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting" href="http://revolution.my/" mce_href="../../"><img src="http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1152/webbanner1.jpg" mce_src="http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1152/webbanner1.jpg" border="0" /></a>Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-34278724821107632852009-10-30T16:02:00.002+08:002009-11-16T18:17:01.627+08:00GREATER THINGS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/SuqeE8C3LDI/AAAAAAAAAJA/5DVFE1erRTg/s1600-h/graphiclogo2+copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 350px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/SuqeE8C3LDI/AAAAAAAAAJA/5DVFE1erRTg/s400/graphiclogo2+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398300911031757874" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">http://revolution.my</span>Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-51375758725429594702009-10-12T21:35:00.000+08:002009-10-12T21:36:02.581+08:00.... anyway.“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you’ll win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway. If you’re honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight. Build it anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you have anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it’s between you and God. It was never between you and them.” (Mother Theresa)Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-74356605209600242002009-09-24T11:12:00.002+08:002009-09-24T11:14:55.830+08:00For Malaysia Too, Lord Jesus.....WHAT HAS OUR NATION BECOME !!!!!?????<br /><br />When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:<br /><br />"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good", but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.<br /><br />We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.<br /><br />We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.<br /><br />We have killed our unborn and called it choice.<br /><br />We have shot anti-abortionists and called it justifiable.<br /><br />We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.<br /><br />We have abused power and called it politics.<br /><br />We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.<br /><br />We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.<br /><br />We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.<br /><br />Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!"<br /><br />The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest.<br /><br />In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively.<br /><br />The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea.<br /><br />Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of the Story," and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.<br /><br />With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and whole-heartedly become our desire so that we again can be called: "one nation under God."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything."</span>Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-17115132333851282492009-08-16T00:07:00.005+08:002009-08-16T00:23:22.123+08:00God's Best and Brightest<span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">by David Shibley<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></span></span><br />David is the president and founder of Global Advance and is a member of the SVM2 Council of Reference.<br /><br />The awesome account of the advance of Christianity is essentially the story of how God used sold-out young men and women – His best and brightest.<br /><br />Each day heaven's new heroes are writing new chapters of bravery. Now, with the finish line in sight of “a church for every people group and the gospel for every person,” God once again is looking for His "first choice" runners – young men and women with a passion for the honor of Jesus Christ among the nations.<br /><br />God is scanning the earth right now looking for those whose hearts will beat with His. “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him” (2 Chr. 16:9). This very day God has His eye on you. The torch is being passed to you. Are you ready to run with the gospel?<br /> <br />God is looking for the best and brightest of this generation for the grand prize of fulfilling the Great Commission. Youth enjoy taking risks. One key reason why God so greatly uses younger men and women is that they often don't know what the limits are! If there’s a huge assignment, they just do it and find out it was “impossible” later!<br /> <br />Another reason God uses young people is because so many have broken hearts. Violence, fractured families and demolished dreams have left many of today's students familiar with lots of pain. You may put on a brave front but if people could see inside, would they find a wounded heart? God can take your hurts and use them redemptively. The Christian band, delirious?, sing,<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"Is it true today, that when people stand<br /><br />with the fire of God and the truth in hand,<br /><br />we’ll see miracles, we'll see angels sing,<br /><br />we’ll see broken hearts making history?<br /><br />Yes, it’s true."</span><br /> <br />Recently I was with three other presidents of missions organizations. As we shared our backgrounds, we discovered that each of us had experienced a major family tragedy when we were teenagers. <span style="font-weight:bold;">God uses broken-hearted people because they feel the pain of a fractured world that is separated from God</span>. That's why missions leader Bob Pierce prayed, “Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.” The broken hearted, in the hands of Jesus, can become His best and brightest.<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Standing on Their Shoulders</span><br />As a part of the twenty-first century Student Volunteer Movement, you are following in a noble train of faith that is centuries long. Young people have always led the charge in the global march of the Church.<br /> <br />The Moravians were so moved by the sacrifice of Christ for the world that they began a prayer meeting for world missions that went non-stop for 100 years! Many of those present on day one of that prayer gathering were in their teens and twenties.<br /> <br />In the first era of missionary advance, God sent William Carey, not yet 30 years old, to defy a complacent Church and challenge Christians to see a bigger world. This young pastor dared the Christians of his day to “attempt great things for God and expect great things from God!” God is putting that same impassioned faith in the hearts of His young firebrands today. That’s why I’m sharing this message with you. I believe you can light a missions fire that can become a global blaze! You can expect great things from God and you can attempt great things for God!<br /> <br />In the second era it was again young men and women, including Hudson Taylor, David Livingstone and Mary Slessor who made the difference in their generation. As the third era of missions dawned, young, innovative thinkers such as Cameron Townsend and Donald McGavran again changed the course of missions.<br />The golden chain of the gospel's advance has always been forged by young people. Nikolaus von Zinzendorf was 10 years old when he determined his lifelong purpose would be to preach Christ to the world. When he was 16 Zinzendorf joined with five other teenagers to form a school prayer group in Germany in the 1720s. It grew into a revival prayer movement that swept Europe! Youthful Baptist pastor Charles Simeon challenged Cambridge students in the 1790s toward missions and launched a student movement that has impacted that campus to the present day.<br /> <br />The Haystack Prayer Meeting at Williams College in 1806 was the spark that lit the missions movement in the United States. Samuel Mills, one of the students at that prayer gathering, galvanized a student missions movement that reached 70 colleges. Mills died at age 35 off the coast of Liberia, but not before he had helped form America’s first missionary agency and theAmerican Bible Society.<br /> <br />David Livingstone was a teenager when he heard missionary to Africa, Robert Moffat, say that at dusk he could look inland and “see the smoke of a thousand villages” without the gospel. Livingstone changed his life’s focus and determined to get the gospel to those villages. In 1850 teenager Hudson Taylor committed his life to serve Christ in China. In 1854 Taylor left England and would later found the China Inland Mission. The influence of Taylor’s life continues to be felt throughout China today. In the same decade David Livingstone preached at Cambridge, touching off another blaze of missions passion there. In 1858, InterVarsity began at Cambridge, tracing its roots to Livingstone’s missions challenge. A missions fire once again hit Cambridge when D.L. Moody preached there in 1882. Among those who committed their lives to Christ at Moody's meetings was a young athlete named C.T. Studd. He gave up his huge inherited fortune to finance his missions work and later began the World Evangelization Crusade.<br /> <br />In 1885, Luther Wishard suggested a summer conference for students to evangelist D.L. Moody. Wishard’s sister prophesied that there would be 100 missionary volunteers from the conference. The next year the first-ever student missions conference convened at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts. After missionary A.T. Pierson’s challenge to “the evangelization of the world in this generation,” exactly 100 students pledged their lives to become missionaries. That conference was the match that lit the flame of the Student Volunteer Movement, which would eventually see over 20,000 American young people go as missionaries.<br />New missions embers were lit in 1936 by students at a summer retreat in North Carolina, resulting in the Student Foreign Missions Fellowship. A decade later Jim Elliot would head the SFMF chapter at Wheaton College. In 1956, 29-year-old Elliot and four other young missionaries would die face down with poison-tipped spears in their backs in an attempt to plant the gospel among the remote Waodoni people of Ecuador. The cover story of their martyrdom in Life magazine resulted in hundreds of young people volunteering to take their place. Also from that North Carolina meeting, student missions gatherings began that spawned the far-reaching Urbana Missions Conferences, attracting some 20,000 students every three years.<br /> <br />Youth-lit fires for missions continued to spread. Billy Graham and Torrey Johnson, a young evangelist and a young pastor, formed Youth for Christ in 1944. Campus Crusade grew out of a 24-hour prayer vigil at UCLA led by a young seminary student, Bill Bright. Dawson Trotman got his vision for the Navigators from prayer times with other young people. Operation Mobilization was born out of all-night prayer meetings at Moody Bible Institute. Youth With a Mission began as afire in the heart of Loren Cunningham, a youth pastor in his early twenties. The Jesus Movement of the early 1970s swept thousands into the kingdom. Many of the “Jesus people” were already committed to radical living – and today many of them continue to radically serve Jesus world-wide.<br /><br />Ron and Katie Luce, young married students at Oral Roberts University in the 1980s, dreamed of igniting a fire for missions in a whole generation of youth. The result is Teen Mania.<br /> <br />And now SVM 2, spearheaded by Ryan Shaw, has fanned the smoldering embers of the original Student Volunteer Movement into a new, blazing fire focused on the yet unreached peoples. Around the world a new company of the committed are totally devoted to Jesus and to His commission. They aren’t perfect but they are on fire! They refuse to tolerate halfhearted commitment in themselves and they cannot understand it in others. Anything less than absolute abandon to Jesus is too boring to impress them.<br /> <br />As I open my heart to your generation, I'm finding enormous receptivity in a generation hungry for God and hungry for fathers. As I meet with thousands of young men and women God is calling, I”m discovering young Christian leaders-in-training who are marked for the new millennium. God is fashioning new leaders who possess anointing without arrogance, boldness without brashness and power without pride. I'm honored to stand by your side in the battle to make Jesus Christ known, loved and worshiped in the twenty-first century.<br /> <br />One hundred years ago the visionary missions statesman, John R. Mott, made a prophetic declaration about today's young volunteers. He wrote, “The worldwide proclamation of the gospel awaits accomplishment by a generation which will have the obedience, courage and determination to attempt the task.” With all my heart, I believe he foresaw today’s young generation. You have the obedience, courage and determination demanded to break open the final frontiers.<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">It All Comes Down to You</span><br />When the leaders of the church at Antioch confirmed and commissioned Saul and Barnabas to go to the unreached, they were sending their best and brightest. In the same way, God is calling the best and brightest to the unreached today. That’s why He is calling you.<br /><br />It is Kingdom missiology to send the best and brightest to the areas some would consider the least and darkest. So don't croak on trivial pursuits. Don’t twitter away your life! What really matters is the worship of the Son of God to the ends of the earth. Crave His honor and glory to be shown to the nations. Live for what matters!<br /> <br />You are truly a chosen generation! For almost two thousand years Christians have dreamed of finally fulfilling the Great Commission. And God has ordained that your generation run the last lap! Yours is the high calling to take the gospel to the unreached.<br /><br />When I was eight years old our gym coach picked four of us boys to run a relay race. He looked at me first and said, “David, you're not very fast, so you run first.” Then he said to the others, “Brian, you're a little faster, so you run second. Brad, you're even faster, so you run third. And John – you're the fastest of all, you get to run last! You are the one who can actually win the race! When you get the baton, don't worry about whether you're ahead or behind. Don't be distracted by anything around you; just fix your eyes on the finish line and run with all the speed you have!”<br /> <br />In the very same way, God has honored you with the prime slot in the race. You get to run the last lap! You have been chosen for history's highest assignment – to finally fulfill Christ's mandate to get the gospel to every person and make disciples of every nation!<br /><br />When God called Jim Elliot in four other gallant young men to take the gospel to the unreached, He was calling the brightest and best. When I was in college, a missionary recruitment poster showed a picture of Jim Elliot navigating a jungle river. The words on the poster struck me like a club to my stomach:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Jim Elliot<br />1927 – 1956<br />Honor student<br />All-star athlete<br />Martyred missionary<br /></span><br />Poor Jim. He could have been a success.<br /><br />Long before Elliot laid down his life in the jungles of Ecuador, he built an altar of consecration in his dorm room one night at Wheaton College. On that altar he offered the carcass of “success.” Journaling what he felt that night in 1948, 21 year old Jim Elliot wrote these words:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">“God, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like You, Lord Jesus.”</span><br /><br />Elliot’s passionate, prophetic prayer was answered. He was one of the brightest and the best. He became part of God’s army of young volunteers. Will you build the altar? Will you volunteer your abilities as part of God’s young volunteer army?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">IF YOU WILL BUILD THE ALTAR, GOD WILL BRING THE FIRE.</span>Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-13311628498932314802009-06-26T19:18:00.002+08:002009-06-26T19:20:48.177+08:00Googled my own blogI forgot the url to my own blog. <br />Had to google "Rosaleen Goh" to find it. <br />I actually had a meaningful thought today of reviving this blog. <br />We'll see. <br />The next update might be about Alyssa's sister?! haha. <br /><br />-stranger signing off-Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-25602330352073534672008-01-17T19:18:00.000+08:002008-01-17T19:27:37.830+08:00ALYSSA LIM JIA XINAlyssa Lim..<br />Born 9th December 2007.<br />I was at Tapah, FGA Taiping's youth camp at the time.<br />Aileen sent me an mms of our latest addition to the family.<br />Adorable Alyssa. <br /><br />Haha.. Up goes another shrine in my room :) Next to Janine's. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/R4868lofg6I/AAAAAAAAAFc/ljk2LvZPQ_g/s1600-h/Alyssa%27s+fullmoon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/R4868lofg6I/AAAAAAAAAFc/ljk2LvZPQ_g/s400/Alyssa%27s+fullmoon.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156404910931018658" /></a><br /><br />This was the e-invite my sister sent out. <br />Cute or what...... :)<br />sorry it's a lil small. BUT, you CAN click on the picture for magnified vision in a new tab or window :) :)Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-9370766005803366292007-09-06T15:10:00.000+08:002007-09-06T15:24:16.062+08:00Poopie BreadOH MY GOODNESS!!! Talking about <strong>bread</strong>.<br /><br />This will be most effective just before a meal, or just after (don't say I didn't caution you)!!<br />Enjoy...<br /><br />Exhibit Poopie-Bread #1:<br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-oVeTOGgI/AAAAAAAAAEU/JkMZfmVO2Zs/s1600-h/poopie+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-oVeTOGgI/AAAAAAAAAEU/JkMZfmVO2Zs/s320/poopie+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106985589325830658" /></a><br /><br />Exhibit Poopie-Bread #2:<br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-od-TOGhI/AAAAAAAAAEc/U0VmfOPuCKE/s1600-h/poopie+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-od-TOGhI/AAAAAAAAAEc/U0VmfOPuCKE/s320/poopie+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106985735354718738" /></a><br /><br />Exhibit Poopie-Bread #3 (The <em>Bijirin</em> Effect):<br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-o2OTOGiI/AAAAAAAAAEk/prdVeQI5K2k/s1600-h/poopie+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-o2OTOGiI/AAAAAAAAAEk/prdVeQI5K2k/s320/poopie+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106986151966546466" /></a><br /><br />Exhibit Poopie-Bread #4:<br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-pR-TOGjI/AAAAAAAAAEs/CaWWnwKLikY/s1600-h/poopie+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-pR-TOGjI/AAAAAAAAAEs/CaWWnwKLikY/s320/poopie+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106986628707916338" /></a><br /><br />Exhibit Poopie-Bread #5:<br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-p7OTOGkI/AAAAAAAAAE0/4pJgaNL4Ews/s1600-h/poopie+5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-p7OTOGkI/AAAAAAAAAE0/4pJgaNL4Ews/s320/poopie+5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106987337377520194" /></a><br /><br />Exhibit Poopie-Bread #6 (The Inside Story):<br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-qIuTOGlI/AAAAAAAAAE8/IGfGPKU9g2s/s1600-h/poopie+6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-qIuTOGlI/AAAAAAAAAE8/IGfGPKU9g2s/s320/poopie+6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106987569305754194" /></a><br /><br />Exhibit Poopie-Bread #7 (Springing to life):<br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-qTuTOGmI/AAAAAAAAAFE/1HuqV3L6AxY/s1600-h/poopie+7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-qTuTOGmI/AAAAAAAAAFE/1HuqV3L6AxY/s320/poopie+7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106987758284315234" /></a><br /><br />Exhibit Poopie-Bread #8 (With ATTITUDE!):<br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-qfeTOGnI/AAAAAAAAAFM/X07wqwRKpXU/s1600-h/poopie+8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rt-qfeTOGnI/AAAAAAAAAFM/X07wqwRKpXU/s320/poopie+8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106987960147778162" /></a><br /><br />**Pictures courtesy of <em>mp5navy</em>**Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-38666774103560516122007-08-16T18:06:00.000+08:002007-09-06T00:14:13.323+08:00The Next Weird 5So.......<br /><br />5. Like I said before (see No. 10), I generally do things with my right hand. But I brush my teeth with my left hand.<br /><br />4. I have sensitive skin. The word "eczema" is a common term in my household. I'm not only sensitive to mozzie bites. However, there was a time I was "collecting" eczema patches from different countries I went to. Maybe cos of the different type of air??????????? A patch on my left shin came about when I went to Japan in Form 4. Then another patch behind my ear when I was at Adelaide. Thank God the patches behind my ears are gone. My shin-patch seems to have improved. It tends to have "seasons of fruitfulness". <br /><br />3. My left tear duct doesn't just 'dispense' tears. I think the passage-way for that duct has been over-generous. There's probably a hole on that tube because there are times when I blow my nose, I can also feel 'liquid' or air exiting from that duct. Can be ticklish at times. <br /><br />2. Whenever I play the drums intensely (either in volume or duration), the fingernail on my fourth finger on my left hand gets dirty. As in, you know how dirt is collected just under your fingernail, right at the point where your nail sticks to the flesh on your finger? Then you've gotta use: <br /> a) a sharp metal object,<br /> b) toothbrush that you don't want to use for your teeth anymore, or<br /> c) any of your other longer fingernails<br />to get the dirt out of that fingernail "pocket"?<br />Can't figure out the reason so I've given up. Just clean the nail when it happens lah!<br /><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RsQlKOTOGfI/AAAAAAAAAEM/gLS5F2Mr-o4/s1600-h/Kulim+Day+3+011.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RsQlKOTOGfI/AAAAAAAAAEM/gLS5F2Mr-o4/s320/Kulim+Day+3+011.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099241535657875954" /></a><br /><br />1. I can eat bread for breakfast, lunch and dinner and be entirely satisfied (really cannot think of anything else for now! tooooo bad)<br />LonG LIVE BAKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! especially to the ones who live at home!Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-73906034014917801142007-08-10T15:24:00.000+08:002007-08-10T16:35:33.264+08:00The 10 Weird Things About WoseOk Jared Goon. Just for you. <br /><br />10. I am right-handed.. but I wear my watch on my right hand..<br /><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwX_cwAzxI/AAAAAAAAADM/oAhVtkjb_tA/s1600-h/Malacca+10Oct+153+edited.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwX_cwAzxI/AAAAAAAAADM/oAhVtkjb_tA/s320/Malacca+10Oct+153+edited.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096975257093328658" /></a><br /><br />9. I have HAD long hair before...!! :)<br />(This qualifies as 'weird' cos most people don't believe me)<br /><br />Submit photo-evidence #1:<br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwgsswAz3I/AAAAAAAAAD8/GkVgoVjKPSo/s1600-h/P1010109.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwgsswAz3I/AAAAAAAAAD8/GkVgoVjKPSo/s400/P1010109.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096984830575431538" /></a><br /><br />Photo-evidence #2:<br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwcK8wAz0I/AAAAAAAAADk/mvC10jactHI/s1600-h/double+chin.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwcK8wAz0I/AAAAAAAAADk/mvC10jactHI/s400/double+chin.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096979852708335426" /></a><br />(with Adelaide housemates Stephen & Mun Wai, Mun Wai's sister)<br /> <br />8. A lady friend of my parents once commented to my mom during a dinner party at our home, "Woah Oi Cheng.. So nice ah, for you and Boon Pah. You have 2 daughters and 2 sons." <br />To which my mom quickly corrected her OF COURSE!!!<br />Make a guess as to which child I am.... sighh.... ;p HAHAHAHAHAHA.......<br />(Note: This is a picture of us 3 siblings (Aileen not there) & 2 adorable cousins)<br /><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwdKswAz1I/AAAAAAAAADs/LZi4GGPss9c/s1600-h/Goh%26ChinKids_24jul89.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwdKswAz1I/AAAAAAAAADs/LZi4GGPss9c/s400/Goh%26ChinKids_24jul89.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096980947924995922" /></a><br /><br />7. I have a rich passion for <strong>bread</strong>!!!!<br />No no no.. you don't understand. I mean.. I really really like eating bread. <br />I could have bread for breakfast, lunch and dinner on the SAME day.<br />I praise and thank God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit every day that my mom is a stupendous baker. <br /><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwfPcwAz2I/AAAAAAAAAD0/ENZXjt1TZaY/s1600-h/gardenia.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RrwfPcwAz2I/AAAAAAAAAD0/ENZXjt1TZaY/s320/gardenia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096983228552630114" /></a><br />(No, that isn't Mom in her baker's hat. The cartoon does no justice)<br /><br />6. If I'm weird... It's also because my family is also <strong>WEIRD</strong>! <br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rrwi6cwAz4I/AAAAAAAAAEE/mH6Uln_ENDo/s1600-h/P1150031.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rrwi6cwAz4I/AAAAAAAAAEE/mH6Uln_ENDo/s400/P1150031.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096987265821888386" /></a><br /><br />I'm tired. Half for now. <br />Half later... maybe.......? maybe naught!<br />heh :)Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-69396097748826397712007-06-21T12:17:00.000+08:002007-06-21T19:43:13.268+08:00FIRE UP!<em>What is this?</em> <br />THE YOUTH EVENT OF THE YEAR<br /><br /><em>When?</em> <br />Friday, 6th July - 8pm AND Saturday, 7th July - 7pm<br /><br /><em>Where?</em> <br />MARANATHA HALL, Glad Tidings PJ, Section 13<br /><br /><em>Why?</em> <br />Why pass up on a life-changing opportunity. God only knows we all need it. In fact, our nation and generation need it. So... <strong>Why not</strong>?<br /><br /><em>Who can come?</em> <br />YOU LAH! then who??? Your neighbour/classmate/cousin, even your pet cricket. <br /><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RnoCJG8-H7I/AAAAAAAAACs/VXe4xex9kRg/s1600-h/fireup.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RnoCJG8-H7I/AAAAAAAAACs/VXe4xex9kRg/s400/fireup.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078373885322076082" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RnoC1G8-H8I/AAAAAAAAAC0/DF5JVJ9HCHg/s1600-h/fireup2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RnoC1G8-H8I/AAAAAAAAAC0/DF5JVJ9HCHg/s400/fireup2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078374641236320194" /></a><br /><br />Check Out the <strong>VEE-DEH-OH</strong>:) :) :)<br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jnhBzowAfdM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jnhBzowAfdM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-28256503488154321272007-05-18T19:36:00.000+08:002007-05-19T00:10:21.568+08:00The Phone...<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rk2lZw4WO4I/AAAAAAAAACE/Nz3lCHbFXGs/s1600-h/old_mobile_phones_003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rk2lZw4WO4I/AAAAAAAAACE/Nz3lCHbFXGs/s200/old_mobile_phones_003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065887017898228610" /></a><br /><br />Yes, <strong>young</strong> ladies and gentlemen.. THAT was the 1st generation "MOBILE" phone. It also doubled up as lifting weights. I used to see my dad's veins on his forearms screaming for oxygen when he carried this around. <br />Us more mature folk would be going "ahh.. the memories!"<br /><br />wanna take a closer look at it?<br /><br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rk2lFA4WO3I/AAAAAAAAAB8/NsqokwCJyME/s1600-h/old_mobile_phones_003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rk2lFA4WO3I/AAAAAAAAAB8/NsqokwCJyME/s400/old_mobile_phones_003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065886661415943026" /></a><br /><br />There ya go...<br /><br /><strong>Question</strong>: What do you think is the most amazing invention of the 21st Century?<br /><br /><strong>Miss Universe Contestant</strong>: The cellphone. Because it has made communicating with loved ones so much easier. We can now communicate with one another from across the globe. It has brought us closer together in ways that were never possible. <br /><br />If I'm not mistaken, she went on to win THE Title. <br />Can't remember which year it was. <br />Can't remember which 'Miss' it was (as in, whether Miss Venezuela or Miss Chile or??)..<br /><br />But I DO remember the answer. I thought to myself, "Wow, that is a pretty good answer." Even the host for the night was taken aback.<br /><em>Now now now.. Don't get me wrong. I totally believe that people can be beautiful and smart.. I know of 4 women in my family who are exactly THAT!... ;) ;)</em><br /><br />It has been incredible how the "importance" of this little contraption of transistors, wires, chips, buttons & so much more has increased in my life. <br /><br />Rose's mom, 7 years ago: Rosaleen, why don't you take my handphone out with you?<br />Rose, 7 years younger: No thanks. So troublesome lah. <br />Rose's mom, 7 years younger too: Please take it. For emergency. <br />Rose, 7 years younger: Ok mom. Aiya, now I have one more thing to carry. haha.. :)<br /><br />**there were many times after that.. phone rings.. Rose runs to pick it up**<br /><br /><em>After years of evolution that took place in my lil world...</em><br /><br />Rose: Oooh... The I-Phone ROCKS!! Whoa.. the Dopod kinda rocks too.<br /><br />**there are many times now.. phone rings.. Rose runs from having to pick it up**<br /><br />HAHA.. the irony of life. <br /><br />p/s - did YOU know that there was a time in the past that Sony was separate from Ericsson? *gasp*gawk*choke*<br />My first mobile phone was an Ericsson. <br />Tried looking for a picture of that phone online = search was fruitless.Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-4326261650527648272007-04-28T02:21:00.000+08:002007-04-28T02:42:10.453+08:00THe Niece in THose DaysC'mon people. Let's say it together now.. "Th"... Tongue in between the upper and lower set of teeth.. with a gentle breath, allowing the air to seep in between the pressure of your teeth on your tongue.. and you should be able to pronounce 'THin' very nicely.<br /><br />Now, try.. Tongue in between upper and lower set of teeth.. with a slight buzzing sound, allowing for a little more pressure, the airflow is also very important.. imagine a buzzing bee with hiccups. Put that all together and say... "THe" and "THose"... <br /><br />THERE we go. <br /><br />Thought to post some favourite pictures of Janine in those days. My all time favourites. Certain friends in Adelaide at the time insisted I had a shrine of my niece. You look at these pictures and tell me how not to??<br /><br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJAyfO8zjI/AAAAAAAAABM/qGPt9ueX3Is/s1600-h/165_6529.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJAyfO8zjI/AAAAAAAAABM/qGPt9ueX3Is/s200/165_6529.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058176567612329522" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJBKPO8zkI/AAAAAAAAABU/WF-EAO9djJ8/s1600-h/165_6534.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJBKPO8zkI/AAAAAAAAABU/WF-EAO9djJ8/s200/165_6534.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058176975634222658" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJBp_O8zlI/AAAAAAAAABc/QFESn5R7qNs/s1600-h/165_6564.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJBp_O8zlI/AAAAAAAAABc/QFESn5R7qNs/s200/165_6564.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058177521095069266" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJCPPO8zmI/AAAAAAAAABk/rd54SGAcZhI/s1600-h/Janine+5.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJCPPO8zmI/AAAAAAAAABk/rd54SGAcZhI/s200/Janine+5.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058178161045196386" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJCdvO8znI/AAAAAAAAABs/L8LZufSBkcE/s1600-h/Janine+Emo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RjJCdvO8znI/AAAAAAAAABs/L8LZufSBkcE/s200/Janine+Emo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058178410153299570" /></a>Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-75382857252952538692007-03-23T22:45:00.000+08:002007-03-23T23:07:14.316+08:00God Gives Me The ShiversLet's take a <em>break</em> from the "Kopitiam Documentary" for a bit. <br /><br />Caught up with a great GREAT friend today. As we were talking about life, ministry, how we're growing in God, being challenged and stretched AND amazed by Him.. you know these are the kinds of conversations where the Holy Spirit was right there, pushing His face into our faces going, "Yeah! C'mon... stir it up!!!"<br /><br />God gives me the shivers....<br />It's NOT mere emotion, neither is it only mental persuasion.<br />It's an overwhelming, uncontrollable, restlessness in your spirit that spills into your emotions..<br /><br />From that, it spills over into your mind to break your human-bound-mentality.<br />Times like these, my body goes into like a shaking/shivering mode.. NOT convulsing, mind you.. haha ;)<br /><br />but.. if I could put it that... it is as if my body [almost] cannot contain what God is feeding into my spirit. <br /><br />whew...<br />yeah!<br />God gives me the shivers...<br /><br />Are we open enough to Him, or close enough to Him... that just a whisper from the Holy Spirit sends a shiver down our <strong>spine</strong>...Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-50732813257447782522007-03-19T18:37:00.000+08:002007-03-19T19:06:19.970+08:00The Backer-Uppers**I heed your commands & requests** <br />Apologies. Won't present you my looooong list of valid excuses/reasons. <br />Let's just move on with life, eh? :)<br /><br />Sooo.... back to my story. <br />Crucially supporting the 3 instigators were the 3 "backer-uppers" as I call them. These were the ones who weren't officially working under Youth Church at the office. But they sure were around us A LOT. <br />What dedication. <br /><br />So ladies & gentlemen, young dudes and dudettes.. <br />I present to you:<br /><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rf5pqoEqLQI/AAAAAAAAAAw/Bx9BaXsOFig/s1600-h/Jeannette+Goon2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rf5pqoEqLQI/AAAAAAAAAAw/Bx9BaXsOFig/s200/Jeannette+Goon2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043584813733915906" /></a><br /><br />Backer-Upper #1 - JEANNETTE GOON<br />Ingenius strategy.<br />Come work at church office, in the Finance Department. <br />Close enough to keep tabs on us. Far enough to have space for her special assignments that needed to be kept secret from me (the victim).<br />Was on break from A-Levels. Genius on every level imaginable.. oooh!<br />Except when it comes to geographical orientation. That one a bit sesat. <br />Then again, don't know whether real or not. Could be another guise! ;)<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rf5qtYEqLRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/QtNmlySj2JM/s1600-h/Josh+Yong.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rf5qtYEqLRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/QtNmlySj2JM/s200/Josh+Yong.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043585960490183954" /></a><br /><br />Backer-Upper #2 - JOSHUA YONG<br />Incredible planning.<br />Broke his hand during a futsal game one Sunday. What lengths they have gone thru!<br />Under pretense of "needing to recover", he came to help out a lot. Did much brilliant work on his trusty laptop. But again, not being under my constant supervision as The Instigators were, he was one of their other intelligent helpers. Part-time help at the office, Full-time subordinate to Kwisty, Stephie & HeanJi (part of Darren's chinese name).<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rf5s2IEqLSI/AAAAAAAAABA/W_DAsa5AgDY/s1600-h/IMG_2854.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/Rf5s2IEqLSI/AAAAAAAAABA/W_DAsa5AgDY/s200/IMG_2854.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043588309837294882" /></a><br /><br />Backer-Upper #3 - HO SEK TENG<br />Invincible Strength.<br />I think his expression from this quick snapshot (from which the photographer nearly lost his balance from the sheer power of his facial pose) says enough.<br />Not only does he have Brain & Brawn.. He's got brains on his brawn! <br />This is the man who keeps the team safe... He protects them and shelters them. What a rock... Fooh!Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-45243725540271136982007-02-13T17:45:00.000+08:002007-02-14T01:28:59.706+08:00The Instigators<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RdGMb10v5rI/AAAAAAAAAAM/e3frnDJHQzI/s1600-h/Kristy+Tan.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RdGMb10v5rI/AAAAAAAAAAM/e3frnDJHQzI/s320/Kristy+Tan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030956668682233522" /></a><br /><br />Instigator #1 - Kristy Tan<br />Entered the "crime" scene irregularly from Jan-June 2006. Became contracted fixture from July-Dec 2006. <br />Background info - Completed SPM in 2005, Entered College Pre-U Program in 2007. I know.. What happened to 2006? THAT's a big clue.<br />Motive - Not being under a strict study plan in 2006 probably left her very active mind wandering. In effort to appease her capable mind, creative ways emerged to pass much time on her hands. <br /><br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RdGMb10v5sI/AAAAAAAAAAU/5jtiuGhstzo/s1600-h/Stephanie+Tham.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RdGMb10v5sI/AAAAAAAAAAU/5jtiuGhstzo/s320/Stephanie+Tham.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030956668682233538" /></a><br /><br />Instigator #2 - Stephanie Tham<br />Entered the scene in question from Aug 2006. Was pretty much consistently stuck in the picture until Dec 2006.<br />Background info - In A-levels from 2005-2006 (ending July). Enough said. <br />Motive - Brain development possibly overheated in the midst of final exams. Prospective investors had placed much hope on this one.<br /><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RdGMcF0v5tI/AAAAAAAAAAc/xLgHsLlsjQo/s1600-h/Darren+Ong.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_eI32Hu8ua8g/RdGMcF0v5tI/AAAAAAAAAAc/xLgHsLlsjQo/s320/Darren+Ong.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030956672977200850" /></a><br /><br />Instigator #3 - Darren Ong<br />Entered under a disguise. Possibly the entrant with the best hidden intentions. Would be good candidate for future undercover work. <br />Background info - Nearing completion of Bachelor's in Music (Contemporary & Arrangement).. or something along those lines. Needed 3 months of industry training/internship to complete his degree, hence the acceptance into our office from Sept-Dec 2006 <br />Motive - As an artiste, always in need of drama and excitement. Add to that equation the possibility of having been overpressured during his final recital performance which he worked doubly hard for... potentially another "fried" case.<br /><br />THESE ARE OUR PROTAGONISTS..<br />But they had help.. <br />We shall feature their trusted sidekicks in due time....<br /><br />-------<br /><br />Actually leh, haha... :) <br />Missing you three at the office!!! LOTS! You were a tremendous blessing and not to mention a WHOLE GIGA-TRIGA-TON OF FUN to have around. Thank you for all your hard work and smart work. Am incredibly proud of all you did and are going to do...<br />Love you lots!!!!!Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-84240920817029819572007-02-12T17:44:00.000+08:002007-02-12T14:12:43.722+08:00Why "Kopitiam"?Some (or less) may be wondering... <br />"Why the theme kopitiam?"<br />and... <br />"WHY Aunty Siew Khim?" (I know... I ask myself the same question!)<br /><br />As I have 'boldly consented' to the theme for this blog, - thought up by great friends & interns who were at the YC office from Sept-Dec 2006 - to every history, there is a pre-history. <br />As to every induction; an introduction... haha.. not really. They mean pretty much the same thing.. <br /><br />But annnyway, <br />Over the course of the next few weeks, I shall try to unravel this so-called 'interesting' story. <br />Should put up some pics too. <br />Words can paint a picture. <br />But a picture can paint a thousand words...<br />Sooo.... I think I should explore that.<br />Besides, I'm still learning about how to use the tools on this blogger-thingamagettinjiggywidit-site.<br /><br />Stay logged on.. Until then ;)Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8389219483204251770.post-84330036008724140992007-02-05T16:37:00.000+08:002007-02-05T17:23:18.802+08:00A New Beginning I Thought Would Never BeginHello Hello... <br /><br />Whew.. I thought I'd almost never see the day where I actually own a blog.<br />Amazing how far technology has come. Hmm... waitaminit.. <br /><br />Amazing how far I have come? HAHA...<br />There are many reasons I could explore in attributing a SINGLE cause to this miniscule groundbreaking event that has "impacted" the world of blogging. *ppffftttttt.....* ;)<br /><br />Some possible explanations (that are purely hypothetical):<br />1. In a burning bush-like experience, I heard the voice of God say "Start a blog Rose. For goodness sake, get with the times."<br /><br />2. I feel left out? *sniff-sniff-snort* i mean.. EVERYtime people talk about their blogs, and how they're cracking their heads on writing new articles, I don't understand what it's like. So this is part of a total make-over program for me. hmm..<br /><br />3. I have WAY TOO MUCH free time on my hands. <br /><br />4. I should do the world a favour by publishing my creative flava. I mean, let's do something selfless for the fledgling world of cyberspace eh?<br /><br />The truth is...<br />JOSHUA YONG kept bugging me lah! <br />haha.. kidding.. <br />But seriously.. since before he left for National Service in March of 2006, he brought up the idea. And I was adamant in NOT ever starting a blog.. Too lazy. ;)<br /><br />He had all sorts of reasons I should start one. And in return for his skilled persuasiveness, I relented. <br />Not really for any of the good reasons he cited, it's more because of Josh's "perseverance" that I gave in.. and I mean that in a good way. <br /><br />So, my dear dear Josh!! :)<br />I shall try my very best to be a good & well-behaved blogger. <br />Thank you so so much for setting this up for me. <br />Just because you are who you are, I'll even forgive you for calling me Aunty Siew Khim. <br />I can't say the same for the rest who will probably start calling me Aunty Siew Khim. *aiiyoo..* Though you're responsible for spreading this nickname, haih... since I'm your Youth Pastor, I guess I still have to forgive you. Shucks... ;) ;) ;)<br /><br />Aaanyway... <br />THERE YOU GO! MY FIRST POST ON MY FIRST BLOG..<br />Hmm.. this is a year for many firsts for me.. :) :) :)Aunty Siew Khimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860766736851368236noreply@blogger.com4