The clock strikes midnight...

A birthday post dedicated to...

Lerida De Leon Looi!


Happy 1*th Birthday yeah? *Actual age concealed due to privacy purposes.

Hope you had a blast! Have a great birthday and may God continue to bless you as you continue to seek Him and grow into the beautiful person (inner and outward) that He has destined you to be. Have an awesome blossom birthday!

There's no need to complicate...

Listening to: I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

I am EXTREMELY happy, but before I go to that point, I'll have to blog about what happened yesterday before coming to what happened today. After college, I dragged Adrian and Anne to 1U to do a bit of birthday/Christmas shopping.


The Christmas deco at 1U. Awesome no?


The 2 peeps I dragged around 1U. Thank you so much for your opinions and company.

Okay! Now on to what happened today! As you all know, I was chosen to participate in the National Finals for the English Business Talk organized by the Cambridge ESOL. This was based on a previous BULATS test which we(all 15 contestants) scored pretty high marks. Therefore, the competition was held today at Taylors College.

We were asked to give a 3 and a half minute powerpoint presentation followed by a 2 and a half impromptu speech on a random given topic. And guess what position Matt obtained? Thats right! By God's divine favour and grace, I won first place and I'm representing Malaysia in the International Finals at Singapore on the 25th of February! *squeals in delight*

Okay, I'm seriously hyper! Pictures! Most of them are credited to Danial.


The venue!


The actual hall.


Adrian & Matt - pre-competition.


And so the action begins! Matt in action. First section - Prepared presentation.


Second section - Impromptu speech!


Awaiting our prizes on stage.


Receiving my prize.


Receiving the "mock" tickets to Singapore in February.


A very happy/relieved/overjoyed/estatic Matt holding up the prizes as Champion for the English Business Talk. =D


Matt with Melissa on the left(2nd runner-up) and Nathanael(1st runner-up). Nathanael will be joining me in Singapore as well in representing Malaysia.


Matt and half of the judges.


The KBU team.


The whole KBU entourage.


Take 2!


Favourite picture of the day. My second family. You guys are partly the reason I won this and I won it for you guys. Thank you for being there! You guys are 'da' bomb!


Did I mention I also got a new PSP as my prize? And an Oxford dictionary of course! Now you know why I'm so incredibly excited and happy. She's a beauty I tell you! My bundle of joy. = )

Celebrated with my friends at lunch and came back for worship practice.

Appreciation
I wanna thank my lecturers for their guidance and their advices. I wanna thank my parents for their moral support though they weren't there today, they were praying for me every step of the way. My dear cousins who couldn't make it, I know you guys were praying for me to win. My awesome friends who came to support me and those who prayed for me. You know I love you guys.

I dedicate my win to the above group of people. You guys have helped me to be a success. In no particular order...Danial, Adam, Dines, Lingz, Adrian, Shortz, Zhen Sern, Yoga, Kuan Weng, Ting Leck and the rest of you who came; Thank you so very very much! I owe half my success to you guys, and of course all the other people who supported me.

But most of all, I wanna thank God cause it really is by His divine favour that He has upon me that has allowed me to win this whole thing. To be honest, I did not expect to win due to the stiff competition and some of the other candidates could really present. However, I honestly think this is all in God's plans and I wanna thank Him so very very much. He deserves all the glory and honor.

The Penang post will be up real soon, I hope. Once I've uploaded all 100+ pictures, then the updates will come. So till then, I bid you all a good night. Thank you for reading! = )

PS: My PSP is awesome! Thank You dear Daddy in heaven for the early Christmas present. You're the one who has helped me win this. I owe it all to You! All praise goes to You!

PSS: Further pictures of the competition can be found on Facebook. Thank you.

Relive, and recuperate...

Unusually fragmented.

Christmas is not supposed to be like this. I've not lost my reason for the season but most certainly season to a reason. No flippin idea what that means...

I'm plunging further down the cliff, heading for troubled waters.

If there's one prayer I could make, it'll be this...

God, please end my misery. I hate feeling like this every single day. I don't care anymore what other people think. You can judge me, you can hate me, and even detest me. Call me names for all I care. All I know is, I just need to stop feeling like this.

Certainly not how it should be.

Where's my sense of maturity? Thrown out of the window?

I am throughly hurt by everything else, I've lost myself.



PS: I suggest you stay out from commenting if all you're gonna give is advice. I don't need it. Not now...

Just one more glimpse please...

Heylo!

Matt is back from up north. Okay, its not that my absence was realized anyway. Moving on...

Penang was wonderful. The people who took us around were awesome. And need I say more about the food that we indulged and partook of? Enough said...

I'm rather tired from all the traveling. Therefore, I will be blogging about the trip on a day to day basis with assignments knocking on my conscience already. Lately, I have been putting on a "I don't care" attitude towards a lot of things (...and I know its wrong) and its not that I want to...

I just don't have the capacity to deal with the current stress levels and the mixture of emotions that have been engulfing me a lot lately. But all is well...I am still smiling to a certain degree and indeed God's goodness has not been put into doubt. God is still good. No scrap that, God is awesome! Strangely enough, I'm beginning to hate it when darkness blankets this side of the Earth. I tend to get a wee bit more emotional than usual when day turns to night.

First post back from Penang and I'm ranting. Haha! My apologies...

I'll stop here. Next up, Penang Day 1!



PS: I've been missing someone throughout the whole time in Penang. The stupid thing is, I just don't know who. If you have any solutions to this syndrome, please notify Matt immediately. xD

PSS: I've put on 2-3 freaking kilos! Argh....Darn it.

With nothing but your T-shirt on...

Listening to: T-shirt by Shontelle.

Twiddly hi ho!

Okay, so I'm feeling a tinge of happiness now that I've finished my presentation. The only negative about this is the fact that I will not be able to do my mock presentation in front of Ms Irene tomorrow due to the fact that I'll be leaving for Penang as early as 8am. Guess I'll really have to submit it by faith tomorrow and if God wills, I will succeed. If not, He definitely has better plans for me.



Yeah, I'm off to Penang till Monday. My phone is still reachable (and hopefully with WiFi, I'll be online here and there) and thus you can still contact me. Don't ask me why I'm taking a break during the busiest period of my semester (my parents wanted to take a break). Okayyyy, I just gave away the reason. Anyway...

I will be on a temporary hiatus.

...and I pray to God I will NOT put on any weight when I'm back, but I can't wait. I lurveee Penang food!

I will try to take loads of pictures mmhmkay?

Till then, adios and Happy Holidays! (Since Monday is a public holiday over here).

ifimmissedyoucanleaveanoterighthereorsendmeamessageonmyphone.

Yeah right. Who am I kidding?



PS: This song reminds me of you.

PSS: Christmas/Birthday shopping when I'm back. Anyone? xD

I'm sorry I cared...

Listening to: Scream - Zac Efron (HSM 3)

Just about to go off and do my assignments when I thought to myself, maybe I should blog. Just gonna post some random stuff, so bear with me. Took some random pictures today just for the sake of "colouring" my blog.


My love. Haha! McShaker Fries rock my socks!


Lingz & Dines.


Adam with his typical "I'm boring" look.

Taxation sucks big time. To be honest, if I don't start revising and getting some serious help soon, I'll be left so far behind and by the time finals come around next month, I'll be in for trouble. Argh, I actually hate tax though I absolutely think the lecturer rocks.


Skipped Advanced Corporate Reporting after Taxation cause we needed to destress. Here is where we ended up at. A round of Call of Duty 4.


Matt and mother nature. = )


The roads ahead just seem incredibly long.

Well, that was how my day ended. I'm so the stressed now, and I'm gonna do some research right after this. Deadlines are catching up with me. I need a major destress by the end of finals in January.

On another hand, here's a short announcement.


Click on the picture to enlarge! Its our Christmas event. Do drop by. I'm acting in the Christmas musical mime. I expect some of you to be there. So, mark out 21st December yeah? Contact me if you have any enquiries. xD

You can also check the youth blog for a better view.. Click here.


This was what happened 2 days ago. Yesh, that is the moon.

Pictures and the cover on the event is available here.

I managed to catch it before one of the eyes "disappeared" a few minutes later. Awesome stuff.

Random thoughts:
1.I'm totally addicted to Call of Duty 4.

2. Yet to do my Christmas & Birthday shopping for presents. Anyone wanna come along? xD

3. McShaker Fries is the bomb!

4. I'll be in Penang over the weekends. A short break. Food, food, FOOD!

You can talk to my hand...

Tagged by Rachy Ooi!

Instructions: Remove 1 question from below and add in a personal question, make it a total of 19 questions. Then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box or anyway that he/she has been tagged.

1. What is it that bothers you the most?
She acting like an immature twit. Was it that hard to accept the truth just like how I accepted yours? Immaturity at its worst.

2. What is your most favourite thing to do?
There's so many, but perhaps its gotta be talking to God. Everything else brings joy, but when it comes to God, I feel release when I let it all out.

3. What kind of news do you read?
Sports mostly, and perhaps world news occasionally. I think I need to start reading on business issues happening all around the world.

4. What is your ultimate wish?
That this Christmas, those around me will find their reason for the season.

5. Is there someone in your heart right now?
Yeah, He lives in my heart. His name is Jesus. Say hi. =D

6. Do you believe you can survive without money?
Whoever thinks he/she can survive without money, is absolutely plain dense.

7. Are you afraid of pain?
I've been through all sort of pain and I absolutely hate it. Perhaps a lil afraid.

8. What do you feel like doing right now?
I need to stab someone. Nawh, I'm kidding. I just need to destress.

9. If there’s someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
It depends on a whole lot of factors, but I've been too disappointed and hurt that I honestly wonder if I'll ever find that someone who'll love me the way I'll love her.

10. What do you want to do right now but you can't?
I just want someone out of my life. I'm sorry, but you really just lost my respect. I want to destress and relax to be honest. I'm so stressed and worked up, I could just blow.

11.What is your 6 most passionate thing at this moment?
God, family, friends, girls, music, and food.

12.What is the thing that will make you think he/she is bad?
Who is this he/she? Anyway, a she just made herself look like a flat out loser. Don't ask...

13. If you had to eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Mixed rice. That way I'll still have the luxury of choosing from the different dishes, no?

14. If you had a choice to be rich or happy, which one would you pick?
I'll choose contentment.

15. Who are you thinking about now?

I wished I knew. I don't know who I can think about anymore. If I said I miss you, it'll fall on deaf ears. I'll never know I guess...

16. How do you see yourself in 5 years time?
I'll be 25. Hopefully I'll have completed my Masters/Professional Cert. and be on my way to building a successful career. Ask God. He knows...

17. What is the one thing you dislike about yourself?
I'll just list down all my imperfections kay? That'll ward you away from me. I'm extremely impatient, judgemental at times and lack of self-confidence. I can be extremely materialistic at times. I'm loud/noisy. There's a really long list. Mind you I'm working on them, by God's grace. I do not dislike myself, cause you cannot love someone else if you don't love yourself first. Made in God's image, and therefore I cannot dislike myself.

18. If you could turn back time, would you?
No, I won't. I need to go through whatever I'm going through to become the person God has destined me to be, to become a better person. Thats how I've arrived at the present, from the experiences of the past.

19. Use one word to describe yourself.
You mean currently? Stressed.

20. I hereby tag :
Ashley
Lerida
Hitomi
Rachael
Rachel Kong

PS: Don't you ever talk to me again unless it comes with an apology. I've had quite enough of you in one night. If nothing else comes by, you'll be chucked away just like the rest of those who never cared.