Of Drunken Chicken

My first thoughts that came to my mind about this dish was that the cook, would get the chicken drunk on wine and than kill the chicken and cook it in more wine... or something along those lines...

Turns out, it was just chicken cooked in wine. Dad says that the dish was recommend my our Pastor and we should go and try it out...

---cutting the long story short---

turn outs that the drunken chicken was drunken prawns and the wine was just rice wine, which you could barely taste...

it is either the wrong store or dad got the wrong place or my taste buds don't match my paster's one...

but to tell you the truth, I think that it was not really worth it... four prawn only.. I think the fish-milk noodles was a better option..

Maybe I will try to get that wild chicken in the garden to drink wine and than slaughter it... than I will see what drunken chicken noodles really taste like..

NSCFL Camp: Day ONE

Today is the first day of camp.
Besides that today is the first Monday after A LEVELS !!!

If you are reading this, it means that you are not part of the camp.
Haha.... that is a bit obvious right??

Today,
I have to pick up Aunty Bee Kim from Terminal 1 at 7.30am.
Meet Japheth and Andrew at STM at around 10.30am.
Say goodbye to Mom... sob, sob (but it is only for 6 days)...
Fetch people who are taking public transport.

The most anxious part of today is at 9.45pm where we have group time with our groups... I hope I remember not to shut down or panic by all the new faces... I still hear my heart beating.. and feel the butterflies in my stomach

Hopefully the most exciting part of the day is Dinner... kidding!!! The most exciting part should be the registration because that is when everybody arrives... I so glad to see some SMK Bukit Mewah people there... I thought I would be the only Seremban guy... like in 2006.

Well. That is day ONE. I not sure how it will actually go, but this is what I am anticipating. I guess real details about today will have to wait until the camp is over and I get back home...

Attention: This is a pre-written post.
This post was written on the 22nd of November 2009 schedule to be posted on the 23rd of November 2009.

The Camp of the YEAR

For the next few days, I will be at camp. I am so excited, but I am also very nervous.

Esther Chee asked me on facebook what camp is this?
Well is NSCFL Camp of course!!

Oh. You don't know what that is. NSCFL Camp stands for National School Christian Fellowship Leader's Camp. This is my second time attending this camp, the last time was in 2006. This year I am going as a camp officer (in other words volunteer). That is the main reason why I am so nervous... So many things could go wrong... what if I mess up... what if I don't know what to... what if... I think you get the point...

I learnt from Wen Lin, that in Christian camps/fellowships, you don't actually plan to cater for what you think is the need of the campers. You actually plan for what you need. God wants to work in your life first, before he uses you to work in the life of others. So what you need is most likely what the other people need.

But what do I need? That is not an easy question. I not too sure. I know I need some kind of direction on what to do with my life. And I know that I want to know God more.
Well. I guess this two things will do for the moment.

I think I am most anxious about the group time. I have to lead a small group, but my problem is that with new people I tend to have a wall of ice between them and myself. This is usual case for me whenever dealing with people, I take some time to open up and start sharing. I take quite a while before the wall melts and open sharing takes place, where I talk more and do the crazy stuff... I think most people in my TARCCF would realised that... I took almost 6 months to open up, but that is because I met them only like once a week. If I meet you more often, like with the prayer group, I guess a few weeks only... ask Andrea and Stefanie, I think they will tell you all about it.

I hoping for all the best in this camp. Most of all I hope that God will really minister to this group of people that are coming from all over Malaysia.

Tonight will be a restless night.
Oh. I just remembered, I need to pack. ( I really don't like the word pack, I just unpacked my things and now... grrr)

Woes of unpacking

Friday, 20th of November 2009. I finally unpacked ALL my things from college.
Clap please!! It is quite an achievement.

It was about 30kg of books, 5kg of clothes, and 5kg of other things.

Yeah I guess you will be surprised at all the books, but my friends won't, they know me too well. But yes, my books, my notes and all the other reading materials took up to 70 percent of all my things in the room. This is quite in contrast to perhaps other teens who have more clothes than books. Okay, I will admit, I am book freak, crazy about books, mad about book and I think I will miss the college library the most. Mistake number one, never put all your books in one bag, not that someone will steal it, rather you won't be able to lift it off the ground, I broke two straps just carrying the bag. My dad nearly cried when that happened, it was his bag... er.. so you get the picture.

Problem number 2. Somehow, after one and a half years in college, my collection of clothes expanded to beyond believe. I could not find the space in the cupboard to put the them until I did a major rearrangement. Now, the cupboard is very full.

Problem 3: where to put all the books? If I stacked up all my A level notes, the pile would be around 3 and a half feet high. But I found a metal file cabinet at home.

The amount of things I collected over one and a half years is incredible. I wonder what will happen when I continue my education which may take up to four years... Oh dear... I can imagine drowning in the stuff....

The war is ON

It all started with Fuddy.

I don't mean that it was your fault, I just mean that it started with you. HAHA
Well, let me put it this way, we won't be in a facebook wall war if you did not tell me your classmates were spamming your wall.. or flooding your wall (as you called it).

Because if you did not...

1.I would not have gone to your wall to spam it on monday.

2.I would not have gone to your wall to flood it on tuesday

3.I would not have become bored with flooding just your wall, and use the excuse “to help you take revenge on your classmate” to flood Jane's and Wai Yeeng's wall.

4.The war we are currently in won't have ever happen.

But since all of the above happen, it look like a full-scale facebook wall war is ON!!! And I am shooting both side randomly...

For the first time... war seems fun...

It is now finished!

Yippee.
I could sing, I could dance, I could make all the noise in the world... I could have rejoiced that my exams were OVER!!!

but sadly, or rather strangely I didn't.

At sharp 12.00pm on Tuesday, when the examiner said “you can leave the now.”, everyone around me burst into song of joy... well except those who still had papers the next day.

But for the majority of us... it was our LAST PAPER...

Somehow, I felt a bit empty. One and a half years later... I can't really rejoice that I have finished A Levels. Although I am VERY glad that the exams have finished, one part of me still clings on to A Levels, to the college and most of all my friends.

Hence... I did not really go rejoice, but headed back to my room to rest... I don't really understand it, but I felt that I needed to spent time with myself rather than to be with my friends...

Oh well...

But the GOOD NEWS is... I HAVE FINISHED A LEVELS.. yay!!

Numbers

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The first number of the day is SEVEN, S-E-V-E-N.
Seven, for SEVEN more days to CAMP!!! Yay!!

I am so excited! And I guess I can't wait!!

The second number of the day is TWENTY-FOUR, T-W-E-N-T-Y-F-O-U-R.
Twenty-four, for TWENTY-FOUR hours more till my exams finish for GOOD!!!!
This more exciting as I don't have to study anymore till I choose to continue my education. (which I will).
But 24 hours to ultimate FREEDOM... or at least freedom from A LEVELS!!!

Isn't that great?

The third number of the day is TWO, T-W-O.
For in exactly two days from today I will be back in SEREMBAN for good.
Although I think that is great. I think I will miss college very, very, very, very much. Boo HOOO!!
I will try to be back for Christmas night....

I guess that is all the numbers there is for the moment... we will be back for more numbers when I can think about which numbers to use.
It does feel a bit crappie.

40 years old

You know what?

Sesame Street is the same age as TAR College. Who would have thought that an institute of higher education was born the same year with one of the most successful children's TV show.

Read more about Sesame Street here.

I still remember the time when I would watch Sesame Street in the mornings. My parent would record the show for me on tape so that I could watch it all day long. I think there are still some of the tapes at home. You want them??

I love Cookie Monster. And I think Big Bird is fun. Elmo is still the best.

But I think I also loved the grown up characters in the show as well.

Sesame Street is a wonderful programme. And even in the face of other children's tv shows, Sesame Street is still doing well.

Happy Birthday Sesame Street!!

Home Home Home

I am now 1/3 home.

If you don't get it. Well, it simply means that 1/3 of my things have just been transported home.
And no. I did not use MASCargo to transport my things like Stephanie did, kidding, I just did it the normal way, using DHL. No lah... I just got my dad to take them back when he came visiting today (11.11.2009).

I also cleared a lot of my things. The trash that I threw out was kind of astonishing, I came here with a little more than 12kg of things, how did it morph into almost 20kilos? My room is much cleaner now. I swept the room which has not been swept in 3 months, washed bottles that have been left on the floor for what-seems-like-decades, and packed nonessentials away into boxes.

With only physic and biology left. I sent my chemistry, maths and GP home. Along with them went my shelf and a stack of magazines.

Home. Home. Home. I'm going home. Or am I? One and a half years in a room shared by 5 different roommates, it does feel kind of like home here too.

I will be really home next week. And I guess I will miss the half of a room I lived in.

ps. thanks Mom for all the food you packed here for me... I liked the sweet meat.

What in the MEAT?

Not eating meat is not a way out to cut greenhouse gases emissions, it does not make much of an impact by not eating meat for just one day. No offense to vegetarians. I think that the meatless day on the 25th of November might just spread a message, but in reality, I think very little effect on the emissions.

According to the recent report in the STAR (star2, 10th November 09), it seems that an European Cow emits a year's worth of methane that is equivalent to a family-size car travelling 70 000km. Now that is the statistics for one cow, in total it seems that they emit 5.5 billion tonnes of methane annually.

The main reason why this won't do anything for climate change is that by not eating meat, these cows and pigs are allowed to live. This is equivalent to allow this animals to continue producing waste which continue to emit methane. Unless the world stops eating meat, and all this animals culled, the methane will still be emitted with probably increasing amounts. However, if this does happen, which in all likeness will not, what will happen to the farmers? And their livelihood?

The better way to combat the problem of methane gas emission, is to collect animal duct and harvest methane for bio-fuel. If a cow can emitted enough methane to travel 70 000km, than by collecting these gases, we would have saved 70 000km of fuel. That means with have import less fuel, and since methane is virtually free, we save 70 000km worth of fuel money per cow per year.

Addressing the worry about fertilizers used in growing animal feed, I think that planing more vegetables will also increase the amount of fertilizers used. If the world is so worried about the nitrous oxides produced from these fertilizers, than maybe they should consider using animal waste as a fertilizer instead.

So in conclusion, meat production is more stable than vegetable production. Has anyone in Malaysia ever heard of a shortage in chicken? I haven't. But I have certainly heard of shortages in vegetables.

While eating more vegetables is generally healthy, remember Daniel who requested for vegetables (Daniel 1:8-16). But taking meat out of the diet is not 100% beneficial. For those so distressed over methane emission by by red-meat animals, try chicken, I think they produce less methane, since they produce less waste.

And speaking of waste, has anyone considered the amount of human waste we human produce per year? And how much that methane from that waste is produce?

Maybe around 70000km of fuel per year?

Malaysian or not?

To be Malaysian... what does this mean?

Does it mean that we have to go to the same schools?

NO, IT DOES NOT!!!

Bernama, read it here.
I disagree with this article.

I think to be Malaysian is much more that just having the blue Identity Card.

To be Malaysian is...

... to be proud to call Malaysia my homeland,
... to be able take pride in what the leaders of this land are doing for Malaysia
... to be willing to defend our nation when others criticise it.
... to stand up for the rights of a fellow Malaysian in trouble'
... to be Chinese, but not Chinese
... to be Malay, but not Malay
... to be Indian, but not Indian
... to retain our culture, but not our culture

Striving to overcome racism, to overcome prejudices... That is what Malaysians are.
To have one culture, a culture that is a mixture of all our cultures, all of them accepted, all of them practiced... That is Malaysian.
To have many schools, but one people... that is Malaysian.
To overlook minor racial issues, for the sake of unity... that is Malaysian.
To have many religions, but only one moto: Peace first, Problem Last
To see beyond immediate gain and to look forward for long lasting profit.
To see things differently, but compromising to have only one vision.
To be united about what is right and what is wrong... to uphold the justice...
To protect the unprotected... to give shelter to the homeless... to provide refuge to the refugees...

We may have many education systems. But we are still one country.
Other countries have only one education system. But we are the only one where unity is seen at the dinner table.
“Only in Malaysia you can find a Chinese, an Indian and a Malay, sitting together eating.” - a tourist. "

Are we Malaysian enough to be called a Malaysia... Or are we just another person in Malaysia, but not a Malaysian?

Rising darkness

Pushing off-balance.
Tipping fate to an unpredictable future.
Shaking the hopes of the people.
A shadow of doom blocks out the sun.
Casting us into a place where all light has been blotted out.
Deep into the darkness.

This is what happens when something unexpected happens. Not all the time, but usually only when the unexpected is not good.
This is what I would describe my recent Chemistry 5. The outcome does not look promising, and yet...

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crownless again shall be king.
-Lord of the Rings