Life is so unpredictable

My church friend is diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer after giving birth to her baby gal 2 months ago. When i heard this news, my heart sunk and tears just welled up in my eyes when i read the e mail that said "it is confirmed cancerous". Well, i am not very close to this lady but i have known her for many many years already. She is a very sweet lady-good tempered, always smiling, kind, godly and just so friendly and caring to everyone around her. She never fails to greet me with a smile when i see her around in church.

I believe this news struck her and her family harder than me. She has a two year old son, and a newborn girl that is only two months old. She just dropped from utter happiness- having a baby girl, to utter despair. Never did she expect herself to be suffering from stage 4 colon cancer i guess. Its just so unfair to her, such a kind and nice lady, but still having to suffer from such a disease. I don't see evil people(i am not talking about random people but people whom i know) getting stage 4 cancer, on the other hand, they recover from cancer. It just makes me wonder WHY? What plans does God have? How come in this world the evil prosper but the good suffer? Is it supposed to be this way? I guess i will never know and really have no choice but to see what God has in plan for her.

I really hope everyone that sees this will pray for this lady. Pray that God will be merciful to her and heal her. It really takes a miracle from God.

Rape in Congo

I just finished an article talking about how bad the rape situation in Congo and i really sympathize with the women there.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/the-rape-epidemic-at-the-heart-of-congos-darkness/2007/10/07/1191695742001.html

I don't understand why such perverted peopleexist. Don't they have wives or daughters? This just reminded me of a feature article i wrote for one of my first assignments. I was talking about child rapes after being inspired by ing ing that came back from Africa for a mission trip. She got to interact with many children in the orphanage there and sad to say, many of the young children were raped, and by their own relatives. Worse of all, they don't only get raped once by one person but ganged rape and over a period of time. Can you imagine being raped by your dad, then your uncle then some random person from somewhere? Like i don't understand why they can actually bring themselves to rape someone that is supposed to be kin to them. It's just so bloody perverted.

When i was doing research for my feature article, i also found out that the men rape young children because-especially virgins, because they are pure and can take away their disease such as Aids. How stupid can they get.

When i read this sentence in the article, "Dr Mukwege said his oldest patient was 75, his youngest three", i felt the tears forming in my eyes. How can you bring yourself to rape a child that is only 3 years old??That bloody asshole that did that seriously deserves to die. When i read this, mei mei(my 5 year old niece) just came into my mind. A child so young, and so lovable, yet they can do such a cruel act to her.

Another thing is that, i think these men are beasts, savage beasts. "Many have been so sadistically attacked that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair". How do you rape someone till you can destroy their reproductive and digestive system? I really don't want to think what those men actually did to the poor women.

Dear Lord, please help to control the rape situation in Congo. Do not let the evil get their way and may you protect the women and children there and keep them sane. Grant the political leaders wisdom that they may know how to reinfore the law there, please take care of your people. Amen.

God is good!

I often wonder to myself what did i do to deserve God's blessing? I am not a perfect person, or extremely Godly, but instead sometimes i find myself to be more sinful and less deserving than others; but God never gave up on me and he has blessed me so many times in the area of studies. It makes me feel bad at times, that he is so good to me when i am so underserving. I guess there is only one word to explain, that is his love for me.

Got back another 2 of my assignments and i did relatively well for them and i really didn't expect such results. Glitches in the TV production, not enough lighting, too much head space and stuff like that but our group still did well. When i was doing this radio journ thing, in my mind i just kept thinking "gosh this is so bad, i doubt we will do well, so many mistakes i can see now, what more Amy(the tutor)", But God can make it perfect. I guess this teaches me never to doubt God. Do something, commit it to the Lord and trust him. There is nothing you can worry about after doing it cause you cannot change anything anymore so just trust = ) Maybe you could try? Doesn't have to only be on studies, but on any aspect of your life. Don't know what to do? Feeling down and sad? Pushed to desperation? Just try telling it to God, and giving him all your worries. Leave it alone and wait for him to perform a miracle. It won't take up much of your time and there is no harm trying. God bless all of you out there.

The Melbourne Show

Went to The Melbourne Show with Huey yesterday. Its something like a carnival with rides, game stores, food and candy floss.I guessed the only difference is that it has exhibitions as well? Stuff like animal farms, dog shows, information booths on police and some other related stuff. Didn't get to see everything haha, cause there were stuff that me and Huey found boring like agriculture exhibition and all so yea. Let me show you what we did for the day.

This was when we just arrived. Huey was queuing for the tickets. We actually had a photo together but i don't know what happened to my camera card, that pic was corrupted so just me alone haha. It's just that particular entrance that looks quiet, but actually there are so many people inside the arena.

We went to watch some car show thingy, i don't really know what significance it has but something to do with being in the history of Australia.

This was at the police exhibition.I know i can never become a police woman because i can't even reach the floor when i am on the bike! Haha but its cool, never been on a police bike before = ) Huey refused to go on it for a photo, cause those that were queuing for the pic were kids!

We then went to the open animal farm. One of my anticipations in this show was to go look at the animals.


Baba BLACK sheep

The Lama's

You can see that the animals are behind fences but its not meant to protect them from people but just to prevent them from running out. We can pat the animals, something like an open zoo. Hmm not much animals were there though, only sheeps, lama's, and ya, i guess more of sheeps haha. But thats not all to it, there was also this enclosed area with pets inside! Dogs, cats, rabbits you know household pets and they were all so cute. Think they are also hoping that people will adopt some of these pets through the Melbourne Show. Didn't get to take any pictures there though, but i did in the animal nursery. Its another section and inside were mainly baby animals. I even got to see a sheep giving birth to an ewe! It looks kinda gross but then i am glad i saw that.

See the bloody part on the Lamb's ass? I think that is the placenta, or maybe another baby is coming out. I have no idea too; when i was there it was like that already. The little lamb that the mommy kept licking is the new born = )

There is Huey with a fake Cow. If it was a real cow, there is no way that she would stand so close to it haha. She is scared of animals! Actually cause she finds them very dirty. Even making her just walk through the petting zoo where the animals were roaming freely she almost died. She was really dying to get out of that area man. And for me, i went to take a pic with a baby lamb.

The baby lamb is real although it looks fake

Saw something that was pretty interesting on the way. Horse carts without the horse, just the seats. I think it will a cool concept if there were coffee houses like such. Don't you think so? Like open air, sitting on such seats, sipping tea.

The management were afraid people might misuse the seats so....

After a relaxing tour around the exhibitions, we went for the rides! After just taking one ride, i felt so exhuasted. I think i was physically and mentally freaked out. During the whole ride i couldn't stop shouting, and my voice became hoarse after i came down from the ride. And Huey was just laughing at me throughout the ride, so evil!! The ride was something like viking; except it goes more then 90 degrees and the seats revolve 360 degrees when its swinging.

Us in the queue for the first ride

Us after the ride.

My goodness, after that ride i told huey i am not going to try another one. And she wanted me to try even a scarier one! This one......

Can you see Huey?

There was no way i was going to go on this ride man. It goes up 360 degrees and comes back down again. Gosh 41meters high, i will surely die if i went on that ride. Its too exciting for me, i think i am really becoming old, becoming more and more of a coward haha.

Anyways while she was playing that ride, i went around to look at the game store and went to this string game thingy. I went to play that because i know that i will get a prize for sure. And the person tending the store was really nice, he gave me a discount. Supposedly one pull of a string is $4 and 10 pull's $10; but he gave me a special offer of 2 pulls for $5. Not bad right, and in the end he even gave me a nice toy-Little piglet. He chose little piglet for me because he thought i was 16 and i thought he was 28 or so when he was only 20. Ironic huh? Caucassians just some how look older then Asians.

Anyway, i ended the day with these items.

The pink colour bag you see is a showbag. One of the highlights of the Melbourne Show. Everyone that leaves the show will at least buy one bag but most end up going back with more then one. Inside the bag has like sweets, toys, mags, miniature creams, perfumes etc. It depends on what bag you got. Anyways i got this bag cause of that monkey, i wanna give that to my nephew and the little piglet to my niece = )

P.s Don't know whats wrong with the blog today, keeps having error here and there so i couldn't upload some of my pics so irritating urgh!

The Phantom of the Opera

Only one word to describe it, sooo good! I went to watch Phantom of the Opera yesterday with huey. This is my second time watching an opera, the first was kinda boring, and i couldn't understand what the whole thing was about cause they were singing their lines throughout. That gave me a bad impression of opera but i am telling you, Phantom of the Opera is so different!Totally changed my impressions of operas man. At least there were like conversations other than singing.

The settings, the technology, the cast, everything was almost perfect. There was this scene where the Phantom and Christine(the female lead) were on a boat an he was rowing it, and yes on the stage. They used mist to cover up the floorboard and i don't know how they did it but it really looked like they were rowing a boat on the lake! It moved from the back of the stage to the front and then back haha, so cool man.

And i guess most would agree one of the best part of this opera would be the music. When the Phantom and Christine was doing the duet-i don't know if the title is "Phantom of the Opera" as well but i think it is, my hair just stood. I can't describe it in words but they were so good! The symphony, the singing, the setting and that song, woo! Clichely speaking, it just takes your breath away.

Anyway i never knew what happened to the Phantom and Christine before i watched this, and i thought the Phantom would end up becaming so obsessed with Christine and killed her or something, but it was the total opposite. He was such a sweet character and actually gave up his so called "happiness" to let Christine have hers. I pitied him at that moment but reality struck me. Well let me just ask a question. How many of us can stand being with a disfigured man no matter how sweet and kind he was? I guess the truth hurts but not much people can do that. So as much as i pitied the Phantom then, i knew that any normal girl would definitely not choose to be with him; not forgetting that there was also hot Raoul(Christine's fiance)waiting for her.

Anyway back to topic. I really reccommend you guys to go watch it if you haven't. I think it came to Singapore already-if i am not wrong, but nevermind, if they ever come again make sure you go catch it! 5 Stars for sure = )

I can't stop shopping

I don't know what has happened to me recently but i just can't stop shopping! i feel so bad, like i am wasting unnecessary money. I have been shopping almost everyday and buying truckloads of stuff. Things which i used to think are too expensive are now wat i am buying. Ok let me clarify, i am not talking about stuff like Prada, Gucci or branded stuff as such; i am not that rich.

However, my new favourite shopping place is SUPRE (http://www.supre.com.au/). I dun shop online but at the main shop. Its something like a Singapore Topshop i guess? They have a new shop and the stuff there are so pretty, esp the dresses. If you wanna compare it against Topshop, its cheaper so i just keep buying and buying, especially dresses. Last time when i saw a dress or skirt that is AUd 35.00 i would be thinking, hmmm after conversion and all its about $40 plus, too expensive not worth it. But now i will be like wow, not that ex, can buy, besides it looks so nice and i might not be able to find this is Singapore. An excuse i always give myself. Well, according to my own analysis, i guess its because of the new shop design. In the past before the new SUPRE shop was open, the only SUPRE shop they had was quite small, like maybe a Giodarno shop in Singapore so i thought that the clothes are a bit expensive for that shop. However, the new shop opened is much more spacious and the design of the new shop is more boutique like. The walls are all black, and the lighting dim as well. So overall it gives a more classy feel; maybe thats why i don't feel the pinch that much now.

Oh no!!! This is bad, and its not only SUPRE. Even at the supermarket(something like carrefour) i can buy stuff back, everywhere i go i see something i like i just buy. I think i really need to lock myself at home for at least a week or two or else this vicious cycle will never end. Anyways just go look at the SUPRE website, and see if the clothes are nice = )

A fren that i haven't seen in a long time...

When was the last time i saw her? Hmmm i guess that was like a year plus ago? And i only saw her that once. Ok who is she? Well one of my really good frens i had back in my Sec school. Someone that i can trust my secrets with and a fren that would never backstab me. We use to do stupid things back then like ME forcing her to let me do a make over for her and den taking pics for her (i still have the pics but dun worry sui, i wun post it up haha), ME tricking her into drinking whiskey and eat wasabi nuts and ME leaving her alone to do stuff at my place while i sleep. Haha, so Sui is actually a victim of mine. Anyways, she came to Aus for a holiday and i finally g0t to see her! I dunno why, but i really felt happy seeing her again, all the old memories were really good to think back to and she hasn't change much, still the same old Sui and still as tiny too hee.

We mostly did shopping and eating together and talking about eating, something "bad" happened to us or rather her. We went to Victoria market one morning to have breakfast and also to shop around. While we were at the fish market, dear Sui saw oysters and she wanted to eat them cause she thought they looked so good and fresh. She only ate one oyster before so i can understand the yearning for more. Plus they really looked good, so she bought half a dozen. Bought a lemon and went to our table.

Sui happy with her oysters

Taking the first bite...

Ewww..it tastes like seawater!

Nevermind, i shall try another one, might taste better

Gosh.. i think i am going to puke

And she did, see the shell covering the other 2?

This went on for her 2nd 3rd and 4th oyster. I ate one for her and she gave up on her last left. She just couln't bring herself to swallow the oyster after eating the first one and she kept them in her mouth for like 5 mins. Can you imagine how gross it must have tasted? I was telling her "swallow Sui, come on 123 den swallow ok?" She nodded and 1...2...3 (shakes head vigourously) and she spat it out in the end. This is my first time seeing someone so miserable because of oysters haha.

The rest of the time we just went shopping, and i finally got a chance to go to the DFO(Direct Factory Outlet) at Southern Cross station. The stuff there were good man. Its not like a warehouse place or those run down cheap stores where everything is in a mess or spoilt but the stuff there were pretty not bad and the price was good too haha. Sui bought truckloads man. Surprisingly i only got 2 tee shirts but they were my fav buys from there!

Me and Sui outside DFO

After our shopping we went back to my place to cook dinner. Guess after this it will be a long time before we'd see each other again, and finally she stayed over. Back in Sec skool her parents didn't allow her to stayover at people's place and even though she came over almost every friday, she never stayed. Well i will surely miss this fren of mine, hope to see you real soon again Sui! Take care love!

Oh and i got a new found love today too!

My hot pink ipod nano! haha i know its not something new in the market and there's no big deal about it cause almost everyone has one but i just want to express my joy in owning one! Haha so please just share my joy k?