Exam timetable out

Yes! I check the Intranet just now and find that the schedule for the final exam is out. And I have exam on 12 (Intro to Japanese) and 15 Sept (MLE). That means I can go back to my hometown to celebrate Christmas with my family & friends. Yay! But I may have other plans.

Oh, I would like to express birthday greetings to fellow Utarians Amber Lee (my EL junior), Shirley Kwong a.k.a the Lioness (CF vice-president) and Koon Eu. Hope today will be a great day for u all. May u all have a bright future ahead. May God bless u all abundantly! Take care & happy always!

The Fourth Apprentice

Another Warriors book on sale today. It's the 1st book of Omen of the Stars series entitled The Fourth Apprentice. The story continues from Power of Three: Sunrise where readers are curious to find out what happens to Leafpool and Hollyleaf.

Leafpool was the current ThunderClan medicine cat while Hollyleaf was a warrior. And both of them were related by blood cos Leafpool was the mother to Hollyleaf, Lionblaze and Jayfeather, the apprentice medicine cat. Leafpool's postition as the medicine cat was hanging on the rope as medicine cats weren't allowed to have mates or kits. To add salt to the wound, she mated with Crowfeather of WindClan who said she and the kits have nothing to do with her. She definitely had to step down but will she train as warrior instead?

As for Hollyleaf, she was revealed to be murderer of Ashfur, who planned to tell the secret that the 3 kits weren't belong to Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight. And shockingly, she herself blurted out the true identity of her parents at the Gathering. Later she even forced her mother to eat deathberries but Leafpool didn't do so. Hollyleaf was believed to be suffocated to death after the tunnel she ran into collapsed. Was she still alive or was she dead?

The final cat of the Power of Three prophecy was Dovekit/paw, daughter of Birchfall and Whitewing, since Hollyleaf didn't possess any powers at all. Jayfeather can walk into other cats' dreams while Lionblaze can fight without getting hurt. What's Dovepaw's power gonna be? And Ivykit/paw was envious with the power her sister has.

All the questions mentioned above will be answered in the new Warriors book. So Warriors fans worldwide, prepare to raid the bookstores starting form today!

Bar List Out....

And I'm not barred from exam!! Yay!!
Just heard from my classmates that bar list is out. Not surprising cos it's oredi Week 6. And all except Monica are not barred. I checked the bar list after the Japanese replacement tutorial and it's true! My name isn't there! However, there r 3 EL students barred from sitting for the final exam on 3 different subjects: Monica (Intro to Chinese) & another 2 Y1S2 juniors (Academic Writing & Sun Zi's Arts of Wars 孙子兵法).

I'd like to wish happy birthday to 3 of my friends: Anna Leong (fellow CF member), Tuen (secondary school friend) & Voon Fee (whom I know during 6th Form, now pursuing her studies in USA). Glad to have the chance to know u 3. Hope today will be a great day for the 3 of u! May God light your path in whatever u do & wherever u be.

Presentation done (End of Week 5)

I've done my last (and only) presentation of this whole trimester just now!! Very happy and relieved!! But things ain't over yet cos I have 1 more literature assignment to work on.

Let me tell what happened a day before the presentation first. My fellow grps members were asked to gather at Grace's house 1448 around 5pm y'day. Apparently our scrapbook hasn't been completed. So there's still lots of things to do. Betty has came up with a story to do our presentation and she drew lots of pictures for the story. Some pictures still need to be painted. And the script of the story was cut into pieces to fit in the part where it supposed to be. Wow....all 7 of us started work around 5pm, only to complete the assignment around 2am this morning. Distrubution was made earlier on who presenting on which part and we had rehearsals few times to get ourselves familiarised with the vocabs.

My hardworking grpmates: (clockwise from left) Betty, Joey, Ivy and Eugene. The V-sign is from Grace, another grpmate

After returning from Grace's house, I didn't sleep at all until 7am cos maybe little excited cos this is my last presentation. Around 7.30am, I head to school.

Then, Ms Chong requests each grp send a rep to draw lots to decide the order. There's a ttl of 17 grps and my grp is 5th. All the grps have done great work for this assignment. But in my opinion, some grps have done extra work than the others. One of the grps is my grp which has presented the assignment in a story entitled "Taro & E.T.". Another grp is Renjie's grp who has drawn out the things they want to present. Shu Ern's & Sam's grp do the presentation in the scenarios of restaurants. I can say all the 4 EL grps share one topic in common: Food (tabemono). There's other grps which have included vocabs on food as well. FOOD FRENZY!!

As for other grps, they have done their best in completing the assignment. There's one or two grps which entertains the students with more pictures. Isabelle's grp is one cos she's the one who did the slides as she loves and enjoys preparing them. Oh ya, she'll be doing the slides for next week CF praise & worship..

Wow... with this assignment done plus one more assignment handed in the previous day, now I have just one more MLE assignment to go. Weee!! Should start the discussion ASAP probably next week.

As for the rest of week,

Monday, Doulos ship crew came visit Campus Connect and shared abt their experience. On Tues, team buliding workiship run by Renjie during CF. Next week, CF members take charge of everything.... worship, transport, bible study.... and I'm in the worship team this time. Also lots of 1st time happen to me this week. International Friendship Society is organising an event during the Chirstmas festive season and I am chosen as the secretary for this event. Wow.... heavy responsibilities on my shoulders but there's other committtee members to lend me their support. I can guess the reason why they choose me to be the secretary: I'm an EL student so they must be thinking my command of English is very good. Maybe but I will put in my efforts and do the best I can.

1st times

Lots of 1st times happen to me within this week:

• 1st time slot in balls while playing snooker with friends
• 1st time drawing first blood while playing Dota
• 1st time being in the worship team in CF
• 1st time become the secretary of an event (organised by IFS)
• 1st time didn't do 2 presentations in a row b'cos not feeling well on both occasions
• And sprained my ankle and have to wear an ankle guard for the 1st time

There will be lots more of 1st times as life goes on.

Team Building

CF on again after break last week... this time team building session managed by Tan Renjie.

Melissa leads worship this time with Renjie on keyboard and Wai Wai as guitarist. Before that, ice-breaking session by Calvin. All members divided into 4 groups.We are required to place certain number of hands, feet and even head on the floor. When we're done, we shout we're ready and the bandanna guy come check if we're correct.

Kyle explains abt praise & worship while Shu briefs us abt bible study. Shu says if members encounter any words they dunno while doing bible study, they can look the words up the dictionary OR..... ask any of the EL students... lol!

Renjie steps in to explain abt team building, then she asks us to go into the groups we're in while playing the ice-breaker. All 4 teams sit in rows and are handed pieces of paper and pencil or pen. A picture is shown to the leader of each team (who's sitting at the front of the line). Then he/she has to tell the next person what's on the picture and that person has to draw it out. But while doing that the backs of the 2 persons face each other. The step goes on and on till d end of the line. Then the papers are collected by the invigilating committee. We're being shown the original picture. Wow.... it's far more than wat I've drawn.. but I could only draw what the previous guy tells me. The committee then selects the cacatest picture from each group n shows it to everyone. Glad that mine isn't chosen. Hee!!

Then discussion time. Next week it's little special cos this time the CF members will handle everything. Worship, bible study, transport. Committee members just sit back n relax. They leave the room to let us members to discuss abt who gonna in charge. Everything settled among urselves. We even plan something special for next week's meeting. While we're doing this, the committee are praying for us outside the room. Then after finished praying, they try to barge in but Jerome, who sits by the closed door, manages to hold 'em off until discussion over. So committee, be prepared for what's in store for u all ya. And thanks for your prayers!

Then abt 15 of us go Ghany yum cha. We have lots of fun talking & joking with one another. Then we dismiss around 1am.

Doulos ship crew visit Campus Connect

Yup! U heard it right. A few girls who work on the ship comes pay us a visit just now during our regular cell group.The ship Doulos now stop at the dock in Singapore and the girls are sent north to do some ministry work.

We're fortunate to have Sarah (Australia), Emily (Canada), Chae Hyung-lim (S Korea), Yuki (Germany) and Joy (USA) here to share their experience and area of work. All of them work in different departments on the ship. They do a short performance abt the ministry they represent. They also share how they know abt Doulos and how they get to work there. Among the 5, Hyung-lim said she's the oldest and she's worked on the ship for more than 1 yr while the other 4 girls just been on the ship for abt 2 months.

We break into our cell groups and the 5 girls are distributed into the 3 groups. Hyung-lim's in Pei Lee's grp, Yuki & Sarah in KL's and Emily & Joy in PC's grp. Hyung-lim shares more abt her work & experience to us. She also mentions that there's Malaysians working on the ship too. Wow!! Then Pei Lee continue a little on the discipleship training, then we close in prayer. Later, we ask questions more abt the ship and Hyung-lim manages to impress us with her responses.

The girls are leaving for Ipoh now and will be back on the ship on Friday. Hope they have a safe journey back! Thank them for having fellowship with us. Bon voyage, girls!!

Snooker + Dota

Yesterday after dinner with my fellow Christian friends (the usual ones like Calvin, Clara, Isabelle, Eric, Shu Ern, Kyle etc), some of us went to play snooker while some went to A Station. It was quite fun playing snooker. It's only my 2nd time playing. Managed to slot in one or two balls.

Then we went A Station to play some games. Eric & Syanon joining the 5 of us (Kelvin Wong, Calvin, Shu, Kyle & me) who played snooker just now. The 7 of us played Dota. I'm not so good in playing this game. We played two games: 4 vs 3. During the 1st game, I shocked the rest by drawing first blood (the 1st to kill someone of opposing team). But then I suffered the most death during that game.

In the 2nd, I didn't manage to get any kills cos Syanon asked me to stay on top half of the map and not to cross the river. But the character I got this time, Juggernaut, was quite nice. I liked his Blade Fury skills. While I died the most in the last game, Calvin was the victim this time. The opponents was chasing after DeadMeat (his nickname of the game) and finished him off a few times.

It was pretty fun having fellowship with other believers. And this week I was supposed to do Week 4 of the MasterLife training--Fellowship with Believers, but until now I've only done until Day 2. Will finish the rest ASAP.

End of Week 4

Wow.... another week wheezed past just like that. Just 3 more weeks to go. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Just now, I sit for my Japanese midterm exam. Wow... I'm getting myself familiar with the Hiragana & Katakana characters now, though I can rmb the Hira-characters much better than Kata-characters. Overall I can say the test is kinda easy. I'm satisfied with my performance this time compared to the previous 2 quizzes.

Speaking abt the 2 quizzes, I got back Quiz 2 on Wed. I fared badly, only scored 2 out of 15 marks. I got 2 correct, 3 with 1 wrong character, the rest I just got a few characters correct. Then Quiz 1 on the same day. Test on Hira-Kata characters. Oh boy, I left some of the blanks unfilled but at least half of the 90 available spaces were filled. And the sad thing is that I rmbed some of the characters which I didn't manage to fill in after I've handed in my test paper. Sigh!!

This week, there's some problems arise with our Japanese tutorial classes At first we EL students were informed that the 2 tutorials were on the same day (Wed 9am-12pm). Then the situation changes again that we have to follow the original timetable. So we missed 1 tutorial this week. Earlier in Week 2, we missed another 2 tutorials b'cos of disorganised schedule. Hence our pace were slower than other students (JR, PR, CE) who were also taking the subject this trimester by 3 tutorials.

But this problem is solved when Eugene makes the announcement that our replacement classes is to be held from 12.30-2.00pm on Mon for the next 3 weeks. Yippie!! Whenever there's a problem, always look to the bright side.

Now that midterm over, I need to work on my assignments which 2 of them due next week n another due Week 7. Also I'm having my 2nd and last (or should I say the only one cos I was not feeling good when I was supposed to present last week) MLE presentation next Tues. Got lots of work to do. Catch ya'll next time!!

A stroll in the park

Fuh.. went for a jog around the WestLake park at around 5.15 am. Nice environment there!!
Actually this is my 1st time going there ever since I came to Kampar for my studies. As I take my stroll in the park, at first I smelled something stinky. The foul smell actually comes from the water on the side of the bridge nearer to the park. Ewwww!! But I keep on going. After getting tired of jogging, I walk around there and enjoy the beauty of the scenery. I return home at around 5.45pm. With the jog, the Joggers lead Mother Nature 4-1.
Actually this trimester, the CF plan to have a jogging session. So those interested can sign up and will be contacted whenever there's jogging session. But so far, the points were contributed by a few individual only. Mr Kuek & Mdm Cheng equalised after Mother Nature got ahead by spoiling the 1st jogging session with heavy rain. Then Jensen jogged solo to give the joggers the lead. I extend the lead by jogging for 2 days in a row (y'day & just now). Go Joggers Go!!