Am in the midst of preparing the kids for our Opening Ceremony this 26th Jul. The kids will be officially known as "Jireh Jewels" from now onwards. So whenever people invite us, we'll be known as "Jireh Jewels"! haha...

Well, apart from preparing them, there are other things to do for the home. It was kinda' stressful last week. Yesterday evening, one of our Senior Citizen (SC) passed away and parents couldn't be here the whole time. Dad managed to do most things like getting the burial permit and all but it took a long time for the Late SC's family to decide on who will be handling the burial. Hence, my parents went home and left me to take care of the situation (since it was getting late).

Finally after the body had left DAJ, I got a few others and we cleaned up the late SC's bed, cupboard and room. Disposed whatever necessary and kept whatever should be kept. Upon completion, we then said a prayer for the rest of the Senior Citizens and we left.

I felt soooo tired and was having a slight backache. So I had a shower and just lay down on the bed... It felt nice just lying down and resting! haha...

This week will be spent practising with "Jireh Jewels" and making sure every performance is up to its best! Friday nite, will be rehearsals. Nettez and Winne would most probably stay over at my place. Nettez is our Official Photographer and she's bringing her assistant. Winne's my personal official photographer! hahaha....

Anyways, just to say, things are good on my end. Got to go peeeps!

EMO POST (yes, no matter at what age I guess it still happens!)

For those (my friends) who got invitation for the Desa Amal Jireh Opening Ceremony which is on July 26th 2008 (Saturday), if you can't come, it's ok! Please don't force yourself to come just because I called you or sms'd you about it.

Don't satisfy me.... Don't waste your time coming all the way if it's of no importance or no interest to you! I don't wanna' force anyone to come. DAJ is something special to me and if it isn't something special to you, please don't force yourself to come for it just because of me. Come because you love my kids, you love to help (one day) or because you sincerely want to come!

On another note, I came home pissed, sad, hurt, angry,and guilty BUT I didn't know who to talk to! So much running through my mind but I scanned through my list of friends and realised there really isn't anyone I could talk to!

INSTEAD, I knew one person who will always be there to listen to my cries! Yes, I may have been wrong! No, I may not have been wrong! but whateve it was, HE is and always will be there to hear and forgive me! I may be wrong to have raised my voice in anger BUT It's NOT my fault if you got angry at me?!??!?! so... I'm obviously gonna' defend myself instead of getting scolded or called names! How on earth am I supposed to know that you were angry at me???!?!? cis....

At the end of the day, I'm only human and I always  fall! What more, being a Saturday, eve of Sunday! Devil ALWAYS likes to cause frictions to us a day before the God's day!

Anyways, all said and done. I know it has to be solved altho' it ain't something big! I should seriously just learn how to SHUT UP and not talk back! I shall seek HIM and in the mean time go to bed cos I'm having a throbbing headache!

ps: I just realised this could be PMS! I'll be able to confirm it within the next few days....

Perhentian Island, Scuba Diving & us(me)!!

*i just typed a realllly long entry and the whole thing got deleted!!!!!! so this is a slightly shorter version one, i think! *

One of my dreams came true last Saturday, 12th Jul 2008! I've obtained a Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) Open Water Diving License! I had the honour of going to Perhentian and completing this course with my BUDDY (in Diving terms) Mr. Chong Yao Jung (or better known as YJ in my blog)!

There were also a few others who tagged along with us and they are my Uncle J, Isaac Adoki & Douglas (who are both Uni of Notts students).

I miss the life of being in the island... the carefree, relaxed, laid-back, chilled out life without the rushing, 'kan-cheong'ing', hustling & bustling, noisy, polluted, sardine packed public transportations, traffic jam life! I don't mind another few more weeks lor....

What made it harder is having fallen in love with Diving & leaving the island! Coming back tired helped by putting me instantly to sleep after Sunday Morning Service but I felt as if I was still floating (neutrally buoyant) and saw many fishes only to realise that I'm still on my bed in my blue colored theme room! I exchanged stories with YJ and he too agrees about dreaming even after a few days!

We always ended up sleeping by 12midnite and woke up after 8 hours of sleep. We had 2 dives everyday, we had shower atleat twice a day, we ate our 3 meals and tea, took walks by the sea (day n nite), and studied from our textbooks. We took life so "lepak'ly"....

Anyways, I shall not say much cos I think u'd enjoy pics! I'll have to say that the UNDERWATER WORLD is TOTALLY AWESOME & AMAZING!!! sooooooo mannny pretty & cute fishes! BUT I'm sorry, I'm too lazy to scan the pics I took using the underwater camera so just ty to imagine, k?

Just leaving the jetty at Kuala Besut

breakfast @ Fauna

I wake up to this view everyday! (the view from my room)

My buddy, his favorite background & our textbooks

walking towards that green area = better reception for mobile (mAXIS) hence the phone in my hands...
 
YJ

Posers

Douglas & Isaac before they left for snorkelling
 
before our dinner (notice there's 3 shades on my arm! haha)

God's creation: sand, sea, sun, trees... this was taken in the morning!

YJ preparing for marathon

me - chilling as usual lah!

YJ and Uncle J

Preparing our dive equipments before heading to sea

BRWAF check aka Buddy Check.
B: BCD
R: Releases
W: Weights
A: Air
F: Final OK!
 
So, that's the final Ok! All geared up... ready to go!

with our instructor - En. Azmi

Our last morning, the day we were leaving, was the day we do our last dive, test our skills in the water & have our theory exam!

YJ busy studying in the morning 
 
Learning to use compass for underwater navigation ( before leaving for our last dive!)

Our exam!! hahaha... which we passed with 3 mistakes... :)

And finally... we bid goodbye to Abang Mie, Abang Di and everyone else in Fauna Beach Chalet and left for Kuala Besut. It was mixed feelings: happy cos I've obtained a diving license BUT sad to leave the beautiful island!

Since we had almost 4 hours till our bus came, we had tea and walked around and finally decided to makan our dinner by the sea...

yours truly

a group pic...

with my Uncle Jeyan!
 
With Douglas & Isaac

Beauty... indeed a sight to behold!
 
i like the background.... and hahaha, the 2nd pic - YJ's facial expression is just soo funny!
 
Finally, it was time to get to the bus stop! We sadly left Kuala Besut with plans of returning to this beautiful Island! It's back to the stressful, hectic life in KL/PJ (for YJ) and Kajang/Semenyih(for me)!

My buddy YJ & I

Hope you enjoyed this entry... pictures after sooo long! hahaha... good nite people!

signed off by yours truly,

~ My favorite pic ~

me is back!

and

me already got DIVING license!

me & yao jung enjoyed 4 days n 3 nites, learning to be neutrally buoyant in the sea and enjoy the underwater world! it is a different world altogether inside there!

Our Open Water Diving License enables to dive as deep as 18m/59.4 feet and we are indeed looking fwd to more dives! who wanna' join??? hehehe...

Thanks for the prayers... We came back safely!!

More updates with pics coming soon (i hope)

Dear peeeps!

I'm off to Pulau Perhentian in a few hours time.

I know i've been ignoring this place.. i'm sorry! I have a blog entry but since its not complete (with pics), you won't be able to see it as yet. I guess by the time I'm back - that'll be outdated! hahaha...

I've sooo much to blog about... Will have to choose the important ones and link the rest to the otther blogs...

Anyways, pls keep me in prayers. I'll be in Perhentian till Saturday. Should be back early Sunday morning. Am going to sit for my diving license. And did I say I'll be the only girl surrounded by 4 guys/men?? hmn............. of course I've got my own room lah!! cis...

Take care people...

ciaoz....