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OKOK.... here are the pics for our 5th sessions of DNA @ sibKL. It's an orange nite for EP cell last fri.

cell granpa is leading worship on the floor while cell ma is up stage wif the musicians, and or course the boy band!

here goes, our accountability time. groups kinda mixed up a bit but hey, we shared and talked to God - tat's more important rite?

some kids decided not to be in the orange crowd tho...

n thn there are some too...

and as usual the after cell makan time... this time at Uptown open air foodcourt.

wat do we hav on sun? the same as fri's mkn sessionn. this time the crowd is slight diff. (refer pic ) i tk the EP sheeps are getting fatter & fatter.

(ready to be slaughtered anyone?)

remember God cares for u!

thank you....

hullo there.... just wanted to say a big thank you to all u who remembered me in your prayers... thank you Lord Jesus too for protecting me wif Your hand... poor pongo, he din survive. he has served me well tho.

wanna say thank you to those who keep me alive by their calls...

and the gifts.. so i wun rot at home..

i was looking at the calender everyday cos of my impatience during the healing process... (sorry abt tat God) i'm still learnin patience. for those whom i've offended... SORRY!!

nwy, tat's about it... i always asked God for a miracle and well, He gave me one. It's a miracle, i'm in one piece. One thk i learned.. trust God in whatever the circumstances - neva doubt. He plans and He works in His time and ways... all the time. Wait and it shall come to pass. Have a good day!!!

GOD LOVES AND CARES FOR YOU!!

A Choice That Only You Can Make

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, ''If I were any better, I would be twins!''

He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, ''I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?'' Michael replied, ''Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Mike, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood..

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I point out the positive side of life. ''Yeah, right, it's not that easy,'' I protested. ''Yes, it is,''Michael said. ''Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations.. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life.''

I reflected on what Michael said. Soon there after, I left the CellTower industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it..

Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied. ''If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?'' I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. ''The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon to be born daughter, ''

Michael replied. ''Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live.''

''Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?'' I asked. Michael continued, ''...the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man.'' I knew I needed to take action.'' ''What did you do?'' I asked. ''Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,'' said Michael. ''She asked if I was allergic to anything. ''Yes....,I replied.'' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ''Gravity.'' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.'' Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything..

''Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.'' Matthew 6:34

Author Unknown

Quarter-life Crisis

They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis."

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones.

What you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere but that they are as confused as you.

You look at your job... and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.

Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn't. One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure.

You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person.

One-night-stands and random hook ups start to look cheap. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.

You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender! What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it.

We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out. Send this to your twenty something friends... maybe it will help someone feel like they aren't alone in their state of confusion... "I bend but I do not break."

DNA NewLife - Week 4

Our weekly update for our NewLife class! Our cell has grown. Look at the number of people! Two were missing in this picture for the night though. They were in the toilet. Waited but they still didn't turn up so we took the pic without them. Aww...


We prayed for the cell and specific people especially Stef! Thank God she's alive and also Angeline for getting engaged, Congrates!



Then as usual... supper! We went to Taman Tun behind the market to Cellpa's favourite mamak apparently. They are famous for roti John. Basically looks like a hotdog done in malay style. Ha! Nevertheless, it looked good.

Stef is ALLIIIVVEEE!!!

15th May 2007, 5.30am (roughly lah k) one of our perazimite met with an accident on her way to work. It's really God's mercy that she came out with scratches and bruises. And thank God He sent help at the wee hours of the drizzling morning. Here are some pictures of her purple wira... which by the way is R.I.P. at the balai station. Yes.. total lost. Bye bye purple Pongo... *sniff sniff

HAPPY MAMA'S DAY!

Mother's Day fell on 13th May and we had a surprise brekkie for our very own cellma. Too bad we didin't have a song. It was a nice surprise though and some of us 'kids' manage to wake up early enough to eat... DIM SUM at DJ! The place opened 2 months ago but already it was packed with people. Variety wasn't a lot but quality was there. Best part of all, it's reasonably cheap.

DNA NewLife - Week 3

Week 3 and we had two newcomers. For those who were faithfully coming, congrates to you! We've completed three lessons thus far and another 3 more to go. This week we shared on how important God's Word and how vital our Quiet Time is to us as Christians. So stay faithful till the very end ya!

El-Perazimites eating... as always

The cell headed to Noodle House, seksyen 14 on Sunday after church for lunch. We seem to eat a lot don't we? The food was good but company better.



This is cellpa's version of the jungle within urban area. He said this is the group he will be taking to Pekan.. or was it Raub?

DNA NewLife - Week 2

We reached 30 people for week 2!!
Fabulous! So now maybe next week we hit 35 people?
OK, our cell is booming. Congrates to all those who attended faithfully and thank you to all facilitators!

Our Grandpapa and Grandmama

To have parents means must have grandparents. So here they are... our grandpapa and grandmama. So young looking hor?! They are the ones that oversee our cell and make sure all of us are growing. Of course they look after our Cellpa and Cellma. Kudos to our grandparents!

IPOH MALI! Day 3!

It's the final day but our trip is not over yet! We spent the whole day eating (Duh!) and shopping. Kesian Cellpa. The only guy haha but he was a good sport. Some of the pictures we had on our last day.

Morning greeting from our Cellma hahaha

What was our next stop? DIM SUM of course!!! Can you see the amount of people eating and waiting for their table? It was superbly packed! I thought KL people can eat, but Ipoh people can eat more. The dim sum in this shop is smaller in size but some of the dishes were very tasty.





Whatever you do.. please stay away from this. Yucks!

We had another round of shopping after our breakkie and after that we fed Cellpa with some food. hehe Here we had some Hakka Lui Cha. It's actually not bad. So much better than the ones in KL. In fact it's one of the popular dish in the kopitiam.




Then we headed back to Stef's popo's place for a an afternoon nap before we packed and headed back to KL. But because of the weather we decided to go for one last stop. To try out the Stadium's Ice Kacang while Stef and Evon had their early dinner. Stef's wantan mee is not bad wan leh. Taste like the one from KK.








So here ends our Ipoh trip but before that, let's have a recap of what some of the things we ate!

IPOH MALI! Day 2!

And here we are Day 2! We were woken up by some weird announcement regarding a fogging session but what got us out of our bed was the fogging itself. hehe Here's a pic from our room of the nicely fogged compound. Cannot see any mozzies leh... We called Evon and picked her up for lunchie!

The trip has begun! The road to Evon's place. See the mountain and hill? See the greens? Where in the world can you find that in KL? Such a sight for sore eyes.

We headed to New Town Ipoh for lunch for some Sui Yee soup. Yups, Terappin soup. Then Ipoh's famous Egg Tea. It's basically egg in tea! Ya.. normal egg in tea.

Soon Yen joined us from Cameron for lunch. Yum yum!

Evon, me and Stef posing with our lunch.

Evon: Want some tissue to wipe off that Sui Yee soup? Stef's po po enjoying her lunch too.

Just after that, Cellpa and Cellma join us for a round of shopping!


Cellma trying on some clothes. Cannot take full shot but this dress really made her look Korean. So not her style but it's really cute!


Evon so glamour!



After that we headed off to New Town for some White Coffee. Our destination was closed so we headed to the next best thing. The uncle waiter was a bit chiun though. No food, just drinks hehe


Just opposite us is supposedly the once tallest building in Ipoh. Some people actually jumped off this building to the point they had to seal the balcony of every floor so no one else will jump.

Next we headed to another kopitiam to eat Ipoh Hor Fun and Popiah. The hor Fun not bad... the service a bit weird because they kept taking away our plates and waited for us to finish our drink so they can close shop. :/

So we headed back to Stef's popo's place where she showed us her baby photos.

Posing outside Stef's popo's place before we headed off for a walk.

Later that night we headed over to Evon's place to visit her mom. Cellpa asked us to pose pose a bit.

We were looking through some China trip Evon's parents went to.

Evon and her mom! Look alike or not?

Here we are having our dinner!


Some of the dishes we had for our dinner. This of course if only one of the stops we had. The fish ball noodle is nice.


This was our next dinner stop. OK more like supper. We came here for one thing only. The Lai Liu Har! Don't ask me how to say that in English. Ipoh people sure know how to eat. The place was packed!





After this we headed for Pasar Malam and 7Eleven before heading to Stef's parent's place for a while. After that we konked out for the next day!