Valorous Halcyon

Praise the Lord! This is the first thing I want to say after having a not-so-busy week! Despite my negligence over this blog throughout this week, I personally felt closer to God attributes to 1UP camp that I've attended last week! I was granted the ability to speak in tongue (despite I wasn't brave enough to walk forward last Sunday when Pastor Dave asked if there's anyone wants to be granted with such ability and he was praying for them) by manifestation of Holy Spirit. I felt closer to God and whenever I'm trying to find God, I will start speaking in tongue subconsciously! The success of the camp is not calculated based on the mere three days, but rather how long could your close relationship or strong connection with God last after the camp! All is well, for now. =) I'm still missing my friends but oh well, I'd be seeing them (I hope) tomorrow yeay!!! I hope I would be able to get my mom's car out to attend Sunday service and this time would be a uber ...

On Tuesday, I attended a talk organised by Acts Church intended for young working adults, on managing our financial health. It was quite beneficial even for me, a campus student. The talk was conducted by Dr. Wong Hong Meng, a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of professional experience. I heard that his first seminar on goal setting was rather boring, but thank God this time it was in fact very informative! It's never too young for a person to start thinking about retirement (preferably now), cause when it would be too late when you start thinking about it at the age of 55. For me, I'm aiming to spend most of  my retirement period in Perth (Australia) cause I personally think that it's a very calm and serene place. There are 4 key elements in personal finance i.e income, expenditure, assets and liabilities. The inequality between income and expenditure would result in saving, while that between assets and liabilities would result in net worth. These are two cases ...

Just in case you were, by any chance, wondering where have I been for the past 3 days, I've attended a camp organised by Acts Campus (a subset of Acts Church). Firstly I would tell you when have I started joining Acts Church. To be honest, it had been a few years since I last attended formal Sunday service; which means, I never go to church since year 2008 until August last year (approximately 4 years). I was so afraid to go back to my previous church after SPM for I thought people might be judging me. Perhaps I wasn't strong enough in my faith, that I was afraid of other people and eventually forsaking God. I believe this is the period of what they called it as 'backsliding' period. Surprised? The life without Christ (after I learnt about Christ) was horrible, full of challenges and temptations by the Devil. But again, thank God that I'm saved once again! =) I'm now dare to declare my backsliding period cause I am not afraid of anyone judging me for only Go...

To all my friends whether you're celebrating or not, Happy Valentine's Day! I've learnt something more significant today that Valentine's Day is not only constrained to showing love to your loved one, but rather showing love to everyone around you. But this is a very common misconception that 80% of people make, that Valentine's Day is only reserved for couples to show their love towards one another by buying extravagantly on roses and chocolates (mainly), not for others. Well I was part of the statistics above before this. Thanks to Alicia, she acknowledged me by keeping herself busy yesterday night just to wrap up nicely some Valentine's gifts (Ferrero Rocher) for friends around her. Valentine's Day is simply a day to spread love to everyone around you, not only your loved one. She's just that lovely haha! =)) God bless her always! The message above is indeed very true and shall be the first message for Valentine's Day. God loves us so...

It's been more than a month since my last consumption of fried food. Since I started to control over my diet, I completely cut off all fried food and started to eat good food. What is meant by good food here is those enriched with protein and preferably low carbs, and high in fibre with considerable amount of good fat (peanut butter, olive oil etc). Today my mom's friend Justin came over to visit my house. He's a big guy, a bit fat though, and he has known me since I was quite small and even back when I was still staying at my old house in Taman Sri Rampai (Setapak, Kuala Lumpur). He's a security manager who could easily earn RM10k monthly as his base salary, just by specialising in everything regarding security. Err, yes security here literally means protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime, rather than security as financial instrument. Somewhat unbelievable but it's true story. After around an hour of talking and gossiping with my mom (haha yes every...

I didn't go to gym this week, nope not even once! =( Attributes to the public holidays on Monday and Tuesday, I was staying at home all the while. I couldn't go to gym as it is located in Summit Subang Jaya and I wasn't in Casa. But on Monday I went to Times Square to meet up with a friend  and unexpectedly met some other friends too! Aina just came back from Melbourne and is doing internship now with Security Commission (she's a Sime Darby scholar, though). Knew her back in June 2010 when I entered college and she already half way through her SAM programme. With Aina! =D  Pavillion's awesome CNY decoration of Dragon! Peace! =D  Again, nice decoration! =D  With Aina, Han Shen (center) and his friends! =) So the outing was really awesome! After one year of studying degree in Accounting and Finance in the University of Melbourne, Aina shared with me some of the thoughts she have on her study and this includes a fair bit of stock market. So far s...

Hello people! Sorry for the hiatus as I got very lazy to update my blog lately after a whole day of classes and gym training (again on alternate days). Happy news! I've dropped 0.1kg in 4 days! Well not that impressive, but my bodyfat percentage dropped from 28.9% (on Monday) to 27.6% (on Friday), which is surprisingly lower than that before CNY (28%)! Good progress I think, lose fats but gain muscles to accommodate the weight lose. My dinner for every weekday is just as simple (and healthy?) as follow: 1 apple, 2-3 small bananas, 2 slices of wholemeal bread with peanut butter spread and about 200ml of low fat milk.  That sounds a bit like my breakfast, without eggs. I'm done with my dinner. =) Yes I might get hungry when the time passes 11.30pm, so I would usually drink some low fat milk or maybe just plain water to kill my hunger temporarily. And I will sleep early, usually around 12.30am. Biological fact about hunger is, to my amusement, hormones balancing between lepti...