681) Listening to
Posted by: carmenL on: July 9, 2009
Comfortable by John Mayer.
It’s a serenade of lost love. Soppy and sad.
There’s this part of his voice that quivers…and it makes me melt. Like he is so genuinely in love with that girl that he’s singing about.
Colourful love life as it may be, my hats off to John Mayer. Been a fan for yearrrrrrrssss though I have been given a hard time for defending this stand. 
680) Healed
Posted by: carmenL on: July 9, 2009
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Sprained back is healed. God is awesome.
Prayer IS powerful!
God was speaking to me all the time about this matter, reminding me that I will be healed and I have to be ready to receive His miraculous healing! I just started reading T.D. Jakes’ ‘Woman, Thou Art Loosed’ and I knew God was leading me onto something. The first chapter was about Luke 13:10-17 and it was about an infirm woman who was bent over for 18 years. I identified to the woman in those verses though I’m not bent over but I had fears that I could if my sprain turned sour.
Jesus healed her physically but released her from the hurts that she has collected in those 18 years that she was bent over. And He would do the same for me!
And His words never return void! I am healed indeed. First time of such supernatural healing…very interesting experience. 
Why did He take so long, some may ask? Because He wanted me to learn His character, so that I can break down another few walls that have hindered me from His healing. Yes, I was a little skeptical when I went for prayer on Sunday. And I had to learn that I need to stick to what has been prayed for and contend for it as others will contend with me. I need to believe it for myself…with more desperation. And that’s building faith in God’s way of teaching. Uncomfortable to go through it..yes but I know that the discomfort won’t last long. 
So if you are in need of healing, pray.
*Yes Mom, I am praying for my job too…praying really harrrddd. It’s coming!
679) Let me
Posted by: carmenL on: July 9, 2009
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…describe my day to you.
I was up at 7.30am and I got ready to go to the church office. Things popped up along the way and I ended up in a different train line. I headed off to Ikea and had a good day just looking furniture. Fantasizing how my room could be like, most of the time. When my sound mind came back to me, I realized that my room would have to be twice as large to fit the things I wanted.
Nonetheless, good for the heart to know that I am looking forward to the day when I own a house and get to decorate it a-n-y way I want. Job, woman…JOB!
Furniture and fantasy of having own home aside, I have to say that I have never realized that kids are so beautiful. I mean, I find them adorable. NOW, they are beautiful to me. Oh my gosh, those round eyes, those laughter that show a few teeth sprouting, those chuckles, those cries, those wobbly gaits, those coos. *Mommy wannabe alert* Yes, I am proud that I want to be a mother someday!
Guess that God opened my eyes to see that I could have these precious little jewels one day. And at the same time He reminded me that I am a jewel myself!
Ah, it was a good day indeed. A date with God.
via designismine.blogspot.com
678) Reappearance
Posted by: carmenL on: July 9, 2009
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I just realized that my last post was 2 weeks ago. I am amazed that how a yapper like me could stop yapping in the blogosphere for 2 weeks?!
A convenient excuse would be Twitter, I guess. Yup, Ms Yappety Yap decided to go one liner-ing for a fortnight and she loved it. 
I woke up yesterday and spent 30 minutes mourning for Michael Jackson. Weird. I thought I would never do that. After hearing and reading about the news of his death, I was indifferent. Neither am I moved to tears or happy about it.
But my heart changed. Yes, I find that it was such a loss for a talent to die at 50 and at that state. But what started as reading The Age online turned into clicking multiple links that reveal MJ’s history of 50 years in a matter of minutes on my laptop. Strange how technology works. I was really baffled to see the progression change of MJ’s physical appearance throughout the years. Radical, I would say. Scary to a point.
I am not sure if he did have vitiligo which caused him to be white from a very dark skinned man. If he did, I feel really bad for him. If he didn’t, I guess vanity has a price tag to it.
Physical appearance aside, I personally think that Michael Jackson is a very talented man; A man ahead of his time. A pioneer in the music industry. Just a sad thing that like many stars that started off young, his childhood was robbed off him. I emphatize this poor soul who spent his albeit successful life lonely. Must’ve been tough. Doesn’t help when the media blows his issues larger than its proportion. Turmoil.
I just hope that wherever he is right now, he’ll be at peace with himself for who he is.
677) Stickydate Pudding
Posted by: carmenL on: June 26, 2009
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Yesterday I met my stickydate, Trili. How we started calling each other stickydate was really interesting. It was Christmas @ Berrima’s last year and I made Sticky Date Pudding. She liked it. And hence the sweet nickname!
In some freaky ways, we are really similar, like how we would be thinking of something at the same time. Like how we want to do something while not actually talking to each other. Like how we tend to attract drama in our lives. In other ways, we are different like how she dislikes squid while I absolutely love it.
Anyhoos, back to my date with stickydate. The day started with coffee with Trili in the city. We were supposed to go to Babka’s at Brunswick but I had to leave the city about 2 so we decided against it and went to Journal Cafe instead. Journal is a cosy little cafe located in the ground floor of City Library along Flinders Lane. My stickydate and I had bruschetta and soy chai. As mentioned to me before, the chai there is really elaborate. Our chais were served in a huge silver teapot with a strainer on the side, a small pot of honey and two glasses. The silver teapot reminds me of the teko that Malays use for teh. I like…old school! That one pot was enough to go for 2 1/2 glasses each! I had pumpkin and feta bruschetta which was awesome. It’s like roasted pumpkin to the point of puree which was spread on a piece of sourdough bread like butter topped with crumbled feta. Stickydate had proscuitto and roasted tomato and it looked absolutely delish!
Our date ended with us heading back to Clayton together in a train.
676) Thankful
Posted by: carmenL on: June 26, 2009
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Yesterday’s English class was at Gloria Jeans @ Chaddy instead of Hargrave Andrews.
I headed off to Chaddy with Angela and Joseph for our English lesson with a cuppa. They treated me coffee…so nice of them! It’s the first time that we had class outside Hargrave Andrews which is something really refreshing. We just practiced speaking and we just discussed a whole lot of things under the sun from working, PRs, family and love. We walked a bit after that I realized that Angela is so adorable. She LOVES cats (like me) and she went ga-ga when we were at the pet store! She was so happy! So cute! My students are such wonderful people and they are so polite! They keep saying that they don’t want me to feel obligated to coach them for English and of course, I don’t! They are my blessings because they made my life more meaningful…and of course, they are no longer my students, they are my friends! They keep showering me with love from bulgogi to korean styled mamee snacks. Absolutely wonderful!
These are the lovely gifts from my students this week.
675) Top Gear
Posted by: carmenL on: June 26, 2009
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I think the most interesting and random event of yesterday night is watching Top Gear at Grill’d in mute while reading subtitles off the screen. It was the part where the hosts were in Vietnam and their challenge was to travel from south vietnam to the north…in motorcycles. It’s hilarious and I think I might get hooked onto it really soon. But I’m in for the wittiness and spontaneity of the hosts not the cars and the roars of the engine. I would classify Top Gear Such a Man Show too. Haha.
Here’s one of the 8 parts of the Vietnam challenge which I found was superduper hilarious.
674) Transform me
Posted by: carmenL on: June 26, 2009
Yesterday night, I joined Su Ann and the rest for Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen at VMax @ Knox. It was my first time at VMax and Jonathan said that I’ve had a deprived childhood =.= Well, the screen is doubled in size but I think I’m kinda fine with the normal sized ones if I had to pay more for it. Anyhoos, three words to describe the movie: Such A Man Show…ok four words. It is an alright show…just a little far-fetched with the tankers, explosion, artillery gizmos right at the end of the show. And Optimus Prime…erm, ok shall not give away the show or else would be condemned by those who are dying to watch but haven’t got a chance yet because of the exams.
673) Entries of an Amazing Race participant
Posted by: carmenL on: June 25, 2009
10.05 am
733 bus was early for once. I caught the 10.05 am bus but I didn’t take it. Why? Because I didn’t have a bus ticket and the driver didn’t have change for a 20 dollar note. Quickly texted Ps Lisa and prayed.
10.10am
Walked back into house to find coins/loose change. Attempt: Unsuccessful.
10.20am
I walked to uni and met Fluffy.
10.40am
I arrived at uni and hunted for a bus ticket at The Shop. I was about to buy a ticket then I saw the sign saying that they do not accept EFTPOS transactions at the moment. Off I went to the ATM.
10.45am
The cashier realized that they didn’t have any Metlink tickets with them because the shop lot under semi-renovation. Horror of all horrors!
So I asked him to help me break the note instead.
10.55am
After dilly dallying (coffee rush) I walked to the bus loop and I saw the 733 passed me by! The next one would come at 11.27am! Was waiting at the bus stop and saw two bananas hung on the bus stop.
11.00am
I caught the 900 bus to Oakleigh using my zone 1 ticket and bought a weekly zone 2 ticket. Took a train to Richmond.
11.35am
I reached Richmond railway station.
11.43am
Took the Belgrave train
12.08pm
Arrived at Surrey Hills
12.15pm
Glamourously late for work at the church office! 
Am not proud of self.
Around and about in a day!
672) Ne m’oubliez pas
Posted by: carmenL on: June 25, 2009
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How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;excerpt from ‘Eloisa to Abelard‘
by Alexander Pope
I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind yesterday night and I find that movie really weird. Weird because I was about to close the media player and pick another movie to watch but stayed on to see what is actually going on and ended up watching the whole movie and liked it. Weird.
Well, the thing that attracted me to the movie was the fact that the movie was about two people erasing memories of each other for the sake of moving on. And that I have actually wondered if that was possible. Urm, it’s fictional so I guess it’s not possible.
And even if it is, the movie proved that it’s useless because we have tendencies to let history repeat itself. The two main characters, Joel and Clementine who have got their memories of each other wiped off, still met and fell in love again after two years.
Forgetting memories means not learning from them and when it repeats itself, you are still stuck at the point where you wanted to remove the memories. Twisted but true.
On a side note, what about the saying “Forgive and forget?” I’m all for forgiving because I believe that it is the key to freedom. It is not easy but the effort is worth it. Afterall, God forgave ALL of our sins through Christ alone (1 John 2:12) and who are we not to forgive when we’ve been forgiven?
I guess, the forgetting part in the saying above is more of forgetting the emotions that could paralyze you from moving forward. I believe that God is a God of progression…He doesn’t want us to live in the past but He wants us to learn from it.
Like most people, I’ve got loads to learn and it could be tough at times, but I know God’s with me. I just love the fact that God’s the ultimate bestest coolest teacher one could ever ask for. So when He teaches, listen and learn…fast so you don’t have to go around in circles making the same mistake.
Twisted stories aside, I am so into Beck’s Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes. Can’t seem to get it off iTunes because the song isn’t sold as a single but is bundled with the album pack…which I refuse to buy JUST FOR ONE SONG. And so I repeated the song from the link above while typing this post. I like the electronic end bit…I don’t know how to explain myself but that particular part with the old 70s vibe just gets me. That part reminds me of Sonic Youth’s version of Superstar.
Me
::Malaysian::
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::Engineer::
::Loves God::
::Planetshakers::
::Soy chai and green tea lattes::
::Whimsical::
