Your love is strong

God, Your love is strong. It is. And I believe in it. I trust You even when nothing makes sense.

It's Thanksgiving tomorrow. Let us be reminded of His goodness and faithfulness. Be thankful and above all, make the effort to make someone's day. After all, God took the first step.

Weekends at UNL

Oh gosh!! I found Sims 3 on my laptop! I thought I uninstalled the game looong ago. How weird.

Here's a compilation of photos I've accumulated in my phone. I shoot wherever I go, whether on my phone or on my Canon, if I happen to be carrying it around.

That Saturday when it snowed in Nebraska! My first snowing experience in Nebraska, and it was still in fall. It wasn't a usual thing, the climate got haywire. Anyhow, it was just half an inch of snow. But I remember waking up that Saturday morning and open my blinds and saw whiteness everywhere. It's like waking up on Christmas morning you know. There you see the sand in the volleyball court covered in snow.

Poke poke the snow a bit.

This is my version of 'steamed' egg using the microwave oven. I was trying to prove to myself that I can eventhough I am handicapped, without a kitchen and pots and pans. It turned out slightly rough in the surface but underneath, it was a spoonful of smooth eggy custardy snack.

This picture is more for JC, haha. I can't help imagining how excited JC would be seeing this. This guitar display was in Best Buy. They do have awesome guitar places here JC, so don't worry about not getting to test expensive guitars before buying one.

And they had a testing room! I was all psyched and stayed in there testing the expensive Martins and Taylors. Wahaha.

Too bad I was alone and no one else to share the joy of caressing expensive and intricately made wooden instruments. Sigh.

25th Oct: Jac's birthday. We were in church pilling up chairs before leaving. Someone made her a tiny pirate hat. We call her "Capt'an Jac!"

The fellas (l-r) : Thiciano, Alex, Sachina, Luke. We were on the way to Jac and Edel's choir performance in Kimball Recital Hall.

They left me wuu wuu wuu. Notice the trees weren't botak yet. It was still in October. Now, sigh; pretty red and golden leaves are gone.

A lady was taking pictures just like I was. Cool.

Jac's birthday cupcakes. Blueberry and carrot cakes with cream cheese icing. They were awesome decorators. Although I boast of my culinary abilities, I would go crazy taking so much time putting cute and pretty stuff on food.

On my way back after Cru band practice. Beautiful horizon.

Ok so banana#1 is the normal yellow colored one. And banana#2 is the black one which I just took out from the freezer. I figured I could preserve the freshness of my banana by putting it in the freezer.

Turns out it doesn't work that way. It was soft and mushy. Sigh, one banana wasted in the name of experiment.

A week plus after Jac's birthday was Car Mun's 21st birthday. We went to a restaurant which the name I forgot. They serve Italian and I like the lights and the warm glow of it. Weee!

They had crayons and the tables were lined with white paper for big kids e.g. mua, to doodle on before dinner is served.

A nice shot of the fellas after dinner. I was *ahem* the master behind this awesome photo.

Then another week later, on a Saturday, came Japan Night. That's Yume inserted to give a perspective of the amount of sushi we rolled that day. We worked (literally) from morning till evening. About a thousand sushi rolls were done at the end. There were 4 rows of such long tables for our mass production.

When we were done rolling, assigned decorators put them on platters, ready to be served. I was in the Union the whole Saturday and my day ended only at 1 am after cleaning up. I didn't get any homework done, yet, somehow, it was a really relaxing day making sushi and hearing Japanese words uttered. I feel Asian again.

This was on the eve of my birthday on a Sunday night. We went ice skating in Ice Box because they had a free skating night. Woots! That's Han Sen, Xin Rou, Phei Yee and Hill Lam.

A day after mua birthday we had International Food Bazaar (17th Nov). We sold food and drinks. Sadly, I never noticed the fact that we served more Chinese food than Malaysian food. Sigh. All our dishes were actually pork. How Malaysian can that be right? See that char siew there? Lol. It's ok I guess, we learn from mistakes. This shall not repeat itself. I hereby ban pork in NUMSA.

Jeng jeng! On the same week, we celebrated Han Sen's 19th birthday. You can watch the birthday surprise caught on video here.

I insisted in a no fork/spoon policy. Eat with your hands fellas! But they refused hence this. Hahahaha!

And now *drumroll*......Sims 3 time! Jeng jeng jeng rar rar rar.

Thanksgiving and 2 more weeks of class

Well, one week has passed. Jac mentioned a few days ago: "Do you know our semester will end in 12 days?" Me: "Really? Are you serious? (ber-drama)" Jac: "Yeah! Minus the Thanksgiving break lah"

Wow. Two weeks and I'm done with a semester in US. Wow. Wowwww. And Jac, you'll graduate by then, kicked out of Selleck, and no more lunches at Hewit. Haha! (But you'll have homemade soup everyday, awesome mou?)

Here's a song to share. Found it in Jac's Ipod Shuffle (which she calls an Itunes, lol). Watch this too, as Matt explains how he wrote the song. Listen to the studio version too, it's good. I thought posting this live performance would have you know him better, see him playing the guitar and sound so good performing live. It's a Gibson! Ahhhh...I want!



Thanksgiving will be in 5 days. There will only be 2 days of class next week and then we'll be busy holiday-ing and eating Thanksgiving goodies. Weee! Turkey! (for everyone else). Han Sen's birthday was yesterday. We were not so creative friends cos we didn't exactly give him an awesome surprise birthday bash. I had him get our journalism textbook after dinner in the dining hall cos I 'needed' it. So when he was in Jac and my room, we talked and talked to stall time while Hill Lam and Phei Yee from a few rooms away brings in the cake. So their cue was my loud voice talking to Han Sen. So I complained very loudly in the hallway that there's blood oozing out of my finger (which turned out to be strawberry juice). There was one point he wanted to go back to the room, I freaked out, ran along the hallway to the fella's room and went "Faster, faster!"

After what seemed like forever, they came in with the cake - no candles cos our dorm says no fire allowed. Weeee! So we laughed laughed laughed and took pictures and had a karaoke session in my room. We had a video on it. Please stay tuned, I think Hill Lam will post it up on Facebook or somewhere.

Now it's Saturday. Reality strikes. I'm doing homework. Winter is near. More than half of the trees on campus is botak now. Jac pointed to me some trees called the evergreens that will stay green throughout winter. So that's where the term evergreen comes from, these trees. My dad used to say this and that song are evergreen songs. His favorite is 'My Way' and 'Words'. He's a Beatle and Bee Gees fan too. My mom likes Carpentars. Han Sen and I were singing 'Yesterday Once More' and 'Please Mr. Postman' yesterday.

God is like the evergreen tree. But just like I don't stop in my tracks between buildings to look at these trees, I don't notice them. And when I fail to avail myseld and just listen to God, I don't hear him. Last Thursday during Campus Crusade meeting, the speaker made us quieten down for 2 minutes and just talk to God. As soon as I close my eyes, to listen, He spoke. "Where's your heart?" He asked. Yeah, God where's my heart?

You've stolen my heart

I went on my first assignment as a photojournalist yesterday and it was surreal! I was using a Canon 1D! And I felt like an investigator trying to find clues and solve a crime. I reached the place where I was assigned to shoot photos but when I went there after class, all the school kids were gone! I was telling myself, so this is it huh? First assignment and I have nothing to hand in to the paper. So I asked for a contact number and I called but no one picked up. Then I walked out of the auditorium and saw a long yellow school bus parked by the curb. I walked past it, feeling a little confused what am I supposed to do and where am I supposed to find the kids, I know they're not gone yet. So I mustered a tiny bit of courage, walked to the bus and tapped at the glass door. A black man, opened the door and I asked if he knew where are the school kids. He had thick Jamaican accent. So you can imagine him speaking like "Yo mahn, wassup?". He was very helpful and directed me to Pershing Center.

To cut the long story short, the kids weren't in Pershing Center. I found them in the end and took pictures of them. But guess what happened next? My camera ran out of battery. I charged the battery yesterday at the newspaper's office. But I didn't charge up I guess. So I ran back to my room to get my comparatively puny camera and took some shot. And the battery died again! So I went back again to get my spare battery. So at the end of the ordeal, I'd been lugging two heavy cameras for an hour and a half and taken only a few pictures because I was so noob I didn't know what would make a good picture. And I didn't ask for names except for one fella. Sigh.

But the paper ran the picture on the front page this morning. I guess the Math Day was big news and they didn't have anything better from me. I'm so noob!

On the brighter side, I woke up on the right side of the bed today. The usual gloominess is non-existent. Hmmmm.

It's in the negative!

It's 7.34am and my class starts 20 minutes from now. I just woke up, brushed my little teeth and scrubbed my face and checked the weather. It's -2 now. It's still fall! What's this man. This is the first time I have to walk to class at such cold weather. Ahh, the weather, what an exciting thing to keep up with.