Saturday, August 30, 2008
i love the zooo!! Today was the first time I've visted the zoo in like 3 years? ok..so not that long..but i haven't been to Sydney Taronga Zoo in like 10 years or something. Can't be bothered typing very much and you probably can't be bothered reading very much so I'll let the photos tell the story.
So I arrived at Circular Quay and I couldn't resist acting like a tourist in my own state (i am excused..i haven't been living here all my life).
(the girls)
I met up with the rest of my churchy friends and we waited for the ferry to come. This is the mode of transport you take to the zoo over here.
The ferry finally arrived and acting like 13 excited little school kids we hopped on and went in search for the best views.
And we took advantage of the picture perfect background.
lol..wind in the hair, perfect backdrop. we are such posers.
Group shot before hopping off the ferry!
And we finally arrived at our destination!
Some of the animals we saw:
mummy and baby gorilla! it was a bit far away =(
lol...how rude.
another group shot!
me want soft toy elephant!
hehehe cute baby!
look! look! look! it's bambi!
boo!
i have short arms.
he's sooo pretttyyy!!God's creation is soo awesome =) it takes too long to upoload photos..but..but..go on fb and see! (when i post it up) he was such a show off! he did a full 360 turn!! hehehe i took soo many photos.
pris: "woww..the female peacocks are soo lucky"
hendy: "no comment..." hahahahahahaa
bear: "what are you looking at?"
Mofusa!
ROAR!!!
"Use in Traditional Medicine": Tail-skin diseases, Brain- laziness and pimples, Genitals- aphrodisiac...what the??
gloria!! (the cartoon one i mean :p)
it's timon! He was smaller than we expected
Don't know what you call them.
Suyin: "looks like a bear wearing underwear" LOL
Might just look like a ball of fur but they're actually otters!!! hehehehee! we were searching all over and then we finally found them =) i couldn't really get a very good photo of them though. I want a pet otter for my birthday ok?
hahaha i love this photo! he/she/it's so cuute! you know what i noticed? giraffes have reeally nice eyes. They have like...long eyelashes and permanent eyeliner on! *sigh* i want eyelashes like them..oh..and the giraffes are so lucky! they have like..the best view of sydney! they get to see the whole harbour and city view from their place. now that's....luxury accomodation. People pay millions for a harbour view.
working out where we are
hehehe i love koalas soo muchh! i wish i could hug one to shleeeep.
we took the 'sky safari' back to the ferry terminal. It was all nice up until the end of it where it felt like we were plunging straight down. That's the view from the front :p
It was getting late and the sky looked like it was going to pour down rain at any second..So it was time to go home..
waiting for the ferry
I left out a lot of photos. They'll all be up on fb in the next couple of days. hehehe i haven't had so much fun in a long time. Throughout the whole the all we could say was..."woww..God is so amazing" or..."wow...how does God create something like this?" it really is remarkable.
posted @ 3:10 AM
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Usually i hate molecular bio labs with a passion. Nothing worse than 5 hour labs and leaving uni when the sun has already disappeared but today's lab was surprisingly funnn!! we extracted DNA from E. coli cells. They are me and jen's new babies and they behaved so well for us...we are proud beaming parents. (this would have been a good time to take a photo of our babies but i forgot..so maybe i will next lab) Our DNA babies aren't very attractive though....they actually looked like..stringy.. thick,white/yellow...ummm..mucous. Sorry for the rather obscene description! but extracting DNA is actually fun!...either that or we were both high on caffeine.
Jen and I were having some random conversation on the topic of flirting when Jen suddenly decides to blurt out: "we don't flirt..we just do it...hence..we have both our DNA in that test tube" Ummm...okayyy...she said that...NOT ME and yes..we were high on caffeine.
Anyway..for once our molecular biol lab went smoothly..now that's something worth celebrating! I can't wait to see my DNA babies again in 2 weeks. For now..they have been safely stored away. Anyway...weekend is coming! yayy =) i'll have photos to post up!
posted @ 4:25 AM
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
I shall blog since...I'm supposed to go sleep in like 10 minutes (yes, don't laugh at me..i dont have a life ok!)..and i refuse to do anymore reading up on my assignment..and..i can't go on msn because i know if i do i will have no chance of waking up tomorrow morning. So since I can't talk to anybody, I shall talk to my laptop.
It's really bad...i really should be spending every second doing work considering i have piles of it to get through. btw i'm not exaggerating..this is exactly what my desk looks like right at this second (there's more on the floor because i can't fit it on my desk):
arghhh..i think my desk looked neater during year 12 :S
btw..random news: I just realised all these people in my course are hooking up!..(yeah i'm kinda slow when it comes to noticing these things) Not that it's a bad thing...it's just funny how one minute two people can be introduing themselves to each other and the next minute they're holding hands. Anyway..that was my little random observation for the day. it's 9:42 and i'm off to bed. nitey nite.
posted @ 4:28 AM
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Friday, August 22, 2008
I am currently in a state of shock. So news broke out yesterday about mike guglielmucci's cancer hoax and i'm still finding it really hard to believe. When his name came up i thought it was because he had died or something.
For you melbournians who were at youth alive concert last year..do u remember that guy, the youth pastor of Planet Shakers, who said he had some rare form of cancer and he had like 32 broken bones in his body and preached that awesome sermon and sang a song called Healer that he had written himself and everybody cried?
Well since then...he has been going around to all different churches sharing about how God has been healing him and his song has touched soo many people. In recent months he was part of the Hillsongs annual recording and conference. I bought the hillsong dvd and when i saw him speak with that oxygen tube in his nose and and heard him sing that song I cried...along with the congregation pictured in that dvd. Strange i know..but that's how powerful his message was. So since buying that dvd..that song has been stuck in my head..i have been singing it at the top of my lungs (at home) and the song lyrics had been stuck on my msn name.
AND THEN last night...news comes out that all of it is FAKE. He had lied about the whole cancer thing and if you believe the media..apparently even his family and wife didn't know it was all a hoax! How you can possibly pull something like that off is beyond me. Literally thousands of people have been praying for this guy over the past couple of years, he has received so much in donations and so many people..espescially those suffering from cancer have been touched by his story. It makes me wonder how they all must be feeling right now.
Having said all this..we need to pray for him. We don't know the story behind it but i'm sure he's going through a pretty tough time. At the end of the day it just shows how flawed we all are. It's so easy for me to point the finger and criticise him but despite my disappointment..it has made me realise..i have nothing to say. Sin is sin...it doesn't matter what we have done they're just as equally bad. Guys..how important is intergrity?
As i was spilling out my thoughts to my brother on the train last night he asked me..."doesn't that make you realise we can't place our hope and trust in people? doesn't that make you realise just how much more we need to place our hope in God's word?" If we place our hope in people..our family, our significant other, our friends..it's almost certainly going to lead to disappointment just because of how flawed we are as human beings. Isn't it amazing then...that we can place our hope in God knowing that he will never fail us, knowing that he will never disappoint us?
and back to Mike...i still think he has an amazing gift of preaching, singing and song writing..he just made a huge mistake but haven't we all? And..it doesn't matter if the whole story wasn't true..that song still brings me to tears and I still believe God is my healer and everything I need.
posted @ 5:32 PM
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Can't a girl just exercise in peace! Some guys just seriously need to get a life. There I was enjoying a jog around my neighbourhood when some horny perverted creep from goodness knows where decides to strike up a conversation with me. NO i do not need you to tell me how beautiful I am, NO i do not want to talk with you another time..NO i'm not interested. Tell me i'm over reacting but i am sooo sick of desperate guys who have NO RESPECT for women. *breathe in...breathe out..*
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Ok! Now i've got that out of my system...
Tiff has asked us to prepare an item for church in a couple of Sundays time. She must think we're super musicians or something because she picked such a hard song!! Don't get me wrong..it's on my list of favourite songs..but singing it is a different story.
All for love- HillsongsAll for love a Father gave
For only love could make a way
All for love the heavens cried
For love was crucified
Oh how many times have I broken Your heart
But still You forgive
If only I ask
And how many times have You heard me pray
Draw near to me
Everything I need is You
My beginning, my forever
Everything I need is You
Let me sing all for love
I will join the angel song
Ever holy is the Lord
King of Glory
King of all
Oh how many times have I broken Your heart
But still You forgive
If only I ask
And how many times have You heard me pray
Draw near to me
Everything I need is You
My beginning, my forever
Everything I need is You
All for a love a Saviour prayed
Abba Father have Your way
Though they know not what they do
Let the Cross draw man to You
Everything I need is You
My beginning, my forever
Everything I need is You If anyone has like that soulful, african, african/american singing voice PLEASE let me know. I will kindly let you sing it...espescially that second verse. If not...i guess i'll just have to learn how to sing like Alicia Keys in 2 weeks...yeah like..dream on pris.
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I've been telling people how I feel like I have a more balanced life here in Sydney. I've been telling people how I've discovered the joys of taking time out to spend with my family. One thing i have really enjoyed is being able to spend time with my extended family on a regular basis. That's something I missed out on when I was living in Melbourne.
On the flip side..the not so great thing is...I have discovered just how nosey relatives can be! We were having a family celebration the other day at a nice restaurant when an aunty who is only half related to me decides to ask my mother about my love life in front of my family, my cousins and my aunties and uncles..thinking I couldn't hear them because they were on the other side of the table!! Oh...so....humiliating..It was one of those moments where I considered ducking under the table cloth so no one could see me. I have NO IDEA what my mum told her..the only complete sentence I heard was "I keep telling her she's still young and to keep her eyes open so she doesn't get hurt" I couldn't take it anymore so i completely tuned out and distracted myself with another conversation. Oh well....they are family anyway and I still love spending time with them.
Ok...back to study i go!
posted @ 10:26 PM
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I finally have time to sit down and blog a bit. ok...so i lied last time coz i never ended up posting up photos the next day. So here are some reeallyy overdue photos.
It was Cam's 21st must be about a month and a half ago now and the theme was zoolander/safari. ok...so here's the truth: i have never watched zoolander in my life but i figured it must be somehow linked to a safari theme and that ain't so hard to do :D I remember it was the first time i had seen church people since my albury/melbourne trip and nothing could wipe the smile off my face that night. Even though I had barely known any of these people half a year ago...after being away for 2 and a half weeks i found myself thinking about wesley ppl and it was so great to see everyone's faces again and catch up with my newly adopted church family =)
birthday girl!
my signature wave! (we should do it on video) It seems to be catching on..
dave, my future mission trip buddy-winner on the catwalk that night
my brother wearing sexy red heels..here's an upclose:
yes..i'm rather scared as well..
our life group!!
A week later it was Antony's birthday..my dear friend from uni. I got off at Townhall and just assumed that ppl from Sydney would know the city back the front and decided to follow their lead. Little did I know... they had no idea where they were going and I came to the realisation that I seemed to know the city better than them. I don't know whether that's a good thing or not. lol. Anyway...despite it being just down the road from the station we decided to take the scenic route and walked a huge circle around the city before getting there. It was freezing cold that night and Dennis thinking he was so used to cold weather and all..being Melbournian..decided to wear a t shirt..so poor Dennis was suffering hypothermia while we tried to navigate our way around.
Anyway..we ate..and watched as Wai downed half a bottle of rice wine or wateva it's called in Japanese. Thinking Japanese rice wine might taste a touch better than the gross, throat burning stuff I had on mission trip in china..i decided to take a sip and found out the hard way that all rice wine tastes the same. Don't take it from me though..Wai loves it..and we figured it's probably coz I don't seem to like any form of straight alcohol anyway.
good japanese food!
wai and her new found friend...no i'm not talking about edwina
The uni bunch! (some of us anyway)
Sorry for interrupting you lovely speech :p
happy birthday antony!
Anyway...I just have to say..Antony's speech was so touching. It was seriously the best birthday speech I have ever heard. It's so encouraging to see the way he treats each of his friends with utmost respect and the way he genuinely treasures each and every one of his friendships. I have learnt so much from you. Thank you sooo much for your amazing support..for going out of your way just to see how I am..for helping me through it all...for your words of wisdom that always seem to come at the right time..for helping me believe in myself..for teaching me to respect myself..for helping me see things clearer..for helping me learn more about others and myself. God bless you.
A couple of weeks later it was Hendy's 21st. hehehe parties with church people are always fun. Theme was red and white and there is a story behind that theme so it wasn't as random as it first seemed. As always...crazy games..funny speeches..a lot of food..great fellowship and a lot of cam whoring.
life group girls!
seeing red!
hehe happy birthday hendy =)
lol...a hendy skit
life group!
Anyway, I'm feeling so isolated from the msn world at the moment because as sad as it is...i go to sleep at 9:30 on most nights which means I have to pretty much kiss goodbye to late night conversations.
My rant starts here so you can click that cross on the top right hand corner if u wish not to read any further.
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I guess away from uni...away from church..away from cheering Australia on in the olympics..I have been preparing myself for the end of the year. Yes i have song ideas...yes i try and exercise my vocal chords on a daily basis but most importantly I need to prepare my heart. To be perfectly honestly, if i had to go mission trip tomorrow..I would not be ready and that's definitely nothing to be proud of. My prayer is that I bring to china a heart focused on God and his work, a mind focused on God and his work, a love for china and its people..my clothes..and nothing else. Right now I feel like I'm distracted by a lot of other things, weighed down by a lot of other things and though I have come a long way, I know there's still a lot to work on. I've been reading a book titled "the unquenchable worshipper" by Matt Redman, a worship leader I obviously respect a lot considering my blog is named after his song. In this book he talks about how as we worship God, in all His greatness, it is then that we our weakness and just how broken we are..just how unclean we are and it is so true. As i draw myself closer to God the more I'm disgusted at the person I was, the more i see how flawed I am but it is at this time as I worship that I also experience his amazing grace stronger than ever and it is as i worship that i realise just how much I need God. God teach me how to be the worshipper you want me to be.
posted @ 2:45 AM
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So I arrived at Circular Quay and I couldn't resist acting like a tourist in my own state (i am excused..i haven't been living here all my life).
(the girls)
The ferry finally arrived and acting like 13 excited little school kids we hopped on and went in search for the best views.
And we took advantage of the picture perfect background.
lol..wind in the hair, perfect backdrop. we are such posers.
Group shot before hopping off the ferry!
And we finally arrived at our destination!
mummy and baby gorilla! it was a bit far away =(
lol...how rude.
another group shot!
me want soft toy elephant!
hehehe cute baby!
look! look! look! it's bambi!
boo!
i have short arms.
he's sooo pretttyyy!!God's creation is soo awesome =) it takes too long to upoload photos..but..but..go on fb and see! (when i post it up) he was such a show off! he did a full 360 turn!! hehehe i took soo many photos.
bear: "what are you looking at?"
Mofusa!
ROAR!!!
"Use in Traditional Medicine": Tail-skin diseases, Brain- laziness and pimples, Genitals- aphrodisiac...what the??
gloria!! (the cartoon one i mean :p)
it's timon! He was smaller than we expected
Don't know what you call them.
Might just look like a ball of fur but they're actually otters!!! hehehehee! we were searching all over and then we finally found them =) i couldn't really get a very good photo of them though. I want a pet otter for my birthday ok?
hahaha i love this photo! he/she/it's so cuute! you know what i noticed? giraffes have reeally nice eyes. They have like...long eyelashes and permanent eyeliner on! *sigh* i want eyelashes like them..oh..and the giraffes are so lucky! they have like..the best view of sydney! they get to see the whole harbour and city view from their place. now that's....luxury accomodation. People pay millions for a harbour view.
working out where we are
hehehe i love koalas soo muchh! i wish i could hug one to shleeeep.
we took the 'sky safari' back to the ferry terminal. It was all nice up until the end of it where it felt like we were plunging straight down. That's the view from the front :p
It was getting late and the sky looked like it was going to pour down rain at any second..So it was time to go home..
waiting for the ferry
birthday girl!
yes..i'm rather scared as well..
good japanese food!
seeing red!
hehe happy birthday hendy =)
life group!
