First day of school.

First day of school, as some people say, you either make it or break it. I think I did manage to get through it. There were a couple of nerve-wrecking things especially because it’s the first time for me in an international school. Everybody there all had different hair and eye color!

In the morning we went to the chapel to have our assembly. Surprisingly, there were no anthems to sing, or flags to raise. We were introduced to our teachers and our theme for the year, which is “Walk the Talk”. I did not know quite a lot of people there so it was normal for me to sit alone in a row with nobody else sitting beside me. I suddenly missed my old school and kinda wished I was back in my old school because at least there was somebody that would want to sit beside me. But there were some friendly girls that saw me sitting alone and decided to sit beside me, from that moment I knew that I was in the right school, at the right time, and for the right cause.

My locker wasn’t ready yet. So, I had to keep all my heavy textbooks in my bag. My mother also helped me lighten my load. :)

My first class for the day was English. It was taught by a nice lady. There were only 12 students in this class. The rest of the students were either in ESL English or Honors English. Our teacher handed out the heavy textbook and a notebook and a file.

After that I went to Concert Band class, I felt a bit out of place there because I felt it was more for the senior students there because they already knew what instrument they play. The teacher never said anything for new students with no experience. I got signed up for percussions. Well, I love percussions, its way easier to me, so I’m quite pleased. But the pieces that they will be playing (some Repertoire something of Grade 3 or 4, I think) sounds hard, so I hope I will catch up with it.

The next class, I had to rush all the way back to Algebra class which was quite far away. There were more students in this class. We had homework on the first day. Oh well, I don’t mind anyway, it took me like 10 minutes to finish it. It was just basic addition and subtraction except with algebraic expressions.

After that, it was lunch time, my favorite period of the day, where I can kick back and relax and have a nice meal by myself or talking with someone else. The food was good. I met Aunty Sulo there. ^^ The meals were mashed potato, garlic bread, ham, peanut butter or ham sandwich. There was a salad bar if you wanted something more light. The drinks were only lemonade or water.

After a nice satisfying lunch, I went to the e-learning lab to take my online Psychology class. The whole room was filled with seniors because they were taking AP (Advanced Placement) Psychology class. I found out I was the only one that took the Psychology course. That’s fine because there is no group work required in this course and the classes are held online.

Moving on, I went to my World Geography class. There were 3 Davids in my class including myself kinda annoying sometimes. My Geography teacher had all of us to dot the places on a map on the board of where we lived or visited. The most dotted one was Malaysia of course, the U.S., Korea, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Thailand, France, England and Australia.

I went to Science class after that, I was just amazed by the white board which was a white board and a touch screen monitor at the same time… Amazing….

My Old Testament class was taught by Dave Addink, a very nice guy from my church. Wow, so much reading to do… We are supposed to like read 27 chapters in a week? A bit tiring but I think I’ll be fine because we are going to study that in class too. Besides, I love the Bible. :p

After that it was the P-Period fair, a.k.a. extra-curricular activities.

I signed up for:

Mon: One Heartbeat (Drums)

Tues: Writing Workshop

Wed: Music Theory

Thurs: Dalat Ambassadors ( Dalat Worship Team)

Fri: Music Theory

I had a great time at school today, I unloaded all my books in my locker that was finished by the time I left school. I played with some computer desktop games at the computer lab. I picked up my password for my Dalat email account. After that It was about 6 o’ clock already, so I went home with my mother.

Orientation to new school.

I went to school for newcomer’s orientation. I got showed around the school. It was fun. I talked with some of my teachers. I was very content with my courses that I have picked.

They are:

English 9

Concert Band

Algebra I

Physical Science

Personal Psychology Online

Health Online

World Geography

Old Testament Issues

Life of Christ

Not bad I would say. They’re very interesting courses.

I'm back from an exciting mission trip.

I just came back from an exhilarating mission trip from Macau. It was great fun. I had lots of fun there and had lots of experiences there too. There were 14 kids and 6 staff that took part in this mission trip.

We took a plane from Penang to KL and then KL to Macau.

We lived in a nice apartment there. Its amazing how 16 of us could fit in to that apartment that has only 2 toilets. :) The other 4 slept in another house.

We did an English camp there. It lasted for five days. We taught the children from the local schools English while trying to evangelize to them through making friends.

We did an outreach performance in a park near the place where we lived. We also got the opportunity to perform in some of the local and international churches there.

There were many amazing moments, like there was once we were walking across the street and one of the members were not paying attention to the street, she walked out and a car was driving so fast straight at her. I rushed out to hold her back but there was this invisible force that just pushed me back indicating that I should not jump out. An in a flash of a second, I saw the same invisible force which pushed me, pushed her back into the sidewalk. That was a very amazing experience to me.

A lot of people ask me what I learned and gained through this camp.Well, through this camp I:

• Have grown much closer to God.
• Learned how to listen to God’s still small voice.
• Witnessed spiritual warfare
• Understood how strong Satan and his angels are and how much they want to crush the seeds of men
• Learned how to call on God’s name and seek him as my refuge
• Learned that God does answer prayers
• Learned that God can heal
• Learned that God isn’t someone superior sitting up there that doesn’t want to have anything to do with us. In fact, he wants to be our loving father.
• Learned that prayers are very powerful and they do make a difference

One of the most important things I’ve learned is also spending quality time with fellow Christian brothers and sisters is very important and vital for our spiritual growth. It can change the way ion how you look at things and how you want to deal with it.

Through these 17 days that we were together, we each grew vey close to one another. We really knew we were going to miss each other after leaving this camp but fortunately for most of us, we were from the same school. We may not be seeing each other that often as we are from different grades but have decided to make an effort to meet up once a month.

I’m so glad that I had this extraordinary opportunity to do so many things and experience so much in just 17 days….

I will continue to cherish this awesome trip in my heart and used what I have learned in the camp to apply to my daily life.

A Long Rest.

I'm leaving for an outreach this Sunday. So I'm taking a long break from blogging till the next month.

The outreach will be at YM and then in Macau.

Pls pray that all the participants and staff will be safe and healthy. And God will work in our lives as we go for this extraordinary outreach.

Thx guyz.

FPBK Sports rehearsal

I'm out of school and I have nothing to do at home so I decided to help out at the kindy. Aunty Hun Lin put me in charge of the props.

I took a some pictures of the kids playing:

The name of this game is "Thirsty Bird". The children whoare wearing a hat which resembles a bird's beak wears on will put a pebble into their hat.(As first I thought it was an egg)

Then, they will run to put it into a bottle. The birds put pebbles into a bottle of water so that the water will be filled to the brim and the bird can reach it.

Ride the Horsey.

Does the girl on top look familiar to u? :p

Pick the fruits

After the kids picked all of the fruits.

The trees are all bare!!

But there's three baskets full of fruits. Amazing how three fruits trees can bear so many types of different fruits. '-.-

Let's go fishing

Walk over the beam.

Catch the fish.

Dry the fishs.

We Scream For ICE CREAM!!!!

Scoop the ice cream

And put it into the banana split.

And the banana split is done

Eat up. Yum Yum!

The Metamorphosis of a Butterfly.

The caterpillars are making a pathway for themselves to move.

The caterpillars are getting ready for metamorphosis.

This caterpillar is spinning herself into her pupa.

And these are the two butterflies that won.

Unfortunately, this butterfly is still waiting for her caterpillar friends to morph.

My New Room mate

One week ago, my mother brought home a squirrel which was kept in a cage. Its name was Layla and it was a she. My mum brought her back because a student who was going back to the States for summer asks us to help her take care of her.

Layla is a very tame pet. She has been taken care of for 3 years. That must have been since she was a baby. She always stays in her little pouch. As she is a nocturnal creature, she only comes out to play at night. Once, her crying kept me up the whole night cos I slept at 1 (She's not sad or hungry. That's just the sound she makes). I took her to the living room and scolded her. She actually understood me and stop crying and did not make anymore noise for the whole night except run around her cage.

She eats worms and apples. Quite a good pet. Her cage does not have to be cleaned often and she does not need to take a bath often too. If u take her out of her cage, she will run around but if u hold her pouch and ask her to come back to u, she will obediently run into her pouch or her cage.

I'll miss y'all

Haiz today's my last day of school. I returned all my books to the headmaster.
I took a good look at my school for the last time as it may be the last time I ever will see it again.
It wasn't easy to bid farewell to my friends. We said that we'll miss each other and we should keep in contact.
My teachers told me I was very lucky to have an opportunity to go to an international school.
I was quite teary even though I thought I would never shed a tear when I leave this school but I guess I'll miss all my friends and my teachers.

I thank my Father God for opening a door for me to go to Dalat, never in my wildest dreams I dreamt that I would go to an International School. I definitely have more faith in him and grown even more, spirtually and mentally.

I will have to get ready to go to a new school this August. I have all my subjects picked out for me. There are a few hard subjects. I heard there are only a few feshmans in that class. I know God will help me to adapt to a new school and a new environment.

I don't want ur money, I just wanna return it to u.

As some of u know I lost my phone sometime ago. It was always attached to me for 2 years from the time i first got it. That was during Christmas in Hong Kong.

Anyway back to how I lost my phone. I was on the way to Mrs. Chiu's for English tuition. (She's the kind old lady who drives a jeep or a Honda City to church. She teaches Sunday School). When I came out of my car. It dropped out of my pocket. Funny why I couldn't hear it. I think it dropped to the floor the same time when my car door closed.

I didn't care to even look back when I found out that my phone wasn't in my pocket. (I thought I left it in my car) So I just went into the house to call my father. He drove back to return me my phone but to my dismay it was not there. After two hours of searching in vain. I went home with defeat.

I used my mum's phone to text my phone. And ask if anybody picked up my phone they would return it to me. The person did call back. It was a Malay guy. (I could distinguish by his voice) He demanded for RM300. 'Kinda steep' I thought.

I told my mother that I did not want my phone back and I will not compromise with thieves.

So to everyone out there who pick up stuff which is not urs. Pls try to return it to its rightful owner. If the person wants to give u a reward, u may accept it. But never demand money cos ur not selling second hand stuff. Picking up other ppl's stuff and selling it back to them is a form of thievery...

Say NO to Exam Tips. Say NO to Cheating.

Today Exam... not bad, four papers down eleven more papers to go haiz.... So near yet so far.

Anyway there are ppl(I heard they are from C class) who are selling exam tips at RM5 for each paper.
And it seems that the tips sold to my friends really worked. Cos the Chinese Essay Paper was from a workbook and somehow they got hold of the exam questions and are selling them to some boys(I'm not gonna say who) who are willing to pay just to know the answers in advance and prepare first. More like I would call, Cheating.
Anyway I heard rumors from some friends. That these ppl who are selling these tips have about every paper's tips.
I'm now asking all Chung Ling students NOT to buy these tips.

Our society these days are getting very very competitive. Students are chasing to spot questions and are willing to pay, just to know the questions that are coming out in there exams. As we know, lots of pupils are now flocking to Intensive tutions which teach them how to spot question.
Even when I go to school on exam days. The only thing that my friends ask each other instead of casual talk is :

"Got Tips or not?

No Tips No talk."

My MSN buddies who are from school keep asking me the same question :

"Ur teacher got give u any tips?"

or

"U want to know wat is coming out for XXX exam? My tips are very

accurate. U want? "

Some how I think this is a very unhealthy situation, that is really getting out of hand. I hope that our education system will be changed and not be so exam-oriented. And one day, I hope that Malaysian students will stop being so narrow-minded and start looking at the bigger picture which is that exam marks is not everything, that when u go out to the real world your marks or achievements don't matter anymore. Its what u learned in school and how u make the best out of it. And that is what really matters.

Bus Incident

18.2.08

Today the bus driver forgot to pick me up. I was waiting at another stop which was not my house and since I always change stops, I think she forgot and just drove off without me. Some of the boys in the bus saw me but....

Anyway, I managed to get hold of a phone and called the bus driver. She was quite unhappy but she still drove back to get me.

Luckily, we weren't late for school. The boys in the bus told their friends that I made them late for school. During recess a lot of ppl came up to me and asked why I made them late. Well I said I didn't make anyone late and that's final.

After school, I went onto the bus and the bus aunty didn't look quite happy. Before I went home, I apologized to her about this morning even though it wasn't really my fault. She suddenly brightened up and told me it was not really my fault and said it was hers cos she forgot.

So, To all my friends who are reading this nevertheless who is at the wrong, I think we should all learn how to apologize and say sorry even if we were on the wrong side or not... It may just brighten up someone's day right? :)