CONGRATULATIONS CHERYL!

Finally, after weeks and months of planning, my best friend is now married to my ex-classmate. Cheryl Shamala Ganesan weds David Ng Kok Keong on 28th July 2007. They were legally married on 7th July 2007 (07/07/07). See the significance?

On the actual day, my most stressful moment (Cheryl shares the same sentiment too) was the bridal procession. Why you have to choose song with timing, I also don’t understand (speaking to you Cheryl)… Hahaha…. But all went well.

THANK YOU JESUS! I nearly died of heart attack ok…. Broke into cold sweat some more. With the HUGE walkie talkie (as though I was head bouncer)…. Just to make my best friend’s wedding perfect. It wasn’t all that perfect but the most important thing, Cheryl and David had a wonderful and memorable time.

Wanna walk down the aisle again, dear? Let me know when you get back from your honeymoon,ok.

Once again, congratulations my dear. I’m so happy for you. And thank you for giving me this honour. Love you heaps!

WILD NIGHT

A night of fun and laughter – Cheryl’s Hen’s Night. Why Hen’s Night? Good question. I don’t know where that came about. Was so use to the word Bridal Shower until my wedding last year and Cheryl introduced the word Hen’s Night to me.

Found out about the origin from the net. Here’s what they got to say:

Last Night Out for the Bride to Be

Once only a man’s domain, known as the stag party, the “hen’s night out” has become an important part of the modern wedding for women. It is a celebration of the last night, as a single person, for the bride-to-be and of the friendships she found during those years.

Who to invite

Normally the hen’s night out is for a younger crowd, keeping the shower tea for the older generations. This night is a celebration of friendship. Remembering all the good times they’ve had together - perhaps meeting at school, going through their teenage years, then growing into woman together and now, looking towards raising their families together. The bride-to-be’s sisters and female family members will also be important to her on this night as she may be leaving the family nest for the first time after her wedding night. Also, workmates play a huge role in the bride’s life, don’t forget them. The bride will want everyone there. The hen’s night out is like the end of an era!

Organiser

The Matron-of-Honour or the Bridesmaid’s will organise the hen’s night out. They are to gather a list of the bride’s friend, then find a suitable venue that the bride will enjoy. Remember, it’s her night! They send out the invitations, await responses, collect money from the guests and pay any deposits needed. The bride need not worry with any of the details and just enjoy her hen’s night.

Planning a memorable night

This all depends on good organisation. Trying to find the perfect venue can be a hard job but if you always keep in sight what the bride-to-be would like, you will never go wrong. Arrange transport to and from any venues, this way everyone is kept in a group. Throw in a few fun but embarrassing games for the hen…how about her having to kiss any bald man that she sees through-out the night, on the top of his head (don’t forget the bright red lipstick and the camera).

Places to go

There is no lack of venues to choose from. Anything your bride would want to do is available to her. Maybe a theatre restaurant, a comedy night, a cruise, a male revue, a mystery night out or a ghost tour. How about a day at the races, a winery tour, a pampering cruise. For the adventurous bride there is skirmish, jet-boating, kayaking or sand-duning. The ideas are limitless, imagination is the key!

We had it at Neway Karaoke Box, 1 Utama on 26th July 2007. The theme was RED

Pictures tell everything. Have fun viewing.

Clogged

An interesting read on the front page of today’s Star Newspaper.

http://www.thestaronline.com/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/23/nation/18377677&sec=nation

I’ve had my personal share of experience with regards to “discovering” sanitary pad in toilet bowls and also back in 1999 – found 1 rolled up (used) slipped in between the spaces at the bathroom door.

Why is the teacher being punish for the students’ non-civic attitude? They were repeated warned beforehand and when the punishment was carried, PTAs come to their rescue. So when will these girls learned to be more responsible and more civic minded?

Were they thought at home that it’s ok to thrown their sanitary pads into their own house toilet bowl? I believe not… I bet their mothers will be screaming their lungs out if they were caught doing it. But then again, if they have maids at home, then the maids will have to use their hands to remove the sanitary pad and the dispose it on behalf on these “princesses”.

Gee… to think that in this century people to be more civic conscious. Looks like we’re going back to medieval times or maybe going back as far as the Stone Age???

Anakku

Our pictures of at Sakae Sushi on 17th July 2007, with ex-Anakku colleagues except for Crystal and Claude, who’s still serving a sentence with the company… Har Har…

Billy, you lose SO MUCH of weight!!! How did you do it? You’re half your previous size!

Claude, I miss you SO MUCH!!! We must never never loose touch with each other.

Crystal, you look so hip now! I could see that you’ve grown to be more matured than when you first joined the company. Good progress.

Bee Leng, you’re still the same size! So stop saying that you’ve put on weight! I love you still the same.

Last but not least, Sue Ting, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Enough said, we know what’s it about.

Muax to all of you! Let’s do this more often.

Pregnant

Came across this article online and boy, it made me realise that exactly how i feel.

Stop setting alarms on my biological clock http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19762056/site/newsweek/from/ET/

Ever since i got married, I've just been flooded by the "When are you going to be a mummy?", "Are you pregnant? or "When ah?" questions. Sometimes i just feel i need to tape my answer, "I'm still in a honeymoon phase and so not ready yet for a baby." on a recorder and play it.

And of course when you give them this answer, they'll always have something to retaliate, "Don't wait too long. You're not getting younger".

Gee! Thanks for asking but no thanks. Thanks for your "thoughtfulness", though i may not really appreciate it.

I tend to agree with the author of this article, sometimes it is those mothers who have "Tarzan" or "Conan" or "devil" children that makes me decide to have my 1st child later. Maybe teach theirs kids some manners or two before poking into mine of whether I'm having a baby or not.

It's most definitely tiring seeing their children not behaving and having their way each time. It's tiring and frustrating to hear parents say, "Let them be" or "What to do?".

Good grief! Let the children do what they want without restraint, therefore Parents, my message to you, "You'll regret later in life. When they grow older and become rebellious, don't question them, 'Why are you so rebellious?' Cause it's your own fault, they are".

Anyway, that's they're choice how they want to bring up their own children. Not for me to impose and not for them to impose on me, how I'll bring up mine.

Just keep those dreaded questions to yourself. Thank you.

The “F’ Word

What will you think when you read the “F” word on a comment or article or even a blog? Is the “F” word really that foul kinda word or it stands for “Fun”, “Free”, “Ferocious” and etc?

Well, I immediately thought of it as the foul word (which is also a verb – word the describe an action). Many will say, “Aiyah…. Patrina so dirty, only think of these things”. Am I really dirty to have thought that people are really using this particular word?

Everywhere I go, I hear this word. In college, at work and I even read this word on articles in the newspaper (which they camouflage as “F**k”) and I read them on blogs (which was blatantly showcased) too.

Is it a cool or an in-thing to swear? Because it seems to me, it is. Where is the decorum that ladies use to display? Down the drain perhaps. Who’s to blame for people using foul languages and swearing? It’s been there for so many years now, so it’s common, I would say. Rubbish!

It’s just an excuse to look cool and trendy but what these people don’t realize, the image they are portraying. To me, the image I see – when they open their mouths, flies and excrements flow out.

What breaks me is also children as young as four can swear very well too. Where to they learn from if not from their parents or adults around them. I remember very well not long after I got married, I was having dinner with KY at Bayu Emas Restaurant and next to our table was a family. They looked like such a loving family and the children (a boy and a girl) probably age 3-4, are just so adorable.

A few minutes later, the father’s phone rang, and the next thing that happen, there was shouting and banging of the table. He must be scolding someone on the other line. In between his shouting, the words he use – Oh My Goodness!!! Swearing vulgarity at every line in Hokkien. Words not fit for a child’s hearing. I feel for the children and deep in my heart I know the children will grow up thinking that vulgarity is acceptable is their speech.

My heart broke and I said a quick prayer that God will watch over them and not be like their father in speech and action. Let’s hope they will grow up as I prayed for them to be.

What is America thinking???

I was reading this article online about Tori Spelling (from Beverly Hills 90210) being ordained a minister and that she got her certificate online. She can marry people now (like how Ps Ronald Ooi married KY and I).



http://tv.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=268421&GT1=7703

In that article, the 1st couple she marry were gays (not the feeling, gay but the homosexual, gay) and how honoured she was to marry them off.

Gee, what is the world coming to nowadays? Pastors can become gay, priest can become gay, nun can become lesbian and the list goes on. What has happen to the Word? What happen to Basic of Life and the base of our faith depends on the Word of God.

This is what happens when there’s too much of human rights and too much of freedom of speech. So much so that a child can sue or even divorce his own parents! People has forgotten about the reason for Noah’s Ark or the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. It’s sad that society nowadays accept homosexuality as a way of life.

Honestly I have nothing against homosexuals – I have friends who are homosexuals and I care for them alot. I’m just questioning the lifestyle. Many say that it’s inborn - male in a female’s body and vice versa. To some, it’s a choice. I know that there is help and it’s non other than our Heavenly Father above.

Truly if inborn, there’s help. If it’s choice – MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE!!! God didn’t create Adam and Steve or Shannon and Eve. God created Adam and Eve and let’s leave it that way.

What irks me more, is that gay churches can quote scripture!!! Wah lau eh!!! What are they thinking? You know the best part – the nearest gay church to us, is located in Singapore run by a pastor couple who is are not gay (real husband and wife) but pro-gay lifestyle.

I still remember when Ps Henry mentioned that the child who the gay couple adopts will be confused as to who is the mommy or who is the daddy? How do you call them? Who plays which role? Sigh….

Prayer Meetings

For the benefit of those who missed Tuesday and Wednesday night’s prayer meeting, I’m blogging the message here below. Do thank Kwang Yew for the notes, cause it was he who diligently wrote the notes and gave me the permission to publish it. Love you, baby.

Season of Harvest (Why?) by Bishop Margaret Benson-Idahosa

Proverbs 10:5 - He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

1. Harvest is very, very important

2. Harvest is done in the day time – I must work the work of Him who sent me
John 9:4 – As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work

3. Harvest is already here
Matthew 9:37-38 – Then He said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore to send out workers into His harvest field.”

4. Harvest time is NOT for sleep

5. Harvest involves everyone in the family

6. Harvest should not be postponed. The time is now!

7. Harvest requires labourers because it does not waste

8. A true labourer is not a waster

9. A true labourer has the interest of the farmer at heart

10. A true labourer must be patient with the fruits of his labour

11. Everyone must be committed to the harvest because we are called and we are ordained
John 15:16 – You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit – fruit that will last. Then the Father will give your whatever you ask in my name

12. Look forward to the great harvest before you (Lift up your eyes)
Luke 6:38 – Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, press down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Seed + Time = HARVEST

13. Your seed is your designated path of your harvest

14. A harvester is an obedient man
Mark 16: 15-20 – He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.

“Whoever that who believes, He gave them POWER.
God does not call the qualified, He qualified the call!”

Perseverance In Prayer by one of the team members

Luke 18:1 – Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should pray and not give up.

1. What is the relevance of perseverance to harvest?
The meaning of “Perseverance” is waiting in pain, in discomfort and in discouragement.

Ø Those who wait in perseverance wait with EXPECTATIONS.
There are different season of harvest and different people have their own different season of harvest. We wait until the crop ripens and as we wait we discover that we need strength. One source of strength – PRAYER.

Ø In prayer we connect with heaven and thus we are comforted and strengthen.
If we don’t pray, we will fall and we will faint before our harvest comes.

Ø We pray for more labourers to harvest the crops, we NEED more people.

Ø When we are persevering in prayer, we are watching over our crops, watching over our harvest, that it will not be destroyed and our toil goes to waste. (as in Judges 6, the people toil over their land and when harvest comes the enemies attack, plundered and destroy their harvest – with which God called Gideon into action)

2. Who is to persevere? Who is being addressed? ME!
Depending on what we sow, WE have to persevere for the seed to germinate and grow.
Ø The “who” are those who know their God - “They that know their God, they will be strong and do exploits”.

Ø Those who are burden carriers – because they want change.

Ø They are those who resolve for the power of God.

Ø Those who read/understand the books of God – READ YOUR BIBLE

Ø The wailing women – those who cries out unto Him.

3. Why is it necessary to persevere in prayer?
Ø The enemy has no power to catch us but he has the plan to insert doubt in our mind. He is a hinderer. (read the book of Daniel)

Ø We have issues (which is our doubts). God wants us to change and solve this issue. He wants us to grow, to mature and therefore He gives us time. He will not allow anyone to perish. He gives us time and room that anyone who goes to Him, He gives, and those who don’t they perish.

2 YOUNG

I was watching a second half of this movie acted by Jaycee Chan (son of Jackie Chan) and Eric Tsang about pre-marital sex and teen pregnancy yesterday and I never regretted watching it (at least I have something to blog about now).

From this

As I was watching the movie, a thought came to my mind that the statistics of teen pregnancy and pre-marital sex have been growing more and more. It saddens me even more when I watch a show and even read in the papers that being a virgin is now a taboo in our society these days.

Malaysia, an Islamic country or a country when religion plays an important role in every person’s life and that abstinence is always thought in church, in the religious classes and also in the mosque, is now not being heeded by the people living in this modernized country.

What’s happening and why? The moral decay in our society is getting deeper and are we doing anything about it?

To this

Think about it, at the age of 16, 17, how about even at the age of 24, are we ready to have children? I’m 27 and I am still not ready to have a child.

The word of God says that when a man and woman come together, they are one. God also speaks of having pre-marital sex is sin.

One must realize that every action comes with a reaction. When one practices sex out of marriage (pre-marital sex and adultery), there will always be consequences – unplanned pregnancy, which may or may not lead to abortion, AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis and many more). Even if a person escapes from these consequences, one thing that they cannot escape – upon marriage (the moment they say I do), warfare against marriage launch by the enemy will start in the spiritual realm and that’s when other consequences will come up – arguments, fights, spousal abuse, misunderstandings and many more leading to divorces.

Statistic has shown that 90% of divorce cases have a history where either or both spouses practiced pre-marital sex.

What has also happened to standing up for our virginity? Is the current trend and pressure from society too strong that we are so weak to say no to pre-marital sex?

We cannot stop interceding for our people, especially our young people when the influence of the media – movies, music and MTVs are all around us. Spread the Word of God. Pray and stand in the gap on behalf of our land.

What best time than to do it this week since Bishop Margaret Idahosa and team are here. The meeting is on everyday starting today. Cancel the curse that the devil has put on our lives. Break the enemy’s stronghold on our families and friends. Claim back ALL that the devil has stolen from us and announce outpouring of blessings from God upon our future generation and ourselves.