Saw this comment on one of Patrick Teoh's post (niamah.blogspot.com) and i quote:

Caveman becomes law enforcers.

Uneducated morons becomes leaders.

Murderers becomes prime ministers.

Fuckers become contest for MCA.

Idiots becomes idols.

Niamah becomes a place to vent anger and frustration.

Sounds like ZAMAN Jahiliah The dark ages are sweeping soon

ThanksGiving Break

Woohoo! It's the time of the year again. Thanksgiving break! At Cortney's place now. There will only be one class tmr and after that it's break from Wednesday until Sunday! Will be going to Jacob's grandparents house at Kansas to experience some American culture. From Wednesday till Friday.

Anyway, I am really grateful to have been here in Stillwater. This semester, God has truly shown me His way and i've grown closer and stronger in Him. I've learn to put Him first in my life and trust that He is in control of everything. Thank God for my family and friends who have kept me accompanied. Thank God for bringing me to the Chinese Church which i learn to serve Him and knew many brothers and sisters who loved me so dearly. Although i'm far from home, God has kept me near to my family in heart. God is good, all the time.. And all the time, God is good.

Will continue to put God as my top priority and always pray to Him. :) A meaningful lyrics:

What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bears,
What a privilege to carry,
everything to God in prayer.
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry,
Everything to God in prayer.

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful
who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness;
take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy laden,
cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he'll take and shield thee;
thou wilt find a solace there.

Amen!

Robot! :)

If you have talked to me recently, you probably know that i've been really busy with my ROBOT! Yes!! Robot.. We're building a robot for our class from SCRATCH! from aluminum sheet, aluminum bars, plastics and stuff we just make everything, design it, and build it! :)

The competition was yesterday(sunday) and it lasted from 230 pm to 630pm. It's a triple eliminations means that each team have got to lose 3 times in order to be eliminated. There 're around 14 teams competing.

The rules: There are 3 balls placed on the divider ; a bowling ball and 2 billiard balls. At the end of 90 seconds, the team with most balls on their side, loses. Also, the plane of the divider extends infinity. :)

A few look at our machine:
"The Scorpion" with it's extendable arm..

"The Scorpion"

Bad A** machine

Our team, the judge, Kevin Moore and our professor, Dr Delahoussaye

The 2 finalist team..

Okay! So this is how it went:

I'm the controller throughout the competition, and as the pictures shows, we got to the final. We won 5 matches against 4 machines in a row which made us the winner of all. (undefeated yet) Then we rested for 2 hours while other machines fight among themselve and another 2 machinese emerged among them. Both the machines have lost twice (one of them beaten by us twice).

We're pretty much the top 3 by now. So we went head on with the other team (not the one we beaten twice) and we won!! So they 're eliminated. Once again, we're up against the same machine we've beaten twice. We only have to beat them one more time to get the championship while they got to beat us 3 times IN A ROW. We lost all 3 in the row!!! Can you believe it? I almost could not trust what i see.. Was so disappointed but thought we did pretty good given that we're only hoping to get past the first round. :P We're then invited to OSU Tulsa to compete with their machine on thursday. Will see how that goes...

After that was exhausted but was asked to go to Cortney's house for dinner. Ended up with karaoke until 1230 pm on a Sunday, the day before my Thermodynamics II Midterm 2!!! But well, managed to study just enough for the test and guess i did pretty well on it. So no worriies mom and dad! :)

I'm glad i am finally out of the lab working on our machine. However, lots of tests, homeworks and another project (analyzing OSU Power Plant) coming up! :( Pray for strength in me thru my "daddy" from heaven.

p/s check out videos of all the matches on facebook! :)

Haley

Introduced to me by my buddy, Jacob. Beautiful song and lyrics..

Haley
If you don't know just how you feel,
Don't say hose sweet things That you know I'd wanna hear
If you don't know just what to think,
Then put your thoughts awayAnd keep them out of reach

Haley don't hurt me If you don't know
I could have moved on a long time ago
You're undecided, your eyes do show
Haley don't hurt me if you don't know
If you don't know just where we are
Then slowly step away before we get too far
If you don't know just where you stand
Don't brace a fall that you may never want to land

Haley don't hurt me if you don't know
I could have moved on a long time ago
You're undecided, your eyes do show
Haley don't hurt me if you don't know

We're on and off again
It's more than I can stand
So let me know if you're for real this time
Your voice, it shook again
Reminded me of when
We talked our way into the end

Six Flags

Just came back from Six Flags and we totally dominated it !!!

We went for most of the huge roller coasters there! Had so much fun. Will be posting up photos and videos soon since i'm pretty much back to homework now. A brief summary of how we put Six Flags over Texas to shame :

Titan - rode 3 times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPS25WItiZ0

Batman- twice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ib6OxyWJ6M

Texas Giant - twice (This ride hurts/shakes like crazy but still fun thou) - voted the best wooden roller coaster in the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBfsvDS5Ysw

Mr Freeze - twice -voted the coolest roller coaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY0QV5qIydY

Shock wave - once - world's first double loop (continuous) roller coaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEoivHAGkog

Judge Roy Scream- once
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2So_zou5gZs

Dive Bomber Alley - (additional fee of 21 bucks but it's the climax of the day!! craziest thing i've ever done!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWwPJgvOmv8 (start from 3.00 minute)

&
a few other rides which I dont really remember but these are the main ones..

It was cooling the entire day (about 10 C) and we rode from 10am to 10pm. The experience of riding in the day and in the night was totally different. So much more awesome when you cant see anything but lights at night. Also riding on the first seat and the last was different too! I would recommend trying both because it gives you complete feel of it when you do that.. :) Great day!

Worship!

Exciting exciting!! Tomorrow i'll be leading a song of worship at the Chinese Church Friday Fellowship ! I'll be singing "How can i keep from singing" by Chris Tomlin. I've always wanted to lead worship since i learned guitar and to finally be able to step up and serve God is great!! Hopefully everything will go great but the most important thing is to bring honor to God himself. Whether i sang great or not, spirit and the truth in worshiping him is what He seeks (John 4:23-24)

The rich brat (s) LOL

If you've my faceobook, you've probably seen this picture (it's my profile pic now) She's 乐乐 or Senta.. American born chinese? Or maybe moved here when she's really young. Anyway, she speaks with American accent. She's just so cute and pretty! And for now since i'm single, she'll be my little girlfriend! Shhh.. :P

Aha! Finally decided to remove all our rented furniture and bought our own. Bought this desk for about 100 USD while gotten a used mattress from one of our sister from church. My room is looking good.. :)

Greatest commandment indeed..

A peep into the new layout of my room..

Cortney's favorite verse

New mug too! Good color choice Cortney.. haha!
Tomorrow is fall break means there wont be any classes! Will be going to Arlington, TX for Six Flags on saturday and will be back on Sunday ! It will be fun!! Wooohooo...! A few roller coasters that i'll be conquering will be these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPS25WItiZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W09oDrMUkx8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ib6OxyWJ6M&feature=related
I hope i dont poop on my pants. hahaha!
After this weekend, will be a tough week. Will be having 2 tests, 3 homeworks, 2 meetings, 3 tutoring sessions, 1 golf tournament! Let's enjoy first and work later. -the procrastinator quote-

Went to watch Grambling State VS OSU game the other day! Record attendance of 56,000 people! Go cowboys! Went to New China (Chinese buffet) for dinner after that.

Few weeks ago, our church had a communion service. This is the first time in 20 over years they've ever done it during the morning service when there are over 1000 people attend. And believe it or not, it is a pre-packaged communion set. How cool is that.

Went golfing the other day, with the Camry that we rented. Because some senior rented it for us, it is so cheap! Only 28 dollars for 3 days! :) We went church in the morning, then played a while of musics until about 3 pm only went for golf. After golf, went for a steak buffet dinner. After dinner, went for pool at a bowling alley. I cant bowl because of some personal reason... therefore we did not do bowling. Too bad!!

Nice Toyata Camry! Felt in love with it!

Best burger in the world!! Woooot! Carl's Jr..

Hahaha.. Cortney love to take photos of hands..

Cortney (Taiwan), Mio (Japanese), Forgotten his name (Korean) and something else (Indonesia).. Multicultural..

Went for Mio's wedding. Cortney was suppose to be the bridesmate but we totally missed her wedding. We thought it should only take about 2 hours max to reach but who knows, it took us 3 hours one waY!!! Nevertheless, we get to spend some quality time with her in a small blue church and congratulates her. It was a fun day! Went for karaoke at a friend's house after the 6 hours drive.

International Olympics 2-3 weeks ago, where i played doubles in table tennis. We got runner-up!! BUt i am so not happy.. Cause there's only 2 teams playing.. hahaha!

My new OSU tie! Pretty cool.

The desperation for Msian food emerged and this is a great anticeptics.

New poster for my room!

Bought a capo, Picks holder and a guitar stand ! :)

My new decorations for my room.

Back to school. Should have post this long time ago. Anyway, enjoy and hopefully more to come! Check out some awesome photos on facebook. My friend had a EOS so all the photos should be great! :)

Workout

Will be starting my workout schedule today ! Decided to keep my body healthy and fit ! It's 640 am here (and 51F) and i am ready to go for a jog and hit the gym after that. Will be doing this at least 4 times a week. See how it goes. :) Wish me luck..

Also, all the best to my younger bro who is having his A levels exam soon! Help to pray for God guidance in him! Thanks!

想念

好想念马来西亚的朋友，生活和家庭！睡不着。：（

WuTravel

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You'll never know when this will come handy to you.. :)

niamah.blogspot.com

Patrick Teoh's blog : Niamah.blogspot.com has always been of interest to me. But recently these few posts by him were classics and definitely cracks me up!! Go read it!! Read also some of the comments on his posts.

Great speech

Recently watched the video of Hishamuddin addressing the media regarding the cow-head protest incident. Was impressed with how he dealt with the problem. Truly, those who brought the cow-head to protest on the street was victimized and we have to understand their feeling and cater to their needs. Truly that these protesters does not invoke racial conflict by bringing the holy cow head (in Hindu) on the street. Truly ISA should not be used against them but instead towards opposition party. Truly Malaysia Boleh.

See for yourself: http://www.malaysiakini.tv/video/17715/hisham-dont-blame-cow-head-protestors.html

Watch the last few minutes when the penduduk says: Kami tidak akan berganjak walaupun seinci, walau nyawa habis, walau darah mengalir, kami tetap pertahankan skesyen 23 daripada membina kuil... (such a heroic speech, wish they could use it in a better way/sense)

How about the demolision of church? Should we bring a pig head and go on the street too?? Hmm.... (http://pluralism.org/news/view/16732)

MERDEKA!! MERDEKA!! MERDEKA!!

Wishing our beloved Malaysia Happy 52nd Birthday !! Merdeka!!! and Malaysia Boleh!! :)

To all muslims in Malaysia, SELAMAT BERPUASA!!

Life's plan

Give some comments on which one looks the most stable. :)

Help me make my decision.. LOL

How great is our God

This is a simple yet powerful song. We often forget how mighty our God is and that He is above all. Great song to listen to when you are faced with problems in life. It reminds you that you are not alone, in fact God is always watching over us.

Although i did not played the guitar perfectly and sing well, His praise shall continually be in my mouth (Ps 34:1) Be it true to all believers..

Final decision

Last few days have posted some challenges/complications that require me making some important decisions. However, after a long thought and getting advises from my parents and friends, I had all figure out!!

(1)
Problem: 5 courses this semester have proved to be too much for me given that i just came back from my internship and did not have any break before school reopen

Decision: Drop one and take only 12 credit hours this semester. Although it seems like a petite decision, chosing the right subject to drop is no easy task. I've bought the text book for the class that i dropped (cost me 150 bucks) that is why i was reluctant to drop it previously. Wanted to drop the other class but it would clash with other classes next semester and might eventually hinder me from graduating on time!!

(2)
Problem: YuJun called me on thursday night and told me that Dr Thompson told him Halliburton did not sent us our scholarship this year YET!! (tuition fee is going to due soon)
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Outcome: The next day, we received an email that Halliburton finally decided to give us the left over scholarship!! (God really came through here)

(3)
Problem: Should i go home end of this year??

Decision: Because i am taking an easy (not really easy) semester, i'll be having a tough next semester (5 subjects) Instead of going home for a month and come back here on the day when school starts (too much hustle), i've decided to study over the break and prepare myself for next semester. Also, take the opportunity to travel around U.S. Planning for a skiing trip and a Florida trip!! See how it goes.. :)

There're a few more things that i've decided but dont think it is appropriate to write it here. In a nutshell, i've everything finally planned out and am loving my life.. ONCE AGAIN!! :)

Eventful Week (s)

It's been a while since i last truly update what i am up to recently. Reason behind it is that nothing interesting happens but the past weeks have been totally the polar opposite! I had so much going on that i do not have time to update my blog!!!!

Let me start from 2 saturdays ago (8/8/09) :

In the morning, we (Sam, Tim, Jennifer and I) went to the nearby Humane Society for some community service since Halliburton stress a lot on giving back to the society!!! We spent about 2 hours cleaning up cages, walking the dog and ... what else... hmm... Anyway, it was a lot of fun. The dogs there are friendly and nice. Few of the workers there have to take care of all 40ish dogs and God knows how many other pets in there. Great work indeed that they are doing.

Very chicky little dog..

Group photo.. I really am not as fat as seen on this photo..:)

In the afternoon, we went to Jennifer's house to get lunch (she prepared) since both Tim and I are leaving. We had a great time and at 3pm we went to Rush Spring for Watermelon festival!! This is one of the best festivals i've ever been to. Rush Spring is the so called watermelon capital in the United States and we're only 20 minutes drive away!! They have watermelon competition/ rides/ souvenior stalls and the best of all, FREE WATERMELON!!! lol. Awesome.. We spend sometime there and took 2 SLICES of watermelon each! You'll know why i upper cased the word "SLICE" later.

Bad ass..

Yeah!! This is the so called one "SLICE" Now you know..

Heaviest watermelon in the festival!! Crazy.. Heavier than Henry. lol

We rode this before getting some watermelon it was fun!

Imagine how many watermelon they "killed" that day..!

10 bucks souvenior

Then at night, we went to watch "G.I Joe"! It was awesome in terms of special effects but plots still sucks!! lol It was fun thou. 2 of my friends came from INTI Nilai on that night and one of my friends arranged transport and housing for them while i am away in Duncan.

Next day, I went for church then eat out for lunch. Later, John Slate brought me to the gun range where he is a member of. Sam followed us as well. This is the first time i've ever shot a gun. We went without ear buds because we didnt want to take the trouble to look for one. After just one shot of hand gun my ear rings non stop!!!! It was so freaking loud! After 3-4 shots i couldnt stand it anymore and i went to John's car and used his old / dirty ear bud just so i would at least have a protection. It was fun but not too fun since now my ear "rings" and i am worried about my final presentation scheduled 2 days later :(

Fuyoh.. Bergaya..
Just one shot of Shot Gun



See how i stepped back after the gun kicked back. Funny. I am becoming a redneck!! Oh no!!



Pro Shooter

Next 2 days were spent practicing my presentation. On the day of presentation, i was so pumped and prepared. I went all out during my presentation and i thought i did really well. I am glad that i didnt let my nerves get the better of me. However, the evaluation process by the managers was nerve-wrecking. We were told to stay outside while all the mangers discuss about our performance during the presentation and throughout the summer. After about 10 minutes, i was called in the room and the Supply Chain Management manager, Tracy sat down with me and told me that all the comments were positive and they really like what i did during the summer!! I almost could not contain my joy and almost burst out with joy!! but the best part has not arrive yet......(drum rolls)..........she handed me a letter of offer for another internship next summer!!! :) How awesome is that?? At the beginning of the summer, i told myself that my short term goal is to get another internship next summer and i really fullfilled it! God is with me all the time i am sure..

She also handed me a few T Shirts and some Halliburton souveniors. All of the sudden, she handed me a Halliburton duffel bag and told me that i came in second in HOC competition - a competititon where the intern who wrote the most Hazard Observation Card wins. I truly did not expect to come in second as i did not do a whole bunch of it. I thought i did just enough to get by with but apparently that is enough to secure a duffel bag. lol. It was another dose of joy-injection. :)

Me, Tracy and Tim

Immediately getting off work that day, Tim and I went to rent some classics American movies again and watched them. At night, we went for another session of wallyball and on thursday the last session where we left with a fun/exhausting memory somewhere deep in our mind.

The awesome wallyball team!

On wednesday, my colleague/officemate brought me out to the lake for fishing. I think i've fished once in Malaysia but not in a "century" now. I caught a fish on my first cast!!!!! Although it is just a small fish but still.. lol. I love casting it is just so cool hearing the sound of the reel turns. Other than that little bass, no one caught anything for 2 hours until it is pretty much dark and i told Warren and Tim that we're not allow to go home if we do not at least catch one more. After making this offer, i finally caught another one!!! Yeah!!! lol. This one is bigger than the previous one. I feel like the hero of the day catching 2 fishes while the others nil. :)

Wait....

for......

it........

Nice view of the lake
That's the fish that gave us the thumbs up to finally leave and go home!

Man.. i really dont feel like elaborating anymore. Let me summarize it on the activities for the rest of the week:

Farewell to colleagues at work on friday, went shooting once again (with ear buds) and at night went for a church cookout. They planned that for me since i am leaving the next day. It was a fruitful time and they're all real nice people.

Church guys (pastor on the right hand side)

The guys..

After the cookout, i went home and watched some movies and got drunk with Tim since it's our last night. Took 4 bottles of Heineken and 4 shots of Tequila. Got totally knocked out at around 3am!! Next day, woke up at 630am and went fishing again with Warren. Because i was so hung up with fishing i told him to bring me for fishing again before i leave on saturday. Obviously, i had a hang over!! Not feeling well at all but the relaxing atmosphere manage to calm me down and let me feel better. We caught over 10 fishes that morning!

Beautiful view/morning.. God is good. :)

Fishing while hang over-ing...?
Nice one..

Went home at around 9am and lie down and took a rest while Tim packed up. He left at 10am and i only started packing by then. I left Duncan at 1pm finally. (my friend, Timothy came from OSU to pick me up)

See how much Tim drank ( assisted a little by me) lol

We stopped by at OKC and got some chinese food. It was great! I did not have any chinese food pretty much for the entire summer. Good to see something dear to me. (chinese and food)

Anyway, arrived in Stillwater at 630 and had a gathering with MSS till about 11pm and was a dead fish by then. My alcohol also wore off by then which is good.. Nothing special happens next day (church, lunch, hang out with friends) I am glad that i am finally back in Stillwater. Starting to fall in love with college life now after working for the summer. More flexible and more friends too!

Anyway, this semester came so many freshman and of course more pretty girls too! How nice is that? LOL. However, i am predicting a very very busy semester. I took 5 courses this semester so to fullfil my scholarship requirement: (1)Fluid Mechanics (2) Material Science (3) Thermodynamics 2 (4) Engineering machining design (5) System I

From what i heard from my senior this pretty much is a suicide combinations.. Sigh. 3 labs included too! I am thinking about dropping my tutoring work this semester or my student council. Am still considering. Anyhow, went to buy the season ticket for college football today (costed 172 bucks) Prepare for some awesome-ness!!!

That's all for now. Sorry for the extremely long-winded and long updates! More photos could be seen on my facebook profile. Adios people..