when i said hello 2010.

do you remember all of the times we had?

this year ends and i really do not know what next year has in store for me.

one year ago, i had somewhat a direction - final year degree and industry training. now i sit blankly not knowing head or tail of what is going to happen after the 21st of january. it is scary, i cannot predict. my year ahead is unknown. unpredictable.

looking back....this year has been a year with ups and downs that i never saw coming. happy moments, sad moments, screwed up moments, spontaneous moments. and really i cant describe this year with a word. if we divide it to categories, it will never end. so the highlights.

• first time ever; brisbane and perhentian
• port dickson, penang, pangkor and genting highlands - the fun random things
• interesting bit - went sea fishing, to a mynmar refugee camp, first girlfriend photoshoot, picnic in school, horse riding in the jungle, carried a koala bear
• best ever.. my 21st birthday
• combo - mama's 50th birthday + mr. and mrs. lewis 25th anniversary
• 21st birthday parties and dinners
• a handful of drunken memories
• loads of fei-T catching up sessions
• WYD 2011 planning
• visit to the parliament
• good times with friends that came and left

did i forget anything? o.O

this year was one heck of a year, and whatever that has happened has only made me stronger and my faith in God that cant be shaken. i still have faith. and this year has only taught me to put all my trust in God.

i wish i knew what next year is going to be like...

let me dream for a bit.

i want to go to canada to visit sybil and go skiing

i want to go to australia to visit andrea and go swimming with wild dolphins

i want to go to london to visit michelle and go on a shopping craze

i want to go to india and visit them boys and be united with my indian roots :p

i want to go to sarawak and visit my cher and lepaks

i also want to get my diving license, grow my hair longer, and turn 22 with another bam!

p.s. they call me unpredictable lewis. damn, i am.

la la

i am off to pangkor.
27th - 30th of december 2010

a tale for you.

this year, i decided to forgo the underprivileged christmas party that i have been helping out with and instead decided to follow a group of young people who had a mission to spread the christmas cheer in dengkil, a mynmar refugee camp.

i was moved by everything i saw. my emotions were haywire. seeing the shacks they live in made my heart sink and tears were welling in my eyes but seeing the children screaming and running towards us made me hyper to carry and play with them.

so what we did? we spent time with these families. we carried their babies and played with the children, spoke to the men of the families and learnt a word or two in their language. we also ate with them, sang songs to them and we prayed together.

this year, christmas was not the same. i fuss and whine. i wish. the usual party that the lewis family usually have did not happen. the plan to go for open houses didnt happen either. instead i had to join the caroling team down in KL to sing to raise funds for our WYD 2011 trip.

and yes, it definitely didnt feel the same. but everytime i fuss in my head about how this christmas has been so different, i think of the beautiful people that touched my life in dengkil. and it has been truly a good learning experience.

blessed christmas my faithful readers. :))

that's my christmas story for you.

2009

the lewis family

knock knock.

it is christmas eve.

out of the door and late for work, i was wondering why the house was so dark. "/ doors were shut and yea, everyone was still asleep. dad, mom and kor was still asleep. mm, because they are the boss. driving to work, and i was in a daze, parked my car and then i told myself that i had to pucker up and not sulk. feeling not so happy but happy, i asked for permision to leave work at 3pm. and i am off to pretty up. alone or with mama, im still not sure.

this year, no feeling of christmas. and a heap load of things i have yet to do.

and so i should stop whining. :))

p.s. yesterday, joker called me. why thank you. ;)

have fun.

i have been a busy bee.

listening to my all time favourite christmas songs.

i have been thinking .... and i wish i had six sense to read your mind -_- pathetic enough huh!

this makes me laugh.

the walk

the whole day has been filled with haaaaacho, hachoooo, hahahacho. and mama gave me the brilliant idea to walk to 7e to get active fast panadol.

so beside 7e is first coach. a bus was parked there and people were boarding the bus, ready to leave. while walking back, i saw what looked like a father, mother and brother waving somebody off. the bus was moving and they were standing very close to the bus. and being kepo, i decided to have a look at who they were waving at. what looked like their daughter and sister, perhaps leaving for her studies? i assume well. so while the brother and mother stood aside, i saw the father walking so close to the bus waving at the daughter and perhaps trying to get a last glimpse of his daughter before the bus moved faster.

before the tears filled my eyes, i blinked till it disappeared.

they always say, daddy's girl.

yahoo!

earphones, FINALLY

i bought these rm10 earphones. and guess what, only one side is working. pfft. it comes with the price lah. before seeing these cheap ones, i saw earphones that were rm200 ++. -_- whatever it is, i still get to listen to my christmas tunes. yippeee!

p.s. im starting to enjoy cheap things. cheap thrills. cheap food. cheap talk. ahahhahaa!

halo. as in hello.

if you have nothing nice to say, then hold tight that gap.

i had anonymous surprise me not-so-beautiful-messages on my cbox. i took it off because it wasn't to my liking.

truly amazing how some people have so much free time. when i am here fighting with time for time. "/

p.s. i smell christmas already.

damnation

since intern begun, dinners with friends have been all about work and everything that revolves around it.

....from parking to "whats for lunch?" to workload to colleagues and such

so a friend of mine was ranting about how parking is so expensive at her office building. in return i told her, "at least you pay a standard parking fee everyday. as for me, i park in an area which is free supposedly but every now and then when dbkl comes, i get a fine, a big fine"

and the day came. walking to my car after work with mama, all excited to go shopping, i see a paper on all the cars i was passing. "/ yea, one stuck on mine too. i was wishing and hoping they either got my car number plate wrong or the car type, whatever. but nah, they got it all right. pfft.

so its been two days now that i have decided to park in a parking space. i pay rm6 for the whole day. only thing is all the cars are sardined and there is no way i get to remove it anytime before 5pm. the longer walk to the office and rm6 is better than the rm100 fine, anytime.

the end. :))

p.s. if you were wondering..i park my car in what looks like a housing area but heck, there's the yellow line. i still dont get it though because i do not park on the yellow line nor the road that would cause a traffic. i park beside the yellow line, in what looks like a place where cars are not supposed to be driving on it. geddit? or would a picture tell you? :s

tolong aku.

i need earphones!
i need my dose of christmas tunes.
christmas is next week, feel pun eleh.

not starbucks/la bodega inspired.
not at work lah.

ai

think happy.

two nights in a row was with mama love.
could not ask for more. :))

how like that?

i woke up on the wrong side of the bed

bollocks

my final semester results are out!

excited to know what i got, i went to my academic records only to see no results. -__-

scrolling the page, i found this notice, 'Results are unavailable as you are in Bad Financial Standing'

mm, for not paying up the rm50 fine that i was given.

so why was i even given the fine?

for paying my fees a day late.

so at any one point have i ever paid late?

no, never ever.

so why didnt i pay the fine?

because i was so pist off at the lady. when i paid my fees and not the fine on the same day, she put the rm50 fine as late payment of tuition fees.

you know, the chinese would say nia mah...

the season..

no face. i was telling kor that i am going to write a list of things i want for christmas, pass it to the lewis family so they can pick and choose what they'd like to buy for me. i was brought up never to ask for presents or to even say what i want. i am 21 now, and i feel the need to change. -_-

while this is the season to be giving, i only want to be receiving. :)) yea right!

so, if i find the time, i will write my first ever christmas wishlist. :p

ye, i have never done it before.

p.s. i am fed up.

prosopography!

i want lush products!
p.s. spotted it when i was in australia. "/ i want!

i think i am on a quest.

to see if all the predictions i have been reading are accurate, so i'd like to compare and wait to see what it would be like in 2011. if only i can remember then. so, i remember my aunt telling me that catholics should not read horoscopes and such. and really when i was growing up, i never flipped to the horoscope page. one part perhaps because i did not understand. "/ but now i find it nothing but amusing. have a read at what i've found.

2011 Animal Prediction: Astrology & Horoscopes

Snake – it will turn out to be a good year for snake people. It is a great year for career, business and love. However, the Year of the Metal Rabbit may not be a good year to make investments. Also, snakes should take care more about their health, it needs more attention. Also, astrologists and predictors suggest avoid working for many hours in front of the computers or laptops.

so then i should travel no? :))

hey!

out of the blue,
i thought of you.

A meaning to life

Today I received an e-mail which triggered me to write this post. So I saw the pop up 'new e-mail' on the bottom right side, which read World Vision Malaysia. The first thing that came to mind was the usual e-mail I get reminding me to pay from where I left off.

But it was not. It was the Gifts of Hope catalogue. I received a copy of the catalogue a few weeks ago and it has been by my bed. Every other day I take it and look at it.

So if you are wondering why I even get World Vision updates,...well basically what I have never told many and what I have been meaning to tell but have yet to is that I sponsor a child in Myanmar.

Every month, rm50 from my allowance is given with love to this child, 9 years old she is. We write to each other and she has amazing drawings to show me every time she writes. It has been over a year now.

So every Christmas, a catalogue comes to the house, gifts that you can buy for families and communities in need of aid. What simultaneously runs in my head is if and only if I get allowance from work this month, what I would do with the money.

Of course like every other year when I work during the holidays, I would buy presents. My list of favourite people of course. So last year when I received the catalogue, I remember telling my family about it and the next thing I remembered was completely forgetting that I needed to pick my gift of hope. After much thinking.... I have decided that this year I would like to buy a gift of hope.

What caught my attention again was the copy in the e-mail ...."Instead of getting expensive gifts to honour your friends and loved ones, why not give a cow to an impoverished family in Laos or uniforms and books to an underprivileged Indian child in your loved ones name?"

You might laugh, a cow? But heck while we enjoy all the expensive gifts this Christmas like all others, so many people around the world would just like a little help to go on with life.

Want to know what i keep by my bedside and pick up every now and then to read, have a read.

p.s. today has been quite a day. I have been soul searching?

i want to start over

correct me if i am wrong

christmas party for four. (:

was meaning to email but why not post it instead since you are my fans no? :P

andrea. marcia. michelle.

lets have a christmas dinner/party.

just the four of us.

we can play secret santa. or screw that! we'll just be santa claus and bring gifts for all.

it has to be dinner since marcia and i are women in the workforce. gah!

shall we do it on christmas week itself?

let me know your thoughts.

love, irene the planner.

week 3, hello.

two weeks into work. two weeks to christmas.

let me update you.

..my naked christmas tree that was up for a few days now have been decorated. red and gold. ah, and filled with balls.

..one of the activities conducted for World Youth Day Madrid 2011 fundraising is caroling. and KLCC is where you can spot us. wednesday we begin.

..i am not feeling the christmas spirit at all. perhaps i should go for penitential service first. it is today, i should be going.

..weekend was mostly in other churches promoting WYD 2011 and at caroling practices. sing sing and sing.

..i havent gone for grooming for awhile now; nails, facial, waxing. high time, and christmas should not be the reason but one of the reasons perhaps?

p.s. i am scared of getting hurt but i'd rather hold the knife than the haft.

fluke

in between work, and a lot of thinking.

today i was asked a question that felt just like a slap in the face or like i walked into the wall. it hit so hard that tears just welled in my eyes and i walked out the door, aimless.

i wish things were better/ christmas is coming.

i need to act fast before it gets too late. and time right now is like chasing cars.

impression

hungry woman, angry woman
vice versa

♥, the girl who likes to jump

1st december 2010

a new month. the last month.

24 days to christmas?
30 days to a new year?

whatever it is.. today has been a busy day. brain cells have been activated, once more. :))

i am off for dinner. good dinner.

p.s. i have been thinking about you. -_-