The loss of a great guy, a great friend

Psalm 23

The LORD is my shepherd,

I shall not be in want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures,

he leads me beside quiet waters,

He restores my soul.

He guides me in paths of righteousness

for his name's sake.

Even though I walk

through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

for you are with me;

your rod and your staff,

they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

Surely goodness and love will follow me

all the days of my life,

and I will dwell in the house of the LORD

forever.

Woke up this morning with a shocking and sad news.  My friend from CF, Joash passed away this morning (Malaysia time).  My first thought was, I promised him to find him when I go back to K.L. but I guess I will never have a chance to anymore.  Sad as I am, I must be happy that he is back with the Lord.  Life is short.. Its unexpected.  Its a gift.  Shall miss you my friend.  Say Hi to God for me... 

My condolences to Joash's family.  God Bless!

With a Heavy Heart, to my dear friend Joash:

You are a great friend who encourages and cares for those around you, you will be greatly missed.  You were a great Brother in Christ. Rest in Peace my friend. 

The start of the Holidays pt 2...

So to start off the second part for this outing, we started walking back to Sasaki at 615. Talk about efficiency and being punctual for something for the first time. For those out there who don't know, we architecture students are famous for being "early". Well, we reached Sasaki 5 minutes before they opened. We were the only 5 who were there early so we decided to start without the others. How "nice" of us huh?

Lucky for us.... We went there on the right day. Christmas promotion just started yo.. RM 53 for all you can eat buffet dinner. Compared with Jagoya, the ambiance and the food at Sasaki, when we walked in looked fresher though there were not as many selections.

Those who came early.

So we started without the others. Who cares right? If the food is staring at us and we have to pay RM53 we should just start and end at the time limit they give to us. So the 5 of us started at 630 p.m. sharp, taking all the beautiful and delicious Sashimi and Sushi.... And not to forget, snapping pictures of it as well.

Yummy yummy... And fresh too (to my taste la)

Can you believe I had 7 fresh/raw Oysters? SO NICE!! Heavenly... But got sick after the 6th so no more after the 7th.

The rest arrived an hour later because of the Traffic Jam. Thank Goodness we went early. By the time they arrived, the 5 of us had already finished 3 rounds of Sashimi and Sushi but we paused to settle the tummy before everyone arrived. It became rowdier when most of them arrived. Najat, Becca, Huei Liq, Amman and Zaki were stuck at Federal Highway till 9 P.M. (sad case)

Here are some of the shots of the night. Many more in the hard disk...

YUMMY YUMMY. Everyone enjoying themselves. Darren showing the thumbs up.

Too full......

And finally...

Our final group pictures as a student of Taylors Diploma in Architecture Technology.

Part 3 coming up.. I think there will be 3-4 parts for these outings. Too many pictures and moments to share.

Just a short note:

Thanks guys and gals for the friendship and Lameship for the past 2 years (well, since I only really got to know you during our second year after all the shyts during the first year). What I learnt that is we need to have true friends to go through all these hardships of what we are going to call life in the future. You guys have been an inspiration to me. Your works and your idea, Your help and your friendship.. Those are the things I feel I will cherish and inspire me in the future. Daphne and Sherman, I know you guys didn't make it to our outing but you are still part of us. Well, *bow* Thank you everyone, Lameville+ABC+Chii+Qian Pei+Many others (yes, our group grown immensely) and may you all have bright futures as Architects, artists, designers and etc.

Hope to see you all in the future wherever you may be. God bless and really going to miss you all. See you at the Graduation Ceremony in January.

The start of the Holidays pt 1...

Got the pictures from Hau Yee, looked through all 662 pictures then selecting them then realized that I have to write this posts in parts because we just have too many pictures which are interesting enough to post.

Group picture at the studio after crit.

Well, the start of the holiday went great. After our sort of last drink as a group at the "slow place" at Taylors PJ, me, Lau, Clement, Gordon and Hau Yee headed down to K.L. city to book a place at Sasaki first. Lucky for us, it was a smooth ride with no heavy traffic jams and we got to the car park by 5 p.m. Went to the restaurant to book tables for 25 people (because we didn't know how many will turn up), then we started snapping photos to kill time. Sasaki's Japanese buffet starts at 630 you see so we ended up chilling at Pavillion for the next hour.

Guess who?

Rawr!!!

The decorations at Pavillion was so nice that Hau Yee took out her D90 and started snapping away (with us in it of course). The lights were beautiful and created a nice ambiance, very Christmassy.

I love Christmas!

Here are all the shots while we were waiting and trust me.... This is just "part" of it. HAHA.

Inside:

Group picture! So Christmassy..

Half faces

Half heads...

Outside:

YESS!! FREEDOM!

Well, this is all for part 1. Part 2 will be on the dinner at Sasaki.. Now, I just can't wait to go home on Sunday. Now, I need to clean up the mess I made during the stressful week last week. Sigh....

Gathering with old school mates

I just touched down in Sibu yesterday and tonight, I had a gathering with some of my old school mates. Just in time because they are all leaving for their respective Universities. Some are in Japan (2 actually), one in U.S.A., one in India (JO JO), 2 in U.K. and the rest from K.L. (including me).
Not many photos but it was a memorable night. We started out at this Korean BBQ place near Paramount hotel with some steamboat/BBQ thingy. Chit chatted and catch up on our where-a-bouts while enjoying the "spread"(inside joke). Yes, the place was sort of warm so Ian provided us with cold jokes to chill the place.

The group... All 13 of us.


The girls.

The night progressed and before I knew it, we were on our way to Muhibah for desert and supper. Imagining having just finishing dinner a half hour before and having supper straight after.
At Muhibah, we headed to stall number 5 which according to the rest sells the best "Shui Guo Bing" (literal translation, Fruit Ice or in correct terms Fruity Shaved Ice Desert with jelly) in town. Though we just had our dinner, some ordered some fried snacks. One even ordered a plate of "Kampua" and he even dubbed himself as the "Kampua" King.

"Kampua" King (Ian Eng): "Stay away from my bowl of "Kampua"!!!"

Oh yea, an advice to those who wish to go there to eat the desert because the Aunty at stall 6 (Liasing with stall 5) will ask you why you order food from other stall and not her's and will force you to order a plate of snacks from her; and not in a polite way. But I guess business is bad so she had to do that and maybe she is just cranky because she is old (my speculations that is).

Waited for nearly half an hour for the drink to arrive (Imagine having to make 12 bowls of this and that there were other customers besides us) and when it finally did, everyone was smiling and glad it was finally out. Conversation resumed and I found out that for my batch, there were actually many engineers and lawyers in the making which is a good thing just in case I get sued one day or if I need someone to help calculate the crazy designs to be built. Right?(Just joking guys and gals.)

The verdict... Yep, its one of the best I had in Sibu so far. Not too sweet and plenty of fruits and jellies inside. Anyone can guess how much is one bowl with and without peaches?

Great fun and great memories. Some of whom I haven't met since I finished F5 which was 4 years ago. Nice to be able to meet up with them once again. Too bad they are going back soon. See you in another 4 years or so. Hopefully the SMK Methodist Alumini will plan something in the future. Can't wait to see what everyone has become since leaving school....

Now I suddenly feel very old....
*Wallow in self thoughts*

Steamboat at Summers Bandar Sunway, 18/09/09

After all the hard work, it was time to celebrate by hanging out and just having fun. Didn't hang out with the usual gang because most of them went back or already made plans. Well, no matter, we decided to "BUKA PUASA" with Zaki and Najat at Summers. The steamboat place we went to for Darren and Wai Sie's birthday. We reached there right on time to "Buka" and it was Najat who started putting all the food in.

She just couldn't wait.

It was a very simple dinner. Just chilling and hanging out and eating. Me, Gordon, Li Qun, Najat, Zaki and Becca waited and ate for an hour before the rest arrived. They were late due to traffic jam and rain. What a perfect weather for steamboat!

Dinner was great. Plenty of food. Plenty of jokes and chit chats and no leftovers. Finished everything. Yum yum!

For desert, ice-cream and more ice-cream!

After dinner, it was the typical photography session where many pictures were taken; group photos and all.

We had funny pictures....

Plain odd ones.

And normal ones of course.

And this is our group photo. Taken with Daphne's digi-lomo camera.

And of course, the self-interpretation photo. HAHA.

After dinner, headed for Starbucks and chilled there while enjoying the cool night breeze. Didn't order anything but we had a lot of fun just talking and relaxing. Man, going to miss these moments next year when we all go out separate ways. Thanks guys for the wonderful night.