Reflection

last night, Pastor tim talked about campus. here are a  point that i recalled. 

Campus is the best time for learning. Paths are formed while in campus. Eg, pstr tim became passionate about  serving God in campus and now, he is a pastor(he did not know that one day he would).

I hope it is not too late for me to do things for God. I am filled with regret of not doing more. But hopefully one day, God will realize this heart that bounces back and forth, and forces the part that wants to do more for him to be stronger than the part that holds back.

on another note, i want to pen my sharing last night on what I have learnt  from research.

1    1)      To have confidence in whatever I do

2)      to be creative is to self express and to hold that what I do is a part of me

3)      to back up what I do with reasons.

4)      Able to research up things on the internet better

5)      Organize my time

6)      That even with a busy life, there is still time to serve. It’s a matter of priority and interest

Even from this extra year that I am here, even with the meager 2 months that I have, I have participated in things that really interest me. That thing is capoeira. The Brazilian martial art that I now love. To fall in love with something is wonderful. All you think about is it. It drives you to do things more, achieve more, want more, be better than you currently are. Some little lessons that are found in this are:

1)      Life is like the roda, it hits you, but take it as a lesson. Fight back.

2)      Life can be unfair. So better prepare yourself

3)      Art exercise (eg. Capoeira moves) leaves you feeling good. Leaves you with power in your arms and bulk on your skin

And finally, even in the 2 months. I was able to meet someone special. She is one person who cares, takes care, and vibrates almost at the same frequency. God must have been graceful to send this person across this path. Risky as it is in a few months, but we enjoy whatever we can of it. For life, is whatever we make of it~ 

Strangers

i saw this great video on relationships. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSdELZxEnHY&feature=player_embedded
i commend on wongfu's work

a sad but true, thoughful process of a relationship that fails.

stage 1: meeting
stage 2: chase
stage 3: honeymoon
stage 4: comfortable(the deciding stage)
stage 5: tolerance
stage 6: downhill
stage 7: breaking up

definitely worth contemplating about

Confidence

Confidence is firmly believing in the decisions we make,

not wavering 

but defending it with its appropriate reasons

lessons from the lab    

age groups

Treat those younger like your children,

those of similar age like your equals, 

and those above you with respect.

Capoeira

last night was great with nigel, ee lin, renee, rachel, kelvin and mei xian.

basically the night was food, of vegetables, mashed potato, fried chicken mountain, and friggin whole body of lamb. we ate, chatted and waited for the show to start. before that we went into the monash library and got stunned by how nice it was there.

  the night started with maculele, the dancers in grass skirts doing the tribal dance with sticks. i heard for the first time real and live authentic maculele music, involing drums, congo and the guy singing the maculele song. the story of maculele was that they were all dancing the dance, and one person causes some commotion, and happens to kill one of the people, everyone scorns him, but they end up dancing together with the dead guy in the middle, and then leave the stage. the witchdocter comes and rattles her dead man concoction around him for awhile, then lets him drink it, then she leaves. he stumbles up alive, and suddenly is full of more strength and start jumping and dancing again. the end.

 later was the capoeira. which the bantus people came. they danced to the beat, exchanged people by others coming it and staring the person he wants to duel. exchanging kicks and doing ground moves, they dueled and spun and handstanded. it was amazing watching them. such grace and core body strength in a powerful concoction of dance and martial arts. it was even better when the president and a guy with dreadlocks came out. they did fancy and advance moves that stunned the crowd. how i wish i could do those. the dreadlocks guy had so much arm strength, that he started his cartwheel or Au but just stayed in a handstand. the president could do some crazy jumping kicking moves too. there was this girl who had these nice toned muscles, even bigger than mine! at the end, they asked the crowd to go up and try to do capoeira too, which was embarrassing, haha. but they had fun. i got to see shafiq in action, the malay dude who had huge muscles.

later on in the night, they got some samba girls to dance. then they opened up the floor for everyone to dance along with their samba beat. after a long session of it, they ended it but started with clubbing songs. and at that time, things got fun as we all danced and moved along with the familiar popular tunes. i went crazy when they played 'club cant handle me right now' as i went into a dancing frenzy and breakdanced whatever i could with the music. ah, i had a little spotlight for myself that time :). . exhilarating. . . all the rest had a good time too, swaying and moving with the music.

  the night went on until 12.30 or so. later we went to play lame games and tell lame jokes. we also chilled at the mamak stall and chatted will 2.30 or so. ah, it was a fun night. totally unexpectedly good