Its a snail's life

Paper Dreams

tired of lugging his shell, every fibre in schnell’s shapeless form craved adventure. adventure, by his definition, was to fly gracefully through the air.

“blasted cockroaches”, he grumbled.“foulest creatures ever, yet they get to fly!”, he continued—slithering over a piece of paper.

then it hit him.

“a piece of paper!”, he exclaimed.

“…if folded right, will fly!”, he exclaimed again.

3 days later, the craft was complete.

“tough work, this”, he moaned; looking over his paper cut-riddled body.

“perhaps rubbing some salt will ease the pain.”

and that was the last we heard from schnell the snail.

The above story was contributed by @ TheFreshFreak.

100 word stories written by readers are now printed on receipts! This is an effort by Book Xcess (a bookshop hosting the annual Big Bad Wolf Books Sale!) which believes reading more should be for less. The book prices are CHEEEAAP. It's located at Amcorp Mall. Hmm I might go there.

Read more receipt stories here. And you can find out how to write in your own receipt stories too.

Things changed because God remained faithful

How can it be,
That You were the one on the cross, lifted for all our shame?
How can it be,
The scars on Your hands are for me?

Hillsong United, More Than Life.

BUT God,
who is rich in mercy,
because of His great love with which He loved us,
even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ,
and raised us up together,
and made us sit together in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus,
that in the ages to come
He might show
the exceeding riches of His grace
in His kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:4-7 (NKJV).

Ceeli

I realized how silly I was this past week;

1. While watching the TV, there was a big fat fly around the living room. We got slightly frustrated so I decided to hunt it down.

With the electrical mosquito swat (I'm sure you've seen those before, the made-in-China ones; if not, can go pasar malam and you'll find plenty there!), I thought I did a pretty good job at killing the big fat fly. There were about 3 electric shocks given to kill the fly. I picked up the fly and threw it into the rubbish bin.

Minutes later, another big fat fly was in our living room.

But... it wasn't another fly. It was the same fly that I didn't properly kill!! I checked the rubbish bin and confirmed there was no fly inside. It was the return of the flying fly. =.=


2. I think I watched too much of Commonwealth. Especially the aquatics events. Decided to go for a swim yesterday afternoon after class. Followed my dad to Rahman Putra. But the swimming pool was closed on Mondays and I didn't know... Was stuck there for 2 hrs. =/


3. This one is Chian Hui's sillyness. Hahaha, getting the phonecall from her, she said she mistaken Aileen and Li Yen for being the same person! She made me laugh.

Please feel free to share your sillyness with me. It'll make me feel a little less silly!

Usian Bolt could have joined the Commonwealth Games

This year's Commonwealth Games is pretty under the radar, no?

Currently, Malaysia has bagged 3 gold medals. Namely by Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim (56kg Weightlifting), Acricco Jumitih (62kg Weightlifting), and Josiah Ng (Men's Keiren - a cycling event).

I didn't watch the weightlifting prize-giving ceremony but I watched the prize-giving ceremony for Men's Keiren.


When Josiah's name was announced, this man leaped off of the ground to the podium. One could tell how sincerely happy and proud he was. Next up, the national anthem. My heart went oh-oh, how is it going to be ar? (Sorry, I've never heard our national anthem being played after ceremonies like this before. Never. And to see our national flag being raised(slightly higher), in between two countries...)

Josiah Ng sang the national anthem and I almost wanted to stand in front of the television. Next, he did the unthinkable (well it was to me), he shed tears. By this point, I felt my vision sorta blurring away.

I admired him for his love towards Malaysia. God, let there be more people who love the country like he does! I want to love this country more as well, inspite of its weaknesses. Inspite of its people's weaknesses.

Picture courtesy of Getty Images.

Oh! My blog title has little connection to the blog post. Lol.

Things;

1. 127 Hours

Based on the real-life story of Aron Ralston. If you check out Aron's page on Wikipedia, you'll find out what his story is about.

To summarise, guy goes mountain hiking without letting anyone know, guy gets stuck in his hike in a very deep part of the mountain with a big rock crushing one of his hands, guy cuts off hand with dull knife to escape. There, 40 words.

Side note: The amputation scene in the movie was so real and intense that it made several spectators faint in the premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. 0.0

Plus points: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) as director and James Franco as Ralston. READ: James Franco!!


2. Am going to snip every page covering the Galas by-election out of the Star newspaper, starting from today, yes

Surprisingly, it's actually kind of interesting to observe politics when you get the whole idea behind it (courtesy of Malaysian Studies). My dad also pop-quizzed me about Galas this morning while I analysed the newspaper cutting. BTW Galas is the state level seat while its parliament level seat is Gua Musang. (Not so interesting a fact when you don't understand the whole big picture)


3. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual (reasonable) act of worship.
-Romans 12:1

Dead sacrifices in the Old Testament. Living sacrifices in the New Testament.

Living sacrifices; to die to self (this not physically but spiritually), to be selfless, to act in His obedience.

To quote Pr Chris Kam on his pulpit message: "What is the hardest thing to do? To die to self."


4. Not forgetting, assignmentspresentationeditingtopicaltesttwofinalexaminationsin2weekstime. Yup, that's how crowded my brain is now. It's as if I only have 127 hours left!

Sweet dreams (cover)

I admire people who can cover songs in their own interpretation well. Here is a Pocahantas-lookalike and -soundalike singing "Sweet Dreams".

Hauntingly beautiful. It might be a bit sloppy and sleepy for some people, but it kept me awake (while I was working on my assignment). Haha.

If there's anybody out there who is reading this at all, sorry for the lack of updates. It's not that I have nothing to update, in fact I have a lot of things going on in my head. Err, maybe not a whole lot lah, but I've got a few..! But I'm losing the interest to blog. Hah, at least not interested now. I'm pretty fickle minded right. Sorry =/ My cup is dried up. My blog is getting dusty. My eyes are closing. My assignments are coming. My assignments' deadline are coming. My assignments' deadline are coming fast. So yes, bear with me. Or you don't have to. Haha. Me just taking personal responsibility here and putting up a notice that this blog will be off to nap for the mean time.

Will still be reading your blogs (if you blog, that is). Don't be lazy like me!