catching movies during Christmas

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. It's like double dose of cuteness. Theodore always steals my heart away. ♥

I know, I know. I'm a sucker for cute creatures and things.

iRate: 8/10

Sherlock Holmes. It's pretty good. I love the whole analytical thingy that Holmes and Watson do. So smart, with all their deductive/inductive reasoning and all that.

Or it could just be that my expectations aren't very high. But the English they speak is sometimes too canggih for me so I didn't really catch what they were talking about. Hee.

iRate: 7.5/10

And, there seems to be lots of interesting movies coming up next year! I can't wait!

21-12

Happy 21st of December!

Em, well... quite frankly there isn't anything special to celebrate on this day, except maybe for the Chinese, where we celebrate Winter Solstice Festival (冬至). And to be honest I don't really celebrate this festival myself; I wonder, what's the story behind it? My family don't usually gather around to roll glutinous rice balls (汤圆) and I'm not really a fan of that dessert either.

Anyways.

December has been pretty eventful. It is exciting yet at the same time care-free. I don't know if I should be worried, but I never touched my books since holidays started. I mean, I don't know. Do university students study during their semester break? Do they start preparing themselves for the coming semester during their (well deserved) holiday?

I don't know!

And I hope to the heavens they don't. Because I didn't. And what is there to read about? I don't even know the exact date I'm supposed to go back to uni and start my new semester! Golly, talk about being very unprepared indeed.

Played the piano yesterday, after many moons of not touching it. Just started to play some random Christmas carols and chords. I've never been able to play mind-blowing pieces, or get creative with the chords. And I only work best with C major. It was fun though, making some music to fill the quiet atmosphere.

You know, I think drummers are cool. They really are the tempo setters and moderators, and they add all the oomph to the music. Eh, sidetracked a bit.

I've been getting all the sleep I need, most of the time. In a way, I'm so glad that all through my school days till my college days, and now my uni days, December is always my free month. It's such a blessing, it's like my Sabbath month. Hee.

Mommy bought me my Christmas present already. It was something that I requested, and it's so lovely of her to get it for me. Honestly I have so many things I want, but not necessarily need. Setting priorities is still something that I'm learning to grasp.

All good things have to come to an end, and that includes my favourite month, December. It's only about 10 days left till the new year arrives. I can't believe it; 2009 is ending. I still remember the time when I thought to myself:

2009, what a weird number! And I'm actually gonna live in it!?

And now, it's gonna be gone... and the big one-O is coming.

Golly, in a blink of an eye I'd be 40 years old! Oh dear.

Well, time waits for no man. Happy 21-12!

a not so silent night indeed

This is where all the happening people in Klang Valley are heading to tomorrow evening.

It's THE Christmas Party of the year! And it's gonna be packed. Looking forward to a great time of celebrating Christmas with a bunch of happening teens and adults.

And I can guarantee you, it's gonna be far from a silent night.  Woohoo!

Christmas

Image courtesy of mightee-mouse

Merry Christmas, fellow humans.

I always get excited whenever I think of beautiful Christmas décor and jolly Christmas songs playing in the air. There's just something about the whole Christmas atmosphere that warms my heart. Perhaps I got it too much from the movies. But well, Christmas is such a lovely season nonetheless.

Haven't started Christmas shopping this year - not that we do it ritually anyway. It's always entertaining to window-shop during Christmas. Everything seems extra shiny and bright. Christmas these days may be over-commercialised (sigh), but it's still amazing to see what people come up with for this season.

So I guess I'll have myself a merry little Christmas these few days; I'll be busy again next week onwards with church and Christmas play and whatnot. I don't wish for anything more; I just want my family to spend Christmas together happily.

Again I say, have a Blessed Christmas, people!

first miracle

Had an awesomely fantastic Sunday in Acts Church last weekend (technically, yesterday) and I'm looking forward to the week! It had been a wonderful Sunday but somehow something wasn't quite right - I just couldn't put my finger to it. The night went on and as I was preparing to sleep, I remembered:

I forgot to clean up some food items in church, which could be disastrous 'cause there are creatures lurking around the building that could potentially destroy the premise. Uh-hum. I shall mention no further.

So of course I got worried sick and texted a few people with a faint hope that one of them somehow would have noticed the food and helped me clean up. Nope, none of them realised.

My only hope was God. And so I prayed desperately to God, asking Him for a miracle - and if you didn't know better, judging by the urgency and magnitude of my prayer you'd think the sky is going to fall apart the next day. 

I woke up this morning, still worried about my forgotten task and feeling guilty for my carelessness, but I had promised to walk in the park with God and so I got ready and went. I prayed and talked to God about various things, one of them being this issue. I claimed and proclaimed a miracle for this situation - maybe someone somehow would have noticed the food and cleaned it up, or that God will put an invisible box over the food and no creature nor insect can devour the food and make a mess out of the place. Something. Something seemingly impossible but He can make it possible.

One of my friend suggested that I inform my leader about it and see how she'd suggest to handle it. Uh oh. Confession time. I didn't take long to decide to tell her all about it because I really don't know what else I can do to fix the situation. So I texted my leader and to be honest, I don't know what kind of response I'll get in return.

And guess what. My leader replied saying that someone saw the food and cleaned it up. I WAS LIKE "THANK YOU LORD for this miracle!" I couldn't stop praising Him! I'm so thankful - this is my first miracle for the week! 

And it was the start of my beautiful Monday morning. 

During the day I continued my novel The Book of Tomorrow by - wait for it - Cecelia Ahern. My reward for surviving EOS. (Passing Semester 1 is another matter but we're not talking about that.)

Well, I must say that there are much more vulgar words used, as the story revolves around the life of a teenage girl (not that being a teen entitles you to be vulgar but the character in the story is of such personality). Nevertheless, the excitement builds up towards the end of the novel and the truth revealed at the end is rather heartbreaking. Maybe it's just me but yeah.

Love the plot of the story, as usual. 

I particularly love what she wrote:

Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

- Cecelia Ahern

I think it's a good statement. Sometimes we get so afraid of 'losing face' - especially when it comes to standing for what we believe in - that we get so caught up with it and we can't move on in life. Perhaps the embarrassment/awkwardness isn't as blown up as we imagined it to be in our minds. If we could just choose to deal with it, maybe life will move on easier than we thought.

Tomorrow is worth living for. There is hope, always.