spring greetings

sorry bout the bombardment of videos.. got stuff on and it's an easy way to fill space in the blog w/o dooin any work.. and have a good time findin it too...

and yea i've been watchin a lot of youtube over here.. ain't my fault i got no astro...

anywez it's really beautiful out here... lot's of blooming flowers and even some plants that look like sakura tree bloomin... kawaiii..

took some pics and one special pic from THE LIBRARY here... melbourne uni rox... hahahahahaha... did you guys like the sneezing panda? ooo i loved it... gosh... mama panda reaction is priceless..

Sneezing Panda

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAH *chuckle chuckle

The Muppet Show - Mahna Mahna

i'm gettin crazy... I ACTUALLY FOUND THIS UBER FUNNY

Sesame Street 35th Anniversary Ending

BOMBARD!!!! This is a better one though

Sesame Street- Old MacDonald Had a Spaceship

bombarding u guys with sesame street... irish old mcdonald

Sesame Street - Put Down the Duckie

classic sesame street :P

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SAVIOUR KING

And now the weak say I have strength
By the spirit of power that raised Christ from the dead
And now the poor stand and confess
That my portion is ? and I'm more blessed
.
Let now our hearts burn with a flame
A fire consuming all for your Son's holy name
And with the heavens we declare
You are our king
.

We love you Lord, we worship you

You are our God, You alone are good

You asked your Son to carry this

The heavy cross our weight of sin

I love you Lord, I worship you

Hope which was lost, now stands renewed

I give my life to honor this

The love of Christ, the Saviour King

.

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Let now your church shine as the bride

That you soar in your heart as you offered up your life

Let now the lost be welcomed home

By the saved and redeemed those adopted as your own

it's spring! yea and i live ova here at berkeley
people cycle quite a lot.. problem is need to wear helmet wan.. funny la

ya and this is what i see everyday at the entrance
IT'S SPRING
IT'S STILL COLD!!!
me in lecture theatre tryin to stay awake

melboune has been infected by the flu bug!!!

AND I CAUGHT IT........

AND I HAVE 3 ASSIGNMENT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR

ARGH!

yea everyone here is either coughing weezing or jus plain complanin
i got it at nite while i was sleepin
yesterday i'm fine, today i'm freakin
caught it from a fren named lin bin
tryin to rhyme anymore ain't got no meanin
jus tryin to get y'all to start singin
singin till u feel like eatin
bak kut teh....

anywez

been eatin lot's of vitamin c
like the chewy tangy taste
but don worry bout me
it'll just come out as waste

least i have tomorrow free
but now i have a headache
i pray that the assignments let me be
so i can get time to err
bake!

do forgive me for this incompetent post

best of carl and ray

LOL

why π isn't 22/7 (it's almost there)

it's a sad misconception by many (especially malaysian) students that they think π is EXACTLY 22/7. where as the truth is it's off by a stunning 0.001264489. And no that's not very small that's it's insignificant..

basically we all know that π is 3.142

let's just leave it that way a while and check out what 22/7 becomes

3.1428

which of course means when rounded to the nearest 3 decimal figure is 3.143 (try it out!)

so now what on earth is π exactly.....

well in mathematics it's called a missing number... it doesn't really exist exactly in any form....

it's kinda like e or other constants..

well than why do the stupid edu board teach us π * 7= 22

well it's jus to confuse u soon to be engineers guys and a few gals i guess... darn the sadistic government.. oh or according to my high school math teacher jus too make stuff simple.. (fyi she was surprised too so don't worry)

do u all actually know this???

a dead blog has many purposes

and most of them

involves secrets

SECRETS!!!

EXHIBIT a:

fluffy slippers

exhibit b: i'm turnin charismatic bag

exhibit c: really messy room wif heater

exhibit d: really gay lookin beatles poster

(it's actually a photomosaic)

exhibit D: weird guy takin picture of himself while indicating a two

do u see the sea otters?

5th week

This is the first time in my entire life that I,

John Lee

have played the piano for a congregation (trumpets roar)

and I have to put my hat down to you Crissy and other pianist

who done it over and over again

playin drums is comparitively simple

guitar is fairly more difficult

but piano is nerve wrecking

i never shivered so much before worship started

but thank God for those brawlers who made my piano sink in the wave of sound and dissapear all together

but it was my duty to start the ball rolling

there was 3 problems

1st: i couldn't read Khmer so the scribbles on the paper didn't really help me much in finding which part of the song they're singgin

2nd: i've not heard too many khmer songs.. sooo they're all new songs.. but good thing they're all fairly simple

3rd: my piano is only up till a grade 2 level

what on earth am i doing there......

well i've been practicin my skills of playin by ear and a bit by chords on the piano so i can do la

well i guess what lifted me through that time was a little prayer i did b4 the worship..

and the faith of a mustard seed

being in tune with God brings faith for His words bring hope

I of course didn't play very magically after that but i guess i did lead the worship properly

i do not want to boast in my achievement for this is 100% God's work with a lil practice during the week on my side

oh thank you all who have been praying for me...

lately i've been thinkin of the prospect of being a missionary

why?

well why not?

this mission trip has done a heck of a lot in me

I really haven't got any calling more prominent than this one to be a missionary

as Jim Elliot said

all we really need is a kick in the errr behind

well we'll see next time

but whatever is ahead of me

i am certainly not afraid

I AM 100% SPIDEY
WAKAKAKA that's way cool
spidey rawks! LOL

anyways... 4 weeks i've been here and thinking about stuff is inevitable
these are the times when you see your life the right way up
my conclusion is everyone has to have something to look forward to
if one looks forward to something bad
whatever in between is dead
look forward to something good
something really really good
it may be a birthday or something
over here life moves at an extraordinarily slow pace..
people just have a lot of free time
so each day i'll look forward to tomorrow
and what surprises are installed for me
not looking back at what i could have done
what could have been
what should have been
what i ought to have said
and realising that tomorrow will be a new day
plan today to spend tomorrow for His best interest
i'm looking forward this time
i know i will be let down somehow
but for the sake of today i'm looking forward
no more pains of yesterday
no more scars of yesteryears
by His woulnds we are healed

swing low sweet chariot

coming forth to carry me home

swing low sweet chariot

coming forth to carry me home

I shall start my post with this!

hahahahah!!! cute horr..still no name yet.. she's still a puppy.. i call her sexy dog LOL..

yea there's a cute side to suong too.. there are lil chicks and pigletts... wanted to get those photos unfortunately no battery liao in camera so u all have to do with this.. I'm sorry to say i have no pictures of the water war... was to scared to take out the camera.. the kids are really crazy.. they throw the pails of water with a unique style so that the outcoming water will be splashed at a very high velocity inflicting high amount of pain that will make a person like me or someone with as good a threshold of pain to go ARGH!.. well i am proud to have mastered the art of throwing water from a pail.. my cambodian sifu told me that it involves the usage of most of your muscles in your body.. and to inflict the most pain one must be in a certain distance from the victim..

LOL

well the khmer holidays are over and it's back to work... teaching and all that... oh and i have become somewhat a bookworm.. i am totally engrossed with books now.. since sok lan came on thursday and passed me 6 books.. i am sad to say that i have finished 4 of it.. they're all very very good books.. they're all fairly thick books but the most funny thing is that all of them has something to do with England.. every one of the books i read here.. It's very odd to be transported to England and back to Cambodia so often that sometimes while finishing a long period of reading i will be very very confused where i am for just a split second of course.. I spent so much time reading that the people here actually thought it really was my very natural hobby.. so in a very odd way my visit here actually improved my english (to a certain level of course as you can see my many grammatical errors and wrong usage of vocabulary in this post) and i dare say my England is quite powderfull edi... HAHAHAHA! i shall not bore you with books i read but tears did fall in some instance of reading a James Herriot and i did get a bit spooked while reading an Agatha Christie and i did shout at Mr. Stevens calling him " Ýou idiot!"

in the novel 'what remains of the day'. (i picture what i read very well heheh) well a good book does beat tv by a mile... but really bad ones doesnt come close to the wonders of tv.. oh and bout the chocolate fondue.. i'm not jealous at all.. if i close my eyes and tap my heels very hard i can almost see my ABC soup transform into a choc fondue! i am fairly content here.. Anyways

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE

THE PAIN

i woke up yesterday with a big urge to go to the toilet... found out that i had indigestion... must be something i ate.. well i made many many trips to the toilet with great pain... I could feel the bad food fermenting in my tummy... ack...... didn't eat the whole day and fell down on the bed with a horrendous fever... slept through most of the day... Thank God for panadol... still a bit sick today.. no appetite for anything (which i think is good for i am a fatty) and a slight fever.. oh bout the water war... it's already started.. it's a wet all innocent bystanders rule.. had fun in the evening standing by the road and throwing water at people in motorbikes... would be fun to have it in malaysia too... could propose this to badawi?

I do have something to rejoice about... some malakar seems to be out of style already

ALAS! my book has finished.. now what do i do....
I have spent my free time over here reading that book now i really have nothing to fill my free time with.. ah the boredom the boredom...
I actually wanted to add more pics but the computer overr here didn't quite allow me.. Khmer New year just passed.. nothing significanty happened except the throwing of powder on people's faces.. that's bout it.. I hear of a nation wide water war comin soon LOL... donno how true it is.. Well that would be cool...

on my hard labour.. lately there was a lot off carrying stuff around (70kg poles) and my back is really hurting.. it's the holidys now so nothin much is goin on.. not even teaching haih.. I'm seriously bored here fellas.. haih... btw how was your youth sunday?

Let's not talk bout cambodia for a while

Past few days i've been reading a throughly wonderful book.

James Herriot's All Cretures Great and Small--------------------->

It's a thoroughly wonderful book and mind you it's 600 pages thick and the

words are really tiny....

Oh it's so lovely how he pictured his life in yorkshire

FYI James Herriot is a country vet and this is a lil part of his life..

It's a very good mix of comedy to frustration to down right gross pictures

he paints with his words.. Oh and not forgetting a pinch of plain old romance..

I'm so proud of myself for bringing a really good book over here coz there's a lot of free time

and there ain't no tv.. The sad part is i'm almost done with it.. ARGH!!!! I really recommend everyone to read it.. I have a confession.. I'm really really love Love stories.. not too much but just enough.. So when it came to the chapters of James meeting his future wife i was really readding closely (and NO i don't believe i'm sissified becoz of this!) It's so heartwarming... Honestly I've become particularly lonely here.. It's not very fun to have no one of the same age group as me who i cn converse with (it's always a struggle to converse with the khmer people)

Haih.. so this book took a lil of the loneliness away and transported me to this lil town of Yorkshire. which i am very certain i am going in the future... I wouldnt want to spoil anything for you all.. I'll borrow it to whoever wants it when i come bak

till next time

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a game they play o khmer new year
where they hit the knee with two seeds
(ouch)













this is daniel (dr. chua's son)------------>











<---- roads in soung are like this all dirt so it's very dusty when lorry pass by



my toilet----------------->



(need to use pump to get the water from well)










these are a few of the pics.. And i'm doing fine if anyone asks.. would love to find out how u guys are doing