Time Capsule: Faith of the Heart

Isaiah 43:16 - 21

Miracles of the New Exodus

Thus says Yahweh,

who made a way through the sea,

a path in the raging waters,

who led out chariots and horse

together with army of picked troops:

they lay down never to rise again,

they were snuffed out, put out like a wick.

No need to remember past events,

no need to think about what was done before.

Look, I am doing something new,

now it emerges, can you not see it?

Yes, I am making a road in the desert

and rivers in wastelands.

The wild animals will honour me,

the jackals and the ostriches,

for bestowing water in the desert

and rivers on the wastelands

for my people, my chosen one, to drink.

The people I have shaped for myself

will broadcast my praises.

Lee Sum Wan : Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan?

Mr. Saw Lee   : Yes, you can speak to me.

Lee Sum Wan : No, I want to speak to Annie Wan!

Mr. Saw Lee   : You are talking to someone! Who is this?

Lee Sum Wa   : I’m Sum Wan .And I need to talk to Annie Wan! It’s urgent.

Mr. Saw Lee   : I know u are someone and u want to talk to anyone! But what’s this urgent matter about?

Lee Sum Wan : Well just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother, Noe Wan was involved in an accident. Noe wan got injured and now Noe Wan is being sent to the hospital. Right now Avery Wan is on his way to the hospital.

Mr. Saw Lee   : Look if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital from the accident that isn’t an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I don’t have time for this!

Lee Sum Wan : You are so rude! Who are you?

Mr. Saw Lee   : I’m Saw Lee.

Lee Sum Wan : You should be sorry. Now give me your name.

I haven’t been able to update this blog as much as I wanted. This is probably due to the fact that I run a hectic schedule at work. Its usual for an engineer I guess. This time of the year is the peak of the bell curve of activity. Of course, working on a cursed project is another thing all together.

But anyway, last Saturday, I thought "enough was enough". Lets join a cross country run just to relax, loose some pounds and do some good for the environment. But boy, was I wrong about the relaxing part.

My cousin and I had to wake at 5.30 am to get ready and drive down to the northen end of our little island. The Keracut Conservation run official started at 9 am. Everyone was running, God knows why because 10 minutes later most was just fast walking, fun thing is… the author did that as well. Hey, I have not been exercing for like 2 or 3 months…

For the first leg, we had to run on flat roads then it was uphill from there. Going up hill was plain torture. You could feel you legs burning. Runs and marathons are all about mind over matter, body in this case. Professionals runners are able to ignore these feelings. This is called "To Strive", to strive to be better, to exceed….

Something about marathon. The first marathon started when the Greeks Athenians met an invading Persian forces around 490 BC. The Athenians outnumbered sent out a runner by the name of Phidippedes to Sparta to get help. Now take a look at your world map. Marathon is on the northen tip of the Greece. Sparta is on the sourthern end! 140 miles in two days.

But anyway, I was about 30 minutes from the half way mark when I saw my cousin running back, he had already crossed the half way mark. I was quite surpriced as I never knew he had such stamina. But anyway, I willed myself to the half way mark, and had to go back all the way…most exhausting, felt like wanting to puke. I was about 500 m from the finishing line when my right leg had a cramp and then the left. Most embrassing as this happened just infront of a group of girls I passed moments ago. But I had to force myself to move or else the cramp would have gotten worst. The risk paid off and the cramps went away slowly.  I finished within qualifying time of 2 hrs. I did it in 1 hour 53 minutes.

Will I do it again next year? Maybe…

Sources:http://www.hickoksports.com/history/marathon.shtml

Quite a while ago… to be honest I think its more like half a year ago, boy, how times fly, I promised you dear readers, a narrative about my adventure to the peak of Gunung Tahan (highest mountain in peninsular Malaysia). I never really got to doing this because I wanted it to be long and detailed, even asked my companions to chip in a a days account or two. But I guess that led to its downfall. It was too long and it took too much effort to write and well to read as well. The whole project was scrapped… until now. I felt that not everyone has the good fortune to climb this mountain, and it will be a total waste if I just left the photos in my hard drive. So without further delay, a photo essay:

Meet the team, from left, NoName and Mother, Team 1.

Shadow (which is me) and Raven, Team 2.

Some nice scenery, small waterfall in the background.

Only day 2 and its already damn tiring.

Almost to the top!

  That’s the peak!

Day 2, Camp site. Home away from home

Day 3, view from last leg of ascent

  Remorse: I have grown fat over the months

Proof that we all reached the top

Nice miniature fauna thingies…

During descent. Cool!

Leech on foot… and

I hate bee stings!!!!

Thank God I made it out of there alive.

I have to confess, I am a Star Trek fan. Inner circle of friends would know that I like Star Wars also, but somehow over the years I have grown fonder of Star Trek. Signs of maturity???

Thanks to John, I know more of Star Trek than I use too. John’s site: John’s Star Trek Universe  helps t o explain some of the things that is usually muttered in the Star Trek Universe, like "bearing 093, mark 320", or "Heading 089". I only wish now is that someone would translate "star date" to our current date system for me…. But anyway, you can find John’s site using the link below:

http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/startrek/index.html

Talking about Star Trek and Star Wars fans, I have this friend whose called Kenny Fong who is a fan as well. A well rounded person, sophisticated, a bit choosy of girl friends sometimes but girls, if you are reading this, you should get to know this guy… I like to visit his blog because unlike mine it is focused on a wide range of subjects . Sort of like a "Chicken Soup for the Soul" kinda website. Well without further a due…

http://kennyf.blogspot.com/

Ho ho, I changed my blog name. My blog name is now called Time Capsule: Faith of the Hear. It was previously called Chronicles of Gary…. which to me seems to be a bit too nerdy and egoistic. Sorry, I was pressured to start a blog and I had writer’s blog.

But the good thing is, the name has finally changed and hopefully this blog can live up to its name.

Why is it now called Time Capsule: Faith of the Heart? A time capsule preserves object so that one day people in the future can see them and have fond memories of them. I want to capture some of my life’s precious moment in this blog, I do not want it to be forgotten and I want to share this with all you precious readers out there. It’s also because I am too lazy to write my own diary… ha ha.

But anyway, I have completed 16 posts now and I hope you that you have enjoyed my sick sense of humour and have gained something from this posts. Stay tuned….   

Who the heck thinks up this titles! But anyway folks, I would like to tell y’all that it might not be safe to use eraser to clean up your hard disk. I found that my hard disk might have been damaged during the erasing process. So do take care and double check whether the eraser programme is causing your hard disk any harm.

For all you, mandarin muttering ppl and banana man dunwannabee out there in this world:

It might be common knowledge, but I just found out about it today. Do you know that you can  actually type chinese without installing any additional exterior programme if you are using XP. Believe it or not, its true. Just follow the steps for setting this option up:

1) Go to START

2) Go to SETTINGS => Double click CONTROL PANEL

3) Double click REGIONAL AND LANGUAGE OPTIONS

4) Click the LANGUAGE tab and click DETAILS

5) Click ADD

6) For INPUT LANGUAGE column find and click CHINESE (PRC). PRC stands for People’s Republic of China incase you brainy-iacs, don’t know

7) Check (which means tick) the KEYBOARD LAYOUT/IME and find CHINESE (SIMPLIFIED) - QUANPIN. This means that you will be using romanized chinese pronouciation method of typing. This method is a bit slower than the touch pad, but most of us have been living with this for quite some time now.

Click OK  and OK and OK.

9) Now to test this baby out. Open up WORDS and start typing. If you wanna use back English just click the windows icon at the bottom of your screen, should be on the lower left.

Thanks to Kheoh for telling

Hope my manager doesn’t have friendster.

UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERS - Take Four 

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am."    

The woman below replied, "You are in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You are between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."    

"You must be an engineer," said the balloonist.    

"I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?"    

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is, technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help so far."    

The woman below responded, "You must be in Management."    

"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"    

"Well," said the woman, "you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it’s my fault."    

Engineers, you will appriciate this:

UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERS - Take Eight    

One day, an engineer was crossing a road when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess".      

He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week." The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.    

The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I’ll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want." Again the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.    

Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I’ve told you I’m a beautiful princess, I’ll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won’t you kiss me?"    

The engineer said, "Look. I’m an engineer. I don’t have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that’s cool."

Thanks to Cynthia for sending.