Imagine Cup

Trained my body to sustain at least until 1am already.

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Imagine Cup.

Heard of this? I'm very sure those who have not much to do in the programming world wouldn't know this. I didn't know what was it when I first heard the name. It caught me because I think the name it's kinda hilarious. IMAGINE? HUH?

As little that I know, that is actually a competition by Microsoft! No joke. This is an annually international competition for all those computer programming freaks, extremely creative and passionated in multimedia designing peeps to join in.

I was challenged and invited by my senior to join him. He kept on emphasize that he wants us to join in at our on will because it's gonna be a tough journey.

Guess what?

I took the challenge.

I did have a deep thought about it, especially whether I could cope with my studies and my ministry. I thank God as I told him properly that I don't want it to clash with my ministry and also when I need help he could help in a way or another since he's a senior, he would try his best.

He's very very convicted to go for it and really looking forward to win it, his spirit really reaches me.

After the the first meeting up with the team members and discussion. I got the whole picture of what he wants and what's in he aiming for.

Opps.

Forgot.

His name is Alvin. 2nd year Networking Student.

So, we are taking up game designing as our project. Believe it or not? I'm actually fulfilling my dream when I was about 11 or 12? Designing a game is actually in my essay when the teacher asked me to write a short essay about my ambition. Amazing?

Our theme will be about green environment, so we will be designing a real time strategy game for player to build a city and to urbanize it at the same time challenge the player to maintain the health of the environment.

To those who don't even bother about throwing your rubbish into rubbish bin, I think you will think that it gonna be a boring game. One more thing that really attracted me is that, I get to go UNITED STATE OF AMERICA for FINALS! If and only if we made it through in National level in Kuala Lumpur next year.

As all things approach, I really need to learn how to manage my time and priority well. It's tough that's why it's gonna be exciting - got it from Joel Than.

Pray that I gonna pull through all these.

Cheers,

Yuan

Melodies

I woke up this morning, some how my mind just flash back my life in high school.

I really miss it so much.

One thing I really miss is going back to school for choir practice. How I wish I joined the group at my early secondary school life, I would have the chance to go around in Malaysia to sing in the school choir.

I still thank God unknowingly got myself into the choir team in 2007 and reach until state level to Bintulu.

I missed out the competition in 2008 because form six hasn't started at that time. In 2009, I manage to join the district competition but didn't manage to get first. Thank God I'm able to go for Malaysian Choral Fest in Kuala Lumpur though, It was really a great and unforgettable time I had there.

Video posted above is the video of 2009 Kuching District Choir Competition in St. Teresa.

Lots of criticism here and there but I believe all those are not important. It's the process that counts.

Cheers,

Yuan

Heart of Worship

As I was sending Julius and Gladys back home this afternoon.

This topic of using praise to categorize fast songs and worship as slow songs in church are not appropriate were discussed among us.

It really kept me thinking for a while. I wouldn't say who's right and who's wrong because I believe that by the little knowledge that I know I don't have the right to call it who's right or who's wrong. So this post is just the end thought of the topic.

As far as I know, bible didn't mention about praise as fast songs and worship as slow songs. I'm not the history about the church worship department how they come about using it to categorize praise as fast songs and worship as slow songs, but 1 thing I'm sure, as long we know that we are give the Lord our praises and our worship I believe God wouldn't mind whether we sing fast songs or praise songs.

The phrase " Heart of Worship" just shoot into my mind.

It's doesn't matter whether it's a fast song or a worship songs, as long we acknowledge that all these songs we are singing is to God and sing it with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. God hears it.

John 4:23-24

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

Mark 12:30-31

30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'

Question. Will it stumble other people if it's categorized as so?

Once again. I don't know what's right and what's wrong.

Let's just say, people who know that we are sing praise and worship songs are usually believers. When the heart is all that matters, stumbling or not really the real issue because we are already believers of Christ.

I was kinda bothered when I see people rising issues between christians in facebook for the past few weeks. I nothing much I can say about it.

If anyone of you is reading this. Remember.

Heb 10:23-25

24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

P/S: A post not to stir up argument, just a short note to remind myself. =)

Cheers,

Yuan

Never Give Up In Life

The video says it all.

Cheers,

Yuan

What Say You?

Before

After

What do you think?

I do have a good camera, so the only thing I can play around is Photoshop.

It's good for one of my courses and assignments as well.

As I look at this picture. I remember the verse that PP quoted before.

Psalms 121:1-2

1 A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to the hills where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and the earth.

A great verse to place in my great when every I feel helpless.

Give me strength God.

Cheers,

Yuan

TMX1010

Great.

2 hours of lab.

Telling me how to go online.

Cheers,

Yuan

Buddy Buddy

I getting in love with programming but I don't why I just don't like to learn all those theories.

Practical is the best!

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What is your definition of best friend?

Another person that share the same interest with you?

Another person that treats you nicely and pay for your meal?

Another person gossip around with you?

Honestly speaking I do not know how can people just use " Friends Forever " so easily and yet when argument or disagreement arise, when shoulder are rubbed between one another and many of them are not able to say: " We are still BFF. "

Let me just share what's in my heart...

In different time or phase of life God will provide different of people to come into our life. Be it to those that I can't get along with or to those that I can get along with just a snap of a finger. All of them are placed by God in my life. Many of them come and go, many of them are still keeping in touch, some of them I quarreled with before and many of them impacted my life.

In my high school life, There are 3 of them and we really did lots of stuff together. Good or bad, you name it.

Crazy high school life. After high school we went on to our separate ways, we hardly keep in touch. We may gather once in a while to catch up with one another but it just ain't the same. Our relationship are mostly on the surface. So that's it? I did considered them to be my best friends but after a deep thought about it. It's most on-the-surface-best friends I guess.

I have no idea why I talk about all these?

I'm stuck.

Anyway, what I really want to bring out is that through so many years in church. I believe brothers and sisters in Christ are the people that most of the Christians should invest their lives to build up.

God treasures relationship and God desire His people to fellowship among one another to build each other life.

I really thank God that God really bring people to me that I could learn how to not only build good relationship with the opposite sex but but to build brotherly love.

So I really just want to use this post to really shout out my appreciation and thank God for send them to build me and encourage me and speak the truth to me with love.

Here's a guy with compassionate heart for God's people especially in building up the young people.

He kept on telling me that when he first knew me was because I was sick during one of the bible conference and I was playing bass for him, he gave me his jacket and sent me back home.

I really forgot about it until he reminded me. Opps =x

Sorry.

Anyway, he really encourage me a lot and always be there when I needed help.

He's no other than Wayne Kho Nyiap Hong.

Erm.. That's him. Old but young at heart.

Want to know his age? Easy. We are both "Horses" in the Chinese Lunar Calendar.

Wakaka

A guy with a devoted heart for God. A guy that challenged me to become a MAN. What an event....

Anyway, he inspired me a lot and learn a lot from him. One of those that I really look up to.

That's Joel.

We have one common interest.

FOOD!

This is really a buddy of mine when it comes to food. He ate from midnight KFC burgers to XXL Teh C Peng to oily green noodle. Great ya? Sadly, he went to Kuala Lumpur to further his studies.

Indeed God always have a purpose when He brings people in and our of my life. This brother of mine has been a great encouragement to my life. Looking at his life testimony of how he want to please God with his life and how he cares for the people God placed under him, it is really amazing. Most important of all, a great guy to spend time eating and and get encourage.

Lastly,

I just want to take this section here to appreciate his wonderful shepherd and pal of mine.

He is non other than

Dr. Tan Kia Sing

He's leaving to Bintulu now.

Kia Sing if you are reading this.

Truthfully, I'm not that sad at the fact that you are leaving. Yet, I'm quite happy for because this will be your new chapter of life and I really believe that God gonna do wonderful things through you.

However, just let me describe this buddy of mine.

A faithful guy in church. According to him, he said that he never fail to show up for Sunday Service unless he got a very solid reason that stop him from going. He is my shepherd.

I really like the term we used for both of us.

Friend-Sheep.

We are really buddy shepherd and sheep relationship. I really don't how to describe how we are like but the main thing I know is that I really thank God for bringing him through this period of time. What happened in our lives are indirectly interrelated! Ir's really amazing. Because of that we can be there for each other and encourage each other to spur on with God.

Sometimes I really wonder how we became buddy because I don't even bother about him 7 years ago. My second shepherd and my seventh shepherd.

In a nut shell, I really thank God for all the people He brought to my life. there are still many more I didn't mention. People like Christian Tang and Pui Mei Phing and so many more! All of them play apart in my life to build my character. Investing good friendship in church is definitely no-regret things. Just one thing need to bear in mind, be it good things or bad things happen. God wants us to learn something out of it because God has a purpose for everything.

Thank you Lord,

Cheers,

Aaron

Focus

Today, I finally get to go to the gym!

I went there with my gym partner as we really decided to discipline ourselves to go and to pull along each other if one of us feel lazy.

The place was really great! Too bad that I forgot to take pictures, the place is big! Good equipments! Most important of all, got gym instructor!

RM25 per year. WORTH IT.

Can't wait to go for my second round. I just love it when my instructor said that, I'm not fat, I just need to tone my body.

WOOTS!

Now...

I'm all alone in the SIR room now.

Doing my lab programming questions later.

Programming is really killing my brain cells, BIG TIME.

4th day of fast and prayer week.

Need to discipline myself to pray tonight.

Fasting without praying is useless.

I really need your help Lord, I still got a lot of things to do.

Assignments.

Tutorials.

Revision.

Mid term test in 2 weeks time.

I really how much I can get into my brain.

Programming lab time.

Adioz,

Yuan

Photoshoped Love

I did so badly for my Quiz 2 (Calculus: Limits)

I really learn my lesson not to take things for granted.

Yesterday, I just somehow felt like taking a key chain out to have a look.

As I was doing so, the way the sun lights gazed into my window and between the curtains,

I was inspired to take this photo.

Nice?

I'm maximizing my 2mp Cybershot (K750i)

I really love it even though I'm not using a DXLR or Nikkon or something.

I was quite free so i just thought of photoshoping the photo because I really need to explore it since part of my Multimedia course will be using Photoshop.

I didn't really do much because my skills and knowledge about it are really just amateur.

Thanks to Evonne for teaching me.

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Better?

I love it much!

I'm gonna try out more of Photoshop!

Cheers,

Yuan

Loading Slimming Process

Here's my schedule. Packed?

For the past 1 week in Unimas. I have not taken any rice! I'm really serious about slimming down now and of course not forgetting living healthy.

Slimming down is not just about eating less but burning fats as well.

So to do that, I went to play basketball 3 days ago.

Guess what i played only for about 15 minutes, i got blister. Gosh. I never gonna play basketball barefooted anymore. Just because of that, for the past 3 days I'm walked to class and back just the blister at the sole of my left feet. PAIN! Thank God I still manage to walk though.

Oh ya!

I realized that I forgot to mention about my new roommate.

Yea. I got a roommate since last Friday. I wasn't really happy about it because I thought I could have the room for myself. Selfish me again. He's a local. Really a gentle-man but i feel bad because he made me look messy because he's so neat!

*deep thought*

Hey, wait I'm not that bad la. Come visit me if you don't believe.

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How's my Uni life now?

I'm really rushing myself to catch up. Currently I got 3 assignments and 3 projects.

Seems a lot right? Thank God I'm form 6 student, so in a way or another it's like a revision of form 6 subject buy only applicable to Calculus. I still need to brush up though. Need to find reference book though for help me. Besides that, 2 assignments and 1 project are what I used to do in church.

Challenges?

Besides studies which is the biggest issue here, things like juggling with ministry and with the guys in my life group and temptation like relationship, blending in with the course-mate here.

This is just the starting of all these challenges, there are more ahead of me especially when everything is tight on hand. I really can't imaging it, only by God's grace I can overcome.

Wow, time flies. SIR room gonna close now.

More I want to pour out.

Till next time then.

Adioz.

Cheers,

Yuan

Chill-lax

A website for mini games to kill time. www.omgpop.com

Today is my 6th day in Unimas.

Thank God, I manage to get myself to blend in slowly into Unimas.

All these while I thought that the Uni don't really bother about second intake students, I was quite wrong in a way. Today, I realized that I'm not the only weird species! There are more second intake students, most of them registered themselves last Friday. I was kinda disappointed is a way that when they came in, the lecturer asked them to meet together to arrange the class schedule which I was cracking my head badly last week to deal with it because I do not want miss out the lesson. Just felt like should have just wait and follow the flow. Do need to be "ke po". Even though I feel so, I'm still happy in a way that I'm so much more clear than the other second intake students and I manage to know one of them and to advice them what to do. Hope that what I have been through can bless other people although I'm a second intake second myself.

Anyway, as I said in my previous post. I wanted to share about this "student lounge" in my faculty. Uni life here really opened my eyes. It's so cool! Even my bro and sis were saying that right after passing the entrance of Unimas, it is like going into another city.

Here got a place to bowl, snooker, clinic, cafe and most important of all - GYM!

Going there in the afternoon later since I got free time. (Lecture cancelled)

I didn't manage to take photo of all the place yet but here's a place where F.I.T students

chillax.

I think it's kinda interesting is because this is where students hang out during free times. All the computer freaks will be here. They sleep, talk, discuss, gossip, play darts, eat junk food, do tutorials and online.

I never thought of there will be a such a facility for the students.

Cool?

Thank God got such a place, here will be my only place that i can get connected. Can't online back in hostel.

Sigh.

Schedule for today?

Get a drink.

Go back hostel.

Print documents.

Come back to SIR ("student lounge")

Pass some forms to the second intake student.

Go to Hal Ehwal Pelajar Deparment.

Come back to SIR

Go class.

Go out with Wayne for his lg activity (KUCHING FESTIVAL!)

Come back to prepare my song list for next Saturday Youth Service.

Adioz~

Cheers,

Yuan

Prov 3:5-6