more wisdom?

my wisdom tooth is coming out. this time it's from the right upper jaw and it hurts like crazy. it's fighting against all the other teeth for space and it's attracting too much of attention from me. the pain is excruciating. each time i brush my teeth it sure bleeds. I'm afraid to go to the dentist. it's my biggest fear factor.

help me!! :(

Taiping :)

I was home from 1st - 5th October. I never felt any better. I'm always queen whenever I'm home. =D There were so many things done back home that reminds me of my childhood. Ahh~ how I wish I'll never grow up. People say growing up sucks. Maybe. Anyway throughout my time back home, mom cooked most of my favorite, and also made a trip down to Penang. Slept. DVD-ed. Bumming around doing nothing. Laze, laze and laze! hahaha... my favorite thing to do. I just felt like an escape from stress and I do not need to think of work. I want more! :)

Penang delicacies. yummy~

Mamma Mia!

I watched this before leaving back for Taiping. If you love musical shows, please go watch if you have not yet. It's so entertaining~!! I was planning to get the soundtrack of the movie after watching it. Right after the movie I went to Speedy, Popular and all the other shops that sells CDs but it's completely sold out in all the shops that I inquired. See how good it is!

my cutie ^^

I love kids. I really love them! I don't know why and I can't explain. It's just in me. And all my best friends have told me so many times throughout different phases of my life...

"Go make one yourself la Jo...
stop harassing people's child~!"

OMG!!! How could you say that? Just because you find them little-annoying-creatures running around and always at your way!? ... Doesn't mean I cannot love them right...?

Anyway I had a full day with him today! my cutie cupcake sugarpie pumpkin bunny kenny rogers! Argggghhhh~!!!!!!!!

Watching him the way he is just makes my day and I find him really cute when he smile. hehe =D Right now at this age he's playing real hard to get as he learnt now to recognise his parents and his nanny. So whoever that's not familiar with him is going to be tough. I'm one of them sadly. oH, he've just learnt how to walk too. And he's always very busy walking anywhere and everywhere. haha...!

The busy walking boy!

I find him quite perasan cos he knows I'm taking his pictures.
He will willingly smile or show his face towards the camera -.-

This is a very pathetic shot as he was felling a bit annoyed
cause it was his lunch break and it's feeding time~!! and his meal was not ready yet.


I felt pathetic too, carrying him.
He started screaming and shouting to get out of my grip!
So sad =(


This shot was taken when were heading for lunch
and he was comfortably sitting at his throne...heh...so cute =)
He was busy making funny noises and indicating he wants to talk.


To my horror, 3 minutes later - DOOM!!so fast wei...
babies will always be babies. And that makes them cute!
I guess he must be very tired because he was busy walking the whole time in church.

And this is a very funny video I took of him. He was hanging by a moment wanting to sleep but it just doesn't happen for him and finally he slept...!! He keeps noding and waking up but yet trying his very best wanting to sleep. LOL.

BROADWAY PARODIES lagi-lah~

happy happy happy~!!

Never had so much endorphins in me for a while, at least for this week. I was in KL PAC @ Sentul, yesterday with my family happily laughing away watching Broadway Parodies Lagi-lah. It's a live musical comedy drama show about Malaysians, on what we do best - eating, spending money, shopping, the lazy lousy government, stock market, pondans and calling people bodoh~! It was so funny and I actually missed their first show last year when they did it in Bangsar Shopping Centre, but am so glad that I manage to watch it this time round. It was such a stress reliever for me personally cause I was so so sooooooooo stressed at work, and once I was there it was like from the start of the show till the end it was endless laughing for me. thank you Jesus~!!! wahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......................................!!!!

our tickets - 6 of us went
(Uncle Andrew, Aunty Margaret, Aunt Eileen, Melissa, Aaron and I)

we were both so excited and can't help but
to camwhore in the car first =P

before the show we wallop dimsum at a nearby stall @ Jalan Ipoh
so yummmyyyyyyyyyyyy~!!!!!!!

the pathway to the entrance of the building


I love the concept they used - it looks like a run-down place with its unfinished job

this is it!

joker cameraman - Uncle Andrew
(he was saying something really funny about a family joke and everyone started laughing)


the auditorium


we're not allowed to use any camera in the auditorium =P
(that's why so dark cos no flash~)

Eileen (mom's sister) and I

During the show we're actually forbidden to use the camera. I was trying to be sneaky and took a shot. Few seconds later someone is already flashing the red laser light on my camera~

my one precious shot:


so happy and so jolly =)

pissed

Dear insensitive,

Thank you for sharing your aura and giving toothaches.

Thank you for being ignorant.

Thank you for acting dumb when things are not okay.

If you're reading this, I just wanna tell you I DON'T APPRECIATE IT!

GO AWAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!

KIDS!

this boy called me in the afternoon and told me

"Joanna che che I love you!"

... and he hung up!
won't this make your day?

kids nowadays are so adorable. my goodness!!

I love you too, Aaron - please be a good boy when you grow up!!

one thing

Currently (repeatedly) listening to One Thing:

One Thing

One thing
One thing I desire
One thing I seek
To gaze upon Your beauty
Your majesty

In the day of trouble
You cover me
In the secret place of refuge
Lord I will sing

So I pray to You
So I pray to You

Lord Your Name is higher than the heavens
Lord Your Name is higher than all created things
Higher than hope
Higher than dreams
The Name of the Lord

All I want is You
All I want is You
Jesus

banana cake

Last week was extremely hectic for me. On Friday evening while driving home from work, I received an SMS from this person. It reads;

"Remember to check in the fridge. Got something for you there."

Wondering, and knowing the person I am, my mind went very far. I was thinking what would be in the fridge for me.

When I reached church for Life Group, I went and see, guess what? It was my favorite banana cake!! Gosh I've been longing to eat that for a long time. Just that I don't know where to get that particular one. The cake was nicely wrapped and with a heart-warming note attached on it:

And the banana cake (after I've eaten like half =P)

That made my day =)

and YOU really made my day! =D

say NO to work on monday!

This is the one sickness that I cannot overcome until today:

MONDAY BLUES

Though I've been working for 3 years now,
I still feel pathetically lazy, moody and lethargic on Monday mornings.

Guess the heavy weekend has taken its toll on me.

argggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~!!!!

Ah-Ma

I love this picture. my grandma and I are so pwetty =D

Everyone in the Teoh family. only missing is uncle Mike.

I went home for Ah-Ma's 74th birthday. She's so happy cause all her anak-cucu-cicit went back to celebrate with her. Was a planned trip and we tried to keep it as silent as possible from her cause we want her to be surprised. She really was and can't stop smiling over the weekend.

Ah-Ma took care of me since when I was a baby till I left for KL to study. Sounds a bit emo but I know will really really miss her someday when she's gone. She's my big fan cause I'm her only grand-daughter. She spoils me with everything I want when I was a kid, and still is. All her grandchildren are boys. HAHAHA.. that's my edge being the only "girl" in the family and sometimes that's how I get my way around too =P In many ways Ah-Ma has shown me how to love without bounds. There were so many occurrences that she has shown that she loves her grandchildren to the extent of spoiling them and that she would do anything for them.

When I was a kid I know I drove her up the wall so many times but she still love me the same. I still remember once when I was a kid, my mom wants to cane me for my misbehavior, Ah-Ma came and she wanted to "rescue" me by asking mom not to cane me but ended up mom got so upset with her and they got into a fight because she doesn't like people to interfere when she's disciplining us. During schooling days when I come back home from school I know for sure my good lunch will be on the table because Ah-Ma cooked for me. She knows my favorite dish very well so everyday she will try to cook my favorite food. I love her steam egg-pork and stir-fry ginger chicken. During school holidays she'll take me to the cinema together with Ah-Kong. They're one hot couple ok. They still go to the theater dating after many many years being married (because I know most couples don't). Before taking me to the cinema she'll dress me up in pants so that it's easier to walk me around. I can never forget those times. And many other times too, when I was already in college, whenever I'm home for a break she'll give me money. Ah-Ma knows I like to sleep too. When I'm home during those college breaks she'll make sure the TV is not too loud so that I can sleep longer. Until today when I'm back she still treats me the same.

In April 2002 Ah Kong passed away due to a heart attack. Everyone went home to pay their last respect. I can still remember the event until today though many years had passed. The sorrow and grief she went through during the mouring period was painful. I know it's a deep cut that she will remember forever. One morning I saw her crying beside the casket of her beloved husband, knowing that the man that she've spent her life with is no longer mortal. The loneliness and years ahead that she have to live by, alone, is so uncertain. No words can express her loneliness and fear on what lies ahead. But I always believe that to every goodbye, there is a hello waiting. Yes, she bid goodbye to her husband, and that was the time too, that she said hello to her Creator. She discover who was her Saviour during that moment of loneliness and grief. Now Ah-Ma is a believer and she's strong in faith. At times when she knows I'm down and all, she'll in return encouraged me with her faith.

I'm so blessed beyond words. I truly am.

Now that she's old and her movement is slow, I just pray that God will give her the strength to move about and preserve her life many many more years until it's time to take her home.

I love you Ah-Ma! =D
xoxo, your favourite grand-daughter

sometimes

I feel like a mashpotato today.

Woke up late for work.

Never ending work in the office.

Deadlines.

Deals!

Haven't hit the gym regularly for the past 3 months.

Have not been doing my quiet time regularly too.

So many concerns in life. It happens sometimes. But which one comes first? Which to attend to, so that I won't neglect the other? Which to do first, so that the others will fall in its place at the right time? Which choice to make, so that I won't regret the other?

Which one, Papa.

Came across this poem today, sent by a dear friend. Sometimes.

Sometimes you gotta run away

So you can see who will run after you.

Sometimes you gotta talk quieter

To see who’s listening to you.

Sometimes you gotta step into a fight

Just to see who’s by your side.

Sometimes you gotta make a wrong decision

To see who’s there to fix it.

Sometimes you gotta let go of the one you love

Just to see if they love you enough to come back.

And I would end that with this line:

Sometimes I wish to escape reality,
so that God can show me His fantasy.

MINDY = MANDY = MUN TENG

Caught up with Mun Teng yesterday. Haha.. after all the sibuk endless plannings, finally we met up for dinner. Initially she wanted to go Mid Valley for shopping so badly but I refuse to. Just not in the mood to shop. Anyways, we ended up having dinner together in Klang. Food was good. We decided to return there someday. Coming back from Klang, we got stuck in a jam for about 40 minutes due to police roadblock. When I think about it now, I can't stop smiling to myself cause Ms. Leong Mun Teng can't help cursing in the car. She cannot understand why the police have to have roadblocks at 9.30pm. LOL.. Below is a picture of her, and she used to call herself Mandy because her students do not know how to pronounce her chinese name, and younger when she was still in kindergarten with me, she called herself Mindy. I love you MunTeng/Mandy/Mindy. She's been a jewel and a best friend since we were 6 years old.

The cheeky side of her

And the lovely side of her

and finally, us.. friends for life..! *hugs*

*smiles*

I watched this today:



And I finally bought it !!! All the songs were good.


There were a few songs that has deep meaning why it was written and sung. Below are the clips on the source and inspiration of the song written.

Desert Song by Brooke Fraser and Jill McCloghry

1. This is my prayer in the desert
When all that’s within me feels dry
This is my prayer in my hunger and need
My God is the God who provides

2. This is my prayer in the fire
In weakness or trial or pain
There is a faith proved of more worth than gold
So refine me Lord through the flame

I will bring praise, I will bring praise
No weapon formed against me shall remain
I will rejoice, I will declare
God is my victory and He is here

3. This is my prayer in the battle
When triumph is still on its way
I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ
So firm on His promise I’ll stand

B: All of my life
In every season
You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship

4. This is my prayer in the harvest
When favour and providence flow
I know I’m filled to be emptied again
The seed I’ve received I will sow.

Anyway, all in all, I'm a very happy girl today! =D

this one song

Waking up this morning seems so natural. 10.30am!! Cos i've been waking up the same time every day since last Monday. Thank you India :D Now I wonder how am gonna cope getting up at 6.45am after this program is over.

My BIG plan today - Going to Canaanland to get the latest released Hillsong album (see left) that I've been waiting since December 2007!! My last buy was the I Heart Revolution album but that was under United Live Hillsong. I enjoy all the songs recorded live, but there is this one particular song which I have a real deep appreciation for its meaning - Where the Love Lasts Forever. The lyrics and the meaning of the song speaks so much to me, reminding me of God's love to me, that is everlasting.

Being a melancholic I am, I'm a simple girl-next-door who performs best when I am secure. Secure in my surroundings, secure financially, secure in my reputation, secure in the people around me, secure physically, emotionally & spiritually, and secure in who I truly am. I realised that as I grow up, I learnt that only God alone can provide all of the above. Not mom, not my family members, not my dedicated leaders, not my buddies & friends, not in my ministry, not in my favorite hobby, not in my vocation, not in my work, and never with my own effort. This experience of such deep security comes only with my relationship with Him alone.

Ponder the lyrics:

Where The Love Lasts Forever

Your mercy found me,
Upon the broken road,
And lifted me beyond my failing,
Into Your glory,
My sin and shame dissolved,
And now forever Yours I’ll stand.

(Pre-Chorus)
In love never to end,
To call You more than Lord,
Glorious friend.

(Chorus)
So I throw my life upon all You are,
‘Cause I know You gave it all for me,
And when all else fades,
My soul will dance with You,
Where the love lasts forever.

(Bridge)
And forever I will sing,
Lord forever I will sing,
Of how You gave Your life away,
Just to save me, Lord You saved me.

With You, where the love lasts forever.

How profound. How promising. And how secure is that.
The sense of appreciation within me never fail to renew itself each time I listen to this song. I hope it does the same for you, too =)

I want I want !

Have been thinking about this list, saving some extra cash wanting and trying to prioritize them before I buy:

1. External Hard Drive 120G / 250G
2. A proper pouch for my iPOD
3. SONY Camera - I already have a camera which is working fine.
   
4. Ralph by Ralph Lauren
   
   

How la? So many wants at one time. Shall I recite the "Dear Santa..." prayer? Hehe...

5th blog

This is my 5th blog. I hope, *hope* this one will be a successful one. I used to get so caught up with the hype of having a blog during school and college days, without even really understanding the work that needs to be done - maintaining and updating it. All my previous blogs died their natural death due to my laziness. hehe! But today, i determine to make this a living one. mark me. You know I really take my hat off to those who takes the initiative to update their blogs everyday. I hope and pray that the contents of this blog will enlighten, enrich and encourage readers like you.

Anyway, just for updates - I've not been doing much lately, except for work, since I started working on my India program. I've been given this India market to sell Business Forecasting. I did ask WHY, of all market.

Boss' justification - "It's selling like hot cakes in Malaysia~ and India is an untapped market, it's a booming country, like China... You never read the news ah? That's why la, I always ask you all to read the news you all don't want to listen..." *sweat*

Juggling and try to understand this new market can be a lil' draining. People there speaks differently, thinks differently, and work differently and due to that I have to study this market a bit more to understand them. My working hours has been revised and it is now from 11.30am - 8.30pm, so you can simply figure how much time left to bum around. Time being, my routines are disrupted so I stopped going to the gym for a while, i can't fetch my youths on Fridays, i can't serve on Fridays too, my supper is my dinner and my body clock is haywire now! :( (Haha..yes I'm whining.. but heck, this is my blog!) Well, whatever it takes I'm gonna optimize this weekend to rejuvenate myself so that I can breathe again when Monday comes. Guess I need to get myself adjusted fast so that I can last for the next 6 weeks. ALL FOR YOU INDIAAAAAAAAA~~!!!!!!!!! I will~! I will...~!

Oh, btw i manage to catch Made of Honour on Tuesday. It was fantastic! Took my mind off work, literally. I like i like! :D

The week when this movie was launched, I was already recommended by Jen, Tava and Mun Teng to go watch. So girls, I've finally watched it. TQ!

wOkay I need to hibernate now. Toodles!