"Happy Birthday" -Door Bell Ringing Tone-

There is a bell at the X-ray department staff entrance. We can set various type of door bell ringing tones from normal 'ting tong' sound to some nursery rhymes tones. Seriously, I really don't know who set the door bell tone to "Happy Birthday" tone... So, everyday, we can hear "Happy Birthday" song! Hmm... Seriously, I am kinda bored of it; I always got this "Aiya, who press the bell again!" attitude. Today, my colleague's husband ring the bell; so I opened the door for him and wished him "Happy Birthday!" =P

Anyway, today, I got some inspiration for this "Happy Birthday" tone. To me, birthday is a gift from God. So, I think it is a privilege that I am always be reminder about the GIFT (which mean THE DAY ITSELF indeed is a GIFT from God) every time when I hear the door bell "Happy Birthday" is ringing...

Wow! Praise the Lord for the inspiration! I will learn to be thankful everyday!

"Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery, Today is a Gift, That's why it's called the Present"

Temporary Home; What An Awesome Lesson To Learn

Old man, hospital bed,

The room is filled with people he loves
And he whispers
"Don't cry for me, I'll see you all someday"
He looks up and says "I can see God's face"

This is my temporary home, it's not where I belong
Windows and rooms that I'm passing through
This was just a stop on the way to where I'm going
I'm not afraid because I know this was my temporary home
This is our temporary home
-Temporary Home by Carrie Underwood

Monday, 8th of November 2010 - I made a mistake and everyone learned from it; I learned from it the most! Making assumption is what I always do therefore I assume that it was alright to do it. Unfortunately, the assumption that I made was so wrong! As the result, it put myself into some dangerous situation! I don't understand why I was in this situation! Sigh...

Tuesday, 9th of November 2010, Morning - Praise the Lord! The question that I asked yesterday, the answer is here today! After the mistake that I made, I experienced something very beautiful that touched my heart which I never expected it to take place. I was in tears and thank God! My heart still aching because of yesterday's mistake but the beautiful event keep me strong! Thank you Lord!
Same day, Evening - First time doing CPR on a patient! Code Blue was coded in CCU and I was around, so I went in to see what's was going on... After few minutes of observing, I thought to myself that I shouldn't be standing and doing nothing! So I put on the glove and start doing CPR. I prayed while I was doing the CPR. Thank God that she survived! The pulse came back... "God, I know that is You who save her and not me. Thank you Lord!" I said inside my heart. What a blessing to be part of the saving life team!

Sometimes, I don't know why God put me in some difficult situations but I understand that this Earth is just my temporary home, therefore, I learn to look to God instead of looking at the situations! I also understand that God can use all the difficult times to prepare me for my eternal home; staying together with Him forever!

Hello Ma'am, It Is Just A Machine!

Today, during lunch time, I went out to get some medicine and then I went to a bank to deposit some cash into my account. Then, there was a lady who got so agitated and upset because the machine did not accept her note. Then, she started shouting at the bank assistant who was there helping another customer saying that she wanted to do a complain about the machine!

"Hello Ma'am, it is just a machine!" I said inside my heart =P Hehehehe...

Festival of Light

My Besties! (from left; Jonathan, Hafiz, Kevin and I)

What a privilege and what a blessing that I was able to celebrate Festival of Light early in the morning with ONE OF THE MANY LIGHTS that God had put into my life! Who is this light that I am mentioning?

KHAIRUL HAFIZ!!!!!

Thank you Fiz! I had a great time of fellowship with you this morning! Thank you too for being my LIGHT that never fail to shine in my life since 2000... WOW, almost 10years! Thank you Fiz!

Makan, Doa, Kasih Sayang

Introduction: Nope, I am not talking about the memoir that written by Elizabeth Gilbert and I am not talking about the movie acted by Julia Roberts too.

Synopsis: I am sharing about my awesome weekend that I had on last week! My friend, William and I went down to Kuala Lumpur for a conference at National Heart Institution (IJN). After the conference, I went 'makan' with William and after that another 'makan' session with my dearest god-sister, Fui Fui. After all the 'makan' sessions, I went to the preparation meeting for mission trip at my church and during the worship and prayer session, I had a great encountering with the Lord and also a great time of fellowship with my mission trip team members! Throughout the weekend, I also had great time of catching up with my dearest brother, Timmy Lai and also a short but great catch up with some of my cell members, Franky, Amelia, Bernard and Ame! And on the Sunday night, I was touched by my colleague, Anthony Louis for what he had done!

MAKAN *means EAT / EATING in Bahasa Malaysia
To me, makan is something like glue, always get people together! My manager, Mr Lam suggested to us to try the satay at this place, Restoran 'O' Mulia, situated at Jalan Abdul Razak, somewhere near IJN. So, after the conference, William and I went to the place and we had satay!

Satay!!! Yummy...

Beside than satay, we also had Kerang Bakar (Cockles)! Yummy! Thank you William for the treat! After the satay session, I had another makan session with my dearest god-sister, Fui Fui! I had a awesome time of catch up with her! Thanks Jie; I miss you!

DOA *means Pray / Praying in Bahasa Malaysia
I love praying! -I also like to be pray for- Hehe! Firstly, thank you Fui Fui for her awesome prayer when she was praying for the foods and also for me! Then, after the dinner, I went to my church to attend the preparation meeting for mission trip! I was leading the worship session on that night and I felt God's presence so powerfully! After the worship, Pastor Ling, the mission pastor in my church and his team were praying for all of us who are going for the mission trip! WOW, I received new gifts from the Lord and I can felt His presence too! AWESOME!!!

KASIH SAYANG *means Love or Care / Loving or Caring in Bahasa Malaysia
I thank God for my eldest brother, Timmy Lai. He cares and loves me very much! He always makes sure that my tummy is full! During my weekend stay, he took good care of me! Thanks bro! Thank God too for all great people that God put into my life who had make my weekend so much fun! Last but not least, thank you Uncle Anthony! I am so touched by your kindness that you had showed me on Sunday!

Conclusion: -no need lahhhh- I am really blessed! Cheerio =)

My Testimony About MAHSA University College

Last time, Tuan Haji Sulaiman (MAHSA University College, Head of Programme Medical Imaging) asked me to write my testimony about the college and here is the testimony:-

I thanked God that I was given an opportunity to further my study at MAHSA College (which is now known as MAHSA University College). This college was newly established when I started studying here but it never fail to gain my confidence to study here. With the great facilities that the college provides, in addition with the comfortable study environment and with the wonderful and experienced lecturers, indeed MAHSA College is the great place to study.

I am also thankful to have all my lecturers whom had helped me and guided me throughout the three awesome years of my study here at MAHSA College. They were not just lecturing alone, but they were also mentoring me and guiding me to be a successful student and eventually leading me to be a great and successful Radiographer. In my opinion, you will reap what you sow, therefore, if want to be a successful student, we need to study hard. Beside than this, another factor to be a successful student which I strongly believe and agree is that having a great mentor who never fails to be an inspiration to me. And seriously, my lecturers never failed to be my inspiration to be someone successful.

I really enjoyed the study environment inside the class. It was very interactive where there were many opportunity in asking question. I was also trained on how to work as team with my fellow course mates during group assignment. Not only I learned to work as team, I also gained some self-esteem and also confidence to be a leader. Indeed, it was a blessing that I was able to study here at MAHSA College. I am not sure about other places but here at MAHSA College, you can have the whole package from gaining knowledge to shaping your character.

P/s: To all my ex-coursemates (o4/06), I miss you all very much! Take care ya =')

Mere Nam DASS

Uncle Dass is the coolest guy in the radiology department! I always call him Sean Conery (a famous actor who once acted as James Bond in the 60's) Hehe...

Last night, I was cleaning up my room and I saw my 24th birthday card. Then, I opened up the card and I saw this great message from Uncle Dass which touched my heart...
"God gave us His son - so we give ourself as a gift to Him & His works. May this birthday, bring you all as your heart desire but God will should be in. Happy & blessed Birthday -Uncle Dass"

Thank you, Uncle Dass =)) God bless ya richly!

Photography in God's Way

When I was young, I saw a camera in a camera shop and I wanted to buy it but it is too expensive! So I asked my daddy for money to buy the camera. My daddy also couldn't afford it, so he got me another camera which was less expensive! I was so happy and started taking photographs! Sadly, the camera spoiled after I borrowed it to my friend. ='(

Then, when I started my college in 2006, I bought my first digital camera! I was so excited. But the excitement didn't last long because the digital camera's lens giving problem and in the end, it spoiled too! ='(

So finally, on Christmas 2008, God blessed me with a DSLR camera! I was so happy. I became more passionate in my photography and I got this inspiration, Photography in God's Way!

I like to capture some meaningful events examples like birthday party, nice holidays or special outing with friends or family members! Last time, I want to take photograph that can touch people's heart, photographs that can make people happy and photographs that are memorable! And I want use my photography skill to serve God and take more photographs that God can use it to touch other people's life and be an inspiration for others! That's what I call Photography in God's Way! Amen! =)

Children Mustn't Be Treated Like This

Season of dumpling new-born babies? Almost everyday, news about dumpling new-born babies is published on our local newspaper. This is so scary! Children's life and their soul are very precious to the Lord and all these news will definitely grief God's heart.

Children's life and their soul are very fragile too; now, here they are and later, they may be gone! They are so fragile until the irresponsible ones are taking advantage on them; dumping them, raping them and abandon them because of their irresponsible mistake and action!

Children is a blessing from God and they are not a burden! Sadly, many people don't know how to treasure this awesome blessing from God. But because of the consequence that the irresponsible ones need to face, so they can hardly see the child as a blessing but a burden to them. As a result, to eliminate this so called burden to them, they make the wrong decision by dumping them!

Implementing new law, can it really solve the problem? Blaming and judging all the irresponsible ones, can it really stop them from doing it again? In my opinion, don't just look at the surface of the problem; let's look into the root of it! Lack of firm godly foundation is the main factor that causing this problem. A proper education is very crucial too!

Therefore, let's not judge and blame but start praying! Let's start teaching the young generation and impart some godly values into their life! Prevent is better than cure; so let's start moulding and building up the current young generation a godly character and prayerfully, they will grow up with a strong and firm godly foundation that can prevent them from falling into temptation!

Redang Island; One Word, 'Awesome!'

"Let's pack our bags
And lie on the easy stream
Feel the water on our backs
Where we can carry on dreamin'
Where we can finally
Be where we'd like to be...
-You And Me by Zee Avi"

Pictures Worth a Thousand Words; so check out this link http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=183948&id=723969701&l=fa9413cbaf and see all the awesomeness moments of my friends and I at Redang Island!

Cheerio =) God bless ya!

A Great Pair of Shoes

We got Amita a pair of Crocs shoes and she likes it very much!

Amita, do you know that a fabulous footwear is essential to life, and we, your best friends understand that!; that's why we got the Crocs shoe and we are so glad that you like it!

Best Buddies!
(from the left; Ummi, Andrew, Amita, William and I)

We miss you very much and take care ya! Cheerio =)

Just Go Ahead!

4 hours before I travel, I received a news that bring my spirit down. It was so painful -like a pinch in my heart- Journey to the destination was dark and uncomfortable; making the travel even harder and tougher for me! "God, please give me your strength!" I prayed inside my heart. Then, I closed my eyes and I slept...

I reached the place where I was traveling to; it is a nice place and it is my dream destination BUT I was not fully excited about it because I was border by the news! When I was alone at the beautiful place, the news keep on flashing back in my mind; like a movie playing non-stop! "Oh, Lord, I need your strength!" again I prayed!

The next morning; I woke up early to see the beautiful sunrise! To me, sunrise stand for a new beginning, a new day with a new hope! I was doing my quiet time and the passage of that morning was about retreat! Praise the Lord! Strength is come from retreating and resting in the Lord and in total surrender to Him all my burdens and worries! -Calmness- What a beautiful moment, I felt God's peace was with me! I started to let go and cherished every sweet moments at my dream destination!

Finally, three days was over! Time to get back to the reality of facing the news! Sigh... I was really doubtful and not too sure how well I could handle it! I told myself, "Just go ahead and face it!" Thank God for His everlasting strength; I make it through and I overcome it without my acknowledgement -surprisingly!-

Strength also come in trusting in the Lord and have faith in Him just like this phrase; "Just go ahead!" Thank God for answering my prayer!

p/s: Life is full of obstacles and 'Faith' is the key to unlock all of it!

Waking Up From A Nightmare

I just recovered three days ago from sickness; it was like a nightmare to me... Scary! I was sick for five days. I started with high fever and then followed by gastric. My whole body was really weak. I didn't sleep well at night because I felt really uncomfortable due to the gastric pain or the fever.

I don't remember when was the last time I had fever and this time, it was really bad! Seriously, I was not resting well during my sickness. Although I am healed now but somehow I still feel like my whole body is very weak. Well, I guess I will be fine... I just need more rest!

Hooray! Hooray! (It's A Holi-Holiday)

"Hooray, hooray, it's a holi-holiday,

What a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday...
-Hooray! Hooray! (It's A Holi-Holiday) by Boney M"

Friday, May 28 2010 - Today is a public holiday; it is also my first day of my one week radiation leaves! I was given off days so that I can temporary staying away from radiation. Exposing too much to radiation can be really bad for my health, therefore, I am given off days to rest from radiation. By the way, I am a Radiographer by profession!

Today, my brother, Timmy came back to Ipoh together with his girlfriend, Tania! Then, my mum, Timmy, Tania and I went out for dinner together! We had 'Bak Ku Teh' -awesome Fat-Low-Ship ('fellowship') together- After dinner we went to Jusco and Tesco to do some shopping and getting something for tomorrow steamboat dinner. I thought going to Jusco to get my favorite Pretzel with Cinnamon Sugar from Auntie Anne's Pretzels, unfortunately, it was finished! So sad... Well, is okay, at least I got my sushi!

Back home after shopping; we sat at the living hall and watching tv together! While watching, we had sushi together and also Cupcakes from Bisou Bake Shop! Yummy! Thanks Tania for the cupcakes!

Black sesame seed and Coffee!

Wow, I had an awesome family bonding today! Praise the Lord! There are more to come on tomorrow! I am excited and can't wait for it!

Cheerio =)

Song Of Freedom

"A song of freedom is on my lips
Today, today
I sing about the One I love
Today, today

All I can see is Your mercy
All I can feel is Your grace

Your love is so wonderful
Let all the people sing that
Our God reigns above all
-Song of Freedom by Hillsong"

I was really down for almost a week because of a problem that I was facing! I was quiet; did not talk much and also did not laugh out loud like what I normally do... Gloomy all day long!

This morning, I was doing my quiet time inside my cousin's car and I was praying! After the quiet time, I felt so 'light' on my shoulder and my heart was filled with joy and peace! Praise the Lord! He had set me free once again and I was really happy and joyful the whole day! I am really unworthy for Him but He still loves me unconditionally and always be there to help me.

"Dear Heavenly Daddy, thank you for picking me up from my mess and set me free once again! I love you!"

Smiley The Clown

"Hi, I am Smiley!"

Singapore Zoological Garden

Lion

Butterfly

Ring-tailed Lemur

Sea lion

.... (Unknown) =P Some kind of birds, I guess....

Siberian White Tiger

Otter

Photographs above are taken during my trip to Singapore Zoological Garden with my family last year.

Bitter Heart

"Bitter heart, bitter heart tries to keep it all inside,
Bitter heart, bitter heart shadows will help you try to hide,
Bitter heart, bitter heart is gettin' just a little fragile,
Bitter heart, bitter heart of mine
- Bitter Heart by Zee Avi"

I just woke up from my sleep and dream recently; "Welcome to the real world, Jacky Lai!" Ouch, it is painful to learn about the truth! I should have wake up earlier or I shouldn't have wake up at all and continue sleeping and dreaming.

Well, a lesson well learned but I learned it too late! 'Good morning, Jacky Lai!' Let's wake up and move on in life! Life Goes On...