Catching Up

Awright! Long post, here we go. 5 days worth of stuff. Gonna keep it as un-wordy as I can. =P Was gonna blog on Friday when we got back but was too tired, and ytd was busy helping dad with some stuff (see further down).

On Wed, we went to Dolphin Bay at Hua Hin, not Pattaya. Beach was really nice, quiet, peaceful, my kinda thing. Not tourist-saturated. At the hotel there was free wireless internet so I could've blogged and stuff but I decided to stay unplugged. The first morning we got up real early, drove up along the beach and then walked all the way back (dad drove). We saw a lotta interesting stuff cuz the tide was way out.

Saw cuttlefish eggs, anemones, a dead stingray, fishermen bringing in their night's catch, we rescued beached jellyfish, etc etc. Would've taken pictures if mom had brought her camera (but alas, her camera is never around when there actually ARE intesting things to photograph). Dad had his, but I don't dare touch his camera.
Later I'll post wtv photos he did take. That afternoon we used the hotel's free bicycles and went the other way down the beach. Got caught in the rain, super fun! ^^ Stopped at a little drink hut and waited there until the rain slowed. There, we chatted and made friends with the Thai guy and his family. That evening he helped set us up for a fishing trip. :D

Hired one of the local fishermen and his boat, went out and dropped anchor near Monkey Island. There's this comparison that goes: The part of the universe that we can see with the naked eye is like one drop of water in the ocean, compared to all that's out there; and God holds the universe in His hand. So when I was sitting on the boat heading out to the island, in the dark, but with a full moon overhead, I suddenly felt very very small. To think that God personally cares for one, who is one of 6 billion other people in a drop of water in the ocean. Yeah, wow.

Anyway, back to the fishing. We didn't catch much by the usual fishing line way, but got some good stuff using the net. Mostly pike fish, and then some other fish, a prawn, a cuttlefish (which squirted a lot of ink and made the water in the bucket go black), an octopus which was so cool that mom made us let it go instead of taking it back to eat... hahaha. [~Dad got pics of that, will get them later.] I wanted to get the jellyfish that kept floating by but the fisherman said no. Hehe. :P

Next day, mom and Jana and I went clamming. :D I nearly got sunburnt during then. A lot of clams ah! Brought them home to eat. It all reminds me of Sarah and Rach somehow. Did we ever go clamming tgt??? Lol.






The people at the drink hut from the previous day helped us fry the stuff we'd caught at night. After a super shiok lunch, by a peaceful beach, under the trees with just the right balance of shade and sunlight, we drove home. Well, made a stop by the factory outlet on the way back. RACHEE, when you come I bring you go there! All discount super a lot. XD See if mb lidat you'll buy anything or not.

Okay, so that's our Hua Hin trip, in short. ^^ Now I have like a stained glass kind of pattern on my back, from tanning in diff spots at diff times, depending on what I was wearing. XD Got like, 5 shades of skin.

Yesterday I was gonna blog, but then dad asked me to illustrate a bit for his sermon, which I was very happy to do. Fun stuff! The story of Gideon. The Midianites were oppressing the Israelites, and Gideon tried to summon an army. He got 32 thousand men to assemble, but God said "You have too many men." And Gideon would've been like "uh, God? Too many? ... Have you even seen the quality of these 'soldiers', compared to the Midianites?" So yeah, that was what I had to draw.

Midianite

Israelites

Drawn by hand, scanned, converted to vectors in Illustrator, and then colored using live paint/Photoshop.

Today was church. The lesson from the story of Gideon is that God can use you even if you're doubt-filled, weak, and don't see yourself as much. Because when He looks at us, He doesn't see us as what we think we are-- He sees the potential that He placed in us even before we were born. And also, if you think you're the most unlikely person that God would ever want to choose to do His work, then, well... that makes you a prime candidate to be chosen. ;) Like Moses, who tried making all sorts of excuses. Like Abraham, who was waaay old and didn't have kids. Like Joseph, the youngest brother who got sold into slavery. Like David, who couldn't even carry the battle armor.

So gambatte, people. =] It's not about "how" you can do something God's set before you. It's about "whether" you will or not. Leave the -how- up to God, because He is everything. If He has a task for you to do, be assured that He won't send you in without backup.

AAack. o_O Sugar overdose. Eating way too much candy and other snacks while chilling and slacking around at Patreeya's house. You know, these.

Like any other candies, "just one" becomes two, then three, and four, and then suddenly half the jar's gone. But these are even harder to stop eating cuz they're so pretty. =3

We had funnnn~ =) Nice to finally get to chill with her before she goes off to the States for uni. (Jeremy, don't get jealous now...) Today we did a lot of nothing. Played guitar, read stuff, watched vids and a movie online, took quizzes (and I've added 2 to the list of links on the left, they're marked with [quiz]. And from there go ahead and try the site's other quizzes. Fun stuff. :D), talked, ordered in pizza for dinner... yeah. Thanks for having me over, Pat! ^^

edit: We watched -How She Move- over lunch. Pat had left her comp on all night to let it stream. :P It's about step dancing. The Af Americans are sooooo cool! I wanna dance like that. :D Go to http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/howshemove/trailer/
to see the trailer. If that gets your attention, then you can go watch it at tudou.com or whichever movie site you use. (Youtube wouldn't be a good idea cuz you'd have to watch it at 10 minute bits at a time.)

We also looked at some Pon and Zi comics (yesterday, actually). Very cute. Here're some-

Anw, tmr our family's going to Pattaya (or Hua Hin) for a few days, so I won't be blogging. Or be on msn either. Well, good for me to get away from the comp screen a bit. =P Go to the beach, shake off my dormancy. Soak up some sunlight, go borderline sunburn, laugh at sunburnt ang mohs. I'll tell you more when I get back~ :) Byebye!

(~Please tag once in awhile if you read, thanks a lot! ^^~)

Woke up late, had some of mom's cheesecake for breakfast. In the afternoon, came over here to Patreeya's house where I am now, using her computer. =3 Her keyboard's easier to type with than my mac's, with it expensive-but-lao-ya protective covering.

We went to Central just now. I bought some bday presents, blew my money. XD Well, better spent on other people than myself. =) And then we had Au Bon Pain for dinner. The steak one is like seriously shiok.

Oh, ytd I found my old blog on Xanga.

... It was not good. Not a very pleasant experience overall. If it had been someone else's blog I was reading, I would have said "Uh.. strange,weird, slightly odd kid. Emo, conceited. How terrible for her to be like that, poor thing. One of those people who needs help but doesn't see it."

Yea-aahh. =S But I guess it's good that I can look back and say that, cuz it means I've changed. To think that people still liked me even back then. Whew, that's mercy for ya. I didn't realize I was being like that. Maybe I wasn't all that bad. Perhaps it just sounds that way cuz my blog captured my darker moments, my rants, and well... whatever else makes a person sound bad.

But it wasn't allllllllllll bad. It gave me some interesting things and times to remember. I even found the lyrics to a song I'd been writing. When I read it I was like "No way, I never wrote this...." until I came to the last line of the chorus, then it suddenly clicked. And all of last night I was trying to rmb the tune. It came back in bits and pieces, agonizingly slowly, and I only finally remembered the whole thing this morning when I woke up... Heh, makes me feel like someone recovering her memory after a car accident.

Ok, better get back to Patreeya. She's sitting here playing guitar, singing. She's got a nice voice. Go Pat! *thumbs up* =) And then later we have cheesecake (mom's, yes) and brownie to eat. Woop~ ^^

Nitez!

HAHA! Dad's on facebook now. Funny ah, when these old peoplez do these younger generation things. Like MSN oso. XD

Ok first off, I would like to ask anyone who visits my blog, to tag. :) I know you guys read, cuz the imeem number of plays keeps going up. So thanks for reading! And I would just much appreciate it if you'd drop even a little "hihi!" on the tagboard. So I can see who, and we can chat and joke arnd, yeah? Oh, then rmb to check back for replies too. Thx! ^^

Last night I spent 2 hrs tossing and turning trying to sleep but couldn't. What was cool tho was that I had some nice melodies and words suddenly pop into my head arnd 1.45 am (goodness), and I got out of bed to write it down. Am now working to turn them into a song or two. ^^

Church today was normal, meaning nice. But I miss the nonsense stuff from Poiema peeps! Hahaha.

Today we had our first (but unofficial) student council meeting. Top, Joanne, Boss, Rahul, and I. Cuz I'd asked him to, dad taught us abt the 4 personality types (sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, melancholy). [VERY INTERESTING, AND SUPER USEFUL! If you wanna know more come ask me on msn! ^^] And we all took turns saying which traits from which categories we saw in ourselves, and then had the others tell us what they saw in us too. It was all very positive, even when it came to mentioning each others' weaknesses. =) We really have an exceptional team for the SC, and I pray that we will not waste what we have been given.

Hm. Dunno why I feel like I got a lot to say, but when I put my hands to the keyboard then like I realize got really not much to write here... Oh, maybe it's just an overflow of emotionzzzzz~~*#^!~~**:>-). HAHA XD But, well, I'll be keeping that to myself for now. ;)