Evolution Vs Creation

I was asked by my supervisor to teach a class. Title: Human evolution. I get students from the Faculty of Allied Sciences and me myself from Faculty of Science and Technology... who are these students ???

err....How am I suppose to teach this class when I, Me, myself don't believe in evolution. Yes, I am a geneticist, earning my PhD with my hard work and sweat, BUT, NO I don't believe in evolution. Sometimes I find myself in a hard situation when people ask me about my faith and science. I believe in creation by the God Almighty.

Common...let me be frank. You want to believe you come from ancestor who is an ape or believe that God so love us that HE created us in His own image. I want to believe the latter.

Maybe new evolution will take over now...

too much of food. from the previous trip back to Pg

or maybe cause by PC evolution to make us smaller and making Bill Gates pocket larger

Incidentally, Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world now. Carlos Slim from Mexico had taken over. He is not that Slim isn't he?

Well, let see what will happen this coming Thursday when I turn the lesson into Human Migration.

Penang trip

I went back to Penang last week for leisure and work. After a few stops along the ever congested highway, I arrived Penang around 3pm. First sight that greats me at the Penang bridge, is the welcoming Penang jam. Traffic was bumper to bumper. Imagine, it took us 45 mins to cross the bridge. I know, I am back!

The Penang bridge welcoming party

First thing we did (Aylwin, Li-Ann, Chih Wei, Mee Siing and myself), we head straight to the Swatow lane for lunch. Aylwin and the rest arrive earlier while Mee Siing and myself arrive later.

Swatow lane Ice kacang with fruits. Yummy!

Kimberley Street Char Keow Teow with mantis prawn. heavenly!

Had a good time eating and chatting and at the same time, planning how to spend the next three days in Penang with them. I stay much longer, for 9 days. 3 days in Penang, took us food hunting everywhere, from Penang island to Batu Kawan in Butterworth for food. Every body have their own '5 cents worth' which stall sells nicer 'char keow teow', so, we took more than 5 times of 'char keow teow'. Our very own famous blogger from Kuching, Kenny, once try to have his Penang Food guide.

We went for movie too.. Die Hard 4. Great movie but a lot of unrealistic move by Bruce Willis. All of us enjoy it so much.

However, the trip to Penang is not all play and no work. I have to work from Monday to Friday in Kepala Batas. Waking up at 615am to leave for Kepala Batas Mardi is the killer of the trip. We have to leave by 645am simply just to avoid the madness jam.

The scarecrow to that greats us every morning. Doesn't it look like its directing the birds to the paddy field???

While in Penang, I took the time to visit the Lorong Kulit. If you have not been to this place, and you are an 'junk @ antics' lovers, this is a must visit place. If you like anything at all, this place is a must. You can get anything from under the sky, food, hand phone & accesories, fruits, groceries, clothings, antics, second hand magazine and etc. You name it, you can find it. You can even find people selling aphrodiasic with funny 'action'. His tag line

Once you take it, it goes zoinneee...

???? Can't brings you any pics though. sorry

You can even find the stering wheel in Lorong Kulit. Simply amazing.

Opens saturday and sunday in the morning till noon

I will brings you more updates about the trip to Penang soon.

FUEL 2007

Another event by our church, will be the FUEL 2007 concert coming up in September this year. This will be one of the major event for our church and this concert will be featuring artist from Christian City Church, Oxford Falls, Sydney, Australia. Jeff Crabtree and Joshua Bedoukian will be coming with their team to perform in Dewan Wawasan, PGRM, Cheras on 15 September, 2007, for the concert. Good news, this is FREE. Come and worship the Lord. It will be a wonderfull time.

In conjuction with this, we are having seminar in our church on the 14th - 16th September. Topics such as, The worship leader, songwriting, vocalist, musician and production & performance will be covered. Do register early by visiting our website or email us at fuel2007@kaog.org.my.

Adults:RM45.00

Students: RM30.00

Mission Fest

Our Church mission fest and fun fair will be coming up from 27-29, July. We have wonderfull programme in store for everybody, for young and old. We are having treasure hunt, coloring contest, WRAP programme for the children by STAMP, hair cut, Jumble sales, games and many more. check it out at our website, Kajang Assembly of God.

We are trying to raise fun for at least 50 AOG pastor who are in rural areas, to support them in their ministry and work. We would want to partnet with them through our giving! So, do come and support us through this Mission fest and fun fair. We will be having our jumble sales too, on the 4th of August. Find out more for yourself at http://www.kaog.org.my/

Wedding Ring Pillow

As the date draws nearer, people i meet have this question in their mouth...

Q: So, how is your wedding preparation?

A: OK-lah. a lot more to settle and do.

Q: Why always the same answer one?

A: Ya-lah. still got a lot-mah.

Sometimes, we felt, people around us are more excited then we are. they are more concern about our wedding. Not that we are complaining that they care, they help us to be more excited! but when the only question the ask is how is your wedding preparation everytime they meet us, and from nearly everyone who meet us, we sounded like tape recorder answering pre-recorded questions.

Its just like the Chinese culture when they meet somebody, anytime, they will ask chiak pa boey? (literally translated into English, Have you eaten?) HELLO !!! ????

11am, to early for lunch, to late for breakfast.

2pm, to late for lunch,

4pm, same question, not relevant anymore.

9pm, again, late for dinner but still acceptable,

12am, what am I suppose to answer to this question? which meal do you mean? I took breakfast, lunch, dinner, but nope, I have not taken supper?

duh?!!!

And now, our wedding is in November. They ask us how is your wedding preparation? Obviously, there are lots more to settle. Not that we are having a grand wedding but, there must be lots to settle before we can says, almost done. People ask, why are you taking such a long time to plan, ONE year? hello, its wedding!

We need to confirm the venue, the guest, have marriage counseling, get the right Person-in-Charge (if not the wedding will be K.O), ask our family members, take pictureSSSsssss ( we took more then 180 pics), select our gown, buy our rings, get ourselves register two weeks before the church wedding and more. ETC.

Anyway, we thanks all those who are concern about us and getting this wedding ready. A lot of them, offer their helps and give us a lot of advice too. We thank you. And Yes, we appreciate your concern. And Yes, we want all those question coming, but maybe, you can ask us more then our wedding ceremony. or maybe, you can ask us question like,

So, how can I help you?

Do you have anything you want to me to do?

Anyway, here are some updates. We went to Parkson yesterday and we found this ring pillow. Its lovely. At fist we wanted to make ourselves the pillow, but when we saw this in Parkson, its just so nice. We love the bear and we give in to the temptation.. hahahah. we spend RM19.90 for this. love it. We will be adding a ribbon to it for the ring.

Lovely...

Alluring charm of the bear...

More updates to come...stay tune....

Public Bus

Public Bus
Originally uploaded by khaichung

A public bus over in Brastagi, Sumatra. its rich in color and always rich with activities surrounding the bus too. the bus will carry just anything you want, from vegetables to even motorcyle on top of the bus....

to LAH or not to LAH

Lately the STAR newspaper has been running the articles about what malaysian is to you? I have been following this column in Star 2 for the pass one week. its amazing to read about what the younger generation (not that I am old, I am just 2 years above the age limit) write about being Malaysian.


I have been growing up in this part of the world for the past 27 years..and when you ask me, you like Malaysia or not, I CAN'T tell you!!!Yes, I like it here because of the multi culture, multi racial community that we live, we have a lot of food for me to samples, can understand and communicate in at least 3 different languages, live in the country once boast to have the highest building in the world (now is still the highest twin tower in the world, KLCC) and even have food round the clock without me having to worry I can go hungry ans stuff to die....but NO, I dont like it here because, I dont like the wheater, the sensorship that we have here, in order that we can live in harmony (I guess we have a price to pay for everthing) and again...I can't write it here because its sensitive. Nevertheless, its a beautiful country to live in.



One thing about Malaysian, its the -lah attitude that we have. Malaysia are so easy to recognise when I travel simply because when we talk, we have the '-lah' suffix to our sentences.



Me: Hi, nice meeting you. By the way, where are you from?



A: Malaysia-lah



Me: I see. No wonder-lah. I see you talk like this, I also guess-lah you are from Malaysia.



A: Ya-lah. Me also-mah.



and this "-lah" conversation can go on and on...



Malaysia use lah more than what we think it is. Its not just s simple addition to our already multi language, multi culture and multi race society (as if, mastering 3 language is easy), but Malaysian use this lah suffix to emphasis their sentences. Malaysiana publish an articles about the application of lah

(Source:All Malaysian.info)


Most of us never realise that we use this suffix in our conversation but we all used it-lah.

What to do...since we live in a place where we have Pak.... :)

Diamond or Stone?

For the past two months, I have been travelling to quite a number of places. It started with 7 days trip to Ranong and Phuket over in Thailand, then, to Sibu, Sarawak for 3 days. From Sarawak, I went to Medan and Brastagi over in Sumatra, Indonesia. And recently, I just came back from Singapore and also to Fraser Hill, Penang and Cameron Highlands.

Sometimes, I wonder why am I so busy and running here and there? Do I need too? or can I just say, I am busy.. next time la! I am tempted too just leave it and give excuse I am busy...hey I really am busy. I am still trying to finish up my thesis for PhD. It already took me a year to write my thesis. After all, I am a student and trying to cope with my time and study...

However, I do feel, I have some obligations to my family. I have not visited them over 3 months back in hometown though they came to my place. I am trying to tell it to my family, I LOVE them. They are always in my thought and I treasure the time I have with them all the time. Everytime. Everywhere.

At the same time, I have to serve God. No matter what, I made it a point that I will continue to serve Him no matter how busy I am. Can I at least give me 10% of my time. Simple mathematics....

24 hours x 10% = 2.4 hours or 144 mins per day!

Thus, I have always set it a side for God.. anytime in the day. I can just do anything for Him. Simple. Serving him always bring joys and happiness. Fulfillment. Satisfaction. Always light. maybe. I do struggle at times. hard press. tired. But, when I commit myself to him, I am always refresh. Strengthen. I have learn to yield myself to Him. One step nearer, thousand steps lighter. One step closer, thousands steps lighter.

Over time, I realise, I am able to cope with my life better. I am able to be more cheerful. happier. Everytime I struggle, and when I come out of it, I overcome problems that will strenghten me. It builts into me personalities and spirit that is stronger.

People from around you will realise you have change. People feel it. My family members knows it. My grandparents admit it. It's different. Praise the Lord for that.

Carbon will remains as carbon if it did not go thru the process of 'compression' and 'heating'. from there, it appear as harden stone. From a stone, it will have to be cut and polish. Then, you will get the DIAMOND.

Every person will have to be press. compress. broken. reshape. mould. polish. then, the full potential will start to shine. We will always have to look deep into the situation we are in to realise there is a reason for it.

To some, rain is bad. scary. flood. Yet, to many, its blessing. However, above all, after all the gloom... we can see the RAINBOW! Nevertheless, RAINBOW doesn't comes easy. Sun ray have to penetrate into the rain drops and behind it, then, you enjoy the rainbow.

Praise the Lord!

Hati Sebagai Hamba (heart as a slave)

by Jonathan Prawira

Kutak membawa apapun juga (I did not bring anything)
Saat ku datang ke dunia (the moment i came to earth)
Ku tinggal semua pada akhirnya (I leave everything at the end of it)
Saat ku kembali ke surga (the moment i go back to heaven)

Inilah yang ku punya (this is what I have)
Hati sebagai hamba (a heart as a slave)
yang mau taat dan setia (who wants to obey and be faithful )
PadaMu Bapa (to You Father)

Kemanapun ku bawa (everywhere I go, I will bring)
hati yang memyembah (a heart that worship)
dalam Roh dan kebenaran (in spirit and in truth)
Sampai selamanya (until eternally)

Question in LIFE?

Have you ever think thru about life? what is life? I ponder a lot when I was growing up during my teenage years. a lot of the questions comes to my mind. Questions like will I be rich? what will I do or what is my career when i grow up? Where will I stay? will I still in my own country? will I be able to go overseas for holiday trip yearly? and the questions will go on and on....and I remember I used to listen to the song, Que Sera Sera.

what ever will be will be,
the future is not for us to see,
que sera sera....

And comes every new year, I will think of new year resolution! Yup, I know everybody (maybe not, but majority) will do that. But how many actually fulfill the resolution. I know I don't. And sometimes, I just have the same resolution again. suddenly, one day I was send an email with the four questions below.

1) What is the most difficult to find in Life?
2)What is the most challenging to deal with in Life?
3)What is hard to let go in Life?
4) What is hard to convience about in Life?

Yes, I use upper case letter for Life! all about LIFE!!!! All the question we ask are related to our LIFE! At the end of the day, I reckons that we are just a creature created by God. God is in total control. He created us human beings in His own image! Than, why we worry?

In times of weakness, we always have Him to support us! We are His creation, created beautifully by Him. When we are down, call upon Him. He will let His arms surround us. He LOVE us! He will comfort us in times of despair! He will life us up! He has dreams for us. Dreams that is good, to give us hope and a future!

Look to the Lord and His strength; Seek His face always. remember the wonders He has done.

~Psalms 105:4,5~

Let's relax. Enjoy every moment now. Things are not that complicated as it looks. We will always go thru bend in the road of life. however, every bend will reveal a new road ahead. Sometimes, we will be dizzy, but we shall reach our destination! Every bend is not end of the road! Every tunnel will have its source of LIGHT too! Let us look upon Him for the LIGHT!

Life is SIMPLE, not easy,

Don't try to understand LIFE,

Just LIVE it.