MealZ on WillZ

Thought it'd be nice for some of you to read the lyrics of this song... and recall when you first met him/her.. re-live the moment.. haha.. I'm just in a mood to hit soft spots!

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Her:
Be still my heart
Lately its mind is on its own
It would go far and wide
Just to be near you

Him:
Even the stars
Shine a bit bright I've noticed
When you're close to me

Her:
Still it remains a mystery

*Chorus 1*:
Anyone who's seen us
Knows what's going on between us
It doesn't take a genius
To read between the lines
And it's not just wishful thinking
Or only me who's dreaming
I know what these are symptoms of
We could be in love

Her:
I ask myself why
I sleep like a baby through the night
Maybe it helps to know
You'll be there tomorrow

Him:
Dont open my eyes
I'll wake from the spell I'm under
Makes me wonder how

Her:
Tell me how I could live without you now

Chorus 2:
And what about the laughter
The happy ever after
Like voices of sweet angels
Calling out our names
And it's not just wishful thinking
Or only me who's dreaming
I know what these are symptoms of
We could be in love

Bridge:
Him:
All my life I have dreamed of this
But I could not see your face
Her:
Don't ask why two such distant stars
Can fall right into place

(Repeat chorus 1)

Oh, it doesn't take a genius
To know what these are symptoms of
We could be...
We could be...
We could be in love
We could be in love

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Treasure the one you love...


WillZ

If you're male and you don't believe that another man can move your heart, you could be wrong. You should pay Tommy Emmanuel's CDs or concert a visit.

Was watching his Live in St Louis concert on my PC and it was just so beautiful.. made my eyes watery.. it was close to tearing =) Told Stef that it's gonna b unfair if God gave him anything more than his musical abilities n talent! I then found out he can joke too. =( HAHAHA... SO UNFAIR!

God bless him... I read he's a committed Christian. Christian or not, I think his acoustic playing will relief any stressful mind.

You're da man Tommy, hope to meet you in December.

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On another note, if u dun wanna b moved by a man, but u'r a man dat's thinking of moving... 60 / 422 Cardigan Street has one room available next year. Talk to me for more details. If u know anyone dat knows me fair enough n needs a place.. lemme know too.

Requirements:

1) Must be able to handle late nites.
2) Must be able to handle late nite hangouters.
3) Must be able to handle late nite hangouters who hangs out till too late.
4) Must pay rent on time.


WillZ

1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually)
unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary;
it's highly superfluous.
14. One should NEVER generalize.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
16. Don't use no double negatives.
17. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be ignored.
21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical
words however should be enclosed in commas.
22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
23. DO NOT use exclamation points and all caps to emphasize!!!
24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth
earth shaking ideas.
26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when
its not needed.
27. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate
quotations. Tell me what you know."
28. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times:
Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it
correctly.
29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
31. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
32. Who needs rhetorical questions?
33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
34. The passive voice should never be used.
36. Do not put statements in the negative form.
37. Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
38. A writer must not shift your point of view.
39. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long
sentences of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
40. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
41. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a
linking verb is.
42. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
43. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
44. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with
singular nouns in their writing.
45. Always pick on the correct idiom.
46. The adverb always follows the verb.
47. Be careful to use the rite homonym.
And Finally...
47. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.


WillZ

Imagine this
I get a phone call from Regis - he says, "Do you want to be a millionaire?"
The put me on a show and I win with two lifelines to spare
Picture this
I act like nothing ever happened and bury all the money in a coffee can
Well I've been given more than Regis ever gave away
I was a dead man who was called to come out of my grave
I think it's time for makin' some noise

Wake the neighbors
Get the word out
Come on, crank up the music, climb a mountain and shout
This is life we've been given, made to be lived out
So la, la, la, la, live out loud

Think about this
Try to keep a bird from singing after it's soared up in the sky
Give the sun a cloudless day and tell it not to shine
Think about this
If we really have been given the gift of life that never ends
And if we have been filled with living hope, we're gonna overflow
And if God's love is burning in our hearts, we're gonna glow
There's just no way to keep it in

Wake the neighbors
Get the word out
Come on, crank up the music, climb a mountain and shout
This is life we've been given, made to be lived out
So la, la, la, la, live out loud

Live out loud
Everybody
La, la, la.... la, la, la-la,.... la, la, la, live out loud
I wanna hear everybody sing
La, la, la.... la, la, la-la,.... la, la, la, live out loud

Every corner of creation is a living declaration
Come join the song we were made to sing

Wake the neighbors
Get the word out
Come on, crank up the music, climb a mountain and shout
This is life we've been given, made to be lived out
So la, la, la, la, live out loud

~ Steven Curtis Chapman

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WillZ

Got this in a forwarded email and I added some minor stuff inside. Helps me remember my childhood a lil bit better and hope it gives the same tingle to you who are part of the glorious 70's.
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For all born in 70's :

You grew up watching Wacky Racers, Plasticman, Tom and Jerry (faint color version) Woody-wood pecker, He-man, Transformers, Thundercats, Silver Hawk, Space Cop Gaban, Ultraman, and Mighty Mouse. And later on, Ninja Turtles, Mask and Smurfs too.

You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in primary school after recess time. You squatted by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brushed your teeth with a colourful mug. Remember the days when the school nurse comes with a list for the dentist appointments, the sound of the drilling when your friend has a fill in his tooth.

You remember the packets of milk (Projeck Susu Sekolah) and milo we get in primary school to encourage us to drink more milk. And when we had to line up just to get one cup, and some of us would line up again for another cup of cold milo. And remember we use to buy susu sekolah and get stomach-ache the next day. During primary (some KBSR & 3M) school days, the teacher will punish you using a long ruler to hit your palm. A bowl of noodle soup cost only 40c in primary school days.

When you were in primary school, girls like to go to the bookshop to buy cute stuff such as animal erasers, sharpeners, notebook etc. Play with these paper doll... with all the paper clothes.. etc etc.. Guys will go buy erasers with alphabets and flags on it to ‘tiak’ on the table.

In secondary (some KBSM) school, girls go to the library to borrow their favourite romance storybook.

In secondary school, girls altered their school skirt to shorten it and guys will go to the school appointed school uniform tailor shop to tailor make their school trousers to the then fashionable "baggy pants", or the GQ one with all the 'batik' or buckle at the edge of the pocket! The straight cut jeans.. or codroy... In secondary school days, you buy the Bata BM Turbo school shoes. Some guys like to wear those china made ankle high shoes. Some even like to wear those very thick socks with their school shoes. Remember the panda, carefree or warrior shoes.. :)

Internet? E-mail? What the hell is that? So you thought a decade or more ago. Your friends don't have pagers or handphones in school.

CDs? What's that? Cassette tapes were the norm. Movie tickets used to cost less than $5 last time. There is no KLCC..

Pertama or Bukit Bintang the only place we have..

The goodies from Mamak shop used to be Mamee, Ka ka, Kum Kum, Ding Dang choco balls (with toys in the box) + the mat sentul voices as a jingle, colourful hard "egg", "cigerette" chocolate, pink bottle of bubbles, and small tubes with yellow sticks to blow "more lasting" bubbles that you can pop more air in or slam it on. You never forget 'Ti Kam'. When exams are over, the board games (eg: UNO, Monopoly, CLUEDO) & handheld video games will be all over the class room. Girls will start playing 'batu seremban'. Guys with 'tudung botol oren' Your favourite sound is the bell! For it's the homemade ice cream man. The cream that tops Haagan Dazs! The pink colour ice-cream with eyes plus a wide smile. Another bell is the recess bell, a time to get away from school work and to eat. Another time when there is no bell but all guys will anxiously wait for it...

The PJ, PE time (time for football!!)

Your favourite childhood games were playing "guli"(marbles), five stones, zero-point, catching, and/or "Pepsi-Cola one two three"! The best thirst quencher of all times is the yummy colourful ice tube you can buy from provision shops. To eat them, break the tab and suck while holding the freezing tube! All gals had barbie dolls, My Little Pony, pound puppy, Polly Pocket and etc, while all boys had star wars figurines or a rubber band catapult that shoots folded paper or eraser bits. Once was the era whereby ice-cream sticks were valuable items, than came the paper aircraft's, chalk fights.

Everyone envied the class monitor and his assistant, cos they were the ones who came up with the daily duty roster, giving names to teacher on who makes the most noise and who's running around the class. The elite group are the prefects, the one with license to move around, they consider themselves above the law when not many students actually listened to them, and that's when the PK Hem comes in.

Some boys made their own guns from wood, and used 'Bacali' as the bullets. Some even used matches to shoot and burn kids' lanterns during Latern Festival..

and you also rather to 'ponteng sekolah' juz to watch final episod of Moero Attack .. miss that much.. summersault berkembar... hehehe.. still remember this one..
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WillZ

pretty enough??

That was the song I heard the school children singing today.. led by a teacher on a guitar!

"Am I not pretty enough
Is my heart too broken?
Do I cry too much?
Am I too outspoken?
Don’t I make you laugh?
Should I try it harder?
Why do you see right through me?"

Makes me wonder why they are singing a song dat's totally unrelated to school. I'd love to see Malaysian children learning to sing hip n cool songs.. haha.. Demi negara.. Yang tercinta...

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"No, you weren't stupid. You were brave. You took a risk."
Take a risk.. take a risk? take a risk! Should I take another risk? Could I take another risk? Would I take another risk?

"Many are the plans in a man's heart,
but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails" - Proverbs 19:21
Lord, I bow.

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Amazing how a simple ICQ conversation that lasted no more than 4 lines in total can do to a person. Makes you think of home. Makes you wish those ppl are here with you. That you can rent a car and bring them around. Show them what your life was like for the past 4 years. Makes you wish ppl like Yao Hua stayed longer than 2 weeks. Makes you realise too that things have changed so much. Tells you to forget what lies behind and stretch forward for what is yet to come.

Would you still recognise me if I was wrapped in another person's skin and appearance? Would you say "hey, you are SO SO SO much like my fren!"? or would the remnants of the person you knew be lost forever?


WillZ

Yeshhhh... been wanting to blog on this for a long time already! There are so many things we encounter in our daily lives that feels good but we do not know if others share the same opinion. But when we realise others like it too.. it sets us free to enjoy the good feeling.. haha..

Undoubtedly these things are mostly disgusting.. BUT feels so good! If you haf something like that pls submit them to me so I can share with the world that we're quite universal after all. So what's the first entry of the day???

IFGTKYKIFG #1

Digging your ears when it's itchy... especially if you manage to scratch the itch! FEELS GOOD! But it kinda sucks if you feel like you're digging a hole to China but you're unable to reach the itch.. come to think of it.. that feels good too.. very GERAM.

IFGTKYKIFG #2

Picking up money on the street. Most people say they can't be bothered picking up like 20 cents from the streets, but hey.. it sure FEELS GOOD when you do! Try it next time, especially if it's a 50 dollar note. But if you come to my room and you start picking up money and putting them into your pocket, you better not let me find out. I can guarantee you won't feel good after that.

Ok, lazy to type out more oredi.. submit ur feel goods and I'll screen thru to see if it's postable. "It feels good to beat up your best friend! And see blood gushing out of his ears.." <-- NONO.

WWW

Choice, not chance, determines human destiny.

...I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. - Deuteronomy 30:19

Hmm.. choice, not chance. choice, not chance. choice, not chance. choice, not chance. choice, not chance.


WillZ

What does A1 gotta do with King of Kings? What do they have in common? Ask me personally if you wanna know...


WillZ

Talking about the weather is something you don't wanna do a lot. Ppl call it small talk. It's something you talk about to strangers or when you run out of topics.

A : Ya, I think your brother shouldn't have done that to you too.
B : Sigh, what to do.

.....(silence)
.....(more silence)

B : Nice weather today huh?
A : Ya.

BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER THIS WEEK?

Crazy! How can it be? 30C max!?! 32C max?!?

Imagine.. the min for tuesday is 16C.. max is 32C.. that's a whopping 16C difference in temperature. Leave a cup of water on the table at 15C room temperature and drop it down 16C. You get a frozen chunk of ice.

Then it drops down to a max of 19C on Thursday.. I have a feeling I'm gonna fall sick one of these days. Grrr.

On another note..

Been on quite a funny (weird kinda funny, not the willie funny kinda funny) journey the past 2 months. My thoughts on certain things have been like the recent Melbourne weather. Things I've perceived in my life and others' gave me sleepless nites, restless sleeps, disorganised life, unwashed pots and pans, a messy house.. (sorry Mun Keong.. haha)

Yet I have to trust in Him. Brings back the verse I held on to when I went through an experience that I'd say "felt worse than eating shit".

Habakkuk 3:17-19

17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,

18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD ,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.

19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
He makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
He enables me to go on the heights."

The prayer and cry of my heart for now is taken from the first verse of the same book and chapter..

"LORD , I have heard of Your fame;
I stand in awe of Your deeds, O LORD.
Renew them in my day."

God has brought me this far. My past shouts His fame. I stand in awe of His deeds. Though I am not able to see beyond my thoughts and feelings at all, and nothing else sparks the flame of hope - I've got to make myself trust and depend on Him.

To you, you, you, you, and yes you. Y'all know who you are. You know you need this. You know you stand in awe of His deeds. You need to know He will renew them in His time.


WillZ

...because I've got flat feet. =) One of the few things I found out during the 2 week break. Refer to the photo below to judge for yourself. This is sad day for Penang and its people.

Been up to a lot during the 2 weeks.. and yup.. need not post any fotos cos others haf done it for me. Check out the few links below.. The previous post had my CG outing and LAN party.. here's the rest.. will write snippets about the happenings when I get over my flat feet shock.

1) Pamela Ndanson's CG retreat
2) Road Trip @ Yee Seng's
3) Road Trip @ Mun Keong's
4) Road Trip @ Stefie's


WillZ

You gotta see it to believe it..