Showing posts with label lessons in life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lessons in life. Show all posts

Basic Theory Test

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Updates: I PASSED the test! So I can go back to the office to do the conversion. Woo Hoo! Praise the LORD!
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Having my test later at 8pm. Do pray for me ya. I know it's a trivial matter, but I'm worried because failed his test. Hahaha. I guess that one because lack of study and also lack of books to study from. 

I got 2 books from a friend so it should be sufficient enough for me to pass if he can pass too. Besides, I just need to pass this test to convert my Msian license to Spore license. 

Few reasons why I want to do it:
1) You still get to keep your Msian driving license though you need to renew it every 5 yrs.

2) Converting license merely costs $11 ($6 for the test, and $3++ for the book).

3) After being a PR, there is a certain period of time to convert, else, I have to start from scratch again, and retake the whole course which may cost up to $2k here! (Ya, I know, it's ridiculous compared to the amount you pay in Msia for a full course :P)

4) Spore driving license is for a lifetime. ($50). No need to renew. Good right?

5) Also, did I mention that Spore license is also equivalent to an international driving license?

Yeah.. okokok.. so back to studying... taa...

Posted in: , , on 8 October 2008 at at 2:35 pm 0 kay-pohs  

The Cost of Following Jesus

At cell today, our CL gave us each 5 pcs of paper. We were supposed to write down what do we want to see ourselves achieve in this lifetime. It was a little difficult for me to write down.. but here they are anyway, in no particular order:

1) To be a strong woman in the Lord
2) To be able to grow old "gracefully" with Jason and the kids (if any)
3) To be able to do my very best in whatever place that He has put me in. (e.g. career? family - wife, mother, daughter, etc..)
4) To be able to bring my parents for a European tour when they retire
5) To be surrounded by good friends all the time

We were then told to give up one and left with four... till slowly it reaches up till only one that you can hold in your hand. Guess which was the first to go and last remaining one?

The whole game was mainly to relate on the cost of following Jesus. What are the things we need to die ourselves to? (ref. Luke 9).

- desire for comfort and ease
- personal goals and ambitions
- expectations of others
- fear of the unknown
- others?

Truly, as God's chosen people, we indeed have a high calling!
"And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14b.

Today, more than ever, God is looking for workers to send into His harvest field. How will YOU respond?

Posted in: , , on 29 July 2008 at at 11:41 pm 2 kay-pohs  

Money, money, money..

It's so funny...
In a rich man's world..
-Abba-

sigh.. everything has to do with this stupid dollar sign..can't deny the fact that we need money for everything. Sometimes I wish that we don't need to have this to survive. Perhaps we can do like what they did long time ago.. barter - trade. Hehehe...

But I guess, it's difficult. And most people asked why we're here (working in Spore) in the first place. We can't deny the fact that of course, the exchange rate is one of the main magnet for us to be here. But it is just so we can settle our debts back home as soon as possible. And in turn, hubs wants to go back home once the bills are settled. (not!)

But then again, if going back to where we came from, where the semicon industry is slowly diminishing... I'm not sure if I want to go back there and work as an engineer again.. He in turned, suggested farming.. Hahaha.. with flock of cattle and sheep to look after, perhaps, some kind of plantation thingy.. and growing our own crops at the back of our backyard. Imagine Mary had a little lamb, O McDonald had a farm e i e i o...etc..Sounds good to me, no worries, no stress..

I guess there might still be stress..but a different kind of stress.. Hehehe.. (e.g: like what if there's a plague, and my crops died..) I wouldn't have enough to eat, to sell, in turn to buy grains and so on.. sigh.. the list goes on and on.. and after a cycle, it will still come back to the dollar sign.. And yeah.. I can't imagine going into agriculture here in Malaysia, in Malacca? If you tell me places like in Australia or NZ, then.. it's a different story altogether.. But in Msia? Hard to imagine..

Look at the colors. My picture of a perfect farm!

Check out the barn! bee-you-ti-ful!


With this machines, I think milking a cow isn't gonna be a tough one. Even Paris Hilton could do it manually. :P



And so, there's no doubt about the importance of the dollar sign. And some even say, instead of "love makes the world go round", perhaps, in actual fact, "money makes the world go round".... does it? does it?

Posted in: , , , on 20 February 2008 at at 11:16 am 3 kay-pohs  

"At the end of our lives...

We will not be judged by:

...how many degrees we have received,
...how much $ we have made,
...how many places we have travelled to,
...or how many great things we have done.

But we will be judged by:
"I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in."

Posted in: , on 2 November 2007 at at 12:01 pm 0 kay-pohs  

The Ant and the Grasshopper

The original version:
It was a most interesting story which went into some detail about how the ant worked very hard, almost working himself to death during the spring, summer and fall months. It showed how he struggled to build a safe and comfortable home for himself and family, and to stock it with food and provisions for the hard winter months he knew were coming.

Meanwhile, while the ant was working so hard every day, the grasshopper taunted him, and made all manner of fun of his hard work, and of the ant not taking time to play, and dance, and sing, and loaf the time away as did the grasshopper most all of the time. Not only that, but the grasshopper was constantly singing his own version of that popular grasshopper hit song, "O The World Owes Me A Living," and fiddling as he danced and sang "tra la la la la la la."

When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger - while it saw the ants distributing every day, corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for days of need.

The modern version:
It starts out the same but when winter comes the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up and show pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to some film of the ant in his comfortable warm home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be, in a country of such wealth that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Then a representative of the N.A.A.G.B. (The National Association of Green Bugs) shows up on Night Line and charges the ant with "Green Bias" and makes the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism. Kermit the frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when he sings "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS evening news and tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefitted unfairly during the summer, or as Bill refers to it, the "Temperatures Of The 80's".

Finally the E.E.O.C. drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism Act" RETRO- ACTIVE to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and having nothing left to pay his Retro-Active Taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
The modern version of the story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last little bits of the ant's food while the government house he's living in .... which just happens to be the ant's old house .... crumbles around him since he doesn't know or seem to care how to maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the big screen TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food, Bill Clinton is standing before a wildly applauding group of Liberals announcing that a new era of "Fairness" has dawned in America!

The Bible has a lot to say about compassion, love, and caring for the helpless, and I'm all for that, and believe and practice it! HOWEVER, the same Bible has a lot to say about laziness, slothfulness, lack of care and proper preparation for the future, and I also believe that part as well! Read Proverbs, and read the writings of Paul for lots of good instruction on these matters.

***taken from this website: http://www.gospelweb.net/CultureWar/antstory.htm ***

I find this intriguing, but at the same time, it has a big meaning. I hope you enjoyed the modern version of it. It's rather cool. Hahaha.

Posted in: , on 25 October 2007 at at 4:41 pm 0 kay-pohs  

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