Malaysia! Merdeka!

You should see KidZone today!
All out! All plugs pulled! FORCED-Full-ed!

In conjunction with our national day, August 31 (or close to it), KidZone went all out to teach patriotism to the kids.
Love Our Nation!

Stepping up the stairs already made me incredibly proud with the flags along the stairs all the way up to the second floor and into the rooms! I heard that all the teachers involved were asked to come earlier at 9:30am to start decorating the place!


Even the name tags were specially printed! Impressive!

All the teachers came in costumes representing all the races we have in our country - baju kurung, cheongsam, the indian costume and Joey came shirtless representing Orang Asli.. complete with a styrofoam-spear!

'Pengetua' Bee Kim dengan Penolong Kanan Mei Yen!

Right is Chris, Left is David. Can you believe that Chris is wearing David's samfoo??? jor! all the workouts at Fitness First is paying off! hahahaha...


The morning ended with posting up a giant Malaysia flag hand-painted by the children! And all these were brought to you by the immensely brilliant KidZone teachers team led by 'Mother' Bee Kim!!!
Three Cheers To Good Work Today! Hip Hip Hurrah!!

*i think Marcus (far right) is representing the 'ang mohs' in Malaysia with his contemporary costumes! hahahahaha...

Pastoral Photo Shoot

How did I spent my public holiday today?

Helping out at the Eaglepoint pastoral photo shoot! hahahaa... the location was Mark & Carolyn's house at Puteri 8. The moment the guy-adults came in and saw the Foosball table, the challenge started - especially for Pastor Tim!

Oh my! He was like playing with whoever that will play with him lah! hahahahaha.... but the winner goes to Daniel (Mark & Carolyn's second son)... according to Pastor Tim and Tabitha (Mark & Carolyn's niece), he's the best but Ashley (Mark & Carolyn's youngest daughter standing there in the pix) challenged to say that Joshua (Mark & Carolyn's eldest son) is better than Daniel. Since Josh didn't come down today so it's a theory yet to be proven!!

one of the highlight was I got to know Tabitha a little today. Always see her walk in and out church office but today we played ball together with Kristen! hahahahaha....

To those of you who've not seen Shane Zachary Kong Kai Wen, the newborn son of Ps Shawn and Jill, here's the photo of the day! soo cute la!

this is how we distract Kristen (Ps Shawn & Jill's eldest daughter) - Tabitha and Sesame Street! Very effective for Kristen and Joanna (Ps Tim & Teresa's daughter)! and Kristen play ball with me today! She's so cute after 'warm-up'.

The fan supposedly helps... ahhaha... first off, family shots, singular shots, couple shots and kids shots... it was fun seeing them pose! hahahah...

the more Joash ask Joanna to smile, the more she's frowning.. don't understand what's going on! ahahaha...

Jessica (from Chinese Church) came to help out with the make up. She's 3 months pregnant and doing a great job too! Anyone needing bridal make up or event make up please give her a call! She also does artistic make up and used to teach these (make up, hairdo, body art, nails and such) in a school...

Yu-Xuan jumped onto her papa and caught on camera... she's such a cute little thingy... and she say she will share her nuggets with me at Next Stop Restaurant.. awww..... so nice of her!

Vitagen! I think we easily scoured a pack or two off the NG family fridge! hahahaha... not just the kids but the teens and the young adults too!!! ahhaahhahaa.... such a highlight! can see the vitagen-faces lit up when they see vaitagen!!

oh yah, the crew-wannabe-poser CHRIS LEONG! hahahaha... this was when we were shooting Ps Jonathan & family (Eaglepoint Penang). His sons were so funny... the shooting took only a few minutes... and then he commented, "hah? like that only ah?" In which I laughed and replied, "yes, 5 hours drive here just for that 2 minute shots!" ahahahaha...

Couple shots... awww... soooo loving hor... Ps Steven say this is the most major photo taking he'd done since his wedding photos! hahahaha...

this was when everyone started teasing pastor steven about his smile, his pose, his leng-chai-ness and everyone chipped in... we made such noise at the park opposite the house! hahahah...

when joel climbed onto chris to shoot from 'above', the photographers started shooting them instead of the 'talents'! hahahahaa...

in order not to spoil the actual shots, i'm just going to post the production shots - my version kind of production shots... cos i'm sure joel n choon ean took better production shots than these! mine was just for blogging purposes! hahahaha...

before the break for lunch, we celebrated Bee Kim & Joash's birthday! The Loh family remembered and came with a cake.

Talking about that, I need to tell you how naughty was your senior pastor... I sms-ed him around 10:40am to ask if they are arriving soon cos his session is 10:45am.. in which he replied my sms saying he thought his session is at 12pm! i panicked merata-rata!!! Right at that time, I got another sms reply saying he's just pulling my leg and the whole family enter the house!! jorr...

the crew - Joseph the main photographer, Joel the production photographer, Choon Ean the pose director and Kareem THE director... ops... not in photo... he came wearing the tee bearing these words "MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION"!!!

oh, this was shot when Yu-En (Ps Steven & Bee Kim's eldest daughter) say she dun wan to share her nuggets with me! hahaahahah

Round 3 shooting - formal shots at Next Stop. I mean no matter how I look at it, it does not look formal to me lah... hahhahaha.. too bad Mark and Joseph can't join us... so the pastoral is short of two families... ops...

then they try another angle...

and yet another angle...

and then another angle for all the singular shots!

by the time we leave, Next Stop Restaurant (this side), was in a mess of tables! hahahaha.... of course we helped to clear up lah... Thank you to Cheryl & Rhea for letting us use the premise! Rhea provided entertainment to me... she's soooo cute and always smile! hahahaa.... they went for a walk cos we kinda 'took over' the space! hahahaha...

so many shoppers ACTUALLY stopped and stared... Pastor Shawn say we should have told the ppl not to miss "the movie coming out on so and so a date" .... ahahahaahahahah...

by the time the Director calls it a rep for the day, it was four plus pm.... I came home and hit the bed straight! Now, excitedly waiting for the photos to come out!! yeah!!!!

Dance Dance Dance

Although me n Doreen had practice yesterday, that did not stopped us from running down to catch Nina and her girls did a contemporary number at Track of Talents! Not bad for a first showcase! =)

After that, the homeschool center that uses our premise also had a contemporary dance routine by their students.

the killer was just now when we went to support Doris, Esther, Aaron and Usher at the Urban Groove Dance Recital. Those ppl are just amazing and seeing them dance is so inspiring. They were on and off the stage so many times that by the end of the show, when Jerry came to us, his shirt was drenched and he threatened to throw it at us! EWWWWW!!!

Doris had her students performed and she did a few numbers too. and we always scream for her unashamedly! hahahhaa... i brought her sunflower... so happens it matches her yellow outfit!

This is Esther, she's one of Doris' students at Urban and also joining us for the CYW dance. i brought her roses and it so happen to match her red costume! hahahaha... she's super versatile and did a few different genres during the entire recital....

ok... the one behind is Aaron and the one in front is Joon Neng or we call him Usher. The three of them are Doris students joining us at CYW dance. Great to have them there but intimidating to be dancing with them as they are like soooooo good! All in all, it was an excellent recital! We had a great time screaming our lungs out! hahahaha.... will see them tomoro for practice again! =)

Come Together - Combined Service

Last Sunday, we had a great time coming together for a combined service. About 500 people turned up for the service and if you did not notice, we had ushers from all nations... though they were encouraged to come in their nation's costumes, i think most of them did not come to Malaysia with it but we still spotted cheongsam, chinese collared shirts and i came in baju kedah... hahahahaha.... i got many stares... hahaha...

when i went to check on the kidzone to see if everything was ok, i got in right on time to see teacher bee kim lost in a game and was punished with 20 sit ups! hahahaha... and so many of the kids wanted to do together with her! i had such a good laugh! all stress from the morning released d.

one of the highlight of the service was when more than 20 people join together for the 'cardboard testimony' and shared the change that God had done in their lives. when i turn around, i saw many were wiping their tears as they cheered for those on stage.

after service, everyone rushed out to join in the satay party!

Ian & Joyce Wedding

Last Saturday, we celebrate together with Ian and Joyce at a simple blessing ceremony at Bankers Club! Joyce is from Eaglepoint Penang and many of them came down for the wedding as well. I can see Pastor Tim shaking hands with all the people that he knows...

As the ceremony move along, I realised that it's such a Eaglepoint wedding... why do i say that?
The coordinator (Jocelyn Tan) is from Eaglepoint, the two chairman (bernard & bee sean) are from Eaglepoint,
the Pastor (Pr Steven) is from Eaglepoint, the preacher (Pr Cathryn) is from Eaglepoint... u get the idea..? hahahahaha... no need to say, many of the guests are from Eaglepoint as well! hhahaha....

oh.. ok.. let me introduce Joon Han. He's working for Eaglepoint Penang! Another church staff! yeah... got to know him a little better from the many flying emails on the manila trip.


ok. skye has always complained that i did not post up a photo of him. so here goes the first ever photo i took with him!