Missy J and her Cappuccino: January 2010

My First Crabbing Experience..

Went crabbing yesterday midnight/early morning around 4am. We drove an hour to the destination, Peel Parade at Coodanup. Equipped with the scoop, ice box, torch light and shoes, there we went into sea, looking for crabs. As we were lack of torchlight, so most of us have to hunt in the dark. It was extremely scary when I first stepped into the water when I can't see a thing and it was full of grass in the water. I was so worried that the crab might attack me. True enough, my white shoes somehow appeared to be an attraction to the crabs. I don't need to look for them. They came to me or my shoes, and there I caught them :)

This is after the whole crabbing progress. We crabbed for 2 1/2 hours. We got more than 100 crabs, but we have to put back around 40 to 50 of them. There's this law where you have to measure the crab, if it is smaller than a normal coke can's size, you'll have to put them back, or else you'll receive fine..

Seagulls waiting to hunt their prey. Poor crabs!! Even thou Mark and Joel tried to put them back into water, they can't survive either. You should look at the scene where all the seagulls attacked the crabs fiercely! :(

Our hunts!! Managed to got around 50 of them to bring back..

Alvin & Gen proudly showing their hunt!

Awesome crab dish! I felt so satisfied, caught the crabs myself! Cooked it with chinese rice wine, some ginger, egg whites and spring onion and ta-daa! Definitely enjoyed this dish!!

PS: I'm going crabbing again next week.. xoxo

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Hello Macau..

I was having a conversation with couple of friends few days ago and we were mentioning about Macau. Then only I realized I have actually been to Macau twice and never share about it. Both were short trips actually, one was only for couple of hours which I was on a business trip with my dad, while the other one was only for half a day where most of the time it was raining cats and dogs and we hardly been walking around. Worst time to travel!

#01 St.Paul's Cathedral..

#02 The gloomy sky..

#03 Sands.. a casino..

#04 More casinos to be seen everywhere in Macau..

#05 Inside the infamous Venetian, the world's biggest casino

#06 The Venetian's canals, some of the gondoliers were actually shipped from Italy and they can actually sing..

#07 The Venetian Sky, it is actually attempted to recreate the Venice sky in summer.. Other than these, there are over 1 million square feet of retail space in Venetian itself..

#08 One corner of the hall of Venetian..Retail shops, dining places & casino.. All in one..

#09 Wynn Casino, my personal favorite..

#10 It is the first Las Vegas style-integrated resort in Asia..

#11 At the outside, it has a choreographed performance lake..

#12 While inside, they have Tree of Life show.. this is the carved ceiling representing the signs of zodiac..

#13 Tiger, my zodiac..

#14 People waiting for the show.. the round thing is actually a globe..

#15 And the show begins..

#16 Here's the Tree of Life..

#17 My father called this Tree of Fortune..

#18 Shopping in Wynn..

#19 Ferrari!!...

#20 All the high-end stores...

#21 Dont think I need to introduce this..

#22 The new Grand Lisboa..

#23 I was so excited when i saw this.. but couldn't have a ride on it due to time constraint.. :(

#24 The night view of Macau and the bridge show..

#25 where it will change to different colors..

Seriously, these are all the places that I managed to go to for my two trips to Macau. So wasted! I will plan a trip to Macau again and definitely going to make it longer. Would love to try out their food and walk around those historical places :)

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Help Haiti..

January 12th tuesday afternoon, the worst earthquake in 200 years with 7.0 in magnitude strucked Hiati, Carribean city of Port-Au-Prince. While there has not been an official count, an estimation of casualties range from 100,000 to 150,000. All sorts of fundraising been kicking off and rescue teams from different countries has rushed to help Haitians.

A Haitian woman covered in rubble after the earthquake causing widespread damage..

A view of the badly damaged presidential palace..

Residents sleep in the street...

People searched for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building..

A view of a damaged neighborhood in the Canape-Vert area..

Everything going on in Haiti is so hard to stomach. As I couldn't be there to help, at least I could do some humble and small offering for the victims.

Please help Haiti!! To make a donation, click on these websites.. Doctors Without Borders and Haiti Children.

My prayers go out to the people of Haiti.

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Review yourself...

I was reading my friends' blog and stumbled across this video. I was literally shaken after I watched the video. How could this happened? And how could the other colleagues just let her got beaten? With the amount of colleagues (there's like 4 or 5 guys), they couldn't pull one guy away from a lady? How possible is that? Okay it is possible since it happened! But what was in their minds at that moment I would like to ask..

For those who cant read Mandarin, this video is about a man went into a KFC store and as the KFC's staff refused to deliver ice-cream cone since it was not an item for delivery. The man literally demanded for the ice-cream to be delivered and when the manager refused, the man got furious and started to throw things at the manager. When the manager asked her staff to make a phone call to the police, the man went into the counter and beat up the manager. The manager was actually 2months pregnant.

I was deeply sadden. But when I re-read my friends' blog post, I felt ashamed. Let me import it for ya.

What are you thinking?

Why is this man doing this? This is crude? This is wrong? He shouldnt do this?

Who are we to point finger at him? Are we any better than him just because we dont hit a pregnant woman?
How many times have we lost our temper? How many times have we hurl abuse (verbal) at people when we are angry?

1 Peter 2:23
"When they hurl their insults at Him, He did not retaliate;
when He suffered, He made no threats.
Instead, He entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly."

Then take a look at the people around. Did they help? Did they stop the man? Did they protect the manager?

We may not be in this type of situation all the time. But there are needs of people that we can meet.

Have you ever walk pass a poor person without stopping to help?
Have you been to busy to help the people around you?
Have you been too afraid to go comfort a crying girl?
Have you ever seen a person in need and just brush it off and say that somebody else will help the person?

I have. So who am i to point my finger at the man or the people who didnt help?

However, let us make this summer really WARM. Let Jesus be our example.

Galatians 5:13
"You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use youe freedom to indulge in the sinful nature; rather, Serve one another in LOVE."

Let us show love to the people around us and help anyone who crosses our paths. ok?

Hebrews 10:24
"And let us consider how we may spur one another towards and good deeds."

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SS501..

A Korean boy-band that I like.. I would play their songs over and over again when I'm driving and trying to sing along :)

Wednesday

I am sick today.
Been on bed nearly the whole day.

The most productive things I've accomplished today was done some readings and worked on my assignment for half an hour.

A sad day to be sick.

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In the progress...

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Trying Indian out...

I went for Indian cuisine as dinner tonight. Never had much chance in my life to try out indian food as I'm not good with spicy food and mostly spicy food will cause gastric to me. Somehow after I tried it once, I kind of fall in love with Indian food. The mild one of course. I think I never had Indian food more than 5 times in my life so far despite coming from Malaysia where you can find Indian food almost everywhere.

Yummz is all I can say. Would love to try more Indian food..

Followed by coffee after dinner and I had great fun playing around with the alphabets while the guys having their conversations.. Can you see the alphabets? :)

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Fly Up High...

I am happy.. more than happy.. I am contented!
Happiness can be such simple, when u surrender all and let things flow..

I am a fighter..I've been telling myself there is nothing that I can achieve, things are within my hands. All I need to is fight hard for it. But what to do when things started to go the opposite way of what you think it would be, when things are falling apart?

Will you fall apart too? Well, that's what happened to me! Crazy it was. I was trembled. Yet I still walked with head high up but there's this part in me who is scared and losing in direction.
Our own mind can build us into character, in the other hand, it can destroy us too.

I am feeling different now. Feeling optimistic and refreshed. Friends never fail to be there. HE used them to speak to me before HE touched me. Friends that don't allow me to cry because it breaks their heart when they see my tears. Friends that encourage me and it made me feel so ashamed! But they are the angels, to deliver message from HIM.

Simple theory, simple teaching, simple understanding. But I failed to apply it.
Be like a child, trust with no doubts. People can say you're naive or stupid, however, that's what HE asks for. Let go and let HIM does the wonders.

And then, you are set free. I am free. I am feeling joy & peace. I am smiling for no reason just because I feel so happy. Because I know that I am loved. And nothing beats this feeling!!

Love you dear Father!!

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Maxi by the beach..

My dear Melissa is now in Indiana.. With the heavy snow, freezing cold weather.. Bet she miss the hot weather back here :D She's on a student exchange program for one semester.. So before she said goodbye to hot ovenPerth, we went for our all-time-favorite Korean food at Tookbegi then headed off for hi-tea by the beach.