The beginning of an end...

Its the 29th today, a public holiday for Malaysians...which is good..can rest more..haha..
Well, am here to summarize the year 2008...all in all..it was a great year...from the beginning to the end..lets begin...

1st Quarter of 2008,
Last semeter of my studies, enjoyed every moment of it..enjoy my time with my uni frens, namely Germaine, Siew Chen, Quah, Ang, Simin, Rachel, Caryn, Yin...my housemates...Bfong, Chon Yen, Mei Choo, Jacy, Chin Lian, Lisan...the wonderful teachers that I met and also others whom I've miss out..

Also celebrated CNY..my last year for collecting ang pau's..sigh..hopefully people don remember that I've started working..haha...

March of 2008, my dad's 1st death anniversary..miss him so much..

Also durin this time, we were hooked up on volleyball and constantly meeting up every sunday at Mark's place for volleyball session, thinking of representing the church to play for YMCA games...up till now, still yet to represent the church to play..haha...FYI..YMCA got cancelled...

2nd Quarter of 2008,
Finish my last paper on April 30th, was on a 3 months break doing nothing..Somehow or another, I'm happy to spend this few months doing nothing as I get to spend more time with my friends and families...the constant staying over at Mark's place, Keith and Allisons, the movie outings, the holiday at Redang, of coz getting ready for the working world...Don recal much happenings here though..just lots of chilling with frens, drinking session, not to forget laughing and chit chatting/gossiping..haha...
Oh, we had our Choir retreat also..which was an enjoyable and unforgetable experience...Loved the moments spent there...

3rd Quarter of 2008,
In August, started work at PFM, great office, great colleague, great working environment.
i think there was a stayed over somewhere here..but I don remember where... haha..too many stayed overs already...
Oh..one thing i remembered happened here was Melvyn and Mellissa's wedding where Mark, me, Manda, Flora, El, San, Sher and Lis sang at their wedding. The practices and all...fun..
Then after the wedding, my birthday...where it started the whole craze of 'twilight' when Ann, El, San and Alex gave me breaking dawn, the 4th installment of the twilight series, which got Manda and Phoebs crazy about...so yea...

4th Quarter of 2008,
This was the busy periods with many weddings in church, gearing up for Christmas, the form 3,5 n 6 having their major exams, the start of the busy period...but it was all worth it..very much indeed...
Christmas just passed, and a sigh of relief from me...BUT...more to come...1 more year to go..then we shall see where God wants me to be...

Shout out to HFC CHOIR, YOU GUYS ROCK! seriously....am so proud of what you guys have done..do continue to support the choir, spread the word around, let us continue to grow, to the senior choir members, thanks for your services and constant support all this while..do continue to support as long as you are able to...to the newbies, hope you have fun with the choir and continue to support and grow with us...its great to have you guys on board...

As I prepare myself for the year 2009, wrote down a list of resolutions that I want to achieve for 2009. Hopefully able to..but..to motivate me to start...hehe..AM WATCHING THE FINAL PERFORMANCE OF MAMMA MIA ON THE 4TH OF JANUARY..haha...that could motivate me..i guess..anyway...in case i'm not able to blog by new year....

HAPPY 2009 to you all!!!

Let's PARTY!!! WOOOOHOOO!!!

To each and every person I know, god bless you always!!

Holy Family Church Feast Day

Hey ya'll, as u all know, Sandy and Amanda are at NS camp right now...they left on the 27th and on the 28th of Dec, our church celebrated our feast day. The church was packed. So mass was normal, until after the thanksgiving hymn, we had procession around Kajang town..not exactly around Kjang town la..but we walked to the ceria box karaok there, then turn towards Oriental Crystal Hotel, then turn back..tats it..and coz of that we caused a massive jam..haha...But it was fun, marching with my fellow catholic brothers and sisters...Oh..and mind you, I never ever participated in a procession before..haha..that was my 1st time..

The pics above shows our choir members walking together..the those at the back had to stop a while for the traffic to move 1st..hehe...

Thats all for now..wanna blog about the end of 2008 and the start of 2009...

Crazy Xmas and Farewell to Manda and Sandy

Hey, 2nd post of the day...this is what i did on the 25th at Flora's place. Basically we went over for a get together la...so here are the pics and briefly, what crazy ppl do when they are together..haha

If you look closely, Manda is doing her distorted face again...Me..trying to 'seduce' the sofa..haha..aka..king julian talking to melman.Me meditating..Us, dunno wat to do..Finally, something is right...Sandy is actually kneeling on me know...quite heavy also that bugger..Finally, a nice pics of us present...

Then we move to the tree...i was merely getting ready for the pic then after that manda, sandy and elena began posing..that's how this pic camu about.

This was us before being crazy...

Then we have this...

And this...

And this...so called rocker...but ann is the subtle wan..

Then the pendatang haram wan...

This was suppose to be another pendatang haram wan, but i dunno y flora, kris and sher decided to raise their leg...

Then on the 26th, Manda's place had open house...and it was the last night Manda and Sandy was with us as they have to go for NS. So we took some pics of them...

See..they are so excited to go wat...OK..maybe not...

Then on the 27th, we send them off to NS...

Sandy not wanting to go..."Let me out!! Let me OUT!!"

"Damn...I'm stuck in this stupid mess!"

And finally, Us with Manda...well, after 2 false alarm from the bus, when finally amanda left, we couldn't cry already..at 1st Manda staretd crying, then aunty pat...sher started tearing too...i controlled..flora i dunno..haha..coz couldn't see...But anyway...

Amanda and Sandy, i guess U're only able to read this after you're back, but anyway..do take this opportunity to have fun and get to know more people, people all around Malaysia, and also enjoy this so called 'opportunity' (now that doesn't sound convincing..) sigh...am gonna miss talking to Amanda, laughing and crazying with her...and also Sandy, my butt idol...gonna miss crazying with her...for 3 months...

Boxing Day

Hello,

Its the 26th today, boxing day...have yet to box ppl..or being box..haha...anyway, stayed home today due to certain reasons. Anyway, updates since the last long post. As usual, nearing Xmas time, it's the busiest yet the most wonderful time of the year. Let me tell you one thing at a time...

Dec 21st,

Did not attend morning mass coz i overslept. But then met up with the choir members at 2 for a short practice before going to MO. Convoy left for MO at around 3plus almost 4. Once at MO, we got ready, but it was a tiring session la, and very very bad management. Suppose to start at 6.30,so ask us to get ready at the lounge at 6.15. We were there early, only to be told the kids will be late, coz there was this 'Christmas tree of hope' charity thingy where they have orphanage kids come over and celebrate Christmas with them. Waited until about 7, only we started singing. By the time we finish 1st session, we were already hungry. So for 2nd session, we only sang like 6 songs. Then we went to have dinner. Tiring night and there's no crowd at the lounge, so we were basically singing to ourselves la. But...singing was good. Not to say great, but good...

Dec 22nd,

Went to work as usual. That day was an important day at work coz we had out CSA(critical success activity), and also our company's Xmas dinner, the part where all PerForMers are waiting for. This is the time where we get to know who our secret santa is and also what are the presents that they got for us. The dinner was good, din eat much though coz that night Sg long Zone also have carolling session. So Adrian started of the gift exchange, and to my surprise, my secret santa has been lying to me all this while. It was none other than Sandra, who is seated behind me...She has been lying to me by saying, 'Freddie, msg from your secret santa, he/she couldn't get for you the Starbucks voucher that you want, so only left with the book voucher or the shopping voucher'. And when both of us were at the Christmas tree, she took my present and started shaking it, and trying to guess what it inside, basically she took everyone's gift and guessing what was inside. So yea, din thought she was my secret santa until she called my name..haha..Thanks for the MPH voucher..now i can go buy my twilight book d...Sandra, Sarah, Gummy and Jean got for me New Moon, Andrea, Elena, Sandy and Alex got for me Breaking Dawn for my Bday, I got myself Twilight, so now left Eclipse. Hehe..

After the party, left with Norah to Sg long Bec Xmas Carolling. The one that was postponed earlier. Joined them at the 2nd house, which was fun la. Get to spend time with my Sg Long friends, singing Xmas songs, wearing the reindeer antlers thingy..haha...Last house was Manda's place, which I played the piano. The kids sang beautifully with the parts being done by the youth. After the carolling session, had potluck dinner and mingling around session

Dec 23rd,

On Dec 23rd, went to work as usual, but was anticipating for our final performance at MO. Also another big HUHA..dunno whether its just me or wat la, but its again involve the 'Fat Bastard'(those who knows the story might know who we are refering to). Is it that difficult to ask for an extra mike??wasted my time speaking to such a rude and irresponsible idiot like him, when Reuben jsut went down and spoke to the AV person for an extra mike, and he said can. That idiot said not allowed coz not enough mikes la, cannot confirm la...Anyway, thanks to the extra mikes we had, the singing was WONDERFUL. Best show HFC choir ever performed at MO. Jude's playing was superb, the parts was strong, the altos was strong(usually not very..haha) The crowds was so entertained that they sing along as well..or should i say, laughed along as well. Everyone had a great time.. Lots of friends and relatives turn up (Lilian and Dylan..thanks for coming). All in all, it was a nice way to end the carolling session we had this Christmas. Aft that, went gallivanting in KLCC, then went back with Keith and Allison with Manda and Ash. Manda, Ash and me have a tradition where the 3 of us would crash at Keith and Allisons once we've finish our carolling session. Did that every year. Haha...

Dec 24th

Well, it's Christmas eve, the day everyone is anticipating. Went to work, but worked only half day that day...came back, rested, slept..coz did not sleep enough at Keith and Allisons...Ash, Allison, Manda and me talked til bout 1, then brought Melia(yes, she stayed too!!) to sleep, then we continued talking til 2plus. Then after sleeping, get ready to go to Manda's place for Christmas eve dinner. The food prepared by Aunty Pat is so so nice that I took more than 1 helping. Haha.. Jude and his family join us, along with Manda's grandparents.

After dinner, we got ready and went for midnight mass. This year's Christmas mass was a bit special, coz for the 1st time, the choir was not involve in the carolling session, but the cathecism students were. They were led by Rozanne, which I must say, it was a very creative and good performance. kuddos to those involve. Then, another good thing is that, all of my musicians did a phenomenal job playing that night. Reuben came JUST IN TIME to play the entrance hymn, O Come All Ye Faithful, I played offertory, medley of Hark the Herald/Angels We Have Heard On High/In Bread We Bring You Lord, Manda played for communion, Mary's Boy Child, Ann played O Holy Night, Alex did the final hymn, Joy to the World. On the organ was always awesome Rozanne, Lourdes was on drums(suppose to be Elena, but i had lack of sopranos, and Lourdes was there to make mass more..how to say..different..haha) and Daniel on keyboard. The musicians and the choir brought the house down...They rocked that night..seriously..GOOD JOB TO THE MUSICIANS, GREAT PLAYING..esp Alex..."ALEX...U'RE BACK"..haha... This are the few compliments that we got that night.

"The singing was superb..it was a wonderful, nice, meaningful and enjoyable mass"

"The choir was fantastic. I come from Subang and had been coming to HFC for 4 years for Christmas already. I usually come for both Xmas eve and Xmas day mass and I still enjoy myself til today"

"After not going for mass for 20years, the choir gave me goosebumps"

"Did Jude played? Coz all the musicians sounded like him...esp the final hymn"

"A word of thanks to the wonderful and talented young people in the choir, for their dedication and hardwork put in. Yesterday's mass was beautiful and the sang really really well" Fr William on Christmas Day.

"Sigh, regretted not coming for the Christmas eve mass. After hearing what Father had praise you all, I'll come next year"

Sigh..I'm so so super proud of my choir members. HFC CHOIR...YOU GUYS ROCK!!

Dec 25th

Woke up for mass today, then after that went over to Manda's grandparents house for lunch. Felt kinda weird and left out la..but the food was nice as usual. haha..then came back to sleep, waited for my family to come back from Kemaman, then went makan with them, then aft that went to Flora's place for Xmas gathering. Had a fun crazy session with Flora, Manda, Sher, El, Ann and San. Took some pics, will collect it from Flora soon.

Anyway, time to gear up for 2009 ppl...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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Short Talk :

Some things and sounds around me always reminds me of you...
Miss you most at Christmas time...

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Event before Christmas

Hey, how has everyone been? Its been 10 days since I last blog, and many things happened...too many, so be prepared for a very very long post. Haha..But very entertaining, fun and meaningful. By the way, I shall start of my blog with a pic of my latest Starbucks organizer and tumbler..the tumbler is limited edition ok..haha..went there at 8am just to get the tumbler..

So throughout the entire week, was busy having dance practice and carolling practice in Sg long for our annual Sg long Xmas dinner. Theme for dinner was Mamma Mia of course, but we'll talk about that later. So on the 11th, we (Sandy, Andrea, Elena, Kim, Amanda, Flora, Sher and me..yea..the only guy...) had our dance practice at Amanda's place...oh wait..Andrea went MIA, El came late coz she went for yoga, thinking there was yoga but actually cancelled coz Sultan's birthday, so she called me and we had a laugh about it. haha...Coz we were suppose to go for yoga, but i decided not to go, then mana tau she and alex decided to go..so wanting to go that they forgot that if its a public holiday, there's no yoga.haha.. Anyway, while practising, mark came over to watch since he wont be here for the dinner..So after practising, headed home to rest coz working the next day.

On Friday , 12/12, was also another...hm..how shall i put it, confusing day. Not knowing whether where are we staying..haha...long story short, we stayed over at mark's place after havin carolling practice at Rufus and Rita's home. So while at mark's place, we chit chatted, we drank beer, we ate maggi..oh..before all that, i vomitted, dunno why...but after vomitting, it felt great.haha..so we continued talking and i came up with a game, that we called it 'Peoplefirst'. Haha...its a game that only Manda, Sher, Mark and me knows..haha..It was fun and actually kept us awake til about 6am. Then after that, Mark and I continued talking in his room until it was day break. haha.. But had to wake up at 11 to send Manda for piano class. Hence, not knowing where to go to, Sher and I went to church. After that went back and rest, brought mom and 2 nuns, Sister Lucia and Sister Iris to have Satay kajang...then went for mass. That night, Mark's family organized an early Xmas party since they'll be leaving for Finland on the 17th, which was fun I would say...It was Sandy and Glynn's 1st time drinking, Ann drank the remaining of the Kahlua, Interrogating Daniel and Bibi(hahaha), Reuben had his limelight where he re-enact or told the story of how Daniel and Bibi met..then had a crazy session with Sandy...all in all, it was a fun filled night la...

Then on the 14th, din go for mass coz decided to continue sleeping, while the youth went for Orang asli visit(can read on mark's blog). So in the afternoon, the 'family', namely Flora, Sher, Manda and me decided to go shop for OUR present at MV. Hence we got each other presents which kinda settle all the presents that we were wanting to get. Not forgetting also that we had crazy lots of cam-whoring session..haha...

Us with 1 of the ornaments on the huge giant tree at MV
Us at Gardens, before becoming crazyUs being Crazy..And a close up on Amanda...haha...

Hence aft shopping at MV, we went to BV2 to sing again. After that had to rush for choir practice. Then it was the next day, 15/12, we received a sad news of the passing of Father Leo Chang. So all carolling activities taht were plan in many zones had to be cancelled. That night we had mass in church and the following night prayers. The funeral was held on the 17th, but i din go coz i had to work. then that night had penitential service, which I did not go as well, coz wasn't ready. Besides, had to send the Lims to the airport. So pick ann up around 9.30, then headed to the Lims. Drove them to the airport, bid our goodbyes and wished them merry christmas, then Ann and I drove back. Had a great talking session with my petsis...

Then on the 18/12, had to work, but was looking forward towards the night coz had performance at Royal Selangor Club in Dataran Merdeka. It was a very high end club, more like the Hamptons of Malaysia. Did not manage to take any pics though, but the performance was a blast. I played the grand piano, which I must say, its so damn hard to press the key coz its already half way down already, and everything is like so hard. The fingers and the feet had to do extra work. Damn i can feel my fingers having muscles already. Haha...But it was a great performance..let me tell u how it began. Keith and me walk down the stairs, while the rest of the choir members were 'hiding' on the square-ish spiral staircase. Then i started playing, the MC announce..with a very deep voice..'And here to serenade us with some Christmas carols, the choir of Holy Family Church Kajang'..and there stood Keith, in the centre of the dance floor...alone..=.="..haha..choir a lot of ppl ma..but keith standing there alone..so I saw the faces of some of the patrons there were like..huh??then Keith started singing...C is for the Christ child...then out of no where..you can hear voices of ppl singing...T is for three wise men..and down they came, fully dressed in their wonderful black attire, and the crowds were like..hmm..not bad kinda look..so yea..the choir rock the butts of the dato's and the nenek's of Royal Selangor..The singing was so good that some of the patrons there stop eating and jus look and move along with the choirs, others u can see them singing along..Although it has a few glitches, all I can say is that I'm very very proud of my choir's performance. They put up a such a good show that we managed to put a mark on Royal Selangor, and *fingers cross*..might get a call back next year..Even a dato suggested us to go for a world tour next year k..haha..

Then aft the performance, stayed over at Keith and Allison's place. Had supper, McD with Dom, Ash, Glynn, Keith and Allison..and not forgetting my adorable god-daughter...haylie..who had grown up so much and so playful. Very very cute. After cleaning up, had a great chit chat session with Keith and Allison on their bed til 2am. Haha..forgetting we were working the next day. Hence on the 19/12, worked til 4.30, then left for the Sg Long Xmas dinner.

This year's dinner was a blast. The dinner tix was designed by me..haha..theme Mamma Mia..best ticket ever designed in the history of Sg Long dinner. The host this year, was the greatest combination and the most entertaining one ever, Aunty Huey Ling and Charles(he's new from Bandar Mahkota Cheras), and this year's dinner seen many new faces, which was a great thing as well, coz that's the whole purpose of the dinner..to bring everyone together. Started of our dinner with EXERCISE..haha..yea..Charles led us to do some exercise, which was funny la..then Manda and Sher took food for me while Gerard and I went out to count the results for best dressed. Yes, this year i did not get to defend my title, hence I became a judge..Previous pics of me winning best dress..

Me with best dress female category..Amanda Quah..both of us won in 2006...

Me with Sher, Manda and Flora. Flora and I won in 2007...

Then after dinner, was lucky draw, then performances, the kids dance to a Cheetah girls song, the adults dance to Voules-vous, then the youth, Us of coz(the 8 of us??) dance to Damaged by Danity Kane. Then there was a group performance where we all dance to Mamma Mia, since out theme was Mamma Mia. But that night was filled with surprises. 1st one was a treasure hunt, which our table has won. Our table consist of Alex, Elena, Andrea, Sandy, Manda, Sher, Reuben, Kim, Bev, Vernon, and me of coz. So we elected Manda and Sandy to be our team leaders. Went up, memorise the things we need to hunt, then get it. Sandy ran to the toilet to get...the toilet roll.Brilliant idea..our team was the 1st to run to the toilet, other teams ran to the toilet like 5 mins aft we got back FROM the toilet..haha..then we need a 5cent coin, a 1cent coin, RM5 note, hair pin, socks, a strand of hair, earrings, and the toilet roll. Our team won that..haha..then there was also singing session. Every table is named to a song of Abba, our table got Honey Honey, but I changed it to Super Trouper, which is the same table as Flora's and also Greg's(which has all the young boys there). So, out team was called 1st, so the 3 tables went in front. Aunty pat, who is also sitting in a Super Trouper table, when she saw that the team consist of majority from the choir, she said 'eh, like that our team sure win la..haha'...then I plan with them some strategies, took the mike..stood in the middle and said...'FOR 1 NIGHT!!', then the rest answered..'AND 1 NIGHT ONLY!!'..then i continued..'PRESENTING...FREDDIE...AND THE FABULOSOS!!'...then the whole restaurant erupted in laughter..haha...I saw Jude's face was like...huh??then he got it..so he also laugh non stop..haha...Coz Mamma Mia the movie got 'Donna and the Dynamos', so here we have 'Freddie and the Fabulosos' la. haha..Everybody laughed like for 5 mins..then we started singing..Sandy, Manda and me did the echo for 'su-per-per, troup-per-per'. Which was kinda funny and fun la..haha...

Then aft that it was our performance, well, as usual, we did our best la..I had fun butt shaking..haha...recordings are below.Then it was another surprise, where its called 'Flashback'. The called up 4 couples, whom 1 of them was our very own ALEX and ELENA..haha..we were shock with the selection as well. So what they need to do is some hindustan movie scene where you know they will sing and dance and all..yea..they had to do that..Alex and Elena did a wonderful job entertaining us and providing us with laughter.haha...then when that ends, the dance floor opens..haha...Dance til around 12 plus almost 1, then we headed to MZ for supper. Here are some pics taken during our dinner...

All in all, it was a wonderful though busy days, and many more to come. SHOUT OUT TO ALL READERS!! Do come and watch the Holy Family Church Choir perform at Mandarin Oriental this comin Sunday, 21st of Dec at 6.30pm and also Tuesday, 23rd of December at 7.00pm. Be there to share with us the Christmas mood!! And if I don't have a chance of wishing everybody here, Merry Christmas and A Blessed New Year!!