| the road to passion

It was a quiet thing a few months ago when people were whispering around the not-so-known-to-MMUcf'ers unenthusiastically about a lil thingy called Passion aka The 268generation. I knew them even before Phases magazine were still being published in black and white covers. Personally, I find their songs from their way back old album Passion: One Day Live to be simple and honest. Then, news came that they were coming here, to KL but as said above, most CF'ers new nuts about them and I was all hyped up and alone. QQ~

yes Lord, walking in the ways of Your laws,
we wait for You;
Your name and renown
are the desires of our hearts
~Isaiah 26:8~

As the day of the event drew near, we booked our tickets before hand and messily planned our trip. We even managed to sit through 2 day's session of apologetics by 2 great speakers whom are not unfamiliar to us from Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. I digg apologetics. On Saturday, after the morning session and some good 'brave rice', 10 of us headed up to Klang and threw our bags into Vain and J-Ash's houses; all stoned and tired.

laine looks freakeh

twins bazel! twins!

awww.. *rubs nose gently*

That night, along with Joash and Jeremy, we headed to the biggest Jusco in South East Asia as previously mentioned in early January, for the 2nd time and ate at Manhattan Fish Market for the 2nd time too. A full, bloated belly later, we headed back to Vain's crib and was joined by good ol' long time friend from MMU Cyber, Aaron. For some unexplainable reason in this PG friendly blog, we all started doing complex math calculations in our brains and random weird poses of Superman, Batman, Spiderman and Wonderwoman.

its hugeeeee (with flaming prawns)

juju as batman and aaron as spidahman

lust'ious as wonderwoman

On Sunday morning, the bunch of us payed J-ash's church a visit. Met his parents and his brother too. They all look alike.. way too alike. Went to Sunway Pyramid after church to pick up my entrance band for the night's conference. Then we were busy looking for a place to sooth our unending hunger for Some Good Food®. Big names came up like TGIF and Wendys but then, a soft voice whispered to us from a distance.. it's name, was Carl's Junior. Hell yeah!

joash and his bro

wait.. what?

i know, i proved it to her.. heh~

nom nom nom nom

chilly cheese fries ftw!!

At 3.30pm we arrive outside the entrance to the convention center and there was already this big crowd of people waiting. Then at 4.45pm they allowed us to go up the escalator to the entrance of the hall. A small group of us were near the front of the middle entrance which would lead straight to the best seats of the hall.

3.30pm - waiting

4.45pm - still waiting

By 6.15pm the opened the doors and a strong 5000+- people rushed in. Esther-dear and her friends, Ai Ai and her brothers, Becca and myself managed to almost completely secure an entire row tat was 4 to 5 rows from the front of the main stage for the few lucky CF'ers. I sat the far side.. next to two sweet girls from FGA KL a church that's familiar to me.

5.30pm - these people booked great seats for you guys~
give them a bud~

It is impossible to sum the night itself in one post. But here's the whole thing if my memory still serves me.
- awesome flash presentation with rocking music
- Chris Tomlin came up and started the night with Let God Arise
- Louie Giglio came up and explained what the Passion movement is all about
- Louie taught us an efficient way of praying
- Charlie Hall came up and his thing
- Louie came up again and shared with us what grace was all about
- Louie shared a diary of a Ashley to us
   http://268generation.com/blog/2007/01/passion-ripples/
   http://268generation.com/blog/2007/05/ashleys-home/
   http://268generation.com/blog/2008/04/the-day-unending-life-began/
- More praying and Chris started the closing with Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)
- More songs from Chris ended the night with Sing Sing Sing
- Blinding lights and heavy distortion ~ end

chris tomlin

charlie hall

Passion Kuala Lumpur

The night ended with an awesomely fresh atmosphere that our Lord is the God of this city and that there are greater things yet to come. I'm glad that most of the CF'ers especially my batch people came and yet I wished a few people whom I have in my heart came too. I believe the songs and the message and most importantly, the Holy Spirit will truly touch your hearts.

    Thanks Passion. Once again you guys gave me the opportunity to have the Holy Spirit reignit the flame that I had 10 years ago. What you guys are doing; it's all more than just a song. May the young people of Malaysia catch that flame of the 268 Generation.

p.s. i can't believe that Louie, Chris and Charlie all look so old already

What followed was a great combination of spaz, bak kut tehs, drinks, sandwiches, donuts and young girl.

told ya so, spaz..

this is for you lucius

you have the tiger in your eyes

subway singapore has real bacon!!

j.co donutss

this is for you styne *winks*

I had a great time though I wish it could've been better still. Nonetheless, I'm grateful for the God has given me to enjoy.

Good nite peeps~ God bless~

Let God Arise

Marvelous Light

Holy Is The Lord

Amazing Grace

| its not lupus, its klangitis

Last Friday, a group of four MMUcf students went up to Klang to catch the rare klangitis (inflammation of the klang valley). As we all know that inflammations, no matter what type and at where, is a bad thing but this is different because, we're gonna k-lang at Wayne Vain's house.

rich kid

Vain was kind enough to let us k-lang his house for 4 days and 3 nights - imagine the fun we could have. We touched down late Friday night and was greeted very warmly- very warmly by Vain's family especially his mom who seemed to almost have the same wavelength as me. Interesting. Anyway, we slept soon after only to be awaken prematurely by the morning sun that seems to coincidentally cut through the windows and shown brightly on the girls face and in turn, the girls woke us, the men up.

klangitis bak kut teh puts onion on rice.. heaven~~

Vain took us to his local famed-favourite Klang Bak Kut Teh which is hereby deemed as Some Good Food® on this blog. It was around that time when Becca said two words - "Todd & Sweeney" and the rest was history. Be sure to catch it on the new semester CF meeting!

left is Todd, right is Sweeney

After a hearty brunch, we decided to give our beloved poor Abby a surprise visit at University Hospital, the hospital she was warded in for her medical predicament. It was sad but yet a relief to see her. Sad that she's bound to the bed, immobilized, bored and in pain. Relief that God's protection and covering is over her and that things could've turned out for the worse if it weren't for His hands. God has a plan for her.

the cast

Elaine was already there when we arrived, later that day she went
for her checkup and she too was hospitalized for observation

we miss ya Jess!

We then headed off to Sunway Lagoon and I wasn't prepared to risk testing to see if my phone was waterproof though I believe some conspirators out there would be glad if my camera would stop working for good . . . I'm watching ya'll! *stares*

Any-r-u-wokayh Anyways, Sunway Lagoon was fun - playing with water is always fun. It's a great joy to see chicks and babes families and friends laughing and splashing about in the water with a cheerful glee. heh~ Too bad though Sunway doesn't have many waterpark attractions so yea, a 'lil sad.

expensive maggie mee babee

We were all drained and exhausted from Sunway Lagoon so much so we didn't even bothered to walk around Sunway Pyramid only to stop by Ichiban Ramen noodles to grab some early dinner at Vain's favourite spot in Sunway Lagoon. Vain sure loves his kim chi.

into the night

huiyin to another dimesion

Vain drove us to Southeast Asia's largest Jusco store, the AEON Bukit Tinggi Shopping Centre in Bandar Bukit Tinggi. From outside it looks really really big but when ya enter through the main entrance you'll immediately notice that the architecture is almost exactly the same the the Jusco in Seremban2. No kidding.

the big jusco

peeking over the 4th floor

city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire - story of the year

We didn't do much in the new Jusco, walked around a little here and there. Used our super-powered-awesomely-full-of-win coupon to get some good ol' coffee. Feeling tired and lemah-fied, we headed home soon after.

smell the fullness of win

su be op en je we le ry

Vain's awesomely cute GF

The next morning after attending Vain's church at Klang Baptist Church, we headed home in anticipation of another round of Some Good Food®. Vain's mom was prepping up some awesome Shepherd's Pie that's full-of-todd-n-sweeney. The best part was that we got to help out in the process-thingy.. yea~

mash 'em tatoes

watching it turn golden brown

It taste so good, we knew we had to tapau a serving to Jess so that she can escape the horrors of hospital food. Her sister noted that this is the first time she actually finish her food while in the hospital. Thanx Vain's mom has got it going on and will be praying for your speedy recovery Jess - have faith gal.

drool people! DROOL!!

Later that evening, we went back to the super big Jusco-thingy to eat some fish at the Manhattan Fish Market with Vain's family. Gotta say, despite the pricey-ness of the dishes there, it's worth it - really worth it. The portions are big and the food taste awesomely great. I like fish anyway. So here's another recommendation of Some Good Food®. Gotta love the blow-torch stunt.

so full of sweeney and todd!!

manhattan fish market ftw!

While in the new Jusco I found out that the Windmill that we have in Malacca and in Klang is at a WHOLE different level. The Windmill here in Klang puts Malacca Windmills to shame. They should just bury themselves along with the sloppy, wasteful governor of Malacca who used up our precious millions of ringgit to build some crappy fountain, waterfall and an seriously pathetic 'eye'. bleh~

wonder where that came from....

Anyway, huiyin left for home on Sunday afternoon so she didn't get to enjoy them good food. The next morning we had to wake up unbelievably early at 7am as Vain had to fetch his mum to work so that he can use the van to bring us to the bus station. Almost missed my bus too but Vain managed to chase it down as it reached the toll; flagged down the bus and boarded it. hehe~

All in all, it was an awesomely fun weekend at Vain's crib. Much full of todds and sweeneys through it all. Vain's a good host and a great brother. Thanx dude - you rock~

Here's one for ya dude~

omg! it's klangitis~