Carissa Sammy

Mummy and daddy’s always there!

Me Lovely sisters to play and laugh with!

The meet ups with high school friends! <3!

Mummy’s awesome cooking! But this one I helped baked for mother’s day! Teehee! Oh yes, an oven to bake in! :’)

Rainbows! I swear you see a rainbow every other day! It’s so beautiful! This one is captured when I was walking around my house garden. Hohoho!

Sundrops! I know you KL peeps love this! Believe it or not, Kuching is the place where they produce this amazing drink! And I love home cos I have these kinda drinks in my fridge always always always!

Oh yes, the lovely garden! So lovely to have a place to walk in after being so sick of sitting in the house! What’s more amazing is the flowers in the garden! why can’t I have mummy’s green hands?! sobs! So beautiful!

My piggy slippers! So cute can?!

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Anyhoo, these are some of the lovely things I love about being home. I haven even included the pictures of my lovely tv, aircond, bed, kampua mee, kolo mee(actually I only eat mee pok; which is the version of kolo mee with different noodles because the original noodles of kolo mee looks like brain i scared), sarawak laksa, sio bee, my steamed peanuts(I am so addicted to this!), bubur cha cha, the three layer teh si peng, the yam and chicken puff(I seriously dislike yam but for this pie, it’s just awesome I also dunno why?!), butter bun(I have NO IDEA why KL don’t sell any of these! Only have potato bun! Cis!), my trampoline(actually only write this cos I wrote so much food so sinful so must put trampoline to show I also got exercise! Is lies! ), my car!(can go anywhere! but sad to say it’s not like I know all the roads also. Malu!), Kakak!(cos don’t need to do any housework! ai lub her ) and so on.

WHY OH WHY AGAIN SO MANY FOOD! I AM SO OBSESS WITH FOOD! -_-!! I PRAY TO BE OBSESS WITH EXERCISE CAN?! *KNOCKS HEAD WITH FOOD THEN EATS IT HOHOHO!*

P/s this was a long time ago. Before the CNY. Teehee! Just realized I have many drafts haven’t post up. Teehee!

Had Northern Indian food and catch up with the leadership team which can be found here.

Then went over to Sunway Pyramid for supposedly ice skating fun with the favourite boys and I brought all my stuffs ie stokings and gloves but we did not ice skate in the end because there were sooooo many people on the ice skating ring and if I skated I would perhaps block the whole entire ring because I would be stuck at the side not knowing how to move -_-!! I would get all wet since the ring was kinda wet wet wet with all that people skating on it. So, we ended up in Carl’s Junior since the boys boy haven’t been to one since he came to KL for studies. Teehee!

We talked and talked and talked until it was time for me to go to the Steamboat party with the girls for pre-CNY celebration!

It was such a day of food for me! Gluttony! Goodness! I felt so sick of food after wards! But it was fun hanging out with people I cherish deep inside my heart! And oh of course all the lovely food! What a fruitful day!

What I truly need sometimes is just a simple girls day out. It was fantabulous. We talked and shared about life, our hopes and dreams, guys love and relationship and had many laughs over good food, amazing company, oh and of course, board games!

“A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope.”

Last Saturday, I had Northern Indian food at Pastor Tim’s place with the leadership team just sharing about lives and updating on testimonies and church plans.

Pastor Tim also shared about leaders reaching a point of life as a Christian leader where we will feel less passionate, tired and most distressing of all would be feeling stagnant. Honestly, I do feel more tired than I have felt for a long time and as compared to when I rededicated my life, I am definitely less passionate; not at all burning with the intense fire I used to have.

He then shared that when these happens, there are four key reasons to why one feels as such.

There are four reasons for Stagnation:

1. Lack of Devotion (thus making one weary)

Many people usually fall under this category. This is where people lack of doing devotions. It really is as simple as that. Sometimes we take for granted and not do devotion, sometimes we lose focus and are not discipline in doing them. I remembered my struggles when I first rededicated my life to God. I simply could not sit down and do my devotions every single day. It was truly difficult for me. I only manage to truly commit when I see the priority of God in my life and that I should be able to spend some time with Him everyday instead of wasting my time turning on the internet or reading a good book. Since that day, doing devotions is the time of the day I truly enjoy because that is when He will tell me what I needed to hear and I am aware that there is a true relationship between me and Him. It is also when my empty cup will be replenished again.

2. Lack of Compassion

Before Pastor Tim told us about these four reasons; I have already diagnosed myself in this category. I feel that I have dealt with so many different people; some with difficult attitude problem which drives me insane while others are just plain amazing and easy to love, and that I am running out of love for people. This is a very dangerous diagnosis I must say because when you stop loving people, you just stop seeing the reason of doing what you do because you just don’t love anymore. In fact, before Saturday, I have already kept loving people as one my biggest priority in my prayer list. The need to love is immeasurable. It is what keeps us going when people get difficult. It is what fills Jesus’ heart every single time before a miracle happens. Yes, every single time! So pray with me as I keep loving people as I go through this journey of my ministry.

3. God’s calling

Yes, this is also substantially vital in doing what you do. When you are doing God’s calling, you tend to not feel tired or weary. There will be passion and zeal doing what you do. So if you’re not sure what God’s calling is for you, pray about it. Try different ministry to see which one ignites the fire in you. Mine would be Campus Ministry for now because I love to see young people stand up for God, see young people burn so passionately for Him. That itself keeps me going on. Oh and of course worship ministry. I love singing. I truly do. But I love singing for Him even more.

4. Creativity

This I am not particularly sure or know how I can fit into this category. You see, me and creativity, we are like strangers meeting for the first time; not exactly best of friends! But creativity in doing what we do actually help grows through stagnation. It’s like giving a breath of fresh air!

What I learnt most importantly on that very day would be the fact that every single leader goes through stagnation and I am absolutely relieved knowing that I am not alone in this boat! It helps knowing that you are not alone and that other people goes through it too. So if you are right now in the stage of stagnation; let me know so I can pray with you and perhaps you can too evaluate what is your reason for stagnation. Remember, you are NOT alone!

Blessed weak ahead!

First Off: Chae’s Graduation!

I flew back to Kuching for the weekend supposedly for the elder sister’s graduation only finding out later that I had a whole week off due to Raya break and Mum was so nice to change my flight date in time for Raya Barbeque and a whole entire week of home! I heart mummy so so much!

Dearest Chae,

Congrats! I can’t believe that you graduated already! Time flies so quickly! I vividly remember the times when we were merely little girls riding on my green bike and your pink one, hugging each other when thunders comes, screaming at one another till we both cry and make up, always matching in all our clothes what with you being only a year older than me, you always calming me when I have fashion disaster, us trying to make things work when boys made things bad; crying together, laughing together, you teaching me so much in this life and now with the little sister in our team of sisterhood! I cannot believe life move on so fast! The next thing would be you getting married! OH MY GOODNESS! I’m joking! No pressure! Haahaa! I am so so proud of you for all your amazing achievement! You are indeed one heck of a woman! I love you so very much! *kissesalloveryourface*

Looking good!

With mummy and daddy the very proud parents!

Sisters!

Family

p/s i can’t believe you really thought we didn’t get you anything! In the end you had the most presents what with 3 huge flowers and 2 huge soft toys and the other small ones. So paiseh people keep staring at us! But so glad you kept smiling the entire time!

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Usually after class, the girls would go around for yummy lunch time. It really is good food at very affordable price!

Lunch at Jack’s Place:

Yummy Garlic Bread

Soup for Starter

Mine: Chicken in Peanut Sause and Spagetti – It’s good!

Fish Fillets and Spagetti – a friends’

Sorry forgot to take the picture of desert; which consists of Jelly with a hint of Coconut Milk and Nata D’ Coco.

GEB and me

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GEB’S 21st Birthday at Tony Roma’s:

Refillable Ice Tea

Chicken Soup and Biscuit for Starter

My Grilled Chicken with Fries and Salad

Friends’ Fish and Chips

Cake dipped in Vanilla IceCream, Fresh Cream and chocolate bits

DCWH and her happy food!

The food was in a very Huge Portion that I took so long to finish it! Okay, I lied. Didn’t manage to finish. But I had a reason; I was sick!

To My Overdearest Bee,

Thank you for being such an amazing friend, for all the fun times in college. You make life in Campus so much more enjoyable! And I am so glad our Hokkien is almost the same! Teehee! But most important of all is the fact that you love me so much and care a lot more! Thank you for always nagging advising me to rest more and for reminding me to take my medicine when I always forget. Though it’s such a small gesture, it touched me so much! I also am so touched also that you are so willing to share your problems and happiness with me. I call it sharing lives. I am so glad for you! Life without you will never be the same! I love you Bee! You are my best lou kung ever! Hope you love your present and Happy AWESOMEST 21st Birthday!

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Went for Breakfast on Thursday morning at 7.30am(so happening I know). We decided to go breakfast cos we had class straight from 9am till 4pm with only one hour break in between and we were confident that if we do not have food inside of us, we would actually die. Yes, die. Haahaahaa! My monster friends are as such. Seriously. So we would sacrifice sleep and eat breakfast instead.

We had the Famous Nasi Lemak in the Famous Shop in Uptown. I thought we were early! Apparently, there were lots of people earlier than me! ohmigoshed!

Monster DCWH so happy when she has food!

At 2 pm that day, we were in good enough condition to pose and take pretty pictures before class.

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That Thursday Night, The Housemate William decided to cook Spagetti for Feng’s house and our house. It was good! Men who cook are awesome!

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Update: I’ve been sick of late. Suffering with flu, cough, sore throat, on and off fever and asthma. It’s been more than a week really. Time to watch what I eat. Did grocery shopping also on Thursday night and cooked soup! Gonna try to make yummy porridge as well!

p/s Thanks 9lin for lending me your car for me to get my groceries! Your trust means tons to me.

Soup food: good for the tummy

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I am so overly paranoid. 21st birthday coming up and friends already have committee meeting(?!!?!) to plan and organize my birthday for me to have one to remember for the rest of my life! OH MY! I am so nervous my stomach hurts so bad! Please FRIENDS, I beg of you, be kind okay? I love you guys tons! ://

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For the first time in my life, I am quite nervous. Goodness.

Btw, Fishy, since u’ve been gone, there’s no one to kill the cockroaches and get rid of the lizards. I just had to call Feng over to kill cos Wills was at CC. So paiseh but so scared! I miss you tons. I do. :’(