Brisbane City

All my Malaysian friends have either gone home, or to Sydney now.
Lol. And I'm here on the Coast all alone. But I'm lucky to have friends beyond the Malaysians.

I've been on the Coast for 20 months and I haven't really been to Brisbane before (Apart from the airport and karaoke).
Yesterday was my first time touring in the city of Brisbane.
Danielle and Christy were my tour guide.
I promise to have pictures this time ok!
Ok. The pictures are pretty impromptu though.

I realised that I do not have to go anywhere after all.
The City of Brisbane itself looks fabulous.
Danielle came and picked me up in the morning.
Christy was already waiting for us at the train station already.
I have to tell you about this thing today - Public transport had PERFECT TIMING wherever we go.
God is working all the time.
We didn't even have the chance to wait for public transport.
Wherever we go, the bus and trains arrive at the time we're there.
Isn't it amazing!!?

Brisbane trip started pretty well when a Nestea truck stopped halfway and handed out free Ice Lemon and Peach tea. Lol. I got myself an Ice Peach while the girls got the lemon and lime ones.
We then headed to Queenstreet Mall to have lunch.
The Unadon over there was alright, not the best though.

Next, we shopped within the complex.
I certainly couldn't find much things that were suitable for me.
The girls walked their way while I walk mine.
We met at about 1hour later.
The shop that stood out was G-Star. They had a discount that day but the jeans I was looking at was out of stock (Arh, good things never last).

Next, we went to Myer Centre.
On the way to Myer Centre, we saw this guess shop and I told the girls (WOW! 30% discount).
True to it, every item for the male species were either on a 30% discount or it costs AuD$70 to purchase. Not true for the ladies.

A top immediately caught my eyes. It is a baby-blue top with a plain design at the front (UK flag is the prints on the chest). Then, I proceed on to look at its back. It's certainly unreal. The prints at the back were well designed. I stop hesistating and took a small and a medium to try on. The store-keeper then told me that all the jeans were on 30% discount. A skinny black caught my eyes. I have been wanting to get a skinny black for the longest time. The guess skinny black was unreal! Together with my first top, they fit perfectly. With my shoes, I thought they were inseparable. Lol.

Needless to say, I bought this top and the skinny black. And this proved to be the only thing I would buy for the day. Went to a few other places and nah, nothing was as good! We went to the Museum and learnt more about turtles! We sat for about 30minutes on the sofa of the museum just watching some turtle documentary. We learnt the lots though (:.

Ally (Christy's friend) came along after our museum trip. She is currently studying at QUT. It was all good as we spent our time with Ally walking through the parks and artificial beach. Their artificial beach is really artificial - Just sand and a small swimming pool. I was thinking of Sentosa when they told me about artificial swimming pool. I guess we all could have such an "artificial beach" at our porch if we do own a house.

We walked for more than 2 hours and Ally had to leave for a dancing class. The three of us went to one of Sunnybank's Chinese restaurant where we educated Danielle about Chinese food. I saw BAH KUT TEH and I told the girls that this is the best Malaysian stuff you've got to try. Their BKT was alright, not the best though. But still reminds me of Malaysia. I had 2 portions and after that, we walked for another 25 minutes before we reached Altandi train station. Our train arrived when we reach there.

Some of the pictures in the train were taken on our way back.
Yeah! Brisbane trip was really good.
God is there all the time, even when you are just having holidays and enjoying yourself.
In one of the bus trips, I just plugged in to my iPod and heard the sermons that Ps Joakim preached about 10 martyrs for Christ. It was so inspiring!

People! let's not give away our destiny for the tangible. Materials and wants are necessity, but they should not be all that we lived for. Let's live for something greater & higher.

Till then, cya!
Some pictures below!!


Me and Christy

Me outside Myer Centre (The place I valued in my property investment assignment!)

Danielle - Studying and now travelling partner!

Night in the museum X

Girls with Koala

Girls in the garden


Outside Myer Centre


Train (on the way home - we had the train to ourselves)

A long day!

Lv
Bryan

I had a really great day today!

Went to Southport today for a haircut with my good friend Koshi (He's leaving for Japan tomorrow...... :( )
And after which, we headed to a Japanese restaurant nearby to have lunch. It's a pretty cool place that serves good food! Psts would love it!

After that, we headed to Robina to do shopping!!!
You got to know my friend Koshi because he is a person who has never bought a pair of jeans before (he wears a pretty expensive watch - Rolex). Brought him around and we walked the newly revamped Robina for a few rounds before he decided to get a pair of jeans (His first ever), a pair of Nike running shoes and a shirt.

While I got 2 tops and a scarf at Roger David. I haven't bought myself any top since the trip to Malaysia in December. It looks really cool I reckon!

Headed to Baskin Robbins for some amazing Ice Cream before I bade farewell to Koshi! He's leaving to Japan tomorrow morning!!

Had a good rest after I had a shower. After dinner, Talked to Jia Yang on Skype for 3 hours (We haven't talk for the longest time). Caught up with him and we TALK the lot. Love the company we share. Talk about a lot of things. All the Cs in the World - Church and Crush. Lol. He wouldn't mind me putting this!

Anyway, tomorrow's a long day!
Going to Brisbane with a couple of people!
Hopefully pictures ((:
Till then, see ya!

Bryan

It is FINISHED!

Property Investment!~

This is certainly the ONLY paper I finished before the actual time required!
I finished this subject like 40 minutes earlier?
It was just awesome.

Everything that I just look through (There certainly wasn't much to study) came out.
It was awesome!
Love how things went though!

I went out of the exam hall feeling this good this first time.
Saw another friend of mine who just finished her paper.
She finished her last exam for the Undergraduate life.
Man. Lol. Which means she's graduating!
I long for that day when I finished my last Uni Exam.
It'll be so cool hey!
I will shout.... "YEAHHH"
Ok lame.

After chatting, headed straight to Felix's to wait for Kevin as we're heading towards Hannah's birthday party. Felix has his own birthday party as well. Actually, today's his birthday!
Hannah's was a couple of days ago.

Kevin drove me back home to change and we headed to Han's place after that. She lived in a pretty cool apartment! Arh.. Too bad my camera wasn't charged properly. There's just this thing about my camera battery! I've been charging it for hours and the battery life actually shortened instead of otherwise! Anyway, we captured some pretty cool pictures using Han's camera, hopefully she uploads soon so I can RIP it.

Me and Kevin were the only Asians amidst a multicultural crowd. But we fit ourselves right in to the party just like any of them. Met Danielle (My study partner who has never failed to be in the VC's list) and got introduced to all her friends. I introduced myself to other people too. Just being friendly you know. Like my Portfolio teacher said that in such a setting, we've just got to be confident and be friendly. lol.

Time certainly passed by fast when we have great companies (:. So many people we've met through this party man! I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Since Kevin had too much of a drink, I drove back to Felix's party instead.

Felix's party was one of Loud music and randomness. lol. Which has its flavour. Chatted and knew a couple of new friends too. In just one day, I'm being introduced to countless people. And Yeah. Of course maybe none of them will eventually be my real friends, but it's really good to know people of different cultures and stuff like that.

Ok. After Felix's party - then what? Needless to say.... DOTA! Ha ha. Ok, Dota players - read on. Non-Dota players, it's time to leave.. Lol. Jk. Maybe this can ignite that fire in you to play. Played 3 5v5 games.

First game -Luna Moonfang.
By far my favourite and best hero.
Dominated early game, mid game. But got aimed at as people know that I was a threat (eehhh) lol. But Seriously, I was the main carrier in my team. I had Treant Protector, Necrolyte, Visage and Bane Elemental as my team-mate. Visage is the second carry while I carried the team. We raxed mid pretty quickly and they countered it later on by raxing mid as well. I had my core items In BKB, Butterfly, Treads Helm wraith bands. But their troll has similar items too. And if you know, troll owns late game! They went on to rax top as well (That was our strategy). While 2 of us were defending back home (We knew that we would die), the rest of the team went straight into the mid lane and killed their tree. Lol. We won, but it wasn't that we had the superior score, just a superior strategy. lol.

Second game - Pugna.
Just wanted to play support.
Our SF had an early game double kill. But he wasn't good with SF and the game just went down, down and down after ward. My team was Pugna (Myself), Axe, SF, Naix and Travex. Clearly, I was the nuker. But the nether warding was pretty important in our defence (Never underestimate the nether warding of Pugna). SF fed after it's initial double kill and finished 3-11 or something like that. When one of our carries has this stats, you know what would happen. SF fed Slardar and it was so fed that Slardar could kill even with the tower hitting it constantly. Axe was laning with SF and fed as well after their laning heroes got fed much. The game wasn't one sided all along. We countered some of their ganks pretty well. I only had a hex that game, wasn't my best day with Pugna. Birthday Boy Felix used his favourite hero - Terrorblade, and owned us. Skadi and Butterfly. Fast farming! However, a couple of bad plays by him prevented his team from winning the game earlier. My team lost game 2.

Third game - Keeper of the Light
My role was pure support.
My other teammates were Alchemist, Zeus, Meepo and Lanaya (Templar Assassin). After playing and understood how it is played in ai for a couple of games, I wanted to take the challenge. Laned with Alchemist and pumping its mana pool so that Alch could stun and all. Alch was farmed just by using acid to creep (with extra bounty as well). My aim was to support mana, use mana leak on our opposing Medusa. We won this game comfortably as Meepo took centre stage. Meepo almost had its full items when we raxed their mid and top. Meepo Level 24 while the rest of the opposing team were at 16-18s. We dominated that game. The only light in the opposing team was the Naga Siren had an Unstoppable Streak (Eventually got killed anyway). My game as a team support is to basically assist my other teammates. While in my Spirit Form, . So in team battles my job is to mana leak one (Medusa most of the time), hex one, recall one of my team mates, use binding so the our enemies miss on their attack and pump the mana pool of Zeus or Alch. We won this game, but not that one-sided though.

Score 2-1.

It was an In House game IH dota and not just some pick up games. All three games went beyond 55 minutes with the first game closed to 70.

Declare it to the Lord!

I love to start the day praying in tongues.
5 minutes, 10 minutes, whatever.
That's the best way to start the day.
Not worrying about what's ahead, but dedicate your DAY to the Lord.

I have been thinking about so many things since yesterday!
H a h a. I miss everyone home!
Ok. Gotta conquer my day!
FTS trader report Thursday and Prop Investment on Friday!

My last two papers this semester!
Ok.
Bring it on!

Bryan Yee

I guess when life becomes more than just football, even Man Utd losing doesn't have much of an effect on me.

I only watched the game last night against Everton in the second period of the extra time.
It wasn't a classic at all.
Man Utd fielded a young team with an average age of 22.
Ha ha. Can't believe it, but still, Ferguson did it.
I thought Man Utd was going to win it when Cahill missed the penalty.
But 2 penalty saves by Howard turned the tide and Man Utd went on to lose the SF.

Well, it's just soccer to me now.
I got one thing out of Ps Don's sermon yesterday.
Do not be indolent!
Be on the cutting edge.
Don't be slothful.

Ok. 1 project and 1 more exam to go!

Bryan!

2nd Nephew - 14.4.2009

I have a 2nd nephew now!
This makes me sound really old, but I'm not ok!
Ha ha. Sis gave birth to a healthy boy, Chiang Le 14.4.2009.
One more to the kingdom of God!

I haven't seen him yet, but I believe he's going to be a great man of God.
Just like Samuel...
Don't know why, but I liken him to that.
Remember to give you one month gift ok!
14.5.2009

International Trade exam is down.
I'm left with FTS project and my Property Investment next Friday!
Went to Robina Town Centre today (Finally)
It is really very very nice.
The renovated RTC can be compared to Vivocity and even beat it by a little.
RTC was not really a place I would like to go in the past, but not anymore after witnessing the great interior of the building!

They have a 2-storey Borders bookshop - That's insane.. This beats the one at Wheelock anytime! On top of that, there's also Gloria Jeans in it.
And Gloria Jeans is someone's favourite coffee shop. Ha ha. Tag here if I'm refering to you. lol.

Felt relieved after I-trade (Worth 50%!!)
I can't wait to catch up with Josh, Ben and the rest of the people after my exams!
Man. This semester has taken a toll on my social life (Heaps).
But I'm glad it's coming to a close.
But it's no use if I didn't end it on a high.
Last 2 to go.
Do my best and look forward to my final semester in May!

Bryan misses Chiang Yee and Le!

Today is the day!

Flurry of posts. I guess there will come a time when I post an entry every week or fortnight.
But while I'm at it, why not post?

15:00-17:00.
Exam of the year!
I really hope that I will do well.
5 big chapters + some knowledge to be learnt before mid-term.

I can say that this is my only exam.
Because the one next Friday is going to be easy.
But I will still study though. lol.
My prayer to God would not be to make the exam easier.
But to give me the understanding and clarity of mind when I attack that paper.

My friends. I miss and love you.
My studying materials are beside me now.
It's a miracle that I woke up at the time I wanted to today!
4.30a.m. Well, I hid under the blanket for a while (Because it was cold).
It hit 17 Degrees Celsius just now! I was freezing in my tees and boards.

Come on Bry! One more step to the End of Semester!

So many movies to watch!!!!

17 again, Pink Panther 2, Dragon Ball, Ink Heart (No I haven't watch it yet), Slumdog Millionaire and Fast and Furious.
Probably not going to watch all.
Selectively, I'm doing some!
Ha ha.
With who?
I don't know. Just ask around?

Bryan

Last dash

It's like my final 100m dash!
One more individual project to go. 2 more finals!

...... Enjoy whatever I can now.
Though I'm not a big fan of Uni, I do enjoy it.
Well, it's pretty contradicting, but I mean what I say.
It has been ages since I've watched soccer!!
And Manchester United is dominating on all fronts!

1-0 against Porto (Didn't I say History doesn't mean a thing when it comes to Man Utd)?
No English team has ever won in Porto's home ground, didn't Man Utd just did it a couple of hours ago?

Lol. Studied with Danielle yesterday - and felt I was way behind in my revision. She then gave me her study notes (How nice!?).
There are so many selfless people out there!
It's unbelievable.
Whatever you believe will be true.
If you believe that the world is bad, it is!
If you believe otherwise, it is too!

After tomorrow at 5p.m.!!! I'm one step towards holiday!
Arh!
Manchester United!
Quintuple

Bryan

Mountains

Easter Monday!

And I'm working on a Property Investment Project.
Father, if you will, would you lift this cup off me.
Nevertheless, not my will, but Yours be done.

Hmm.
Not a fun thing to do today!
On such a beautiful day!
Lovely.

Bryan

Easter Sunday

It's Easter Sunday and I'm on for Kid's church!

I had a short message prepared for them and after that, we had something lined up for the kids!
That is Easter Egg hunt.

It was such a joy to see the kids enjoying themselves finding those chocolate eggs!
Arh. They're all so adorable.
Happy days are here to stay!
Ha ha. I love being with kids. It's no longer just a "ministry" anymore.
I guess when we put the vision of the church (No matter which church you're in) first, we will find ourselves loving whatever we do.

Oh yeah. Pastor Don talked about our church again.
Well, the dialogue below may not be the exact words, but you get the idea.
Pastor Don saw Charleston gelling his hair in the men's and he asked him "so are you trying to impress some girl"?
Charleston said yes and went on to talk about the mystery lady.
Daniel came along and said "He's talking about my sister".
Lol. The crowd burst out laughing as Ps Don said that.

Lay aside your dreams and vision for the bigger dream of God - Your passion will come!

Easter Service and proj

I had my Corporate Finance group project meeting yesterday afternoon.
We've been at it for 10 long weeks!
4 of us, 4 different nationality (None of us are Australians!), one goal - To finish our project.
One Mexican, American, French and a Malaysian (That's me!).
However, I usually introduced myself as a Singaporean.

Anyway, project was great.
MK (The American) is going to go home tomorrow as she has finished all her stuff (She's a study abroad student). She knows Finance the BEST amongst all of us. I learnt so much from her. I have absolutely no idea what's SEC filings a couple of weeks ago. SEC filings - huh? She just taught me everything.

Towards the end of the project, we relaxed and did some funny stuff - Go on google to check out the hot celebrities. Lol. All the top names were out. It started when I said that my Mexican resembles Cristiano Ronaldo. And after that, instead of discussing Finance, that's what we did. We're all 21 years old anyway.

Moving on to evening!
Easter service was great!
Pastor Don n Adrienne just came back from their holidays.

It was great that they talked about Heart of God Church and their experience there.
"So Pastor How announced the four couples that were already going out" was what he said. lol.
Ps Don added a tinge of cheekiness into that sentence.

The service was great.
Ps Don's preaching was really fresh and gave us a whole lot of insights too.

Alright. Not gonna say much.. Going to church for some clean up soon. My day is still young!
Easter eggs (Chocolate ones I mean), hot cross buns => What's their origin??? Tell me pls somebody!

Bryan

New day!

Woke up and showered... At 20 past 5 without the help of an alarm clock!

That's new.
Ha ha.
Can't wait for winter.
Because I would be forced to wake up due to the freezing temperature.

Hmmm... I'm hoping for all the modules to finish in a blink of an eye. 2 more weeks till my semester draws to a close.
Lately, I've met more Singaporeans. 100% more.
Mainly because I've only met 1 throughout my 1/1/2 year here and on Monday, I met 2 more.
So it's a 2-fold increase.
A new day brings a feeling of excitement.
Conquer your day.
I'm going to conquer mine... Especially with those nasty Options, futures and forwards.

Not forgetting to have a good time with God!

Man. This is exceptionally exciting.
Red Bull is my
Hallelujah, Your love has set me freeeeee.

Bryan

Portfolio Investment

So Portfolio Investment quiz is on Thursday!?

Choose the best 3/4.
Have been doing pretty average for most of them though.

This is my last one and I'm going to give my best to it.
Interest Immunization (I'll prefer you to immunize me), Options and futures and lastly, forward contracts.
Yeah!
Sounds a little bit exciting.... Lol.
People from my class might just kill me for saying so!

Group meeting tomorrow.
3 more projects due.
2 group, 1 individual.
I'm going to kill them.
Yeh. lol.
I've walked till this far... It'll be a waste just to walk away.
Finance is NOT fun. Ha ha.
But still, it's great knowledge though.

Hah. A great day to all of you!

Bryan

Cold Morning

Woke up just quarter to 6....
Checked some results.
And... Man Utd woN!.
I thought they had it easy, but no, they had to had an injury time winner from an 18 year old (Maybe 17 if he hasn't pass his birthday yet).

Everton (My Second fav EPL team) - Which doesn't really mean anything when they face Man Utd, won 4-0 comfortably. I hope they overtake Villa to go fifth, but if they don't, they'll still be in Europe nonetheless.

Corporate Finance LAST exam later on.
Yeah.... Some of the questions I've gone through are just killers.
Took me a while to figure out a lot of stuff.....
Anyway, After today!!! No more Corp classes....(Although there's still a project due next Wed)

Bryan

Must Blog......LAH

Ha ha.
YES. Received a text from FX straight after service telling me that we have four official couples in church now.
Two of them concerned my leaders
While one is pretty obvious, the other isn't.
I'm extremely happy for Garrett.
When I first learnt of what happened, I kind of just laugh, smile and filled with heaps of excitement in my heart for about 15minutes. I did absolutely nothing but thought of the times I spent with Garrett and at the same time feeling shocked (Very indeed). lol. My leader is no longer single. Please do not laugh if you ever read this. Sometimes you just feel SO happy for someone that you can't stop laughing. Hah. This is one of those days. But I bet Garrett and the rest of the 7 people would be 7 times happier than I do.

I gave him a text and he replied. Well, the latter is something he would definitely do.
Lol. Pretty rhetoric hey.
Well.. I still have some time to go before "imitating" him.
Maybe long, maybe not, but I leave it to God.
Some things in life you follow suit immediately, but certainly not in everything (This is an example).
There's a time and season for everything.

Now is the time to REJOICE because it is.
Ha ha. Well, I won't reveal who the other person is.
Anyway, most of you would know it much better than I do.
If you don't, well, maybe facebook might keep you updated.

Bye
Bryann....XX

British accent rocks

Some of my classmates had presentation and there was this guy who had a somewhat British accent.

It was so pleasant to hear than all the other annoying accents.
Maybe we should adopt that accent someday.

Anyway.. gg

This is what I do when I take a break...
Reading stuff on the internet basically.
That is apart from youtube.
This is extracted from Pst Kong's blog - In case of plagiarism. lol Uni Students.
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Power, Sex And Money

29 Mar 2009

But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, “You shall not return that way again.” Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. Deuteronomy 17:16-17

Hundreds of years before Samuel anointed Saul as the first king of Israel, these provisions were made concerning the king’s character.

First of all, a king should not be given to the lust of power. Leaders who are inwardly insecure are always clamoring for power, prominence and position. Jesus says that leadership is not lordship, but servanthood: “And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Matt. 23:12). Decide to be a servant-leader today.

Secondly, a king must not have a weakness for the opposite sex. Biblical leaders like Samson, David and Solomon all fell in this area. Next to the Lord, the most important relationship you would ever have is the one with your spouse. Communication is the key to life. Put aside quality time each day to share your thoughts, feelings, desires and visions with each other. Have consistent, healthy sexual relations in your marriage. “Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control” (1 Cor. 7:5). In other words, sex is effective spiritual warfare against the temptation for adultery. What do you do when you have lost the “first love” for your spouse? Jesus says, “Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works” (Rev. 2:5). That means that you need to go back to the beginning activities of your relationship. Start courting each other again. Keep the romance in your marriage strong.

Finally, a king must never have a soft spot for money. Paul says, “I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:12-13). While you are to desire the multiplication of your fi nances, learn to live within your means. Work out a plan to get out of debt as soon as you can. Be a tither and a generous giver in the church. Giving is always effective in dealing with the lust for money. A king should be a person of the Word, and a person of humility and accountability. These same character qualities are needed for all godly leaders in our time.

One down

I just finished a presentation.
Shall not comment on it further.
What's done is done.

Looking forward to finishing my other 2 projects.
Well.. This is Uni life.. My life. lol.
Let's see....

1) Corporate Finance Project due.
2) Research Sypnosium (Property Investment) due.
3) International Trade HW due.
4) Property Investment Assignment 2 due.

Alright. I'm going to finish all of this in the next 2 weeks.
Started on point 1 and 4.
Point 3 is due this friday, 90% done
Yet to start on point 2.

Ha ha.
2 more finals and I'm done for this semester.
Has been a gruelling and cruel semester.
In between them, I have 2 quizzes as well.
Let's not make them insignificant.
Both are 15%. So they are pretty heavy.

Anyway, problems are there to be solved.
Things exist to be done.
Emotional void is created so that there can be an input of love.
Love.

Bryan