"The Triumph" -- Ron Clark Story

This is a seriously must-see movie! Impactors (Youth Fellowship) watched this movie on our Movie Time! on the 29th January. Its super cool and funny! Here's a short intro:

The Ron Clark Story follows the inspiring tale of an energetic, creative and idealistic young teacher who leaves his small North Carolina hometown to teach in a New York City public school. Through his passionate use of special rules for his classroom, highly innovative teaching techniques and an undying devotion to his students and helping them cope with their problems, Clark is able to make a remarkable difference in the lives of his students.

Though the students in the story are only aged 12, but they have many different tough backgrounds. Mr. Clark used many different creative, innovative, even CRAZY ways to teach his class. There's a part where he made a deal that he'll drink a small carton of milk every 15 seconds as long as the class kept quiet, and his tactic actually worked because the kids wanted to see him puke! (Eww~)

Here's a sneak-peek of what he did in History class.


Ron Clark also has an academy, called The Ron Clark Academy.
Overall, this is a really inspiring and non-the-less entertaining movie.

Gelato... "This ain't ice cream!"

This is a picture of Maxim's Cakes and Gelateria in Penang taken during Christmas season. Pretty colorful huh? Its situated right beside the Penang Baptist Bookstore. Don't know where? I don't know how to tell explain also..hehe..

Looks like ice cream right? In fact it isn't. Its called gelato, and what the differences? Read on:

Ice cream:
* 50-100% air churned into ingredient mix in making process (increases quantity)
* uses artificial flavoring
* creates "stuffy" effect if "over-eat" because of high air content

Gelato:
* 25% air churned into ingredient mix in making process
* uses more "real" ingredients (so has a more creamy/milky taste)
* doesn't create "stuffy" effect, more quality (makes quantity more worth it)

As a whole, gelato may not as yummy as ice-cream since it uses less artificial favoring, it provides healthier alternative for ice-cream lovers.
Conclusion, gelato vs ice cream = a healthier choice
Ice cream lovers, you can click here for more info.

God bless all ice cream lovers with good health! Hahaha!

Slot Machine Cake! -- Pretty Baker Mandy

I couldn't believe my eyes at first but this cake is super IMPRESSIVE!!! Its covered in chocolate and carefully hand-painted. According to our lovely baker, it took her 26hrs with the help of her friend to complete this cake. This cake is specially made for the biggest spender in Crown Casino. He wanted a slot machine cake (what a gambler).









Mandy here comes from my church and she is very talented and beautiful as you can see (I admired her as a little girl). She can dance and play music as well as cook real good stuff. By the way, she spent more than 100hrs on this Christmas masterpiece for The Royal Melbourne Show 2008.











This is my favorite picture of her and her guy:

Aint' it pretty? Okay okay..I'm getting a little sentimental here.. But come on now, don't you think its a cool shot?

Bless you Mandy!

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Celina you crazy random person!

Man...Blogs are so good for this kind of thing.

ImPACToRS CNY/Vday -- "Prosperous L♡ve"

As you can see here in the poster, Impactors are having a Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day special, themed "Prosperous Love" (credits to Impactors president for the random yet hit-the-nail theme title!)

If you're wondering what's it about the Impactors Pizza Drama, here's an explanation:

"Pizza Drama"-- also now known as "Pizza Season 1" made its 1st appearance on Impactors/FGC Chinese Youth Talentime Contest '09. The Pizza Team started out here with only 5 members. They won 3rd place in the group category.

"Pizza Heart" -- also known as "Pizza Season 2" was performed on Christmas '09 after having requested because of the good feedbacks by fellow church members. By then, the Pizza Team grew into 11 members. We had plenty of laughs just as "Season 1" had (thanks to the pizza operator) and so the team imediately decided to come up again with "Season 3".


So, what do we do in this event? Besides celebrating CNY and Vday, we have stuff like praise and worship, games, food etc. plus a special message from Uncle Max. (Don't know who? Come see la~)

Boys and girls, young or old, Christians or non-christians, all are welcome to oin in this festive and love-filled event :)

Hope to see you there! God bless!

MYPG January Update 2010--by Yoshua

Dear all,

2010 is a year of expansion and strengthening of existing groups. We have some good news and developments.

1. Kota Bharu LYPG born- this makes it the 13th LYPG to be formed and the first for 2010. Praise the Lord!

2. The Prayer Volunteer Team Promo Video is out! To find out more, click on this link to see Isaac shoveling snow in London (http://www.youtube.com/msiaypg#p/a/u/0/YINNSARit70). Additional information abt PVT is now on the MYPG Blog also. : ) We look forward to hearing from you.

3. AFMC! For those of you who would want to know more about upcoming mission activities, we are attaching an upcoming Youth Conference brochure, called Asia Frontiers Mission Conference*

4. For those of you connected with a LYPG, remember to continue your efforts to pray for the FOUR ITEMS mentioned in the previous email. Let's keep pounding on the Doors of Hell for the souls of those who have been bound by the Law for too long. Let's proclaim FREEDOM to the captives. :)

* Asian Frontiers Missions Conference (AFMC) was birthed in the 1990s when several Asian Leaders met in Singapore to pray and seek the Lord on how to mobilize Asian Christian professionals to be involved in frontier missions. AFMC is held every three years. Thus far, two has been held in the Philippines, two in Thailand and the last one in 2007 was in Indonesia. Malaysia is organising and hosting the one this year.

Mini Work-out Playmates

Very "kiddy" title huh? Recently I've been doing some working out with the help of two kids. I would like to call them Ben and YC. How do they help? I play catch and "Ice & Water" with them. Erm...you know, running around chasing each other? It actually helps me sweat much faster than working out alone and mind you, 11 year-olds can run quite fast.
So meet my 2 playmates ;)
Aren't they cute? haha..
Here are candid shots of them resting.
I wonder if I'm looking forward to another work out session with them, it leaves me panting but its fun! God bless the little children! Haha!

My 1st Orchestra Practise in 2010--last Saturday

Its not as boring as i thought it would be, reason is because there are less than 10 people that showed up and majority are 1st violins.

Now why did I say "not as boring"?

A little info on how the string orchestra "status" works:
1st violins-- more "professional" (majority higher grades)
2nd & 3rd violins-- less "professional" (majority lower grades)

Wondering what about cello and double bass? They're not so much of my concern.

So...working in an amateur orchestra team (even though I'm in the Kedah Symphony Orchestra) is quite tiring. I dreaded the practices last year especially because the conductor had to focus more on the 2nd and 3rd violins, resulting a bored bunch of 1st violins texting, chatting, snoozing, dreaming......

PLUS, playing the violin long makes your shoulder and back ache.

Now why am I blogging this? Read on.

Mr. Lee (conductor): Playing music in an orchestra should be 1 tone, 1 music; and not playing individually. Lets say, you have Nescafe, Coffee Mate, and sugar, what will you get?
Student: Powder.
Mr. Lee: *blinks a bit~
Student: Because you haven't added water.
*Everyone laughs~
Mr. Lee: Okay, so lets say we added water, we get coffee right?
Student: We still can't get coffee if you add cold water, you'll get it if you put in hot water.

......We're talking about music okay. Not coffee.