cLaY!!!

Jeremaiah 18:6

..." Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand..."

Last Deepavali, which was 27 October 2008, I went to a clay shop with my church's sunday school. It was a small shop with 3 storeys located at Cheras if I've not mistaken. There, we learnt the process of moulding hehehe... The teacher also taught us what the clay in modern days are made of. Last time, they really went to dig for their own clay. But now, thanks to the modern technologies, they have clay powder where they just have to add some chemicals in the powders to make them more suitable for moulding.

After we finished our creation, it is time to burn it in a huge oven with a very very very extremely high temperature. We have to burn it 2 times. The first time, we have to burn our clay for 6 hours at 800 degree celcius. The second time is for 10 hours and at 1200 degree celcius. Imagine the heat!


After we burn it, we have to apply glaze on it to make it more beautiful and shiny. As we ought to know, clay is made from sand, SiO2 with a boiling point of +- 600 degree celcius, so, we need a catalyst to lower the boiling point and there are a few catalysts that can be used. If we add calcium carbonate, the colour will change to white colour, if it is ferum dioxide then the clay colour is blue, if we add copper, the colour will be red or green.

After the teacher's further explaination, only I knew that there are 2 types of oven to burn the clay and the colour of the clay will be different too. The first type is charcoal oven, and the clay colour is red. While the second type is the electric oven and i will produce green clay. Why is it loke this? Hehehehe, let Shan Mei The Great tell you hahahaha...It is because when we use charcoal oven, smoke is present, and when the clay, CuO react with smoke,CO and crbon dioxide, CO2, the products are carbon dioxide and copper(I)oxide, Cu2O which is red in colour. On the other hand, smoke is absent in the electric oven and therefore the product is copper (III)oxide, Cu2O3 ( copper (III) is green in colour ). Hence, our product wil be green in colour! Amazing isn't it? Didn't aspect to learn Chemistry there hehehe...

After all the theories, finally, it was time for some practial! The teacher taught us how to roll, mould and create our own product. Actually, I wanted to make a vase, but suddenly the teacher came and modified my clay and it looked like a tiara. But I don't need a tiara, so I modified it again. Finally, it became a stationary container hehehehe...While Ivy and I were busying with our own clay, we heard the children said something about grave. They said Ying Sing did a graveyard. The shape really looked like the typical chinese feng shui graveyard style LOL. We all boom her teruk-teruk that she was doing a model for her own grave hahahaha...

BEFORE

DURING

a tiara?

AFTER

Ivy and her product

Ying Sing's grave akakakaka

Mine!

Sunday School's students

Sunday School's teachers

Just For Fun!

Name : Iandy Lim aka Panda aka Ikan Paus

Age : 18

Sex : Unsure

Hobby : Torture people with his or I should I say her terrible voice.

Deepest Sympathy...

Deepest sympathy and condolences to my cousin sister, Cherry Aw Siew Yee

RIP date:17/10/2008

Age:26

About 3 weeks ago, she was admitted in Gleneagle Medical Centre, Ampang due to intracerebral bleeding. Why? It's because of some family problems which I don't wish to say in here. But the story can do a drama, a very touching one too. The doctor said she had to do operation immediately and they took one small part of her skull away. When I went to see her in the ICU ward, her head was wrapped up by bandages and there's writing on the part she operated " no bone ". The doctor said she might be half-paralysed IF she wakes up, and maybe she will loss her memory or most probably she won't wake up. After 2 weeks +, the doctor confirmed that she will be paralysed from her neck until her toes. That means she can only move her eyes and mouth. Then, she get virus infection in her brain, lungs and kidneys. The doctors managed to save her from that but the doctor was going to give up if she gets virus infection again. Because it's no point saving her.... So, my uncle and cousin brother planned to let her go, rather than made her and the whole family suffering. However, her boyfriend, Danny, was very determined to save her.

17 October 2008, around 4pm, God has brought her back to His side. They brought her body back to Ipoh, Perak and the funerall service was held there too. My family and I went to Ipoh on Sunday. Danny was very sad. He loved her so much until he decided to marry her in the next morning. He bought a diamond ring for Siew Yee and wanted to wear it for her before the crenation service. So, on Monday morning, Danny wore the ring around Siew Yee's finger, but it cant fit because her finger has swollen. Then he took it out and is going to place it in her 'container' after they collect her bone ashes. Many people came to pay their last respects and many of them shed tears. It was such a waste for a girl like her to die so young. She's beautiful, smart and she was a lawyer. Although we all missed her a lot, but on the other hand, it means good news. We knew that she is with God now. She always missed her mum ( my aunt passed away last year on 19/10/2008. It was her 1 year anniversary and her daughter joined her in heaven ) and now she can reuniter with her.

I saw many people shed tears, but I didn't cry at all. Not because I'm not sad, of course I'm sad, she's my cousin sister, but, I tears just won't come. Maybe there was a big gap between me and her. We were not very close since we were kids, I'm in Klang and she's in Ipoh. Then, she was so much elder than me. Furthermore, she went to England to further her studies, we really spent very little time together.

28/2/2006 - grandmother passed away
19/10/2007- aunty Jenny passed away
17/10/2008 - Siew Yee passed away

Since my grandmother and aunt Jenny loved playing mah jong a lot, now, the 3 mothers and sisters have enough people to play mah jong in heaven hahahaha...

Siew Yee & grandmother

Aunt Jenny, Siew Yee & grandmother

After the crenation service, we went to a restaurant and we found these....

Disgusting!!!!

HapPy HaLoLwEen!!!

Exam over! OK, I said that in my last post. Due to this, I borrowed The Sims pc game from Yin Xian and I played the game until 5.30 am hahahahaha.... I kept on tell myself to go to sleep but there's too many things I haven't complete with my sim. Today, me, Yin Xian, See Ying, Yun Yih, Charmaine and Yee Teng planned to go to Greenbox at 11am, so, I set my alarm at 10am. Suddenly, I was awake by my phone message tone, it was from Yun Yih. They were at Greenbox already, and Ithen I realised that it was 11.05am and I'm still sleeping!!! I wondered why I can't hear my alarm... So, I rushed there and found out that Greenbox had become a Japanese style Halloween Town. Their main idea was a haunted Japanese high school with all the missing girl students and mysterious murder cases. The room they gave us was really small but what we concerned was about singing only hehe. We started to sing all the high pitch songs and we sang loudly, especially Yee Teng. Oh man her voice was really loud. We can't defeat her eventhough she wasn't using a microphone. Charmaine sang until her throat pain hahahaha....

After all the singing or more to shouting, we went to watch a movie, Butterfly Lovers ( Wu Xia Liang Zhu ). Starring Wu Zhun and Ah Sa. For those whose planning to watch, let me give you a piece of advise. DON'T WATCH! THE ENDING SUCKS!! I'm sure the chinese will know the love story between Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai ( Chinese version Romeo and Juliet ) , they are often related to butterflies. Avtually Ah Sa don't have to die. She ate a medicine that will let her fake death for 3 days but Wu Zhun don't know. When she woke up, she saw Wu Zhun was death, lying beside her and the people were burying them. Then she said : " Butterflies are supposed to be a pair. If one is gone, then the other will be very lonely," Because of that, she was buried alive. Then they became butterflies. lame right... so, don't watch.


Photos took in Greenbox...

Wu Xia Liang Zhu - Butterfly Lovers

Kena tag again...ZzzzZ

RULE: Each player of this game starts off with 15 weird things/ habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 15 weird things/habits/little known facts as well as stated in this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names down. NO TAG BACKS!


1. I don't like to tie my hair, except in school, because I have to.
2. I will put up the toilet bowl cover after using, especially at night.
3. I will always fell asleep before I finish my bed time prayer. ( I'm really very tired, God, sorry ar)
4. I always wanted to have a short nap in the afternoon, but dunno why, I just can't.
5. I will go to the comic shop either to read or the borrow comics during the school holidays, 100%
6. My appetite is getting better, and this is bad news, coz Im gaining weight! ( maybe is because of stress)
7. I cant understand what Pn Arasy is teaching, but I can understand 100% of what Mr Sundrram is teaching altough they are teaching the same thing.
8. I still feel exhausting after climbing up and down the stairs of Form 6 block for almost 5 months. I should have build up my stamina already. ( my class is at the highest floor, 4th floor )
9. I really like blue colour a lot!!!
10. I like to wear baju kurung to school compared to my skirt.
11. I like bling bling stuffs.
12. I will always put my alarm 15-30 minutes earlier the time I supposed to wake up.
13. I sing when I bath ^-^
14. I can't sleep without my pillow.
15. I hate frogs!


The 10 people whose name is listed really very suei lah hahahahaha...
1. Alford
2. Penghulu ( Chee Keat )
3. Aki
4. Callister
5. Toong
6. Kevin Koh (still owe my 1 tag!!!)
7. Jaron
8. Gwen
9. Zlwin
10. Yee Leng.

Final Exam Over!!!

Finally, my final exam was over!!! Merdeka!!! The Pengajian Am paper was ok, except for the graph. I drew graf garis kompaun, some of my friends drew graf bar komponen, then the teacher said it was graf bar komponen. It was totally opposite!!! Anyway, the other teacher said it was graf garis. Dunno lah, one teacher said one thing. Just forget about it, it has become the past, can't change anything also.

Then our MUET paper was ok also, nothing special. Chemistry was the toughest paper, the first objective question itself I'm stucked. Luckily, I managed to complete all the questions. But I'm sure the marks will be low... Biology paper was very surprising. our teacher told us it will be a tough paper, so everyone studied like mad and we had a feeling that Chapter 3 DNA will come out. See see, the objectives were quite easy and we done one of the structure questions in tuition just one week before the exam hahahaha...

Maths paper okok also. Same as Chemistry, the first question itself already stucked. Don't even knew how to start. What is reccuring factor?! However, I managed to figure it out at the end hahahaha...

SusHi KinG BOnaNzA!!!

13/10/08~16/10/08 was Sushi King's special offer for the members. All sushi on the kaiten belt only cost RM2.00 without considering about the plate colour!! So, my mum brought us to Tesco Bukit Tinggi Sushi King on the first day. Oh God it was so crowded! We have to wait for our turn to go into the restaurant. We reached there at 7pm and we waited for 1 and a half hour to enter and enjoy the meal. Just look at the crowd!






Everyone was so eager for sushis. 6 of us ( Parents, 2 brothers, me and my neighbour-Tze Aun ) ate 61 plates of sushi, that means 1 person ate 10 plates in average hahahaha...61 plates was only RM122 + gov. tax + service tax, it's really very cheap for Japanese food! Plus, we were very contented and Tze Aun just sat down at his place and start smsing at the end because he can't eat anymore LOLx...

What's the edomamee doing on the unagi?

Normally, my mum will only bring us there once, but not for this time... On Tuesday, after me and my mum fetch my brother back from school, we went for sushi king again. It was about 3pm and there was so quiet, no crowd, no need to wait and no need to fight for sushi. 3 of us of course can't eat much, but we ate about 30++ plates LOL... It's also 1 person 10 plates akakakaka...

Then, on Thursday, it was the last day of the bonanza. My mum's friend and 2 of her friends, my mum, me and my brother went there again akakakaka until the waitress also can regonise us hahahaha... On Monday we ate 61 plates and so on Thursday we have to break the record and we did broke it. We ate 63 plates hahahahaha!!!! We ate until the waitress wanted to chase us away by telling us the eating time limit in Sushi king is 1 and a half hours akakakaka....

Therefore, I ate sushi 3 times in a week. Ask me whether I'm afraid of sushi? The answer is NO! hahahaha....because I really love Japanese food, especially Agehan in Blue Wave Hotel. The food there are so delicious and there is buffet on weekends. Oh gosh! I feel like eating sushi again LOL!!!