Volleyball...

After searching for a team/ club to join in the last few weeks, I finally decided to sign up with Baulkham Hills Volleyball Club. I went to training last Friday night. Man... it was soooooooo much fun! I got to play with players from different grades. Man, some of them are really really good players! We had drill practice for 45mins and started playing games after that. I can't remember how many games we played in total, but it was already past 11:30pm when I left. We started at 8:15pm.... that means I played for at least 2 and a half hours non-stop! I can't remember the last time I played that much volleyball in a day! If I can keep up with going to trainning every Friday night, I am sure I will get much better at volleyball and get much better in shape too... haha! =)

Tonight's match was the first comp. match I played in years. It was quite enjoyable but not as challenging as I thought. I thought the game would be much more intense and past paced. But then I guess that was because I am only playing in C grade this season. The match tonight was even easier than the games I played on Friday night.The team which I got placed in was already one of the better teams in C grade, but yet not everyone can play well. I guess that is one of the reason why Joe, the coach, wanted me to play in B grade in the first place. Oh well, now that I am playing with this team, I am stuck for the rest of the season. I guess I should take this opportunity to really get myself more familiar with moving around the courts and improve my skills on different position and change to a B grade team for next season.

Our team won all 3 sets tonight. I don't know how we are doing overall (the comp actually started 3 weeks ago, so I am joining half way through), but hopefully we will get into the grand final for our grade at the end of the season. I don't know anyone on my team yet as this is the first week I have joined the team. They all seems like a friendly bunch though. Hopefully, I will get to know them better as the season goes on.

I really hope that I will become a more proficient player by next season.

Really hoping to play a good game with you next time we meet up, JS. =)

Making progress...

I am making progress on learning the different functions and things I can do on my blog. :) As you can see from my previous post, I have learnt how to post video clips on my blog! This will certainly add more flavour to my blog and make things more interesting for readers. From now on, I will try my best to take some video clips from my day to day life and share with you all. Hope you will find reading my blog enjoyable and entertaining in the future.

My little angel

I want to write something about my neice, Valerie, today. She is the daughter of my cousin who is one day younger than I. She really is an angel!

She is now 3, and is attending kindagaten at St. Paul's Convent in Hong Kong. I have gone back to visit her twice since she was born. I took some videos while I went back to Hong Kong in July this year. Here are some of them. She is really an agel. Check them out! :)

Testing out the new function on beta version of blogger....

I wonder if this work??? According to the instruction this email will be posted on my blog automatically. see if it works.....

IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am still learning all the things I can do with my blog..... there are so many things I can add to it.... i guess I will have to spend more time looking up the help section to learn more.....

New features in Blogger???

I am using beta vesion of blogger at the moment. There are some new features which I really like, for example the ability to choose whether the post is a private post or a public post. I am still not used to all the functions though, seems like it is gonna take me a while to figure it out!

First SMBC Student Newsletter

I received my first SMBC Student Newsletter today. I was quite shock to have received it, as I won't start my program till February next year! I guess as they have accepted my enrollment, my details are not on the student database and I automatically get included in the distribution list.

It is quite a nice feeling to have received the newsletter. I guess it reminds me of my new identity - a bible college student! Although I am only doing part time next year, I really feel that I am being a part of the SMBC community. This feeling is VERY different to when I was going to start my associate course in Morling College. I guess I wasn't ready then, and I didn't know what bible college was about back then. I did it out of my own will, and not the Father's will. This time, I know I am ready and I am most certain that this is the road He wants me to be on.

Although I think college life is not gonna be easy, but I am sure my Lord in heaven will grant me the strength and wisdom to get through. But then I guess I have to learn the balance between dependence on God in prayer and taking hard-headed practical steps towards the attainment of the goal.

The road ahead is not gonna be easy, but I am sure "...life is gonna be infinitely more interesting and fulfilling."

Addicted to Grey's Anatomy

It only took me 2 nights to finish all 9 episodes of Grey's Anatomy Season 1. For some strange reason, I have always enjoyed watching TV drama about hospitals, medical cases, and about doctors. Even since I was little, I have enjoyed watching series like Doogie Houser M.D, ER, All Saints, Medical Emergency, and some Chinese ones like 妙手人心s just to name a few. But out of all the ones I have watched, I think Grey's Anatomy really stands out from the crowd. I guess I like it better because it has some sort of a story line and it is quite funny and entertaining.

I really look forward to having season 2 on DVD and watching it. But then it is not available in Oz yet as it is still showing on TV here. I know it is avialable from online shopping, from places like Amazon.com, but then I will have to pay for shipping cost.... :P

Oh well, maybe one of my friends out there can perhaps get it for me as a present????? ^^

Extra long summer...

It felt like I didn't have a winter at all this year, as I went on mission trip in Taipei for a whole month in July. The weather wasn't too cold by the time I get back, and the temperature has started to reach the late twenties, mid thrities this month! I am quite enjoying this warmer weather, but I am missing the humidity I exepreienced in Taipei, strange uh? Who on earth would enjoy the sticky humid weather there????? I do!!!!!! 'cos the humid weather is better for me as a sinus and hayfever sufferer. The weather here in Sydney is just too dry.

I was searching for some information on Google this afternoon, and found out that the weather in US is quite cold already. According to the web, the weather in Chicago has already dropped down to between 3C to 11C. Sounds pretty cold to me! I guess they will be getting their first snow rather soon. What is it like to be living in that sort of cold weather and have to go to work/school in the snow I wonder? It must be a pretty nice feeling and experience. Don't know if I want to do it for too long though....... A white Christmas in the States would be really nice, but then I don't think it will happen in the next few years. I guess my priority shoudl be college for the next few years, I probably won't have much spare money left to travel. :( I will certainly miss travelling, but then I am thankful that I have already traveled quite extensive around the world up to now. :) I was thinking of participating the SOP conference at the end of 2007 in LA. Bill and Vida went last time and said it was AWESOME! I guess I will have to pray about it and wait and see whether it is possible for me to go then!