Caroling! Part I

So yeah, I've joined the caroling team and have been going house to house lending my 'tenorful' voice. Some of you may have given me that cheeky grin depicting that 'What?! Jeff, you sing?'. Yeah, I do sing. So what...haha.

On the 20th to 22nd Dec, we strut our audible stuff somewhere within Klang Valley. We did that for 3 nights. We had 3 teams and they were alpha, beta and chacha. Haha, I don't recall chacha being a Greek alphabet. That you have to ask Donny.

I was in alpha and during the first night all the groups combined over in Summit. So we performed on a few floors. One was near the KFC. And we almost looked like we were part of the KFC staff as we wore red tops and black bottoms.

Audience was great! Hehe, mostly church people only.....but yeah there were also the rest of the Malaysian folk. Best part was whenever we shifted floors, our audience migrated with us too. =) and yeah they were church people.

Later, we had dinner in Chatterbox Cafe. I'm doing some advertising here, though not paid. For those of you who are absent-mindedly trotting down to the cinema all these years and not knowing where Chatterbox Cafe is, it is situated right next to the GSC cinema. I'm one of those people =P

After dinner, we splitted up to our respective groups heading to our designated destination. My group went over to a house, if not mistaken Uncle Frankie's niece's place. We sang, they listened, we sang more and they listened more. Food was in abundance, but really, we couldn't make much room in our tummies already. Except, maybe for Uncle Danny. =P

Our last visit of the day was GSC Summit. That was an awesome experience; singing in front of a queueing crowd. The crowd was great. This time around we did not have the full support of the church members, but I'm glad with the support given by the cinema goers.

I shall continue this perhaps later today. Hopefully I can get the photos soon.

Relationship themes

Relationship themes add much depth and reality into TV shows. People get to identify themselves with the fictional characters who are facing relationship conflicts.

In the post-SAM era, I've been busying myself with TV series that are still countable with anyone's 2 hands. Of course, this does not go to explain why my latest post is 1 week and a day later from my previous post. =) I blame that on self procrastination and the ever fluctuating streamyx broadband. So much for the broadband connection....

So....I've been 'couch potato-ing' on Heroes, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Chuck, Clone Wars, Stargate Atlantis, Knight Rider and Gossip Girl.

Well, I'm just gonna touch on Heroes, Chuck and the Connor Chronicles. If you've noticed in the still current episodes, the prevailing theme that was meant to project to viewers was on relationship issues or conflicts; more particularly on family relationship themes. As for the Connor Chronicles, the entire series itself is an ongoing relationship theme based series.

This is what makes a TV series great and so popular despite 2 of those series being sci-fi and the remaining being a action-drama-comedy - I know of some people who despise sci-fi. =P Relationship themes add much depth and reality into TV shows. People get to identify themselves with the fictional characters who are facing relationship conflicts.


In Heroes, it's a mother and son thing. I am rather touched with the Hiro and mum scene. Hiro the master of time and space visited the past to the moments of his dying mother. That is so touching.

Then, there is also a father and son scene. This is between Mr. Petrelli and Sylar. As it turns out, Mr. Petrelli wasn't who Sylar thought he was. Arthur Petrelli never was Sylar's father. Sylar took over Peter's role in murdering Arthur Petrelli. I'm so glad the producers didn't make Peter a murderer again. =)

There is also a father and daughter scene as well as a mother and daughter scene. Welcome to the Bennet family! Claire got transported together with Hiro into the past. It's interesting to see Claire trying to convince her younger mom that she'll be a great mom without revealing who she is.

I love that trademark Mr. Bennet smile and it seems that the affectionate 'Claire-bear' may not after all be Noah Bennet's creation.


Chuck. It's a nice series although off late its run has been quite boring. But I like the latest episode. Here we have a father and daughter scene. Sarah Walker's dad has returned into her life and he's a conman. So we can see the struggle in Sarah juggling her CIA cover and her real life.

Also her father double crossed her and never really showered her with much attention and love. The ending showed Sarah providing a distraction for her father to escape the police. It must have been hard for her to honour her duty and to let her father escape. And, once again her father has ceased to exist in her life again.


I love this series very much. It's not all just guns blazing and mechanical doomsday, but also the relationship between a mother and son; a mother and son trying to lead a normal life despite evading the predatory terminators set out to terminate John Connor.

The latest episode portrays the Connor household rescuing a family targeted by the terminator. The mother of the family was injured and her daughter has been protecting the family; preserving what's left of it anyway. It's touching to see the mom striving to hold on to life to deliver her unborn daughter.

Futsal photos

Here are the much belated photos of the futsal game. Sorry ya if my previous post was tooooooo long. But I don't care. I typed that for the sake of quenching my satisfaction. Plus I like to be detailed. Thanks to Mr. Kevin G for the photos. Hey I hope you shoot your future photos with the flash on. It's very underexposed.

John and Mr Munin. What a contrast, haha! I can barely recognize Mr Munin. The photo is so underexposed.

Loong, Guan and myself were miserably watching the lecturers playing while we wait in agony for a chance to play.

This is us after futsal sitting around a rather small table since there were so many of us.

Here, we were all playing UNO while waiting for an empty court. I think there were 10 of us playing, crazy.

Here's Caryn and Michelle and Loong is looking blur.

My best futsal game

Arguably, this is the best futsal game of my life. It wasn’t just the beautiful passes, crosses and goals but also to see half the class playing together.

Last night or rather last evening (20th Nov) was our last futsal game together with T1 students and our Math lecturer, Mr. Munin. We also had a guest lecturer; Mr. Kevin! This futsal game was originally played between the guys of T1 and Mr. Munin. We started playing together sometime during the start of semester 2. From that time, we had a series of games. I don’t remember how many games we played. I say 4 or 5 games before yesterday’s game. Yesterday’s game would total up to 6.

The interesting part of all these games are that each consequent match was a rematch for the previous game, except for the first game that we played. Basically, there were 2 teams headed by Mr. Munin and Loong. Mr. Munin ‘graciously‘ allowed Loong to pick the cream of the crop from the class. With much humility, I’m with Loong. Haha! As for Mr. Munin his team consisted of the rest of the guys. The amazing thing about our class T1 was that we had 9 guys. So it was a perfect fit for a futsal game between us 9 guys and Mr. Munin; 5 on 5. All the guys got to play.

Coming back to last night’s game, we were supposed to start at 5. But thanks to the ever unpredictable weather, most of us came late. I was early. I came to the court at about 4 something. It wasn’t because I was too kan cheong or what =P, but I was on the way back from KL, so no point making a few trips to and fro to the Sportsplanet and home.

While waiting for the rest of us to arrive, some of us who were present started playing futsal with the Taylors’ staff. So it was Mr. Munin, Loong, Guan, Hon and I playing against a team of lecturers. I think they were lecturers. I’ve never seen them before. So we played and we got trashed. I thought we young people could beat them or at least give them a run for their money. They were good. We manage to slot in a few goals, thanks to our all time T1 top scorer, Hon.

When everyone came we were to play in the opposite court. But there were already people playing in it. Initially, I secured that court when I came early. Mr. Munin and I were there early. He was warming up in the staff court while I was warming up in the other court. A group of guys came into my court and I negotiated over the court. I couldn’t much actually as I was only a one man army. To cut the story short, these guys were supposed to play until 5 and scuttle off. But seeing that we were playing with the staff, they decided to continue playing in our court. So there was a minor scuffle between those guys and Mr. Munin over the court. You’re the man, Mr. Munin! Anyway, honestly I think both sides were at fault. We were late and thus they started playing first. Don’t expect me to hold down the fort with a one man army. They were also at fault as they didn’t honour our agreement to buzz off at 5.

Nevertheless, Mr. Munin pulled rank and we got our court back. We were 1 man down since Zi Jun couldn’t make it for our game. So we invited 1 of those guys to play. Jeremy the Indian dude joined us. He’s a good player, very tricky and good footwork. He’s fast too and his shots were admirable. But what disgusted me was that he was a show off. He bao sai everything and Mr. Munin’s team didn’t really get to play much. Every time Jeremy scored, those other guys cheered. Obviously, they were still pissed off and wanted get us through Jeremy. I didn’t really enjoy this game. We left the game early as more tension erupted from the other guys. Mr. Munin handled them efficiently.

Anyway, the rest of us were kind of disappointed. Those guys didn’t like us very much after we repossess our court. We were about to call it quits as it was already 6 something and there were no other courts available. We decided to book another court meaning that we had to pay. But all courts were fully booked. Mr. Munin suggested we play in the staff court at 7 after the lecturers have finished their game. We were initially hesitant, but we eventually agreed. After all, we haven’t even played a good game of futsal with only T1 boys and girls and lecturers.

Mr. Munin dragged Mr. Kevin into the game after much persuasion. So we had about 14 players in the futsal court. They were Loong, Yung, Vincent, Jia Jiun, Guan, John, Hon, Angie, Yi Ping, Michelle, Caryn, Mr. Munin and Kevin, and I. Arguably, this is the best futsal game of my life. It wasn’t just the beautiful passes, crosses and goals but also to see half the class playing together. It was so much fun and amusement to see and play with 13 other people running after a ball. I scored a couple a fantastic goals which I am very proud of. Not to mention, I set up some great goals for Loong. The girls were also equally sporting. Haha! Caryn was always very enthusiastic and verbal. She’ll always shout some encouraging statements. Then, there is Michelle who is always getting in the way when the opponents were dribbling. Some of her attempts were successful; she even managed to snatch the ball from Hon. Mr. Kevin wasn’t that bad in playing futsal after much fuss over his excuse saying that he is bad in football. All in all it was a great game. There were moments where we laugh over someone’s silly moves. That was enjoyable! Everyone would just pause affixed in their positions cracking with laughter. There was also the drunken goal scored by the potentially alcoholic Angie! Haha! This is by far 1 of the best futsal games that I’ve ever played if not the best. I’m proud and grateful to be with this sporty, exciting and energetic bunch of people.

After that game, we had an ‘interrogation session’. We gathered round the table with chairs and we joked and talked. Haha! We even got Mr. Munin to admit that T1 is the best class he has taught this year. Plus we got that on video! Then, each of us got interrogated about what we have gained from the one year in SAM other than academically while Mr. Kevin videoed us. I guess I left early after my interrogation which was not much. I bid my goodbyes and shook hands with everyone. That was emotional. Haha! I heard the rest of us continued on till 10pm. You guys tak makan dinner ke?

Cheers to T1! I hope we can all meet together again sometime in the future. Perhaps another futsal game? Haha! You know, I still don’t know which side won. Mr. Munin’s team or Loong’s? Anyway, yesterday’s game will always be memorable for me. All the best to you guys and God bless ya!

Photos will be posted soon, if I can get them.

Hey all!

I must be one of the last humans on earth to start a blog. Haha even my younger brother has a blog before me. Well I must say that I actually wanted to start blogging sometime last year, but then I never brought myself to doing it. I was kind of concern and am still concern that I may post something that I may later regret. It's like a knife. It can be used for good or bad. But people still use knives anyway, because they assist a lot in our task even though it can also be used to kill someone. So, the point is I'm delving into blogging knowing that I may post something silly but I'm looking more at the bright side. =)

Maybe you're wondering what 'jetaweti' means. Sounds Indon right? The answer is far from it. In case you weren't bright enough or simply just don't know, 'jetaweti' stands for the first 2 alphabets of my name. Go figure out, haha. It wouldn't take rocket science to figure this out.

Anyway, here's to my first post of hopefully many more posts to come!

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