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Hello, friends! My name is Steve Ngai. I would like to share a little of how God has changed my life after I made the decision to be Christian, which is 14 years ago.

I got to know about Christianity during my secondary school time. My classmates tried to influence me about Christianity, but I never appreciate it. In fact, I made fun of them. But, whenever I faced big problems, I prayed to Jesus because when I did that, things seem to work out. But, when there were no problems, I didn’t pray and thank Jesus and back to my old bad lifestyle. How do you feel if someone only come to you when he got problem and when there is no problem, he just ignore and never see or interact with you? This is how I treated God that time.

During my diploma years in APIIT college, what I think about most of the time is how to have more fun and to just enjoy what I like to do. Even since young, I have many hobbies and mostly related to sports. I like soccer, badminton, bowling, ping poing, snooker, basketball. Besides sports I like to sing, listen to music, play video arcade.

Back to my college life. At that time, I have great obsession to snooker and play video arcade. I spent almost an average of 4 hours every weekday hang around at those snooker and video arcade center which is at Kotaraya that time. . Because I have spent so much time there, I also spent my parent’s hard-earned money for these pleasures and did badly academically. I fail my diploma final year project and even fail when reset it. Because of this, much extra need to pay for redoing it and one year got wasted just to re-do and complete it. I have lousy attitude as student. I never bothered much thing. I am not grateful to see that I can have a chance to study is a privilege and those money is from my parent’s hard-earned money.

Although I didn’t smoke, mostly are smokers in that snooker center and what I didn’t realize is I have been second-hand smokers for many years. This was really damaging to my health. In short, I was so self-centered and immature person.

The Turning Point
Then, someone invited my mom to this church and she came and eventually invited me to come also and I did. Later on, I studied the bible. It is funny thinking back because during one lesson, the brother saw me hesitated to make the decision and ask me something like “What stops you?”. I said, “I am afraid, after I become a disciple, I cannot play snooker.”. He laughed and said “Who said you can’t play snooker, you can, but play with the brothers la (good influence). After 4 days studying the bible continuously I was baptized.

Even though I have made much decision to repent, there are still so many things I need to grow in at that time. Imagine how much foundation I have developed just 4 days! But I’m grateful to my spiritual mentor and my group because I received much discipling, love and encouragement from them.

After I become a Christian, I still find it hard to give up snooker and video arcade, because I feel so addicted to enjoy them. But, as times goes by, I desire has changed. I no longer get addicted by them. Last time, my source of joy mainly from snooker and video arcade. But now, my source of joy has changed. My source of joy comes from God, when I’m able to connect to Him, when I put into practice His teaching, doing things for other people.

Being a Christian also helps me to be a better student. During my Higher Diploma time, my attitude as student has changed. I learnt to be grateful. I need to do well in my studies because my parents work hard to support me. I want to do well to make them feel proud. I learnt to give my best. I started to seat in front. I took out my courage to ask questions. I took the challenge to be team leader for some projects. Because of this changes of my attitude, I have improve academically. Since then until my degree time, I never fail any subjects. At the same time, I didn’t compromise my commitment to church. At the end, I got my degree and got a job which was related to what I studied.

This year is my 14th year as Christian. As much as I have learnt and grown as Christian, there are still so much of things I need to work on and overcome. Sometimes, I feel so struggle to be strong as Christian. Sometimes, I feel so lonely. Sometimes, I fell as Christian. But, during my struggling time, I know I can rely on God. And when I fell, I learn to pick up myself, by turning back to God, for He is gracious.

Although there are still many area to change, throughout the years I have learned and grown in my maturity and spirituality. Now I have many friends, not just in church but also in work place. Being a disciple didn’t just teach me about spirituality but many other important areas in my life, like health, relationship, finance and career. And when I fell, I only I can still go to God for forgiveness which is by His grace and what Jesus has done on the cross. Indeed after 15 years, Jer 29: 11 (For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.), makes so much sense to me.

Related link – Free Bible Study in KL & Selangor (Malaysia)

According to the statistic, the number of people accessing to the Internet grew exponentially every year especially these few recent years which are the blooming years for the smart phone and tablets. Of course the getting-cheaper Internet data plan also contributed to the statistic. With Internet, we can able to do almost anything with it, online shopping, e-banking (interbank transfer eGiro only cost RM0.10 per transaction in Malaysia here now. It used to be RM2.00!), social networking, researching, entertainment, e-training, cloud storage, gaming and the list goes on.

But bear in mind that Internet is a double-edge sword. The negative sides from the Internet are as much as the positive sides. In short, I would say that Internet or online can cause addiction. We can be addicted to various types of online addictions (aka Internet Devils), examples online gaming (i.e. Candy Crush Saga), facebooking, pornography, online forums, online chating, online gambling, youtube and so on.

For me, I need to confess that I am also an Internet addict. During online, I am easily addicted to some of the types listed above. I would go to the Old Town nearby my house to go online and sometimes stay there until 11pm. One of the temptations I easily fell into during online is Internet pornography. I know in the past I did shared that I have this Netnanny to protect me but what happened was on December 2012, I bought a new laptop which came with Window 8 in default. I could request to change it to Window 7 but if I did so, I won’t be able to change back to Window 8 and one of the features I like on Window 8 is faster bootup time (few seconds to boot up window). That time I had so much dillema and struggling to decide which Window should I choose. This is because if I take Window 7, I could not enjoy Window 8’s quick boot up and other Window 8 latest features. But if I take Window 8, NetNanny for Window 8 is not release yet. I have checked with Netnanny. They said that NetNanny for Window 8 will release during first quarter on 2013. Eventually I took Window 8, thinking “I just gotta persevere for about three months”. But the truth is, many a times I could not resist the temptation. And because of my struggle in this area also, I decided to cancel my data plan last year and not to buy a smart phone (I know even a kid or grandy got a smart phone hehe). Although it is not a must for a smart phone owner to subscribe data plan but it doesn’t make sense having a smart phone without data plan too. Anyway, last month, finally NetNanny for Window 8 was released and I got it installed last month until today. I am also grateful to have my two church brother’s in Christ to keep the password for me. I hope you too have a web filtering software like NetNanny or Family Safety (free from Window 8) if you have the same struggles like me.

Beginning of this month, the whole church was encouraged to take up a 40-days fasting challenge. It can be any types of fasting. Some fast for facebook, some fast for meat, some fast for not solid food, some fast for coffee and etc. For me, I fast for Internet, from 8pm until 8am. Somewhere this month, I also add extra fast which is Astro too. During this one month fasting, it has helped me much to fine-tune my pattern of my schedule. I am thinking to keep this good pattern even after 40 days fasting period. In fact, I want to take it higher by changing the time to 7pm until 8am. Recently, I also discover that Window 8 has this Family Safety feature which almost like Netnanny. In fact, it seems better because I wish to block everything except only a few websites which I can access and to have a daily time limit. It it works, it is going to be really awesome because I do not need to pay licensing fee for NetNanny and at the same with get greater online restriction for my own good.

One day, an old man and his assistant arrived at a farming village. The old man gathered all the villagers and told them that he is in the business of buying and selling monkeys and that the reason why he has come to their village is because there is a forest next to that village which is infested with lots of monkeys. He told the villagers he would pay $10 for every monkey they bring him.

So some of the villagers started to stop work on their farms to go into the forest to catch monkeys. They brought their monkeys to the old man and true enough, he paid them $10 for every monkey. Words spread and not long after, more and more of the villagers stopped working on their farms to go into the forest to catch monkeys. And they were all paid $10 for every monkey they delivered to the old man.

Because more villagers were now monkey hunters, it became more and more difficult to catch monkeys as their numbers started to dwindle. The supply of monkeys started to come down. So the old man gathered all the villagers and told them he would pay $20 for every monkey they bring him. Wow! That sounds great and the villagers started to drum up the beat to look deeper into the forest and higher into the trees to look for more monkeys. And they were paid $20 for every monkey they caught and everyone was happy.

As more and more villagers turned monkey hunters, the monkey population in that forest started to dwindle very significantly and it became increasingly difficult to catch even one monkey a day. As such, the villagers started to return to their farms to work.

Once again, the old man gathered all the villagers and told them that as he is running out of time and he needed more monkeys, he would up the stakes and pay $50 for every monkey delivered to him. He also told the villagers that as he has to leave the village for a few days to attend to some business in town, they can deliver the monkeys to his assistant and his assistant has been instructed to pay $50 for every monkey caught.

The villagers got all excited and went deep into the forest to look for monkeys but by this time, there were no monkeys to be found. The villagers approached the assistant and told him the $50 offer is wonderful but the monkeys were simply not there.

That assistant then said to the villagers……”I know there are very few monkeys left in the forest. But here in my cages, I have thousands of monkeys. Tell you what…why not you buy these monkeys from me at $35 each. Then when the old man comes back, you can sell your monkeys to him for $50 and make $15 each.”

“Wow! That sounds like a great idea”, the villagers thought. So they bought as many monkeys as they could from the assistant at $35 each.

After that day, the villagers never saw the old man or his assistant again

Source: Author unknown

Last year, I captured some ‘nice waterfall’ charts for some stocks and this monkey tale is a good illustration to explain these charts. Besides the monkey tale’s explanation, I also observed one major pattern of all these stocks – All these stocks’ financial report are very weak – continuous loosing money almost every quarters.

Conclusion, when this type of stock keep going up, don’t try to use whatever technical analysis to buy up. Technical analysis won’t work here. And when it is the time to waterfall, you might not have the chance at all to get out. Worst of all, some game over (delisted) at the end. By the way, I am not one of the victims. Just feel that the chart is sort of ‘nice’ for me to capture it and to share to all. Next time, I will try to share some on the best principles I have ever learnt in stock market investment this year.

Patimas – Chart (closed at 0.045 on 19th July 2013)

Patimas – Financial Summary (closed at 0.045 on 19th July 2013)

Patimas – Price (closed at 0.045 on 19th July 2013)

GPRO – Chart (closed at 0.065 on 19th July 2013)

GPRO – Financial Summary (closed at 0.065 on 19th July 2013)

GPRO – Price (closed at 0.065 on 19th July 2013)

IE – Chart (eventually delisted)

IE – Financial Summary (eventually delisted)

IE – Price (eventually delisted)

Cybert – Chart (closed at 0.16 on 19th July 2013)

Cybert – Financial Summary (closed at 0.16 on 19th July 2013)

Some effort to dress up is not in vain. Consolation prize is RM50 Pakson voucher.
Gave my best to win the first prize but my ‘performance’ is not good enough to win it. But, at least I can proudly say that I have given my best. Annual Dinner is 14 January 2013.

It’s quite amazing how much you received when you give. I mean not so much about Christmas gift (physically) but more on emotionally and spiritually like fetching Christians to church and being Kingdom Kids teacher. Fetching Frankie Choy and his mom to church has been always inspiring. Even though he is blind, he brought his friend to church today and for yesterday’s Christmas gathering bible talk, he also brought two friends too. Always positive and joyful both of them. Being a Kingdom Kids teacher for some months, I felt encouraged to be treated like their good friends / buddies. Even some of them got a xmas gift for me! Although at times, they can get into your nerve, but overall it has been a joy being their Kingdom Kids teacher and as a friend to listen and have fun with them. Indeed ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ (Acts 20:35)