My first job
I think I said I wouldn’t be working this holiday but my sister got me a job. Apparently sitting at home had caused me to rot and stink. My room started to have the er ambiance of a morgue. So my sister had to get me to do something, and what better than a job that requires running around, squatting, bending in all kinds of positions, just to take the ultimate photo. Yes my first job ever, was to be the photographer-of-the-day for INTI’s sandcastle competition. RM5 per hour. Arrived at the beach at 730 and stayed till 130. I guess that’s about RM30. Oh well… according to my sister, that’s a lot, seeing that they don’t pay her on her jobs, and they pay a more pro photographer from college at RM3 per hour.
Athens, Greece
The trip was awesome!
Travel mates: Sister Moi, Sister Pin Pin, Sister Lim.
Tour duration in Greece: 23 September 2008 – 3 October 2008.
Places: Athens, Santorini Island, Thessaloniki, Phillipi, Berea and Corinth.
Transportation: Cars, taxis, buses, tramps, cruise ships, trains, cable cars, airplanes. LOL!
I stayed with the saints most of the time, except during our little road trips we’d stayed in small hotels. Greece was pretty warm when we were there. So here is my trip told in a limited set of photos. 
Around Athens
View from the apartment I stayed in
At the first Olympic Games Stadium, built in 1896
2004 Olympic Games Stadium
Changing of guards in Athens
Guard being serious
Sesame rings in Plaka
Traditional Greek musical instruments shop in Plaka
Kapnikarea in Monastiraki
National Archaeological Museum
Hellenistic Statuary - Youth of Antikythira
Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros. Parian marble. Found in the ‘House of the Poseidoniastai of Beryttos’ (Beirut), Delos. Traces of colour can be made out in many places. The nude goddess Aphrodite attempts to fend off the goat-footed god Pan who makes erotic advances to her. She holds her sandal threateningly in her right hand, while the winged god Eros comes to her aid. According to the inscription on the base, the group was dedicated by Dionysios of Beryttos to his ancestral gods. About 100 BC.
Temple of Olympian Zeus
Hadrian’s Arch
Acropolis
Herodes Atticus Theatre below and Athens city view
THE Parthenon we used to study in 4th form History class
Parthenon from the back
Erechtheion
According to myth, Athena and Poseidon battled for patronage of Athens on this spot. The Erechtheion’s design unites separate temples to each of the two gods.
Parthenon and Erechtheion
Greek flag
From what I was told, Athens / Greece used to be under the rule of the Ottoman empire and near the fall of the empire, two Greek men climbed to the flag in the middle of the night to replace the Ottoman flag (I supposed) with the Greek flag. Having no other way to get out except from the way they came, they patriotically jumped to their deaths. The morning after, the rulers found that their flag has been replaced with Greece’s flag, pointing to the fall of their empire. Ok, I’m not 100% sure of the story’s facts but this is as much as I can tell you 
Areopagus as viewed from the Acropolis
The Areopagus was where the apostle Paul preached as recorded in Acts chapter 17.
Below are the Bible verses from Acts 17:19 – 34
19 And they [some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers] took hold of him [Paul] and led him to the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is which is being spoken by you?
20 For you are bringing strange things to our ears. We intend to know therefore what these things mean.
21 (Now all the Athenians and the foreigners sojourning there spent their time on nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)
22 And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, Men of Athens, I observe that in every way you very much revere your deities.
23 For while I was passing through and carefully observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship without knowing, this I announce to you.
24 The God who made the world and all things in it, this One, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is He served by human hands as though He needed anything in addition, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
26 And He made from one every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth, determining beforehand their appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwelling,
27 That they might seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, even though He is not far from each one of us;
28 For in Him we live and move and are, as even some poets among you have said, For we are also His race.
29 Being then the race of God, we ought not to suppose that what is divine is like gold or silver or stone, like an engraving of art and thought of man.
30 Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now charges all men everywhere to repent,
31 Because He has set a day in which He is to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom He has designated, having furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of a resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; and others said, We will hear you yet again concerning this.
33 Thus Paul went out from their midst.
34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
Saints in Athens
I stayed at her apartment with her family
From the USA to Athens to study Greek and preach the gospel
