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(Friday, November 9, 2007-)
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# The Lecture Edition
Im now in LT7A and am totally not bothered to listen to the lecturer. Why am I even awake at 9am? Cuz I already attended this lecture by another lecturer, and this lecturer is currrently goign through the same questions again.. So yeah.. rather lazy to listen to the same thing again.
This week has been very happening cuz mainlyof Sarah's birthday, which we combined with Jeremy's. But it also meant I forgot to hand in my assignment for EG1109.. sian.. Study too much for that exam I forgot 3 things. 2 tuitions... and 1 assignment. What's the best part? I actually did the assignment.. So yeah.. hopefully the prof will still let me hand in (=
Now for the birthday celebrations, lets start from the fact I was preparing the poster for Sarah and then Jeremy, then I also completed the birthday quiz. Too bad it was too easy, and FX apparently thinks I'm too kind..
OK.... somebody's handphone just rang with some weird BOLLYWOOD ringtone with someone singing... And the lecturer just said "it's important to pay attention to this here..." And we all jsut laughed, but by the time i typed this, everyone seems to be listening again..
Ok, back to the birthday celebration, met FX at SIM at 6.30 on 151. Then waited quite a bit for 154 to come. Her friend Crystal was there too, but she mostly "zzz-ed" to her iPod. We talked about the birthday prep, and random stuff till we reached SignPost at Paya Lebar. Walked around and bought our dinner (Subway) which was a bit too much considering that we had a lot of food for the birthday surprise. Then after buying dinner, Female Magazine (for Sarah mind you) and a rose (yes, it's for Sarah once again). Then we took a 135 to some backdoor of TKGS area, then we decided to walk to her house. Surprisingly, we were the first to arrive, so we sat down and enjoyed our dinner.
Later Matthew arrived. And we all ate our subway. Ohryte, i had a $1.50 bubble tea too.. I HATE PEARLS. ok, moving along, Mian and James arrived and the real prep began. We filled up Sarah's bean bag, started cooking (more on that later) and then we changed the decor in Sarah's room. Firstly, we just placed the bean bag on the floor with a poster and rose on her bed. Then it moved onto the bed, then the animals started coming onto the bed as well (the animals are soft toys). Then finally I put the chess set in the shape of a 25 on her bed too and we took pictures. Then we spammed her room with posters. Her table, aircon, mirror and piano got spammed too. Then we went to join the cooking ppl. Mian already had many things underway. Meatballs were being heated up, some Swedish bread with cheese was being spread by James and we.. well.. were just playing ard with the rest of the food.
Too bad i dun have pictures or i could better describe the food, but since I can't i'll jz go straight to the summary of what we did. We had a cheese/tomato pizza on Swedish bread, Swedish dessert of either sour cream and salmon or mozarella cheese and ham in a, erm, i dunno what u call it, a little packet? Haha.. my vocab for food is soooo bad. THen we had Swedish meatballs too! With ligenberry sauce (which is jam, I don't care what the Swede's think =p) Why all the Swedish food? Cuz we thought Singaporeans eat too little of international cuisine.....
Yeah ryte.. cuz Sarah's boyfriend is from Sweden and there's some Swedish food she likes, and there are some people who seem to be living under coconut shells that haven eaten at IKEA before. Hehe!!
Then we also had Sushi from Sakae cuz Jeremy likes Jap food. So yeah, we had lots and lots of food! Whee~~!!
Now for the surprise. Sarah already knew we were at her house. how boring ryte? Or so we thought, but we decided to surprise her anyway. So we switched off all the lights and her mom went to open the door. Then we hid at different locations in her living room and when she came in, we shouted surprise with the camera pointed in her face! Whee~~!! She screamed and i think we had it on camera. We sang happy birthday, cake candle blowing and all. Then we went upstairs to surprise Jeremy.
He was in the house since we got there, so once again we thought, not much of a surprise here. So... We went up with the lit cake anyway. His mom knocked on the door and he came to answer and we shouted SURPRISE! His response?
***SLAMM~~!!!***
He slammed the door in our faces from shock! Haha! Then he opened again and blowed the candle and all that... Of course he would be shocked cuz it's not his brithdya yet, his bday is only on the 25th, but still in November, so would be easier to celebrate now. 25th i'll be having exams the next day, but let's not talk about that. James had the door slamming incident on video though (=
Then we had food, and while everyone went down, I sneaked into Jeremy's room to spam his room with posters. He had one in his wardrobe, aircon, table, mirrow but he had one on his window too! Hehe. Then i went down and joined the party but halfway, Jeremy went upstairs to get something, and he saw his roo already.. no fun...
Then it was Sarah's turn and she had to take the birthday quiz first and she chose a passing mark of 10 out of 16. But she scared 13 out of 16... Too smart already.. So sad.. so she got to go to her room. She opened it and saw the bean bag. She thought we took her old one (blue colour) and gave it a new skin. -.-'''
Oh well, at least now she knows we got her a new one. Jeremy thought we got him a vibrating pen. It's actually a pen Massager from OSIM. Oh well, oh well, oh well, it really runs in the family i guess.
Moving along, we had a nice dinner and cake though i was too full from it. And then we had cell till 3.30 am. Haha! Pro ryte... we started around 1.30am.. Then some watched movie, while other settled to look at our own eyelids up close...
Ok, that's all for now, shall continue some other random time i dun feel like listening to the lecturer (if i've already listened to the lecture before)
Bye...
Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAUN!!! 20 already man! Cheers!Labels: birthday, FX, James, Jeremy, Matthew, Mian, sarah, Shaun
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(Tuesday, July 17, 2007-)
+1:32 PM]*
# Singapore's A Small Place
Monday
Let's see, it was a rather eventful monday yesterday. Hmmm.. what di di do at work again? It's getting harder and harder to remember. Now i know why im supposed to keep a log of it. Should i do it now? Lazy lar... ok fine, i should before i totally forget everything.. Ok done. Yes, i actually completed my work log until today. Most probably gonna look for more work later. No im not crazy. Im gonna have to do it anyway, might as well do it when im bored out of my mind right?
Ok, anyway, back to the fun part of Monday. After school.. Oh wait.. school was actually quite fun (=
Why? Cuz Juliana came back to relief Mrs Poon for Physics. Im jealous she go tto teach physics. But oh well, at least i got to teach (= (=
I was quite embarrassed that i had to ask Juliana her name, cuz i sort of remembered it, but then, didn't dare guess cuz it might be wrong, so yeah, asked her, and yup, it was Juliana. Knew her from LEO club, i think. But i've also seen her ard school, so yeah, im not that blur lar
Ok ok, so wanted to help her get into the place so brought her to Eugene's place, and apparently we were teaching her all the "bad things" according to Cal Vin. Oh well, it's always more fun relief teaching that way.
Wanted to help Juliana sign in, so we headed to the HUB to get her paper, but nobody was in the GO, so we decided to go to the HUB instead to get her EZLink card done... but so stupid.. it wasn't even 9am yet, so we went to stone for a while...
But before we were even the slightest bit hardened from stoning, we met Zhi Rui! To the uninformed, she the Vice President of the 28th Students' Council. Also, she an awesome art student who's coursework occupied an entire room in TJ! Cool eh? It was a whole room filled with small glass bottles that were filled with coloured water and that made a nice design. Really really cool piece of art. Anyway, what swas she doing back in TJ? She was called back to paint a mural in the TRCResearch @ East Zone. What's that? It's basically the TRC being made a COE. What's a COE, that's a Centre of Excellence. What's a Centre of Excellence? Go visit MOE's website to find out. I dun really want to know either, but it's quite cool considering we are installing a multithousand dollar CCTV system in there, with cool scanners and whatever else.
Ok, back to the interesting part, Zhi Rui was bringing painting stuff to the TRC or R@EZ or whatever u wanna call it, so they decided to use the lift cuz the painting stuff was in a trolley. So we boarded the lift, 5 of us... and it was too heavy.. saded.. i had to step out. ... BOooOooOOoo..
So i hopped upstairs even before the lift arrived. HAH!
Anyway, then we had to go back down to get old TA banners to cover the carpet in TRC. So i had the chance to ride the elevator in the end! Hehehe!!! Cool (= but slow...
Oh well, took all the stuff, pasted it to the floor... or kind of actually cuz masking tape and carpets aren't exactly the closest of friends, especially not when u have an old banner in between. Then Juliana and I decided to get the more important things settled first, so we went down to the GO, signed her contract, then went to the HUB, got her EZLink card done (btw, Juliana thinks the EZLink card design is new.. haha!) then went back to the staffroom and started real work.
Soon, it was time to leave... FOR KINOKUNIYA!!
Yup, it's time to spend $80 before they expire. So fun right? I couldn't have been more wrong.
Took 38 on which i met Maddy!! Hope ur test turned out good (= Then took MRT all the way down to Orchard, walked into Taka and called FX, she was with Audrey and Odelia (i think that's how ur name is spelt, sorry if it's wrong). She told me she was a Christian Dior that side, so i looked at the directory, found dior.. actually found where it was, didn't find the shop exactly... cuz i was so blur i didn't realise Christian Dior's shop only had the word Dior on it... =/
So i went back and forth looking for CHRISTIAN dior.. And when i finally found it, FX wasn't there, so called her again, she said she's at Tommy Hillfiger (however his unimportant name is spelt). Looked at directory again, and this time even better. TH is not even in the directory. Haha!! So i wasndered around Taka for like 10 minutes until i realised, it had to be in the departmental store, so i took the "shortcut" there by going out of the tower A side and straight into tower B. While at the very same moment, Aunty Fang decided to walk towards me from inside. So... yeah.. we didn't meet each other. When i finally gave up looking for her, Audrey called. Then she said they were at the info counter, and finally, a place that CANNOT be mixed up.
Walked towards it, and within 1 minute, i met Audrey and Odelia (whom I've never met before in my life). And to my no-longer-suprise-able surprise, FX wasn't with them because she was looking for me. =/
So we went back into Taka to find her, and funny thing is she called me, and Aud and Ode spotted her calling and then finally, met FX, and the whole bunch was complete. According to FX, it was me with 3 babes. Haha... Well, basically, it was FX and her TKGS friends. At least I knew Aud so it wasn't weird or anything.
So we shopped around for a bag charm
Definition : things u attach to your bag
By : Audrey
Paraphrased by : me :)
Apparently thats what i understood it was, so we shopped for that for a while, then decided to go Kino when FX couldn't find anything she liked. Aud had $80 voucher too, so it wasn't just me hunting for a book. I could drag FX, Aud and Ode along too! Haha... so we wandered into Kino, looked for the Engin section, found it, and along with it, my nightmare.
There were SO MANY ENGIN books. And they were on SO MANY different topics, and by SO MANY different companies, using SO MANY (u get my drift by now ryte?) types of notations and styles. So.. after about 15 minutes of looking, i gave up and decided to go and buy stationery instead. On the way, FX pulled out a rather out-of-topic book, why humans enjoy sex. LOL... Way too random.
Found the stationery place, nothing much there other than cute ESPIRIT books, gay pink notebooks, lots more gay stuff, tiny cute stuff, tiny cute and gay stuff, redundant stuff, stuff u'll never use, stuff tat's ONLY nice to look at, and more useless stuff. The best of all, they were ALL overpriced. I could actually save money by not buying stuff using the voucher there i think.. *swt*...
So then, after realising that i was going to get ripped off buying stationery, i went back to the Engin section alone, while FX, Aud and Ode continued looking at stuff. Called Bert in desperation and he helped me to narrow down my selection... By about 50% leaving me 50% of the Library of Alexandria to search for a gem.
Yup, you guessed it, i gave up trying to buy an engin book. Why? Because Bert can pass me down year 1 books, so i tried to find year 2 or 3 books, but Bert is not in Mech Engin, so he doesn't know exactly. Also, NUS has this annoying habit of only announcing books they are going to use like 1 week before the lecture starts, so yeah, dream on about trying to buy books 2 years in advance... I tried... i tried... that's what matters right?
NOT, i still had to use $80 or it'll be like totally wasted. Stationery. All $80 of it was very tempting, but Bert then said maybe i should buy Maths books. After hopelessly drowning in formulas, i called Bert again, read out some names of chapters to him, he didn't know much except to tell me what chapters he has studied (year 1 engin ones) so i could avoid them. But there's are two stupid things about buying books in this world.
1 - the books are sealed
2 - the names don't really help
Take these few words
-Advanced
-Mathematics
-Higher
-Engineering
Permutate them any way u want
Advanced Engineering mathematics
Engineering higher mathematics
Higher Mathematics for Engineering
Mathematics for advanced engineering
And ta daa~~~ u get a new title of a book.
So how on earth am i supposed to figure which one works?
So after boring Aud to death and Ode to sitting down on the floor... I decided on a book
Only to have to bookshelf have the last laugh when the display copy was the only one left.
So i went through the head-spinning process of selecting another book, only for it to be the last copy AS WELL...
So.. i bought it.
I WIN... (so not the point)
Bought two pens to top up till $80 and stepped out of Kino
FREEEDDDDOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!
Yes, i felt my entire world feel less gloomy.
FX left already as she had something on, so it was just me, Aud and Ode. Then we decided to walk around Taka for a bit, realising we;re not up to standard, went outside and i bought the Ah Pek Ice Cream. Hehe, nice one (=
Then decided to be extra and suggested we ride the escalator all the way up to lvl4 Food Republic in Wisma. Walked around food republic, commented on the food, and got threatened by a Durian [insert some chinese word for a type of food here] by Aud and then went down. Walked around Wisma. Spent a bit of time in places like edc, Topshop, MNG (or Mango, i know its the same thing now =)
Interesting in Topshop, threatened Ode with a yellow/silver shiny tube top, tried to figure out how this long top was supposed to fit anyone, looked for Ode between clothes, and learnt what Jelly shoes are. Yup, spent quite a lot of time in there, wandered around quite a bit.
Actually, that's what we did for like 3 hours? Haha, at least it was much better than Kino. Seriously much better. Got to know a bit more abt Ode and Aud. Both going NUS *high five* and FASS. Ode's from FCBC and Audrey, yeah, Calvary. Ode has a twin sister, who's going to engin too, chem. With my face-recognition software being out of date, im sure to mix them up. EEeekk.
Okay, i also had the privilege of finding out that some girls are less shopping-educated as me. Hahaha! At least when it came to one thing. Audrey knows Paperchase, but not Prints. Ode knows Prints, but not Paperchase. So after wandering almost all of Atria, we walked all the way to Borders. And when we stepped in, apart from feeling so much better than in Kino, the door alarm went off..
Haih... just as i was feeling better, realised the noob guy at Kino didn't UN-whatever-it-is-they-do my book, so it rang the Borders alarm. Sian... the guy summore ask me questions like where i got the book from, why is it still sealed (freaking i don't want it sealed larr.. hello.. read above part of this post can?) and other stupid stuff.
Like hello... Im going to steal a book from Kino and secretly sneak it in to Borders. So scheming of me right?
Anyway, apart from the fact that he didn't see it was a Kino bag, Kino price tag AND Kino receipt which i produced, he took the stuff away, did something and gave me back. IM HAPPY.
So we moved on and jumped straight to Paperchase and Ode was enlightened. Found rather interesting stuff, and she almost bought a black pencil tin (or so its called) with colourful horses on them. Found out you get ripped off if you buy the first deck of Borders playing cards cuz its $3 more expensive than the rest in the pile... and random other stuff.
Then we decided to go to Heeren cuz it's quite a hip place. And i found out it has 5 levels. Most fun part was action city. So many cute stuff. Like the evil safe that laughs at u if u get hte combination wrong. And Action City has good taste in music. Linkin Park (=
Ok, after realising i was actually going to be late, i left for tuition, and took the same bus back as Ode as she stayed in Marine Drive or somehting of that sort. Aud was nice enough to wait for us to get our bus, before heading for Somerset MRT.
Had a nice bus ride back, talked with Ode quite a bit. Think i talked too much. Sorry Ode, first time meet me and have to listen to me talk so much. Haha...
Anyway, was late for tuition by 15 minutes, ate for 15 minutes with the family, then taught tuition till 10. Did some physics too. Lesson of the day
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DENOTE : DIRECTION
Fun day. Met two "new" ppl. Juliana and Odelia. Apparently Jayne Tong, u know Odelia too. Singapore is a small placeLabels: Atria, Audrey, Borders, edc, FX, Heeren, Juliana, Kinokuniya, MNG, Odelia, Orchard, Taka, Topshop, Zhi Rui
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(Thursday, May 10, 2007-)
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# The Countdown
Wednesday
Hmmm.. the day started off slow, with me waking up late. Haha. Which meant i reached school late, but it didn't matter cuz i ponned assembly anyway. Haha. And i had no lessons till 11.40, so it really doesn't matter what time reached. But yeah, last few days of my work now. Should endeavour to make the best of my few days here.
Oh, this is also likely the last post in a long time cuz i'll be returning this wonderful laptop that has served me well (well, well enough that i haven't thrown it down a flight of stairs cuz it is so frustratingly laggy!!!). But yes, it has served me well enough to prepare my lame powerpoint slides, to play Gem TD, to MSN, to BLOG!, to visit ur blog (yes i mean you!), to surf the net randomly, and to get my own lovely iGoogle and Google desktop!
Yup, this is the end of an era. So from now on, this will be version 2.0 of my blog, from a different com. Yeah.
Ok, this is so turning out not to be a Wednesday post. I need to know how to do that strikeout html. Anyone know can tag?
Yes, this is not related to wednesday but rather next next weekend. Aurora XI is coming up, and i dun feel like going alone although i want to support shuming (ferena, so sad u're not gonna be there...) so if anyone wants to go for guitarconcert, pls tag me ya? Oh, on that note, anyone knows how to get to ACS Barker for (:hoyer (stolen from Carian) concert? Reflections VIII i think. Yeah, anyone wanna go pls tag or Carian, Shi Yun, Valarie wil have noone (aka me) to support them.
Ok ok, in general, if anyone wants to go with me (haha, i sound so despo now.. ee..) for any of te remaining concerts, pls tag? Sorry saturday concerts are out, i have YA on saturdays.
Oh ryte, back to
Wednesday
Haha, what happened today. Had my officially most unproductive class of my teaching career. Yes, i did NOTHING for 50 minutes (although Zoe, i hope things are ok). Yup, 06 persuaded me to let them do nothing while they take home the compre. Well, its sort of their problem cuz tonight they will realise they haven done it yet, and they will realise 1 and a half hours is freaking a lot of time, yet insufficient to complete the work. But a reminder: please only use 1.5 hours ya. Be fair.
Ok, now comes the best part. After lessons, it was... LUNCH TIME! My last time eating lunch out with JoJo and Eugene, so we went to our favourite Pizza Hut! Yup, yes it was raining, but that didn't stop 3 determined RTs (who had other motivations as well... hehe...) We waited at the bus stop, only for the rain to get heavier so we cabbed to the interchange. Such a waste of money, but oh well, today is special =) When we reached,the taxi stopped by the side of the road, as we were abt to leave, this car came and stopped RIGHT BESIDE US! like... hello?? we need to get out? So aft a while, the car reversed and re rushed out and stepped into pizza hut.
Oh did, i mentioned we brought TWO Rubik's along. The 3 and the 4 one. We were the center of attraction and one lady even asked us about it. Haha, we were rather bored waiting for the pizzas u see. Oh, without us realising, Eugene ordered TWO LARGE pizzas for the 3 of us... Like.. thats crazy man.. and he even ordered some meatballs, which were nice (=
Then i started to seriously time my 3X3 Rubik's solving time, and my record for yesterday was 1 minute 31 seconds! Yay, but my all time best is still 1 minute 14 seconds! Haha, but Eugene's best is 54 seconds.. so pro... My average is abt 2 minutes, plusminus 15 seconds? And JoJo was trying te 4x4 Revenge cube, and it didn't work out. We need to figure that last bit out. Final TWO corners won't match... eeww...
Anyway the pizzas came and we literally stuffed ourselves. JoJo had a record 4 and a half, i had 5 and eugene 6 and a half (although he claims 7 and a half! haha) Eugene's record is apparently 10 pieces, which is highly believable. And we stoned at the Hut for another hour to digest our food. Of course, concurrently, Staff Conference was going on. OOOPPSS? hehe.
After feeling quite well digested, we walked back to TJ. But before that, while we were eating SPRING SINGAPORE gave me a call! Yaynesses!!! They want to schedule an interview for me! Yay!! Haha!! But the lady herself sounded more unprepared than me. Must be some new secretary or something, she called, and asked for my surname. Like, shouldn't i be asking u? Haha. But who cares, its a round 3 callback!! YAY THANK YOU GOD!!
Things got better, in my email, NTU is asking me to send stuff for ASEAN consideration, Nanyang Sch consideration, as well as C N Yang Scholarship! NUS, please wake up before NTU grabs me with open arms and hugs me close! Haha, sounds gay, but NUS, please send me SOMETHING??? Yeah anyway, i wanna go NUS, but they are being irritating..
In school, i gemmed and lost again to Eugene, his towers all so nice lar... But at least i didn't leak and die. Hehe. Only won special crafter once. 14 leh, how to reach... Then talked a bit with JoJo before Eugene had to leave. He helped me book movie tix for Orang Labah Labah Tiga (thats in Malay) and im gonna watch with Heri tmr (which is today lar) So, yeah, its $16.50 for two ppl, but i guess the ppl are worth it!
Ok, went for cell today. Let's jz say what we need most is FOCUS. Not to talk abt ppl butt, or how fat we are. Haha, really funny, but yeah, unless u were at cell u won't understand the jokes. And guess what, they ordered pizza. Bringing my grand total of slices of pizzas ate in one day to 7!! My record!!
Ok, after cell, we were still arguing abt which way to walk back, and the guys eventually rleneted and walked the girls to their bus stops although we didn;t know what buses we had. Funniest moment is when FX and MY ran across the road and tried to stop bus 30 when they actually thought it was 33. Haha. Second funniest is FX wanting to wait at a deserted bus stop cuz she didn't see that the road was closed. Haha.
Rubik's on my way home until overshot my bus stop. Haha, good thing nobody with me, not so paiseh. Hehe. Reached home, got a little "nagging" to throw rubbish away and to put the clothes rack back after use. I was giving the im-blur look and said ok. Hosea came back today too! Yay. Ok, went online, chatted and slept!
Shout outs!
Trinity - Congrats!
Cass - Hang in there! God can change hearts!
03,06,21 - I'll miss u guys
C2 - All e best for ur test
Yumei - Be strong =)
RTs - I'll miss you guys
TJC - Bye.....Labels: ASEAN, C N Yang, Carian, Cell Group Meeting, Choir, Ferena, FX, Guitar, MY, NTU, NUS, pizza, Rubik's, Shi Yun, Shuming, SPRING SG, Valarie, Version 2.0, Zoe
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(Tuesday, April 10, 2007-)
+10:34 AM]*
# Can't Live A Day
Firstly, I just wanna tell people who don't already know, what Good Friday (look above, it's scrolling. haha) is really about.
Well, the story is very simple. Nobody is perfect. So people make mistakes (sin) right? So we have to pay the price for it. Woulnd't it be good if someone else paid it for us? That would be the essence of Good Friday! Jesus paid the full price for everyone's sins today when he was crucified. So yup, there you go, everything forgiven and entry to heaven secured on this simple account of God paying the price for us. That's GOoD!
Yup, and my Good Friday was spent mostly in FX's house and Emmanuel. Fast forward the fact that I woke up late, i quickly (as quick as i wanted to at least) rushed off to FX's house although i was late. But partially, i blame my forgetfulness cuz i went out of the house 3 times before i remembered to bring everything i was supposed to bring. Haihs.. Oh well, 12 came after a while, and 155 was perfectly on time! So no waiting for the transfer too!
Then FX must have been quite scared why nobody there yet so she msg-ed me, and James also, but the super-quick me was already on Telok Kurau road and arrived within minutes. Sat around and waited for BS, ordered pizza. Played Scrabble while waiting. James had no vowels, i had no consonants. FX had nice letters (or words as she claims it) all the way! So unfair...And the game actually looked quite pro cuz we could build quite a few words side by side. Haha, it "looked" pro cuz all the words are like primary school words lar... haha.. so much for the intellectual cell.
BS arrived and then we ate pizza and Gabriel arrived too. All the rest weren't gonna come except our special guest Winnie! We decided on a movie to watch, or rather, since we were all so undecisive, BS jz picked one. The worst one i think. Windstruck. If anyone EVER watched this before, give me a shout or a comment ya? Pls, i wanna know why u watched it in the first place.
Ok ok, the story wasn't that bad, except the ending felt like it went on longer than a zombie's lifetime. Why? Cuz we all knew the guy was gonna die, and when he did, we could also predict how he was gonna die. Oh, that just proves that only the beginning was nice. So, back to the horrible ending. Let's put it this way, the show was supposed to be emo and we should all be feeling bad for the girl who lost her bf, but then, THE WHOLE CELL WAS WAITING AND LONGING FOR HER TO JUST DIE!!! Stupidly frustrating. And the girl in the movie is such a loser lar.. she jump off a 30 storey building also cannot die... -.-''
Yeah, once we were done with our frustration and fed-up with Knocking on heaven's door being mutilated by Korean singers, we played BRIDGE!! Yay, the main highlight of the outing! Too bad we could only play two rounds before FX had to go and change. Which btw took forever. Girls really need to exlain why it takes so long to get changed. Really. I mean, like, seriously, really really.
Then we walked to church, oh wait, to the St Pat's bus stop, jz that it felt like church cuz it was so far. And paying 65c per ride sucks. but at least it was a ride to church! Along the way, things i found out
-Winnie has ONE bag (=
-FX needs other ppls bags
-Birds congregate and have a common toilet, evident from their deposits that concentrate at certain areas.
-Singapore is hot (duh...)
Then we were actually on time for service and it was quite funny how Matthew was in a cab right beside us. Haha. Service was good, although it felt a little rushed, but other hightlight was Su-E came. So had time to catch up with her a bit and all. And oh oh, Su-E, if you ever read this, gimme a tag cuz i met ur RGS friends at FIREfly assesment round 2. Charmaine and Debbie. Oh and Hi to people from the Superhero Group if any of you are reading this! HI (=
After service, we parted our own ways. FX, MY and BS went to FX's to.. er.. i dunno. Gabriel went to meet up with his KC friends. I mean JC. lol. what a typo. I headed down to parkway for dinner with Su-E and we caught up on the past 3 months. Found out that Tao Nan doesn't have the brightest kids in Sg, contrary to popular belief. Believe me, there are BIG exceptions!
After that, i think Su-E had some other appointment so i headed back to Sennett and slept. End of a good friday (=
Saturday
Busy day, thank God had no tuition today or I would have died. Woke up, didn't eat lunch, went for music prac, which started disappointingly late. Already this week had to evac hall 3B by 3, we still started 30 minutes late. That's like, 1800 seconds late. And if one second had two crotchets, that 3600 notes wasted. U get the picture...
We did everything except the new song, which i thought was a huge mistake, cuz we spent quite a lot of time trying to polish up simple things, when in the end, we actually did the new song. But i liked the new song, it's meaningful and slightly different from how all the other songs we sing sound. If you're wondering, we did Evermore (PS), Can't Live A Day (YouthAlive), Jesus I Surrender (JD), Worship You.. (PS)
Lets fast forward to after prac, went to the youth room and finished up as much a si could, my Think Big presentation for FIREfly. Then went to beer garden at ard 4 plus for a weird lunch then back to youth room. Helped out with the "Attack of the Aprons". Sounds so weird ryte. HAHA, well, that's YA for you! Then went for musicians and preservice prayer.
Soon it was service. It didn't start out too well as Evermore was a little too upbeat and I couldn't catch the timings for Can't Live A Day. And try jz saying these lyrics, they qualify to be rap lines. Really
"God you are my God, You are my all, And everything I give to You oh Lord"
which is like sung in one breath, and it goes up all the way. Not easy for me to sing. But who ever said i could sing anyway. Haha. Then after that was continuation of Tenets of Faith which was delayed by an extra long annoucement time. Cell's moving to weekdays now!
After that, it was off to beer for dinner. And sorry to XiuYu for always running off whenever i meet u. Haha. I guess u didn't go for SYF? Catch up with ya again ya! Then had Emil (or Edmil) im not sure, from Sweden, who's like, Sarah's bf eating with us. Quite cool. He can use chopsticks. Yay, but was slower than FX at eating lar, so that's not too fast. Hehe! But then again, it was $4 of char kway teow he was eating, so i guess its balanced. Then headed home and slept. Yay. Sleeping rocks! *winks to shuming!*
Ressurection Sunday
I think Ressurection Sunday has more meaning than Easter sunday, cuz i dunno what Easter means. Oh, yeah, Yumei, Here's my Easter Post! Hope u reach until here to find it! So what is Easter really all abt, well, it's like, the most important part of Christianity.
Basically, u now know how good it was of God to pay the price for us on Good Friday right. But it would be no use if God paid the price and died. Christians would be serving a dead God, and that's like so pointless. So here's the most significant day, when Jesus was ressurected from the dead, proving that when we believe in God, we also can have victory over death. Not that death (the worst disease in the world, with a 100% uncureable record) will not come to Christians, but the curse that comes along with death, which is eternal seperation from God has been broken!
So basically, resurrection sunday is really an awesome time when we can remember that we are really saved and serving a living God who has conquered death so that we don't need to fear what happens to us after we die. And no, i don't believe in re-incarnation or transmigration of souls. There's only one chance to get to heaven. That chance is now.
So sunday started off really nice, with the whole place decked with nice palms and orchids. Surprise of the day, Su-E came in a dress! Haha, how often do you see one of those! Another surprise, there were 3 worship leaders! One from Chinese Service, one from Main, and our very own lovely Rachael!!! *cheerss!!!* There were even kids too and we did Jesus You're My Superhero in the main service!! So cool and funny!
Sermon was also really funny with the translation having "extra ingredients" compared to the english version. Haha. Really funny. Then went off to lunch, and then to church to help ShuJing
Stayed there for almost the whole afternoon and the whole evening. Jayne, MY, ShuJing, Meredith and I came up with the wonderful CFC board for the prayer room. Hall 3A in Emmanuel will now be open from Thursday onwards at night for anyone to come and pray! Cool huh! Think i will make it a point to drop by before i head home.Of course, i wanna see the lovely (though grossly oversized) board we made. Haha, looks so CFC-ish! And sorry to those of u who think i used un-glam photos of you as the background. Ultimate photo goes to Meredith. Haha!
Then went home and realised the internet at Sennett has broken down... So sad... That's why no updates for so long. I sms-ed ps Mark and he said i could go back to church. So nice of him. Love u lots Ps Mark!!! And he is going with the whole Karen team he next day to Thailand. Still let me come and use the wireless in church. So i stayed in church and finished up my Think Big and chatted a bit too.
Ate this fruit which is supposedly planted in Sg. That's right, PLANTED in SG! So rare right!! But not for long cuz e government is gonna close the plantation down. WHat fruit, u might ask? Well, i dunno, its nothing i've ever seen before. It's like an oversized banana, with rockmelon shape and a juicy taste. Yeah.. it's... yellowish?
Oh, i even got a ride back! Yay, did my laundry, ironed and everything and slept big day on Monday
Monday
FIREfly Assessment.
Classified till 20th April.
Things to note
-it wasn't too boring
-HC ppl are nice!
-Charmaine and Samuel, hope to see you guys in round 3, actually jz Charmaine, Samuel, hope u get A*STAR
-the rest of the superheroes, all the best too!!
-SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN (ME), HULK, ELEKTRA, BLADE, PHANTOM, BATMAN, FLASH, ROBIN!Labels: BS, emil, FireFly, FX, Gabriel, Good Friday, Jayne, Matthew, Mei Yian, Meredith, prayer room, Ps Mark, Resurrection Sunday, sarah, ShuJing, Shuming, Su-E, Winnie, XiuYu, Yumei
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(Wednesday, March 28, 2007-)
+8:34 PM]*
# The Surprise
Monday
The start of the week. Aa start with hope after being recharged from the weekend. Yay. I now, i need that recharging more than ever too cuz monday is my 5 period day. And it did start off quite well. Did the crossword with 03 and 06 and the answers with 21. And then taught Zsa^2 maths-trigo. Then it was off to Toa Payoh for tuition after a quick dinner and drink. Met Yumei, Kari and Jeryl, Jaren at the Library too. Made my spin-off highscore there and till now, nobody has beaten it. Its 20k, around there. Haha
Tuition was resumed after a long long break and it was chem. Finally money started flowing in once again and it was a rather short feeling trip back and on to the next day. The Surprise!
Tuesday
Day started off normally, except the photo-copier decided to spoil so i had to really rush my printing stuff. Did my AQ with 03, who .. erm.. were rather silent
Firstly, it was a little shocking to see ALL and i mean ALL of them outside the classroom unchanged from PE. So all the girls and some of they guys had to go down and change. Not wanting to waste any more time, i handed them the article to read on the way to the toilet. From this i learnt that... don't bother. Haha.
So the class went on... after losing most of it to the toilet. And eventually i ran out of time and dun think they really liked the assignment at the end. Haha. But im sorry, u guys need to learn to how to write. And yes Zsa, i so agree with u that style cannot be taught, it can only be learnt.
And at 10.00am, it was the end of my lessons! Haha. Nice timetable ain't it? But that's not the nicest part yet, cuz ahead was a SUPPLIES from my cell!! Walking back to the staffroom, i saw Matthew standing outside the staffroom, soon it was FX, James and MeiYian all ard! Haha, lemme explain the reason why i didn't have a shocked look, cuz firstly, i was more confused. Lol!
Was wondering why Matthew was here, then thinking, this isn't church, why got FX and James and all. Then after abt 5 to 10 seconds, it clicked that this was a SUPPLIES! Haha, quite slow eh, and by that time, the shocked look already pass its expiry date. So we headed down to the canteen for food. This cell pigs out quite a lot! So if i put on weight, u guys know where it came from la! Everyone bought western food except MeiYian, who packed it later anyway. Talked a lot and even planned ... does Gabriel read my blog? Better not take that chance
Then they left and i went on to have a second lunch and then it was ... hmm.. i dun quite remember. This week seems to be flying by me. But things that i found particularly meaningful are
-my wonderful cell SUPPLIES, the card, gifts and encouragement given
-being able to teach ppl maths (cuz i feel GP is hard to teach, sorry my students, im still trying hard)
-being encouraged by ppl and also being able to encourage others
Ok, shall fast forward the rest of Tuesday and move along cuz i really did loads of nothing.
Wednesday
Can't recall what i did in the morning other than watch FMA. Did a lesson with 06 and they were also quite tired apparently from PE so didn't really get the class going. Tried to improve today with 21. Brought up stuff relevant to them and got them talking a bit more, but that's Thursday *chases the intruding Thursday blog words away*
Then after that, rushed down for lunch cuz Calvin didn't get us lunch cuz the Jap stall opposite school was closed. So we went down. Oh. We means Jojo, Eugene and I. They both packed ther food but i forgot to pack so i missed the remaining of FMA while they ate and watched. Oh well, i went to get a drink as well and met some of the o6-ers at the drinks stall. Then headed back an anime-ed a little more.
It was soon staff conference and it was utterly pointless for RTs. Shall speed up my blogging cuz i have LOTS of gp essays to read for the upcoming Words Words Words. After staff conference I stayed a while with Zhi Yuan and Zsa^2 who are BOTH in drama. And CONGRATS to ZY on passing her audition to get in. Then, hmm, can't remember again, haha. I think i went back to the staff room, or didn't i... hmm.. oh well, that was pretty much wednesday. Im sure i went scroom and ate dinner with Di Hui and Natha.
Then chatted A LOT. Aaron was the main one and yeah, it continued today (Thursday) Nice chatting with cass too (=
Thursday
Woke up late. Oh well. Prepared for lessons and soon it was lesson with 21. It was a nice time. Took my time teaching the AQ so it wasn't too rushed. But still i spoke too fast. Sorry 21. Esp those who are new and can't follow. Tried to help them by asking them if they could follow and taught a few personally, but i guess its still a long way eh...
The lesson was also rather dead but i tried this time to liven things up by talking abt their stuff and made a wrong move with table tennis. Sorry YingEN. But i think it prevented some ppl *winks at J* from falling asleep. The nicest part was after the lesson. Stayed back a while while some of the 21-ers were finishing up the AQ. Talked a bit more to Chun Hai, Yee Wen, Yu Ting, Hong Yu and Qiu Hui. This really helped cuz now i can recall their names better and found out interesting stuff like Yee Wen's citizenship. Shall not post it here in case she gets.. eerr. nvm.
I was more worried that they had no food to finish than the whether they could complete the AQ. So after they finally left... phew... i went to eat with them. Sat with Shuming, Xian Hui, Kathleen and Hui Shian. Kathleen apparently gets high from eating and calls people weird stuff. Ask her abt the Zhu and Jenny! Then went back to the staffroom. Slept.
Woke up for 03 lesson and did the Epsilon version of the Current Affairs Quiz. No idea what Carian (yes, my Malaysian friends, her name is carian) and XueWen were depressed abt cuz they seemed more high than anything else. Angelina was rather blur, but i doubt shes a Diantha yet. But i was more dissappointed that they were late. Oh well, apparently everyone is.
But the lesson was not too bad, it was after it tht was bad cuz i was bothering Raf's class. Sorry Raf. And then went to scroom. Also took a look (that sounds funny) at the new biodata form. It's now 10 questions. No spoilers.
Then went to scroom. Only thing i wanna say, what are your true motives.Labels: Chun Hai, Di Hui, FMA, FX, Hong Yu, Hui Shian, James, Julie, Kathleen, Matthew, Mei Yian, o6, Qiu Hui, Shuming, Xian Hui, Yee Wen, Yu Ting, Zhi Yuan, Zsa^2
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(Sunday, March 25, 2007-)
+7:19 PM]*
# The Freedom We Know
Weekends are like battery chargers. They charge batteries! Duh... haha. Yeah, and of course the batteries im referring to are our lives. Yup, but more accurately, its not really weekends but church (cuz YA and Sunday service are obviously on weekends) that recharges my life! Its jz so great to have this "mini-revival" in my soul everytime i step into YA and Sunday is jz like the icing on the cake! So here we go
Saturday
Woke up on time and got ready for tuition. By almost 9am, i was ready to leave the house when Vincent smsed me that he had competition. I was, like, all the best for ur competition. I surprised myself that I wasn't pissed that i woke up early for nothing and jz wanted him to do his best for his comp. Yup. That was significant yet i didn't know it till much later in the day.
Basically used the morning to blog and tried to do QT. Jz read the book and didn't really work out. The rest of the time was jz wasted... Walked towards the 14 bus stop to go to Beer Garden for lunch. Then as I reached Upper East Coast Road i realised i am now staying nearer to TJ and opposite TJ is so much nearer... So I walked back the other way. Haha, so stupid of me...
Had Jap food for lunch and cincau/soya beans. Came back and wasted my afternoon until i had to do laundry. By hand! I washed like 8 t-shirts and many other articles of clothing by hand since the washing machine is spoilt... And it took me close to 2 hours to do it all. Was tired but realised it was time for YA already so took a quick shower and headed to church for the best part of any week! YA Service!!
Reached church roughly about 6.15 and was in time for pre-service prayer although i thought i was late cuz the musicians were alredy praying. But there was a whole bunch of other ppl there waiting so i was in time. The board was ready with the prayer items and today was a significant day as many new ppl were coming. Nelsie was one of the 10 targets for YA who was coming!
Joel lead pre-service prayer for the first time, sort of like how i did it 3 weeks ago. And it was a really good sharing on perseverance. Shared from the story of Pentecost where only 120 received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in the upper room when there were originally 500. So we in the "engine room" were like the 120 who have stayed on and we prayed till roughly 7. We also had some sharing by Maddy and we were all ready to get the newcomers feel welcomed.
YM service stretched so we entered first and soon we were setting up the place. Then i met Dickson after a "detour" by Chellie. Haha. Significant nonetheless. Dickson's from MJ. JC with best uniform! And he's from Triton too! So Yi Ning, do u know him? I asked and he doens't know u or the rest from o6 that went there. Oh well, he plans to join canoeing. There were two other girls from MJ but i didn't catch their names.
Other than the fact tehre were many new ppl, James came for the first time (in a long time i think) for YA! And Jeremy came too! Yay. So my cell had a grand total of... 4 people. Sighs. But nevermind, we'll keep on trying to get the rest in. No idea why BS wasn't ard, MY was not well, Su-E and Grace the usual MIA, Matthew, coming soon! Really! and Gabriel at Batam.. looking for a wife according to Bertrand. But actually he's on mission trip there. Yupz.
Service was good with Mich worship leading and the songs were Evermore, Jesus I Surrender and To The Ends of the Earth. Yup. And this was really impactful cuz i felt God speaking to me abt what happened at the start of the day. When Vincent sms-ed me that he coulnd't make it for tuition, it taught me how the Father Heart of God is like.
God is so overflowing with love and when we do something wrong and come back to Him, He so readily forgives us. Loves covers such a multitude of sin that its jz so wrong for us not to come back to Him who is so ready and waiting with open arms to accept us. Especially meaingful to me on how God doesn't "take time to get over our sins" but forgives AND forgets the moment we ask in repentance!! =D!!
And then it was offering and YA fund collection. And then it was sharing by Livia, Aiken and Isaac on the impact that Ignite and Synerg!z conferences had on their lives. And the ever-awesome Pastor Mark shared a concluding msg from abt 15 sermons throughout the whole two day conferences.
Ones that really impacted me were from Ps Matthew Barnett who has this really awesomely amazing Dream Center in LA and hence my nickname - Catching Dreams (check out their purpose and history). Seriously, what are we living for every single day. Do we have a bigger purpose than jz finishing school or eating enough to survive? Do we just, honestly, go through the motions of school and work and waiting for uni or NS. Or are we a people of purpose and a destiny. Such that, in retrospect, 2007 would have been a fulfilling year, one full of growth and dreams fulfilled. For the larger dreams, first steps taken?
And also from Ps Glen, Don't let the frogs stay for one more night. Like.... what??? Okay okay, its abt the ten plagues in Egypt when Pharaoh didn't wanna let the Israelites go, God sent a plague of frogs to punish the Egyptians. And when Moses spoke to Pharaoh to negotiate, Pharaoh agreed to let the Israelites go. So Moses gave Pharaoh the honor of choosing when the frogs were to be removed and Pharaoh answered... Tomorrow
I mean, how stupid is he?? Imagine ur room right now crawling with cockroaches and the exterminator is at your door and he asks you when u want to get rid of the pests and u think about it for a while.. and you tell him, come back tomorrow morning and you land back on ur bed with cockroaches crawling all over you.
Seems ridiculous that anyone would answer tomorrow right? But how often do we do the exact same thing to God who wants to remove all the stains, dirt and sin in our lives. How often we keep bad habits for one more night. This was so significant for me and it is decided that 24th March will be a turning point in my life! I believe in the altar call and the work has been done!
Yup, really really feel refreshed after the service! Time to dream big once again! Im free to accomplish what God has in store for me! And to make things even better, dinner for that night was on the house! Wow.. how rare is that! Free Pizza and Drinks! Yay! So i ate quite a lot and still there were 2 leftover pizzas. No idea what happened to it. Talked a lot and 12-ed back with Winnie.
MSN-ed as well with a few ppl. BS was online too. Had a nice chat with cass too (= then slept
Sunday
Did NOT wake up on time. Crap. Actually i did, jz that my alarm didn't ring after i snoozed it. No excuse, i was late for church. I got out of bed at 10.45 and reached church by 11.00
I ran more than half the way there... From Sennett to Emmanuel within 15 minutes of waking up. Was sweating quite a bit and so sad that i reached at the end of the praise and worship which must have been awesome.
Briefly sat at the empty row behind FX and then moved to my cell when the announcements were starting. And today it was 4 baby dedications as well. Too bad they were all girls, even the one in blue, and so BS was wrong. Haha. Mathematical Induction failed. Hehe
Ps Ang gave a simple yet strong message on The Cost of Being a Disciple. Things i really learnt from this
-we are not Christians because of our religion, but by our actions, as seen by outsiders. Are you a Christ-ian?
-it really costs something. not $ but our entire life. our priorities. is family more important than Him? is studies? is that special someone?
-it is a call to being doers of the word, WITH A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with Him. even if we cast out demons in His name and not have a walk with him, we will not get into heaven.
But the underlying truth is still simple and encouraging. God is ever willing to empower you to achieve your full potential in him. He has the plan and purpose for our life, so committing it to Him, although it may seem to cost us a lot, actually gains is so much more. A really nice quote to sum it up
"He is not unwise who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose"
Think about it. Is IT really worth hanging on to or can God give u something so much better?
Then after the service, had an altar call and i was brought back to think how i haven't been significant at all for Him so far. And its time to change. And that I have really awesome people in church who care so much for me. Who really bother to try and find out how im relaly feeling on the inside and how my life is coming along. Had a good cell time with stand-in cell leader Sarah. Then had great prayer for our cell as well as Matthew who is gonna tell Dr Lee that he won't be a flutist for TPJCSB.
Then we walked to opposite TJ for lunch cuz we missed the bus and joined the newcomers although we were really late. Wwalked here and there quite a lot before settling on where to buy our "groceries" (read:chocolates and snacks) Txs to FX for the Milo Bar and MY for the Doaraemon magnet from 7E! One of it is now on Roland's car! Hehe!
Then had a Bible "picnic" in the haven with our snacks. Matthew, FX and MY with me sat in there and discussed the sermon of the day and the costs that we all pay as well as catch up on each other. In no time it was time to leave and FX took the bus with MY whil Matthew and I walked back. Met Alvin and Mich and talked a lot more. Really encouraging people who care so much! This is where Roalnd's car had the newest addition. Haha!
Then bought my dinner and came back to blog! Hehe. Its really good to live life with You God! The inner peace is just priceless (=Labels: Alvin, bible picnic, BS, cass, dream center, frogs, FX, Matthew, Mich, MY, newcomers, pizza, ps glen, ps matthew, sarah
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(Tuesday, March 13, 2007-)
+3:32 PM]*
# Open Up The (Uni) Gates
Saturday
Its a day of Open Houses. Today's schedule was Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and then Heart of God Church (hoGc). Woke up on time and wasn't late. Looks like my saturdays are improving and becoming less piggish. Had a quick breakfast and then left for Tanah Merah MRT to meet Winnie who was so kind to help me settle the open house arrangements when i was lost at a particular bridge @ Yumei's. It was really quite funny and i totally refuse to accept the stack of tiles cuz i was on the phone ok Diantha. U r still the champion! =p
Yup, back up the hill and down the dragon and 12 was not too slow. Met Winnie at the control station who was on time. Mark of a good councillor. Hehe. Council rocks! Lalala. Ok, it was a long ride from TM to Boon Lay. Note to people who design Unis in Singapore. Did you guys have the map of Singapore when u designed it? Or did u guys throw darts to choose a location? Even so, it was quite a bad throw.
Oh well, that jz meant more time to chat abt council life and the MRT wasn't exactly empty till City Hall... Oh well, council always has lots of stories, but i interrupt this post to tell u that apart from Diantha, Fang Xian is also the queen of blurness. Here's the low down (pun intended, if u get it)
Fang Xian called Winnie to ask where we were and we said we were on the MRT on the way to NTU. Then she asked, when are u guys going to NTU. We were like... LOLZ... but oh well, its FX so shes always forgiven for being blur. Diantha, u can share ur mahjong tiles with her. Yeah, ok back to the MRT ride.
We talked almost all the way and when we reached Boon Lay, Winnie's friends were supposed to meet her there but considering they weren't from council, they were obviously late (I am being super biased, I know). Winnie tried to give them a call but with all the construction work, all she could get out of the conversation is that one out of the group was at Buona Vista. And the rest of the group wasn't even there yet. So we headed off to queue for the shuttle bus to NTU. Nice thing is that there were signs and student ambassadors there to guide poor little lost sheep along. Unlike NUS!! Ok, more on comparison later...
Waited like 20 minutes for the bus to come and finally spotted Winnie's friends arriving. Saw some TJCians too like Carine and Zhi Zhong, Timothy. And when they arrived, so did the bus, so yeah, we were there early for almost nothing. But at least we got to NTU on time. Once there, they had nice ppl on the bus and nice ppl to hand out goodie bags the moment i got down. NTU ppl, if you're reading this, ur open house was better than NUS IMHO. And then Winnie and I wondered into SBS (School of Biological Sciences), what an uncool acronym. But it served its purpose cuz I remembered where we got off.
Then later after much asking of questions to ppl at the booths, we moved on to the Quad. (why i remember the places' names, i dunno) and saw some of the CCA booths. Quite cool. And the best part was the seniors. Talked with a few and even met Fung Shin there who i am now asking questions to find out mroe abt NTU. Met Rachel there too who was in red. Haha. Blended in with NTU-ians. I dunno what they call themselves. Any suggestions?
-NTUnians
-Nanyangnites
-NTechies
Okay I give up.
Then we heard some interesting rumours like what PRCs are called in NTU and terminology for retaking a subject. And the best part abt not using the microwave oven cuz apparently some smart ppl use it as a dryer for socks. Why??? Universities are supposed to house smart people. Intelligent people. Why.... Yeah, found out more about hall life, took a meaningless tour for the sake of the aircon. Had some free Milo and a hotdog and drink which cost $1. Winnie took for me while I organized the "recycling" materials in my NTU bag.
And then the blur queen (FX, not you Diantha in case u're wondering =) called us and asked us to meet her at URECA. But by the time we were at URECA, she had already left and we also missed the movie with Winnie's cell. So we just slacked around in a rather homey NTU. Met Jayne there too! Some NYJCians and TJCians as well who were there for some talk on econs. I think they ponned the remainder of it. Sorry ya NTU. U guys have to make this sort of stuff more interesting hor..
After that, we decided to take the MRT out of there and so we headed to SBS, ahha, and then MRT-ed to Dhouby Ghaut. And unlike councillors, we decided on where to eat pretty quickly, ordered ate, and bumped into Sarah twice and then finally the blur queen and Gabriel. Then walked out to DG and then to hoGc. This is the next part of opening the gates.
Never heard of Heart of God Church before except from what Ps Mark said that it was modelled after City Harvest Church. And from the reception, it was apparent. Ushers from the first door, up the stairs, reception and at the doors. All in neat black. And the crowd was sort of like CHC as well with queues to get in. Finally got to our seat and some had to move later on. But it was rather hot in there but it was not too bad.
After a while, the service started with a new song. It started off with a bass solo by a female bassist. She looked cute. Haha, but the t shirt she was wearing was a little too scary for me. Haha. Skull with halo and wings. Hmmm. Oh well, she is a really pro bassist. And so is the rest of the worship team. Didn't know any of the songs but the ppl there were really enthu. Yup. If one word could summarize them, it would be "WOW" with some pun intended. Hehe.
Then after the great praise and worship session with 100% new songs for me, it was announcement and tea-time. Announcements were ok, and tea-time means testimony time in my church in KL, but yeah, they had awesome testimonies. Even had awards for those who scored L1R5 of 21-25 and below 20 and some for A levels as well. Basically, a church who don't ignore academic excellence (AE as they call it) and the biggest testimonies were from the best improved student from E,O,F for A lvl Prelim to A,A,B. Insane!!!! and O Levels, drop from L1R5 of 49 (so hopeless ryte?) to 27. thats like, a drop of 22 points!!!
Then had the Valentine's day testimonies as well of how they impacted their schools and also the Northbrooks Revival video. Wow. Really professionally done to tell and even greater story of true revival. Yup, after the awesome tea-time, it was time for Ps Glen Berteau.
He shared an awesome message of How People Turn Their Backs on God from the parable of the sower. The biggest impact on me was how the deceiver (the devil) talks to you and takes away your desires. How does the deceiver sound like? Apart from resembling ultra heavy metal (hehe) screaming, it is usually very very subtle. He whispers...
- you don't need to do it now
- you still have time
- you can do it later
- you can do it the next time
To me, it was like... yeah... how many times have I heard that in my head. When I wanted to study. When I wanted to do QT, i can always do it later. It never tells me not to do it, cuz i'll know straight away that it's the devil. He's not that dumb to scare us away. It's always ever so subtle. procrastinate, take that extra 10 minutes. You need that one hour more of sleep. Just be late, its alright... So many times I've been deceived. Yup, i've realised.
And he also talked about how we will have pressure and we have to make a stand.
Overall, it was truly an awesome service and yet another item on my wish list has come true. Yup, and being in Malaysia now, all the 5 items on my wish list have come true. Txs God for reading my blog. I know you did (=
After the service, CFC talked a bit, and i met Fiona, the only TJCian in hoGc, who's from LEO, Leosis! Haha, so cool ryte! Yeah, talked a bit and introduced her to Winnie and FX but i think she would have forgotten, but I'm looking forward to meeting u in school! Yup, then we had dinner at Kopitiam in PS. FX was a little emo but it got much better when we were seated down eating. Must have been the headache. Wouldn't know.
Then had a long bus ride home. Michelle and Adeline also joined us on the bus. Then got off, stopped at 7-Eleven for a snack (yes I do snack once in a while *winks*) then took 12 back to Sennett. Met Cadence on the bus who was going home after O-Nite, sorry could't be with you guys, but I wouldn't have missed hoGc for anything else in the world!! Then reached home and slept after doing laundry. Yup. nice nice saturday.
Sunday
Sunday started off nicely, walked and arrived at church on time from Sennett. Yay. Occupied the 3rd row and left poor Gabriel alone in the 1st row. Haha. Ok,he wasn't alone, Sarah was there too but our cell wasn't. Hehe. Praise and worship was good as always! Hehe, good pre-service prayer with Roland as well. Then the word was by Ps Ang's brother, Ps Johnny Ang. On Psalm 23. If you know what Psalm 23 is by heart, give me a shout ya? Yup, he related it very well to Alzheimers disease as well which is his ministry in the US.
After the service, cell met up and had prayer quickly by Mei Yian. Yay, then had admin matters and James had to go off. Prayed for Matthew to get his appeal into TPJC from IJC and guess what, this should be no surprise but it still was to me, He got accepted into TPJC!! Yay!! God really answers prayers!
Then it was back to Sennett after church cuz I realised that I didn't bring any identification to get my NUS PIN reset. Had plans to meet Winnie who was once again the only person who will be going to NUS open house. Ying Chuan had a meeting at 2.30. Oh wells, with some msgs to Gabriel and Winnie, i set off first back to Sennett.
This is a special shoutout to Mei Yian who got me biscuits for my breakfast! Txs! Really do appreciate it! I LOVE MY CELL!!
Then after reaching Sennett, I went to Beer Garden to meet up with Gabriel and to have lunch. After that, Glanies came and with Melvin the only one left, I decided not to be glowing and left for Sennett once again. Why? cuz I forgot FX's letter of authorisation for the NUS PIN reset. Also cuz I had nowhere else to be while Winnie, Shujing and FX had their heart to heart talk with Aunty Aye Lan. So I played the guitar in Sennett while waiting and somehow things got messed up that Winnie was waiting for me at beer. Oh well...
Rushed down and it was nice to know that Shujing was joining us at NUS as well. Yay, so the 3 of us had a long long 10 bus ride down to NUS from Beer. Talked abt many things. And FX even called when we were talking abt her. Haha. Ok, so maybe Winnie can be blur, but u're still the queen FX!
Finally reached NUS and went in through the side gate at roughly 4 plus. Just followed the signs and walked abt 600m to the Open House. Walking was faster than waiting for the bus. Ironic. Then reached the main open house area. It looked really messy and we went to ask our questions. Got ticked off by the Office of Admissions guy who said i was rude for not using "please" when I asked if he had a pen I could borrow. Come on, I wasn't even demanding a pen,a nd his nice colleague nicely offered me one. Some ppl are jz so much nicer. And he kept on harping on the fact that I was rude. What a ... (Zsa Zsa, u can fill in a word here. lolz.)
Then got both our PINs reset and then went off to the ENG booth. They were so helpful. Asked me to look at the website to get info abt the syllabus. So what was I doing at the open house. Lame... And the people were so firerce, shouting al over the place when giving announcements. Blah. Jz got irritated by NUS. Took a campus tour which didn't help cuz the two people inside jz told us what the stops' names were. I could have read that myself, no thanks to you. And finally got back.
Met XiuYu while queing up and finally took the MRT back to Dover. Shujing had a car to get her.Nice ryte? Oh well, then I MRTed to Bedok adn almost missed my stop. Did my shopping at Parkway. And to my classes, I bought some simple stuff for u guys for next term. Bought some chocs for my teachers too. Haven really thanked them yet.
Actually did quite a lot of roaming ard Giant. And also stopped by LIFE to see if All Of The Above is out yet. No such luck. Even Never Stop by PS isn't out yet. Oh well, it will be soon I hope. Then came back home, and then slept.
Monday
Monday was much faster. Did more schoalrship stuff, sat in a mock interview with one of the groups, bought my bus ticket. Reached home safely. Yay. And after a wodnerful night's rest and a full day of blogging and pigging. Im here once again.Labels: campus tour, female bassist, Fiona, Fung Shin, FX, hoGc, Microwave, NTU, NUS, Parkway, ShuJing, Winnie, WOW, Zsa^2
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(Sunday, March 4, 2007-)
+2:54 PM]*
# Heart of Worship
Saturday
Im still ecstatic over my A level results. Hehehe. My cell group also did quite well. Shall not write their results here lest they get angry if people find out, but lets jz say there are two 8D people, one 5D, one 4A, many great results that God blessed!
Yeah! I was really awesome. And today started off well with me waking up relatively on time compared to previous saturdays. Which translates to me being on time for tuition on saturday. So this saturday is different cuz 1 - i was on time 2 - i wasn't a pig!
Gave tuition which was rather easy, just finished Electromagnetism and went through questions. God, thank you for refreshing my memory. Especially the van de Graff machine MCQ. Half way through tuition i found out i wasn't on for today's service so that meant i had the whole afternoon to myself. That's where the A level blog came in.
MRTed from Toa Payoh to Bedok and stopped for KFC there. First KFC meal in quite a while. Sorry Macs, too many McSpicy's already. At least Macs Mayo n Garlic Chilli is still nicer then KFC's chilli that so hard to open. So i settled for tomato sauce instead. Then almost caught 197 but had to settle for 196 instead.
Reached home and blogged. Then did my pre-service prayer and QT as well. In no time it was time for pre service prayer. In rushing I kept on making mistakes lar. And Gabriel told me to get a projector ready. I thought it was an overhead projector so i typed the 9 names into my phone. I reached there on the dot of 6.15 and disappointed Gabriel. But i still got the most of my sharing prepared. And to my embarrassment, the projector was an LCD one and good thing Rayvin already prepared the slides. I was so blur, confused and embarrassed. But nvm. It went well, enough for me at least for my first time.
Shared on Encouragement - The Spoken Word. First scripture came from QT, Psalm 94v18. Oh wow.. i can remember the chapter and verse. Yup. Then prayed with the Musicians and main idea was on the atmosphere of the service of expectancy and response. Which really came true, but more on that later.
The day was far from over when I ended pre-service at abt 6.55. Went to Hall 3B and the musicians were already there. Met Winnie at the pc/soundboard. Talked a bit and Meredith called me. Realised in all the rush, i forgot my sermon book, Bible and watch. Txs for bringing it to Hall 3B for me! Then Gabriel called me to help him out with the lightings. Which i tried to do but didn't know how to unknot the wires so i just resorted to cutting it. Haha.. Not literally, but quite so. Anyway, didn't follow the right procedure for setting up. Sorry Ying Chuan and L.A Team. Then Joel came and helped with the setting up. Found the most retarded scissors in the world and after struggling, managed to set up the 4 lights. Yes, 4 was an accomplishment k? OK fine, Joel did 1. 3 then. Still good! Haha.
In all the rush, I didn't have time for dinner and the quick run down to SPC was jz left behind. Then it was soon 7.30 and i went to get a drink. Saw MY n BS outside. BS was eating char siew rice. He couldn't finish it and was rushing so i ate the other half. Yay, God blessed me anyway with a dinner! Ok, a mini dinner. Waited for BS and met XiuYu who went in first. Then we went in.
Praise was alright, Now That You're Near still felt far. Then moved into All I Want Is You which was goo and Show Me Your Face, a new song which was nice. Took a while to learn it though. Then too soon, worship was over and it was Gabriel with the announcements and Ying Chuan with his A level testimony. From F/O to A/B. wow...
Then it was the awesomely powerful Rachael Guna with part two to Explosive Praise and Extravagant Worship. Here's a brief run through of the superbly powerful sermon/sharing.
EXTRAVAGANT WORSHIP
Things I didn't know
- God commands us to praise Him when times are good or bad. But He seeks out true worshippers. When we worship in spirit and in truth, God will come and find us, search for us, look upon us.
- Worship comes from the Greek word proskuneo which implies reverence and bowing down
Things that were POW!!
- Worship is intimate. 1 on 1, unlike praise which can be as a group
- It's God focused. So even when we don't "feel" anything from worship, it doesn't matter. Cuz you're supposed to be giving to God. Rachael : "So you mean you have been receiving all this years in your worship?" HAHA... Don't take it wrongly, God blesses and touches us, but its not how we feel after worship that matters, but how God feels
- Between worship and service, God would choose a true worshipper. Cuz all God wants is us, not what we can do for Him. Luke 10v38-42
- We worship first then are we forgiven. So no matter how "unclean" or unworthy we feel, we should still worship Him, then the forgiveness and healing will come. Luke 7v36-50
- God can respond to worship by revealing things to us. This goes out specially to Claire. When the world seems to see the wicked prospering, the evil not being cast away, when things go wrong, we can only start to understand when we worship. Read this RHEMA verse people!!! Psalm 73v16-17
- And finally, not forgetting that God loves us in return when we worship Him. The all powerful Mighty to Save verse is here. I found it out suring QT and remembered it when Zephaniah 3v17 was flashed on the screen. But focus on the ending!
Things that Im still blur about
- What does it really mean when people say God is no man's debtor? Please respond anyone who knows? Either comment or shout/talk please?
- How did Abraham know it was God speaking to Him to sacrifice Isaac? When people teach us to listen to the voice of God, they say check what u heard "from God" agianst what is said in the Bible. The Bible obviously bans us from sacrificing humans, much more our own children. How did this father of faith know God's voice so well?
Please do explain to me if you know in the addition section at the end of this post. Thanks!
Then we went into extravagant worship after the sermon. I have NEVER (I am purposely using an absolute word here) experienced such worship before. It was really, wow. Revived my soul, my inmost being. More than just rejoicing over A levels, im rejoicing on the inside as well.
Church rocks!!! YA rocks!!!
Then we quickly packed up and wanted to continue or surprise for FangXian. This is now Cell Surprise no. 3. We tried to quickly pack up but everyone was everywhere. Quite frustrating and we were late already. Tried to reach airport by 11 but by 10.50 we we still just outside church. The surprise crew consisted of me, BS, MY and Winnie.
We got into a cab finally and reached the airport slightly after 11 but BS had called to make sure FX was still around. Found her shop but no sign of FX, so we walked nearer. Still no sign until suddenly we saw FX come out to close the shop. BS n MY ran to hide beside the shop while Winnie and I dashed under a railing to join BS n MY. Then we stood right beside the shop, leaning against the wall and suddenly, FX came out of the shop to close a door or pull down a shutter. She was like, 30cm away from us and DIDN'T NOTICE US!!! The four of us turned around and walked away thinking what idiots we were standing so close to the shop and got noticed. We were giggling and feeling stupid, but little did we know that FX was more blur.
Waited quite a while above C.E.D.S and saw FX come in and out quite a few times. She had no idea we were above her. MY also tricked me a few times. Darn. Tried the poking thing but not as fun as when I do it on 21-ers. Finally FX came out and BS, then MY and Winnie, then I surprised her. Then we decided to go and eat at Popeye's. Long story cut short, the top 5 blur people of YA, in decreasing order of merit are
1. Wu Fangxian
2. Lim MeiYian
3. Roland Tan
4. Gabriel Gay
5. Unclaimed as of yet, but Winnie apparently has a one day lag time (improved from one week!)
Then we had a long talk on how to get home and after a long long long long deliberation, we decided to cab back at 1 plus am. Not the wisest of choices due to surcharge and airport pick-up, we cabbed 3-2 back to our homes. Decided that one day we will crash FX's house.
Reached home and went online and sms-ed a bit. Replied tags and shouts on my blog. Chatted and then fell asleep. Sorry Winnie.
Sunday
Missed Jayne cuz she was late. Sorry its the last day already. Went to church and sat in the 2nd row for the first time I think. Service was great, but still YA was better. Songs were VERY nicely put together. This Is The Day to Everyday With You Lord. Nice. Then I Could Sing of Your Love Forever. Very nicely done. The sunday worship team is so pro at medley-ing lar... Then had cell talk and Grace from simply joining for the talk was dragged to lunch. Haha. Jean was there too. Yay. Talked and then did our weekly grocery/chocolate shopping.
On my checklist was still the strawberry milk. Hee... and on the choc list was Kinder Bueno. Other chocs n drinks bought were 1.5L coke, 1.25L Kickapoo, Kit Kat Chunky and Black Forest Cadbury.
Then we split our separate ways. Stopped at FX's bus stop a while. Coral, Maddy and Mishuel (obvious spelling error, sorry) joined in a while then i reached home and did this post. Yay. Sunday rocks. Laundry next. Shifting at night I think. Bye room.Labels: BS, C.E.D.S, cab, FX, Gabriel, Jean, MY, Roland, Winnie, Worship
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(Thursday, March 1, 2007-)
+8:32 AM]*
# The Stand
Sunday
Sunday was a long long day. And it wasn't the most pleasant although it was spent doing nice things. I'm still into summary mood so here's the quick run through of the stuff that went down.
Woke up at the correct time for service and hence got to walk with Jayne to church. One of the last few chances already before I shift to Hosea's or Ps Mark's at Sennett. *hint - i need help to shift my stuff* and we reached church after a stopover at the mini mart for my breakfast of Tiger Biscuits. Went in just in time for preservice prayer and then the service started.
Ps Hoo gave his "swan song" sermon as he will no longer be the associate pastor of Emmanuel. Going to start his own church soon. Multiplication. Yay. The sermon was on the big rocks of life. Which, if we don't make space for them first, the smaller things in life will either crowd it out, or if we put the wrong stones in, we will have no space for the important stone. Yup, pretty self-explained already. Then we had a cell gathering and for the first time James could come with us for lunch and the excursion thereafter.
Went to beer garden, and the group of us that went to beer garden was so big that some had to spill over to KFC. And some people were whining about sitting in the sun etc... my cell jz sat down and ate. Atmosphere was rather weird. But still, we went on the NTUC after that, did our grocery/chocolate shopping and were on our way to TP.
FX had her hair cut while I marked GP essays at Food Junction. Yes my dear classes, I had to squeeze every bit of time to get ur essays finished. James was there to sit with me and hear me whine. And soon (relative to how long a normal GIRL haircut can take), FX was back. She looked... the same. I need to be able to understand and appreciate looks better. Or some girl will one day eventually kill me.
Then we went off to BS's house. Slacked in his room. Found out that FX was kinky. LOL. OK, so it was just a joke, but FX, i think u were really hurt. Then we went on to our second surprise-your-cellmate-at-work project. Mei Yian at The Coffee Cxxxxxxxxxx (I dunno how to spell that word), TCC.
Firstly, this project started off badly as we didn;t know where she worked. James only managed to syphon the fact that it was on Circular Road. So we googled, street-directoried and MRT-ed our way down. Then we did major wandering about Clarke Quay. If anyone knows the diference between Clarke Q and Boat Q, gimme a shout ya? So we walked and couldn't meet up with Gabriel who went to the wrong TCC. Lolz. We walked a lot and finally found TCC. FX wasn't in the best of moods but it soon changed once we reached TCC and gave Mei Yian her surprise! Her reaction... OH NO....!!...!!!..... OH NO....
Yup, that's how she greeted us as Gabriel, FX, BS, James and I surprised her at the gellery, 2nd level. Yeah, it was a nice and cozy place, and she had to serve us. Haha. We took forever to order and BS met some BBallers there. FX was in her mood again and then we shifted over and things looked to get better. We ordered our food, which I shared with Gabriel and still cost me $10, so shall avoid TCC unless its a special occasion. Marked some GP there too. Sigh... And things started to go off in codes.
Long trip back home. Late. Slept.
The Trip
Orange, white, beige
Green wasn't the invited
Black
A canvas full of colour
Which is no longer mine
A complication
Which still resides
An emotion which ended
Rekindled in the dark
Haunting
A journey on the right path
A new chapter to start
The steps are calling
The body, willing?Labels: BS, FX, James, Jayne, Mei Yian, Ps Hoo, TCC
the story ends like this;
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