(Thursday, August 23, 2007-)
+9:35 PM]*
+9:35 PM]*
# 99
This is post 99 of my maiden blog,and with such, a celebration of significant numbers (no, i didn't mean significant figures... go figure...) is in store for this blog! Ok, let's start
Number you want to see
7050 - Number of hits this blog had when i typed the 99th post
6410 - My soon-to-be wife
5300 - My handphone which is perenially out of battery
4300 - Amount of money MOE should pay me a year
2901 - My GEM Module
2007 - The year of significant change in me (CFC + NUS)
750 - Number of points engineers get in their Programme Account
27 - My birthdate
25 - Number of tickets for CFFF I want to sell (stay tuned for details)
17 - Last week of term
12 - Most irritating bus (credit:Shuming)
11 - My tutorial group with Keow Koon and Anurag
And the final 10
10 - Number of minutes I shall snooze my alarm for (work needed, lots of it!)
9 - Number I want my cell group to grow to
8 - Number of faculties in NUS (I think)
7 - Number of days in a week I want to do QT (=
6 - Number of modules I want to take next sem
5 - CAP score I want for Sem 1
4 - Number of days that have church in them (=
3 - Number of ppl I want to invite to church/YA
2 - Number of buses available from PGP
1 - The ranking God shall have in my life
Ok, that's a quick round up of some significant numbers, shall come up with an unwanted numbers list soon! Haha!
Moving along. I shall do something I haven't done in a long time, blog about my day!
Let's start with the morning,
0700 Hours
Woke up from my sleep. Did nothing about it cuz i knew it was too early
0800 Hours
Still awake, but being lazy
0845 Hours
Finally snapped into action and started on my QT. Quite a scary reading today of Jehu who, like, totally annihilated Ahab and his family. Yup, it was somehow much better than yesterday's QT where I was like, totally disconnected from God
0945 Hours
Finally (seriously) got out of PGP to go and CRASH NTU!!! Was supposed to be there at 1030 for Jayne's Organic Chem lecture... but hey, if im gonna be late, at least it's not my own lecture that Im late for ryte? Yup, was gonna be late
1100 Hours
Touch down NTU.
Met Li Hua who gave me directions to the Nanyang Auditorium.
Note : Signs in NTU are horrible. Rather, the LACK of it. Very crasher-unfriendly place
NTU TJCian counter : 1
1115 Hours
Ventured forth and came upon Nanyang Audi. Should have known that it was that huge URECA building lar... Waited outside for Jayne, who somehow forgot to tell me she is in LT27, so yeah, i had no idea where i should be waiting. Oh well
1200 Hours
Ok, from here on, time will be fuzzy cuz my handphone died of battery about an hour later. Met Jayne who was with Uncle Poo (sorry i can't remember his real name) and we wandered around a bit while waiting for Dix to arrive from her part of the NTU Uniworseverse. She arrive in style, although her scarf was stolen by some other guy, who in turn got his tie stolen by this other girl. Arts students know how to dress up. Engineers don't Shall end that discussion for now. Then after that, walked on to meet Winnie at Canteen A/The Quad (which Winnie doesn't know). It was rather hillarious or frustrating, depending on whether u were Winnie or Me/Jayne. We first told her Canteen A, then Quad, then Canteen A, and finally i forgot where we met also. =s oh wait, it was quad cafe!
While on the way, met Vita (my OG) and Jing Wei (my LEO PD) too!
NTU TJCian count : 3
Also further down, met Say Hoon (Renaissance II) and Alicia (my OG)!
NTU TJCian count : 5
NTU had this super long walkway connecting the Canteen and Audi... with totally no signs btw. So yeah, within this one walkway, met 4 TJCians then reached the Quad as we had a really slow walk while waiting for Winnie to arrive from Hall. Msged Ka Hei too, but she didn't see the msg, then when she did and replied me, my hp died. Haih.. saded, Msged Quen too, and he was in hall with Iwan, but yeah, my 5300 died on me.. So, now let's fast forward to the journey to the quad.
XXXX Hours
Walked towards the SBS (go figure) and stopped by the huge NY Audi. Jayne brought me in and i saw the infamous Audi which has slain (ppl who have fallen asleep) countless NTU-ians (I STILL DUNNO WHAT U GUYS CALL URSELVES) in the forensics lecture. Also, it was the sight where the lightsabres (think sea of lights) and robes were used. No idea what im talking about, then u r not from NTU. Duh? Hehe x)
Then walked towards Cafe at the Quad or something like that and met Sze May!
NTU TJCian Count : 6
Then went into the cafe and found seats! Yay (= Apparently everyone was busy voting for their Union ppl that they didn't have time to eat. The NUS crasher rejoices =D
So we waited (and waited) and waited for Winnie and when Jayne asked "Where's Winnie ar?",Winnie steps in in a refreshing green! Then we decided and ordered. I ordered the western Roast Chicken which was $4.50, but i guess worth it lar? Not too bad, it was quite nice even. And a can of drink cost $1, quite ex, but it is a rather nice cafe, not the usual canteen. Yup, had a very nice and long lunch!! Ok, long relative to the speed i eat. Then after much talking and trying out some of Jayne's baked fish and Winnie's Jap, we decided to leave and let others who were looking for a table get one.
In the cafe, met Tasneem (= but JoJo didn't turn up... Met two other TJCians whom Jayne pointed out (and apparently knew my name) but I can't even recall their faces... must be the hair colouration and non-uniformed effect that made me unable to recognize them. Haha!
Anyway, whatever my excuse...
NTU TJCian Count : 9
So after lunch, went to vote, and Yun Nam Library (i dun quite know what the actually name is though... hehe, so Yun Nam will have to do! Haha) It said on the some sign on the entrance
"Visitors are to report to ... "
Why the ...? cuz i didn't bother to remember what it said and went in anyway. Haha! So in that library, we were trying to get a com to print notes, but they were ALL used up. How come? Cuz the really smart and brilliant people who make it to uni think that the computers in the library are for the following
[1] watching YouTube
[2] Playing Yahoo! games (snooker)
[3] Chatting on MSN
[4] and the very best... SLEEPING!
And desperate ppl trying to print notes have no pc to use. So we decided to use the standalone pc. What's that? Well, we weren't exactly sure but apparently they were for database research. Haha! So the guy came and explained it to us and kindly unlocked it for us so that we could use it and next time use the proper terminal. And yes, there were proper terminals apparently, sadly, we didn't notice them. So it was a big bunch of blunders from freshies. Haha...
Anyway, im a bit tired of telling you about my day apart from the fact that i met Ni Ying during my maths lecture, Sam and Teik Kheng didn't go for it, met Pei Fen outside LT7A, along with Chun Ping, Michelle and Ying Huan. Yup. That about sums up my day... and the dryer doesn't work.. haih...
Number you want to see
7050 - Number of hits this blog had when i typed the 99th post
6410 - My soon-to-be wife
5300 - My handphone which is perenially out of battery
4300 - Amount of money MOE should pay me a year
2901 - My GEM Module
2007 - The year of significant change in me (CFC + NUS)
750 - Number of points engineers get in their Programme Account
27 - My birthdate
25 - Number of tickets for CFFF I want to sell (stay tuned for details)
17 - Last week of term
12 - Most irritating bus (credit:Shuming)
11 - My tutorial group with Keow Koon and Anurag
And the final 10
10 - Number of minutes I shall snooze my alarm for (work needed, lots of it!)
9 - Number I want my cell group to grow to
8 - Number of faculties in NUS (I think)
7 - Number of days in a week I want to do QT (=
6 - Number of modules I want to take next sem
5 - CAP score I want for Sem 1
4 - Number of days that have church in them (=
3 - Number of ppl I want to invite to church/YA
2 - Number of buses available from PGP
1 - The ranking God shall have in my life
Ok, that's a quick round up of some significant numbers, shall come up with an unwanted numbers list soon! Haha!
Moving along. I shall do something I haven't done in a long time, blog about my day!
Let's start with the morning,
0700 Hours
Woke up from my sleep. Did nothing about it cuz i knew it was too early
0800 Hours
Still awake, but being lazy
0845 Hours
Finally snapped into action and started on my QT. Quite a scary reading today of Jehu who, like, totally annihilated Ahab and his family. Yup, it was somehow much better than yesterday's QT where I was like, totally disconnected from God
0945 Hours
Finally (seriously) got out of PGP to go and CRASH NTU!!! Was supposed to be there at 1030 for Jayne's Organic Chem lecture... but hey, if im gonna be late, at least it's not my own lecture that Im late for ryte? Yup, was gonna be late
1100 Hours
Touch down NTU.
Met Li Hua who gave me directions to the Nanyang Auditorium.
Note : Signs in NTU are horrible. Rather, the LACK of it. Very crasher-unfriendly place
NTU TJCian counter : 1
1115 Hours
Ventured forth and came upon Nanyang Audi. Should have known that it was that huge URECA building lar... Waited outside for Jayne, who somehow forgot to tell me she is in LT27, so yeah, i had no idea where i should be waiting. Oh well
1200 Hours
Ok, from here on, time will be fuzzy cuz my handphone died of battery about an hour later. Met Jayne who was with Uncle Poo (sorry i can't remember his real name) and we wandered around a bit while waiting for Dix to arrive from her part of the NTU Uni
While on the way, met Vita (my OG) and Jing Wei (my LEO PD) too!
NTU TJCian count : 3
Also further down, met Say Hoon (Renaissance II) and Alicia (my OG)!
NTU TJCian count : 5
NTU had this super long walkway connecting the Canteen and Audi... with totally no signs btw. So yeah, within this one walkway, met 4 TJCians then reached the Quad as we had a really slow walk while waiting for Winnie to arrive from Hall. Msged Ka Hei too, but she didn't see the msg, then when she did and replied me, my hp died. Haih.. saded, Msged Quen too, and he was in hall with Iwan, but yeah, my 5300 died on me.. So, now let's fast forward to the journey to the quad.
XXXX Hours
Walked towards the SBS (go figure) and stopped by the huge NY Audi. Jayne brought me in and i saw the infamous Audi which has slain (ppl who have fallen asleep) countless NTU-ians (I STILL DUNNO WHAT U GUYS CALL URSELVES) in the forensics lecture. Also, it was the sight where the lightsabres (think sea of lights) and robes were used. No idea what im talking about, then u r not from NTU. Duh? Hehe x)
Then walked towards Cafe at the Quad or something like that and met Sze May!
NTU TJCian Count : 6
Then went into the cafe and found seats! Yay (= Apparently everyone was busy voting for their Union ppl that they didn't have time to eat. The NUS crasher rejoices =D
So we waited (and waited) and waited for Winnie and when Jayne asked "Where's Winnie ar?",Winnie steps in in a refreshing green! Then we decided and ordered. I ordered the western Roast Chicken which was $4.50, but i guess worth it lar? Not too bad, it was quite nice even. And a can of drink cost $1, quite ex, but it is a rather nice cafe, not the usual canteen. Yup, had a very nice and long lunch!! Ok, long relative to the speed i eat. Then after much talking and trying out some of Jayne's baked fish and Winnie's Jap, we decided to leave and let others who were looking for a table get one.
In the cafe, met Tasneem (= but JoJo didn't turn up... Met two other TJCians whom Jayne pointed out (and apparently knew my name) but I can't even recall their faces... must be the hair colouration and non-uniformed effect that made me unable to recognize them. Haha!
Anyway, whatever my excuse...
NTU TJCian Count : 9
So after lunch, went to vote, and Yun Nam Library (i dun quite know what the actually name is though... hehe, so Yun Nam will have to do! Haha) It said on the some sign on the entrance
"Visitors are to report to ... "
Why the ...? cuz i didn't bother to remember what it said and went in anyway. Haha! So in that library, we were trying to get a com to print notes, but they were ALL used up. How come? Cuz the really smart and brilliant people who make it to uni think that the computers in the library are for the following
[1] watching YouTube
[2] Playing Yahoo! games (snooker)
[3] Chatting on MSN
[4] and the very best... SLEEPING!
And desperate ppl trying to print notes have no pc to use. So we decided to use the standalone pc. What's that? Well, we weren't exactly sure but apparently they were for database research. Haha! So the guy came and explained it to us and kindly unlocked it for us so that we could use it and next time use the proper terminal. And yes, there were proper terminals apparently, sadly, we didn't notice them. So it was a big bunch of blunders from freshies. Haha...
Anyway, im a bit tired of telling you about my day apart from the fact that i met Ni Ying during my maths lecture, Sam and Teik Kheng didn't go for it, met Pei Fen outside LT7A, along with Chun Ping, Michelle and Ying Huan. Yup. That about sums up my day... and the dryer doesn't work.. haih...
Labels: Alicia, Jayne, Jing Wei, Ka Hei, Li Hua, Meredith, NTU, Quen, Sze May, Vita, Winnie
the story ends like this;
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(Sunday, August 12, 2007-)
+11:57 PM]*
+11:57 PM]*
# Residence 4, Block 19, Room H
There was once a story told of a man, who woke up one fine sunday morning. For once in a rare while, the air conditioning worked, for once in a blue moon, this man got up on time and was in church very early. So early in fact he decided to grab a nasi lemak for breakfast. Soon it was service time and he found himself all alone as he waited for the service to start. Along came Megan and Vaness and soon the rest of his cell.
Service was great, message was not so much a sermon for the morning, but awesome nonetheless. There were 3 salvations and a great prayer for the cell leaders of the church. Soon after the service, the man left the church towards Changi Airport, through a long and treacherous track as he and his cell searched for the elusive 36. After finding and boarding it, they were a little confused as to which terminal they arrived at first, but once that was settled, it was lunch time. With only one staff pass, things were gonna get messy. Or slow. Whichever it was, the man and his cell soon left for their main target of the day. Grace Chan.
A highly acclaimed PSC scholar who was on her way to Cornell in the states was sucessfully intercepted befor eshe boarded her two-day-long-journey flight. However, the cell were not the fastest to reach there as other agents from her class were already surrounding the target. They made their move, closed in, felt rather awkward, and moved out. There was a cameo appearance from one of the rare-r agents, but she didn't come alone. A little more awkwardness, but soon the cell moved into position and prayed for Grace. As she left, there was once again that sense of emptiness in the man. One of empty regret.
However, that was not to bethe matter of the day for him, as he was blessed beyond measure by Jayne and her family. He had secured the assistance he required to complete his transition from Sennett dweller to PRP resident. At 5.something, the hp had an sms which he promptly replied to. The reply however was less than prompt, but the National Day Parade replay made up for it. After less than an hour of waiting, the cavalry arrived and it was mounted with everything from socks to octopus. Yes, the octopus is now in PGP.
After some map reading, and explanation of physics, the man arrived at PGP, found his way after quite a bit of wandering, and settled in. He got help from next door senior Tiang Lim, who offered not only a handy vacuum cleaner but also a pail. The man cleaned the floor which emits a faint glow when light falls on it. The laptop poised in position on the table, the rest of the room was neatly furnished.
Now this. Say hi to Room H.
Service was great, message was not so much a sermon for the morning, but awesome nonetheless. There were 3 salvations and a great prayer for the cell leaders of the church. Soon after the service, the man left the church towards Changi Airport, through a long and treacherous track as he and his cell searched for the elusive 36. After finding and boarding it, they were a little confused as to which terminal they arrived at first, but once that was settled, it was lunch time. With only one staff pass, things were gonna get messy. Or slow. Whichever it was, the man and his cell soon left for their main target of the day. Grace Chan.
A highly acclaimed PSC scholar who was on her way to Cornell in the states was sucessfully intercepted befor eshe boarded her two-day-long-journey flight. However, the cell were not the fastest to reach there as other agents from her class were already surrounding the target. They made their move, closed in, felt rather awkward, and moved out. There was a cameo appearance from one of the rare-r agents, but she didn't come alone. A little more awkwardness, but soon the cell moved into position and prayed for Grace. As she left, there was once again that sense of emptiness in the man. One of empty regret.
However, that was not to bethe matter of the day for him, as he was blessed beyond measure by Jayne and her family. He had secured the assistance he required to complete his transition from Sennett dweller to PRP resident. At 5.something, the hp had an sms which he promptly replied to. The reply however was less than prompt, but the National Day Parade replay made up for it. After less than an hour of waiting, the cavalry arrived and it was mounted with everything from socks to octopus. Yes, the octopus is now in PGP.
After some map reading, and explanation of physics, the man arrived at PGP, found his way after quite a bit of wandering, and settled in. He got help from next door senior Tiang Lim, who offered not only a handy vacuum cleaner but also a pail. The man cleaned the floor which emits a faint glow when light falls on it. The laptop poised in position on the table, the rest of the room was neatly furnished.
Now this. Say hi to Room H.
the story ends like this;
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(Saturday, July 14, 2007-)
+11:49 PM]*
+11:49 PM]*
# Cell Presentation
Today was the day we celebrated our first anniversary as YA. Not the actual date, but it was an actual party. Went down to church early for decor work. Things i found out
-im weak
-Rayvin can go mad when cutting paper
-climbing ladders is fine for me
-Livia is very creative
-the BASC has not too nice chairs
-cookies can smell really nice (=
-i owe Winnie $1.35
It was really nice with colours all over. For hte first time, the YA decor matched the BASC Hall, which is like super kiddish. I mean, they have colours, teddy bears, fished, and everything else kiddish all over the place. And YOUNG ADULTS's decor matched it. Lolz... So much for being grown up eh? But it was a cheery kind of colourful.
So a quick run through of events before we actually start the main highlight. It started with Aiken and Sam emcee-ing, then it flowed on to Michelle for the events of the day. Ps Mark gave a great sharing about our history as Champions for Christ. Why we exist, and that we are NOT a social club. We exist for such a greater purpose than that.
Ok while my other browser window opens up, i'll move along. Oh wait, we had spongebob wetpants game too. Quite funny, and XiuYu is so not violent. Haha, good thing Hui Koon didn't get the ice cold sponge first. But the guys were really violent, and Alex got the worst of it. Hehe.. Sam was mad lar.. threw ice cold water over him when he got the sponge, and we were stil in the hall mind you.. Out came the mops as we hurried to dry up "Fantasy Island" as Michelle called it.
Ah, here it is, after much searching, the awesome Isaiah 19
20It will become a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and He will send them a (AF)Savior and a (AG)Champion, and He will deliver them.
Yup, we are called to be the Champions for Christ (CFC) in our Egypts, in the places we are in, meeting the needs of our generation which cries out for a saviour! So that's who we are!
Fun part of the night was that everyone there got notebooks!! Freee!!!! or was it included in the price.. hmm.. dun think so. But quite fun ryte? YA's birthday and we all get presents. Quite a nice concept (=
Other cool stuff that happened that night, was Alex "the new preacher"'s testimony. Very nice!! *claps n shouts!* haha. The cells were all geared up that night for the main highlight, okay, the newcomers were the main highlight, but this stile ur thunder.... CELL PRESENTATIONS!!
Okay, we had like.. more than a month to do it... but us being us, we stalled and procrastinated and gave excused and lazed our way till this very deadline arrived, and i think i can safely say ALL the cells did theirs this week. Super obvious one was Alvin's cell (not cuz theirs was lousy, but cuz they stayed at Sennett all Friday to complete it)...so here it is... the CELL PRESENTATIONS
Let me start with my very own cell. Ours was the ONLY dual screen presentation using ONE laptop! Haha!! Others (like Bert's) also had dual screen, but they had TWO laptops, i had the privilege of setting up two screen's on my laptop. Ok, TJ's laptop. And the fact is this laptop sucks.. not powerful enough to run a powerpoint and a video without lagging... So sad, and the video is also super small lar.. 7 minutes and only 25mb leh.. Ok, apart from the whining, let's continue to how ours looked like. At first it looked like it was gonna look super business like, black table cloth, black PC, black 2nd LCD screen. Then came along FX the saviour with the colourful decor, which included her darling turtle on a chair, multiple pictures of food and other items (like e-guitars, flutes, food, soccer, food, popiah, food) did i say food? But anyway, it was very highlighting for our exhibition as it was all black other than that! And i also used one as a mouse pad.. hehe.. But anyway, it was really really one of the best exhibits there! Plus James put his Liverpool jersey as part of the tablecloth for our exhibit so it didn't look too black. If i get the photo then i'll upload here lar k? It's on Roland's cam though...
Ok, other exhibits, let's see, right beside ours was the uber loud, sub-woofer blasting, jai-breaking (literally mind you), attention catching, ART INSTALLATION of Rachael's cell. Come on, would you expect anything less from their uber loud cell? They literally made a prison CELL (see the pun) out of scaffolding, and then taped warning notices all over about how this cell helps you to BREAK FREE!! They also played Break Free (from SAVIOUR KING which is not out in SG yet on the blasting Creative Sub Woofer system they installed together with their installation) to go along with the theme. They had before and after photos which were very cool, with captions like
Before : wife-basher (Aiken i think)
After : Demon-basher
Before : prostitute (Rachael)
After : Preacher!!
So funny! And had their cell vision and all that. Not too far away was KINGs INC with their cokie store which was selling cookies for the building fund, along with tjeir blog exhibition. Maybe i should try to get the link so u guys can see. They has pictures of their blog, one big artpiece on their blog and many cookies on sale with a nice green/yellow crepe paper bow (=
Also near us was I dunno who's cell with the super cool "board game" detailing how their cell grew, together with a MacBook "built into the game's 3D board". Quite cool cuz its like there is a hole that has a curtain, and behind is a screen with their cell's movie.
Then Vanessa's cell, which is the biggest cell with 10 people had this really huge board with the cityscape in black. Then they punctured holes and fit lightbulbs into the buildings with their cell members names on it. So cool ryte? Being literally the light of the world!! Then they even had free lightsticks at their booth. Also close by was Livia's cell, which had free Hershey's Kisses and a nice photo slideshow, photo banner, and two sheets on their cell with info on their goals, profile and such.
Other interesting ones.. wait.. they were all interesting.. REALLY! were Bert's cell which had this whole flash thing going on, where they had this whole story about how their cell is like this group which is being hunted down but got saved by God. Cool with all the special Flash effects in their video. Nicely done! Also had Alvin's cell which had the video of themselves, together with many items on sale. Quite ridiculous ones, all from the youth room. Even had broken drum crash cymbal on sale. Haha!
Then there was also Chellie's cell which had this huge board divided into 20 parts, and every member took one, together with their cell goals and all, with 3 empty spaces for growth! And Meredith or Meredicks as she is called, was giving a lecture on their presentation with a thin stick. Quite funny! And also Jayne pointed out her S.H.E picture in her box, together with her favourite "SALE" picture.
I think that is all the cell presentations, but i think if i can get the pictures only willl you guys know how awesome cool every cell's presentation was!!
I think my cell did quite well. IT was quite well done, if i don't literally say so myself, Decor had a touch of colour, while the double screen made it stand out. Oh, we had a lamp installed in as well to give light to the display as it was a night party.
Other cool stuff, Jayne's back from Korea, Chellie and I think this should be our Emerge! conference, where the cell exhibition will be the main highlight as we set to display our cells in all its glory and creative awesomeness!!
Haha, what else can i say about YA. We are just a bunch of awesome people, serving the most awesome God!!!
Nitez people, hope u enjoyed the party! (= Cheers!
-im weak
-Rayvin can go mad when cutting paper
-climbing ladders is fine for me
-Livia is very creative
-the BASC has not too nice chairs
-cookies can smell really nice (=
-i owe Winnie $1.35
It was really nice with colours all over. For hte first time, the YA decor matched the BASC Hall, which is like super kiddish. I mean, they have colours, teddy bears, fished, and everything else kiddish all over the place. And YOUNG ADULTS's decor matched it. Lolz... So much for being grown up eh? But it was a cheery kind of colourful.
So a quick run through of events before we actually start the main highlight. It started with Aiken and Sam emcee-ing, then it flowed on to Michelle for the events of the day. Ps Mark gave a great sharing about our history as Champions for Christ. Why we exist, and that we are NOT a social club. We exist for such a greater purpose than that.
Ok while my other browser window opens up, i'll move along. Oh wait, we had spongebob wetpants game too. Quite funny, and XiuYu is so not violent. Haha, good thing Hui Koon didn't get the ice cold sponge first. But the guys were really violent, and Alex got the worst of it. Hehe.. Sam was mad lar.. threw ice cold water over him when he got the sponge, and we were stil in the hall mind you.. Out came the mops as we hurried to dry up "Fantasy Island" as Michelle called it.
Ah, here it is, after much searching, the awesome Isaiah 19
20It will become a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and He will send them a (AF)Savior and a (AG)Champion, and He will deliver them.
Yup, we are called to be the Champions for Christ (CFC) in our Egypts, in the places we are in, meeting the needs of our generation which cries out for a saviour! So that's who we are!
Fun part of the night was that everyone there got notebooks!! Freee!!!! or was it included in the price.. hmm.. dun think so. But quite fun ryte? YA's birthday and we all get presents. Quite a nice concept (=
Other cool stuff that happened that night, was Alex "the new preacher"'s testimony. Very nice!! *claps n shouts!* haha. The cells were all geared up that night for the main highlight, okay, the newcomers were the main highlight, but this stile ur thunder.... CELL PRESENTATIONS!!
Okay, we had like.. more than a month to do it... but us being us, we stalled and procrastinated and gave excused and lazed our way till this very deadline arrived, and i think i can safely say ALL the cells did theirs this week. Super obvious one was Alvin's cell (not cuz theirs was lousy, but cuz they stayed at Sennett all Friday to complete it)...so here it is... the CELL PRESENTATIONS
Let me start with my very own cell. Ours was the ONLY dual screen presentation using ONE laptop! Haha!! Others (like Bert's) also had dual screen, but they had TWO laptops, i had the privilege of setting up two screen's on my laptop. Ok, TJ's laptop. And the fact is this laptop sucks.. not powerful enough to run a powerpoint and a video without lagging... So sad, and the video is also super small lar.. 7 minutes and only 25mb leh.. Ok, apart from the whining, let's continue to how ours looked like. At first it looked like it was gonna look super business like, black table cloth, black PC, black 2nd LCD screen. Then came along FX the saviour with the colourful decor, which included her darling turtle on a chair, multiple pictures of food and other items (like e-guitars, flutes, food, soccer, food, popiah, food) did i say food? But anyway, it was very highlighting for our exhibition as it was all black other than that! And i also used one as a mouse pad.. hehe.. But anyway, it was really really one of the best exhibits there! Plus James put his Liverpool jersey as part of the tablecloth for our exhibit so it didn't look too black. If i get the photo then i'll upload here lar k? It's on Roland's cam though...
Ok, other exhibits, let's see, right beside ours was the uber loud, sub-woofer blasting, jai-breaking (literally mind you), attention catching, ART INSTALLATION of Rachael's cell. Come on, would you expect anything less from their uber loud cell? They literally made a prison CELL (see the pun) out of scaffolding, and then taped warning notices all over about how this cell helps you to BREAK FREE!! They also played Break Free (from SAVIOUR KING which is not out in SG yet on the blasting Creative Sub Woofer system they installed together with their installation) to go along with the theme. They had before and after photos which were very cool, with captions like
Before : wife-basher (Aiken i think)
After : Demon-basher
Before : prostitute (Rachael)
After : Preacher!!
So funny! And had their cell vision and all that. Not too far away was KINGs INC with their cokie store which was selling cookies for the building fund, along with tjeir blog exhibition. Maybe i should try to get the link so u guys can see. They has pictures of their blog, one big artpiece on their blog and many cookies on sale with a nice green/yellow crepe paper bow (=
Also near us was I dunno who's cell with the super cool "board game" detailing how their cell grew, together with a MacBook "built into the game's 3D board". Quite cool cuz its like there is a hole that has a curtain, and behind is a screen with their cell's movie.
Then Vanessa's cell, which is the biggest cell with 10 people had this really huge board with the cityscape in black. Then they punctured holes and fit lightbulbs into the buildings with their cell members names on it. So cool ryte? Being literally the light of the world!! Then they even had free lightsticks at their booth. Also close by was Livia's cell, which had free Hershey's Kisses and a nice photo slideshow, photo banner, and two sheets on their cell with info on their goals, profile and such.
Other interesting ones.. wait.. they were all interesting.. REALLY! were Bert's cell which had this whole flash thing going on, where they had this whole story about how their cell is like this group which is being hunted down but got saved by God. Cool with all the special Flash effects in their video. Nicely done! Also had Alvin's cell which had the video of themselves, together with many items on sale. Quite ridiculous ones, all from the youth room. Even had broken drum crash cymbal on sale. Haha!
Then there was also Chellie's cell which had this huge board divided into 20 parts, and every member took one, together with their cell goals and all, with 3 empty spaces for growth! And Meredith or Meredicks as she is called, was giving a lecture on their presentation with a thin stick. Quite funny! And also Jayne pointed out her S.H.E picture in her box, together with her favourite "SALE" picture.
I think that is all the cell presentations, but i think if i can get the pictures only willl you guys know how awesome cool every cell's presentation was!!
I think my cell did quite well. IT was quite well done, if i don't literally say so myself, Decor had a touch of colour, while the double screen made it stand out. Oh, we had a lamp installed in as well to give light to the display as it was a night party.
Other cool stuff, Jayne's back from Korea, Chellie and I think this should be our Emerge! conference, where the cell exhibition will be the main highlight as we set to display our cells in all its glory and creative awesomeness!!
Haha, what else can i say about YA. We are just a bunch of awesome people, serving the most awesome God!!!
Nitez people, hope u enjoyed the party! (= Cheers!
Labels: Aiken, Alvin, Bertrand, Cell Presentation, Jayne, Livia, Meredith, Michelle, Ps Mark, Rayvin, Roland, Sam, YA 1st Birthday
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(Tuesday, July 3, 2007-)
+5:33 PM]*
+5:33 PM]*
# Thanks
Thanks God for cheering me up. And the few ppl who helped along. Cell mates, u guys are still awesome as always! Students/more of friends now actually, txs for chatting too. Jayne, txs for the email (= Enjoy Korea and see u in YA soon! So excited!!
Here's a little something in tribute to Jayne. Haha! More photos soon as my mod recovers (=
Here's a little something in tribute to Jayne. Haha! More photos soon as my mod recovers (=
Labels: cass, Emmanuel, Jayne, Pras
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(Wednesday, June 20, 2007-)
+2:40 PM]*
+2:40 PM]*
# Destiny
The Will of God.Everyone has asked this question. And if you haven't, you are just about to.
Q : What is the meaning of life?
If any of us had the answer to this, life would be so much easier right? Wrong. Knowing the meaning of life, and living it out to the fullest is two separate things. One is an event (knwoing the answer), the other, a process (living out what life means)
I know my blog is deprived of pictures, and i think it'll stay that way for quite a while, but this picture is here to help answer the question on what is the meaning of life.
Of course, the answer is not somethin I personally discovered, but was taught to me by an awesome man of God, Ps Martin Steel from the land of the Kiwis during my AWESOMELY AMAZING TO THE MAX SUPERBLY COOL CHURCH CAMP!!!
Ok ok, back to the point, the meaning of life. Logically, the answer to that should be with the Person who created "life" itself, God. And guess what, the answer is there, in His Word.
Ephesians 2v10
10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
That's it. That's the simple answer to the most complex question in this world. Of course, there is also the part in Isaiah 43v7 that further explains the "good works" we are to do, which is for the glory of God.
So let's break it down. We arecreated to do good works. What are good works, and how is this related to this title, DESTINY, and the mosaic picture above. Let's start from the very beginning.
1. We all have a destiny which God has prepared in advance for us to do. For the Christians, we usually hear it as the "the will of God". So what is this "will of God" which ultimately makes out our purpose for existence? I'll start by saying what the "will of God" is not. It is not
[-] an event in life that will occur
[-] a specific job that we are "called" to do
[-] a position in the marketplace we are "called" to have
[-] a major achievement, like winning a gold medal or an award
[-] a certain field God wants us to be in
[-] being a pastor of a church
[-] save endangered animals
[-] build an orphanage
Yes, i know it is shocking to see all that, but let me explain, all that i listed are just events. Yes, each and EVERY one of the points above can be IN the will of God/purpose for life, but it is not THE purpose of life, meaning to say, it's not like, if we don't end up in that particular job, or achieve a particular dream, we have missed the purpose of life/the will of God. We can be doing those stuff, and still miss the will of God or not find any purpose in it.
So, what is the will of God (WOG) or the purpose of life (POL) ? Back to the basics again, we have a destiny. This destiny is not an event, but a PROCESS. And now, i shall explain the mosaic at the start. Destiny in life is very much like that picture mosaic. The complete destiny is a nice picture, but it is made up of many tiny pictures inside it. And each of those pictures represents events in our lives that colour our complete picture of destiny. So, working hard to get into law school might be one picture, and the one next to it, graduating from law school being another picture which makes our pictuer of destiny complete. Getting employed to do a small case for a friend, makes the next picture in the mosaic of destiny. The WOG/POL is not accomplished once you get into a big law firm, or win this particular case, or become an influential lawyer.
The WOG/POL is found in the events that take place each and every day as you work, or as you get fired and how you handle it. How you react to your family when you break the news, all this, though life may seem to be out of the WOG or having your POL destroyed, actually continues to complete your destiny mosaic. So in a mini conclusion, the WOG/POL comes to complete resolution as we do good works, from day to day, adding picture by picture, the good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
So now that we have a clearer picture (hehe) of what the WOG or POL is, let's break down the individual pictures. What is this "good works" that make up our destiny. According to Ps Martin Steel (which this whole post so far has been inspired through him from God), these good works are things that benefit others (and i think it includes yourself as well). He told an interesting story (which i am going to greatly summarize) about how...
There was a man who was brought to church (Ps Martin's) by one of his youth leaders. And God told Ps Martin to preach a sermon on salvation although he had another sermon prepared. So Ps Martin obeyed and at the end of the sermon, he asked if anyone wanted to accept Christ, and as you wouldn't have guessed, nobody said yes. So Ps Martin continued praying and asked God why nobody has responded so God showed him the picture of an old car in a garage. That wasn't going to help Ps Martin a lot so he continued praying and God told him that that is the reason why someone isn't answering this call of salvation, because of an old car in a garage.
So in obeying God, Ps Martin said that there is this old car in a garage that is stopping you from giving your life to God and immediately, the young man who was brought by the youth leader shouted "How did you know that?!!" and then he shouted it a few more times and left the church. The youth leader who picked him up had earlier promised to drive the young man to his destination if he'd follow him to church first, as the young man was a hitch hiker.
So Ps Martin didn't hear of that young man till a year later. The young man had accepted Christ and told Ps Martin that once he left that service and went to his university, it is as if every Christian there found him and told him about God and brought him to their church and two months later he accepted God. He couldn't earlier as he was planning to repair an old car he had bought over the weekends, and wouldn't have time for church cuz of the car.
So, how is this related to our destiny in life? Our destiny in life is not merely to eb a youth leader, or a pastor. But, it is more like this. Every action in that story, comes together to complete the pictures of many destinies.
For Ps Martin
--> to obey God to change his sermon and talk about an old car in a garage
For the youth leader
--> to bring a hitch hiker to church
For the young man
--> it was when he got picked up and stayed for the service
All these events are just parts of the WOG acting in many different lives of people who obey God to do good works. So becoming a pastor deosn't mean you have achieved the WOG or found your POL. But rather, it is the good works you do, that complete your picture mosaic of destiny.
So now that we know it's good works (i know its rather long eh? and believe it or not, this was all during the first session, first night during church camp!!) which are the good works we are to do? Because a picture mosaic cannot be made up of random pictures. We are not called to do all the good works in the world. We would just tire out. We would be leading a meaningles life, and the final picture of destiny will be so distorted, unrecognisable... unaccomplished. Wasted.
The next discovery for us in accomplishing the WOG/finding our POL, is knowing which pictures are we to take in completing our mosaic of destiny. This is where the first part of the Ephesians 2v10 comes in. For we are God's workmanship.
In each of us (consisting of the physical and the spirit (or character of the person)), we have been created with a spiritual SIM card. What??? Yes, each of us are the workmanship of a creator God who crafted us with a SIM card in us. What SIM card? Maxis? StarHub? M1?
SIM here refers to
Are the remaining 19 less spiritual/holy because they don't think of the kid? Are they any less kind/compassionate because theyenjoy rugby? No. It is because one of them has resonated to the call of his SIM Card within him.
The second related illustration is this. Ps Martin took Ps Mark's phone and said that in the air around us, there are thousands of EM waves (ok, i used the more proper EM terminology, but u get what i mean) at different frequencies bouncing all over the place, yet none of the handphone ring. But if we dial Ps Mark's number, yet another frequency will be added tothe thousands in the air, but Ps Mark's SIM Card will resonante and ring to that one call. That one frequency.
That's how it's like in our life. There will be needs all around us, that we can do good works for, but not all good works are within our picture of destiny. It could belong to your neighbour, your friend, colleague, it could be shared between u and ur friend. Eventually, all these good works will add up, to make the clear and complete picture of the body of Christ. Be it starting from YA, CFC, Emmanuel, the Ignite Network, Churches in Singapore, Churches in Asia, The Church of Christ. We will all have our destinies coming together to unfold the great tapestry of time, the perfect, complete Will Of God.
So that's the basics of what the church camp wanted to start on. Accomplishing the WOG in our lives, and that ties in perfectly to our theme
And some updates of me in Malaysia
-i had an awesome time in SG on saturday, the most amazing YA service yet!
-great time on sunday with Bible study with cell and honourary member Jayne, Sorry Chellie, ur sheep got "stolen"
-travelled back to Malaysia which took quite long cuz of one part where 5 FIVE! lanes became one...
-reached back Malaysia and then had to teach tuition
-first class was a Form 3 class which was not too bad, and then the Form 1 was .. err.. a little too young for me...
-reminded me of my time in TJ. Anf my classes, i just wanna say thank you once again for the awesome time ihad with you guys!! You guys are so much more fun than these "kids" hehe
-really appreciate it that u guys gave me the respect to not make noise when i gave work, to listen to me when i talked, to ask questions and make your stand known
-i appreciate all these things more now, now that im teaching these younger kids who either blankly stare at me, or talk to each other.. IN CHINESE... EESSSHH!!!
-played mahjong!! haha! 3 person mahjon is so so so so FUN!!!
-First night (until 3am) i won all the money in mahjong and poker!! woo hoo!!
-Second night (2.40am) i won quite a bit of money, and exploded (full 10 points) 3 times that night!! And one i even won 9 bucks!! Considering each point is only 10 cents!! Ha haa!!! EXPLODE EXPLODE!!!
-Now my favourite word in mahjong is not Pong!! or Kong!! anymore.. it's explode!!!! WHEEE!!!
-more updates soon
-txs for doing the test, hope you enjoyed it!
-should i do one more?
-txs Alvin for the hp batt
Labels: Destiny, Explode, Jayne, mahjong, Purpose of life, Tuition, Unleash Your Potential, Will of God, YA
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(Tuesday, May 22, 2007-)
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# Sprung... a leak
Tuesday
Historical day. Let's get the basics out of the way. Got up, went for interview, went to church, went to school, had dinner, tuition, came home to blog about it. Here we go.
Okay, the highlight of the day, the SPRING SG interview. If any of you from Spring Singapore is reading this - HI! Hope u had a nice day at work =)
Woke up at 7.40 after Jean convinced me waking at 7am for an 11am interview is madness. Haha. So i woke up later, took a shower, re-ironed my pants, did my QT and then prepared to leave. It was abt 9am. Reached the bus stop at 9.10, and 14 was already here. Yay. No need to wait.
Got up, sat down, listen to All of the Above till about hostel there, then started reading up my Spring SG notes. Yes ppl, i made notes. I know that Philip Yeo is the Chairman while Mr Loh Khum Yean is the CEO and his deputy is Mr Png Cheong Boon. I found out it has 5 branches and 4 strategic thrusts. But do you care? I guess not. Haha. But still, the stuff they do are quite cool. ETDF, CCI, MDP, BrandPact. Yup, without Spring, its like, building a house without machinery. U can do it, but it'll be much easier with their help.
Yeah, lets just say i was super early for the interview. Yup, met Maria on level 20, she took my certs, gave me back my Orange folder, and i sat down. There wa this guy opposite me. Just smiled, but he looked super tense. Didn't get to speak to him and he went for the interview.
Actually, there was an air of disappointment when ireached level 20, i instantly knew it wasn't the final round and there would still be a need for Round 4. But oh well. Read Enterprise Today while waiting. Prayed. And finally my turn came.
The HR Exec was a very nice lady, then she gave me a quick briefing on what was gonna happen in the room, and it was Mr Tan from Corporate Development and a lady from Enterprise Capabilities i think. The interview was rather smooth although i didn't throw all my knowledge of Spring at them.Yeah, should have done that. Sighs...
Then the usual ending question came.. Do you have any questions for us?
I asked about the departments in Spring, if i get to choose... bla bla bla.. then i asked about accomodation. And here's when the leak sprung itself.
HR Exec : We will certainly provide the accomodation for our scholars
Me : Oh, so you'll be paying for my hall fees if i accept NUS
HR Exec : Well, we will definitely fund our scholars' accomodation because they need it when they are overseas
Me : Oh, okay, so firefly is ONLY giving out overseas scholarships
HR Exec : Yes..... *and here i stop listening and start thinking.. oh crap.. i am screwed*
Yup. found out that firefly only wants to give out overseas scholarships. And i don;t have an overseas place to be sent to. So yeah, God, if You want me to take up a plain ASEAN in NUS, i will i guess. But if u give me the Spring Scholarship, i know its You cuz it will take a miracle to get me both a scholarship and a place overseas to read Engineering.
Yup. That's how the thing went. A quick 20 minute interview. Then bussed back to home. Slept. Sorry Jayne, my hp was going crazy today. JoJo smsed me and i finally got 8 msgs straight away after restarting my phone. Helped Jayne out and towards the end, she had to leave for driving. All the best!! Finished it up and went home.
*Cue College Anthem - Jazz Version (which is my ringtone btw)*
Yumei called and i get to go and get the cable. She was doing make up PE. Reached school and saw her and Sek. Sek was doing the most cool make up PE I've ever heard. Shoot 100 balls. And Sek being the *cute* haha Sek she is chose 100 3 point shots. I reached at 57. And stayed around till 100. It was super funny lar with Yumei helping Sek with the balls. Yumei is also a B.. I.. M... B... She's a Bimbo.. B.. I... m...?... She's a Bimbo! Hahaha! *knocks her own head with the ball* Haha! Twice! Haha! So funny!! And then Sek also laughed, then can't concentrate and shot a few ass-balls (according to Yumei) Haha! Ok, she meant air-balls. Then after about an hour (they were ther for an hour already) we left while Sek still wanted to stick around shooting more balls. So cool ryte, 100 shots for make up PE.
Then as i left, saw the PE teachers opposite. Anyone want to guess what they were doing. I doubt any of u can guess it right. Seriously, even I didn't believe it.
Ate my dinner, on the way out, met Aprine, Amanda and Ying Huan, topped up EZLink and then went for tuition. Then came home. Yup. Hi. Im still on the school laptop. I bet that's illegal when u were retrenched like more than a week ago? I guess TJ jz rocks!
Shout outs
Zhiyuan, Trinity, Ryan, Cadence, Shawn - All the best starting tomorrow. It's a learning journey. Remember that, you make mistakes and you grow stronger!
Zhiyuan - Congrats on ur scholarship(S!) U crazy siao girl!! Take care tmr too. And of Zsa too
Julie - Jia you! Be a nice usher k? U rock!
Zsa Zsa - I don't really know what I can do for you except pray that God sends a special guardian angel to watch over you, your pain killers and your heart. Care lots for you..
Jean - Congrats on NUS Business!!! Awesomely cool!
Lay Sian and Co - Sorry about the confusion
TJCians of 05/06 - A level certs and SGC are ready for collection
Historical day. Let's get the basics out of the way. Got up, went for interview, went to church, went to school, had dinner, tuition, came home to blog about it. Here we go.
Okay, the highlight of the day, the SPRING SG interview. If any of you from Spring Singapore is reading this - HI! Hope u had a nice day at work =)
Woke up at 7.40 after Jean convinced me waking at 7am for an 11am interview is madness. Haha. So i woke up later, took a shower, re-ironed my pants, did my QT and then prepared to leave. It was abt 9am. Reached the bus stop at 9.10, and 14 was already here. Yay. No need to wait.
Got up, sat down, listen to All of the Above till about hostel there, then started reading up my Spring SG notes. Yes ppl, i made notes. I know that Philip Yeo is the Chairman while Mr Loh Khum Yean is the CEO and his deputy is Mr Png Cheong Boon. I found out it has 5 branches and 4 strategic thrusts. But do you care? I guess not. Haha. But still, the stuff they do are quite cool. ETDF, CCI, MDP, BrandPact. Yup, without Spring, its like, building a house without machinery. U can do it, but it'll be much easier with their help.
Yeah, lets just say i was super early for the interview. Yup, met Maria on level 20, she took my certs, gave me back my Orange folder, and i sat down. There wa this guy opposite me. Just smiled, but he looked super tense. Didn't get to speak to him and he went for the interview.
Actually, there was an air of disappointment when ireached level 20, i instantly knew it wasn't the final round and there would still be a need for Round 4. But oh well. Read Enterprise Today while waiting. Prayed. And finally my turn came.
The HR Exec was a very nice lady, then she gave me a quick briefing on what was gonna happen in the room, and it was Mr Tan from Corporate Development and a lady from Enterprise Capabilities i think. The interview was rather smooth although i didn't throw all my knowledge of Spring at them.Yeah, should have done that. Sighs...
Then the usual ending question came.. Do you have any questions for us?
I asked about the departments in Spring, if i get to choose... bla bla bla.. then i asked about accomodation. And here's when the leak sprung itself.
HR Exec : We will certainly provide the accomodation for our scholars
Me : Oh, so you'll be paying for my hall fees if i accept NUS
HR Exec : Well, we will definitely fund our scholars' accomodation because they need it when they are overseas
Me : Oh, okay, so firefly is ONLY giving out overseas scholarships
HR Exec : Yes..... *and here i stop listening and start thinking.. oh crap.. i am screwed*
Yup. found out that firefly only wants to give out overseas scholarships. And i don;t have an overseas place to be sent to. So yeah, God, if You want me to take up a plain ASEAN in NUS, i will i guess. But if u give me the Spring Scholarship, i know its You cuz it will take a miracle to get me both a scholarship and a place overseas to read Engineering.
Yup. That's how the thing went. A quick 20 minute interview. Then bussed back to home. Slept. Sorry Jayne, my hp was going crazy today. JoJo smsed me and i finally got 8 msgs straight away after restarting my phone. Helped Jayne out and towards the end, she had to leave for driving. All the best!! Finished it up and went home.
*Cue College Anthem - Jazz Version (which is my ringtone btw)*
Yumei called and i get to go and get the cable. She was doing make up PE. Reached school and saw her and Sek. Sek was doing the most cool make up PE I've ever heard. Shoot 100 balls. And Sek being the *cute* haha Sek she is chose 100 3 point shots. I reached at 57. And stayed around till 100. It was super funny lar with Yumei helping Sek with the balls. Yumei is also a B.. I.. M... B... She's a Bimbo.. B.. I... m...?... She's a Bimbo! Hahaha! *knocks her own head with the ball* Haha! Twice! Haha! So funny!! And then Sek also laughed, then can't concentrate and shot a few ass-balls (according to Yumei) Haha! Ok, she meant air-balls. Then after about an hour (they were ther for an hour already) we left while Sek still wanted to stick around shooting more balls. So cool ryte, 100 shots for make up PE.
Then as i left, saw the PE teachers opposite. Anyone want to guess what they were doing. I doubt any of u can guess it right. Seriously, even I didn't believe it.
Ate my dinner, on the way out, met Aprine, Amanda and Ying Huan, topped up EZLink and then went for tuition. Then came home. Yup. Hi. Im still on the school laptop. I bet that's illegal when u were retrenched like more than a week ago? I guess TJ jz rocks!
Shout outs
Zhiyuan, Trinity, Ryan, Cadence, Shawn - All the best starting tomorrow. It's a learning journey. Remember that, you make mistakes and you grow stronger!
Zhiyuan - Congrats on ur scholarship(S!) U crazy siao girl!! Take care tmr too. And of Zsa too
Julie - Jia you! Be a nice usher k? U rock!
Zsa Zsa - I don't really know what I can do for you except pray that God sends a special guardian angel to watch over you, your pain killers and your heart. Care lots for you..
Jean - Congrats on NUS Business!!! Awesomely cool!
Lay Sian and Co - Sorry about the confusion
TJCians of 05/06 - A level certs and SGC are ready for collection
Labels: Jayne, Sek, SPRING SG, Yumei
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(Tuesday, April 10, 2007-)
+10:34 AM]*
+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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(Thursday, March 1, 2007-)
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# 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?
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
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(Friday, February 23, 2007-)
+10:46 PM]*
+10:46 PM]*
# And Back Again
My keyboard has this back button which I now officially hate. I typed like 1000 words already into my post and it goes back to my blog page. So I shall jz summarize.
Took 170 to Kranji. MRT to BEDOK. 197 to home. 12 to Sun Haven for Pastor Mark's BBQ. There, that took about 1000 words. Just had so much to say. Ah, well, it's just a blog. Life's more important (= And friends too. So I shall now focus on friends.
TRAVEL TIME : 3 hours
Winnie Chew
Very kind of her to sms me multiple times to assure me of the way to Ps Mark's house. I still got lost and became the hopeless wanderer of Upper Changi East Road. But she recued me by coming quickly on her bike and showed me the way. At least 5300 kept me company. Sorry you had to be so hot n sweaty though by cycling uphill. And txs for the directions to Sun Haven. Txs for the talks as well cuz my cell wasn't around.
Bertrand
Nice talking as well, especially about Uni life in NUS, National University of Slopes. Great job in learning how to cycle too. I still need to learn the ramps. Not easy. Txs for getting the food too. Yay. And the big curry bun as well. Nice to have someone accompany me at least halfway back. 24 only, no 12, but that's good. Half in a certain numerical way.
ShuJing
Nice talk as well. Well, you certainly have a short (5) but hard list for guys to live up too. Think I shall start my proper list soon too. Mine was too long the last time when YA did search for intimacy. Fun to talk as well about other tandom stuff as well. Yay (=
Random other YA members
Nice to see you guys enjoying urselves at the BBQ, with the swimming and cooking (txs so much for cooking ya Sunny) and talking and card playing. Yup, Roland doesn't know how to play bridge, Bertrand doesn't know how to play bridge "properly". Blur King. Chellie won with him though. I didn't win... Oh well. The game was still fun and that matters the most. Had a nice time there. Yay.
And next day, it was back to school. My busiest day ever.
Wednesday
Started off normally, although an apparent lack of sleep was still haunting me. Did my unprepared double lesson with 21 and 06 on the A-G articles. Thank God the articles were good ones or I would have died in sorrow and regret. Why would an assignment NOT be in the Resource Package, one would ask. TJ must have an answer somewhere... Arrghhh. Lessons went on quite well. Transparencies were stolen from the tropics. Pens as well. Should return them sometime soon. So irresponsible of me
Got back a tonne a GP essays. Which I had totally no time to mark. I dunno why also today. So went for lunch with the RTs and had quite decent Malay food. Cuz the other stalls were closed... CNY CNY CNY. Oh well, Cheena society. Then headed back for staff conference. Which was a bore and the RTs hid in our little enclave. Got more oranges which i gave to JoJo. Highlight of the Staff Conf was the new personality test, the Strength Finder which TJ will use in place of our MANEly Shirley, the BIG 5. Cheaper, less questions and sounds more meaningful. Can't wait to know my top 5 strengths.
Beverly Leong
Just remembered her. JY, do you? Due to some "mistakes" we started chatting again. Nice to hear updates on Brunei since APYAC 2005 (my most life impacting conference thus far). Am so jealous of you lar... Hillsong London... WAAA... I wanna go there too... Yay, found another person who can MSN at work. Muzikarten sounds so cool. Yup, this wednesday sort of marked an old reunion.
Back to life, staff conference dragged so i had to cab down to Toa Payoh (yay i spelled it correctly!) Cost me $9 but helping is still worth it. Gave 2 hours on Electricy and Current plus a bit of E-Fields. One of my weaker topics. Gotta revise more before the next tuition. Qquickly MRT-ed down to Bedok once again and took 197 to Ngee Ann Primary.
Jayne Tong
You've been a great friend and sorry I missed church twice already when u sms-ed me. Txs for the concern. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't even have discovered Emmanuel. So it was really my pleasure to cover for your tuition classes. Congrats and praise God you passed your test. Too bad the AH-BENG beside you didn't. Hee.. Txs for all the sms-es as well telling me what to do and warning me about the kids. Artif and Xerxis weren't that horrible, thank God or they would have been strangled and killed by me. Txs to Stephanie too for lending me the marker which saved my life. Tuition went smooth. Not sure if they understood though. Sorry ya if that's the case.
That capped a very busy Wednesday. Was so tired I jz bathed and slept. Thursday came sooner than it should have...
Thursday
Was very tired in the morning but still got the verse of the day out to FX n MY. Reached school and did a quick post. Then started my first real torture of RT-ing, marking GP essays... Which was scary cuz it felt like all that I have thought turned out to be almost... NOTHING. JY, even ur brilliant GP sample couldn't save them. Majority failed and almost all gave me a headache. Yup. Major braincell deaths recorded today. But it was much better after lunch txs to one enlightened script. Hint? Who's that freak?? Even Ms N said it was good. So happy. Really made my day. But still, it couldn't revive the brain cells. It was time for 04 in no time. Shall skip this lesson cuz of AP once again with the handing in of work.
Then went back into the staffroom and tried to mark. Just couldn't and Ms N gave me advice to go home and rest. I honestly looked shagged but tried anyway. Went to scroom and slacked a lot and they had an emo meeting so i left. Only to realise dinner was too near to go home now. So i stayed back and met yumei and yingen. Who ponned training to complete the GP essay. So touching. Really. Of course their ICs knew they were doing work lar. Had quite a nice talk and realised we were all brain dead. Sorry Shuming it had to be ur essay that i marked when i was brain dead.
Julian came along and i played random guitar. Karyn Anne Yzelman. Cool 3 word name ^^. Talked abt commonwealth essay. Abt JCs, Maths and random stuff. Hope I helped more than i talked rubbish. Then I had dinner with Julian and walked home. Tired. Slept. Did laundry. Slept. End of Thursday
Friday
Was a much better day. Had lots of lessons though and ran out of time for 21's presentation. Hope they actually were learning ways of writing an argument. And swimming... 21... beginners... late... arrghh... oh well. 04's lesson was better this time. 06 was... echoey. But good, i think. Then had lunch straight away. Then slacked with 21. Talked a lot of stuff. Like Johnathan's. Actually, now that i think abt it, dunno what we talked abt also. So much rubbish. Remember Phildia covering my view of her with a Nike shoebag. Julie's cute, green, zipper earrings. ZhiYuan and Mr Tong.
Ng Di Hui
It was nice meeting you from the start in 07/05. Yeah, nice to know a Malaysian when I first came here. Been great doing projects with you, txs for the tonnes of advice given when i couldn't see the full picture most of the time in sc. Nice talking to you, although it was short. And you got to know the chio bu. Haha. Talked and walked around a bit and soon it was time for Badminton @ Chai Chee CC
Went to staffroom, then scroom cuz i left my wallet there. Played badminton. Stamina better, shots better, only one of the stupid-turn-around-back-shot which i actually got the point! Bought a 100+. Enjoyed myself and walked back to TJ. Crashed Unick but no tbefore seeing 06 under LT1. Poor Jaren too. Swee Liang looked busy. Prasanthi, Jack jack, Karilynn all got themselves busy too *hint, i knew what u guys were up to*
Mr Eugene was in TJ U, I was in smelly, sweaty Nike Tennis top. But it was fun. Talking with dIA_chEESE (capitals right?) and Zhi Yuan. Then the dIA met her Dear Adriano. Got her two pic with him. She was obviously high. But it's always nice to see people high in a happy mood. Aate pizza. Got told to quickly eat the pizza and throw away the cup by an SCIP member. Funny, ironic and ... err.. nvm.
Took a photo, or two with the 21-ers who came. Then sat far back as they moved to the front. The first group was bad. Second item was normal. Third was... Adriano. Sorry Phildia, but his voice wasn't outstanding leh? Fourth, pointless? But enthu nonetheless. Talked with Mr Eugene and Mr Tong. Mr Eugene whacked a student real hard. Hehe. Ouch, but she asked for it. Then she tried whacking her friends. Haha. Zsa Zsa was late. But she didn't enjoy it too much at the start. Apparently the ending was better. Glad she had fun!
Mr Eugene allowed me to hop onto his cab on the way home. Yay. Bathed and went to Jean's. Played mahjong, but onyl 3 games. Watched the rest. Also, I had to learn the chinese numbers for 1 to 9, from a burmese girl. Hahaha. Weird and small world eh? Khant Khant or KK and HH were Jean's colleagues from Kelly's Services. Nice and cheerful bunch of ppl. Better than me at mahjong though cuz even the worst (HH) won at least a game. Me, none... But it was nice talking with them and seeing Jean's Prom pics as well.
Came home and did this long post. Yay, feel accomplished. Busy day tmr. Nitez blog
Took 170 to Kranji. MRT to BEDOK. 197 to home. 12 to Sun Haven for Pastor Mark's BBQ. There, that took about 1000 words. Just had so much to say. Ah, well, it's just a blog. Life's more important (= And friends too. So I shall now focus on friends.
TRAVEL TIME : 3 hours
Winnie Chew
Very kind of her to sms me multiple times to assure me of the way to Ps Mark's house. I still got lost and became the hopeless wanderer of Upper Changi East Road. But she recued me by coming quickly on her bike and showed me the way. At least 5300 kept me company. Sorry you had to be so hot n sweaty though by cycling uphill. And txs for the directions to Sun Haven. Txs for the talks as well cuz my cell wasn't around.
Bertrand
Nice talking as well, especially about Uni life in NUS, National University of Slopes. Great job in learning how to cycle too. I still need to learn the ramps. Not easy. Txs for getting the food too. Yay. And the big curry bun as well. Nice to have someone accompany me at least halfway back. 24 only, no 12, but that's good. Half in a certain numerical way.
ShuJing
Nice talk as well. Well, you certainly have a short (5) but hard list for guys to live up too. Think I shall start my proper list soon too. Mine was too long the last time when YA did search for intimacy. Fun to talk as well about other tandom stuff as well. Yay (=
Random other YA members
Nice to see you guys enjoying urselves at the BBQ, with the swimming and cooking (txs so much for cooking ya Sunny) and talking and card playing. Yup, Roland doesn't know how to play bridge, Bertrand doesn't know how to play bridge "properly". Blur King. Chellie won with him though. I didn't win... Oh well. The game was still fun and that matters the most. Had a nice time there. Yay.
And next day, it was back to school. My busiest day ever.
Wednesday
Started off normally, although an apparent lack of sleep was still haunting me. Did my unprepared double lesson with 21 and 06 on the A-G articles. Thank God the articles were good ones or I would have died in sorrow and regret. Why would an assignment NOT be in the Resource Package, one would ask. TJ must have an answer somewhere... Arrghhh. Lessons went on quite well. Transparencies were stolen from the tropics. Pens as well. Should return them sometime soon. So irresponsible of me
Got back a tonne a GP essays. Which I had totally no time to mark. I dunno why also today. So went for lunch with the RTs and had quite decent Malay food. Cuz the other stalls were closed... CNY CNY CNY. Oh well, Cheena society. Then headed back for staff conference. Which was a bore and the RTs hid in our little enclave. Got more oranges which i gave to JoJo. Highlight of the Staff Conf was the new personality test, the Strength Finder which TJ will use in place of our MANEly Shirley, the BIG 5. Cheaper, less questions and sounds more meaningful. Can't wait to know my top 5 strengths.
Beverly Leong
Just remembered her. JY, do you? Due to some "mistakes" we started chatting again. Nice to hear updates on Brunei since APYAC 2005 (my most life impacting conference thus far). Am so jealous of you lar... Hillsong London... WAAA... I wanna go there too... Yay, found another person who can MSN at work. Muzikarten sounds so cool. Yup, this wednesday sort of marked an old reunion.
Back to life, staff conference dragged so i had to cab down to Toa Payoh (yay i spelled it correctly!) Cost me $9 but helping is still worth it. Gave 2 hours on Electricy and Current plus a bit of E-Fields. One of my weaker topics. Gotta revise more before the next tuition. Qquickly MRT-ed down to Bedok once again and took 197 to Ngee Ann Primary.
Jayne Tong
You've been a great friend and sorry I missed church twice already when u sms-ed me. Txs for the concern. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't even have discovered Emmanuel. So it was really my pleasure to cover for your tuition classes. Congrats and praise God you passed your test. Too bad the AH-BENG beside you didn't. Hee.. Txs for all the sms-es as well telling me what to do and warning me about the kids. Artif and Xerxis weren't that horrible, thank God or they would have been strangled and killed by me. Txs to Stephanie too for lending me the marker which saved my life. Tuition went smooth. Not sure if they understood though. Sorry ya if that's the case.
That capped a very busy Wednesday. Was so tired I jz bathed and slept. Thursday came sooner than it should have...
Thursday
Was very tired in the morning but still got the verse of the day out to FX n MY. Reached school and did a quick post. Then started my first real torture of RT-ing, marking GP essays... Which was scary cuz it felt like all that I have thought turned out to be almost... NOTHING. JY, even ur brilliant GP sample couldn't save them. Majority failed and almost all gave me a headache. Yup. Major braincell deaths recorded today. But it was much better after lunch txs to one enlightened script. Hint? Who's that freak?? Even Ms N said it was good. So happy. Really made my day. But still, it couldn't revive the brain cells. It was time for 04 in no time. Shall skip this lesson cuz of AP once again with the handing in of work.
Then went back into the staffroom and tried to mark. Just couldn't and Ms N gave me advice to go home and rest. I honestly looked shagged but tried anyway. Went to scroom and slacked a lot and they had an emo meeting so i left. Only to realise dinner was too near to go home now. So i stayed back and met yumei and yingen. Who ponned training to complete the GP essay. So touching. Really. Of course their ICs knew they were doing work lar. Had quite a nice talk and realised we were all brain dead. Sorry Shuming it had to be ur essay that i marked when i was brain dead.
Julian came along and i played random guitar. Karyn Anne Yzelman. Cool 3 word name ^^. Talked abt commonwealth essay. Abt JCs, Maths and random stuff. Hope I helped more than i talked rubbish. Then I had dinner with Julian and walked home. Tired. Slept. Did laundry. Slept. End of Thursday
Friday
Was a much better day. Had lots of lessons though and ran out of time for 21's presentation. Hope they actually were learning ways of writing an argument. And swimming... 21... beginners... late... arrghh... oh well. 04's lesson was better this time. 06 was... echoey. But good, i think. Then had lunch straight away. Then slacked with 21. Talked a lot of stuff. Like Johnathan's. Actually, now that i think abt it, dunno what we talked abt also. So much rubbish. Remember Phildia covering my view of her with a Nike shoebag. Julie's cute, green, zipper earrings. ZhiYuan and Mr Tong.
Ng Di Hui
It was nice meeting you from the start in 07/05. Yeah, nice to know a Malaysian when I first came here. Been great doing projects with you, txs for the tonnes of advice given when i couldn't see the full picture most of the time in sc. Nice talking to you, although it was short. And you got to know the chio bu. Haha. Talked and walked around a bit and soon it was time for Badminton @ Chai Chee CC
Went to staffroom, then scroom cuz i left my wallet there. Played badminton. Stamina better, shots better, only one of the stupid-turn-around-back-shot which i actually got the point! Bought a 100+. Enjoyed myself and walked back to TJ. Crashed Unick but no tbefore seeing 06 under LT1. Poor Jaren too. Swee Liang looked busy. Prasanthi, Jack jack, Karilynn all got themselves busy too *hint, i knew what u guys were up to*
Mr Eugene was in TJ U, I was in smelly, sweaty Nike Tennis top. But it was fun. Talking with dIA_chEESE (capitals right?) and Zhi Yuan. Then the dIA met her Dear Adriano. Got her two pic with him. She was obviously high. But it's always nice to see people high in a happy mood. Aate pizza. Got told to quickly eat the pizza and throw away the cup by an SCIP member. Funny, ironic and ... err.. nvm.
Took a photo, or two with the 21-ers who came. Then sat far back as they moved to the front. The first group was bad. Second item was normal. Third was... Adriano. Sorry Phildia, but his voice wasn't outstanding leh? Fourth, pointless? But enthu nonetheless. Talked with Mr Eugene and Mr Tong. Mr Eugene whacked a student real hard. Hehe. Ouch, but she asked for it. Then she tried whacking her friends. Haha. Zsa Zsa was late. But she didn't enjoy it too much at the start. Apparently the ending was better. Glad she had fun!
Mr Eugene allowed me to hop onto his cab on the way home. Yay. Bathed and went to Jean's. Played mahjong, but onyl 3 games. Watched the rest. Also, I had to learn the chinese numbers for 1 to 9, from a burmese girl. Hahaha. Weird and small world eh? Khant Khant or KK and HH were Jean's colleagues from Kelly's Services. Nice and cheerful bunch of ppl. Better than me at mahjong though cuz even the worst (HH) won at least a game. Me, none... But it was nice talking with them and seeing Jean's Prom pics as well.
Came home and did this long post. Yay, feel accomplished. Busy day tmr. Nitez blog
Labels: 04, 06, 21, Adriano, badminton, Bertrand, CNY, Di Hui, GP Essays, Jayne, Johnathan, Julie, Mr Tong, Phildia, ShuJing, Unick, Winnie, Zhi Yuan
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(Monday, January 22, 2007-)
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# Sunday (= + 0.5 MOnday
Its Sunday. Its the best day of the week. Apart from the fact that work will come, Sunday means I get to relax, go to church, meet cell mates (sounds like prison, haha), and basically have a great time! Yup! This Sunday was nice too as I got to go to church with Ms Jayne, who's now tutoring at Ngee Ann Primary. I think. Jean, bet u want the job too eh? Yup. Reached a little late cuz pre-service prayer was on already on the way by Shaun. Slipped in beside FX. MeiYian slipped beside me. Then I slipped beside James. N FX slipped over to MY. So finally it was (from left) MY, FX, ME, James, Gabriel.
Yup, and the praise and worship was good! Awesome even! Yay! Hope You liked it God! And then it was handing out certs ceremony for the water baptism people. Quite funny hearing some of the names but it was mostly youth with some adults. Then came the next part of the service, the sermon...... it was by none other than..... *drumrolls* PS MARK!!! Yay!! I initated a standing ovation which I think Michelle didn't agree with, but oh well, it went anyway. Yup, the title of this weeks sermon was Dig Deep, Build High.
Emmanuel wants to grow by 20% this year. Thats 200 more souls saved. For YA, thats a meagre 8 person increase. Yup. So I think its so achievable. But its gonna take some deep digging! Yup, it was a great sermon abt how we need to love the Word of God, which is actually Jesus Himself. Cool eh? It says so in Revelation 19v13. Ps Mark also said that the Bible is the written Word of God while Jesus is the personal Word of God. And also, those DO NOT PRACTISE the Word of God is like the foolish man who built his house upon the sand. Yup. That was the basic word for the day and we were challenged to put it into practice, which we did, but later on that.
After that, we had cell time and Grace Chan (above average, haha) joined us. She is super smart. She will have to "settle" for Oxford if Yale or Princeton doesn't want her.. Im like, pls NUS? PLS?? And for the first time, she joined us for lunch. Yay! And you're fun to have around so come join us more often k? She apparently has something for the RJ library cuz she got so excited her chair toppled into the longkang (one of the legs) and she slipped down. Hope I didn;t hurt u when i tried to catch you. We were at beer garden once again and Gabriel's $4 fried rice took half an eternity to come that even FX *gasp* had finished her food. Then we went to NTUC and Grace almost bought some choc but her dad came first. So chocs have to wait for next week I guess. But that didn't stop FX from getting her hands on some. MY too. Oh man... these eaters!! Then they got milk and we headed back to Emmanuel for Bible Study
Bible study turned out to be... lots of turnings. We had lots of discussions and we totally sidetracked from the MRT. Talked abt Sara, tongues, and the sermon for the day. And we came up with a little accountability system. Here's how the prototype works. I take Mondays and Thurdays. FangXian takes Tuesdays and Fridays and MeiYian takes Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sunday is our day of rest. We must each msg each other a Bible verse for the day to meditate on, and as a reminder to do QT. For me its 6.45am, for FX n MY, 9am. And if the msg does not come on... its accountability time. Yup. Quite exciting to see how it goes!
After Bible study, we decided to take a stroll to see my house. Stopped by to buy dynamo and some tidbits. I told u they can really eat!! Got my stuff but left my soya beans at the dynamo shop. Went to church to look for it and found it in the shop and they were still at SPC paying the stuff. Got the Dynamo and now I can say goodbye to using aunty's and welcome to sharing with me! They came up to my room. We talked a bit more and visited yours truly's blog and then MY had to leave so we all left. Took a walk till beer garden and bought my dinner. Txs for the money ya MY n FX. Here they are seen leaving my block
Then I met Ms Jayne for the second time. She was shopping with her mom. And she had this HUMONGOUS Where's Wally book which is super hard to find Wally and friends.. and dog's tail.. and a key! Then i got ride back (yay) and ate my dinner, did QT. Hee. Then slept. The end of Sunday
Monday
I woke up in time for QT. Got Mei Yian and FangXian the sms. Then headed off to school. Thank God for the great research I found. And had a good class. Except I overran time again. But all in all good. Getting to know more people. I now know Shaun, Yi Ning, Eve, Kathleen, Shermin Teck Ian, He Jun by face. Hehe, not bad ryte.
PW was also ok. Except i think Zsa^2 is overworked. Kudos to my GP rep (Zsa^2) for not reading the compre at all but still pulling the skit team together. Dun stress so much k. Aand the exhibit group seems to be doing fine. Skit... skit.. how... so little time left. Jz make sure u guys make a scene ok? And a good one at that too!
Had an interesting talk w Mrs Noordin. If you want to save endangered species, EAT THEM. Then when there's demand, there will be supply. Interesting? Then went off to scroom. Realised we need to give all PCs a gun to silence people during meetings. Sorry I didn't get u one ah xiu. Yup, sounded like council room. Saw three bimbo's in action and hope Temasek Idol will be a blast. Jia You ppl! Find more pics too k? Hehe.
This is Kenneth, coming to you sometime soon. Off to 06's blog for now
Yup, and the praise and worship was good! Awesome even! Yay! Hope You liked it God! And then it was handing out certs ceremony for the water baptism people. Quite funny hearing some of the names but it was mostly youth with some adults. Then came the next part of the service, the sermon...... it was by none other than..... *drumrolls* PS MARK!!! Yay!! I initated a standing ovation which I think Michelle didn't agree with, but oh well, it went anyway. Yup, the title of this weeks sermon was Dig Deep, Build High.
Emmanuel wants to grow by 20% this year. Thats 200 more souls saved. For YA, thats a meagre 8 person increase. Yup. So I think its so achievable. But its gonna take some deep digging! Yup, it was a great sermon abt how we need to love the Word of God, which is actually Jesus Himself. Cool eh? It says so in Revelation 19v13. Ps Mark also said that the Bible is the written Word of God while Jesus is the personal Word of God. And also, those DO NOT PRACTISE the Word of God is like the foolish man who built his house upon the sand. Yup. That was the basic word for the day and we were challenged to put it into practice, which we did, but later on that.
After that, we had cell time and Grace Chan (above average, haha) joined us. She is super smart. She will have to "settle" for Oxford if Yale or Princeton doesn't want her.. Im like, pls NUS? PLS?? And for the first time, she joined us for lunch. Yay! And you're fun to have around so come join us more often k? She apparently has something for the RJ library cuz she got so excited her chair toppled into the longkang (one of the legs) and she slipped down. Hope I didn;t hurt u when i tried to catch you. We were at beer garden once again and Gabriel's $4 fried rice took half an eternity to come that even FX *gasp* had finished her food. Then we went to NTUC and Grace almost bought some choc but her dad came first. So chocs have to wait for next week I guess. But that didn't stop FX from getting her hands on some. MY too. Oh man... these eaters!! Then they got milk and we headed back to Emmanuel for Bible Study
Bible study turned out to be... lots of turnings. We had lots of discussions and we totally sidetracked from the MRT. Talked abt Sara, tongues, and the sermon for the day. And we came up with a little accountability system. Here's how the prototype works. I take Mondays and Thurdays. FangXian takes Tuesdays and Fridays and MeiYian takes Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sunday is our day of rest. We must each msg each other a Bible verse for the day to meditate on, and as a reminder to do QT. For me its 6.45am, for FX n MY, 9am. And if the msg does not come on... its accountability time. Yup. Quite exciting to see how it goes!
After Bible study, we decided to take a stroll to see my house. Stopped by to buy dynamo and some tidbits. I told u they can really eat!! Got my stuff but left my soya beans at the dynamo shop. Went to church to look for it and found it in the shop and they were still at SPC paying the stuff. Got the Dynamo and now I can say goodbye to using aunty's and welcome to sharing with me! They came up to my room. We talked a bit more and visited yours truly's blog and then MY had to leave so we all left. Took a walk till beer garden and bought my dinner. Txs for the money ya MY n FX. Here they are seen leaving my block
Then I met Ms Jayne for the second time. She was shopping with her mom. And she had this HUMONGOUS Where's Wally book which is super hard to find Wally and friends.. and dog's tail.. and a key! Then i got ride back (yay) and ate my dinner, did QT. Hee. Then slept. The end of Sunday
Monday
I woke up in time for QT. Got Mei Yian and FangXian the sms. Then headed off to school. Thank God for the great research I found. And had a good class. Except I overran time again. But all in all good. Getting to know more people. I now know Shaun, Yi Ning, Eve, Kathleen, Shermin Teck Ian, He Jun by face. Hehe, not bad ryte.
PW was also ok. Except i think Zsa^2 is overworked. Kudos to my GP rep (Zsa^2) for not reading the compre at all but still pulling the skit team together. Dun stress so much k. Aand the exhibit group seems to be doing fine. Skit... skit.. how... so little time left. Jz make sure u guys make a scene ok? And a good one at that too!
Had an interesting talk w Mrs Noordin. If you want to save endangered species, EAT THEM. Then when there's demand, there will be supply. Interesting? Then went off to scroom. Realised we need to give all PCs a gun to silence people during meetings. Sorry I didn't get u one ah xiu. Yup, sounded like council room. Saw three bimbo's in action and hope Temasek Idol will be a blast. Jia You ppl! Find more pics too k? Hehe.
This is Kenneth, coming to you sometime soon. Off to 06's blog for now
Labels: Accountability, Beer Garden, Dynamo, Jayne, Ps Mark
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