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(Tuesday, April 10, 2007-)
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# Can't Live A Day
Firstly, I just wanna tell people who don't already know, what Good Friday (look above, it's scrolling. haha) is really about.
Well, the story is very simple. Nobody is perfect. So people make mistakes (sin) right? So we have to pay the price for it. Woulnd't it be good if someone else paid it for us? That would be the essence of Good Friday! Jesus paid the full price for everyone's sins today when he was crucified. So yup, there you go, everything forgiven and entry to heaven secured on this simple account of God paying the price for us. That's GOoD!
Yup, and my Good Friday was spent mostly in FX's house and Emmanuel. Fast forward the fact that I woke up late, i quickly (as quick as i wanted to at least) rushed off to FX's house although i was late. But partially, i blame my forgetfulness cuz i went out of the house 3 times before i remembered to bring everything i was supposed to bring. Haihs.. Oh well, 12 came after a while, and 155 was perfectly on time! So no waiting for the transfer too!
Then FX must have been quite scared why nobody there yet so she msg-ed me, and James also, but the super-quick me was already on Telok Kurau road and arrived within minutes. Sat around and waited for BS, ordered pizza. Played Scrabble while waiting. James had no vowels, i had no consonants. FX had nice letters (or words as she claims it) all the way! So unfair...And the game actually looked quite pro cuz we could build quite a few words side by side. Haha, it "looked" pro cuz all the words are like primary school words lar... haha.. so much for the intellectual cell.
BS arrived and then we ate pizza and Gabriel arrived too. All the rest weren't gonna come except our special guest Winnie! We decided on a movie to watch, or rather, since we were all so undecisive, BS jz picked one. The worst one i think. Windstruck. If anyone EVER watched this before, give me a shout or a comment ya? Pls, i wanna know why u watched it in the first place.
Ok ok, the story wasn't that bad, except the ending felt like it went on longer than a zombie's lifetime. Why? Cuz we all knew the guy was gonna die, and when he did, we could also predict how he was gonna die. Oh, that just proves that only the beginning was nice. So, back to the horrible ending. Let's put it this way, the show was supposed to be emo and we should all be feeling bad for the girl who lost her bf, but then, THE WHOLE CELL WAS WAITING AND LONGING FOR HER TO JUST DIE!!! Stupidly frustrating. And the girl in the movie is such a loser lar.. she jump off a 30 storey building also cannot die... -.-''
Yeah, once we were done with our frustration and fed-up with Knocking on heaven's door being mutilated by Korean singers, we played BRIDGE!! Yay, the main highlight of the outing! Too bad we could only play two rounds before FX had to go and change. Which btw took forever. Girls really need to exlain why it takes so long to get changed. Really. I mean, like, seriously, really really.
Then we walked to church, oh wait, to the St Pat's bus stop, jz that it felt like church cuz it was so far. And paying 65c per ride sucks. but at least it was a ride to church! Along the way, things i found out
-Winnie has ONE bag (=
-FX needs other ppls bags
-Birds congregate and have a common toilet, evident from their deposits that concentrate at certain areas.
-Singapore is hot (duh...)
Then we were actually on time for service and it was quite funny how Matthew was in a cab right beside us. Haha. Service was good, although it felt a little rushed, but other hightlight was Su-E came. So had time to catch up with her a bit and all. And oh oh, Su-E, if you ever read this, gimme a tag cuz i met ur RGS friends at FIREfly assesment round 2. Charmaine and Debbie. Oh and Hi to people from the Superhero Group if any of you are reading this! HI (=
After service, we parted our own ways. FX, MY and BS went to FX's to.. er.. i dunno. Gabriel went to meet up with his KC friends. I mean JC. lol. what a typo. I headed down to parkway for dinner with Su-E and we caught up on the past 3 months. Found out that Tao Nan doesn't have the brightest kids in Sg, contrary to popular belief. Believe me, there are BIG exceptions!
After that, i think Su-E had some other appointment so i headed back to Sennett and slept. End of a good friday (=
Saturday
Busy day, thank God had no tuition today or I would have died. Woke up, didn't eat lunch, went for music prac, which started disappointingly late. Already this week had to evac hall 3B by 3, we still started 30 minutes late. That's like, 1800 seconds late. And if one second had two crotchets, that 3600 notes wasted. U get the picture...
We did everything except the new song, which i thought was a huge mistake, cuz we spent quite a lot of time trying to polish up simple things, when in the end, we actually did the new song. But i liked the new song, it's meaningful and slightly different from how all the other songs we sing sound. If you're wondering, we did Evermore (PS), Can't Live A Day (YouthAlive), Jesus I Surrender (JD), Worship You.. (PS)
Lets fast forward to after prac, went to the youth room and finished up as much a si could, my Think Big presentation for FIREfly. Then went to beer garden at ard 4 plus for a weird lunch then back to youth room. Helped out with the "Attack of the Aprons". Sounds so weird ryte. HAHA, well, that's YA for you! Then went for musicians and preservice prayer.
Soon it was service. It didn't start out too well as Evermore was a little too upbeat and I couldn't catch the timings for Can't Live A Day. And try jz saying these lyrics, they qualify to be rap lines. Really
"God you are my God, You are my all, And everything I give to You oh Lord"
which is like sung in one breath, and it goes up all the way. Not easy for me to sing. But who ever said i could sing anyway. Haha. Then after that was continuation of Tenets of Faith which was delayed by an extra long annoucement time. Cell's moving to weekdays now!
After that, it was off to beer for dinner. And sorry to XiuYu for always running off whenever i meet u. Haha. I guess u didn't go for SYF? Catch up with ya again ya! Then had Emil (or Edmil) im not sure, from Sweden, who's like, Sarah's bf eating with us. Quite cool. He can use chopsticks. Yay, but was slower than FX at eating lar, so that's not too fast. Hehe! But then again, it was $4 of char kway teow he was eating, so i guess its balanced. Then headed home and slept. Yay. Sleeping rocks! *winks to shuming!*
Ressurection Sunday
I think Ressurection Sunday has more meaning than Easter sunday, cuz i dunno what Easter means. Oh, yeah, Yumei, Here's my Easter Post! Hope u reach until here to find it! So what is Easter really all abt, well, it's like, the most important part of Christianity.
Basically, u now know how good it was of God to pay the price for us on Good Friday right. But it would be no use if God paid the price and died. Christians would be serving a dead God, and that's like so pointless. So here's the most significant day, when Jesus was ressurected from the dead, proving that when we believe in God, we also can have victory over death. Not that death (the worst disease in the world, with a 100% uncureable record) will not come to Christians, but the curse that comes along with death, which is eternal seperation from God has been broken!
So basically, resurrection sunday is really an awesome time when we can remember that we are really saved and serving a living God who has conquered death so that we don't need to fear what happens to us after we die. And no, i don't believe in re-incarnation or transmigration of souls. There's only one chance to get to heaven. That chance is now.
So sunday started off really nice, with the whole place decked with nice palms and orchids. Surprise of the day, Su-E came in a dress! Haha, how often do you see one of those! Another surprise, there were 3 worship leaders! One from Chinese Service, one from Main, and our very own lovely Rachael!!! *cheerss!!!* There were even kids too and we did Jesus You're My Superhero in the main service!! So cool and funny!
Sermon was also really funny with the translation having "extra ingredients" compared to the english version. Haha. Really funny. Then went off to lunch, and then to church to help ShuJing
Stayed there for almost the whole afternoon and the whole evening. Jayne, MY, ShuJing, Meredith and I came up with the wonderful CFC board for the prayer room. Hall 3A in Emmanuel will now be open from Thursday onwards at night for anyone to come and pray! Cool huh! Think i will make it a point to drop by before i head home.Of course, i wanna see the lovely (though grossly oversized) board we made. Haha, looks so CFC-ish! And sorry to those of u who think i used un-glam photos of you as the background. Ultimate photo goes to Meredith. Haha!
Then went home and realised the internet at Sennett has broken down... So sad... That's why no updates for so long. I sms-ed ps Mark and he said i could go back to church. So nice of him. Love u lots Ps Mark!!! And he is going with the whole Karen team he next day to Thailand. Still let me come and use the wireless in church. So i stayed in church and finished up my Think Big and chatted a bit too.
Ate this fruit which is supposedly planted in Sg. That's right, PLANTED in SG! So rare right!! But not for long cuz e government is gonna close the plantation down. WHat fruit, u might ask? Well, i dunno, its nothing i've ever seen before. It's like an oversized banana, with rockmelon shape and a juicy taste. Yeah.. it's... yellowish?
Oh, i even got a ride back! Yay, did my laundry, ironed and everything and slept big day on Monday
Monday
FIREfly Assessment.
Classified till 20th April.
Things to note
-it wasn't too boring
-HC ppl are nice!
-Charmaine and Samuel, hope to see you guys in round 3, actually jz Charmaine, Samuel, hope u get A*STAR
-the rest of the superheroes, all the best too!!
-SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN (ME), HULK, ELEKTRA, BLADE, PHANTOM, BATMAN, FLASH, ROBIN!Labels: BS, emil, FireFly, FX, Gabriel, Good Friday, Jayne, Matthew, Mei Yian, Meredith, prayer room, Ps Mark, Resurrection Sunday, sarah, ShuJing, Shuming, Su-E, Winnie, XiuYu, Yumei
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(Wednesday, March 28, 2007-)
+8:34 PM]*
# The Surprise
Monday
The start of the week. Aa start with hope after being recharged from the weekend. Yay. I now, i need that recharging more than ever too cuz monday is my 5 period day. And it did start off quite well. Did the crossword with 03 and 06 and the answers with 21. And then taught Zsa^2 maths-trigo. Then it was off to Toa Payoh for tuition after a quick dinner and drink. Met Yumei, Kari and Jeryl, Jaren at the Library too. Made my spin-off highscore there and till now, nobody has beaten it. Its 20k, around there. Haha
Tuition was resumed after a long long break and it was chem. Finally money started flowing in once again and it was a rather short feeling trip back and on to the next day. The Surprise!
Tuesday
Day started off normally, except the photo-copier decided to spoil so i had to really rush my printing stuff. Did my AQ with 03, who .. erm.. were rather silent
Firstly, it was a little shocking to see ALL and i mean ALL of them outside the classroom unchanged from PE. So all the girls and some of they guys had to go down and change. Not wanting to waste any more time, i handed them the article to read on the way to the toilet. From this i learnt that... don't bother. Haha.
So the class went on... after losing most of it to the toilet. And eventually i ran out of time and dun think they really liked the assignment at the end. Haha. But im sorry, u guys need to learn to how to write. And yes Zsa, i so agree with u that style cannot be taught, it can only be learnt.
And at 10.00am, it was the end of my lessons! Haha. Nice timetable ain't it? But that's not the nicest part yet, cuz ahead was a SUPPLIES from my cell!! Walking back to the staffroom, i saw Matthew standing outside the staffroom, soon it was FX, James and MeiYian all ard! Haha, lemme explain the reason why i didn't have a shocked look, cuz firstly, i was more confused. Lol!
Was wondering why Matthew was here, then thinking, this isn't church, why got FX and James and all. Then after abt 5 to 10 seconds, it clicked that this was a SUPPLIES! Haha, quite slow eh, and by that time, the shocked look already pass its expiry date. So we headed down to the canteen for food. This cell pigs out quite a lot! So if i put on weight, u guys know where it came from la! Everyone bought western food except MeiYian, who packed it later anyway. Talked a lot and even planned ... does Gabriel read my blog? Better not take that chance
Then they left and i went on to have a second lunch and then it was ... hmm.. i dun quite remember. This week seems to be flying by me. But things that i found particularly meaningful are
-my wonderful cell SUPPLIES, the card, gifts and encouragement given
-being able to teach ppl maths (cuz i feel GP is hard to teach, sorry my students, im still trying hard)
-being encouraged by ppl and also being able to encourage others
Ok, shall fast forward the rest of Tuesday and move along cuz i really did loads of nothing.
Wednesday
Can't recall what i did in the morning other than watch FMA. Did a lesson with 06 and they were also quite tired apparently from PE so didn't really get the class going. Tried to improve today with 21. Brought up stuff relevant to them and got them talking a bit more, but that's Thursday *chases the intruding Thursday blog words away*
Then after that, rushed down for lunch cuz Calvin didn't get us lunch cuz the Jap stall opposite school was closed. So we went down. Oh. We means Jojo, Eugene and I. They both packed ther food but i forgot to pack so i missed the remaining of FMA while they ate and watched. Oh well, i went to get a drink as well and met some of the o6-ers at the drinks stall. Then headed back an anime-ed a little more.
It was soon staff conference and it was utterly pointless for RTs. Shall speed up my blogging cuz i have LOTS of gp essays to read for the upcoming Words Words Words. After staff conference I stayed a while with Zhi Yuan and Zsa^2 who are BOTH in drama. And CONGRATS to ZY on passing her audition to get in. Then, hmm, can't remember again, haha. I think i went back to the staff room, or didn't i... hmm.. oh well, that was pretty much wednesday. Im sure i went scroom and ate dinner with Di Hui and Natha.
Then chatted A LOT. Aaron was the main one and yeah, it continued today (Thursday) Nice chatting with cass too (=
Thursday
Woke up late. Oh well. Prepared for lessons and soon it was lesson with 21. It was a nice time. Took my time teaching the AQ so it wasn't too rushed. But still i spoke too fast. Sorry 21. Esp those who are new and can't follow. Tried to help them by asking them if they could follow and taught a few personally, but i guess its still a long way eh...
The lesson was also rather dead but i tried this time to liven things up by talking abt their stuff and made a wrong move with table tennis. Sorry YingEN. But i think it prevented some ppl *winks at J* from falling asleep. The nicest part was after the lesson. Stayed back a while while some of the 21-ers were finishing up the AQ. Talked a bit more to Chun Hai, Yee Wen, Yu Ting, Hong Yu and Qiu Hui. This really helped cuz now i can recall their names better and found out interesting stuff like Yee Wen's citizenship. Shall not post it here in case she gets.. eerr. nvm.
I was more worried that they had no food to finish than the whether they could complete the AQ. So after they finally left... phew... i went to eat with them. Sat with Shuming, Xian Hui, Kathleen and Hui Shian. Kathleen apparently gets high from eating and calls people weird stuff. Ask her abt the Zhu and Jenny! Then went back to the staffroom. Slept.
Woke up for 03 lesson and did the Epsilon version of the Current Affairs Quiz. No idea what Carian (yes, my Malaysian friends, her name is carian) and XueWen were depressed abt cuz they seemed more high than anything else. Angelina was rather blur, but i doubt shes a Diantha yet. But i was more dissappointed that they were late. Oh well, apparently everyone is.
But the lesson was not too bad, it was after it tht was bad cuz i was bothering Raf's class. Sorry Raf. And then went to scroom. Also took a look (that sounds funny) at the new biodata form. It's now 10 questions. No spoilers.
Then went to scroom. Only thing i wanna say, what are your true motives.Labels: Chun Hai, Di Hui, FMA, FX, Hong Yu, Hui Shian, James, Julie, Kathleen, Matthew, Mei Yian, o6, Qiu Hui, Shuming, Xian Hui, Yee Wen, Yu Ting, Zhi Yuan, Zsa^2
the story ends like this;
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(Thursday, March 1, 2007-)
+8:32 AM]*
# The Stand
Sunday
Sunday was a long long day. And it wasn't the most pleasant although it was spent doing nice things. I'm still into summary mood so here's the quick run through of the stuff that went down.
Woke up at the correct time for service and hence got to walk with Jayne to church. One of the last few chances already before I shift to Hosea's or Ps Mark's at Sennett. *hint - i need help to shift my stuff* and we reached church after a stopover at the mini mart for my breakfast of Tiger Biscuits. Went in just in time for preservice prayer and then the service started.
Ps Hoo gave his "swan song" sermon as he will no longer be the associate pastor of Emmanuel. Going to start his own church soon. Multiplication. Yay. The sermon was on the big rocks of life. Which, if we don't make space for them first, the smaller things in life will either crowd it out, or if we put the wrong stones in, we will have no space for the important stone. Yup, pretty self-explained already. Then we had a cell gathering and for the first time James could come with us for lunch and the excursion thereafter.
Went to beer garden, and the group of us that went to beer garden was so big that some had to spill over to KFC. And some people were whining about sitting in the sun etc... my cell jz sat down and ate. Atmosphere was rather weird. But still, we went on the NTUC after that, did our grocery/chocolate shopping and were on our way to TP.
FX had her hair cut while I marked GP essays at Food Junction. Yes my dear classes, I had to squeeze every bit of time to get ur essays finished. James was there to sit with me and hear me whine. And soon (relative to how long a normal GIRL haircut can take), FX was back. She looked... the same. I need to be able to understand and appreciate looks better. Or some girl will one day eventually kill me.
Then we went off to BS's house. Slacked in his room. Found out that FX was kinky. LOL. OK, so it was just a joke, but FX, i think u were really hurt. Then we went on to our second surprise-your-cellmate-at-work project. Mei Yian at The Coffee Cxxxxxxxxxx (I dunno how to spell that word), TCC.
Firstly, this project started off badly as we didn;t know where she worked. James only managed to syphon the fact that it was on Circular Road. So we googled, street-directoried and MRT-ed our way down. Then we did major wandering about Clarke Quay. If anyone knows the diference between Clarke Q and Boat Q, gimme a shout ya? So we walked and couldn't meet up with Gabriel who went to the wrong TCC. Lolz. We walked a lot and finally found TCC. FX wasn't in the best of moods but it soon changed once we reached TCC and gave Mei Yian her surprise! Her reaction... OH NO....!!...!!!..... OH NO....
Yup, that's how she greeted us as Gabriel, FX, BS, James and I surprised her at the gellery, 2nd level. Yeah, it was a nice and cozy place, and she had to serve us. Haha. We took forever to order and BS met some BBallers there. FX was in her mood again and then we shifted over and things looked to get better. We ordered our food, which I shared with Gabriel and still cost me $10, so shall avoid TCC unless its a special occasion. Marked some GP there too. Sigh... And things started to go off in codes.
Long trip back home. Late. Slept.
The Trip
Orange, white, beige
Green wasn't the invited
Black
A canvas full of colour
Which is no longer mine
A complication
Which still resides
An emotion which ended
Rekindled in the dark
Haunting
A journey on the right path
A new chapter to start
The steps are calling
The body, willing?Labels: BS, FX, James, Jayne, Mei Yian, Ps Hoo, TCC
the story ends like this;
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