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(Thursday, August 23, 2007-)
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# 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...Labels: Alicia, Jayne, Jing Wei, Ka Hei, Li Hua, Meredith, NTU, Quen, Sze May, Vita, Winnie
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(Saturday, July 14, 2007-)
+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!Labels: Aiken, Alvin, Bertrand, Cell Presentation, Jayne, Livia, Meredith, Michelle, Ps Mark, Rayvin, Roland, Sam, YA 1st Birthday
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(Tuesday, April 10, 2007-)
+10:34 AM]*
# Can't Live A Day
Firstly, I just wanna tell people who don't already know, what Good Friday (look above, it's scrolling. haha) is really about.
Well, the story is very simple. Nobody is perfect. So people make mistakes (sin) right? So we have to pay the price for it. Woulnd't it be good if someone else paid it for us? That would be the essence of Good Friday! Jesus paid the full price for everyone's sins today when he was crucified. So yup, there you go, everything forgiven and entry to heaven secured on this simple account of God paying the price for us. That's GOoD!
Yup, and my Good Friday was spent mostly in FX's house and Emmanuel. Fast forward the fact that I woke up late, i quickly (as quick as i wanted to at least) rushed off to FX's house although i was late. But partially, i blame my forgetfulness cuz i went out of the house 3 times before i remembered to bring everything i was supposed to bring. Haihs.. Oh well, 12 came after a while, and 155 was perfectly on time! So no waiting for the transfer too!
Then FX must have been quite scared why nobody there yet so she msg-ed me, and James also, but the super-quick me was already on Telok Kurau road and arrived within minutes. Sat around and waited for BS, ordered pizza. Played Scrabble while waiting. James had no vowels, i had no consonants. FX had nice letters (or words as she claims it) all the way! So unfair...And the game actually looked quite pro cuz we could build quite a few words side by side. Haha, it "looked" pro cuz all the words are like primary school words lar... haha.. so much for the intellectual cell.
BS arrived and then we ate pizza and Gabriel arrived too. All the rest weren't gonna come except our special guest Winnie! We decided on a movie to watch, or rather, since we were all so undecisive, BS jz picked one. The worst one i think. Windstruck. If anyone EVER watched this before, give me a shout or a comment ya? Pls, i wanna know why u watched it in the first place.
Ok ok, the story wasn't that bad, except the ending felt like it went on longer than a zombie's lifetime. Why? Cuz we all knew the guy was gonna die, and when he did, we could also predict how he was gonna die. Oh, that just proves that only the beginning was nice. So, back to the horrible ending. Let's put it this way, the show was supposed to be emo and we should all be feeling bad for the girl who lost her bf, but then, THE WHOLE CELL WAS WAITING AND LONGING FOR HER TO JUST DIE!!! Stupidly frustrating. And the girl in the movie is such a loser lar.. she jump off a 30 storey building also cannot die... -.-''
Yeah, once we were done with our frustration and fed-up with Knocking on heaven's door being mutilated by Korean singers, we played BRIDGE!! Yay, the main highlight of the outing! Too bad we could only play two rounds before FX had to go and change. Which btw took forever. Girls really need to exlain why it takes so long to get changed. Really. I mean, like, seriously, really really.
Then we walked to church, oh wait, to the St Pat's bus stop, jz that it felt like church cuz it was so far. And paying 65c per ride sucks. but at least it was a ride to church! Along the way, things i found out
-Winnie has ONE bag (=
-FX needs other ppls bags
-Birds congregate and have a common toilet, evident from their deposits that concentrate at certain areas.
-Singapore is hot (duh...)
Then we were actually on time for service and it was quite funny how Matthew was in a cab right beside us. Haha. Service was good, although it felt a little rushed, but other hightlight was Su-E came. So had time to catch up with her a bit and all. And oh oh, Su-E, if you ever read this, gimme a tag cuz i met ur RGS friends at FIREfly assesment round 2. Charmaine and Debbie. Oh and Hi to people from the Superhero Group if any of you are reading this! HI (=
After service, we parted our own ways. FX, MY and BS went to FX's to.. er.. i dunno. Gabriel went to meet up with his KC friends. I mean JC. lol. what a typo. I headed down to parkway for dinner with Su-E and we caught up on the past 3 months. Found out that Tao Nan doesn't have the brightest kids in Sg, contrary to popular belief. Believe me, there are BIG exceptions!
After that, i think Su-E had some other appointment so i headed back to Sennett and slept. End of a good friday (=
Saturday
Busy day, thank God had no tuition today or I would have died. Woke up, didn't eat lunch, went for music prac, which started disappointingly late. Already this week had to evac hall 3B by 3, we still started 30 minutes late. That's like, 1800 seconds late. And if one second had two crotchets, that 3600 notes wasted. U get the picture...
We did everything except the new song, which i thought was a huge mistake, cuz we spent quite a lot of time trying to polish up simple things, when in the end, we actually did the new song. But i liked the new song, it's meaningful and slightly different from how all the other songs we sing sound. If you're wondering, we did Evermore (PS), Can't Live A Day (YouthAlive), Jesus I Surrender (JD), Worship You.. (PS)
Lets fast forward to after prac, went to the youth room and finished up as much a si could, my Think Big presentation for FIREfly. Then went to beer garden at ard 4 plus for a weird lunch then back to youth room. Helped out with the "Attack of the Aprons". Sounds so weird ryte. HAHA, well, that's YA for you! Then went for musicians and preservice prayer.
Soon it was service. It didn't start out too well as Evermore was a little too upbeat and I couldn't catch the timings for Can't Live A Day. And try jz saying these lyrics, they qualify to be rap lines. Really
"God you are my God, You are my all, And everything I give to You oh Lord"
which is like sung in one breath, and it goes up all the way. Not easy for me to sing. But who ever said i could sing anyway. Haha. Then after that was continuation of Tenets of Faith which was delayed by an extra long annoucement time. Cell's moving to weekdays now!
After that, it was off to beer for dinner. And sorry to XiuYu for always running off whenever i meet u. Haha. I guess u didn't go for SYF? Catch up with ya again ya! Then had Emil (or Edmil) im not sure, from Sweden, who's like, Sarah's bf eating with us. Quite cool. He can use chopsticks. Yay, but was slower than FX at eating lar, so that's not too fast. Hehe! But then again, it was $4 of char kway teow he was eating, so i guess its balanced. Then headed home and slept. Yay. Sleeping rocks! *winks to shuming!*
Ressurection Sunday
I think Ressurection Sunday has more meaning than Easter sunday, cuz i dunno what Easter means. Oh, yeah, Yumei, Here's my Easter Post! Hope u reach until here to find it! So what is Easter really all abt, well, it's like, the most important part of Christianity.
Basically, u now know how good it was of God to pay the price for us on Good Friday right. But it would be no use if God paid the price and died. Christians would be serving a dead God, and that's like so pointless. So here's the most significant day, when Jesus was ressurected from the dead, proving that when we believe in God, we also can have victory over death. Not that death (the worst disease in the world, with a 100% uncureable record) will not come to Christians, but the curse that comes along with death, which is eternal seperation from God has been broken!
So basically, resurrection sunday is really an awesome time when we can remember that we are really saved and serving a living God who has conquered death so that we don't need to fear what happens to us after we die. And no, i don't believe in re-incarnation or transmigration of souls. There's only one chance to get to heaven. That chance is now.
So sunday started off really nice, with the whole place decked with nice palms and orchids. Surprise of the day, Su-E came in a dress! Haha, how often do you see one of those! Another surprise, there were 3 worship leaders! One from Chinese Service, one from Main, and our very own lovely Rachael!!! *cheerss!!!* There were even kids too and we did Jesus You're My Superhero in the main service!! So cool and funny!
Sermon was also really funny with the translation having "extra ingredients" compared to the english version. Haha. Really funny. Then went off to lunch, and then to church to help ShuJing
Stayed there for almost the whole afternoon and the whole evening. Jayne, MY, ShuJing, Meredith and I came up with the wonderful CFC board for the prayer room. Hall 3A in Emmanuel will now be open from Thursday onwards at night for anyone to come and pray! Cool huh! Think i will make it a point to drop by before i head home.Of course, i wanna see the lovely (though grossly oversized) board we made. Haha, looks so CFC-ish! And sorry to those of u who think i used un-glam photos of you as the background. Ultimate photo goes to Meredith. Haha!
Then went home and realised the internet at Sennett has broken down... So sad... That's why no updates for so long. I sms-ed ps Mark and he said i could go back to church. So nice of him. Love u lots Ps Mark!!! And he is going with the whole Karen team he next day to Thailand. Still let me come and use the wireless in church. So i stayed in church and finished up my Think Big and chatted a bit too.
Ate this fruit which is supposedly planted in Sg. That's right, PLANTED in SG! So rare right!! But not for long cuz e government is gonna close the plantation down. WHat fruit, u might ask? Well, i dunno, its nothing i've ever seen before. It's like an oversized banana, with rockmelon shape and a juicy taste. Yeah.. it's... yellowish?
Oh, i even got a ride back! Yay, did my laundry, ironed and everything and slept big day on Monday
Monday
FIREfly Assessment.
Classified till 20th April.
Things to note
-it wasn't too boring
-HC ppl are nice!
-Charmaine and Samuel, hope to see you guys in round 3, actually jz Charmaine, Samuel, hope u get A*STAR
-the rest of the superheroes, all the best too!!
-SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN (ME), HULK, ELEKTRA, BLADE, PHANTOM, BATMAN, FLASH, ROBIN!Labels: BS, emil, FireFly, FX, Gabriel, Good Friday, Jayne, Matthew, Mei Yian, Meredith, prayer room, Ps Mark, Resurrection Sunday, sarah, ShuJing, Shuming, Su-E, Winnie, XiuYu, Yumei
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