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(Friday, September 28, 2007-)
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# An(other) update
It's me again. Who else ryte?
Malaysia was fun. Spent a whole lot of my time on the operation Meta promo. It's my 3 minute cartoon!! Whee~~~! Any comments for those who have seen it? But let's get back to what i did in Malaysia. Well, apart from the obvious promo, I got my sis to play Risk STAR WARS edition with me. Sadly, she kicked my butt across the galaxy. Then i tried to redeem myself with Monopoly SPIDERMAN edition. And sadly, the Green Goblin defeated Spiderman (me) and dominated the city in which Spiderman lives. Sad.. and to end it off.. Instead of being sympathetic, Daphne couldn't really be bothered. Haha! But oh well, my blue army kicked the Jedi's forces butt the next day! Haha, but the score is still 2-1. So yeah, still on the losing side. But nevermind, the empire will strike back... (in december perhaps)
Apart from that, I also got some shopping done. Two more pants. Now I have 5. Man.. that's quite a lot. But one of my pants is about 5 years old. Hehe. And ate a Secret Recipe lunch with mom and my sis. Dunno how the bill came to RM95 though. Saded...
Oh well, fast forward to Singapore, great to be back, just that my toothbrush didn't think so, as it decided to stay in Malaysia. Had to buy a new one, studied a bit at R3 TV Room, learnt some interesting psychology, realised that my sunfire goes crazy when a = 99/100. No idea why it gave a 12 digit answer... weird!! Sorry to scare Kia Boon, and txs for the solution of %lf.
Fast forward to today, met a lot of my ex-students. Some were happy, some afraid they can't promote, and some... hmmm.. just didn't want to talk about it. The J2s on the other hand were not too bad, not afraid of As, as they were mugging their butts off. Nice chatting with Claire, Steph and Reb. Also chatted with Aaron, Guo Ping, Natha. The J1s, the pig, Jaren, Ferena, Zhiyuan, and many more.
Ok, then now im here, in the youthroom, waiting for Music meeting to start. Bobby awaits. God help me!Labels: Aaron, Claire, Daphne, Ferena, Guo Ping, Jaren, Kia Boon, Malaysia, Metamorphosis, Monopoly, Natha, Rebecca, Risk, Secret Recipe, Shuming, Stephanie, Zhiyuan
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(Monday, May 28, 2007-)
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# Draw Me Closer
I foresee that this is going to be a long post. But somehow, these past ew days have been very memorable and meaingful. Yup, to everyone who was a part of it, txs for being around. I know it might seem nothing much to you guys, but Im happy!
Just something I was pondering over. Shuming mentioned in her blog that she read that different people were having ups and downs of their lives. And for me, I know many people who aren't exactly cruising along in the race of life. Like what Rachael once said in YA, many of us are already injured athletes. We were running the race, and because of some incident or another, we're kind of by the side now, waiting for first aid. To all those who I know u're "injured" one way or another, I really do hope all the best for you. Will be praying for you.
Then while I was doing laundry, this thought came to me (yes, i do my own laundry thank you). God has emotions. His heart feels for us, and me, who can't possibly love as much as he does, feels hurt for the people i know around me, how does God feel? He knows every hurt everyone is going through, He feels so much more. And then, how does He feel happy for others that are having great times in their lives. I guess God must have hyper-threading emotion processor.
But really, God must feel really sad for so many of us I wonder if He ever just wants to force His way into our lives and help us out. God, you must really be having a tough time. Especially with so many people hurting and injured or getting injured right now.
Zsa, Yumei, Cass, Pei Zhi, Aaron, Claire, Fang Xian, Bing Sheng
Saturday
Okay, this happened after a long long break. I slept for about 15 hours! Haha! So much for surviving 2 days with 4 hours of sleep. Lol! Yup, woke up for music prac and arrived late... Darn. We practised two "new" songs cuz one was so old it became new for me. And also Consuming Fire. Dunno where the cons(h)uming joke came from though. Haha. Practise was good although we used very funny jargons or actions to describe what was lacking. Musicians out there might understand.
Poor Winnie was at the sound board with a leaking nose and had to bear with all of us. Our prac went fine and we sounded quite good at the end when we were coming together already. Although I think my right ear is getting more and more deaf everytime. Maybe the bass should shift to the left of the drums to give me even deafness. Haha!
Then after music prac, i was still sleepy so i went to the youth room to rest. Pei Ting, Alex, Rachel, Xiu Yu and .. oh no... i dunno how to spell her name. Shall not attempt. Hehe! People were there, yup and we were all basically talking crap and Rachel was supposedly studying. Winnie and I were trying to sleep while Fang Xian was being high. Shouldn't have gave her the chocolate.
Soon enough it was the awesome engine-room prayer meeting with Isaac. It was really meaningful prayer as we really prayed for the Holy Spirit to come down for our service this time. Yup, it was the Holy Spirit night as some people called it. And people were getting really serious and I guess thats what really made it more meaningful. Yeah, we prayed our hearts and tears out (even without my voice after soccer cheering) with screams and shouts and stomps and jumping and kneeling. Yup, an awesome prayer meeting! Radical for Jesus. Chosen to Serve!
Then it was service time and we were all excited. Atmosphere was good, but i guess it just wasn't time yet for the Holy Spirit to be poured out. Like the 120 in the upper room, they didn't know it was gonna be Pentecost when the Promise would come, neither did we and tonight wasn't that night, but we're still gonna be hungry but ironically, its for the Holy Spirit to devour us! Hehe =)
Service was great and after service, the chairs were a little off. Like people lining up at wrong lines, the chairs were re-organizing themselves. Haha. Soon we got it all sorted out and then headed down for dinner! Yay! How often do you get free dinner ryte? Txs Aunty Ang!! Fried rice! Yay. Wanted to take 12 home but a tragic incident happened. 12 came. On time. Come on.. what gives... 12, u're always late!! And the day im enjoying my fried rice, u come on time.. So i took a nice walk home.
Came home, chatted, blog surfed, slept.
Sunday
Oh yeah, this the eventful day. It started of simple enough with church in the morning. EVeryone was early and on time! Cool eh? Pre-service prayer was really different in the sense that Ps Khoon Mei asked us to get real with God. Yes, we've been getting ready for Pentecost Sunday, but instead of "hyping" us up and get excited/anticipatory of something great, we were asked to get real with God. Tell Him, if we didn't feel like life is going our way. Tell Him if we're angry when He didn't come through for us. Tell Him we're far away and not ready for Pentecost Sunday. Nothing loud. Nothing flashy. Just getting real. It's one of those moments u realise that church is so real. That we don't have to "be" a Christian. We just have to come as we are. Failures, disappointments, shortcomings, troubles. No need to be all cheery and jumping around when we're not happy with God on the inside. And just lay it all out for Him. And He's a God that will never turn us away. I mean, that's so.. unfair! How can He be so nice to us when all we do throughout the week is ignore Him and then blame Him on Sunday. Yet, His love never fails. He never fails to let us lay our burdens at His cross. Simply put -Amazing Love-
Sunday service was arguably the best whole year! Ps Jonathan gave an awesome message abt the cripple at the gate called Beautiful. The empowerment of the Holy Spirit. How we need it so much. How we always seem to not be able to do the things we ought to be doing, and how we need to be filled once again! So who's NOT looking forward to church camp?!!
In case u're interested, its at Port Dickson, Tiara Beach Resort from 11th to 15th June. I'll be there. He'll be there. Will you?
Ok, thats all for camp promo, but really, this camp is going to kickstart something awesome in Emmanuel, we all feel it!! I mean, how can it not when we serve the Living God?!
So cool with the church service for that day, altar call was good, although the ending gives rise to the question of church security. Yup, Hosea brought that up. Hehe. Then we had cell meeting which lasted forever but came to no conclusion. I guess 40 year old virgin is not something you watch after such an awesome Sunday service?
So as Marcus "prophesied", we went down to Beer Garden to eat lunch, which I jz tagged along for fun. Then headed back to church for Habitudes seminar to substitute Gabriel who was at Global Day of Prayer practice!
Ok, let's see what I think about the YA comm
-They're a wacky bunch of ppl!!
-->shoulder to shoulder
-->unscrewing heads is a process
-->Shrek Team
-->Rayvin sabo-ing Roland
-->Buying 20 Nuggets after arriving late
-->It is no longer an Iceberg
-They're a very diverse group of people
-->Stealing each others' ideas
-->Quoting each other to avoid getting into trouble
-They're very open
-->yeah, they openly talk about their cell groups and how things have come along
Yup, it was a fun, eye-opening, wacky, no-holds-barred session with them and The Cloud and Aunty Aye Lan =)
Most likely i might be a Habitudes fascilitator but then again, since only me and FX going, might be no need for that. But i can foresee that the next 6 weeks is going to involve a lot of real, tangible goal setting =) Yup Christianity is getting more and more real =)
Okay, once the whole thing was over, it was soon time for the peak of the day, actually, Sunday service was already the peak, but this is a different sort of peak. Think Mt Everest and North Pole. Ok, so this peak's name is Global Day of Prayer, truncated into GDOP cuz Singapore will not allow you to have any words with 3 syllables or more, what more, 4 words! Oh the crime!
Yes, GDOP was starting at 6pm to many people's unknowing shock. Not their fault cuz the organizers didn't include the Youth Praise n Worship session in the bulletin. But it was super funny! Let me give u a description of what CFC from Emmanuel did. We waited, in the sun instead of under the bus stop for the bus. Reason? NONE! Haha!
Then we arrived about 5.35, and we walked to our seats in the East section. After about 10 minutes, Ps Mark had a call and we were called to go down. I was like.. huh? Go where? This stadium is already so big and way too empty for anything to be starting, why we need to move?So we all moved like obedient sheep. Haha, walked and walked, no idea where we were going. Gate 1, oh ok, lets go. On the other side of Gate 1 - THE MAIN STAGE!
We were like about 20 plus of us standing right in the middle of the National Stadium having praise and worship! With barely 500 people in the whole stadium, there was CFC youths jumping and praising God in front of everyone with Ps Jeremy Seaward and Rachael leading us! Woo hoo!! A really surreal experience. Of course it was rather embarrassing also cuz i told Louisa we had seats, and then the next moment, we were right smack in the middle of the whole GDOP set up! Soon other youths joined us. Yup, it was really really cool! Such an experience. Imagine in heaven, that it'll be multiplied a million fold! Whee!!
Yeah, after praise and worship (youth) the Salvation Army Brass Band started playing and we headed back to... erm.. somewhere. Our seats were already taken. Roland wanted to sit on the main stage cuz there were chairs there. Haha! So we wandered around and while wandering, I bumped into Louisa and her bro! Haha, so much for having to try to find each other.
So we walked like obedient sheep until we reached a place to sit. Then the whole GDOP started. It was cool. Except the songs were those from the Days of Elijah. Haha, yes, it was that bad ok! It was like... all hymns or whatever it was people sang before that. The newest song was Here I Am To Worship (without Call Upon The Name of the Lord) and Louisa bro and I were waiting for that song cuz we were sure of how to sing it! Haha! And to Louisa, yup, our church is Charismatic so GDOP is so not the usual way our prayer meetings are. Surprise, culture shock, I don't know. But i guess that's why the churches are quite "divided" in that sense. Cuz God doesn't limit the way we praise/worhsip/seek Him and so there are so many ways of doing it that there has to be different denominations to cater to Christians from all walks of life.
Yup, i initially said i wouldn't go for another GDOP cuz it wasn't my cup of tea, but after thinking it through, i realised its people like me who are unconsciously dividing the church. So GDOP 2008, Kenneth will be there. I might be 1 in 50000 but I know it matters =) Yeah, and not to mention i was sooo hungry cuz i fasted lunch that day. Yup. CFC took forever to leave and finally i decided to eat dinner with Matthew and Gabriel. Went to Old Airport Road, the one which Simin brought me once for awesome pasta, but it moved down the road. The food was horrible and Gabriel and I were craving McDonald's. Him-20 piece nuggets. Me-McSpicy Meal. AARRRGGGHHHH.. But txs to shuming for keeping me company while i was dying of hunger! Haha. And that mushroom is a mutant lar! Eat two dinners! Haha! You ate more dinners than i did meals! Haha!
Yup, she was kind enough to listen to me rambling about how i wanted mcdonalds and was super hungry. Hehe. And then the worst thing happened and i bet the mushroom was rolling all over the room laughing at me.
I wanted to take 10 home, so Matthew and I walked out. Then Matthew said i should take from Side A (i dunno how else to describe the sides of the road) and i said it should be Side B. while walking, i missed 2 10s on side A. But i thought it was OK, since Side B is the correct one. Then we waited on Side B. And Matthew's bus came, but it showed that Side B was the wrong side. But i said it is ok cuz bus 30 is weird. Always opposite side from normal busses like 12.
Miss count for bus 10 - 2
Then we asked the people there, and they said Side A was actually correct, so i crossed over. And then as i was crossing, i missed another 10
Miss count - 3
Waited at Side A, and it was the correct side. For Matthew... He took his bus after missing like 2 for no reason. He just didn't stop the bus. Lol. So i waited patiently back on Side A and after a while, the two people i asked for directions told me that they saw the most recent 10 and Side B was actually the correct side and they made a mistake earlier. I was like ok, i crossed back to Side B
Miss count - 4
While waiting, i was whining to Shuming. Haha, and she didn't know if she should be sad or laugh. *bites* Okay, shall not be mean to a defenceless mushroom. So on Side B now. (i bet its so confusing u dun care which side im on anymore ryte?) Bus 10 came. I asked the driver, he said the other side. Those ppl cheated me. TWICE!! Arrghh.. but i wasn't too pissed. Cuz i had the time. And it was their mistake. How did i know? THEY WERE ON THE FREAKING WRONG SIDE TOO!! LOL!!! Their 31 finally came and they had to cross over. Lol.
Miss count - 5!!
Yup, waited on Side A which is the correct side and finally took my 10. Stopped whining and got home! Yay. Interesting Sunday.!!Labels: Bus 10, Church Camp, Global Day of Prayer, Louisa, National Stadium, Pentecost Sunday, Ps Jonathan, Shuming
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(Thursday, May 10, 2007-)
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# The Countdown
Wednesday
Hmmm.. the day started off slow, with me waking up late. Haha. Which meant i reached school late, but it didn't matter cuz i ponned assembly anyway. Haha. And i had no lessons till 11.40, so it really doesn't matter what time reached. But yeah, last few days of my work now. Should endeavour to make the best of my few days here.
Oh, this is also likely the last post in a long time cuz i'll be returning this wonderful laptop that has served me well (well, well enough that i haven't thrown it down a flight of stairs cuz it is so frustratingly laggy!!!). But yes, it has served me well enough to prepare my lame powerpoint slides, to play Gem TD, to MSN, to BLOG!, to visit ur blog (yes i mean you!), to surf the net randomly, and to get my own lovely iGoogle and Google desktop!
Yup, this is the end of an era. So from now on, this will be version 2.0 of my blog, from a different com. Yeah.
Ok, this is so turning out not to be a Wednesday post. I need to know how to do that strikeout html. Anyone know can tag?
Yes, this is not related to wednesday but rather next next weekend. Aurora XI is coming up, and i dun feel like going alone although i want to support shuming (ferena, so sad u're not gonna be there...) so if anyone wants to go for guitarconcert, pls tag me ya? Oh, on that note, anyone knows how to get to ACS Barker for (:hoyer (stolen from Carian) concert? Reflections VIII i think. Yeah, anyone wanna go pls tag or Carian, Shi Yun, Valarie wil have noone (aka me) to support them.
Ok ok, in general, if anyone wants to go with me (haha, i sound so despo now.. ee..) for any of te remaining concerts, pls tag? Sorry saturday concerts are out, i have YA on saturdays.
Oh ryte, back to
Wednesday
Haha, what happened today. Had my officially most unproductive class of my teaching career. Yes, i did NOTHING for 50 minutes (although Zoe, i hope things are ok). Yup, 06 persuaded me to let them do nothing while they take home the compre. Well, its sort of their problem cuz tonight they will realise they haven done it yet, and they will realise 1 and a half hours is freaking a lot of time, yet insufficient to complete the work. But a reminder: please only use 1.5 hours ya. Be fair.
Ok, now comes the best part. After lessons, it was... LUNCH TIME! My last time eating lunch out with JoJo and Eugene, so we went to our favourite Pizza Hut! Yup, yes it was raining, but that didn't stop 3 determined RTs (who had other motivations as well... hehe...) We waited at the bus stop, only for the rain to get heavier so we cabbed to the interchange. Such a waste of money, but oh well, today is special =) When we reached,the taxi stopped by the side of the road, as we were abt to leave, this car came and stopped RIGHT BESIDE US! like... hello?? we need to get out? So aft a while, the car reversed and re rushed out and stepped into pizza hut.
Oh did, i mentioned we brought TWO Rubik's along. The 3 and the 4 one. We were the center of attraction and one lady even asked us about it. Haha, we were rather bored waiting for the pizzas u see. Oh, without us realising, Eugene ordered TWO LARGE pizzas for the 3 of us... Like.. thats crazy man.. and he even ordered some meatballs, which were nice (=
Then i started to seriously time my 3X3 Rubik's solving time, and my record for yesterday was 1 minute 31 seconds! Yay, but my all time best is still 1 minute 14 seconds! Haha, but Eugene's best is 54 seconds.. so pro... My average is abt 2 minutes, plusminus 15 seconds? And JoJo was trying te 4x4 Revenge cube, and it didn't work out. We need to figure that last bit out. Final TWO corners won't match... eeww...
Anyway the pizzas came and we literally stuffed ourselves. JoJo had a record 4 and a half, i had 5 and eugene 6 and a half (although he claims 7 and a half! haha) Eugene's record is apparently 10 pieces, which is highly believable. And we stoned at the Hut for another hour to digest our food. Of course, concurrently, Staff Conference was going on. OOOPPSS? hehe.
After feeling quite well digested, we walked back to TJ. But before that, while we were eating SPRING SINGAPORE gave me a call! Yaynesses!!! They want to schedule an interview for me! Yay!! Haha!! But the lady herself sounded more unprepared than me. Must be some new secretary or something, she called, and asked for my surname. Like, shouldn't i be asking u? Haha. But who cares, its a round 3 callback!! YAY THANK YOU GOD!!
Things got better, in my email, NTU is asking me to send stuff for ASEAN consideration, Nanyang Sch consideration, as well as C N Yang Scholarship! NUS, please wake up before NTU grabs me with open arms and hugs me close! Haha, sounds gay, but NUS, please send me SOMETHING??? Yeah anyway, i wanna go NUS, but they are being irritating..
In school, i gemmed and lost again to Eugene, his towers all so nice lar... But at least i didn't leak and die. Hehe. Only won special crafter once. 14 leh, how to reach... Then talked a bit with JoJo before Eugene had to leave. He helped me book movie tix for Orang Labah Labah Tiga (thats in Malay) and im gonna watch with Heri tmr (which is today lar) So, yeah, its $16.50 for two ppl, but i guess the ppl are worth it!
Ok, went for cell today. Let's jz say what we need most is FOCUS. Not to talk abt ppl butt, or how fat we are. Haha, really funny, but yeah, unless u were at cell u won't understand the jokes. And guess what, they ordered pizza. Bringing my grand total of slices of pizzas ate in one day to 7!! My record!!
Ok, after cell, we were still arguing abt which way to walk back, and the guys eventually rleneted and walked the girls to their bus stops although we didn;t know what buses we had. Funniest moment is when FX and MY ran across the road and tried to stop bus 30 when they actually thought it was 33. Haha. Second funniest is FX wanting to wait at a deserted bus stop cuz she didn't see that the road was closed. Haha.
Rubik's on my way home until overshot my bus stop. Haha, good thing nobody with me, not so paiseh. Hehe. Reached home, got a little "nagging" to throw rubbish away and to put the clothes rack back after use. I was giving the im-blur look and said ok. Hosea came back today too! Yay. Ok, went online, chatted and slept!
Shout outs!
Trinity - Congrats!
Cass - Hang in there! God can change hearts!
03,06,21 - I'll miss u guys
C2 - All e best for ur test
Yumei - Be strong =)
RTs - I'll miss you guys
TJC - Bye.....Labels: ASEAN, C N Yang, Carian, Cell Group Meeting, Choir, Ferena, FX, Guitar, MY, NTU, NUS, pizza, Rubik's, Shi Yun, Shuming, SPRING SG, Valarie, Version 2.0, Zoe
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(Tuesday, May 8, 2007-)
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# Break Free
Monday
Guess what, i've been listening to or is it guess what i've been listening to? Either way, it's All of the Above by UNITED! Oh yea. And it rocks! Haha, if any of u have the time to check, i find the e-guitar in Hosanna at 2:37 quite funny. But after a while, it starts to sound cool. Oh, yes, let me tell u my favourite songs from this album (this is so not related to monday, but who cares)
1- Point of Difference - refer previous post
2- Devotion - chorus lyrics rocks!
3- Found - although i initially ALWAYS skipped this song in Mighty to Save, they revamped it so well it is actually much easier to listen to. NOTE : I hate songs where the singer/s do/esn't sound natural at all.. like when they have too "ghostly" voices. Refer to Found in MTS or Lead Me To The Cross from AOTA.
4- Future Decided - bridge rocks! (and yes, playing bridge rocks too, but not as much as this!)
5- Saviour King - JoJo, i admit the build up for Still is STILL (pun intended) the nicest, but this when they go into chorus for e 4th time, i love the vocals!
6- Selah tracks, especially the one after Devotion, Draw Me Closer (i think) which has quite meaningful lyrics as well
Ok cool, enough of publicity for the album, which totally rocks, oh yeah, enough. Back to..
Monday
Oh, lemme see.. what happened here... Or rather... what didn't happen.. Carian ar... Ok shall not blame her lar, my fault for not bringing back the GP Resource Package. So 03 had to do an impromtu lesson on advertising. Yes, 06, the whole lesson was NOT planned, but i knew what it was about at least ryte?
Continues and finished my THE (yes, its there for a reason my students..) Mass Media intro and even had to take 06 out of 133 because i felt it was so stuffy and they were like.. falling asleep. So we had Alfresco GP with everyone on the ledge outside the art room window except the nine (thinks of the coffins... hmm.. ee...) Of course the stared during the period change must have been funny, but at least they were awake. I think... Were you?
Anyways, had lesson with 21 where i did the current affairs quiz which was also screed up. Wanted to zap for everyone but some teacher had astack of like 500 papers to zap so i tried to print it. Then some other teacher was printing 37 pages... Sian!! So i finally did my final current affairs quiz. And it was too easy.. darn..
After that, i ran out of time giving back essays that i had to hold some of them back. And talked. Then went to the sports com like i always do on mondays, and talked. A lot! Haha, pretend to want to mark essay summore. Hehe. Had a nice chat with Zsa^2 abt many random stuffs. Then she finally had to catch her drama plane. And i still think u have a yellow/PINK wallet. Haha!
Then talked to Shuming too! Had so much to talk abt! Hostel seems more scandalous than ever!!!! Really man! And i think M4-06 will forever remain legendary! Shuming agrees! I think. And shuming, u must behave lar... always go visitors lounge.. aiyo.. at least dun kena caught can? And dun say what i taught u abt the magnetic door and masking tape! All e best for ur EZLINK too.
To Julie- u can do it! U will survive! All e best to u and Jaren too, not for Zhiyuan! Haha! for HC!
Den ate dinner alone and came home alone and marked all the paragraphs from 06. Oh, productive sia!
Slept
Tuesday
Only one lesson and i remembered to bring the sweets. YAY. Apparently it wasn't too nice cuz it was too sweet... the Fe-y... dun get it right? Then had nothing else to do so i finished off my gemming with eugene. I won thanks to IMBA wraith slate. Oh Denise came back today!
She had shocking stories to tell of Monfort and the staffroom was alive again wh=ith her being around. And i might consider working where she does. Can you believe it, up to 40 a day in tips?? Yeah, but then Monfort stories were cool, and the info abt 3 years a level restrictions on scholarships.. appaling!!!
Then did e book for Kathleen and Shums, haven done one of those in ages. And then went to 222. Taught a few ppl how to do Rubiks today. They include Sam, Yumei, Zhiyuan, Jaren. And Eugene has a 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 Rubiks!!!!! I WANT ONE!!! 3X3 is the classic, 4x4 is called Rubik's Revenge, 5x5 is called Rubik's Professor!So cool! 4x4 one makes the 3x3 one look like a noob's toy! So fun! I think Zhiyuan has mastered the first phase of 2x2 solving for the Revenge cube! Yup, had tuition today, bus came late but i think it was my fault. Then i decided to blog. Then i decided to sleep
Shout outs
Carian, Shi Yun, Valarie - heard u guys got Gold! CONGRATS!!
Sek, Song Hon - get well and heal soon
Yumei - Jia You!! Dun give up!
Julie, Jaren and e rest - all e best for HC
Lousia, Aruna, Verena, Christina and anyone else - All e best for LEO!
Zsa, Shuming, Jane - nice talks!Labels: All of the Above, Jaren, Julie, Rubik's, Sek, Shuming, Yumei, Zhiyuan, Zsa^2
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(Sunday, April 15, 2007-)
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# Lose Myself
That's the title of the new song we sang at YA today, once again by Jeff Deyo. Im gonna start with my saturday post cuz weekends jz rock because of church!!
Saturday
No tuition this morning so no need to wake up early. But i still had to wake up early. Sounds so lame. But oh well, i had to go down to ICA to collect my new SVP. This is itself would get a whole post, but i'll jz summarize. On Friday, I went down to ICA and to the non-Singaporeans (and some blur SG ppl) its Immigration and Checkpoints Authority to apply for an extension of my SVP (Social Visit Pass, i told you SG ppl are crazily in love with ACRONYMS!).
Here's how it went down on Friday, rushed down to ICA.. oh no.. this post is turning to my Friday post... oh well, might as well. Ta daaa
Friday!
Had two lessons in the morning about writing an introduction. Dunno if 06 and 21 really learnt anything cuz they were all, i dunno, sounded quite blur to me. But i hope they did benefit from it, at least a little... a tiny bit...? Oh well, i tried.
Then after that, went down to ICA with Sean and Sam who got his friend Andy to tag along. At ICA, we went to the 4th floor after ignoring the millions of people trying to give out flyers, for i don't know what courses outside ICA. Then we had no idea what to do cuz the MOE papers came with no instructions so we went to the information counter and asked the lady there. She seemed like a noob. But what chance do mere mortals have against the almighty ICA? I mean, check out their logo. Its like, fully equipped with Bars and Chains! I mean, that's not a very nice thing to welcome people with. If you dun believe, go and search for the logo urself. I would have uploaded it here, but i realised they are too insignificant to have a place on my blog.
Anyway, we talked to the noob looking lady who gave us a queue number and a form to fill up. We happily walked along, until we realised, the form was for APPLICATION OF A STUDENT PASS. Like... what the... this noob lady didn't understand what we wanted to do. Or so we thought. So Sam went back to ask, and the lady say fill it up. But it needed a photo, and a local sponsor (which actually meant MOE) so Sean went to ask again, and again she said just fill the STUDENT PASS APPLICATION form to apply for an extension of the SVP. Im like, there couldn't be a less confusing way of doing things ryte?
So we waited patiently for 20 numbers to scroll by while marking AQs (so my students, in case u're wondering why u got not-too-nice-looking markings, haha, u know now) and eventually our turn came and when we went to the counter, all they had to do was collect our MOE letter, PASSPORT, STUDENT PASS and EMBARKATION CARD!!
So now, there we were, 4 foreigners in Singapore with totally NO IDENTIFICATION except a QUEUE TICKET telling us to come back tmr form 9 to 12. And to make matters more interesting, Sam who went to a diff counter had to fill in an Embarkation Card as well, and could only collect a week later than us... Unfair.. Discrimination against Vietnamese i tell u! Haha! =p
Okay, so i thought my day was over so i headed back to school to see the ending of the movie screenings. Met cass on the way and i had to whine abt feeling so insignificant at the moment with only a queue ticket as my identity. Txs for listening and sorry to her friends who were like, stoning there while i was talking though. But had nothing to do aft that and didn't feel like intruding into LT1 so talked with Sam (a female Sam) until i reached Gamma's house party. Met Shujing there too! And Jaren as well, with some guy doing a dance on the table *looks away*
Then walked on to the scope and was a little curious why so many 21-ers were there. Then i saw 06 ppl there as well. What luck, both the classes that i teach were having learning journey on the same day! Saw Ms Tay and Mr Neo there. Apparently Mr Neo said something abt being smart and TJC which the girls weren't too happy abt. Then i met even more interesting girls. The ultimate bimbos of 06. Im not gonna mention names but the four girls who were taking photos at the scope know that its them! The funniest moment was when _ _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ bumped theirs heads into each other. Classic bimbotic moment lar!! They were totally cam-whoring while waiting for the bus to arrive
The bus was late by 45 minutes apparently. And to make matters even better, it went to AHS instead of TJ. Like.. hello, i know there are lots of AHS ppl here, but there are NO TJCians in AHS... But anyway, i should be thnakful that the bus was late cuz in the end, i decided to follow them on their learning journey.
The bus ride wasn't too bad, not too long and Shuming tried to use Malay. Not a bad attempt! =) But i think the others were wondering what we were saying. Haha. Too bad. Go learn Malay! Then finally reached the SCDF (acronym once again, go try and figure it out k?) museum and we were already an hour late.
The tour guide guy was nice and friendly, and at times, he suan-ned the old Fire Brigade of SG. Funniest one was the part abt the Fire Truck which things could fall off and firemen had to jump off, pick the stuff up and climb back on. We started making jokes abt how firemen most likely died jumping off the truck than fighting fires itself. But then again, its top speed was only 16km an hour, so the house probably burnt down to ashes before the fire truck actually came. Poor thing...
We continued listening, had the chance to go into one of the fire trucks and took pictures. Then Abishek cracked one of the exhibit's plastic covering. Oh well, he's Abishek anyway. And he was unanimously sabo-ed to wear the fireproof jacket and the Power Rangers looking helmet. Picture of the day man!! Ferena if u have the photos of today, i want ok? Pls! Txs!
Then went on looking at other exhibits, and confirmed that two particular girls were really bimbos when they banged heads... AGAIN! Im like.. *AHH*-the-way-u-know-it
Then we finally left after taking a group photo. Went to Peninsula which is a real musicians hub cuz of the tonnes of guitar stores and what not. Bought 4 picks for $2, not too bad a deal and gave one back to Alvin whose pick i broke some time ago!
Then, since i actually left TJ without anything other than my HP and a cashless Student EZLink card, i got John to pay for my bus trip back. Well, it's fair cuz they persuaded me to come in the first place! But im gonna pay him back. Chills.
Mass dance test was going on in TJ at that time, but before i reached there, i stopped to see the soccer girls practising set pieces. At least that's what it looked like. Had a bet with Shermin that the wall wouldn't dare to jump and head the ball away but according to Shermin, they would. Oh well, didn't have the chance to see them actually head the ball cuz most of the freekicks were off anyway. So i guess the bandung is gonna have to wait ya Shermin.
Saw the ending of the mass dance test. The only part worth mentioning is the fact that it was completely hillarious how the 30th didn't have the gate key and they were actually locked in with the nominees and had to ask the climbing club for a favour. Oh, and they failed the test btw, retest on Monday. Sigh. So pitiful.
Ate dinner with the councillors and then headed home. Slept!
And now, back to saturday at ICA
Reached ICA in the morning, about 9, got my queue number and waited like 1 and a half hours when the estimated time on the board said 10 minutes!!!11!!1! Evil ICA... The place is so freaking crowded they actually have yellow boxes to prevent traffic (human) from blocking access. I was like, even a building needs yellow boxes, and some ppl obviously dun know what yellow boxes are cuz i was queuing, and trying to be a good foreigner, i didn't step into the yellow box and so the queue i was in had a gap. And one guy jz blatantly ignored the 3 metre queue behind me and stepped into the yellow box. Never mind. Im sure one day, u'll get ur reward.
Waited like forever and since the numbers weren't called in sequence, i had to constantly keep a lookout while marking newspaper journals. Sean came too and he had to wait as well cuz they conveniently skipped both our numbers. When it was finally my turn, the sly and cunning ICA played their last evil trump card.
At the counter, i stepped up rejoicing that my wait was finally over. Before i could finally get my identity back, the lady at the counter said i had to pay $40 for my 3 month extension!! Im like, u took my passport, embarkation card and everything without mentioning a single thing abt payment, and when i wanna get it back, they say, please pay $40!! Im like... (i know is sounds bimbo with all the "im like" but seriously) how sneaky can they get??? I mean, if i dun pay, who am i in SG without a single piece of identificatoion (even my queue number was in the lady's hand!! arrghh!!!)
And that's not the best part yet. I gave my bag to Sean to hold while i walked to the counter, so i told the lady my NETS card is in my bag, i'll take it in a few seconds. She said NO. Go and sit down, i'll call ur number agian. It's "FASTER" this way... I was like.... so pissed but didn't let it show. So i walked 1 metre back took my bag and sat down. So lame. The lady then called like 5 numbers which nobody showed up. In the end, she only served one person before calling me again. What a waste of my time. I could have jz grabbed my NETS in 5 seconds, paid in 20 and be gone in 5. That's like 30 seconds. Which she wasted on each number which NOBODY was there.... ICA... I suggest u tear down ur whole building and let me restructure it. ON second thought, the council nominees could even do it. I mean, it shouldn't be that hard to make foreigners life slightly easier?
Okay, enough of whining, back to real life, it was time for music prac, and by now, i had forgotten the whole ICA drama. Did my washing of laundry by hand before i came and i was early. So slacked in the youth room a while as Melvin was changing the strings of his baby (a golden e-guitar) and Meredith was there too and i listened to Lose Myself. The "recorded" version. Literally from PC speakers. Haha. And Meredith's Zen is so cool lar. It's 30GB so its no Nano and her house PC owns even more lar. The Hard Disk is 320GB!! That's like infinity -1 songs!
Okay, soon we headed up for prac and it was nice and good! We, at least i felt, we sounded better this week than last and overall it was a fun time practising. The two hours plus jz flew away and soon it was back to the youth room. A few hungry guys decided to go down to SPC and get something to eat. After taking infinity -1 minutes, we bought our stuff and on the way back, the girls from the band were on their way. Haha. so funny cuz when we reached back, we finished our food and called the girls to buy something back for us. Haha. Vanessa bought some cheese puff snack. Too bad Melvin doesn't like cheese. But we te and couldn't finish it. Soon it was pre-service prayer and this time, i was on the guitar.
Haven't played the accoustic in ages but i tried my best. Sorry it didn't turn out too good. But Chellie gave a nice sharing and we had a corporate prayer (looks at Chellie) HAHA! The new Tortex pick i bought was put to good. It already looks worn out after me using it for ONE pre-service prayer. Lolz. At least the bass picks are holding together.
And soon enough, prayer ended and the musicians rushed up and almost chased the YM out as we rushed for our sound check. Did some minor practising and then headed off. Prayed and then it was soon the start of a wonderful praise and worship!! It didn't start off too well with Lose Myself, but yay cuz we're getting new praise songs introduced other than the milked-it-for-all-its-worth-according-to-Rachael older songs.
Worship You Alone by Planet Shakers is a really good song!! And we didn't even have time for our last song God of Miracles but it was still fantastic!!
Aunty Aye Lan did a great job in covering for Ps Mark who's coming back today from Karen's with our amazing missions team!! And after that, we slowly packed up and reluctantly left after preparing... oh wait... can't say now. Haha! *winks* if you wanna know, ask me. TOP SECRET till.. u will know when lar.
The whole cell didn't want to go for dinner so i decided to go to SPC for a quick bite. My dinner was a Cornetto cone. $1. Haha. Then walked back with Winnie who took 38 home which is more convenient for her. Talked abt council. Haha. Don't we always. Oh, i whined abt my SVP to her as well. Lol. I should whine less. =p
Sunday
Now today is still in progress so here is a halftime report.
Day started off well with Mei Yian arriving second, followed by James, FX and BS. No idea when Grace or Matthew arrived. Didn't see Su-E though. Jeremy didn't come either. Sads...
Today, i'll jz skip to the point that really inspired or rather, wow-ed me. The praise and worship today only had TWO musicians. And the drummer half way through the service switched to become the pianist! Cool eh? But Ps Janet explained why. God had told her to give the musicians a 3 month break. Sounds like fun ryte? I mean, i've never seen a church giving 80% of it's music team members such a long break! But here's the coolest part. After that, when they're back from the 3 month break, they will form a core team that will play every week for the next three months!! The commitment!! Plus, they will fast a meal i think everyday and spend loads of time praying more than practising. WOW. They are really serious abt God. And i think the CFC musicians could learn from the adults who are setting such a good example.
Ps Ang preached on Spiritual Potential but the song that really meant a lot to me was this.
Chorus:
Standing here now, with my mind and emotion,
I make a vow, to give all my devotion,
All my desires, i place You above,
You are my God, You are my very first love.
Its an old song, but such a hard song to sing. God takes our vows seriously, and it even says that this is not one of those emo-ish songs where u say stuff u dun really mean, but its a slow song and says that we're praising God with a focused mind, that has thought through the cost to make a vow of devotion. A devotion to place God above all my desires. I took it seriously today. And Holy Spirit, please help me get off my Starting Block.
Shout outs
Phildia-Poly starting soon. All the best and lol abt the knight in shining armour!
Pras and Ahdiah-Congrats on the silver. I mean it (=
Zsa-still praying for ur knee
Tristan-eat well
Yumei-don't give up!
Cass-For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline 2 Timothy 1v7
Jaren-keep up the good work
Kawai-don't give up!
Winnie-txs for e walk!Labels: Abishek, Ahdiah, bimbo, cass, Ferena, ICA, Learning Journey, Picks, Ps Janet, Sam, SCDF, Sean, Shermin, ShuJing, Shuming, Soo Ming, SVP, Vow, Winnie
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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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(Friday, March 30, 2007-)
+11:42 PM]*
# Jesus I Surrender
Friday
Today was not too nice a day. I enjoyed myself, but htere are certain things i found out abt myself.
Lessons were alright, although i still must apologize to all my classes for not finishing on time.. And 06, txs for the spamming arh..
Gave out lots of sweets over the past few days. I think Louisa is gonna have to lower her sugar intake soon if things keep up. Haha. Hope u guys enjoyed version 0.5 of the current affairs quiz. Give me some feedback ya? Then after that, it was lunch
Tried out the unpopular Malay foodstall, and surprisingly, the food is actually jz as good. Really no idea why its not as popular... Sure gonna have to tutup kedai (close shop) soon. So sad. After lunch, got the sad news of staffroom table shift of Jocelyn. Just wanna say i think its really stupid and ridiculous. I know i dun have the full picture, abd im biased in my opinion, but let JoJo stay... pls... Why bother pleading.. heartless ppl..
Watched the ending of FMA in the morning too. Sad story too.. Sorry haven found Cepeta yet Wei Ren. Printed Yumei's PI for her too after some minor editing work. Gave it to her in the hall b placing it on a table. Yumei, u actually looked quite happy playing volleyball! Must really be ur passion (=
Rotted in the staffroom reading GP bulletin. Also waited for Siok to come back from her 1.20 but she never did and we were supposed to start the screening of The Rabbit Proof Fence and The Crash. Neha and I told Ms Kwan that Siok must have been "kid"napped by her students, and she was like.. "oh.. ok..". We were like, now we know Ms Kwa wouldn't care less if we died. Hahah, at least this was funny and not sad.
Then i started off The Crash for 4 TA3 students. Sad. But oh well, at least there were no major problems. Except me NOT catching the whole story of The Crash. When i went in to check on the TA3, all i heard within 5 minutes were more swear words than on Zsa's blog for the past month! And also there was a sex scene where the woman's was showing... Yes, the movie was M18, but still... But I clarified that it actually has an impactful story.
Back to the real movie for JC1s, Hotel Rwanda. A really good movie abt the heroic efforts of Paul Resjhfadacir (dunno how to spell or even vaguely pronounce his last name, but truly awesome guy!!!) Sad story on genocide of the Tutsi tribe in Rwanda. Dianthaaaaa didn't like it very much either. Esp the "bumpy" truck ride from getting the supplies (not surprise hor MY)
Then went off to close the Geog room which is VERY dusty. It felt like the beach of East Coast Park when u walk in the room lar. Ok i know im exaggerating, but u get the idea ryte? Shuming or Zsa maybe could tell me more abt the geog room?
Then went to scroom, talked to Evelyn, had dinner opposite with cass while Aaron and Evelyn refused to share a table! Hmmph!
Then went for music prac. Helped move e stuff into place. Couldn't get the accoustic to work but Addy with the magic fingers with the sound board managed to get it working somehow. I tried 4 different ports and 2 cables and produced no signal at all lar...
I finally played bass today. It was Jesus I surrender. Im almost deaf on my right ear, but thats the price bassist pay i guess. Hehe. It was nice playing bass one again. And tmr im on! Yay!!!!! Gtg sleep now!Labels: bass, FMA, geography room, hotel rwanda, JoJo, Lousia, ms kwan, neha, PI, sad, Shuming, Siok, sweets, the crash, the rabbit proof fence, Yumei, Zsa^2
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(Wednesday, March 28, 2007-)
+8:34 PM]*
# The Surprise
Monday
The start of the week. Aa start with hope after being recharged from the weekend. Yay. I now, i need that recharging more than ever too cuz monday is my 5 period day. And it did start off quite well. Did the crossword with 03 and 06 and the answers with 21. And then taught Zsa^2 maths-trigo. Then it was off to Toa Payoh for tuition after a quick dinner and drink. Met Yumei, Kari and Jeryl, Jaren at the Library too. Made my spin-off highscore there and till now, nobody has beaten it. Its 20k, around there. Haha
Tuition was resumed after a long long break and it was chem. Finally money started flowing in once again and it was a rather short feeling trip back and on to the next day. The Surprise!
Tuesday
Day started off normally, except the photo-copier decided to spoil so i had to really rush my printing stuff. Did my AQ with 03, who .. erm.. were rather silent
Firstly, it was a little shocking to see ALL and i mean ALL of them outside the classroom unchanged from PE. So all the girls and some of they guys had to go down and change. Not wanting to waste any more time, i handed them the article to read on the way to the toilet. From this i learnt that... don't bother. Haha.
So the class went on... after losing most of it to the toilet. And eventually i ran out of time and dun think they really liked the assignment at the end. Haha. But im sorry, u guys need to learn to how to write. And yes Zsa, i so agree with u that style cannot be taught, it can only be learnt.
And at 10.00am, it was the end of my lessons! Haha. Nice timetable ain't it? But that's not the nicest part yet, cuz ahead was a SUPPLIES from my cell!! Walking back to the staffroom, i saw Matthew standing outside the staffroom, soon it was FX, James and MeiYian all ard! Haha, lemme explain the reason why i didn't have a shocked look, cuz firstly, i was more confused. Lol!
Was wondering why Matthew was here, then thinking, this isn't church, why got FX and James and all. Then after abt 5 to 10 seconds, it clicked that this was a SUPPLIES! Haha, quite slow eh, and by that time, the shocked look already pass its expiry date. So we headed down to the canteen for food. This cell pigs out quite a lot! So if i put on weight, u guys know where it came from la! Everyone bought western food except MeiYian, who packed it later anyway. Talked a lot and even planned ... does Gabriel read my blog? Better not take that chance
Then they left and i went on to have a second lunch and then it was ... hmm.. i dun quite remember. This week seems to be flying by me. But things that i found particularly meaningful are
-my wonderful cell SUPPLIES, the card, gifts and encouragement given
-being able to teach ppl maths (cuz i feel GP is hard to teach, sorry my students, im still trying hard)
-being encouraged by ppl and also being able to encourage others
Ok, shall fast forward the rest of Tuesday and move along cuz i really did loads of nothing.
Wednesday
Can't recall what i did in the morning other than watch FMA. Did a lesson with 06 and they were also quite tired apparently from PE so didn't really get the class going. Tried to improve today with 21. Brought up stuff relevant to them and got them talking a bit more, but that's Thursday *chases the intruding Thursday blog words away*
Then after that, rushed down for lunch cuz Calvin didn't get us lunch cuz the Jap stall opposite school was closed. So we went down. Oh. We means Jojo, Eugene and I. They both packed ther food but i forgot to pack so i missed the remaining of FMA while they ate and watched. Oh well, i went to get a drink as well and met some of the o6-ers at the drinks stall. Then headed back an anime-ed a little more.
It was soon staff conference and it was utterly pointless for RTs. Shall speed up my blogging cuz i have LOTS of gp essays to read for the upcoming Words Words Words. After staff conference I stayed a while with Zhi Yuan and Zsa^2 who are BOTH in drama. And CONGRATS to ZY on passing her audition to get in. Then, hmm, can't remember again, haha. I think i went back to the staff room, or didn't i... hmm.. oh well, that was pretty much wednesday. Im sure i went scroom and ate dinner with Di Hui and Natha.
Then chatted A LOT. Aaron was the main one and yeah, it continued today (Thursday) Nice chatting with cass too (=
Thursday
Woke up late. Oh well. Prepared for lessons and soon it was lesson with 21. It was a nice time. Took my time teaching the AQ so it wasn't too rushed. But still i spoke too fast. Sorry 21. Esp those who are new and can't follow. Tried to help them by asking them if they could follow and taught a few personally, but i guess its still a long way eh...
The lesson was also rather dead but i tried this time to liven things up by talking abt their stuff and made a wrong move with table tennis. Sorry YingEN. But i think it prevented some ppl *winks at J* from falling asleep. The nicest part was after the lesson. Stayed back a while while some of the 21-ers were finishing up the AQ. Talked a bit more to Chun Hai, Yee Wen, Yu Ting, Hong Yu and Qiu Hui. This really helped cuz now i can recall their names better and found out interesting stuff like Yee Wen's citizenship. Shall not post it here in case she gets.. eerr. nvm.
I was more worried that they had no food to finish than the whether they could complete the AQ. So after they finally left... phew... i went to eat with them. Sat with Shuming, Xian Hui, Kathleen and Hui Shian. Kathleen apparently gets high from eating and calls people weird stuff. Ask her abt the Zhu and Jenny! Then went back to the staffroom. Slept.
Woke up for 03 lesson and did the Epsilon version of the Current Affairs Quiz. No idea what Carian (yes, my Malaysian friends, her name is carian) and XueWen were depressed abt cuz they seemed more high than anything else. Angelina was rather blur, but i doubt shes a Diantha yet. But i was more dissappointed that they were late. Oh well, apparently everyone is.
But the lesson was not too bad, it was after it tht was bad cuz i was bothering Raf's class. Sorry Raf. And then went to scroom. Also took a look (that sounds funny) at the new biodata form. It's now 10 questions. No spoilers.
Then went to scroom. Only thing i wanna say, what are your true motives.Labels: Chun Hai, Di Hui, FMA, FX, Hong Yu, Hui Shian, James, Julie, Kathleen, Matthew, Mei Yian, o6, Qiu Hui, Shuming, Xian Hui, Yee Wen, Yu Ting, Zhi Yuan, Zsa^2
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(Saturday, March 24, 2007-)
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# Temasek Idol
Thursday, part II
Yup, after blogging, I did go for class and met 03/07. Funny thing was Mr Tong was in the classroom before that. memories of being a GP rep. Haha. Aand the outdated diskette. Thumbdrives are the way to go man (= So I entered the classroom and there were jz two people. Out of thirteen, i thought that wasn't too bad excpet that eventually the class started like 15 minutes late. Xuewen and Selina were hopelessly lost. Oh well, others were lost too.
But lesson was great and fun. And best part is.... I WON the Current Affairs Quiz. Haha. With a close margin of 5 to 4, but the guys and girls tied each other. So Im the big winner. Haha. Yeah, whatever ryte? Was nice getting to know the class. Will have to read more of the papers though, bet Im gonna forget 90% of their names when i enter on monday.
Then it was off to the scroom to see what was going on. It was manual labour once again with the packing of TI Goodie bags. Steffi Bond and her agency have been redeployed from top secret agents, to Kacang Putih sellers. Haha!
Ok I have a major GROUSE *winks to 21* here. Why do Singaporeans call tid bits "KacHang PutEh"??? Well, it's pretty obvious ain't it? Firstly they don't know that kacang (which is THE correct spelling btw) means nuts, and not random stuff u get from a snack shop. And putih means white. So kacang putih refers to a PARTICULAR type of nut which is white after roasted. Aarrrgghhh!! The uneducatedness of Singaporeans continues to amaze me. But then again, if everyone's wrong, it doesn't matter does it?
Yup, then left for tuition in church with Nelson and AMaths Differentiation. Met Bertrand first though who was doing Sem 2 Matrices of Engineering. Haha, feel so dumb that i forgot how to find determinant liao. So sad. Oh well, eventually Nelson came and we started and eventually finished. Like.. duh. Haha. That wrapped up church and it was back to TJ
The sc were almost done and then packed up and went for dinner. Then walked home with some (which means more than 1) councillors. Surfed a bit online, got frustrated cuz my net here is so slow. Couldn't watch the stupid japanese dance video on youtube and Shing Yee is becoming more evil! *crashes stone on head* Apparently Joanne is too... Hmmm... scary people hiding in innocent looking faces =S
Friday
This was DDAY. Both for me and my beloved junior Ying Xiu. It was FireFly interview for me and final project, Temasek Idol for YX. Day started off bad.
Had to rush my certs and all, and eventually forgot one cert. Ah, nvm that, got most of it in order and left it at the GO for certifying and went for lessons, saying i would ocllect it at 9.30. But little did i know 9.30 was lesson time. Darn.
Had the crossword with 21. They seemed to be rather stuck at first with most guessing brands as 1 across but its NOT the correct answer *hints to next classes* But slowly they did get better. Some of them even got the lame ones like "she keeps quiet" *pokes shuming* haha. The clues didn't really help I guess, i dunno, comment anyone?
Then it was my first time with the new 06. I forgot where the lesson was supposed to be so I walked back to the staffroom, only to find out it was in the same class... So lame... So i walked back with my laptop and all and set it all up again. 06 was even later... Baa... lessons cant end on time.. never...
Did the same thing although it was hard to remember whos who still. Except a few who stood out but I think I'd forget all other than the GP rep Abishik. But it was fun and guess what, I did the current affairs quiz again. Nosurprise ryte.. Haha, the Team White lost to Team Green and it was good fun, i think. But they were also randomly shooting. People, please please start reading the papers!!
Okay, play time was over. Haha, play time, why did i use that phrase anyway? Lolz.. And it was soon rushing off to EDB. Took my certs from the GO and Mdm Aini was so nice. She saw I was rushing and sweating so she offered some perfume. MEN's perfume if you're wondering! -.-''
I knid of liked the smell too! Haha. A cab took almost forever to come but i still made it ot EDB before the 15 minute buffer time they asked for. Took the lift up to the 28 floor and my ears were already feeling the pressure. Met some other ppl who were there as well. Majority from RJ. Majority for GEP. Me? Only foreigner... Sighs. But it was cool. Jeline i think from RJ was the quite friendly bimbo. Yup, i think she knows shes quite bimbotic. Quote of the day was from her friend. "Jeline, stop being bimbotic, this is an interview for INTELLECTUAL people" Haha! We were all laughing in the quiet and pristine lobby of EDB.
EDB ppl were so not punctual lar! Wwhen it was 11.40, I found out that the 11.15 group hadn't even gone in yet (they do in 30 minute blocks). Then we knew we were in for a long wait. Initially the silence was so thick we were like in different rooms already. But after a while, we loosened up and started talking. Quite interesting ppl. Jeline guessed Mark's name cuz he "looked like a Mark" Yeah ryte, pure luck i think. They were from the same primary school and knew each other and even their friends. Mark-HC, Jeline-RJ, Me-only TJ.
There was this other girl who came later and she has a younger sister in TA1. If anyone knows who she is, gimme a tag? This girl was from RJ. And it was so funny cuz Jeline asked if she was from HC when they both were from RJ. We obviously bot bored and started making up lame stories like how the waiting time was actually the interview and there were hidden cameras to see what we were doing or the windows were actually one of those one-way screens and they were actually watching us. Mark even waved to the window. Haha.
Then came the stupid part. Mark asked us if we wanted to try the EDB Mint that they had. He said he tried it and it tasted like Mentos. But I said, it's our turn any moment and what if we get called in with the mint in our mouths. Jeline even crunched the Strepsils in her mouth before she entered the Lobby on 28 lar... So he said jz swallow lar. Sounds logical ryte?
NOT!!!! I stupidly took the mint and, yes it did taste like mentos. But after 30 seconds (I had already waited 30 minutes) of taking the mint, they called my name!! I was like.. crapz..
So I did swallow the mentos and my throat was burning for the whole interview lar... So stupid.
The interview was normal. The usual why did u choose FireFly and tell me abt some problems you encountered and how u handled them. So i spammed my council stories like mad.
Then came the part where we were joking about outside. The Singapore 6.5 million target. Mdm Lisa (my interviewer) asked what do i think the potential problems are when SG hits 6.5 million and i rambled on abt job competition and congestion and bla bla bla.. I was apparently (or obviously even) off topic cuz she had to ask again. "What are the MAJOR problems u would see, from EDB's economic perspective". So i restructured my answer and yeah, went on to more friendly questions after that. She even said i had better be good at the current affairs cuz I was a GP tutor. Darns. So biased lar!
And while the Mint was still burning, the interview came to the last parts abt do you have any questions abt the scholarship. Did the usual where would i work kind of thing, asked abt the shuffling, if they provided training and all. Yeah, and it ended quite nicely. Even the fact that i did go for EDB's Next Big Thing last time helped as she recalled some TJCians. Told her abt Zhongshan and Sean who were there as well. Yup
After I came out, Mark came out as well. The blur pork brought along only ORIGINAL copies of his certs lar... So he had to zap them at EDB. But then again it was quite wise cuz he could zap it for free there. And the zap machine at EDB so chim one. Touch screen, green light, auto detect paper size... Jeline and I had more fun playing ard with it than anything. Was quite funny with how one cert came out with the top part missing. My fault. Haha!
Then we waited with Jeline who was waiting for her friend. Talked more and then we made our way down after girl-from-RJ-with-sister-in-TA1 came out and then we parted, hoping we would meet again.
Then MRT-ed back to Bedok and met Grace. W/Talked back to TJ with her and met Julie and Zhiyuan on the way. They were meeting Yi Ning and hadn't eaten so I walked backed to the interchange and ate with them. Saw Yi Ning at the double pedestrian crossing and she didn't dissapoint, being slow as always =p But i think she realised we were laughing at how slow she was walking and started running. haha
She was in the nicest uniform in SG, the Meridian uniform. Jx realised i dunno if its spelled meridien or meridian. Oh well. Its the nicest blue ard! Yup yup. So we talked a lot and decided on BK cuz Macs was full. Yi Ning led the way and we did find it. Ordered and ate my first BK meal in a long time and soon it was time for Julie's PDP so we had to walk back
Things I found out
-Julie's bullied at home
-Meridian takes attendance at lectures
-Triton is the Meridian equivalent of Gamma (=
-Zhiyuan stays very far from TJ
Talked even more and Julie soon had to go for PDP. Met Dianthaaaaa under the stage who was with Pui Yee (though i forgot her name twice) She introduced me to a fun (and sadistic) game. Happy Tree Friends. And after a lot of trying, I eventually beat Jeryl's highscore. Haha. 15410 I think was my record. Lolz. Im sorry Jeryl, jz lucky i guess. Brought Dianthaaaaa to see the rehearsal of TI for a few seconds before she had to run off to her LEO GM
Now the day shifted to Temasek Idol. It was only 3 something and the room was already all set up and ready with lights and posters all in place with the laptops and everything. I helped with some of the setting up like taping wires and running ard with bits and pieces of information. It was dragging once again and i left jz before the final soundcheck. Got Julie's ticket and coulnd't hear Yi Ning on the phone. So sorry, she had to msg me. Haha. Then met JoJo and went for dinner.
It was late so I rushed a quick chicken rice and met Pearlyn, Zhi Ying and Mei Hui. Took Zhi Zhan's chicken rice back for him too. Haha, Pearlyn still welfaring ppl (=
Reached the audi and the arena was ready for stars to shine.
The atmosphere was just right, except perhaps the ludicrous PSI index in the room, courtesy of Zhi Zhan. From now on, I shall call the smoke machine the IndoFire. Haha. Qquite cool how it was remote controlled though. And before long, I was wandering ard with my students. Met the Temasek MTV people in the upper gallery. Who? Yes, the Temasek MTV, namely Shuming, Yi Ning, Julie and Shi Min. Go figure out why they're Temasek MTV.
Ran back to the control room and soon, the show was underway and I can honestly say the atmosphere was electrifying! The show started of with the theme song of the day I'll Be There For You (popularised by the Friends comedy series) by the Rembrants. The idols walked onto stage with a thunderous applause (with desibles of screams as well). Back in the Panic Room (read AV Control Room), the pressure and stress was on to get everything going right. Adi was the main projectionis, handling the backdrop and videos seamlessly. Soedar did the music with the help of ZZ's iPod for intervals and Claire was the lightings woman.
The atmosphere was tense in the room as votes were coming in even before the idols performed. Judges were straight to the point. Oh, they were Mr Daniel Chung, Ms Kwan and Alvin Tan of J3, Project Superband. After a great round of performances where Gordon peaked and Imran sank while Xiang Yun outclassed everyone, it was time for the groups
SPZ started things off but sadly, were quite off themselves, getting some negative comments. Same for Sarah and Zhi Wei and even Kita. Quaver were the obvious best although they weren't at their best. Sounds smooth ryte? Nope.
In the Panic Room, the walkies talkies were going almost non-stop and Adi was furiously swapping cables with Soedar for each video. And then swapped back for the voting procedures. For me, i voted
VOTE IDOL S4 S4 S4 S4 S4 S4 twice and
VOTE IDOL G4 G4 G4 G4 G4 G4 countless times. Hahaha!! In case u're wondering, thats for Xiang Yun and Quaver. But sadly, Xiangyun still got the least votes, but shes only TA1, so she has a bright future! Quaver got in and soon, it was time for the break. PSI went up to the max as even the outside was smoky.
Guest performances were really the best, with Alvin Tan and Chuang May being obvious winners for solo and group if they had participated. I need a HERO. ahha
Then things were tense as Arthi and Gordon made it through and Quaver and Kitaa were the finalists for the group. The American Idol Theme music really sounded nice as the results were announced!!!!
Then it was the solo category which i couldn't be bothered with anymore cuz Xiang Yun was out. But in the band category, Kita vastly improved but were no match for Quaver's killer song, My Immortal. The lightings were perfect and i think Yee Chiun took my advise on wearing red-black. The atmosphere was really there!! And at the results, it was obvious that Quaver was the winner and Arthi got the solo category. Err.. dun really care, but QUAVER WON!!! CONGRATS!!!
So they had confetti thrown down and Arthi and Quaver re-sang their last song and we ended with I'll Be There For You and the TI video.
The Panic Room was now over. And it was clean up. It was fast and smooth. Had "kachang puteh" from the sc. A thank you talk by my junior and Ms Fong and then we cleared out.
Last project and soon, its gonna be the 31st. An amazing night. Superbly done. 3 generations of PCs were there as my senior came back. But the last words of this post go to my beloved junior Tan Ying Xiu and thats all from me for Temasek Idol. Kenneth. OUT.
You more than made me proud, u have something to be proud of yourself! It was AWESOME!!Labels: Dianthaaaaa, EDB, FireFly, Grace, Jeline, Joanne, JoJo, Julie, Mark, Mdm Lisa, Mint, Shi Min, Shuming, Temasek Idol, Yi Ning, Ying Xiu, ZZ
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(Tuesday, March 13, 2007-)
+12:41 PM]*
# Found
Thursday
It seems so long ago, looking back. It was rather a dull day other than the fact it was fry-day. Eugene and JoJo had quite a fun time giving out points. Sorry to Shermin and co who walked away and missed 1000 pts. Mostly did scholarships and university applications. Mostly a boring day, feeling rather lost. And was actually looking forward to Friday. Mahjong seemed tempting.
Friday
Continued applications from the previous day. Also saw Eugene playing TD with Aaron. Had Canadian $10 lunch as well with the RTs. Nice. Im really not in the mood to blog, but its sort of the reason why im blogging. Just wanna be FOUND. By so many poeple. But I'll be back on this issue. More of what happened next that was quite exciting.
Guest appearance of Jia Yi in TJ. Met her at scroom. Had quite a nice time talking. About council. What went right and the many wrongs. The traditions. The fun. The mistakes. The fights. The people. Its common knowledge that the 29 has been outshined by the 30. We all know they've pulled the right strings in and left some loose. They've held the right people close while for us, its only a shadow to be feared.
A unity we could only hold together has been cemented
Privileged
Yet not knowing the price
Strong
Yet lacking the refining fire
Favoured
Unknowingly masochistic
Great
Yet ungrateful through time
Yet what can a shadow say
Observing
Yet what is lost cannot be found
Stepping away
Council has been good. It always will be, it's the very essence that keeps it going. No matter the batch, the traditions held, the culture taught or the knowledge passed down. It will groom you if you let it. It will teach you if you are willing to learn. To Diantha and Cadence, if you want to run for council, give it your best shot. If you get in, don't waste the many chances to learn and grow. It won't be easy, I know, but it will be harder if you get in and don't benefit from it.
Had a great time talking with JY, showed her 06 and 21 in the hall during the emo time they had. Danced two mass dances and a speedy. Laughed a lot at the chaotic fun-dance. Pointed out ppl like Eugene, Samuel, Cadence, Yumei, Mengting and others from 06 and Julie, Shuming and others from 21. Didn't find 04. Sorry. But then, all good things come to an end and it was time to leave the hall.
Back to scroom and then left to meet 06. Yay. But then realised i didn't have my wallet with me. Made 06 wait quite a lot. Sorry Yumei, knew u were really not feeling weel. Rushed to the staffroom and realised i didn't have my wallet. So I was heading for dinner at Simpang with 06 OGLs + Joanne without any money. But of course they weren't gonna let me starve and Cadence and Diantha offered money. Txs for the offer and esp Diantha for the $10.
Walked to the 2 and 9 bus stop and got on after quite a long wait and a talk on sc life. Finally reached Simpang Bedok and met 21 there. Haha, Shuming was so terrified of the pokes. And i did finally give in to one poke as 21 were leaving. Sat down and took almost forever to order. The menu wasn't very clear or helpful either so I had a mango with lychee dessert and 1 plain and 1 egg prata (read roti canai to Malaysians). Should have ordered my dessert later cuz it came way before anything and I slowly ate it. Some things i found out that night
- Cadence is a VERY slow eater
- Diantha is a slow eater
- Cadence, Karilynn and Dianthaaaaa all wear braces
- Stephanie is a healthy eater
- Yingen and Jaren eat fast
- (i already knew this but) 06 is full of cam-whores. Haha
Then after a very long dinner and queue time paying we left for Yumei's. The surviving people that made it there were just Yumei (duh), Ying and Jar EN, Cadence and Dianthaaaaa.
Had a nice bus ride with almost the whole bus to ourselves then reached Yumei's place which is so cool. Wish I could stay there. Haha. But the rooftop is really nice. Except people that are still high from orientation decide to bang the railings to cheer beats and stomp on the rooftop rather than enjoy the scenery. Took more pictures. Man... One should get Yumei an analogue camera and see how she suffers with film. Then went down for Mahjong and i surfed the net.
Took a swap after that and played mahjong instead, but ended up losing all anyway. Yup, so my mahjong skills haven been upgraded. But this time I could play without reference to the paper. Ok fine, I had to ask Yumei or Diantha, but well, i wasn't totally blur. I think. lolz.
Then had more fun playing bridge with Diantha. Ok, clarification on the scoreline, it was 3-2. So nobody thrashed anyone although i totally owned the first game and she almost owned the last no-trump game until I got control. Haha. Finally got the mahjong ppl to bridge. Which was a good thing cuz 4 man bridge is so much better. Bad thing cuz Yumei doesn't bridge so she curled up on a sofa and slept. Sorry to Yumei again. Then instead of leaving at 11 to get the last bus, we decided to stay till 11.50 to cab home and avoid the midnight surcharge. Jaren got his dad to come.
So we bridged on, was really fun to bridge once again, legally. Haha. And major discovery here is....
-Dianthaaaaa is the ultimate blur queen at bridge! *gives stacks of mahjong tiles!!!*
Finally we decided to leave and Dianthaaaaa led the way. You can so tell that this was a recipe for disaster but we were all too tired to realise. She didn't know the way. So we just walked till we reached a road. So much for avoiding the midnight charge. Then we found a taxi. Without a driver... Dotzzzz... Continued walking until we found a cab and took it home, with Cadence dropping off first in TP, then Dianthaaaaa the blur queen at Simei and me last. For the record, I owe
-Eugene $10
-Zsa Zsa $10
-Cadence $7
-Dianthaaaaa da blur $17
Oh well, it was a nice time (=Labels: bridge, Cadence, council, Dianthaaaaa, Eugene, Jaren, Jia Yi, Julie, Karilynn, mahjong, Shuming, Simpang, Stehanie, Yingen, Yumei, Zsa^2
the story ends like this;
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