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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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(Saturday, July 7, 2007-)
+2:05 PM]*
# Back
Hello ppl, i back from Malaysia
Quick recap of what has happened so far! Took a bus at 11.15pm back to SG. There was this family of a mother n her two daughters who were on the bus. They were very friendly and nice (= one of them is even a model who models in Johor and KL, the other's a Form 4 girl in Johor Jaya. Anyone heard of that school before? But anyway, it was quite funny cuz they started talking to me first and the form 4 girl was like so nervous lar when i speak to her, she will either laugh, or answer some other thing which i did not ask and then laugh. Nervous laughter but after a while she got more used to it. Of course it didn't help that i speak too fast (as always) ad her english wasn't too good. Her older sis was also very nice, she's now a full time model, and she's very pretty! :D
Wanted to ask her if i could take a photo of her, but then.... haha... i was too embarrassed. Oh well, missed the chance. But at least i got to know her a bit, and her name too. When i talked to her younger sister, the younger sister said her name was Beautiful. Haha, so its Vivian (who's beautiful) and Beautiful. Lol.
Yup, it was a nice bus ride, except for the driver who thought that everyone wanted to listen to his collection of Malay music so he let everyone on the bus listen to it, although it was like 2-3 am... Some people are morons. At least i confirmed 3 things, i dun like Malay rock, all Malay rock songs are about love and lastly, all songs go in this order - opening music, song chorus and then a super long e-guitar solo, chorus-with-tonnes-of-e-guitar, more solo and end.
Okay, so the two sisters n their mom left at Johor, and i continued on to SG. Weird thing happened at the customs office, the officers were like detaining ppl and all, at 3 am.. so sad for those ppl. Then after the customs check, the bus i was riding told me to change bus.. so sad, my water bottle left on that bus.. Oh well, took the new bus, reached beach road, cabbed for $11.40 and reached Sennett at 4.30am. Slept in the hall till 7, reached TJ at 7.30 for work!
Reached and met JoJo on the way in, had morning assembly, Sorry Zhiyuan. Wrong day to see u raise flag eh? Then had all my work come in, wah... a lot sia... Met some of the students, had western Thursday with JoJo and Eugene and then also met Cai Yu and Cass and Co at the marquee. Chat up with them before leaving. Oh before that, let me just announce that my birthday is on the 27th of JULY!! Wwhich is also the same as Evelyn. Cooll eh? Haha, my "twin", two years late.
Then went for music prac, which was not too good, cuz we were like, not used to the stage, i was not used to the bass and... yeah, lots of not used to. But it was not that bad lar, maybe just me not totally fitting in yet. But it was nice being with the music team once again! (= (=
Okay, Friday was work too, and i alsmost came late. Met and talked with more students, wore the top that was the same colour as JoJo's, which obviously got us into quite a bit of humiliation. Okay, maybe just jokes lar, not that bad. Had a second lunch with Julie, Jaren, Sarah, Zhiyuan, Zsa Zsa and then went back to TJ and stoned a while under the stage.
Then had Bible Study with Claire, Ah Xiu, Rebecca, Pei Zhi and YG. It was a good BS, and then i rushed of to give Claire her GP tuition, which was so delayed.. eek... then had Pentecost Friday at church.
We practised a bit more until time was up. Then Ps Khoon Mei came to the stage and handed Vanessa 4 more songs for us to prepare during the prayer. Haha, already we were trying to get the 4 songs we practised right, and on the spot we had to play 4 more! Lolz. Yup, so we prayed and then played and it went ok, but could have been soooo much better. Like authoritative confidence, as Rachael put it. Yup, as singing our hearts out. But i guess it also came from the fact that we'd been up there for quite a while. 2 hours plus, so not too bad i guess?
Okay, thats the service, then most ppl went to Simpang but Hosea and i went home to Sennett. Then today happened. Early tuition with Benjamin. He didn't do his work, taught binomial expansion, and then ate and did my manual laundry again. Got Gilmore Girls Season 2 from Claire (or her bro rather) and then nw did this (=
Nice to be back! Oh oh, Another announcement, i got accommodation in NUS!! But dunno where yet lar. I'll keep ya guys updated!
And pray for Carl too, he got into a bad accident.Labels: Beautiful, Gilmore Girls, Jaren, Julie, Pentecost Friday, sarah, Vivian, Zhiyuan, Zsa^2
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(Friday, May 25, 2007-)
+12:27 AM]*
# Memories
Hey ppl. Nothing much to blog about in particular. Wanna say txs again to the people who've made my life memorable.
The council. The thirtieth. It was nice hanging out at Justin's although i will say the freezing cold wasn't too nice to bear. It was fun playing mahjong although DOA was distracting (because it didn't have sound... what were u thinking??) Txs Justin for letting us stay there and use ur kitchen to cook instant noodles. Stephanie now knows how to use the microwave oven to cook instant noodles. Yay! But really, 30th, txs for letting me hang out with u guys although im like super old and retired. Retrenched even. And some of the 31st that i know too. Txs for the hospitality. I do appreciate it cuz its really out of ur hearts that u do it and not out of compulsion. At least that's how i feel. Yup, txs for the frequent times i crashed scroom too =)
The RTs, in particular The Tropics citizens. It was nice talking to you JoJo before u leave. Yeah, its all so sudden isn't it. Well, i admit i was rather sudden too when i came. But it was nice, the squeals, i dunno how u do it. The JoJo attitude, the piano playing, the handphone-Hillsong-listening-sessions. Just doing random stuff and teaching me quite a bit about band too! Modulation and transpose. I know the difference now! Also the cutting pipecleaners from the start. "You can really cut!" Haha, comment of the year! Yup, txs for all the nonsense times we shared, the lunches together, pre-orders and the occasional sardine puffs! Eugene, txs for always welcoming me and also teaching me how to gem. Hehe. And also Rubik's and lending me ur credit card and treating me quite a few cabs and lunches. Yup, even money matters quite a lot =) But really thanks for just being a friend during my stay in TJ =) Yup, really meaningful and all the best too!
Today was meaningful in the sense that i saw my first Shakespearean (how do u spell that?) play, and it was OH MY GOSH BRILLIANT!!!!!! Yes TJC Drama Club gets my standing ovation for a play well played. A show showcased in excellence. It was a moment in life. A memory. Well, let me run through this billiant performance from my point of view.
Firstly, i paid $26 to see this production. 10 for tix, 16 for the cab fare to get there in time. Shouvik, txs SO SO MUCH for saving me that front row seat. Yes, that's how i could see u Zhiyuan and Zsa^2 =)
The opening was nice! With the whole introduction of characters. Then there was the Mariam and Actors who were really the funny people of the whole production. And then we progressed into Fairyland with some evil guy and his little minion. Ok, not little literally but yeah, it got funny from there when the love potion thing started to get screwed up.
I liked/loved the entrance of the FAIRIES!! (not to mention the accompanying FIRE!! *winks at zhiyuan*) they were so well hidden!! And the whole play really took off from there, with the set coming to life.
Donkey was funny, really funny, Lysander and Demetrius were really convincing, and funny at times. Loved the fight scene. Was funny how Zsa was sat upon too! Haha!
Yes, anymore details u should have wathced the whole production!!
But i stuck around after the production to congratulate Zsa but she never came down. Congratulated the rest on an amazing show. Went up and the rest i'll jz let those who know, know.
Went home. Went to Justin's. Did the extra Innovation Day work till about 3.30am before sleeping. Couldn't really sleep cuz it was freezing. So wore socks but it was still cold. Put my towel but it was still cold. Did i mention it was freezing? Slept at about 4 plus but couldn;t relaly sleep cuz it was freezing. Yeah, freezing! Haha, ok ok, yes it was freezing. I mean, cold, very cold like freezing? So i woke up lots and only got to sleep like one plus hours before 6am came.
Went to school for Inno Day. We got pwned/owned. The other departments were so prepared lar, with videos, prototypes, experiments, demonstrations. We were like.. blabbering about blogs and sms voting... OWNED.... But the reception was nice and got a msg from JoJo that she was in school too! Haha. Then i stoned ard.. dun quite recalled what i did. Oh yeah, went to Mind's Cafe to meet Eugene and his class! Played amny funny games, like Jungle Speed, Banana Snap, Bucket-something. And then ate there (mistake) and was almost late for drama. No Zsa, I was there while the "wedding reception" was still going on ya? So i caught the WHOLE production!! Yayayayay!! It was so worth it. i know i said already, but yeah!!
Okay, post production, decided to overnight in school. Haha! Did a few stupid things. Used shampoo instead of soap, got the lights shut off while bathing, walked to scroom when the choc was on the table. But it was a nice experience. Although Aaron was acting a little weird into the night (or early morning) and zhiyuan wasn't exactly thinking right. Lie down and watch the movie *looks at ceiling and laughs*
Yup, had fun staying over. Played bridge, sorry Hui Min didn't get to bridge with you. And Big2 and watched a bit of some movie which was quite lame... Then talked quite a bit. Sorry for keeping u awake.
Finally decided to sleep at about 4am. Zhiyuan had to wake up at 5.15 for the overnight wheelchair marathon. But her alarm mysteriously didn't ring and i woke up at abt 5. Then abt 5.15 Di Hui came and immediately she woke up. Haha, cool eh? Walked to the sports com, then listened tothe briefing and went back to the scroom to rest. Didn't get much though cuz councillors started arriving for schooL. Yup, second day of sports carn. Yes i didn't bathe that morning but did help out later with the wheelchairs. Played a little badminton but the wind was screwy. Haha
Then basically bummed ard the whole day. Played the gladiator thing with Aaron and won. Hehe. Watched the funniest match ever between Cadence and Evelyn!! Basically did nothing till abt 1 plus, went home to bathe then came back for soccer cheering. Oh yes, before that i was promoting the soccer match too.
The PE tutors were drinking beer!
Finally the bus came, but not the people. Rather disappointed but oh well, 5 of us took the second bus. Cool eh, a whole bus for 5 ppl. But on the way zhiyuan and swee liang looked like they were dead. Zhiyuan was a little hard to wake, and swee liang was a little slow. Haha. We got in and cheered.
I cheered like crazy but it was honestly a disappointing performance by TJ and RJ deserved to win. Yeah, sort of lost my voice cheering for them. Then took an MRT ride back to TJ.
Met JoJo and Eugene! Haha, so nice. The final meeting of the Tropics before we part our ways. Went a little high in there but it was all cool. Stopped by the guitar prep rooms and JoJo gave her stuff and then i got seats with Eugene cuz shums asked us to go early to get good seats. Then went opposite a while then soon the concert started.
Let's jz say i did a lot of screaming and shouting for my students. And also, there was one "GO STAGE CREW" that was Mr Eugene. Stuck ard after the concert. Gave a little something to my students. Then left for home. Shuming looked dead tired. Haha.
Yup, point to note. In thesse two days, i slept only less than 4 hours, and I didn't feel tired or sleepy. Some crazy HIGH!!
OK, Next post shall be on church and the weekend! Yeah!!Labels: 30th SC, Cadence, Eugene, Evelyn, Guitar Concert, JoJo, Mind's Cafe, RTs, soccer, Sports Carninval, Swee Liang, Wheelchair, Zhiyuan, Zsa^2
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(Sunday, May 20, 2007-)
+10:04 PM]*
# Spring...
Interview coming up. I want this. Yup. Prayed about it, and i want it. I need it.
Tuesday 11am somewhere along Jalan Bukit Merah. Not too sure how to get there, but i'll find out. I guess i've sort of ruled out NTU in my mind. But I don't want to have to go through uni on another ASEAN scholarship. It will be sad.
Spring Singapore. Read up about you. I guess it's something i can do for quite a few years. But of course i need to know what u really want and deliver it this Tuesday.
Okay, a little recap of the weekend. Friday was cool. Went for Choir Concert. It was nice, especially the musical this year. Met some of the choir people again. And Ms Tham vaguely remembers me. Yay! Haha. Carian was dancing in front of my side of teh audience but i don't think she saw me. Valarie was singing on my side too, didn't notice me either, but then again, she was supposed to be lookign at Ms Tham anyway. Had difficulty spotting Shi Yun but i saw her during the musical. light green scarf =)
The concert was good. Ushering was very bad. Emcees were a little off, not quite the right atmosphere. And the programme booklet was.... erm... smelly. Yes it was, go smell. But overall it was a nice concert.
Gave a little (yes, it was quite little i know...) something to carian, shi yun and valarie (whose name was spelt valerie in the proramme booklet) and then took off to eat dinner with eugene. Newton circus. First time, overpriced, but at least the Hokkien mee was nice =) I don't eat prawns though. Sad eh? But txs eugene for dinner =)
Then took 48 home and slept. Next day had College Day.
Met up with many people. Txs for the camera in the morning Yumei! Took some pictures, talked a bit. Then sat down, went to audi, didn't sit down. Went walking ard with Ben Tham. Then had to sit down when it was about to start.
The college was rather pretty, but its jz a facade. I found out that Dr Vivian Balakrishnan is a young man. Haha, that changes quite a bit of my perception, and his speech was not bad. I guess its a pre-requisite to be a politician? Got stephy to take pics for me. Txs Steph! I know it must have been difficult.
Got my awards, for SC (plaque), 4As (CAC Award), Overall Top Student (Some-guy's-name trophy) and gave the valediction. Cadence and Zhiyuan got awards too. The council's a brainy one this year!
Ok the valediction.... Let's see, i have heard many different things abt it. I was nervous. So stupid lar.. But i sort of settled in after a while. There were those who were laughing (yes, i won't embarrass u here) and those who were trying hard not to laugh. But i tried. I am proud of myself, and i think my valediction wasn't as boring as last years. Yay =)
Yes, i loved college day! Yes, call me proud but its something that im proud of myself. Of course i know its not jz me who could have done it alone, but i think its something i will remember for my whole life =)
Talked to many people, parents (some of which i don't know), tutors, juniors, friends, students. Then went for class outing. All 10 of us. 9 most of the time. Ate at Surf n Turf. The food there is not bad. And had a nice "discount" when they didn't add Mei Lien's meal to the bill. But the owner so nice say no need to pay. Haha. Of course they did spill water on grace and teik kheng, so they did kind of owe it to us? Yup, talked a lot. Ni Ying wants to buy laptop. (Ma) Lay Sian either wants to be a teacher or an accountant. Pei Fen, haha, she's definitley not committing suicide at 25 anymore. Mei Lien is gonna go UK. The guys... are in army. Period.
Then walked ard, went for YA.
I was ridiculously dressed from college day for YA, so they got me to be the "late usher" which is the guy who gives out this letter to those who were late to remind them to come early for service next week cuz we're locking the doors at 7.30pm sharp. Yup, honour God with our time. So it was not too nice a job, but it was alright. Although the speakers weren't. Just the left one i think. Winnie and Addy had a hard time with the sound board this time.
Yup, other than that, service was ok, ended on time and we ate chicken rice for dinner and i went home.
Shall skip Sunday. For those of you who are wondering, take a long thought of how (our cell in particular is doing) and then maybe u'd understand the way i reacted.
Yup... bye people..Labels: 29th College Day, Cadence, Carian, Choir Concert, Eugene, Grace, Lay Sian, Mei Lien, Ni Ying, Pei Fen, Shi Yun, SPRING SG, Valarie, Yumei, Zhiyuan
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(Tuesday, May 15, 2007-)
+5:45 PM]*
# Without Work
Monday
So its finally come. Im unemployed. Retrenched. Saded.
Yup. But i still made my way back to TJ like Fe drawn to a magnet. Ok, more like i miss the people there!!
Yup, was back in school, but i woke up like super late cuz i was going crazy on MSN with Yumei. Haha. And first thing i did in school was to pass Yumei the College Anthem. "JAZZ" version. Haha, i hughly doubt it cuz every possible genre is in this version!
Yup, then bummed ard the staffroom. packed up some of my stuff. Got my stuff for NTU ASEAN zapped. Then i walked home cuz i forgot to take some certs. But i was being an idiot cuz i didn't bring anything from my table home. LAME... So now i still have a lot of stuff to bring back. They include
-leather shoes
-blue octopus =)
-03's tee =)
-21's boxes =)
-many cards/notes/papers
-certs
-dictionary....
-pillow (dun bother asking)
-random stuff like water bottle, pencil case...
Ok, i shall bring some home today.
Slacked in the staffroom quite a lot. Then got my stuff certified and went for college day rehearsal. Also left the 4X4 Rubik's with Yingen who passed it to Zhiyuan. They (including Julie, i dunno why.. haha) were making Invest souvenirs. Haha, i think i looks nice, but too tiring to make. Hehe. Lazy.!
Went for a REALLY USELESS college day rehearsal. Yup. USELESS till i have NOTHING to blog about. And even more sad was that i was late to meet Jean for Thai food!
Met Fer n Co. in the way out. Feel sad for them. Beta HC... Met Claire n Co too. Claire helped me mail my shcolarship stuff. Yay. But she also told me the wrong bus to take to Suntec. Boo...
Had to make a switch to 14/196. Did it at hostel's bus stop. Too bad didn't see anyone there. Took 196, met Jean and walked into Shaw Tower. Which looks like a hidden shopping centre! Then looked for Aman who was hiding in the toilet! Haha! Met her at Subway and then Xinyi (who Jean went and caught) too as we made our way to the Thai Restaurant. Dunno the name though. Haha
Let's see what we ordered.
-2 Plates Thai Kuey Teow
-1 Plate Thai Noodles
-1 Plate Thai fried rice
-1 Bowl of Tom Yam Soup
-1 Green Curry
-1 Plate of Mango fried chicken
-1 Plate of Kang Kung
-1 complimentary Mango salad
All this for only $8 per person. Ok, $32 in total. Not bad ryte? But it rocks even more cuz the food actually tastes really GOOD!! Yup, and then we started off eating normally. Until we started to get a little full and started talking. Then we were sprouting more nonsense than there was food on the table. Haha!
Ok, we talked a lot, i mean a lot! of crap. Haha!! And we were apparently there for quite a while cuz the shop uncle had to ask us if we had any more orders cuz they were gonna stop taking orders. So .... it didn't matter and we talked even more. Haha!!
Ok, eventually we had to leave and decided to go n get ice cream instead. From Tom's Pallete. I think. Really wierd plavours they have there. They include
-Wasabe lime (suicidal)
-Tau sa piah (erm, eat the real thing better)
-Teh Tarik (same like above)
-Black sesame (its really black, and... yeah that's all its good for)
-Pink guava (refreshing)
-Chocolate banana (oooohh!! nice!!)
-Chocolate (nice!)
-Im sure they had many other random stuff... but i forgotz liaoz
Haha, this shop really quite cool, they let u try all the flavours before u buy,a nd i think the four of us did jz that. Must have looked really bad cuz we tried almost everything, and ended up only buying two small cups. Hhaa. Aman and Jean shared one, and Xinyi and I shared the other. They had Pink Guava + Choc. We had Banana Choc + Choc! Which looked like pure choc! Haha
Then we were laughing so much outside the store, it was quite funny for us to go back and get tissue after leaving the store for abt 20 minutes? Haha. Yes, we laughed quite a bit at the customers after us.
We talked a lot more crap outside and eventually left. Haha... missed 10. It was rather lame. Took 14 instead. Talked even more. What else is there to do on a bus ride ryte? And then went to Jean's to watch Desperate Housewives. Really evil show. And after that Jean was really sleepy and she had work today. I didn't. So i left, walked home to Sennett and slept.
Tuesday
Woke up relatively earlier. Did nothing except rehearse "my" (after it was cut down like a totem pole) speech for college day. Then packedup my place a bit. Ate lunch. Parked. Blogged.
Tuition soon. Not feeling well. Sneezing a lot and feeling too cold in the staffroom. Oh, peeked by to see Invest. I think Zhiyuan saw me, unless she was waving to go for the NY invest. Nice seeing some of my students again. =)Labels: Amande, Desperate Housewives, Jean, Julie, Parked, Rubik's, Shaw Tower, Thai Food, Xinyi, Yingen, Zhiyuan
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(Tuesday, May 8, 2007-)
+11:01 PM]*
# 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, May 6, 2007-)
+3:54 PM]*
# Point of Difference
Its the weekends again! YAY!!
Saturday
Was awesome!! Haha, apart from spending lots of time hand-washing clothes, tuition was alright. Although i still dread the journey there n back. Started off fine with me dropping by TJ to get my stuff which i left in the SC room. Oh, why would it be there? Cuz... i left it there... haha.. ok ok, cuz i left it there while i went to watch Chinese Drama's show. The easiest name to put for the show owuld be Temasek Nite 07.
Friday
Points that you already know
-Kenneth doesn't know Chinese
-Neither is he able to read Chinese
-He wasn't stupid enough to sit through it alone
So i got myself a few translators! Haha. Big thanks to Zhiyuann and Yingen who translated for me. Let me try and retell the stories (there were 3 ok!) and tag me if i got it all wrong k?
Story ONE
-aiks... darn.. can't remember liao..
-*ponders while enjoying ALL OF THE ABOVE*
-oh oh, it was about how life isn't always perfect
-there was this father who adopted a blind girl
-then he was going to die, so he donated his eyes to his daughter
-and according to zhiyuan, the scene where the musical box gets spoilt is significant in the sense that it foretells that she is going to lose something (or someone) precious to her
-and parallel to that, there is a fairy tale going on where the prince and princess lives happily ever after after (lol, after after =) defeating the witch
-btw, to the witch, ur shadows were so cool!! tag me if u r reading this k? I dunno ur name but i guess you know the ppl i was watching ur show with
Story TWO
-it was about being urself
-there was this girl who always thought of herself as inferior to others, especially to her sister
-because of that, she thought that ppl were always making fun of her and excluding her when they actually weren't
-in the end, when she stands up for someone else (because of something she herself holds dear), she realises that she needs to stand up for herself
-then she realises that she will only be happy when she is herself
-according to zhiyuan again, the act of her putting on her glasses at the end is to emphasize the point
Story THREE
-starring JULIE LOW!!!!
-i dunno what her character's name is so i shall call her Julie (=
-its a whole story about the good and bad of changing times, centralised around the Singapore Government
-started of with the collapse of the First World Hotel and ended with the upgraded Kopitiam where the Julie pays for the expensive meal
-according to Julie, her transition scene to her "older self" was purposely interrupted by the stage crew and lighting change to ignify how time flies
Ta daa~~
And there you have my version of what went down at Temasek Nite 07
So moving back to...
Saturday
After getting my stuff, peeked into LT2 where EXCO elections were going on but had no time to stick around cuz tuition called. But once tuition was over, i headed back and stepped into the LT.
The EXCO was already decided by then. Shall not ruin the surprise for u, but somewhere on my blog is the list of the new EXCO. Go hunt k? Then after forever, we decided to go to Parkway for lunch.
Ate KFC, sharing a buddy meal with Cheryl who tried Meltz. I think Meltz is nice, but not filling... Interesting things that went on was talking about how Hui Min was gonna suffer! And her scandal where she herself failed the task. Dun think u guys will know what im talking abt, but then again, u shouldn't! Saw a PW group there also!
Aruna, Abishek, Pui Yee, Cheryl and Ryan's group. I think. They were supposed to be at Macs but apparently it was too crowded so KFC had good luck.
Left for home on 48 and then did my laundry and rushed to YA pre-service prayer. Aiken shared an awesome msg (see.. he said so already in the mails ryte?! haha) on being the LIGHT! And then we moved into the service which was very very good! We started off with this awesome song... Point of Difference!
Shall focus on the chorus, and how it is really meaningful (oh, btw, i bought hte album already! Haha! Can't edit my sidebar though, but point is, UNITED rocks, and their songs are really meaningful!!)
Chorus
Open the skies, flood the earth with Your light
Like what Maddy and Aiken said, this is really meaningful. Apart from the obvious fact that we are called to be lights, there's this interesting thing about lights. In a room as big as u can imagine, ok, for convenience, think of a classroom. If its totally dark, there's like so much darkness in the room. But even if a small tiny candle is lit, the darkness which is so much more than the small little candle cannot overpower it. The light shines through. And secondly, everyone in the dark will naturally focus on this light. This is our calling. YA and Emmanuel. To be that light. And not just any small light, a light that will flood the earth! Blowing Spirit, Jumping Locusts!
This is love to break a world indifferent
This is the MOST meaningful part of the chorus for me. Why do we need to shine? Because we live in an indifferent world. Just like what Isaac super-crazy-awesomely-amazing Church Camp promo-video said, we love in a world where lies are passed off as truths. Where people care only abou themselves. Where one can be a crowd and yet lonely, be online yet disconnected. This world is so cold and indifferent. And we are called to love, love so much that it breaks the indifference. Love so much that we stand out. Love so sincerely that we shine. Love so dearly that people see the Love of God in us. Love that breaks indifference. How important that is, words here can't express, but it really struck me. To live my life, that my love will break this indifferent world
As we lift up our eyes, fill our hearts with Your fire
It certainly isn't easy to love till it break indifference. It won't be normal to stick by friends when work calls. It won't be easy to care when I need to be cared for myself. It's hard to show I care when I'm empty inside. But this is where God comes in to be that fuel for our fire to burn and shine for Him. On my own, i cannot love till it breaks indifference. I cannot love without being filled myself first. And as Rachael said before the service, today, God really wants to fill us with love. Love firstly for Him, and next for others. And im taking up that call. To love people, to genuinely care, to sincerely touch, to break this world indifferent.
In a world the same, we'll be the different. The Difference.
Even after all the "hype" of the weekend, the world is still the same. The only change that took place is in me. The world isn't suddenly going to be all lovey and caring. And trying to break the indifference may break my spirit within the first few hours of monday. But in my world, im going to be the different. The Difference!Labels: 31st EXCO elections, Point of Difference, Temasek Night, Yingen, Zhiyuan
the story ends like this;
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