Yesterday was a tiring day. I was feeling really unwell after school. Wednesday has always been the least busy day of the week. Lessons were normal, so are many other things. For contact time, a local Acapella group came to stage a performance in the auditorium. With them is our school's very own beat-boxer, whom I only got to know that he was the best in Singapore just then. Though I find his character a little weird, but I must admit that he's really good. Especially his solo-part in the Chinese Oldy "Ye Lai Xiang" where he simulated the Sexaphone. It was just so GOOD! At night, despite the torment from the headache and the nausea and stuffs, I stayed up to do a bit of work, and finally dozed off when I was doing my quiet time.Weeks after weeks, a Thursday has come after the other. But it remained to be as loathful as ever, because of the poor scheduling of the time table of that particular day. The day started off with a good note though. Was pretty chirpy in the morning because clone made me happy=). But tiredness was getting the better of me too. So there born a sleepy bird. Morning lessons were tormenting. And I had threatened Zen that I would report to the teacher if he falls alseep in class again. I'm bad, but that was for his own good after all. So I won't mind playing the bad guy here. But tiredness made me wanna doze off too. So there were a few occassional nods in the hall too, despite my imense effort to try to stay awake. At noon, we had the napfa test. I was happy and unhappy for that. Happy because we get to skip all the lessons that were scheduled after 1500 (crazy time-table), unhappy because I was afraid of the pull-up. So here's my results:Shuttle-run : 10.2s ( Kah Chin said I took detour by running extra length during the test)Sit-ups : 60Sit-and-reach : 49cmStanding board jump : 2.14mPull-ups : 2So that landed me with a bronze, thanks to my pull-ups and jump. How I hope I have the determination to start training. After the test, I went to play soccer with Kah Chin and friends. The weather was blazingly hot- tremendous torture, and I was losing my stamina fast too. There were a few chances which I failed to convert, but it was a nice game nevertheless. Perhaps even nicer if I hadn't injured myself. There were two occassions where I have already dribbled pass the opponent, but got trip down by the foot at the back. This ought to be considered a foul on field soccer. So my right knee was injured. But that was not the worse. Soon after, my left foot got twisted while marking a J2 school team player, and from then on I was able to watch the remaining game at the sideline. Kah Chin praised me for a well-time block for an opponent's open goal after the game, and that was the first time I think. So I should be happy=)
RULE 2: You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages you and asks=)
Q: Like someone?
- Yes<3Q: Kissed someone on your top friends?
- Huh?Q: Been arrested?
- nopeQ: Been searched?
- nopeQ: You love someone?
- Yes<3
Q: Been suspended from school?
- noQ: Sat on a roof top?
- noQ: Broken a bone?
- noQ: Have shaved your head
- noQ: Played a prank on someone?
- of course
Q: Had/have a gym membership?
- no
Q: Shot a gun?
- Yea. Bang!Q: Donated Blood?
- Yea man!
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LAST PERSON YOU
1 You hung out with?
- Kah and Brian2 Last person that you texted?
- Clone<33 You were in a car with?
- Joel
4 Went to the movies with
- Zen, Lenn, EeWen, Xiuhui
5 Went to the mall with?
- Same people6 Person you talked on the phone with?
- Clone<37 Person that called you?
- Clone-)8 You messaged on myspace?
- Nope, no one9 You talked to?
- Sister10 You miss?
- Clone<311 You hugged?
- Er, one of the guys I saw around school=P
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WOULD YOU??
1 Eat or drink?
- drink=)2 Be serious or be funny?
- serious
3 Drink whole milk or skimmed milk?
- Both=)4 Die in a fire or die getting shot?
- shot5 Go to the bar or to the beach
- beach
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ANSWER TRUTHFULLY
1 Sun or moon?
- moon
2 Winter or fall?
- fall3 Left or right?
- right4 Black and white or colored?
- coloured5 Where do you live?
- tampines.
6 Do you wanna get married?
- yea=)7 What is on your mind?
- work8 Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it?
- twirl
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IN THE LAST WEEK HAVE YOU
1 Kissed someone?
- Destiny-)2 Been hugged by someone?
- some guys I saw around school3 Been poked by someone?
- yes.
w h o - w a s - y o u r - l a s t
Today's Tuesday. My condition has not improved a bit, and I was still as tired. Today was the first mass pe that we were allowed to do our own games, as the other group was supposed to do their napfa. So me, Kah Chin and friends played soccer. It's been so long since we last had a nice game like this. My marking has improved, and there was this narrow shot which went narrowly wide.
Lessons were as normal, and today the 16th HC was given acess to the HC room finally. At lunch time, the stomachache which had affected me since the beginning of the day had become worse. Thus, I decided to skip lunch and did math in the room. It was such a conduswive envrionment=)
Last period of the day was math. I was already losing focus by then, and towards the end, the stomachace became so bad, that I had to excuse myself from the class. It's very bad and painfu. And the rumbling from within was giving me the nausea.
After attending the HC meeting for a while, I decided to leave school earlier today. Partly because I was unwell, and partly because I wanted to have a haricut. So I reached home by 1730. Mom went with me, and had a nice chat. On the way home, I popped the question on baptism, and to my surprise, she showed no objection towards it. In fact, she was very calm, and gave me all the freedom to choose my path at my own will. Thanks mom! =)
School has finally started, but many days of deprivation from sleep didn't really get me going. Yesterday was monday the first day of school. I slept through the journey to school, and dozed off frequently here and there, except during lectures. First period of the day was a free period, during which I saw this pamphlet of some samples of how to bless people in EeWen's pencil case. She offered to bless me, and allowed me to choose what kind of blessings I desire. I made my selection and was blessed in my future and my relationship=) That day I only ended school at 7 because of HC stuffs. Upcoming event will be a runaway success! I'm beginning to feel the press for time, and this is only the beginning. Caution!At night, I talked to Joel and Faith. Joel was suffering from gasticitis, which according to the doctor, was due to stress. I told him the worrywart which I quoted in one of my previous posts. Genesis 7:15-16. Faith was sad, probably because of schoolwork, and I told her the same thing. Leave everything to God. As long as you've tried your best, He will have a great plan through our lives. Later at night, I officially started my masterlife for the first time. Day 1 teaches us about disciples, and how we have to meet the requirements in order to become a true disciple. Luke 9:23If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. It was at the Daily Master Communication Guide that for the first time in my entire life, I felt His presence. Matthew 6:25-34, which teaches us about the same thing. Just then, I realise something. God is telling me about the worrywart. I've been telling so many people about it, but has failed to practise it myself. God wants me to commit my life to Him, and not to worry about the unnecessary. It's a special encounter with Him!
So today I woke up at 815, already quite late, considering that service starts at 9. So I bathed and got myself ready and stuffs, before leaving in a cab with Joel and family. Today was the first time I witnessed baptism, and realise it was such a joyful event. Because it's just like a new birth into a big family, and there was song and prayers. I'm looking forward to my own baptism some day=) Today's service had some new songs, and there were nice. First time I heard Uncle Barry (if I'm not wrong), Joel's godpa sing, and he sing quite nice. Haha, I mean very nice=)Then after that we had cells, and we did masterlife today. It's a new material to help us keep track and remind us of our journey with Him, and it was great. Because last week's masterlife was cancelled, so we actually went through work that was done 2 weeks ago. It was fun, and to some, confusing. I find it quite relevant and applicable to my journey as a christian except that when looking for verses, I would have to take extra long to search the book.We were required to memorise this verse:Luke9:23If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.Short term meomerising was alright, but I've already forgotten it now. So that's when frequent revisits come in I guess. After cell, I went to Paya Lebar to attend my meeting. My phone's battery died on me just then, and I was uncontactable for a while. PW meeting was as usual, not very productive.After that I went home, and reunite with mom and sis and bro-in-law soon after after parting the previous day=P
At noon, sis family, me and 2nd sis went to AMK hub. I's been so long since we went out together, but eventually it turned out quite dry because everyone was tired. Had fun teasing my nephew though. So everyone basically drifted off to dreamland after we reached home. At 1630, I woke up. But bro-in-law hadn't. So I had to go back home myself. On the bus, so much thoughts came back again.
So hastily, I bathed and cleaned up before leaving for Jolyn's birthday party. I was lucky, because I didn't have to wait long before the bus finally came. So I met bao and bo at the void deck before going up to Joel's place. There were so many people, Joel's uncles and aunties, Jolyn's friends and of course F.F. Nevertheless, Bird was late. So we sat there and caught up so much. Chatted a lot, and it was nice=) Soon, Daniel came. Actually not exactly soon, and he came only after we had our first round of food. So when he came, I was already a little full. But F.F is always good enough. So we went to help ourself with more in order to accompany him.
When the party was over, it was 2100. The night was still young, so we decided to go to the new E-hub to have some games of bowling. Jolyn tagged along=) But when we reached the bowling centre, there was already 30 people in the waiting list. That was like "wow". So we decided to just linger around. We started from the top storey, where there was only the Kbox, where the charge was super expensive. So I came up with this idea that we jsut sing outside since there was this TV at the side, and "pretend" we were inside. Alright, so that was lame. We left soon after to the next level, where the cinemas and the arcade was. There was this new machine in the arcade that was super fun. Technology has improved so much that there were so many touch-screen technologies. So we played the one which we throw the balls at the screen to score pints for accuracy, reaction and the other two I forgot already. We were good, after getting the gist of it, all our grades were S which I think mean superb=)
Then we went to take this neoprint, which for the first time F.F was complete, and an additional Jolyn=). So is F.F +1=) Bobo came up with this super cool pose, and it turned out really nice. And in fact, all the neos were nice=) We had so much fun that we were late for home. But luckily Tiong Wei is there to save the day. Because I was there, Joel and Jolyn didn't get scolded. I spent the night at Joel's house once again, and I stayed up to do work all the way until 5 in the morning. E-learning week is crazy...
Saturday, for some reason, I woke at 630 in the morning despite tugging in quite late the previous night. Mom woke up early too to go to work. But apparently she didn't know how to open the door. So she was like fiddling with the door for like erm... 10 minutes? And it was noisy.
Soon dawn broke. Bro-in-law woke up and was in a daze because he wanted to fetch mom to work, but he overslept. Thus, putting that behind, he and I set off to the pungol river to kayak. Wa, kayaking in an inflatable was an entirely different experience. It's more stable, easier to go in a straight line, faster, except for the constant fear that any protruding rock would puncture the body. Halfway through, there were these 2 eagles, one of which circled us for a while before disappearing back into the tress. Alright, that's really an experience. Our intended destination was out into the sea, but when we were approaching, our way was blocked by this marina that was having some construction work going on. Aside from that, another fun thing was the few speed boats that occassionally sped past us, leaving ripples so huge that our kayak literally bounced on it=) Cool! And ya, we said hi to the boatman=)
Enjoy:
off we go=)
hwa!
row row row your boat, merrily down the stream!
when you see a crocodile, don't forget to scream! ARGH!!!!!
Friday was supposedly the last day whereby the teachers were able to upload MORE work on the portal to torment us. In other words, you can call it the final torture. Thus, I bit my lips, and braved through the last stretch in one breath. Maybe not one, else I would have died. But I tried to do as much as possible. Evening time, mommy, sis, and me went over to big sis's place to stay over. It was the first time I was visiting their new house since they've moved 2 weeks ago. Flats nowadays are awesome. The multi-storey carpark and all. The layout was just like that of a typical condominium. But according to brother-in-law, the only difference is that flats are built at closer proximity than condo, meaning lesser privacy. But curtain solves all problem=)So my mom prepared all the home-cooked dishes and brought it over. So it was really a feast. First night of the stay, I slept in a sleeping bag. Wahaha. Initially I slept over the cover. But as the night became no longer young, the whole place became so cold that I had to burrow into the sleeping bad for comfort. Aircon was not on, but it felt like it was on. So another good thing about these new flats is that, you save on your air-conditioning bill=)
I haven't blogged for two days once again. But this time, I don't think I would be writing a make up post for it. Reason being, the hectic e-learning is killing my life. For the entire of yesterday and today, I've been staring straight at my laptop all the time, as long as I'm awake, the computer would be on. The things we have to do are really too much. Yesterday I completed my much overdued geography, and today I had another geography to do. That's very bad, isn't it? Then I did my General paper. It's kind of late now. But at least I think I've finally completed the internet component of my e-learning, so I should be happy yea? Maybe a little self-consolation. But I know it isn't that good after all. Tomorrow my group will be meeting up for our GP group component of the e-learning. Two of the people whom I didn't really like from the minute I entered the class in my group. Let's hope things work out well yea? And the many many worksheet. E-learning sucks...
No one would belive this. The much-anticipated e-learning week has turned out to be more of a torture than anything else. The extent of torture? I spent almost an entire day doing ONE subject. And when I said 1 day, it literally mean 24 hours. That was how crazy it was. Perhaps only this subject was the crazt one. After all, I could finish 3 subjects the day before with a fraction of a day. Alright, mathematics used to be one of my favourite subject, and I hope it still is. But the system of e-learning was a total flop. CRAP! Lectures could not be fasted forward, whenever an answer was given wrong, ou will be directed back to hear the entire lecture again, answer must be of the exact format as given (b/3 is wrong, while (1/3)b is right). What's worse is that when the answer is finally derived, it only says you are right, and doesn't show the step by step guide to how to present that answer. I'm sure if one who already has completed the quiz were to take it in the written format, he could barely get half the mark. And the 2 lecturers. 1 talked so slow, the other so unclear. And and and, when the lecture is on, multi-tasking is forbidden, else the lecturer would "paused" to wait for you! What the "elf" la! E-learning was much looked forward to, but sorry. The mathematics one sucks! If only it could be like Chemistry and Physics, which though wasn't perfect but at least beneficial. Alright, that was all grievance after I've an entire day of torment. Believe it or not, now is already 6 in the morning. I did until I dozed off, and the last question was crap! I couldn't do and just trial and error until I get the answer, which took me 2 hours? Actually my method makes sense too, but it was still trial and error nevertheless...
Monday was an eventful day, so eventful that I did not even have the time to post an entry for it. Thus, here’s one to make up.
It was the beginning of the e-learning week. Joel and guys had theirs during term 2 and I remember I was so envious of it back then. The idea of being able to stay away from that dreadful was just so soothing. Hence the day was finally here, but it was not at all slack. In the morning my group and I had to go to Temasek Primary to conduct our pilot test. Meeting time was 10 and I woke at 8+. It’s considerably early, taking into account that I slept only at 3 the previous night. Dallying, I got all the stuffs ready and set off at around 9. Despite that, I was there earliest. Our usual meeting place was as scarce with people as ever. So I waited and read the bible. This part wasn’t as applicable because it taught us how to build various structures for worshipping. The attendance was finally completed when Zen joined us at last. There was a little discussion for miscellaneous stuffs and rehearsed our skit before leaving for lunch. We had prawn mee for lunch, and it only cost 2 dollars. A good portion and a good taste yet only 2 dollars. I think I will be having that for quite some time.
From there, we left for our destination, Temasek Primary. We thought we would be late since meeting time was 1230 and it was already 1210 when we went to the bus stop, but just then the bus came. A short journey and then we were there. There was a domestic peacock at the entrance area! After registering we entered the compound and Zen went to settle administrative stuffs in the GO, while the rest of us waited at the resting area. I miss primary school so much. There were times when kids so small in size walked by. Era has changed. The bag most of them carried were around sizes near to that of mine, some of which even heavier. Looking at their overwhelmed frame, memories rushed back, but I’m not feeling nostalgic. Why would I want to return to such craziness? Isn’t childhood supposed to be a happy one?
At the resting area, we edited our powerpoint and set off to our allocated class 5D at 1300. Those students behaved in a way I least expected them to be. Things many years back are hard to recollect, but I didn’t remember myself to be really comfortable with strangers back then. But in the classroom, most of them were so lively and to some extent noisy. Kids these days are really outgoing, ain’t they? Before we went into the room, we took some pictures with my lappy. It was ths first time I used my webcam so extensively, but the effects were cool. When they were finally back from assembly, some saw my background picture and begun to speculate about it. Natural instinct told me to shut the cover=).
The event was sparked off with an opening talk by our leader Zen. But I was sure he wasn’t at all prepared, and I could tell that the English teacher was already pissed since then. Then we had this skit, which was quite hasty, but the purpose was met nevertheless. It was well-received. Then we had this game thing, where we failed to deliver the instructions clearly that in the end, there were two winner group and some conflicts. Due to that, we didn’t have enough prizes left, and had to cancel our last game. Despite the many set-backs I enjoyed the experience very much. Maybe I might become a facilitator someday, who knows?
We left the place at 1430, and the rain had stopped by then. Thus, we decided to resume our original plan- to catch the 1530 show (Red Cliff) at Tampines Mall. Zen and me discussed about Three Kingdoms during the bus ride. It was a nice show. I especially like the Kong Ming played by Takashi. I don’t know how to describe but the movie’s just so awesome! I like it a lot! Though accuracy of death still remains number one, but this is nice too. Some may disagree because the ending’s a little unexpected, or rather, the ending was missing. But I thought the flow of the movie was just nice, and if there was ever to be an ending, the movie would take more than 3 hours. The current one is already around 2hour 15 minutes. For people who like history and war, the show is highly recommended. Even for those who doesn’t, I think the plot of the story and the effects are worth watching too. The fact that the price of the ticket was 6 dollars added another level of wonderful-ness to the day.
At night, I tried to do my e-learning, and completed my Chemistry which was fine, Physics which I had only managed to skim past, and parts of GP of which the current affair quiz I only scored a pathetic 30+ percent. Then I confused Bao sby telling her about many many other parts of three kingdoms. Yay, someone else’s interested in 3 kingdoms!
Top left: Cao Cao (Meng De), Sun Quan (Zhong Mou), Zhou Yu (Gong Jin), Sun ShangXiang,
Gan Ning (Xing Ba), Zhao Yun (Zi Long), Zhuge Liang (KongMing), Xiao Qiao
Daily postage disappeared for a while, and I'm finally back today. Friday had been a normal school day except that my appointment as the new care-rep was announced to the class. Instead of joy, the feeling I had was awkwardness. That aside, that day I went over to Joel's place to stay over. He had cell on that day, so by the time I leave house, it was already 2300. Tiredness was overwhelming on that day. So after we reached our destination, we used a little of the computer, before turning in very quickly.Saturday I had meeting with the HC people and the food dept. people. HC was supposed to have the revamping of the havocked room on that day. Hence, I went down to help out. I thought it was compulsory, but I think less than haf the entire comm turned up. Some of the stuffs in the place were very dusty, and some were messy. I never liked cleaning up, not then, and definitely not now. When the Delta ic came and gave his nag, that was when I tried to stay out of the room as much as possible. Fortunately I was allowed to make a move first for the food dept discussion. This time round the discussion was more productive, because I was prepared. (I even printed out a copy of the proposal before I left house for fear of careless people whom might have not read it). Thus, we discussed on various stuffs, before setting off to source some of the ingredients. In total, we went to three places-Sheng Siong, Shop n Save, and the Red Men shop beside it. Managed to find many stuffs, but the few remaining remained beyond reach. Soon, the sourcing was done, and I rushed home to edit the proposal. After that, my big sis and family came home,and I had to stop working. At night, at Joel's house once again, I did my part of the written report for project work. I should be proud of myself, because I think I produced not only 2 proposals in one day, but two proposals of good quality=) By the time I finished my WR, it was already 130. Thus, the next thing I know of was the blurring of the light above me in the ceiling as I laid on the mattress.Today was Sunday. Joel and family had duty at the church so I had to wake up early. This was the first time I bathed at Joel's house and also the first time I took a taxi to church. No link. Thanks for the ride=)So at the service, I was soon joined by Ryan whom I sticked to for the entire morning, helping to arrange this and that. I'm good! Alright, I was juts tryingto keep myself occupied. Today's service was preached by a different pastor. I tried to focus and ponder over everything that I hear until towards the end when instruction was passed down for us to close our eyes and pray, I closed them and only reopen them after a while. Today's service was joined by a group of foreigners. I missed out their introduction but I think they are some GOOD people trying to fight not only crime but evil. Good luck!For Youth we were SUPPOSED to start on our masterlife discussion, but because of the revamping of the church (yes, another revamp), the discussion was cancelled and instead, we helped to move the stuffs from second floor to the third. Some of the stuffs were really heavy, and I suffered a cut in my finger from FuWen's brute force. After that, I had a slice of roti prata for lunch (which apparently wasn't enough for me). Rachael asked me about vectors and I couldn't remember. Alvin asked me about geometric progression and I couldn't solve. Gosh, where do I stand now?! Finally at 1445 I left the church for my project work meeting where we practised our skit and had some minor discussion. It's home sweet home after that, and my nephew came again. Only one came, and it was the first time he stuck so close to me. Haha, baby laughters helps one to shake off any problem temporarily. I had much fun making him the "superman who flew in the drain and towards rubbish cart" before we bidded farewell. I'm beaten already. That should be a simplified compression of past three days-events.
I dozed off and I woke up to realise that I've slept for less than 5 minutes. It's already 0047h. My daily rant about bus service number 38 didn't stop today. Having learnt some lessons, I left house 5 minutes earlier today, but when I reached the bus stop there were no traces of the bus. For a moment I thought the driver of that shift was out of his mind as the bus didn't come even until 630. It turned out that the bus was 5 minutes late. The irrularity of this service is making the commuters crazy.Thursday's lessons are always the longest, and usually it ends at 530 with PE as the last period. However, today was an exception because the people who takes the normal mother tongue had their listening A'levels today. So school ended at 1230- a 5 hours worth of relief. Despite me sleeping only 2 hours the previous night, greatly due to the pain in the stomach, I managed to pull through today's lecture without dozing off. That's a good leap=) Then, there was this message from our Geography compatriot that Human Geog tutorial was still on in the afternoon 1320, although all other classes were exempted. That's just so unfair. Thus, before going for lessons, my click spent the 2 hours break in the library doing homework. I'm becoming more hardworking by the day. When lesson finally ended at 1420, I literally had nothing more to do. Then, I saw Bao and she joined me at the stage area. She wanted to donate blood, but I was only concerned about my growling stomach at that point of time. So I bought an overpriced sandwich from the vending machine. After that, I accompanied Bao to the hall for blood donation. If there were no regulations that donors have to wait 12 weeks before a second donation, I would have gone again. It's a such a meaningful act, and seeing other people dooing it just made my heart itch. The procedure was normal, and I followed her through all the stations until the final one, where I was asked to stand beyond the cordon tape. Initially, Bao's blood flow was smooth and the entire process looked good. But when the pack was around half-filled, Bao complained that she was feeling dizzy, and the nurse quickly execute an immediate halt for the drawing of blood, removed the needle, and called the doctor who helped bao monitore her blood pressure. Everything turned out fine, but it did give us quote a big scare, and I informed all the F.F, who were all caring enough to reply asap. Then, I saw Bobo in the hall, and left bao to his care, while I rushed off for my appointment with Mr Quek.So today was a day of special appointment. According to Audrey, Mr Quek had wanted to see her, Sendy, Alvin, Kah and me today to give us a treat and discuss some stuffs. Thus, after rushing out from the hall, I joined the other 4 at the stage, where Mr Quek came along soon after. Then we decided on a venue before heading off to the Pizza Hut at Bedok interchange. The content of the discussion left me with some doubts: "what has my presense got to do with today's discussion. I mean I don't know why I was invited." But today's meeting did give me a right to be involved in meetings of such thereafter, because I was appointed the new care-rep of the class, because the previous two were incompetent, if not irresponsible, Kah had too intensive commitments, and Kaiyan though a good candidate, but was unproven. So by force and by persuasion, I was made the new care-rep. In a sense, it's a good thing because I would have an even better portfolio under the leadership segment, but that also mean a greater commitment too. Although Mr Quek appeared not to know about what will my job scope be like and what are the tasks I've to take over thereafter. So, for the time, I will just attend all meetings. Another issue was an obvious problem that was not addressed. Zen, and the other Geog-ers had complained numerous times about the lack of commitment CG 17/08-ians have towards the CG, and the division within the class. Apparently, Mr Quek wants to do something about it and was thinking of coming up with some events. Night-cycling, and some other stuffs were suggested. I realise we are the same kind of people when it comes to tenacious situaton like this. He told us that he might not walk us through because we are more likely to have a change in Civics Tutor in the upcoming year, but before he leaves he wanna do something else he will feel unsatisfied. If it turn out to be a flop eventually, then it's just too bad, but at least he tried. Heys, that's entirely me!Walking home, I recalled my last treat from a teacher in the form of such selected small group was back then when I was in primary 2. That memory always stick, and that teacher, always my benefactor. Now that I'm entrust with a role, I believe this will be the chance for me to buid greater rapport with the class. In the past, I've always been a stuck up person who didn't really roam beyond my click, but that won't work now. I'm the new care-rep...
It's already 130 in the morning, but I've just came online because sister has been using the cable for her project. It seems like I'm reverting my day and night again. So today, or rather yesterday, had been a day filled with so many new experiences. Wednesday, a day of later reporting time as I've always mentioned, has already became a regular meeting time for HC stuffs for us, at least for us Alpha people. To add on, today's the racial harmony day too. Thus, all the more there was a need for a meeting. Learnt from the previous day's lesson, I dared not wait for the next bus after I've missed the first. Instead, I took a bus to my secondary school's bus stop to take a different bus. Thanks to that, I somehow managed to reach the school on barely time. It was the first time I dressed up for a school's event, and also the first time I wore a Malay traditional costume. Mine was a bright blue(close to cyan), borrowed from Matt, and I thought it looked nice. But I think some disaster happened when I was wearing the hip-dress(the skirt-like cloth). The pants which I thought was rather loose actually split. I think I opened my legs to wide? Apparently, I didin't realise it until when I reached home and remove the hip-dress. It's a bad experience to split pants, really!After the meeting, Alpha people were dispatched to give out the forms to different different Civics groups for them to tick the number of people who wore traditional costume. It was a relatively slack job, compared to what some of the other houses are in-charged of. I think the hardest part of our first major event was when we had to source for prizes. 50 bucks was spent on a voucher from Hagen Daz of equal value, while I (my sister) had to some up with the 30 bucks Cocoa Tree voucher for the second prize. In any sense, it should be deemed as an over-spending, since I thought the 30 bucks should never have been taken into consideration. We have to try to ask for bargains or even sponsors before purchasing anything next time.Lessons were pretty normal today, except that I wasn't in school's shirt or pants today. Approaching noon, there was this announcement which informed us of the start of the blood donation drive at the school's hall. There were a few enthusiastic ones, and some who weren't. Apparently, I belonged to the former, since Zen and me were like the second and third donor who turned out for th drive. The hall was pretty empty when we entered, but gradually more and more people turned out. Before any registration, we were given a survey, or rather some declaration form. Most of the questions revolved around sexual activities and stuffs like that, which were pretty irrelevant to students, I hope. Thus, the normal registeration proceeded. First was a counter for identity registration, followed by a counter for health check, and then one for blood test. I find the third one rather interesting. It was a simple test. Bascically, the nurse pricked my ring finger and drip a drop of my blood into this blue solution in a beaker. According to the nurse, it was to test if there is enough iron in the bloog. If there is, the blood would sink to the bottom of the beaker. I hesitated a while when I saw my blood sank and lingered near the bottom of the beaker, but not to yet sunken entirely. Fortunately, the nurse gave me green light to proceed on. And it cleared my doubts of me being anaemic too. I'm healthy!Finally, the last station of the entire experience, probably also the climax- the actual extraction of blood. The nurse who blood-tested me had dressed the prick wound hastily, and by the time I reached the last station, the plaster she gave was already dyed red, unable to stick anymore, but the wound was still bleeding. The nurse at the last station was kind enough to give me a gauze to stop the bleeding. Then she chatted with me before giving me the pain killer needle, which was supposed to numb my arm. Apparently, it didn't work for my case, because I felt this extreme pain, which I swallowed within myself, when the actual needle was injected into the vein which she had sought out earlier. What's worse was the continuous adjusting of the needle when it was beneath my skin. I think the position of my vein was rather awkward, making the blood unable to flow out, and adjusing of the needle was necessary. But the process hurts! The other people's donation were rather quick, but mine took almost twice the amount of time. Chu Wen and her click were like, "Tiongwei, are you ok? You looked pale." Haha, I did? I thought I looked fine. It must be the pain, which made me perspire so much. Finally, when the entire procedure was completed, the nurse removed the needle and dressed the wound with a blue bandage. Zen's was yellow, and there were green and pink ones also. Coincident was that the color of the bandage matched with the color of our costumes.After that, I went for my math tutorial which was at the forth floor. Chu Wen was there too, and when she saw me perspiring so much, she panicked and kept asking me if I were alright. She even offered to help me carry my bag. Hahas, funny girl. When math ended, I made my way to the first floor again for my duty, which was to stand in as an audience for the performance (rationale was to ensure that the performance would always be watched by SOME people, key word is some). Hence, I practically wasted almost two hours sittign at the atrium area. Halfway in betweem, I went to collect my progress report which was acceptable, but no way near to the standards I've set for myself. For contact time, there was this talk about some of the leadership stuffs the school is going to offer in the upcoming months. First good news was that Mazurin program will be based on the results of the promotion test, rather than the JCTs which I had not fared well. Meaning that my chances are not ruined yet. Then, there was this talk from this outward bound school guy called Hubert if I'm not wrong. TJC is going to allow a few vacancies for some outward-bound activities towards the end of the year. There are two options- one India, the other Korea. Then the guy showed us this video of the past batches of people who went there. India looked a good destination, and Korea snows. I'm still deciding, but am more inclined towards India, since I think the extreme temperatue in Korea(-40 degree celsius) would be a challenge which I'm unsure if I could handle. The fees were high, but the school subsidies covers a great portion of it, to the extent that if everything goes well, local students might only need to pay 50 bucks for a trip to Inida. I'm very interested.Night time, my head spinned and I took a nap, only to be woken up by a gastric. That's bad I guess. Then for the entire night, I've been trying to do work, but only manage to complete one. Last piece of good news was that I've finally received a reply from the National Youth Forum. Registration will begin soon, and I shall see if I really want to join.That's all for today I guess... It still hurts..
Today's Tuesday, and I was late for school. I didn't have the brightest mood to begin with, and being late certainly didn't help things. I left house at 625 and when I reached the bus stop, the bus which I've intended to take left right before my eyes. By right I should not be late because I've left for the morning bus. Thus, even missing that one, the next one should come and take me to school on the dot. I waited for a short while until the bus finally came at 645-5 minutes later than usual. Inconsiderate people on the bus pushed my mood to the limits. This definitely is not some beautiful sight when there were people occupying two seats, and people blasting their music to the top of their volume. By the time I reached school, it was already 725 and the morning assembly was aalready about to end. That was my latest reporting time to school in my entire life. So approximately 40 of us latecomers were gathered near the front gate. The teacher-on-duty just so happened to be my mathematics tutor Mrs Goh, and apparently I was the only local student amongst them whom she knew of. Hence, she singled me out and asked me to lead the pledge. It was some experience indeed, because never in my life had I ever led a pledge.After that, I went to report for my first period which was PE. That teacher took almost half of the period to brief us on various concerning issues, one of which was regarding the e-learning materials for PE since for the entire of next week all J1s will be exempted from normal lessons. For the latter half of the period, we were made to do some jumpings, push-ups, and crunches, followed by a run round the lucky heights. When we returned, each of us were required to do 10 pull ups each. So by the time everything ended, my head begun to spin. Those looked like the symptoms for anaemia- dizziness, weak limbs, dry lips etc. We shall see. Tomorrow I'm going for blood donation. So hopefully by then, the answer will be out.A series of lessons followed until school ended at 3 in the noon. I didn't bring my wallet today, and the keys were in it. So I stayed back in school to help with the doing up of our noticeboard. The design and the background were out already. Let's hope the outcome would be a good one. Ahava's flooding me. It's growing so fast at the thought of you...
So today school reopened yet again. School's pretty normal except that I had a filling breakfast before leaving house. During recess, I had congee. Thus, I went without lunch in the afternoon. Mr Quek said that my composition scored hight marks, according to him about how strict the HOD of english (the one who makred my script) was. So I was happy. I followed Kah to the library during lunch. He was sick with some serious flu, and he had some audition in the late afternoon. He needed some sleep! Get well soon. So while he slept in the library, I read the bible. Finally, I came across the famous ten commandments of which the second said that we should not worship any other gods, or create any idols of them for He is a jealous God and would not tolerate divided faith. Heys, I share that characteristic. The jealousy in me is super siginificant. No wonder people say God created us in His own image.After that we had Project Work during which one of our key personnel was not present. We didn't have any piece of the handouts, so for the entire lesson, our group was not at all productive. I did try to bring in some constructive points which managed to maintained for a while, until someone came in and digressed. EeWen asked me about us, and I had to bite my lips telling her what happened. Many people still thought things hadn't changed, and ignorantly gave me those remarks, but that hurts...
Today I returned to church again. Both Joel and Faith were not there with me, for that they had duties at the Agape side. Thus, it was really my first time attending church myself. It was quite a foreign feeling. I sat behind Jolyn and Jocylyn, and was later joined by Yan Jun and a couple. Thanks Yan Juan for sitting with me. I only realise that the couples were new there after the pastor mentioned at the end of the service. I ought to have welcome them more warmly when they approached and asked me if the seats beside were occupied. I mean I should have made them feel welcome. It was bad on my part that I answered them coldly...Service talks about the dealing of trials and all. These are the adversities in our lives. For the first time in my participation in service that I could really relate, when Pastor quoted the life of Joseph in Genesis. He also quoted Paul and a few other characters from the bible, whom I haven't come across yet. We shall see. But the most interesting part was the fishing for lobsters part, braving the storm and using joy to forget the pain. It's an example of much simplicity and to a certain degree humour ( for me at least), but I could relate. Yes, the joy of our loved ones could help us deal with all adversities. Quote of the day: "endurance is the mother of all virtue". Pastot Steven said that was the answer for one of his test which he got wrong back then, thus leaving an impression. Endurance because without it, how else could we develop/build/create the other virtues. How true!Then towards the end of the service, he talked about the position of Christianity in present society, where some christians in some countries underwent unfair treatment because of their belief that there is only one true God. Even in the case of Singapore, there are some signs too. Like what Pastor said, "Let's hope we won't come to that stage one day." The awkward part was after service. Because Joel wasn't there, I got no one to stick with. Hence, in the end I tried to get myself occupied by helping Alvin with the chairs. It didn't take long before I finally called Joel and joined him at third floor counseling centre. Today we started on a new material- the masterlife. But before that, we did one last lesson of nooma, which Pastor Steven claimed that it was a wrong tape he had mistaken. In any case, I find it good. Today's nooma talked about flames (love). Love has three types- the raja (friendship, confidant, a relationship between someone whom you could really share practically everything with. To some, it's mere friendship, but I think it's more than that. It's really like a soulmate kind or really good friends, like buddies, and maybe even cloneship if that's considered), the ahava (commitment love, the willingness to commit everything to someone, and the willingness to merge with someone to become one. Customary, I call it marriage), and finally dod (the intimacy love, sexual lives and all. The what is know as eros or erotic. But it's a holy thing I think). Yan Jun related this to the love for the Lord, but Pastor Steven denied the dod part. The answer for the dod seemed to be a definite no, but Pastor seemed a little hesitent. Maybe I was too sensitive.After that we did the masterlife. It's a training for us to become good Christians and to live the way of Christians, so I'm looking forward to that. Did a little read up just now-the natural person, the worldly christians, the spiritual christians. I think I'm still at the phase of worldly christians, turning spiritually. Who knows, maybe one day I might just get myself baptised. I'm looking forward to Sunday more each time.Obstacles
13:17-18
God doesn't always work in the way that seems best to us. Instead of guiding the Israelitie along the direct route from Egypt to the Promised Land, he took them by a longer route so they could avoid fihting with the Philistines. If God does not lead you along the shortest path to your goal, don't complain or resist. Follow Him willingly and trust Him to lead you safely around unseen obstacles. He can see the end of your journey from the beginning, and He knows the safest and best route.
Hard-hearted
11:10
Did God really harded Pharoah's heart and force him to do wrong? Before the 10 plagues began, Moses and Aaron announced what God would do if Pharoah didn't let the people go. But their messages only made Pharoah stubborn-he was hardening his own heart. In so doing, he defied both God and His messengers. Through the first six plagues, God passed judgement. sooner or later, evil people will be punished for their sins. When it became evident he wouldn't change, God confirmed Pharoah's prideful decision and set the painful consequences of his actions in motion. God didn't force Pharoah to reject Him; rather, He gave him every opportunity to change his mind. Ezekiel 33:11, God says, "I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people."
Posted by Judah at 7/13/2008 07:30:00 AM
The saturday's meetup with the seniors seniors didn't come after all. Relief...
Posted by Judah at 7/13/2008 05:49:00 AM
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Quoted:
Whenever I get discouraged because I can't persuade a friend of the truth of the gospel, I remind myself that we are never going to convince those who don't want to be convinced. This has been a tough thing for me to accept; there are some people I want so badly to become Christians. But I find solace in the story if Moses and Pharoah. Nothing would convince Pharoah that Moses represented the one true God- not plagues, not miracles, not even the death of Egypt's firstborn. If calamities of this magnitude couldn't move Pharoah to repent, I am no longer surprised that the daily witness of faithful Christians fails to make a dent in the hearts of many people in our society.However, I am convinced that the best tactic is the slow, steady work of Christ in our life. I'm learning to place the rest in God's hands.
Hello! So today is a Saturday, a much-anticipated break from a hectic school week. Actually not so much of an anticipation because the knowledge of today's appointment with the seniors seniors wasn't something I would look forward to, especially when 9/11 of the people on the current committee are not going. Yesterday was an interesting Friday. For a start, our class had numerous lessons consecutively until late morning. Then we had numerous breaks until noon, followed by a few more lessons before school finally ended. I'm beginning to appreciate life without pdp, but that gave me extra workload too. Haha, since all the other people are most of the time busy, and me almost always free, or rather reltively free-er than them. During the lunch break, Zen and me found an empy classroom where we waited for our next lesson. I read my bible during which I realised many linkage between what was read and what happened around me. It's some kind of spiritual encounter and enlightenment. Suddenly, you are so convinced that, "heys, this makes much sense!" I mean, I used to be an unmoved free-thinker (a devoted buddhist when I was much younger). Then on day, when I was doing my routined reflection, suddenly I was became firm on the stand that I might be able to take charge of my own life. So for many years, I lived life as a free-thinker. Life wasn't that bad, but when you are really down, there just seemed not to be anything for you to fall back on. So those falls really hurt a lot. It's that impactful. Then recently, one day Christianiity became a part of my life? Somehow, it's unexplained. It just happened. Life's full of such things, isn't it? Everything changes, and the only constant is change. Ironical yea? But it's just this way.After lunch we had General Paper. Finally I'm enjoying that period again. For a while, because of the change of teacher, my enthusiasm for language lessons died. But it revived yesterday. We had a whale of a time, the entrie class. Hadn't had a good laugh over a long period of time. Mr Quek wore pink, and had hello kitty shoe laces, and kept emphasising that we were two lessons behind time. These were all made into jokes during his lessons and the class would always burst out laughing within minutes. I guess this must be one of the best, if not best experience I had with this class, which I was already losing hope on. The best joke was when Audrey randomly said that Mr Quek turns pink when he is angry. Good one, dude!Yesteday was Julie's and Wanning's birthday. Both are secretaries of Alpha HC 15th and 16th, and both birthdays fall on the same day. It's meaningful, isn't it? So after school we stayed back to write cards for them. Me and Theen went to the interchange to get them present. We got the both of them the same present- two Kungfu Panda pink shirt. It's pink all over, and looked like aunty's clothings to me=P. Let's see how they will react when we give it to them coming Monday. That's all for yesterday I guess.Quote:Rejection5:3Pharoah would not listen to Moses and Aaron because he did not know or respect God. People who do not know God may not listen to his word or his messengers. Like Moses and Aaron, we need to persist. When others rejects you or your daith, don't be surpirsed or discouraged. Continue to tell them about God, trusting him to open closed minds and soften stubborn hearts.Stubborn8:19Some people think, if only I could see a miracle, I would believe in God. God gave Pharoah just such as opportunity. When gnatsinfested Egypt, even the magicians agreed that this was God's work ("the finger of God") - but still Pharoah refused to believe. He was stubborn, and stubborness can blind a person to the truth. When you rid yourself of stubborness, you may be surprised to discover abundant evidence of God's hand in your life.Persistent9:1This was the fifth time God sent Moses back to Pharoah with the demand to let his people go! Moses may have been tired and discouraged by this time, bt he continued to obey. Don't give up when you know what is right to do. As Moses discovered, persistence is rewarded.Quoted from Student's Life Application Bible (Newliving translation)
Today's Thursday, a really long day. Any other school days can't be as bad as this. School only ends at 530, with double period for GP, Physics, and Geography each. I can't help complaining, can I? For GP, our new teacher wasn't in school today, but we had to do an essay. I chose the topic marriage, because it interested me. But when I was halfway, I got stuck and the entire piece became a load of rubbish.It was a tiring day, and I'm beginning to dislike my class more. Maybe my attitude fluctuates too much, but I don't remember treating anyone really bad. But each time I go to class a specific someone would choose to sit on the other row instead of me. Somehow, he's a prominent figure in the class, so many a time, I end up sitting on my own, in class, in lecture theatre etc. Sounds like a kiddish complaint, but it really sucks to feel rejected, although there are always someone who would sit with me. But being left out from the crowd is definitely not the nicest experience one can get. By the way, he's not that outstanding anyway. I just don't understand- s_u_i_ m_g_e_!I did the strengthsquest today. I am strategic, futuristic, positivity, relator and significance. It's quote true somewhat, and I'm happy with the results. Probably because it's all strengths only afterall. Today I had PE too. Did circuit which wasn't good, and was made worse by that running nose. Had other minor sports activity to practise for Napfa too. Bascically that's all for today...
Let's hope the last quote is true. God can change even the most selfish personality. Maybe I'm selfish, maybe you are. From my perspective, I think you are. But you might think I am. Anyway, let's hope God will change this. I'm still learning.Today's Wednesday, the slack day of the week. I brought food to school. After many years of canteen food, today I decided to bring homecooked food for recess. Thus, for the entire stretch of time before recess, I was actually eagerly anticipating recess time to come quickly. By then, the food was no longer warm, and the fried triangle no longer crispy. But mommy's taste was still there. Despite eating it almost everyday, I'm only beginning to appreciate it today. Mommy's food really nice. Bean sprouts, potato, and triangles. Yum yum. One of my classmate called me mommy's boy, but I didn't mind, for that it was such a privilege. Not many children nowadays still get to eat mommy's food. My mommy rocks! The second and last period of the day was at 12? It was math. I'm one of the few who did the tutorial. Actually I did that during the holidays which was like so long ago. I don't understand how my class has failed to do the assignment when I, who practically lead a slack life, managed to complete it. That aside, I'm responsible for my own performance. So that's really good huh?Today's bible reading was fulfilling. I picked out many good and nice quotes. Until now, I'm beginning to like two characters from Genesis already. One is Joseph, which mean joy. The other Judah, a natural born leader=) I realise I share one very distinct characteristic with Joseph though.Quote: Some people think they can be or do anything! That was Joseph. He was naturally self-confident. He was also Jacob's favourite son. God had given Joseph a strong sense that there were great plans for his life.
I, too believe there are great plans for my life too. But Joseph's a much more successful person person than I am. So I've to really learn from him.On a lighter note, I'm completing Genesis soon. Shall go into exodus soon. Then the new-testament will come my way soon too.After school, I went to Sheng Siong to check out the price for the coming up event. I'm a responsible in-charge. Thus, I spent like an hour looking for the items on my list, copying down every favor and brand available. I sacrificed my one hour, despite JC's busy schedule. So people who can go home in the early hours, you all do have the time to take a break. Studies is not everything in the life now, even though we are students. How could one's life be only books and revision? Think about this, when you finally reflect in our old age, how would you think? Maybe you might feel proud because the hard work paid off and you get good results. But that wouldn't be me? So what if I get good results? If life is all about such things, then what exactly is the purpose of each individual? God has a purpose for each of us, and each of us serves a unique purpose. If everyone is only to fulfill the good grades that is heavily-being demanded by the environment we are living in, then where's the iniquity? Opps, I'm drifting off. What I mean is studies is important, but while we study. There definitely is enough time for other stuffs too. Ok, I don't know what I'm saying now. Just some random ranting. Ignore me. But I was really put off by muggers, just like people who does things for their portfolio. Despise*Quote:Full Responsibility
43:9Judah accepted full responsibility for Benjamin's safety. He did not know what that might mean for him, but he was determined to carry it out. In the end it was Judah's stirring works that caused Joseph to break down and reveal himself to his brothers (44:18-34). Accepting and fulfilling responsibilities is difficult, but it builds character and confidence, earns other's respect, and motivates us to complete our work. When you have been given an assignment to complete or a responsibility to fulfill, commit yourself to seeing it through.Keeping your word47:29-31Jacob had Joseph promise to bury him in his homeland. Few things were written in this culture, so a person's word then carried as much force as a written contract today. People today seem to find it easy to say, " I didn't mean what I said." God's people, however, are to speak the truth and live the truth. Let your words be as binding as a written contract.Never so bad
48:11When Joseph became a slave, Jacob thought he was dead and wept in despair (37:34). But eventually God's plan allowed Jacob to regain not only his son, but his grandchildren as well. Circumstances are never so bad that they are beyond God's help. Because we belong to a loving God, we need never despair. We know what good he will bring out of a seemingly hopeless situation.
Today PW lesson taught us about plagiarism, and it's many adverse effects. What is a good citation and what is not, and when do we need to cite and stuffs like that. It was indeed a fruitful period, because for the entire lesson I was reading my bible=P. Haha. So much that is concerned, the first thing I taught of was the many quotes I've posted which were extracted from the bible. I think that is plagiarism too, isn't it? Thus, immediately after that, while the rest of the class went for chinese, I went to the hub to blog. That was the previous post with the three quotes. Crystal Chew! Those words in blue are for you! Don't emo le. That aside, I'm supposed to cite. Although my friend told me that bible is supposed to be a book for the general public etc. But still, it was published, there was a date of publication, and there is the organisation who published it, and there is some sort of author, if not editor, and that there is also a date of publication. So I should cite huh?Those quotes that I have taken, am taking, will take are all from the "student's life application bible" by newliving translation. I wonder if this makes the publisher happier, but I definitely am less worried. The idea of getting caught has haunted me for quite a while, but now I'm much relieved.
Positive Attitude39:21-23As a prisoner and slave, Joseph could have seen his situation as hopeless. Instead, he did his best with each small tsak given him. His diligence and positive attitude were soon noticed by the chief jailer, who promoted him to prison administrator. At work, at home, or at school, follow Joseph's example by taking each small task and doing your best. Remember how God turned Joseph's situation around.He will see your efforts and can reverse even overwhelming odds.Opportunity40:8When the subject of dreams came up, Joeseph focused everyone's attention on God. Rather than using the situation to make himself look good, he turned it into a powerful witness for the Lord. One secret of effective witnessing is to recognise opportunities to relate God to the other person's experience. When the opportunity arises, we must have the courage to speak, as Joseph did.Changed life44:16-34When Judah was younger, he showed no regard for his brother Joseph or his father, Jacob. First he convinced his brothers to sell Joseph as a slave. (37:27); then he joined his brother in lying to his father about Joseph's fate (37:32). But what a chnage had taken place in Judah! The man who sold one favoured little brother into slavery now offered to become a slave himself to save another favoured little brother. He was so concerned for his father and younger brother that he was willing to die for them. When you are ready to give up hope on yourself or others, remember that God can change even the most selfish personality.
Todays is Tuesday. School reopened again after a 3 days-long break. After the soccer game we had the day before, my body was aching all over in the morning. I packed my stuffs and boarded the bus at 640. tiredness was getting the better of me, so I slept through the journey, and slept while waiting for assembly to start. Chatted with Bao too. Very long never have a proper chat with her already, though it's longer for someone else. First period of the day was physical education. I was struggling on whether to attend, because of the cut on my sole and the ache in my legs. But when I see the people around me all getting ready for the lesson, my conscience seemed to be telling me that my body is still able to take it. There was this sound in me telling me that I don't want to be a quitter, and little things like these are really good indicators if I'm one. During PAE I've given up on climbing, during JAE I gave up on OAC. I don't want to continue this anymore, so unless really have to, else I won't ever let that term come into my life again. So, I decided to join them. I took 8min 22s to complete 1.8 km. It wasn't exactly great, but wasn't that bad either. Then we did crunches, push-ups, and chin-ups. All these made my body ache more, but it's a good indication that I'm working well.Lessons were as usual.At noon, me, Crystal, and Zen were the only ones going for the swimming competiton. TJC's swimming competition is today and tomorrow. HC people are encouraged to go on both day. Thus today I missed my math tutorial which is at 1320. The swimming complex is at the westside, os bus ride slone took us around 40 minutes? The competition was boring. Me and Crystal were practically rotting over there. We can't do work too as the place was superly not condusive, and this and that. It was only until 5 that we left the place. Was quite beaten by then, so slept on the ride home. At night while online, Gavin sent me this video about little cowboy Logan's encounter with God. It was really touching. Taught me so much:Then Joleen talked to me about her church, a little of her perpective of christianity from a christian's perspective. She seemed a little shaken. So beside encouraging her to clear her doubts and all, I didn't really know what to do. I'm pretty new yea? Perhaps should have prayed before that. Nevertheless, I felt accomplished. She said she would try, so that's really not bad huh? At least she's willing to try. No harm trying really=)
Today's Monday, one of the rare non-school weekdays of most students. It's Youh Day! I slept at 3+ last night, so when morning came I could n't really wake up. Many thanks to my sister for waking me up before she left the house, else I wouldn't have been able to turn up for my soccer game. Thank you=)So I reached the place pretty much on time. I felt bad for standing people up on so many occassions and of course, I'm changing for the better. When I reached, only Kah and Ray were there. We were then soon joined by Daniel and Jimson, and the rest came subsequently. So I was in the 5 men team. Jimson, Daniel, Ray, Choon and me. The other team was Kah, Chiaw, Bo, Bryan and Celic. The beginning of the game was fine. I scored one, and assisted numerous other goals, providing for both Daniel and Jimson. Daniel bagged 13 goals in total for the entire game. Good improvement=) I'm rather satisfied with my performance too. My pacy run sliced through their defence on numeroud occassions, creating a number of goals. Notice I used only the word "pacy". I was fast but still without skill, didn't dribble much.At the end of the day, I took of my shoes and saw that my sock was dyed red. My sole bleed. Must be the friction and the heat, and my shoes. That aside, there were numerous other injuries as well. Had a serious backache, almost sprain the foot many times, had a header which almost made me faint on the spot (must be that old wound on my head), etc. On a lighter note, my team was given nicknames during the game. Jimson was called the Blue Hulk, Choon the original Hulk, and me the purple Hulk aka the Barney. =PSometimes I wonder if when luck is really not on your side, does everything goes against you? I waited at the bus stop for almost 20minutes and yet the bus never came, so I took an alternative bus. I wasn't familiar with the route of this bus, so I alight a stop after mine, making me having to walk to the previous bu stop to change bus, on that injured sole. On that second bus, while I was sitting down, I had a knock on my knee. Painful*By the time I reached home, the headache was becoming so serious that immediately after I washed up I collapsed to the floor of my living room. Then I crawled onto my bed in the room and lost consciousness instantly, either I fainted or dozed off. I think should be the latter, since I woke up like 30 minutes later. After that, I rushed off to meet up with my pw mates for rehearsal of our skit. Cross-playing roles was fun. I'm the narrator, step-sister 2, and the most beautiful girl in the Prince's school. Woots! Friday's pilot test will be a runaway success. After that I came home. After going without food for the entire day, I was really hungry, but I only had a bit for dinner. Appetite became smaller already I guess...
Most people can't live without their cell phone.
So, here's a survey about it.
OK, Go, Grab your phone!
1.What color is your phone?
- black
2.Who 's the first person who comes up under the letter M?
- Mai3.Who's the last person you called?
- Joel Wong4.Who was your last missed call from?
- Joel Wong5.Who's the 2nd person who miss called you?
- Kaizen6.Who's speed dial 2?
- SzeLing (I don't remember I set though)7.Who's the 3rd person who comes up under J?
- Janelle8.Who was your last received call?
- Faith Ang9.Who's speed dial number 4?
- Daniel ( I didn't set again)10.What is your wallpaper?
-me and someone photo=)
11.How many text messages do you recieve?
- 173212.Who's speed dial number 8?
- don't have13.What the 5th message say in your inbox? And from whom?
- Faith. Tell me to chill14.Who's the 1st person who comes up under B?
- BaoHui15.Who was your last text message
- ZhiYang16.Name every person you have text messages from:
- Faith, Joel, Zulaiha, Fangxiong, crystal, Kaizen etc.. too many.
17.Have you seen the 101 Chuck Norris facts?
- no?18.Who's the 3rd person on your U?
- Don't have
19.What does the 3rd message in your outbox say?
- Good night20.Who is the first name in your Phonebook?
- A Faith=)
Hm... Today started off with the wrong note. I woke up at 930 to realise that I was late for service. It was due to me sleeping only at 3 last night that I overslept. I remember mommy waking me up at 6+ but apparently the temptation to sleep in was too strong to resist. I was at fault I admit. Knowing that I was late, I rushed to wash up myself so that I won't be late for my PW meeting at Kallang. However, while I was bathing Adrian messaged me and told me that I don't have to go anymore, because I it wasn't possible to have a rehearsal according to him. Thus, in just a matter of a few hours, a supposedly hectic schedule was completely resolved. My entire day became a blank. Thus for the entire day, I did nothing practical? Played FM the entire day? Maybe I should update on my trophies winning team again?-(GK) Kameni-(CB) Richards-(CB) Raul Albiol-(WBR) Anthony Vanden Borre-(WBL) Marcelo-(CM) Raul Garcia-(ACM) David Silva-(ALM) Charles N'Zogbia-(ARM) Yohan Gourcuff-(ST) David Villa-(ST) Vincent KompanySubs:-John Obi Mikel-Gavilan-Sergio Aquero-Canizares-Barragan (sold)-forgotten (lol)I was feeling rather bad in the morning, as well as the afternoon because I missed out on her performance. Haiz. I wanted to watch it so much, but couldn't. Reminded me of something too. You promise a piano piece for my birthday but it was never to be delivered. When is that possible again?=(Quote of the day:The payoff31:38-42Jacob made it a habit to do more than was expected of him. When his flocks were attacked, he took the losses rather than splitting them with Laban. He worked hard evenafter several pay cuts. His diligence eventually paid off; his flocks began to multiply. Making a habit of doing more than is expected can pay off. It (1)please God, (2) earns recognition and advancement, (3)enhances your reputation, (4)builds other's confidence in you, (5)gives you more experience and knowledge, and (6)develops your spiritual maturity.
God allows certain events in our lives to accomplish his overall purpose, but we are still responsible for our actions.
It has been a nightmarish night, with occassional bombardments from the abundant supply of workload. Yes, term 3 has already started for quite a while, and the amount of work is beginning to pile up again. Last night, I did my Evaluation of material for my project work until 3+ in the morning. Yes, it was indeed very brain-draining. I could not finish the entire report without dozing off, moreover updating my blog.It was a Saturday and after some plannings in the past one week, F.F is out for an outing again. We went to watch Hancock, a show I've been wanting to watch so much, after having watched the Legend at Bao's house during the holidays. I'm beginning to idolise Will Smith more=)It was decided to meet at 10 at Tampines' Mall's Mcdonald's. Thus, I left slightly earlier and reached there at 940. I thought someone might just be an early-bird like me and reach early too. Initially, I didn't mind being the first to reach since I was kind of early. However, as time passed, my patience begun to give way. I tried calling Joel but he didn't pick up. I found out from him later on that he took 30minutes to wear the contact lens. Then I called Bao, and found out that she had just left house. Meet at 10, but left at 1010... Soon, Daniel finally arrived. He was late too, but comparatively he's considered early, considering that Bao only reached at 1040? I sweared next meet-up with F.F I will only leave 5 minutes before meeting time!So when all of us finally in full attendance, we went to buy the tickets for 1050 show. It's an expensive 10 bucks per ticket, but still I prefer Tampines Golden Village so much more to other cinemas! We got the last four seats at the corner of the cinema, a pretty isolated area with little or zero people around us. So the row of us actually placed our foot high up on the back of the seats in front of us. When the show finally started, we found some unoccupies seats in front and went over for a greater view. Hancock was a nice show. Will Smith is a super hero in the show who apparently doesn't know how to behave like one. He reaked of liquor odour, wear filthy clothings, and the face.. Gosh, thick unshaved layer of beard. But he has amazing powers. He could fly, has super strength, cannot be injured, doesn't age etc. However, people don't like him because with that prowess which he didn't know how to put to better use, he became very destructive. Everytime he's in action, the destruction could be up to millions of dollars. The reason behing this was probably because he was lonely. After all, he's the only one of his kind left. At least that's what he thought. Until one day, Ray, a public relations officer (or some occupation along that line) emerged and did miracle to his misery. Ray was one of the people whom Hancock rescued. He was thankful to him, and was bothered by that fact that people don't seem to appreciate Hancock. Thus, he decided to help him. From then on, Hancock became a changed person. I shall not be a spoiler, so I won't reveal the important twists and turns in the plot, especially the part about Hancock's origin. It's a great movie which no one should miss. Though, I still prefer Accuracy of Death and then, the Legend.After the movie, they went to have lunch at the Long John Silvers. Most of them had the same meals if I'm not wrong, but I was pretty broke already. So I didn't have mine. While they ate, I read the bible, which was as enlightening as ever. It was a quiet lunch I would say. After that Joel had to leave for his rehearsal for youth day I think. So it became F.F minus 1. Bao and Daniel bought a wallet each from the wallet shop. After that we went to Giordano, while Bo went to G2000 to have his shirt changed. I bought a black polo tee which I kind of like. We dispersed after that. On the way to the interchange, we noticed this enormous foot structure at the open field in front of Tampins Mall. It looked freaky, otherwise interesting.At home, I cabaled for a while. I'm level 32 already. Then at night, I did my EOM which took me much longer than I would expect. I only manage to finish it at 3+ in the morning, and despite the long time devoted, it was a hasty piece of work...
My new black polo
favourite piece of memory
My forever number one show
Hancock- willy smithy idol
Quote of the day:
Personalised Faith
28:10-15
God's covenant promise to Abraham and Issac was offered to Jacob as well. But it was not enough to be Abraham's grandson; Jacob had to establish his own personal relationship with God. God has no grandchildren; each of us must have a personal relationship with Him. It is not good enough to hear wonderful stories about Christians in your family. You need to become part of the story yourself .
=Love
