laugh often, love always.

2008-08-14T00:52:00.000+08:00

shifting. find me on msn for my new space.

2008-08-02T22:33:00.001+08:00

the best i could ever have.
nothing i could ever imagine.
whatever i could ever want.

thank you. truly.
happy anniversary.

2008-07-24T02:15:00.001+08:00

i need to stop being a wussy.take control. be the man. stop waiting. do something. i will do it.

2008-07-21T23:32:00.002+08:00

i just had the sudden urge to blog. well it has almost been two months already. a whirlwind of mirth and excitement has just gone by.i can't begin to say how satisfied i am within these two months. how i have finally opened my eyes to how things work. and i can't say it in a better way. how i have never been able to see myself clearer, how i understand myself so much. and having set new goals and paved new roads to walk. i find it very fulfilling. of course, the path to these new findings has not been a walk in the park. It has been riddled with ups and downs, and for every new path to uncover a mountain has to be climbed, a river to cross. but it has been worth it. with a new resolve, and slowly grasping a newfound soul, a change is coming around. i. will. do. it. and. i. know. i. will. just you wait, just be patient.

on the other hand, there are of course pressing issues, and some of these issues are overlapping with the mountains and rivers to cross. and one of them is quite a pressing issue, however it is formed on bad timing, and bad opportunity, yet it pains me whenever i see a quiet face, a sad face, a face thinking deep into space trying to find an insight, a resolution to an issue.. try not to think too much.

2008-07-09T01:14:00.002+08:00

well so so so much has happened since the last post.
did i mention anything about ashish's party? well it was just about the best thing to happen in my life. as was the last minute decision to pop by ashish's. well what do you know. good things happen when you least expect them to. definitely the best thing to happen to me in a long time. there's now a pair to the chopsticks, a second to a half. and i am content. i could not have asked for more. as i am sitting here. now's the 9th of july by the way, i think back on the whirlwind that it has been. it has really been such a whirlwind. and the most wonderfun thing happened in my life too. the times i spend are priceless. as she sleeps in her bed, i think about her.

2008-06-01T02:48:00.004+08:00

shit happens alright. shit always happens. It's how you pick up from them which matters the most. tonight was supposed to turn out to be an awesome night. It's actually the first time i'm wearing my blazer other than for concerts. and it had to get it's first puke stain on it. i wonder what my mom will say when i tell her i want it dry-cleaned. the other thing is, even the person i'd least expect to go over the island went far far away into the deep seas. and in the end, it was just two of us left. the other three? left to enjoy their 35 bucks. not that i blame them. like hello it's 35 bucks. anyway that's not the antagonist tonight. so L was feeling moody. she got betrayed by her own blood, and it really is shitty when that happens. so what do you do? drown everything out..

ANOTHER WTFBBQ... there was this lady who worked there, who offered her help. i thought she would be helpful. IT TURNED OUT TO BE A TOTAL DISASTER!! I HAVE NEVER EVER IN MY LIFE SEEN SOMEONE AS DOMINATING AND AS CRAZY AS THAT!! you tried to help us, you managed to wake her up. i respect you for that. But PLEASE.. beyond that, please don't try too hard. DON'T SCREAM IN OUR FACES. NOT EVERYONE OF US ARE AS GONE AS YOU THINK. there are still some of us who know where's the limit and where to draw the line. there are still some of us who care for her. PLEASE JUST STOP THINKING THAT WE WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HER. LIKE HELLO!! I GOT PUKE ON MY BELOVED BLAZER TRYING TO HELP HER. just stop thinking that we just wanna raper her and stuff... maybe you had a really really bad experience. i feel sorry for you. but please just stop stereotyping every situation into something like that!! like HELLO. alright. if you really think our lives are that sorry, and you want to change it, please just stop. cause our "sorry" state is not really sorry, and that we actually were okay till you came!please. I WOULD NEVER EVER WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER AGAIN. next time you offer your help, i'll know better than to accept. she's the worst personnel i ever saw. if i could ever complain about her, bring on the paper and pen. i'll write a 10-page report on how you tried to force me to take a cab when i told you that i don't have cash. AND YOU WANT ME TO ASK THE CAB DRIVER TO DRIVE TO A PETROL STATION TO DRAW MONEY!! LIKE HELLO!! I'M NOT GONE ALRIGHT!! I'M COMPLETELY SANE ENOUGH TO SEE THAT THAT IS A REALLY REALLY BAD OPTION!!! so just let me take a cab with NETS so i can just pay the driver properly??? well the cab driver i finally took was a pretty nice and cool person. we talked on the way back.

sorry people if this doesnt make any sense. cause it really doesn't i kinda just copied this off another blog and pasted it here to make my blog interesting alright.

2008-05-28T23:17:00.002+08:00

as sparce my blog posts are. i think recent events are really worth posting. well okay firstly. friday's potential dance meet-up crumbled on the day itself cause chien said she couldn't make it, then stella said she had to leave early and joel had night safari. well the night bloomed into something else totally unexpected... haha.. wisma rooftop, one red bottle, sitting on the roof..... ears and lips and tongues and fingers... well go figure...

Sat.
sat was long worship prac.. one of the longest i ever had... but there were fun songs.. and i din need to play so much cause i had michelle on second keys to cover me... and sat night was pool with damon. he's damn pro at it. and he taught me some stuff about pool... yup. had to leave earlier cause i had a bike race the next day...

Sun.
Sun morning was pretty fun. i met ivan at 6 at his house and we both cycled 3 bicycles to st. pats to meet his friend who was also going for safra runway cycling. basically, ivan and i were taking part in an endurance challenge, while his friend in the leisure. that's why she borrowed his mountain bike to cycle. well in the end after breakfast at macs east coast park she decided to take a cab to paya lebar air base cause she decided she would take too long to get there on bike. (vehemently agrees) sorry! haha.. ivan and i went down in about 10 min and we started to race at the back... like wth... there was sooo many ppl... i spent so much energy weaving around the traffic accelerating and slowing down my muscles started to twitch by 2nd lap... well we finished the race lapping alot of ppl.. there were really ppl in bikes of every type. it was quite an experience. then i met my uncle!! damn cool can. he was bumping my back wheel at the drinks stall there and i was wondering. who the f***'s banging my back wheel.. haha.. he recovered so fast! cause he had a bike accident 3 months ago. he fractured his collar bone and 8 ribs, 2 with multiple fractures... and he's cycling already. and he was 2nd or something in the first two laps.. wow.. then i had to rush back home to rush to church for long worship. haha on the way back i was kinda racing with this group of mountain bikers.. they were in konas and scotts but lucky i still had energy left not to disgrace a road bike.. haha.. church was fun. then there was salsa in the evening.. the turns are getting more and more difficult... but fun.

okay.. the next best thing coming up!!!

FRIDAY THE 13th
probably the best friday you'll ever have.
by invitation only.
happening: 13th june
at: Pan Pacific Hotel.

2008-04-12T23:12:00.002+08:00

only one word to describe last night. awesome. i think my tolerance for drinking petrol has dropped. maybe it's because abstinence for 3 months has crumbled my body's natural resistance against petrol. and i swear mixers are getting sweeter.... thou shalt not indulge in over-sweetened mixers foreth purposes of petrol, only to increaseth layers upon thy mid-riff. and i salute miss wong. for going up to the band and poking the guitarist. i din have a better time unbuttoning my shirt and posing like i was constipated with my face totally betroot. i really need to learn to slow blood circulation around my head whenever i consume certain petrol. i totally look disgusting and it takes photoshop to restore me to a normal state... well for pictures, please refer to miss seah or miss wong. i have already bequeathed all my photos to them. and there's a new way to play 21. with 2 die. well it was a pretty good idea... and miss seah and miss wong were SUPPOSED to meet at tanjong pagar at 6.30, but ended up coming at like almost 8! haha... well... then we decided to adjourn to zouk, where we had to pay the cab driver like 5 bucks more to squeeze 5 of us into a cab, 1 more than the legal limit. and i swear cab drivers are really afraid of this rule.. most adhere to it like their life depends on it. well maybe it really does. we started queueing at phuture, and when we were just 3 ppl away, they closed the doors saying it was full house. like OMFG GGGGG $@#$^ like WHAT... so suay can... just 3 ppl. but well din matter la. miss wong, dr ang and i went back to john's to guitar hero cause miss wong had some issues, and mr abramovich and miss seah went back by themselves...
well all in all.. it was a really nicely spent night. which i would like to have more of, but not so often.. haha..

and so long mr abramovich. to the land of the yellow skinned creatures. return with hordes of petrol pls.

week

2008-03-31T21:00:00.002+08:00

i have to blog about the week before last week. It was totally awesome. Firstly, i was clearing my off so i practically didn't need to go back to work at all, except on wednesday to watch the recruits POP. It was a really proud moment. Well although i was having a fever the night before and was feeling a little lousy, i was really contented to be able to watch this batch of recruits pop. From ignorant and really defiant people, they've grown more mature and understanding. Well okay but that wasn't the best part.
Thursday was maundy thursday and there was thursday night service. I was playing alongside my teacher as usual, but oh my the music is so beautiful. He never stops to amaze me. haha. and everyone said it was good too. Friday was at sentosa with YA, well the turnout wasn't that good, but oh well. We left for sentosa by monorail at 12. AND THE QUEUE WAS SOOO LONG!!! like wow. we split up to queue for the tickets at both the automatic counter and the manual one. In the end, the automatic counter was still faster. We rode miss orange to sentosa. it was a really hot day that day. In conclusion, it was a relatively fun day, playing monkey and donkey, spontaneously organised by Wilson. Oh and after all that, Lin Shen invited us to go to Amara Sanctury Resort on sentosa. It's this 6 star resort. like 6-star... while the rest played tennis, some of us bummed around in the hotel room. It really is nice. Not as big as the ritz, but nice enough. The fun thing is the toilet. there are no locks!! and there's this cupboard which has two doors on either side. So there's no backing. And you can enter the toilet from the cupboard. and there's this huge circle tinted glass window at the side. So it's pretty open actually. on friday night, i went over to john's place to jam. Piano and sax. Really reallly cool stuff... we started on 100 years and abit of superman. haha. it was pretty successful. then after that while we were just relaxing, amelia invited me to go tanning on saturday with rowell ruth dan and john too. so it was back to sentosa on saturday.

sentosa on saturday was fun. partly because john drove in. so it saved us the trouble of queueing up for the bus or the monorail. yup. we swam around siloso beach, and went over to the small island too. and amelia bought this small green rubber beach ball.. somehow while passing it to amelia, it drifted into a rock formation and was lost in it.. there goes 5 bucks for the ball... stupid rocks... and after that we went to sakae at harbourfront for sushi. wow it was a really full meal. we headed back to johns house to play settlers, then supper at serangoon gardens coffee bean. i love the chocolate ice blend there.. really nice and chocolatey. we played pictionary there, where tan ying drew blindly, where her elephant din look like it, and among other funny rules like drawing without lifting the pen from the paper, and drawing with your non master hand. beautiful saturday spent fully without alcohol!

on sunday it was even cooler! my sister and many other ppl were baptised! on easter sunday! and in the evening my family went to my uncle, actually my cousin's restaurant at robertson walk. It's called brazillian churascarian. Nice brazilian barbequed food. with really really nice garlic bread. and sydney drives a really cool lotus elise!! like how cool! and i got to ride it!! he went really fast in it too!!! like super fast! and the car handles really great and responsive!!
all in all it was a really good week... i'll post about my first salsa clas soon!

2008-02-08T23:28:00.000+08:00

since when did blogging become a monthly issue for me. haha.. but the last time i blogged was really one month ago... well it's chinese new year these few days and it has been pretty okay for me.. the whole month of january was quite good.. i'm a tekong instructor taking a bunch of recruits in "A" coy. well that's all i should say lest i get fired for some stupid censorship thing...
the first day of chinese new year was like all the past chinese new years. we would all gather at one of my grand aunt's place for popiah lunch session where harvesting there would be abundant. (if you know what i mean.) well this year it wasn't so. i was sitting beside my sister eating prawn crackers and one of my aunts just crossed in front of me and gave my sis a red packet and left me out! haha and this did not just happen once! it happened with several of the more elderly ppl!! i'm not fussed with the money in the red packet but i'm just surprised as to why i din recieve red packets... do i look so old? haha.. my dad was still teasing me saying that maybe one of them thought i was my sis' boyfriend.. -.- anyway it was nice meeting up with the rest of the relatives and cousins again and see how much we all have grown or progressed in life... as you grow older, the red packets don't seem to matter, the pineapple tarts or the bah kua all don't seem so significant. you just take a step back and take in the whole atmosphere. and you realise how much each person has grown or aged...

well today was the second day of cny, and i went over to my dad's side of the family for visitations... and i talked with my aunt and uncle about my interest in doing medicine... well cause my grades aren't that fantastic, i can't really get into medicine in singapore, and even in australia, it isn't so easy... so like they were recommending that i retake a levels and re-evaluat whether medicine was really for me... but it isn't that easy.. unless you ask me to retake like subjects which i don't really mind cause i'm quite sure i missed a by a bit.. so i'm still thinking what i should do.. but i really really still want to do medicine... oh wells.

oh and somewhere a few weeks ago there was switchfoot concert at tjc! switchfoot! like one of the best bands i have ever seen!! anyway although they say they're not a christian band but you can really feel where their song is directed at. Songs like 'Only Hope' which Mandy Moore did a cover of in A Walk to Remember is not just written about another person actually, Curious? Go Listen!

So i lay my head back down

And i lift my hands

And pray to be only Yours

I pray to be only Yours

I know now You're my only hope

this is the way that i say i need you

this is the way that i say i love you

this is the way that i say i'm yours

this is the way i'm learning to breathe.

year 2007 going... gone!

2008-01-01T14:15:00.000+08:00

christmas has gone by.. and now it's 2008!! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! well christmas was a really eventful and busy day for me.. on christmas eve there was carolling with vj choir before going down to church for service.. whoa i am amazed by my dad's acting capability!! haha cause there was this christmas play about the birth of Jesus in bethlehem.. and my dad was king herod! haha... he really acted the role well!! and peiqian and pei soong are two funny brothers!! haha.. plus there were the three extra guards johnathan giang, wei zheng and lin shen who only had one line " Yes! King!" haha...

year 2 pic at raffles hotel lady sofia suite.

christmas in church with ym ppl

well now that year 2007 has gone... ONE MORE YEAR LEFT!!! WEEEE!!! oh and i find it really interesting that the tv has started playing cny advertisements... just right after christmas is over! is cny coming so soon? haha.. well in this new year, here are some of the things i hope to achieve

1) learn a new language

2) save more money

3) train back my cycling fitness

4) do more face maintenance

5) not procrastinate so much

6) hmm.. maybe find someone special?

nippon!

2007-12-24T00:36:00.000+08:00

back from my japan trip.. japan is really really really nice!!! super nice place!! it's like the main street of fashion and shopping! haha... though maybe you have to find the cheap shopping.. but it really is worth it!!! i mean like wow... i bought so much stuff there.. haha.. let's see
1. jeans
2. brown suede material kinda jeans/pants
3. converse shoes
4. nice white canvas dress shoes
5. nice black pointy peather shoes
6. one nice black PSP s&l and another red PSP s&l ( i bet you cant find it in singapore!)
7. absolut pear and absolut disco ed.

haha... that's just some of the stuff i got from japan! oh and the food there really really rox! i'm not just talking about the heavenly sushi! there's also kobe!! wooo! and then there's the crabs, (soft and hard) and the ramen! haha.. other than that, we also visited some of the castles and a golden temple in kyoto.. haha.. kyoto is also a pretty nice place, with the shogun house (ninja) and the gion house (geisha).. yup! it was a pretty short trip, but a really fulfilling and worthwhile one!! happy and satisfied!

2007-12-14T00:39:00.000+08:00

wow.. haha.. i realised my last blog post was all black.. the colour of my background. thus if you want to read my last post, you gotta highlight the whole thing.. last saturday was spent with vj dancers at minds cafe near the cathay there.. it was really fun meeting up with most of them again! and at night was at lifestylebash at arena.. well it's always amazing reflecting back on the past year or the past months.. while doing COS duty today i found myself stoning, and remembering what i was doing precisely 1 year ago.. how i wish i could go back to those days where i could just do anything without any worry.. haha.. oh well.. anyway this sunday i'll be going japan for a holiday till next friday! WOOHOO!! haha.. finally a holiday after so long!! haha.. i sure hope i can do lotsa shopping there!!!
hmm... i'm having problems uploading pics onto my blog...

update!

2007-12-03T10:19:00.000+08:00

i think my blogging frequency has reallly dropped drastically! haha.. anyway just an update on my life, i just passed out of my course in army and i'm officially in unit life.. but i haven't gone to the new unit yet. haha. anyway it's army.. so there's really nothing much to be excited about... at least i'm out of that stupid building...

oh yeah i bought a new comp just a few weeks ago. and i bought a new monitor just yesterday! really happy with it! but it's burning a huge hole in my pocket!! haha.. lots of my savings went into that! and there's still christmas shopping to do!! haha... hope i'll be able to get some money soon!! haha... i'm going to watch jing's dance concert with stella and chien and joel this wed! haha.. so cool! it's been really really long since i last watched a concert! and on a weekday too!!! haha.. anyway, here's something interesting i found.

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects.When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:'I don't believe that God exists.''Why do you say that?' asked the customer. 'Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?Would there be abandoned children?If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.'The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because hedidn't want to start an argument.The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street withlong, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered thebarber shop again and he said to the barber: 'You know what? Barbers do not exist.''How can you say that?' asked the surprised barber.'I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!''No!' the customer exclaimed. 'Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair anduntrimmed beards, like that man outside.''Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me.''Exactly!' affirmed the customer. 'That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Himfor help.That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.'

men's rules

2007-10-25T20:59:00.000+08:00

The Guys' Rules
At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down.
Finally, the guys' side of the story. ( I must admit, it's pretty good.) We always hear ' the rules ' From the female side.Now here are the rules from the male side.
These are our rules!
Please note.. these are all numbered '1' ON PURPOSE!

1. Men are NOT mind readers.
1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
1. Crying is blackmail.
1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!
1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a Problem.See a doctor.
1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.
1. If you won't dress like the Victoria 's Secret girls, don't Expect us to act like soap opera guys.
1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us.
1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one
1. You can either ask us to do something Or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials.
1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.
1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.
1. If we ask what is wrong and you say 'nothing,' We will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not wor th the hassle.
1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear.
1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine. Really .
1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or golf.
1. You have enough clothes.
1. You have too many shoes.
1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!
1. Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight; But did you know men really don't mind that? It's like camping.

cheers.

2007-09-16T20:59:00.000+08:00

another week gone by.. oh wells... this week was a little more challenging... there was much more to learn about my vocation... and plus.. the lecturer wasn't very good at explaining... it kind of made it confusing... the way he was pointing here and there everywhere.... it was only when we got to do hands-on did we fully understand the functions.. anyway this weekend was pretty mundane.. i went to taka on saturday noon time with my mom to try out the mooncakes.. in the end we settled on ritz carlton and some pretty unknown brand which tasted not bad... then we went to raffles city to do some shopping where i got myself some clothes, a book, and some other stuff.. haha then at night i played coh with ivan and john and daryl.. ivan and i almost managed to pwn daryl and john if not for the tiger aces which came out in late game.. haha..

to all the army ppl out there.. don't you find that it is really difficult to maintain contact with your friends.. not just girls.. the other guys too... maybe i'm the type of person who treasures the relationships i have with all my friends, but it really gets difficult.. it's hard to strike up a conversation that both sides can maintain.. basically cause both parties are doing totally DIFFERENT things.. and everyone has their own lives.. it just seems as if everyone just broke up... and it's really difficult to meet up... basically cause of each individual schedules.. so try to meet up regularly.. like say once or twice a month? keep in contact.

anyway, mooncake fest's coming up! wee.. one of my favourite festivals.. it's just that i don't get alot of time this year to celebrate it.. haha..

2007-09-09T00:13:00.000+08:00

i'm in arty... not as good as i hoped it would be... i got into the worst of arty... the weapon 155mm course... it's where you're trained to handle the operation of the HUGE gun howitzer... well for this week it was pretty lax cause we had to handle alot of admin stuff. and settle the stores.. omg my 5-piece rod in my rck (rifle cleaning kit) just blew up into a huge 8-piece PIPE!! it's like HUGE... and everything suddenly becomes so big and so... big... and the amount of oil we use like triple quadrupled... we even have oil PUMPS to help spray the oil... oh well at least i haven't started learning how to USE them yet.. just to label them.. and for this week we also had these leadership lectures which started in bmt.. it's like pretty useless yet good cause you get time to sleep... we watched " a few good men" for a discussion session. my my the show was really not bad.. especially the court sessions where you see the lawyers shoot each other off and think on their feet! it's like they can come up with counter-arguments within seconds... ANYWAY, the rest of the week was basically just that... wasting time... other than the IPPT on friday which got all my muscles aching now... maybe next week i'll bring some differentiation in to practice... keep my brain moving...

oh today i went down to orchard to visit stella and chien's stall at lime flea market.. and there they were selling all the earrings and accessories.. it's always fascinating to see how much accessories a girl can carry around. earrings, bangles, rings, bag accessories.... lots of 'em... so if any girl out there reading this needs any of this stuff.. or would like to add colour to her bag, please patronise boutons. haha.. stella see free advertising for you... haha.. anyway bought a pair of earrings for my sis.. haven't really been seeing her much due to her studying for her promos. (i hope) oh well hope she likes them.. oh yeah.. anyone who hasn't watched hairspray, go watch it!!! it's really really good.. especially the music.. it's like this grease kind of musical show.. no spoilers here don't worry... just go watch!! haha..

2007-08-31T00:15:00.000+08:00

Oh wow. i pass out again. this time i passed out of BSLC. i shan't go into detail what it stands for. anyway, i got posted to artillery. i'm not sure what i'll do there, but i hope i can get a slack vocation. haha... more time to do more productive stuff... i don't mind get posted to the same unit as johnathan... then can help each other along. haha.. anyway saf is really really wayang. (means act, fake) just before army open house at pasir laba camp, you can see so much changes to the camp... alot of repainting jobs, re-tiling, servicing, repairing.... all the kind of stuff which should be done from day to day during maintenance... at least i have some free time.. block leave always rocks.

once in a long time

2007-07-15T15:29:00.000+08:00

well, i've since poped and i'm now in sispec.. i think this blog's becoming rather dead. weekends are spent more outdoors than indoors... for one, i really really don't like this life... i really can't wait till my 2 years end.. as i said, i won't blog anything about army here.. i know it's really boring to keep hearing ppl talk about army all the time...

anyway, yesterday i celebrated my grandma's birthday with my relatives at this restaurant at sze chuan court at raffles city... the car park was REALLY REALLY CROWDED.. and the most ridiculous thing is... there were quite a few police cars parked in the car park... as if raffles city car park is small enough already... my cousin waited in his car and even had the time to switch of the engine and play around in the car before the gantry opened to allow him passage.. anyway the dinner was pretty okay.. after we ate the cake there were a few pieces left over.. so my uncle started this game where you spin the revolving thing on the table with the knife pointing outwards. when the revolving thing stops, whoever the knife pointed to had to eat one slice of cake.. we did this for quite a few times until all the cake was eaten... all in all i enjoyed myself...

the last week was even more fun. i went with 13 other youths from my church to malaysia to do a one day missionary... it was really fun. we played games with people from different schools and backgrounds, and had like a mini concert thing in the evening... it was really fun playing the keys for the band and all... and when we were returning, we had to bring everything off from the bus. so there i was lugging the keys in the boxes like there was a gun in there or something. the best was jun pei and his bongos. he looked like he was carrying two nuclear warheads, one in front and one behind. they couldn't even fit through the x-ray machine it had to be manually x-rayed.. haha...
oh well... pardon me if i don't blog too often... blame it all on one particular organisation... the next person who comes up to me saying how wonderful it is to be part of it will eat my NB 360.

life

2007-05-25T23:58:00.000+08:00

wow. it's been a really long time since i last blogged! haha.. 6 weeks at least. haha. anyway, it's all army life and no civilian life for me. haha.. so i guess there'll be nothing much to blog about... unless you want to hear repeated army stories.... not a very nice thing to blog about. anyway spiderman 3 is nice. venom was a little too small for the character. he should have been larger and less spiderman-like. but i liked the part when the symbiote became unbonded to eddie brock and grew like huge. that one really depicted the sinister nature of the symbiote really well. haha.. yup.

anyway, as i said, life's really boring now, all occupied with army life. haha. 2 years of this kind of thing. i was reading through blogs when i started to look through vj videos. the time i spent in vj is really one of the best! haha. all the crazy things you do. and not forgetting the pure 6 months of mugging EVERYDAY!!! (sat and sun) included!!! haha.. it's really nostalgic when you watch like orientation videos, teachers day videos, even performance videos or publicity videos. the feeling is really.... eh. nostalgic. haha.. so to year 1 and year 2 ppl in vj, treasure your vj life. (although i think it's hardly the same as it was when mrs chan was principal. not that i am undermining the current principal's "efforts" at trying to garner student support). haha..

2007-03-12T23:43:00.000+08:00

wow. it's been a really long time since i last blogged.. well. i quit my job already, and i got my driving license! haha.. real cool. haha.. anyway i'll be busy enjoying life. and this stupid keyboard stops me from blogging properly so i'll blog again another time.

2007-02-14T23:54:00.000+08:00

somehow seeing couples walking along the street with balloons or bouquets made me pretty emo. i still remember how i spent my valentines day last year. it was on tuesday! and we just had jive practice. and someone pangsayed until only got jing, joel, me and tao xuan eating at bk parkway.. haha.. it was pretty nice and just cosy. those were really the nice times. it somehow made me think of how hard we practiced for our item. practices on the pt 2nd floor. getting minor scoldings from andre de silva for minor stuff like not closing the door. for not improving enough. and the shoes we had to get. that up till now we haven't claimed from school.

then there was all the canvas sheets. the boxes. the staircase. even lt 5 seemed reminiscent of what was 2 fulfilling nights of enjoyment and fun. the many faces we had to put on for the night. the costumes. then there's the pt. the place where we spent doing so many times of 8s. of counting 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. the tired times when we could even sleep on the pt floor on our shoebags. and of a certain someone who could suddenly be very nice at one instance and oh so sarcastic and nasty in another.
the choreography. who came out first. when to come out. what line to follow. which spot to stand. what to do next. what to show. music? feeling? i dunno but somehow it always manages to draw out alot of memories.

finally. the rewarding sound of applause. regale. it'll never feel the same again.

sorry if this post seems distant to some of you. i just got carried away being emoed.. it doesn't help that i am listening to emo music too... anyway. i hope i can pass my driving next week!!!! and i hope a levels dont come out on the same day please please please.....

2007-02-07T23:22:00.000+08:00

it's drawing nearer.. aaahhh... and this week is a crazy week!! i have driving everyday!!! from monday to saturday!! and i am not improving much too!! must push myself to improve more!! if not how to pass TP. wah these three weeks are going to be so stressful!! plus the dreadful thing which i had hoped would only come after cny... and i have final theory next week somemore!! and i also dunno if my "reserved" test slot will still remain reserved... sigh.. aah!!

2007-01-25T10:35:00.000+08:00

haha.. i am in the office now using the laptop here.. haha.. woops.. maybe i shouldn't be blogging.. haha.. now i think i got the hang of work. like i roughly know what figures to find when i do auditing here.. haha.. and i have energy to cycle at night on some nights! haha.. that day ivan, daryl, greg and i went to changi and back. there by coastal and back by road. through changi and simei then back down tanah merah to bedok. haha.. quite fun for a short ride. haha..

oh for driving yesterday i did u-turns and 3-point turns. my instructor says that my turning and returning is quite good.. quite accurate and won't like sway around. haha.. and i did a 3-point turn on a narrow road. like just a bit bigger than a 1-way road. anyway tml i have driving again. i hope i won't get the fierce instructor.. i don't really like that guy... so fierce.. makes me so nervous i can't drive properly.. somemore tml i am doing test routes.. i hope i can clear 4 test routes.. but 3 is also fine. i hope i get the same instructor.

2007-01-17T21:25:00.000+08:00

work is still fine so far. haha... doing sale and purchases. i think work life is pretty mundane if i keep this up.. and i won't be achieving much leh. haha.. i think i will find something else to do at the same time.. and hopefully afte i adjust to this kind of life then i wil have more energy.. not just being dead tired every night when i get back... haha cell group yesterday was pretty fun! are you a platoist or an aristocrat? (meaning from plato or from aristotle)

ok here's a little philosophy lesson. plato is the perfectionist. he believes that there is an ideal form for everything, and all of us now exist as an image ofthe ideal but not yet the ideal. this would explain how you are different and always changing.. meaning the "you" now is different from the "you" 10 years ago or 10 years to come. aristotle is more of the biologist.. he believes that there are many images of a certain ideal and all are real. for example a leaf. every leaf is different and all are not perfect. but they are all leaves. yeah ok maybe that is a little too much.. haha

anyway.. there's practically almost nothing interesting going on now!! haha... maybe lisa's birthday party soon.. haha.. 26th... that's like next week. haha..

2007-01-15T21:54:00.001+08:00

hey. it's been quite long since i last posted.. haha.. well i finally found a job with stella's mom's friend at chan and chan auditors. haha.. it is quite nice... you really get to do te auditing stuff.. learnt some stuff...haha.. okay.. i am going to go for a short coastal trip... maybe if i am still not tired after that i'll blog more.. haha..

2007-01-03T22:20:00.000+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

haha ok.. on the second day of the new year i went to matthew's place to play tennis and swim.. haha.. his cousin and her boyfriend also played too. haha.. i think i didn't play very well but ok lah... recovery period. haha.. (excuses..) anyway.. the swimming part was the most fun for me, and i think the most tiring for everyone else. haha.. we played blackjack or 21 or bun-luck.. in the pool with matthew's new waterproof cards. aha.. and if you burst or lose to the banker, or the banker loses normally, the penalty is 1 short round.. then if someone bun-luck (ie gets 21 with two cards only), or if someone can get 5 cards without bursting, is 1 long round! about 80m. the short one maybe only 30m. haha.. well.. i got at least 6 long and i helped weiling swim 1 long one too! haha...well it was fun. then we had varsity cell in church at 8pm in church.

we talked about socrates, and generally on philosophy. haha.. well alot of quotes. and abstract thinkings.. now i have new material on plato to read up on..haha.. actually it's quite nice for someone not reading anything to keep his mind thinking.. haha.. okay i am going to play some games..haha..

2007-01-01T13:47:00.000+08:00

countdown 2006. well it was pretty fun i guess. at first yesterday we were supposed to go out... with stella and joel and jing. but then joel and jing couldn't make it so in the end we cancelled it... well stella i hope your countdown was ok. haha.. oh oh long worship first! haha. well it was the last sunday of the year so we had long worship. and dunno why hsiao hwee picked aaron for first guitarist but i think it's his way of letting aaron gain experience. haha.. well it went quite well... i mean of course it went quite well... the practice on saturday was 3 and a half hours!!!! that's like crazy lah! we even practiced on sunday morning...

ok then the countdown.. we were at meridien eating lunch when some of us realised we din have countdown plans anymore... lucky sze chieh opened his house to us... we went there to play table tennis and watch the countdown.. basically after that was about crap talk... literally... haha.. but it was pretty fun watching and playing a bit of table tennis... haha... well at least i din spend my countdown by myself at home. haha..

not so good day

2006-12-31T00:54:00.000+08:00

today was not a very good day. despite having made this blog... well.. my driving din go very well today.. i only completed one chop. which is really really sad. cause i already completed 2/3 of that one already on the first lesson. sigh... my first time going out onto the road. as in real real roads.. wah. but my gear shifting and braking and all got problem still... cannot clear that yet.. i hope maybe the next lesson can clear all that..
and i was choosing between going for choir farewell and for band practice. i chose the later in the end... but at least i don't regret it. i had alot of fun doing worship. and i still enjoy myself every time. haha.. but today's band pratice was really very very long. 3 and a haf hours... after prac i got a lift and we went to thai express to eat... okish food i guess.. hmm...
and tml's countdown is cancelled... cause got too few people.. well.. guess it's boring countdown on tv again. haha... anyway yup.. i hope the thailand trip will really come true...

2006-12-30T12:53:00.000+08:00

new blog for the new year. haha.. well continuing from my old blog.youth camp 2006. i think that it was pretty much a success.. well it stared on sunday 17 dec. haha. i remember i had band practice for the second long worship during the camp. haha we ended so late that i din even have time to go back to get my stuff.. in the end i survived the night without my spectacles and some other stuff. well the camp went generally well, with the water games cleverly disguised as "station games"... of course, the station games disappeared. haha. and during one ofthe days, i suddenly found my sister among other campers poing like a statue of em.. light sticks? haha...

yeah. that was crazy. the main attraction was the night amazing race i guess.. haha.. we had to go to vivo city for phase 1 of the amazing race.. haha kind of like tour de fance where there were many many phases.. and the rest of the phases were generally in city area.. well actually ALMOST city area cause the area is HUGE. from bras basah all the way to clarke quay. haha.. we walked that area back and forth. haha.. well and we had to find pictures and stuff as "bonus items". here are some nice pictures.
the 4 girls in my group. from left: michelle yap, lynn (lucy), xy, jun yin

the guys. from left: leonard, weijie, amos, me, joshua, aaron

what big clogs you have there johua.

another guys photo. kinda slack aren't we?

the girls forming a star while resting. haha. leonard's one of them too!

jun yin and pastor daniel with the ice-cream cone!

oh and it rained along the way. so everybody had to put on ponchos and walk.. and the funny thing is, by the time we put on the ponchos, th rain stopped. haha.. it happened a few times.. haha and we reached clarke quay at about 4am. all the clubbers from mos were coming out. and the place outside became pretty smoky. haha. and joshua got eh. confronted by a drunk clubber.haha... pretty amusing.

well this concludes my first real post. haha.. i'll post more soon!

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2006-12-30T11:24:00.000+08:00

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