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Thursday, April 28, 2005

:: fun times ::

so fast, the ogl training camp 2004 for SDN is over already!! had great time helping out as the instructor's assistants... one year ago we were participants lor.... still can rem rather vaguely the things that happened... there were laughter there were tears... my body was super stretched by the physical conditioning lor.. n time seemed to pass quite slowly n eventful.. as helpers howevers we juz sit back n relax n time seems to pass much faster n easier... our juniors who r the one participating in the games r the ones being stretched now, but things seem easier for them too... we r not allowed to tekan them... we r also not tt mean to tekan them anyway.

i've been taking photos of them... i shld have uploaded the photos regularly so tt i can take more higher resolution ones lor... haiya. i've also been the one taking down the scores of the 4 teams... felt appreciated... hehe v happy...

at the moment i'm so happy with the ogls i feel v reluctant to do my final year project n campus crusade stuff... i'm supposed to call pple up to ask them if they're joining our activities, but i feel tt if i'm the freshmen, i would feel irritated tt pple keep calling me up just becuz i helped them to fill up a survey.

i've learnt alot thru this camp. alot abt leadership.. i should not regret my decisions if that is what i have chosen. I HAVE A CHOICE, i dun have to sulk whole day cuz i m being confined within conditions, rules n regulations. ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR ALL, in a team, we ought to do things together, like stand under the rain together, go thru forfeits together... yeah tt's the main lessons i learnt.

today i nv go fyp...so sian... went home to unpack my stuff n get ready for my kelas bahasa later... tmr going out with jasmine.. sat going lunch with shirley bong, sunday "choir rehearsal"... hmm... my weekend is packed already sia...

Monday, April 25, 2005

:: one line that says it all ::

i've thot of a line, that describes me as a designer as well as someone who depends on God!

God is the greatest creative designer, I get my ideas from Him!

:: busy busy busy ::

went for chalet after IMPJ and recruitment meeting... went back home at 8+am to go collect books from Crest with Tricia. had lunch with her n jianxiong at green view cafe... (mee hoon kuey!) then jianxiong drove me to church. typed in the book details until it was time for cell grp. alan n zane saw the books and cds and were interested to buy straight away.. haha..

after cell grp i stayed back to wait for Psalmist preparation time. then wee lee told me i'm on for vocalist duty... hmm then ok lor.. i stayed back until 9+pm.. rushed around the sanctuary to do vocals, help jieling with projection abit, then set up table for PRC.. so fun.

rushed to chalet to join the rest of my class for BBQ... haiz.. a lot of pple left already.. felt upset tt they nv leave enuf food for me.. then jinwen kind soul bought fried rice for me. i tried to slp but couldn't.. so stayed up to watch Shutter... cool horror movie... wanted to watch Ocean's 12 after tt but my eyes couldn't take it anymore.. so decided to slp. woke up at 6am to go back home.. my planning quite zhun.. i reached around 7am n went out at 7.30am, reached joshua's house at 8.10am n reached church at 8.30am.. praise God!

rushed to the PRC straight after service to sell books and cds... muz rem next time bring in more Chris Tomlin's Arriving, devotionals, bibles etc. didn't sell any Hillsongs cd wor.

after wrapping up the PRC, tricia n i took taxi to far east plaza to return the books. since we were early we decided to go eat instead, at shihlin's at level 1. it was quite nice, but expensive sia.. the table v small also. after returning the books (we managed to balance the total perfectly, thank God!), we went downstairs. tricia showed me a top she wanted to buy n i bought one too!

took bus to plaza singapura then took mrt home. dozed off on the train until my plastic bag dropped twice! reached home n went to slp immediately... guess wad time i woke up? 3am! decided to go back to slp.. until 7am...

went to sch for FYP briefing.. i was assigned to grp up with SIT. now doing nothing but gotta plan for the project. i also have to send emails for my cca to freshies to invite them to come for the freshmen outing... hotmail sux!! i have to keep pressing the send button n go back to the page because ONE email address is not available n wad shit. spent 1+ hour on tt sia...

i'm very frustated!! i've been trying to hard to relax the last 2 days since the end of my IMPJ... but i had to send this email thing.... =( i also have to call up freshmen (supposed to do all these by sunday) but no time!!!

Saturday, April 23, 2005

:: weee...busy girl ::

i like to be busy, but only with things i like to do... been keeping late nights the last few days to bia IMPJ... FINALLY OVER!! like xian hao says: i'm a free man! presentation was alright i would say, i went in with the mindset ready to be criticised. realli, cuz my grp the work standard is just ok onli. stayed back after presentation to wait until 6pm... the rest r going for the FYP n IAP briefing, but i got recruitment meeting with my cca frenz. ze jian played marbleblast on my laptop... the game was exciting la, managed to keep mi awake and wide eyed even tho i was v tired...

typed minutes for the recruitment meeting until my laptop ran out of batt...

eileen spilled the coke on the table, quite near my laptop.. thank God it was wrapped and protected already, n thank God zhihui was sitting near it, not me... becuz he immediately removed my laptop from the table... i would stare blankly at the accident n forget to react!

went home to bathe, then went to the IM chalet after tt... juz a few pple, jinwen, darius, hadir, hadir's friend sabrina n me... luckily cat is coming, or else i would be the onli girl.. altho i'm used to it, still itz not nice la. she came with weng heng n alex... hairol arrived around 12+am.. we went to Cheers to buy cup noodles...tried the Nissin chili crab flavour... v shiok, but a lot of spring onions... DFV was also having their chalet at the same place n same days... so we went over to Blk L "level 5" to visit them.. well blk L is the building in NYP where we do our work at. n level 5 is the exact storey. there were a lot of designer jokes la.

alex was telling ghost stories (i was praying tt Jesus will protect me from evil spirits) n he joked abt www.guanyinma.com (there isn't such a site la i think), where pple can go n print out talisman n burn to ashes, add water then drink. n as designers, we joked tt the talisman muz be printed on quality glossy paper! haha... we also toked abt the sound of children playing marbles we hear at night.. darius said he nv heard tt b4. n alex was going to say "maybe after the chalet when u go home u will.........(darius was going to say "choy")... hear basketball dribbling!" we all broke out laughing... hairol added on, "maybe not basketball, but BOWLING BALL!" haha n crash thru the ceiling rite!

anyway i went to slp after 3am... they were watching Smallville on rizman's laptop... i'm not tt interested in Ch 5 tv dramas... i woke up at 8+am.. went home to bathe n get ready to go out... i'm supposed to receive melissa's email, but didn't leh... hmm... i'm going out to meet tricia now to collect the books n cds for PRC. tonite hopefully i can join my classmates for bbq!

Thursday, April 21, 2005

:: mushroomland ::


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mushrooms growing in the middle of punggol!! so much tt itz like a town of mushrooms!

:: vinee ::


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vinee is all grown up already... can u rem the last pic i posted of it? hmm.. but lately the plant seems to be dying... =(

:: geylang on sunday nite ::


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i realli like going to such places, with old shophouses still around...

:: pokie all over the groundsheet ::


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:( we spilled some of pokie while we were too engrossed playing Bridge on the beach!

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this is pokie on his first time out in sentosa! on top of him is pokie-lookalike biscuit, which was eaten up by me.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

:: happy ::

overslept as usual... brought my laptop to outside mac to lend to my cca.

went up to the comp lab to take attendance.. alas, quah was here already.

went to the cca booth to help give survey to the freshmen... i saw...CHEE WAI SIONG!!!! pai seh sia he recognised me... =X felt quite happy abt it also la.. *fa hua chi* i jioed him when i was in sec 1.. haha those were the days...

but i din c "christmas boy" today... hmm...

doing work...discovered i can sign into msn in sch!

Sunday, April 17, 2005

:: tired ::

been slping kinda late the last few nites... kinda upset over the fact tt the printing of the stuff for campus crusade couldn't be completed on friday... that shop use all mac computers... then cannot read my thumb drive... i thot i was smart to prepare a backup copy in zip disk, but who noes they did not have zip drive.... i had to send them an email with the soft copy that nite.

then they say their shop opens at 10.30, i can collect the stuff at lunch time when i'm supposed to have it ready by monday morning.. i'm also supposed to be in class at 9am... i noe i always come late la.. but still itz not v nice to use tt time to go collect stuff rite? i guess i'm juz upset tt the shop opens so late n it will onli start their job at 10.30am..... i'll realli feel v bad if i delay the schedule for the recruitment drive!!!

tonite i wanna slp earlier liao... i nv do anything for IMPJ over the weekend... but i hope it can still be completed by friday.... then i'll be relieved of one big burden.

then i'll have PRC to deal with... hope i can get as much help as i can for it!

hmm oh today haha.. sermon was great. abt Zeal. i realise tt i lost the zeal for things in my life.. i dun work hard in sch, at times i fall asleep during quiet time.. when pple ask mi abt whether i like something or not, my answer is usually "ok la..." "not bad lor"... gotta pray abt it.

anyway got a cactus plant from psalmist - everyone gets one as publicity for psalmist retreat. i got a yellow flower one.. dunno choose yellow or red better but nvm la... my surname wad. had lunch with shirley, elena n andrielle at harbourfront.. i brought Pokee (similar name to vinee) to sentosa... met sou mun my mei mei on the way there...

i went down into the water n juz soaked myself totally, then came onshore to continue play Bridge... i learnt tt game today!! quite cheem... n intellectual, as kwek puts it.. haha.. some china tourists came n took photos of us (!@#$%^!!!!!) yunz n mi were in bikini lor... they like dun respect our privacy sia... still smile at us as if we allow them to take photos of us... !@#$%^&*!!!!! my back was facing the sun... so i think i burnt my back.. haha..

around 6 we changed clothes then i went to geylang to look for my dad for dinner... v nice day today... get to see a lot of old shophouses... took photos.. then a tourist approached mi n asked mi abt the camera... there was language barrier cuz he couldn't realli speak english.. bought dim sum home... yummy~ looked for aunt to borrow helmet so tt my dad could send mi home.

:: messy ::

a lot of thots gathered today...

haha i din realise suddenly so many pple read my blog, esp after i so buey hiao bai say got guys look at me.. haha *gasp*!

hmm... actually i dun mind being rostered on psalmist regularly la, at least there's a fixed schedule already, not like last min or wad... i juz find it hard to choose between campus crusade n cell grp. cuz there's gonna be another outing tt will fall on saturday... anyway i'm kinda crazy lor, say i v busy, but i still go for job interview..... but at least keep me occupied la... better than getting attached.. haha..

today i made the decision to go for the FUL training.. was late, together with some others.. we waited v long for the bus.. then when we alighted then i realised tt the venue was not downtown east chalet. led worship with noel playing the guitar for me.. this is kinda my 1st time leading worship, tt's if dun count the time i led worship for sunday school in tanjung balai. i felt kinda nervous, dunno wad to say, wad to pray... but it was alright la...

the guys called me abang.. haha.. means 'brother' in malay. fun.. it was warm, n i had ice cream... went near the beach for a time of retreat... realli appreciate the nature God created. love the sea breeze, the sun n the sea! haha.. today i feel someone is v good looking... n someone is still v charming.. haha *secret*

Friday, April 15, 2005

:: heheh ::

went to the gym yday with john.. wanted to run at the track, but too many pple liao.. think the track cca pple got training. noticed a guy kept looking at me since he came in.. (haha!)

went for kelas bahasa after tt. thank God sarah came, cuz i dun realli dare to interrupt the class to ask some questions, but with her i m more bold.

haha feel quite happy when i think tt guys r looking at me... hahaha... :P

today was not bad too... saw a lot of cute guys on the train.. went to toa payoh with swee yi to print some campus crusade stuff.. gotta apologise for using IMPJ time to do cca stuff.. gareth like kept reminding me to do my work, until i a bit sian diao...

now, at the printing shop, my thumb drive dunno y stopped working on mac, so i offered my zip disk... but they dun have zip drive. -.- so i had to go home to email them. had dinner at toa payoh central then went to esplanade for job interview with her... it was realli a last min decision la... i dunno y i'm juz so attracted to the night life in the city...

Thursday, April 14, 2005

:: :S ::

my saturday is screwed.. maybe tt's not such a nice term to put it. but i have ALOT of activities, dunno which one to go.. those who noe mi will noe tt i hate events to clash.

1) campus crusade Follow-Up Leader training at pasir ris chalet (n i'm leading worship for tt, muz also design brochure by then)
2) sentosa outing with my sec sch good friends to celebrate yun's bday
3) sentosa outing with cell grp (according to the sms i juz received from jabez)
4) cell grp at 3pm
5) worship prac - projection

i think tt's all.... argh!

next sat

1) IM class chalet at pasir ris
2) collect books for PRC (muz come up with guitar course forms n chordbook publicity by then)
3) persis they all going to tanjung balai.... staying at my fav family's house somemore... =..(

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

:: thanks hx ::

hmm thanks huixiang for calling me last nite n advise me wad to do altho i nv do it in the end...

all the unhappiness juz built up n i had to let go la.. i dun blame anyone for making me unhappy, juz glad tt itz gone now... read Psalms 22 and 23... makes me feel better too... then i tried to get a good nite's rest. had a nitemare.... i dreamt of a girl who was under the control of something evil.. she fell in love with a guy n wants to get away from tt evil thing, but tt thing kept causing trouble wherever she goes... i realise probably tt's a message, to let me noe tt i've been struggling with the evil one... but ultimately i wan to break free n follow close to the one i love... i believe i have a choice!

anyway today was quite good... i wore shorts to sch.. kinda hesitated very long, trying to decide if i shld... but in the end i juz wore la... i juz wanna feel comfortable... i'm getting fat n can't fit comfortably in my bottoms anymore.... :(

the lecturers help give suggestions for some of the design n content... which helps super a lot... helps me to be more open minded to accept gareth's ideas...

went to north canteen for lunch... today is realli like a day i can do anything i like.. haha..

wanted to stay in sch to do work until lab close, but i dun feel like staying..so went home. my parents ordered dinner for me, coincidentally itz wad i had for lunch.. -.- haha...

tonite i'm not gonna slp.. at least, until i m satisfied with my progress then i can slp ba... realli worried abt the proj...

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

:: sucky ::

i'm feeling sucky rite now.... struggling in a grp project with 2 guys... we worked together quite well on an earlier project, dun understand how come now our relationship is so sucky...

if i throw tantrum, they will think tt girls r petty. if i cry to show them how upset i am, they will be irritated cuz guys generally HATE to c girls cry. if i juz heck care abt it, i will be wasting my time now n fail the proj later. if i bear with it, i will be working unhappily like wad i'm doing now.

juz read the conversation log tt john sent me a few days ago.. sounds like i have been pushy abt the topic. very useless, becuz i dun have much an idea abt it n dunno wad i wan for the interface. i c gareth's unwillingness whenever i try to convince him of something n then i'll feel v discouraged... i feel very unmotivated as i c them being unmotivated too... i can tell tt among all the grps in my class, my grp looks the most unhappy...

but i still wan to apologise, if they're reading this... tt i have been too bossy... such a *****... useless *****. this will be our last proj together n i guess we wun c each other anymore after presentation.

Monday, April 11, 2005

:: angry ::

some pple juz makes me angry...

very unhappy on sat... yday a bit unhappy, but alright la. feeling sucky today.

a lot of things to do...

a lot of things happening.

Friday, April 08, 2005

:: IMPJ stress ::

sian.... everyday i go to sch with a calm heart.... after 5 mins i become heated up... wan to beat pple up n throw things around n juz walk out of the lab lor... but of cuz tt's not the right thing to do.

i dun think many pple can make mi so angry. forget it... i shall not be a petty person... Lord, help!!!!

everyone also stress abt their own things... hardly can find pple to tok with n get ideas from... when i'm stressed, ideas can hardly flow out of me... i need to look ard, ask pple for ideas... sometimes i'm juz so stuck in something tt i forget to look at things at another perspective.

gotta say i'm sorry for my campus crusade recruitment committee for waiting so long for me to come for the meeting today... i muz get some ideas from the lecturers... muz be patient to wait for them to discuss finish with another grp...

now huixiang is slping on my bed... haha... she's too tired out from working on her project... swee yi is also v upset abt her grp project.... haiz...

later i need to work on my pc n let huixiang use the laptop... so cya~!

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

:: verse of the day ::

Matthew 6:34
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Monday, April 04, 2005

:: =D ::

i was all smiles on my way home...

guess y?

well... i went to the post office to claim my mail.... cool.... a big box! present!! =D peeked inside, saw something adidas, saw 2 magazines too... i guessed correct, the mail came from ICT!!! the 2 magazines muz have been the 1st n 4th issue... cuz i mentioned tt i have 2nd, 3rd n 5th only... i realli din expect them to send the ones i missed out!! so generous of them! i saw the stamp, costs 699 baht! so expensive!!! probably S$28! i feel so touched, so happy.... muz support them if they have a chance to import to singapore... getting sweeyi n huixiang to support them too...!

today is the 1st day of IMPJ... quite sian.... i can't stand someone sia... not many pple can piss me off easily one lor... i hate it when pple touch my stuff without permission... itz especially rude to play games on my laptop when i'm not around/din give permission... n esp after itz so obvious tt i'm not happy abt it!

Sunday, April 03, 2005

:: scared ::

felt v scared..... my parents went fishing.... v scared they might meet yau... keep imagining things... violent images of murder... =S like throwing their bodies off the kelong... kept praying for their safety, n their enjoyment.. thank God they came back safely, but first thing they did when they called me was scold me... =( spoil my day sia....

yday went to sentosa with my cell grp... dunno how come i can sleep until 12pm... supposed to meet them at 1. was raining... i decided not to go for christine's grad ceremony in the end... i noe tt i spend little time with my cell grp... so gotta make up for it...

glad tt i went... itz a gd time to take a break after my modules end, b4 my impj starts... chatted with zane... the rest played volleyball.. i dun realli like to play ball games... i dun like rough games... went off at 6pm... hope i got a bit of tan heh.

went for worship prac... din noe i was not scheduled for this week... i juz copied my duties into my calendar n juz took a look to c if i'm on this wk or not... i did put in vocalist duty for this week.. but itz good la, esther can take a break, maybe if she got work to do, she can do on sat, then keep sunday sabbath. i dun realli keep sabbath.... but i think i need to. i also need to resolve something abt the softwares i'm using... i can't let them go right away...slowly i guess... i've taken away those i dun need...

today overslept... i woke up at 7.40am... supposed to reach church at 8.15. got out of my home at 8am... walked to find an atm... i only had $6 on me... by then it was 8.15. i panicked when i couldn't catch a cab even at 8.40...8.50... i finally called the cab company to book a cab. haiz. reached church at 9.30 like tt... today qingming alot of pple wan to sweep graves tt's y i couldn't catch a cab. either the streets (in punggol) r empty, or else the cabs r hired, on call, or busy. =( v panic when i waited... prayed tt God will send me a cab specially for me... i intervened when i waited too long, by making the call... well, the cab was realli sent specially for me... the driver even addressed my name!! haha...

after service i had lunch with cell grp.... long time no lunch with them ba.... sometimes i gotta take the effort... zane is right, jac is working v hard to bring the cell grp together... sometimes she feels discouraged... so wad i can do to help her is to ease her load...

then went to meet hx n sweeyi... took bus to great world city... we missed our stop (my fault)... n walked to the shopping city. went to meet jin wen, cat n alex... wh, kenneth, zejian n weili arrived later. waited for yuling n yihao too. we tried to find our way to the tp diploma show... thank God it only rained after we went inside...

i found the tp students' works not tt appealing to me.. perhaps cuz i'm not feeling v good. yc asked for directions but i dunno how to give... went out in the rain to meet him with sweeyi n hx. felt happy abt walking in the rain.... v fun. but i was not wearing the right shoes...

continue to look at the students' works... i find the students dress until too funky tt i find it weird. as if they dun belong to singapore... i think dmd looks more normal... haha... =P criticised their film project... =X so bad haha.. then we whole grp went off after the rained stopped. walked back to great world city. had dinner at KFC... luxury food sia. as usual we were laming together...

took photos at the Weng Heng shop... will post photos later... haha... v funny pics... but some i dun think i shld post on internet la... =X

went to orchard with sweeyi, hx, yc n kenneth. looked at toys in taka.. then andy came to pass stuff to hx.. offered us a ride in his car..woohoo~! he drove hx home then drove me to kovan where i took bus home. my mom called to nag lor... scolded me for not coming home on time at 8 as i said i might. haiz. she bought herbal chicken from johor so she wanted to heat it up for dinner...

anyway last nite i received a notification of a parcel sent to me... happy to have something in the mail for me.. but i was not at home, so the notification said to collect it on working days. well monday lor. i saw the address doesn't have my postal code, then i saw beside the "To" word was some thai characters... so i guessed tt it came from thailand. but the handwriting doesn't look like my sis'... i din think of it until i realised it might be from ICT! a magazine i bought from thailand.. i like it so much tt i emailed the editor how come there isn't a website for ICT... he saw my interest in getting the magazine from singapore, so he decided to do something abt it... furthermore he mentioned abt sending me a token of appreciation tt i support their magazine! well itz realli nice wor... if it comes to singapore i muz encourage my frenz to buy!

john got an ibook.. haha... i wonder he's number wad in IM to get ibook... haha m i influencing my frenz? haha... i think i can be apple evangelist liao... sad tt i dun evangelise abt the right things..

Friday, April 01, 2005

:: stress ::

last nite din slp well... partly due to indigestion, partly due to stress..

ate super lot yday... cheese pancake, half of mcspicy double, donut, 1 and a half ramly burger (yummy!~) n half lor mai kai... in a day.. no proper meal..

went to sch to do web project.. quite confident of finishing it at first, but at 6.50 i left n seems still quite a bit not done.. we do until forgot our initial agreements..

went for kelas.. sarah joined us today... yay feel more comfortable, also becuz Ibu tasha teaches well.. still a bit cannot catch wad teacher is talking..

i felt stressed abt 3 things, 1 is web presentation, 1 is digi test (which turned out to be chicken), 1 is dilemma.. dunno where to go tmr.. i mean, dunno which to go.. my cell grp going to sentosa, there's a graduating ceremony for Campus Crusade Staff. happening at the same time, so i dunno which to go..

actually i feel calvin is v charming.. hmm haha.. but i still feel not v comfortable with him... *shrugs*

hey hx, u take care ok!
ting, kinda great to noe tt u're coming to nyp.. but sadly i feel this course sux. i fear the next batch got a lot of immature pple...