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wahaha completed all 5 sets of Riddles of Riddles. really impressed by the guy's amt of general knowledge to set riddles like that, and even to link them up such that for example Riddle 49's answer is the 1st letter of Riddle 11-20's window title (if u dunno wad's a window title, look at somewhere at the top of this page. it says "What Makes Me.".)

wow. just realise it's been 2 weeks since i last blogged. lotsa things happened, lotsa frustrations n lotsa fun.

hmm lemme start from 31st Mar sat. shared word at cell grp. actually somehow i wasn't convinced by my own message. i mean, i have a few points to bring across, as sorta like a reminder. but i couldn't share how the points relate to me. and it was long because i dunno how to briefly go thru the points. my summary in school is fail one. >.< anyway jac gave me a few pointers to improve my sharing next time.

went to holland v for dinner. was broke cuz i spent too much on fast food for lunch. *gasp* i haven't been eating fast food for such a long time i was shocked by its inflation in cost. after dinner we went to some ice cream place at Crown Centre. think it's called Swirl. there are board games available for playing, so we played taboo. i stayed there till around 10 then went to harbourfront to meet gail n persis to discuss tj balai stuff. was quite overwhelmed when i saw the whole bunch of Praise pple following them. we went to this coffee place at Vivocity. if i'm not wrong it's called Gloria Jean. was tired cuz we went home late.

woke up late for the 9am teaching n turned out it was prayer instead of teaching. there was Flag Day for Japan. i was sharing with my cell grp what i thot abt Japan. i remember tt i was overwhelmed by the jap movie Another Heaven, which shows a lot of feeling of hopelessness in the pple deep within. they seem successful on the outside, but emotionally they're very empty. n andrielle mentioned before, pple stereotype missionaries going to Japan. they think tt Japan is so rich, y go there, y shld they support a missionary whose expenses is going to be very high. but i think mission fields like cambodia, indonesia, etc is a little saturated. yes there are areas tt are still unreached, but i think few pple think of 1st world country as a mission field.

anyway. after service there was guitar course. so i stayed back. n after the guitar course i decided to go Sentosa. so i was trying to find pple to go with me. some of them thot it was an April Fools' joke cuz it was 1st April and it was last minute. so in the end i went myself. just wanted to take time to retreat like the last time, but somehow this time i couldn't find a good spot. dunno y, at the same timing, it was much hotter tt day. felt tt i couldn't stay long, so i returned to main land. had a good walk from the LRT station to Siloso beach n back though. it's so much more convenient to come n go to Sentosa. anyway another reason i went is because of the new LRT/monorail. hadn't taken it since it started n i have the Sentosa membership card! tt means free rides!

went back to Vivocity n decided to chill out at Pacific Coffee. sadly i can't find any other drink i want to try. it's quite expensive actually, $5+ for a drink. so i had Vanilla Snowflake (as usual). browsed Asian Geographic, felt interested to subscribe to tt mag. tried to take photos (my photography skills dropped ALOT) n then went home.

mon
ting smsed me to watch movie, but after discussion we decided to go Sakae Sushi at Rivervale Mall for buffet, then chill at my place! hehe.. we ate until v full sia. walked from Rivervale Mall home. still didn't feel digestion taking place leh. finally get to pass her the Chivas tt has been collecting dust since Boxing Day. haha.. used Friendster to find sec sch friends, but i realise i dunno ALOT of pple! as in, i dun even remember seeing them before!

cuz i had to work the next day, i decided to slp. i mean usually stayovers are all-night thing u know. but guess i'm getting old la. next day ting had to wake me up lor.. haha.. we went out early so we could have breakfast near my office.

after work went to church for prayer meeting. asked my dad along, cuz i usually see his cell grp leaders, he could join them. but they weren't there this time. we had dinner at jackson kopitiam. dunno y but i felt v uninterested during prayer meeting sia. i dunno most of the songs sung n i found it hard to sing along. then for prayer i joined my dad, jeremy's dad n ivan. quite a weird combi..

wed
i wanted to meet my parents for dinner. my mom was at outram pk, so i called her to wait for me. i had to go toilet, shut down my comp then i could leave. when i reached the mrt station the train was here, so i called her to ask her to get on the train. i couldn't see her cuz of the crowd. but my stupid phone wouldn't work at tt time. so i missed the train. when i finally called thru to her, she said she's not waiting anymore. AAARRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! she's so impatient! n i could have taken tt train la! i was so pissed i decided not to eat with her anymore. i went home n cooked noodles instead. n i was so mad i almost cried on the train.

thur
bought bread n cheese n chicken breastmeat for dinner. had the craving for cheese la. n wanted to be a little more healthy. although for 19 yrs of my life i hated breastmeat (minus one year for i didn't have teeth), i decided to swallow it for the sake of a healthier diet. made 2 portions of the sandwich n before i took the 2nd one i felt sian of eating it already.

fri
YAY public hol, cuz it's Good Friday~ my poor sis was still working on PH tt she didn't realise it's TGIF. went to church in the morning. it was combined service at the main hall. today also felt a little sian during service like what i felt during prayer meeting. felt very strongly tt the songs had set the mood.

after service we went to Botak Jones at AMK. so-so only leh. i ordered the Cajun Chicken (breastmeat!!!!!) so maybe tt's y. went home to pack n clean my room. i've been seeing baby spiders in my room. ARGH. used dettol to wash my walls. wanted to go IKEA to buy a glass cabinet for my displays, but my dad went swimming, couldn't get him to go with me.

sat
went to IKEA with my dad in the morning, finally. didn't know tt Giant hypermart opened already. went there to shop first. i think i still prefer the hypermarts in thailand. the things are really cheap n most of them u can't get in singapore. quite silly for us to buy milk. cuz we were going to courts next, n we couldn't leave the milk in the motorbox in the sun ma. so we had to carry our groceries along. dunno y my dad bought a wall fan for my toilet. i dun even want it! next we went to IKEA. wanted to buy snacks for my cell grp, but in the end we walked the whole of IKEA n didn't buy anything. tt was y i was late for pre-cell meeting. felt tt ben shares word very naturally.

after cell the guys went to play soccer n the SMU students had work to discuss, so i played solitaire on Malcolm's pda. haha.. he was saying tt there seems to be a bug cuz he can't solve a single game of 3-card-deals. so i kept trying, to see if it's true. when they finished playing frisbee, i managed to prove him wrong! weeee... haah. then after some waiting here n there we went to amk for dinner.

sun
easter sunday! Jesus died n rose again! early morning service at the cultural centre. thought of taking bus in from Potong Pasir mrt, but my dad offered to give me a lift, though he had reached already. ah, today i rem Canon Benson's msg. It is the LORD! abt Peter n catching fish. long time since i last had Holy Communion.

after service i gathered with my parents n aunt n cousin n my grandma. cuz it's grandma's birthday. we went to Red Star for dim sum brunch =D food is good. but service is TERRIBLE!!!!! cannot make it la.

went to OG to walk around. saw my godparents there. then went to Majestic building Popular cuz there's a clearance sale. Majestic is terrible. most of its shops closed down already. dunno y sia. n sale, my foot. bought a magazine for $5, which costs HKD28 = about the same la!

after tt i wanted to have dessert, but we only found ahballing a few buildings away. then went home. after a nap my mom suggested going somewhere for sambal kangkong, n i thought of crab. i was having a conversation with my sis one day, she was saying tt she misses dad's pepper crabs, i replied, i don't even get to eat it la, cuz my dad refuses to cook at home. moreover cook a crab. n true enough, my dad objected to having crab for dinner. he said, u think u rich man son ah. n then the next thing is, he suggested, take taxi to amk for crab la. wah. super contradicting lor. say i waste money, so might as well spend more money la. -.- in the end we took cab to changi village for crabs. i was happy with the food but was still pulling a long face cuz of my mom. i had told myself not to talk to her since tt day i was pissed with her. dun worry abt tt la, i'd probably still talk to her anyway, if she ask me anything. just tt i will NEVER meet her or ask her out for dinner again.

tt night i had indigestion. i will not have crabs for a very long time (unless it is available at Canon Benson's farewell dinner =x).

mon-wed
this week i felt like i was fighting a battle at work. i forgot to pray for patience at work. had some work for my indian colleague ma, n as usual she takes very long to do it ma. (i'm sorry i just can't see her as 100 all the time) i literally jumped when i tried to explain something to her. some javascript thing i did before n i know it's possible, but she kept insisting tt it's not possible n had to be done in another way. end up she use another method n took a little too long to do it. my other colleague was not around on wed, so he wasn't there to help me explain to her what i was expecting. on thur i used my method to do another page, tt requires the same effect i was expecting from her, n i asked him to help me modify the codes. she wasn't happy i know, because it was sorta like "her work" but i passed it to him. n there was some problem with her method. she seemed to insist working on it though it was taking too long.

ok to simplify things, our working relationship is such tt, she takes too long, i pass her work to him so tt it will be faster n efficient because client wants it. but it's obviously unfair to her because i didn't do it nicely. i didn't explain properly tt i'm passing the work to him because i think she's slow, n i didn't say it in her face because tt'll hurt. but i think this cycle will go on n on.

i can sense her getting angry abt this because i can hear her typing loudly when she's pissed n i will hear her mumbling away, n then slamming the door when she goes toilet. just felt tt she must be cursing me for doing this to her.. gotta pray tt God will protect me against curses by her gods. haiz. battle sia.

i still blame myself for (asking my boss to) hiring her.

thur after work went to Holland V for joshua's bday celebration. my first time to Settlers cafe. i think it's quite rundown compared to Minds cafe leh. learnt a couple of new games. wah the ugly doll game is err..violent. i dun even dare to play heart attack or snap lor. i prefer the strategy kinda game. but my brain wasn't working la. fighting battle ma. saw alymer n siangyuan at the party also. before cutting cake, the whole grp was brought together to play Cranium. but we could only play it halfway cuz it was getting late. after i got on the train home then i realise i left my umbrella at settlers. the staff there had offered to take my umbrella out to dry when i went there, but after tt i forgot abt it.

dunno y but i felt very miserable on my way home. just felt like crying n coming back to God. felt like i've been distancing myself from God more n more. so after i got home n had a bath, i finally had the liberty to just cry out to God. felt so much better after tt =)

i realise tt my cell grp pple like to eat chocolate cakes. jialat, cuz i dun like chocolate. for my birthday, do i get a cake tt everyone loves or do i get a cake only i love? it's quite obvious la. then suddenly i dun feel like celebrating my birthday anymore. (so selfish! >.<) jk la.

fri
super busy at work today. no time to give work for her to do. asked audrey to accompany me for lunch cuz i'm sian of going for lunch with my other colleague alone. cuz my indian colleague is not used to local food, so she rather bring her own lunch. tt leaves the guy n me going for lunch ourselves. so sian!!!! we had taiwan porridge for lunch. hmm nice. brought her up my office to take a look. haha she v funny, likes to c her friends' offices. before she left she asked me if i'm free to go clubbing or not. i was at first thinking, i dun mind. but after tt decided i need the rest before tmr's trip to tj balai. besides, the last trip i woke up late lor. dun want to repeat my mistake.

btw it's been a long time since i posted anything abt "what i learnt today". so okay here goes.

i've subscribed to National Geographic n i really love the content of the mag. this month's abt fish. i've always thot tt fish are free food. esp when i was in thailand. i ate so much fish i thot it's cheap. but actually, no. i'm wrong. the ocean's population of seafood has been declining vastly. because we eat them indiscriminately. n because we seem to get seafood so easily, we think it's cheap. n we think it's easily reproduced. but the sad thing is, at this rate of killing marine life, our children or grandchildren may not even get to SEE a fish! hmm what shld we be doing in response to this? i think i will treat seafood as a luxury food, which in fact it shld have been. singaporeans have been so blessed tt we don't realise countries like Africa, though they catch the fish, the pple have to pay a high price to buy only the remains of a fish because the flesh have been exported out to places like europe.

ok this marks the end of a long entry. going away tmr. (i was so cockeye i didn't realise i was on duty this week for vocals until shirley's weekly reminder came in... managed to get Andrielle to swap with me - thanks!!)

good night.