:: wowweee ::

so much to share!

tue after work went for prayer meeting. there were lotsa times when i had mind blank while Canon John Benson was talking. looked thru his ppt slides before the prayer started, but couldn't remember a thing. so had to depend on his "next slide please" to get the cue. hehe knowing esther, i had to be on the alert doing projection ;)

wed went to church after work again. there was a projection training. after that went to the hall to help guorong see how to improve the layout of the ppt slides for the songs. i was supposed to do flashy stuff for the 1st song, but i could only do up text on blank background, with Worship Assistant functions. (using flash to program)

hmm.. felt that this week passed very quickly. monday we received call from client for a meeting on thurs, n thurs came very quickly! that morning met my colleague at toa payoh, to go straight to our client's office. had burger king breakfast. regret not getting the meal. cheaper than the burger itself man! discussed the revamp of a website. yay yay yay!

after that went back to tpy central to take train back. saw this stall selling nice bags n clothes.. wanted to shop but not nice to take my time during working hours la. went back to office, thought that time would pass v fast, but seemed quite slow. my life is really shortened by this client i have been complaining about. still getting comments on the design when it should be finalised. *screams n vomits blood*

went to church after work again, no purpose actually, just to help out lor. thought i could go home early. but guorong's laptop keep hanging, n he kept restarting it i felt so pek cek. went back home to bia the flash. actually hor, i do until 2am leh, but i really couldn't think of how to do the flashy stuff. was so stressed about it that night that during my sleep i felt that i was clenching my jaws very tight. on friday i felt like i couldn't chew cuz my jaws were aching. time past very fast at work n i felt a bit more joyful.

after work rushed to church. joined in the time of prayer n then guorong said we're using ppt for the first song instead. the flash i did was not used, i was a bit disappointed because afterall i spent time on it when i should be resting. but i was also relieved cuz i think wad i did was not suitable for the song.

if u ask me what i think about the worship conference, now that it's over, i would say that, i think the flow was not smooth, but it's okay, because God's presence was there. i felt it very strongly. i was also praying that God will help me to get over the disappointment, of cuz although i'm not very disappointed, still gotta pray that i WILL NOT be. this kinda thoughts must guard one.

went to set up the PRC booth when i got the cue, Tell the World. but seemed like inside still got a lot of encores. the sajc students left soon. sold a cd. felt super tired but i just gotta hang on for a few more hours!! we had to wrap up super quickly cuz the place gotta be locked up soon, n pple only came out last min. so we didn't get to promote the items to the majority. but it's okay, can't be helped.

after that i got my cell group jersey from xiao quan who ran away from me so i had to chase her. had to get it to wear on sat cuz my cell grp is wearing on sat for bball! got a ride from kelvin to the mrt. went home to sleep! gotta pack my bag for tanjung balai before that.

(though this entry is long, i still gotta share about the balai trip!! i dun wanna break it into 2 entries or else it will lose the flow!)

morning woke up early THEN told my mom i was going tj balai. haha. she gave me (LOTSA) rupiah for shopping for things for her. went to HBF to meet agape n persis at mac. had breakfast then went to Cruise Centre upstairs to check in at 9.25am. met suzanne. jianxiong was also there, to sent his parents. rushed in n boarded the ferry. saw uncle Colin too. saw more chinese cong pple. everyone seems to be going to tj balai.

went up to the top deck cuz faith was sea sick n needed a breather. in the end the whole of agape came up to take photos. tricia n vincent r the best. *winks* after 1hr 45 min of ride, we reached. phei phei n uncle Asun were there to fetch us. after some waiting, we bought tempe (winks), took the oplik to uncle asun's house to put down our stuff. played with Aimei. woohoo~! she showed me the stickers she pasted on her hand! i'm so easily elated when i see her. played with her n Weiwei her cousin cum neighbour. then we went to Indo to eat lunch at Es Teler. i was like jaw-dropping amazed at how much tj balai's standard has upped. it was renovated till like a high class cafe man! they were also playing high class songs like Fixing A Broken Heart, A Shoulder to Cry On etc... i mean, elsewhere they would be playing low class techno la. ordered Mie Ayam, very nice! n Jus Apukat (avacado juice) nice!

no time to shop so we went to church to do wad we were there for. Beauty session for the ladies' ministry! we did facial for them n massage too! before they arrived, i became a "customer" n i got high because there were a lot of agape girls waiting on me! all massaging me.. made me laugh like mad, cannot stop! then uncle asun's wife came n became the first real customer. n then another lady. n another. n another. total i think got 10? i tried to massage this really thin lady, but i really dunno how. end up just squeezing her arm. :P after persis led a short time of bible study with them (i think sharing with them the purpose of the session n what God intends for them) then the agape guys took over with fruit juice n sharing with them about nuitritions in food.

had prayer session after that. n then the team came together to share. went out for prayer walk with phei phei n paul. went out in pairs, with everyone within close distance. shared with evelyn about the background of the place as we prayed. she could feel the dispair in the pple. n she felt that the terrible physical state in the land of rubbish also shows the emotional state of their lives - rubbish. walked thru places i've never walked before. felt that this was something different. something that reminded me of what i learnt thru the Campus Crusade gen12ii thanksgiving message. if u didn't get out of ur comfort zone, if u had stayed in the comforts of sitting down n chatting, u wouldn't see what's out there in the spiritual realm. u wouldn't catch the vision.

went to visit a lady who came just now for the facial, n she asked us to pray for her daughter-in-law's father, who would be going to Medan soon. he was receptive to the prayers we said for him. =D after that we went back to the church. walked to a Nasi Uduk stall for dinner. had lotsa chicken =P my table had tricia n vincent, the best, Posers. wahaha. i did a pendulum thing with faith n evelyn, n when andrielle was about to take video of us doing that i started laughing n couldn't stop cuz i was losing the momentum. LOL. hmm.. must have been a long time since i had such a good laugh. till tears.

took the oplik back to uncle asun's house nearby. stopped to go Indo for shopping. spent a long time there n i was super stoned. was waiting for them at the entrance n i suddenly remembered one more thing my mom asked me to buy for her. so i went back to buy it. after we were all done we walked back. saw a monkey performing by the roadside. so cruel! crossed the road cuz some of them wanted to buy teh botol. then an uncle came to talk to us. he came from singapore many yrs ago, disappointed in the high cost of living n so migrated to tj balai. learnt that he's attending a catholic church in tj balai.

when we reached uncle asun's place we saw that there was a blackout. was told that electricity would be resumed soon. asked to go to the rooftop to see stars. remember pastor chi shyan's message at A Glimpse of Heaven? so sad tj balai no more stars. celebrated athe's birthday there. with Hiro cake n Go-Go drink. had a sharing session about the trip so far. n then we broke up into pairs to pray. prayed with jayne. got to know her better thru this trip. =) n everyone else too. this was my first trip as a MCG member.

paul joined us during our session though he doesn't understand 99% of wad we were talking about, but i think he wants to be part of the fun. i still remember there was once he went out late for ktv. so happening sia. i quite admire his spirit, cuz he did not leave us all the while, though he dunno wad we were talking about. but he was just observing us. n gabriel shared with us n with him that he admires him cuz he saw him fall down today n picked himself up. u may think that what's the big deal? but he's a handicapped. he gets around by using crutches, n crawling whenever crutches were inconvenient. so think back about what i mentioned about him staying out late for ktv.

electricity was still not restored, so most of us were unwilling to bathe, in the dark. i bathed with a candle. o.0 uncle asun received an emergency call. cailing's sister-in-law had fainted, so he went over to pray for her. so while i was bathing i heard someone banging on the door of the house n i felt quite afraid. there was a sense of urgency n fear at the banging of the door. it was cailing, with news that her sister-in-law had not woken yet. we told her that uncle asun had gone over to her place to pray for her sister-in-law. it was 10+pm.

the team gathered to pray for her, cuz we learnt that she was actually under spiritual attack. i felt that i could do nothing but keep praying in tongues. dun ask me y i mention this, but i just really felt helpless at that time. could only pray for God to do something. while we were praying, around 12+am, electricity came back n we had the comfort of having the fan blowing at us. we continued to pray cuz we know that the battle was not over yet. then electricity went off again. we prayed even harder. after a while we started to give thanks n celebrated God's victory over the evil spirits. we sang Shine Jesus Shine n then electricity came back again!! WOW! we received news that the lady has been sent to hospital safely. we shared about what we sensed during the prayer. some of them sensed that there could be spiritual attacks on our families while we were waging war in prayer. i had also suddenly thought about my sister during the prayer. uncle asun came back from the hospital n told us that the lady was demon-possessed, n scratched him n Tai-cek. but she's fine now. YAY! during this time of intense prayer with agape i felt that this is a really prayerful cell grp. the evil spirits of tj balai must have been afraid of God's holiness in them that they stirred up trouble during their stay here.

soon we turned in. wiky came home quite late. learnt that he's working now. didn't get to talk to him. i fell asleep v quickly.

next morning first thing i woke up n thanked God i didn't get any mosquito bites this time!! washed up.. packed up n went out for breakfast near the market. faith told me that i was grinding my teeth soon after i fell asleep. haha.. i thought i stopped doing that. hmm~ (stress??) jayne was so touched when tricia bought her soya bean milk n you tiao. ate carrot cake n martabak too. the pple there very nice, allow us to bring "Outside food" into their coffeeshops one! n i was really impressed by their creativity of converting an old unused television into a fish tank!! andrielle sweet-talked the coffeeshop aunty into taking photo with us n giving us discount the next time we come. =P

faith was telling me about Ragdoll while we walked thru the market after breakfast. faith n jayne bought slippers. i also wanted to buy, but dun have my size. very nice lor the slippers there. went back to the house to prepare to go church for sunday school. Adeline (my zoe tay) reached last min, we were worried n wondering if anything cropped up. she n phei phei led the children in worship. i joined in too. saw some new faces. sigh... have been going often, but i can't remember most of their names. can only remember bena, elisa, timotius, matius, ah heng, ah qing, ah yan, shanti, ezekiel, daniel..

went upstairs to join agape lead teaching session for the younger kids. they were doing noah's ark. gabriel n vincent n persis left first. we did a colouring session. the children coloured pictures of animals cut out n pasted on a paper plate to act as a mask. we were asking for a volunteer to ask as Noah, but none of the boys were willing. finally a handsome young man volunteered. we were all very happy. after acting out the children lost their attention on the story. so we ended it by giving goodie bags to them n dismissed them with a prayer by Ibu Aniong.

waited for the bus to come fetch us. stopped at phei phei's house to pick up kites for persis. really cheap man!! hahaa.. went to a bak kut teh shop near the jetty for lunch. it was a good meal! but didn't have time to finish all the food. haiz. boarded the ferry, didn't get to find a whole row of seats so we were all split up. fell asleep on the ferry. hmm.. faith was seasick but this time i didn't go out to pei her. feel a bit bad.. hope she's ok... bought a lot of fried stuff but didn't get to eat them on the ferry.

asked my dad to fetch me home. it was pouring heavily so when he came he wanted to sit down for a cup of tea first. then i felt FoS. wanted to go home. my dad drove past Marina south, saw this newly opened golf club. my dad said there's gonna be a disneyland there. i was like, how can singapore open disneyland when hongkong is already struggling with the number of expected customers? drove past ECP, thought of the recent night i was there. drove past bedok south. remembered that kelvin mentioned the bah chor mee there v nice. then i realised he was referring to Chai Chee. then i kept praying that God will help me keep the shit in till i reach home. =P

thank God!

had spaghetti for dinner. so Expo is having food fest. my parents bought stuff from expo. just now my dad was complaining about the gorengan i bought back. haiyo.

:: ok day ::

today started bad as well, but got better la. it isn't always true that a bad start will end bad too.

today 2 clients came.. at the same time. wah that was really stressful for me cuz i needed to attend to both at the same time. wad's worse was when the phone rang in the middle of the meeting.

so far okay la, the proj i have been dreading n dragging myself through is going to end SOON. by this week i hope. then the other proj... haiyo ah. postponed, but still got yet another proj to do first (by same client).

i really feel that life has halted because of the worship conference. like i can't do anything i wan during this period. n i can do ANYTHING after that. after 8th sept, i'm going to do these: go tanjung balai, buy bass amp, swim, meet up with friends, work on a free lance proj, clean up my room, do foot massage, go ladies' retreat, go hongkong, go on mission trips!

speaking of bass amp. wanted to go buy today, but feel that it's not urgent. i can use my hi-fi anyway. wanted to go Trumpet Praise to buy the book i wanted for a month. Asia Time Bomb.. but when i reached dhoby ghaut i realised i shld let esther know, in case i can help do anything there. she said she's also going there, offered to help me pick up the book. so i u-turned back home (on the NEL). maybe i u-turned too fast. maybe i shld still go. can buy other stuff anyway.

feels like i didn't accomplish wad i wanted to.

:: bad day ::

today woke up with a bad start.

still very tired. thought i slept enough. was really struggling to listen to Graham Hendrick preach. hmm.. let me recall what was his points.
be a : 1) secret worshipper, 2) sustained worshipper, 3) i lost him there.

haha.. very happy to see elaine come.

had cake n lunch in church. meeting for worship conference publicity.. end up with nothing. i'm contented la, but some of them prefer to push for more.

thomas tried to influence me to study further. i was 0% interested in studying at first, but now hmm.. probably have 5% hope. from the way i hear pple talk abt uni life, i told myself that i'm not going uni. uni is such a... corrupted place.

my mom wanted me to buy dinner back for her, but i didn't want to, so she got angry n slammed the phone. i was really not in the mood to go anywhere unless my parents r going. went home to sleep.

this is a bad day for me. a little dreading tmr.. cuz i really must finish the proj tmr.

:: another all-out weekend ::

hmm.. my msn nick was "vomits blood". seriously, at work, sometimes stress gets to me that i feel suffocated, hard to breathe. i tend to need to take in big gasps of air in those moments. and that stress period was supposed to be over on 21st aug 2006. dragged till friday still haven't complete. not my fault lor. i totally can't visualise what client wants. "design cannot be too boxy." i did a 7th version of the design already la! friday was better at work because thursday was so bad i kept praying for help.

n now my msn nick is "where is the cat?" because everyday on my way to work i always pass by this patch of land and there is a resident cat. it will always be there, just a matter of which part of there. so kinda like Where's Wally, i try to look for the cat everyday. kind of a game to me ba.

hmm okok back to my all-out weekend. after work on fri i took train to city hall.. walked to bras basah since esther n elena hadn't reached yet. went to check out the bass amps at sweelee. the guy recommended a $210 Peavey bass amp. tested it n honestly i'm not knowledgeable to hear the quality. checked out the tuner too. $29.90 seiko brand. but i didn't buy. only bought a cable. yeah finally i can use it to plug into my hi-fi temporarily, before i get a proper amp. i learnt that the converter is to plug into the hi-fi Out hole and plug my earphones. Not directly into my bass. LOL. it was amazing that i could test the stuff n make purchase within 10 min.

walked back to the raffles city shopping centre to meet them since they've reached already. after thinking so long where to eat, we decided to eat at a jap restaurant. the food is affordable and GOOD! they give real scallops man! haha got shocked by esther's "fickle-mindedness". now i know~

went to MIX for dessert and meeting. the atms at the basement were unable to dispense cash. amazing. good thing there's a DBS bank at level 1. guorong arrived. bought a Matcha Wow. not bad.. but i think it was the guava that made it sour. soya whipped cream! woah~ had our PRC meeting. it was a good time of sharing.

after that took bus to jeremy's place. saw an accident at telok blangah. an NTUC truck smashed into a pillar. there were many police vehicles, ambulances, firetruck. n many kaypos watching. LOL.

when i reached his place they were making pancakes and talking about the game they were playing earlier. Cranium. it was a 84 vs 86 game. haha. fellowshipped n then started a new round of Cranium. quite an intellectual game. i didn't do much except roll the die. but the game was fun. haha.

after that was ahpek session. over absolut peach. goes nice with 7-up. n some lemon thing brandon recommended. took a shot of that. n then jeffrey arrived with hoegarden n stella artois. do they go together or what? i like hoegarden.

we had a good, Godly discussion about relationships, marriage, wedding, money, cost of living in Singapore... talked till 6am. by then i really couldn't open my eyes anymore. then we went up to jeremy's room to slp. diana n i squeezed on the bed. lol.

i woke up at 9.10am. feeling FoS. couldn't go back to slp. saw weiyang also feeling terrible. he thinks he got food poisoning cuz he just got it one month ago. must be the buffet he had. i didn't tell my parents that i was not going home last night. =x so this morning called to notify my mom.

watched National Geographic. wow. i love documentaries. (more n more like my ah lian liao) watched this Hunter Hunted. a man killed by a dingo on Fraser Island. one shouldn't run when he sees a wild dog-like animal. the predator will sense the fear of a prey and will give chase. the scientists were trying to understand whether or not he was killed by the dingo using forensic deductions. after that there's this show The Living Edens. Featuring Canyonlands and the animals in it. The way they survive. i dun like scavenging birds. i dun like to watch them swoop over poor little animals and feeding on them. so i switched off the tv n nodded off to slp.

jeffrey went home n came back with his car n woke me up with his entrance to the house. had a little headache. waited for diana then we went off to Seah Im. had breakfast. kelvin left his hp at jeremy's place. but we managed to meet there. he took very fast to reach sia. n then after a short debate to go sentosa or not, we decided to go ahead. i was still wondering if i should renew my Islander membership. trying to consider if i will get to use it often enough to make it worth.

drove into siloso beach carpark. ben joined us there. walked a long way to the beach. lotsa pple sia. found a spot to nua. napped whenever i could. started playing frisbee. then borrowed a volleyball from a neighbouring group. jeff n diana know some pple from there. wow. the whole day they keep meeting pple they know la. lol. haha did some stunts with the volleyball. like the power punch, the header, n uh.. that's it. fun. went down into the water to get cooled for a while. n then continued to play volleyball. saw some disgusting men in their underwear. they think they can pass it off as swimming trunks. *pukes* if they were only 8 yrs old, it's still okay. i remember doing that when i was young.

jeffrey improvised the game with forfeits. we tried as much to pass the ball without dropping it as many times as we could. if we failed at 30, then the person who passed the bad ball had to do 30 squats. our goal was 50. just when he decided to give up trying for 50, we did it!! haa.. went back to our mat to nua. decided to leave at 4pm. time passed very slowly at 3.45-3.50pm. haha

went to kelvin's hse to wash up n then eat a bit at the coffeeshop. took jeff's car to potong pasir to take train home. really dead by then. took a nap, woke up, my mom cooked dinner for me. (WOW!) instant noodles la. not very well-cooked but good effort!

:: errr ::

an electric bass guitar is supposed to use electricity to work ya?

i haven't got an amp... no wonder i can't hear anything from it >.<

bought a converter n plugged in my earphone to try.. but can't hear anything.. got quite panic.. wonder if the guit is spoilt or wad..

n then.. i realise..... an electric bass guitar is supposed to use electricity to work!

:: all out ::

haha fri was ALL OUT.

really enjoy the heart-to-heart talks with my colleague by the railway. feels really good. we talked about God, our lives, our views of relationships, basically everything and anything. hope she doesn't leave the company soon.

got "scolded" by our boss cuz he thought we let his dog out of the cupboard while he was not in. :S

after work i rushed to peace centre to get the pledge card for MCG stuff printed. hmm Poster Connection moved.. must have moved to sunshine plaza.. =x too long nv go print stuff :P

then walked to Little India mrt to take train home. think i reached home at 8.30pm. thought of taking a nap till 9.30pm, but decided to wake up earlier, 9pm. i was really blur sia. wanted to buy cake for jianxiong, but when i was waiting for the bus it dawned on me that shopping centre cakeshops might close early. so i panicked. kept praying that i will get to the cakeshop in time. think i was too worried la, bought a cake on impulse. then faith told me that she n rj dun really like black forest flavour.. =x i was worried that the cake was too big for us to finish, but there were no smaller size cake. so bo bian.

wah i waited for an hour i think, the shopping centre even close already, then jx arrived. drove me to meet faith n rj at Orchard Partyworld. reached around 11pm. ktv till 3am.. seems quite long, but we were quite rushing thru the songs. dun like the place sia. so run down n sleazy lor. our finale song was a grand one, it was a duet, so faith n rj sang the first half of the song, In Love With You by Jacky Cheung n Regine then jx n i took over the second half. i mean, we didn't realise that it was the last song but all of us managed to sing it.

brought the cake out for nothing. later u'll know why. after a session of indecisiveness, (all the "shui bian"s) we finally decided to go Esplanade. tried to look for a place for supper. 4 of us split up into 2 cars.. at Esplanade we took the cake out n walked to the Makan Sutra place, but it was closed already. so we decided to go geylang. went to my grandfather's beef hor fun stall. we took the cake out again, ordered 2 plates of beef "hor fun" (they gave us sang mee cuz they run out of hor fun). after eating (super salty sia) we decided to go ECP. rj wanted to ask which year i was born in, he asked, "84 or 85 ah?" wah pengz.. haha..

very funny sia, jx drove all the way on the path where only police cars patrol. wanted to reverse back into the carpark but rj was close behind la. high beam us somemore. heh.. after negotiation with rj, jx made a U-turn to go back to the car park. and then we decided to go to the jetty. went back to the car, this time all of us took jx's car and we went all the way to carpark F. super far sia. joked about leaving rj's car in ECP and let his dad come pick it the next morning (actually it was the next morning already.) took the cake out again n finally managed to sit down n sing birthday song to jx n cut cake. made him bite the candles out. haha.. we all only managed to eat half the cake.

after that went home. wah not bad i know the way back home. haha reached home at 6am. slept for 2 hours, then woke up for breakfast with my mom. prepared the pledge cards before i left home to meet gail they all in church for prayer and preparation.

thought i was late, but i wasn't! haha.. prayer started at 11.45am instead. tried to take a nap while waiting for jayne to come back n open the door, but couldn't sleep. sigh.. i'm sure rj, faith n jx had a better rest than me.. =P

i could have dozed off during the MCG mid-section training, but cannot la. huiting guessed i am 24 yrs old. lol. oh yah.. judy's boyfriend's friend's girlfriend also guessed my age older.

got my bass guitar from nelson today!! (what, u mean i never mentioned in my wishlist that i wanted a bass guitar??) i've been wanting to learn since poly days man! haha..

after the MCG thing, i joined my cell for a while. then went to sajc for PRC setup.

:: feast! ::

wow.. i really feel v honoured today.. got to meet the HPL hotels people.. Hard Rock Hotel! discussed some Maldives hotel website development.. exchanged namecards (felt like exchanging ang pows) haha.. v shiok.. didn't feel that i have to mind my behavior too much, it was quite casual chit chat.

then Vijesh, one of the staff, treated us to lunch at Hard Rock Cafe!! woohoo! my first time there.. felt quite sleepy immediately after the meal haha..

after work went to heeren.. forgot to bring my hp =P celebrated judy's birthday! her bf gave a treat at NYDC.. felt quite sian of western food already.. n cakes. heh.

went to Club 21.. let her choose wadever she wants.. she chose a mac game for her new mac.. haha she was so happy..

carl gave me a lift home and they all head out for drinks. last night also, missed the chance to hang out n have drinks.. but got work to do la. tired. almost done!!!

another birthday celebration tmr. really all out liao.

:: Sabbath ::

woo.. just an application from what i learnt from the book, i went to take a stroll today after work. had plans to celebrate kelvin's bday at 8.30pm, so i was too early after work. somemore MCG meeting cancelled cuz of low attendance.

went to check out the ktv pubs near my office, to find out their rates. felt like a kuku man. they dun have rooms one lor, so public singing. then just order drinks and u can sing already. felt quite silly.

walked to chinatown, went to people's park to look for shampoo, but didn't buy anything. walked to china sq, acts lifestyle to look for book, but no stock. walked to boat quay, wanted to go esplanade park, but it was dangerously dark already, so i didn't. went through old parliament house. it was quite fun exploring places.. hehe.. heard boats chugging away at boat quay, found a "hidden" mosque in the middle of the CBD, a string of spider web swing past in front of a street lamp, saw a kitten hiding in the drain at near parliament hse, a pigeon trying to fall asleep in between the "Corinthian" columns (patterned pillars) tried to take photo, but it flew away when i went nearer.

actually lost my way at the padang, didn't know how to get to dhoby ghaut from there. so just nice got a sign describing the Raffles district. so i learnt that i shld cut through to armenian street, where i found the Substation.. so happy! wanted to go find out where it is since a long time ago.. went to fill myself with design brochures.

continued to walk, through SMU to Cathay Cineplex. at SMU i got myself an Oreo Surprise from Mr Tea. guess the guys r from Dubai.. my drink was so tall that i struggled to finish it before i went up to Ben & Jerry's. it was a great time with my cell grp.. kelvin jieling n jeremy performed.. we had ice cream.. aloysius n aijia were there too.

wanted to join them for drinks after that, but decided to go home. gotta finish up a video before sat.. n i got a feeling that i'm not slping on fri night...

tmr going to meet clients!

:: pepper lunch ::

so happy that i got to bring my mom to pepper lunch for dinner. (*weird stares*) treated her to a meal n she was so happy, she offered to treat me dessert, breakfast... haha

but because of the dessert - i can't have sweet stuff before i sleep - i couldn't sleep! tossed and turned for a full hour before i managed to doze off.

hmm.. been reading Esther's book, The Rest of God.. it's wonderful. picking up reading now. i'll be using the new notebook to jot down learning points! actually ah, i'm really bad at making notes.. i forgot since when, i tried to read the book of Psalms and making notes for each chapter.. i've stopped at chapter 66 and hadn't progressed.. i can read, no prob, but difficult to jot down learning points. i'll get back to Psalms n pick up writing again, after i finished reading my last 6 chapters of Job.

:: oops ::

haha i missed out thurs.

persis smsed me on wed that phei phei is coming to singapore, so she asked if anyone is free for dinner on thurs.

supposed to meet at PS, since her ferry arrives at 6pm.. so i took the train at outram park, and then i called persis. she then told me that pheiphei's ferry will arrive at 8pm instead, so i took the train back to harbourfront.

accompanied persis to shop.. haha.. tried on a few pieces of clothes.. then at 8pm we made our way to the cruise centre to pick phei phei up. uncle asun is also there. phei phei actually came to singapore for some children's seminar at St Andrew's Cathedral.

we had dinner at Han's.. eat until v bloated man. uncle asun shared abt his vietnam trip.. makes me wanna go man!! asked him abt Frenky.. heard that he's fatter now.. haha..

took the NEL with them.. felt as if it was very late already, but actually quite early.

:: Psalmist + Sound Retreat ::

18/8 - 20/8

haha if u ask anyone they will tell u..all i did at the retreat is daidee n bridge!! haha.. i learnt to play bridge last yr at sentosa, with yun, belly n kwek.. but the game rule is so confusing, i forgot totally how to play. haha.. this time my advisor is none other than chris chan wor! :P

went for the retreat on fri.. haven't packed till the last min. after work i went to outram park mrt n decided to call my dad, c if he can pick me up. so we went for dinner at tekka mall. then shopping in mustafa.. haha.. after that, around 9pm reached home. showered, packed my bag n smsed nic. he called to tell me to try to catch the 10.15pm coasta sands shuttle bus at pasir ris. woah. this, i must really thank God.. because i reached the bus stop at pasir ris at 10.10pm.. by the time i walked over to the pick up point the bus was nearly leaving without me. then i saw lin feng n thomas on the bus.

1st night did nothing much, except daidee :P decided to slp early cuz i had work that day.. makes me tired. but couldn't slp lar. noisy paul chow n terry.. :P think they quietened after 2am..? next morning woke up early. had breakfast prepared by chef malcolm n waited for more pple to arrive. played some mass games to mix around.. n esther n melissa (sound) led worship. after that slack.. play games.. lunch.. play games.. slack.. play games.. haha.. it started to pour heavily. so we played station games indoors.

one of the station games was "mouth wide shut". it was killer for me. the rule of the game is simply cannot laugh. how i can not laugh at such situations? i was so relieved after 5 min of tahan-ing. then we played animal game. i find that game v stressful man! after that station my grp (chris me n ruijie) moved to charades by jon yap. first topic for the other team was fast food.. damn funny. how do u act out yoshinoya n mos burger?! jeremy even guessed ramly burger, mcspicy double etc. lol. rj acted out movie titles n i suck at guessing. chris acted out song titles n rj was the one who gets them right. i acted out cartoon characters n chris was impressed that i know how to act all of them.

the last station.. oh man. was endurance test. half-squat position for 20 min. chris went down with dongwen first.. then me.. then the rest stayed to the full 20 min. impressive! after that we had a last mass game outside. peeling fruits without hands. there were orange, grapes, longans, apple, rambutans. it was salivating gross. at the end of peeling the guys had to eat the fruit la! oh ya, there's one girl in each team so we r the ones to hold the fruit for them to peel. hehe.

went back to slack n play games till chi shyan n wee lee arrived. it was so easy to fall into the stone mood.. struggled to keep focus. after pastor's sharing, we had a time of ministry sharing. i shared my vision for the Psalmist ministry n how i felt encouraged by the ministry. it was long session man. my butt aches after the half-squat game. then we had our chef prepare bbq food for us. didn't do much.. didn't eat much too. but i felt F.O.S. went inside to slack n play bridge. haha oh man that's when i started to play the whole night. pausing only to sing birthday song n eat dessert.. lol. i was still blur with the game la. think all the other players v pek cek with me haha.. n thomas is still the one talking nonsense all the time. i suspect he got drunk n high. he was totally siao while we watched the stephen chow show la.

think we stopped playing around 3+am. went out for a walk.. to stretch my aching butts. then went to slp. next morning checked out at 10.20am.. took the shuttle bus back to pasir ris n took train with my cell grp (those who were still around the last day) back to church. reached at 11.50am.. haha.. felt really blessed by the chance to talk to some pple during the retreat n even after. i dun mean abt myself la.

went for lunch at marina sq food court.. starting to love the place, though i always get lost there. decided to walk to esplanade park to find bus to take home. couldn't find, so i walked to clarke quay mrt station. was a hot day, but i really felt peaceful n joyful. =) really feels good to have the time to take a stroll. oh n i celebrated my birthday this yr at esplanade park, which makes it even more memorable. hehe..

took afternoon nap, which explains why i am still awake now. had a weird dream. hmm..

hmm.. wanna thank God for another thing.. which i'm not going to reveal yet.. because His plan is still unfolding. thank God that things happen in His time. i may have down periods, but i was really surprised at the rate God healed me! i mean, in the past i would have dwelled in self-pity, depression for a long time, but now, it's different!

:: Planetshakers ::

friday went for Planetshakers concert at the Expo.. it wasn't very confirmed until the day itself. shirley (bong) was late.. *hor hor* the concert was great.. haha.. got a goodie bag n sat at the back.. inside the goodie bag got a Planetshakers balloon (cool!), face chalk (for drawing on the body), party stuff like whistles n an envelope that says Open Only Upon Instructed.

bought kelvin a Planetshakers CD cuz i lost his Reflector in thailand. liz suggested that as a way of compensation. (relieved!) i myself bought a CD + DVD for $50.. haha.. i wouldn't have spent that money if i weren't earning. but i think it's worth it. got their autographs on the CD.. *smirks*

went home to rest. spent sat morning to afternoon editing the video for sunday publicity. went for combined cell grp.. but left shortly after that for worship prac. realised i forgot to ask for the songlist so i asked Melissa to help me find songs. was worried that the van would leave without us cuz it would take a big round to get to SAJC side. n i dun wanna climb the gate at the bridge! woah. there was a blackout halfway during setup.

after prac went home to do some final editing of the video. couldn't find my cd-rw.. wondering if i left it at kel's place on sun?

sun reached 2nd! haha.. cuz my dad was going to work so he dropped me in church. tricia was 1st.. Chris 3rd! haha.. service was happening. i find this time jayne's msg v interesting.. =P about Pergamum. i'm really curious abt the historical structures around that area.. hmm~

after service went for lunch with cell grp at Tanjong Pagar. bah kut teh.. very pepperish soup. after that jeffrey dropped me n yongqiang at Harbourfront. went home to slp. then woke up around 5+pm to go out meet singles' club. michael suggested marina south steamboat at first, but i saw a marina sq brochure at the bedside.. so i asked him can change to marina sq instead. :P

had dinner at Changing Appetite. went there with camp comm last yr. ordered Seafood combo for 3 n cookie n cream slinkie. haha.. eat until v full.. think i got indigestion that night. couldn't really slp.

but incredibly i can wake up earlier than usual in the morning. shared with my colleague abt the sermon. i'm glad Focus5 website's design is finalised!! dreaded it man. i realise this month i haven't done any EDMs. been doing full websites. cool!

after work took train to cck. saw landy. forgot that he's in PJ (oops!) felt sick since the afternoon. i suspect it's the water at my office. possibility quite low la, cuz it's boiled water. shouldn't have prob right? but tasted like insecticide.. =S went to try to throw up but nothing came out. felt my throat very painful so i went to buy water. didn't realise jianxiong was eating alone. didn't have appetite so i ate only one plate of sushi at Suki. faith n ruijie were almost late. but we bought movie tickets for the movie Click already. thought it would be v touching. seems like i placed my expectation too high again. it was funny la.. but quite crude too. haha.

after the movie faith was v worried cuz i looked paler than usual. in the end after some "nagging" (hee) we went to rj's place. his mom made hot milo for me. hehe.. played the Planetshakers cd n just chillout la. sorry that i kept wanting to go home early. jx wanted to go for supper but i cannot make it anymore. he bo bian had to send me home. then rj sent faith home.

the next day (tue) i still felt terrible. no appetite for lunch though i need a break. my colleague prayed for healing. thank God! (though i kinda wish i can really fall sick n take leave officially - oops) got a new website to design. so happy!

went to dhoby ghaut to wait for hx. realised that the Apple shop is no longer there. saw lin feng. haha.. walked to Cine to continue to wait for hx. went into the Club 21 (shop selling Apple stuff la, not club.) n felt sick again. that place intimidates me. so high-techy. decided to go outside to rest. finally hx arrived. was quite impatient cuz i wanted to go her place to watch the Planetshakers dvd together. n i wanted to go home early after that. so her friend drove us to waffletown in bukit timah to takeaway chicken wings.

finally reached her place at 9pm. felt quite motivated n not so stressed anymore (abt the visuals lor). her "driver" sent me home, with her accompanying. this morning i woke up in disgust. HOW CAN U GIVE HIM MY NUMBER!!!

felt better today.. not so nauseous anymore. but quite blur la. i forgot to ask for no chilli when i ordered my lunch. end up quite sian of eating. after work supposed to go Trumpet Praise to choose books n cds for PRC, but esther postponed it to monday. good also la. today go home early. but on the train i felt sick again. i wonder if i'm actually train-sick.

Listening to Planetshakers album right now. =)

:: thanks ::

*widens my mind*

met a japanese client on tue at tiong bahru, and met ting after that. accompanied her for dinner at Thai Express. then walked around cuz she wanted to get clothes for party that night. went to Dallas' place for fish & chips party. thought it was going to be overnight cuz the next day is a public hol. hmm.. getting over the upsetting part. his place is really cool. he gave a 10 min intro to his home theatre. really very enlightening. got to sit on the "vibrating" chair.

my mom bought the Watson's footspa massager. lazy to take photo of it n upload la. used it the next day.

had a meeting with MCG on national day evening. didn't get to c fireworks at all. aww.. but okay la.

the meeting was really exciting. we went to SMU n did research on the internet to link global revivals to our mission purpose. at GoFest Asia, Joseph Chian mentioned that now is an exciting time for Asia! before i reveal too much details, just wanna say that i learnt alot. what was mentioned in Revelations, the last book of the Bible, written in New Testament times (AD) was also written in Ezekial, Old Testament times (BC). and i'm also trying to figure out if Jerusalem is really at the CENTRE of the earth!

hmm.. conclusion? come for mid-section with MCG on 26 Aug!

gotta start doing video editing now.

anyway, really, thanks all of u who care!

a last note: here's some headlines of an email i received -

It costs Venita Njovu $1.60 a month to send her children to school. Pocket change for most of us, but worth about two days of food for her four children. It is, she says, the only way her children will ever rise above the disaster that awaits nearly every child growing up in this part of Zambia.

“For the last eight years, I didn’t know what it was like to buy shoes for my
children,” Alfredo Jiménez remarked about life before a micro-enterprise loan. He now plans to pay for his daughters’ college tuition.

Care for others like Jesus cares for u!
here's some links: http://www.children.org, http://www.projlife.com and http://www.worldvision.org

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feeling depressed right now. this entry is going to be quite personal to me.

in spite of that, i wanna thank God for answering my prayer. well, i haven't had my period for more than 2 months already. i was worried, though it's an inconvenience. started to get serious abt my health n prayed abt it. i ever wondered if i shld ever have children in future. i mean it's like, what if they turn away from the right path? what if they end up in hell? what if they actually do things that lead pple to hell? i was not hopeful for the future. but then there's the other side. my children could turn out leading pple the right way. they could be the hope for the future. seems like i think far huh. but i just prayed that i wun be barren la.

hmm. felt v hurt last night. cuz i went to meet ting to get my vcd back. i was also blaming myself for forgetting to bring a good movie. i even bought a movie that i find funny and good to watch. in the end no, we aren't watching those. normally i would have been okay abt that. i guess it was the high expectation that i had, that pple would enjoy the movies i brought. i guess it was the tone that hurt me. n i cried all the way home. i do enjoy watching 16 Blocks, but i didn't realise that we were just going to watch one movie.

i also felt very stressed out when they played the Hillsong United dvd. i watched the visuals n i started to cry. i wish i could quit. no i dun mean my job.

i just feel that i need to take time to heal.

and uh. Hurt people hurt people. so, sorry.

:: 21st bday ::

haha no la i'm not 21 yet.. still got less than a yr to go. but my mom "popped the question" just now: how do i want to celebrate?

she suggested booking a chalet.. clichè~. i asked her, "do you rem how (my sis) celebrated hers?" she went to europe. so my mom asked, so u want to go europe ah? mentioned that i've never been there before, so i am interested to go. she replied that she also never went before. sounds like we'll be going together. =P

anyway. haha long update. >.< no la.

hmm. wed had meeting with worship conference pub team pple. wanted to end by 8.30pm, but ended at 9+pm instead. bought chicken n calamari from the British takeaway at Raffles City Shopping Centre basement. not bad, but couldn't finish.

thurs went for sectional training after work. 1st to reach!! =) this time i wasn't very lost. (usually i am) cuz we were talking about harvest event.

fri wanted to go home early. but decided to get my thai cds back from Chihiro, so went to Chinatown Point to meet her, have dinner then go home together. went to her place to get my cds, but had to wait for her to finish copying them. walked home. by the time i reached home it was close to 11pm. tired sia. did the pub video halfway then went to rest.

sat woke up quite early la. i mean, it's a sat, i usually sleep in la. had breakfast with my parents then went back home to work on the video somemore. dunno y pple think video v easy to do. sigh. if there's a choice i would let others do video. complained to my sis abt it. i shouldn't be so unhappy to do God's work.

went for cell grp. walked all the way to SAJC to pass the video to the projectionist. n walked all the way back to join my cell to slack n wait for the soccer guys to go for dinner. i like walking, but it's very sian to walk to the bridge only to find it locked n turn back to walk another way.

had dinner at Amk. miss my sch area. haha. went home to iron my clothes. (ya ya, i seldom do that)

sun brought my Christian message t-shirt for liz. hmm.. during service there was altar call for those who feel tired out. i was a BIT tired out for More to This Life, but my involvement is not as heavy as the coming pub - which is killing me. yes i have to admit that i am harbouring resentment. my perspective is wrong. i need to be corrected. maybe it's just that this week i happen to be occupied with different things, i haven't been going home straight after work, i haven't been sleeping at 10pm punctually. but thank God for jac for praying for me.

had lunch with kelvin, jeremy, n malcolm. had teh-o ice kosong.. >.< no sugar added!! went to harbourfront to meet judy to get my laptop back. her friend gave me a lift to kelvin's hse. had meeting there n steamboat dinner. ate until super bloated. stayed back to help clean up n wash the dishes n terry opened my laptop's iTunes n found lotsa techno tracks. haha the old days la. really v long nv touch those songs n my laptop liao! =P we all (jeremy, tricia, malcolm, kelvin, terry n myself)slacked for a while in kelvin's room, listened to Hillsong United songs n singing to them.

we went to 7-eleven to get icecream yoghurt (but dun have). settled for ice cream. =P

today boss is not around again. Val came. discussion is getting better. i'm influencing my colleague to like thai songs! =P realise that my whole company (4 of us) likes to go thailand. haha.

looking forward to Fish n Chips tmr. *winks*

:: wah still online ::

so late liao still online.. tmr work die liao.

i resolve to make better use of my working hours. to serve my boss as faithfully as i'm serving my Lord. feel bad cuz i did some personal stuff during working hours these few days.. before he even thinks of sacking me, i must improve!

went shopping after work today.. bought 2 pants for $32. very happy.

today then i realised that Pearl Centre is NOT zhen zhu fang!!!! People's Park is!

oh yah. my whole family is working now. my mom found a job about 3 weeks ago. :P sorry for the late news ya.

went for prayer meeting after shopping.. haha sang some happening songs. I still dunno who's the guy who preached today.

:: back! ::

yeah! back from KL! haha..

hmm this whole week ... there was the first day of the seventh month n there were ****** pple polluting the air and land. on my way to work i prayed that God will take the pollution away. and the next day He did! the ground was rather clean, considering it had been badly littered the day before.

hmm.. had been staying up late on wed n thur nights to bia the harvest event role tags.. do until stone. thur night was a bit better, was in a better mood. but last minute after sending the files shirley realised that the size was wrong. i was like, AHHHHH!!!!! and went to redo. slept at 3am n on friday i was like a walking zombie.

felt quite bad this week cuz there were one or two days i had nothing to do. i had to look busy still. i was doing this website, do until sian. i dunno y i didn't have the passion to do that particular website. then usually i get emails to update this website, amend that website.. but those days dun have leh. didn't get to play much with my boss' puppy also cuz whenever he goes out he'll let the dog sleep inside a cupboard.

hmm.. friday was a disaster. reason being i slept late on thur night.. have a tendancy to snap easily. there was no value in my ezlink card already n i reminded myself on thur evening that i will top it up on fri morning, after i borrow money from my dad. (i've used up my pay la) but when i asked him for $20, he only had $50. so i blur blur accepted it n left home. when i was abt to reach the lrt station it suddenly dawned upon me that i wanted to top up only $10, n have $10 to eat! i desperately started to ask pple if they have change for $50. no one have!! n then i desperately went downstairs to the shopping mall, went to cheers n asked for change, they dun have!! went to the foodcourt, n again, dun have!! i panicked n called my dad, hopefully he's still around, can drive me to mrt station. n i started to cry. i really wasted 15 min. then my dad arrived at the lrt station. he was going to take train as well. so he passed me his extra ezlink card for me to use. seems so silly to cry over this right? well i wasn't in the mood to think rationally la. i was angry with myself for being so blur. n i cry when i'm super angry.

was late for work, obviously. but i guess it was ok la becuz i usually stay a few minutes more anyway. i wouldn't dare leave on time that day too. went to take train to woodlands to meet the not-so-singles' club.. i thought from Outram i could get there in half an hour. i was wrong!! it actually takes 45 min!! then we went to take bus 950. friday was super jammed. lotsa msians going back. traffic was bad esp in the evening. but we arranged to meet ian at City Square at 8.30pm n we did arrive on time. we even helped an old man fill in his white card.

had dinner at Kenny Rogers'. i ordered macaroni n cheese, the waitress brought me spaghetti. i just wanted to clarify what i ordered n the rest called me a fussy customer. dots. i asked the waitress if my meal comes with a drink, she said something n walked away. thought she was going to bring me a menu to choose a drink but didn't. after a long wait, she brought me an iced lemon tea. did i order that? y she assume i want to drink lemon tea?! when my macaroni finally came they said it looks like shit. thanks pple.

after dinner it was soon closing time for the shops. walked around a bit then went to the train station to wait. our train was due to arrive at 11pm. just before the train arrived, we waited at the platform.. they saw a shooting star but i missed it. so sad! boarded the sleeper cabin.. we played dai dee till 1am? then went to sleep. i like to sleep on the train. around 6.30am i heard them talking n i woke up. took photos n videos of the moving scenery outside. washed up n then we arrived in KL. it was 7am. there were no shops open at that time.. so we decided to take the monorail to Imbi station n look for hotel. i like the interior of the monorail. we still had no luck at 9am. the rooms were either fully booked or too ex. so we went to eat breakfast. had dim sum n bak kut teh. v cheap leh, each person RM14 only. oh wait let me introduce, there were 5 of us: ian, nicholas, michael, wendy n myself. okay moving on, we decided to go buy bus tickets for our transport back n shun bian look out for hotels to ask for rooms. bought tickets for Konsortium bus. double decker one. finally decided to stay at Katari Hotel. but it wasn't check in time, so we deposited our bags at the reception n then went out shopping. by then shops were open already. we went to Times Sq n after walking for a while i started to get impatient. we had so little time n yet the guys took so long at each shop. so we split up to shop. bought 2 S&K tops n their magazine. that's all i bought.

walked to Plaza Sungei Wang for more shopping. wah this place pissed me off man. so big so confusing. we all waited for the lift n i was last to board. then overload cuz it was too crowded. so i stepped out n went to take the escalators. supposed to go 6th floor, but i could only reach the 4th floor. it was a rooftop carpark. i panicked n wondered how to get to the 6th floor without taking the lift! after i found them, i was pissed with ian for calling me stupid. really pissed. walked around with wendy n tried to look for checkered shorts. i think those kinda shorts dun suit me. u know, those u can see so many girls wearing nowadays. so i didn't buy. wendy bought a pearl necklace n another rather bohemian-looking one. at 3+pm we met up for dinner. had jap cuisine at Sushi station! yummy~ ate a lot.

wanted to leave Sungei Wang, but we realised that it was raining heavily. we had no umbrellas with us. we had the option of buying umbrellas, n taking taxi. but in the end we waited for the rain to stop. i had a bowl of chocolate rice dumplings. - fav dessert. choc flavour looks really unique ma, so i die-die must try. walked back to the hotel but i was quite sian becuz my slippers r rather slippery n i dun dare to walk quickly. the rest were like "angel, faster!", sigh. reached around 6.30pm. checked into the rooms. we had 2 connecting rooms. we showered n rested n then left the room around 8pm. went to the Chinatown, Jalan Petaling. there were lotsa imitation goods. i was quite sian of walking thru the crowd la. somemore not just once, but probably 9-10 times already. serious. went to eat at the roadside.. ordered stingray n claypot rice. nic ordered prawn noodles too. rating 3 out of 5 *s. i love the one back at my workplace most. i also love the one back at my old house, West Coast Rd, but not sure if it's still there.

felt back ache. very jialat. can't wait to go back. i admit that i was pulling a long face the whole night. waited for the guys to buy jerseys yet they could not wait for me to try on sunglasses. was even scolded by one stallowner for wasting time. spoiled my night. the guys bought shoes too. n i didn't buy anything at all. on our way back we saw a mobile Ramly burger stall n ordered 3. yummy~ (seems like only food can make me feel better).

went back to the hotel. again they keep telling me to walk faster. i'm supposed to walk between the guys, front n back, but the back pple want to talk to the front pple n they overtake me. then they say i walk slow. sian! rested for a while then went out for more supper. wendy told me abt the chilli crab n made me feel very gian to eat it. it was quite far la. hmm anyway i took quite long with the last piece of the crab n nic was v sian of waiting. =(

went back, showered, packed my bag n went to slp. it was around 3am. woke up at 6.30am, washed up n went back to nap some more. until ian came to wake me up. we bought tickets for the 8.30am bus back, n the rest wanted to stay somemore. so we let them sleep in. we went for breakfast downstairs n then left. i was glad that we got the upstairs seats of the double decker bus! slept through the journey cuz we were tired la. but when i woke up it felt worse. reached Larkin, the bus terminal. went to Marrybrown to eat lunch. had fish fillet burger meal. not bad la. then took Causeway Link back to the customs n to Singapore. at woodlands checkpoint i passed very quickly. n waited v long for ian.. i wasn't looking attentively for him so i was afraid he was waiting for me elsewhere n left after he didn't see me. anyway. he showed up half an hr later. i was shocked that msians take so long to pass the customs.

went to take train n bus to church for the harvest event. was v disappointed that judy pang seh me last min lor. sigh.

the performances were GOOD! but the pple around me were very bad audiences. there was a little boy who kept talking to his mother behind him. i was pissed that the mother was encouraging him to talk by leaning forward n asking him things. the person behind me didn't switch his/her phone to silent mode la. halfway the dance the phone went off. as for sermon, i think pastor joshua lost some listeners, but i pray that it is not the words that touch the pples' hearts, but rather the presence of God.

after that went home with Gail. asked my dad to pick me up at punggol. went for dinner n bought some groceries n paid some bills. first time getting a 4-digit pay.

sorry ah, today i seem to have a complaining spirit. next time when i get over it i try to take away some harsh words from this entry.

:: meetups ::

friday was good. met up with Audrey for lunch. she took the wrong bus cuz i gave the wrong info.. =P OOPS. i think i wasted half an hr of my lunch time.

had lunch at Haveli cafe. last time i found a hair in the chicken cutlet. asked them to change n they hurried through the cooking n gave me half-cooked chicken. my colleague n i were the first customers there la. so i wun blame them. went back again. this time had chicken cutlet too, but this time they changed cook. i changed my fries for rice. i think i started to love eating rice since my trip to thailand. they have wonderful rice there!

really gotta thank God, i went back to office half an hour later (1½ hr lunch), hoping to be able to explain to my boss y i went back late but.... he left already! then Val came to discuss some design stuff. after that we n juliana talked about ywam and missions. our office turned into a christian gathering! =)

juliana n i packed up n left on time. hehe..

went to meet hao.. went to (shucks i dunno where) for dinner. had beijing food. served by china women. they seriously fail the servicing exam if there were one. the woman who cleared our plates asked us y we never eat our vegetables!!!!! it wasn't in a friendly tone either.

then walked around.. explored the chinatown complex. it seriously looks like a good setting for horror film. walked towards clarke quay. (uh actually not really.) had drinks at a pub near Far East Central. tried this normandic ice with melon, peppermint, strawberry n peach flavours. we had 4 shots of each flavour. then we walked on to One George n i started to act crazy. =P went to Golden Cafe to take a look (really just a look). then walked to clarke quay to take train home.

oh yah i took part in this SBS Transit promotion http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/promotions/promo_LHM.aspx, but i didn't win!! i really stayed up till 12am to send the email!! =(

:: sore losers ::

Well well, sore losers of the HKDI logo competition.
Read what they say:

Dear Participant :-)

Let's see one more finalist...
Last logotype is perfect for the company that name's ARSE.
Congratulations to the Panel of Judges, you are great design
specialists. :-)

Regards,

*****


Christopher ****** wrote:

> I have to say that I was actually quite sad that a design school
> could choose such awful designs. Ha ha ha...
>
>
>
> On 18 Jul 2006, at 10:16 PM, Jacek ******* wrote:
>
>> *Did you see that one logotype of the finalist [number 2] is out of
>> design requirements?
>> "The desgin should include the english and the chinese
title"!!!!!!!!
>> Results HKDI logo competition are embarrassing.*


Here's the winning design:



I don't think those who didn't win should complain how the judges decided on this winning design. Do they think their design is so good that they should complain? They actually set up websites and asked participants to upload their entries to kinda show off. And try to make each other agree that the winning design was lousier.

Sigh.

:: Pirates of the Carribean ::

celebrated my dad's bday on tue cuz i would be going to watch movie on wed. my mom n i treated him to dim sum in chinatown =P~ ate until bao bao.

wed went to watch Pirates of the Carribean with SDN club.. so cool.. so happy to c my juniors.. esp *johnny* LOL.

the movie is WOW. but i dun like the intro. nic n i entered when the trailers just ended n the movie was just starting. our seats were taken by some other juniors whose seats were taken by other other juniors. so we took other other other juniors' seats. but the ushers came in and checked our tickets n made sure we got back our seats. that happened during the first few minutes of the show n i got quite blur with what was happening on the screen. furthermore the intro was too much conversations. i forgot who is william turner n how he is related to elizabeth. U MUST WATCH PART 1 JUST BEFORE PART 2 - if u're as forgetful as me. i tend to forget movie storylines.

after that commotion tt happened earlier we all quietened down. yup there was a part where the juniors clapped for Captain Jack Sparrow. -duh-

then sweeyi came in. i ate popcorns till i got ulcer.. =(

we went to chat with Eugene after the show n he told us there would be a short ending after the casting. so we stayed back to watch. it was -duh-. haha.. in a funny sense la.

i love that movie!! i'm so gonna watch part 3!

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:: shortest entry ::

i decided to delete my "shortest entry" cuz it's crap.

going to watch Pirates of the Carribean on wed. =) oh johnny~!

:: w00t ::

long time no come online~! so many emails! *argh! flooded ah!!

hmm.. abt work, so far so good la. experienced a few days of stress when there are deadlines, n even when there weren't things to do, there was stress too because boss is always in the office n i somehow get the feeling that he's watching silently.. =S

sat was cool. had cell grp, then went for dinner at lavender food centre. hate to wait for seats. food is ok only. got a lift from brandon home. really grateful but i think i forgot to express it.

sun tried to wake up early for prayer meeting, but my dad is working, so i had to go church with my mom. she doesn't want to go early. so we compromise, try to reach at 9.30am. Sermon v short, taken from Hebrews 12:1-2. i wonder what u can talk about 2 verses. had lunch with cell grp at Harbourfront. haha. met Nissi there. when we've moved to Potong Pasir, we come back to Harbourfront for lunch. lol.

went back home to sleep for an hr until judy called. she was at my door already. i was still v sleepy. not long later sweeyi n cheryl arrived. i took out my new boardgame to play (yay!) played 2 rounds then they sian liao. played blackjack using mahjong chips. then we went out for dinner. cheryl drove us to night safari bongo, where we all used to work. haha.. it was cool man, like girls outing to clubs. but she was quite upset cuz of the scratches she got on the car, which belongs to her boyfriend. n at night safari we wanted to go car park, but we went in the wrong area. we kinda bumped into the barrier n the unfriendly cisco came to us n told us we need to pay $200 if they checked that the barrier is broken. that really blasted our day man. cheryl was really upset, so judy n i thought of giving her a treat. but anyway we had a great dinner. met up with some of their friends (i only worked 2 days so i dunno everyone). had ben & jerry's ice cream. hehe~

sweeyi had to go home so cheryl sent her home. then at 11+pm judy's friend came. we went to bukit timah, al ahmeen to meet jeremy n the rest. i remembered the place wrongly. but anyway it was great to have judy meet my cell grp n some other church friends. around 1+am we took cars to jeremy's house. it was probably our last chance to hang out at Kismis Ave cuz he's shifting soon. was having headache already. anyway.. World cup finals started at 2am... i betted France-Italy draw at half-time n 2-0 at full-time. i was still qualified after half-time, but confirm lost at the end. still, i got chance to win if i got the closest bet.

i was quite upset when i watched Zidane got red card. cuz apparently the italian guy said something that made him angry n told him to say that again. He repeated what he said n pissed Zidane off. i was like... "awwwwww...." at that part.. everyone who supported italy at first, felt sorry for him. i was really tired but kinda woke up in shock at that part.

went to slp in jeremy's room. i thought there were more pple staying, but they went off after watching soccer. i can't go home la. cuz i already planned to stay n i have no transport home. anyway. set alarm to wake up 1 hr later, but i slept till 8.20am. i was like "okay, 10 min to work..." when i woke up. jeremy's mom was v nice to prepare breakfast for me. but i was rushing. took cab to work though sweeyi already warned me abt the raise in cab fare. bo bian la~

so that whole day was just bad for me. but anyway, met up with Grace for lunch.. hehe long time nv see her. went home to sleep, wanted to wake up at 9pm, to bathe n eat something, but i actually slept thru till the next morning! tue was bad too, i had headache that whole day. but better than monday. was in time for work so it was okay. was lonely for lunch cuz my colleague is not in office. went to bangkok. bought bread n tuna for lunch n dinner n breakfast. went home straight after work, but didn't sleep immediately like monday.

praise God that after praying, my headache subsided. my colleague is back from bangkok.. yay~ weiting came to find me.. yay passed her the invitation to my church concert. hope to c u there!! can sit together since i'm not performing. after work walked to chinatown to buy shampoo n hair moisturiser (benefit of working in chinatown area - cheap toiletries!!) then took train to dhoby ghaut Trumpet Praise. selected books n cds with esther n shirley. had dinner at the food court then went home.

then today lunch was bad. tried the fish slice bee hoon at a fish head steamboat stall.. it was BAD!! (my colleague thought it was good though) i dun like the rough bee hoon (i like chu mi fen, but not ROUGH one - low quality to me. we had a lot of visitors today. Val came to visit me with raw documents from clients. then Ben n 1 guy - namecard printer came with my namecards n egg tarts. (one of them's cute ;P - i dunno which is ben) the char siew puff tasted sour n like vegetarian one.. >.< after work went to church (often meet Serene on the train) for MCG meeting.. met Gail for dinner at coffeeshop opp indian temple. i didn't find the meeting fruitful leh~ my personal objectives were not met. i wanted to find out how MCG functions, how often is the meetup, what projects are we/they taking, what's the next big thing, who's in charge of what etc.

anyway, i'm still sad for Zidane. =(

:: UPDATE! ::

HAHA long time no update again. (Pictures in Photo section)

well quick one: for last week there was one day my boss brought Juliana n i to far east plaza for lunch.. at the nan-something japanese yakitori restaurant. yummy~! thurs we went to telok blangah market for lunch. wow my boss drive a Merz... i really think it's good stuff.

then nothing much except that my sis came back for a holiday.. didn't get to spend much time with her cuz thur i had sectional training in church n friday went out with not-so-Singles' Club. brought them to Spizza in Club St.. my treat since i got my pay already.. =D

sat had cell grp n worship prac.. i led worship in cell grp but i really felt that God is the one moving in the place. i taught them a hokkien song, to kinda intro the worship in the church in tanjung balai.

i felt bad tt i was late on sunday morning. kept snoozing my alarm clocks.. it was quite a special service becuz towards the end everyone took a group photo. the whole congregation... imagine that! =)

had a meeting with kelvin, jeremy, guorong and joshua cheng. after that went home to nap for a while before going to the airport to send my sis off. we had Ajisen ramen n i treated. this is the last time i'm gonna eat at Ajisen.

after i reached home, i rested for a while before going to chihiro's house to celebrate her "21st bday". -- no one knows her real bday actually. she gave herself one in dec.

3/7 monday after work went to Holland V to meet bec, kwek, yun n belly. supposed to meet at PS, but change of plans. good thing they told me quite early enough. it's quite convenient to get there from my workplace but not convenient to get home.. =S

we had dinner at Crystal Jade La Mian n Xiaolongbao.. it was good.. 5 of us shared 3 bowls of noodles, 2 servings of xiaolongbao n 2 dessert.. we all felt VERY full after that! they got me a boardgame.. YAY, thanks! they asked me if i got Cluedo at first, then i requested for other boardgames.. cuz really, if i say i have cluedo at home, would anyone be interested to come all the way to my place to play? it'd only collect dust~

tue went for prayer meeting after work. i think God bless me with such a wonderful workplace i have no excuse to not go tuesday prayer meetings. i mean, church is on the way home la~ LOL. met Fay on the way, yay. =P got someone to sit n pray with.. there were Evelyn n Joshua too.

i think the worship is also very spirit-led. we sang the song 'Everyday', which i led at cell grp.. i dun mean to "boast" la.. but it feels good to have things that happen so coincidentally that you KNOW God is at work.

wed supposed to meet Chihiro to buy shoes for her as her bday present, but she forgot abt it. so anyway thomas ask me wanna hang out or not.. but i was quite reluctant becuz i wanted to shop for a pair of pants to wear the next day.. saw a nice one but felt that $27 is too ex.. others $18-$22 was reasonable price but not nice.. haha shirley called me while i was trying on the clothes..

after that thru some communication finally decided to meet lin feng n thomas.. go Alleybar.. had this thing called Magnum n tried a sip of Stella Artois n calamari.. yummy~! toopid thomas made me quite pissed. over what i forgot already. left around 10pm.. on my way out the door i really felt seh.. saw that my face was flushed.. anyway, at dhoby ghaut i saw vincent n gabriel.. haha.. they must have guessed that i went drinking.. i think i reek of alcohol..

thur went home straight after work. tired la.. wanted to slp early.

friday went to Chihiro's workplace to meet her.. went to Far East plaza with her.. had Subway for dinner since she got coupon, but also, this will be the last time i'm eating at Subway (in fact i told myself that the last time) if not for the coupon i wouldn't eat there. took neoprint with her.. :P

:: curls ::

haha finally got time to update.. hmm.. start from friday? Boss went to Germany to watch the world cup live.. cool~ yeah on thur n fri he was not in, so juliana and i r able to relax a bit. we packed up and dusted the office.. =P i'm not saying we were idle because boss was not in okay, i even did OT on thurs to finish my work k. but fri got lotsa stuff so i gotta leave on time. thank God there were no last minute instructions.

wanted to: go to China Sq Central Acts Lifestyle bookshop to buy nice pass it on cards. then go to far east plaza Crest to pick up books and cds with esther, then go to Queenstown for SonicFest. but i couldn't make it for the last plan. had dinner with esther. thanks esther for the treat!! cuz i didn't have cash.. was about to ask to borrow money from her. we went to Pepper Lunch. i was v impressed with the system (cuz it's Jap) and the food. hehe.. i knew i couldn't eat a lot so i didn't order the double hamburger steak or combo. esther even bought a slice of cake for me.. Blackforest.. hehe.. this month i really gained alot of weight. eat too much cakes. jialat.

reached home close to 11pm.. still gotta work on the design for harvest event invites/posters. did till 3am then went to slp.

sat woke up real early to go harbourfront. my mom really v impatient that day, n i felt quite pissed. we were meeting the rest at 8.15am. n we left home earlier than 7am. she was really worried abt missing the ferry sia. there were 8 of us going to batam, Rachael Soh n her mom (a frequent traveller to batam), Cristal and her mom (the organiser of the trip), her god-grandma n uncle. i was really excited cuz i have no impression of batam at all. wonder how the place looks like.

when we reached we found our driver, A-dong, who will bring us around the whole day. our first stop was Kuta massage parlour. dunno which massage i did.. haha.. but shld be oil massage. Cristal was beside me.. haha we were all v shy abt taking off our clothes.. haha.. not used to it.. we had a bone-cracking good time. i managed to communicate a little in Bahasa Indonesia with my masseur. then we went downstairs, after 2 hours, to drink ginger tea. it was very spicy but i think good for health ba.

then we went to eat lunch. ordered a lot of food. haha.. after lunch we went to the hair salon. i already wanted to perm my hair for v long time. cheap cheap!! 225000 Rp nia~ had my hair washed by a guy. hehe.. felt not bad.. ;) saw a real sissy. another hairdresser. he had mascara n eyeshadow n blusher on la. my hairdresser really slow sia. or maybe he wanted to ensure quality so he took his time.. *shrugs* i was the last to finish doing hair la. Cristal and my mom did treatment and massage. Aunty Juliet coloured her hair. i wasn't really pleased with how my hair turned out la.

went shopping at BCS. it was big but nothing much. got a lot of shops selling trendy clothes, but my mom didn't give me money.. =( walked around with Cristal and Rachael. we were most thrilled at the supermarket (at least i was). haha.. i was excited looking at the packaging design of food. bought a lot of snacks back.. =P went for dinner at a food centre. it was good. but we didn't have a lot of time. gotta catch the last ferry back.

reached home at 12am. didn't realise that our 8.45pm (indo time) ferry is actually v late.

sunday went to church for reflective service. hehe shocked a lot of pple with my new hairstyle. it was indeed v risky.. cuz i wasn't sure if the hairdresser understood wad i wanted. Thanks Jac for the present! got baking tools as my birthday present. hehe.. we sang a lot of hymns at the service. i didn't know most of them. didn't really feel reflective. felt religious instead.

there was Psalmist Resource Corner today. i think sales is not bad la. but we had to pack v early cuz the table was to be returned with the music n sound equipment. had lunch with esther at the kopitiam opp the indian temple. ate dim sum.. =P

went to boon keng to look for SKP. a plastic bag shop. cool~ didn't know abt it. then went to Crest to return the stuff. it was settled v quickly. after that went home to slp. good thing i took that nap cuz tt night i stayed up till v late.. quite caught in between. on one hand i wanna do the design for the invites well, on the other hand i was v worried abt going late for work. after all it's only the start of my 2nd week..

but thank God i didn't wake up late. but felt like today v few pple going to work. hmm.. it was quite an eventful journey. ok la not really. just that one lady fainted on the train at farrer park station and caused a 3 minute delay. but thank God i am still early and able to stroll slowly to the office. brought a lot of snacks from Batam for my boss n colleague.

then... today nv go out after work la. went home straight. shld be slping soon.

:: disappointed ::

hmm.. briefly abt the Family Camp.. the guest speaker was v humorous, seemed to have thought very long abt his message to make sure it is injected with humour at every 5 min interval.

meals, according to elizabeth, is sucky. but to me it's alright. but i won't go for 2nd helping (most of the time).

went out to Jusco.. me n shiqi were rushing like mad cuz we only had 2 hours for the whole shopping centre, becuz we wanted to go pasar malam after that. had to make arrangements with the bus la. i kinda caused some worry cuz i didn't know there were 2 buses going to pasar malam, thought only 1. so i got into the wrong bus n had the other bus' IC looking for me. sigh. bought a lot of food that i couldn't finish.. sigh.

went out to A&W. i asked the concierge to arrange transport. i wanted to go somewhere else so i told them we don't need transport back. got a few pple pissed with me. feel quite sad.. they didn't console me when i apologised also.. sigh.

ate a lot of cakes the whole trip. played Blind man bluff on the last night. skipped 2 finale sessions n got smacked on the bottom by wee lee.. *ouch*

hmm.. then abt my week at work it was okay. had been having lunch with my colleague Juliana everyday. today had dim sum.. heh.

i was late today n i felt v bad abt it. my dad's bike almost toppled over n ran over my foot. thank God it didn't happen. i thought going by motorbike will be faster than LRT, MRT, n walking. ended up super late. disappointed with myself.

toward the end of the day i had a client who wanted to rush out a design n by 5.30pm i knew it was impossible, but i tried anyway. worked till 7+pm, the client's client went home already so it was useless. wanted to go Acts Lifestyle before it closes at 8pm but i realise i couldn't. i was still at outram at 7.45pm. disappointed again, i went home.

:: excited. nervous..? ::

ARGH!!! wad's happened to my tagboard?? it's inaccessible!! hmmph~

anyway.. thanks guys for the birthday wishes (and belated ones.) *grinz* i realise that the more i expect pple to rem my bday the more they dun. the more i mention to pple abt my bday, the more they ignore it. i've already tried to keep quiet abt it but difficult la, too excited abt it..

i've been in malaysia since thurs till today, so forgive me if i seemed to ignore ur sms-es. i'll try to find some time to update abt my trip.

tmr starting work....! tuesday getting my diploma cert!! gotta prepare for them. gotta buy shoes, bras, ehhehe.. i'll bring the Garfield cushion from Faith, jianxiong n gabriel, on wed to work. i gotta sleep at 10pm every night now and wake up at 6.30am. i need the regular slp so that i won't get diabetes and hypertension.

signing off!

:: mon - wed update ::

tired ah.. hehe sorry ah lin feng, this is gonna be A4 or longer again.. =P

ok monday woke up for breakfast with my mom then went to church for arts camp. joined session first then split up to our groups for training. managed to come up with ideas. had lunch at the "coffeeshop opp the hindu temple" long name sia. was tired but still gotta discuss. worked out some stuff then went to the room to settle down. wanted to take a nap but couldn't. shirley they all were playing game n i joined them. we got so engrossed with the games that we had to get vincent to da-pao for us.. hehe..

oh yah landy led worship for session earlier so i wanted to encourage him but i didn't.. =X hope he is encouraged la.. =P

that night i slept late... cuz it's a camp ma..... slp so early for wad? =P (that wasn't my mentality at youth camp these few yrs)

next morning woke up tired. haha.. did projection for esther.. the stress part was i can't recognise song titles by the intro of the songs.. so thank God i had gabriel's help in recognising 'Complete'.. =P (u dun understand wad i mean nvm) haha

was feeling v ...slack.. lethargic n a bit grumpy~

used my laptop to detect wireless connection n i got it!! downloaded a few updates.. =P but halfway thru the connection got v weak. sian. went around looking at the dance practices. around 5.30pm i went off to meet hao. felt a few yrs younger cuz i was wearing sajc t-shirt.. =P went to bras basah n i went to Basheer to choose graphic books for my present!! =D chose 2.. didn't go even near to his budget cuz i wanted to eat something better for dinner. so we went to Jack's Place.. the toilets v cool sia. the 'ladies' and 'gents' are called 'jack' n 'jill'! cool!

ordered a chicken mushroom spag (but i dun like) n venison & crayfish.. n singapore sling, finally got to try it!! =P then ting came.. we went upstairs to eat xiaolongbao becuz i want to try.. =P after tt we walked to CHIJMES for drinks n soccer. watched south korea vs togo. haha.. tried tequila sprite n tequila coke. all hao treat!! =D yeah after tt went to take train home. hao n ting sent me home.. THANKS GUYS!!! got a birthday kiss from both of them on the train haha.. slept around 2am after watching a bit of Switzerland vs France with my dad.

wed

AHA. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me, faith, ridz, n shawal! my june calendar is full of birthdays. haha..

woke up at 9+am with an alarm clock.. haha.. went out with my mom to eat brunch.. in the end went to sengkang jack's place (again!). after tt went to woodlands to meet faith, jianxiong n vincent. jianxiong drove us to esplanade park for an outdoor worship session. it was REALLY great. to start a new 20th yr, a third decade of my life worshipping God. thanks vincent for leading worship n praying for us!

then he left to meet his friend. so faith, jianxiong n i hung out around esplanade, taking crappy photos. haha.. until 5pm, then he drove us to CCK. met alvin n lin feng there. they bought tickets to watch R.V. n then we went to Suki Sushi for dinner. ate alot =P

went home n Chihiro came to my place to return my cds n use internet a while... TIRED liao!!

going to pack bag for family camp!! gd nite!

:: fri - sun update ::

wait, let me continue from friday abt wad's been happening so far:

went to hougang in the morning (11am - that's morning to me) =P with my mom for brunch. just walked around, nothing much.. went back home in the afternoon around 3+ i think.. relax a while, then asked my dad to drive me to expo.. there's this GoFest in Asia.. it's really cool. sort of like a missions conference thing, then in the evening there will be worship free admission every night. last yr also have, but i didn't go.. this time i went with Faith, Jianxiong and Akouo girls.. i had dinner with them at the food court la.. was really excited abt buying things from the booth.

then it was soon time to start. Joseph Chien was there. then we all worshipped together. most of the songs were unfamiliar to me n a bit hard to pick up. the time of testimony was good though, a cambodian sharing abt the salvation of his village. and message was very good. a simple passage abt Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman, has deep significance. all the 12 disciples went off to buy food, but Jesus stayed behind and had a purpose. in talking to the woman, she believed, and went to tell the whole town abt this Jesus. all the 12 disciples missed the show because they were too concerned abt their physical needs. in terms of missions, this is a good lesson to learn.

after that before we left i went to various booths to check out abt missions. bought 7 pieces of pass-it-on cards. hope to buy more another time. also bought a pair of earrings for 50¢.

went for supper at Changi Village with faith n jx... Nasi Lemak!! =P then we went to Fisherman Village.. i wasn't really allowed to stay out late... =P supposed to go home n pack my bag for the next day.. but we found somewhere to watch soccer over heineken. had a close brush with xiaoqiang.. it was v funny la.. they were laughing at my reaction to it. we chatted until abt 1+am i think.. after soccer la.. then i went home n packed my bag. got scolded by my mom cuz she was awake when i reached home. slept a while so v tired.

ya i was packing my bag for tanjung balai with my parents' cell grp. when we reached harbourfront we were quite late for breakfast. was quite easily pissed due to my lack of sleep.. but i was glad to see the Feetwashers like Jane, Pricy, Cleon, Dally... kinda was a leader for them when they in pri 2.. can still rem them..

(kinda tired and lazy to describe already)

ok brush through quickly: did visitations to 7 homes in tanjung balai, my team had a doctor, so we followed along as she did blood pressure tests and talk to the pple. most of the pple there r sick n poor to see doctors. had bak kut teh for lunch. at the last home we went to, i was running low on energy n i was not in the conversation at all. walked back to hotel to rest. woke up for dinner at the restaurant next door. the main dish was crab.. =P had ice cream n beer too.. after dinner walked to a cool cafe for tea.. that cafe is really so NOT tanjung balai la! very well lit, very modern furnishings, even i like it!

after dinner went to a minimart to buy sweets n instant noodles then went back to hotel to watch soccer. gotta thank God for good weather cuz it only rained when we were indoors!

sunday woke up around 8+am for breakfast downstairs. had 4 eggs.. =P went back to room to pack up n check out. waited for instructions... then went to church.

i didn't go visitation but stayed with the Feetwashers to conduct Sunday School. we gave out lotsa snacks and drinks to the kids. Daniel played a game of blind man's bluff with them. we went to eat orh mee for lunch n it was pouring heavily. was quite drenched.

i went to the back door n watched the rain n saw a cat searching for something in the grasses.. then i saw it carry something in its mouth. i thought it was a prize - a mouse.

but when i looked carefully i realised - it was a kitten!!! i ran to the front door of the church to find it. then i saw a poor little thing inside a snack packet.

n i asked bena to bring me an umbrella to look for its mommy n sibling. i was sure this was not the one i saw.

anyway i was quite occupied worrying abt the kitten, its safety, its hunger, etc.. but i joined in worship when the service started. n uncle john (john sim) preached. it was a short story actually, but phei phei had to translate it phrase by phrase. it became quite xin ku to listen. but it was still good la. then it was time to go back to singapore. wanted to go for camp when i came back, but after dinner it was already 9+pm. so i went home to pack my bag instead.

:: baking session ::

haha wed was happening for me too... reached home around 11+am.. emailed a company that i am accepting the job offer.. i shld have called up the bishan company but i still didn't :P oops..

and i am officially starting work on the 19th!! =)

did nothing the whole afternoon.. rested a while.. then sweeyi came around 5pm. she told me to meet judy at orchard but i was reluctant.. was thinking of eating crabs at my house downstairs.. n play mahjong.. =P but peilin couldn't come.. sigh.. oh yah she came with an electric oven.. my birthday present in advance :P

then she finally told me tt we r meeting 2 other pple besides judy, one vietnamese guy, one thai guy. n it was a matchmaking session for me. then i started to get ready to go out.. :P

on the train she told me tt i noe the 2 guys. so they weren't vietnamese or thai afterall. (sigh) n i guessed one of them is ian. when we reached dhoby ghaut she heard that the other guy wasn't coming.. hmm. so insincere lor.. haha =x

went to cineleisure pastamania to find judy - AND IAN. haha.. they got a coffee bean cheesecake for me n we shared. it was nice.. =) we ordered banana dessert pizza and combos. our pizza turned out to be ham & mushroom pizza... it was a mistake la.. but we accepted it n started eating already. so when the REAL banana pizza came we all looked quite guilty. :P

after dinner ian left. so judy sweeyi n i went upstairs to watch trailers. judy wanted to play shooting game at the arcade, but no one to play with.. around 9.30pm sweeyi wanted to go home.. so we left.

today i didn't go out much.. spent time with my mom at home. watched The Pianist.. man it's a very sad movie.. makes me Thank God i wasn't born in that era, in that country. the soldiers were as cruel as wad i know abt the japanese occupation. going into pple's homes and drag them out into the streets, line them up n shoot them all. there was a baby who kept crying and its mother had to smother it when the soldiers came to find pple to torture. i just thought that the title of the movie shld be The Jewish Pianist instead of just The Pianist cuz the part abt him being a pianist is only altogether abt 10 min? the part abt him running and hiding becuz he is a Jew is most part of the story.

had dinner with my mom too. then we shopped for baking ingredients and accessories. haha went home to bake choc chip cookies.. turned out to be chau tar.. i was very pissed when my dad threw away my 1st batch of cookies and started to put the 2nd batch to bake without telling me. i mean i was outside the kitchen when he did that. we always quarrelled whenever i try to cook or bake. he's a cook himself, yet he doesn't teach me anything. n when i try to cook something on my own, he always criticises my method. so i ask him to help me, he said if he help me i wun learn anything. wah this makes me blow up man.

anyway. 3rd batch was nice. but my cookies turned out to be pancakes. too soft.. sigh. then my dad started to mix ingredients to make his own batch of cookies.. not bad la but i wasn't interested to eat anymore. my mom laughed becuz my dad became interested in baking too.

i'm gonna make cheesecake for my own birthday. =)

oh yah forgot to mention ....my dad picked up a palmtop!! it was discarded among other things like bags, jeans etc... it was a old model, m100.. we replaced the batteries and IT'S WORKING FINE!! =D i've got a palmtop, finally!! so i did research on it n realised i'm actually v outdated abt PDA stuff.. haha.. i need to buy the direct serial cable for it.. anyone knows where i can get it?

:: PRAISE GOD ::

for a few things..

1stly ) not 1, not 2, but 3 job offers!! on the same day! (tuesday)
last week i read an email n i am supposed to go city hall for 2nd round of interview on 6th June, but the person, called Angellin (haha i think she likes me for having same name as her) put "(Mon)" after "6th June" so i panicked. i was supposed to go kbox on monday. was afraid it might clash.. i smsed her to confirm.. she replied it's tuesday.. so phew!

tuesday i read an email (sent on monday) that i have been offered a job at kampong bahru rd.. it's a 5-day week job, 8.30am-6pm (no more late nights for me!) and I will have a Christian colleague from Lighthouse Evangelical (i think) ..the job scope is much what i wanted..

and on tuesday after the 2nd round of interview i was on my way home at city hall.. then i received a phone call from the company in bishan. i dun really favour that job becuz it is very inaccessible, n the lady who interviewed me was quite intimidating.. asked me about my family members, y i didn't visit their website etc.. :S haha

2ndly ) i had quite a happening week so far (mon & tue) LOL.. ya monday went kboxing with Faith, Gabriel, n Jianxiong.. 1st time hear jx sing, not bad.. it's good that i didn't choose v much songs, so there wasn't a great sense of disappointment at the end when we have to leave with some songs unsung. jx drove, so we took bus to Cathay to his car.. then went to Raffles Marina.. i wish Singles' Club got car.. we would have gone to JB many times already.. :P ya Raffles Marina is a country club at Tuas.. when i heard that name i realise how expensive it would be to dine there.. i was whining n when i realise that i was whining i told myself to keep quiet la. so in the end the guys + thomas treated us to dinner.

walked around the quay and just chill out... it was fun.. wish i could bring the singles' club there.. haha.. felt hungry, so we went to boon lay market for supper.. played mind games.. LOL.. went home at 1.30am. reached home around 2+am..

that was monday.

tuesday i had the interview in the afternoon ma.. then after tt went home.. rested for a while, my uncle came to use my comp.. then i went out to meet the singles' club. not really anymore.. there were 2 couples already.. hmm~ had dinner at Wisma Food Republic.. then walked aimlessly n ended up at Far East Shopping centre playing pool.. that building super deserted man. i walked to the toilet alone n felt like i was an easy prey for kidnappers/robbery/etc man.. haha..

after tt went to burger king.. n we decided to play mahjong. now everyone thinks tt i'm a mahjong addict n that my eyes will twinkle when i hear the word 'mahjong' is it!! haha.. went to nic's house n waited for michael n wendy to arrive. played till 4am like tt then went to sleep. woke up at 9am to have breakfast n then go home. my mom didn't scold me wor.. haha..

i just replied to the job offer .. waiting for confirmation.

:: tj balai #14 ::

hmm this trip is really a blessing. had 3 newcomers from Praise to join the "seasoned" trippers like Persis, Joseph, Elisa n myself. Joel, Adeline n Hiong Yee.

Joel has been v blessed and has quite a few testimonies to share with us abt things that happened in his life recently, n things he felt during the trip. even my namecard added on to his testimony because of the bible verse on it. hehe.. i wanted Wiky to keep one but i got not enough. hmm.. next week i'll give him one. feel so bad tt he looked quite curious but didn't get to show him..

Ai Mei talked to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wah so happy! she's really a very special child.. dedicated to God.. from young she already know how she is not to eat food offered to idols. but the intriguing thing abt her is from young she is VERY antisocial. not shy. but antisocial. she frowns when pple try to talk to her, makes noise when pple try to carry her.. but... she's opening up liao ba.. so happy to be able to hear her speak to me! hehe.. suddenly i want to become her godmother.. she only speaks n understands teochew... but all i asked is, "ma ma leh?" then she pointed out to her mom. "pa pa leh?" she replied very softly n reluctantly, "singapore." =D

then during sunday school i teach art n craft again.. i like teaching art n craft. this time we separated the boys and girls n i taught the girls to make handmade earrings. i gave them a pair of eyepins and choose their combination of beads from my collection n when they were ready i would use the long nose pliers to make a hoop with the hook. Bena made a lot.. i wondered how to spell her name cuz she took the bead with the letter F, i asked her y she chose F, then she said her name is Fena ma, so F lor. i blur liao. she made a lot of earrings using the number beads.. i a bit regret letting her do so cuz Wiky's mom wanted a pair but dun have the hooks anymore..

n i discovered that Shanti's grandma is called Liqing. n Caiyun n Cailing are twins.... probably everyone else knows already.. but i dunno hokkien ma.. so when they talked abt it i probably dun understand. but nvm, learning "new" thing is still good.

Adeline keeps saying that i remind her of my sis.. haha.. mannerism, build.. but then she also notices the difference.. haha u wanna know? ask her urself la.. she's going to Phuket next week..

bought 3 tempes n 3 pisang gorengs.... ate them all by myself cuz it's too fried n unhealthy.... everyone else dun wan.. haha.. fat liao.. hmm.. i feel that Wiky n me.. not so close anymore.. sigh.

:: thoughts ::

went for 4 interviews for the past week.. God's blessing... i sent out resumes on monday afternoon n i received 3 replies on tue. so i went for interview on wed, thur n fri. i kept a journal on how each interview went.. so i'm not gonna reveal anything much here.. dun wanna get sued for certain comments.. haha

borrowed Angels and Demons, a book from Diana.. finished it within a week.. i dun usually read so fast. but it was the pace of the storyline that kept me reading. it's abt a timebomb that would go off in 24 hours n that thick thick book is all abt what happened in less than that 24 hours n a little after. i wasn't really convinced that time passed by that slowly as according to the book.

from that book i started to become curious about Catholic beliefs and history. ok i can't say too much also. i dun wanna get sued for any comment.

but no matter what pple say about Christianity, i still hold fast to my faith. i still believe that the creator of the universe is God, n science is just a way of getting closer to the mysteries of God.

today during cell grp i felt it was a good time of ministry. a lot of thoughts came to my mind, to remind me of things i've neglected. the verse "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and 'No' be 'No'" came to me before Amos shared about it in word. felt that i haven't been truthful to even myself. there were lots of times when i wanted to say no, but i decided to say yes instead. n vice versa. i need to be more firm.

n the verse 'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.' makes me think of Catholics again.. a neutral comment >> i feel that they talk alot about angels. i walked into a Catholic bookstore yday n saw a lot of pictures/models of angels.. n i feel that the pure in heart is referring to angels. i may be wrong, but this is just what came to my mind when i read the verse la.

hmm.. basically that's it.... hope my sister will pamper me when she's back ;)