today busy at work. lots to do.
was a little pek cek by a client. i was doing an enewsletter design for him, did it in html initially. then it was converted to pdf so that each page will be printed nicely with a header and a footer. just today he came back from a mission trip ma, then he wanted me to change it to html again! wah pek cek lor. i asked Val, our middleman, to confirm if i were to do it in html, because it would mean a lot of effort. i decided not to do it until val gets back to me. so i did other stuff. around 5pm, this client got back to me again, asking abt the progress, then i clarified with him that the pdf is a better option than html.. he went to check, because i think he just realised tt it was actually done correctly, but he was confused abt the html/pdf thing. and at the end it was happy ending. thank God! because i didn't waste effort converting it to html, which would waste my effort of doing it in pdf. err.. confused?
then after work pramila shared with me tt last week she received news tt her cousin got into an accident n passed away. then i realised y she had sorta raised her voice into the phone last week n seemed to cry. i thought i had given her too much pressure at work. that day was her birthday actually. so terrible of me.
hmm.. oh yah in the last update i forgot to mention tt i asked natalie out last monday. supposed to ask her out the monday before, when she just started work, to celebrate. she's my junior from the same specialisation n she's got a job! woohoo! asked her out to vivocity. haiya dunno y her dad still so strict with her la, 20 yrs old already still have to ask him for permission to go out for dinner with me, n must reach home before 9 somemore. we had dinner at 2Hot cafe, halal restaurant with spicy food. i ordered marinara, which i didn't like very much. The Nearby Cafe was better, more liao. cheaper also. then we shared a drink at Boost Juice Bars. the king william chocolate not very nice leh. expensive also.
then we walked inside Tangs.. there is a... corner (i forgot the word for it), displaying some interesting stuff like tt of G.O.D. in HK. like making old things look fashionable. we walked until 8+pm n she would be late to go home. she wanted to take cab, but i felt tt mrt is faster n cheaper. there was also a queue for the taxi. so seriously taking mrt is a better idea.
ok back to today, i felt quite joyful after spending the weekend in balai. felt very blessed. n felt tt my perspective has broadened again. as in, i become so narrow-minded tt i felt very unhappy easily. but now i'm reminded tt problems aren't too big for me to worry abt. n i miss my friends there... haha just have a longing to go back to find them again. miss Frenky too, after hearing tt Wiky went to batam to look for him n i saw his recent picture, he looks educated (wearing specs) n so much like his mother!
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:: tj balai update 14-15 Apr ::
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Friday, April 13, 2007
:: completed! ::
wahaha completed all 5 sets of Riddles of Riddles. really impressed by the guy's amt of general knowledge to set riddles like that, and even to link them up such that for example Riddle 49's answer is the 1st letter of Riddle 11-20's window title (if u dunno wad's a window title, look at somewhere at the top of this page. it says "What Makes Me.".)
wow. just realise it's been 2 weeks since i last blogged. lotsa things happened, lotsa frustrations n lotsa fun.
hmm lemme start from 31st Mar sat. shared word at cell grp. actually somehow i wasn't convinced by my own message. i mean, i have a few points to bring across, as sorta like a reminder. but i couldn't share how the points relate to me. and it was long because i dunno how to briefly go thru the points. my summary in school is fail one. >.< anyway jac gave me a few pointers to improve my sharing next time.
went to holland v for dinner. was broke cuz i spent too much on fast food for lunch. *gasp* i haven't been eating fast food for such a long time i was shocked by its inflation in cost. after dinner we went to some ice cream place at Crown Centre. think it's called Swirl. there are board games available for playing, so we played taboo. i stayed there till around 10 then went to harbourfront to meet gail n persis to discuss tj balai stuff. was quite overwhelmed when i saw the whole bunch of Praise pple following them. we went to this coffee place at Vivocity. if i'm not wrong it's called Gloria Jean. was tired cuz we went home late.
woke up late for the 9am teaching n turned out it was prayer instead of teaching. there was Flag Day for Japan. i was sharing with my cell grp what i thot abt Japan. i remember tt i was overwhelmed by the jap movie Another Heaven, which shows a lot of feeling of hopelessness in the pple deep within. they seem successful on the outside, but emotionally they're very empty. n andrielle mentioned before, pple stereotype missionaries going to Japan. they think tt Japan is so rich, y go there, y shld they support a missionary whose expenses is going to be very high. but i think mission fields like cambodia, indonesia, etc is a little saturated. yes there are areas tt are still unreached, but i think few pple think of 1st world country as a mission field.
anyway. after service there was guitar course. so i stayed back. n after the guitar course i decided to go Sentosa. so i was trying to find pple to go with me. some of them thot it was an April Fools' joke cuz it was 1st April and it was last minute. so in the end i went myself. just wanted to take time to retreat like the last time, but somehow this time i couldn't find a good spot. dunno y, at the same timing, it was much hotter tt day. felt tt i couldn't stay long, so i returned to main land. had a good walk from the LRT station to Siloso beach n back though. it's so much more convenient to come n go to Sentosa. anyway another reason i went is because of the new LRT/monorail. hadn't taken it since it started n i have the Sentosa membership card! tt means free rides!
went back to Vivocity n decided to chill out at Pacific Coffee. sadly i can't find any other drink i want to try. it's quite expensive actually, $5+ for a drink. so i had Vanilla Snowflake (as usual). browsed Asian Geographic, felt interested to subscribe to tt mag. tried to take photos (my photography skills dropped ALOT) n then went home.
mon
ting smsed me to watch movie, but after discussion we decided to go Sakae Sushi at Rivervale Mall for buffet, then chill at my place! hehe.. we ate until v full sia. walked from Rivervale Mall home. still didn't feel digestion taking place leh. finally get to pass her the Chivas tt has been collecting dust since Boxing Day. haha.. used Friendster to find sec sch friends, but i realise i dunno ALOT of pple! as in, i dun even remember seeing them before!
cuz i had to work the next day, i decided to slp. i mean usually stayovers are all-night thing u know. but guess i'm getting old la. next day ting had to wake me up lor.. haha.. we went out early so we could have breakfast near my office.
after work went to church for prayer meeting. asked my dad along, cuz i usually see his cell grp leaders, he could join them. but they weren't there this time. we had dinner at jackson kopitiam. dunno y but i felt v uninterested during prayer meeting sia. i dunno most of the songs sung n i found it hard to sing along. then for prayer i joined my dad, jeremy's dad n ivan. quite a weird combi..
wed
i wanted to meet my parents for dinner. my mom was at outram pk, so i called her to wait for me. i had to go toilet, shut down my comp then i could leave. when i reached the mrt station the train was here, so i called her to ask her to get on the train. i couldn't see her cuz of the crowd. but my stupid phone wouldn't work at tt time. so i missed the train. when i finally called thru to her, she said she's not waiting anymore. AAARRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! she's so impatient! n i could have taken tt train la! i was so pissed i decided not to eat with her anymore. i went home n cooked noodles instead. n i was so mad i almost cried on the train.
thur
bought bread n cheese n chicken breastmeat for dinner. had the craving for cheese la. n wanted to be a little more healthy. although for 19 yrs of my life i hated breastmeat (minus one year for i didn't have teeth), i decided to swallow it for the sake of a healthier diet. made 2 portions of the sandwich n before i took the 2nd one i felt sian of eating it already.
fri
YAY public hol, cuz it's Good Friday~ my poor sis was still working on PH tt she didn't realise it's TGIF. went to church in the morning. it was combined service at the main hall. today also felt a little sian during service like what i felt during prayer meeting. felt very strongly tt the songs had set the mood.
after service we went to Botak Jones at AMK. so-so only leh. i ordered the Cajun Chicken (breastmeat!!!!!) so maybe tt's y. went home to pack n clean my room. i've been seeing baby spiders in my room. ARGH. used dettol to wash my walls. wanted to go IKEA to buy a glass cabinet for my displays, but my dad went swimming, couldn't get him to go with me.
sat
went to IKEA with my dad in the morning, finally. didn't know tt Giant hypermart opened already. went there to shop first. i think i still prefer the hypermarts in thailand. the things are really cheap n most of them u can't get in singapore. quite silly for us to buy milk. cuz we were going to courts next, n we couldn't leave the milk in the motorbox in the sun ma. so we had to carry our groceries along. dunno y my dad bought a wall fan for my toilet. i dun even want it! next we went to IKEA. wanted to buy snacks for my cell grp, but in the end we walked the whole of IKEA n didn't buy anything. tt was y i was late for pre-cell meeting. felt tt ben shares word very naturally.
after cell the guys went to play soccer n the SMU students had work to discuss, so i played solitaire on Malcolm's pda. haha.. he was saying tt there seems to be a bug cuz he can't solve a single game of 3-card-deals. so i kept trying, to see if it's true. when they finished playing frisbee, i managed to prove him wrong! weeee... haah. then after some waiting here n there we went to amk for dinner.
sun
easter sunday! Jesus died n rose again! early morning service at the cultural centre. thought of taking bus in from Potong Pasir mrt, but my dad offered to give me a lift, though he had reached already. ah, today i rem Canon Benson's msg. It is the LORD! abt Peter n catching fish. long time since i last had Holy Communion.
after service i gathered with my parents n aunt n cousin n my grandma. cuz it's grandma's birthday. we went to Red Star for dim sum brunch =D food is good. but service is TERRIBLE!!!!! cannot make it la.
went to OG to walk around. saw my godparents there. then went to Majestic building Popular cuz there's a clearance sale. Majestic is terrible. most of its shops closed down already. dunno y sia. n sale, my foot. bought a magazine for $5, which costs HKD28 = about the same la!
after tt i wanted to have dessert, but we only found ahballing a few buildings away. then went home. after a nap my mom suggested going somewhere for sambal kangkong, n i thought of crab. i was having a conversation with my sis one day, she was saying tt she misses dad's pepper crabs, i replied, i don't even get to eat it la, cuz my dad refuses to cook at home. moreover cook a crab. n true enough, my dad objected to having crab for dinner. he said, u think u rich man son ah. n then the next thing is, he suggested, take taxi to amk for crab la. wah. super contradicting lor. say i waste money, so might as well spend more money la. -.- in the end we took cab to changi village for crabs. i was happy with the food but was still pulling a long face cuz of my mom. i had told myself not to talk to her since tt day i was pissed with her. dun worry abt tt la, i'd probably still talk to her anyway, if she ask me anything. just tt i will NEVER meet her or ask her out for dinner again.
tt night i had indigestion. i will not have crabs for a very long time (unless it is available at Canon Benson's farewell dinner =x).
mon-wed
this week i felt like i was fighting a battle at work. i forgot to pray for patience at work. had some work for my indian colleague ma, n as usual she takes very long to do it ma. (i'm sorry i just can't see her as 100 all the time) i literally jumped when i tried to explain something to her. some javascript thing i did before n i know it's possible, but she kept insisting tt it's not possible n had to be done in another way. end up she use another method n took a little too long to do it. my other colleague was not around on wed, so he wasn't there to help me explain to her what i was expecting. on thur i used my method to do another page, tt requires the same effect i was expecting from her, n i asked him to help me modify the codes. she wasn't happy i know, because it was sorta like "her work" but i passed it to him. n there was some problem with her method. she seemed to insist working on it though it was taking too long.
ok to simplify things, our working relationship is such tt, she takes too long, i pass her work to him so tt it will be faster n efficient because client wants it. but it's obviously unfair to her because i didn't do it nicely. i didn't explain properly tt i'm passing the work to him because i think she's slow, n i didn't say it in her face because tt'll hurt. but i think this cycle will go on n on.
i can sense her getting angry abt this because i can hear her typing loudly when she's pissed n i will hear her mumbling away, n then slamming the door when she goes toilet. just felt tt she must be cursing me for doing this to her.. gotta pray tt God will protect me against curses by her gods. haiz. battle sia.
i still blame myself for (asking my boss to) hiring her.
thur after work went to Holland V for joshua's bday celebration. my first time to Settlers cafe. i think it's quite rundown compared to Minds cafe leh. learnt a couple of new games. wah the ugly doll game is err..violent. i dun even dare to play heart attack or snap lor. i prefer the strategy kinda game. but my brain wasn't working la. fighting battle ma. saw alymer n siangyuan at the party also. before cutting cake, the whole grp was brought together to play Cranium. but we could only play it halfway cuz it was getting late. after i got on the train home then i realise i left my umbrella at settlers. the staff there had offered to take my umbrella out to dry when i went there, but after tt i forgot abt it.
dunno y but i felt very miserable on my way home. just felt like crying n coming back to God. felt like i've been distancing myself from God more n more. so after i got home n had a bath, i finally had the liberty to just cry out to God. felt so much better after tt =)
i realise tt my cell grp pple like to eat chocolate cakes. jialat, cuz i dun like chocolate. for my birthday, do i get a cake tt everyone loves or do i get a cake only i love? it's quite obvious la. then suddenly i dun feel like celebrating my birthday anymore. (so selfish! >.<) jk la.
fri
super busy at work today. no time to give work for her to do. asked audrey to accompany me for lunch cuz i'm sian of going for lunch with my other colleague alone. cuz my indian colleague is not used to local food, so she rather bring her own lunch. tt leaves the guy n me going for lunch ourselves. so sian!!!! we had taiwan porridge for lunch. hmm nice. brought her up my office to take a look. haha she v funny, likes to c her friends' offices. before she left she asked me if i'm free to go clubbing or not. i was at first thinking, i dun mind. but after tt decided i need the rest before tmr's trip to tj balai. besides, the last trip i woke up late lor. dun want to repeat my mistake.
btw it's been a long time since i posted anything abt "what i learnt today". so okay here goes.
i've subscribed to National Geographic n i really love the content of the mag. this month's abt fish. i've always thot tt fish are free food. esp when i was in thailand. i ate so much fish i thot it's cheap. but actually, no. i'm wrong. the ocean's population of seafood has been declining vastly. because we eat them indiscriminately. n because we seem to get seafood so easily, we think it's cheap. n we think it's easily reproduced. but the sad thing is, at this rate of killing marine life, our children or grandchildren may not even get to SEE a fish! hmm what shld we be doing in response to this? i think i will treat seafood as a luxury food, which in fact it shld have been. singaporeans have been so blessed tt we don't realise countries like Africa, though they catch the fish, the pple have to pay a high price to buy only the remains of a fish because the flesh have been exported out to places like europe.
ok this marks the end of a long entry. going away tmr. (i was so cockeye i didn't realise i was on duty this week for vocals until shirley's weekly reminder came in... managed to get Andrielle to swap with me - thanks!!)
good night.
wow. just realise it's been 2 weeks since i last blogged. lotsa things happened, lotsa frustrations n lotsa fun.
hmm lemme start from 31st Mar sat. shared word at cell grp. actually somehow i wasn't convinced by my own message. i mean, i have a few points to bring across, as sorta like a reminder. but i couldn't share how the points relate to me. and it was long because i dunno how to briefly go thru the points. my summary in school is fail one. >.< anyway jac gave me a few pointers to improve my sharing next time.
went to holland v for dinner. was broke cuz i spent too much on fast food for lunch. *gasp* i haven't been eating fast food for such a long time i was shocked by its inflation in cost. after dinner we went to some ice cream place at Crown Centre. think it's called Swirl. there are board games available for playing, so we played taboo. i stayed there till around 10 then went to harbourfront to meet gail n persis to discuss tj balai stuff. was quite overwhelmed when i saw the whole bunch of Praise pple following them. we went to this coffee place at Vivocity. if i'm not wrong it's called Gloria Jean. was tired cuz we went home late.
woke up late for the 9am teaching n turned out it was prayer instead of teaching. there was Flag Day for Japan. i was sharing with my cell grp what i thot abt Japan. i remember tt i was overwhelmed by the jap movie Another Heaven, which shows a lot of feeling of hopelessness in the pple deep within. they seem successful on the outside, but emotionally they're very empty. n andrielle mentioned before, pple stereotype missionaries going to Japan. they think tt Japan is so rich, y go there, y shld they support a missionary whose expenses is going to be very high. but i think mission fields like cambodia, indonesia, etc is a little saturated. yes there are areas tt are still unreached, but i think few pple think of 1st world country as a mission field.
anyway. after service there was guitar course. so i stayed back. n after the guitar course i decided to go Sentosa. so i was trying to find pple to go with me. some of them thot it was an April Fools' joke cuz it was 1st April and it was last minute. so in the end i went myself. just wanted to take time to retreat like the last time, but somehow this time i couldn't find a good spot. dunno y, at the same timing, it was much hotter tt day. felt tt i couldn't stay long, so i returned to main land. had a good walk from the LRT station to Siloso beach n back though. it's so much more convenient to come n go to Sentosa. anyway another reason i went is because of the new LRT/monorail. hadn't taken it since it started n i have the Sentosa membership card! tt means free rides!
went back to Vivocity n decided to chill out at Pacific Coffee. sadly i can't find any other drink i want to try. it's quite expensive actually, $5+ for a drink. so i had Vanilla Snowflake (as usual). browsed Asian Geographic, felt interested to subscribe to tt mag. tried to take photos (my photography skills dropped ALOT) n then went home.
mon
ting smsed me to watch movie, but after discussion we decided to go Sakae Sushi at Rivervale Mall for buffet, then chill at my place! hehe.. we ate until v full sia. walked from Rivervale Mall home. still didn't feel digestion taking place leh. finally get to pass her the Chivas tt has been collecting dust since Boxing Day. haha.. used Friendster to find sec sch friends, but i realise i dunno ALOT of pple! as in, i dun even remember seeing them before!
cuz i had to work the next day, i decided to slp. i mean usually stayovers are all-night thing u know. but guess i'm getting old la. next day ting had to wake me up lor.. haha.. we went out early so we could have breakfast near my office.
after work went to church for prayer meeting. asked my dad along, cuz i usually see his cell grp leaders, he could join them. but they weren't there this time. we had dinner at jackson kopitiam. dunno y but i felt v uninterested during prayer meeting sia. i dunno most of the songs sung n i found it hard to sing along. then for prayer i joined my dad, jeremy's dad n ivan. quite a weird combi..
wed
i wanted to meet my parents for dinner. my mom was at outram pk, so i called her to wait for me. i had to go toilet, shut down my comp then i could leave. when i reached the mrt station the train was here, so i called her to ask her to get on the train. i couldn't see her cuz of the crowd. but my stupid phone wouldn't work at tt time. so i missed the train. when i finally called thru to her, she said she's not waiting anymore. AAARRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! she's so impatient! n i could have taken tt train la! i was so pissed i decided not to eat with her anymore. i went home n cooked noodles instead. n i was so mad i almost cried on the train.
thur
bought bread n cheese n chicken breastmeat for dinner. had the craving for cheese la. n wanted to be a little more healthy. although for 19 yrs of my life i hated breastmeat (minus one year for i didn't have teeth), i decided to swallow it for the sake of a healthier diet. made 2 portions of the sandwich n before i took the 2nd one i felt sian of eating it already.
fri
YAY public hol, cuz it's Good Friday~ my poor sis was still working on PH tt she didn't realise it's TGIF. went to church in the morning. it was combined service at the main hall. today also felt a little sian during service like what i felt during prayer meeting. felt very strongly tt the songs had set the mood.
after service we went to Botak Jones at AMK. so-so only leh. i ordered the Cajun Chicken (breastmeat!!!!!) so maybe tt's y. went home to pack n clean my room. i've been seeing baby spiders in my room. ARGH. used dettol to wash my walls. wanted to go IKEA to buy a glass cabinet for my displays, but my dad went swimming, couldn't get him to go with me.
sat
went to IKEA with my dad in the morning, finally. didn't know tt Giant hypermart opened already. went there to shop first. i think i still prefer the hypermarts in thailand. the things are really cheap n most of them u can't get in singapore. quite silly for us to buy milk. cuz we were going to courts next, n we couldn't leave the milk in the motorbox in the sun ma. so we had to carry our groceries along. dunno y my dad bought a wall fan for my toilet. i dun even want it! next we went to IKEA. wanted to buy snacks for my cell grp, but in the end we walked the whole of IKEA n didn't buy anything. tt was y i was late for pre-cell meeting. felt tt ben shares word very naturally.
after cell the guys went to play soccer n the SMU students had work to discuss, so i played solitaire on Malcolm's pda. haha.. he was saying tt there seems to be a bug cuz he can't solve a single game of 3-card-deals. so i kept trying, to see if it's true. when they finished playing frisbee, i managed to prove him wrong! weeee... haah. then after some waiting here n there we went to amk for dinner.
sun
easter sunday! Jesus died n rose again! early morning service at the cultural centre. thought of taking bus in from Potong Pasir mrt, but my dad offered to give me a lift, though he had reached already. ah, today i rem Canon Benson's msg. It is the LORD! abt Peter n catching fish. long time since i last had Holy Communion.
after service i gathered with my parents n aunt n cousin n my grandma. cuz it's grandma's birthday. we went to Red Star for dim sum brunch =D food is good. but service is TERRIBLE!!!!! cannot make it la.
went to OG to walk around. saw my godparents there. then went to Majestic building Popular cuz there's a clearance sale. Majestic is terrible. most of its shops closed down already. dunno y sia. n sale, my foot. bought a magazine for $5, which costs HKD28 = about the same la!
after tt i wanted to have dessert, but we only found ahballing a few buildings away. then went home. after a nap my mom suggested going somewhere for sambal kangkong, n i thought of crab. i was having a conversation with my sis one day, she was saying tt she misses dad's pepper crabs, i replied, i don't even get to eat it la, cuz my dad refuses to cook at home. moreover cook a crab. n true enough, my dad objected to having crab for dinner. he said, u think u rich man son ah. n then the next thing is, he suggested, take taxi to amk for crab la. wah. super contradicting lor. say i waste money, so might as well spend more money la. -.- in the end we took cab to changi village for crabs. i was happy with the food but was still pulling a long face cuz of my mom. i had told myself not to talk to her since tt day i was pissed with her. dun worry abt tt la, i'd probably still talk to her anyway, if she ask me anything. just tt i will NEVER meet her or ask her out for dinner again.
tt night i had indigestion. i will not have crabs for a very long time (unless it is available at Canon Benson's farewell dinner =x).
mon-wed
this week i felt like i was fighting a battle at work. i forgot to pray for patience at work. had some work for my indian colleague ma, n as usual she takes very long to do it ma. (i'm sorry i just can't see her as 100 all the time) i literally jumped when i tried to explain something to her. some javascript thing i did before n i know it's possible, but she kept insisting tt it's not possible n had to be done in another way. end up she use another method n took a little too long to do it. my other colleague was not around on wed, so he wasn't there to help me explain to her what i was expecting. on thur i used my method to do another page, tt requires the same effect i was expecting from her, n i asked him to help me modify the codes. she wasn't happy i know, because it was sorta like "her work" but i passed it to him. n there was some problem with her method. she seemed to insist working on it though it was taking too long.
ok to simplify things, our working relationship is such tt, she takes too long, i pass her work to him so tt it will be faster n efficient because client wants it. but it's obviously unfair to her because i didn't do it nicely. i didn't explain properly tt i'm passing the work to him because i think she's slow, n i didn't say it in her face because tt'll hurt. but i think this cycle will go on n on.
i can sense her getting angry abt this because i can hear her typing loudly when she's pissed n i will hear her mumbling away, n then slamming the door when she goes toilet. just felt tt she must be cursing me for doing this to her.. gotta pray tt God will protect me against curses by her gods. haiz. battle sia.
i still blame myself for (asking my boss to) hiring her.
thur after work went to Holland V for joshua's bday celebration. my first time to Settlers cafe. i think it's quite rundown compared to Minds cafe leh. learnt a couple of new games. wah the ugly doll game is err..violent. i dun even dare to play heart attack or snap lor. i prefer the strategy kinda game. but my brain wasn't working la. fighting battle ma. saw alymer n siangyuan at the party also. before cutting cake, the whole grp was brought together to play Cranium. but we could only play it halfway cuz it was getting late. after i got on the train home then i realise i left my umbrella at settlers. the staff there had offered to take my umbrella out to dry when i went there, but after tt i forgot abt it.
dunno y but i felt very miserable on my way home. just felt like crying n coming back to God. felt like i've been distancing myself from God more n more. so after i got home n had a bath, i finally had the liberty to just cry out to God. felt so much better after tt =)
i realise tt my cell grp pple like to eat chocolate cakes. jialat, cuz i dun like chocolate. for my birthday, do i get a cake tt everyone loves or do i get a cake only i love? it's quite obvious la. then suddenly i dun feel like celebrating my birthday anymore. (so selfish! >.<) jk la.
fri
super busy at work today. no time to give work for her to do. asked audrey to accompany me for lunch cuz i'm sian of going for lunch with my other colleague alone. cuz my indian colleague is not used to local food, so she rather bring her own lunch. tt leaves the guy n me going for lunch ourselves. so sian!!!! we had taiwan porridge for lunch. hmm nice. brought her up my office to take a look. haha she v funny, likes to c her friends' offices. before she left she asked me if i'm free to go clubbing or not. i was at first thinking, i dun mind. but after tt decided i need the rest before tmr's trip to tj balai. besides, the last trip i woke up late lor. dun want to repeat my mistake.
btw it's been a long time since i posted anything abt "what i learnt today". so okay here goes.
i've subscribed to National Geographic n i really love the content of the mag. this month's abt fish. i've always thot tt fish are free food. esp when i was in thailand. i ate so much fish i thot it's cheap. but actually, no. i'm wrong. the ocean's population of seafood has been declining vastly. because we eat them indiscriminately. n because we seem to get seafood so easily, we think it's cheap. n we think it's easily reproduced. but the sad thing is, at this rate of killing marine life, our children or grandchildren may not even get to SEE a fish! hmm what shld we be doing in response to this? i think i will treat seafood as a luxury food, which in fact it shld have been. singaporeans have been so blessed tt we don't realise countries like Africa, though they catch the fish, the pple have to pay a high price to buy only the remains of a fish because the flesh have been exported out to places like europe.
ok this marks the end of a long entry. going away tmr. (i was so cockeye i didn't realise i was on duty this week for vocals until shirley's weekly reminder came in... managed to get Andrielle to swap with me - thanks!!)
good night.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
:: super stressed right now ::
arghhhh...
1 meeting with client, 1 rush job, 1 cell word, 1 Guitar course facilitator appreciation gift (9 actually), 1 meeting abt tanjung balai... and then suddenly my colleague tells me the rush job wasn't sent properly to my client, which mean i might have wasted my efforts this whole day. and because of tt i went to check my work email n saw another client saying tt i forgot to remove some codes. and i haven't fixed my cell word. thought i had it ready at the beginning of the week, but i can't seem to organise my thoughts. =(
1 meeting with client, 1 rush job, 1 cell word, 1 Guitar course facilitator appreciation gift (9 actually), 1 meeting abt tanjung balai... and then suddenly my colleague tells me the rush job wasn't sent properly to my client, which mean i might have wasted my efforts this whole day. and because of tt i went to check my work email n saw another client saying tt i forgot to remove some codes. and i haven't fixed my cell word. thought i had it ready at the beginning of the week, but i can't seem to organise my thoughts. =(
Monday, March 26, 2007
:: shocking dreamzzz ::
thurs
went to raffles city to meet jeff, kelvin n ben. jeff told us to meet at gramophone in raffles city basement, but according to some archive in my brain, gramophone was in capitol building, not inside raffles city... unless it moved. so anyway.
we had dinner at the food court. there was pepper lunch express! wowee..
went to Mos burger to talk. discussed direction for cell word. i haven't prayed abt it.. but glad to hear from the guys tt we do have a common desire, to see our cell grp lead victorious lives! anyway, i found out tt jeff is very talkative. hahaha.
when i reached home i looked thru my books and realise i have ALOT of unread books, including Victory Over Darkness, Bible Promises (probably got it when i got confirmed... oh man!), Fun Facts about the Bible You Never Knew.. etc. i took all 3 of them to read. going to read Victory over Darkness on my way to work, Bible Promises before i leave home - which oops, i couldn't because i'm always rushing in the morning - haha.. n Fun Facts Abt the Bible during QT.
fri
watching Mr Bean with junhao, my son, after work. just before the movie, elena called. abt PRC! i totally forgot abt it, thinking tt it's either not this week or i'm not in charge. oopsss... tried to recall who are the pple i can contact to help out but i can only remember cheryl n vincent. so i smsed them. only the next morning then vincent told me he couldn't make it.
anyway the movie was not bad.. haha i was like thinking "i dun like Mr Bean.. he's so evil" thruout the movie lor. he snatches things from pple but makes it funny. he lost his passport n thruout i was wondering if he was going to get it back! (he didn't!) but the nice thing is the planning of the movie. he could walk straight to his destination, and the objects in the way would just let him step on. (dunno if u understand wad i mean hahaha)
anyway. after the show we decided to go find natalie n darius and their friends. at first when i heard darius' voice i thot it was OLC! i was so happy haha =x went to serangoon garden, chomp chomp to find them, then took cab to natalie's house. she showed me around her house. really impressive =) played a bit of dai dee n mahjong wahaha.. then took cab home. the cab driver was listening to a christian channel. cool.
one thing i learn abt darius is, he's really very humble, the kind of book u definitely shld not judge by its cover. he went to china for attachment (so cool!) n i thought he's not the kind who would go out to explore, but i'm wrong! he actually hired a tour guide just to talk to him though he has visited the place before. i'm really impressed la. haha. i was his OGL, but i didn't really get to know my OG well. =x
sat
woke up, went to Crest to pick up books with cheryl. we didn't pick a lot. but dunno y i strained my left arm, gave me a back ache on the left side the whole day and whole of sunday. thot i'd be late for the precell meeting, but i was in time for lunch. coincidentally met guorong at the mrt station who helped me to bring the stuff to church.
games was fun, thanks to grace who researched on the internet for it. =D kelvin led word, and i had to stay thruout to know wad he shared cuz i'm doing word next week. then i went to do the PRC setup. after tt went for dinner at Ivin's with my cell grp. yummy~ but service was bad.
then we went to jeremy's hse for rootbeer float. i dun like root beer, but i think it'd go well with ice cream, so well. had an orientation of his hse. haha, 2nd orientation this week. cool.
terry decided it was time for us to go, i didn't feel tt it was late, until i reached Bukit Batok mrt station. was so stoned man.
sun
i know i'm supposed to be early, to prepare the PRC table, but i woke up only at 8.15am! got my dad to fetch me to church, but it was 9+am already, weelee had started on her teaching. was still tired, but struggled to pay attention. i did learn something. =)
then there was BBGB enrolment, so service ended early. PRC sales was ok, better than i had expected, since we brought in little stuff. guorong n liesbet helped me at the booth.
packed up and went for lunch with cell grp. at meridien hotel food court. yummy korean food. reminds me of the korean food my sis introduced to me, where Spotlight used to be, maybe it moved there.
after tt i walked to bras basah to buy bass amp (finally!!) haha.. saw this funky orange small amp, going for $55. there's another Smarvo, black, square, leather-looking, looks more steady, for $77. i was more interested in Smarvo, for the better sound it made, but the saleguy tuned the funky one such tt it sounded as good, n he kept pushing for it, more than the Smarvo one. so ok lor, got the $55 one. i had only $50 notes but the guy refused to give me $5 discount :(
didn't realise it was so heavy, instead of walking to the nearest mrt station (dhoby ghaut) i decided to take bus to clarke quay. was also stoned ... dunno y so tired. when i went home i decided to take a nap. locked my door so my parents couldn't come in to disturb me. haha. (they still did, anyway.)
so anyway tt's the start of my shocking dreams, as mentioned in the title of this entry.
i dreamt tt i was with ting at some futuristic-looking place probably future-Sentosa, she bought a small bottle of alcohol n got a bit high, n then we started k**sing passionately!! just then, uncle john caught us in the act and called my name. uh-oh. he told me to follow him. we got on a train also futuristic, metallic looking, where pastor was also on, n he told him wad he saw me doing. then uncle john called my parents and told me to confess what i had done. i didn't, of cuz. but i was free to go. dunno how come but i left with judy instead, n took cab with her n jinwen. went to some place tt was jinwen's "home" (not real, actually) there was a small rundown building where we got off the cab. we went in n saw some art works. then somehow the dream ended there cuz my dad pounded on my door to wake me up for dinner.
had pizza for dinner cuz i wanted to stay home n watch i-Robot. it was quite a sad, scary show, tt weighs heavily in my heart, like the movie Artificial Intelligence. after tt there was The Twins Effect on Channel U. =D Edison Chen!!!!!!!! =D
tt night i had another gloomy dream. that ting brought me around some building, supposedly our sec sch, cuz i saw familiar pple, in sch uniform. it was assembly time, but it was in a very small hall/canteen, sky was still dark, like 5+am rather than the normal assembly time. then i explored the compound. there were rundown shacks around, on slopes around the building... actually the area looks more like my pri sch. nothing much abt this dream la.
i'm still thinking abt my earlier, shocking dream. am i turning into a....?
went to raffles city to meet jeff, kelvin n ben. jeff told us to meet at gramophone in raffles city basement, but according to some archive in my brain, gramophone was in capitol building, not inside raffles city... unless it moved. so anyway.
we had dinner at the food court. there was pepper lunch express! wowee..
went to Mos burger to talk. discussed direction for cell word. i haven't prayed abt it.. but glad to hear from the guys tt we do have a common desire, to see our cell grp lead victorious lives! anyway, i found out tt jeff is very talkative. hahaha.
when i reached home i looked thru my books and realise i have ALOT of unread books, including Victory Over Darkness, Bible Promises (probably got it when i got confirmed... oh man!), Fun Facts about the Bible You Never Knew.. etc. i took all 3 of them to read. going to read Victory over Darkness on my way to work, Bible Promises before i leave home - which oops, i couldn't because i'm always rushing in the morning - haha.. n Fun Facts Abt the Bible during QT.
fri
watching Mr Bean with junhao, my son, after work. just before the movie, elena called. abt PRC! i totally forgot abt it, thinking tt it's either not this week or i'm not in charge. oopsss... tried to recall who are the pple i can contact to help out but i can only remember cheryl n vincent. so i smsed them. only the next morning then vincent told me he couldn't make it.
anyway the movie was not bad.. haha i was like thinking "i dun like Mr Bean.. he's so evil" thruout the movie lor. he snatches things from pple but makes it funny. he lost his passport n thruout i was wondering if he was going to get it back! (he didn't!) but the nice thing is the planning of the movie. he could walk straight to his destination, and the objects in the way would just let him step on. (dunno if u understand wad i mean hahaha)
anyway. after the show we decided to go find natalie n darius and their friends. at first when i heard darius' voice i thot it was OLC! i was so happy haha =x went to serangoon garden, chomp chomp to find them, then took cab to natalie's house. she showed me around her house. really impressive =) played a bit of dai dee n mahjong wahaha.. then took cab home. the cab driver was listening to a christian channel. cool.
one thing i learn abt darius is, he's really very humble, the kind of book u definitely shld not judge by its cover. he went to china for attachment (so cool!) n i thought he's not the kind who would go out to explore, but i'm wrong! he actually hired a tour guide just to talk to him though he has visited the place before. i'm really impressed la. haha. i was his OGL, but i didn't really get to know my OG well. =x
sat
woke up, went to Crest to pick up books with cheryl. we didn't pick a lot. but dunno y i strained my left arm, gave me a back ache on the left side the whole day and whole of sunday. thot i'd be late for the precell meeting, but i was in time for lunch. coincidentally met guorong at the mrt station who helped me to bring the stuff to church.
games was fun, thanks to grace who researched on the internet for it. =D kelvin led word, and i had to stay thruout to know wad he shared cuz i'm doing word next week. then i went to do the PRC setup. after tt went for dinner at Ivin's with my cell grp. yummy~ but service was bad.
then we went to jeremy's hse for rootbeer float. i dun like root beer, but i think it'd go well with ice cream, so well. had an orientation of his hse. haha, 2nd orientation this week. cool.
terry decided it was time for us to go, i didn't feel tt it was late, until i reached Bukit Batok mrt station. was so stoned man.
sun
i know i'm supposed to be early, to prepare the PRC table, but i woke up only at 8.15am! got my dad to fetch me to church, but it was 9+am already, weelee had started on her teaching. was still tired, but struggled to pay attention. i did learn something. =)
then there was BBGB enrolment, so service ended early. PRC sales was ok, better than i had expected, since we brought in little stuff. guorong n liesbet helped me at the booth.
packed up and went for lunch with cell grp. at meridien hotel food court. yummy korean food. reminds me of the korean food my sis introduced to me, where Spotlight used to be, maybe it moved there.
after tt i walked to bras basah to buy bass amp (finally!!) haha.. saw this funky orange small amp, going for $55. there's another Smarvo, black, square, leather-looking, looks more steady, for $77. i was more interested in Smarvo, for the better sound it made, but the saleguy tuned the funky one such tt it sounded as good, n he kept pushing for it, more than the Smarvo one. so ok lor, got the $55 one. i had only $50 notes but the guy refused to give me $5 discount :(
didn't realise it was so heavy, instead of walking to the nearest mrt station (dhoby ghaut) i decided to take bus to clarke quay. was also stoned ... dunno y so tired. when i went home i decided to take a nap. locked my door so my parents couldn't come in to disturb me. haha. (they still did, anyway.)
so anyway tt's the start of my shocking dreams, as mentioned in the title of this entry.
i dreamt tt i was with ting at some futuristic-looking place probably future-Sentosa, she bought a small bottle of alcohol n got a bit high, n then we started k**sing passionately!! just then, uncle john caught us in the act and called my name. uh-oh. he told me to follow him. we got on a train also futuristic, metallic looking, where pastor was also on, n he told him wad he saw me doing. then uncle john called my parents and told me to confess what i had done. i didn't, of cuz. but i was free to go. dunno how come but i left with judy instead, n took cab with her n jinwen. went to some place tt was jinwen's "home" (not real, actually) there was a small rundown building where we got off the cab. we went in n saw some art works. then somehow the dream ended there cuz my dad pounded on my door to wake me up for dinner.
had pizza for dinner cuz i wanted to stay home n watch i-Robot. it was quite a sad, scary show, tt weighs heavily in my heart, like the movie Artificial Intelligence. after tt there was The Twins Effect on Channel U. =D Edison Chen!!!!!!!! =D
tt night i had another gloomy dream. that ting brought me around some building, supposedly our sec sch, cuz i saw familiar pple, in sch uniform. it was assembly time, but it was in a very small hall/canteen, sky was still dark, like 5+am rather than the normal assembly time. then i explored the compound. there were rundown shacks around, on slopes around the building... actually the area looks more like my pri sch. nothing much abt this dream la.
i'm still thinking abt my earlier, shocking dream. am i turning into a....?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
:: chill out ::
*just looking for a place to chill out. found this cafe in Clarke Quay... am waiting for my Marinara and pot of jasmine green tea right now*
Nearby Cafe at Safra Town Club
some random thoughts:
i was ready to rrrrrrock my neighbours lor. (oh my marinara is here.) wanted to go buy a bass amp on tuesday so i could prac on my bass. but when i walked to bras basah, ranking sports was closed (about 7.30pm). can someone tell me wad time ranking sports closes? (a fire alarm is going off now - so many distractions) went to Basheer and spent time looking for a graphic book/magazine to buy but didn't find any.
been walking to chinatown/clarke quay quite often nowadays. better weather. n i've been working out at home. feel so encouraged when evelyn told me tt i look slimmer (heeheeheehee)...
am planning a trip to bkk with my sister in may. i also want to go for family camp in june leh. hopefully it doesn't affect my birthday celebration hehe.. anyone wants to be my roommate?
am playing this riddle thing my sister intro-ed me to: http://www.lautman.net/riddlesofriddles/blast.htm. it has 100 riddles and i'm only at 37 as of now :( haha.. it's addictive alright.
(after my meal and chillin' with my green tea...) let me do some food review here.
location: behind this Dynasty Travel building. has an indoor n outdoor seating available. right now i'm outdoor (i always like the outdoors) but it's facing the back of the building i mentioned earlier, so there's the sound of vents.
food: enjoying my marinara. came in a cold plate, but food itself is warm. LOTSA mussels... yum... (er just a bit too many.) also ordered a pot of jasmine green tea, turns out to be japanese green tea. comes with sugar (erm??!)
price: $7.50 for my marinara and $2.50 for my tea (refillable) not bad a price eh?
service: i would say it's good. the waiter noticed me as i found a seat n passed me a menu straight away.
will i come here again? : yes!
Nearby Cafe at Safra Town Club
some random thoughts:
i was ready to rrrrrrock my neighbours lor. (oh my marinara is here.) wanted to go buy a bass amp on tuesday so i could prac on my bass. but when i walked to bras basah, ranking sports was closed (about 7.30pm). can someone tell me wad time ranking sports closes? (a fire alarm is going off now - so many distractions) went to Basheer and spent time looking for a graphic book/magazine to buy but didn't find any.
been walking to chinatown/clarke quay quite often nowadays. better weather. n i've been working out at home. feel so encouraged when evelyn told me tt i look slimmer (heeheeheehee)...
am planning a trip to bkk with my sister in may. i also want to go for family camp in june leh. hopefully it doesn't affect my birthday celebration hehe.. anyone wants to be my roommate?
am playing this riddle thing my sister intro-ed me to: http://www.lautman.net/riddlesofriddles/blast.htm. it has 100 riddles and i'm only at 37 as of now :( haha.. it's addictive alright.
(after my meal and chillin' with my green tea...) let me do some food review here.
location: behind this Dynasty Travel building. has an indoor n outdoor seating available. right now i'm outdoor (i always like the outdoors) but it's facing the back of the building i mentioned earlier, so there's the sound of vents.
food: enjoying my marinara. came in a cold plate, but food itself is warm. LOTSA mussels... yum... (er just a bit too many.) also ordered a pot of jasmine green tea, turns out to be japanese green tea. comes with sugar (erm??!)
price: $7.50 for my marinara and $2.50 for my tea (refillable) not bad a price eh?
service: i would say it's good. the waiter noticed me as i found a seat n passed me a menu straight away.
will i come here again? : yes!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
:: learn something new everyday ::
during the retreat, i learnt tt Janet is same age as me!! i probably mix up the age of the pple in her cell grp.. haha..
during my cell meeting on the first night, jeremy reminded me of the commitment i made. honestly i have forgotten it n started dreaming abt possibilities, then i realise my calling again. haha ah well.
then back at work, chatting with my sis she tells me abt her buying car. OPM stands for Open Market Value. but it probably doesn't matter because OPM is for Singapore only.
she also told me tt she watched Curse of the Golden Flower. i told her i dun like the story because we all know tt Chinese esp in history are very conservative pple. how can they have such revealing clothes in the palace?! but she referred me to Wikipedia, stories of Wu Zetian n all tt.. haha not saying tt my sec sch history teacher didn't do a good job la, but i probably was just not interested in studying then. there was a table at the right of the wikipedia page, stating the dynasties in order. i felt like i never learnt anything abt it before. so i kinda learn it again. =x anyway, andrielle's interest in china during our Hongkong trip last yr spread to me.. i was looking thru her photos taken in china, i really wish i were there! haha i finally got the photos we took at Madame Tussaud's. posted some on friendster. really funny pics. inspired by Roy's "teaching Tiger Woods how to aim".
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on thurs, i went for MCG meeting at suntec after work. Baby Noah was also there! haha.. there was once i tried to carry him n i realise tt my fingernails were too long. i dunno how to carry babies actually *blushes* cuz i scared i will hurt them if i carry wrongly, so i nv try. i also dunno when to be firm n say no to a child, and when to allow them to explore. so last time i often get into trouble with my babysitter who also babysits her grandchildren. i always teach them the wrong things.. =x anyway we had dinner at Pastamania n meeting only started around 9pm.
fri. heh my mom got me into a bad mood man. i learnt that i SHOULD NEVER GO SHOPPING WITH HER ANYMORE. selfish sia. spent 3-digit figure on beauty products, n not willing to spend a $30+ pillow for me. i also wanted to buy *ahem*. but she rather i buy it during the next sale. argh. cuz thur was the day most things go on crazy sale, n fri not so crazy sale. so i missed the offer. she kept blaming me for not being able to make it on thur! !!!!!!
after she left with my dad i went shopping alone. to cheer myself up. i bought a pair of earphones n a dance CD from Heeren HMV n a top from this fashion. cheered up a bit only.
during my cell meeting on the first night, jeremy reminded me of the commitment i made. honestly i have forgotten it n started dreaming abt possibilities, then i realise my calling again. haha ah well.
then back at work, chatting with my sis she tells me abt her buying car. OPM stands for Open Market Value. but it probably doesn't matter because OPM is for Singapore only.
she also told me tt she watched Curse of the Golden Flower. i told her i dun like the story because we all know tt Chinese esp in history are very conservative pple. how can they have such revealing clothes in the palace?! but she referred me to Wikipedia, stories of Wu Zetian n all tt.. haha not saying tt my sec sch history teacher didn't do a good job la, but i probably was just not interested in studying then. there was a table at the right of the wikipedia page, stating the dynasties in order. i felt like i never learnt anything abt it before. so i kinda learn it again. =x anyway, andrielle's interest in china during our Hongkong trip last yr spread to me.. i was looking thru her photos taken in china, i really wish i were there! haha i finally got the photos we took at Madame Tussaud's. posted some on friendster. really funny pics. inspired by Roy's "teaching Tiger Woods how to aim".
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on thurs, i went for MCG meeting at suntec after work. Baby Noah was also there! haha.. there was once i tried to carry him n i realise tt my fingernails were too long. i dunno how to carry babies actually *blushes* cuz i scared i will hurt them if i carry wrongly, so i nv try. i also dunno when to be firm n say no to a child, and when to allow them to explore. so last time i often get into trouble with my babysitter who also babysits her grandchildren. i always teach them the wrong things.. =x anyway we had dinner at Pastamania n meeting only started around 9pm.
fri. heh my mom got me into a bad mood man. i learnt that i SHOULD NEVER GO SHOPPING WITH HER ANYMORE. selfish sia. spent 3-digit figure on beauty products, n not willing to spend a $30+ pillow for me. i also wanted to buy *ahem*. but she rather i buy it during the next sale. argh. cuz thur was the day most things go on crazy sale, n fri not so crazy sale. so i missed the offer. she kept blaming me for not being able to make it on thur! !!!!!!
after she left with my dad i went shopping alone. to cheer myself up. i bought a pair of earphones n a dance CD from Heeren HMV n a top from this fashion. cheered up a bit only.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
:: Leaders' Retreat ::
a bit of Fusion too. fri i took leave from work, to rest at home n pack my bag n wash toilets, inspired by my colleague who took the initiative to wash our office toilet. wanted to meet eileen for lunch, but i dun think i could make it. went to sch at 3pm.
walked a quick round the auditorium, looking out for pple i know. natalie was there to guide me around. then my seniors farah, yihan n sansan came down to see-see. met other seniors like rene also. n then ms pat. went to mac to have my late lunch n also to find junhao. he was studying for english. so cute. he was doing assessment books for Vocab. haha quite fun. then we walked around the sch n thought of the good old days. i used to visit the track n gym quite often, but never used the pool. then we went to blk M. so sad tt our juniors dun get to use Blk L. haha..
went back to Fusion n walked another round, this time eileen was back from her interview with some company n she accompanied me as i collected their namecards. i only know half the batch. then it was time for the screening. i was supposed to go off already, to celebrate jon yap's birthday at ben n jerry's. but i decided to stay for the screening. :P michael's grp did a good job with the animation Solace. gave me a very strong feeling. =)
went back to audi once again... cuz some of the pple from my batch have arrived. took photos with them. i was soooo happy to c OLC! he slimmed down ALOT! but he like quite scared of me. haha. then i decided to go find my cell grp. turns out the celebration was not on yet. anyway i saw nic, on the same train as me. the celebration was fun. we made yap sing a song. haha.. after tt the girls were tired already, so we decided to go back.
sat
my mom helped to wake me up. saw gail on my way to the DCB, meeting point for our Leaders' Retreat. first session was good, learnt a lot.. but towards the end i think most of the pple lost their attention. including me too. so we headed to JB! took alan's car with jac. yay there's servio! he wasn't very guai on the journey. haha.. he even farted in the car =(
we reached and placed our bags in the function room n then went down to the canteen for lunch. food wasn't appealing to me, so i didn't eat much. went back up for games. cool. during free & easy, i took the time to explore the place as it was my first time there. took photos.. then went back to the room. not long later it was time for dinner. sat with a bunch of crazy mission trippers hahahaha... it was fun. after tt played gold with servio n then went up for session. also learnt a lot. after tt we went back to the rooms. my cell grp pple met up for discussion. after tt jac n i went back. showered n slept. had to cover my mouth while i slept, so tt lizard/insects couldn't deposit anything there. =P i'm still not used to the idea of showering outdoors. felt quite scared. =x
next morning.. haha.. my alarm went off n i still didn't wake up. funny thing abt me is, alarm clocks just dun work for me, like i just dun seem to hear anything. but when someone call me to wake up, i hear it! so jac woke me up n we got ready for prayer meeting at 7.30am at the playground. then we went for breakfast. sat at the table tt has an interesting combination. all of us are in pairs, us with our roommates. after breakfast it was time for QT. before going out for the next session, i took a shower. it's getting fun to shower outdoors =P games was fun, planned by rebekah, melissa n garry. had photo taking session n then free & easy time again. i decided to go sleep. the rest played captain's ball, but i dunno y, feel v lethargic.
had dinner, this time at the canteen (there was also a chinese restaurant). after tt i went up for worship prac. doing projection tt night. before the retreat i was quite .....how to say. i dun want to take up any duty for the retreat, because it is a RETREAT, i shld be resting. but during the retreat, when shirley told me to help out since she was leaving, i didn't feel reluctant. probably because i had my share of rest already n it's time to serve. =) was actually quite stress when i realise i'm supposed to use the new version of the Worship Assistant program n it was only minutes away from the start of the session. quite blanked out during the teaching. but i know chris was preaching abt the Sabbath.
after tt i went to find faith n we went to find rj to play card games. a few others joined us n we had fun. i'm very scared to play Heart Attack actually. =P so i watched them play. n i took videos of them, putting toothpaste on each other's faces =P then we changed rules. before we left, i joined them for abt 4 rounds. haha.. slept at 1am tt night.
prayer meeting the same time next day again. last day at the retreat already. awww... had breakfast n then went back to pack up. checked out of the resort n had our last session. been playing with the babies during the sessions.. =x went back to singapore. stopped at Esso along the way. bought chewing *** n stuff =P tt bag wasn't checked at the customs. wow.
alan dropped me n jac at clementi to meet the rest of our cell grp. had lunch at a coffeeshop in the central. after tt i decided to walk around, though i was lugging my big bag around =x wanted to see how much clementi central has changed. grew up here, attended pri sch, hung out with the ah lians n ah bengs... hmmm... saw terry from jeremiah. he looked so skinny now i thought i saw the wrong person, like his brother or something. so i smsed him. it really was him! haha.. took train to pasir ris then took bus.
my dad was at home already. i shld have called him, he might give me a lift home lor. then he jio me to go out cut hair. mine took much longer cuz i asked for wash n cut. n my hair was dry n tangled, hard for the hairstylist man. she's v professional, gave me a good impression. her insurance agent was urging her for a signature, but she told her to wait because she was halfway thru cutting my hair. n though there was a very long queue for her service, she told them to come back 15 min/half n hr/ an hr later. she still styled my hair. =D
my dad didn't want to wait for me, so he went home first. when i reached home, he said i cut = never cut, because it's not obvious. i wasn't happy to hear tt la. he say i waste money. heh.
tue
back to work.. oh another boring day. i'm usually busy at the first half of the day. after lunch, i have nothing to do. haiz. i almost blew up at my colleague abt some work. after checking thru her work, i realise tt there wasn't any mistake. patience... pray for patience...
after work i went to outram park mrt to meet my sis' friend, chris, who was going to phuket. passed him contact lenses tt my sis asked me to buy. then it was pouring heavily man. my mom was pissed with waiting for me. heh. lately i've been wanting to take a walk, but my plan is always foiled by the weather. =(
wed
met melissa n terry for dinner. very interestingly, xiaowen saw us from her bus n we asked her to alight to join us. went to Wiener Kaffeehaus, a viennese coffee house. asked mel whether she wants to order wine or not, then she reminded me tt we r in a COFFEE place. oh yah. so i ordered something tt comes with whipped cream =P actually i think dinner was so-so. it shld have come with sauces, but we had to ask for it. suddenly i realise tt i'm surrounded by akouo pple cuz they started talking abt their cell grp stuff, like retreat. interesting la. =)
after tt we walked to chinatown. took train back. was actually reluctant to go home early, but if i were to join mel with her friends to go esplanade, it wld be too late, i would be too tired to do QT. dunno y but i felt weak n dizzy. caffeine must have some funny effect on me. =S
walked a quick round the auditorium, looking out for pple i know. natalie was there to guide me around. then my seniors farah, yihan n sansan came down to see-see. met other seniors like rene also. n then ms pat. went to mac to have my late lunch n also to find junhao. he was studying for english. so cute. he was doing assessment books for Vocab. haha quite fun. then we walked around the sch n thought of the good old days. i used to visit the track n gym quite often, but never used the pool. then we went to blk M. so sad tt our juniors dun get to use Blk L. haha..
went back to Fusion n walked another round, this time eileen was back from her interview with some company n she accompanied me as i collected their namecards. i only know half the batch. then it was time for the screening. i was supposed to go off already, to celebrate jon yap's birthday at ben n jerry's. but i decided to stay for the screening. :P michael's grp did a good job with the animation Solace. gave me a very strong feeling. =)
went back to audi once again... cuz some of the pple from my batch have arrived. took photos with them. i was soooo happy to c OLC! he slimmed down ALOT! but he like quite scared of me. haha. then i decided to go find my cell grp. turns out the celebration was not on yet. anyway i saw nic, on the same train as me. the celebration was fun. we made yap sing a song. haha.. after tt the girls were tired already, so we decided to go back.
sat
my mom helped to wake me up. saw gail on my way to the DCB, meeting point for our Leaders' Retreat. first session was good, learnt a lot.. but towards the end i think most of the pple lost their attention. including me too. so we headed to JB! took alan's car with jac. yay there's servio! he wasn't very guai on the journey. haha.. he even farted in the car =(
we reached and placed our bags in the function room n then went down to the canteen for lunch. food wasn't appealing to me, so i didn't eat much. went back up for games. cool. during free & easy, i took the time to explore the place as it was my first time there. took photos.. then went back to the room. not long later it was time for dinner. sat with a bunch of crazy mission trippers hahahaha... it was fun. after tt played gold with servio n then went up for session. also learnt a lot. after tt we went back to the rooms. my cell grp pple met up for discussion. after tt jac n i went back. showered n slept. had to cover my mouth while i slept, so tt lizard/insects couldn't deposit anything there. =P i'm still not used to the idea of showering outdoors. felt quite scared. =x
next morning.. haha.. my alarm went off n i still didn't wake up. funny thing abt me is, alarm clocks just dun work for me, like i just dun seem to hear anything. but when someone call me to wake up, i hear it! so jac woke me up n we got ready for prayer meeting at 7.30am at the playground. then we went for breakfast. sat at the table tt has an interesting combination. all of us are in pairs, us with our roommates. after breakfast it was time for QT. before going out for the next session, i took a shower. it's getting fun to shower outdoors =P games was fun, planned by rebekah, melissa n garry. had photo taking session n then free & easy time again. i decided to go sleep. the rest played captain's ball, but i dunno y, feel v lethargic.
had dinner, this time at the canteen (there was also a chinese restaurant). after tt i went up for worship prac. doing projection tt night. before the retreat i was quite .....how to say. i dun want to take up any duty for the retreat, because it is a RETREAT, i shld be resting. but during the retreat, when shirley told me to help out since she was leaving, i didn't feel reluctant. probably because i had my share of rest already n it's time to serve. =) was actually quite stress when i realise i'm supposed to use the new version of the Worship Assistant program n it was only minutes away from the start of the session. quite blanked out during the teaching. but i know chris was preaching abt the Sabbath.
after tt i went to find faith n we went to find rj to play card games. a few others joined us n we had fun. i'm very scared to play Heart Attack actually. =P so i watched them play. n i took videos of them, putting toothpaste on each other's faces =P then we changed rules. before we left, i joined them for abt 4 rounds. haha.. slept at 1am tt night.
prayer meeting the same time next day again. last day at the retreat already. awww... had breakfast n then went back to pack up. checked out of the resort n had our last session. been playing with the babies during the sessions.. =x went back to singapore. stopped at Esso along the way. bought chewing *** n stuff =P tt bag wasn't checked at the customs. wow.
alan dropped me n jac at clementi to meet the rest of our cell grp. had lunch at a coffeeshop in the central. after tt i decided to walk around, though i was lugging my big bag around =x wanted to see how much clementi central has changed. grew up here, attended pri sch, hung out with the ah lians n ah bengs... hmmm... saw terry from jeremiah. he looked so skinny now i thought i saw the wrong person, like his brother or something. so i smsed him. it really was him! haha.. took train to pasir ris then took bus.
my dad was at home already. i shld have called him, he might give me a lift home lor. then he jio me to go out cut hair. mine took much longer cuz i asked for wash n cut. n my hair was dry n tangled, hard for the hairstylist man. she's v professional, gave me a good impression. her insurance agent was urging her for a signature, but she told her to wait because she was halfway thru cutting my hair. n though there was a very long queue for her service, she told them to come back 15 min/half n hr/ an hr later. she still styled my hair. =D
my dad didn't want to wait for me, so he went home first. when i reached home, he said i cut = never cut, because it's not obvious. i wasn't happy to hear tt la. he say i waste money. heh.
tue
back to work.. oh another boring day. i'm usually busy at the first half of the day. after lunch, i have nothing to do. haiz. i almost blew up at my colleague abt some work. after checking thru her work, i realise tt there wasn't any mistake. patience... pray for patience...
after work i went to outram park mrt to meet my sis' friend, chris, who was going to phuket. passed him contact lenses tt my sis asked me to buy. then it was pouring heavily man. my mom was pissed with waiting for me. heh. lately i've been wanting to take a walk, but my plan is always foiled by the weather. =(
wed
met melissa n terry for dinner. very interestingly, xiaowen saw us from her bus n we asked her to alight to join us. went to Wiener Kaffeehaus, a viennese coffee house. asked mel whether she wants to order wine or not, then she reminded me tt we r in a COFFEE place. oh yah. so i ordered something tt comes with whipped cream =P actually i think dinner was so-so. it shld have come with sauces, but we had to ask for it. suddenly i realise tt i'm surrounded by akouo pple cuz they started talking abt their cell grp stuff, like retreat. interesting la. =)
after tt we walked to chinatown. took train back. was actually reluctant to go home early, but if i were to join mel with her friends to go esplanade, it wld be too late, i would be too tired to do QT. dunno y but i felt weak n dizzy. caffeine must have some funny effect on me. =S
Friday, March 09, 2007
:: parties II ::
3rd Mar 07
Kor's bday.
Cell grp meeting. Led worship for cell grp. led a hokkien song, a very beautiful song the church often sings in Tanjung Balai. talks about things in nature display their beauty because of what God has done. His blessings to us are so much, so we want to sing and praise Him forevermore.
i think i'm still quite nervous to lead worship.. towards the closing prayer i was losing my concentration already. >.<
worship prac.. then i realise i have a birthday party to attend later. oops.. was quite sloppily dressed lor. the LT was so cold i just wanted to go outside to thaw. rained heavily. sigh.
so i went to the birthday party. if not for the account the birthday boy is my kor, i wouldn't have gone! in town n i'm so sloppily dressed >.< haha.. was quite weird cuz i was expecting him to be there already n tt i could recognise someone there at least. i was still looking around, then yongteng saw me n jenna called me. haha.. it was a small crowd at TCC somerset, but small is good la. can feel the closeness lor. jenna n shuping gave him a present - a pair of boxers with condoms on it. haha.. erm. this party was actually planned by his gf, so sweet lor. she contacted us behind his back. haha. dunno y but i feel strange seeing his gf for the first time. probably because i was close to all his previous gfs n yet i hardly know this one.
ting still reluctant to go home.. haha but i have to la. or else next day cannot wake up. the NEL really very .... one leh, sunday mornings the frequency is 11 min. i was actually early, could have time to buy breakfast.. ended up 5 min late because of the bad timing. really must complain man. haha.
pastor preached 1 Chronicles 15-16 abt King David becoming like a priest, offering sacrifices to God because it was the only appropriate to enter the LORD's presence as a priest, not a king. then he mentioned tt guys shld be like priests to their families, leading them into God's presence. n tt girls shld choose guys who r like priests. so i thought it wld be funny to put my msn nick as "I'm looking for a priest" =)
after service i realise i have to stay back for Guitar course cuz i'm taking photos for it. cuz last week i was away at tj balai ma, so when i come back i feel like i've lost touch with real life =x if u dunno, i'm super forgetful one. but i also have a selective memory. i can remember birthday dates well. =P
i took photos until i ran out of memory. urgh! my tj balai photos haven't been uploaded to my comp so i cannot delete them.
after i reached home i went to slp. my parents v noisy sia, keep trying to wake me up for dinner. :P after dinner i just felt like drinking bubble tea. hmm... chewing pearls make me happy. =)
mon nothing much worth mentioning ba. went to little india for dinner.. feel so cheated. after dinner just go home.. argh.
tue went for prayer meeting. this time i asked terry from akouo along. since he work so near me n tt church is kinda on the way home. (no excuse not to go =P) wanted to go shopping before tt, n probably take a stroll to clarke quay (haven't been doing tt for a very long time) then take train to potong pasir.. but it rained so heavily right after i left the office there was no chance.
wed wanted to take THE stroll to clarke quay after work, but when i reached outram park mrt my mom called. she skipped cell grp!!!! had dinner with her. then went home. sian. asked my dad to accompany me go punggol plaza to pay bills, n misc stuff. spent so much in a day. wow.
thur went to the IT show at suntec city. was dreading the crowd as i imagined it on my way there. really sian. bought an Epson printer n tried to lug it around. finally had to ask my dad to come fetch me. had dinner at the Fountain Terrace. i was halfway done with my dinner when my dad ordered his. he wasn't hungry actually, he just wanted to "eat for fun" sian. cuz i had to help him finish the food! fattening me man. he still say i'm getting fatter. haiz.
had difficulty loading the printer on the motorbox man. but my dad said me + printer = lighter than my mom! haha.. tired by the time i got home.
fri took leave cuz i wanted to show support to my juniors at their Fusion show 2007. also because i hadn't had enough time to rest for a few weekends, so i wanted to take a good rest, do household chores, put my home in order n prepare for the retreat tmr.
Kor's bday.
Cell grp meeting. Led worship for cell grp. led a hokkien song, a very beautiful song the church often sings in Tanjung Balai. talks about things in nature display their beauty because of what God has done. His blessings to us are so much, so we want to sing and praise Him forevermore.
i think i'm still quite nervous to lead worship.. towards the closing prayer i was losing my concentration already. >.<
worship prac.. then i realise i have a birthday party to attend later. oops.. was quite sloppily dressed lor. the LT was so cold i just wanted to go outside to thaw. rained heavily. sigh.
so i went to the birthday party. if not for the account the birthday boy is my kor, i wouldn't have gone! in town n i'm so sloppily dressed >.< haha.. was quite weird cuz i was expecting him to be there already n tt i could recognise someone there at least. i was still looking around, then yongteng saw me n jenna called me. haha.. it was a small crowd at TCC somerset, but small is good la. can feel the closeness lor. jenna n shuping gave him a present - a pair of boxers with condoms on it. haha.. erm. this party was actually planned by his gf, so sweet lor. she contacted us behind his back. haha. dunno y but i feel strange seeing his gf for the first time. probably because i was close to all his previous gfs n yet i hardly know this one.
ting still reluctant to go home.. haha but i have to la. or else next day cannot wake up. the NEL really very .... one leh, sunday mornings the frequency is 11 min. i was actually early, could have time to buy breakfast.. ended up 5 min late because of the bad timing. really must complain man. haha.
pastor preached 1 Chronicles 15-16 abt King David becoming like a priest, offering sacrifices to God because it was the only appropriate to enter the LORD's presence as a priest, not a king. then he mentioned tt guys shld be like priests to their families, leading them into God's presence. n tt girls shld choose guys who r like priests. so i thought it wld be funny to put my msn nick as "I'm looking for a priest" =)
after service i realise i have to stay back for Guitar course cuz i'm taking photos for it. cuz last week i was away at tj balai ma, so when i come back i feel like i've lost touch with real life =x if u dunno, i'm super forgetful one. but i also have a selective memory. i can remember birthday dates well. =P
i took photos until i ran out of memory. urgh! my tj balai photos haven't been uploaded to my comp so i cannot delete them.
after i reached home i went to slp. my parents v noisy sia, keep trying to wake me up for dinner. :P after dinner i just felt like drinking bubble tea. hmm... chewing pearls make me happy. =)
mon nothing much worth mentioning ba. went to little india for dinner.. feel so cheated. after dinner just go home.. argh.
tue went for prayer meeting. this time i asked terry from akouo along. since he work so near me n tt church is kinda on the way home. (no excuse not to go =P) wanted to go shopping before tt, n probably take a stroll to clarke quay (haven't been doing tt for a very long time) then take train to potong pasir.. but it rained so heavily right after i left the office there was no chance.
wed wanted to take THE stroll to clarke quay after work, but when i reached outram park mrt my mom called. she skipped cell grp!!!! had dinner with her. then went home. sian. asked my dad to accompany me go punggol plaza to pay bills, n misc stuff. spent so much in a day. wow.
thur went to the IT show at suntec city. was dreading the crowd as i imagined it on my way there. really sian. bought an Epson printer n tried to lug it around. finally had to ask my dad to come fetch me. had dinner at the Fountain Terrace. i was halfway done with my dinner when my dad ordered his. he wasn't hungry actually, he just wanted to "eat for fun" sian. cuz i had to help him finish the food! fattening me man. he still say i'm getting fatter. haiz.
had difficulty loading the printer on the motorbox man. but my dad said me + printer = lighter than my mom! haha.. tired by the time i got home.
fri took leave cuz i wanted to show support to my juniors at their Fusion show 2007. also because i hadn't had enough time to rest for a few weekends, so i wanted to take a good rest, do household chores, put my home in order n prepare for the retreat tmr.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
:: stress week ::
sat
woke up at 8.30am, when i was supposed to be at Harbourfront at 8.30am. thanks to someone who called my house phone n woke me up. i keep forgetting to buy batteries for my actual alarm clocks. (i usually set 2 more alarms on my cellphones)
so, we missed the ferry. had to change tickets to board the next one. i pray that it will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Phei phei says good for her so that she got more time to prepare the food for the party later. *phew* there's persis, jac, franza n aloysius was there to send franza off. we met up at Pacific Coffee... nice ambience. feel tt they really know how to choose a spot for their outlets man. the one in HK really v nice n relaxing too. i think i'll come more often. =)
we stayed at Asun-gugu's place until 3+pm. it was raining very heavily. then we went to church. the youths and the food started to come. met a few new faces. played a couple of games, glad that they enjoy it. then we asked them to take a poll for their interest in the next activity. seems like they like to play badminton! there was a little too much food, but they managed to clear it by ta-pao-ing the extras home. after that we went to Cippes cafe for some drinks. tired n thirsty. i ordered a salty yoghurt. :S tastes funny to me. like they added salt to yakult.
then we bought flowers for the church n went to Indo A. Yani for some grocery shopping. i bought shampoo (again) haha n of cuz Indomie goreng. =D then we went back to the house. Franza shared a lot of her india experiences with us.. it was v funny. hahaha..
next morning persis went back to singapore, while jac franza n me stayed on for Sunday sch. we had breakfast at a nearby coffeeshop n took a walk at the market. then we went to church to prepare. saw a few new faces again. ;D jac quickly thought of a game for the children to play. they seem to enjoy it =D we taught sunday sch, a lesson on forgiveness. to make sure they understand the lesson, we kept asking them questions. haha.. after that the children cooked noodles for us while i brought jac n franza around the church area, to walk and see.
after lunch we went to take the ferry back to singapore. so tired but didn't manage to get seats on the train even at Harbourfront =( tried to call my dad to pick me up. then we had steamboat for dinner. just to clear the leftover food from reunion dinner.
mon
haiz. so sian at work.
after work i went to meet my parents to have dinner at the Chit Chat cafe in chinatown. food's good. theme's good too. =D
tue
was feeling very very upset at work. had very very big problem with a very very big client. almost cried out. sigh. after work i went to sengkang with my dad. had grilled korean saba fish for dinner again. been eating it a bit too often lately. then a guy, an ang moh, from this deaf and mute association, came around to sell a keychain for $5. i wanted to pay him but i dun wan the keychain, but i didn't know how to communicate to him, in the end he signaled tt it's ok, but i feel so sad again i can't help but cry. after tt then i realise y i am so emotional.
went downstairs to metro, to take a look at bedsheets. been wanting to buy since before the new year. finally got a set nice n cheaper than those at the pasar malam. n better quality. so happy. finally cheered up. saw a foldable umbrella for $3.90! metro having mad sale man! then i also bought Za foundation for $10! by now i was smiling. =D my dad got a wallet. after that we went home. really having mood swing man.
wed
wah v stress n busy. wanted to blog on tue but no time. stayed in office till 9pm, cuz a client gave last minute changes to the web design sia. must be live by 1st Mar also. haiz.
thur
had problem with that big client again. yesterday was supposed to be the last day we work with them, but we weren't able to finish some things. drag until today evening. one of my programmers went out for meeting lor. the other programmer knows nothing. i really wonder if i shld report to my boss. becuz, if this goes on, the company suffers. our loss of the big client was partly becuz of the change of programmers lor. so sad.
left office at 7pm. didn't tell my client i was leaving cuz i scared she want to make more changes.
woke up at 8.30am, when i was supposed to be at Harbourfront at 8.30am. thanks to someone who called my house phone n woke me up. i keep forgetting to buy batteries for my actual alarm clocks. (i usually set 2 more alarms on my cellphones)
so, we missed the ferry. had to change tickets to board the next one. i pray that it will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Phei phei says good for her so that she got more time to prepare the food for the party later. *phew* there's persis, jac, franza n aloysius was there to send franza off. we met up at Pacific Coffee... nice ambience. feel tt they really know how to choose a spot for their outlets man. the one in HK really v nice n relaxing too. i think i'll come more often. =)
we stayed at Asun-gugu's place until 3+pm. it was raining very heavily. then we went to church. the youths and the food started to come. met a few new faces. played a couple of games, glad that they enjoy it. then we asked them to take a poll for their interest in the next activity. seems like they like to play badminton! there was a little too much food, but they managed to clear it by ta-pao-ing the extras home. after that we went to Cippes cafe for some drinks. tired n thirsty. i ordered a salty yoghurt. :S tastes funny to me. like they added salt to yakult.
then we bought flowers for the church n went to Indo A. Yani for some grocery shopping. i bought shampoo (again) haha n of cuz Indomie goreng. =D then we went back to the house. Franza shared a lot of her india experiences with us.. it was v funny. hahaha..
next morning persis went back to singapore, while jac franza n me stayed on for Sunday sch. we had breakfast at a nearby coffeeshop n took a walk at the market. then we went to church to prepare. saw a few new faces again. ;D jac quickly thought of a game for the children to play. they seem to enjoy it =D we taught sunday sch, a lesson on forgiveness. to make sure they understand the lesson, we kept asking them questions. haha.. after that the children cooked noodles for us while i brought jac n franza around the church area, to walk and see.
after lunch we went to take the ferry back to singapore. so tired but didn't manage to get seats on the train even at Harbourfront =( tried to call my dad to pick me up. then we had steamboat for dinner. just to clear the leftover food from reunion dinner.
mon
haiz. so sian at work.
after work i went to meet my parents to have dinner at the Chit Chat cafe in chinatown. food's good. theme's good too. =D
tue
was feeling very very upset at work. had very very big problem with a very very big client. almost cried out. sigh. after work i went to sengkang with my dad. had grilled korean saba fish for dinner again. been eating it a bit too often lately. then a guy, an ang moh, from this deaf and mute association, came around to sell a keychain for $5. i wanted to pay him but i dun wan the keychain, but i didn't know how to communicate to him, in the end he signaled tt it's ok, but i feel so sad again i can't help but cry. after tt then i realise y i am so emotional.
went downstairs to metro, to take a look at bedsheets. been wanting to buy since before the new year. finally got a set nice n cheaper than those at the pasar malam. n better quality. so happy. finally cheered up. saw a foldable umbrella for $3.90! metro having mad sale man! then i also bought Za foundation for $10! by now i was smiling. =D my dad got a wallet. after that we went home. really having mood swing man.
wed
wah v stress n busy. wanted to blog on tue but no time. stayed in office till 9pm, cuz a client gave last minute changes to the web design sia. must be live by 1st Mar also. haiz.
thur
had problem with that big client again. yesterday was supposed to be the last day we work with them, but we weren't able to finish some things. drag until today evening. one of my programmers went out for meeting lor. the other programmer knows nothing. i really wonder if i shld report to my boss. becuz, if this goes on, the company suffers. our loss of the big client was partly becuz of the change of programmers lor. so sad.
left office at 7pm. didn't tell my client i was leaving cuz i scared she want to make more changes.
Friday, February 23, 2007
:: parties ::
umm.. new blogger feature.
CNY..... haha. sat went to Vivocity with my family. to watch Protègè!! Wee!! my cute guys. had lunch at Food republic (we prefer there to Kopitiam now). And walked around. i was quite bored la. wanted to take the Sentosa Express but my mom says no because my sis says no. urgh.
went home for reunion dinner. it was ... bad. the steamboat/bbq thing was new, so we didn't really know how to use it. other than beef, nothing else seems cooked. after that wanted to go out with singles' club one, but my mom dun allow (?!?!?!) so weird. stayed at home to watch Curse of the Golden Flower. not nice sia. but i watch movie must watch to the end one.
next day.. sunday. almost couldn't wake up for service. service was fun :D there's this funny song with funny action n its unforgettable stuck-in-the-head rap that goes "nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing..." after service went downstairs, there was a resource corner selling bibles and books for kids. i've been wanting to find time to go Crest to buy presents for my cousins last week, so i'm glad i could buy something there! it was hard to find something suitable, but i bought a rainbow Good News Bible for my sec 2 cousin. not too kiddy but not too serious. great!
then we went to find my grandmother. she very cute sia. we bai nian to her with oranges, she return us the same oranges when she has her own oranges! haha.. n she opened the red packets she brought to check the amount inside before giving us. hahahaha...
at first we were going for lunch with her, then she said she's meeting a friend. But in the end she still joined us for lunch at Clementi, n even followed us to my mom's sis' place at bukit batok! keke. my aunt wasn't at home!!!! oh no! so we went to west mall to chill. wanted to catch another movie, but my sis decided to forgo the movie to accompany my mom home. ahhh... that's kinda y i seldom watch movies. always kena pang seh.
went home n played mahjong with my dad - only. haha. won a few games. =D then we had a real reunion steamboat dinner. with COOKED food. this was better =)
next day monday holiday songbo. went to my mom's boss' place to bai nian. my fav movie, My Girl (thai movie) was screened on Channel U! dubbed with chinese though. didn't get to watch the whole movie before we had to move on to visit my other aunt. all these while my dad was not around cuz he gotta work. so cham.
at my aunt's place i watched my dad play mahjong with the kings and queen of mahjong. i was quite intimidated. haha. in the end my dad ONLY lost $2+. he was losing alot at first, but manage to catch up at the end. couldn't recognise my cousins' children, like who is whose. hehe.
tue also holiday. went to sengkang to visit my dad's side of the relatives. passed the presents to them. didn't get to see 3 other cousins so i couldn't see their expression of receiving the presents. had lunch with them n went home, with them. actually just an uncle, my aunt n her daughter. i had to go shirley's house so i kinda rushed them. they wanted to follow me out since they just wanted to visit for a while. oops. i was v late. =x took train to outram park then took a cab from there. before i realised it, the cab driver took me a round when he could have just gone straight. =x
had very good food at shirley's place. love the chawanmushi n the kueh pie tee~! da-pao-ed for my family, but they turned soft along the way =x didn't stay for long cuz i had another drop-by to make. went to bukit batok (again! haa) to wish bec happy birthday. it's our tradition to meet up for the birthdays of each person in the grp, usually at west mall coffee bean. it's bec's 21st, so we gave her diamond! pendant. had a great chat with them before they went to bec's hse for dinner, n me to the airport. before i took the train i had some "trouble" in the toilet. (that's why i was so late)
reached airport (i could have been there 4th time tt week if i had gone to send matthias n jia off). had dinner at crystal jade. food is so-so. but the crab meat + crab roe was great!!!
took bus to the budget terminal to send my sis off. there was some fun stuff at the terminal. we took a family photo at the photo-taking booth. quite well taken, except that they could have adjusted the lighting on the image a bit. also went up to caishenye to get angpow (which contains gold chocolate coins). had took the dragonbeard candy from the booth. fun :D
there was a promotion on Harry Potter book leh... U.P. $25.00, but they're selling for $9.90 in the Times bookshop inside the dutyfree lor. urgh... wanted to buy 1 to sell, but my sis didn't buy it. :( she was enthu abt the idea at first. turn out she didn't buy because it was "too heavy" ... :(
wed
back to work. couldn't wake up :P so i was 15 minute late. >.<
went to my dad's cell grp CNY party (at bukit batok - again) on behalf of my mom cuz she got company dinner. i was arrowed to be the projectionist the moment i reached! surprised to see jac there. her grandma had come for the party. it was an outreach party. food was good. =) i think Rev John Loong's cantonese really v clear. i could understand his message man! i couldn't really understand the skit though.
thur
reached office earlier than my colleagues! i thought it was some holiday or something. oh dear.
met natalie n junhao for lunch. finally can bring them to somewhere i couldn't have gone with my colleagues. cuz one of them cannot eat pork *sobs* ya i abandoned my colleagues tt day. asked terry akouo along too, since we're all from DMD n junhao was from games. wah i really miss the minced pork mee pok with abalone!! :D
after work went to aljunied to find ting, who was filming there. that place got ALOT OF CATS! =D they wrapped up at abt 7+pm, then we took cab to jeananne's place to drop the camera n other equipment. then ting n i went to BUKIT BATOK. it was jenna's 21st. i wasn't invited till i smsed her a greeting. keke. sounds like quite a few exclassmates from sec sch will be there so i was glad. it was a good reunion la. getting surprised n shocked at how much their looks have changed. didn't know the theme was retro till kor told me y he chose to dress tt way!! by the time we reached, dinner was almost leftovers. but it was good. =) i really didn't recognise many pple except my own classmates. the girls from other classes n our juniors really look different.. prettier sia! n slim lor. ... >.<
jenna's NUS friends v funny. there was this guy who asked her to go over, n showed her the presents from the whole grp, one by one, with long stories. n at the end of the stories, she was so touched she wanted to hug him for being so sweet. BUT WHO KNOWS! he turned her n got the other friends to carry her, by each limb... n sang a birthday song...n threw her into the pool!!! whoa that was ultimate. well-thought plan. haha..
fast forward n skip the details.. i managed to run for the NEL at outram. it was the last train of the day!! i'd almost miss it by 20 seconds. :D
today.. ok la, lunch time was a bit sad cuz yesterday too happy liao. u know, such a big difference. a lot of work. but ok la. i'd rather have many small work to do rather than few big ones.
CNY..... haha. sat went to Vivocity with my family. to watch Protègè!! Wee!! my cute guys. had lunch at Food republic (we prefer there to Kopitiam now). And walked around. i was quite bored la. wanted to take the Sentosa Express but my mom says no because my sis says no. urgh.
went home for reunion dinner. it was ... bad. the steamboat/bbq thing was new, so we didn't really know how to use it. other than beef, nothing else seems cooked. after that wanted to go out with singles' club one, but my mom dun allow (?!?!?!) so weird. stayed at home to watch Curse of the Golden Flower. not nice sia. but i watch movie must watch to the end one.
next day.. sunday. almost couldn't wake up for service. service was fun :D there's this funny song with funny action n its unforgettable stuck-in-the-head rap that goes "nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing..." after service went downstairs, there was a resource corner selling bibles and books for kids. i've been wanting to find time to go Crest to buy presents for my cousins last week, so i'm glad i could buy something there! it was hard to find something suitable, but i bought a rainbow Good News Bible for my sec 2 cousin. not too kiddy but not too serious. great!
then we went to find my grandmother. she very cute sia. we bai nian to her with oranges, she return us the same oranges when she has her own oranges! haha.. n she opened the red packets she brought to check the amount inside before giving us. hahahaha...
at first we were going for lunch with her, then she said she's meeting a friend. But in the end she still joined us for lunch at Clementi, n even followed us to my mom's sis' place at bukit batok! keke. my aunt wasn't at home!!!! oh no! so we went to west mall to chill. wanted to catch another movie, but my sis decided to forgo the movie to accompany my mom home. ahhh... that's kinda y i seldom watch movies. always kena pang seh.
went home n played mahjong with my dad - only. haha. won a few games. =D then we had a real reunion steamboat dinner. with COOKED food. this was better =)
next day monday holiday songbo. went to my mom's boss' place to bai nian. my fav movie, My Girl (thai movie) was screened on Channel U! dubbed with chinese though. didn't get to watch the whole movie before we had to move on to visit my other aunt. all these while my dad was not around cuz he gotta work. so cham.
at my aunt's place i watched my dad play mahjong with the kings and queen of mahjong. i was quite intimidated. haha. in the end my dad ONLY lost $2+. he was losing alot at first, but manage to catch up at the end. couldn't recognise my cousins' children, like who is whose. hehe.
tue also holiday. went to sengkang to visit my dad's side of the relatives. passed the presents to them. didn't get to see 3 other cousins so i couldn't see their expression of receiving the presents. had lunch with them n went home, with them. actually just an uncle, my aunt n her daughter. i had to go shirley's house so i kinda rushed them. they wanted to follow me out since they just wanted to visit for a while. oops. i was v late. =x took train to outram park then took a cab from there. before i realised it, the cab driver took me a round when he could have just gone straight. =x
had very good food at shirley's place. love the chawanmushi n the kueh pie tee~! da-pao-ed for my family, but they turned soft along the way =x didn't stay for long cuz i had another drop-by to make. went to bukit batok (again! haa) to wish bec happy birthday. it's our tradition to meet up for the birthdays of each person in the grp, usually at west mall coffee bean. it's bec's 21st, so we gave her diamond! pendant. had a great chat with them before they went to bec's hse for dinner, n me to the airport. before i took the train i had some "trouble" in the toilet. (that's why i was so late)
reached airport (i could have been there 4th time tt week if i had gone to send matthias n jia off). had dinner at crystal jade. food is so-so. but the crab meat + crab roe was great!!!
took bus to the budget terminal to send my sis off. there was some fun stuff at the terminal. we took a family photo at the photo-taking booth. quite well taken, except that they could have adjusted the lighting on the image a bit. also went up to caishenye to get angpow (which contains gold chocolate coins). had took the dragonbeard candy from the booth. fun :D
there was a promotion on Harry Potter book leh... U.P. $25.00, but they're selling for $9.90 in the Times bookshop inside the dutyfree lor. urgh... wanted to buy 1 to sell, but my sis didn't buy it. :( she was enthu abt the idea at first. turn out she didn't buy because it was "too heavy" ... :(
wed
back to work. couldn't wake up :P so i was 15 minute late. >.<
went to my dad's cell grp CNY party (at bukit batok - again) on behalf of my mom cuz she got company dinner. i was arrowed to be the projectionist the moment i reached! surprised to see jac there. her grandma had come for the party. it was an outreach party. food was good. =) i think Rev John Loong's cantonese really v clear. i could understand his message man! i couldn't really understand the skit though.
thur
reached office earlier than my colleagues! i thought it was some holiday or something. oh dear.
met natalie n junhao for lunch. finally can bring them to somewhere i couldn't have gone with my colleagues. cuz one of them cannot eat pork *sobs* ya i abandoned my colleagues tt day. asked terry akouo along too, since we're all from DMD n junhao was from games. wah i really miss the minced pork mee pok with abalone!! :D
after work went to aljunied to find ting, who was filming there. that place got ALOT OF CATS! =D they wrapped up at abt 7+pm, then we took cab to jeananne's place to drop the camera n other equipment. then ting n i went to BUKIT BATOK. it was jenna's 21st. i wasn't invited till i smsed her a greeting. keke. sounds like quite a few exclassmates from sec sch will be there so i was glad. it was a good reunion la. getting surprised n shocked at how much their looks have changed. didn't know the theme was retro till kor told me y he chose to dress tt way!! by the time we reached, dinner was almost leftovers. but it was good. =) i really didn't recognise many pple except my own classmates. the girls from other classes n our juniors really look different.. prettier sia! n slim lor. ... >.<
jenna's NUS friends v funny. there was this guy who asked her to go over, n showed her the presents from the whole grp, one by one, with long stories. n at the end of the stories, she was so touched she wanted to hug him for being so sweet. BUT WHO KNOWS! he turned her n got the other friends to carry her, by each limb... n sang a birthday song...n threw her into the pool!!! whoa that was ultimate. well-thought plan. haha..
fast forward n skip the details.. i managed to run for the NEL at outram. it was the last train of the day!! i'd almost miss it by 20 seconds. :D
today.. ok la, lunch time was a bit sad cuz yesterday too happy liao. u know, such a big difference. a lot of work. but ok la. i'd rather have many small work to do rather than few big ones.
Friday, February 16, 2007
:: work part 2 ::
it's really tough to instruct my colleagues about work. i'm the youngest among them, yet i'm the most senior. During the first few weeks of their arrival, i was really struggling, because i'm not used to their working style. for example i thought it would be useful to write down stuffs, but Juliana reminded me tt it's just a preference of working style la. so i cheered up abit.
been having poor appetite due to stress n unhappiness at work, but these few days my appetite picked up. =)
on wed Valentine's day i wanted to hang out with singles' club...but everyone in army, n wendy is having a sweet time with michael. *winks* so i had dinner with my parents at Little India n went shopping for reunion dinner food. but tt day i took the opportunity to sms my dear friends from pri sch, sec sch, JI, n poly. really miss the feeling of sms-ing non-stop! =D
anyway, CNY is coming! i think this yr will be different. more relax.
my sis is back for CNY... last night she came into my room n dropped 2 thai cds. =D i vaguely saw her n thanked God in my sleep tt she's back safely. still dun get to chat with her yet. she busy la.
i dun have new clothes for CNY. wore them in advance already =P see la, if tmr i go out i might find something.
dunno wad to say. everytime at work i got lots to say, but when i reach home i forget everything. sia la.
been having poor appetite due to stress n unhappiness at work, but these few days my appetite picked up. =)
on wed Valentine's day i wanted to hang out with singles' club...but everyone in army, n wendy is having a sweet time with michael. *winks* so i had dinner with my parents at Little India n went shopping for reunion dinner food. but tt day i took the opportunity to sms my dear friends from pri sch, sec sch, JI, n poly. really miss the feeling of sms-ing non-stop! =D
anyway, CNY is coming! i think this yr will be different. more relax.
my sis is back for CNY... last night she came into my room n dropped 2 thai cds. =D i vaguely saw her n thanked God in my sleep tt she's back safely. still dun get to chat with her yet. she busy la.
i dun have new clothes for CNY. wore them in advance already =P see la, if tmr i go out i might find something.
dunno wad to say. everytime at work i got lots to say, but when i reach home i forget everything. sia la.
Friday, February 09, 2007
:: work and all that ::
gosh lots to blog.
had a new colleague for a week before Juliana left and a newer colleague came. There were a guy and an indian lady who came for interview, i only caught a glimpse of the guy as i was leaving my office, but i noticed he stared at me. just wouldn't feel comfortable if the 2nd colleague is also a guy, that would make me the only girl (again). not like i'm not comfortable around guys, but i probably scared myself with the thoughts of having after-lunch heart to heart talks like with juliana, with 2 guys. i would cry man. so in a way i persuaded my boss to hire the lady. my impression of indians in the IT is quite good lor. imagined her to be someone intellectual =p
erm. i honestly would say tt i'm suffering at work now. i realise i have nothing to chat with my new colleagues about. we totally have nothing in common. in a way it is training me to grow in uncomfortable situations, but my prayer life declined badly after my christian colleague left. we usually pray for each other before we start our meals, n after lunch go for walks and heart-to-heart talks until our lunch time is up. i really miss that. *sobs* i shouldn't talk bad abt my colleagues la. let's just say i haven't got to know them better yet.
was suffering partly because of ecards also. if u read my msn nick, i had been complaining for many days abt ecards. i prefer looking at html codes to working with animations. there have been a few difficult clients who have requests beyond my ability. but thank God, with His power i have overcome them already. =D
now my workload is filled with new/to-be-revamped websites. at this point, the change of colleagues is really not a good time. i need a lot of programming help, but terry has his own workload n pramila... today i just spent abt an hour explaining to her what i want. the parable of the talents was stuck in my head, so i was thinking of not assigning difficult work to her, but i have nowhere else to turn to. *sobs again* haiz i can't believe a guy can whine so much *sobsssss*
but i gotta thank Terry for introducing his friends to me.. do networking. haha.. his friend Pam always bring us around the area for lunch. usually more at tanjung pagar area so i realise how small singapore is n how near tj pagar is to my workplace! =) she would bring her colleagues along for lunch too, so sometimes lunch is fun.
her workplace is near the bridge filmed in One Last Dance. had been wanting to watch it since before it came out. caught it with Rj n Christina.. really like the show, partly because of Francis Ng. ;) after the movie (last fri) we went to Brewerkz, also with faith, jx n his gf. jx ordered a tower of Indian Pale Ale. didn't like its taste so i didn't drink much. (dun worry, El Shaddai guys! =p) we also ordered a lot of food. dun really like it. :S actually our purpose of going there is to rekke. i initially wanted to book the place for my bday celebration, but after tasting the food n drinks, i dun think so. tt night someone drank until v seh lor. haha got home after 3am. my dad was just about to go to work. =x i still had to stay up n finish the Guitar course form (it's my fault for not going home straight to work on it, and still went out to have fun).
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oh yah about MCG.. i shared with jac briefly how the meeting last sat impacted me. i had been having the wrong idea about missions, n i'm glad to learn so much since i joined MCG. i always thought, i've been going tj balai so often, n i wanted to be in the know of what's going on there. i had always gone as a tripper, not as a missionary, n i wanted to be more involved. the "seniors" in MCG taught me to look at things long term, like, do i wish to see the balai church independent? in what ways can we help them do tt? they can't possibly rely on us to keep going in and bring presents and food for them everytime. how would they grow in this way? they shld be able to function on their own, while we r there to train them. n move on to other places to reach more pple. n our most recent plan, to start a youth cell grp in balai. i hadn't considered whether phei phei is committed to hold the cell grp if we couldn't go in. (thankfully persis assured me that she talked to her already) because ruth suggested that we can't go on doing things for them while they r unwilling to grow. n we can't go in to visit everytime we hear someone falls sick. some things r just beyond our limits.
there's so much so much more to learn about missions. i'm really thankful for the chance to learn all these thru MCG.
sometimes though, i get lost about my long term plans. i had dropped by an OCBC bank near my place one Sat n sat in to listen to a financial plan. my mom was quite interested as well. but it's long term savings. tt time i bought an insurance policy i already had to consider a lot n go thru a time of grieving (haha if u remember) i probably could keep both the insurance n this new financial savings plan if... IF... i worked for 6 yrs. it's hard to predict the future.. really don't know when i'll stop working n go to a Bible college or wad...
anyway, recently been studying Nehemiah. at chapter 3 i decided to search the internet for commentaries. found a study guide for the chapter. really very interesting! shld read it. not sure if u can click this link: http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/comm_read.pl?book=Neh&chapter=3&verse=1&Comm=Comm%2Fdavid_guzik%2Fsg%2FNeh_3.html%230@@@@@1@@@@@2@@@@@5@@@@@15%26*David+Guzik%26&Select.x=21&Select.y=14
briefly describe what i learnt la:
1. Eliashib the high priest was mentioned first of all, to show that he led in example in the rebuilding of Jerusalem.
2. He and other priests consecrated the Sheep Gate that they built (so named because shepherds bring their flock to the gate to sell, in those days and up to a few yrs ago) - to God. reminds us that in everything we do, do it for the Lord. (Colossians 3:17)
3. The Tekoites joined in the repair works, but their nobles did not. then in vs 27 they repaired another section, probably to make up for what their nobles would not do. they did not submit to God, so they probably didn't get to enjoy His blessings. Nehemiah didn't mention their names in the account, Pastor David Guzik suggested that it's because God had mercy on them.
4. vs 8 mentions the actual profession of the people who rebuilt the walls. They were all not professional builders! some were goldsmiths, perfume-makers etc. the most important ability in doing God's work is availability.
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hmm on sun i just casually commented that owning an ipod is "carnal". so many pple now own one. if u do, u're following the crowd. i used to despise pple who follow the crowd - tt's y i turned out quite anti-social. erm now... it's hard to be stubborn. yep insisting things to go my way is called stubborn. (i'm going crazy trying to keep balance of things.) ah yah back to ipod. i was tempted to own one at times, but i feel very strongly tt it's a tool to draw even christians away from God. when there's earphones in ur ears, how do u hear when God speaks?
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i was supposed to meet a client on wed. so i dressed up rather formally. then she called to postpone the meeting to fri. oh well. n today, friday, i dressed up formally again. i emailed her the design for her company's website n mentioned tt i'll see her later. then she called n apologised for forgetting to inform me tt the meeting is postponed to after CNY!! i dun like wearing formal u know.
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wed went to IMM with hao. had dinner at Pepper Lunch (it just smells too good to walk away). n after that SHOPPING AT ESPRIT OUTLET!!!! haha i wouldn't know abt it if i hadn't heard from Jac. didn't see the clothes i saw in HK, but it's ok. bought a top n a bottom, at prices u'll see at far east, but it's Esprit! ya i know i used to despise branded goods too, but since owning a Levi's i believe that the price fits the quality. =) i can't say that for every brand though.
our 24:365 reminds me to guard against the temptation of the pleasures of the world. indeed i do have spending power now, but i must always remember that what i have is borrowed from God. must exercise good stewardship over what i have. to my friends who think i must be crazy, money is the root of all evil. with some money, people desire to have more. n more n more. therefore, our God teaches us that money is only temporal. u cannot bring it with u after life. therefore, y view it more important than life itself? some pple can live with plenty, some can live with none. just be contented with ur lot. it's easier to find joy.
this week i went to DCB on tue n thurs for 24:365. i dropped my phone there on tue. only when i was about to slp i started looking for it n realise i had dropped it. so i prayed that it could be found. it wasn't that important to me because i didn't like the phone, and also the sim card inside was a prepaid card. so not v much loss. but would be good to retrieve it cuz i have a lot of contacts n photos n messages in it. on wed, my mom called to say phoebe called her tt she found my phone in church!! praise God! that's y my nick says "i lost my phone, but God found it!"
was quite surprised tt Auntie Pearly was the only non-youth present on thurs.
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Take That is back! with the song Patience... wow.. hear it on Class 95 cuz we have a non-chinese colleague now. (she actually suggested listening to tamil songs... i can only diam-diam) erm anyway. the song is nice!! watched it on You-tube before i believed that it was sung by the original Take That.
had a new colleague for a week before Juliana left and a newer colleague came. There were a guy and an indian lady who came for interview, i only caught a glimpse of the guy as i was leaving my office, but i noticed he stared at me. just wouldn't feel comfortable if the 2nd colleague is also a guy, that would make me the only girl (again). not like i'm not comfortable around guys, but i probably scared myself with the thoughts of having after-lunch heart to heart talks like with juliana, with 2 guys. i would cry man. so in a way i persuaded my boss to hire the lady. my impression of indians in the IT is quite good lor. imagined her to be someone intellectual =p
erm. i honestly would say tt i'm suffering at work now. i realise i have nothing to chat with my new colleagues about. we totally have nothing in common. in a way it is training me to grow in uncomfortable situations, but my prayer life declined badly after my christian colleague left. we usually pray for each other before we start our meals, n after lunch go for walks and heart-to-heart talks until our lunch time is up. i really miss that. *sobs* i shouldn't talk bad abt my colleagues la. let's just say i haven't got to know them better yet.
was suffering partly because of ecards also. if u read my msn nick, i had been complaining for many days abt ecards. i prefer looking at html codes to working with animations. there have been a few difficult clients who have requests beyond my ability. but thank God, with His power i have overcome them already. =D
now my workload is filled with new/to-be-revamped websites. at this point, the change of colleagues is really not a good time. i need a lot of programming help, but terry has his own workload n pramila... today i just spent abt an hour explaining to her what i want. the parable of the talents was stuck in my head, so i was thinking of not assigning difficult work to her, but i have nowhere else to turn to. *sobs again* haiz i can't believe a guy can whine so much *sobsssss*
but i gotta thank Terry for introducing his friends to me.. do networking. haha.. his friend Pam always bring us around the area for lunch. usually more at tanjung pagar area so i realise how small singapore is n how near tj pagar is to my workplace! =) she would bring her colleagues along for lunch too, so sometimes lunch is fun.
her workplace is near the bridge filmed in One Last Dance. had been wanting to watch it since before it came out. caught it with Rj n Christina.. really like the show, partly because of Francis Ng. ;) after the movie (last fri) we went to Brewerkz, also with faith, jx n his gf. jx ordered a tower of Indian Pale Ale. didn't like its taste so i didn't drink much. (dun worry, El Shaddai guys! =p) we also ordered a lot of food. dun really like it. :S actually our purpose of going there is to rekke. i initially wanted to book the place for my bday celebration, but after tasting the food n drinks, i dun think so. tt night someone drank until v seh lor. haha got home after 3am. my dad was just about to go to work. =x i still had to stay up n finish the Guitar course form (it's my fault for not going home straight to work on it, and still went out to have fun).
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oh yah about MCG.. i shared with jac briefly how the meeting last sat impacted me. i had been having the wrong idea about missions, n i'm glad to learn so much since i joined MCG. i always thought, i've been going tj balai so often, n i wanted to be in the know of what's going on there. i had always gone as a tripper, not as a missionary, n i wanted to be more involved. the "seniors" in MCG taught me to look at things long term, like, do i wish to see the balai church independent? in what ways can we help them do tt? they can't possibly rely on us to keep going in and bring presents and food for them everytime. how would they grow in this way? they shld be able to function on their own, while we r there to train them. n move on to other places to reach more pple. n our most recent plan, to start a youth cell grp in balai. i hadn't considered whether phei phei is committed to hold the cell grp if we couldn't go in. (thankfully persis assured me that she talked to her already) because ruth suggested that we can't go on doing things for them while they r unwilling to grow. n we can't go in to visit everytime we hear someone falls sick. some things r just beyond our limits.
there's so much so much more to learn about missions. i'm really thankful for the chance to learn all these thru MCG.
sometimes though, i get lost about my long term plans. i had dropped by an OCBC bank near my place one Sat n sat in to listen to a financial plan. my mom was quite interested as well. but it's long term savings. tt time i bought an insurance policy i already had to consider a lot n go thru a time of grieving (haha if u remember) i probably could keep both the insurance n this new financial savings plan if... IF... i worked for 6 yrs. it's hard to predict the future.. really don't know when i'll stop working n go to a Bible college or wad...
anyway, recently been studying Nehemiah. at chapter 3 i decided to search the internet for commentaries. found a study guide for the chapter. really very interesting! shld read it. not sure if u can click this link: http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/comm_read.pl?book=Neh&chapter=3&verse=1&Comm=Comm%2Fdavid_guzik%2Fsg%2FNeh_3.html%230@@@@@1@@@@@2@@@@@5@@@@@15%26*David+Guzik%26&Select.x=21&Select.y=14
briefly describe what i learnt la:
1. Eliashib the high priest was mentioned first of all, to show that he led in example in the rebuilding of Jerusalem.
2. He and other priests consecrated the Sheep Gate that they built (so named because shepherds bring their flock to the gate to sell, in those days and up to a few yrs ago) - to God. reminds us that in everything we do, do it for the Lord. (Colossians 3:17)
3. The Tekoites joined in the repair works, but their nobles did not. then in vs 27 they repaired another section, probably to make up for what their nobles would not do. they did not submit to God, so they probably didn't get to enjoy His blessings. Nehemiah didn't mention their names in the account, Pastor David Guzik suggested that it's because God had mercy on them.
4. vs 8 mentions the actual profession of the people who rebuilt the walls. They were all not professional builders! some were goldsmiths, perfume-makers etc. the most important ability in doing God's work is availability.
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hmm on sun i just casually commented that owning an ipod is "carnal". so many pple now own one. if u do, u're following the crowd. i used to despise pple who follow the crowd - tt's y i turned out quite anti-social. erm now... it's hard to be stubborn. yep insisting things to go my way is called stubborn. (i'm going crazy trying to keep balance of things.) ah yah back to ipod. i was tempted to own one at times, but i feel very strongly tt it's a tool to draw even christians away from God. when there's earphones in ur ears, how do u hear when God speaks?
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i was supposed to meet a client on wed. so i dressed up rather formally. then she called to postpone the meeting to fri. oh well. n today, friday, i dressed up formally again. i emailed her the design for her company's website n mentioned tt i'll see her later. then she called n apologised for forgetting to inform me tt the meeting is postponed to after CNY!! i dun like wearing formal u know.
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wed went to IMM with hao. had dinner at Pepper Lunch (it just smells too good to walk away). n after that SHOPPING AT ESPRIT OUTLET!!!! haha i wouldn't know abt it if i hadn't heard from Jac. didn't see the clothes i saw in HK, but it's ok. bought a top n a bottom, at prices u'll see at far east, but it's Esprit! ya i know i used to despise branded goods too, but since owning a Levi's i believe that the price fits the quality. =) i can't say that for every brand though.
our 24:365 reminds me to guard against the temptation of the pleasures of the world. indeed i do have spending power now, but i must always remember that what i have is borrowed from God. must exercise good stewardship over what i have. to my friends who think i must be crazy, money is the root of all evil. with some money, people desire to have more. n more n more. therefore, our God teaches us that money is only temporal. u cannot bring it with u after life. therefore, y view it more important than life itself? some pple can live with plenty, some can live with none. just be contented with ur lot. it's easier to find joy.
this week i went to DCB on tue n thurs for 24:365. i dropped my phone there on tue. only when i was about to slp i started looking for it n realise i had dropped it. so i prayed that it could be found. it wasn't that important to me because i didn't like the phone, and also the sim card inside was a prepaid card. so not v much loss. but would be good to retrieve it cuz i have a lot of contacts n photos n messages in it. on wed, my mom called to say phoebe called her tt she found my phone in church!! praise God! that's y my nick says "i lost my phone, but God found it!"
was quite surprised tt Auntie Pearly was the only non-youth present on thurs.
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Take That is back! with the song Patience... wow.. hear it on Class 95 cuz we have a non-chinese colleague now. (she actually suggested listening to tamil songs... i can only diam-diam) erm anyway. the song is nice!! watched it on You-tube before i believed that it was sung by the original Take That.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
:: encouragement ::
healing from a heartbreak...
=x not v serious la, just a crush only... but v disappointed.. :S
saw this encouraging words in an email (i sign up for LOTSA enewsletters =P)
No man can ever claim you unless he claims you from me
I reserved a man for you who has my heart and loves me more than he'll love you
I won't give you unless he asks you from me
Soon you will know him, i have the perfect time
Your my princess, my daughter
Let no prince claim you unless unless he asks you from my hand
For i am your Father, the King of Kings..
You my princess, is worth loving...
=x not v serious la, just a crush only... but v disappointed.. :S
saw this encouraging words in an email (i sign up for LOTSA enewsletters =P)
No man can ever claim you unless he claims you from me
I reserved a man for you who has my heart and loves me more than he'll love you
I won't give you unless he asks you from me
Soon you will know him, i have the perfect time
Your my princess, my daughter
Let no prince claim you unless unless he asks you from my hand
For i am your Father, the King of Kings..
You my princess, is worth loving...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
:: missed out. ::
yeah missed out something in my update last night.
last ...tue i think. i was using my home comp halfway n then it hung on me. waited quite long n then i decided to press the Sleep button on my keyboard. then the screen went blank. pressed the reset button on my Barebone CPU but nothing happened. couldn't get it to even boot up. finally decided i was wasting too much time on trying n so i gave up. i rather slp earlier n try again the next day. wed tried again, but to no avail.
finally on thurs after praying hard, for wisdom to find out how to fix it, i opened up the covers n blasted the aircon at it. (i wore my super thick Baby Milo jacket cuz i'm super afraid of the cold.) prayed that God will allow my comp to work for even just one hour, so that i can backup my stuff n i will be v v thankful! and WOW! it managed to boot up! really not sure if it will fail me again or not, but i was desperately burning my files into DVDs to backup. u know the burner program will show a progress bar, show how many percent done. every 10% i thank God, until 100! after burning one dvd, the one hr i prayed for was up. but i decided to burn another dvd to test n c if still can work. yay! but after that it was bedtime, so i decided to give my pc a rest.
n sun night i was upset abt another thing as well. feel that my cell grp is losing members. =( must try hard to bring in friends.
mmm. can't rem what else i missed out.
last ...tue i think. i was using my home comp halfway n then it hung on me. waited quite long n then i decided to press the Sleep button on my keyboard. then the screen went blank. pressed the reset button on my Barebone CPU but nothing happened. couldn't get it to even boot up. finally decided i was wasting too much time on trying n so i gave up. i rather slp earlier n try again the next day. wed tried again, but to no avail.
finally on thurs after praying hard, for wisdom to find out how to fix it, i opened up the covers n blasted the aircon at it. (i wore my super thick Baby Milo jacket cuz i'm super afraid of the cold.) prayed that God will allow my comp to work for even just one hour, so that i can backup my stuff n i will be v v thankful! and WOW! it managed to boot up! really not sure if it will fail me again or not, but i was desperately burning my files into DVDs to backup. u know the burner program will show a progress bar, show how many percent done. every 10% i thank God, until 100! after burning one dvd, the one hr i prayed for was up. but i decided to burn another dvd to test n c if still can work. yay! but after that it was bedtime, so i decided to give my pc a rest.
n sun night i was upset abt another thing as well. feel that my cell grp is losing members. =( must try hard to bring in friends.
mmm. can't rem what else i missed out.
Monday, January 22, 2007
:: HA. ::
whatever happened to the "i don't wanna miss out a day of my life" belief.
recently... quite a bit of stuff to update.
had a sectional potluck on 12th Jan. took a bus during the heavy rain. the journey was really.... argh.. makes me hate bukit timah during peak hours. took 2 hrs to reach Esther leong's place. even got lost. but managed to cool down before the guys came out to find me. was very very hungry on the bus, but got over it by the time i reached. the gift exchange part was quite cool. disorganised :P but some pple got really funny gifts! after that went for midnight movie with most of them at bukit batok.
15 Jan mon - after work went to dhoby ghaut to meet persis n gail to discuss abt tj balai plans for 2007. felt v weird for not going or doing anything abt tj balai for so long. managed to get some concrete plans out =) but too tired to type email by the time i reach home. walked around daiso. =)
thur - new colleague came. it's a guy. non-christian. very sad. after Jul leave there won't be anyone to hang out with me during lunch break n it's quite hard to talk crap with the guy. he's the 4th Terry i know. pray hard that i'll have another colleague - female n christian - SOON!
sat - went to serene's hse, prepared while we wait for the guys to arrive, then jac n i started to do facials for them while diana n aijia do shoulder massage, n cat n grace operate the foot massager n prepare the water to soak their feet). the guys were scared do let us do facial on them =( cheers to the guys who did! after that we had dinner.. yummy~! n the guys performed for us. hehe it was really fun~!
sun - went KTV with faith n weiyang after service n after lunch. it's been a few months since i last went, so it's ok. used to dread going ktv actually. but this time was fun. my singing was bad but just wanted to try the new songs i hear on radio esp since Jul only like 93.3FM. haha everytime i change the channel the next morning she'll change back to 93.3. heh.
after that went to shop for farewell gift for her. i dun have much time to shop one lor.. n when i need to get a gift for someone i tend to choose v carefully, n then end up not buying cuz i got not enough time or not sure if the item is worth the money. yah. well. anyway i was super pissed. with my phone. think it only happens to my phone anyway. for a few hours i dun receive any sms, but when i make a call or sms someone, then the sms-es start coming in. that was wad happened then. my dad said he kept calling me, but my phone seemed to be off. n i thought he would get off work at 9pm, so i took my time to shop for the gift. when i reached his workplace, there was no one around! i started to call him n then i started to receive 2 sms-es. 1 from my dad, sent at 8.10pm, telling me tt he's going home already. i was so angry with my phone that doesn't function as a phone n had the urge to smash it on the ground. .... thank God for self-control. but i was so angry i started to cry. yeah, in orchard road. but cannot take it anymore, cannot wait till i hide somewhere to let it out. now i'm okay. but i wanna change phone soon. been wanting to do so, but i can't bear to do so till i can download the pics i took with my phone. can't dl it except by cable. ...!!!
it's silly to get so angry with a phone.
recently... quite a bit of stuff to update.
had a sectional potluck on 12th Jan. took a bus during the heavy rain. the journey was really.... argh.. makes me hate bukit timah during peak hours. took 2 hrs to reach Esther leong's place. even got lost. but managed to cool down before the guys came out to find me. was very very hungry on the bus, but got over it by the time i reached. the gift exchange part was quite cool. disorganised :P but some pple got really funny gifts! after that went for midnight movie with most of them at bukit batok.
15 Jan mon - after work went to dhoby ghaut to meet persis n gail to discuss abt tj balai plans for 2007. felt v weird for not going or doing anything abt tj balai for so long. managed to get some concrete plans out =) but too tired to type email by the time i reach home. walked around daiso. =)
thur - new colleague came. it's a guy. non-christian. very sad. after Jul leave there won't be anyone to hang out with me during lunch break n it's quite hard to talk crap with the guy. he's the 4th Terry i know. pray hard that i'll have another colleague - female n christian - SOON!
sat - went to serene's hse, prepared while we wait for the guys to arrive, then jac n i started to do facials for them while diana n aijia do shoulder massage, n cat n grace operate the foot massager n prepare the water to soak their feet). the guys were scared do let us do facial on them =( cheers to the guys who did! after that we had dinner.. yummy~! n the guys performed for us. hehe it was really fun~!
sun - went KTV with faith n weiyang after service n after lunch. it's been a few months since i last went, so it's ok. used to dread going ktv actually. but this time was fun. my singing was bad but just wanted to try the new songs i hear on radio esp since Jul only like 93.3FM. haha everytime i change the channel the next morning she'll change back to 93.3. heh.
after that went to shop for farewell gift for her. i dun have much time to shop one lor.. n when i need to get a gift for someone i tend to choose v carefully, n then end up not buying cuz i got not enough time or not sure if the item is worth the money. yah. well. anyway i was super pissed. with my phone. think it only happens to my phone anyway. for a few hours i dun receive any sms, but when i make a call or sms someone, then the sms-es start coming in. that was wad happened then. my dad said he kept calling me, but my phone seemed to be off. n i thought he would get off work at 9pm, so i took my time to shop for the gift. when i reached his workplace, there was no one around! i started to call him n then i started to receive 2 sms-es. 1 from my dad, sent at 8.10pm, telling me tt he's going home already. i was so angry with my phone that doesn't function as a phone n had the urge to smash it on the ground. .... thank God for self-control. but i was so angry i started to cry. yeah, in orchard road. but cannot take it anymore, cannot wait till i hide somewhere to let it out. now i'm okay. but i wanna change phone soon. been wanting to do so, but i can't bear to do so till i can download the pics i took with my phone. can't dl it except by cable. ...!!!
it's silly to get so angry with a phone.
Monday, January 08, 2007
:: wedding and a birthday ::
fri
went to chinatown food centre for dinner with my parents. always like visiting n trying food at new places. =)
food there OK only.
sat
woke up early, dressed up, go for Christine's wedding!! she was my NYP Campus Crusade DG leader. it was held at Tampines Lighthouse Evangelical church. concert style.. haha.. but one thing bad abt the place is, the aisles are at 2 sides..... usually the bride will walk down the centre while the people stand at the pews, watching her n applauding n cheering.. but this one not everyone could see her. n also the couple didn't go up the stage, but they stood at the front of the seats, so hardly anything to see. but the skit put up by their friends about them, the duet they sang... really a joyous occasion. i was even touched to tears.. =P
went home to get changed n get ready for cell grp. jac set up a few carnival games.. cool! had a time of reflection for 2006 and sharing for 2007. too bad i had to go off early. went home cuz i was expecting my new Singnet modem to be delivered. i had been using Jetpack ma, limited in volume. $19.95 for about 325MB per month. i've been exceeding the limit for a few months already, so decided to change to unlimited, shun bian get a wireless modem so that my laptop can also connect. after calculation, i think i made a good choice. =) the delivery came around 7pm. though i could have left cell grp later, still it's good to be prepared before the delivery man came. after all i was alone at home, gotta keep the underwear properly, closed the other room doors, sweep the floor... =P
after that i went to jinwen's bday party. went to get VCDs for him as bday present. think that award winning movies are good presents. hmm... so sorry i didn't get christmas presents for most of my friends... i do feel bad for not giving presents.. hmm.. those of u reading, got chance we go Candy Empire i let u choose anything u want k? *terms and conditions apply.
didn't know what to expect for his party.. just expected it to be a SDN DMD IM gathering. saw ze jian, darius, sab, valencis, esme, michelle. at first i couldn't recognise the crowd at the downstairs of j's block. just saw a lot of hiphoppers but not sure if that's his friends. didn't wear my glasses also. anyway. zj is still as crappy. the guys r in army now.. so when they meet up they sure talk abt army. then zj will say "ok la dun talk abt army. ... eh u know tekong...." (something like that) and he suan sab until v funny. "everything got exception." =P
reached home around 12am.
sun
woke up late for the Sunday Morning Teaching. =x
first service of the year. 2 electric guits today, somehow i really felt that it made an impact. encouraged me to worship God. =)
had lunch with my cell grp at marina sq, weiyang drove. v steady man. had bbq saba fish set meal, whoa! great man. weiyang kept praising the food. =x i had an exceptionally big fish. v happy. =D shopped around, but i didn't buy anything.. i guess i won't buy anything from shops like G2000, esprit, Dorothy Perkins, etc except in other countries where there is warehouse/outlet sale. *winks* in singapore, the shops i frequent would be This Fashion. =P
went to sentosa after that. have to reach before 5pm, to collect my membership card. well, since i was there, decided to take a walk at the beach. chose a good spot at Siloso beach... where the sun sets directly in my path. too bad i nv bring my camera out!! decided to take out my Bible to read a few chapters, to speed up the rate of completing my Bible reading plan. i really nv read thru it before. 2006 was the yr i finished reading thru Psalms, this yr is going to be exciting! it's good to start from Genesis la, where the tribes start. spent abt 2 hrs there, felt v refreshed by the sea breeze. had a good time thinking abt God and my plans for 2007, but somehow felt like i didn't get a conclusion.
after the sun set i wanted to quickly go toilet then go home. but when i reached Vivocity i saw an interesting ship docked behind and went closer to take a look. the guy said there was an exhibition in the shopping mall, so i went in. hmm, it's a Swedish ship. v interesting. the exhibition also displayed photos of Sweden... wah makes me v gian to visit Sweden! seems like a land of creativity (where IKEA came from) then after that i went downstairs to go MRT, n decided to go take a look in Candy Empire. wahhhhhhhh... i don't like chocolate, but lately been pigging out on Kinder Bueno.. =x the packaging design of the sweets and chocolates make me wanna own them! i think they will make good presents too. (hence my earlier suggestion) bought Arnott's butter shortbread. OK only.
v tired.
mon
woke up early cuz my dad was giving me a lift. had lunch at Haveli, where Paul (Liew) works. haha.. after lunch i decided to take a nap, n it felt like i took the whole afternoon of nap. dreamt that i woke up, went downstairs to get something, went back, found a comfortable position n immediately fell asleep again - in my dream. also dreamt that i saw a few pple in my office (there shld actually be only me n my colleague), as if it were bigger and had more rooms. when i woke up it felt like a few hrs of nap, but turns out only an hour. dunno if it's a good thing or not. then my colleague went out for interview. it was tempting to go back to slp, but by that time i had things to do.
grrr... CNY ecards. eeee. really no idea how to design CNY ecards. i dun want it to have anything to do with dragons/Chinese zodiac/religious objects, so my designs r mainly abt spring blossoms, wordplay. quite limited. then chat with my sis regarding holiday plans for Mar. hee..
had lunch with my mom at People's Park. shopped for toiletries.
went to chinatown food centre for dinner with my parents. always like visiting n trying food at new places. =)
food there OK only.
sat
woke up early, dressed up, go for Christine's wedding!! she was my NYP Campus Crusade DG leader. it was held at Tampines Lighthouse Evangelical church. concert style.. haha.. but one thing bad abt the place is, the aisles are at 2 sides..... usually the bride will walk down the centre while the people stand at the pews, watching her n applauding n cheering.. but this one not everyone could see her. n also the couple didn't go up the stage, but they stood at the front of the seats, so hardly anything to see. but the skit put up by their friends about them, the duet they sang... really a joyous occasion. i was even touched to tears.. =P
went home to get changed n get ready for cell grp. jac set up a few carnival games.. cool! had a time of reflection for 2006 and sharing for 2007. too bad i had to go off early. went home cuz i was expecting my new Singnet modem to be delivered. i had been using Jetpack ma, limited in volume. $19.95 for about 325MB per month. i've been exceeding the limit for a few months already, so decided to change to unlimited, shun bian get a wireless modem so that my laptop can also connect. after calculation, i think i made a good choice. =) the delivery came around 7pm. though i could have left cell grp later, still it's good to be prepared before the delivery man came. after all i was alone at home, gotta keep the underwear properly, closed the other room doors, sweep the floor... =P
after that i went to jinwen's bday party. went to get VCDs for him as bday present. think that award winning movies are good presents. hmm... so sorry i didn't get christmas presents for most of my friends... i do feel bad for not giving presents.. hmm.. those of u reading, got chance we go Candy Empire i let u choose anything u want k? *terms and conditions apply.
didn't know what to expect for his party.. just expected it to be a SDN DMD IM gathering. saw ze jian, darius, sab, valencis, esme, michelle. at first i couldn't recognise the crowd at the downstairs of j's block. just saw a lot of hiphoppers but not sure if that's his friends. didn't wear my glasses also. anyway. zj is still as crappy. the guys r in army now.. so when they meet up they sure talk abt army. then zj will say "ok la dun talk abt army. ... eh u know tekong...." (something like that) and he suan sab until v funny. "everything got exception." =P
reached home around 12am.
sun
woke up late for the Sunday Morning Teaching. =x
first service of the year. 2 electric guits today, somehow i really felt that it made an impact. encouraged me to worship God. =)
had lunch with my cell grp at marina sq, weiyang drove. v steady man. had bbq saba fish set meal, whoa! great man. weiyang kept praising the food. =x i had an exceptionally big fish. v happy. =D shopped around, but i didn't buy anything.. i guess i won't buy anything from shops like G2000, esprit, Dorothy Perkins, etc except in other countries where there is warehouse/outlet sale. *winks* in singapore, the shops i frequent would be This Fashion. =P
went to sentosa after that. have to reach before 5pm, to collect my membership card. well, since i was there, decided to take a walk at the beach. chose a good spot at Siloso beach... where the sun sets directly in my path. too bad i nv bring my camera out!! decided to take out my Bible to read a few chapters, to speed up the rate of completing my Bible reading plan. i really nv read thru it before. 2006 was the yr i finished reading thru Psalms, this yr is going to be exciting! it's good to start from Genesis la, where the tribes start. spent abt 2 hrs there, felt v refreshed by the sea breeze. had a good time thinking abt God and my plans for 2007, but somehow felt like i didn't get a conclusion.
after the sun set i wanted to quickly go toilet then go home. but when i reached Vivocity i saw an interesting ship docked behind and went closer to take a look. the guy said there was an exhibition in the shopping mall, so i went in. hmm, it's a Swedish ship. v interesting. the exhibition also displayed photos of Sweden... wah makes me v gian to visit Sweden! seems like a land of creativity (where IKEA came from) then after that i went downstairs to go MRT, n decided to go take a look in Candy Empire. wahhhhhhhh... i don't like chocolate, but lately been pigging out on Kinder Bueno.. =x the packaging design of the sweets and chocolates make me wanna own them! i think they will make good presents too. (hence my earlier suggestion) bought Arnott's butter shortbread. OK only.
v tired.
mon
woke up early cuz my dad was giving me a lift. had lunch at Haveli, where Paul (Liew) works. haha.. after lunch i decided to take a nap, n it felt like i took the whole afternoon of nap. dreamt that i woke up, went downstairs to get something, went back, found a comfortable position n immediately fell asleep again - in my dream. also dreamt that i saw a few pple in my office (there shld actually be only me n my colleague), as if it were bigger and had more rooms. when i woke up it felt like a few hrs of nap, but turns out only an hour. dunno if it's a good thing or not. then my colleague went out for interview. it was tempting to go back to slp, but by that time i had things to do.
grrr... CNY ecards. eeee. really no idea how to design CNY ecards. i dun want it to have anything to do with dragons/Chinese zodiac/religious objects, so my designs r mainly abt spring blossoms, wordplay. quite limited. then chat with my sis regarding holiday plans for Mar. hee..
had lunch with my mom at People's Park. shopped for toiletries.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
:: keep on blogging ::
sometimes quite sian of having to blog.. yet i don't wanna miss out a day of my life? if one day i suffer amnesia, my blog would be the best way to help me understand what kinda life i led! =)
29 dec fri
half day of work. quite puzzled y my boss didn't inform me directly. is it because he knows my colleague will surely tell me? went to have lunch at People's Park. slightly further cuz we don't need to report back to office after lunch. took train with my colleague to tampines. fell asleep on the train all the way the EW line. hadn't rested enough even after my trip man. took the shuttle bus to Ikea -> Courts Megastore to find my parents. the interior of Ikea Tampines is somewhat like Ikea Alexandra. So i didn't feel unfamiliar. met some DMD juniors there. bought 4 big boxes. packed my stuff into the boxes. but i kept getting scratched against the edges of the cardboard. =(
30 dec
no cell grp today. stayed at home almost whole day. bia sectional training homework.. was even wondering if i shld go to church for PRC setup. in the end i did. i haven't got a reply from andr and roy, so i wondered if they were ok. but i had faith that God will protect them. nevertheless, i called them to find out how they were doing. glad that they're fine. went home to continue on my homework. halfway done but i was too tired to continue.
31 dec
wahh last day of the year!
went for service n passed some stuff to Agape from andr n roy. went for lunch with cell grp at kallang.. prawn noodles wor. the place we sat had a smell... like stinking beancurd...... :S
after lunch i went home to continue to work on my homework. finally submitted it n went to rest. tried to remove my contact lenses but it was v difficult. :( caused my eyes to go red. eeeee...
woke up n went out to meet singles' club. woohoo!~ long time no meet them! went to lau pa sat for dinner n then i took train to church. managed to get David to follow me.. if he go home he sure don't wanna go out again one sia. had a great time at the service, but my contact lenses kept giving me probs.
5,4,3,2,1!! weee!! i'm glad i celebrated countdown in church, not at some meaningless party. :)
half-guessed that my cell grp wld go chomp chomp after that. yay.. cuz later shun bian going nic's hse ma. had my egg beancurd n had fun with my cell grp. but too bad chomp chomp closing early that night man. then mic n wendy came n joined us. went to nic's hse n played mahjong till 6am, i bueh tahan liao.
1st jan 2007!
took bus home but didn't see my parents at home. packed my room till they came back. quite satisfied. =) my parents went to mustafa to buy a DVD recorder.. no more VCR~! =P watched the last episode of my fav hk serial =) now i can finally sleep early because the next 10pm channel U serial is not worth me staying up to watch.
2 jan
woke up quite late =P had brunch with my parents n walked around. then continued to pack my room. this time i caused a lot of dust to come out.. i kept sneezing n having runny nose the whole day =( but i'm satisfied with the clean look of my room =)
went fishing with my dad at punggol jetty. caught 2 fish!! =D but before we went back my dad told me to release them. =( mom cooked dinner.. errr... ok only la. but we were v happy with the CP honey wings. LOL.
andr n roy came back today. andr came to my place to exchange luggage.. around 12+am.. my nose was blocked n runny n i couldn't slp the whole night. =(
3 jan
went to work.. still with runny nose n i just don't feel well. after lunch i took a break n rested since i got no work coming in. thought i felt much better cuz at least i could breathe thru my nose. but instead of having runny nose i blew out phlegm. :S went out to buy ginger tea, but didn't seem to work.
nevertheless, praise God for the work today. it kept coming in and the workload was just enough to keep me occupied so i don't feel like i skived. =)
hope the dust settles.
29 dec fri
half day of work. quite puzzled y my boss didn't inform me directly. is it because he knows my colleague will surely tell me? went to have lunch at People's Park. slightly further cuz we don't need to report back to office after lunch. took train with my colleague to tampines. fell asleep on the train all the way the EW line. hadn't rested enough even after my trip man. took the shuttle bus to Ikea -> Courts Megastore to find my parents. the interior of Ikea Tampines is somewhat like Ikea Alexandra. So i didn't feel unfamiliar. met some DMD juniors there. bought 4 big boxes. packed my stuff into the boxes. but i kept getting scratched against the edges of the cardboard. =(
30 dec
no cell grp today. stayed at home almost whole day. bia sectional training homework.. was even wondering if i shld go to church for PRC setup. in the end i did. i haven't got a reply from andr and roy, so i wondered if they were ok. but i had faith that God will protect them. nevertheless, i called them to find out how they were doing. glad that they're fine. went home to continue on my homework. halfway done but i was too tired to continue.
31 dec
wahh last day of the year!
went for service n passed some stuff to Agape from andr n roy. went for lunch with cell grp at kallang.. prawn noodles wor. the place we sat had a smell... like stinking beancurd...... :S
after lunch i went home to continue to work on my homework. finally submitted it n went to rest. tried to remove my contact lenses but it was v difficult. :( caused my eyes to go red. eeeee...
woke up n went out to meet singles' club. woohoo!~ long time no meet them! went to lau pa sat for dinner n then i took train to church. managed to get David to follow me.. if he go home he sure don't wanna go out again one sia. had a great time at the service, but my contact lenses kept giving me probs.
5,4,3,2,1!! weee!! i'm glad i celebrated countdown in church, not at some meaningless party. :)
half-guessed that my cell grp wld go chomp chomp after that. yay.. cuz later shun bian going nic's hse ma. had my egg beancurd n had fun with my cell grp. but too bad chomp chomp closing early that night man. then mic n wendy came n joined us. went to nic's hse n played mahjong till 6am, i bueh tahan liao.
1st jan 2007!
took bus home but didn't see my parents at home. packed my room till they came back. quite satisfied. =) my parents went to mustafa to buy a DVD recorder.. no more VCR~! =P watched the last episode of my fav hk serial =) now i can finally sleep early because the next 10pm channel U serial is not worth me staying up to watch.
2 jan
woke up quite late =P had brunch with my parents n walked around. then continued to pack my room. this time i caused a lot of dust to come out.. i kept sneezing n having runny nose the whole day =( but i'm satisfied with the clean look of my room =)
went fishing with my dad at punggol jetty. caught 2 fish!! =D but before we went back my dad told me to release them. =( mom cooked dinner.. errr... ok only la. but we were v happy with the CP honey wings. LOL.
andr n roy came back today. andr came to my place to exchange luggage.. around 12+am.. my nose was blocked n runny n i couldn't slp the whole night. =(
3 jan
went to work.. still with runny nose n i just don't feel well. after lunch i took a break n rested since i got no work coming in. thought i felt much better cuz at least i could breathe thru my nose. but instead of having runny nose i blew out phlegm. :S went out to buy ginger tea, but didn't seem to work.
nevertheless, praise God for the work today. it kept coming in and the workload was just enough to keep me occupied so i don't feel like i skived. =)
hope the dust settles.
Friday, December 29, 2006
:: Youth Camp + Hong Kong 2006 ::
15 dec fri
had dim sum for lunch. =)
Youth camp! brought my stuff to work so i could go to the campsite straight. last min on the bus to sentosa, before it drove off i remembered that i forgot to buy dinner, since i already told my camp grp leaders that i don't need dinner. when i reached the campsite, pearlwyn was just driving in, so i got a lift from her. the session has started already n i just found myself a space at the back. so coincidentally that my grp is just there. there were Jason n Arena, from children's camp also in my grp. kinda the first time i felt like a big sister in youth camp (sobz)... roy was also in my grp. the funny thing is, we're going hk together, but i still didn't get his number (even during the camp >.<)
played night game... i got quite sian after interviewing a few pple to find clues..
my bed was on the upper deck. first time i had to sleep on the upper deck cuz i came late. usually i would snatch the lower deck cuz i feel very heavy, no strength to push myself up n climb trees. =(
16 dec
had quiet time with my camp grp. a good time near the beach. really felt that i'm a big sister to the kids in my grp!! but i forgot abt my projection duty following that. oopssss.....
played beach games.. got myself dirty, but it's ok, i've grown up.. haha.. i used to be really reserved, prim n proper (uh.. i think) don't like to make a fool of myself. but now, mature a bit, don't need to care so much abt face. =)
got night session duty too. it's really a time of liberation and celebration. =) had a great time losing my voice.
17 dec
slept longer =) managed to join the prayer session for a minute. >.< had camp grp time at one of the rooms. played Charades, El Shaddai version. =) really feel that my grp leaders did a great job in leading.
played Amazing Race. i have no idea how the game is played man. seems like Treasure Hunt to me. played in the rain. thank God i wore the right slippers man. all my other slippers are slippery one lor. had great fun malu-ing ourselves. =)
finale night was fun too... laughed my head off. did a mass dance. haha.. great job, camp comm! =)
18 dec
went off to work in the morning. tired, but can tahan la. had roti prata n teh tarik. just nice i had only $1.90, and the meal cost $1.90. praise God!
after work wanted to go home slp, but i saw a cute kitty at the Police Cantonment building!! awww... such a scaredy cat.
22 dec
got my pay n bonus (*smilez*) went to the bank after lunch to bank in the money. called mom to find out where she is, i would probably go find her. cuz my boss told us if we don't have anything already we can go back =) but i got my cell grp Christmas party at Alan's place, which is near my workplace, so i dunno wad to do.
went to bugis to find my mom, shop around a bit. then took bus to Alan's place. he was not in. think he only lent us the place. haha.. malcolm n some of the guys helped out with the food. the girls did the decor. =) then alan n zane came back with Servio, so we played with him. he's so smart! smiling more often and is able to use sign language to say "Please" and "thank you"!
then we played animal game, drinking goggles, and whose line is it anyway. LOL. one of the games i went blur, so i got a forfeit.... to eat a cup of raw veggies... it was really very tough for such a picky girl. so tough until i teared. ermm... there were onions la. i dunno. i closed my eyes n stuffed the veggies inside n chewed for half an hour before i swallowed it. YUCKS. so pai seh..
after that brandon gave some of us a lift back. then i packed my luggage for the trip the next day !!!
23 dec
woke up to continue packing. went to Punggol plaza to get a fresh towel and contact lenses. found out that my degree went down, but myopia got worse. :S actually i waited quite long for the shop to open. by the time i got back home i had to quickly leave. went to the airport with my mom.
my dad came after work, we had lunch at the Al-dunno wad Mediterranean cuisine. not bad la. i had seafood pizza. went down to the staff canteen for soya beancurd dessert then Andrielle and Roy arrived. we checked in our luggage, had my parents pray for us, then we went down to the canteen again, cuz they haven't eaten.
just nice first day of our trip was also the first day of our period. but think it's going to be okay. boarded the plane... so excited!! =)
was quite late by the time we reached HK. hungry too. so we got mcChicken meal n took the bus to our hostel. it's easy to get around, just ask for directions. in English, Mandarin, Canto also can. =) it took us quite a while to check in, cuz we were shifted to another building. quite weird la. but that's the way budget hostels work i guess. wanted to go out to explore, but it was too late to take a tram. so we just walked around our area - Fortress Hill. 2 MTR stops from Causeway Bay. had supper.
relooked into our itinerary, did our quiet time, n went to sleep at 2am.
24 dec
woke up rather early. took the MTR out to Jordan stop for dim sum breakfast, then attended church service at St Andrew's Church. it was rather traditional looking. there was a church organ too, playing to Hillsongs. LOL. walked down Nathan Rd to look for Esprit outlet, but couldn't find it. so we took the MTR up to Mong Kok. shopped around the Ladies' Market. bought some stuff, not much sia. jialat i keep looking at guys' clothes.. if i got bf i wld buy for him, but since i dun have, i wanna buy for myself. u know, adopt a hip hop look. =P
found a Baleno outlet, so we went in. as you know, they r the same family as Samuel & Kevin and I.P. Zone, so there is more variety. the surprising thing is the place is very small, but we didn't wait very long for the fitting rooms. after a while there were only 3 of us. then we found Esprit outlet, in Mong Kok! (not Tsim Sha Tsui everyone!) regrettably i only bought 3 tops. haha..
very tired already. esp my legs, when i'm having heavy flow. =S wanted to go back to TST. when we were wondering which mode of transport to take, we saw a bus with a sign that says Star Ferry. thank God! boarded that bus. took the Star Ferry back to Central pier. while waiting for a bus to get to the Peak Tram terminus, roy bought a nice ice cream - Mister Softee.. =) got to the Peak Tram lower terminus n got a shock. so many pple think like me.. they want to go up to the Peak for a nice view n countdown to Christmas.. =( good thing is we wanted to go to the Madame Tussauds wax museum as well, so we bought the combo tickets n got priority to queue for the tram. =)
couldn't get seats to Cafe Deco, so we settled for less for dinner. it was quite bad. =( at least service was bad. after dinner we went into Madame Tussauds museum. took LOTSA funny photos with the wax figures. LOL.
decided that we don't have a good spot to celebrate countdown, so we decided to go down to Santa Town. quite a bad idea. was pissed off by a couple while boarding the Peak Tram down. the man used his body to push me n the woman pushed me away from the seat cuz she wanted to reserve the seat for the man. yucks! n poor andrielle didn't manage to get seats for us so we were split up.
tried to find our way to Santa Town. i was awfully tired. just wanted to sit down wherever i can. finally at 10+pm we decided to take the tram back to our hostel. also because i felt like i've stained my pants and it just felt like something was running down my legs. terrible feeling. had a bath n went downstairs for supper. then we realised that we missed the Christmas fireworks at TST. awwww!!!
every night slept at 2am cuz there was much to plan n replan. n i had to look into my finances, make sure i didn't overspend.
25 dec mon
quite a relax day, according to itinerary. went to take a tram down Shaukeiwan. thought we could take a loop. there was a minibus-park. took one to CWB. didn't know how to alight so we wanted to observe other passengers and see how they alight. just wanted to find SOGO, Times Square and G.O.D. bought wife's biscuits, quite cheap, but they don't come in individual packaging. =( also tried some exotic stuff like roadside calamari. there was the stinking beancurd but i don't dare to try. haha.
after G.O.D. we took a minibus to stanley. andrielle likes to ask policemen for directions ; ) the one we asked actually pointed us to a shortcut thru a back alley. not bad. Stanley is amazing, doesn't look like Hong Kong. not at all like the city. it's a very.. alfresco place. lovely. had a coffee at Pacific Coffee, for 2 hrs. just slack thru la. after that we took a minibus to Ocean Park (overshot, so we had to walk in) wah i tell u uh, minibuses r expensive as compared to other modes of transport man, don't count the taxi la, which we never took at all. i think we tried ALL modes of transport there already. hehe. at Ocean Park we didn't go in. just wanted to go toilet n take a photo at the entrance, as planned (*grinz*) then we took a bus to Aberdeen Promenade, to take a shuttle ferry to the Jumbo floating restaurant.
actually i didn't plan to go inside Jumbo for dinner.. was just thinking of somewhere near where we have a good view of it. but i think we can afford it la. =P just don't order too much lor. heard that there's a food court there anyway. but in the end we had dinner on the top deck. think it's much cheaper compared to the chinese seafood 10-course dinner downstairs. had pizza n South African wine... i think it's much nicer than the one i had with my cell grp. think Andr enjoyed the dinner. =)
took the shuttle ferry back to Aberdeen n took a bus. wanted to go visit the Central Mid-levels escalators, but seems hard to find the place sia. it turned out to be just a long stretch of escalators. Goes up to SoHo. wanted to chill out at Lan Kwai Fong, but we didn't find the place. was quite tired anyway. so decided to go back. on the way to the tramstop we spotted a HK cafe, so decided to try our luck, see if we can get to eat roasted goose n pigeon there or not. in the end ordered a Po Lo Pau n Yit Lai Cha. took the tram back.
26 dec
last day!! went downstairs for wanton mee.. ordered a roasted goose leg.. wah so fattening n tastes like duck la. LOL. went back for final packing n check out of our room, deposited my luggage ( i changed with andrielle) at the main building of our hostel. wanted to go toilet but very hard to find one. by the time we found one my face turned green already. sent them off at TST KCR station. they were heading for shenzhen to go china. closed in prayer n we parted. awww.... i walked around TST, Avenue of Stars.. then Jac contacted me. going to meet them in the area. went to Tom Lee music store cuz i wanted to see if i could get any accessories for my bass guitar. bought a guide book n a tuner. i'd probably get the tuner HKD 8 cheaper if i approached the right guy. but.. nvm la.
met up with Jac n Jeff.. explored TST further... never walked into the small lanes before. had lunch at a cafe. i think i didn't eat lunch at all for the past few days, so i couldn't finish this meal. didn't expect to shop, but managed to get some clothes. i should have more interest in clothes, but not that day. it was a bad day for me. my legs were super tired. kept wanting to rest. finally at 4.30pm i decided to go back to the hostel to get my luggage. time was just nice. didn't wait long for the bus to the airport. but after i changed luggage with Andr, it was a little too heavy for me to lift up to the bus. i was very sleepy n tired physically.
got to the airport. supposed to check in 2 hrs earlier, but i was 15 min late. there was a long queue anyway. too sian to walk around, so i went into the gates early. ha on the plane... i was too short to put my hand luggage up the overhead compartment, n there were pple waiting behind me. got quite frustrated by my helplessness. then i realise i forgot to switch off my handphone. n wanted to take out my money to buy airfood. but i was too pai seh to ask for my luggage. somehow i was suddenly filled with loneliness and helplessness i started to cry. my first time taking a plane alone. n i remember that i asked God to keep me alive till i got the chance to go HK. now that i've completed my journey, i was wondering if i was gonna die there n then. felt the seat was very cramped (on Jetstar) n i was thirsty n feeling hard to breathe. i asked whether plain water is chargable. man, it's $2 for a bottled mineral water. next time pls rem to buy water before u board a budget plane!!! really felt like i was gonna die. esp halfway in the air i felt very cold even though i had my new jacket on (if u've seen it u'd think it's thick enough)
Praise God i made it back alive!! bought Chivas for ting.. as promised. =) wanted to get another bottle for myself but i think the limit is one litre of liquor per passenger. saw dong wen outside the DFS. waited for my luggage to come round the conveyor belt, but didn't see it. then i saw something on the floor that looks like Andr's luggage. instantly i was mad. which crazy fella took the luggage out that i almost could have waited till daylight!
went home with my parents. whoa the taxi queue was crazy man.
27 dec
Apparently there was an earthquake while i was just up in the air. Praise God it didn't affect my flight. not sure how Andr n roy r doing over in china. didn't get a reply from them (till i was at work) they called. dunno y i just felt v happy to receive their call.
played with kitty on the way home. it's very hard to get her to come near me. i managed to touch her a little bit before she ran into a hole.
had dim sum for lunch. =)
Youth camp! brought my stuff to work so i could go to the campsite straight. last min on the bus to sentosa, before it drove off i remembered that i forgot to buy dinner, since i already told my camp grp leaders that i don't need dinner. when i reached the campsite, pearlwyn was just driving in, so i got a lift from her. the session has started already n i just found myself a space at the back. so coincidentally that my grp is just there. there were Jason n Arena, from children's camp also in my grp. kinda the first time i felt like a big sister in youth camp (sobz)... roy was also in my grp. the funny thing is, we're going hk together, but i still didn't get his number (even during the camp >.<)
played night game... i got quite sian after interviewing a few pple to find clues..
my bed was on the upper deck. first time i had to sleep on the upper deck cuz i came late. usually i would snatch the lower deck cuz i feel very heavy, no strength to push myself up n climb trees. =(
16 dec
had quiet time with my camp grp. a good time near the beach. really felt that i'm a big sister to the kids in my grp!! but i forgot abt my projection duty following that. oopssss.....
played beach games.. got myself dirty, but it's ok, i've grown up.. haha.. i used to be really reserved, prim n proper (uh.. i think) don't like to make a fool of myself. but now, mature a bit, don't need to care so much abt face. =)
got night session duty too. it's really a time of liberation and celebration. =) had a great time losing my voice.
17 dec
slept longer =) managed to join the prayer session for a minute. >.< had camp grp time at one of the rooms. played Charades, El Shaddai version. =) really feel that my grp leaders did a great job in leading.
played Amazing Race. i have no idea how the game is played man. seems like Treasure Hunt to me. played in the rain. thank God i wore the right slippers man. all my other slippers are slippery one lor. had great fun malu-ing ourselves. =)
finale night was fun too... laughed my head off. did a mass dance. haha.. great job, camp comm! =)
18 dec
went off to work in the morning. tired, but can tahan la. had roti prata n teh tarik. just nice i had only $1.90, and the meal cost $1.90. praise God!
after work wanted to go home slp, but i saw a cute kitty at the Police Cantonment building!! awww... such a scaredy cat.
22 dec
got my pay n bonus (*smilez*) went to the bank after lunch to bank in the money. called mom to find out where she is, i would probably go find her. cuz my boss told us if we don't have anything already we can go back =) but i got my cell grp Christmas party at Alan's place, which is near my workplace, so i dunno wad to do.
went to bugis to find my mom, shop around a bit. then took bus to Alan's place. he was not in. think he only lent us the place. haha.. malcolm n some of the guys helped out with the food. the girls did the decor. =) then alan n zane came back with Servio, so we played with him. he's so smart! smiling more often and is able to use sign language to say "Please" and "thank you"!
then we played animal game, drinking goggles, and whose line is it anyway. LOL. one of the games i went blur, so i got a forfeit.... to eat a cup of raw veggies... it was really very tough for such a picky girl. so tough until i teared. ermm... there were onions la. i dunno. i closed my eyes n stuffed the veggies inside n chewed for half an hour before i swallowed it. YUCKS. so pai seh..
after that brandon gave some of us a lift back. then i packed my luggage for the trip the next day !!!
23 dec
woke up to continue packing. went to Punggol plaza to get a fresh towel and contact lenses. found out that my degree went down, but myopia got worse. :S actually i waited quite long for the shop to open. by the time i got back home i had to quickly leave. went to the airport with my mom.
my dad came after work, we had lunch at the Al-dunno wad Mediterranean cuisine. not bad la. i had seafood pizza. went down to the staff canteen for soya beancurd dessert then Andrielle and Roy arrived. we checked in our luggage, had my parents pray for us, then we went down to the canteen again, cuz they haven't eaten.
just nice first day of our trip was also the first day of our period. but think it's going to be okay. boarded the plane... so excited!! =)
was quite late by the time we reached HK. hungry too. so we got mcChicken meal n took the bus to our hostel. it's easy to get around, just ask for directions. in English, Mandarin, Canto also can. =) it took us quite a while to check in, cuz we were shifted to another building. quite weird la. but that's the way budget hostels work i guess. wanted to go out to explore, but it was too late to take a tram. so we just walked around our area - Fortress Hill. 2 MTR stops from Causeway Bay. had supper.
relooked into our itinerary, did our quiet time, n went to sleep at 2am.
24 dec
woke up rather early. took the MTR out to Jordan stop for dim sum breakfast, then attended church service at St Andrew's Church. it was rather traditional looking. there was a church organ too, playing to Hillsongs. LOL. walked down Nathan Rd to look for Esprit outlet, but couldn't find it. so we took the MTR up to Mong Kok. shopped around the Ladies' Market. bought some stuff, not much sia. jialat i keep looking at guys' clothes.. if i got bf i wld buy for him, but since i dun have, i wanna buy for myself. u know, adopt a hip hop look. =P
found a Baleno outlet, so we went in. as you know, they r the same family as Samuel & Kevin and I.P. Zone, so there is more variety. the surprising thing is the place is very small, but we didn't wait very long for the fitting rooms. after a while there were only 3 of us. then we found Esprit outlet, in Mong Kok! (not Tsim Sha Tsui everyone!) regrettably i only bought 3 tops. haha..
very tired already. esp my legs, when i'm having heavy flow. =S wanted to go back to TST. when we were wondering which mode of transport to take, we saw a bus with a sign that says Star Ferry. thank God! boarded that bus. took the Star Ferry back to Central pier. while waiting for a bus to get to the Peak Tram terminus, roy bought a nice ice cream - Mister Softee.. =) got to the Peak Tram lower terminus n got a shock. so many pple think like me.. they want to go up to the Peak for a nice view n countdown to Christmas.. =( good thing is we wanted to go to the Madame Tussauds wax museum as well, so we bought the combo tickets n got priority to queue for the tram. =)
couldn't get seats to Cafe Deco, so we settled for less for dinner. it was quite bad. =( at least service was bad. after dinner we went into Madame Tussauds museum. took LOTSA funny photos with the wax figures. LOL.
decided that we don't have a good spot to celebrate countdown, so we decided to go down to Santa Town. quite a bad idea. was pissed off by a couple while boarding the Peak Tram down. the man used his body to push me n the woman pushed me away from the seat cuz she wanted to reserve the seat for the man. yucks! n poor andrielle didn't manage to get seats for us so we were split up.
tried to find our way to Santa Town. i was awfully tired. just wanted to sit down wherever i can. finally at 10+pm we decided to take the tram back to our hostel. also because i felt like i've stained my pants and it just felt like something was running down my legs. terrible feeling. had a bath n went downstairs for supper. then we realised that we missed the Christmas fireworks at TST. awwww!!!
every night slept at 2am cuz there was much to plan n replan. n i had to look into my finances, make sure i didn't overspend.
25 dec mon
quite a relax day, according to itinerary. went to take a tram down Shaukeiwan. thought we could take a loop. there was a minibus-park. took one to CWB. didn't know how to alight so we wanted to observe other passengers and see how they alight. just wanted to find SOGO, Times Square and G.O.D. bought wife's biscuits, quite cheap, but they don't come in individual packaging. =( also tried some exotic stuff like roadside calamari. there was the stinking beancurd but i don't dare to try. haha.
after G.O.D. we took a minibus to stanley. andrielle likes to ask policemen for directions ; ) the one we asked actually pointed us to a shortcut thru a back alley. not bad. Stanley is amazing, doesn't look like Hong Kong. not at all like the city. it's a very.. alfresco place. lovely. had a coffee at Pacific Coffee, for 2 hrs. just slack thru la. after that we took a minibus to Ocean Park (overshot, so we had to walk in) wah i tell u uh, minibuses r expensive as compared to other modes of transport man, don't count the taxi la, which we never took at all. i think we tried ALL modes of transport there already. hehe. at Ocean Park we didn't go in. just wanted to go toilet n take a photo at the entrance, as planned (*grinz*) then we took a bus to Aberdeen Promenade, to take a shuttle ferry to the Jumbo floating restaurant.
actually i didn't plan to go inside Jumbo for dinner.. was just thinking of somewhere near where we have a good view of it. but i think we can afford it la. =P just don't order too much lor. heard that there's a food court there anyway. but in the end we had dinner on the top deck. think it's much cheaper compared to the chinese seafood 10-course dinner downstairs. had pizza n South African wine... i think it's much nicer than the one i had with my cell grp. think Andr enjoyed the dinner. =)
took the shuttle ferry back to Aberdeen n took a bus. wanted to go visit the Central Mid-levels escalators, but seems hard to find the place sia. it turned out to be just a long stretch of escalators. Goes up to SoHo. wanted to chill out at Lan Kwai Fong, but we didn't find the place. was quite tired anyway. so decided to go back. on the way to the tramstop we spotted a HK cafe, so decided to try our luck, see if we can get to eat roasted goose n pigeon there or not. in the end ordered a Po Lo Pau n Yit Lai Cha. took the tram back.
26 dec
last day!! went downstairs for wanton mee.. ordered a roasted goose leg.. wah so fattening n tastes like duck la. LOL. went back for final packing n check out of our room, deposited my luggage ( i changed with andrielle) at the main building of our hostel. wanted to go toilet but very hard to find one. by the time we found one my face turned green already. sent them off at TST KCR station. they were heading for shenzhen to go china. closed in prayer n we parted. awww.... i walked around TST, Avenue of Stars.. then Jac contacted me. going to meet them in the area. went to Tom Lee music store cuz i wanted to see if i could get any accessories for my bass guitar. bought a guide book n a tuner. i'd probably get the tuner HKD 8 cheaper if i approached the right guy. but.. nvm la.
met up with Jac n Jeff.. explored TST further... never walked into the small lanes before. had lunch at a cafe. i think i didn't eat lunch at all for the past few days, so i couldn't finish this meal. didn't expect to shop, but managed to get some clothes. i should have more interest in clothes, but not that day. it was a bad day for me. my legs were super tired. kept wanting to rest. finally at 4.30pm i decided to go back to the hostel to get my luggage. time was just nice. didn't wait long for the bus to the airport. but after i changed luggage with Andr, it was a little too heavy for me to lift up to the bus. i was very sleepy n tired physically.
got to the airport. supposed to check in 2 hrs earlier, but i was 15 min late. there was a long queue anyway. too sian to walk around, so i went into the gates early. ha on the plane... i was too short to put my hand luggage up the overhead compartment, n there were pple waiting behind me. got quite frustrated by my helplessness. then i realise i forgot to switch off my handphone. n wanted to take out my money to buy airfood. but i was too pai seh to ask for my luggage. somehow i was suddenly filled with loneliness and helplessness i started to cry. my first time taking a plane alone. n i remember that i asked God to keep me alive till i got the chance to go HK. now that i've completed my journey, i was wondering if i was gonna die there n then. felt the seat was very cramped (on Jetstar) n i was thirsty n feeling hard to breathe. i asked whether plain water is chargable. man, it's $2 for a bottled mineral water. next time pls rem to buy water before u board a budget plane!!! really felt like i was gonna die. esp halfway in the air i felt very cold even though i had my new jacket on (if u've seen it u'd think it's thick enough)
Praise God i made it back alive!! bought Chivas for ting.. as promised. =) wanted to get another bottle for myself but i think the limit is one litre of liquor per passenger. saw dong wen outside the DFS. waited for my luggage to come round the conveyor belt, but didn't see it. then i saw something on the floor that looks like Andr's luggage. instantly i was mad. which crazy fella took the luggage out that i almost could have waited till daylight!
went home with my parents. whoa the taxi queue was crazy man.
27 dec
Apparently there was an earthquake while i was just up in the air. Praise God it didn't affect my flight. not sure how Andr n roy r doing over in china. didn't get a reply from them (till i was at work) they called. dunno y i just felt v happy to receive their call.
played with kitty on the way home. it's very hard to get her to come near me. i managed to touch her a little bit before she ran into a hole.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
:: dec ::
ok let me start with... 29th nov wed! haha.. faith, ruifen n i planned a surprise for rj cuz his birthday was long over but he was having exams so couldn't celebrate for him till then. i didn't contribute much la, just helped to drag time while faith n rf decorate his room. he was at home so i had to ask him to come all the way to outram to meet me until the girls were ready. i was trying super hard not to am chio the whole time n pretending that faith is going to come so we just need to wait. aiya cut the long story short, he said that he totally had no clue that it was a sham. have to say there were moments i dunno what to say to bluff him.. but i'm glad it pulled off!
1st dec fri - super happening. =P after work i went to find sou mun, who sounded like she got conned to work at a pub. when i got there.. wah seh, the place super high class la. need to make reservation then can get a seat one lor. and the decor... wow. makes me feel like it's not singapore. it's along holland rd, u know, where the expats stay. since she seem to be working in a good place i felt relieved la, n i left. went to holland v to meet my cell grp. i was early, so i decided to take a walk first. then i met elohim. went to IndoChine siem reap with them n shared a Magarita with landy. after that went to Wala's to queue. almost couldn't catch the happy hour offer. cut the long story short again, that night i drank a little too much. got high halfway n didn't know what i was doing already. i rem going to the washroom 3 times n saw a lady inside, semi-conscious, only my third time inside that someone tried to help her. the floor was filled with puke. gross. met ros.. she had a friend who seem depressed, but i think i got over-high la. i rem giving my number to her.. falling down n a few silly things. thanks bran for sending me home. i rem throwing up the moment i reached home. was too seh to do QT. really bad decision to overdrink.
sat - woke up feeling super distracted. what the heck have i done last night? still haven't finished throwing up. supposed to lead worship for cell grp, so i used the morning to prepare. wanted to watch the drama serial my mom helped me record but decided that wasn't impt. felt rather bad cuz i kept trying to recall what silly things i did last night. also felt guilty for not controlling my drinks. went for worship prac n after that had dinner at hongkong street. been wanting to go there but haven't had the chance. so happy. was thinking of watching the drama when i reach home, but decided that can wait la. must sleep early.
sun - woke up late. haiz. must be fri night play till too late n still having the after effects on sun. feel bad lor. after service faith still wanna go out. wanted to go home n slp after lunch at serangoon garden market, but i thought no one accompany her, so i went lor. rj was also there. chey. haha. went to orchard wisma. H2O+ in Isetan. she bought some stuff. i was still not convinced to use such high class products, but got some samples. then i a bit soft-hearted. even tried to influence my colleague that the money really goes into the quality. =P sia lah. then went to lucky plaza cuz she wanted to sell her old phone. we went around asking for quote. the lowest must be $75 if i'm not wrong. she managed to sell her motorola phone for $150. wee~ went to taka n had pretzels. then went home to slp. after i woke up i had dinner with my parents at punggol plaza n sold some cds n gave my printer away at Cash converters. they tested my printer n declared that it doesn't work. pissed. but i just wanted to get rid of it la. was expecting a $20, in the end, $0. only sold 2 cds for $2. cheap thrill. paid the bills. =( last month (nov) my internet usage exceeded though i was seldom at home. so my mom "subsidised" $50 for my internet bills.
mon - went to people's park to shop, but ended up buying toiletries only. there was a pair of jeans that i like, but $35, n comes from HK. might as well go there n buy. but the shopkeeper said i might not find it there, cuz some of their stuff r for export only. i didn't buy in the end.
tue - went to church, not for prayer meeting, but for Psalmist quarterly discipleship training. what i learnt from it? Purpose n Passion. i think i have forgotten abt them after some time of serving, so it was a good reminder la. i have focused on many other things n have forgotten these basic reasons for serving.
wed - wanted to go out, but i kept telling myself, "haven't i been complaining that i didn't get enough rest? go home la!" it's like that la. when i'm tired i wished i have more time. when i'm not tired i make myself tired. such a endless meaningless cycle. n dunno y i feel that i didn't really control my finances this month. :S
thur - met up with andrielle n roy, my hk trip mates. had dim sum with them at outram park. yeah i like to ask pple to come find me, cuz it's a really nice place to explore la. anyway i realise i have been too busy that i didn't check n update the itinerary. 12 more days!!! after dim sum we went to mei shi jie at smith street for satay n ahballing. talk crap with them. i know i will enjoy the fellowship with them in hk. =)
fri - supposed to meet my cell grp at 7pm at Ivin's, but i didn't have enough money, so i walked all the way to pearl centre to withdraw money then walk back to the 174 bus stop. missed a bus n in the end reached at 8 lor.. :S dinner was great. Servio is a happier boy. =P met some children's camp kids.. i shared the same room as her but i forgot her name! Nikki i think. very pretty girl. after that went to Dempsey's. it's so near the beautiful place i newly found. waited till 10pm then there were seats in the Wine Network. finally got it off my chest abt last fri. they all teased me abt ros lor. haha.. but it's ok la.. had fun. =P i realise i dun really like wine. was finding it hard to drink it. but beer was easy leh, like soft drink. so the guys teased me, told me not to taa the wine like beer, need to control. LOL. ok la, i was also conscious that i shldn't get myself so high again. really enjoy the fellowship with my cell grp. =) after wine we went for supper at river valley road. we saw the traffic police in action n alan quickly went to park his car properly. had roti prata, teh n bbq stingray. yummy~ hang out till 2am i think.
sat - played a new game at cell grp. we didn't expect the game to drag so long so we only played one round. really fun man. it's like guessing the number, but instead of number, it's a specific thing. my grp managed to guess Armageddon after 8 yes/no questions from the category non-animated movie. n the other grp didn't manage to guess our Rowen Atkinson/Mr Bean from the category actor! =P it was fun. after cell went for worship prac. this time it took quite long because it's a Youth band!! haha (like it hadn't been a youth band) but it was the E-band! Elohim-El Shaddai-Epainos band. =P finished prac close to 10pm. woah. had dinner/supper at indian temple coffeeshop.
sun - haha service was funny la. couple of jokes. had prac for youth camp after service.. wanted to ask my parents to go out n eat chili crab, but my dad said we shldn't spend so much already. dunno y man, dec i really spend n spend without control sia.
in closing, yay. 13 more days!
1st dec fri - super happening. =P after work i went to find sou mun, who sounded like she got conned to work at a pub. when i got there.. wah seh, the place super high class la. need to make reservation then can get a seat one lor. and the decor... wow. makes me feel like it's not singapore. it's along holland rd, u know, where the expats stay. since she seem to be working in a good place i felt relieved la, n i left. went to holland v to meet my cell grp. i was early, so i decided to take a walk first. then i met elohim. went to IndoChine siem reap with them n shared a Magarita with landy. after that went to Wala's to queue. almost couldn't catch the happy hour offer. cut the long story short again, that night i drank a little too much. got high halfway n didn't know what i was doing already. i rem going to the washroom 3 times n saw a lady inside, semi-conscious, only my third time inside that someone tried to help her. the floor was filled with puke. gross. met ros.. she had a friend who seem depressed, but i think i got over-high la. i rem giving my number to her.. falling down n a few silly things. thanks bran for sending me home. i rem throwing up the moment i reached home. was too seh to do QT. really bad decision to overdrink.
sat - woke up feeling super distracted. what the heck have i done last night? still haven't finished throwing up. supposed to lead worship for cell grp, so i used the morning to prepare. wanted to watch the drama serial my mom helped me record but decided that wasn't impt. felt rather bad cuz i kept trying to recall what silly things i did last night. also felt guilty for not controlling my drinks. went for worship prac n after that had dinner at hongkong street. been wanting to go there but haven't had the chance. so happy. was thinking of watching the drama when i reach home, but decided that can wait la. must sleep early.
sun - woke up late. haiz. must be fri night play till too late n still having the after effects on sun. feel bad lor. after service faith still wanna go out. wanted to go home n slp after lunch at serangoon garden market, but i thought no one accompany her, so i went lor. rj was also there. chey. haha. went to orchard wisma. H2O+ in Isetan. she bought some stuff. i was still not convinced to use such high class products, but got some samples. then i a bit soft-hearted. even tried to influence my colleague that the money really goes into the quality. =P sia lah. then went to lucky plaza cuz she wanted to sell her old phone. we went around asking for quote. the lowest must be $75 if i'm not wrong. she managed to sell her motorola phone for $150. wee~ went to taka n had pretzels. then went home to slp. after i woke up i had dinner with my parents at punggol plaza n sold some cds n gave my printer away at Cash converters. they tested my printer n declared that it doesn't work. pissed. but i just wanted to get rid of it la. was expecting a $20, in the end, $0. only sold 2 cds for $2. cheap thrill. paid the bills. =( last month (nov) my internet usage exceeded though i was seldom at home. so my mom "subsidised" $50 for my internet bills.
mon - went to people's park to shop, but ended up buying toiletries only. there was a pair of jeans that i like, but $35, n comes from HK. might as well go there n buy. but the shopkeeper said i might not find it there, cuz some of their stuff r for export only. i didn't buy in the end.
tue - went to church, not for prayer meeting, but for Psalmist quarterly discipleship training. what i learnt from it? Purpose n Passion. i think i have forgotten abt them after some time of serving, so it was a good reminder la. i have focused on many other things n have forgotten these basic reasons for serving.
wed - wanted to go out, but i kept telling myself, "haven't i been complaining that i didn't get enough rest? go home la!" it's like that la. when i'm tired i wished i have more time. when i'm not tired i make myself tired. such a endless meaningless cycle. n dunno y i feel that i didn't really control my finances this month. :S
thur - met up with andrielle n roy, my hk trip mates. had dim sum with them at outram park. yeah i like to ask pple to come find me, cuz it's a really nice place to explore la. anyway i realise i have been too busy that i didn't check n update the itinerary. 12 more days!!! after dim sum we went to mei shi jie at smith street for satay n ahballing. talk crap with them. i know i will enjoy the fellowship with them in hk. =)
fri - supposed to meet my cell grp at 7pm at Ivin's, but i didn't have enough money, so i walked all the way to pearl centre to withdraw money then walk back to the 174 bus stop. missed a bus n in the end reached at 8 lor.. :S dinner was great. Servio is a happier boy. =P met some children's camp kids.. i shared the same room as her but i forgot her name! Nikki i think. very pretty girl. after that went to Dempsey's. it's so near the beautiful place i newly found. waited till 10pm then there were seats in the Wine Network. finally got it off my chest abt last fri. they all teased me abt ros lor. haha.. but it's ok la.. had fun. =P i realise i dun really like wine. was finding it hard to drink it. but beer was easy leh, like soft drink. so the guys teased me, told me not to taa the wine like beer, need to control. LOL. ok la, i was also conscious that i shldn't get myself so high again. really enjoy the fellowship with my cell grp. =) after wine we went for supper at river valley road. we saw the traffic police in action n alan quickly went to park his car properly. had roti prata, teh n bbq stingray. yummy~ hang out till 2am i think.
sat - played a new game at cell grp. we didn't expect the game to drag so long so we only played one round. really fun man. it's like guessing the number, but instead of number, it's a specific thing. my grp managed to guess Armageddon after 8 yes/no questions from the category non-animated movie. n the other grp didn't manage to guess our Rowen Atkinson/Mr Bean from the category actor! =P it was fun. after cell went for worship prac. this time it took quite long because it's a Youth band!! haha (like it hadn't been a youth band) but it was the E-band! Elohim-El Shaddai-Epainos band. =P finished prac close to 10pm. woah. had dinner/supper at indian temple coffeeshop.
sun - haha service was funny la. couple of jokes. had prac for youth camp after service.. wanted to ask my parents to go out n eat chili crab, but my dad said we shldn't spend so much already. dunno y man, dec i really spend n spend without control sia.
in closing, yay. 13 more days!
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