k i haven't updated in a while haha.. i'm using my fujitsu laptop now to type this post.. darn the tonnes of typos haha =P

anyway, i think i just landed myself tonnes of rubbish to do! urgh!! and it's not going to be fun.. i think some of u will know what i mean.. i just can't wait for this week to be over!! then it's FOP on sat =) haha i'm really looking forward to that!

hmm i've been like doing flag stuff, and hanging out with my og mates, and church friends since the last i updated my blog.. i'll post photos soon once i get down to uploading it =P haha i'm lazy and i know it! i'd rather slack then do sth like upload photos even though i've promised many ppl i'll do so =)

met up with my classmates at wensiang's house during his bday party.. gosh, i really miss my classmates!! it was so fun with them ard! =P talking nonsense, and feeling so at home.. i kind of regret that i didn't get to know more of them better during my 2 yrs in jc..

sian mood now

i better go sleep before sickness overcomes me! =/

went out with the my sec 4 classmates last night!! and it was so fun! haha we went to esplanade and started taking random and retarded photos.. of which only the more decent ones are here on this blog.. cos i'll spare everyone some embarrassement =P haha but yay! haevn't seen u guys in ages and it was great seeing everyone again!!! =) we've all changed in one way or another haha but the company was still great! maybe even greater than last time! haha it was great catching up with some ppl.. though i didn't get much of a chance to talk to others.. but i'm sure that we'll have another gathering to come!! =)




the many of us who met up last night!! ahhhh so many of us look so diff =P haha



it's not very clear but haha it's us posing with the sign "i was here" at esplanade



black white black white =)



haha san mei and me enjoying our haagen_daz! =)



k i think mel's going to kill me!! but haha who cares man =P



hahahahaha! this is the most hilarious photo!! =) ahhhhh..

i realise that i haven't updated for quite some time.. well, there was medicamp from july 13 to july 15.. quite an ok camp la haha my group was called syndrome.. the onion head guy from incredibles =P ohhhh haha i just recalled who he is! as in JUST! =P k i'm slow.. but oh well..

argh i dunno what else to type! =P cept that i'll prob have a fun and busy week (if that even makes sense) haha ok i dunno what else to write.. it's such a crappy post!!

ok i guess i've made quite a few new friends over these 2 weeks.. and these 2 weeks have really allowed me to meet all sorts of diff ppl.. ppl that are so diff from my jc classmates, from my sec sch classmates, and well, i guess it's quite gd in a sense =) haha

i have no idea what else i want to say.. sorry for this absolutely rubbish and boring post! =P

had a rather slack day today! and i'm quite grateful for today where i was able to just stay at home for most part of the day, keeping away from the busy-ness of town, and just able to take my time doing things, not under the pressure of anyone! =) i appreciate this kind of lifestyle once in a while.. esp since the past week has been a rather busy one..

well, i was just thinking abt vcf camp, and maybe i didn't enjoy it as much as i was supposed to =\ sure, the games and all were quite fun! and i guess i kind of enjoyed the company and fellowship of my group members.. but it's other stuff, when i think deeper into certain issues that i become quite skeptical abt things.. and maybe after all, the camp was just an eye-opener for me! i mean, i think i've always stayed in my comfort zone many many yrs of my life, always trying to resist changes.. so that's why i guess when i'm faced with so many new and diff ppl that i kind of don't really enjoy myself? haha just a thought =P aiyah, i think some of u will know what i'm talking abt..

anyway, yest was quite a bad day for me.. it started with my phone dying and ended with my phone dying (again!!).. just glad that today was a much better day! haha i don't think u're reading this, but thanx for letting me go on and on abt my bad day.. really appreciate it =)

sigh, i have to pack 6 sets of PT attire for my 3 day medi camp!! (actually it's only like 2 half days..) what the heck!! haha 6 sets??? MADness!!

3 more weeks.. that's all the free time i've got left.. imagine, after 3 more weeks, i'll be starting my 5 yrs of relentless studying.. followed by many more yrs of stress and work! sigh.. just 3 more weeks.. i know that i should be excited abt uni.. but i'm not! i think i'm a person who's quite resistent to change.. i'm so comfortable with my life now.. hanging out, slacking, and catching up with friends =) wow! it really is a kind of life that i'll never trade anything for (if given a choice).. but oh well, as ben just reminded me, "u can't affect the direction the wind blows, but u can adjust ur sails on the ship of life".. well, it's such a nice quote! thanx!!

but then again, i hope my 3 weeks will kind of drag on for quite long! i'll miss the times when i just talk so much nonsense to ppl who are willing to listen.. miss the times when i just have so much free time on my hands.. miss the times when i can just stay up to as late as i want, not having to worry abt having to wake up early the next day.. miss the times when i can just sit down somewhere and stone for extended periods of time..

these 7 months of break have really allowed me to forge closer friendships with many ppl and i guess i'm really blessed by that =) i think i've changed a bit during the 7 months of break.. have i? =P

was just talking to diane last night and i realise that i don't appear very serious in my conversations with ppl.. but well, i really am sincere when i talk to ppl =) i know i talk a lot of nonsense, but bear with me la haha

well, today was quite a tiring day.. woke up at 5am to fry 10 eggs for the beehoon that my mum cooked to sell at ym@church event =) haha it was quite a fun time talking to so many ppl that i bumped into.. not forgetting ppl from our small group too =) great time hanging out in the kitchen as a small group =P haha

How can i stand before You Lord

When i am a sinner,

In need of Your mercy

In need of Your saving grace?

Draw me nearer to You

In the warmth of Your embrace

Surrounded by Your abounding love

I will be one with You again

Under the banner of Your love i stand

And i'm so humbled and amazed

That for me You sent Your son to die

So now i'm saved just by Your grace

As Your amazing love compels my heart

Jesus this is what i pray

May i die to self, and live for You

Who died and rose again

Now i can stand before You Lord

Though i am a sinner,

You poured out Your mercy

You poured out Your saving grace.

Now i can be near You

Feel the warmth of Your embrace

Surrounded by Your abounding love

I am at one with You again

isn't the lyrics just so meaningful and nice? well, this is the vcffoc (varsity christian fellowship, freshmen orientation camp) 2005 theme song.. it's sooo lovely cos it just speaks of how God really loves us, and that we're all deserving of His saving grace!

well, the camp was really great in many many ways.. the theme of the camp was LOVE COMPELS.. it is stated in 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 that "for Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for HIm who died for them and was raised again".

this camp has certainly been a reminder of God's love for all of us, that He was willing to send His son to calvary, so that our sins may be forgiven.. this kind of love, calvary love, is a statement of our faith and a rule for our life, that we ought to have the mind of Christ, and have the kind of calvary love that Christ had in Him..

armed with LOVE in us, it is always better to seek reconciliation rather than revenge in everything that we do.. i guess what striked me most abt the camp was the reminder that i have to show love to the ppl ard me.. even though that person might be someone whom i got irritated with, someone who offended me, i guess following Christ's footsteps, it's better to seek reconciliation that revenge..

sth that struck me in the camp was when rev malcom tan spoke abt the treasure (which is the gospel) in jars of clay (which is us).. we as Christians have the gospel in us, and we as Christian ought to be ministers of truth and be willing to share the gospel to ppl ard us.. if we feel convicted by the Holy Spirit to share the gospel to ppl, we shouldn't procrastinate till later, cos all of us have no idea how long our existence is on earth and neither do we know how long the person we're sharing the gospel to has to live on earth too..

yah i guess those are the things that struck me the most during the camp.. there are certainly other stuff but i'll continue them another day..

actually i'm really thankful for the new friendships that i've made! i think my group gelled tog quite well in the end and it was great being in their presence =) and haha thank u fish for hanging out with me on the last night.. i think u know more abt me now huh? =P

i'm going for vcf camp tmr so i won't be updating this blog till fri (at the earliest =P)

haha anyway, we're printing illuminators t shirt, so fun! =) k not fun.. a lot of work to do!! heh

i have no idea what i'm talking abt haha don't mind me i'm rattling nonsense!

yay there's small group tmr.. and there's vcf camp tmr till fri.. haha gah it all doesn't make sense..

haha and my friend (if he gets lucky) is going to bring back niagara falls for me! =P hmm somehow i think i have a 100% chance of NOT getting it.. doesn't take an idiot to figure out why hahaha

ok enough of very nonsensical nonsense!!! haha the next few days u will be spared of nonsense! =) aren't u glad and happy? haha

BYE!! =)

haha the song tong hua's stuck in my head now.. it was introduced to me by my bro!! haha can u believe it? my bro liking chi songs =) but oh well.. life is fun with surprises.. so here's the chorus of tong hua

tong hua
wo yuen bian cheng tong hua li, ni ai de na ge tian shi
zhang kai shuang shou bian cheng chi bang shou hu ni
ni yao xiang xing, xiang xing wo men hui xiang tong hua gu shi li
xing fu he kuai le shi jie ju

so what it means is that the guy is willing to become the angel that the girl likes in fairy tales.. and to spread out his arms to protect the girl.. he tells the girl to trust him that they'll have a happy-ever-after ending, just like the ones in fairy tales =) what a nice song!! haha

anyway, today wasn't the best of days that i've had in recent weeks.. ah u won't know why but it doesn't matter.. cos i'm fine and ok now!

i realise that i kind of haven't updated my blog in a real long time! haha sorry! (this sorry goes out esp to diane and fish, who've asked my countless times to update! =P)

ok so erm nothing happened this past week.. i've kind of gone out every single day this week so far.. since i've come back from bangkok.. and i'm tired! =( never knew that going out for prolong periods could bring fatigue.. but i'm not complaining! cos i know this going out thing is so going to end come 1 august when the horrible 5 yr course starts =(

went bowling with grace zhifeng jeremy glenn weili and it was quite fun! =) haha and then we watch war of the worlds after that.. there's actually a lot of meaning to the show other than the fighting scenes.. which i was enlightened during the movie itself! =) haha

actually war of the worlds, written by hg wells, was inspired by the colonisation of the natives in aussie land by the british empire (hope i got this right!!) haha and so the show's abt that basically.. and it's cool cos hg wells wrote this in the 19th century!! way way before there was even the knowledge/fantasy abt space invaders and aliens (k of cos i didn't know this, i was again enlightened! =P) and i shan't spoil the ending for u all! =) the ending's kind of cool.. as in i found it kind of cool la haha even though some of them thought that it was quite lame =P

k i've watched so many movies this week!! watched initial D on thur with grace, and i'm going to watch batman begins later (on sunday aft) with diane.. haha.. bleah! so ex!! i'm going to become broke soon..

alright.. i'm going to sleep off the hunger that i have in my tummy now (cos i didn't feel like eating dinner - it was at 9 sth, i was passed the hunger stage =P)

i'm back from a 4 day trip to bangkok and it was very tiring! spent an average of 8-10 hrs a day walking ard and shopping! =P

thurs june 23
took a jetstar asia flight to bangkok and i must say, the seats were really quite comfortable and nice!! =) i checked into asia hotel and then went for lunch at this jap place at mbk, where i ordered a yakinniku set for only abt 140baht.. which comes up to ard 6 dollars! =)
after that, i went for thai massage and aromatic foot massage.. gosh, the thai massage was really painful! haha the person literally bent my arms, legs, back and everywhere! i could here bones creaking.. eeps! kind of proves of unfit/unhealthy i am =P anyway, the aromatic foot massage was gd!! and for abt 2 hrs, it was only 1200baht.. after that was a bit of shopping at mbk, then a steamboat dinner at mk restaurant (which cost 4 of us only 446 baht) =)

fri june 24
went to chinatown in the morn, and i bought lots and lots of earrings! and some other accessories =) after that, went to central to shop for a while (but it wasn't that great cos the stuff are quite upmarket).. went back to mbk to shop somemore!! haha love to shop at mbk cos it's absolutely huge! =P and had steamboat dinner at coca restaurant!! i really love coca! =) that wasn't all for the day, went back to hotel and changed, and went to this place called moonbar at the banyan tree hotel! it's a rooftop bar! but too bad it had been raining in the aft and thus, no stars and moon to see =( it had a nice view of almost the whole of bangkok though! =) haha i had alcohol, and for a bar at a hotel, the prices are really not ex! haha it was like 240baht for a drink, which comes to ard S$10 =) went to bed at ard 2 am bangkok time..

sat june 25
chatuchak! went there at ard 11 sth and walked ard.. boy, it was so so crowded! and everyone kept stepping on a new slipper that i bought the previous day! =( haha but thankfully it wasn't that hot! bought some stuff, like bags, slippers, shirts for my bros etc etc.. but it got too crowded and hot, so i went to suan lum night bazaar in the late aft =) it's tonnes better than chatuchak cos it's a lot less crowded and it's huuuge too! there're even decent places to dine there =) bought a bit more stuff there.. went to eat thai food for dinner at a restaurant opp my hotel =) my uncle wanted to bring us to another bar called dome, but haha i was super duper tired, so i declined =P

sun june 26
last day in bangkok! met grace early in the morn (ok it was early for me!! but grace was already going off haha) and we decided to be boliao and send sms to jeremy and the small group.. packed my luggage (my mum did most of the packing actually! =P) then went to mbk again where i bought some last min stuff, and bought the nice fruit-shaped-tau-sa thing =) haha then i went to this place near the chao praya river for lunch, but of cos, i didn't eat near the river cos it was quite smelly!! =P after that, it was the airport.. in the plane, there were this les couple seated in front of me! haha gross!! anyway, here i am, home again in my nice comfy room!! =P

i need stuff to do and entertainment for the next few days.. and the next few weeks!! =P haha

haha woke up dreading to have to go for tuition.. but the day turned out to be EXCELLENT!! =P i love today actually! =)

in the afternoon, i went cycling with grace, andrea, jeremy and bevan.. and it was really quite fun! cos andrea drove, and had some powerful wavecard thing, most of us had free admission into sentosa =) haha we cycled for qutie some time, through some jungle trail, and then we got lost 10 million times trying to cycle to the carlsberg tower.. haha..

in the process of getting lost, we came across this bunch of ppl having tonnes of games and cheering, and so we were just standing there, looking at them, trying to guess which sch/church those ppl where from.. in the end, jeremy, being jeremy, said that we should all make a guess and see who's right! so he went up to the girl there and asked her what group that was.. haha it was actually a nus comm service group orientation camp =) haha so no one was correct!

anyway, in the end, jeremy found a map, and we managed to get to the bottom of the carlsberg tower.. what loomed ahead were steps, really high steps! haha and we were on bikes, soooo, we had to barry our bikes up like 5 or 6 flights of stairs.. but it was quite ok lah.. and with the funky wavecard, most of us had free ride on the carlsberg tower (sorry jeremy!! that u had to pay.. but i contributed a bit! =) ) it was quite an interesing experience.. haha

after that, we left sentosa at ard 5 plus to head to jeremy's house to wash up and change..

and..

this is the best part!! STEAMBOAT buffet!! hahaha i had tonnnnesss of food! my tummy's HUGE now! =P haha and plus plus, we had chocolate fondue and DURIAN ice cream for desert!! woah! haha sounds so tempting right? =P the place is called rajahinn, and it's at thiong bahru plaza =) it really was worth the 19.80 that we paid.. and their staff was so friendly and nice! haha if anything, i would go back just to eat the durian ice cream.. it was heavenly!! haha

i'm hoping that tmr will be a slack and rest day for me =)

hmm i'm excited! =) thursday is coming, and that means i get to go to bangkok for shopping and more shopping! haha but right now, i'm stoning in front of the computer, wondering what to do with my time as i wait for 1:45am for the US Indianapolis Grand Prix to start.. haha.. everyone must be thinking that "oh man, that's damn retarded! staying up so late just to see cars go round and round a silly track.." but it's the slacking and bumming days for me =P i'll be bored otherwise..

after stopping work for so long, it's difficult trying to get myself out of the house for anything that even vaguely resembles work.. sigh, i have tuition tmr morn =( it's not fun leaving the house for sth that i don't particularly look forward too.. and i know how the army ppl feel i guess.. even though i know what i do nowadays cannot be compared to them! haha

anyway, what did i do the last few days, since my blog hasn't been updated yet for quite some time..

sat: erm, went cycling in the late morn and early aft at east coast park. then went to tampines mall to walk ard and do nothing. headed home to bathe and change. ac dance concert at acs i (which was rather SHORT but ok lah haha)

sun: church in the morn. lunch at pastamania (of which i got suaned quite badly by the same group of ppl!!!! urgh! haha u all rock lah! and u know who u are! =P). camp comm meeting at DOME. father's day dinner.

that's abt it.. my boring life =) haha

haha ok this is scary! i think diane and i kind of bought the same skirt! we didn't plan this def.. haha bleah, u copied me diane!! =P

anyway, i bought the planet shakers 'all that i want cd', and i really love the song, EVERYTHING'S CHANGED!

you ask me why, why i'm so different
why i'm not the same as everybody else
well, something changed, it just happened
when i opened up my heart and let HIm in

Jesus came in, He came into my life
and i know i never felt so good

'cause EVERYTHING'S CHANGED, everything is different
EVERYTHING'S CHANGED, everything is different
EVERYTHING'S CHANGED, everything is different
EVERYTHING'S CHANGED, everything is different now

you ask me how, how i can be sure
how i know it's not just something else for fun
'cause He's so real, so real in my life
He picked me up and turned my universe around

everything, everything, everything in my life's changed
everything, everything, everything in my life's different