Wednesday, September 13, 2006
im savouring my last few hrs of my 2day mc. i kinda fell sick on mon night (i think due to the stressful past week and the 2.5 hrs of sleep i had on sun night, or rather, mon morn) so the doc gave me mc till today. she says its some kinda stomach flu. i went to study art at nat lib today with xinni and den we went swimming! i swam 30 laps without stopping. but erm, we ate A LOT after that so haha i dun think we really managed to shed any weight. oh well,
exercise is healthy.
yesterday when my mom drove me to the doc's we passed by vj, the place where i slacked for the 1st 2mths. my heart kind of wringed. many times i really wished i were still in vj. 15min away from home, part of a13, volleyball and all the dhs and tao nan pple. compared to the grey and stressful life in nj. ahh!
but then i realise that in nj, i met lots of awesome pple like the art pple, mark, shengyu, classmates in civics and tutorial classes, city harvesters. and the art elective programme which is always so thought invoking. if i werent here i wun be able to see xinni everyday and tahan her crap, vidolia, joyce, eveee.... and most of all i noe it's God purpose to place me in nj. so despite the distance and the stress, i noe something fruitful will come out of my time here. i think i may nv love nj, but i guess if i can get thru this, i can get thru anything!
promos start next fri!
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He calls you by name .
Sunday, September 03, 2006
oops i havent been updating again! ok so let me try to rely on my 'good memory' [ in the past week abt 3 pple say that i have a good memory. the fact is i dun. hahaha but the good thing (and the bad thing) is i forget when i get hurt very fast. good coz i dun get sad/angry for long yet bad coz i can't really deal with my problems if i i forget them!].
on monday, we had an extremely provocative gp lesson. i love gp lessons! miss seah really sets us thinking. putting aside her original agenda, miss seah started to discuss with us some issues that were pressing to her. one of the things: she told us that her sister had a save-sex-for-after-marriage kind of talk in school. yes it is right that we should save sex for after marriage, but the problem is that the message that the speakers are sending is that the
main reason why sex should be saved for after marriage is that those girls will get pregnant. well, should that be the case? after the talk the girls had a quiz, one of the qns were :
it is all right to have sex with...
a.my boyfriend
b.my friend
c.my fiancee
d.my husband
her sister chose c and got scolded by her teacher. (while stressing that she truly believes that the vows of marriage are sacred). ok the main thing is not the fidelity thing [*though i
strongly believe that yes, many things should be left exclusively for marriage] but miss seah made a point :
NEVER ask anyone a question if you werent planning to hear his/her answer.incomplete entry, but lazy to complete =) oops!
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He calls you by name .
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
im sorry i haven been blogging for abt a week...
well i think i've been quite thoughtless and sleepy for the past few days. except that last weekend Dr A R Bernard came (he's a big shot!), he is really intellectual and what he says really sets me thinking (ok i noe i just said i was thoughtless). one of the things that really hit me was that u cannot really love without freedom. coz its really not love when the person has no choice but to love u. so there is NO SUCH THING as
falling in love out of love. more than an emotion, love is also a choice. so saying that u fell out of love is equivalent to saying, " i no longer choose to love u". many pple ask since God is all-knowing and He knows that man will sin and choose to walk away from Him, why didn't He just create us automatically to love Him. well, by now it is probably apparent to u, He wants us to
truly love Him.
well, the 3 services over the weekend really stretched my mind. and this holds true: when ur mind gets stretched it will nv get back to its original size. so thank God for His word. it is the key to success. though i may not be successful (apparent in my studies)
now, but i noe that if i keep walking in His ways, i will be one day =)
ok for the past 3 days, ive been staying in school till LATE to study. it's been pretty good, though its not that i absorb a lot, but if i come home i will immediately feel sleepy and temptation is all around. so at least in school i do not feel sleepy. on mon xinni shengyu and i stayed till 9. we, being honourable and typical njcians, almost violently reacted when the librarian announced that the library was to close. well xinni and i did react hesterically when shengyu said some funny stuff on the way home. tues was the ultimate. we spent more than 45 mins looking for lost stuff like a wooden block, xinni's hp and retainers. we ended up studying at the oasis till11. it was nice coz we were the only ones AROUND. though the presence of a flying cockroach was absolutely undesirable (can i reinforce that it is an understatement). today shengyu and i stayed till 730. but abt half the time we were daydreaming abt good food and sashimi. after promos! we took 154 home. [???it seems to me that shengyu lives in a mass of trees coz thats all i could see from the bus from the bus stop} much to my surprise, it only takes abt 30min to get from nj to paya lebar mrt on 154. so from now on i must make a conscious effort to take 154, if not for no reason i will step onto 67 again (unless my frens take 67 that is).
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He calls you by name .
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
3 hilarious things:
to follow up the case of having 'too much notes to stuff into my bag', joachim gave a super funny and unfeasible solution : photocopy all my notes to a5 size. hahaha! oh my goodness i cant imagine what the other mugger at the nj library will be thinking lor.
in our slack 1 free period, xinni did many crazy things that u will nv imagine a 17 yr old doing. eg. mimic a toy car. i cant rmb why, but she started thinking up s scene in those kinda south american town with the newspaper flying across the sandy road, wooden buldings lined along the road. a pot-bellied cowboy with his 2 guns tucked in his jeans sits outside his bar [the kind with swinging doors] smoking his cigar. then we, the tourists go up to him and ask directions to yabadababoo... he says menacingly in his thick southern accent, "turn right, turn left, turn right again. don't you walk forward.... because u are already there. HAHAHA. im sorry if u dun gettit.
then then then... we were talking abt the strange math tcher that relieved mr yeo once. (he's the tutor in charge of evelyn's remedial class). hes really strange. we dub him: the strange guy. hahahaha... really strange, period. he always passes by at the wrongest times! 1st time, xinni and i were at the door abt to leave tc17 i think and xinni had to say 2 very notty words at that moment he walked past. he gave and stunned look. oh my goodness, the timing was amazing. we laffed and laffed and laffed.
today, we talked abt him as we were abt to leave tc18 and he walked in! (we were referring to him as strange guy so he prob din noe). that was the last straw, 3 of us exploded and walked to the corridor and fell over each other in profuse laughter. he came out and stood there staring at us dumbfounded. we laffed even harder. oh my goodness. i dunno how in the world xinni made it to her class without laffing.
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He calls you by name .
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
being consistent in blogging is not at all easy.
i wanna blog abt sat:
my sister came for service! though she was like quite restless (i think she nv sat thru a 2.5 hr service b4), i really thank God that at least she came. our church is in the midst of 'making marriage work' course. though i am not married, i think its really interesting. haha useful for counseling and also, of coz, my own marriage (but its still a long way). sat pst kong talked abt the wife, her role and responsibities. basically, the wife is to submit (honour and respect) to her hubby and help him to achieve his vision. [marriage is an interdependent thing] i was kind of cringing on the inside during the sermon. haha it sounds difficult. but wait till u see what the husband's got to do. note that this is the case only in marriage. out of marriage, there is no reason why any man should rule over a woman (maybe other than ur boss and dad?). so thank God, ladies go all out and be CEOs and top execs!
the husband, on the other hand, is supposed to be the leader in the marriage. he is to protect his wife, provide for her, take GOOD care of her, make decisions, be the spiritual leader, carry himself with class (so that the wife can be proud of him), make her life better than it was before the marriage and most of all LOVE her [unconditionally]. wow, i hope my future husband was sitting in that service. haha.
though it seems kind of a little woman thingie, i do think it will be nice for once to let 'my man' make all the decisions (of coz to accomodate me). i mean all the time we have to be making the decisions, i think even the super headstrong women will love a break too. ok, so stop dreaming back to reality.
ok, then after service i went out with some a13 pple! i miss them so much lehhh.... though it was a short meeting and all, i really enjoyed myself. we can really connect =)
i made cookies last night though i was like coming on with a flu coz i wanted to make a smiley face one for xinni and basically give my frens cookies. the texture was good, chewy, but it was TOO SWEET. oh well, my frens liked it right? haha. it really feels good to give ur heart away (coz i made them with my heart). happy happy. during the night b4 i went to sleep i was tempted to take MC today though, the flu was getting bad. but i made the cookies! and i had to come to school to give them out, furthermore today had math lecture and chem spa. so i said,'God! i must come!' i feel like taking mc tmr coz i really feel quite fluey today, but there is chem tutorial tmr... ah! see 1st.
it's always difficult to put stuff in my bag, joyce says i've become a typical njcian: too many notes for my bag! hahaha!
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He calls you by name .
Thursday, August 10, 2006
yay, yesterday was a great day!
HAPPY (belated) BDAY SINGAPORE!
i do think singapore is an awesome place to live in. though it's so sheltered, small and in a way narrow minded, i love it. it's clean, safe, and u can just get anything u need. i do not understand why pple keep harping on singaporeans being 'kiasu'. ok, so we hate to lose out. but it is the same for everyone else around the world. for example, my sister, when she was at Harvard,went for an exam half an hour early thinking that she was being unnecesarily "typicalyl" singaporean kiasu. to her horror, she went there and realised that the hall was already more than half full with the so-called less kiasu and more sane ang mohs and other nationals. [erasing some potentially offensive statements] consider pple in other countries, u will realise that singaporeans are relatively well-mannered and considerate. of course it is not the case for every single person here and there's room for improvement, but kiasuism really is not such an issue here. at least we queue.
yes,
singapore's ok.
xinni, xiuru and shi hui were to come to my house for a video, picnic and swim.
in the morning i woke up to make teriyaki chicken and jap rice. i think that the chicken was quite a success, considering it was the 1st time i made it. haha. it got good reviews from xinni, xiuru and shi hui =) what a spread, we had [xinni brought] sushi, chicken, cream puffs (my fave!), [shi hui] tuna sandwich(which caused her finger to swell, ouch!), [xiuru] chips, and other sinful objects, [me] teriyaki chicken, jap rice, green tea ice-cream. yummy yummy. we watched the hot chick, i have no idea how many times i've watched it, but it never fails to crack me up! then we went to my sis house to swim. shee hwee had to leave 1st though. xinni and xiuru kept forcing me to swim, i almost died there and then. xiuru really scarred me with her, "two more, four more [laps]!" it was a small pool, but still. i really miss them to much. i miss the days when i could just walk down the corridor and scream them out of their class. good thing i treasured the time in those days. still, i wish i could see them every day! at least i get to be irritated by xinni in nj still.
night time was another nice time. i went back to my sister's house to eat a sumptious (i use sumptious becoz it was really luxury food) dinner and watch
the producers. though there are some bad reviews on it, i thoroughly enjoyed the musical turned film. really well arranged. i was particularly entertained by will ferrells' neo-nazi role. haha.
i went to thread eyebrows (finally!) today and cut hair. i really needed some grooming. haha. gonna watch broadway beng later!
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He calls you by name .
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
wow, solaris rocks! though it was a 'self-high' time, i think we all had fun. too bad solaris was slacking in the beginning part of the yr, if not we may have overtaken aqua in the NE cup. but nevermind, today, solaris owned! it was a nice 1/4 day, though i still left school at 1+. wasted some time here and there but at least i studied 3/4 of a bio chapter.
i promised to rant abt the horrible restaurant joyce and i went to near bugis junction. it was on __(something) seah street, it's called lai lai beef noodle restaurant serving taiwanese food. [it was such a pity because
real taiwanese food happens to be heavenly] 1stly, we had to wait what seemed like eons for our simple omelette thingie to come. and the people who came after us got their food 1st. then the 4.90 dish came, it was so small we felt like nothing went down our throats. also, we sat there waiting for our whatchamacallit pork rice, but it never came due to the simple fact that the waiter did not take out order though we clearly stated so.
oh well, i forgive them. we do make some mistakes, but i'm proclaiming that i will never step into that place again. then we went to ji de chi. mmmm... good good deserts (save for the cold double boiled plain egg, the hot ginger one tastes better). the almond paste and tang yuan was delectable. i tookaway the almond paste before. it still tasted good at home. i also recommend the mango grapefruit desert. (yes kevin says im 'well-fed')
anyway i had a great dinner. i went to the 4b outing for a short while... really missed all of them. but i left early to meet up with my family to eat at the house of hunan. the food was really good! and due to the opening promotion, it was really value for money. this meal really made up for the bad experience at the taiwanese place. basically almost everything we ordered tasted good. from the deep fried coriander balls to the braised pork... every mouthful was enjoyable =)
thank God He made food!
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