Sunday, April 30, 2006no school tmr, so rejoice! actually i dont know why i dread school. i used to love a school a lot as a kid. i tell you, the year at fairfield was super memorable, but it was short-lived. ): i miss that school man. the only experience in a mission school. going for chapel every week. oh well. my last chance to study in a mission school is gone forever. bah. it's not really a regret. guess it's just not meant to be. andrea was commenting that i should have put ac as my first choice but hey it's really too late to say anything. sure the environment is fun and stuff but the travelling time kills. if i went on to ac, would we be classmates? i sure wish.
come on sadness, go away.
went to kkmc today. took a walk with andrea through little india to her church. cell was..i dont know how to put it. the atmosphere there is warm and cosy. maybe it's the layout of the church but that was what i felt while waiting for andrea to find her parents. her brothers are really cute man. should have gotten a picture of them. haha. but then again they can drive you nuts. no joke. oh wells.
the God of miracles. i'm left speechless.
strong weaknesses, weak strengths.
9:35 pm
Saturday, April 22, 2006 whoosh. yesterday's chem lesson was terrible. oh man. i probably wont be able to pass spa. and the test tomorrow. oh well. went back to beatty yesterday in the hope of collecting my cert but mel and i waited outside for an hour instead. the guard wouldnt let us in. no one could collect their cert cos it was speech day and everyone was busy. crap. waited till the whole thing ended and went in to visit the teachers. oh we got free food as well. haha we were hungry and the teachers made us help ourselves to the catered food. we were thinking of going out for dinner and mel said he only had 3.50. so we settled dinner in school and he saved his 3.50! oh well. tpjc had their carnival today. wanted to pop by to meet deb since i'm around the area but by the time i was done with training, it was over.
anyway, here are some of the photos taken on good friday.
the four of us from the view of a table top.
pooh and queen victoria.
mirror, mirror, on the wall.
blowing the 'candle' .
the cake :)
uh..try harder? the 4th out of 5 shots. guess who took it.
joshie bro!
5:13 pm
Thursday, April 20, 2006super tired man. been reaching home around 9 these days. training's at tampines on sat. my gosh. pw's a drag. tests next week. chem practical's tomorrow. i'm hungry. the nonsense within.
headed straight to ac to meet andrea today. whoosh. oh and the results of the rugby match today was quite expected. dorothy and i thought we would be the only nyjcians there to watch them play but turned out we werent the only ones. there were two more people haha. caught up with candice too. (: i'm sleepy. chemistry! bah. oh and i saw pastor john's wife and two younger daughters at ac! so cute la. called andrea when i reached the place to find out where she was. told her i was at the grandstand and she told me to go to the nanyang place and she'll find me. i'm sure la. the nanyang place's supposed to be a section set aside for people from ny and it's filled with people wearing white. haha. talk about feeling intimidated. joshua's leaving soon. i'll be so lonely at cell on sunday. moo.
10:24 pm
Sunday, April 16, 2006come to the Father though your gift is small broken hearts, broken lives He will take them all the power of the Word the power of His blood everything was done..so you would come
easter.
rush of emotions.
woke up early to go down to church today. the phone's turning laggy. received andrea's message only this morning when she sent it last night. helped out for a while till lois came. tried to spend as much time as i could with her cos it's been like weeks since i've seen her. sort of a surprise for me although i knew she would be in church today. then lydia kwan was also in church. man i cant remember the last time i saw her. i dont know if she's backslided or she's been like that all along but honestly i didnt feel very good when i heard that going to church wasnt something of her choice. sigh. we sang 'so you would come' today. when i closed my eyes during the song, the faces of the people in my cell just kept flashing. one by one as i saw their faces, i realised the many who have left and how heartbreaking that was and is. i cried as i sang the song. we started big. but we have faltered.
"feed My lambs"
saw candice, adora and jeremy while on stage today. really glad they came. josh and i rushed out out of the sanctuary hoping to meet and catch up with candice and adora. searched everywhere for them but couldnt find them. we thought they had left so i tried calling. slowly they came down the stairs, they had gone to the toilet. talked for a while and we all needed to leave. sigh. we're all so busy. come and go. hi's and byes.
"take care of My sheep"
draw me close to You never let me go i lay it all down again to hear You say that i'm Your friend You are my desire no one else will do cos nothing else can take Your place to feel the warmth of Your embrace help me find the way, to bring me back to You
"Feed My sheep."
i like tmr's timetable. quite slack. woots. meeting andrea on thursday. oh i think the taste of ice wine is not bad. i know i'm underaged but yeah daddy gave me a cup of it haha. as james put it, as of yesterday, i have joined him in the 17 gang. nonsense man. anyway i thought a praise song yesterday while praying before sleep. rather random. it's got a groove to it man.
have you heard of a love so divine? have you heard of a love so defined? the cost that brings me here today is the life of a great man, whose love will know no end
i stand before You Lord and give You all my worship You took all of my sins away, when You gave Your life You reign on high
extravagant love. at a cost.
8:14 pm
Saturday, April 15, 2006whoa. yesterday was more than just good. it was great. we were supposed to meet vic at 130 but at 130 she called to say she was still at bishan. stuck in the rain. that statement made james burst out into a random laughter. stuck in he rain. the rain was holding her back. literally. oh well. i wonder if james and josh are really 17 this year. haha. we ended up at the supermarket cos we wanted to get a drink. but we left the place with everything else but a drink. i bought bitter chocolates, james bought his elese biscuit and josh bought his breakfast for his trip to kunming. the chocs were not bitter at all man. vic said they 'bluff my backside'. oh well. the terms she uses.
oh josh and i wanted a frappecino or something like that but we ended up drinking some vanilla milkshake. it was so funny man. vic was just snapping away all day long till her battery was almost flat. took lots of pictures. then vic pulled me to the toilet. when we were done i wanted to knock on the glass pane that josh was leaning on but vic pulled me away. realised why. they bought a slice of cake for me. that was really sweet la. oreo cheesecake. vic asked me to blow the candles. but there was no candles! so she said blow the cake la. i'm sure la. i stuck the fork into the cake, it looked weird and james replaced it with the stirrer like thingy. vic demanded i blow it so that she can take a pic. crap. but the cake was really nice. took us an hour to finish it haha.
recorded how great is our God with james. cos the one on his phone is very syncopated so i tried using my phone. it's not very clear though. so now i have 3 versions of how great is our God in my phone. wonderful.
anyway we managed to check out the rooms at swissotel after all. the rooms are really nice man. vic and i got quite fascinated with the bathroom. i took a pic of the shower hose cos it's quite unique. she took a pic of herself in the bathtub. she's real funny. sheesh.
cheng yi was super funny at training today. cos the j2s had some lecture thing going on the j1s started on our own. we were trying to avoid the usual 5 rounds of running so we just went ahead to stroke, hoping that when coach arrived he would think that we had already done it. but then the minute he came he made us run that 5 rounds. haha nobody dared to complain. oh we have a new camera now! we'll probably get a new printer too. haha. new stuff and good food when daddy's back. the other day at swenson's he was so funny la. we ordered our food and he was flipping through the menu ordering some more. every page he turned to he asked us if we wanted this and that. whoa. kenny rogers tonight! :)
4:38 pm
Monday, April 10, 2006had breakfast at ya kun yesterday for cell. haha. gosh our cell is really shrinking. a. susie was asking us abt our expectations for the cell and my honest wish is to see our cell the same as before. the people we all grew up with. i was quite disappointed when i didnt see adora yesterday cos she told me the week before she would be in church. ah. everything's changed. and james chose to come just in time for service.
ah. training tmr. after some body combat thing for pe. was playing mario on clive's calculator during phy tutorial today. so fascinating. mario on clive's gc and some shooting game on theresa's. gotta check out felix's. haha. graphic calculators are distracting. oh well. back to pw.
is this what we're fighting for? take me under Your wings tonight.
8:01 pm
Saturday, April 08, 2006nostalgia.maureen reminds me of vic. but then again, it doesnt feel the same. now that i've got mrs huang for chem, i realise how well ms chan taught. i'm sure everyone in mi under her will pass chem man. all i can remember now is the chem stuff she taught. argh. mrs huang. mi's the fun one. ny's the 'i've gotta start studying' one. where's the in between? argh. seek solace in badminton. haha. oh well.
did lots of smashing today. and picking of shuttles. tournament's up and coming. oh the friendly match yesterday wasnt exactly very friendly but oh well. i've got a problem dealing with all the young christians in my class. they are all so upbeat and stuff and i'm like..i dont know. it's just different. rahh. i've gotta work on my pi. momentum and tradition. i'm lagging behind in this race. sigh.
i'm running after You. so give me strength.
i will give You all my worship i will give You all my praise You alone i long to worship You alone are worthy of my praise
9:23 pm
Wednesday, April 05, 2006tired. had gym training today. i thought we had trained for around an hour but when i checked my phone it was 1630! that meant like two hours already. anyway had my dinner only at 9 yesterday. i was famished. reached home ard 8 plus and showered. training ended super late cos we had one of those typical talks. ah. friendly match this fri against sr. hope they're friendly. haha.
oh ya sat's worship pract was really crap. jireh's string broke after the first song. haha. we took like one hour for the first song. so problematic. but for the rest we took only half an hour. one song in an hour, 5 in half an hour. like huh? joshua was commenting we're really pro to do that. chris couldnt get the feel so his beats were off. it was so funny la. we were all laughing at his rhythm for 'let everything that'. not very nice but oh well. we couldnt help it. haha. practice ended near 10 and i asked james what time his studying will end and he said 11. i'm sure man. told him by the time he sits down and take out his pencil it'll be time to leave. and it's at the east end. oh well.
deb if you're reading this, mr lawrence does econs far better than mr pillay. haha it's proven. cos i understand. haha. some ms wong gave the lecture today and i understood only parts of it. like price ceiling and price floor. when it was time for tutorial, mr lawrence was asking us if we had questions on today's lecture and we were like how about teaching from the start? clearly he was taken aback. the 10 mins crash course turned out to be an hour long. he's really funny. i asked him sometime ago on why he shaved his head and he said cos he has tried having all kinds of hairstyle but he's never been bald before so he shaved his head. ah. must be the thing uk does to you.
pw. momentum or tradition. i'm doing tradition. first draft of PI's due on mon. that's not very far away. sheesh. cant they give simpler topics?
i lift my head to the hills where does my help come from? my help comes from the Lord the Maker of heaven and earth