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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 08:30 p.m.

2 papers down. econs and geog. i have no idea how i'll do. i'm seriously just hoping that i'll pass. had a good 3 hour nap and now, i've got to start studying for math. oh math, my only hope right now. i hope i don't get confused with whether H1 should be more than or less than Ho or whether i should approximate it to poisson or whether this curve should curve upwards or downwards and whether there'll supposed to be a asymptote at that point. hai.

i'm mentally very exhausted. just one more day. just one more day. anyway! everyone, go read claireong's blog! haha she was saved by a flying dog! haha. claire, i really know how stressed you are right now :)

Sunday, June 27, 2004 06:08 p.m.

one more day. one more day. there's so much more to study but only so little my brain can hold. like after a while, my brain gets all saturated and i get tired. i just can't seem to get the details like how many jobs were lost during this period of time! argh. i can't wait for it to be over on thursday. then, i can head over to sarah's place to play tennis and swim! :)

went out after church today and bought a tube because daddy insisted that we do some quick shopping before lunch, or else our brains would be fried. haha. off to my grandma's house now.

Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:56 p.m.

france lost!! oh my goodness! Jeremy Heng! you're so right. haha. what in the world is happening?! i hope Portugal doesn't win!

had a huge shock last night.

Friday, June 25, 2004 08:57 a.m.

Did you watch the England-Portugal match early this morning? if you didn't, you missed out on 120mins of non stop attacking/defending, 4 goals and an extremely scary scary heart stopping penalty shoot out which sent England packing!

England sure disappointed badly. they couldn't hold their defences for the full 90th minute. my fellow 18 year old, wayne rooney, was injured and so couldn't deliever those goals. and Beckham made such a big boo boo, he ought to sacked as captain and told not to fool around so much. oh well, at least Owen did his thing, the team managed to recover and draw 2-2 at extra time and everyone did well in penalty shoot outs except one.

Excellent playing but very disappointing. why couldn't Beckham just slot the ball nicely into the net? because of him, i can't go, "England!" (clap, clap) at the semi finals next week. now i'll probably have to go, "France!"(clap clap) It's so heartbreaking! jeremy likens it to a loved one walking out on you, i think it's worst. oh whatever. going to sleep now, i'm very tired.

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:50 p.m.

I think my geography notes lied to me. it says that yesterday (22.06.04) is the begining of summer and so all over the world, the amount of daylight and nightlight is supposed to be the same! but when i checked the newspapers, sunrise was at 7.01AM and sunset was at 7.13AM! that means yesterday had 12 hours 12 minutes of sunlight! in other words, there wasn't equal amount of daylight and nightlight!

5 more days left to the mid years! i haven't touched urban geog, economic change and development, half of population, hydrology, rocks and landforms! then there's still international trade, money & prices, J1 econs work. and there's math! oh my oh my.

Are hazy days back again? because it's supposed to be summer, and the sun's supposed to shine but it looks as if it's only 6.30AM and the sun is starting to rise when it's actually mid day. why do the people in sumatra keep on burning their land? don't they know that the smoke and all that will be blown to Singapore? haha! they might not know, but i know! i know why we have hazy days and i know why they burn their land and i know what will happen to their land when they burn it. ha! i bet you don't know, because i studied geography and i studied agriculture and wind systems and monsoons in geography :)

Saturday, June 19, 2004 05:56 p.m.

Love Song
I've heard it said that a man would climb a mountain
just to be with the one he loves.
How many times has he broken that promise?
It has never been done.
I've never climbed the highest mountain,
but I walked the hill of Calvary.

I've heard it said that a man would swim the ocean
just to be with the one he loves.
Well all those dreams are an empty emotion
it can never be done.
I've never swam the deepest ocean,
but I walked upon the raging sea

Just to be with you I would do anything
There's no price I would not pay, no.
Just to be with you I would give everything
I would give my life away.

And I know that you don't understand the fullness of my love
How i died upon the cross for yours sins.
And I know that you don't realize how much I gave you.
And I promise i'd do it all again.

Just to be with you I've done everything.
There's no price I did not pay, no.
Just to be with you I gave everything.
Yes, I gave my life away.
I gave my life away.
Just to be with you.

Thursday, June 17, 2004 04:20 p.m.

i'm begining to enjoy the holidays! i get to wake up at 10, have my early afternoon nap at 1.30, have supper at 11PM and stay up till 1AM talking to my sister. i was super shocked when she told me some stuff last night. haha. on top of all that, i have much much more time to do my QT, which makes me a very happy person. finished reading ecclesiastes today :)

but despite all that, i'm super scared about the mid years. i'm afraid i won't be able to complete my revision. as it is right now, the mid years are less than 2 weeks away and i've still got tons of revision to do. anyway, uploaded the pictures from S&S, my cousin and other random pictures in random photos folder.

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 04:38 p.m.

daddy brought me to his university of new south wales alumni cocktail party at the Swissotel last night because he wanted to expose me to such affairs and perhaps consider studying in UNSW. i was so so bored i wanted to run downstairs to the shopping centre. everyone there was an engineer, or at least those i met. since it was a cocktail party, there were no tables and chairs and my feet ached crazily. the speeches were long. talked to no one except when i had to introduce myself, nodded my head when anyone asked if i wanted to go to UNSW and just listened.

met daddy's engineering professor, who since promoted and is now the vice chancellor of UNSW. that was probably the only time i uttered more than 10 words since i had to tell him what i was interested in studying. met Dr. Mary and a few others of my dad's classmates and they just kept telling me about life with my dad when they were students, the many benefits of going to Australia to study and that they know my mom. aye.

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 01:40 p.m.

if the dress code is lounge suit, what should a girl wear?

Monday, June 14, 2004 08:42 p.m.

my 8 year old cousin, back from america, came over to our house after the trip to the bird park and he's simply so adorable. we were at the dinner table and my dad asked him to say grace and thank God for the day at the zoo. So he prayed and he said this.

" Dear Lord, Thank you for the food. Please help Uncle Wong remember that we went to the Jurong Bird Park today and not the zoo. Amen."

haha. he's really very adorable. we want to bring him to swensens for ice cream but he insists we bring him to 7-eleven so that he can have his paddle pop rainbow ice cream! oh! and when my mom ask him to finish up the rice on his plate or else he would have a wife that has alot of pimples and spots, he replied "oh, it doesn't matter. i'm getting married in 30 years time" haha :)

Monday, June 14, 2004 09:23 a.m.

went to the country club after church yesterday. there was this guy, max and he scored a hole-in-one on the 12th hole! so we were sitting around at the golfer's terrace and he treated everyone at the golfer's terrace to free flow of beer and soft drinks. haha. i wondered how his hole-in-one shot came about. did the ball like flew really high up, hit a tree, hit another tree, bounced off the ground and rolled into the hole? it's quite cool having a one on your score card considering he's probably around my age. i want a hole-in-one too!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY G A B R I E L ! : )

Saturday, June 12, 2004 11:05 a.m.

B B D and a B3 for GP and you can't get a place in NUS's arts and social science? A A A and you can't get into medicine? the number of top scholarships down by half to 50 or 60? what is happening to Singapore? education (both the studying and the choosing of schools) can be such a pain sometimes.

Friday, June 11, 2004 08:18 a.m.

5 days wasted. on monday, i was talking to sarah and i told her i was going to start on hydrology after lunch. well, i didn't but instead i started reading public finance and i haven't finished it. still stuck at the fiscal policy part. darn. had the whole week and i can't even finish reading public finance.

anyway. went shopping yesterday. spent the whole morning at the doctors taking my hepA jab. $200 just for the 2 jabs and i got to go back in december for the second dose. went down town for lunch and shopped till 9. came home, watched the news and slept. my arm really hurts. aye. going back to sleep now.

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 10:43 a.m.

Sometimes i really feel that Singapore is not so much a fine city afterall. we have dirty, wet, smelly public toilets. i mean, can you name me 10 clean public toilets? not including those at the shopping centres. so far, i haven't found a clean, nice smelling public toilet with at least a roll of toilet paper. okay, except maybe for the ones at the zoo (but they smell of animal cages) and the toilets at upper pierce reservoir.

And just today, this Life journalist wrote a halfpage article slamming a bunch of katong convent girls because they were squriming and making so much noise while watching some arts performance just because the costumes of the dancers were rather translucent and you could see their butts jigging. oh please! it was a modern dance concert, surely you wouldn't expect the dancers to be clothed in long skirts and shirts?! i don't know if the girls were embarrassed when they were asked to shutup by a particular guy in the audience. i sure was embarrassed when i read it. doesn't say too good about katong convent and Singaporeans.

It's not that i am the best citizen Singapore can ever have, but really. there are so many other examples i can give of Singapore not being a really fine city. drivers switching lanes without signalling? how about people sticking chewing gum underneath MRT benches? it was so bad that the government had to ban it. 3/4 of the USA population chew gum and i don't see the government having so much a problem and it's not as if there isn't a bin at every corner of the street in Singapore. How about people piling food high up on their plates when they go for buffets? or those writings at the second last seat of the bus that says "call 628402184 for sex" or "john loves lucy". i don't deny that other countries, like the USA have even more scribblings on their bus seats but the thing is that the USA doesn't promote their country as a FINE country. Singapore does.

Despite all this, i'm still proud to be a Singaporean. i'm definitely not perfect and i definitely did drop my bus ticket on the bus before (that's littering). daddy agreed to bring us to watch some arts performances and i hope i won't bump into inconsiderate patrons. My dear countrymen, clean toilets make people happy. won't you try to keep our public toilets clean? especially the ones at Newton food centre and Adam road food centre?

Monday, June 7, 2004 02:16 p.m.

i'm trying to study and it's so noisy! there's non stop drilling coming from above and piling works on the next plot of land where construction workers are building a new condominium. oh just so great.

Sunday, June 6, 2004 05:49 p.m.

came back from bintan yesterday afternoon! silence and solitude was excellent except for the low water pressure in the toilets and the lizards waiting outside our door every night :) really learnt how to enjoy silence. i'm begining to understand that silence is really important especially after some truth is taught. at least it gives it a few minutes grace for the truth to be absorbed into my brain for memory. slept alot especially at the last part of the trip. ate so so much too. everday, it was like buffet breakfast followed by lunch then potato wedges and calamari rings and then set dinner.

spent an afternoon on the beach. oh my. the beach was gorgeous. simply gorgeous. it was pure white sand, not like the ones at sentosa which are littered with cigarette bugs and the water was clear. crystal clear. we could even see fishes swimming in them. daniel, dorcas and myself actually swam about 5M out in the sea to see corals and fishes. not very impressive. the water was rather mirky. dug lots of holes and build sandcastles which were actually mounds of sand. haha. justin khoo was super talented though. he used sand and made a man and a woman lying next to each other. it's super nice. i'll upload the photos soon.

we had kelong dinner on the last night. whee. the pepper crabs were yummy yummy. tried a sea snail masked with lots and lots of chili because huiling and myself heard it was slimy. haha. i'm actually convinced that the kelong fishes are nice because of all the waste that's going into the sea. like when we wash our hands, which are dirtied with crab sauce and pepper and whatever, it goes straight into the sea. haha. maybe that's why our seas are so polluted too plus sewage from the resort goes straight into the sea too. yucks.

i wished S&S wasn't over. managed to spend quality time with my maker and it was the only time i managed to read quite a few books from the bible without distractions like phone calls and the internet. the only sound were the waves lapping in the foreground and some kids running around. ahh! really enjoyed S&S. thanks melvin and daniel for organising it! :)

after we arrived in singapore yesterday, a group of us went to the indoor stadium for the festival of praise and hillsongs concert! WHEE! that was fun! it was extravagant worship. the drummer was super good. darlene was great! there were at least 5000 people from different churches in singapore, singing, shouting, jumping. cool! haha it was a huge change from the last 4 days of almost pure silence. since we were so near the front, we could actually feel the beats of the drum :) super cool.

reached home only at around 12 because daddy brought us out for supper. dawn stayed over at our house and we chatted till 1AM. realized that all older siblings are going through similar problems and struggles with their younger siblings. haha.

went to church this morning for communion. got a bit frustrated at the last part of the service. will share my thoughts another time. got to head over to my grandma's house for dinner now.

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 10:39 p.m.

4 days of simplicity, silence and solitude on the island of Bintan starting from tomorrow. i'm glad though i haven't packed.

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 05:35 p.m.

Goodbye Suzy.

There are still yet so many things we haven't done. the trips to your house to try your mother's dumplings. the trips to my house to slack. the trips to the gym. the subway meal. swimming. shopping!

but yet, there were so many things we've done! we've studied at subway, ate pig liver's soup together, gone on many futile shopping sprees, played endless rounds of bridge during the supplementary exams period. and still, there are times i'll never forget. that one morning when i woke up earlier to make you peanut butter sandwich. that one day when we decided to save money and brought snicker and peanut butter spread along with a loaf of bread and a plastic butter knife to school. the numerous photos we've taken. the serious and not so serious conversations we had. the (many) times we went retarded and started playing in class and laughing ourselves silly :)

So Goodbye suzy. i'll miss calling your home and going "qing wen wo ke yi gen szu yu jiang hwa mah?" i'll never forget the big dreams we dreamt like getting married before 25, having kids and being a taitai so that we can have our daily teas and shopping trips and play mahjong in the night. Have a safe trip to America and enjoy yourself there. protect yourself against the evil men hiding in the subways of new york city and have a ball of a time shopping your heart out! study hard too and please choose carefully the choice of your study. don't choose it because you feeeeel like doing it.

don't forget our 25-year old date and our easter and christmas holidays together if i join you there. stay in touch. i'll miss you badly and class will never be the same without you! take care, my first friend i made in college. i love you! enormous HUG : )

Tuesday, June 1, 2004 10:04 a.m.

I don't know about tomorrow, i just live from day to day
i don't borrow from its sunshine for its skies may turn to grey.
i don't worry o'er the future for i know what Jesus said
and today i walk beside him for he knows what is ahead.

I don't know about tomorrow, it may bring me poverty.
but the One who feeds the sparrow is the one who stands by me
and the path that be my portion may be thro' the flame or flood
but his presence goes before me and i'm covered with his blood.

Many things about tomorrow,
i don't seem to understand.
but i know who holds tomorrow,
and i know who holds my hand.

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