Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:55 p.m.
The Sec2 Sunday school class party cum christmas party this evening. I had so much fun, eating, chatting with various people, getting dunked into the pool (my only consolation is that the kids only get to trash their sunday school teacher once a year while I trash them 40 sundays a year). I'm glad so many turned up, everyone was mixing around and having a good time. Thanks to Faith and Becky for organising it and Alex for opening his place :)Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:59 a.m.
My boyfriend sent me a page link from his favourite website (some car forum page) because it had this article on the functions of a man while he is shopping which he wanted me to see. Haha. It's quite funny and I decided to snip off this picture on how different it is when a man and a woman shops because I believe this picture is quite a good representation. Recently, E has been commenting that I just walk around and buy things which I don't actually need but I want and think it's nice whereas for him, he only goes shopping when it's required and he walks into a shop, gets something he actually needs and steps out with his purchase.
For example, E has been wanting to get a watch so the other day, we went watch shopping. He walked into the watch shop, found something he liked and bought it. At first, I told him to think about it and walk around somemore and if he's still thinking about it after 3 days, he should come back and get it. But his reply was "But I need the watch and I've found a watch that suits me so I'm getting it" (The watch, by the way, cost him 200bucks and he probably didn't stay in the shop for more than 20minutes) It's the same with the skirt. I wanted to get it even though I had a similar colour at home but he thought it was a complete waste of money because I already have something like that at home and I don't actually need another pair when I have probably have 10 different pairs of skirts sitting in my wardrobe
Anyhow, I think this car forum page he is reading can be quite interesting even though at times they put women drivers down. Besides the usual stuff on how to take care of your car and up its performance and whatever, the other day, E showed me this article on women drivers hogging the extreme right lane and they started a forum and some people were saying that the women drivers probably didn't realize they were driving on the extreme right lane and how the women looked so scared driving in the lane. Really funny. They also had a poll where the guys polled on whether their partners helped them to wash and wax their car and E used the results to hint that I should help him to wash and wax his car. Haha. By the way, I washed his car for him yesterday after cycling and starbucks before we went back to my place for dinner and then night tennis and drinks with Melvin, Amanda and Yado. A fruitful exercise day! (I even ran 1.6KM on the tracks!)
Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:06 a.m.
Everyone should watch The Chronicles of Narnia! It's really good! Honestly! It kept me on my seats and it's really quite good! Watched it yesterday night with E, bought my heels from Suntec, saw a skirt and I wanted to get it but E thinks it's too short and it's a waste of money, looked through some bible study material, had sushi for dinner and swensens for dessert. After I bought my heels, E had this satisfied grin on his face and he suddenly blurted out "I like it when you buy heels, then when you wear them, your feet gets tired more easily and then we won't be able to shop around so much!" Haha. Today, to burn off our holiday fats, we're going cycling again at East Coast Park then we're going to shower at his club, head back to NTU and clear out my hall. Hopefully I can do some more shopping before dinner but we'll see how.Monday, December 26, 2005 12:11 p.m.
So Christmas is over, boxing day today but I doubt there's hardly any good sales around but I know MPH is having a sale so I want to check that out. Christmas party last night at my place for my mum's family and we had so much food! Turkey from Marina Mandarin which wasn't very good, 2 racks of lamb, couscous, cauliflowers, chicken wings, salad, mashed potatos, quail eggs with masago, parma ham with honey dew and tiramisu. Really yummy! Had Christmas service in the morning (I thought Pastor Noel delivered quite a good message!) before going out for lunch with E, Chang, Dan, GuangZhao, Adrian, Jon Ong and Raymond before E and myself went out to get presents for both our parents. Went over to his place to rest and pass his parents a present before he came over and did the same for my mum and had some starters with my extended family before he had to go for his teacher's christmas party. Quite stoned from all the rushing around now and I'm going to watch The Chronicles of Narnia with E later and go for Baby Joel's birthday party! Starting to feel the dread since holidays officially end in exactly a week and I feel like I still want to rest and do so many other things than face my books again but you can't stop time so after this week, it'll be 17 weeks of stress and extreme exhaustion and nonsense before I get my 13 week summer vacation. Hello to Wei En/Steve and Maxine :)Friday, December 23, 2005 12:55 a.m.
Just back from the Cheesecake Cafe with E, Selena and Justin Eng. It was like a little surprise for me! I knew we were supposed to meet Selena and Justin at the Cheesecake cafe for catchup and all next week but I didn't know the guys planned it so soon. E didn't even tell me about it and he purposely drove round the place twice. Haha. Anyhow, we shared 5 very very yummy cheesecakes between the four of us and we had dinner at some claypot restaurant before that. The cheesecake was honestly very good! Every single one we tried just made me melt, ambience was great and company even greater. Very nice catching up with Selena and talking about everything with the 2 of them :) Today, E and myself decided to work out since we've really just been eating and lazing around since the holidays began so we went to East Coast Park this morning and cycled for about an hour. Good workout and we cycled all the way to one end and Bedok Jetty and I think I managed to burn some fats since my butt felt quite sore after that but I think the cheesecake and KFC ruined it. Haha. After cycling, we had KFC for lunch, watched the Madagascar DVD at his place, rested before we met Selena and Justin for dinner. We were supposed to wash his car but it rained again so I'm positive now that I'm just not fated to help him wash his car. Haha. Good day really. I must also mentioned that I tried driving Justin Eng's mini manual car with no power steering just now and OMG, I stalled the car, couldn't turn the steering wheel and all. Haha, super funny and the four of us were having a good time laughing at his really cute car. E tried driving it too but he's good at it. Haha. Yesterday was lunch with Ryan and Jac at some sandwich place at Raffles Place before we went to see Debbie and the other members of YFC play christmas carols. After that, Deb, Jac and myself just sat the grass patch at Raffles Place and people watch before this group of people who were in a particular chinese variety show came up to us and told us a joke. We were supposed to laugh if the joke the guy told was funny but omg, it was way beyond funny. I think Jac and myself couldn't get it at all. Haha. Anyhow, the guy is in 3rd year Accountancy studies in NTU so you'll understand now if I don't click with certain people in school. Haha. We had tea at Yakun Kaya afterwards before I met E and we walked around, got his teacher's christmas present and had dinner at the Thai Express at Paragon. Tomorrow, Jac and Gilly are coming over to bake! I hope our cookies turn out nice! Cell Extravaganza in the night. Just realized that holidays are also coming to an end in about one and a half weeks time! I don't want it to end! I've yet to get a christmas present too. Ugh.Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:36 a.m.
Semester 2's timetable is out and I got Wednesday off! I guess it isn't too bad just that on Monday, I'm in school from 0830 till 630PM and I have 3 lessons on that day with a 4 hour break in between the first lesson and second lesson. Other days are pretty fine and I end school at 1030 again on Fridays! I'm going to see if I can switch my friday's tutorial to another day so I get Fridays off as well! Spent yesterday with E and had all my meals with his parents. Went over early in the morning, had lunch at the Tung Lok restaurant at Keppel Club with his parents (good food!), went back to rest at his place, baked brownies in the late afternoon (they turned out quite fine!), had a nice home cooked dinner then watched Jingle all the way before coming home. After church on Sunday, E and myself went down to town for Sakae Sushi, walked around looking for christmas presents before going back to his place to rest for a while before going for the musical Christmas Is in church! The musical was really really good and I was so so impressed! The storyline, how Pastor Malcolm linked the play to the true meaning of Christmas, God's love and all and the props was done up so finely! Had pizzas at Spizza with the cast, well just Jon Wong, Huiling, Yu Hsien, Deanne, Chang, Cheryl, Zhengnan and E since we didn't know the rest of the cast and after that, E and myself drove down Orchard Road, looked at the Christmas lightings and took a walk around Esplanade and Fullerton before coming home. Sarah's coming back tonight and as much as I don't want her to return because the fights over our clothes and everything small will begin again, I want to tell her all that's happened over the past 10 days! E's coming over then we'll probably get my maid to cook lunch before we go christmas shopping then return to his house in the late afternoon to wash his car and watch our VCDs tonight!Friday, December 16, 2005 01:09 p.m.
So I'm at home now, waiting for E to come by before we go out, just done with preparing for cell tonight and I'm thinking of what to write for my poem recital tomorrow at my grandma's surprise 70th birthday party at some hotel's ballroom. My younger cousins are all going to either sing, dance, play the violin, cello or whatever. My older cousins are going to sing songs that were played during my grandma's era. I decided that I didn't want to shake my butt on stage for 120 people and I can't sing for nuts, so i'll read out a nice poem. Problem is, I don't know what to write and my chinese sucks. I don't even know what's poem in chinese. I can't decide what to wear also. Looking for that perfect top I saw in my dreams but can't seem to find it in the shops and I might just have to settle for something in my cupboard. Sounds terribly frivolous but honestly, I think I'm only excited about dressing up, going for a nice dinner and meeting the boyfriend afterwards to look at the christmas lights and decorations down Orchard Road. I'm not really keen on performing or doing whatever in front of 120 people and right now, I'm more interested in going down town to get my top and the other items we both want from Topshop than thinking of chinese words to make up my poem.Thursday, December 15, 2005 08:07 p.m.
One of my favourite pictures :) Even though I look so sleepy and my hair's in a mess. Haha.
Yesterday was shopping at Ikea with Gilly and Jac to get a few items. I like the kids stuff at Ikea! Then I went for a hair cut because my mum thinks I'm too unpresentable for my grandma's surprise birthday party this saturday, came home and E came over for a while before we headed over to Kovan Mall for Thai Express and Venezia Gelato before going over to his house to watch the finale of Amazing Race and looney tunes.
Today, E came over again and we had lunch, went down to Orchard to pick up his friend's birthday present and I so wanted to go to the Mango Sale even though I think this season sucks but E just lazed and lazed and refused to move till we only had enough time to pick up his friend's present and go for the funeral service. Obviously I was moping and he was like "but why do you want to go to the Mango sale when you have to queue just to get in and every woman on the street will have that same top as you and besides you saw nothing nice the last time we went in" And for once, I thought he made sense about shopping. For once. Haha.
Besides the walking around and shopping, I think I was reminded today that God is the only one who can give life and take life away. You cannot take someone else's life and you cannot take your own life. I was reminded too that Life is fragile and precious and we must always treasure those around us because we don't know when we'll lose them.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 08:09 p.m.
Sarah Wong, This is for you! :) We want you to know how much fun we're having without you around! We're waiting for you to return on Tuesday night so that you can treat us to Swensen's ice cream :)
So anyway, E came over again and we lazed around, went to the supermarket to pick up bacon and sausages before coming back to cook our lunch. Haha, we're dedicating our lunch and all its pictures to my dearest sister so she knows how much fun we're having while she is in Cambodia. Haha. E's egg omelette is really good and he actually did all the cooking so I'm really impressed! We were supposed to go back to his house after lunch to wash and wax his car but it rained and we are lazy people so we ended up lazing around again, talking about certain events, the things that affect us and the future till he went out with the guys to listen to some speaker at dinner time. It's another good day :)
Monday, December 12, 2005 11:59 p.m.
Full day spent with E today cooking our own lunch (We had burnt eggs), watching Harry Potter, lazing around at my place, sending my sister off at the airport this morning and having breakfast and dinner together. It was definitely good but it felt different because for once, we didn't have to worry about school, or rush to get things done or go to places. Spending time with him over the last 3 days including having Marche for lunch and lazing around at his place yesterday afternoon after church just made me realized that I have so much to be thankful for.Sunday, December 11, 2005 11:23 p.m.
A bouquet of roses that surprised me last night after we caught up with each other and had some heart to heart talking and then I started crying like a silly kid because of all the honest sweet things he said and when I suddenly realized how I've been so silly to neglect him and be all cranky and moody towards him when he wasn't to be blamed at all. Of course, the roses made me melt :) I'm glad we ironed out the minor folds and we had a good talk after a whole week of running around and being squeezed with other things.Friday, December 9, 2005 10:15 p.m.
I'm damn shagged still even though I slept for 2.5 hours just now. I'm going to sleep right after this again because I've only been averaging 4 hours each night since last Saturday. Had pizzas for lunch and good fellowship with Dorcas, Jon Wong, Chris Yan, Bryan Quek, Beng and my sister when we got back to church! Camp's finally over and throughout camp, many thoughts streamed into my mind, several things were impressed upon me and I learnt many things so I'm going to attempt to write them down but probably without much elaboration because that would be too personal to post online. Ask me if you want. 1. The Parable of the Sower: When I hear God's words, what kind of soil/ground am I? Am I the thorny ground that I hear and accept God's word but when I get caught up with school work, social activities or just doing the many things I'm tasked with, I neglect seeking after the Lord and spending quiet moments with Him and I don't be His light to the world?2. Some people can either write excellently or talk eloquently or have a logical train of thought. But few are able to do all three very well.
3. Fervent attempts to get to know a few people have not been successful. I don't know but it's like there's this barrier. Communication is only when necessary and rather distant and cold. But I guess it's like this, not that I dislike her, just that we don't click.
4. I get cranky, moody and I feel like I'm squeezed badly when I'm stressed. I think I stress out too easily and I am a perfectionist and a big time control freak and I think I need to learn how to let go and relax at times. Coincidentally, I was helping E come up with an essay plan on stress for school during camp.
5. God showed His provision to us at camp and blessed us with good weather and He sustained us from falling sick, losing our voice or feeling extreme exhaustion and allowed us to continue on with the execution and planning of games. I learnt to trust and put even more faith in Him through interactions with my favourite terror Marc Seah.
6. I learnt how to use the catapult, set off bomb bags, fill up water bombs and use duct tape to wax legs. Haha. All thanks to Marc Seah, Mark Lui, Mark Bala, Mel C, Simon Lam, Patrick Douglas. Haha. They were terrors especially Marc but they were such fun even though they put a bomb bag in my shirt as I was walking down the stairs and Marc wore a ski mask and tried to frighten me while I was working through games with Steve. Haha. My son's definitely going to get a catapult when he grows up next time.
7. I have made my decision of whether I'll still be a true follower of Jesus when bad times strike or when I get opposed and persecuted. The verdict: I've decided to follow Jesus for all the days of my life at all costs! I want to be forever guided by God.
8. I want to be a woman that seeks God, pleases Him, honour Him, fear Him, love Him and be a disciple that God loves and is pleased with. All talk and no action is nothing so I'm in the process of coming up with an action plan. Definitely on the list includes more prayer time, more quiet devotions and bible reading. I'm thinking of joining either the university's cells or other bible study groups.
9. You must have a personal intimate relationship with God. Your religion and faith must be yours and yours only. Not your sunday school teachers or your parents. (This has been impressed on me even more strongly especially over camp)
10. I am utterly sinful and wretched. But because Jesus died on the cross, I'm saved and my sins are forgiven. I do need his grace and mercy every single day because even as a christian, I do still sin and I need to confess it to God daily and pray for his mercy and grace. I'm still grasping and learning more about grace each day.
11. Obedience is painful and costly but is neccessary and something I want to do. I want to obey God. I want to walk in the Holy Spirit too. A life with God in the center is far far better than a life without God in it at all.
12. I'm in the matchmaking business. Haha. In God's timing and God willing of course :) In other news: My dad is in Shanghai now for work and he has been there since Monday! Ugh! I wished he went away next week instead of this week when I was away in camp! I could have followed him for some solid shopping and even if that didn't materialized, I could at least gained full ownership of his car for the whole week! Why oh why, Dad! I hope he buys me something! My sister is also going away for missions in Cambodia on Monday and will only be back on the 20th of Dec. Hooray! Haha.
Monday, December 5, 2005 01:56 a.m.
I am finally done packing for camp and printing out game instructions, clues and all. Finally! I'm in need of a proper sleep so I'm going to sleep after this since I know I probably won't be able to sleep early the next few days and I only slept at 3AM last night and I had to wake up at 715AM this morning because I wanted to get a ride with my parents to church. Had some camp committee meeting after service today then Jeremy, Michelle, E and myself went down to Crystal Jade for a very late lunch. After that, E and myself went down to Popular and to the supermarket again to buy games materials. I think we've spent a little too much money on games, but oh well, everything's been bought and money has been spent. E was as usual, playing with the trolley, thinking he was driving and all but he was certainly much more helpful today :) Went back to his place and then he suddenly developed a fever so he slept while I showered and did games planning again. His mum said that the reason why he's probably sick was because he's always out and staying up till so late. (I think she was hinting) So I sponged him, gave him panadol, (thankfully the fever is gone already if not I don't know how he's going to make it through camp!) then made him honey lemon and since his mum was hanging around the kitchen seeing me squeeze lemon ( I think she thinks I don't know how to use that squeezer) and she wanted a cup, I ended up making a cup for her too while E was just grinning away and making me wash his cup. Haha. It was really weird but I had to redeem myself for making her son so tired and after some chit chat with his parents about tuna, supermarkets and opening tin cans, we both went to a coffeeshop near my place for a late dinner and to watch a small part of Star Awards before I came home. The day activities aside, I'm starting to look forward to camp! Just not very excited about the toilets and maybe beds but I should survive. Looking forward to building up a stronger relationship with God and grasping the full truth about The Abundant Life with God and what it means to be living such a life. I'll be back on Friday!Sunday, December 4, 2005 02:10 a.m.
I got home not long ago and I'm looking through the games right now and I don't know what to do. There seems to be so much stuff to do yet I don't know where to start and I don't know what to prepare for tomorrow's meeting. At times, I think it's self explanatory but then I think about how Marc doesn't know anything and I panic because we advisors agree to kind of just play the supporting role at camp so Marc has to know everything inside out. One part of me is also thinking of the possible limitations to the games yet on the other hand, I think we've got everything covered. Oh well. I'm praying that God will bless us with good weather, that the games will be executed smoothly and the people will enjoy themselves. Had dinner with E today then we went to Popular and the supermarket to get games materials. Haha, I think because he woke up after his nap and realized he didn't get transported in his dreams and was still at home somehow so after that, the mischievous little kid in him shone through and he was being a little kid and getting me all naggy and flustered when I'm trying to buy 10 packets of soya bean, 1200 straws, 20 cans of tuna, 11 bottles of 7up etc. Haha, he was playing, thinking he was driving when he really was just pushing the trolley and then talking non stop to me and telling me all sorts of funny weird things when I'm trying to think about whether I should get margarine or not. Haha. But no matter how hard he tries to get me annoyed, I just end up laughing at his silly ways. Haha. Went back to his house to offload the items, talked to his parents for a while when they got home and then I watched American Sweethearts while he played winning eleven because he couldn't follow the show. Haha. I want to catch Pride and Prejudice (I suspect it's going to be draggy but interesting nonetheless) when it comes out in the cinemas and he agreed to follow but I think he might just fall asleep or be supremely bored because he's more into brainless shows like Chicken Little. Haha. But that's an issue we'll sort out next week and I'm glad we got to spend some time together without having to worry about my exams or his exams or projects. Now I'm going to figure out what I should do for games.Thursday, December 1, 2005 02:04 p.m.
Happy Birthday Sarah Wong! See how you've grown from this small fat cute little baby to this still fat, larger and definitely not so cute 16 year old. Haha. I've decided to shame you! Haha.
You're the only person I know in this whole wide world who:- Self proclaims you're the Princess in the family (no shame ah)
- Steals my clothes, shoes and bags and don't get jailed for it
- Make me pay for all your food and shopping when we go out (I bet you won't even do that to your boyfriend)
- Quarrel with me every alternate day and fight with me every other week
- Tempts me with instant noodles at 12 midnight so that I'll grow fat with you
- Will ask me in the middle of the night, "Do you think I'm cute?"
- Self invite yourself to sleep in my room at night
- Can go out to Orchard without a single cent in your bag! But despite all your silly nonsense, tantrums, PMS, clothes stealing and the million gazillion times we've quarreled, pulled each other's hair, slammed doors at each other and screamed "You idiot!!", I still love you and you will always be my adorable annoying little sister! Praying on your 16th birthday that God will continue to guide you and that you'll continue to walk with Him all the days of your life! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------