i wonder what will today bring? thinks hard =)

2009-01-29T05:23:00.000-08:00

I nearly forgot:

Last night, after CYA, my lovely wednesday peeps surprised me with a birthday cake! I really didn't expect that. I was even wondering why they took so super long to come back to the room because for once, I ended my duty on time!!!

Oh oh...and I saw Zheng Yuan Chang, dressed from head to toe in yellow! so cute! Just nice wanted to go east ICA to help with the crowd arriving, so had more chances to look at him!!! ^.^ Whee

But was really happy =)

2009-01-29T05:18:00.000-08:00

the traffic at the road junction in front of my house is scary.

Just now when I was watching TV, one crashed crashed into another car at the red light. Now, when I'm about to start doing my reflection paper (which is due tmr =S), another car just crashed into the car in front at the red light! Yiiiii!!!!!

2009-01-27T05:10:00.000-08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Thank you all for the birthday surprises and celebrations!!! ^.^ This year's bdae was really fun. LOL.

Took sometime to post this entry because I was busy with CNY celebrations and had no time to post on the blog.

On Saturday (24 Jan), we were supposed to go to Jan's house for early CNY celebration because she sent a sms the day before saying her mum wants to invite us. Well, actually I guessed that it was to celebrate my bdae coz we have been celebrating each other's birthday XP

In the end we cancelled it coz I was lazy and "ppl couldn't make it" so she "postponed" it. LOL. oops. Sorry Jan! So I arranged to go with Cuifen for CNY shopping at Bugis instead. Funny thing so on Friday night when I was asking her, I was so sleepy waiting for her sms I didn't realise she already sms-ed and was waiting for me to reply such that she had to call me to get my reply XP Hehe. Oops.

So we went CNY shopping at Bugis. It was SUPER crowded and packed. Felt like fainting in Bugis Street. I didn't get to buy my shoes nor dress =( Cui bought her jeans and...something. I don't remember what. We decided to go back to Parco Bugis to get other stuff.

Cui wanted to check some prices at Seoul Garden for her friend who wanted to dine there so I followed. Here's where the interesting story starts. (LOL)

I was helping her check all the Seoul Garden prices for weekends, CNY etc and she was like "ok, let's go". Oh before that we saw Jing Ting and Michelle (cedar guides). Yes, so we walked to the other end of the wing where there were Sakae, some thai restaurant, and a Jap restaurant. I was the menu of the Jap restaurant and decided to stop and look at the desserts. Jing Ting and Michelle came and we were talking.

Later, Cui asked to go back to Seoul Garden to check the credit card prices coz she forgot about that, and we walked back. Passing the thai restaurant, I felt someone kicked me and I was super irritated and shot a glare at the person. Guess what?! It was Janice with Tim and Sarah, trying to hide and waiting for me to spot them! Haha.

So I found out that I was super blind. There were initially sitting outside Sakae (on the left), each holding just a postcard to block their face and walked past them. I even looked in their direction because I saw a postcard stand (FYI: I'm attracted to free postcards. A habit I got from Guides coz we needed postcards for souvenirs etc last time) that was just next to them. I thought I saw a family reading newspapers! HAHA.

They were quite surprised that I didn't see them, since they were so obvious. And while I was talking to Jing Ting and Michelle, I didn't even realise Cui went away to ask them what to do!!!

So when we turned around and walked back to Seoul Garden, they were again seated outside the thai restaurant (on the left) and much closer to me, but I still walked past them. Jan got so irritated she stretched out her leg to kick me! XP HHAHAHAHAHHAAHAAAH!

I can't get over the fact that I was so oblivious to my surroundings and didn't even notice them at all! We ended up eating at the Jap restaurant and I love their mochi dessert!

And I think I surprised my friends at church coz they wanted to surprise me too but I didn't go. XP So in the end, I got my surprise in church on Sunday, which is the actual day of my birthday! =) So I had a celebration in the youth room and had a lovely chocolate cake and presents ^.^ Wheee.

For CNY, I also received bdae ang pows (a first), usually I get a combined one, if not no bdae ang pows. (PS: My bdae has fallen on CNY period for a couple of times) Yup. So i'm quite happy this year. Is it you grow older and ppl remember your bdae more?! Haha.

Now to go back to doing my work and presentation slides =) I'll try to post the bdae photos some other day. Heh.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes (I only wrote the ones who sms-ed coz it's easier to keep track. heh. but thanking the others who wished me in person and on facebook!!!)

Sherry (12.01am)
Shinn (12.01am)
Sining
Pei Yin (da jie by 3days)
Liying
Trish
Sharon
Zaferin
Wei Ling
Nana
Yi Ting (who wished on the day and thought it was belated)
Calvin Fong
Cui Fen
Zhi Wei
Candice
Winnie
Xiaona
Shireen
Eleanor
Anger
Hui Juan (who got the dates wrong and wished me early and on the day itself)
Joshua (NYP)
Noel
Vivienne
Joy
Sheela
Peggy
Hui Yu
Andrea
Alethea

Thanks all for the wishes and those who stayed up to be the first few ^.^ Really appreciate it. Cheers. And for those who wished me in person and on facebook or in other means, thank you too! God bless =) Oh. and thankew peeps for the bdae surprises!

2008-12-21T07:10:00.000-08:00

Thank God for protection!

Was involved in a car accident just last night. My sis was driving then rammed the van infront in its right rear light. I was sitting infront with my sis so it's like I have a direct view of what happened. A little shaken and still can't believe that it happened.

Thankfully our friend was there too, so he took over driving and none of us were hurt. I wanted to get out to see but my door couldn't open. I think the impact crashed the door too. So I had to crawl out from my seat when we reached our destination.

One thing i found amusing was that a few seconds after the accident, the billboard infront of our car showed: "Road accident at AMK Ave 1" Singapore's traffic system is super efficient lah! Haha. That was funny coz they updated so fast!

Sorry jie, but i must rant. I'm just irritated with how it all happened. Careless on your part, yes, but warned you before and you just brushed me aside. I think I'm so irritated and agitated coz I'm still in a state of shock. The feeling is surreal.

But really thank the Lord. We were praying for safe journey and protection before we left the hse and God really kept us safe from injuries. Just take it as a lesson learnt that we need to pay more attention next time.

My parents were away so when my dad came back just now, my sis said he was unhappy but he didn't really scold her. We were also praying that they will handle the situation appropriately and not be too harsh.

THANK YOU JESUS FOR PROTECTING US! ^.^

2008-10-22T21:48:00.000-07:00

I love this pic!!! Look carefully...

Haha. It's a real car k! I did not photoshop the pic! Hilarious! I was even comparing it to another police car next to it. I thought I read it wrongly or something. =D (Was at Terminal 1 bus station.)

Hopefully they have realised their mistake and changed it! ^.^

2008-09-29T06:32:00.000-07:00

FINISHED F1!!!!! Whee! ^.^

Regrets:
Didn't get to work at Paddock.
Didn't really get to watch the race.

Enjoyed:
Got the chance to switch back inside instead of working at the fore court.
Made many new friends.
Had a nice time serving.
Had a fun time laughing at people (my friends and some guests).
Like it when the guests thanked me for making their time enjoyable =).
Loved the eating part where we could eat the leftovers. Heh. Oops.
Sneaking peeks at the race.
Talking to people (friends and guests).

Whee. I liked what I did though I would really have loved to go to the Paddock to work instead. Made many new friends and they were very nice and sociable. =) CHEERS!

Do I look very Chinese? Cause 2 people asked if I was from China. Is that a compliment that my Chinese is good? Well, I'm proud to be a Singaporean Chinese. Yupps =D And I guess everyone warmed up to me quite fast. Haha. Let's just say I'm from many countries! Multi-national!!!!! Or Inter-national!!!! HEH.

The first day rained and I was caught in the heavy rain. Sheesh. Wore my heels and nearly killed my legs. Quite few people because it was only the practice day for the racers. Haziq and I volunteered to go back in when they asked for 2 people from the fore court. We were rather happy. Can get to practice our skills!!! Yay. Then they gave us work shifts and half of them had to go at 6pm because they were on morning shift the next day. The rest had to stay. Ended at 11pm and a group of us got lost walking to the MRT cause of some road blocks and diversions. Sigh. We walked around finding our way to the MRT for 1/2 hour!!!!!! Azila had a really bad blister and decided to walk barefooted in Citylink Mall. Haha. Reminds me of Vanessa and our first 1H03 outing at Orchard.
(1st day: 11am to 11pm - 12 hours!!!)

2nd day was more crowded. Saw familiar faces and they recognised me! Yay! =) That's good. Ate more food. Dinner was nice too!!! Decided to slack a little cause my legs and hands hurt. Especially my left hand. Previous night not really enough people at some point of time and I had to clear a number of plates at one go. My nerve in my left arm really hurt badly throughout the night and into the next day. Applied so much deep heating rub cream! I got to clean plates and serve drinks more than clearing plates. Yay! Azila was lucky that Chef asked her to stay put at the desserts counter to describe and recommend the desserts to the guests. I guess she really needed to rest her feet. Oh oh. The reason why I could relax a little was a number of the people supposed to work morning was asked to work the evening with us instead. Thankfully!
(2nd day: 4.30pm to 11pm - 6.5 hours)

3rd day was MUCH crowded. The 1st level girls started work at 3pm as we knocked off at 11pm but the guys had to stay till closing (perhaps 2-3am?) so they started at 5pm. Arisa, Lyndia and I were asked to help out upstairs for Hi-Tea while we were happily opening wine bottles and learning to open wine bottles downstairs. Upstairs atmosphere was more solemn but I realised the view was MUCH better. 1st level can hardly see the details of the cars and the race. But from the 2nd level it was like a slow motion of the cars as you could see from a distance and still catch the sight of it a distance away. Less blur! Heh.

Due to some confusion the others went for dinner first and I joined....(I just realised I didn't get her name. The cute NYP girl.) and 2 other co-workers for dinner. When we got back, this other person said "hi pearlyn!" and I replied, but I don't recall who's that!!! Oh no. That's bad! =S SORRY! GOMENAI! So while the others worked, I went toilet first and took a few photos. Hehe. Then it was back to work. Enjoyed this day more. Did my work slowly but efficient k! More relaxed and enjoyed it more. We had LOTS to eat after that cause all the guests left to watch the race and by then the race ended, buffet's OVER! Muahahahahh. Sorry. I sound greedy but when you're working hard, you get hungry very easily! Haziq gave us some updates about the race he heard from the guests while interacting with them. Like the pit stop errors that cost Massa his lead position. So sad lah! Heart breaks.

At the end of the race, guests piled back in for their round of drinks to finish the race. This huge group had 4 bottles of champagne! Wow! I tried a little from Chuan Ann. It's NOT nice! I prefer white wine! Okok. So supposed to end at 11pm, but I cleared the drinks till 11.10pm then I decided to carry on till 11.30pm. This way got 1/2 more pay! Anyway the guys needed help clearing too. So before we left, we took some group photos and the girls left.

After we got our cards signed, Azila and I decided to make a move first while Arisa and Lyndia wanted to stay for champagne. We walked to the track to take photos!!!!! YAY! So unglam. We had to climb over the barrier later in our skirts to get off the track. Haha.
(3rd day: 3pm to 11.30pm - 8.5 hours)

Okies. Shall upload the photos in the next entry.

Got back, changed and rested before going to airport this morning for QCSM again. Luckily the trainer allowed me to take the forms first otherwise I would have to wait there till 5pm! No more energy le! Left him my contact details just in case any problems.

Wanted to buy my HYD 2 from the moving Poh Kim, but when I got to AMK, it moved already! =( So sad. Now to wait for another sale! Sigh.

2008-09-15T05:35:00.000-07:00

It's been such a long time since I've typed anything. Have so much to say, but so lazy to write out.

Watched Hanadan! SOOOOO NICE! ^.^ Specially bought my Hana Yori Dango yesterday and have since been watching! Sighs. So nice! It's so much better than the Chinese adaptation (Meteor Garden). Can't wait to buy part 2 and Gokusen 3 too! =)

Just changed violin teachers. This new teacher seems to be better. Perfects my skills more and expects more too. There's pressure learning under her but just one lesson and I learnt alot more. Back to the basics!

Wheee. I'm looking forward to F1. But big disappointment. At first posted to Paddock to work! PADDOCK!!!!!! Then due to some confusion I was posted here and there and finally to Esplanade Grandstand. Sighs. But there's still regret not being able to work at the Paddock (the start and finish point of the whole race! the VVIP area) -_-.

I hope I chose the correct section to work at the Grandstand. Kind of regretted because I misunderstood the duties of the section I'm in and volunteered for it. Wanted to choose something that is more challenging and practice my skills I learnt as SSM but now, I'm dealing with disposable equipment and only drinks dispensing. =( No matter what, I'll put in my best effort and let the person I'm serving feel happy getting the drink from me! Cheers! SMILE ^.^

I hope I'll get a chance to try bartending at least once.

CYA's getting a little annoying. Simple coordination of things and yet we are facing so many problems. Lord, please be there to guide us and let us manage CYA smoothly and successfully!

I like challenges to jobs. I like doing and completing a good piece of job. But I don't like it when people are hindering me or giving me unnecessary problems.

Was sweeping the floor in the afternoon and using the vaccuum cleaner. Suddenly recalled one of the SSM days at Sugarloaf. Shi Ning so funny! She wanted to check if the vaccuum was finally working after I cleared the clog and put her hand to the suction end. Her hand was sucked to the mouth of the vaccuum with a pop sound! hahahahahaha. The sight was super funny! You should have seen her shocked look!

2008-08-24T07:24:00.000-07:00

Oh. Have not blogged for a long time. Lalala...

Whee! Finally finished my 10km Safra marathon! YAY! But I've not finished studying for accounts! Yikes. Not to mention TTO. Have yet to start studying for that X_X I'm SO nervous! God! Please help me and let me enter the exam hall CONFIDENT! Amen!

Last night I think I was too excited for the marathon, and had a tummy full of air. Heh. Hurt so badly! Almost died from the after-effects during my last lap of the race. The air was pushing up against my ribs and chest and made it so hard to breathe! Thank God nothing happened. If you think "Whoa, you can run 10km ah?!" Well, not exactly. Let's just said I ran 8km and walked the 2km. Heh.

(Just listening to FM93.3...discussing about the death of the Korean star in Coffee Prince due to car crash. He's so funny lah, but so sad that he died so early - 27 years old!)

Yupp. So I got my finisher's medal. As long you finish, you get the medal. What surprised me was along the way, SAF guys were 1.walking at the initial part of the race 2. when I started walking because my feet hurt too much, they were walking SLOWER than me!

Not that I have anything against them, it's good that they know their limits, but what I find funny is in the beginning, they chiong (ie make a dash for it) and in the end cannot keep up with the pace and even walked so slowly.

Timo (church friend) ran past me and tapped me. I was wondering who was the irritating person. Oops. Heh. Sorry Timo! XD

The Padang (Starting and Finishing point) became SUPER muddy. Yucks. My shoes' are soiled now. Bleh. Need to buy a new pair anw. It's getting worn out. Haiz. I still like my previous pair which got chewed up by stray dogs at a church camp =(

Watched the Olympics Closing Ceremony. 3 Cheers for China! Really impressive. How they blend modern and tradition and heritage. Love the dresses of the ushers. They are so China yet elegant and graceful. Complements the Chinese and brings out the grand atmosphere totally!

Missed the Opening Ceremony that time because of my fever but China really did themselves proud with such a grand and spectacular Olympics 2008! YAY! Good Job!

2008-08-09T02:10:00.000-07:00

*coughs* *sneezes* *shivers* What a way to celebrate National Day!

"Happy Birthday Singapore!!!!"

sighs. Down with a terrible flu and running a fever! =_= I got my fever while at CYA training yesterday evening. I didn't expect it to be so high. I thought I was shivering and feeling cold because I was in the aircon lecture hall too.

Dad brought me to see the doctor after picking me from Compassvale Point. Before I even entered the clinic I could feel the aircon and started to shiver lah!

The doctor saw me for 2 min because I couldn't stop shaking in his room so he hurried. My temperature was 38.6'C.

Went home and the temperature escalated. Had a quick hot bath and slept till today noon. Still having a slight fever and feeling so restless and tired. In addition, I need to study for my geog test on tuesday! Yikes.

God, I pray that You'll heal me completely by tonight so that I have the energy to concentrate and study and for Monday our SSM will be a unbeatable success! In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

okok. Gtg. My nose is runny.

2008-08-05T08:48:00.001-07:00

*coughs coughs*

My throat hurts. Had a slight fever just now. Hope I didn't pass it to anyone! =S Crawled out of bed at 9+am and flopped down onto mum's big bed and dazed till 12+pm. I was so lethargic and could hardly move. My limbs had little energy in them.

Oh no. Still have bese individual project, geog reflection, geog quiz, geog test to study for and french quiz!!!!!! YIKES! =S

2008-07-27T08:49:00.001-07:00

went out with andrea and miao hong and sarah after tto/geog tour. bought my new wallet and make-up bag! ^.^ smiles

Sarah went off and the rest of us ta-pau food and stood next to the escalator in bugis eating lunch. haha.

We went to the arcade later coz MH wanted to throw baskets. Silly Miao Hong. Out of 5 stray balls, she "aimed" 4 at me lah! I switched sides and the balls flew towards me! Her last stray ball whacked right into my right cheek when I turned to spot other htm friends. I just turned and told her some of the other htm ppl here and next thing I knew, WHACKED! Smacked right into my face and this little boy next to me was so sweet lah. He helped pick up the ball. ARGH! MIAO HONG!

2008-07-27T08:41:00.000-07:00

STOP TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ME! I'm super fed up and irritated. I wish I could be utterly selfish and mean but I don't to be that way. Yet I don't like it when people are taking advantage of me when they don't put in effort and do their part! GET THIS: I'm not schooling for you!

I'm just super irritated that I make the effort to attend classes and have to become other people's notebook and be taken for granted. Do you know how it feels to be in that position where you painstakingly copy notes etc and others just use it as if it's "natural". I really don't mind if I know the person puts in some effort to do their part but I don't like being treated like such! ARGH! Waste of my time and money.

You just caught me in a super foul mood and I'm not done studying yet which makes me more agitated. GROWLLLLLSSS. >:[

2008-07-25T09:00:00.000-07:00

Ah ha. So funny! Was watching a Korean variety show on KBS World. Can't really remember what's the name of the show.

The participants were playing charades. A star is paired up with a member of the public and the guest has to give clues for the star to guess the word.

The last pair was funny. The lady was supposed to give clues to the male star but she's not Korean. I think she's Chinese working there. So she wasn't that well-versed with Korean. She'll suddenly turn around and ask her friends in Chinese for help! =)

Then here's one of the words she had to describe:

Lady: People chasing police.

Can you guess the word?

Male: Robbers! [?!]

Hosts: CORRECT! [?!?!]

Haha. I thought it's the other way round! ^.^ And when asked how the star guessed it, he replied "I must think at her level!" What duh!?!

Anyway. I'm rather excited. Working in F1. But I've no idea where's my area exactly. It states Paddock but when I tried to find it on the F1 map, I can't find it! Shall be waitressing! Whee! So exciting and scary! I hope I don't drop/spill anything.

Tmr we having some geog cum tto tour. Sigh. EXCURSION TRIP! WHOO!

2008-07-18T08:17:00.000-07:00

Sorry Manda and Dee. Was pulled up to Top Table last minute to help! Ahh...

Well this was what happened:

Monday. SSM. I'm at Sugarloaf! Outdoor Sales! Whoot! Yay! And just nice that day I wasn't feeling too good, so outdoor sales was perfect where I could work at a slower pace. My duty was to push cart around TP selling Sugarloaf products.

During grooming, we found out we had VVIP event ie they need 7 "volunteers" to help out at Vista (our restaurant foyer for invited guests) and Top Table had 4 absentees - of which 3 were crucial positions: a captain and 2 waiters and we found out later, all 3 were supposed to be working at the same station. ie Whole of station 2 was absent. And THANK YOU JEROME, the headwaiter for Top Table that day for picking me to replace the waiter! RAHS AT YOU!

So in a minute, I was happy-outdoor sales-push cart to work alot-don't know menu for that day-sick-waitress! Thanks ALOT Jerome. You owe me BIG time!

Thankfully Vista was serving nearly 30 pax so they capped Top Table at 40 guests. I was later assigned to station 3 instead cause they realised whole of station 2 was replacements from Sugarloaf and they need to shuffle the people so that those prepared for the day can help us. But luckily we were previously at Top Table so we knew how operations were like.

Service was rather smooth overall and I'm really surprised and impressed by this group's coordination. It was nice and less stressful to work with this group and little glitches. Our station was quite ok too.

I just can't stand Mr S. It's as if he eats dynamites and shoots off at people at the slightest bit of irritation. I wanted to adjust the waiter's cloth myself and he scolded me "What's wrong with you?! I've done it for you, why are you adjusting it?!" And he grabbed the cloth from me to position it on the plate again. In the end I didn't want to use another waiter's cloth for the other plate and rushed to serve the scalding plate to the guests. Burnt my fingers. Ouch. But seriously I don't like the way he "advises". I want to try and find my own style of service and here I am scolded for doing so. Sigh.

Yup yup. So here's my sad tale. And I won't be able to do outdoor sales this term again! I'm really sad. =(

Sorry Amanda and Dee! Really glad you came to support! Sorry for not being able to serve you! =_=

2008-07-05T06:42:00.000-07:00

累了。困了。讨厌自己的我，不想像这样活着。
好多次，好多次快要放弃，你却坚持着，让我从贵而来。
再次犯下的错，你会怎样接收我？
我都不知道你的字典里还有我这个人吗。
也许你不会放弃而愿意接纳我，可是我还能像从前一样回到你身边吗？
不清楚也不了解。可能我和你之间也就这样了断，心痛也弥补不了伤痛，弥补不了过去。
我需要真实的答案，能用眼睛看得到，耳朵听得见的事实。

2008-07-02T11:33:00.000-07:00

Oh oh. I forgot to blog abt this that day. We were in the lec hall for accounting and decided to be crappy. At least Janice did. Haha. So she asked us to call her Mary Bell. I randomly said she'll do "ding dong" bell, and next thing I knew, I became ding dong bell! Rah!

Cui Fen became Jingle Bell and Chuan Ann was Dumb Bell. Oops. Hahahaha. The Bell family - crazy and retarded!

Went to practice for SSM test next mon. Went yesterday too. I'm getting the hang of opening and pouring wine *I hope*. O Lord, please let Mr Neo be my examiner! Amen! Because he's the one teaching me and Shining these two days what the test is about, so best if he can test us because we practice using his style. Argh. I hope I can go back this Friday to practice. But from the looks of it, it's going to be very crowded and Mr Neo doesn't know if we can go back. We can try though *crosses fingers and prays hard*

Today, campus crusade distribute Naked-I magazines to the students. I got down the bus and someone handed me a copy. At first I rejected coz I din want anything, then I caught a glimpse of the magazine and found it super familiar. Next thing I knew, I looked up and saw Joelle with some others giving out the magazines. She gave me some to give to classmates. Should have taken more! Well, it seems to be attracting the attention of most people and interesting them to read it! =)

2008-06-29T01:30:00.000-07:00

Lord, please grant me wisdom, memory, peace and knowledge for the ssm written test tmr. And let me remember and execute my duty as waitress tmr properly so that there will be no glitches and everything will run smoothly. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

2008-06-29T01:27:00.000-07:00

*cries* my baby toe on my left leg hurts alot. *sobs*

I accidentally kicked into the door and it started bleeding. It's really painful and I'm scared that it'll drop off! =_= *cries* It really hurts.

I'm not sure if I cut my toe nail too deep or I kicked it in but it just hurts like crazy.

Please don't let my toe nail drop or hurt anymore Lord, In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

2008-06-21T02:56:00.000-07:00

Got back from camp. Was QM there. Argh. The campers really need to be screamed at to get things done!

QM job is horrible and tiring. Din know I was QM till I got there. And my poor kitchen kept getting infested with ants! =S Sheesh.

But thank God for the last day/morning. Woke up to loud thunders which were a "sure" sign of heavy rain, but I prayed hard and tried my best to believe that it wouldn't rain. Guess what? It did rain, just a slight drizzle and super sunny and hot after that! AMEN! Wheeeeee ^.^

ok, now back to doing projects and hw.

2008-06-21T02:50:00.000-07:00

I'm really upset now with people and work. I'm really doing my best can't you see?! If you're going to be biased against me and overlook what I'm doing = doing my part, then go away! Stop making it seem as if I'm not doing my part and neglecting my work. If you still can't get over it, then please come to me directly and tell me what fault you fine in me or my work but have reasons for it.

I've really never felt so wronged and disappointed with myself or working with other people before. This is like really bad lah! And the worst thing is: I've no idea why you're reacting as such. It's really hurting.

Feigning ignorance does not help the situation, nor does avoiding.

Lord, just show me what I have to do to be a better team player so that there's less fiction and negative feelings. Or what's going wrong. Amen.

2008-06-16T08:10:00.000-07:00

Lord, forgive me and let me find hope in you again.

Went to watch Kungfu Panda with Viv n Sarah. It's SUPER FUNNY!!! ^.^ HAH. LOL. It was really entertaining and hilarious. A great movie to relax! =)

I love that big, fluffy and fat panda! PO!!!!! XD

2008-06-11T07:53:00.000-07:00

updates on the test:

one word: YIKES!
I went in and was the first (with sarah)! GASP! Nervous. Was rushing to clean my equipment. When I got assigned to my station, I thought: Yay! Mr Chia's my invigilator! Guess what? Horrors of horrors! Mr Goh came in and sat down. "Ok. Tell me when you are ready to start." O.O MR GOH?!?!?!?!?! AHHHH!!!! I'M SO DEAD!

Well he was ok. I did not know that I had to wipe the table but I did so briefly before he started. So when he asked, I answered so confidently "yes", but he somehow managed to scrape out some dirt. Fine. But as expected, I failed the timing for the first task, but in the end my accuracy also not there, so die. Then he was like "You are the first person I've seen with such a long time and it didn't really pay off with the accuracy part" I'm so sad! =(

Sigh. Well, unfair. I was in Salt and Pepper with Sarah and she could leave her glasses of water inside but I had to place mine at the bar counter, 20m away! So guess what? When he said "start", I RAN to the bar and "fetched" my glasses of water back to serve! RAH! I couldn't complain coz it was sarah. I would have done so if it was someone else, but I knew Sarah needed the extra time cause she didn't get as much practice as I did. Love me, sarah! XP

Mr Goh forgot to place the identities of my "guests" so when I served the glasses of water, I addressed them all as Mdms. Heh! Yay! ^.^ Then he hurried to place the identities and was I lucky he forgot in the first place. The order was such that I would have to go ROUND and ROUND to serve/clear the covers. But silly dishes had such a long description, I had a hard time trying to read the description on the card in the dim lighting. (Another disadvantage in the VIP room, it's not as bright as outside.)

Thank God I managed to clear the plates well enough. =) Cheers. So now, all I can pray for is a good pass, perhaps a B+? *I'm being hopeful and having faith in the Lord.*

Orkay. That was for the test.

I watched Narnia Prince Caspian with Val, Audrey and Kevin and my sis. It's super nice! I really appreciate the way the movie is so related to the biblical context. At some parts, it's really waking my senses that would I be like Prince Caspian/Peter who nearly sold their lives to the witch by giving her their blood for power? Or even when Lucy was asked by Aslan what stopped her from going to find him....it was her fear. Sigh. I would love to watch it again.

Ok. I really need to get down doing my projects and hw. Sigh. Toodles

2008-06-03T01:05:00.001-07:00

Yikes! I'm SUPER nervous, excited and scared for SSM test tmr! =S

Please let me pass with flying colours Lord! Amen.

Need to prepare equip, set table (which I've trouble with the wine glasses), serve table (the plates are going to be heated!) and clear table (there goes the cutlery. I hope I don't crash.)

Ok. I'm seriously excited because I like SSM. But I'm afraid to be disappointed if I can't perform well tmr. Let's leave this in God's hands to watch over me. =)

Wish me all the best ppl!

2008-05-25T00:38:00.000-07:00

Email forwarded from Cuifen:

You might like it. This is hilarious... ..even an Englishman could not construct sentences using numeric, which is exclusive only to Malaysians and Singaporeans.

Ah Lek was asked to make a sentence using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Not only did he do it 1 to 10, he did it again from 10 back to 1. This is what he came up with.....

1 day I go 2 climb a 3 outside a house to peep. But the couple saw me, so I panic and 4 down. The man rushed out and wanted to 5 with me.. I ran until I fell 6 and threw up. So I go into 7 -eleven and grabbed some 8 to throw at him. Then I took a 9 and try to stab at him. 10 God he run away.

10 I put the 9 back and pay for the 8 and left 7 -eleven. Next day I called my boss and told him I was 6 . He said 5 , tomorrow also no need to come back 4 work. He also asked me to go climb a 3 and jump down. I don't understand. I am so nice 2 him but I don't know what he 1.

2008-05-25T00:21:00.000-07:00

Thank God for His covering and protection.

Was involved in a near-road accident just now. After violin lesson, was on my way home on 851 at 2+pm. Those who have taken this company of buses will know that these bus drivers drive very fast and the structure of the bus does not help as it is extremely difficult to balance especially when i comes to a halt.

I stood in the front section of the long caterpillar bus (the area facing the door for ppl to stand). I was daydreaming but could tell the bus was travelling rather fast. Next thing I knew, I found myself crashing into this male-youth on my right. Heard uncles and aunties around saying that this car suddenly cut in front of the bus that's why it came to a sudden stop.

I was extremely apologetic to this youth cause he crashed into the railing of the seat infront facing forward. It was embarrasing and a little funny come to think of it as he was in much pain but I must really thank Jesus for sending this thin guy to cushion my fall. I really can't imagine if he wasn't there, I think I would really crash into the railing of that seat and hurt myself real bad as I would have flown from my leaning position at the other end of the area.

Had a little skin scraped off and may have injured my right arm when I crashed into the railing and glass window on the side. Otherwise, no serious injuries. Other passengers were alright but a few had minor injuries too. I think the lady seated right at the back fell from her seat. Not too sure. Was too preoccupied with processing what just happen to really notice around me.

Held on tightly to the railing on my left after that.

To the guy who unexpectedly cushioned my fall: Really sorry and THANK YOU SO MUCH! You really saved me.

Jesus, thank you for protecting me such that I suffered minimal injuries and no one was seriously hurt. Thank you for letting the bus not be crowded whereby if more people were standing, there would be many more casualties. Thank you for keeping the bus intact and letting this not be a road accident when more damage could be done. Please heal my right arm because I think I twisted it and let my rib that took the impact not become bruised/painful. Amen.

2008-05-16T07:28:00.000-07:00

I'm really upset with myself today.

I lost $50 and I've NO idea where or even when I lost it! =(

Sobs. Went for CYA yesterday and I am very sure it was still in my wallet because I took money out to bring with me and I decided not to bring the $50 just in case I dropped it. From then, I've not opened my wallet.

This morning in the com lab, I took my wallet out to transfer the money left from my CYA wallet and I opened to an empty wallet! I can't believe/understand where my money disappeared. Really sad now. I feel so bad to my daddy. Recently have been asking alot from him and now, I lost $50 that he just passed me yesterday to top up my EZ link. The only cash I have in my wallet was the $60 he passed to me to see the doctor.

I'm seriously upset, sad, irritated, frustrated, lost as to what happened.

"Jesus, I send my finding-angels out to recover my lost money, in Your name I pray, Amen."

Let me believe that You'll see me through Lord. Or at least let me recall where and when I might have lost it.

Heart's broken.

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Booked at Top Table for next Friday XD

It was funny. Cause I was wearing slippers and I din dare to go up because was afraid Mr Goh would scold. Then I decided to wait outside Sugarloaf for the class to be over. After a while, I was wondering why lessons still not over, then I realised lessons end at 4pm and not 3pm. Heh.

So I started my silent climb up the stairs to TT. I heard Mr Goh's voice nearby and paused. Took a step up to see where he was, and when I saw him at the bar, I stopped at the stairs. Next thing I knew, the door closed behind me. I thought it was some student and was very happy, in the end it was another staff! Oops!

He was like "Girl, why are you standing here?"

"To find Ms Mak, Sir."
"Just go in and find! Don't need to be so scared and stay here!" (Oh no. Oops XP )

So I went in and Mr Neo directed me to Ms Mak in the stewarding area. I saw Mr Goh and was praying so hard he wouldn't look at my slippers! Heh. Thankfully he didn't.

I found Ms Mak and was asked to book with Serene the hostess for that day. It was cute as it was obvious she was memorising her lines and spilling them out. She sounded so robotic! ^.^ I hope I won't be like that! =S

Alrights. So booked for 7 pax next Friday at 11.30am.

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Had a surprise 18th birthday celebration for sarah on wed @ Fish and Co. They had some birthday trick and treat for her (and some other birthday girl) at the end of our meal. Shan't go into the details. Lazy. But Maurice spoilt half of the surprise and thank you Blob for letting Sarah off from debates! ^.^

2008-05-10T08:49:00.001-07:00

ACKS! I DON'T LIKE DEBRIEFING!

Had to debrief for cca today and it's scary coz I've to get participants to talk and it's different from sec sch where you just give feedback. Here, you need them to feedback on themselves. =S

Well, I guess I'll learn from practice. But it's still scary.

Thank God for the weather though.

It was super dark and threatening and I was just praying with little faith that Jesus will not let it rain. Oh before that I was praying for time because I was late. In the end, I was late for less than 5 min, which is actually quite surprising because 15min before, I just left hse, and normally I take at least 20 min to reach sch.

Yup. But when the first drops of rain fell, I guess I lost faith and turned to humans to find the solution (ie wet weather plan). But something just tugged at me, telling me I should have just kept quiet and prayed more because the drops suddenly stopped.

So I prayed a simple prayer to Jesus: Lord, please send wind to blow the dark clouds away. Please do not let it rain and give us fine weather.

Actually I started praying on the way to sch because it was pouring and I hardly knew the wet weather games we were playing and I was to debrief the ELFs, so it was worrying.

Thankfully God was gracious and merciful, and loves to kid with His people. He sent winds to blow fine clouds to cover us from the sun and gave us cool breeze. I recall hearing from gor gor that God loves to mess you up when you start to become a perfectionist and plan your own ways instead of following His. Well, I guess today was that day. Jesus decided to mess up my plans and this made me trust Him more to work out the plan for me. Luckily God's funny and kind. He planned the whole day today for me such that my dreaded wet weather plan need not be executed.

So I am really thankful for God to be faithful to me, not giving up on me or leaving me to die because recently, I've really fallen onto the wrong tracks and almost gave up finding faith to trust in Him ever again.

After cca and AO dry run, I rushed to church for youth. There, again I asked God to give me time so that I can reach church on time. Well, I guess I didn't reach on time, a little late, but also because I went to buy prata for my lunch @ 5.15pm.

2008-05-07T08:22:00.000-07:00

Haha. On tuesday, I was in the lab with my lappie for Geog lesson. So I had two sets of com running side by side. Then while packing, Daryl was helping me. Just as we were about to leave, he was like: "Hey you didn't keep your mouse!"

I thought I was that forgetful and starting looking about for it.

"Where?"
"There!" He said pointing to a mouse.....the one that was attached to the sch PC! Hahahahahahax

LOL. Funny guy. Was embarrased after that.

Today had french lec and biz etiquette class. French lec came with a bad news: They are cancelling that french lec slot because too few ppl, so now, I have to go for tuesday's lec and have a 4h long break in between! RAH!

After biz etiquette class, we saw something so sweet. This guy was holding a bouquet of white roses and waiting outside our class. It turned out that he was waiting for one of our classmates and was planning to woo her. So sweet right?! The whole class camped outside the room to watch the "show". Haha. But in the end, we left them to it, not to further embarrass them. Hah. So nice =) I wonder what happened in the end.

So irritating. Dad left my plastic forks and spoons in his car and I had to rush down from sch to his sch to collect it and rush back! And all he could say was: You should have gone opp sch to buy!

Right....You know, buy=need money. And since he was the one who first suggested giving the ones we had from home, he should have realised that it's no longer in the budget because it's solved! IRRITATING! Growls. So I was panicky and really irritated.

Crusade Welcome Tea for freshies was great! Some RP students came too =) Estella and Ezekial were there too. So glad to see some of my accion freshies there ^.^

I'm super drained of energy, time and air to breathe. Tml have CYA and I have yet to submit my online quiz for Geog which is due Fri noon and seeing tml is ending real late for me, and fri have lessons, I have NO idea how I'm going to manage. Jesus, I need you to help me, give me time, wisdom and rest!

2008-05-04T04:48:00.000-07:00

Okie. Here are the photos to yesterday's bdae celebrations for Shi Han and Candice! Oh, and Si Ning's SHOWDOWN game. Haha. Watch out for her on TV! XP She got $20 just to play the game and be filmed. Haha.

Yu Rong and Keet were there too! So happy to see them! We got free samples of Gloria Jean Coffee! YUMMY! I want more! Heh.

Breeks is nice! But expensive too! The fish was mmm-mmm! Hahaha. Ok. I'm hungry. Cake was yummy too. Pris intro tt time when we got one for kelvin. Oooo....Suddenly feel the urge to eat it.

Sigh. I still seem to have a slight cough. May God heal!

We ended the day at Coffee Bean and chatted till late. MISS YOU PEOPLE!!! =(

Once again: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHI HAN AND CANDICE!!!

Photos (videos another day)

2008-05-01T11:10:00.000-07:00

Opened my bottle of Muscato D'Asti yesterday. I was SO confident that I'll open it successfully and even assured my mum that it won't pop because I've got THE technique. Woe and behold! I didn't expect the cork to be shorter so I pulled it too far out and just when I held the cork to rock it open, it shot out with my wine opener and flew out. Of course my mum was angry and well, I could find no excuse to defend myself. Sigh. Talk about shattering confidence.

CYA today was fun. Had a feedback form. It's nice to be in CYA. I really love it. Oh "floating" about is ok. I like being at counter but being a floater has its advantages too.

2008-04-28T07:17:00.000-07:00

Today's SSM was tiring, fun, painful and BAD.

My pinkies are still swollen from holding the plates! My fingers seriously need to exercise! They are sore and red and swollen. I mean the pinkies. The other fingers are alright.

We ended lessons super early today coz we won the Open Wine Bottle competition. Some guy open the bottle within the 15 secs! Whee! 3 Cheers for him! =)

So we went for a long lunch break then trotted back to go practice on our own. Mr Goh was there to help.

I think holding the plates are alright. I think the weight is heavy, 1.1kg min, but is not my main issue. My biggest concern is my sweaty palms. It seems that only when I touch the plates they get super sweaty and causes me to lose total grip of my plates! =(

Love the wine corking and opening part. It was fun. Pouring wine was alright, though I have yet to master Ms Mak's way of pouring. Oh oh. I bought some cheap Blackberry Merlot to try bottle opening! Haha. Wanted to buy the Handpicked - Muscato D'Asti, but cannot find!!!

Losing so much hair because of the spraying etc. Oh my.

But really, I want to thank God. So many times I could have been picked out by Mr Goh for a good lecture, but many times, he just walks past me and doesn't seem to notice me but of those around me. Take for example my shoes, I seriously forgot that I needed to polish my shoes cause I thought I just bought them, they are ok. And I could have been asked why I din polish them, but somehow, he noticed the girl next to me instead and really reprimanded her for wearing a worn down pair of shoes.

And even for plate carrying, he did not pull me out to ask why can't I handle them.

I think the SSM teachers are one thing: Strict for your own good. They are only nasty if the attitude's the problem. Because if you have the right attitude and put in your best effort to try, they will help you and not scold you for making mistakes.

LOVE SSM! HATE PLATES!

2008-04-25T19:59:00.000-07:00

Whees...First week of sch is over ALREADY!!!! Oh wow.

SSM was fun man! I balanced the trays! Erm. Except for the big tray. It's SUPER heavy! Haha. Met my class twice this wk. As in really introduced. Know some peeps, the rest, I'll get to know them soon.

Love french classes (lec n tutorials) ^.^ Comment ca va? Giuliano is so nice lah! =)

Went for FHA. Oh my. It was lovely. Went around koping food and wine samples. XP

It's the food and hospitality exhibition only opened to trade visitors. Oh. I went for tuesday's one. My SSM on Mon, so actually I can't go. Then i asked Cui Fen to help me ask Mr Tai if I want to go, how? So on Tues, when I was ALREADY on my way to sch on the bus, at macpherson area, Cui Fen called me to tell me I could go, but I need to reach by 1.30pm. And guess what? The time was 12pm! I alighted and ran to Aljunied Road to take a cab home. I needed to make my hair, wear my uni and reach by 1.30pm! And for those who dunno what's SSM's standard of uniform, for my lesson on Monday, I woke up at 5.30am and spent one hour on my hair! So you can imagine what a rush it was.

And thank God, I was praying that He'll give me time. And wow! I finished dressing up and hair made within half an hr! I was home at 12.30pm and left my hse at 1pm to take a cab and fly down to expo!

Inside FHA was fun! We went around the booths to try their sample. And mind you, we CANNOT buy anything! Haha. Whee! So all we had to do was ask for a sample. =) I love this kind of exhibitions! Yums.

I dun like the parma ham Eugene was raving abt. YUCKS. SO SALTY! And he went for so many helpings! In summary:

Mr Chia recommended to us Inland Trading at Australia section. (We met him there.) We found his friend Brian Lin and he gave us SO MANY samples of the wide collection of wines he had at the booth! O.O Chuan Ann parked himself there and got high lah! Haha.

We made Chuan Ann and Eugene swallow water and other non-alcoholic beverages cause they were getting drunk. Haha.

I love Mr Govin's recommendation. (We met him there with his business partner.) He asked us to go to Pinnacle...booth and try their new collection of Handpicked. I love the Muscato D'Asti! I'm gg to buy a bottle. It's white and SWEET! ^.^ Went to Cold Storage yesterday but could not find it. Found Cab Sauv and something else but not Muscato. =( Sigh.

Fell in love with the slightly sweet Jap sake too! =)

Blue cheese was quite nice. I liked it.

Actually, I'm not sure if I really tasted the actual taste of all the foods I consumed. Had a blocked nose. Heh.

Alright. Still uploading the Accion stuff. Mission Trip stuff not all given to me yet. Yups.

2008-04-19T08:57:00.000-07:00

Just got back from FO Sentosa Outing and bathed. So ready to sleep.

Din go church today -_- Had workshop at Changi Airport first. That ended in the afternoon then I headed down to Sentosa. Seriously din mean to skip Youth. But by the time I leave from airport, I think Youth would be ending. Sorry Nana and Gor and Xiaona! Okok. These are just excuses. If I really meant to go, nothing would stop me right? Oh man. Feel so bad now. Sigh.

Woke up really early this morning to go for my service workshop coz dad heard the time wrongly and woke me up nearly an hour earlier! =_= We saw this taxi that crashed into the sign board until the one of its leg was broken and the whole board twisted. It's not the normal small road signs but the big direction board pointing to turn for the T2 carpark etc!

Then we had the workshop and later I left for Sentosa.

Quite a number of ppl turned up. Whee. I saw my EC =) Cheers. Haha. Well, I'm happy my freshies remember me! ^.^ Sigh, but my memory doesn't really serve me well. Can't remember some names. If not, I can remember the name and face but they can't link. So in the end, I always need them to give me some hints to their first letter of their name. Oops. Sorry!

Alright. I'm really not in a mood to blog abt FO. It was great. Loved the cheers and performances esp by Main Comm. Once I'm done uploading all the videos and photos from FO and outing, I'll paste the link in a new post. For now, you can see from Accion blog. Uploaded some there. Not done though.

Nervous and excited for Monday to come. SSM!!!!! My hair styling is still not a success!!! JIA YOU LE! ^.^

2008-04-13T10:16:00.000-07:00

Finally home!!!!!!! My voice is husky. Throat hurts. I sound SO MAN! haha.

YAY! ACCION GOT MOST SPIRITED AWARD! And we didn't get last! WHEE! XD

Love our freshies. They cheered and cheered. So enthu! Then got so many leaders that step out to lead too! =)

ok. I'm tired. Still need to check email and stuff first. Shall blog another day.

2008-04-09T09:53:00.000-07:00

WHEE! FOW is OVER!!! Now for FOC! =)

Hmmx. Accion got last, but I was just glad that the freshies did try and put in more effort for the last day especially. XD They were soft and sian, but today for carnival games suddenly run so fast and they did cheer louder too! . Much louder than day 1. =) *SMILES*

Whooo! I like our mass dance and school songs =)

ok. Shan't blog anymore. Need to faster check my mail then rest for tml! My voice's GONE. Sigh.

Oh, saw Patrick and heard that Sarah became the Vice-President of Debate! =) GOOD GOOD! =) Proud of u dearie!

2008-04-06T08:06:00.000-07:00

Toodles ppl! I shall be cut off from the world for another 6 days! WHOO! FO!!!!!!

See u on thurs dee! =) Hope u're in my grp, if not we'll be competing against each other! XD

GO ACCION!!!!!!!

2008-04-02T08:49:00.000-07:00

Today visited my grandpa again. He was more energetic. Went earlier in the afternoon. Saw my aunt and grandma. Grandma's cute =) Talked to her and treat her to lunch. Heh. She's funny. Was surprised that the cafe could give free warm water. She thot need to pay de. Haha =D

Love my gramps. They're nice and lovely. Admire my grandma for her perseverance and courage to go thru all this, travelling back and forth everyday. LOVE YOU BOTH!

Got my new specs! Finally! After my lens dropped out in Philippines, I decided I better get one new pair before FO. If not so troublesome if my lens drop again in camp. XD Still adjusting to the new degree and image. Super clear now. Not used to it yet. Jaw is still a tiny bit swollen but uncomfortable lah.

2008-03-31T04:20:00.000-07:00

Went for a checkup. It's less swollen now. But still a lil numb and pain. I can't laugh much and it's an agony esp when something is so funny!

Just helped my mum move in 20+ chairs! Haiz. I shall go have my dinner.

I guess my blog diary abt my trip's done! If I have anything, I'll mention it. =)

2008-03-27T22:05:00.000-07:00

okies....details for my trip: (i'm typing with one hand coz i'm ice-packing down my tooth...ouch)

PREPARATION
Went to aunty jo's hse a couple of times to prepare the art n craft, songs n actions, and other things for the children.
Went to aunty peggy's hse too! had dinner at both their houses! mmmmm....

(random: i'm hungry but i dunno what i can eat!)

1ST DAY SUNDAY
Arrived at the airport at 7+pm for a midnight flight!!!! Dot drove...since I asked dad to drive slowly to kill time, we decided to let sis drive coz she's slow. HAHAHAHAHA.

Went to T3 first. My first time really walking one full round of the public area. It's quite nice. Hmm. I'm considering to continue CYA even in 2nd yr. I like working there. See first.

Had dinner at the foodcourt then I went for last minute shopping for insect repellent, batteries, candies etc. =D Luckily I bought a new bottle of insct repellent. Used nearly half the bottle there.

Around ten plus we drove to the budget terminal. Uncle Mark, Aunty Jo and Dee were there to send us off. Soon Pastor Caleb n Sheela arrived. We started to queue to check in. Waited for Aunty Peggy to come. After checking in we sat at Hans for a small bite n drinks.

(it's been 2 hours and my tooth's still bleeding! I'm hungry and want to eat!!!)

After that we went in and I rushed to buy my facial foam. Heh. Found out that I can use the quick access pass but I din noe so I used the traditional human immigration. Haha. After which we found out that when Pastor says we need to "walk fast" means we run, he walks fast. Haha. We rushed to the gate only to realise that we still had to wait a while! Haiz.

We walked out of the building and climbed up the steps into the plane. Got a window seat! Whee! Shiok. Slept, ate, watched outside the window. We reached at 4+am and managed to let the officer check us in early for our 8+am flight.

We sat inside for a long time. Slept a little, ate dunkin' donuts, listened to music, made souvenir bag tags at 100 pesos (S$1 = 28 pesos). Waited and waited and waited somemore in the waiting lounge before boarding the 30min plane trip from Cebu to Iloilo. There we collected our bags and aunty jane and uncle joseph and aunty joy picked us up =)

Pastor calls Tita (aunty) Jane a F1 driver. She's really a speed-driver and scary. We bounced off our seats a couple of times when the car hit a porthole. As usual, piggy me managed to sleep for a part of the journey. Heh. We then passed by the Dumangas church n Pastor went in to see if the Salem Sanctuary was open.

I forgot to mention that I saw my first LIVE turkey! Whee! It was FAT! haha. Caught a glimpse of it when we drove past the houses.

We headed to the campsite and found it really small and incompleted. Pastor was so angry as he went about finding things not done and camp was just 2 days away. (Must understand that the ppl there take things slowly and plan less than us)

After a delicious meal of Lapu-lapu (fish-grouper) at a eatery down the road, when we finally left the campsite, we headed to the Iloilo Grand Hotel. Aunty Peggy, Sheela n I checked into one room, bathed and snoozed away. Pastor stayed in the squatters area as per normal with some of the church members.

We woke up in time to go for dinner with Tita Jane and family. Ate bbq-ed chicken with rice. Nice!!!! Went to SM city (a common-big shopping center in Philippines) to buy water. Ended up shopping for sunglasses outside the supermarket. We rushed coz to Pastor, 1/2 h to shop is already considered long! AAHHHH! When Shee n Aunty Peg chose their glasses, Pastor kept pressurizing me if I was done! AAARGH! Chose a pair in a hurry coz it was cheap @ 200 pesos.

Went back to the hotel, did QT, washed up and slept till the next day. The day there starts at 5+am when the sun rises and sun sets at 5+pm, 6pm. By 7pm it's complete darkness.

2ND DAY MONDAY
Had a quick complimentary breakfast at the cafe and checked-out. We took a jeepney (common transport) and started to head for Maliao (mountain). We went to the city church first and left our belongings in the care of Pastor Elmer (at first I spelt his name as "Elma" coz I just modified from "Elmo" heh. OOPS.) and family, taking just the things we needed. We went to pick Joel, Pastor Elmer's brother and continued our journey. Gave up wearing my cap coz it was nearly blown away. The roads were super dusty.

Throughout the journey to our stop-over, Noel was being suan-ed by Pastor because we set off late since we had to detour to pick Noel up, who woke up late, and risked missing Pastor's MUST TRY beef stew at the stopover. Pastor Caleb must eat the beef stew each time he goes Maliao and by noon there was the chance that the meat would be sold out and left only the bone marrows etc. So Pastor gave pressure to Noel saying that he better pray hard that the soup's not sold out if not he'll be in trouble =D

Reaching the stopover, we ate the salty-cum-nice beef stew and bought cheap slippers @ 55 pesos. My hair was hardened because the layer of dust that accumulated on it!

On our way up, the jeepney overheated and stalled. Suddenly Pastor did the most irritating and scary thing he could do (unknowingly). The place was super deserted, with us only, and 2 caribous? (cattle) staring at us when he suddenly went, "ShhsssHHH! Can you hear that?!" We went silent expecting something bad, (I though he still had the mood to listen to birds). "Hear what Pastor?!" "Shhsshh shhshh, can you hear that?!" Sheela got irritated and freaked out, "Daddy! Hear WHAT?!"

"Can you hear a jeepney coming?" (ARGHHHH!!!!) Cheh! It turned out Pastor thot he heard a jeepney coming and if tt's true, we would be blocking their way. We thought what "thing" he wanted us to hear!

After waiting for a while and letting the jeepney "drink" water and cool down, we managed to start it up and continued. We were even joking that if we need to push the jeepney, the guys would do it. Actually Pastor said that. He added. Only Noel would go help the drivers. Noel became nervous and started laughing. HAHAHHAHA.

(okok. i shall continue another time. HUNGRY!)

Ok. This is bad. I just deleted all that I typed. And it was really long! ARGH!

Dumb autosave's not working.

I shall just sum what I was supposed to write.

Went to dentist again coz stupid me pulled against the stitching while brushing teeth last night. Irony: I'm eating little and soft food not because it hurts but worried that the food will fall into the cavity and rot. Ouch. It's swollen.

Continue for the trip.

Walked a short distance uphill to the church. The main entrance-gate opened to a quaint garden on the right and mini steps down to the main building door.

Inside's just a small hall with little steps up to 2 small rooms, windows allowing its users to see who entered the main gate. Adjoining bathroom and mini kitchen with a backdoor leading to the same garden mentioned before.

Outside the building was a sweet hut for the children. Simple and nice. Outside was a picturesque view of the cities below. Ate lunch that Aunty Julia prepared. Rested, took photos, set off walking around village to remind and invite ppl for the medical missions the next day.

One uncle helped pluck soursops and pastor caught them with his cap. Pastor joked abt having Noel sleep under the tree to wait for the ripe fruits that would drop eventually. Coz the fruits smash into the ground when they are ripe.

We stopped by a well and Pastor asked me to pump it. I was wondering if it was going to be hard to push down the lever. I gathered ALL my strength and pushed the lever down. Guess what? It went down so easily lah! It turned out, you have to pump fast and many times to get the water out. And I was asked to suan Brandon coz when they came in 2002, he could not pump the well! Haha. And the little girl after him could! Muahahahahhaha! But true lah, maybe he pumped up the water le, but just need a few more pumps to get the water out! =)

It rained and we took shelter at the local store, whose owner was also the owner of the fruit trees. She refused to accept any payment =) We also hid in someone's house as it poured.

We finally gave up and walked in the light rain the the uncle's incompleted house which was to be used for the next day's medical missions. We closed in prayer and I peeked to see the innocent and inquisitive children peering into the windows.

Suddenly autosave's working. IRRITATING!!!

We experienced the first "brown-out". They call blackouts "brown-outs". I bathed after Pastor in the dark. Was so worried of dropping my clothes onto the wet floor or onto the candle flame burning below the hangers. Had my first ever pailing-method bath. For the many times I had to bathe this way (even in camp later), I kept wondering if all the soap had been washed off because it felt soapy. Heh. Well, lucky Sheela got her lights back as she was bathing after me.

Had dinner and prayed. God impressed onto all and most for Aunty Julia not to give up her children church work. I oso felt God reminding me that even in this cannot-be-any-simpler-environment that He is still down, even if it means down back to only the basics. It also reminded me of how back here in Singapore, we get SO distracted that we forget certain things and take them for granted.

But so funny. Because Mai mai and ....(I can't remember who) were scared that Pastor would want them to stay in Maliao to help Aunty Julia. So when they were sharing what God impressed upon them about how admirable Aunty Julia is to carry out the work she's doing alone in the mountains, they would add, but "I really don't want to work here". Haha.

Slept in the small room with Shee, Aunty Peg. We squeezed in the warm and dark room. Woke up a couple of times due to the heat to find myself and aunty peg facing so close to each other we could feel each other's breath. It was pitch dark and thankfully for torchlights. Aunty Julia, Giegie and MaiMai and Aunty Joy shared the other room!

We could not hold back our laughter when we discovered that Pastor, although sleeping outside in the children's hut was snoring so loudly we could hear it from our room!

3RD DAY TUESDAY
We had a quick breakfast and went to the place to start administration. I helped out there with Aunty Peg. Applied LOTS of insect repellent.

I had fun trying to take blood pressure. Hehe. But not for the patients of course. Sheela was teaching me. I think I would give them high blood pressure instead! Haha.

After lunch back at the church, I went to talk to some of the girls sitting outside in the garden as Sheela went climbing the mountain with Giegie, Maimai n Noel! Cool! I taught them sign language-alphabets and a lil jap! COOL! HAHA. At first they thot I was Korean, then Chinese (from JAPAN?!)! haha. Some of the younger girls were so cute. I was looking at two of them and I saw this scene: The long blade of grass was just dangling down beside Joy Joy or was it Flora? And she just opened her mouth to chew on it! HAHA! It's like a cartoon frog that suddenly sticks out its tongue to catch a fly! XP

We had to leave soon and i collected my cap and bandana which was hung out to dry. =)

We left by the jeepney only driven by another driver. This driver drove SO FAST!!! But hey! I still managed to sleep XP (We found out coz he was rushing to meet an appt.) We had to rush so much at Tita Tess's house to pack some stuff for the night as pastor gave us last minute instructions. I felt so embarrased packing my undies as he stood behind me lah! I gave up. I just chucked everything into my backpack! ARGH! Pastor!

We were rushed to the hotel and checked-in for another night. Haha. We found out that the church ppl booked for only 2 ppl-sharing room and under the name Ka-lip! haha. I still can't get over it. Caleb does not = to Ka Lip! But I think the GM came and sorted our problem and gave us an even better room than that of our first night.

We followed Pastor's instructions and walked to this mini shopping center. It turned out to be SO SMALL and puny. We unanimously decided that for food, we can trust Pastor. But for shopping, erm...no! Haha. We headed back to the hotel and had a nice meal at the Chinese restaurant. Our "SECRET"! Haha.

Slept soundly till the next day.

4TH DAY WEDNESDAY
We met Maimai downstairs and had breakfast at the cafe. Oh ya. I forgot to mention. There was luncheon-meat and corned-beef galour. Ok. So after breakfast, we went to buy some stationery needed for the camp. I got to see the really old bottle of glue paste that aunty peg said she used to use when she was young. We went back to the hotel to dump the stuff there and went SHOPPING at Robinsons!!! ^.^

Whee! We were stuck at Penshoppe as Aunty Peg chose 32 bottles of perfume!!! (200 pesos). I bought one! =) And she got a free clock. I think she bought someone to get that clock coz the cashier forgot that she was eligible to get it and counted all into 1 receipt. Erm. Long story. Sheela bought some perfume too. We left the perfumes there and walked around. Oh. We bought customised caps and fan too! Oh oh. Forgot one more thing. We were listening to the MTVs playing while waiting for the person to get Aunty Peg's perfumes. They were playing "Apologise"!!! and for my first time, I heard Britney Spears' "Piece of Me" song. I must agree with Sheela. I like the way she got back at the paparazzi.

After walking round, we met Pastor Caleb for lunch and went Pizza Hut. Shee n I went back to collect the perfumes while waiting for the pizza to be served. She bought another bag. Quite nice! (500 pesos).

We went to Tita Tess's house to put our stuff, claim our bags and wait for transport to the campsite. We chatted with Boyci (?) and Prince (ok. He din really talk to us.), Aunty Tess's children. They were completing their driveway and it was dusty and hot. In the end we were delayed until we had to head for the airport instead of the campsite coz the other group was arriving.

We picked up the other group and me n shee scrambled to follow the van instead of the jeepney because it was packed with bags, n I needed aircon and fresher air! We left our things at the campsite and instead of eating there, me n shee followed the other group to eat at their hotel instead. We got lost. Someone spoke to Ele in their language while we stopped to ask for directions. We had no idea how to reply and usually, I'll just look away and pretend not to hear. Ele was so nice and even tried to reply to entertain their qns! In the end the entrance of the hotel was just diagonally across! HAHAHA!

I thought it was such a small building. Nope. It was a rather large compound with many buildings. We went around exploring the place. Haha. Sua-gu lah!

We said good-bye and headed back to the campsite.

Shee n I "checked-into" our room. It was simple and small, and sigh, pailing bath room. Haha. I chose the bed away from the window and we started to pack things and sort things out. Cleaned the floor a little and cool toilet bowl seat! It's cushioned! Haha XD

We hurried to burn the mosquito coil as the mozzies swarmed the room. It was rather cool in the night and thankfully I was wearing long pants.

We walked to the children's hall and helped to pitch 2 tents. Yay. Shee introduced me to Cute? Oh no. I suddenly can't remember how she look like. Oh her real name's Genevieve. But I found out from Shee later that they like to give themselves nicknames.

Sadly the electric outlets just don't like me. For my stay at the campsite, I only managed to use my hairdryer ONCE! Shhheeessshhh.....The rest of the nights, I was like some mentally-ill child that sat in front of the fan to blow my hair dry while staring into space and brushing my hair occasionally. Sheela's a piggy. She just hits the sack and *poof* she's asleep!

But for this first night at the camp, we chatted for hours?! Haha. Pastor even had to come over to hush us. Oops. SORRY!

5TH DAY THURSDAY
Woke up with an irritated throat. Maybe because of the smoke of the coil.

(ok. I'm tired again. Shall continue another time. I'm sad. Supposed to have LG dinner with them but I can't go out. Having a flu and a swollen jaw. Just in a bad mood.)

(alright. updated the top portion. u can re-read if u're interested.)

We woke up listening to this cute baby, Japhed ("Jar-fed"), making all his noises. Oops. It turned out our room is not really sound-proof and we were disturbing them last night XP Oh. I wonder if they heard what we were saying. Heh.

Shee n I decided to be lazy that day. We din have any sessions with the children. So we slacked around, while the VIP went to scout the 2 concert areas. Shee was with her cousins and well, I can't really remember what I was doing. I think I was just sitting at the main hall listening to the VIP practice and talking to the children?

Oh oh! I REMEBERED! A little.

Shee n I were squatting by the pump and washing our clothes! Haha. A funny sight. Too bad we din have a picture of that. Shee was mentioning, the time we take to wash just these few pieces of clothes, they must think we are washing alot coz we were taking SUCH a long time. Before we got the proper washing detergent, we were using hand soap and body soap! Haha! It was fun! I got Shee to help me wash while I helped to pour water! Bleh! Haha. Shee, now u know my secret! Heh. Thankew!!!! ^x^ It was fun to pump the well successfully! (Oh ya! I forgot to blog abt the pumping of the maliao well! I shall go back n blog abt tt now.)

Aunty Jo, Aunty Peg, Shee n I were practicing our songs in the hall behind the main hall. The children were peering in from the gap between the dorm next to that hall.

Then in the evening, we were bored. At least I was. So I was chatting with the Maliao kids and revising the sign language and Japanese with them. Some other children joined us too! =) And I got Shee and Dee to sing for us while we taught them the actions for He's the Lord of the Sunshine... So fun! Konnichiwa! Shitsurei desu ga, oname wa. Watashi wa ____ desu, etc.

Took photos. Must remind myself to develop some of the photos and pass to them when Dot goes there in May.

Yupps. Hmm. At night was revival meeting. Many came up for altar call. =)

I think tt's all for that day? Oh. Went back and slept. Ah yes. That was the day the hair dryer decided to work! So I slept earlier. Pastor changed rooms and slept next door. No wonder when I looked up, the lights were out early. Haha. Shee was asleep ALREADY by the time I finished bathing! Or was it the next night? Haiya! Can't get my nights in order. Heh.

6TH DAY FRIDAY
Pardon my little brain but I can't remember much.

For children's church, Aunty Peggy was leading. We then taught them the 5 action songs, the story about Joshua and assigned them into 4 groups and laid the ground rules? Like how to earn points etc. Anw, have I mentioned that the theme of the camp was on Joshua?

Afternoon didn't do much. Shee n I were left at the campsite as we were preparing for the evening children's session while the VIP went off to prepare for the concert. Oh. It's either that day or the next day where Shee's aunty (younger than her) and her cousin brought us out to the mini shop at the road. Took photos by the road. Haha. Yes. Sheela likes the pic that cut half of my face out! Fine. Haha. Walked back and sat at the cooling porch outside our room and read our books.

We got a mite irritated with Pastor coz he didn't tell us earlier he wanted us to go for that evening's concert instead of the next, and at the last minute too! We could then have followed the previous group who left for the concert just a while ago. We rushed to get things passed to the teachers to take over for that night and rushed through dinner, only to wait for other ppl who were slowly moving but going with us (or is it the other way round) to the concert. Well. We were PACKED LIKE SARDINES LITERALLY into a jeepney. Pastor was yelling coz we were late already and the driver was still not driving off as more ppl were coming.

Whheelll, Shee n I were wondering if by the time we got there, would the concert have ended? And adding to our anxiety, we were caught in this jam/procession where the jeepney was NOT moving any more (I thot it broke down) and it was like pitch black as the street lights were out! =S

We had to walk to the Plaza, and worst of all, we could hardly tell our directions and recognised almost no one? So if we got lost, it's sayonnara for quite some time. Then Shee n I held hands tightly as we weaved past the ppl and vehicles along the road, clinging onto Maydi (one if the teachers supposed to help us with the children. Well she was the only one i recognised.) We asked her to lead the way and followed like blind mice, feeling around and squinting to try to develop some image of where we were.

We reached the Plaza. There was a brown-out and it was so dark, i just thot the Plaza was an empty grassfield! Imagine how we could have missed the place if we walked on our own?! EEPS.

Well, yupp. We were shouting across the arena for Aunty Peg on stage. When she replied, we were delighted! We fumbled up the stairs and were relieved to stand around ppl we knew. Haha. They were sitting there feeding mosquitoes! XP

I grabbed my insect repellent n started spraying myself and those who needed it. Of all nights to forget my torch, I left both my torches in the room, thinking I'll have no use for it that night. Sigh. Smart lil me ya?

We sang and prayed for the electricity to come back. Shee n I decided we should go back downstage if not it would be embarrassing when the lights switch back on and there are 2 odd pokes onstage.

Ok. Cut long story short. We helped Shee's cousin operate the slides, n found out that Uncle Mark's lappie transmits strong electric currents. OUCH! OH, and SHEELA GRACE PANDIAN SCARED THE PETUNNIES OUT OF ME WHEN SHE THOUGHT SHE LOST HER HANDPHONE! Guess where it was? Under her leg! ECK! I freaked out lah! I thot I lost it coz she left it in my bag initially. MAN! SHEELA! I NEVER WANT TO HELP YOU KEEP UR BELONGINGS LE! boohoo...We were like really panicky lah! Oh. I still have something to complain abt. U shall find out later. (Hint: Something abt the days.)

During the sermon, I couldn't stop laughing coz Kimmy was bouncing the ball off the stage, well, that wasn't funny. The funny thing is when she bent over to pick her ball, u could see that her diapers were dropping! Hahahahahaha. XD

Once the concert was over, I kept wondering how we'll get back. I wondered if they would leave us behind. Then Shee said something really funny, "If they lose us, they'll have to face my dad back at camp!" I was imagining the expression of Pastor and his reaction. Muahaha "MAJOR MANHUNT FOR THE 2 OF THEM, NOW!"
MUAHAHAHAH

We followed Tito...(Aunty Tess's husband)'s pickup back. Whee! Stood at the back with many others and Shee too! We held on for life and it was so super duper fun! Like roller coaster! WHEEE!!! It was so cooling and Shee was really grabbing on for life coz she held the sidebar which was so low! And she decided halfway to stop talking coz she din want the flies to get into her mouth. It was nice. Got a great view of the sky and stars. =)

Back at camp, Pastor became fed-up when he heard that they gave someone a lift on the way (I think) and for dilly-dallying. But by then the both of us trotted back into our room to wash up. Sheela told me that while waiting for me to finish bathing, Uncle Joseph was telling them, "When Kimmy jumped on the stage just now, each time she jumped, my heart jumped!" Haha. Cute.

Ah. Here's the other irritating part SHEELA! To sum up, I asked her if that day was Friday and she was like, "NO! It's Thursday!" She was so positively sure that she was right that when she realised before bathing that she was wrong she burst out laughing. Why? Because she said I looked really shocked, confused and funny when she told me earlier that day that it was Thursday. ARGH! Shee! I was super blur abt the days and losing track of the dates lah! And here she is, messing it up further! ARGH! Haha. Ok. It's over.

7TH DAY SATURDAY
Oh oh. This is a funny day! Super funny! Dee! Ahahahahah!

Woke up, ate breakfast blah blah blah and got ready for children's session. Sheela was worship leading. So Shee, Aunty Jo n Aunty Peg stood in front and Dee n I stood at the back. At first it was weird coz there were 2 girls, 1 a butch (spelling?), were taking shots of the back row n I felt really uncomfortable. To make matters funnier, the butch walked all the way round to the otherside and concentrated taking shots of Dee only! AHHAHAHAHAHAHA!

It was really funny. Even Shee realised. After the session, she asked us if we saw the butch taking photos of Dee only. It was so obvious coz the position she stood and how she positioned her camera was focused only on Dee! HAHA. Even Shee saw it with the side of her eyes! Dee was horrified! She went, "NO!!!!!!!! It's not me lah!" Aha. No point arguing or denying the fact.

Even more hilarious. Aunty Peg came up and told Dee while we were still on the topic. "Dee, later I show you a guy. I think he likes you. Keep taking photos of you." HAHAHAHAHAHHA! The ultimate man! We disclosed the "open" secret to Aunty Peg that the "guy" she was refering to was actually a girl! LOL. Here's Dee's reply, "NOOOOOO!!!!! DON'T SCARE ME!" Haha. See? Dee, I think you realised it urself lah! Din even need us to tell u.

Haha. So since then, I'm still laughing at her. I was so mean n cheeky, "Why can't u attract proper guys? Tsk." Hahaha. Hey but coming back here we found out Shee's cousin likes her too! WOoooooo....

Alrighty. We ended early and ate a quick lunch before leaving for SM city. Haha. The group, wanting to shop, but with no time planned for that, squuezed out the little time just to shop that lil bit. Hahaha. We youth girls, Sheela, Eleanor, Anadee n I went off on our own to shop. We were rushing to the shops but was stuck in the Christian bookshop for quite awhile buying stickers. Later, Dee got her Havaianas slippers and shirt and...? and I bought a shirt. Yupp. Can't remember what Ele got. Shee...I don't remember her buying anything besides the books and stickers at the bookstore. Oh. We got wet tissues at Watsons. Erm. Ya. We each got a waffle to eat and went to the meeting point. Wow. Surprisingly we were on time, early, and no one else was there yet! We even had time to take photos and walk one round in the Nike shop.

They took the van back and we took the jeepney back. Haha. I forgot to mention. When we were gg to SM, the youngsters took the jeepney too. Then Manong(Brother) Jong n Je sat infront. It was funny seeing how Jong plopped himself behind Je to sleep. HAH.

On the way back, the jeepney BROKE DOWN!!! We stopped for abt 1/2 h before we were rescued! Haha. Had a fun time taking photos by the road. Luckily Pastor called me using his Philippines number when he could not get Aunty Peg in the hotel days before. Because Uncle Bala used his autoroam-ing to call that number and get us rescued! Haha.

Pastor could even tell us that he didn't answer our calls coz he din know it was his phone. Never expected anyone to call that number. And his Singapore number, well, the phone was switched off? Sigh.

Anw, I like the photos we took. I think. Haven't seen them properly but I like the one of Shee n I standing further down the road, taken by Uncle Bala.

Haha. So the jeepney was towed by yet another jeepney to the mechanics by pieces of rope attached to parts of both the jeepneys. Haha. We left Je and the driver at the mechanics and went back first. Heh.

We came back in good time to prepare for the night's art n craft with the kids. I was dancing with them for a few minutes during free time and my gosh, they are so funny! They even came to our room later when I needed to rest to make me promise them that I'll go find them later and dance with them again. Hai. I felt like a clown cum entertainer lah!

Pastor announced for the concert and nearly the whole camp went. So the others ended up watching a video and some decided to watch the children instead =)

We had a fun time for the songs. Comedian Jong tried to follow and ended up with very funny actions. We got the teachers to stand infront instead and we could see their directions were different and they were confused themselves. It was really fun and funny for the whole session.

While we were starting to do the angels, there was yet another brown-out. We had to make do with 2 candles and 2 torches and continue. Well, it was messy. Haiz. Try not to get them to do crafts with glue next time.

Next, they enjoyed making the pipe-cleaner-flowers. Wow. They used up ALL the pipe cleaners! I thought we had more than enough! The adults wanted to learn too. Ok lor. But I realised that the children don't understand what is do one first then later we distribute more to them. Once they are done, they just pretend they don't have then come and take some more. Well, I knew I'll get irritated so I gave up. I passed all the materials to Sheela. Haha. Argh. I'm really the person who needs some order.

After that, the children remembered the promise made earlier! And Sheela was so confident they'll forget! Thankfully for the brown-out. Heh. I used it as an excuse for not dancing. Oops. Actually Shee n I were so naughty. We were so glad to see the power-fused at the children's hall just as we were going there to prepare coz we were lazy and thot that if tt's the case, we need not carry out the children's session. Heh. Well, I'm glad we still carried it out coz it was NICE.

Oh ya. Before the evening sessions started, Pastor did his "Shhhshhh! Listen! Can you hear that?" routine again. But this time, he wanted us to try and hear the concert being played in a basketball court not far away. Haiz. Can't really hear lor! I thot he was gg to scold me for playing the keyboard lah! Whew!

8TH DAY SUNDAY
We had our last children's session. Danced, worship-led, gave out the various prizes and souvenirs to the children and teachers. I'm glad they liked it. =)

Shee n I had holed up the the day before in our room wrapping the presents because remember the children came to look for me after dancing? Ya. They stayed inside the supposedly Out-Of-Bounds area, which is outside our room (porch area) and thus we could not stay outside where it was cooler to wrap the gifts.

After lunch, we took group photos and the team headed back to the hotel to check out as they were leaving that evening.

Aunty Peg and I were due to leave the next morning and Shee would leave for her Lolo's (grandpa's) house after camp. We were seated at the porch watching the ppl pack up and leave. Shee left first with her uncle and cousins squeezed on the tricycle while Aunty Peg n I waited for Aunty Jane to bring us to Four Seasons Hotel. I was being taught Ilonggo (?) by 2 girls. AHHH! I can't remember their names! They were complaining why I can't speak their language! Haha.

We took photos with Kimmy (Aunty Jane's daughter, she has a son, Kiddo). Ah. She's so cute! Quoted from Aunty Peg, "She shouts so softly!" Because she wanted to get our attention but the other 2 girls were talking to us too, so she was shouting as loud as she could, "STOP!!!!" But it was so sweet and soft!

We left after a while and naturally, I fell asleep in the car. Didn't I mention I could sleep anywhere? Haha. XD

We arrived at Four Seasons Hotel, no, it's not the Singapore's Four Seasons. It's just a small hotel with the same name. Well, I was overly happy to get in to bathe and repair my specs. My left lens dropped out again when Japhed's daddy accidentally bumped into me while helping me load my luggage onto the car...(I can't remember his name but his wife is Racael. It's Rachael without the 'h' and pronounced as "rah-cale". So cool. They know a little Chinese because they worked in Taiwan. The father worked for 8 yrs n Racael worked for 3-5 yrs I think.)

We didn't want to trouble Tita Jane or Tito Joseph anymore, so we decided that we did not need to see the team off at the airport. This way, they could go back immediately to rest and we could rest early too. It's not like we won't see each other in Singapore.

After a good long bath, both of us decided to venture on our own =) We took a tricycle for 20 pesos to Robinsons, the same one we went on the 4th day. We ate at the Hongkong restaurant. Eew. My pork rib rice had a funny smell. The xiaolongbao had no more soup because the skins were all broken! After which we went to the supermarket to buy water, I bought a bottle of shampoo and small toothpaste coz it's so much cheaper there! Can stock up for future use. Heh. We bought a little chewing gum and donuts for breakfast since the time we had to leave the hotel is before the time we can get breakfast at the hotel's cafe.

We took a cab back. Safer lah. Heh. Around 40 pesos?! So cheap lah! Haiz. Went back to pack our stuff, watch TV, do QT, sleep. Aunty Peg so smart, she exchanged luggages with Aunty Lee Nan so that Aunty Lee Nan can help carry the bulk of her stuff back and her luggage is empty to go to Cebu to buy the dried mangoes and corned beef. Haha.

9TH DAY MONDAY
We got ready and Pastor came to pick us up with Tita Jane. Kimmy was awake already by Kiddo was at home sleeping. Haha. It was 6.45 am and it was so bright. Heh. We felt so bad coz we were confused with the flight time and the confusion made Uncle Joseph's family wake up much earlier, worrying that they got the time wrong too. Heh.

We had breakfast at the airport cafe after checking in. Pastor Elmer, Tita Joy, Tita Tess, Tita Jane, Tito Joseph and Pastor Caleb sent us off. The departure lobby was nice.

Arriving at Cebu Airport, I was soon angry and fed up with the ppl, again. When I arrived in Cebu from Singapore, my luggage brand-tag was lost, ie dropped out/pulled out. Now, while waiting to collect our lugguage, we heard a loud crash inside the handling area and I guessed that it may be my bag. True enough, my luggage came out with a broken handle. Face turned black totally. ARGH!

Haiz. We went out and waited ONE hour for a taxi at the taxi queue! In Singapore, there are SO MANY taxis at the airport there is a queue for THEM to pick passengers!

So we arrived at SM City - Cebu late. Racael's younger sister, Sheela/Sheila picked us up from the travellers' lounge and we began our shopping spree. Next time, I think we can go shopping on our own. It's a little troublesome to get someone to accompany us. Yup. Went to many shops. Bought quite a bit. Dried mangoes (30 pesos), 1 kg of mangoes (from iloilo), 3 cans of corned beef, a little chewing gum (for sore throats), donuts, one more penshoppe perfume, I think tt's all?

We went to an art gallery too! Oh. I wanted to buy Havaianas sandals, but they only have slippers, if not sandals in baby's size! Haiz.

Took a cab back to the airport. Had a jam. Thot we were late and rushed! Still packed the food properly into the luggage first. In the end, we had hours to spare before our flight!!! Continued reading my book and take photos.

Finally took the plane back. During the flight, saw a distant area experiencing lightning! So scary! The whole sky over that area lit up with each lightning bolt and it was rather clear how it looked like. And of all times for turbulence, it had to occur when Aunty Peg was in the toilet and I was waiting outside. Had some leg cramps so I decided to stand for awhile more. Slept quite well. Bought a drink coz I was a lil hungry and getting a lil nausea.

Reached Singapore! Whee! Went to buy mum's liquor first and another bottle of facial foam. Was praying hard my luggage come out intact. Thankfully the other handle was spared. Anyway, the police officer had to choose me to go for the random security check. Haiya. If not, I wouldn't have gotten my jeans caught on my broken handle. Now the thread is like pulled out! Grumbles. Well, I guess I'm just grumpy that the handle broke and even at the last minute, my jeans had to be spoilt that tiny bit. Grrrr...

Missed my bolster, bed, shower, everything! Have a slight sore throat. But unfortunately it turned into a cough and now I've got a runny nose! RAH! And the swollen jaw is not helping.

Photos another day.

2008-03-27T22:02:00.000-07:00

sobs...just got my right wisdom tooth extracted! ouch...my mouth is now numb... i think i'm more worried for the after effects. sniff. i din expect the tooth to be so huge! about 1cm in diameter?!

okok...i shall continue my next entry for my trip details...

2008-03-24T11:11:00.000-07:00

ARHHHHHHHHXXXX!!!!!!!! I'M FINALLY HOME!!! WHEE!!!!! LOVE MY BED AND BOLSTER!!! muahahahahahahaha

okok. i'm tired. shan't blog abt the trip today. all i can say was i had a good time and it was fruitful. children were funny and experienced many "brown-outs".... want to know more? stay tuned...(that is if i have the time and interest to blog.)

oh....pls pray for my grandpa too...he had dengue and fell and fractured his hip. can't walk coz pain. not gg for operation coz risky so pls pray for a miracle of fast and complete healing and that his faith will be strengthened!

felt so bad that i could not visit him and he's been in the hospital for quite a few days! not only that. he didn't know i was away coz usually we try not to tell him as he'll worry for us. oh no. Father God, pls grant me wisdom and let grandpa understand and also not feel upset. In Jesus name i pray, Amen!

2008-03-14T23:01:00.000-07:00

Toodles people! Shall be gone till 24 March. Anything just sms. But no guarantee that I'll reply! Heh.

Pray for a safe trip and a fruitful journey! Pray that the Lord will do miracles during the medical missions and for Him to reach out to more people! =) Thankew! =)

2008-03-11T23:20:00.000-07:00

Whee..Received my exam results le! YAY! I PASSED MARKETING AND BCS!!!!!

Really thank God for pulling me through the semester and exams. Seriously, this sem I've not been doing my best or be very serious in lessons. Especially towards the end, I didn't even bother to go prepared for tutorials and rushed through work during the lesson itself. As usual, last minute studying for various subjects, adopting the "heck-care" attitude for many other things.

I think although my GPA remained the same, I am more pleased with myself last semester because I know the past sem, I did my work, but only went wrong for projects and last minute studying. However, this sem, I screwed up more things.

Ok. Back to lighter topics. Luckily I signed up for the SMS service to get my results. If not I would have to wait till tomorrow to receive them. The internet service is slower and LOUSY! Why can't they just show online the same day as they SMS (ie TODAY) so that I can see if I calculated my GPA correctly.

I hope I improved, even if it is 0.1, I'll be extremely happy!

But I think the best part to receive the results is finding out that I passed my marketing and BCS, the 2 subjects that I had little confidence in passing.

Was talking to Andrea online, telling her I don't know whether to be happy or sad that my GPA remain the same and she mentioned "maintain standard. Reminded me that I've yet to blog about YSN's sms.

I SMS-ed her after going back to see the juniors' outdoor cooking, grumbling that I was a little disappointed that they didn't really improve over the 2 years. Then her reply was funny: "Hah. Aiyah. They nv change. High retention rate..." I can't really remember what was the first thought that came to my mind, but I know I was thinking that I've been using the last three words in a different context. Oh! I think I was studying organisational behaviour or marketing then got high retention rate...Perhaps OB- high retention rate of employees! Haha. So i thought that it was particularly amusing that I had been studying this but it was applied to the retention of the wrong skills and mistakes committed previously.

I'll be leaving soon. Coming back on 24th March. Can't wait to go there to help out in the medical missions and their annual church camp. =) Have been preparing the action songs to teach the kids! So fun!

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I was working for Xiaona at Vera's company for the past 3 days since Friday at Ernst & Young. I found out that you don't pronounce "Ernst" as "Ernest" but rather "urns". Interesting. It was rather nice working there. Loved their milo at the pantry. Heh. Yummy. Drank MANY cups. *oops*

It was really cold in the office. We (me, Serene, Xiaona and Jaslyn. Vanessa came on Friday only) had to help HR department sort some letters for the closing of the financial year. My goodness! Although it was a supposedly easy task, it's EXTREMELY tedious. I can't imagine Xiaona having to do all the work we did, alone if they didn't get us to help her. The tasks were easy to understand and carry out, just check the details and enclose it into individual envelopes. But the thing is you need to carry out the exact same task for the amount of ALL the staff in the company! Didn't go to work today, but even these 3 days were not enough to complete the job! WOW!

But I love their meeting rooms! We managed to book 3 rooms over the 3 days because we needed more space than the table available at the dept. The rooms were labelled after places in Singapore. We were joking to call our parents to tell them we were in "Kusu (room)" because of our job. Haha. I think my dad will get a BIG shock! =P We went Sentosa, Jurong and Kusu (had a choice of Kusu or Ubin i think, but lazy bones like us didn't want to walk to the other end of the office to the other room). We were in the lift mentioning going to Jurong (room) and the lady in the lift gave a shocked look (and I saw it! Haha) until she realised that we were just talking about the rooms. Aha!

I think working there was a nice experience. Remind me not to get a office job that requires you to sit all day. It's not my cup of tea. Oh right! Before I forget, I love the food at Lau Pat Sa. Keep mixing that up with Tekka Mall. Haiya, dialect/chinese names lah. Didn't get to eat my pineapple boat rice =( sobs. But the Qiu/Qi Lin Ban Mian is nice. =) Reasonably priced too. Just very crowded. My first time going there without parents and eating other things besides piggy soup. And for the first time, I know where is Lau Pat Sa in Singapore, or at least be able to give it some bearings in my compass.

2008-03-05T08:44:00.000-08:00

EEK! I still smell of smoke!

Well, at least my hair still does! I even washed it thrice! With soap AND shampoo! ARGH! How do I get rid of the smell?! It's as if I'm some heavy smoker! I felt so bad for the people sitting next to me on the bus rides back home! SORRY! X(

Oh. It was because went back to Cedar to help see-see their outdoor cooking. Long story. Shan't say. Yup. The new school building is rather old, confusing to walk in, and I just prefer our old building!

2008-03-04T05:54:00.000-08:00

haha....got this email from my friend: HILARIOUS!!!!!

I love this Doctor !

Q:I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true?
A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.

Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?
A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain. Bottoms up!

Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?
A: Well, if you have a body and you have fat, your ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc.

Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?
A: Can't think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain...Good!

Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?
A: YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!!! .... Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?

Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.

Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A: Are you crazy? HELLO Cocoa beans! Another vegetable!!! It's the best feel-good food around!

Q: Is swimming good for your figure?
A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me. (I LOVE THIS ONE)

Q: Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle?
A: Hey! 'Round' is a shape! Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets.

And remember:

'Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO, What a Ride'

AND.....For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

CONCLUSION

Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

2008-02-29T08:22:00.000-08:00

Last night went to Aunty Jo's house to do mission trip stuff. She cooked dinner for me and Aunty Peggy. Her idea of "plain" porridge is really "plain"! Ikan bilis, yam, fish, scallop, tau pok, fish cake?! Like WOW! My plain porridge is really rice + boil + pickles! Haha. A GREAT difference!

Today was a packed and eventful day. Went KTV-ing with Kelsen, Kelvin, Tim, Pris, Val and went to watch Leap Years with Genn from ARISE.

I almost forgot how to sing the songs. I think I sing quite badly. Out of tune? Forget lyrics? Haha. How to read the Chinese characters? Ooopss...

Anyway, it was fun. Party-World at Orchard. $14 each for 4 hours + drink + tidbits. When we were leaving, we passed by Chen Wei Lian and another Project Superstar guy (top 4) entering the room a couple of doors away from ours. Interesting.

We went Taka and they had their dinner. We had a mini belated birthday celebration for Kelvin because we didn't celebrate for him and we felt bad? Ya. Haha.

I then went to meet Genn, a friend from ARISE. Thankfully I bought the tickets at 12pm. When I was purchasing the tickets, I found it so amusing that the whole theatre was nearly full with individual seats and two seats left available at the front row, but no one bought the couple seats which were right at the BACK! So funny! It's not as if the handles are missing! They are just adjustable if couples want to huddle together while watching the show! I was super glad and had my choice of seats! =)

We had a fast dinner at the food court and went into the theatres. The show is rather alright. Not super fantastic, but worth watching. Some parts are really sad. I think this show is really fairytale and not that applicable to real life. In reality, you don't wait for 12 years for the love at first sight to reappear in your life to mean something! It truly drama. But some parts are touching and lovely and funny. =)

Alright. I'm tired. Shall end here.

2008-02-27T07:11:00.000-08:00

WHEE! FREEDOM! (ok..not really but have space to breathe and relax now) EXAMS ARE FINALLY OVER AND THE SCHOOL YEAR'S OVER!!! ARGH! just when it sounded so nice and fun.

Alright. Year 1's over. I'm sad and happy. Happy: the holidays are here and no need to study. Sad: next year we are going to change classmates and be mixed with other classes. We may not be together anymore. Chances of meeting up also decreases as a result. I do pray that I'll get really nice classmates.

I'm tired now. Slept very little last night. 2 hours? Sigh.

Saturday and Sunday had healing service in church. I just don't have as much faith as I had to receive healing. Sunday: Pastor called for someone with neck problem and spine column problem. I had no idea if he was refering to me. But I didn't think I had a neck problem. Went home and realised my neck twisted from a few days before was still hurting. So now I really don't know if God was speaking to me. Now I'm just praying hard to renew my faith and even prepare me for my missions trip.

There seems to be so much to blog about but yet I can't remember or even wish to continue. Fingers are sore and tired and the brain does not want to work any longer.

After today's last paper, we had to go to TCA to take measurements for our uniforms for SSM nect semester. The queue was super long! After which, most of 1H03 stayed outside TCA to take our last day photos. Thank you Cuifen for bringing the camera! But some people didn't turn up/ disappeared early.

But not ending without thanking some people who made this year special and memorable:
1H03: For being there and being my classmates.
GuaiKias: For being a close support when I needed it. For all the fun and laughter, peace and joy. For the special and close relationship and friendship we shared. For the crazy moments and LDT momnets.
Teachers (Mr Pras, Ms Quah, Mr Png, Mr Chia): the four teachers that impacted the most in my 1st year. Here, I'll like to apologise and thank Mr Png for tolerating my last minute decisions and questions regarding marketing. "THANK YOU! SORRY!" To the other 3 teachers, although you taught us in the first semester, you really impressed upon my heart your friendliness and passion to teach. "THANK YOU"

Alright then. I shall end here. Want to check some things, play a few games before sleeping.

2008-02-21T00:22:00.000-08:00

cuifen sent me this super lame email! hahahahaha...

Haha...i think i would rather hold it too!

so dumb! won't the car be like pulled back?!

funny way of getting back at your bad neighbour!

the ass family...i took some time to figure this out! haha

see lah! play somemore!

aha...global warming! it's not just the ozone depleting ya?

i LOVE this one! tatoo of the year!!!

so mean! muahaha

2008-02-09T08:50:00.000-08:00

went to aunty maureen's hse then to fifth grand uncle's hse then to jan's hse for visitation today.

had a pleasant surprise at aunty maureen's hse coz her niece (Sharon Au) came to visit. haha...all the aunties and uncles were eager to take photo with her. the youth n children took pics with her too... =)

she's really pretty and humble and sociable. easy to get along with and did not put on airs when she saw us =) anw...heard that she scored VERY well in her exams that are in JAP!!! wow! argh...i can't wait to be able to take JLPT!

then visited mum's fifth uncle...got to see mum's cousins that we din see before and my distant cousin too...wow...my family's HUGE! =) whee...

yupps. after which i went shopping at the this fashion at kembangan MRT. wanted to go tampines or bedok to shop coz i thot i would be too early for jan's party. but when i saw the this fashion i decided to remain there and look-see. managed to buy 2 shirts-same design but diff colours, coz i like the design. can wear to sch ^.^

met jan at tampines then went to her hse. yuki has grown! and he was so energetic that i was a lil frightened! =S cute doggy but too active for my liking...

played Snap. sheesh. it's a violent game. absolute violence. we had cuts and smothered fingers and chipped finger nails. OUCH!!!! =( remind me to keep away from that game!

ate yummy food and collected ang pow. heh. oh...i was taller than "lil" alvin!!! XD haha..if i get the photo i'll show u what i mean. heh

2008-02-08T07:52:00.000-08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!! ^.^ may everyone be blessed all year through and get lotsa ang pows! XP

haiz...these 2 days were great....all the visiting and makan and relatives and friends....

but just saw thw news....ah meng (the female orang utan) just died. =( i'm sad. i love ah meng. she's like singapore's faithful ambassador...so obedient and gentle. *cries* sigh...i'll miss ah meng ALOT. =(

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http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_204484.html

Feb 8, 2008

S'pore's favourite Orang Utan, Ah Meng dies

Ah Meng will be reposed at the Zoo's Garden with a View from 9-11am on Feb 10 where the public can visit her for the last time.

Never had an animal resident of the Singapore Zoo touched the lives of so many visitors - locals and foreigners alike - like it's famous and well-loved Orang Utan, Ah Meng.

Yet, it seemed time when the 48-year-old suddenly passed away on Friday, of old age.

She was born in Sumatra, Indonesia around 1960 and came to the Zoo in 1971 when she was about seven years old after being rescued from the Chinese family who had kept her as an illegal pet.

Ah Meng's big break came in 1982 when she became the star attraction of the Zoo's 'Breakfast with an Orang Utan' programme.

The friendly Orang Utan rose to fame quickly, and has been featured in numerous travel films and print articles.

In 1992, Ah Meng became the first and only non-human recipient of the Singapore Tourism Promotion Board's (STB) Special Ambassador award for her contributions.

In her lifetime, Ah Meng has also rubbed shoulders with foreign dignitaries and famous celebrities including Prince Philip and Michael Jackson.

The Zoo's curator, Mr Alagappasamy (aka Sam) has taken care of Ah Meng since she first came to the Zoo.

He is extremely saddened by her departure and though it may 'take a long time' for him to adjust not having her around, he is 'very happy to have had the opportunity to take care of Ah Meng and her family all these years'.

Group CEO of Wildlife Reserves Singapore, Ms Fanny Lai said: 'We mourn the passing of Ah Meng. She has touched the hearts of everyone who has met her and contributed immensely in helping promote awareness of how each and every one of us can play a role in anti-poaching, anti-deforestation and conservation matters'.

Ah Meng leaves behind two sons Hsing Hsing, Satria, and two daughters, Medan and Sayang and six grandchildren.

She will be reposed at the Zoo's Garden with a View from 9-11am on Feb 10 where the public can visit her for the last time. Her memorial service will take place shortly after at 11am.

2008-02-03T07:35:00.000-08:00

oh...ultra-long-due thanks to those who lovingly gave presents!

$40 wallet shop voucher!!! ^.^
Nike bag (from gor)
PINK bangle..hmm..haha
2nd cake from xiaona n candice (haha...i surprised them by not gg to church tt day! =P)
keychain + flowers + decorated boxes.. (candice dearie)
mini towel from ele =)
flower clip from chiwen dear dear

i can't remember anymore! sorry if i din write it down! i will if i remember! but thankew you all!

2008-01-25T08:03:00.000-08:00

THANK YOU 1H03 FOR THE CAKE! =)

haha...the cake was lovely! the "candle" was cute! i really appreciate it...LOTS! today was a mixed feelings day for me. happy: all the wishes =) sad: project argh!

well it's over! now is officially 26 Jan 2008! haha

thanks to the dear peeps who wished me! (adding on to the list from yesterday):

Valerie Kwan

Eleanor

Candice

Xiaona

Adeline

Anadee

Valerie (1H03)

Christian

Bi Zhi (same bdae as me!)

Tim

Kelsen

Celine

Andrea

Cuifen

Sarah

Alvin

Pris

Vanessa

Viv

1H03!!!!!

Mr Pras

Ms Quah

Mr Png

Mr D.Chia

Accion: Grace, Yufei, Farhan, Amanda's friend, Bell (anyone i left out?)

Jaz

Adlan

Dyna

Shi Han

Sining

Mildred

Alicia

Weiling (IGuides)

Mr Rozario

Meryl

Tank (Sarah's debate senior)

Hwee Zhen

Amanda Hong

My aunt, uncle and two younger cousins (audrey n kevin)

Daniel (church)

Keet Yeng

Sherry

Zhi Xin (cgss)

Sok Yin

Marion

Syafiqah (ex-angel)

Deryn

Afiqah

Alex

Jaslyn

Angel (but i dun know who u are!!!)

Belated:

Nana

Joelle

Chi Wen

wow...i think there were some more ppl but i forgot to take down! sorry! but really thank you all for wishing me for a great bdae... =)

oh..n thankew guai kia, n family for my presents

(love the sushi keychain)

-nalgene bottle (so nice lah! coz i lost my previous one which was oso a bdae present from my sis last yr)

- sushi ornament/keychain

- school bag by family

- clothes (mum)

- cake

what else did i miss out?!

oh... my daddy treat me (n family) to sakae sushi! whee! my first time there! heh..i noe i'm slow.

okok...i cannot tahan le. shall go sleep then tml morning do bcs

2008-01-24T09:12:00.000-08:00

ahhh...a year has passed so fast. *gasp* well at least i can go learn driving le! *cheers*

today's gg to be a day of mixed feelings. happy n sad. got so many projects to do! =( sigh.

thanks for the early wishes ^.^:
liying - super early =D
marion - really early O.O
eleanor - early!

haha...then for the day before and the day:
Hui Min (Val's bestie) [i think there are more but i really can't remember! sorry!!!]
11:59:34pm - Valerie (my cousin >.< )
11:59:55pm - Sining (and she gave me fabulous news!!! i think tt's like a super nice bdae present for me lah! Mdm Faridah's RETURNED BACK TO GUIDES!!!! =D )
12:03:51am - (the first of the actual day...haha) MARION!!! (again...) thanks duckie!
my mummy n jie jie

yupps...so i shall go back n do my project le! wish me the best for the results!

oh ya...thanks jan for that super sad word u called me! =( haha....hmpft. xp nah lah. but ya. stayed in sch till 10.45pm?! oh n thanks jan's friend for helping out! =)

2008-01-19T22:19:00.000-08:00

nice clip!!! kawaii desu ne!

2008-01-18T23:44:00.000-08:00

Haha...i saw this pic cuifen sent to me...funny lah!

anyway...yesterday accion went for dinner XD we ate at KFC opp sch. quite funny...accion ppl are funny..haha =)

hmms...i was suppose to write something funny that happened during the week....let's see.. hmm.. i dun remember! ah...forget tt.

have a lot of projects, tests and presentations due this week. sigh.

[tues] 1. Marketing presentation and Q&A
[wed] 2. Microecons proj due and presentation
[wed] 3. BCS web page progress + flash
[thurs] 4. Jap listening test
[thurs] 5. Socio movie review grp consultation
[fri] 6. OB project due
[fri] 7. Commskills problem 2 due

ARGH!!! sighs...i think if anyone comes to irritate me, i'll definitely explode now.

received this sms from kailing on the 15Jan08...love u mi!:
"当大部分人都在关注你飞得高不高时，只有少部分人关心你飞得累不累...这就是友情，再忙也要照顾好自己，朋友虽不常联系却一直惦念，我在想你哦!"

*sniff* how true how true...i really miss those cedar days, those days where we were working for guides, how we chatted and how we poured out to each other, complaints and laughters. i miss them all. -_-

really tired. tired from sch. poly is not any easier than u think it is. sometimes i wonder if it's equivalent or even worse than JC.

2008-01-16T06:25:00.001-08:00

argh! after resting for a few days, i'm back to being busy...next week will be the ultimate busy week for ALL the projects!

sheesh...i dun like the BCS teacher. she really wastes my time. i think this is really one of the rare few cases where i'm SO put off by any teacher. she spends irrelevant time teaching the simple things, and things that she should go slow, she speeds up n does not even bother waiting. she seems to expect us to catch what she says immediately! toot. then she skips this and that, i'd rather not have this lesson and just follow my textbook. at least i get the WHOLE result and even in a shorter time period!!!

argh...i'm just really super irritated by such teachers. she oso doesn't seem to know her work well lah! ask her qns she'll just give some ans to brush us off...n sometimes her ans does NOT make sense at all! i dun even want to bother clarifying coz i know she's NOT prepared to ans me in a way that will help and not confuse me any further.

okok...i just got traumatised by a stupid roach. i told u i hate roaches coz i've really bad experiences with them! this time, the dumb roach crawled on my neck while i was leaning against the bed watching TV in my parents' room! stupid dumb cockroach! I HATE ROACHES!

yesterday celebrated hwee zhen's birthday before CYA! she was so happy she was dancing around lah! hahaha....but woon jiun spoiled our surprise! RAH!!! =_= met another unique passenger, an indian lady flying to australia. escorted her to her gate and had a nice chat with her on the way =D

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so what if it's vol 2?! it's not about how loud it is! it's about ur motive and intention! if i can ever trust that u'll cooperate willingly and not when we flare at each other, that'll be a miracle. i dun even think u realise how diff u r infront of other ppl compare to me. they will never know coz they never will see.

2008-01-09T05:00:00.000-08:00

yesterday at cya....it's quite boring. sigh. can't wait to try another counter =)

today T3 officially open! whee....went there after duty last night. passengers cannot go in yet but staff can! muahahaha..

all the shops up le. still renovating etc. saw the FIFA and Ferrari shop! so cool! took pic infront of the Ferrari shop with kelsen. the pic's with cuifen though XD. yupps.

alrighty...hmm..i guess i can't anything much now...

oh. met gwen this morning to pass her the guides cookies, finally! yay! a burden off my shoulders! n i got my pay! whee! got $ to survive the week now coz i was literally broke! $0!!! haha

now in sch doing project! can u believe it?! haiz...tonight work till ten. tml work till finish. oh no! =(

it's OPEN HOUSE tml! XD

2008-01-07T07:13:00.000-08:00

i got really irritated with my sis just now...

was practicing ____ then told her i need to concentrate n turn off the tv.

she REFUSED lah! say what i can practice with it switched on! if she can do it, doesn't mean i can concentrate like her lor! so fed up i muted the tv, n she thot i din noe she turned back on the vol! i just din want to get myself anymore pissed off than i already was. super irritating.

was at sch till nine doing project, finally i know what i can and have to do. seriously. due this fri n we have so limited time to do it. oops. the stupidity of last min work...

alright...shall write some other time when i've more time n less irritated.

2008-01-01T09:08:00.000-08:00

today's CYA's funny. no idea why they changed our stations. so now i'm at central! and the thing is...the next change, everyone changes but me i think! i'm still stuck at central?! but i've not gotten a hang of arrival and i dun like central! heh..a lil too quiet for me.

i like giving directions and helping, but at central, qns are for gst refund! and the crowd there is for tt too! not to ask us qns! it was ok...initially it was REALLY boring. but later, there were more ppl =)

wished the passengers a happy new year! so nice =)

bought my angel and mortal's gifts le! whee...i hope they'll like them! XD

kelsen looked like a big red packet! luckily i've not gotten my vest =p

2007-12-31T09:17:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

whee! it's 2008 officially!!!!!

happy:

new beginning. fun stuff. can take driving soon X).

sad:

school work due soon. exams coming.

aha! but then see how the happy stuff outweighs the sad stuff? (by one) haha...but then...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

i still owe ppl their presents! n i feel bad that i forgot to get bdae presents for my duckies for this year! X(

just came back from church service. happy n sad too:

happy- with friends, with God.

sad- miss accion outing again.

haiz, but i don't want to regret missing church service. so yuppp...

okok...lots of birthday wishes for yesterday n today!

31 Dec 2007:

jennifer jiang

ASHLEY!!! (miss u dear!)

xinni (MCS)

ethel (MCS)

1 Jan 2008:

Uncle Jem

Jerry

Philo

Lynn

yupps! happy birthday ppl! have a mighty blessed bdae and may the Lord guide u the rest of your life and thru ur studies/work!

2007-12-30T06:55:00.000-08:00

haiya....i wanted to upload Jan's Noose video but the file size is too big for blogger to upload. lousy lah.

anyway, it's been a busy week as usual. still coughing...

went to jon jon's hse to paint his room yesterday! haha so fun n funny! sam neo! that's it man! call me brandon's maid! what?! -_-** (cause i was told to answer the call since he can't recognise my voice) sheesh.

had lessons today. oops. realised that i REALLY NEED TO PRACTICE!!! haiz. got lots of theory to do!

sch starts tml! my gosh! why poly start so early?! sobx X(

okok...what else did i miss out?! hmmz....ah shall go see accion blog n bathe first. if i remember what happened during the week i shall come back to blog.

can't wait to see the poster in sch tml! see if she looks different! haha XD

2007-12-26T04:59:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! =)

yesterday at CYA was boring and crazy!

xmas, so not many ppl. then got a lil boring...but then came this Italian passenger. Thank God this other passenger was so kind to contact her friend who could speak Italian to help me translate!

THANK YOU MISS AND SIR!

really thankful to both of them otherwise i really dunno how to help the lady. =)

gave a few candy canes, one to some male passenger at T2 while on my way to meet daddy after work! heh. coz the other CYAs left early so i gave out the candy canes to other ppl instead. yupp. i can't remember the 2 CYAs that me n miao hong met. anyway we had a good time teasing and chatting with each other while walking back to the room.

SP CYAs were on holiday! so cool...found out that their's is a CCA! wow! it's gg to be the most popular CCA in their sch lah!

yupps...

today went back to sch for project work. finally feel that we are doing some work. heh. at least for me lah. now i got a lil idea of what i have to do. super sick and nasal now. *blows nose* it's like i'm speaking so muffled lah. *grumble grumble*

okok...shall go check mail, bathe and sleep! nitez!

2007-12-24T11:12:00.000-08:00

finished caroling 3 hours ago. throat is super sore. no idea why/how it started. yupp. doing last min packing of gifts to bring to church for friends tml....oh no. pls let me have enough sleep!

food's great at the houses. seems like the past 2/3 years i get sore throat exactly/a few days before caroling then i cannot eat ALL the yummies. sigh.

candice and kenneth (her bro) joined us! =) cheers

2007-12-22T07:07:00.000-08:00

WHEEE!!!! back from 2 camps!

17-18dec OTC camp! it was fun....we RAH-ed!!!! i'm in...accion! "A-C-C-I-O-N, A-C-C-I-O-N...."

then i left in the afternoon for CYA. i forgot to bring my IC!!! how dumb could i get! and i went so early so that i could go shopping inside! =( BAHHHH

but thankfully my station is at arrival. so no pass still not much of problem. whew. arrival was unexpectedly busy and fun! XD although inside got more things to remember, arrival has more things to do. it's really nice to be kept busy...not too busy though.

ok...next tues (christmas) i SHALL go early and go inside shop!!!

left for church camp after that. took mrt to yio chu kang. nearly missed the stop. fell asleep and woke up to hear: "next stop: Yio Chu Kang" whew. jie ask me to take taxi from mrt coz mum says it's dangerous around my church area to take bus alone and walk in. very quiet and deserted lah. so i managed to catch a cab at the mrt itself. thank God. it was past midnight le. actually can be earlier but coz it was too busy at arrival, we ended rather late.

so 19(midnight)-21dec: Sojourners camp.

got new ppl...SA boys and stepanie, P6s yup. it's nice to interact with them =) 3 cheers to evan for her super duper memory! she got posted to cedar X) but appealing to RGS. i think with her talents, i rather she go RGS too. i think she'll excel better there.

i was in jon jon's grp. frankly speaking i was a lil worried to be in his grp coz i'm not exactly close to him and hehe....i find him aloof lah. so ya. but then i'm glad i got to know him better being in the same grp. =)

sleeping in church was nothing compared to sch. at least i had a lil carpet underneath and aircon. shiok. slept quite well. too tired to not sleep.

thank God that Candice came for the last session. was SUPER HAPPY to see her! =) cheers.

okok...i really need to go back to studying for my socio quizes and jap test and do projects le! oh no. back to reality.

oh ya. thank God for convicting me and sending Xiaona to me to be accountable to. thank you JESUS!

yet to buy my christmas presents too...oh no.

DO PRAY FOR ME FOR TIME MANAGEMENT AND DETERMINANCE TO DO MY WORK AND QUIET TIME!

2007-12-14T08:45:00.000-08:00

okies...

today went T3 for skytrain testing. sat the one from T3 to T3 back and forth a couple of times. around 15min. a lil boring. we were supposed to pack the car and test it? this one was still ok.

the one to T2 was SUPER slow and boring. we were so hungry, tired and REALLY bored! it was crawling lah. only consolation: a nice view of control tower?

it was not as fun as the first time. the way the teachers arranged us spoilt our mood le. they spilt up our class =(

anw...ya. there were a lil more things to see this time...at least we know what shops are gg to appear. there's some ferrari shop.

and coz now public area's open, we had the public staring at us walking inside lah. oh...SP was there too. ya

okok...managed to take some photos. but the supposedly nice group photo at the end was spoilt coz the guy shook when he took it n it was SUPER blur.

realised we can post pic for T3 collage? wanted to, but the page REFUSED to update and upload my pics! RAH!!!

nvm, i shall try again. =)

trying to upload all the photos now....it's gg to take a super long time lah! sigh. shan't post any pic here...u can go view my facebook/friendster a/c if i decide to update it. ya

2007-12-11T07:45:00.000-08:00

MY EXAMS ARE OVER!!!! whee =D

haha..only had 2 papers.

if i ever pass this 2 papers with flying colours, all thanks goes to God for being merciful. both papers esp OB, i started studying very late and was still slacking. regretted lah...and during microecons papers, so tired i nearly blanked out! too sleepy...

then after tt, i went back sleep etc, only at 9pm then i STARTED my OB...which i could hardly get anything to stay in my brain. then today go sch early suppose to stufy the remaining chapters. slack till the last few hours before i got down to seriously memorising.

tt's why if i ever get good grades for these 2 papers, all thanks be to God! prayed really hard with my sis. well the prayer did come through. i managed through the papers.

was praying with my sis too that she'll pass her driving, and she did! (finally) haha XP now i'll have a personal chauffeur! whees! wahahaha

now that i just realised, but it seems that it's always during exam time that i notice how powerful prayers are.

was just praying over my com yesterday coz internet was down for 2 days and my sis told me when i got back that it was not working. after napping, i remembered i had to do the commskills! prayed over my com and my internet worked! yay! thankew Jesus! ^.^

after paper went to watch Enchanted. had a lil stiff neck coz we had 4th row from front. O.O but thankfully it was a small theatre! =) the show's ok...but i hate the part where the roaches came out....YUCK! n when the chipmunk climbed all over the bus driver, i squealed lah! ahahahha. heh

okies...shall go play a while more then sleep! nights!

2007-12-07T06:35:00.000-08:00

ooohh...i just realised i din blog about the concert i went to!

can't really remember when...last wed i think...

went national library to watch musical concert by Wild Rice for "A Crazy Christmas"... it was rather funny...they sang songs..the normal carols and songs they composed themselves...

one of the nicest songs was a new song written by....? not out yet...but it's on geylang sepaku geylang...very sweet and touching. it speaks of the singer's yearning to ask someone to come home....either the person's passed away or on a lighter note, someone at work.

then hossan leong came out with his standup comedy...is that what it is?

"you know chinese like to eat right? we eat EVERYTHING! (talking about eating dog meat etc)
confucius says: anything that moves, we eat (ie any living thing)." then he adds, "anything that doesn't move, we eat faster!" (ie something tt is dead, we gobble down..haha)

then he had this series of astronaut jokes:
"you know why China send the chinese out to outer space?"
"to find more things to eat!" XD
(hand reaches out) "whoa! MARS bar!" (looks at the moon) "wow! moon cake!" HAHAHAAAHA

he mentioned something abt msia sending model-doctor out there...to do catwalk?

oh...then he was imitating the indian culture of teh tarik...
imagine in outer space the uncle asks you whether u want teh tarik. then when he tries to pour the tea out,
"alamak! no gravity!" (hand pretends to hold out the tin and catches droplets of floating teh) hahs.

had a good laugh.

oh...then he was saying traditional chinese thinks u eat a certain animal part to improve the human part. so last time b4 his sports day, his grandma would ask him to take frog's legs...

then he said "ya! and then how am i suppose to move?" (starts jumping instead of running)

he joked about his mother taking tofu when she was carrying him...that's why he's so nak nak and fair now...hahahahs. and about eating pig's brain just b4 exam...."so what? half pig brain half human brain?"

it was really a good concert lah... =)

ok..these few days are like super hectic for me! managed to scrape through...thank you Lord!
wed: BCS excel test
thurs: assessed job interview, socio test, jap presentation (very sad...i din manage my time and din present all my interesting facts and figurines -_- i think sensei deducted my marks...sigh. and i prepared so much data lah! maybe a lil too much)
fri: marketing and BCS excel assignments due.

and it's not tt i started early, but i did last min work...really LAST minute...like the day b4 or on the day itself. poor time mgt. =(

well it's over...wait. not quite. still have to do my BCS online tutorial, commskills online tutorial by weekend. and next week's my exams! (i've not started studying yet =S ) i am so super dead. slept only at 4+am yesterday...just to finish my BCS excel sheets...and the thing is that i dun think it is very well done.

next week dun need to go changi! whee! actually i dunno if i'm sad or happy...i like gg there, but it's like a break for me (even though my papers would have ended by then)

tml guides having outing i think. so sad! i wanna go! =( church oso having blood donation drive, but i can't go! need to study! SIGH

2007-12-04T19:43:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY LIYING!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINING!!!!

who else did i miss? tell me! tell me! hahahahaha..

wishing all the december babies...n those i forgot to wish:

have a blessed birthday. May the Lord guide your path and be an encouragement to you especially in times of need. =)

2007-11-29T05:14:00.000-08:00

ARH!!! GRRR! RAHHH! GRUMBLE GRUMBLE GRUMBLE!

i am SO SUPER IRRITATED AND FURIOUS NOW!

for the first time in my life i am LOCKED OUT of the lecture hall even though i am ON TIME! with at least ONE minute to spare! dumb lecturer!

me n jan grabbed a bite and finished our food hurriedly outside so that we will still be on time for lecture, and i saw this guy walk in. the next thing i know, less than 1 min later, we could not open the doors! front and back!

i know i was and still am fuming mad. i dunno lah. i feel that it's an insult and injustice done to me. it's not as if i'm late or not want to go for lessons! if i AM late and due to that, be locked out, i'll accept it with grace. but the thing is now, i am so not in the wrong and yet feel so wronged!

GRRR! *punches air: directing at the teacher* RAH!! >:[

serious lah. i have never liked to be absent or late for lessons cause i dun like to miss out on anything. i tend to take down my own notes for my reference even if it is not tested. yup. so unless i have good reasons that makes me miss lessons, i try not to.

actually i think i'm more upset than angry. i just want to go for lesson! i like jap! and i like learning from the teacher! =(

silly lecturer =( *sniffs*

ok....last night i slept only at 3am+ to rush out my proposal coz teacher say this week must hand up. the next thing i know, she does not even check it and i'm like: i rushed only to be told tt we just have to present it next week. rahs her.

CYA was alright-scary-boring this week. after a busy first hour, it was very dead. sent dee off. just nice she fly to japan, so i went to say bye bye during my break. so cool. dunno why so many students at airport tt day! *coolness*

met a upset passenger. felt so bad that i could not do anything more to help her. sigh.

felt like reflecting:
Q: why is human's strength so limited?
A: so that God is there to help carry me through. and from which the imperfections give me reasons to seek improvement and correct them.

yups. so tml is commskills test. sheesh. haven finish studying. and OB quiz: have NOT started studying..ends on sunday but i wanna do it tml just in case anything wrong, on sat can go find teacher.

want to take many many pictures. i'm lacking of nice pictures to post. sigh

oh ya...if my angel ever reads my blog:

WRITE K?! X)

2007-11-26T06:23:00.000-08:00

hmmz...i not sure what to blog abt..

got alot of work...

have not do alot of it...

i'm DEAD....sigh. feel so lazy to do anything =(

ok...tml's cya! yay. at least something to look forward to..i think.

din go LAD today =( sigh.

ok..tt's all

2007-11-22T07:50:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREA!!!! ^.^

nearly forgot to rewish you! haha...wooohh..it's like 10 min to 12midnight! yay! i'm still on time!

couldn't find the shop where we bought the flowers the other day...went to another stall..remind me nv to patronise tt stall ever again...terrible customer service!

heh =)

2007-11-22T07:47:00.000-08:00

oh man...super nasal now.. my nose's like STUFFED and BLOCKED!!!

should i go for OTC? i dunno...scared i cannot cope with school work...yikes. HOW?!

anw...ya...super drowsy in sch today...cannot really concentrate. have so many things due next wk! yikes! =S

tml is my 2nd last day of work! whee! sad to leave, but happy that i have time for studies ^.^

2007-11-20T19:20:00.000-08:00

okok...my blog's gg to be stagnant for quite some time...no time to blog le..

fri-sat: iGuides camp. had quite a nice time =) fun fun fun...met new ppl..weiling, serene, liping... serene had the same surname as me! and the first time we met, she mentioned my full name, i was wondering how she knew me! haha...her name was just after mine on the list! ^.^

weiling was funny. sweet gal n really FUNNY...was laughing at her most of the time. =)
liping's more quiet but nice..=)

sunday slept only at 4.30am to finish my assignment. woke up at 7am...super tired.

monday: visited ade's mum. yup. got her flowers too =)

tuesday: after lessons went to CYA...today not that drama but we got to meet new characters. escorted 2 jap airline crew. they were very polite. miao hong n i were trying to use our jap learnt in sch to converse. but naturally, it din really work smoothly..haha

was super tired doing duty..had headache. =( couldn't really concentrate..got to tour around t2 to familiarise ourselves with t2 ^.^

today: no school!!!! whee..not sure if gg for 4N bbq tonight. a lil sick now...very tired =(

2007-11-13T08:27:00.000-08:00

just finished CYA for today! so fun! today's another enjoyable duty day. we met a nice elderly lady and helped her...she was so sweet and gave miao hong n i a big hug as thanks! ^.^ ahhhh...

ok..that's all i can say abt CYA..heh. oh..CSOs were funny and nice! =) i love working at this counter...i dun think it's boring anymore!

have a lot of work due but i have NO time to do...today boss called today for i've NO idea what reason but he sounded fed up? did i do something wrong today? i'm just glad i decided to quit so that i can finally concentrate on my studies =) cheers.

this sun have to work to closing again! n he mixed up my timing again! n monday have to hand in things if i'm not wrong! oh no...i'm scared... =( worried that i'll not have enough time to accomplish my task.

2007-11-12T06:16:00.000-08:00

THANKS TO ALL THE DEARIES FOR SHOWERING YOUR CONCERN OVER ME! :)

well...after making that big decision, i feel like a heavy burden being thrown off my chest. yupp... decided to quit my job...

it's not the job that's the problem...it's me. i guess i tried to juggle between studies and work but i just can't do it. so ya. really enjoyed working there. though there were some problems with my duty dates and manager, i find everyone there really nice..seriously.

my manager's nice...only not when it comes to deciding duty dates. heh. i hope he'll understand why i quit and not misunderstand my decision.

lastly, i hope i left a good impression at this workplace such that next time if i ever see them outside or even at the cafe, we'll be able to greet each other warmly and not feel awkward.

yep...so these few weeks will still be busy. may give up some things so that i can end this job on a proper note. pls bear with my complaints for these few weeks....thanks! X)

2007-11-08T07:18:00.000-08:00

haiz...pls pray for me...

am super-over committed...having a hard time balancing my work. may have to sacrifice some things at the time being... =(

i think if worst comes to worst (or is it 'worse'?)..anyway..ya, i'll quit my job. my school n education are my top priority. of course church will come first...but that's needless to say.

do pray that my boss will be understanding and kind to suddely allow me to work once a week. when i told him that, he was super angry n unhappy. then i left it as that. but when i told him next wk can only work one day coz got the iGuides thingy, he was grumpy again.

FATHER GOD, PLEASE HEAR MY PLEA AND HELP ME! the best way is that he approaches me and tells me he'll let me be on one day shift from now onwards, or when he asks about my sch work again, i'll tell him i can't really cope. (it's the truth)

having a hard time coz there's so many grp projs n assignments due in between this sem. dun like that. it's rather pressurising coz i'm still very disoriented on what assignments are due when and when are my tests etc. everything's a mess now...sigh =(

work's fun, but i dun want to work under such stressful conditions. i decided to work in the first place for experience, and not to replace my studies, esp if i want to try obtain a scholarship in future!

2007-11-06T08:54:00.000-08:00

first CYA duty...can't say anything much due to confidentiality. so all i can say to sum up tonight are: "funny, fun, tiring, crazy, scary-cum-shocking, worried, hungry..." haha.

it's really nice to experience different situations and know how to handle these situations tactfullly. i hope i can remember what happened today to log it in next week... =)

remember miao hong: next time i stand infront, u stand behind!!! XP

2007-11-02T08:13:00.000-07:00

just finished work...legs are hurting!

so tired ZZzzzz...

tml still have to go sch. the worst thing: may have to go for ELF assessment and i've yet to study. dunno whether can/want to go not. really tired =(

cedar volleyball won xin min! yay! was at TP competing..so cool! xin min was really good too! they saved ALOT of amazing balls! =)

lessons this week was ok...LOVE JAP! but the teacher's so-so. she speaks really fast and expects too much from us. hear my other classmates in other jap classes, they learn so much more...like why it is that way etc. my clas is like: memorise, remember, not much of explanation and SPEED!!!

sheesh. then i told sensei after class to go slower. then she ask why nv say earlier...then i told her coz everyone kept gg "hai!" (can!) n i was the only was gg "Iie" (cannot) so din want to say yet...

oh n she was teaching us go toilet must ask in jap...so we could not really remember the words yet. then she was just commenting after teaching us "watashi mo" (me too) that u can wait for someone to ask, then after that faster call out "watashi mo" then dun have to remember the phrase yet.

so when a guy (only 2 guys in my jap class) who had lots of trouble asking finally got permission to go to the loo, u see around 8-10 hands shoot up and.."WATASHI MO!" haha.

in the end, around 10 girls went out too...ahahahaha. we were all waiting to go to the loo! hah XD

okok...wanna go sleep le...tata! =)

2007-10-30T21:07:00.000-07:00

haha...in school now having my 4h break! so funny!

just now after buying my rice i went to buy a drink. guess what?! some girl next to me was pointing to a drink to her friend and when she put down her hand, she chopped/broke off my fish's tail! hahahahahaha. we couldn't stop laughing.

left the fried fish tail at the stall and went off with Jan laughing.

then after that while on our way to library, vanessa walked into the signboard for viva the arts outside the library! haha...and she shifted the whole board XD

now going to do my work n project work. =)

2007-10-27T06:31:00.000-07:00

am super irritated by my boss. he was rather fierce and rude in telling me i can't work for only one day...i really regret working there now.

it's not as if i dun want to work, but i dunno if i can cope! end sch almost 6pm EVERY evening! and he can't be more understanding?! can't he explain why i can't work for only one day? and he said he KEPT asking me in the past.

that is such a lie! he only mentioned twice, and each time, he said that part settle later, no problem! and now what? he changes the story 180 degrees around! so sicko!

and all the aunties are so nice lah! they say can, or will try to help, unlike him! =(

wanted to cry lah. felt so bullied! but i reminded myself not to cry coz it's NOT my fault. i have yet to settle with him about my this wk schedule. he MESSED it up TOTALLY! all the dates he gave me, only the friday one was correct! and i smsed him VERY CLEARLY lor!

oh and he was like: "you're giving me a headache!" like what de ****?! dumb i****! RAH! >:[

2007-10-26T19:50:00.000-07:00

school has started! =) oh my...this sem's timetable's weird. it's ok lah. still trying to adjust to it.

shall tell ken i'll work only for one day. if he say cannot then i think i'll quit after 3mths. really cannot work 2 days coz my days end rather late, i need to study/do hw, practice and go for music lessons, cca, church, cya, etc.

sigh. how did i get into so many things. no wonder that time phishy survey they said i am over-committed. sheesh.

found out interesting facts: sarah has a bf... jap's fun (but teacher's a lil scary)... socio is FUNny... mr brian is comical. heh.

yupps. today supposed to be cedar open house and south div day. din go for either...haiz. i miss guides. the activities and the people. but definitely not the discipline. i wish guides could be closer but yet still have the respect for each other. sigh. i realised this only in poly that keeping that "line" makes it so hard for juniors and seniors to talk. it's awkward and weird. sigh.

let's see what else should i write. oh..i wanna go gym!!! =(

ELF have assessment next week. i'm thinking if i really want to continue in ELF. i find tt it's similar to guides regarding discipline and i really can't stand it at times when i feel like i'm being forced to do certain things. conducting ALP is fun etc, but it's pressurising when during trainings we are treated like little kids. i think we are old enough to know how to behave. sorry if anyone is offended, but i feel suffocated under such strict mgt. i don't feel that i'm able to fully display my potential.

ok..enough of complaints.

yipee! next next week CYA starts. i must remember that i cannot disclose what happens in it. yupp. u just have to keep guessing what happens inside the terminal =) heh.

i joined IGuides and OGL!!! oh no. i think i made such a wrong move. haiz =(

2007-10-18T07:07:00.000-07:00

cya training today was ok....the trainer was VERY nice and friendly and funny! =D

oh ya! i saw janice in the teenage mag! haha...n when tim showed me, i was chatting with a sri lankan businessman and it was so weird that he chose such a time to ask me if i'm interested in make up! -_-'''

haha...he was trying to see how long i'll take to notice tt it's janice...haha...n well, i din notice till he gave a super big hint to stare at the photo...haha! =)

janice looks super pretty in the photo..as usual..haha. n she says she's ugly! -_-** qian ma! hah.

timetable's out...it's ok..

got my jap n sociology! =) whee!

"fallen from grace...
yet for every breath,
I believe He still has a purpose for my life..."

perhaps all may seem lost and at a dead end...
but wonder at this:
if you think it's over for your life,
why would He grant you another second of breath to make things right?

2007-10-14T08:08:00.000-07:00

tired! working is fun but tiring....

got a few difficult customers today..sigh. mum dad n dot came today to see me...luckily they din order all coffee/tea. whew.

here's a note to all: if u want to come, DO NOT order coffee/tea!!! PLEASE!!!! heh.

anyway tml gg to changi for training. so fun! but i'm worried abt attire. dun have the shoes and stockings. no time to buy. haiz.

received a cute mail from ying xuan. the pics inside was funny! haha... =)

okok....need to go sleep and get ready for tml! tata ^.^

2007-10-10T08:06:00.000-07:00

i finally found a job!!!!! =)

working at cedele novena ^.^ whee... it's rather fun

aunty sally's scary when she's making sandwiches... haha...n Quest told me after i went to disturb her (n was snapped at). haiz. but it's ok. now i noe to stay away unless i'm called for. heh.

ok...need to go memorise my coffees and teas from FnB notes! need familiarise myself with the names and composition... cheers =)

2007-10-03T22:23:00.000-07:00

ok...i shall do sarah's quiz...i think it's gg to be funny ^.^

*Person who tagged me : Sarah

Sarah

*My relationship with her : fellow guai kia in sch ^.^ (one of the most corrupted. heh.) n gym partner!

*5 impressions I have of her : blur, funny, CORRUPTED, trustworthy, caring

*Most memorable thing she has done for me : listen to my grouses

*Most memorable words she has said to me : "i think Pearlyn will kill me" =D hahahaha...

*If she becomes my lover, I will : be super disgusted...but in the first place, it won't happen! heh. i'm straight...n she's got her eyecandies ^.^

*If she becomes my enemy, I will : roll my eyes when i see her and be really sad and disappointed.. don't think it will happen, though it's not impossible coz i'm always zapping her **** words...hah. [just joking]

*Most desirable thing I want to do for her now is : get her to not use **** words and be a trusted buddy

*My overall impression of her is : she has the "blur" look and is to the extremes: super dead/super hyper =) she rawks and is really funny...

*What I think people feel about me : naggy...sigh..common knowledge to all? but i hope tt's in a good sense and not negative...

*Characteristics I love about myself : caring

*Characteristics I hate about myself : lazy and over committed

*Most ideal person I want to be is : Akiane. she's a really gifted child prodigy of God and draws extremely well.

*A message for people who care for me and like me : hmm..thanks for caring. dun mind me if i'm snappy...but most of all...bear with my nagging! ahahahaha...love ya!

Pass this quiz to 10 people whom you wish to know how they feel about you : (ack..i can't send to my classmates! they are tagged...like i've no idea how many times?!)

1) Dot

2) Pandora

3) Kailing

4) JJ

5) Sherry

6) Mildred

7) Sining

8) Keet Yeng

9) Joelle

10) Jeremy

Them

*Who is no.6 having a relationship with? : nobody. i think. though i hope i've a grandpa! :P

*Is no.9 a male or female? : female =)

*If no.7 and no.10 are in a relationship, will it be a good one? : hmm...i think so! ^.^ [evil grin]

*What is no.2 studying? : not exactly sure what's her combi...but she's in VJC

*When was the last time I chatted with no.3? : 2 days ago...asking if she's gg back to sec sch to collect stuff =)

*What type of music does no.8 like? : oops...not sure..she sings almost every song! [she definitely does not like metal...unless she's changed!] sorry keety!

*Does no.1 have siblings? : ahahaha... DUH! she's my sis! ahhahahaha

*Would I woo no.3? : NO!!!! she's my mi ("mummy")!!! man..that's SO WRONG!!!

*Would I woo no.7? : oh man...NO! this is so wrong...she's FEMALE! great friend and i'm NOT into same gender relationship! -_-**

*Is no.4 single? : I think so?

*What's no.5's surname? : Ng (hi jie!)

*What's no.4's hobby? : hmm...being funny? =P

*Do no.5 and no.9 get along well? : they don't noe each other..though i think they'll get along just fine =)

*Where is no.2 studying? : VJC!!! (ah...love tt place) ^.^

*Say something casual about no.1 : she's a big fat potato chip..heh

*Have I tried developing feelings for no.8? : huh?! ahah..ya..as a friend... but NOT as a lover.. sheesh...the qns are weird.. haha...gender-confused!

*Where does no.9 live? : somewhere on Singapore island.

*What colour does no.4 like? : I dunno.

*Are no.1 and no.5 best friends? : haha..nope, but they are "related". one's my real sis n the other is my "jie"

*Does no.7 like no.2? : yupp! ahaha. they are a bunch of crazy ppl [smiles]

*How did I get to know no.2? : we were classmates and fellow guides...she's FUNNY

*Does no.1 have any pets? : eh..no? all our fishes died years ago..within 3 wks? n her terrapin attacked mine!!! =( haha

*Is no.7 the sexiest person in the world? : yeah man...she's dark and sporty... and EXTREMELY crappy =) HAH!

ok..it's done... some qns are WEIRD! [rolls eyes] hahaha...

2007-10-03T22:14:00.000-07:00

whee! forgot to blog this yesterday:

my favourite korean campbell grapes are out!!!!! whaahhahahahaha

for those who dunno...these grapes are literally gummy grapes...chewy like hose gummy sweets =)

my mum bought 3 bunches yesterday (n it's the first day out on shelves) after work..n today i'm already halfway thru the 2nd bunch =) heh

a lil sour...maybe coz it's the early grapes...not that ripe yet..but when u bite into them, the skin automatically comes off! yum..

n cuifen so cute...sms me at 1am just to tell me she saw them in the newspaper n reminded me to get them fast...thanks girl for remembering! =)

i hope the future bunches will be sweeter...can't wait! ^.^

2007-10-03T04:06:00.000-07:00

finally changed my blogskin =)

quite like this abstract design...thanks to the designer!!! =)

okok..now gg to edit out my links...tata

2007-10-03T01:06:00.000-07:00

i'm confused...ELF is confusing. in/out?! sigh.

aniwae..ELF is taking up ALOT of my time...seriously i'm a lil tired. i like ELF...but not when my world seems to be revolving around it! haiz

man..i really miss kayaking! =(

2007-10-01T03:00:00.000-07:00

yay!!! finished abseiling level 1!

ahh...i miss KAYAKING!!!

2007-09-28T07:19:00.000-07:00

got quite a few things to blog abt actually...but carn really remember...hope i dun miss out anything nice.

ok...went to watch no reservations with gor, jie, jerry, jason, brandon. it was ok...the cinema was bad though. really uncomfortable.

on thurs, went to sch for briefing of the california trip. only 2 students turned up! this guy from LRM n me?! sheesh...so weird lah. on the bus, i nearly missed the tp bus stop coz i was freezing and trembling such tt my legs were STIFF! haha.

so scary...the LRM guy had the same bag as me n we kept bumping into each other: on the bus, at the shopping mall =S freaky...

well..those interested in the trip, they MAY change the destination to orlando, florida. coz the attractions are more centralised n may try to get to visit the university tt offers the related degree course. teachers suggested trying to get accomodation at the students' dorm at the uni to save money. i thot it was quite cool. but the journey there will be longer and airplane ticket will be more expensive. so there's plus and minus.

i shall decide later when the itinery n price is fixed more or less...but am very interested.

went out with cuifen after tt n we shopped really long at bugis =) wanted to buy this dress ALOT..but when i was checking the dress, the elastic snapped! =( so in the end i din buy it...but i REALLY liked it..sigh. it was reasonably priced too! 20% off $29.90..

so in the end i din really get anything. yupp. ok..must remember to get my sis to bring the pencils for ali n dee.

today had crusade outing at sentosa. i think i'm the only one who din get burned coz i was hiding in the shade n not playing much of games. have cough lah..keep coughing if i run/jump =( so sad lah.

i was enjoying captain's ball (finally) then i started to get giddy n breathless coz i was having a hard time coughing n breathing. so ethel took over my place =)

learnt a lil more abt volley ball =) it's rather fun...n i realised my frisbee throwing skills are BAD..heh. felt so bad having to make my fren run in diff directions to get the frisbee =(

so funny..was outside coffee bean with nic, yap min n jia liang. nic n jl were hilarious. "dots" were flying in the air...haha

went off first to bring the drinks to the ppl...

i escaped being dunked! heh! coz i told them i absolutely din bring any extra clothes when i had EVERYTHING..hehe..thankfully i din get dunked. could lend my clean fbt to ethel coz they dunked her n she REALLY DID NOT bring extra clothes.

hahah...then i told jl n he n eric chased after me trying to dunk me...haha. but they din noe i'm a long d runner...haha. =P yupp. so they din catch me..whee. but i ended up coughing ALOT..sheesh. haiz

saw scythia leaving sentosa too. din noe they had outing. coz i din check the blog..heh =P

yupp. din join them for dinner.

okok..tml got abseiling. shall go prepare then sleep...nitez

2007-09-21T20:23:00.000-07:00

just came back from ELF camp last evening. it was: fun, exciting, tiring, unique, IRRITATING...

yupp. first day was not as tiring as the second, but overall, it wasn't as energy consuming as i thot it would be coz i'm sick with flu and was really lethagic throughout the camp...

1st day:

we had first aid introduction. it was a little of refreshing my memory of what i learnt in AJC first aid club. but coz i joined only for a few sessions in AJ for first 3 mths, i din manage to attend the proper course with them, but they did teach us some things...

then we played some indoor games and after lunch, we went FOREST ADVENTURE!!! whee...so fun! saw sarah before leaving =) i guess she had debates

forest adventure is a new french-concept-based obstacle course for public to participate too. it's at bedok reservoir, just outside TP's backgate. it's the only one so far in singapore, but the company is established in France.

there are four ziplines across the water to connect 4 sections of obstacle courses. these courses are all above ground in the trees and include activities such as tarzan swing, tunnel etc. they dun cut down any trees and protect the trees by winding the metal cables around treated wood that wraps the tree bark so that the bark will not be cut into by the cables.

their aim is to provide people to not only have fun but care for the nature. sadly, ELF only tried the fist section, coz we were like their "trial participants". those interested in those high and low elements u find in outdoor adventure camps should try this! =)

i sound like i'm advertising for them rite? haha..coz it's really nice and i hope one day i can work part time for them... =)

after that we went back and Terrence conducted DISC...to find out what kind of leaders we are: domineering, influential, supportive or conscientious. i'm a high C...haha. perfectionist and skeptical.. sometimes i feel really bad being a skeptic coz it's like i really want to know what's RIGHT and would ask more than one person but yet i may hurt others coz it appears that i dun trust them. n the worst thing is, when ppl ask me, i may not be sure of answers myself yet i want them to trust me..sheesh.

hmm..what else did we have..i noe we played indoor games, had steamboat and nightwalk. steamboat was nice. had TOO MUCH food. heh. we had the teachers and AC ppl to help us finish the food. ^.^ heh. we were eager to finish all the food we took out, if not it would be such a waste if we had to throw those we cannot salvage.

had night hike around school after that. it was like amazing race. but the hike was far from scary...it was tiring and the clues of some checkpoints were hard to find and solve!!!

was the last team to reach back. heh. we washed up and went to sleep. had difficulty breathing with my blocked nose..n when i wanted to go to the loo, the door was locked!!!! luckily peggy went with me and she told me we could exit by the back door...if not i think i would have died trying to get out of our sleeping area...haha =) thanks peggy!!!

2nd day:
had fire drill at 6+am. why am i not surprised. but i pity peggy...she just managed to fall asleep for 1h and she had to wake up already... nothing much to say coz last time for any camps in cedar, we oso have fire drills...so ya lah.

packed our stuff, had breakfast then left for ALP site.

we did lobster-claw, learnt the diff equip etc. the most irritating part of the whole camp:

Kama fainted. and it was all part of an ACT! what de?! quoting from kama: i feel "betrayed". i really thot he fainted initially, but later i started to doubt...coz there were too many doubtful points, but what can i do? what if it was real? but seriously i was and still am angry. i dun like it when ppl play around with life and death. had too many ppl passing away around me and i din want to have another ok... =(

but thankfully i was calm. i guess that's the only thing i am proud of? helped with coming up with suggestions to help and they wet my bandana for NOTHING!!! arghh! i wanted to use my bandana later somemore! NEH!!!! RAHH! if it's a real case, i tell u, i dun care if u rip my bandana...but the thing is that this is all a SCAM! ahh..i dun want to think abt it anymore. i just feel cheated that i genuinely worried for a friend's life when it was all a hoax, just to TEST our reflexes and response. -_-*

after lunch we continued with lobster claw. went up..it was ok. i thot it would be more fun...but i guess my sense are dulled by my flu. couldn't really feel anything but to get it over and done with. i think i really lost my fear of heights and feel for excitement. i guess the only thing that can really excite me is roller coasters now. sigh. can't wait to do threading.

we then proceeded to do maintainance of ALP site. ariff helped to do the whole pole and cuifen and i were on the ground observing him and taking note of any faulty parts they need to be inspected by professionals. jian hui was supervising us. he was nice and allowed ariff to lobster claw up without locking the carabiner unless he was stopping if not he would take a LONG time.

after a while, he was telling us about ELF and his batch of ELFs..how fun they were etc. haha. i guess he was bored and needed to talk before he fall asleep. but i din really reply. left cuifen to do the replying coz i was really shagged and had no more energy to do anything else except to watch out for ariff.

we finished with debrief and packed up to go home! =) heh. YAY!!! couldn't wait to rush to the loo to blow my nose and go home n SLEEP! =) whee!

yupp..so that's what happened the last 2 days. ok..i wanna go back to sleep le. bye!

2007-09-19T07:12:00.001-07:00

received sad news in the afternoon.

was abt to have lunch after ELF ALP programme at 3pm then checked my hp and my friend also called to tell me my sec4 form teacher just passed away.

she died of birth complications. very young lady...30+ i think. =( but they managed to save the baby but in ICU :)

i rushed there leaving my just ordered lunch to my friends to finish.

truthfully, i am not really close to the teacher, but i do appreciate that she taught me and rather well too. felt really sad in any case coz i still knew her and she really looked different. her face was bloated from pregnancy and she looked shockingly aged.

i thot i was at the wrong funeral, then it suddenly dawned on me that this is REALLY unexpected.

coz i reached there the first, thankfully mrs ng's friends and cousin-in-law were friendly. oh..then later i was "interogated" by her brother-in-law and friends. they were asking abt how she taught, how she was as my teacher, church, etc. friendly ppl, but i was having a pounding headache so i was getting dizzy looking left and right at both of them.

then fung mei and kailing came. cedar teachers were there too. they were crying. sigh.

the brother-in-law was telling me n the female church fren something really true:

mr ng(his bro) told them not to tell his 4 yr old daughter it was okay etc, but rather tell her like "mummy is with jesus in heaven". coz it's NOT okay and they(if mrs ng was alive) din want her to suppress her emotions while growing up.

the bro-in-law oso mentioned tt both of them did things with reason...i implied that they dun try to lie etc to mask the truth or comfort in this case.

yupp..so that's what happened today after ELF. i'm sunburnt and having a headache. tml still have camp overnight in sch. sheesh. not sure if i can sustain...=( ALP was ok...the participants were fun =)

there is a time for everything under heaven, even death. but for everything, there is a purpose that God has planned to prosper a person.

i wonder what will today bring? *thinks hard* =)

i wonder what will today bring? thinks hard =)