..the beads and p*sses of dumbo-no-more: January 2005

Saturday, January 29, 2005

days of the 'coming-to-the-end-of-(NSF)-days'

i met up with a junior whom i hafen met for 3-5 years. she has changed for the better. She looks poised. she looks confident and she is indeed glowing with God's favour that is poured upon her. She is heading back to au to complete her honours in psychology. I'm so so so glad to have caught up with her. She was my mei that i had when i "adopted" in sec school..She's jean.
i know u are reading this..and i do hope we really keep in touch....*pat on the head*...yep! and also thanks for the sharing and telling me of ISAIAH61..PSALM 109..etc.

Also, becos of this appointment i made earlier, i couldn't make it for the relief teach that i'm called for in the morning. YEP!! i cycled around tampines a couple days ago to register myself with the various secondary and primary schools.....woah!! took the entire afternn and yet didn't have the energy and time to go to all (missed out st hilda and tampines)...well..the pt is that griffiths pri called at 0710 and asked if i can be at schoo at 0730.. and teach till 1330...sheesh.. i turned it down... DARN!! i shouldn't have. According to my pri school teacher , she thought i should have canceled the appointment (mentioned above)

Went back camp to do some clearance + dental..
thank you shane...thanks for being ever appreciative and supportive...

good luck N e V a R !~!~

God Bless

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

days after retreat

retreat started at church with less than 10 pple....yesh...the retreat chairperson was joined by the second team member at 11pm plus. As i mentioned when i said grace for dinner..some of us did have QUALITY dinner...
and that makes me think of this
i wonder how many of u noe i prefer small group outting than a big wan. It's as small as 4-5. anything more than that, i think pple in the group cannot communicate properly. Attention seems to be diverted so much so that u just touch and go.
Unless, it's gathering...like pri school outting..ahh..this type of event...i will die die get many pple involved.
1st night of retreat, we worshipped and watched "ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND". Woah. GREAT SHOW...iz another of the make-u-think show...and i watched at 10pm....
gotta discussed about the show and co-relate with christianity.

All in all, i enjoyed the retreat. and it'll be very long to relate everything about this retreat with u. YingCi!! be encouraged! it was a retreat well done....u deserved a pat on a back + a round of applause. As what my friend said: we can only plan, He decides...correct ya!
slept at 3 am nightly and fortunately managed to survived service and worship prac after service. I like the theme song ...very nice, nice to harmonise and sing...and also it's meaningful.
Actually, i'm quite excited about 40DOP Living.

BAng into iris at PS macs after prac on sun and well, she shared about social work with me.
AFter the conversation on our trip way, i think she was right to say that there is something in me that is hindering me. Other than faith, there is perhaps other issues that is waivering my focus. What could it be?

I think there are many things for me to think about if i want to think.

how excited i was when i found out andrew wong jj was a primary 1 classmate who left griffiths primary school at the end of pri1. God is so amazing. Andrew Wong and I separated for 13 yrs and got back and become like frens nv b4....yep...he's one of my 4 best (guy) frens (namely victor,evan, andrew and yingci)....in 1991, when we were classsmates, we didn't really like each other as he was a very noisy fella and i was the monitor...no choice but to take his name now...and perhaps that's why he didn't rmb me..in fact we did have mutual dislike then.... guess what now...UNBELIEVABLE.

I just wanna say how much i appreciate my family. Really. I do. I love my dad, my mum and my sis. True enough, it's so so hard to say " I LOVE YOU" as we grow old.. growing up as a man makes it harder esp when it is to be said to family....is this a phase all guys go thru.
Mum just mentioned she lacks love....i thought immediately that isn't God's love more than sufficient...hm, I really would like to see my parent go to church regularly,let alone serve the Lord..will their hearts, mind and strength......
I hope they continue to support me in the decisions i make in days/months to come.

well...the car is on neutral and handbrake is pulled.

God bless...

Friday, January 21, 2005

@ church

time: 1738hr MGR: cpc intention: blog

i'm at church. did grocery for the retreat. spent $103 on some items. Cost of living is high.

so what happened in my life in the last 2 weeks?
i wanna to write a story so i shall OTOT continue blogging....(i think there's something wrong with e sentence structure.

.......I have been observing some non-christians using lingos and terms commonly spoken by christians like " feng4 kao4 zhu3 ye1 su1 ji1 du1 de ming2 er2 qiu2 AMEN" , " hallelujah" and when there are times when they needed devine help, i would hear that say " GOD, help me "
What's your opinion on this? Why are people of other religious belief use phrases and words spoken by fellow Christians?

went to national stadium for de TIGER CUP finals between spore and indonesia. that was on the 16th of jan. it was my first time watching a live! match at a stadium. i thought the atmosphere was good. the weather was real good and the match was excellent. Spore soccer made history as they lifted a trophy in national stadium... YEP, and we'll see the last of the old nat stadium. Gone will this stadium where i did my sec school inter-school track competition and coming in second and third... Thanks to germaine who got 4 tickets...sigh, so sorry to qihui, shawn and ESP yingci.*blah*

I signed up for relief teaching..what a joke ya?!! i nv expect myself to teach!! i always comment that i'll probably destroy the youngsters as the stuff i teach will make them confuse...u noe..lousy teacher kinda stuff...nonetheless, i followed my feeling and signed up relief teacher..i stated preference in teaching math pe and music in sec and pri school plus hist and chem in sec school. Alright, it's good money. and strangely, i got this urge to TRY out...

not only that, i signed up for volunteer work withe NCSS.. thought i should expose myself to social and volunteer work b4 reading it in NUS.

the retreat will last t ill sunday..and maybe after that will have more time to share....

*so sian...suddenly what to update u all with...i thought there's a lot to write...*

God bless

too many things

yes, my days have been eventful since the last updates...
thus i still have no time to fill u faithful frens out dere to what have been occuring to me.

going to retreat this weekend NOW!
ciao

Friday, January 07, 2005

on the fifth day of new yr...

i got into a minor car accident along jalan eunos yesterday while learning driving. I was on test route 7 and was about to do my U-turn. I switched from the centre lane to the right lane. 2 seconds after completing the lane change, a car behind me was met my car near the bumper. Her car got scratched as she drove onto the kerb.
Thankfully, no one was injured. She was blaming us for lane changing and the school commented that she was the one at fault. She appealed to me to make a truthful statement when asked. However, everything occured too fast. I remembered me having to enter entirely into the right lane THEN my car was hit. Sigh.
She mentioned about making a police report and naturally, i was worried somehow or rather my TP test (yet to book) would be affected. Also, the school didn't teach me the entire 100mins that i paid for...
If the lady want to report to the police then i have to go do a statement.
This morning i received a call and was informed to head down to UBI driving centre to assist in the writing of statement. Sigh. WASTE TIME.hmmm...the school assured that i'll be fine.

I watch phantom with 2 frens from ntu yesterday.
had an urge to participate ina musical...
if given the chance, let me be raul in phantom..his range is challenging but manageable.
miss performing.
i give an 8 outta 10..2hrs 14mins..$6.50..with songs i can sing along. BRAVO!!

There's another thing in my mind... should i pick it up...........

Sunday, January 02, 2005

2005

first of all, happy new yr...the yr of 2005. we are one yr older.
how do u feel when u realise that time just passed so quickly, at a twinkling of an eye, snapping of fingers..i'm 21 this yrs...(then again, pple think i'm 16 while others think i'm 24). age doesn't matter.wisdom, perhaps. de walk with God is nonetheless, crucial.

i went to st johns the day after that cruel tsanami hit asia.
i left spore not knowing how devastating and how enormous this natural disaster was.
i thank the One up there that spore is spared. i am VERY thankful.

the last days of 04 were interesting,memorable, last but not least, shaken.
baptism took place on 26th morning. the waves at ecp was exceptionally strong..
i learnt that frisbee can be played competitively. pretty shack experience.
i'm glad i took the step of faith.

27th dec - 30th dec, st john island
stayed over at church...the group leaders and comms stayed over for the final phase of preps..could see that all of us were excited about the camp.
the highlight, off course, was at st john's where the camp was held. (sheesh, the slope up from jetty to bunk area is challenging..at least 200m doing upslope climb)
the entire experience was great. i really enjoyed myself. iz tiring but fun. knowing brothers and sisters from other presbyterian churches..some of them are jrs fr schools. i did things i nv done b4. relied on Him for strength..cos i was rather helpless at times when my assistant GL went for worship prac.
this camp also allowed me to see how some covenantors work and think..hope these information can help me with the organising of yaya camp in june 05.

well well......05 is the yr of hope..though the solemn mood of tsunami incident is immensely felt.
read yday's life! section of the straits time and u can find out there are also things to look fwd to in 05.
i'm gonna ord in 3 months time. CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT
i'm gonna study in 8 months time.
i'm gonna look for my first job.
i'm coming out from the NS..that's like woah..military to civilian..that conversion is a sweet sweet wan.

did my countdown in camp.(how memorable)performed my last DOO duty. had a lil jack daniel and coke ... with chips and a quarter pounder meal to welcome in the new yr...there's also taufik's "I DREAM" MTV shown on national tv. I was really glad that mediacorp and sentosa managed to agree not telecast the countdown at sentosa. B4 they announced that, i was thinking how ethical and insensitive the local entertainment industry wld be when asia is struggling with the aftermath of de tsunami and spore welcoming new yr with bangs and music.

till date, sporeans have donated $8.3 million dollars. =)
i believe the nations affected need money, followed by provision...money is more liquified. then again, the aftermath is really overwhelming and i think it definitely will be worsened.
IF SPORE WAS HIT, at least half of us will be in underwater world. we are protected....it's saddening to see images and hear updates about this casestudy-to-be.
the wrath of mother nature swept across the face of asia, w/o mercy, destroying fragile lives.
sigh.

my ma's in hospital.3 days already. low on K. visiting later.
pray for healing. thanks.

i'm excited to see the new batch of YA tmr.....

indeed, a new yr is a new yr..let's embrace it with love hope joy peace.

God bless