i like my new look so much i'm going to do something unprecedented and blog for the second time in two days! heh. i've always liked green. and i guess it's timely for a change since a new year is round the corner.
oh i've been stuffing myself with the marks and spencer's redcurrant puffs which we bought yesterday. they're fantastic! but i'm heading for an overdose. haha.
happy new year everybody!
how precious this week's holiday is! though rather short, but still a much-needed break from school and i'm more than happy to keep out all school-related thoughts for at least 7 days! ok, not all of them, still had some stuff to do and think about, but generally this is as good a holiday as we can get, right?
it's been 2 days but i'm still feeling surreal about it...that i actually passed my driving test! it was truly by God's grace, because i definitely was a shaky driver (still am) and didn't have much chance of passing on my first try. i guess i was just ok-prepared but not that confident. anyway, things didn't go so well during my warm-up but God gave me a kind tester (he was Ming'en's tester too! during the ballot when i knew i got him i felt so encouraged and hopeful) who actually let me pass!
throughout this whole thing i just thought about how good it was to have God by my side, calming me, encouraging me, helping me... it was so comforting. it wasn't nerve-wrecking anymore. i was just praying really hard about it the whole time and i was like, ok just hand everything over to God, all my worries and insecurities and nerves, and... drive like a snail! haha yes i really did. my tester even gave an audible sigh. he had to minus my points for driving too slowly. heehee! but it was worthwhile coz it kept me away from all the possible mistakes and trouble. so now i think the strategy is to drive slowly so that you don't chalk up too many points for all the mistakes but rather you earn lesser points for driving too slowly. yes...haha. and i was so touched by all the other drivers around me! they gave way to me! they let me change lanes smoothly! for so many days i was fretting about this coz i can't change lanes for nuts, but on that day everyone was so nice to me!
so all praise and glory be to God! i was wondering what was His will for me, whether i should pass or fail, but in the end i figured that even if i failed i'd be ok coz it's His will and i'm more than happy to do His will... coz even if the answer is 'no' right now, it just means that God has a better plan for us! Praise the Lord!
hello all! thanks for your concern. i'm doing well, under my trusty painkillers and antibiotics and what not. the pills have a really yucky taste. i'd drink bitter cough mixture anyday. hehe. and my face started getting quite swollen last night! now i look like a pancake sigh. anyway, i'm removing the stitches on tuesday. so hopefully things will get better from then on... tonight i drank homemade blended grape juice! it was surprisingly nice! :) coz i wanted to eat grapes but it was too painful to chew them, so my mum suggested blending them into a juice and it turned out to be sweet and yummy. yay. so i shall drink fruit juices more often from now on.
the happy thing about tonight is that i finally heard from my korean penpal!! yes i'm really happy that we've renewed contact.
ok happy weekend guys! :)
suddenly my internet is working again today. part of me feels happy to be connected to the world once again, with the ability to check my email, my school stuff, read my favourite blogs, and do research online. another part of me is horrified at how dependent i've become on the internet. so the question is, do i or do i not want to be connected? i think i just like the IDEA of knowing that i can be connected if i want to. it does provide convenience when i need it. but when the internet is not working, i end up feeling a little helpless, especially when i'm running to and fro between two computers with no thumbdrive to help.
anyway, the SEA Games is in full swing! i'm enjoying it so much. singapore is doing really well! :) can't wait for the day when we host it, i'll be even more excited! haha. but because school is very very hectic right now, i can't follow the games on TV so i just read the newspapers.
i'm going to extract my 4 wisdom teeth on wed. i met the anesthetist and he was very funny. he was measuring my blood pressure, and checking my heartbeat, and then he wrote down my weight as 58kg. i was like, huh you mean i'm 58kg??! how did you know??? (of course the crazy thought that my bp or hb could tell him that flashed past my mind...) turned out that he THOUGHT he heard me say my weight was that. well, i almost got a heart attack when i saw it anyway.
i like the national library very much! we were all like country bumpkins there yesterday because of all the new features haha...they were fascinated by the hand dryer in the toilet?!? lol. and the screen at the bookdrop that lets you see your books arriving safely at the book bin. but it's a good place to be at. plus the reference library occupies seven levels. so cool! i'm such a nerd. haha. ok i'd better get back to work... cannot waste time!!
technically this is the second week of school, but since last week consisted of two public holidays, there wasn't really much school. hmm i definitely miss the laidback holidays. school is getting progressively tougher by the semester. but i'll try to take it easy and focus on God yeah...
i watched monsoon wedding (the indian movie) and be with you (the jap tearjerker) this week on dvd. i loved them both! MW was so much fun and it was really well done. my dad kinda got inspired to do his own song-and-dance routine after that haha. and wah i cried my heart out for BWY last night... it was so so sad. but still very good.
have also been thinking of and praying for my poor o level and a level friends... hope everyone will stay strong!!
holidays are ending in a week's time! hmm not sure how to feel about going back to school...sometimes i dread it (naturally), but sometimes i go to MeL to check if the course documents have been uploaded??? hahaha. but thank God for a pretty decent timetable. oh i've been going down to the driving centre almost every day this month. the licence is halfway in sight. may have more hope after this week. but i'm not very confident yet lah...and even if i get my licence, i think i'll be a road hazard. :( hehe...
yeah i watched the documentary about the national spelling bee in america. aiyoh it was so painful watching it sometimes. seriously it is like another form of child abuse (that's what somebody in the film said). i can't imagine how anyone, and what more a child, can go through such an intense competition like that... and now i'm so afraid of spelling a word wrongly! (incidentally i spelled "afraid" as "afriad" at first.)
exam results are coming out on thursday, if i'm not wrong. doing some part-time work this week as well...going with A.Hospital staff to a company in ang mo kio to do health check-ups. my job...should be registration.
hmm i had a bad driving lesson today but i guess things will get better... btw, ming'en's taking her test tomorrow! ALL THE BEST, MING'EN! she'll be the first of us to get her licence. :)
just came back from dinner with my parents and their friends at yacht club. they're still there...singing karaoke maybe haha. wow that place is so cool... i never knew there was such a beautiful place in singapore. lovely sea breeze, seafood, and outdoor dining experience. and this place is in west coast, not east coast! aha, so i do have some nice sea-related thing in west coast haha. over dinner, one of the aunties told me about her friend's son (who was from mcm) who did a short film about his mother dying, and his mum acted as herself! haha it's funny and interesting at the same time. not that his mother was really dying, it was just the storyline.
tonight is one of the times i miss having my oldest brother around. never knew what good company he could provide, until he came home this summer. in him i have an exercise/movie/tv partner, and just having him around is nice.
yes so i'm very full now... but i really rather be full spiritually than physically. this holiday is a good time for me to reflect on the person i have been and what i really ought to be, as a disciple of Jesus Christ. please forgive me if i haven't been as LOVING, CARING, FORGIVING, SHARING, THOUGHTFUL, HUMBLE, PATIENT, and SELF-CONTROLLED as i should be.
and for all that i have in my life right now, i want to give all the credit to God. i know i don't show this openly, but truly, my source of strength, my source of hope, is Christ alone. and i really yearn for all my friends and relatives to believe in God, so that they may have PEACE and JOY that are out of this world! really, being in God's family is the BEST thing in your life. i love you all because God loves me. and He loves you too!!! really, really.
last paper tomorrow! and i'm already semi-planning my shopping route for tomorrow afternoon heh. haven't been to town for close to 2 months *beams* but who knows, i might just come home and sleep after all. since i don't think i'll meet any sales at this time of the year.
sigh, can't seem to study. and sigh, i've become a one-paper person. wonder what will i do if i had gone to JC? i'd be mugging for like ten papers now... so, my friends, i salute you!
i watched marie full of grace on DVD two nights ago, and it was a great movie. really well-made, and not the standard hollywood fare which you all know i'm so sick of heh. oh, and i just got a really NICE and witty email from my ex-piano teacher... ah, miss those days.
ok, i had a brainwave in the shower some days ago, hehehe. imagine if every car had a signboard at the back, like those electronic ones they place along the roads to warn you of traffic jams and give you the occasional "Happy New Year... and drive safely"? then let's say you happen to cut into somebody's lane coz you couldn't help it, or people are horning you because they can't see there's an accident in front, how do you communicate with them? aha, so if you have that electronic signboard at the back, you can just key in your message, like "Sorry!" or "Accident in front LAH" and flash it to the driver!
ok this doesn't sound so great now, and i can think of many ways drivers might misuse this. ok back to studying.
haha sam, this is for you :) one more post -
just had supper! my mum and brother bought back bedok 85 bar chor mee and grilled chicken wings. it was yum yum just now but now i'm like eew...die...and can't go to sleep. all my hard work at the gym (haha just kidding, what hard work) gone down the drain just like that *poof* (click mouse once now for poof effect).
so the trip to bmtc was this afternoon. endured the long and arduous journey from the west to the east, whereupon we arrived at the depressing ferry terminal with grey walls. somebody should make it more colourful so that the poor army boys won't have to suffer EVERY. STEP. OF. THE. WAY! even just before boarding the ferry, there's this billboard above us showing an ah bing ge (army boy) holding his girlfriend's face and the tagline goes something to the effect of "it's not what you lose, but how much you'll gain in the future". that's not very comforting. :p
anyway, term's ending once again, which essentially means nothing but... DEADLINES. four major projects, one pr assignment, and a radio test... i know i can do nothing without the strength that God gives me!! ok so it's very late now, so even though i'm still very full i think i'll just crash into bed. head's spinning already. was there wine in the bar chor mee? don't think so. haha.
went to the metro 20% off storewide sale yesterday with huang shan, my friend all the way from primary school. it was pretty good, since i kinda like metro hehe. and paragon was having sales in a lot of shops too, but there was no time. turned out that most of orchard road was having national day sales!!! but glad i didn't shop everywhere or else i'd have bought more than i should. went home with a cooee skirt ($24.95) and a bossini top ($10).
BUT -- our outing wasn't just about shopping, of course! we had lunch at kobayashi (not very nice, unfortunately), brownies for dessert (and to make up for the sad lunch) at cafe cartel. btw, np students have 15% discount there! ok, and we talked and had a good time catching up. thanks shan :) it was a very good outing!
the only thing was that cineleisure was PACKED with students dressed in red. we turned claustrophobic and fled the place as soon as we could. :p but the place also made me feel like watching a movie. ah, charlie and the chocolate factory came out last week. bewitched's out today. well i signed up for hollywoodclicks.com last night (yeah, finally) so i think i won't be going to the cinemas for a long while actually. then again, this is a good chance for inviting friends over and watching (non-pirated) dvds!
happy birthday, singapore :)
photos courtesy of erica!
the chocolate dragon and where you can make your own chocolate drink. i was too sick of chocolate by that time to try it. :p
so maybe it was time i added some pictures here to liven up the blog! this is my room...with the bare essentials. bed, shelf, table, chair, fan... yeah. looking for a picture to decorate the plain wall hopefully?? the extra mattress is coz my aunt from sydney stayed with us for 10 days.
checked my school mail and saw this email with the subject: "compulsary visit to bmtc on 17 aug..." i was like HUH?! bmtc is the basic military training centre at pulau tekong!!! where the army guys go!!
apparently my tutorial group is free on wed afternoons so we've been chosen to pay a visit to bmtc and for the ladies, it's a good chance to see what our future boyfriends/spouses go through. that's what the email said.
i can't believe it!!! for a moment i felt like emailing the person back to ask, "is this a JOKE?" hahaha ok i seriously don't know whether to laugh or what. i just can't believe such a thing is happening to me! in poly! i'll post about what happens when it happens. i seriously don't know what to think of this...hahaha.
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haha i almost forgot to talk about this, but today on the shuttle bus home with my mum, we saw this man dressed in red from top to toe. no kidding. red shirt, red track pants and red shoes. as if that was not enough, he held a red file in his hand as well. all were the same shade of bright red.
as he stood up to get off the bus, my mum whispered to me...
"better make sure the bull doesn't see him."
hahahahaha my mum is funny right?
attended a wedding today at the old parliament house. that whole area was road-blocked coz of the ndp preview so we had to make one big round to get inside the building. you seldom hear of people getting married inside the parliament house do you...haha me too! it was so different. but i'd definitely still want to get married in my church next time, no matter how exotic wedding locations can get. heh.
so glad to be home now... plus it's a cold night so it should make for a good sleep later. :) saturday night tv is pretty bad, did you ever notice that btw? haha... just a thought.
oh last night i had my p6 reunion and it was so so cool. it was definitely one of our best reunions. plus our teacher could make it!! we had a great time reminiscing and laughing like mad... thank God for a night like that.
to ming'en: WELCOME HOME!!! missed you.
i don't understand why my double spacing is missing! like suddenly it went on strike. :( it makes reading so much harder, doesn't it? does anyone have the same problem? can anyone tell me how to fix it?
what a week it has been!! i'm exhausted from all the work coz it's the last week of the term so the deadlines decided to all appear at the same time suddenly. like so many things clouding my mind and giving me a perpetual headache. things in year 2 sure are different!! but i don't want to complain so i shall move on...
bigger things have happened. first, the IOC. i think it was really cool that it took place right here! but i think all the action was somewhere in the city; i didn't feel affected at all here in my little west coast, so i just followed the papers closely... it was really interesting. and i was rooting for PARIS! erica and i were so disappointed. we so wanted it to win!! and it has tried THREE times already!! they should let it win!! :( our second choice was madrid. at least these two cities had the spirit!
but oh man poor london! poor poor london! the shock and sadness of it all just gripped me there and then and, call me apathetic or what, but i can't really bear to follow the news coz it's just too sad... i remember when the tsunami happened i couldn't bear to know what was happening too... and all the other sad things that happened over the years. i think singapore is really blessed. well and another thing that hit me was that last time when such tragedies took place, it would make me think, "people are suffering over there, and here i am in school having to be concerned about HOMEWORK and GRADES??" that was one of the reasons why i wasn't happy in school. but i think now i'm in a better situation, in poly and all, so i feel like my life is not so unmeaningful anymore. well something like that lah. i don't really know how to express my feelings.
though school has been tough recently, it ended on a pretty good note for me today coz i can see that my friends are making an effort to curb their use of vulgarities. thank God for that!! i'm really thankful to God, my Saviour and my Provider. My refuge and strength.
and how true!
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He listens. He can live anywhere in the universe, but He chose your heart.
ok the chocolate buffet was pretty nice at the start. the ambience was super good... everywhere was dimly lit, and we sat on these amazingly comfy couches, not chairs. there was this chocolate fountain thing, where you put your fruits and stuff in and get them all chocolatey. i tried that first. and then i ate a chocolate tart and some other small chocolates. i also tried the fullerton chocolate cake. and that was it. i was gone by one and a half rounds. i couldn't even finish the cakes on my second plate!! i was feeling sick and i was seriously missing my bar chor mee by then. hehe ok so i think it's not very wise to bring me to a chocolate buffet... though i DID enjoy it in the general sense... like lazing around and leaning back on the couch and just talking... it felt very holiday-ish. oh what would i give to live in fullerton for one night... hahaha.
maybe i should blog. since i'm kinda tired of always seeing the same old post here. haha. time flies and i'll be having my term break in a week's time. life seems so great during term break... i can just imagine all the rest i'll take, the DVDs i'll rent, the shopping i'll do... but until then, it is sad. :( nobody likes deadlines. haha but aiyah in the end everything will turn out ok lah, as it always does. i'm not so worried about things, i'm just sian about the work i have to do. but having God beside you is a real comfort. in Your presence, that's where I am strong. i just have to focus on Him and not let worry take over me. the things of this world seem so small compared to You, O God. God is in control!! how wonderful is that. :)
some of my primary school classmates are coming back from overseas and we're gonna have a reunion! looking forward to that. and tonight i'm going to fullerton for chocolate buffet with some of my sec 4 friends. pay $28 to GET FAT! tsk. haha. but i'm quite excited about going inside fullerton, and of course meeting up with my friends. ok back to work.
