hmm.
i went for membership class yesterday:D
typed out a whole ramble about it yesterday night but blogger didn't seem to like me:) ah well:)
anyway, i'm very proud of my church right now:D hahaha:) proud of the couple who flew to ecuador yesterday, proud of the sister who flew to chile... proud of anyone else flying over to south africa (i can't remember which part) and to settle there for church planting:D so proud of them:)
membership class has that effect on you... hahaa:) stirs up the joy in you such that it felt like sparks of delight dancing on a river of flame:) having pastor ben and pastor dinah flying 22 hours and rushing back to nexus for the membership class kinda touched our hearts too:) ah wellz:)
hehehe... had econs and gp today...i have absolutely no idea what my results are going to be though:) two totally unpredictable subjects:) wrote crap for question 3, wrote wonderfully for question 2 though (in my opinion...probably will turn up as some horrendous mark once more:). mcq was mad...raving mad.

Which [Finding Nemo] characters are you?
Which [Rainbow Colours] are you?

the new blogger is so odd...so stiff and cold...all grayish (yesyes..i know that's the american spelling:) and squarish, so unfriendly. yeeuch.
ho-humm...after like four days of not coming online, or rather, being unable to come online 'cos the modem refused to connect, i'm finally able to get myself back into cyberspace, with no credit of mine of course:) *heh* all praise should go to the computer repairman, who moved the modem in the cpu to a more secure position and voila! i can use it once more:D
spent the past few days studying at toa payoh library, with stephanie, dancing, jitsy and an one-day huixian:D was very surprised yesterday when we saw xuan-an and his mum and brother, was even more surprised when we saw benjamin after seeing xuan-an, with his mother as well:) then came the final popping up of hui xian... hahhaa:)
ah. i'm exasperated by my sis and my mum...ah.

You are Psalms.


Which book of the Bible are you?
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forgot to mention...all of the girls got a rose each from zhi heng...totally unexpected. we thought he was going to give the roses to our teacher in charge:D

[Taekwondo blog part 1.1]
ho-hummm:)
taekwondo tournament's finally over...don't think i'll ever forget it... it's amazing i didn't dream of my white belt pattern last night:) hahahaa:)
we went there expecting a large hall whereby there're spectators on all four sides, but eunos cc failed to meet our expectations... it was in an open area with a cover:) ah wellz:) turns out that the air-coned hall is occupied by a malay wedding:) *grInz* yeah.. all the individual events started out first:) white belt individual was the second of the lot:) and i was number 32:)
did the pattern with someone called cai ying from temasek jc and some guy which i didn't ask the name of:) *heh* the first list of people who got into the semi finals that was churned out included all three guys from vj who took part:) and none of the girls. not me, not jits nor hui xian. at first we were like...oh okay. fine. maybe we didn't put in enough power:)... then when we watched the semis...we grew indignant. the girls who got in were like much less of a standard than us... ah wellz. so naturally we started to grumble:) *grInz*
then...it turns out that the first list was wrong. hahahaha:) so they displayed the correct list of participants who got in and lo and behold! me and hui xian were in the top 30:) poor jits didn't get in though...ah wellz. and only the top 15 got to get into the semi-finals:) so now...two guys from vj (leonardo and lifei) and two of us, hui xian and me got in:) cai ying got in too:) and she's really good...think she got the highest score during semis or something similar...and she knows cailin (primary school friend)!:D

[taekwando part 1.2]
but i didn't do well in the semis...chin-ta says my shouting was good, my punches and blocking were done very well...but my kick wasn't fast enough...ah well:) nvm...in the end, only leonardo got into the finals, with 5 other people or something similar:) and he got third overall for individual:) so cool! i'm so proud of him! hahahaa:)
yeah... anyway, i'm very proud of cheryl and youyun as well:) hahahaha:) 'cos you yun got first for green belt individual (or izzit blue? can't remember...should be green) and cheryl got second for brown belt individual:) it's very sad that the black belt individuals didn't get anything...all three of them (kirit, lionel and zhi heng) got into the finals...but only lionel got bronze or something similar:) it was so obvious that the judges were biased, especially when zhi heng did like a new perfect black belt stance... i mean, for goodness sake! he's a second dunce already...so is lionel though:) and sheesh...it's like other schools also commented that they though he would win because of how perfectly he executed all the moves...ah wellz. stupid judge. they also mark them 0.5 points lower than the TJ pple.
but the black belt team did an excellant job:) with kirit, zhi heng, lionel and samantha inside:) they got gold! hahahaha:)
and white belt team! we got gold too! *beamz*:D it was SO scary... we kinda thrashed the other jcs in the first round (only two rounds for team...) with a score of 24.7:) beautiful! and the guys' team got a score of 24.5...so we thought: hahaha! we can get gold and the guys get silver:D

[taekwondo part 2]
however, during the finals, one of the tj team ( which had cai ying and two other individuals who got into the finals) did very well and tied with us with the score of 25.2...and there was a tie-breaker...ah wellz:) so we kinda became quite stressed...hahahhaa:) by that time it was like 8++ at night:) we've been competing since 2 in the afternoon... and before that we were all becoming a little crazy from no dinner, fatigue and muscle ache. hahaha:) and we did the chicken dance!:D
yeah, anyway, tie-breaker...the tj team screwed up the second part of their stance...i think we screwed up ours too...but it doesn't matter. 'cos the judges probably decided beforehand who would win...'cos we won them by 1.0 points!:D woohoooo:D we rule! hahaha:) we got 8.5 from judge 1, 8.4 from judge 2 and 8.3 from judge 3:D the tj team had 8.0, 8.0 and 8.2:D
so in the end, out of the 18 people whom we sent down to compete, 16 got at least one medal home:D ah...feels so good:) tj sent down 50+++ people...and they had the same number of gold medals as us... 3 gold medals. ah wellz...but they got more bronzes...so in overall, we got second and tj was first...sigh. ah wellz, they should have counted by percentage:D
then we went to eat macs!:) at like 10++ at night:D the school sponsered:D hehehe...stayed there till 11.30pm:) reached home at 1am after fetching jits home and slept at 2 after smsing lionel and huixian and peilee about stuff around...hahaha:) oh...i forgot to mention, seems like all of the black belt guys are attached.. *grInz*
felt much closer to all of the taekwondo pple after the competition...quite natural as well i guess, since we spent so much time together training and everything else:D guess the competition really pulled all of us together:)
hehehe...will never forget this competition:) or the people for the matter:D

all of the east unit people!:D *beamz* we're so small...sniff.
small...but with a big vision:D yeah!

tomorrow's the compeitition...hehehehe:D we were training and training both yesterday and today...the girls' team was super enthusiastic yesterday for training...but our energy ran out today..hehehe:) guys' team improved a lot on their kicking. we've practiced so much our timing's like...almost the same already or something:) brilliant...just hope we dun panic and fumble and lose timing tomorrow:D
my bio revision's on the way:D yeah!:D still way behind time though...hahaha:D

taekwando training this morning was grueling for my poor soles... it's definitely not advisable for someone to walk around barefooted at Kembangan CC... disastrous floor...you'll rupture your poor capillaries and deprive your muscle cells of oxygen by doing that... not forgetting that you'll be sending lots of electrical impulses down your pain receptors or something:) ah wellz:)
i think i'm complaining quite a lot:D hahahaha:)
competition's on saturday! and they took out the white-yellow stance...which kinda made everything like 75% easier or something similar to that...wish me and jits good luck!:)
went to zi wei's house after taekwando for care-grouping cum study session *grInz* there was a nice swimming pool! and very noisy children:) ah wellz... and there's a sauna in the toilet! not very big...but a sauna nevertheless... and a very high tech security system...hahahaa:)
ooooh. i passed isobelly's quiz! *beamz* okayokay..nvmnvm:) hahaha. shall finish studying bio soon or something:D

You're Yellow!


Which M & M are you?
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click here to do a kind deed:D *grInz*
As I was walking down life's highway
many years ago
I came upon a sign that read
Heavens Grocery Store.
When I got a little closer
the doors swung open wide
And when I came to myself
I was standing inside.
I saw a host of angels.
They were standing everywhere
One handed me a basket
and said "My child, shop with care."
Everything a human needed
was in that grocery store
And what you could not carry
you could come back for more
First I got some Patience.
Love was in that same row.
Further down was Understanding,
You need that everywhere you go.
I got a box or two of Wisdom
and Faith a bag or two.
And Charity of course
I would need some of that too.
I couldn't miss the Holy Ghost
It was all over the place.
And then some Strength
and Courage to help me run this race.
My basket was getting full
but I remembered I needed Grace,
And then I chose Salvation for
Salvation was for free
I tried to get enough of that
to do for you and me.
Then I started to the counter
to pay my grocery bill,
For I thought I had everything
to do the Masters will.
As I went up the aisle
I saw Prayer and put that in,
For I knew when I stepped outside
I would run into sin.
Peace and Joy were plentiful,
the last things on the shelf.
Song and Praise were hanging near
so I just helped myself.
Then I said to the angel
"Now how much do I owe?"
He smiled and said
"Just take them everywhere you go."
Again I asked "Really now,
How much do I owe?"
"My child" he said,
"God paid your bill
a long long time ago."

got a piece of sad news yesterday...a j2 senior from the S4 faculty committed suicide on monday...sighz. she's a buddhist btw. and the last time S1 fac cap was crying when the principal broke the news to her on tuesday...saw it during taekwando training... ah wellz.

ooof. i'm so sick of chinese...been doing chinese hw for these two days:) gonna finish up gp long-past hw for the next day too:D and to pack my room (and files) so as to prepare for proper revision:D yeah! brilliant. i feel accomplished already. hahahaha:) nah...just that i've never bothered much about exams in the past. sucky.

i like the idea of me being a deep thinker:D *grInz* hahaha! as for whether i AM a deep thinker, that's another question... although i do prefer to remain as a nice innocent person who knows nothing about the evils of the world, living my life to its purest:D *hehehe*
though i do love midnight:) i love midnight when i'm in an nice air-conditioned room with my friends around me, talking about the stuff in life or just to enjoy each others' presence:) i love midnight in the hotel room, staying up just to read the bible quietly or to have a nice long talk with God:) and i love midnight when i'm walking down orchard room, observing the happenings on the street at such an obscure time, peering at the policemen by the roadside, knowing that the destination of this walk is a bright and cheery 7-11 shop:) and i even love midnight when i wake up then and just sit quietly, listening to everyone else's breathing and falling back asleep with that assurance that the world is still there for you:) ah...
listen to it's softspoken murmur, a soothing tone used to gently coax you to surrender, to sink into your pillows, let the thick mattress surround your weight, hugging your frame while you give in to its embrace:) isn't midnight such an elegant lady?:)

Midnight - You are a deep thinker, always searching
for answers and never quite at home. You are
very contemplative, and enjoy being alone with
your thoughts.


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hmmz...i can't help thinking about the coming of the end days too...all the stuff popping up here and there...all predicted in the bible...it's coming around relatively fast. i wonder how much time we have left...hahaha:)

i just watched 'True Courage' ...very touching. very saddening. heh:) think for once channel 5 did something good...by bringing out the actual cases of SARS to singaporeans...allowing us to have a closer touch with what they really did for us...enabling us to appreciate them much more...to feel for them more of the heart, than out of respect to them for their jobs:)
had taekwando training this morning...zhi heng told us to be there by 8...in the end the official training only started at nine. ah wellz:) was quite odd when we found out that what zhi heng taught us was a bit divergent from what terence sir was teaching us today...we recorded the timing for the teams too:) hmmz...apparently there're five per team now...but terence sir already has in mind who's to be in the team and who's going to be a reserve...sighz. i hope i'm in! *crossed fingers*
went to the library to study...or rather to do the chinese holiday hw:) do you know this is the first time in dunno-how-many-hundred years i'm actually doing some homework at the start of the holidays? scary what jc can do to you...had a nice time with jits and guan:) though the library was freezing me to death...hahaha:) haven't finished my chinese hw though...

hmmz. i forgot to mention that we went for marche's on sunday evening!:D me and jits saw yun and her bf, michelle teo and a guy (izzit her bf too?), michelle goh (*grInz* whose bf couldn't join us:), chiew and jon, shauna, yengyong, isobel, tracy, joanne, lisa and meizhen:D (i hope i didn't miss out anyone...)
was sitting at a nice round table with isobelly, joanne, tracy, jitsy and mich.goh:) hehehe:) walked around marche's a few times wondering what to eat (didn't have much of an appetite...from eating too much the previous night...i bought green curry instant noodles from 7-11 at 2++ am! poor ziwei, sharilyn and mingxiu were still studying for their chinese AO level paper..)...finally settled on marinated boneless chicken leg. ah wellz:) was very surprised when lisa saw me, exclaimed my name and hugged me. i was like 'eh?'
yeah...had a nice time talking to the pple at my table:D mich got full refund for her beef stew with something rice 'cos she found a strand of hair inside while eating halfway...hahaha:D and she wanted to buy us crepe... so sweet! but too bad we've already bought it. ah wellz:)
saw helen too:) (friend from nyj)... apparently she can't make it back to ny...ah wellz:) but she still goes out with candy and yvonne:D
had a nice time talking to trace too:D we bought badges! hahaha:D she's supposed to wear the 'sample, try me!' badge on her bag and mine is 'once open, considered sold';) at least it's better than 'sample, try me!'...i told her to wear it on her shirt:) *grInz*:D

cuddle and a kiss on the forehead - you like to be
close to your special someone and feel warm,
comfortable, and needed


What Sign of Affection Are You?
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oh! i remember what we were doing on friday night..went to suraj's room to do some survey...then saw the brothers going crazy, piling themselves on top of each other...hahaha:) they were devising a plan for some pillow fight with the uni brothers apparently. ah wellz:) and sat night they had truth or dare... hmmz. i pity the brothers.

back from church camp! hahahaa:) nice camp!:D phone went terribly out of battery though:) should have brought charger there...ah wellz:)
yeah...went on friday. was feeling all not-so-happy and not-so-awake after the exhaustive soccer match (which i owe credit to for causing me to lose my voice:D) whereby poor vj lost to jj...and it's just my luck that the driver of the taxi i hopped onto is a father of someone in the jj soccer team. he was there supporting his son. ah wellz:)
yeah...reached orchard hotel late...poor junting had to come out of praise and worship to fetch me in for registration:) hehehee:) preaching was very effective though:) very inspiring as well. hahaha:) had sermon after preaching...double teaching! hahaha:) can't remember what i did for the rest of the night after climbing up the stairs to our room on the 11th floor (we were at the third floor auditorium)...oh guess what? the arrangement of the room i was in (1104) was surprisingly similar to the room me, qing and iso had in the hotel in malacca...except that the room is smaller and now has a minibar, a safe and a hairdryer:D hahahaa:) ended up sleeping at 2++...and i seriously can't remember what we did. hahaha:)
second day was more packed with activities:) we had a workshop... and gala night was full of fun, lameness and mischief. then hope nite was crazy...with the imitation of all sorts of advertisements (including the recent nike one) and wonderful skits put up by other groups:) especially the young adults group:D they imitated pastor ben and what-nots. hahaha:) very amusing:) and high praise was exhilerating:)
slept at 3++ on sat night...after much sharing and what-nots:) hehehee... think God really touched all of us in many aspects throughout the camp:) looking forward to next year!

hmmz. i've been having emotional ups and downs here and there throughout last night due to me stating that i'm going for church camp last night...exhausts me rather. slept for 7 hours but still could barely keep myself awake throughout the day...hahahaa:) mum literally dragged me out of bed this morning to talk to me...at least now i know more about what she thinks of my faith:)
oh! the school library has Analog! hahaha. so cool!:D Analog's another type of science fiction short stories monthly magazines...sort of like Asimov:) i used to subscibe to Asimov...until the magazines stopped coming and i didn't know how to continue the subscription...ah wellz:) some stories are so beautifully crafted they just whirl you off into the story itself:) pretty:D
had taekwando training today:) for the Inter-Junior Collegiate Taekwando Championship 2003...hahaha:) sounds cool right? actually i think it just means inter-jc taekwando competition...nevertheless, it'll look good on the cca record:D *grInz* but oh man! the stretching! and the punching! do you know how exhausting it is to exert max strength for every punch? at the end of it all i felt as if i've gone running or something similar to that...the stretching too... samantha says we have to be able to touch our forehead with our raise kick at the end of the two weeks or something similar to that...and we tried to do a split for warmups...do you know how long it's been since i've done one? 5 years! last time i did a split was when i was still learning wushu in primary school...for warmups too. how sucky. ah wellz:) and the coach is still going to reselect people for the teams. ah wellz to that too...
i'm pissed off at my sis. AAARGHH.
okay. better now.

qing qing qing...it's 'if only through heaven's eyes' i believe:) *grInz*

You are Tank, from "The Matrix." Loyal
till the end, you spare no expense in ensuring
the well-being of others.


What Matrix Persona Are You?
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i don't remember seeing this guy...do you?:)

it seems like throughout these few weeks, i've been hearing nothing but systems and choices...or rather the lack of choices. live with the system, move on with the system, rise! my friends! rise above the system we're in!
i've finally realised why people are so obsessed with systems and choices these days...it's because of 'matrix reloaded'. amazing how a movie can influence the topic of so many people's discussion...hmmmz.