oh. forgot to mention.
got a b-day present from Jason today. a book called 'Just give me Jesus' by Anne Graham Lotz (daughter of billy graham). about the book of john. interesting:)

wrote out quite a lot of reflections. but comp died on me.
shall keep the reflections to myself then:)
just wanna say tt it was good talking to twin, eesiew, jiehui and jason (and especially the qns he asked)

i've been sneezing and sneezing. ah-choo!
found out tt it's not the study room tt's currently open, it's the info centre:( so now i've gotta wait for all the construction work to start before i can use the study room. ah well:) can't really study at home. mum and sister and tv and comp are too distracting.
chloe's growing fat. and she refuses to go and sleep. i'm worried for her health. hahaha:D
13th anniversary tomorrow! can't wait to see tmr's programme. so sad no one else can join me. what with nus open house, psychology talks and smu open house... ah well. i've already planned out wat i'll take, so any amount of talks or open houses will just give me a preview of how the life will be like, but not affect my choice:)
had a nice time talking to lilin today:) we went to eat katong laksa...then chatted, caught up a bit:) got some interesting news here and there:) quite an enjoyable time actually.
i think i'll be broke next week. have to start planning finances. shall not spend too much tomorrow:) i wish my savings will have the multiplier effect. 5X!:D hahahaha:D

this post is specially dedicated to fungi:
i want a surprise for my birthday present. hahaha:D nah. i dunno wat i want.
and...
mark wahlberg can wait for a few more years yet:)

oh! someone mentioned tt if there's ranking this yr, vj's on par with hcj at second, with rj being first. i wonder if the news is true:D quite cool if it is!

-i would like to visit the moon
on a rocketship high in the air
i would like to visit the moon
but i don't think i'll want to live there
though i like to look down on the earth from above
i would miss all the people and places i love
so although i may like it for one afternoon
i don't wanna live on the moon-

chloe's quite amusing. she doesn't seem to differentiate my hand smelling of hamster food, and hamster food itself yet. everytime after i change her food, she'll be very interested in my hand and try to nibble it. hahaha:D sometimes she licks it o_O
got quite a surprise in vj canteen today...saw ziwei and joseph!:) apparently they're working in the same place currently (with jason too) and their work place is having a chalet. so cool! i shall work there next time too. hahaha:D nah. see first. i might just take up the relief teaching thing(like huichun. she says the hours are more flexible) or become a lab technician who earns $1300 per month. ah well. next yr's stuff. maybe i should plan out my ASK for the rest of the year during the march hols. former one can't work anymore...changes here and there.
CG was a change today...heh:) we sat around, played games and shared. i always find it quite interesting to listen to other pple's testimonies...so many different experiences, encompasses different aspects.
i was reflecting on sat service's timing...and was just thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of it.
advantages will include the fact tt i can go there straight after school (most of the time...) and sunday will be kept completely free for me to concentrate on God and on work in the afternoon, as well as catching up with twin:)
disadvantages...a lot of talks and seminars and open houses on saturdays... like this sat! 13th anniversary! special service! so many things! and yet pple can't join in the fun 'cos it clashed with stuff around. so sad:(
heh.
got a letter tt the study room downstairs is now open...daily to 10pm:D yeah rocks! can just study downstairs during exams next time:)

this is a one-word poem:P

bent.

this is an extension of the one-word poem:P

bent, not broken.

this is xinying trying a new way to express herself:

-_-zzz

this is an upcoming event xinying is interested in:

singapore festival of arts

this is the play in the event xinying wld like to watch:

Othello

How Could I Live Without You

How could I live without You
How would I survive
Without Your love
Without Your touch
You're the One that heals me
That cleanses my heart
And sets me free

Now I come right before You
With my hands lifted up
And my heart humble bowed
At Your work on the cross
As You hung there and died
You were paying the price
For my life, for my life

For Your love
Is higher than the heavens
Deeper than the sea
And all I want is You
In my life
No one else can satisfy my soul
Can make me feel this way
Only You Lord, only You

hey everyone! be nice and help to do this teeny weeny survey tt'll take up less than 5 mins of ur time:D

hhahaa:D i'm obliged to give a detailed description of every celebration tt i have:D
on sat night, my family went to eat.. spent $45.90 for dinner...eh. there was a dish consisting of less than 10 fried tofu and costs $10:P i dun mind spending for nice food...but tt was... hohohoho. merry christmas.
on sunday:D went to witness water bap:) jasmine, jiali, jingting, yaoguo and sengkim went from the east jc cgs!:D heh:) was a very nice day:) nice and cooling. it was like God was smiling down to them from heaven or something and knowing tt it's a day they've been waiting for, decided to make the weather really nice. i like witnessing water bap:) got to know more pple around too:)
east jc cg pple gave me a huge card (made by jasmine)..very nice:D i'm still trying to figure out who 'not-me' is...can't really remember. hope i'll remember to ask.
went to meet miss lee, sze, weez and chiew for dinner at nydc after tt:) erick (is tt how u spell it?) --- who is miss lee's bf, came along as well:D erick lam. eh. son of the bio textbook writer:) had a nice time there...'cos we ate and ate, but the bill was footed by miss lee:D *grInz* we spent $137.91 in all...hehehehe:D poor miss lee.
steph and dancing surprised me this morning... they asked me to close my eyes and walk...then asked me to stretch out my hands...and when i opened my eyes, i saw a hamster in a cage:) *grInz* thanks to steph, lydia, dancing, ruxuan, corinne, desiree and liting (izzit?) can't remember... hhehehe. thanks!:D very adorable hamster...lydia named it Chloe. so chloe it is. classmates started going gaga over it. bbill's infatuated with chloe. hahaha:D
oof. i'm tired. someone else can narrate the events of the day:D i shall go and rest.
oh btw, mingxian advise us not to watch 'honey'. it's a horrible movie. she, huixiang and nicole nearly died watching it. hahaha:D

just for a laugh...hope it doesn't stumble anyone:)

Four friends reunited at a party after 30 years. After a few laughs and drinks, one of them had to go to the rest room. The ones who stayed behind began to talk about their kids and their successes.
Thefirst guy says: I am very proud of my son, he is my pride and joy. He started working at a very successful company at the bottom of the barrel. He studied Economics and Business Administration soon he was promoted and began to climb the corporate ladder becoming the General Manager and now he is the president of the company. He became so rich that he gave his best friend a top of the line Mercedes Benz for his birthday.
The second guy says: Damn, that's terrific!! My son is also my pride and joy, I am very proud of him. He started working at a traveling agency for a very big airline. He went to flight school to become a pilot and also manage to become a partner in the company where he now owns the majority of the assets. He became so rich that he gave his best friend a brand new jet for his birthday.
The third guy says: "Well, well, well congratulations!! My son is also my pride and joy and he is also very rich. He studied in the best universities and became an Engineer. He started his own construction company and became very successful and a multimillionaire. He also gave away some thing very nice and expensive to his best friend for his birthday. He built a 30,000 sq ft mansion specially for his friend."
The three friends congratulated each other mutually for the successes of theirs sons. The forth friend who earlier had gone to restroom returned and asked: "What' s going on, what are all the congratulations for?" One of the three said: We were talking about the pride we feel for the successes of our sons. And then he asked, What about your son?
The forth man replied: My son is gay and he makes a living dancing as
a stripper at a nightclub.
The three friends said: What a shame that must be, that is horrible, what a disappointment you must feel. The forth man replied: No, I am not ashamed. Not at all. He is my son and I love him just as well, he is my pride and joy. And he is very lucky too. Did you know that his birthday just passed and the other day he received a beautiful 30,000 sq ft mansion, a brand new jet and
a top of the line Mercedes Benz from his three boyfriends.

it's my first birthday celebration in Hope...and lots of things have happened since my last birthday:)
i guess the most significant thing will be tt i've accepted Christ into my life and my name's written in the book of life:) thank God for tt. if i haven't done so, i would still be spiritually dead, depending on my own strength for everyday and growing tired, many new doors for observation won't have opened... living wouldn't have taken a whole new meaning, with fresh injections of meaning and purpose. you know u're on earth for...you know why u're studying, why u will be looking for a job, why things happen the way they are, about human nature, you know tt in watever u do, it's for the purpose of a higher calling. and you know you're never alone again, once you have Christ in your life. you have an eternal friend called Jesus. Jesus is personal, not some 'god' that is far away or something.
accepting Christ.. it's like exchanging mud for a mudpie or something, like paying $0.01 for a lifetime worth of treasures. actually in this case, it's paying nothing. u just have to ask for it.
ah well.
anyway, the east jc cgs celebrated my b-day with me today...originally i was thinking, oh okay.. after dinner, go home. then jasmine disappeared. then jocelyn said something to yaoguo (or izzit sengkim?) about getting dunno-wat...looked suspiciously like getting candles or a knife and told someone abt jasmine getting something. then jasmine came and cut up two straws and i started to suspect something. hahaa:D
then gwen popped over. then jiali appeared. then they started singing happy birthday to me. jasmine appeared with the cake (cheese cake!:D) someone said something about singing happy birthday to xinying... which i thought was rather corny...but then ah well:)
i find it quite embarrassing to have everyone sing happy birthday to me. didn't know wat to do, so i just clapped my hands along... like a seal:D:D:D
let me share two of my wishes... to see CG404 come to pass...and to see pple around me growing (esp.lilin and chian siew).
i didn't know CG404 is by april...i'm dead. hahaha:D pick up the momentum singing! let's pray hard!

Question: What is the perfect example of Globalization?
Answer: Princess Diana's death.

Question: How come?
Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, riding in a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whiskey, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines!
And the funeral itself was watched by millions of people in 5 Continents.
And this is originally sent to you by a Singaporean, using Bill Gates' technology, and you're probably reading this on one of the IBM clones, that use Taiwanese-made chips, and a Korean-made monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by lorries driven by Indians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, trucked by Mexican illegal, and finally sold to you.

That, my friend, is Globalization!

hmm. today is a day with interesting events:D
at 2am in the morning, i woke up with the notion tt mosquito bites are good (was dreaming before tt)...then i realised tt i had real mosquito bites..well. so i applied medicated oil, and due to the fact tt i can't sleep 'cos it's too cold, i decided to make use of the time to study bio:D (not much use. what i studied at 2am was gone by 6am... came up for bio test and i couldn't do the qn.)
next interesting event happened after bio test when i was walking to the busstop with jits and was wondering what i should do next - go to nexus directly, or go home first? 'cos bio test ended very nice and early. so i decided to call jitsy to ask her where she's going... and she replied 'to school? for the interview talk?' then i was like..'eh?' isn't she in school already. tt's when i realised tt we had bio test...not maths test... and since jits doesn't take bio, she can't be in sch right?
third event. i went on 135 and forgot to tap my ezlink card..just happily walked to a seat:D
forth event. saw jieyun at the paya lebar bus stop with her peicai students:D quite amusing.
fifth event. 28 only took 10 mins to reach the outside bus stop today! usually it takes 20-25mins. i'm amazed:D
very nice:) this is my little rest at home before going off again. 3 pple's birthdays today... yupei, miss choo and mrs chin:D hahaha.

"And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner'" (Luke 18:13, NKJV).

King Duncan tells about the story of a manager of a ten-story office building who was informed that a man was trapped in an elevator between the second and third floors. The manager rushed to the grill work under the stalled car
and called to the passenger, "Keep cool, sir; we'll have you out soon. I've phoned for the elevator mechanic."
There was a brief pause and a tense voice replied, "I am the elevator mechanic."
Many of us, especially us men, even when we are trapped find it very difficult to say, "I have a problem. I need help." As a result, we pay a high price for our stubborn independence.
When it comes to our spiritual wellbeing and life beyond the grave many, if not most, people figure that if they have done enough good things to outweigh the bad things they have done that this will qualify them for entering
God's heaven. In other words we want to save ourselves, which is akin to a drowning man trying to save himself by picking himself up out of the water.
Vance Havner used to say how the world's a goner. It's a sinking ship. God's goal isn't to save the world but to save lost sinners from the sinking ship that is drowning in an ocean of sin and degradation. Only those who admit that they are a lost sinner and cry for God to save them can be saved for all eternity.
We simply cannot save ourselves. That's why Jesus came to die on the cross in our place--to pay the penalty for all our sins so we could be freely forgiven and given God's gift of eternal life. The prayer God loves to hear is, "God
be merciful to me a sinner!"

-i've got the joy, i've got the peace of mind,
i've got the faith in the Holy Ghost that fills me everyday
i've got the life, i've got the melody,
i've got the Word, the Word of God which sets me free!-
A level results released today. i wonder how everyone fared:)
we waited for an hour + for the chinese teacher to give us the results, but in the end, the chinese teacher never came up to the classroom... instead, it was the gp teacher who kindly copied down some results and told us abt it:)
results ain't too bad i guess. everyone passed:D michelle was so excited abt passing tt she exclaimed and hugged the person next to her (can't remember who)...
think there were some disappointments around..ah well.
let's concentrate on the main subs and GP from now on!:D

i understood a bit more of Jesus' heartbeat for His pple tonight.

Lessons of Love...
A ninety-one year old woman died after living a long dignified life. When she met God she asked him something that had long bothered her.
If Man was created in God's image, and if all men are created equal, why do people treat each other so badly?
God replied that each person who enters our life has a unique lesson to teach us. And it is only through these lessons that we learn about life, people, relationships and God. This confused the woman, so God began to explain.
When someone lies to you it teaches you that things are not always as they seem. The truth is often far beneath the surface. Look beyond the masks people wear if you want to know their heart. And remove your own masks to let people know yours.
When someone steals from you it teaches you that nothing is forever. Always appreciate what you have, for you never know when you might lose it. And never, ever take your friends and family for granted because today is the only guarantee you have.
When someone inflicts an injury upon you it teaches you that the human state is a fragile one. Protect and take care of your body as best you can, it's the only thing you are sure to have forever.
When someone mocks you it teaches you that no two people are alike. When you encounter people who are different from you, don't judge them by how they look or act; instead base your opinion on the contents of their heart. >
When someone breaks your heart it teaches you that loving someone does not always mean that person will love you back. But don't turn your back on love because when you find the right person, the joy that one person brings will make up for all the past hurts put together.
Times ten.
When someone holds a grudge against you it teaches you that everyone makes mistakes. When you are wronged, the most virtuous thing you can do is forgive the offender without pretense. Forgiving those who have hurt us is the most difficult and courageous thing Man can do.
When a loved one is unfaithful to you it teaches you that resisting temptation is Man's greatest challenge. Be vigilant in your resistance against all temptation. By doing so you will be rewarded with an enduring sense of satisfaction far greater than the temporary pleasure by which you were tempted.
When someone cheats you, it teaches you that greed is the root of all evil. Aspire to make your dreams come true, no matter how lofty they may be. Do not feel guilty about your success, but never let an obsession with achieving your goals lead you to engage in malevolent activities.
When someone ridicules you it teaches you that nobody is perfect. Accept people for their merits and be tolerant of their flaws. Do not ever reject someone for imperfections over which they have no control.
Upon hearing the Lord's wisdom, the old woman became concerned that there were no lessons to be learned from Man's good deeds.
God replied that Man's capacity to love is the greatest gift he has. At the root of all kindness is love, and each act of love also teaches us a lesson. The woman's curiosity deepening, God once again began to explain.
When someone loves us it teaches us that love, kindness, charity, honesty, humility, forgiveness and acceptance can counteract all the evil in the world. For every good deed, there is one less evil deed. Man alone has the power to control the balance between good and evil, but because the lessons of love are not taught often enough, the power is too often abused.
When you enter someone's life, whether by plan, chance or coincidence, consider what your lesson will be.
Will you teach love or a harsh lesson of reality?
When you die will your life have resulted in more loving or hurting?
More comfort or pain?
More joy or sadness?
Each one of us has power over the balance of love in the world.
Use it wisely.

hahahaha:D
vj will now have 8 youth pple! Apinun (is tt how u spell his name? jocelyn spelt it this way:D) is coming over to vj! rocks.
hey everyone! anyone wanna accompany me for service this sat?:) hehehe:D it'll be a birthday present to me:D

today is a sleepified tuesday:D
very sleepifying...we had to do gp compre during gp lessons, which happen to be the first two periods of the day...can u imagine, there we are, not even awake yet ('cos haven't eaten breakfast) and we've gotta figure out the meanings of english words that do not seem to trigger any recognition in our brains at all. in my brain at least. couldn't think. haha:)
it was much better after breakfast... we had lectures in the performance theatre! (Lt5 aircon's still not fixed. poor 11 to 17 who'll have to do their bio tests in there..:D) bio was okay. maths was okay. econs was.. okay. econs tutorial was boring. bio prac was full of drawings:) kenneth was surprisingly nice today...he helped pass microscopes to everyone. interesting event.
what other interesting events happened? oh! i kept bumping into jiali:) hmm. another interesting event? when Mrs Chuah called S1D today, all of us (except for huixiang and nicole who didn't know) didn't raise up our hands at all...'cos we've formerly signaled to each other not to do so...though seriously, it amazes me tt the rest at the other side of the pt understood us...'cos i didn't understand my own signals. hahaha:D yup. mrs chuah got a bit confused. well.
junting flew off today. ah well. see her in 10 days' time. haha:D
i'm aiming for at least a C in my bio common test. hahaha. if i get it, i'll blog abt it:) if i dun, i'll blog abt it too. well:D