heh. went for chem with steph 'cos lydia wasn't in school. then saw jc drawing some male anime char so steph was like asking him something, then jc said something too (which i seriously can't remember) and somehow or another, i concluded tt jc is ...hmmm. well. thong kheng, u've gotta be careful;)
haha. anyway. i think the guys in my class today are mad:P seriously mad. gone loony over results?:D seems to affect only one gender.
gp was well. i dunno if it's normal or more chaotic than usual. serene and alywin were like pouring water everywhere O_o mr lee was trying to quieten all of us down. he kept going 'shhh. shhh.'and the whole class just basically had their own mini tutorials. and mr lee just kept babbling to a whole class who's half-listening to him.
then went with steph for chem lect as well. was reminiscing about the nyj days. hahahaha. heh. went out with cor and steph to walk around parkway 'cos i didn't really wanna stay in sch alone, yet it's too early to go to joce's house.
they ate ice cream. hahaa. poor lil me can't eat ice cream 'cos she's having a terrible cough. then walked around the place... espirit, mango(there's a very nice pair of purple pants that's $30), billabong (steph hints that she wants the handbag:|), op (cor bought this super short skirt which actually has shorts inside). i was the fashion consultant of the day. haha! mango perfume is super longlasting, after quite a lot of washes and a nice long bath later, it's still there:P
yeah:D then went for cg after tt. hahaha:D joycelyn and weiting were really early. hahaha. yeah:D enjoyable time of fellowship with the brother and sisters:D hahaha. very nice to hear about all the testimonies as well:)
sam is super friendly:P she suddenly msned me and taught me how to write the alphabet A. hahahaha:D and she says that i'm morbid! hahaha. she's funny lahz. told me to open the cat's eyelids and use a torchlight to shine into her eyes. if the pupil dilates, then the cat is alive. if the cat springs at me, hahaha. the cat is alive too. so friendly!

the school comp has a very nice font for msn:) it's big and fat and friendly and nice looking:D hahaha. i think steph and i both sound mad. typing furiously away on the keyboard and then laughing and then typing and then laughing at the screen again. ah well:)
just had econs and maths tutorial. which means that the next tutorial i'll have is gp...and gp's going through compre... how thrilling.
my nose is still killing me. was making lots of noise in the classroom in the morning. hhahaa:D and passing around the nkf thing. *grInz*
mr ho was surprising today. at the end of the lessons, he suddenly called my name and mingxian's name (and i was like uhoh. what did i do?) then he said something about not to be too discouraged about our results 'cos we have positive attitudes:D then he said that if we're comfortable with each other, can find him and he'll give us questions to do...like for example, do 3 topics first, the go on to other topics. and he said that we probably went through all the topics...and he was smiling when he said that. hahaha. sorry. dun mind me. i'm quite shocked. okay. cool:D anyway, me and mingxian looked at each other and laughed. comfortable with each other? quite so. we were classmates in primary school:P
but nice of mr ho to actually help us even before we go and ask him for help:) maybe he thinks that i'm scared of him.
yeah well. guess maths starts the ball rolling for all revision again. i can't believe it, but i'm actually looking forward to it. think i'll feel a little empty without studying after the As. gosh.
hello steph! hahahaha. typed that for fun. hello to dancing too! dun be too sad about ur econs. hehe. i hope there's moderation for econs. hahaha. especially for ESSAY! arrgh. stupid j1 teachers. anyway, mr chan agrees that their marking is a lil :P. and he says tt for drq (he set it and gave the answer scheme), the teachers were supposed to elaborate and give us more space for answer. instead, they were rigid and caused the whole level's marks to plummet, so yah:) and mr chan can't say anything abt the case study 'cos it's set by the 'supreme high' hahaha! so funny. and we were talking about why the 'dutch disease' is called the 'dutch disease' and mr chan said something about selling dutch ladies to diversify and he did an imitation of a dutch lady:|
well, so far the past two tutorials have been quite ..surprising. what awaits us at gp? two more hours and i'll know about it:D

haha. i realise that when i'm drowsy, i can't think. so to be able to think, i need to stay non-drowsy. and to do that, i can't take my medicine. so i didn't take my medicine and got some things done instead.
brilliant. feels more on track now after sleeping my hours away. what a waste of time:P unnecessary hours of sleep. guess what time i officially woke up today?:D 1.30pm. 15 more mins and i would be off school. hahaha:D
i've only got one maths tutorial period, one econs tutorial period and hmmm 2 gp tutorial periods tmr. technically, this amounts to nothing at all. wonderful day i'll have.
room's still in half a mess due to exams... can't find something i'm supposed to do. how? hmmm.
-just keep going, just keep going-
:)

i feel like a dying old man:P coughing and wheezing away. with hardly any energy left to keep afloat this hazy misty sea of drowsiness. how many fingers do i have? i lift my hands up and see that there are none.
my body fades, my senses a blur, yet i continue with my work. mechanical. the physical realms doth cease to exist. i am aware of nothing but what is to be done, and with that knowledge, i fight against the waves that crash, that hold on dear. to what? to the truth i know so clear.
why the talk? i do not wish to talk. give me my rest and give me my sleep.and give me my consciousness to keep.

I needed the quiet so he drew me aside
Into the shadows where we could confide,
Away from the bustle where all the day long
I hurried and worried when active and strong.
I needed the quiet tho at first I rebelled,
But gently, so gently my cross he upheld,
And whispered so sweetly of spiritual things,
Tho weakened in body, my spirit took wings
To heights never heard of when active and gay,
He loved me so greatly he drew me away.
I needed the quiet, no prison my bed,
But a beautiful valley of blessings instead --
A place to grow richer in Jesus to hide
I needed the quiet so he drew me aside.

- Alice H. Mortenson

we got back econs mcq, econs case study and maths paper 1 today... hohoho. merry christmas:) mr chan was his normal self. actually he looked quite delighted. i wonder why. hahaha. case study was disappointing for the whole class... highest was 20 out of 30:P (if i didn't remember wrongly). i didn't do well for mcq. hahaha:D quite funny. well. dun talk abt maths paper 1.
mr ho was being very demoralising.thankfully i didn't do the stupid things that he mentioned. *whew* and mrs teo just went about things as per-normal. same tone, same voice, same 'let's go on with life' attitude:)
stayed back together with jits and michelle to help shanyi with her art piece. heh. poor girl has to hand it in by tmr evening and she's got lots more to do.. she's got this junior called angela and oh my! her drawings are like...O_o she was doing her promo piece.. oil painting in the renaissance period style. very nice!
yeah well. i really dun feel quite well:) better rest my soul in Christ before i topple over and meet zhou1 gong1. heh.

"'I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. Ever since the time of your forefathers you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,' says the LORD Almighty" (Malachi 3:6-7, NIV).

The sun set last night and rose again this morning as it has for thousands or millions of years. While some things never change, we can't say that about life in the last few decades--not to mention what lies ahead in the coming years!

I read that if we were to put the entire world's knowledge from the beginning of time until 1845 on a graph it would measure only 1 inch tall. From 1845 to 1945--just 100 years--the graph would measure 3 inches tall. But from 1945 until today the graph would be as tall as the Washington monument.

Change today is the order of the day. It has been said that today's average worker will need to be retrained at least three times during his working career to keep up with all the changes. Changes in technology, lifestyle, philosophy, morals, etc., are happening so fast it is difficult to keep up with them all.

Furthermore, the security that so many of us knew in earlier times has pretty much vanished. With escalating terrorism worldwide unless we have an anchor for the soul
we can be left drifting on a restless changing sea of uncertainty. But for those who have faith in God, of this one thing we can be absolutely sure: He never changes! His
love is from everlasting to everlasting and he is still in control of the world and universe no matter what. As the Bible says, "I the Lord do not change."

Americans have engraved on their coins, "In God we trust." But until that commitment is engraved on people's hearts and we genuinely trust in the God who changes not, we will have no lasting security.

hahaha:D yup:D we had info counter outing today! hahaa. for photos, please go to timothy's blog (points at top right hand corner where all the names are) hahahaa:D and i copied this entire thing from timothy 'cos i'm too lazy:P

'After my unit "Annual General Meeting"..me and evelyn (wanna spare you all with all the "he", "she", "him", "her" this time round...) took bus no.106 down to orchard. By the time I reached it's already 3pm..and I went to starhub foodcourt to find a place to write my cards for clarence and magdalene...surprisely saw xinying...after some dicussion with her we decided that we won't be going to marche anymore..since everyone is like so broke. And I decided that we should go to OA Bakery instead..since evelyn recommend me to go there.

We meet at Somerset MRT at 3.30...and all are present! They are clarence, magdalene, xinying, alvin, michael and our special guest livi! Haha..after everyone arrived we walked to OA Bakrey. Hmm..first time eating there..haha...and actually quite worth it la..$5 for the main course + soup + fruits + salad + garlic bread + free flow of drinks! Haha..and after we had our meal there we celebrated clarence and magdalene birthday. Haha..hope you all like the card we wrote to you all and the cd that we gave you! (magdalene...pls help me to burn one copy of that album hor..hurhurhur...)

Hoho..after that we went to the outside of Fish & Co. to take pictures (see below)! Haha..know I choose this place? Bcos this place is "LOVE" mah..Wanna tell all the info counterians that if we serve God but without LOVE, we gain nothing! And indeed we had fun in taking those pictures..hehe.

After sending alvin off to the bus stop (he got to report for work at 6pm)..the rest of us went to PS's arcade! Haha..went to key Keyboard Mania again..this time round I still got 1 miss for Midori no Kaze!! *bangs my head against the wall*..but thank God i still maintain the 71% passing marks for Klungkung1655. Also had one round of Percussion Master with xinying..haha..at the 3rd round I let livi play too~~..haha..they seems like they don't have the coordination skills..opps.'

:P i think i have hand-eye coordination problem. i look at the screen right i was like 'oh my, what is what?' quite fun though. hahaha:D
went for second service today with jits. haha. long story. it was strange. like going up to service alone even when you see people you know. 'cos like they don't recognise you. didn't want to shock them too. hhhaha:D
was commenting to jits that everytime we come for adult service, wenjiang seems to be the one playing guitar. hahaha:D
ahhhh. 'zai shen yuan' is a nice show! hahaha.

i love shows with nice endings! hahaha:D zai shen yuan has a nice ending!!:D much much more developed than 'witness to a prosecution'. oh manz. hahah:D if u wanna know the ending, must show from 3 episodes before the da4 jie2 ju2:D
the huangfu shaohua person has very nice features!:D he's got very nice eyelashes. hahaha. and lijun looks very good when she's in distress:P felt a bit odd seeing her with her hair all done up and everything at the end of the show... i like her better when she's pretending to be a guy. more defined features:D
oh man! and i feel that the tie-muer emperor is just... misunderstood. ah well. oh! but the emeige is funny:D she's so cheeky! hahaha. really nice ending! hahaha.just tt it's also a bit odd that the emperor suddenly realises how good the empress is to him. and how did the empress know that lijun, being the zhuang4 yuan2 is actually a girl? hmm.
poor yan yu gu niang too...
hahaha. assange provides entertainment.
i think the plot's good:D hahaha:D very good:D it's comparable to 'witness to a prosecution'! really ah. if 'witness to a prosecution' has a more developed, longer ending, it'll be so much better!
but 'zai shen yuan' is a nice show too! gosh. really must watch the ending if u have to miss any parts. watch the last 3 episodes!!! eh..that'll prob come like in.. a long time yet. hhaha:D

if people would just say out what they wanna say, it'll make things a lot easier. and makes the show less exasperating. hahahaa. haven't finished watching zai shen yuan...still got 4 more episodes to go. 3 hours more.
i'm on the part of how the three 'brothers' are gathered together once more in the palace and tie-muer and huangfu shaohua both have a liking for lijun (who is their 4th 'brother') poor queen. she must think tt the king is a bit weird:P
i wonder what will happen. hopefully the huangfu shaohua guy will end up with lijun (he still doesn't know that the 'forth brother' is lijun, and not just lijun's female cousin!)
and sometimes you wonder. how can such a good father and husband be so crafty as to want to overthrow the king? ah well. the sinful desires of the heart are hard to fathom.

haha.
watching the whole series of zai sheng yuan...hahaha. the 9o'clock channel u show..hehee. sister borrowed the whole series and now i'm watching it. hope it has a more satisfying ending than witness to a prosecution. hahaha... ah well:)
i changed the background pic of this template into a theme of pink and white but then it's more than 250kb and anything larger than that will be resized once uploaded onto photobucket which will make the dimensions of the tables all wrong and if i'm going to really change it, i'll have to re-size all the tables too. how troublesome.
we shall see.
i dun feel so hyper already. hahahaa:D but i still feel rather energetic. the ending to witness to a prosecution was quite ...rushed. hahaha:D so sad. what a nice plot though.

i love otah! hahaha. delicious yummy spicy chewy otah!
i'm a little high today. strange. must be the alcohol tasting funny coloured barley in reacting with the delicious mushroom swiss and newly fried fries i had in the morning with the info counter pple:D maybe alvin's lame jokes added to the effect as well.
it's magdalene's birthday today. and timothy said to pretend we didn't notice and give her a surprise by celebrating it with her tomorrow as well:)
poor joycelyn had a nice sprained neck and looked quite amusing today. and jiali was very nice to feed her two hungry sheep:)
and lots of postcard writing today. hahahaha:D i shall spend the time today and tomorrow wisely to bless others and to finish up my work:) oh gosh. results on monday. i can hardly wait. hahaha:D gotta personalise what i've been saying:) how exciting:)

sister just came home and started complaining about how everyone seems to want to go to ajc(:P) and no one wants to go to nyj (:D) with her. hahahaa. i would have agreed with her in the first three months due to biasness against ajc, but now that i know sisters from aj, i'm not so sure about commenting against it.
hahaha. nevertheless, the sec 4 prelim results are coming back and everyone seems to be getting anxious about it. if my sister gets into nyj and joins basketball, i'll be terribly amused.
guess it really depends on the attitude whichever school you get into. the attitude determines the altitude.

hohoho. i just ordered something on the Hope estore. hahha. how exciting. dun mind me. i've never ordered anything online b4 'cos of a lack of an online payment:D hehee.
oh! go and try hovering ur cursor over the links. hahha. editted the html to get a blurred effect. if it's irritating, let me know:)

my sister's going crazy over 'zai shen yuan'...the last time i say girl looks like she doesn't know if she's male or female show...turns out to be quite a nice show actually:) yeah:)
went out with jits to plaza sing to walk around. found her in yamaha...realised tt the organs and pianos are super ex:P well. then went to spotlight 'cos wanted to do something. hahaha. found amusing stuff there. then we thought of watching a movie but couldn't really settle on anything to watch. wanted to watch 'the terminal' but it starts too late. then we saw this new percussion machine in the arcade and wanted to try it but i suggested going in the morn instead so as not to malu ourselves. muahaha.
oh look! it's raining:)
anyway. what else did we do? oh! then we were going down the escalators when we realised that there's a Times bookshop and we went in and read lots of children's storybooks (hahaha!) and i read Narnia for the very first time in my life. yepz. came home after tt:)
going to study later:)

"Wherefore, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Hebrews 12:1).

I read about an airplane used by missionaries that gained some two-hundred pounds in weight since it was manufactured sixteen years previously. Nobody knows where the extra weight came from.

"We've been joking about the only plane in Weight Watchers," said the pilot. "But it's really a serious matter. Unless we can shed the extra weight, the plane's utility is seriously limited. We just can't carry an extra two-hundred pounds and have space for the cargo we need to deliver."

Many of us, like the missionary airplane, are carrying extra weight that can stop us from being fully functional and fully alive. For some, the extra weight may be physical, which can lead to ill health. For others, it may be unresolved emotional or spiritual issues. For example, if I am carrying an overload of guilt, fear, grief, hurt, anger, or resentment, or have some unconfessed sin or unresolved addiction in my life, any of these things can keep me stuck, not going anywhere.

God is not out to get us because of these things, but he wants us--with his help and the help of supportive friends--to resolve and overcome our issues so we can throw off the weights that are holding us back and be free to "run with patience the race set before us" and win!

oh yeah. forgot to mention..we met lots of pple today. various pple whom we know... eh. i only met shuwen (she cut her hair again! now it's like. a tuft of grass left.) and yah. shuwen. oh! alywin and cheryl too. jitsy! ur class cheryl! going out with my class alywin! O_o dancing seemed to be saying hi to the whole world (hehehe. exaggerated:D)... like yos. and her kindergarten sch mate. and can't remember who else:) and turns out tt the kindergarten sch mate corinne and liting and dancing (did i get this right?) met knows lydia as faith's sister. only rux and me and steph dunno her:P
the world is small. and liting knows suatying who's my primary sch classmate. and like joanna knows adeline and twin knows dalena. i find it quite amazing.

hohoho.
last paper today. mcq was. tricky. i dunno. got qns coming out of the 10 years series:D which is good. hahaha:D
heh. took bus to parkway and talked to this girl from s1A whom i saw in the library the last time..her chinese name is jiahui!:D very nice to talk to her:D
then walked around parkway looking for straws...hahaa. saw this guy from 03S13...eh. dunno how i know him. anyway, his cd shop wasn't open so he followed me the whole time i looked for straws. wah. when he shares with me about his life..
'meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless!'
anyway, found straws.
then went to eat breakfast at macs with joycelyn. heh. then we went to buy snacks. and saw this kitten which is biting grass. hahaha:D picked the kitten up and the kitten just played with us without showing any signs of fear:D wells.
heh. then went to her house:D her room's quite interesting to explore. heh. then we went for cg together. wah. jiali and kelvin are super early.
heh:D i love cg. hahahaa:D oh no! i took out the brush from joce's toilet bowl and never put it back O_o wellllllllllll. hahahaa.
then went down to heeren's to meet corinne, dancing, steph, lydia, liting and rux. hahaha:D i'm really broke today. hah. took neoprints too. really small.
hmmmm. i just got an invitation from the singapore air force to go for a seminar...i wonder if everyone got it. anyway, it says:'beyond a Q&A session, beyond the usual slideshow presentation, as a privileged guest, you will discover all about life in the air. and on the edge, you will walk away with a thorough insight into the advanced technology the RSAF employs. You will discover the challenges and opportunities of being a part of this elite fighting force...'
wellus. and junting shocked me. hahaha. she says tt she's gonna change ministry in 2 weeks...and said that she's gonna be taking care of NS guys and if i become a pilot, i can go over and help her O_o
i'm going to make a list of what to do after As!!!

hahaha. doing bio mcqs.
was looking for my clips to clip up my hair but realised that i've lost them... haa. my hair accessories never stay with me for more than 2 weeks:P
anyway, that brings me to my next question, should i cut my hair again? hahaha:D
it's getting a little long and a little troublesome, especially if i'm going to swim more often now.
whheeee.
last paper tomorrow!
i dunno wat i'm going to study tmr. hmmm:) finish up bio?:| yeah. i shall do that. give myself a break before going to......... maths.
if bio is orange and econs is green, maths is...purple. it can look as delightful and light as the colour of lavender, or as dark and mysterious as a pool of dark waters, or simply incomprehensible as the undercurrents in the royal empire which has crumbled a long time ago:D

many things in our lives come at the most unexpected times
if we're not sensitive about it, or happen to do other things at the wrong moment, an opportunity will slip right past us without us even noticing the shadow of it.
if i've just slept earlier tonight, i wouldn't have noticed the call. and i haven't noticed the call, it'll be an opportunity missed to comfort, to share, to love.
when you let God juggle the things in your life, you can then walk steadily ahead with a light heart, with the knowledge and assurance of Him with you.
i wasn't sensitive to opportunities before, and have let numerous chances slip away.
but i'm learning.
thank God for putting me in the right situations.