footprints...

Moving on.

2009-06-05T22:19:00.002+08:00

Its really a pletora of mixed emotions - happy, relieved, tired, peaceful, nonchalant, shattered, numb, disappointed, thankful.. All lumped into one. And it has taken a toll on me emotionally.

At the end, we didn't work out and parted ways. The world didn't crashed on me - I've given up long before that fateful "official" day. I just wanted it to "get it done and over with once and for all", and really, just move on.

I pondered for a long time, almost 6 months I think, and came to the conclusion that I'm a million times happier off alone than attached. So, I told my parents that I've no intention of getting married, and mom says "ok lor..." while dad gave me all sorts of theories about being lonely during the golden years and what nots.. I've Jesus, what else do I need?

At the very end, it really boils down to my relationship with the Lord. Everything else really doesn't matter - career, family, friends, studies, play... they all take a back seat in the light of Jesus. And He satisfies every single need and want that I can ever ask for.. And I begin to understand what Job understood about expecting good from the Lord. Always expecting good things from the Lord...

I left Manulife, I do not need the potential to earn a huge paycheck and do not see the need in the future either. I joined a new company whom the Lord has chosen and has placed me in a department made up of strong believers in Christ. This is my new family, this is where I want to grow and invest my time and talents in. To be a blessing, salt and light to the company, and may the Lord prosper everything I do. Amen.

Tired.. Emotionally, Mentally, Physically and Spiritually...

2008-12-14T23:33:00.002+08:00

A billion events has happened as I pen this entry... I left the banking industry, deciding to go back to financial planning, but things just doesn't seem to be moving forward. I don't really get it but it's gonna take a while before things start picking up again.

I don't know if the relationship that I'm in will carry on, or will it last, or whatever... Most probably we won't end up being together, and I think one relationship is really more than anything I can handle in this lifetime. Really, I'm much better off "dying single" to quote a friend.

Its a very draining part of my life. Especially emotionally; which in turn affects everything else.

I just want to get my life back again, find my laughter, my cheerfulness, my bubblyness. My friend told me that I've lost my bubbly self, that I've become a lot less happy and that I've toned down a lot lately. Well.. I've been through hell and back.

Think about His love... Think about His goodness...

2008-06-12T19:30:00.002+08:00

I miss you Lord, i mean it.. There is a longing in my heart to hear your voice, to heed your call... I know, that you've been faithfully standing by my side throughout this short years in my life, and i thank you for that, that you've always ensured that i'm protected, loved, comforted whenever i needed you.

Thank you so much for bring her into my life, for even as i prayed for a lifelong partner - a girl who would go to church with me, whom we can go to te movies together, who is talkative n chatty - you've always exceeded all that i've asked, all that i've prayed for. By grace, i've found a girl who cares so much for me, who's willing to help me and guide me along this god given relationship, who's a christian, and was even on fire for the Lord. She's a girl whom i wanted to give all my attention, whom i wish i can make her laugh, whom i wish i'll always be a blessing in her life. i love her, more than i ever imagine i could love a person... And to me, tat really spoke volumes.

Now, i really dunno if i can meet her mark, and if i miss her expectations, and all the wat ifs, so hows, what to dos, and if the 2 of us being together has no joy... i pray that Lord, help me change, help this relationship that i really treasure and help me learn the ropes of being understanding, the ropes of genuine communication and give me the right words to say and convey my turmoil of emotions..

You told us, that when u go home, you'll send the holy spirit to be our counselor, our teacher and our guide. pray, teach me dear lord to be a person that she'll always be proud of, who brings a smile to her face first thing in the morning and a smile when she sleeps... teach me, mould me, rebuke me, and Lord, change me into the person you want me to be.

Holy spirit come, i invite you, i need you, i'm so damm lost without you....

yoyo!! updates!

2008-03-12T11:09:00.002+08:00

Hi ho!

PHEW!!!! Finally!!! i'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel!! Tomorrow will be the last day of my prelims!! ahhahahahhaahahahahhaa!!!!! damm bloody tiring. Mug n mug n mug like nobody's business.. lol...

k k, the girl right? lol... mai gah li khong! well... we're married. LOL! the rest of the details just add in yourself, fill in the blanks, blah blah.. Let me reiterate - once confirm, you'll know. till then, PRAY FOR ME!

This year's gonna be pretty crazy, thinking of a job change, first exam in UOL, by grace i'll be attached, no longer available, still learning more about the stock market, other than that, working damm bloody hard to secure the top student position.

WATCH THIS SPOT!

Econs Prelim

2008-02-23T21:52:00.003+08:00

Just completed my econs prelim today, actually its the very very first day of my prelims. =) I think i faired pretty well, and if the models i used were correct, i should be getting at least 70marks for the paper. Hmm.... wasn't very easy tho... sigh...

Well, juz a couple of updates, frens would probably be dying right now to know how in the world did i spend valentines day.. heh..... none of ur biz. LOL! kidding la... lets see... v-day prep took me a couple of days actually, it started with finding the right recipe, the gifts, sourcing for the ingredients, the gifts and even the valentine's day card.. =) wanted to make it as nice n memorable as possible for her.

Anyways, keep guessin ya? Can guess till the cows come home and u'll still not get it right.. LOL... aiya, once confirm le, then we'll let u know la....

These few days were basically spent mugging, occasionally dating, and then the rest of the time doing exam papers.. nothing to get excited about, probably the whole studying thing will blow over in may whereby the exams ends.

kk, tata, cya next round. =)

Bubble burst?

2008-02-03T16:26:00.000+08:00

Hmmm... really, this is really one very difficult post, cos got so many things going on in my life right now.... maybe i should consider doing a powerpoint presentation or something...zzz....

k, first things first - regarding the lady i met, back in mar, 'progressed' in dec, but after which, deflated in jan. Well, I'd say i liked her then, but its getting a bit difficult to maintain the relationship when we meet up only once a month, and the only communication we had was via sms... zz.. so that didn't quite work out.

I'm in the midst of a job change, resumes have been prepared, just ready to be fired out to the various companies that's all. Most probably i'll be joining a brokerage firm and start off as a broker, learn to do some decent trading and then work on my degree in the meanwhile... Speaking of which, prelims are juz kinda round the corner, econs is more or less prepared, now left with stats and maths and soci to prepare that's all.... zz... bian koon liao!!

There's someone special in my life right now, I guess I still can't disclose her identity since we're not officially together yet. I pray our hearts will find our way, and then if all goes well, maybe, just maybe, I'll no longer be left on the shelf. :)

Eugene's granny was hospitalised yest... sounds pretty bad, kidney failure and diabetes, then having pneumonia too. hmmm... hope she can pull through, Jesus - we're counting on You!

Pretty much confused, with too many things to do, and too little time on hand. Hmmx. Nevermind.

Anyway, i went to get a new pair of glasses today at teck whye shopping centre - just a corner little optical shop. kaixin helped me choose a decent frame cause i can't see myself without my glasses, so ya, need her help. Basically i was pretty much spolit for choices when it came to choosing the glasses... too many! then the problem is that i basically can't see anything without lenses... sianz. Degree increased again... right eye i think still functional, but the left eye worsened a little bit.. hmmm.. Maybe when i'm older, and i start to have longsightedness it will actually auto correct itself... lol..

Hmm.... valentines' day is coming... any suggestions anyone? =)

OMG!!! Prelim jitters!!!

2008-01-26T00:11:00.000+08:00

Really, the first thing that came to my mind was "What the FUCK?!" I just got my prelim exam dates from my fren.. Its really amazing - last econs lecture will be on 21st Feb, prelim starts on 23rd Feb. Fucking work us like a DOG sia.. zzz.. Damm pissed.

STI rallied like crazy today - recovered almost everything since monday's scare. I missed the boat, should have posted a higher bidding price but its ok, there'll always be other boats to catch.

Alan's bet on AC Milan winning the soccer finals went *poof* when AC lost their game against God knows who.. I'm not a big fan of soccer, so i really know nuts about the game.. just that the odds are pretty amazing - 1vs9 or 1vs10, effectively 900% or 1000% returns.. lolz... ya i know, wtf right?

Well, i've been studying again, doing papers like there's no tomolo.. lolz... damm bloody, freaking tired.. it doesn't really very help to add on the fact that i'm in the midst of a job change.. typing resume, sending it here sending it there.. lolz.. I've slacked enough le, gotta do something about my life.

Went supper with evann juz now... so i'm pretty full - had mee goreng and hor fun, 2 person eat lo.. hmm.. She permed her hair, look a bit more mature le, i guess it'll take a while to get used to her new look ba...

k, gotta rest le... tomolo still got work.. zzz...

on MC!!!!

2008-01-18T13:27:00.000+08:00

Hahahahahahahahaha.. can't really remember the last time i fell ill le... lol... its like such a damm long time ago. hmm... actually i caught the virus from my frens - cynthia who was sick on sunday, we actually met up together with evann for revision, then she was coughing away.. quite bad tho. I went back home, still ok, alive and kicking, so i thought my resistance was actually very good. Then wed came, i went to work, jaslyn came back from macau together with the deadly macau flu virus!!! That was when i actually caught the bug, and i was sneeeeeeezing throughout the day, and thurs as well. sigh... well, as a consolation, my doc gave me 2 days mc plus a ton of medicine that causes drowsiness.. hmm... makes me lethargic tho... dun like.

My sis has been you tubing, online spreeing, shopping, spending money like the nigara falls.. zzz... hua yi ju ho lor... lolz... Jeff dunham's puppet shows featuring achmed the dead terriorist is damm funny... SILENCE! I'LL KILL U! is his tagline.. lol.. check it out ppl, he rawks.

now i'm just taking a break from my maths assignment... zzz... doing eigen values, eigen vectors, consumer surplus, producer surpluses... zzz... dammmmmmmmmm sianz!!!!!!! lol.. well, bite the bullet lor, aiming for top student, then quit my job in UOB and join shell as an analyst. xD HUAT AH! GOD IS DAMM F***ING GOOD!

On maximum gear...

2008-01-09T22:58:00.000+08:00

The very very very first post for 2008!!!! hahahahahahaa!!! I've been so busy i didn't even know where to start! Hmmm... maybe i'll just do a v brief update (may take a while... even though its summmarised).

The very very top of the list, and something i really wanna SHOUT to the world - i think i've found my better half! ^^ No, i'm not talking about maplestory - i'm talking about real life! Everything's not confirmed yet, I've prayed and asked the Lord for His timing, He said "6 months", and i prayed on the 31st Dec last year, so that means the answer would probably be released this coming june... Keep me in prayers okie? I need all the help i can get! ^^

Obviously u can tell that i'm super excited and totally adore this mystery girl i've been talking about. Nobody knows this news yet, except for one of my closest friend, u might be able to guess, but u know, she's not telling. xD

kays!! updates updates!! Christmas was a blast! Maybe overhyped but it was actually quite fun, we went to mind cafe @ boat quay, played some weird board game, went to UOB plaza and had carolling, took pics with the tree and counted down there n then. =)

New year eve was spent at east coast park BBQing the whole evening, then my fren ripped open a box of fireworks n we kinda made a mini 4th of July there.

After new year i started mugging on a daily basis... Going all out for that coverted straight distinction.. honestly i dunno if i'm actually aiming for top honors or just straight dist.. I'm damm damm tired!

I've decided to stop mapling-its taking up too much time and it has a purging effect on my memory.. =/ plus i didn't really have the time nor the mood to play, since exams are so damm near. (its in may, but what the hell, i'm aiming for something ridiculously hard to achieve... and i'm competing on the same level playing field as the full timers.... damm tough.. lucky i've Jesus!)

Sociology seems to be heading on the right track, I scored a "fantastic" for my 1st test! Woo Hoo! A+! and today was the 2nd test... i guess i'll do well too, but its still a little early to say..

My plan is pretty simple, Jan clear statistics, Feb clear maths, Mar finish up soci, Apr finish up Econs, May exams. Which easily translates into mugging all the way. Guess i'll only get a break in June, which may be the time i'll spend to seek the Lord for the next step and for directions. If all goes well, by the grace of God, i'll be attached and i'll tell the whole world about it. Sept will be the time when the results are announced, a straight dist = change of job, probably joining shell / exxon mobil as a financial analyst - again by His grace.

So now i get to suffer, but like Joseph, i know all things will eventually turn out well. Because Jesus is alive!

A maple love story~ pt2~~

2007-10-21T16:24:00.000+08:00

Tuesday was pretty exciting as school ended at around 10+pm, i've enough time to reach home to make good my promise to alice n meet her online at 10.45pm I remembered tt she wasn't feeling well - having a headache, maybe due to lack of sleep... haha.. mapling n all.. Wed dear wasn't feeling good too, so i encouraged her to take a break, have a good rest and we'll catch up when she's better.

I spent a good part of wednesday figuring out the wedding quest, which by itself, was a little bit vague. The ring maker was telling me tt i need to talk to all the different NPCs from around the various towns - Nella from Kerning, Ayan from Perion, Maya from Henesys, and i think Arwen from Ellenia. Plus 1 from orbis, 1 from leafe, 1 from aquaroad n 1 from el nath... zzz... i nearly died of heart attack.. Its a bit far fetched for me to complete at this level..

I finished up Victoria Road's quests, all 4 towns, headed to orbis, got the shock of my life - I need to collect 50 Cellion's tails.. and everything is "miss miss" plus one teeny weeny bump cost me 176hp... zzz... I was so discouraged.. sigh.. so i headed to aquaroad - bumping and healing along the way - and did the quest there - and went to the wedding village to check what else i actually needed. Surprisingly, the ring maker said i've collected all the necessary stuffs to get hitched, and he's able to make a ring for me. LOL! So checking my resources, i realised tt i'm only able to make a gold ring... zzz... so i made one, which i didn't really think is good enough for wind~~

I told dear the good news the next day - thurs i tink, then we went to check out the wedding village again. I updated the guild bbs - intending to get married next thurs, etc etc.. Dear wanted a moonstone ring and a premium wedding, for myself, i'm just trilled at the notion of marriage, even though it may be virtual, but still, it is very exciting - considering i've attended so many real life weddings in my life, and each and everyone of them is always filled with joy and laughter! Plus alice is really sweet and kinda and adorable, and i do enjoy her companionship online as well. lol. A very kind couple gave us some mesos so tt we can purchase the moonstone and get the ring ready n everything, so without further ado, i ran off to free market, bought the items, told dear i'll get the tickets tomolo cos nid to top up the A-cash, and we'll get the reservations done on fri.

I went to the cash shop to do my maths, and after getting an idea of the various stuffs to get for our wedding - tickets, shoes, shirts, tiara, gloves. So i visited 7-11, got the stuff after work, and came online at around 10+pm.

To my horror, i can't make another ring within 24 hrs of the gold ring i made on thurs morning - muz wait ar!! Nvm... I was pretty sad cos i guess dar may feel a bit dissappointed because I wasn't able to fulfill my promise to prepare the invites for her. Alice was really sweet and she didn't mind waiting for abt an hour for me to get the ring ready. At around 12.20am, the ring maker can produce a ring for me le, the problem is tt i need to redo all the tokens of love quest from the 4 towns... sigh.. no choice!!! So i really rushed through all the quests - asap cos alice is waiting le.. lol.. Finally the ring was completed at around 1+am! Haha, so excited..

We went to the wedding village to prepare the wedding invites, got the cards and being very very new to this system, we bumped around in the wedding village and suddenly, we're in the church, and an announcement was made - "Wedding between Heartsong and WindMemori3s is about to start". LoL... We tried our very best to invite our friends along but it was a bit too last minute, so only bear was able to make it.

The wedding was really fun - There's the exchange of vows - saying of I do, kissing the bride - much to the delight of the guests i tink.. haha.. After which we went to cut the cake monsters - quite a few tho.. Our guests had their fill and ate the cakes with gusto, for me, i didn't really get to see any cakes. haha... juz me n dear only. After which we were introduced to the treasure room - got some pretty interesting items - power elixirs, all cure pots, magic pills, etc etc. and we completed it with a photo taking session.

Alice looks absolutely gorgeous, plus the bunny made her look totally adorable. xD She's a wonderful wife and fren, and we love each other dearly. ^^

a maple love story~~~ pt1

2007-10-15T23:59:00.000+08:00

It's been such a long time ever since my last post... lol.. been playing maplestory and catching up with tutorials n exam preps so much tt i've totally no time to blog... haha... but i guess today's pretty important cos its really a milestone in my online persona's life.. I found a gf!! xD ~windmemories~~ and we started out pretty innocently.. kinda like buddies doing pq together xD. ever since amoria wedding patch came about her com started lagging... my laptop too... so my sis n i actually had to share the desktop.. laptop's kinda for surfing ba... anyway, back to wind n me..

Actually it started on 13th Oct - there were 4 of us, Tynes, Wind (now dear~), Star n me. Star kinda started the couple thingy - star was going like "wind, i tink u n heart shud get married". I nearly fainted.. lol... u see, my persona - 'heartsong' wasn't really much of a hero, nor was he a hunk or anyone special.. Dear on the other hand was totally sweet, gorgeous n adorable... lol... so its kinda like a beauty n the beast matchup.. xD tho i admit tt i adore her, i wasn't really prince charming ba. xD We (wind n me) ended up adopting star as our mei mei.. lol..

So came 14th Oct. Dear wasn't around when i logon but mei was... So she asked me to court dear (from here on, i'd refer to wind as dear..), and i told her ok, but i'll be needing a lot of help.. lol.. Mei was super enthu about it and agreed on the spot.. haha.. Sorry dear if u r reading, it was a bit despicable on my part but i really adore u lots... xD

Dear came online in the afternoon, n our sweet little mei began to pull red line between the two of us le.. lol.. Wind gave me a bit of leeway finally, if i recall, at around 6pm+ tt we can get married only if we do it before 12am... haha.. Cinderella love story... Clock strike 12 n heartsong turns into a mouse.. LOL! Considering 7-11 is open 24hrs, hmm.. i thought i can make it ba.. but then i checked maplesea webby.... eh... nid to get wedding ring ah.... n 6 hrs is definitely not enough le... Star helped us along a bit, prompting us to get married asap, and i guess me n dear mulled over it quite a bit... Me wondering if i can win her hand and Dear wondering if she should give this sotong a chance a not ba... lol... I remember we were at kerning, watching the sunset, she kinda agreed, and i asked her.. "wind.. can i call u dear ne?" n joy O joy! She said ok.. haha.. I guess tt's really the happiest moment in my entire gaming career.. xD not just as an online persona ba, but i guess its finding a online buddy whom u can chat, play, spend time together, and enjoy each other's company and stuff. xD She's really a wonderful blessing, tho we live kinda like miles apart.. haha..

I logged off at around 7pm, giving the excuse of gg for dinner, shower + running an errand. umm, actually its true - i showered, ate, n i went to funan to purchase a network cable for the old desktop to use, juz tt i detoured to 7-11 on my way back to get some A-Cash for Dear.. wanted to surprise her.. after all, it IS the v first day we're together.. lol.. Should make it memorable ba..

We made a pact to change heartsong's appearance the following day (today), supposedly to go kerning to get my haircut, then I intended to take a look at the quest, then if resources permits, probably get the wedding ring prepared ba.. Life is juz so full of surprises de.. haha.. sadly my sis i using the com, and being a tyranic teen, she kicked me out of the room n decided to play maple till the cows come home.. SIANZ!!! Dear's gonna kill me lor.. lol.. haix.

I managed to convince sis to let me speak to my fiancee, n she gave me 5 mins... login, tok, logout. So this time round we made a 2nd pact to meet tomolo at 10.45pm, when i come back from school... lol... Sis says ok for me to use tomolo so I guess i'll keep my fingers crossed... and i'll probably need to bribe her out of mapleland with char kway teow or egg prata ba... lol.... I am so, so, so sorry dear.. Never had i ever wanted to let u down de.

scary cuzzen...

2007-09-05T22:00:00.001+08:00

hmmm... my cousin came over to stay again... damm... he can't stop talking de... really, every single second he must talk, can never keep quiet de.. unless he's sleeping la, then tt's different.. zzzz.. wad the hell.. sianz...

US markets are going a bit crazy nowadays... hmmm... shares are going in all directions so a bit hard to make decent profits... haix.. every investment need to keep my fingers crossed sia...

Started playing a bit of maple lately, kinda sianz cos the lvl is sooooo noob... hmm.. I really miss my previous acc... hahaha...

I really dun like the fella's presence... he's giving me a headache.. wad the hell.... he's a monster.

a bit sad..

2007-08-23T21:01:00.000+08:00

My spirits are pretty down today.. Mainly due to dissappointment with my colleagues ba.. I was asking for help today with regards to LC charges, i know where to find it exactly but as i was in a bit of a hurry, i decided to ask a fren (or so i thought) directly as it would save a bit of time. The reply was go check price la! Sad to say, this wasn't the first time, and the reply was the same. Sigh.. So that bugged me for a while, and i wasn't very happy. Office politics? I dunno, and i dun wanna know.

Just last week i faxed a letter to confirm a placement order for my cx. I called the dept, the gal picked up so i asked for confirmation of receipt. She told me "oh, the department is closed already." in a very bitchy tone of voice. I was shocked, then appalled by how people treat their job, or carry themselves - as though they have no dignity. My question - is turning your head to the fax machine and saying "yes, i've received it" too much to ask? That bugged me too.

On my way home, i saw a girl, very young, i guess she's no older than 15, puffing away on a cigratte. She's kinda short and diao me as i walked past her. The sight wrenched my heart a bit and my steps faltered a little. I wondered, what is she trying to prove to me? That she can be rebellious and be proud of it? I dunno, but i was quite sad after i left the area.

I realised that its not doing extra work or doing work that does not belong to me ( in other words, covering for others while they skive) that made me angry or dampens my mood - I'm a workaholic, if i'm gonna die, i'll make sure i work myself to death. But rather i'm strongly affected by the attitudes of people. People who just can't be bothered, who dun give a damm for others or for themselves, people who are just plain irresponsible, who are perpeptual liars, or those who just wanna ruin their life by wasteful habits - I feel for them. A christian would probably tell me that 'hey, maybe that's God's calling for you, giving you a burden for these people'. so on n so forth. Maybe they are right, but i know they are't. I don't have a right to speak into their lives, for i'm just a stranger - not a fren.

Similiarly I found myself attracted to people who are at the other end of the personality chart. Positive people, the 'can do' types, the workaholics, 'study hard! play harder!' used to be the golden rule i lived by - until i flung my 1st yr in poly, the rule was changed to 'study hard! period.' Its been years since i lived by that rule, now i'm taking it out again and applying it in my daily life - not the best of choices - but it keeps my sanity alive.

Jesus showed up today, a very comforting presence during these dark hours. And i recalled the lyrics for the song Hosannah - "break my heart for what breaks yours", and it made a lot of sense to me. It was raining then, i didn't curse, i didn't swear. Just nonchalant. I checked myself into the foodcourt, had dinner and the Lord rested my heart. And as i rest, i did reflected a bit on the things that happened, mull through some of them as mentioned and thanked God for it. How bad can things get, when I've got Jesus on my side.

Fixing my IU...

2007-08-21T23:25:00.000+08:00

Amazing as it sounds, my ERP IU actually broke down almost 2 weeks ago, it simply shows a "On" on the LCD, flickers a lot and doesn't read my cash card when i insert it. To cut it short, i passed through the gantry next to Pearl Centre with my cash card, and just yest i got a registered mail from the govt. haha.. So kua zhang! It said something like your IU / cashcard is faulty, pls go for inspection by 31 Aug. Zzz.. So i went Ayer Raja, the guy checked, told me my IU was still under warrenty so they did a 1 for 1 exchange for me, otherwise have to pay $155 for a new one.. Exorbitant i know, what to do?

Having done with the silly thing, i went to school, finished up my stats assignment, downloaded tutorial 7 answers, marked tutorials 3-6, realising tat i've made quite a number of mistakes (like for probability qns - roll 2 dice, a 6 turns up each time right... knn... i tot u roll 2 dice together, then see how many times you produce a 6 on each throw. zzz...), mostly arising from a misinterpretation of the question. zzz.. which i think is pretty unfair if students answer wrongly because the examiner didn't convey a clear message to the student. Then we are the ones who suffer in the end.

UOB soared again, from $19.90 to over $21. I didn't expect the response to the NDP rally to be so strong - enough to push STI up by 6%... so as usual, what goes up, muz come down - in tandem with the US market issue.

IGMarkets has been set up, so trading should begin by thurs latest, by then silver should have risen enough for me to unload... haven't checked the charts tho... hee..

Went to celebrate Mengfei's bday today, its v v belated, but still, better late than never. We had dinner at cafe cartel, had nachos, ribs, bread with olive oil + vinegar... hee.. damm filling sia! Heard tt his office's gonna move to bukit batok Vicom tt side.. hmm... a bit ma fan and out of the way for him, but if really that's the case, i can always meet him and fetch him home. :)

My sis bought the Saviour King album, and i found the chords for the entire album (email me if u need timothythiam@hotmail.com) and its really nice! I absolutely adore Hosanna n Saviour King.. Hmm... probably will be spending some time working on these 2 songs. Praise the Lord!

Saturday... Tired sia...

2007-08-18T20:45:00.000+08:00

Today's pretty interesting for me, its like serving people from all over the world - new zealand, china, india, malaysia, United Kingdoms (new york n england). Siao one... Though the crowd is ridiculous, i find it slightly refreshing to be able to serve an international cohort.. LoL..

When i just came back from lunch, i overheard an uncle saying he wanted to close all his accounts with the bank, then said 'tank you ah, tank you!' very loudly and stomped out of the branch. Idiot. I find it amusing really, he's the only one mad and he didn't resolve anything or gained any compensation through his anger. Why bother risking a heart attack by raising your blood pressure to danger levels? So old le, later explode how? Haix...

I realised that i've been drinking from the old water heater all the way while my colleagues were all drinking from the new heater we bought a month ago.. And i made an amazing discovery - there's quite a bit of styrofoam / dandruff / white particle thingy floating in the water, and i've been drinking it all along.. No wonder will fall sick.. zzz... That was really gross... Plus the lid is getting a bit rusty.. So in the end Doris decided to dump the heater.

I kinda revised through stats tutorials 4-6 today during lunch, I've got most of it right, but still, could use a bit more practise to get the hang of things. Most probably will work on it @ esplanade library or goto SIM to study tomolo. I've not mastered it yet.

I bought 500 oz of silver today, Stoc is at 34, RSI bottom, bollinger bands also bottom, so should have enough pressure to push the damm chart up. Plus MM's positive speech might help a bit. Anyway its less than 10k so i'm ok.

Spoke with IGMarkets, my account should be ready by mon / tues afternoon, so i'll take my first tentative steps into the world of CFD then.. Pretty curious and a bit skeptical, so most probably i'll be trading pretty cautiously then.

My broker told me that thai ETF cannot be purchased as the profits gained from the ETF cannot be taken out of the country, otherwise i would have made myself a tidy profit if yest's trade went through. sianz. It pretty hard to find charts with RSI + Stoc at the bottom for a few days straight.

Dinner was done at IKEA, together with mom n sis. We had salmon, a plate of chicken wings, 10 meatballs, 2 more pieces of chicken coupled with rice, potatoes n veggies. The salmon that i remembered has shrunk by 50% - since 2 yrs ago or so.. inflation can really do wonders to businesses... zzz.. the meatballs are still fantastic, and the chicken wings are um... crispy la. Wings are easy to prep - just deep fry them can le.

k, time to shower, rest, TV and sleep!

not feeling well...

2007-08-15T20:19:00.001+08:00

Hmm... Been sick the past few days... actually i was kinda sick since saturday evening cos i've been overworking myself a bit too much... haix.. my memory has been very fuzzy and i dun really recall much of the past few days events, basically i'm just semi comatose throughout this week..

I can't really remember what actually happen on saturday, i tink i went to marina square john little to get a gift for meng fei, but i really can't recall the day i did the shopping - either sat or sun ba... sheese.. anyway, doesn't matter. I did recall waking up very early on sunday, and didn't really sleep much on saturday night, so sunday was a bit bad for me. I do recall having sinus the whole day throughout the CFD seminar and then i was sneezing all the way.

Sunday night was pretty hyper and i didn't really sleep well that night - sneezing and all so it was really pretty bad, but still ok..

And so Monday came. I was tired, the ache can be felt throughout my shoulders and neck as i didn't sleep well. Went to work as per normal and i'm really beginning to feel the effects of the accumulated fatigue near the end of day. I decided to finish up ASAP so that i can have time to rest so i closed day at 4.05pm, quite an achievement. Rushed down to Merchant Court hotel to pass Cynthia my IC n singtel bill for the registration with IGmarkets, then rushed all the way back to SIM for Maths lecture - I slept during lecture.

Lectures ended early on monday because Mr Seow wanted to conduct a test, by then my eyelids weighed a ton and i'm really struggling to stay awake.. I fired away at the paper and finished it in 40mins, then left the hall, from there i made the trip back to Merchant Court hotel to complete my 2nd half of the CFD seminar. How i made it there alive, i really dunno, all i know was that i was kinda riding subconsiously... zz..

The seminar ended at 12.15am, by then my soul has already departed, leaving my body behind. I took the quickest route home, mustered whatever energy i had left to shower and sleep. That was when the problems came..

I wasn't able to fall asleep, and had to wake up many times to the restroom to pee, other times just woke up because of stiff neck or shoulders. At this point i realised that i've burned out myself. My throat was sore and i was extremely irritable and uncomfortable.

Tuesday. I recall popping a lot of vit c, b, e, a, calcium, omega 3 into my system before going to work. it wasn't very useful but i know i needed this extra dose of anti-oxidants, at least to keep me alive before anything major is damaged. Come lunch i know i'm having a fever and i needed to keep in under control. So i went to NTUC, bought me some panadols and had porridge for lunch. It sucked. I hate porridge but no choice. After lunch, my eye started to swell.. quite a few colleagues pointed it out to me, and i reckon they're telling the truth cos i felt the swelling myself.. haix...

After work, i was crazy enough to go SIM to revise... At this point you might be wondering i was being suicidal, NO ok, i'm not. I wanted to finish up my tutorials so that i can rest on wed. I think i fainted after doing 2 questions and was woken up by the security officer - "no sleeping" he told me... In my heart i wanted to object by i didn't have the energy to do so, cos i guess i've reached my limit and i'm totally exhausted. Went home, reached home at 9pm, showered and crashed onto my bed.

Wed morn - my throat was a gonner, my voice was hoarse and there's phelgm in my throat, spitting it out shows that its green. Dun really felt an MC is necessary so i went to work. Siao hor? I know. I've been through worse and continued working before... I guess i'm a workaholic... whatever. No gf, dun wan parent's pity, dun take MC lor. Dun need wad. I basically drowned myself with hot water for the whole day and fed myself a bit more panadols, and i guess i recovered a little near the end of day.

I came to the conclusion tt my body can't take the level of stress that i'm currently subjecting it to, so most probably i've to change my diet and start exercising a bit more to build me up. Next term will be even more hectic as i work on 3 subjects, trade CFDs on IG and prepare for exams. If halfway through i happen to break down and pass away, you know wat happen la, overworked, under rest. sianz...

ain't sleepin much....

2007-08-11T03:19:00.000+08:00

Ever since last week i've been missing out a lot a lot on my sleep... lets see... last mon lesson, tues CFD workshop, wed classes, thurs bible study by pastor youngman, fri lessons, sat wanted to go FOP but dropped the idea, sun church, mon lesson, tues rest a bit, wed lesson again, thurs was national day - spent studying at ngee ann poly - no one was there except me, so i kinda had the whole school to myself... fri was off but went to but secret receipe for the branch and helped grace collect her zoo pass... oh ya, lesson as well... tomorrow's sat, meeting Janice for maths after work, then sunday is the CFD workshop again... mon lesson, then 10pm got maths test, then after that got CFD live trading demo... zzz.... i didn't even realised how much i'm taxing myself until i looked back... and i haven't even got meng fei his bday present... die...

well, hectic schedule aside, i checked my email today, got a reply from the director of the al dente chain of restaurants... will be checking with clara they all on how are we gonna proceed with the letter - to go back and accept the apology or just forget about the whole incident... sigh... the sad part is that i think i got the manager into trouble.. sianz man... i'm still brooding over it. >.<

sat will be the only time i have this week for tutorials, dunno got time to complete everything a not - given my ridiculous schedule.. zzz... see how la, take things one step at a time, at most sacrifice lunch lor...

amazingly i can still catch up tho.. haha... tired like shit but still functional... zz.. zombie lifestyle, still can laugh somemore.. haix.. nvm, can tahan de, 3-5yrs very fast one, then aft that if got gf can finally settle down le... the tricky part is finding the right one, then juggle work n romance and investment, study and continue to focus on getting top honors... PHEW! Quite a ton of things to do.. Come next week, i'll need to start photocopying exam papers and start figuring them out... zzz..

So Lord, these are all my burdens, i've yet to mention my classmates and people whom i'm supposed to mentor during this little time i spend in SIM, I lay them all before You, and rest in Your abundant grace alone. Its been a while since i prayed for Nerrissa and her bf, hope the cancer has been removed successfully, I pray too for Jac's spine to go back to normal, all glory to You Jesus, I pray for myself, thanking You once again for the power to get wealth, for sustaining me throughout this ordeal and keeping me sane throughout these relatively trying times. With regards to finding a gf Lord, I've nothing to hide from You - i've someone in mind, and i pray that You'll help us find our way, and help me Father, to grow this friendship first, and guide me in this relationship. May i be a blessing to her and be there for her, Lord guide this precious one, and may You always protect her, and one day, bring her into your kingdom as well. Thank You.

I pray for me n my 2 frens at sch, bless them with good grades and wisdom to complete this course. Thank You Jesus, for the things that You're gonna do, and are currently doing in all our lives.

All these we pray, in Jesus' name. Amen

spaghetti day!!!

2007-08-04T20:58:00.000+08:00

Hee, today was really super high, went to cook spahegetti for my family and branch colleagues... haha.. Damm tired, woke up at 7.30am, cook from 8-9am. zzz... tired wor! last few days slept at 3am, 2am that sort of timing... zzz.... shack. i actually doze off at suntec arcade centre today... stunned.. i really need a break.

A forum entry

2007-08-02T00:45:00.000+08:00

I'm in a horrifying mood today. Don't ask me too many questions or i'll burn your f***ing house.

1st August

ST Forum: 6319-8289 (Fax)

Singaporean customers are getting bolder and bolder these days, some even to the point where they have no shame. Apparently our society has been moving so fast that even aunties and uncles no longer have the patience to wait or even queue up, expecting to be served or serviced immediately, as though they are God or some divine being that is dying to be worshipped.

I’ve seen disgusting Singaporeans who jumped the queue, and yet behaving as though they have every right to do so. Queues by definition refers to a lot of things – registering for primary one, buying toto, taking taxi, boarding the MRT and buses, the fat auntie swaggering away in the wet market.

There are also those particularly notorious ones who were born evil and perpetually get up everyday on the wrong side of the bed. The obnoxious tai tai who dresses rich but is broke who wants to withdraw $500 from the bank, the young punk who thought that he’s a notch above all else because he scored a few distinctions in the O’s A levels. The weirdo whose head is always stuck in the clouds, whose head is held so high that he will snap his head if he tilts it any higher.

Its not an easy crowd to please – how to practise GATS when the customer who sits in front of you behaves like Queen Elizabeth the 100th? Or when he punctuates every sentence with vulgarities? To quote a friend, “we’re ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen.” Unfortunately the lady or gentleman appears once in a lifetime, honest. When was the last time that punk said thank you to you? I dare say ‘Never”.

I praise the service standards of some of the outlets in Singapore – truly amazing considering the amount of cavemen they serve per day. Fish and Co, Giordano, SIA are some of the places that has never let me down.

So as the cavemen and barbarians enter a faster moving 21st century, pulling jackpots levers and their heads floating amidst the clouds, I really wish that those of us reading this can take a bit of time and domesticate the urban barbaric in-laws, crazy little rascals and senile loud speaking uncles before we all grow up from Bart Simpson to Homer, from Singapore to Springfield.

Timothy Thiam

complaint letter

2007-07-30T00:07:00.000+08:00

To the management,

I do not write complaint letters often, in fact the last one I written was more than 10 years ago, so if you look at it this way, this is a very serious case that I’m highlighting to your concern.

We, a group of 4 customers arrived at your restaurant at 6.55pm on the 28/07/2007 Saturday, with the intention of having dinner at your restaurant and catch the spectacular display of NDP fireworks at the same time. We were guided to a table for 4, situated on the 2nd floor, close to the inner edge of the foyer. My friends and I ordered our dishes at around 7.05pm. That was fine – the captain took the orders, everything went rather smoothly. At around 7.10pm, another friend of mine joined our table. An additional chair was provided for her, but that’s about it. The cutlery, dinner plate, napkins, glasses were not given. That was ok too. We simply ask the waitress to set up the table setting. In the meanwhile, my friend ordered her dishes – that was at 7.15pm (or earlier, I’m giving a lot of leeway). The waitress gave my friend the standard setting minus the napkin and water glass. So we called the waitress again. Three times in fact, then the ice water came, followed by the napkin. “OK,” I thought, maybe you guys are really busy (with what I really do not know, the 2nd floor is definitely not understaffed that night, but maybe everyone is having amnesia because its NDP full dress rehearsal).

We ordered calamari and the mushroom, 5 pastas for the 5 of us. The first dish that came – the mushroom – was wrong. The waitress gave us a salad and intro the dish as the mushroom. How do I know it’s a salad? There’s basically no mushroom, and I’m not that blind. Calamari was ok. So your girl took the salad, gave us black face and the irritated look, and went back to the kitchen to get us the mushroom. No apologies given. Never mind. She came back with the mushroom, and a sausage pasta for one of my friend. That was around 7.35pm.

After which, the fireworks came and went. The calamari and mushrooms were long gone by then and my friend had finished her pasta. That was already past 8pm. My question to you Sir, how long does it take to cook pasta? 1 hour? Or you need a few days to prepare? None of the staff actually bothered to come over to ask us if our food has arrived, or are there any outstanding orders, or if they are decently trained – they could come and ask if we wanted dessert or coffee. I didn’t see any of that. Your restaurant is reputable, and the service standard is horrific.

So we had no choice but to call your staff for assistance. Every time the staff (we talked to a few girls) would tell us they will get back to us, none came back. So we told a girl that if the pasta is not served within 10 minutes, we’ll cancel it. She didn’t come back. Finally, a plump Indian captain or asst manager dressed in black came over and asked us “may I know what you’ve ordered.” That is basically saying that you’ve lost my order and require us to reiterate what we ordered an hour ago back to you and you’re going to cook the pasta after the customer has died of hunger. My friend asked him if he’s going to cook it now and he said yes. That is ridiculous. We waited an hour for nothing, and I can imagine if we didn’t voice out our concerns, we would have waited till the cows come home and you guys close shop and still none of the pastas would appear, because somehow, you guys managed to lose our orders!

So he went off and in his own words, he said “I will make it up to you”, and he left, leaving us a tad irritated and confused. It was a waste of time. Finally we got hold of the manager on duty, an Indian chap I believe whom we highlighted the whole issue to. He gave all sorts of excuses – ranging from kitchen cock up to no enough staff, to saying that you guys expected a large crowd tonight because of the fireworks etc. And I never heard a word of sorry or any form of apologies whatsoever from the manager. He was not apologetic for what happened on your part but was playing the blame game.

So how? Sack the whole kitchen? Or the manager? Or who? Or you? It was a terrible experience because everything took ages to resolve, and nothing was resolved. I can sum up the bad experiences below:

1. Rude waitress
2. Unapologetic team
3. Your entire team is trained to blame others for their faults
4. Nonchalant staff who just can’t be bothered with the customer
5. Lengthy processing time and response time
6. Unable to deliver what you promised – like “I’ll get back to you” and it never materialize
7. Irresponsible kitchen who have a tendency to misplace orders

Would you agree with me that for your restaurant’s service standard, one would expect our food to be served together, so that each and everyone of the customers can enjoy a meal together and not having to wait and wait and wait forever.

In all the restaurants I went to – be it cheap, fast food outlets or so called fine dining restaurants, I’ve never seen such finger pointing before. Once the damage is done, its done. Just apologize, solve the problem and make the customer happy. Not blame here and there and point fingers and do stupid things like making the customer wait and wait. If I wasn’t Singaporean, I would have stood up and left and not foot a single cent of the bill that night. I have consumer rights too and could have blown this whole thing out of proportion by going to the press.

So here I ask, could you please kindly find out what exactly happen that night, and let us know the steps that you’ve taken to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.

Timothy

NDP Preview!!!

2007-07-29T21:55:00.000+08:00

Just yesterday i was at the esplanade with clara, evann, vivienne and ling. we had dinner at a very horrible restaurant (al dente or something like that) and were dazzled by the brilliant display of fireworks at around 8pm. The service standard is horrible, food came late, orders went missing and staffs are poorly trainied. haix. a classic case of bad customer experience lor...

mundane sia..

2007-07-26T22:06:00.000+08:00

Life has taken on a rather mundane note lately, with studies being the main priority in my life, and everything revolving around the pursuit of education. I've been around eating stuff, visited Ghim moh's hong kong street for the shen mian, then bukit batok for the fried chicken. Other than that, i'm always in SIM - either the library or in the LT. zzz... tired sia.

Last few days i was really drained, slept in the library while revising, closed my eyes today after a few hours of studying in the br, and basically pushing myself to my limits. I reach home, rest, do sit ups, weights, shower and sleep... Pretty much a clockwork routine, maintaining status quo, mostly nonchalent towards entertainment and oblivious to the world around me.

Still, Jesus is in my life, my sis is giving me a bit of support by not biting me every other way, mom n dad isn't really quarrling 24/7 and my frens are doing well.

On reservist... plus a shit head aunty from beach road

2007-07-18T20:48:00.000+08:00

Reservist started last thursday on the 12th jul.. Its pretty relaxing this time round cos we get to stay out and there isn't any late details or exercises like live firing or night training. :) Thank God cos i'm studying on mon n fri!!! Yest i went down to beach road to sew my uniform - the formation logo, the collar badge, the singapore tag and also make my name taggy... There was this really shit head aunty that attended to me - from hawker centre stiarcase turn left, u'll see her sitting on the chair, please do not approach her for help, she's a killer.. Fugging forgetful bstd de... knn... i approached her to make my name tag plus a few more others, she told me come back in 1 hr plus, i did, then she claim tt she forgot about my order, then give me fugged up attitude.. zzz... I was really irritated by her service standard, and i told her that i'm bring the business elsewhere and walked off. Business ppl nowadays... So full of crap. Like the TBP zui kueh also... that time business booming tt time give fugged up attitude, now no business, like prostitute like tt ask ppl for business... zz... I confirm + guarantee boycott her shop de... sianz..

sister pai kah...

2007-07-10T21:10:00.000+08:00

Yest while i was still at the office, my sis dropped me an sms - "Timo! I sprain my leggy! Super painful ah.. Any good ideas to help reduce swelling?" I told her to use an ice pack... then she went to see the chinese sensei today... then the foot kena wrapped till like tt:

LoL... damm jia lat.

FWAH!!!! Whale sighted!!!

2007-07-09T00:00:00.000+08:00

Hahahhaa, today i feel so mean, let me elaborate: I saw this really really obscenely obese uncle, whose tummy was so big it was dropping out of the guy's shirt, and it hung out of his belt like a rubber tube, almost covering his dick... haha... i'm really so mean.. lol.. kk, i repent k? lol. At least i'm honest n voice out my exact thoughts lor... :D

But it was really a wake up call for me - what if i become like him??? >.<" i think i'll commit suicide.. LOL! So i went home, exercise. Ever since i've joined the bank, i went from 30" to 34" zzz... cannot make it la!!!! So nowadays i'll try my best to work out after i reach home, be it skipping, sit ups, jogging or weight lifting, i'll do anything... hahha...

Today Pastor Prince is overseas - preaching grace at hillsongs sydney. Pastor Lian was presiding today, having lots of fun as usual. She shared on revelation vs knowledge, and the importance of guarding our hearts (proverbs 4). Mainly it was about believing, and how believing or our belief (as in innermost belief or core belief - the belief at the heart level) will influence our life. The analogy is that our heart controls our life as much as a joystick controls a video game... LOL... I can identify with that :)

Naive - The Kooks

2007-07-03T00:29:00.000+08:00

Taken from http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/t/the_kooks/naive_ver2_crd.htm

Artist: The Kooks
Title: Naive
Album: Inside In/Inside Out (2006)
Contact me: yonni_man@hotmail.com
Tuning: EADGBe
This song has been tabbed out but I thought I would put it in easy read form so you can
along at the same time. All credit goes to Tom Corley for the original tab. Cheers Tom
the great original.
Chords:
G#sus4 : 466644
E : x79997
G#/A# ?: 644644 (I will call it this for this song)
B : 799877
B/F#7 : 798977
D#m7 : x68676
G#m : 466444
Listen to the song for chord patterns.
Intro: G#sus4 E G#/A# B B/F#7
Verse 1:
G#sus4
I'm not saying it was your fault
E G#/A#
Although you could have done more
B B/F#7
Oh you're so naive yet so
G#sus4
How could this been done?
E G#/A#
By such a smiling sweetheart
B B/F#7
Ohh I'm just a sweet and pretty face
G#sus4
In such an ugly world
E G#/A#
Something so beautiful
B B/F#7
Ohh that everytime I look inside.
Chorus:
E B D#m7
I know, she knows that im not fond of asking
E B D#m7
True or false, it may be... Well, she's still out to get me.
E G#m D#m7
And I know, she knows that im not fond of asking
E B D#m7 E
True or false, it may be... She's still out to get me!
Verse 2:
G#sus4
I may say it was your fault
E G#/A#
Because I know you could have done more
B B/F#7
Oh you're so naive yet so
G#sus4
How could this be done?
E G#/A#
By such a smiling sweetheart
B B/F#7
Ohh I'm just a sweet and pretty face
G#sus4
In such an ugly world
E G#/A#
Something so beautiful
B B/F#7
That every time I look inside.
Chorus x1
Bridge: (strum)
e---------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------------
G--4---/6---/8---/9----/16-------4---/6---/8---/9----/11--
D--6---/8---/9---/11---/16-------6---/8---/9---/11---/11--
A---------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------
Verse 3:
G#sus4
So how could this be done?
E G#/A#
By such a smiling sweetheart
B B/F#7
You're so naive yet so
G#sus4
You're such an ugly thing
E G#/A#
For someone so beautiful
B B/F#7
That every time you're on his side.
Chorus x1
Outro: D#m7 then:
G#m B E D#m7
Just don't let me down
G#m B E D#m7
Just don't let me down
G#m B E D#m7
Hold on to your pride
G#m B E D#m7
Just don't let me down
G#m B E D#m7
Just don't let me down
G#m B E D#m7
Hold on to your pride
G#m B E D#m7
Just don't let me dowwwwn
G#m B E D#m7
Just don't let me down
G#m B E D#m7
Hold on to your pride
G#m B E D#m7
Just don't let me dowwwwn
G#m
Just don't let me down.
~Ends~

first day @ sch... :)

2007-07-02T23:59:00.000+08:00

OMG!!!!!! today's the first day of sch!!!!! Honestly, it wasn't as bad as i thought it would turn out to be, and actually i over prepared for the lessons... haha... i was the only goon who printed out the study guide and brought it along to class, actually read everything that's required and studied 2 weeks in advance of sch... hahaha.... si beh kiasu ah timo!!!!!!! But i thank God that i was able to take time to read, to prepare, and even to be able to understand the concepts prof is bringing across to us.. And i feel damm "zai(3)" in class. :D the only time i remembered feeling this way was in SP - doing pro-auto module.. hee... can set exam paper ah!!! :D SHOIK MAN! tomolo continue to go library chiong... By God's grace and strength, I WILL get that top of the class, even without A maths or C maths background. SATAN, juz wait and see! Because I AM a child of the most high God.

One super LOOOOOOONG off day...

2007-06-26T21:54:00.000+08:00

OMG! I did soooo many things today! I got up at 11.30am cos yest i slept at 3.45am... zzz... crazy sis la.... stay up so late... zzz… I tidy up my room and sorted all my bills and documents, file everything nicely and dumped all the needless rubbish in my room.

After that I went to settle my LTA fine at Sin Ming Drive.. Damm far lor, its like almost reaching woodlands that area de… zzz… anyway my road tax can only be prorated as the vehicle insurance is insufficient to cover all the way till December… After all the paper work is completed, I took my bike, started engine, drove a little bit… and realised my speedometer isn’t working!!!! ‘Never mind’ I thought. ‘here so many vehicle workshops, confirm can find one that fixes motorbikes de…’ so I went on my way, hunting for a bike shop for like 30min, and eventually found one at the multi-storey car servicing centre. Got my bike fixed up for $15 (its just a cable replacement cos my cable has worn out and broke) and headed to collect my diving license.

By the time I got to Gilldivers, it was around 4.15pm. No one was around. Not a soul, the door was locked, no slippers or whatsoever can be seen outside the office. ‘Never mind’ I thought, ‘I can go do blood donation first.’ So OK, I went HSA.

At donor centre, I saw a few folks wearing SAF uniform, but most of them look middle aged, so I suspect that its some kind of reservist exercise or something along that line. ‘Never mind’, really, its ok cos they’re just doing paper work, admin never killed anyone - yet. So I went into the triage, or whatever you call that room, and mr reservist adminstered my injection. I was screaming in my mind 'DON'T even think about it MISTER!' but externally I was nonchalent, I just - let him poke lor... zzz... But honestly it wasn't so bad, he did a good job, and the pain was bearable, so i'm pretty happy with the outcome.

After donation and the refreshments (cold barley n muffins), I headed to Suntec to collect the jacket I ordered, I think it was really nice and by the looks of it, its one of the last few pieces left. Paid, sealed, and wrapped.

Thereafter I went to SIM, got the relevant info with regards to courses relating to Accountancy, verdict was that RMIT offers the most direct route if Jac wanna pursue CPA. Sounds good enough to me. I had my dinner there, and unfortunately by the time i finished asking about Accountancy, Popular bookstore close shop le, so I didn't manage to buy my text... zzz... its ok, i still get to study a bit at the library, so i stayed from 7.50pm to 8.35pm... Can't concentrate because I went for blood donation ba... a bit tired so wanna rest early.

I headed to Marilyn's place after SIM, passed her the Hope of God's 18 lessons shepherding book and then went to Gill Divers again, this time its open so I managed to collect my diving license, they did ask if I wanna go for my advance diver course, but I guess not now, the earliest would probably be the 2 week term break or after graduation ba...

And then I went home. I was so amazed I covered so many things in a day, and its really so true that if you set your mind to do something, you can accomplish so much more than if you're unfocused. Suddenly school doesn't seem so intimidating after all! Haha..

Oh... I just realised tat my arm is still oozing blood.. Hmm.... dunno should put plaster a not... >.<"

Dinner with my da jie.. :)

2007-06-26T00:23:00.001+08:00

Hmmm.... How should i put it.. Its been such a long long time since i last met up with Jacqueline for dinner, for any form of catching up for that matter.. haha... i still remembered the last time i saw her was when she juz went for a hair cut, now her hair grow back le... so it was really a v long time since we last meet... Da jie's still the same, I reached her office at 6pm, called her, she's busy, then she called me at 6.02pm, told me she'll come down in 10mins (normally i'll expect something like 30mins... lol... really!), so i expect her to come downstairs at 6.30pm.... ended up she arrived at 6.50pm cos she's stuck talking to her boss... lol... i'm ok cos i have my notes with me, basically spent my waiting time revising my school work lor..

I was actually quite worried because i've reserved 2 seats at Galley by the straits for 7.30pm, so we didn't really have much time to make a lot of mistakes, wrong turns and what nots, but thank God, we made it there at 7.35pm, even with the jam in CTE. :)

Jac laid down a few rules for me on the road, essentially it boils down to "no speeding", "no squeezing through traffic" and "no reckless driving". I basically focus my attention on the menu and dedicate my attention to ordering dishes - chilli crab, oat meal prawn, brocolli w scallops and a fried spring chicken for $1 - today's promotion. The food was absolutely fantastic - chilli crab was spicy as compared to Jumbo seafood restaurant (theirs is sweet), oat meal prawns were huge! and the portion was v generous as well, brocolli w scallops was a wedding dinner fave, and their standard is as good as hotel's standard. The fried chicken was not v nice, probably because it was pretty dry. The skin was fried and baked till its crispy, but still... not tat nice la...

Da jie's health wasn't doing well - the backbone is giving her many problems.. I dunno lei, as far as God or Jesus is concerned, she's already healed 2000 yrs ago on calvary hill.. I pray that Jesus will give her a greater revelation of His grace and the Holy Ghost will bear witness to the truth and heal her ASAP, or rather fulfill the healing ASAP.

Galley is really a very gorgeous place, located by the straits, open air concept, very peaceful, tranquil, and the whole place gives you a v soothing feeling, very langawi, bahamas feel. jac commented that its a great place to do reflection, i agree with her whole-heartedly.

Galley by the straits
Dinner - w/o lighting... LOL...
Dinner, this time WITH lighting :) Roasted spring chicken, chilli crab, oat meal prawns and brocolli w scallops.
Brocolli w scallops, served in an oyster shell.. lol..
Jac gets a real kick outta photographing the shell.. haha..
Some more shots taken from the restaurant.

In preparation....

2007-06-23T21:49:00.000+08:00

Honestly to prospect of starting school so soon is really giving me the jitters... I really wanna do well, kinda like top the class sort of well... God will be my strength, my comfort and my counselor, so i do have quite a huge advantage against my counterparts... The thing is that even with such a strong backing, I still trembl, i'm still filled with dread at the idea of mugging for 3 yrs straight.. Jesus lead me and guide me Lord... I was never top student calibre... but this time round, i put my trust in You, i'll learn to pray, i'll learn to seek You, heed Your Words, bring my burdens to You, call on You, sing Your praises, adore You, love You, to build up our relationship during these 3 years.. I know i won't have much friends, because i'll be busy mugging, so i pray that You'll fill up that loneliness during these trying times, talk to me, comfort me, encourage me Lord.. I put my life in Your hands..

Majesty(Here I am) - Delirious

2007-06-22T23:37:00.001+08:00

very mixed feelings...

2007-06-22T22:08:00.000+08:00

Today's really one of those days that I've relatively confused, at the branch i was extremely happy, cos most of the br folks really enjoyed the durain cream puff i bought.. hee.. =P And i'm so relieved that they managed to finish everything, cos the puff cannot be kept overnight.. ^^ Jaslyn was very funny, she's kinda like dieting but sinful me brought puffs, so she had to break fast early in the morning, then evening tat time she also can't resist the temptation of the puffs... haha... i guess everyone who likes durains would find them irresistable.. LOL.. I find them particularly delicious! :)

Juz now when i got home i saw a letter from LTA - Expired Veh License for my bike.. and they say i didn't pay.. ZZZ... I PAID LE!!!!!!!! haix... stupid govt, dunno pay them so much for wad one.. everytime send letter to you make u womit blood.. zz... PAP cannot like tt lei.. Then the knn person who type the letter addressed the letter to "Miss Thiam Shin Huei"... zzz... cannot make it sia. Anyway this is how the Singapore Govt work - very myopic, very blind, very irresponsible, very irritating (esp the SAF - crap organization. Taxpayers pay so much money for the higher ranking officers to play golf during office hours). Haix... wake up your idea lei govt.. those cannot make it officers, WOSE, sack them lah... waste a lot of money lei...

An off day well spent...

2007-06-21T21:46:00.000+08:00

Today is really one of those days that i felt has been really well spent, I went to RELC to pay my student fees, met Evann at 3pm at city hall, went to joo chiat, passed by hope's office, Evann bought some Jasmine tea from a shop, we went on to have chicken pie at Boulevard, then bought durain cream puff from the nearby shop, had tau kwa pau with teh peng, then went to ECP to walk walk, after which we went to Jumbo for dinner - veggies, crayfish and chilli crab... haha.. damm enjoy life sia.. Anyway i don't really have much time to enjoy lor, cos once sch starts, i know i'll be spending everyday in SIM... just for the sake of my 1st class honors.. zzz.. sianz. Well, at the very least i know jesus will be by my side, no matter what happens, good or bad... Daddy God, I LOVE YOU.

Evann taking photo of ah pek... LOL.. Dun get the wrong idea, she juz likes photography.

Some more shots taken by Evann..

Dinner @ Jumbo seafood restaurant - Chilli Crab, Crayfish and veggies!!! :D

Why - Nichole Nordeman

2007-06-21T01:56:00.001+08:00

Intro: [ Cm ] [ Ab ] [ Cm ] [ F/A ]
[Fm - Eb/G ] [Ddim - G ] [ C ]

VERSE 1
C+2 F G/B
We rode into town the other day,
C C/E F G
Just me and my daddy.
C F G/B
He said I’d finally reached the age
C Gm C F C/E
And I could ride next to him on a horse
Dm G/B
That of course was not quite as wide
C/E F G/B C
We heard a crowd of people shouting,
C/E F G/B
And so we stopped to find out why.
C Gm C F C/E
There was that man that my dad said he loved
Dm [Gsus Fm Bb/D]
But today there was fear in his eyes.

CHORUS
Eb Bb/D
So I said, “Daddy why are they screaming?
Cm Eb/Bb Eb/G
Why are the faces of some of them beaming?
Ab Eb/G
Why is he dressed in that bright purple robe?
Fm Ab Bb/D
I’ll bet that crown hurts him more than he shows.
Eb Bb/D
Daddy, please, can’t you do something?
Cm Eb/G F/A
He looks as though he’s gonna cry.
Fm Eb/G
You said he was stronger than all of those guys.
Ab G/B Cm Eb/Bb
Daddy please tell me why,
Fm Bb Eb [ Dm G ]
Why does everyone want him to die?”

VERSE 2 (same chords as VERSE 1)

Later that day the sky grew cloudy
And Daddy said I should go inside.
Somehow he knew things could get stormy.
Boy, was he right! But I could not keep from wonderin’
If there was something he had to hide
So after he left I had to find out.
I was not afraid of getting lost.
So I followed the crowds to a hill where I knew men
had been killed,
And I heard a voice call from the cross

CHORUS 2 (same chords except where noted)
And he said, “Father why are they screaming?
Why are the faces of some of them beaming?
Why are they casting their lots for my robe?
This crown of thorns hurts me more than it shows.
Father, please, can’t You do something?
I know that You must hear my cry.
I thought I could handle a cross of this size.
Ab G/B Cm Eb/Bb Fm Eb/G F/A
Father remind me why, why does everyone want me to die
C/D Gm F/A G/B [Bb/C Bb/D C/E]
Oh, when will I understand why?

CHORUS 3
F Em A
My precious Son, I hear them screaming,
Dm F/C
and I’m watching the face of the enemy beaming.
Bb Dm
But soon I will clothe You in robes of my own.
Gm Bb/D
Jesus, this hurts Me much more than You know.
C/E F Edim
But this dark hour I must do nothing
A7 Dm F/C G
Though I’ve heard Your unbearable cry.
Gm F/A
The pow’r in Your blood destroys all of the lies.
Bb Dm
Soon You’ll see past their unmerciful eyes.
Gm Bb/F Edim A7
Look there below, see the child
Dm G7
Trembling by her father’s side.
Gm F/A Bb
Now I can tell You why,
Bb/D C7 Dm [Bb] [Dm F/A]
She is why You must die.

[Bb C/E] [D]

Overslept.... AGAIN!!!

2007-06-20T19:15:00.001+08:00

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!! I actually overslept again today!!! Lucky Evann called me at 9.15am, otherwise God knows wat time i'll sleep until... lol.... then i quickly don my uniform n stuff, then rush off to work.... and it was RAINING VERY SLIGHLTY, but GROWING in INTENSITY... I cursed under my breath and i remembered v v v v clearly i told Jesus, "GOD! Not now! Cannot!!! I'm already freaking late already and I've totally NO time to wear my rain coat, or get wet, or anything like that, so please!!! I BEG you to stop the rain! or at least hold it for 30mins until i reach branch..." and i really believed deep down in my spirit, that God heard my cries, my plea, and He answered my request by holding and stopping the rain this morning. I was so amazed and grateful and thankful to Him. He's always there when i need Him most. :)

Back to school in 2 weeks time...

2007-06-17T13:31:00.001+08:00

yesterday i just attended my orientation talk at SIM.... Gek Sim lei... The lecturer there told us that we'll most probably be studying for 50 weeks out of 52 weeks a yr, so there's gonna be no more holidays, no more fun n games, no more watsoever anymore these days.. Of course i'm aiming for a first class honors, so all the more i'll need to sweat like shit.. zzz.. SAD AH!!!!!!! This is so much worse than insurance, at least in insurance i'm getting paid for what i do, this one is i'm paying to suffer shit... zzz... wtf. Nevermind, i'll read my bible and pray and study and God will give me favor and the blessings of Daniel and i'll emerge top in class by the grace of God. :D hee.... so optimistic. I've juz downloaded the study guides from UOL webby... now mulling through them... hmmm.... quite tiring really, some concepts r really a bit tough to comprehend, but I'll be able to make it.. I've got the Holy Ghost to help me anyway, how can i lose? :D 2 more weeks n sch reopens.. hmmm.... 3 more yrs to graduation, plus in the meanwhile still have to learn about investing in the stock market and commodities... then do paper trading and pray for Nerrissa's hubby to recover from cancer and for her to come back to Singapore safely, plus i really like Jean, that i guess is no prob cos i'll definitely make time for her de.. hmm... a lot of things hor? I dun even have time for care group, prepare songs for praise n worship, teach bryan the guitar, go makan with adrian, go shopping with biao jie karen, entertain my younger sis n mom, not even sure if i'll have time to go church on sundays... zzzzz..... not with so many things on hand to handle... lol...
Jesus, I really thank you for being there for me all these years, everyday of my miserable pathetic life.. I really can't imagine how i survived, with all the nonsense of the world, all the crazy things i've went through sometimes consequetively throughout a week, pouring out my heart and soul to You, and a million times i cried out, a million times You've answered. I need You, I appreciate you, and I wanna say "thank You" from the v v v v v bottom of my heart, Lord, You mean the very world to me, the closest people around me will dissappoint me, but You Lord, will never dissappoint. Thank U Jesus!!

Blood Donor's Day!

2007-06-14T21:55:00.000+08:00

Yay!!!!! Today's BLOOD DONOR'S DAY!!!!!! WAAAAA!!!! hahahahahahaha!!! super high sia.. LOL!!! Today CTS gor relief officer come to do, so Jean was learning cash from Michelle.. hee.. I'm happy for her cos she's learning something new, yet sad at the same time as I dunno if she'll eventually stay put in UOB or move on to another bank.. >.<"" Once again, the amazing CTS cannot balance, so we spent a little bit of time catching snake... ZzzzZZzzZzzz... I dun understand wor, its so...... ai ya, so ma fan de system lor.. SO MANY things to take note of.. Dots.. Jean also doesn't like to do CTS, me neither. Too many things to do le. A/C opening easier. :)

Anyway back to the topic, I went Vivocity with Clara today, actually we intended to watch oceans thirteen theree but by the time I got there the tickets r sold out already.. >.<" SORRY CLARA!!! How come the show so hot lor... zzz.. siao one singaporeans.. lol.. kk, its i v slack, haha.. didn't bother to book in advance. :) We ended up going to Marche for dinner, me had sirloin steak, iced latte, clara had rice with chicken and clams... hmmm, she doesn't eat clams tho... lol.. so i had them. Speaking of makan, Jean was super adorable today lor - Grace was taking orders for tomolo's lunch, so she was actaully asking everyone if we wanna ta pao prawn noodles - Jean doesn't eat prawns because of the intestines - so jean was ordering prawn noodles without prawns n without tau gay... then Grace give the "chaeng" look, hahaha... then lili was saying that if she doesn't want the prawns, can give me.. hee.. I dun mind tho.. :P prawns r tasty! :P hahaa...

During dinner we saw this really adorable ang moh little boy - super bubbly, grinning and beaming from ear to ear. Our table was actually situated beside a cable car thingy and the boy climbed into the cabin and peeked out of the window, Clara entertained him with peek-a-boo games and got the kid SOOOOOOOO excited tat he kept jumping up and down the cabin.. lol.. Honestly, he's a v likable kid, big blue eyes, yellow tuffle of hair and totally excited, happy face. hahaaha... We went home after dinner, Clara packeted some tau sar piah for the branch to eat, i thought that it was a really nice gesture on her part.

I kept thinking of Jean throughout the dinner though, even when i got home i was still thinking of her.. man.... honestly i've a crush on her, n i really wonder if i should start a relationship with her. Friends first ba... i guess?

Jean, dear, adorable Jean.. :)

2007-06-13T12:49:00.000+08:00

Went out with Jean yest evening after work (n it was really quite a lot of work... haha...), we actually cleared away a bottleneck of BIWS accumulated since 25/05/2007 till yest.... LOL! Peck Har would have slaughtered us if she found out... hee...

I managed to close the can of worms opened on monday - cx came to open corporate ac, CRM was down so I can't issue CHQ book, then he need to use chq book urgently cos on tuesday he need to pay his customer in the morning, plus his is a relatively big amt chq so muz send for clearing first. End up i opened the corp ac + corp FD ac at 3pm via 5250, then tried an urgent chq book req via CRM - unfortunately due to system constrain, the 5250 ac wasn't uploaded to CRM... Called CSC but they say muz raise SR then can process the chq req, they won't accept faxes or any other means.. SAD!!! So ok, i waited till 6pm+++, CRM was finally up, raised SR, called cx, received inst to send chq to thomson br, called CSC, liased with them to send chq to thomson br first thing in the morning, called thomson br, informed them cx will collect chq at thomson, emailed respective dept on the story. And so i thought, CASE CLOSED!!! So on tues, cx didn't rec'd chq in the mornin, CSC processed, sent out chq to BT PANJANG, arriving only in the afternoon, i nearly died of shock and was totally appalled, called cx, apologised, sent him the chq personally in the evening together with dear Jean who accompanied me on the journey. I really appreciate that company yest.

Aft which we went to orchard to redeem Isetan n Taka vouchers, she's the first person i know that actually redeem vouchers and practise saving habits - proactively investing n have a decent money sense. :) She's saving up the vouchers for a coach bag, abt $400++ i guess. Still cheap compared to ah pat's spending habits - burberry $800+++, LV, Gucci and what nots.. haha... Even my sis is also acting v tai tai le.. spend n spend. LOL. Girls ba.. its normal de. juz that sometimes the price tag is pretty shocking tat's all. :) Anyway i saw her mom at taka, she certainly DOES look v modern, Jean told me tat she's 50+ but honestly she looks only 40+, well maybe late 40s, but certainly not 50+!

We went over to anchorpoint for dinner, I forgot to wd cash so Jean had to pay 1st, retn her tomolo lo.. hee.. the Jet Li look a like wasn't there today, I guess its his day off. hee.. I had vongole, Jean had the cream sauce pasta... Didn't remember the name tho.. lol.. After which we went to the Cheese Prata shop near NUS for teh cino. :) my fave drink!!!! hee... She's a great company, absolutely sweet n understanding de. lol...

We swapped a few stories, how MF n Candy got together, MH's involvement, pursuit of Jac and finally his marriage. I also shared on biao jie's love story too.. hee.. She shared with me tat she used to carry 2 jobs a day, worked in soooo many different companies and also a bit of her relationship with her ex. :) I learned that she don't eat prawns that aren't really cleaned properly (the intestine thingy on the back of the prawn..), tomato sauce pasta is a nono, @ food republic she only likes the beef kway teow, she wears "M", but prefers bigger dresses - i guess cos they're more comfy. :)

My bestest friend wedding!!

2007-06-10T13:34:00.000+08:00

Yest was Meng Fei and Candy's wedding dinner.. Hee... I was just so happy for them!! We went to fetch the bride in the morning at the Marina Mandarine Hotel's bridal suite - 2826 i think, and we kinda reached there at 12.40pm. Daphne was there to saboh the brothers (bros as in MengFei, Me, Johnson, Meng Hoong and Jonus) by feeding us with extremely concentrated honey drink and honey spreaded bread. We sang lao shu ai da mi, tian mi mi and then MengFei managed to bribe ah kit into opening the door for him. LoL...

The dinner was held at marina mandarine hotel, 35th floor, it was a very gorgeous ballroom with only 18 tables in total. We enter through a white archway fromt he entrance, before us the ballroom was seperated into 3 levels, the entrance at the top and the stage being at the bottom of the room. There's a fairy tale quality about that place, though its a bit small.

I was very honored to be the MC for Fei's wedding dinner, thank God there's a script prepared for me so I didn't really have to prepare much, just basically memorize a bit and then fire away from the script. I thought to myself that being an MC is actually pretty fun. :) I actually enjoyed it.

Best wishes to MF and Candy, and may God bless them richly in each and every way possible!

Complimentary Chocs from the hotel. :) So nice!!!!!

Welcome card from the hotel

Bridal Suite :)

Some of the views from the hotel room

Bro Meng Hoong and His Wife :)

Me and Meng Hoong :)

The groom himself!!! Haha.. Shuai right? My best friend - Meng Fei.

Tourniquet - If I Was There - Scenes Of Passion Of Christ

2007-06-07T18:16:00.001+08:00

If I was there - Tourniquet

I close my eyes and think about Calvary
I see it happening right in front of me
the back that bore the whip, the head that held the crown of thorns
what if I was there
would I even care, would I even care
or would I only stare

What if I was there just a face in the crowd
would I hide in shame or would I laugh out loud
would I pity Him or think that He is just a fool
another criminal
or just the truth, or just the truth
He is heaven’s jewel

As He marched up that hill
I can picture Him still in my mind
all the blood and the sweat on His brow
as He passed me on by, I could see in His eyes
that His pain was a gift of His love

He was the sacrifice-the Lamb
and He is the great I AM
and He paid the price for me
the price for you and me-you and me

He made the deaf to hear again
He called the sinful man a friend
He walked that hill for me
so my blind soul could see-could see

As He marched up that hill
I can picture Him still in my mind
all the blood and the sweat on His brow
as He passed me on by, I could see in His eyes
that His pain was a gift of His love

I close my eyes and think about Calvary
I see it happening right in front of me
two criminals were there-with one on either side of Him
one hurled insults and one believed-and one believed
which one am I?

Study study....

2007-06-07T17:36:00.001+08:00

Waaaaa!!!! Super duper sianz sia!! Now tat I'm starting school in July, I decided to borrow my sister's A maths textbook to practise a bit before I enter Uni... And I realised I've forgotten absolutely everything I studied in Sec sch, in poly.... zzz.... Its damm jia lat... I'm still working on differentiation... not even reached integration, Log, Ln yet...... sad.... kinda like relearning everything from scratch... Without a teacher to guide some more... >.<" Wad to do, wad to do...

Batam trip!

2007-06-01T12:15:00.000+08:00

31st May we had our branch outing at Batam, a day of makan, massage, shopping, medi / pedicures (for the ladies) and even more makan n shopping. :)

We took the 9.40 ferry from harborfront, reaching Batam at 10.40am.

Batam's coastline.

This shot was taken on board the ferry, nothing to do so take pictures lor. :)
From left: Doris, Clara, Evann, Marcus.

Docking... At last!

We managed to get through the customs - well, almost all of us anyway. Lee Kheng's PP was valid for less than 6 months, so we had to bribe the custom fella before he let us through. Corrupted nation huh? I'm biased.
From left: LiLi, Evann, Lee Kheng, Clara, Lucy

This is the whole bunch of us! 20 pax in all, 19 adults + 1 child. :)

We paid a visit to the local temple - some of us offered incense but for me, I just went to take a look, spoke in tongues, and chased away buddah. Wahahahaha!!

Interesting fountain of wealth - whose water has dried up. LOL..

People offering incense to the god (small "g") of this world... zzz...

Ever wondered how come buddah must be a fat guy? And then how come girls are crazy over muscular suave guys like david beckham? How come buddah doesn't look like beckham? Maybe ancient times girls are attracted to fat guys ba... LOL...

Some buddhist items for sale.

Yet another poorly tended fountain. People don't really take much pride in their objects of worship nowadays. Sigh..

Vivian n Alvin praying. :)

Me n my housing loan specialist. :)

Lunch time!!!! This is where we had our lunch. :)

The mad rush to wash up before eating.

Candid shot. :)

Look at the spread!!!! Man han quan xi!!!! :D

After the carnage...
I didn't take any photos of the massage place cos they didn't allow photography there. Anyway, I tried the full body massage, combination of thai n traditional. It hurts like crazy!!! lol... but damm shoik, it cost 90,000 rupiah, so its pretty cheap, considering the exchange rate is S$1 = 5750 Rupiah...

After which we went to the megamall for shopping, honestly the price there is comparable to the pricing in singapore, so i didn't buy anything. No point lah...

Following the megamall thingy, where some of us bought goodies, some bought donuts, some didn't buy anything, we went for dinner at windsor foodcourt.

Hungry, flustered, tired ppl. :)

Dinner was really good, though most of the dishes are spicy. There's chilli crab, prawns, spicy kangkong, hot plate tofu, spicy fish, coconut n carlsberg. hee.. Filling sia!
From left, front: LiLi, Cynthia, Vanessa
From left, back: Lucy, Lee Kheng, Vivian, Evann, Clara

The moon was hidden behind the cloud, so none of us turned into werewolves that night...

Me n alvin. :) I'll be his MC for his wedding dinner come this Sept.

slack slack slack.... SLACK AH!!! hahahaha...

2007-05-22T22:28:00.000+08:00

Hahahahahahahahaha!!! Today i'm like extremely slack lah! Open only like 3... or was it 4 accounts? ahhahahahaahahhaha! SLACK SIA!!! LOL... Today kena one EXTREMELY FICKLE cx...... cannot make it la, guy, nono, UNCLE somemore... zzzzz... make me EC twice.. lol.. SOTONG!!!!! Other than that guy, the rest of the day was retarded - absolutely nothing to do de... So much so that i went to the... er... pedestal? pulpit? wadeva, its a stand with the Q-matic machine thingy there.. and i was standing there GREETING people!! lol.... I'm like SOOOOOOO BORED!!!! hahahahahahhaha...

Tomolo's my day off.... so most probably gonna go get my guitar tuner, then change my strings... then maybe go get my pp photo done n submit to jacki so that my PADI pass can be processed.. lol.... SLACK right? tioman till now is like 1 FULL month gone, n i still havn't done anything about my diving thingy... lol....

These few days i've been pretty much v v v v v v v v v v v serious about working ou, so much so tat my arm is still aching since i started working out 3 days ago.... lol.. then we got the AB King Pro tingy... supposed to help u get abs... i guess. so gonna work on that too.. lol.... SO VAIN!!!!! hahahahhahahaha... then wad? u think guys are all slackos - eat, sleep n grow fat only ah??? u gotta be KIDDING MAN!!! lol...

kk.. dun waste time liao. gotta burn some fats. :P

1815 Cheques... Phew!

2007-05-21T21:40:00.000+08:00

Wow, today set yet another killer record... I did 1815 Cheques!!!! SIAO MAN!!! Thank GOD I had a great helper - Jean, otherwise I'll SURELY peng san... lol... The difficulty was compounded by a ton of other weird weird stuff - cx called to enquire about the BIB application procedure - took 20mins off the clock... Then there's this rtn chq of $10k, resulting in the FD being cancelled, then need to do bridging n then reissue a new FD... zzz... SAD de lor!!!! Anyway we managed to eventually balance everything at the end of day, though there r a bit of hiccups here n there, we still managed to finish up before our bladder burst.... We desperately need to go to the toilet, n I was kinda like urgently high tide since 4.05pm.... the tsunami broke loose only at 6.30pm.. zzz.. wan to cry sia... hahaha....

Mom's being a bit creative with tonight's dinner, got chicken, chicken soup, n 2 mushroom dishes.. zzz.. ok la, at the very least got chicken lor... what more u wan? Sweet, frenly, nice nice green veggies? zzz.... scary de lor....

Sister Nerissa went to China to visit her grandpa, so I pray for her journey mercy and a blessed n fulfilling trip over there. Hope her bf is recovering well from cancer, the Lord healed him - bearing his afflictions by his stripes 2k yrs ago.. I BELIEVE LORD! AMEN! Amen means so be it or just a simple "yes".

This week gotta go get my tuner.. then most prob need to restring the guitar... cos G broke... zzz.. or should i go into hyperdrive n break everything then restring? LOL.... SOMEtimes we CAN get carried away know.... hahahahaha

Fucked up legalistic father

2007-05-14T23:43:00.000+08:00

Chao cheeby… I’m god dammed fucking bloody pissed off with my bastard father… Fucking self righteous bastard, tell me that he’s “worried” and “don’t fetch you sister understand” Cheeby, u worried got fuck use ah… Go read the fucking book of Job la, u who worry, can u add a day to your life? You think you’re fucking GOD ah? Na beh, lan jiao understand, fucking open your cheeby mouth all curses come out, give what fucking accident statistics, survival rate, say what sit bus must sit in the middle. FUCK YOU! Why the FUCK are you so FUCKING terrified of death? You die already going to HELL ah? Fucking old testament priest. Si beh DU LAN lei. Cheeby, of all the conversations we had, there was NEVER one SINGLE “journey mercy” or “the Lord will protect you” or “1k may fall on your left, 10k may fall at your right, but none shall come near you. LIN NA BEH CHEEBY, all curses and curses. FUCK LA! Then now cough like kena TB like that. Fucking IDIOT lei. Only know how to trust in your flesh, as though si beh sat like that… Everyday eat grass, all meat eat already will die, can’t even eat cake. FUCK LA! IDIOT!!! Fucking if you DIE because you ate a piece of CAKE and kena LEUKEMIA I won’t be SURPRISED lor. DU LAN LEI, ASSHOLE!

DON'T FUCKING GIVE ME THE LAW. I'M NOT A FUCKING RELIGIOUS DICK HEAD.

Back again...

2007-05-14T00:27:00.000+08:00

Waaaa!!!! Finally I'm bloooogggin again!! LoL... Been trying to figure out how to fix my blogger a/c ever since I came back from my diving trip, and also installing the new modem for the new PC at home.. Damm chim... zzz.. Thank God everything's finally up n running. :)

Recently I picked up diving - I actually wanted to pick that up while I was in poly yr 1 together with my frens, but kept procastinating n putting it off till now.. so after 10 yrs, I've decided to drag my feet n take the plunge... haha... slacker.. oh ya, I also wanted to learn the piano, since sec 4 I think.. but that's another story...

Anyway, diving was an altogether new experience for me - the feeling of weightlessness, breathing through the respirator, swimming with multi multi colored fishes, some of which are really big, some adorable ones like clownfishes (aka nemo) amongst the coral reefs, the constant sound of ppl breathing n the sound of the bubbles when we all exhale, watching n learning about marine life, it was just amazing.

Tioman 20/4/2007

Openwater group -

Back: Instructor Zack
Front, from left: Me, Pat, Sushin, Ah Mei, Jean, Instructor Jacki

Catshark
Lionfish

Block leave...

2006-10-12T14:07:00.000+08:00

Hmm.... so long never update blog liao.. I'm like so dam lost lor... Where to start? zzz.. I was posted to bukit panjang br for almost 3 weeks now.. I'd say its a hell lot better than Jurong Town Br.. haha... there's direct bus, knock off @ 6pm (latest), and heck, its located in a shopping centre! hahaha!

Last thurs nite i took a coach to alor setar.. damm freakin 12hrs journey sia.. zzzz.. by the time we reach the destination, my legs are stiff, numb, and wobbly... Went there to attend Poh Giak's wedding.. hee.. It was soooooo traditional!! :) There's the hair combing ceremony, tea ceremony, ang pow giving ceremony, offer incense to the "tian gong" and also to the ancestral tablet.. wa!!! Really an eye opener for moi... hee.. Giak's v pretty, she wore 3 diff gowns - fri night was deep red, then sat morn was the traditional classic white, then the dinner on sat night was pretty pink. :) Tink she's really pretty tt day, kiee..

I kinda had a tour round the countryside over the weekends, mainly following ah Giak's sec sch buddies.. hee.. went from Alor Setar to S.P. (her hubby's house) then to S.P. makan "xiang tofu", "oyster omelette", "penang laksa", "wu xiang" and some dishes tt i dun even know the names.. Gee..

One ting i noted tho... The wedding album photos doesn't really look like the teller i know from JT br... Maybe its the make up n everything.. (or maybe i didn't really see ah jie put on make up in singapore before.. lol...)

My sis SMS me tt M'sia was having a hell lot of haze cos some fuggin indonesian prick ignited a forest and the wind carried everything over to M'sia.. Lucky for me, Jesus took care of it by sending quite a thunderstorm on Fri night aft dinner.. haha... Who cares if the whole world explodes? MY Jesus will keep ME safe. :)

Sunday we celebrated Ah Rei's bday @ Marina South. I was so damm tired tt day (cos i juz got back from Alor Setar in the wee hrs of the morn... zzz..) I had a few sweet tasting tigers.. zzz.. no thanks to SAF.. a ton of prawns.. (those were REALLY nice) and well, assorted meat n stuff... the taste all blended together after a while of cooking.. zz..

BBQ Timo...

2006-07-20T20:56:00.000+08:00

Man... I'm so roasted today... We spent a day at the south-western most district of Singapore today, specifically - Tuas Power Station Area, where all the reclaim land lies, basically to show us the area that we'll be defending in the event of war (hope it NEVER happens), and some of the stuffs we'll be doing there should the inevitable occurs... I reach home with 2 different shades on my skin - no thanks to the scorching heat of mid-day sun.
The heat was literally "blistering" (I ended up with 2 blisters, one per heel), the sea breeze wasn't exactly refreshing as it makes you clammy n sticky n lethargic. SIANZ!!
Fortunately for me, tomolo's the last day of reservist, can finally look forward to my 8-6 schedule in da stingy UOB.. Tink I'll go get my degree n hop over to HSBC or ABN-AMRO... There pay higher.. :)

Reservist

2006-07-16T10:47:00.000+08:00

Wa!!! Its been a hell of a week, n i'm really glad tt its finally sunday! I went for my high key reservist since monday, going thru orientation driving on the 5/Ton truck n landrover, confirming detail sheets n bus indents, went for live firing @ Nee Soon Range, was nearly eaten by mosquitoes tt r attracted by insect repellants, taumatised by 1.5 inch houseflies n fist sized spiders, drank $1.20 per can tiger beer, spoke 90% hokkien, understood only 40%, and explained to my fren tt the name "Tan Kok Lai" is initialed as "Tan K L" and not "Tan C L" (not Tan Cock Lai..) then the rest translated "Cock Lai" into hokkien and we had a horrible time suppressing our laughter.. IPPT was on sat afternoon, so we booked out from Maju @ around 6pm... (Si beh sianz....) My new boots chewed a chunk off my leg, both the heel and the inner shin r really sore.. So i'm in quite a foul mood throughout the week...

Been catching up with my reading again, having devoured 98% of by David Eddings, so probably i'll finish it today and move on to another book... haha... Gonna drop by sunny bookshop to get new books le.. kk, gona shower, watch Gundam Seed Destiny, and go to church!

BB!!!

Books books books!

2006-06-27T20:17:00.000+08:00

I finally completed Les Miserables (such a touchin story) n moving on to Chronicles of Narnia (such a sweet book.. readin it leaves a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart.. :) I did so many stuff today, collected my IC, open an a/c @ bras brasah, got to know Haizan's ex-colleague Isabella, played KOF'02 and achieved a record "beat by 18", bought my nylon picks @ bras brasah, and just yest went to watch the movie by Pixar animation studios (super nice movie, full of ren shen dao li one...)

<---- Anyway, that's Mater

Narnia is a really... how should i say... a really sweet fairy tale. Its not like the usual fantasy novels by David Eddings or R A Salvator (no doubt these are great / exceedingly great authors) in the sense that there's not a lot of epic battles or castles under siege or huge knights decked out in full battle armor hacking n slashing at demons and monsters and what nots. Instead C S Lewis focused on a "kids going on an adventure" theme, much like or even kinda books. Very Sweet n nice n warm n fuzzy stuff.

Oh ya, today's my day off. :)

Ve-Slack dae...

2006-05-12T12:42:00.000+08:00

hoho! i actually woke up at 11+++++ today! hahaha! SLACKO TIMO! :D v bo liao right.. Been working real hard on my guitar the past few days, n most prob tomolo i'll be bringing it to bras basah for a mod job. been reading Les Miserables lately (hell, its a SOLID book, plzzz read if u haven't...), i'm trying to complete its ASAP... so tt i can move on to Narnia.. :P Bought the Look to You CD by hillsongs united (its good, go get it) and that partially explains the long hours i spent with my guitar, making a hell of a racket and causing pandemonium in the household during hours.. New Creation upgraded their webby, so do check it out at my links section, i tink its pretty cool, lots of pics were added including the one below:

That's my senior pastor n his family! so do check out the webby! i tink they did a marvelous job!

So there, i'm gonna slack all the rest of the day away.. be it reading or tweaking my guitar.. bb!

woot... rusty blog...

2006-05-08T13:05:00.000+08:00

Fwah sei!!!! so long never blogged oredi.. haha... SLACKER!!! truth is tat i've been keeping a 'traditional' diary for the past few months - the pen n paper type.. a lot easier to maintain n update ma... (i can update it during lunch hours mah......) Anyway, i've been doing a lot of catching up with my PS2 lately, juz recently completed a few games - God of War, Grandia 3, Shining Force Neo, Trapt, juz to name a few... n now working on Harvest Moon: AWL, Burnout Revenge and Suikoden Tactics.. haha.. LOBO sia! Today happen to be my day off, yest was my cuz's wedding dinner @ UIC building (i swear tt the building looked haunted... its oh sooooo old!!!) she's really pretty! dun look like her usual self (JOKE JOKE!!! dun sue me..) her hubby has tt permanent eye bag thingy.. i guess he muz b a v hardworking chap ba.. i really dunch know... Ah Bel sat beside Germaine, n it was commented tt she (ah bel) looked like da younger sista... not bad wor! 19yr lok look like 15 yr old (or younger!) and vice versa.. haha.. tink she's extremely happy yest, haha.. oh ya, she's my mei mei @ the dinner yest.. dots.. but not bad la, if a princess is ma sista, tt makes me a prince ain't it? :D kk, dun puke now.. zzz.. u all ah... dammmmmmmm bad know.. haix.

Prior to the wedding i was at Hope in the morn (11am svc) and at New Creation (4pm svc) together with Eugene Wong.. Sharon was v v v v v v v late so we didn't reserved a seat for her, we can't do tt anyway. The morn sermon was by Pastor Ben, speaking from the book of Ephesians, n i forgot the topic already.. haix... Pastor Lien shared about wisdom n that wisdom is a person (Jesus Christ) and not a thing. She also shared that wisdom is da same as success because the greek word for wisdom has both the elements of wisdom n suceess built into it.. As usual she was v funny (heck.. all the sermons in New Cre r funny...) n gave numerous illustrations n testimonies throughout the sermon.

Prior to sunday was election day. Low n Chiam managed to sercure their respective GRCs n PAP crushed the rest of the oppositions under their heel. Wad the heck, anyway i dun get to vote (tanjong pagar GRC noe... u know who's the King of our Castle?) so i didn't really bothered.

Now the task at hand is to go make my IC (my wallet was stolen, so may God deal with the bloody idiot severely and curse him with all the curses of Deut 28...) cos the thief after taking my EZ link card n money n everything didn't bother to send me my NRIC.. I tink he's really loathsome (muz b a he.. can't be a lady.. ladies dun throw away ppl's IC.. n that he muz be a SAM SENG.. or a BAA BOO SENG.. some escaped chimpanzee from mandai jungle..), at least return the IC la! &^!@$# SOAB SOAB.. Nvm, i forgive the sucker.. whoever he is. zz.. make me spend unnecessary $$.. sianz..

CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! doh...

2005-12-26T13:14:00.000+08:00

Its the most.. wonderful time.. of the year!!!!!!!! yay!!! We were at the Singapore Indoor Stadium for sunday service.. I was ushering at the north west wing, wearing the CCIS t-shirt.. There was caroling (Mary did you know, Mary's boy child, Love's come down, We were the reason, O holy night, etc...) plus a dance item by the church dancers together with an exerpt from the Passion of the Christ movie. Pastor Prince blessed us with the message from Romans 8 - Therefore there is now no condemnation in Christ Jesus.. The sermon (or rather, the whole service) was so annointed - we saw at least 40-50 ppl respond during altar call.. Praise be to God!

Lunch was catered for us as we had to rush off immediately after service to orchard rd.. to close the road, to keep off pesky ah bengs from hopping over the barricades like a kangaroo on steriods, to do some last min christmas shopping.. :) lunch constisted of rice with chicken chop marinated in some weird sweet sauce and mini carrots and a piece of brocalli... dots.. After gobbling down all the makan, we (Paul, Jimmie, Louis n myself) pile into Gary's toyota and headed to orchard, where we overtook the floats on the expressway.

Eventually we ended up in wisma, had tea n toast n rendevous with Kenneth in front of wisma at ~2.30pm and since we have absolutely no idea what we're supposed to do, we were told to go shopping and come back in 2hrs. so? scatter lor..

4.30 - i went back to wisma after touring takashimaya, far east plaza n far east square.. and only Louis' wife was there.. :S Daniel went home - got something on, kenneth went home - his mom is going away, paul went home - he wants to bathe, jimmie disappeared - he can't be reached, fang ling was still shopping, and the rest is somewhere hidden in singapore. Eventually we're only left with fang ling, louis' wife n me.. zzz.. i, me, myself, father, son, holy spirit.. got 6 ppl per person.. Eventually Jeffery n Paul came back to join us, n we had macdonalds for dinner, courtesy of CCIS.. not very fantastic la.. only one fillet O fish, one mac-chicken, 6 piece nuggets n fish dippers.. honestly, its pretty filling..

After which we waited till 8pm for the prog to start. my job is to keep stupid (pardon me) ppl from sitting on the barricade and even (stupider) ppl from jumping over the barricades (cos inside are all the VIPs.. got the guest of honor BG George Yeo somemore). Wearing the orange t-shirt wasn't helpful at all, ppl think you're "just a volunteer" so they tend to ignore your courteous and kind plea for them to get down.. the CISCO guard was an entirely different matter - he just walk past can already - everyone automatically jump down from the barricade one.. then there's that stupid ah beng - jump over the barricade then the CISCO uncle scream at him "OEI!" his ball shrink and automatically jump, nono, scurried over the barricade.. zzz... cmi ah beng..

The performances were really cool, there was a 15 yr old gal who sang we were the reason, groups from all over the world came to perform - thailand, australia, taiwan, china, indonesia, i tink malaysia too.. it was a blast. The concert ended with Ferliz navidad, and of course, wishing everyone MERRY n BLESSED CHRISTMAS!

Da vinci code...

2005-11-24T22:13:00.000+08:00

Just started 2 days into the book , about some church conspiracy thingy about Catholism.. zz.. very chim.. dun understand a single french thingy tat they used.. but i tink the book is a good read.. the 1st day i found it rather intriging.. 2nd day i tot to myself "this guy's vocab is damm good.." the book is full of suspense, keeps u guessing wats gonna happen n stuff.. quite cool.. i enjoy reading it..

these few days the weather has been querky lately.. rained 2 days, was scorching today.. its a blessing really.. there's basically not a soul in sight today.. which is good. :)

k.. back to Da Vinci again.. ciaoz!

its my birthday!!!

2005-11-13T21:21:00.000+08:00

haha! today's my birthday! and it was just absolutely fantastic! And i thank the Lord for an answered prayer too - i asked for the Lord to bring one of my frens to salvation to complete my birthday, initially was meng hoong, then meng fei, but both turned down my invitation for them to come to church.. and then just 10 mins ago, i met Patrick on the bus.. and he told me that yesterday was his spiritual birthday!!!! haha! When one sinner repents, the whole of heaven rejoices, and i really wanna thank Patrick for sharing this good news.. i can hear my inner most being rejoicing and bringing the prayer to rememberence as i thank the Lord Jesus Christ.. Hallelujah!

I went to church early today, kinda woke up at 5.45am, then lay in bed till 6.30am before i dragged myself up n had a shower before reaching church at 8am, thinking that today i'm supposed to help out for the mass recruitment for ministry of helps, which was actually scheduled next week.. lolz.. i'm just sooo tired lor.. had an extremely tough n tiring week, so yeah, i really need a break.

the auditorium was fully packed during 1st service, so i decided to go for 2nd service instead... birthday ma... wan to sit inside the auditorium.. hee.. pastor prince just came back from his holiday in tokyo disneyland and celebrated little jessica's birthday there (her birthday was 6 days before mine.. haha!) and it was just wonderful to see him back again to teach and share the word..

today's sermon was on how to have life and life more abundantly. something that spoke to me was to seek ye first the kingdom of God (righteousness, peace, joy in the Holy Ghost) and all these things (the things that we're looking for) will be added unto you. And the question that was posted to us: Do i believe that i'm righteous by faith in Christ Jesus? Things of the world, desires and wants aside, i'll choose to enjoy the presence of God and believe that i'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. :)

Benny blessed me with the sms today - "Hi bro.. HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY!! (incidentally, i'm 25.. but its ok la, at least he remembers.. :) May all your wishes come true and wishing u success always!!" thanks benny, appreciate the effort! :)

I celebrated my birthday with some of the folks from suntec city - ah rei, the 2 kids, and the other fella whom i dunno his name.. haha.. kim and phillip were there at star factory to wish me happy birthday too.. so it was really nice.. rei got me a black forest cake to celebrate the birthday and we had it at the fountain terrance at B1.. simple birthday, simple blessings and i enjoyed it. :)

And God wrapped up the day by giving me that wonderful birthday present that not even bill gates can buy - my fren's salvation.. So i really wanna say.. Thank You Jesus! Thank You.. for Your goodness and grace in my life.. :)

itz been a while...

2005-10-26T21:33:00.000+08:00

hee, its been quite a while since i last blogged.. dun even remember where i left off already.. dots.. been kinda busy lately, working that is.. :) often the week revolves waking up at 6am, coming home at 8pm, in between trying out various dishes at the CC opp my workplace.. ranging from chicken rice, char kway teow, chap chye perng to goreng pisang, pancakes and occasionally chicken cutlet or oyster omelette.. :) so healthy right? :P but i really enjoy the food there, its nice and cheap (the chap chye perng stall was selling fried chicken + a piece of stingray + tau gay for $2.50) and everything is just soooooo tasty! i've adapted to the time table / work schedule le.. plus the freezing environment of the banking hall (my fingers froze after sitting at the counter for 3 hrs... and my glasses fog up when i go for lunch...) all the while i made a couple of hiccups almost consistently everyday, learning gradually along the way.. from keying in the wrong amount, the wrong cheque number, to printing on the wrong vouchers, missing a step or two and forgetting to change the date on the "PAID" stamp.. haix.. hazardous job sia.. >.< but i thank God that i didn't paid the wrong amount (save once only) to the customer, and that isolated case the customer actually came back to pay back the difference.. :) so nice! haha.. i'm blessed, just so blessed by the Lord.. :) though the workplace is far, the people are really nice, even though i made a lot of mistakes, they still forgive n forget, and i truly appreciate their patience and willingness to help me in every way.. The C. officers, kelly, jesslyn, michelle r very nice too, hmm... compared to what i heard about other offices.. C. officers r scary ppl... lol.. the fierce fierce type.. >.<" there's my mentor dini, su, lay yong, aunty lee wah, mdm quek, wati who were alwayz there to guide.. and whom i thank God for as well. though its a long way from home, n i've seriously contemplated requesting for a change of branch (maybe to bukit merah for e.g.), i tink i'll choose to stay in JT cos of the environment.

tonite dad has a company dinner, so mom, sis n i went to magic wok to makan. we had thai styled fish, thai styled chicken, sambal kang kong and fried wan ton n rice. whole lot of it cost only $26+++.. cheap sia! and the fish is really nice, and the kang kong i simply adore, n man... it was just heavenly. :)

that treacherous journey from west to the east...

2005-10-08T23:25:00.000+08:00

man!!! i'm soooooooo tired.. woke up at 6am today n went to work... all the way till 2pm, aft which i had my lunch (chicken rice...) and then took the train from clementi all the way to bedok.. zzz... super far sia! the moment i boarded the train i K.O. already.. woke up at tampines station (totally shocked) and got off the train and crossed the platform to board the other train.. and guess wad? the announcement came - "next stop, Pasir Ris" WTF?? i slept all the way frm clementi to Pasir Ris and back?!? sigh.. what to do.. tired sia.. so i dragged all my stuff (guitar + uniform) n took the return trip to bedok, took 196, and eventually reached east coast park after 2hrs on the road.. zzz.. die sia.. go there also no energy to join the tele match and games organised by NG6 district... zzz... took a cab home, blogged, n now its finally bedtime... nitez ppl! :)

2005-10-03T20:19:00.000+08:00

King of Heaven - Karen, New Creation Church

Who is there like you Lord?
Clothed in strength and beauty
Marvellous, so wonderful in deeds

You who calmed the tempest
You who made the blind see
Mighty is Your hand to deliver me

King of Heaven
Exalted above all
My victory, my song
Great in majesty and glory

King of Heaven
You're worthy to be praised
All honour to Your name
Jesus reigned forevermore

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I absolutely adore this song!! just in case u r wondering, i'm a Christian :) going to church every sunday to listen to sing songs, take communion, be ministered by the pastor's preaching lor.. :)

today's my day off, so i spent it playing some songs, ironing my clothes and polishing my shoe, having a pretty slack day. mom suceeded in cooking hae bi hiam with kang kong, and amazingly the dish turned out to be pretty nice! :P i was eating like a rabbit today.. all veggies n fruits - pineapples, bananas, watermelon, water chestnuts, then kang kong and heng cai.. and the only consolation i had was char siew and some shao rou.. dots.. lucky the kang kong rawkz.. :P

Sunday i popped by Hope in the morn, passed the sermon CD that was preached in New Creation by Pastor Gary Clark from hillsongs to some of my ex-churchmates and also to the pastor, hopefully the message will bless them greatly :) my frens did caution me of New Creation, hmm... but i guess its because the rumors that the church is teaching the wrong things are still flying around ba.. anyway, they dunno the doctrine and what things are being preached so i guess bu zhi ze wu zui lo.. :)

my national service "gui ren"

2005-10-01T12:42:00.000+08:00

on thurs evening i met one of the nicest persons i can ever know on planet earth - my ex OC in the army during my stay there as a transport sup.. :) he's one of those rare bosses who would actually stand up for their men and able to say "no" to ppl who are higher in rank than him.. hee... thanks be to God that i'm so well taken care of where ever i go.. :P haha!

I met OC at city hall, the place where we wait for the shuttle bus to bring us to suntec city. :) hee, he nearly couldn't recognise me (except for the height i guess) till i'm directly in front of him. :) it was really nice to see someone whom u respect and admire for their moral character and it was just simply heart warming.. :) he's now working near orchard, and i'll probably be catching up with him soon for lunch or maybe dinner.. hopefully time permits lo :)

updating: 13 sept to 28th sept.. hee..

2005-09-28T22:46:00.000+08:00

waaaaa!!! its been sooooo long since i last update the bloggy.. hee... plz forgive me wor... been ridiculously busy lately... :P *excuses* sorry la! ppl say sorry already, u still wan wad lor.. zzz... *ar bish*

k, essentially i've started work at UOB Jurong branch le.. its amazingly near my house - take 197 n then transfer to 154 n vvwaaala! 1 hr later i'm in the office.. :) looking on the bright side, it still beats having to get up at 5.30am everyday while i was serving my NS, so i'm actually pretty ok with it.

Week 1 was pretty monotoneous, greeted my CSM florence, who attached me to my tour guide for the day Kelly, and was eventually attached to Dini who babysit me for the rest of the week, before i went for my trg. I got to know a couple of the regular customers at the branch, there's the ppl who deliver bulk cash, some of the aunties who operate the minced meat noodle stall nearby, a very old uncle and a few more regulars whom Dini introed to me. :) i fiddled around with the casting calculator, helped out with some data entry n did a bit of consolidation n stuck my ever curious nose almost everywhere, n almost everytime i opened my mouth, "why?" would fly out.. Dini was really kind n was very patient with me n taught me almost everything that i need to know regarding current, savings and even touched a wee bit on fixed deposit.. which i was very glad because the observation week helped me assimilate more readily during the 7 days training.

The only thing i'm really upset about was the temperature of the branch... it was absolutely freezing!!! (k, i exaggerated again.. wadz new huh?) i happen to be a reptile, so i dun tolerate cold.. anywayz...

I caught up with wayne n daniel during training, they finally got into the UOB recreational club thingy n joined badminton. i passed as i'm afraid my astigmatism might get the better of me during the game n end up being shuttle cock fodder instead. >.<" lolz.. but aiyo, where got time for sports lor? :P mon need to sleep cos sunday sleep late, tues got care group, wed reherse songs if kena guitar, thurs bible study, fri join jac's care group, sat work half day, tired liao, go home sleep, sunday church... zzz... siao! where got time? lolz.. *excuses again* but its basically time management la. if i'm passionate about the sport, i'll create a haven in the midst of an insane schedule just to fit the game in. :)

well, i got to know 2 more new frens during the course who are staying in the same neighborhood - then come to think of it, both are senior officers.. lolz.. bukit merah so pro lor. :P Guz and Jamie. then Jamie shared the same dialect as me - Fu Zhou! or Fook Chow. For those of u wondering, think of Fu Zhou Yu Yuan lor.. and Fu Zhou is not the same as hokkien, so dun confuse urself.. anyway, it was really fun knowing jamie - same poly, same age, same dialect, same neighborhood.. hee.. COOL! then at least when i travel from tampines to home got someone to talk to lor.. otherwise the journey is so boring! kaoz! :P

yesterday was my first visit to alvin's care group, and it was really a blessed time, i reckon i was the youngest in the group (all of them look pretty much married / working for a long long time) so they were pretty kind towards me, offering me drinks, making me feel at home n at ease n stuff like that. :) so yea, it was very nice lor. Alvin was leading the duscussion on dengue fever, and what are we basing our faith upon. or putting it in other words, what is the basis for our faith. some of the tough questions were posed n answered, like God's protection upon Christians vs diseases n even sometimes death, a very thought provoking n enriching exercise lor.. to me it was pretty cool, cos theology tickle my fancy. :)

back to tampines - once jamie, alicia, wayne, daniel n myself were supposed to meet up for lunch together, but on that fateful day, i left my phone in my bag n my bag in the classroom. so the guys n gals got seperated n in the end jamie called my phone, n i didn't know (of course la... i'm not sun wukong wad.. got super hearing meh..), so in the end we spilt tables at century square. well, i learned that lesson alright.. so i made sure i bring my phone with me if the ladies are around.. lest we do the disappearing act again..

Some other news... Ruby is getting married (so many ppl got married.. Anthony, Laverne, Wee Keng & Wei Wei, Meng Fei & Candy, Desmond Pang, Wendy's expecting, n dunno who la..) and she's sending out the invites. i believe Jac's next in line, then probably can expect Alan's invite too.. :) the hong bao "bao buay liao" sia.. :) little eugene broke up with his gf (welcome to the bachelor club), jia qing got a job at suntec macdonalds, Estelle is going for the bangkok trip, little jessica's going to pri 1 next yr, dengue is on the rise, bird flu's coming back, and probably soon the cows will start to go crazy n geese will lay golden eggs.. zz.

lol.. tired le, mi going to sleep.. nitez nitez!

the heavens opened....

2005-09-12T20:11:00.000+08:00

wa!!!! today aft i knocked off, the heavens opened n dumped a ton of water onto raffles place... kaoz!!! i'm like totally drenched lor, even with an umbrella! The rain was so bad, the umbrella couldn't tahan... and it LEAKED!!!! zzz.. stoooopit umbrella!!! aaahhhh!!! i'm amazed by the amount of water, but it stopped raining le.. like at 8pm... zzz.. started pouring at 6.40pm or so... then wack till i'm drowned in the rainfall... then it stopped!!! sotong siaz... sianz.. tomolo reporting to jurong town branch.. dots.. so far!!! ahh! reminds me of my SAFTI days... need to take train to boon lay then change bus... haix... oh well, guess i'll sleep early tonight.. then tomolo go see my new boss.. hee.. :)

oh ya! i met michelle on the bus today morning.. on bus 167.. :) now then i realise that she's working in SGH! at national eye center as a technician there.. kinda cool! next time wanna do lasik can look for her le.. :)

yest sunday's sermon was preached by a pastor from Hillsongs London (that was way way way cool!), and the message really blessed me a lot.. its about handling the frustrations in life, about God's purpose in my life (and your life) and how our current situation may not be like the kind of life God wanted me to live out.. or destiny or fate, watever you may call it.. it was really encouraging, a very uplifting and anointed preaching.. The Holy Spirit's presence was so real that day! And my was my spirit touched.. :) if you're reading this entry, i really encourage you to get the CD from the Rock bookstore at suntec city (directly above carrefour), and listen to the CD when u need encouragement, it is really THAT powerful.. :)

oh my goddess!!!

2005-09-11T00:59:00.000+08:00

hee, recently downloaded 5 episodes of the anime oh my goddess! from getitfido.com and it was sooooooo adorable!!! i tink i'll be buying the cartoon this coming week.. haha! below is a sample of the artwork of the series.. pretty nice huh? ^^ the storyline is pretty cute too, short, desperate schoolboy gets lucky break and got acquainted with a goddess. haha! soo silly! :)

sooooo sweet!! ^^

this week's update.. 31 aug-4sep

2005-09-05T19:12:00.000+08:00

juz a quik update as i had a pretty fun week.. 31st aug i went down to UOB to have a medical examination, more or less i tink i'm confirmed for the job already.. thurs had lunch with celine at bedok sumo restaurant (cheapest jap food in town!) and had baby octopus, salmon sashimi, and chicken katsu don.. ^^ the food rocks! that day noon went over to prudential.. actually wanted to hand in my resignation letter but anthony told me to hold on to it first.. oh bother.. anyway, will check with UOB side and see wad they say. evening time was spent at BB HQ, zion rd, having a sub district meeting tat day, some restructuring again, then michael taught us the WOG, i tink from matt 26 if i remember correctly.. wadever.. lolz.. lean choo was the worship leader tat day, agung played the keyboard and eugene n edwin were the guitarist. on fri i went to collect the laptop from twin head office, burlington sq... it cost me a whooping $600+ for replacing the CD/DVD drive and hard disc.. sianz.. damm sad la.. burn one big big hole in my pockets.. wadever. after that i headed to suntec, caught up with rei n the rest, then attended the midweek bible study thingy at NCC. Pastor Prince was teaching tat evening, so it was hilarious as usual. :) sat was fun! we had pot luck at robert's place at meyer road. his house was big! but i tink the old house was slightly bigger.. but the new one has a spectacular seaside view, with fig trees and stuff. cool! he's staying on the 24th floor, so we really had a panaromic view of the sea.. i was there early... 5.50 reach le.. then wendy came together with wayne, then robin n michelle, then soon ann and robin. we had quite a spread! chicken wings, spicy jap noodles cooked by robert, black pepper chicken, goreng pisang, goreng champulat (something like jackfruit), wanton noodles from soon ann's stall.. it was really cool. :) sunday was spent in church.. woke up at 12.30pm tat day cause we really had a long long day on sat, n we did so much catching up! juz tok n tok n tok n tok all the way.. hee.. then sunday knocked out. haha.. evening 11pm caught on the TV.. it looks pretty neat, the effects kinda improved a bit, n its like a continuation from part 2, anyway, its a nice show. so there. end of the week.. n today UOB haven't called me yet.. hmm.. wonder wad are they up to? hum humm hummmm...

about the lady called eve...

2005-09-05T19:06:00.000+08:00

comic relief! here's a little story to keep u occupied n brighten a otherwise, pretty dull day..

tiny family reunion

2005-09-05T18:49:00.000+08:00

my uncle sent me some pics that were taken during the family reunion during the month of march this year (i know, its a tad late.. but hey, this is my bloggy after all..) uncle is in the states n he comes to visit us kinda like once a year like that.. dun worry, he's not in new orleans.. :)

Top left, my grandma n my uncle's daughter. Top right, my cousins + my sis (sis is the myopic one...) center right is aunty donna n my 2 cousins.

Dinner with my cousin karen n her mom n dad plus uncle andrew n family (who r not in the pic)

Dinner at westlake restaurant with uncle andrew n family n aunt emily n family

entering a new phase in life.... working life i mean.

2005-08-30T20:21:00.000+08:00

today was totally blessed by the Lord.. i got my new job with UOB! All thanks be unto Jesus! The reason is because when i 1st sent my application, i never expected to be shortlisted (applying for the post of an Associate Officer in a bank using A Diploma in Chemical Processing.. WTF..), then dad was like some crazy fanatic, everyday cut newspaper cutting n intro me jobs... dots.. pek chek u know?? I told God to give me this job i applied for, then i told mom n dad that Jesus will take care of the rest (AND HE DID!!!!), but they still feed me with various job offers (from chemistry line, to manulife, to God knows what..), oh bother, i guess they r trying to be nice ba... Anyway, back to the story. UOB called me up somwhere in the 3rd week of Aug, scheduled me for an appt on the 19th, but ended up postphoned it to the following week, which is the 26th. That was the very first interview, conducted by the vice pres of HR, Jolin.. wa! vice pres lei! stress... lucky it was a group interview, and i was kinda the 2nd oldest of the group (of 8 ppl).. things went pretty smoothly, and on monday, i received a call from UOB in the morn... I was shortlisted for the 2nd interview!!! YAY!!! Praise God! So i went down to UOB today, the interview was scheduled at 10.50am, i got there at 10.25am i think.. lol.. kiasu singaporean.. then met florence.. jolin say she very fierce, but she seems pretty nice to me lei... dunno... anyway, she told me that the Zone manager is unable to come today as they are caught up in an urgent meeting, so i tot have to come back another day.. then she told me to come back at 11.45am to be interviewed by the Zone manager! wow! tt's fast! (then i gave Jesus a big silly grin and thanked Him in my heart.. sooooo happy u know???). So i went to walk walk at raffles place area, and popped into a spectacle shop n fixed up my glasses (the frame was a bit bent as i unknowingly sat on it... i terribly myopic..) and then i tink florence called me, told me that the interview change to 11.25am (COOL!). so i went back to the office, met the zone manager (also quite nice lei... maybe its because i was happy and carried an infectious smile.. hee... ^^) who asked me some simple questions and then told me to wait for their call, telling me that they will get back to me within 2 weeks... 2 WEEKS!! sigh.. need to wait again lor... then amazingly, my phone rang at exactly 5.03pm... it was from the HR!! They told me that i've been selected!!! (can you see how God's hand is moving?? Thank You Jesus!!) Wa! 2 weeks u know??? i got the reply in 5 hrs!! hahahaaha! Praise the Lord! then i went home and shared the good news, and i told mom and dad that God will confirm give me this job de... hee... so happy, more so, SO PROUD OF JESUS!! hahaa! wad a blessed day! then i went over to the Rock bookstore and bought the newest Hillsongs CD - GOD HE REIGNS (now listening to it...hee), shoik sia!! and found all the lyrics and chords for the new album! OMG! blessed over the moon sia... hahahaa! And in my heart, i know that God is gonna bless my career in UOB (i wanted to call it ministry instead of career), because God is a GREAT GREAT GOD!

oh no... my aunt got breast cancer... :(

2005-08-22T21:36:00.000+08:00

this is one of the shittiest news that i ever received.. my aunt was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.. :( wad the fuck! this is serious! :( please keep her in prayers, she's my 4th aunt (juz pray, God knows who i'm refering to...) and i really need all the prayer support from you guys! Thanks ah...

jue dui superstar?????????

2005-08-19T01:27:00.000+08:00

Fwah!!! Xinhui and Junyang got knocked out.. DOTS!!! How come???? haix.. then kelly and kelvin got into the finals... dunno which 'k' will win lor.. then when they wanna announce the winner for the girls group tat time, kelly looked so downcast lor! then xinhui (xinhui happens to be my dialect name as well... so i'm a big big fan of hers.. lol) was like super happy la! And then we were like so shocked when they announced that the winner is kelly.. dots.. even kelly is shocked lor.. lol.. oh bother, SP is really supportive of their idol though.. sigh.. xinhui jia you! kelly jia you too... :) then junyang was like totally stunned when he lost.. hmm... honestly i was totally stunned too, not meaning to say that kelvin is not good (in fact, i was hoping that kelvin will win...), just that junyang seems to be enjoying better PR with the youngsters esp cos he has the looks and then got the backing of SA and NT also... lolz... then kelvin power lo.. mom also down there puzzled.. later she got nightmares tonight.. keep pondering "wei sem me kelvin hui ying" lol... majiam hallucination liaos... then my sis freaking out le... down there "fa hua chi".. thinking of junyang... can even hear her mumbling "junyang.... junyang" like some zombie like tat.. SIAO!!! like all the "J" ppl.. jay la, junyang, junjie... zzz.. bian tai! lolz.. haix.. anyway, i think the singapore indoor stadium is gonna be flooded by SP students.. then all carry kelly's banner... zzz.. but for mi... i'll prefer kelvin to be superstar lo.. cos kelvin got the mr very nice guy smile, then kelly look very fierce when she open her eyes big big.. scary sia... lol.. wonder who will win this competition... (wished it was xinhui though... haha!) initially i was telling my mom n sis that xinhui will eliminate kelly because the whole of malaysia is rooting for her, then kelvin eliminate junyang because the street musicians, aunties, and handicapp society root for him, then during the finals kelvin will eliminate xinhui because malaysia will think that he is not threat to xinhui, then they dun make so many calls, then kelvin's supporters will keep calling n calling because xinhui very power.. lol.. now dun nid le, kelly got SP power behind her.. whole polytechnic donate one call per student can liaos.. lol.. this is gonna be an interesting finals.. jue dui superstar! you ni jiu you ta!! goo goo ga ga...

Thank you Jesus!

2005-08-17T22:26:00.000+08:00

For the past few days, i've been busy reading the bible, playing the guitar and worshipping God because of the unhappy event few days back. Most of the time i played worship songs, didn't really have the mood to praise the Lord then.. Today there's quite a breakthru in my life - i'm able to bury the anger n let go of it, being able to accept the fact that my laptop is now totally handicapped, being able to communicate to my dad without my blood boiling, mom is happy that the storm is over, sis dare to make a nuisence of herself and irritate me, i was able to think a bit clearer and focus on the task at hand. Thanks for the prayers, esp Jac who was a pillar of prayer support during these trying times, and to everyone out there who prayed for me as well...

The resume that i sent out via email to UOB got through, and i was shortlisted! Yay! I know God played a major part in this, because i claimed this job in Jesus' mighty name and i told my mom and dad that God will give me the job.. and He did! And so here i am, happily testifying to all my blog readers out there..

Jesus has become a bigger and bigger part of my life now, even overshadowing my parents, my friends, my work, my amway business, my prudential career... Somehow i know deep within my heart, i can't make it in life without this companion in life - the Lord Jesus Christ, and so truly, i wanna thank You Jesus, from the bottom of my heart, for making me a better person, for guiding my emotions and my life and being always there by my side, no matter where i go, Your presence is with me, and Your Holy Spirit guides my path..

Indeed, THANK YOU JESUS!

Bloody pissed off...

2005-08-15T01:44:00.000+08:00

My stupid a**hole dad went berserk on fri.. screamed at my sis who was playing computer games and after that slammed my laptop's screen and wrecked my CD rom drive. F*CKER sia. Now i can't even reformat my comp, then got virus, then can't backup a single freaking file.. F*CKING irritating son of a B*TCH. KNN.. He's DAMM lucky i'm now a Christian, otherwise my previous hot tempered self would have grabbed anything within range and smashed his F*CKING CB face.. No remorse de lor.. My heart nearly stopped when he slammed the screen and wrecked the CD ROM.. My God! All my hard work, my templates, excel files, client details, effectively my rice bowl lies in the comp.. U have no idea how much restrain and force of will i employed to keep myself from killing that B*STARD. I was literally quivering with anger. I roared at the idiot, reckon that almost the whole block heard me shouting at the F*CKER and probably the surrounding blocks too.. but i really didn't give a damm at tat point. F*CK la, so many info, plus memories stored in the comp, plus the comp is almost gonna die (the screen is already flickering....), then u go and handle the thing so roughly.. CB.. U won't wack the A*SHOLE ah? After a heated arguement which lasted kinda like 3 mins between me and the moronic head of the household, i had to stop because the innocent party is my mom, who is kinda crying already because i guess it pains her to see her son and husband (why the F*CK did she marry that IDIOT in the first place?) quarrel. I effectively slammed the door and spent the rest of the night complaining to God, asking why the F*CK isn't my mom's husband anywhere near the character of Jesus.. Even though he's a "Christian" (who knows what God he submits to? Satan???? F*CK la). Si beh sianz.. The my sis also another moron.. A Levels next year, dun wan to study, keep playing games. wad the F*CK.. then only know how to drop subjects and complain.. F*CK la! Sleep early and go to sch n study la! wad's so difficult?? bloody 17 freaking years old already still don't know how to think. CCB. Everyday down there Zhou Jie Lun.. Siao! worship ZJL can get A1 for you A Levels ah? Go F*CK spider la. CCB.. Last timei would have downed a bottle of absolute vodka and spend my time sketching at boat quay.. sometimes getting into staring sessions and end up fighting.. sianz.. this time round i avoided alcohol.. juz played the guitar till my fingers couldn't play anymore cause it bled.. sianz.. still busy quenching the fires of anger though.. if u r reading this, n u r a Christian, keep me in prayers will ya? Thanks..

Reflections after a 5 days detox prog...

2005-08-07T23:29:00.000+08:00

well, i just managed to complete 5 days of detox... finally buckle under the temptation of tiramisu... starting to hallucinate char kway teow and durian le.. LOL! just kidding la! not so serious de. its just that i really cannot tahan a sudden switch from laksa, char kway teow and fried oyster to pineapple and papaya.. :)

5 days went by in a flash, with pineapples, papaya, prunes, apricots, tomatoes, corn, veggie salads being my best friends, coupled with the protein powder and vitamin C,B,E, omega 3 and fibre, my insides were literally scrubbed clean! on day 6 when i was having beef bolognaise, i can feel that my taste buds have sharpened a million fold - being extremely sensitive to the taste of pepper especially. that was rather pleasant :) the insides felt really empty (u can feel the intestines are kinda blank...), and when i had the sphagetti, i actually have a hunch where the stuff is located inside mi tummy n then later, in my intestines.. it feels weird!!!

but even though i only did 5 days (out of 35 days), i can feel that there is definitely a difference in my health, for one, my face is no longer oily, neither does my back secrete so much oil as compared to last time. i can get myself started much easier when i wake up in the morning and is more alert than usual. I react very strongly to outside food (especially on day 6 - the day after i ended the detox prog) and beef and stuff like that can really sap my strength, making me tired and lethargic. my complexion improved quite a lot, and that's the main reason i'm continuing the vitamins and protein, cause the effects are actually visible and lastly, i have a lot more energy!

sat my mom, my aunt and my "da jiu mu" are gonna start on the detox prog, maybe i go for 2nd round? :) then again, unless someone else is interested to do the prog together with me, then we can go thru it together! Then at least got encouragement ma... lolz

Festival of Praise.. YAY!!!!

2005-08-06T22:08:00.000+08:00

Yest was the very first day of the annual Festival of Praise… got to kallang mrt station at around 5pm n took the shuttle to the indoor stadium. We started queuing at around 5.30pm, and were still considered fairly early over there… it was really a long long wait... almost 1hr 15mins were spent idling at the staircase area, hunting for friends who might be round the corner, figuring out how to entertain my sis… etc etc… but it was definitely worth every minute because as the minutes ticked by, the crowd gets bigger n bigger n bigger, even taufik was there! Haha! I was absolutely tingling with excitement as I waited over at the staircase, ignoring people squeezing through the masses to get to their friends and my sis’s grumblings.

The gates start to open at around 7pm, and as we went into the stadium, we were greeted by an unpleasant sight – people reserving seats! Dots… can’t they read English??? The screen clearly stated that there’s absolutely no reservation of seats allowed! I was really irritated by the peeps who literally sectored off sections of the stadium to cater to their own gang… sigh… then there’s the justification of their friends are in the toilet, they are on their way and God knows what they can come up with… sigh… the ushers are really having a very hard time, and it is not nice at all!

Things more or less start to settle down at 7.20pm, with the MC reminding time and again that there is no reservation of seats and that the FOP will start once the stadium is filled up. Cool! Adrenaline is already gushing out of my ears, and the Holy Spirit within is charging up to a state of zen… I can’t wait for it to start!

And it began! OMG the atmosphere was electrifying! Hillsongs worship leader Darlene got the ball rolling with and the whole stadium charged up at the second song - ! God is really in the house, and it is amazing! Awesome! 120 churches gathering together to praise and worship our Daddy God, a 11,000 or 12,000 strong congregation led by Hillsongs, coming together to sing in one voice, one purpose, one focus – to lift up the name of Jesus! My goodness, it is a powerful sight, moving and touching so many hearts. God placed His joy in my heart as I sang, and boy was I blessed! The tears came, tears of unspeakable joy, because the sight of a nation united in worship, seeking the glory of God together, I’d say, it’s a glimpse of heaven itself. How can I hold back my tears then?

Delirious also came this year, leading the festival with and and many other songs. Though the styles are different, the two bands complimented each other beautifully, Darlene also joined in to sing near the finale and gave the altar call while Delirious supported her with background music, and God poured out His Spirit that day, and hundreds streamed to the stage to receive the gift of Christ. It was such a moving sight, and as we rejoice with the new believers, the tears came, my heart swell with joy and I’m so proud of God! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Jesus! Hallelujah! Love ya like crazy Lord! :)

detox day 1 to 2...

2005-08-01T20:33:00.000+08:00

been going thru a detox program lately.. suffer sia!!! day 1 breakfast was like pineapples, then lunch was corn, then dinner was tomatoes together with supplements.. day 2 just ended... with prunes for breakfast, strawberries for lunch and potatoes for dinner.. dots!!!!!!!! wad da hell.. but it works though.. day 2 i've been going to the toilet to pass out excess water in the body.. and feel a lot healthier, a lot more alert than usual.. hmm.. its a 35 day prog.. but i think i'll juz do 7 days for a start.. lolz

tomolo.... Grapes the whole day! DOTS!!!!

wow wow weekend!

2005-07-11T11:46:00.000+08:00

haha, its been such a long time since i last updated my bloggy.. hee... been kinda busy plus was a bit lazy as well.. :)

Sat i had a family party at my place, hee.. as usual my sphagetti was very popular ^^ and was snapped up so fast that i had to cook a second serving.. ^^ Brother Fu Chun, Celine and brother kwan was here also and we did a health check up for everyone using Aculife.. hee, Fu Chun was very funny and kept everyone entertained with his sharing..

Sunday was spent at granny's place, Tee was sick so he wasn't as active as normal.. heng ah! otherwise he'll slobber me and God knows what he will do.. hmm.. but he was a bit cranky too.. baring his fangs at me.. zhen bu xiang hua! :( sigh.. silly doggy..

I missed church service on sunday.. dots.. sat had too much fun le, then sunday totally exhausted, battery flat out sia.. lol.. so sleep late lor.. :P

Malaysia Ice Skating Competition & Amway National Convention 2005

2005-06-27T23:20:00.000+08:00

The weekends was really a blast! Sat n Sun was spent in KL, watching the national ice skating competition and going for the Amway national convention, bunking in at sunway lagoon, going for the products expo, seeing chef wan, brother fu chun, eva jie on stage delivering her maiden speech, the excitement and ambience of the Amway community, it was fantastic! next year will be the 30th aniversary for the corporation, 50,000 ppl are expected to turn up for one of the greatest events in Amway Malaysia's history! OMG!! can't imagine.. lol..

Da jie in hospital...

2005-06-19T23:59:00.000+08:00

jac's been hospitalized today at 3am. was kinda shocked because we had care group on fri night.. then everyone was like "ok", then suddenly she's down le.. dots.. anyway hope she recovers asap, cos on tues we're celebrating june and marc's bday.. Jesus will heal her de.. i believe!

my mandarin sux..

2005-06-15T23:48:00.000+08:00

Man.. today went to meet 2 new clients, both referred by my aunty.. its really very kind of her n i'm really blessed as well. but the only prob is tt my mandarin cannot make it. a.k.a. kena sai.. haix.. so hard to do the presentation lor..

Star Wars Quiz

2005-06-11T03:59:00.000+08:00

Kinda fun.. hee.. i got anakin skywalker a.k.a. darth vader profile.. *oops*

Click here to take the quiz: Star Wars

frm 31.. to 34...

2005-06-10T23:46:00.000+08:00

went shopping with my mom n my sis today.. zz.. sianz! juz now so embarassing.. went to purchase a pair of long pants, then the sales girl help me measure my waist.. then she announced that it was 34... then my mom n my sis burst out laffing.. zzz.. wa lau!!! so bad de.. :( last time i only 31 mah... nvm.. sigh.. nid to work on tt tummy le.. lolz..

Eddie Funkhouser workshop

2005-06-06T23:32:00.000+08:00

haha, today went with Celine n Melvin n Fu Chun n everyone from SAC to a cosmetic workshop conducted by the creator n CEO of E Funkhouser line of consmetics.. lolz.. but seriously, i was impressed by the things that ladies have to do before they can leave the house.. foundation, mascara, gliter, eye shadow, eye liner, lip stick, lip gloss, powder here, powder there.. wa!! so ma fan! the make up + dolli dolli part takes at least an hour.. then they still nid to choose clothes, match this outfit with this bag n this make up color.. zzz... hw to survive... lol. but it was an eye opener for me, never knew make up go soooo much things to learn de.. zz... overly chim liaos.. then still nid to know how much to apply, how many coats to apply.. fwah!!! one word only ---> siao!! but the eventual outcome was beautiful lor.. girls with make up really look so different.. from no X factor become got X factor (not XXX factor hor...)

Pastor Bryant from Hillsongs Church

2005-06-05T21:55:00.000+08:00

Fwah sei!! today's service was SOLID sia!! Pastor bryant from Hillsongs church came over to share with New Creation today.. hee.. he's a funny guy lo.. anyway the sermon was on 2 Tim 1:9 probably i'll create another webby to record my journey with the Lord.. :)

thur - sat.... zz... wad a busy week!

2005-06-05T02:31:00.000+08:00

my God... really no time to update the bloggy... zzz... going into overdrive again.. haha. one shot clear the whole week's event ba.. :)

thurs was spent at TTSH, doing the investment seminar. Eng Huat was the speaker tt day, he was so funny! the presentation was excellent, everyone had a great time n had lots of fun, playing the investment game and everything.. lol! Estelle was like the HR manager like tt.. gg abt welcoming the guests, toking to each and everyone tt came in.. :) i was the mu hou ren yuan.. manning the video cam lor.. lolz..

thurs nite went to meet Alan, then collected the final premium and got the CAL signed.. its good lor, at least he got the plan incepted le, so now we only need to wait for the results of his knee operation, if everything is favorable, we can submit the case to the underwriters to remove the loading. :) Pray ba..

Fri was so disappointing.. was actually supposed to meet Audra de.. then she went to postphone the appt.. sigh.. sad lor, i didn't expect this appt to be cancelled because everything was like going sooo smoothly! sigh.. oh bother, doesn't matter, next week then meet her lo.. :) made a few more calls before i went to tampines sports complex for a swim >>> something tt i really look forward to! but in the end, i reached there tt time it was under renovation.. wa kao! sianz jip buah.. dotz.. maybe because i born on the 13th... a bit suay sia.. zz.. NVM! its a great day n i'm determined tt i wun let anyting spoil it! fri happens to mark the end of the 6 months cooling period in Amway... i tendered my resignation on the 6th Dec last year, so its been 6 months le lor.. time really flies like dunno wad.. lolz.. sigh.. can't believe how much i learned during this short period.. hair oso turning white le.. haha.. anyway, back to the story.. i met Celine for dinner at fish n co (rem i said its a great day?) n ordered a seafood platter.. the 1st great thing for the day! :) she had prawns, kinda like her fave food like tt.. lolz.. went to catch the movie aft dinner.. some horror movie about were wolves.. lol.. a bit like that movie not entirely scary la.. so so nia.. compare it to exorcist, this movie is a joke lor.. Celine enjoys it though.. lolz.. doesn't make sense to me.. haha, maybe horror is juz not my cup of tea.. wad da heck.. so aft tt i sent her home n went back n hit da sack..

sat was FANTASTIC! one simple reason being i discovered i managed to gain 5.6 kg! its a MIRACLE! almost like a dream come true.. hahaha! those of u who knew me will understand tt no matter how hard i try, i can never put on any weight. eat n eat n eat n eat, n nothing ever happens! then today went SAC to visit the nutrilite expo n they were doing the BMI thingy, measuring the viceral fats, health check up and stuff.. n it was there i got my weight reading.. haha! soo happy wor!!! lolz! 6.6 kg sia!!! i grew from 76kg to 81.6kg.. man i'm so proud!!! so at least now will look a bit better -- more meat le.. hee.. probably i can account the weight gain to a few factors la - regular exercise, my desk bound job during the day, my intake of nutrilite supplements - probably protein, vit B, C and E. now i'm in the healthy weight range.. hee! milestone sia! LOL! got to know melvin, he's Celine's other downline lor.. then today met a fren from malaysia who really shared a lot of ideas with me, his name is Herman, fantastic person, very frenly, down to earth kinda fella. :) the expo was a blast.. enjoyed myself thoroughly. oh ya, prior to the whole thing, i met stef while i was having dinner at 146.. she's joining AIA.. dotz.. wad da hell lor.. i LEFT AIA.. then she going in.. zzz.. see how la.. told her about the industry, the company, the changing face of financial planning le but she's still adamant in joining AIA.. mainly because of the obligation she felt towards the manager lor.. zzz.. doesn't make sense at all - if u r joining the industry and the potential of the agency is not there, y join? she wun get the necessary support and training to make it in the financial sector.. i know because i know how the ageny operates.. zz.. muz drag her into Pru.. otherwise she'll be wasting her time n efforts.. haix.. then on the way to SAC i met wei jie's mom on at the bus stop.. hee.. so nice! weijie is now studying, one more year n he graduate le.. his bro joined manulife.. zz.. yet another one kena sapu by other co.. hope he is doing well though.. *sigh*... been in the industry so long le.. more or less know wad the he** is going on lor.. a lot of knn managers out there. sianz. hope stef n wei quan doesn't get cheated..

kk, tt's about it le... my entries are alwayz long cos i treat this blog as my diary.. keeping log of my life, my life story in fact.. if i'm long winded, i apologise lor.. nitez peeps.. tomolo go church lo! ^^

biological clock ticking..

2005-06-01T22:55:00.000+08:00

currently gg thru cold turkey treatment.. need to change my sleeping habits le.. lolz.. can't really sleep 2-3 hrs everyday.. will die sia.. zz.. so now learning to sleep early.. otherwise everyday wake up also headache.. then 2 more yrs can come for my funeral le.. :P

tired... damm tired..

2005-05-31T21:06:00.000+08:00

turning in early today.. *yawnz* sooo tired.. yest work till 2am.. today wake up 7am.. WTF.. go training in the morn slept 50% of the lecture.. haix.. tired sia.. today went to meet Geneve, she's so nice! A very kind lady indeed.. :) glad to have made another fren... *yawnz* zz.. tired lei.. nitez peepz..

Sat n Sun.. Madagascar, STHS Class gathering @ SRC... wad a weekend!!!! part 2

2005-05-30T00:40:00.000+08:00

sunday, 29 may 2005
wa! so fun today! church, class gathering, movie, dinner, movie again (on tv).. lolx.. woke up at 7.30am today.. zz... yest slept at 4.20am.. only sleep 3 hrs.. -.-" so now a bit zombie le cos been awake for like 17hrs.. WTH.. my sis slept like a log, kick n kick and disturb her - only managed to open 1/2mm of her eyelid.. zzz.. wad a p*g.. still need me to bluff her say its 9am already otherwise she'll never wake up.. (anyway i tried to wake her up from 7.45am to 8.45am... wad da hell..) still nid to pao milo mixed with hazelnut kopi 4 her.. zzz.. went to the rock, reach there like 9.25+++ whole place full sia... kaoz.. but we managed to go into main audi!! ^^ but sit on the floor lor.. -.-" still, its better than nuttin.. Pastor Prince taught on Romans 5:1-6 today, it was a great message, therefore beng justified by faith n not by works, Jesus taking our place - termed "cursed ground" and us taking His place or "favor ground" in Christ Jesus... not because we deserved it but because Christ died for us.. my sis damm irritating lor.. keep disturbing me throughout the service... wa lau! very childish.. but bo bian.. she's "ONLY" 17.. bo bian.. JC students very rebellious nowadayz.. zz.. not tt i have anything against JC.. suffer sia.. aft church still wan me to take shuttle bus with her to city hall.. majiam she only 10 yr old like tt.. zzzz.. i wanted to eat at suntec lor!!! then the sotong, i mean octopus (si sotong.. upgrade liao..) drag me to take the bus with her.. zzz.. sigh.. ended up eating LJS.. wad da bian lor.. sianz.. arrgh!! i wanna killl tt sotong.. squid... wadava..

12.50 - reached city hall.. hee.. tot i was early but willy was there the earliest! :D Robin came next at 1pm, then we 3 went directly to Singapore Recreational Club.. Robin cool sia.. never wait one.. lolz.. 1pm meet, 1pm ciao.. haha. Robert 1.05 reach City Hall tt time we *poof* already ^^ lolz.. Altogether 9 turned up for the gatherin..

Top: Carl, Robert, Soon Ann, Robin, Willy
Bottom: Wendy Chia, myself, Ms Loy, Jamie

After lunch, before being dismissed.. u guys rox!!

Everything ended at around 5pm, parted ways aft that.. myself i went over to suntec to meet MF n candy for madagascar ^^ its really funny! but kinda short though.. but i enjoyed it thoroughly.. =D

my best friend Meng Fei and his gf candy

a quick recap of wad i had for makan (till now still bery full sia...) lunch - LJS combo 2, SRC carrot cake, popcorn + ice lemon tea durin the movie, claypot rice for dinner, watermelon when i reach home... siao... today added at least 4kg.. lolz.. fat le!!!

Sat n Sun.. Madagascar, STHS Class gathering @ SRC... wad a weekend!!!!

2005-05-29T23:33:00.000+08:00

fwah.. dunno where to start sia.. so many things acomplished over the weekend! catching up with ol' frens, classmates, teachers, movies, etc etc.. lol.. siao! plus church and visit mf some more.. haha.. muz get organised a bit! hmm.. chronological order? :P (p.s. after entering sat... i realised it was kinda long, so i seperated sunday from sat..)

saturday, may 28 - i was totally flat out after working 2 days straight with less than 6 hrs of sleep.. wad the dotz.. but also can't blame anyone cause i've been dilligently working on the bloggy.. hee.. one of my hobbies is writing, n those who noe mi can testify to this fact.. :P my boss jolted me awake at 10.10am when he rang my mobile.. "timothy, ni zai na li??" fwah kaoz... my alarm clock rang all the way from 7am to God knows when n i didn't hear a thing.. *faint* i told him i juz woke up.. -.-" didn't included the fact that i was also having a throbbing headache though.. later he tot i geng one... zzz.. he told me dun nid to go for training le, cos by the time i reach they wud've finished it.. haix.. bo bian lo. decided to take a short nap so i dozed off again.. woke up at 1+ pm... lolz.. wad a nap! haha.. horrible sia.. did the usual - wake up, brush teeth, had lunch (or brunch), brush teeth again, shower, change n off i went to cineleisure to book tickets for madagascar. there was one slight flaw in the planning - i didn't book the tickets in advance! lol.. die lor.. reached cine tt time the 4.15, 4.30, 7.45 tickets all sold out.. 9.45 left front row nia.. then the next timing is 10.35pm... lol.. singaporean SIAO one! cartoon also so enthu! -.-" kk.. its my fault... dun stare at me like tt.. so bo bian, postphoned the show lo, lucky Adrian put pei ki (aeroplane), wee keng can't make it.. otherwise i'll kena jia lat jia lat... end up go walk walk.. went to grab some free coke bottles directly opp HMV.. amazing! its national COKE day lor.. the whole of orchard road carrying coke bottles.. hahaha! so dumb!

caught up with my sis n her fren at taka a short while later, visited the toy fair at da basement lo.. then they got the amazing hover disc thingy being exhibited.. wa!! it sure looks cool! the fellas there filled it with helium.. lol.. tt's y its acting like a UFO.. hovers, glides n defies gravity.. ^^ so lame.. haha.. did a lot of dumb stuff at the toy fair.. they also got the light saber thingy... tot maybe if we get one we can use it on this year's NDP - biggest light stick in the stadium! wahaha! *siaoo~* kk.. pardon my expression.. got carried away le.. :P

aft the touring of our tong nian, we visit kinokuniya which is another long story.. books n books n more books.. i suggested we go crystal jade la mian xiao long bao makan.. dunno good move or bad move - fyi, its like 6.18pm when we reach the restaurant.. outside its like ppl queuing to buy 4D or toto sia! zzz.. SIAO one! singaporeans never tasted xiao long bao before sia.. haix. the current queue number is 239. we registered outselves in the queue. number taken ---> 271 -.-" *faint* candy very funny, ask how long muz wait. then dunno wad to eat if dun wan t eat. so i told her by the time u tot of something to eat, the table will be ready le. lolz.. so mean right? ya i know.. lol, wad to do? mi timothy ma.. hee... so bad! ^^ well, the truth is - we waited for more than an hour before we got a table.. patient hor? dotz.. we ordered quite a lot of stuff - 4 la mian (one each, MF, candy, my sis n me), xiao long bao, veggie soup (cabbage cum mushroom cum egg cum some other stuff.. muz try! the soup damm nice lor!), "ku loke yoke", the banana n red bean wrapped in egg skin desert, etc (can't remember le..).. great dinner! ^^ k, next time u muz go there try the food - taka #04-27. best! can challenge ding tai feng's stuff if u compare $ to $.

Aft the dinner (going to end soon, dun worry..) we went to MF's home see roseon.com, some interesting pages tt they frequent to download ringtones and games for series 60 phones. started off mh with his blog, tuned his guitar (wa lau.. suzuki classical guitar lor.. put one corner collect dust.. i see already sim tia...) and did a bit of catching up. by then it was like 1.20am already.. i was yawning non stop.. like some drug addict on cold turkey like tt.. dotz.. ANYWAY.. wanted to go back home cos the following day nid to go church.. then MF n MH dun let me go!!! -.-" they ask me watch naruto.. wad the toot!!! 2am liaoz still watch naruto????? but its quite a nice cartoon actually.. went back, saw my sis still playing neopets.. zzz.. sianz.. only managed to chase her out at around 4am.. then --->> zzzz......

long friday..

2005-05-27T11:55:00.000+08:00

what a day it has been! yest slept at 3am, woke up 6pm, i'm as stone as a zombie lor.. tired sia! but still managed to secure 2 appointments for next week, not bad! i'd say its quite an accomplishment le, taking into consideration my mental state for the day and energy level.. lol.. siong sia! candy n frens r going into the university soon, probably next week's gonna be their last day.. hmm... will definitely miss those gals! haha, sometimes they're juz so funny lor! lolz.. oh well, eventually everyone has to part, one day or another, but we'll alwayz treasure the memories that we shared with our peers, and memories stay with us for a long long time indeed. knocked off a bit early today, so decided to go for a swim before catching up with the rest of the gang at FMC.. i'm proud to say - the gym sessions paid off! haha! i swam 20 laps today, n still feel very fresh. :) then bo bian, must ciao le because not enough time to swim le. haix... wat a waste. anywayz, headed for the hawker center for nasi lemak then went down to FMC where we did a model of Moses parting the red sea.... and we WON!!! wow! way cool! haha, God is so good! 1st prize some more.. lol! dun tell u wad the prize is.. hee.. let ur imaginations run wild~~ following that i really cannot make it le.. went home straight, shower, watch tv, eat durian, biscuit with milo n here i am, bloggin away again.. haha.. Debbie came back today, safe and sound - thank You Jesus! Really miss her lots.. lolz. very nice gal, alwayz greet u with a *bish* haha.. these few days msn has been so mundane n quiet... a bit bu xi guan.. haha.. aku a bit bian tai de.. nid ppl to *bish*.. lolz.. WELCOME BACK deb! :) peilin been having fun with the piano scores, downloading one after another.. haha.. probably need to find a bit more and feed her le.. :) didn't expect my colleague to be a grade 8 pianist.. Cool! muz say tt i'm really impressed coz i never ever get the knack of reading those bean sprouts.. zzz.. so difficult.. lolz. tomolo go watch madagascar.. haha, i believe its gonna be another long long entry.. *yawnz* damm tired sia..... morn still got training by hani... group insurance.. die.. tomolo confirm wake up headache de.. lol.. nitez all!

wad a heavy dinner.... zzz..

2005-05-26T23:17:00.000+08:00

man.. today dunno wad got into mom... bought so many stuff from carrefour! then dad also pei he her very well.. went to buy durian.. omg... combined groceries can last a normal household at least 3 dayz.. let me explain wad i had for dinner.. laksa soup, "you mian", 1 hard boiled egg, tau gay, tau pok, 1 quarter slice pizza, i drumstick (kinda big), my dad's durians.. then the fridge still got sushi... wa!!! like pig sia!! lol.. how to finish? anyway i juz had a small portion of each item, err... actually only for the laksa.. lol.. siong sia! so much food.. zz.. waste all my time and effort spent in the gym.. haha.. tomolo muz go swim!! kick those silly calories! yea! ....then after swim, hungry, then makan again.. sigh.. its a vicious cycle.. =D

life is full of coincidences ^^

2005-05-25T23:14:00.000+08:00

phew! just got home from the gym... cannot make it sia today, i tink i'm overexhausted le.. exercise till nearly womit... WTH.. felt nauseous after jogging... sigh.. then decided to cut short the visit to the gym. well, i met candy there, so its a pleasant surprise. MF didn't go today, probably got some last min work that he need to touch up on... hee.. also good la, otherwise so pai sei.. let him see me nauseous.. like pregnant lady like tt.. lol.. no offence ah.. :) on my way home i met patrick at the traffic light, tat was like around 10.15pm ba.. so late! he juz came back from reservist n we had a little chat across the road.. found out that colin is getting married in june! omg! so soon! pri sch frens are like all so busy now, haix... also good la, busy is good.. slack then no good.. hee... then i met tina's parents at the mama shop at my block void deck... lol.. meet so many ppl in a span of 3.5 hrs... zzz.. amazing sia. tina's parents juz came back from holiday to china, looks like they had a fantastic time there! auntie was grinning when she told me about her trip.. haha! tink i'll visit China one of these days... dunno when nia.. :) oh ya! then on my way back home i dropped by TBP... i saw this pair of doggies... sooooo huge!! like sheep like tt.. haha.. then took a photo of the doggie... hee.. quite cool, see the pic? :) haha, so fun! ^^ k.. tink i better go shower and rest le... tomolo still nid to work.. ciaoz~~

overdrive

2005-05-24T23:50:00.000+08:00

my mind is really going into overdrive lately... can't sleep! arrgh! thinking of so many things - work, mom's been sot sot, sis is like planning to drop econs.. dad's fuming over my sis' study attitude, grandma hurt her hand, Anthony's chasing me for production, dotz.. then there's church and Jesus... Hoping Debbie and family is safe and sound over in China, Celine's been sickly, Mich still looking for job, together with Kevin.. Darren's having exam, Catherine too.. supposed to follow up with ah yee regarding the water treatment system and also bringing her to church.. Class gathering this sunday.. gosh! so many things to do!! Overwhelming sia... especially considering my field of work.. sigh... Wonder how's augustine and everyone else coping? anyway.. time to buck up and get cracking! i wanna end 2005 with a bang! ^^

an uneventful dae... but gonna be rather happening later!!

2005-05-24T18:40:00.000+08:00

hee, juz had my dinner... all tau gay and veggies... well there's a small consolation anyway - mom did fried an eggy for us, so still not so bad la.. :P the day has been very very peaceful, nothing fantastic... my client canceled the appt and pushed it to the month of june.. sianz! anyway i'm preparing my stuff to go to the gym at Delta Sports Complex, must work hard to shed that spare tyre! so embarassing... lolz.. nowadays so busy sia.. a bit lost as to where to start my day and work on my stuff... everything needs my attention! hmmm.. tink muz get organized tonite... the cool stuff is tat my sis is tinking of going to church, thank you Jesus!! ^^ k..... i better get packing and going le, otherwise dun nid to exercise le... burn those calories! zzz... *suffer.. lotza pain = lotza gain..-.-"

Blood donor day invite... ^^

2005-05-23T21:26:00.000+08:00

wow! so nice of HSA to invite.. just received an invitation to world blood donor's day on the 14th June 2005, so sweet! the location is at esplanade park, padang there... hee.. i tink i'll go, so nice.. but i'll need company.. anyone wanna go with me? ^^

VJC Resonance VII

2005-05-22T20:30:00.000+08:00

on sat (21 may 05) i attended my cousin's hamonica band concert at Victoria JC..... it was fantastic! The event was entitled Resonance VII, featuring a myriad of songs from a variety of genres, classical, pop, and even by The Wonders.. way cool! the emcee was really funny, they call him sham or shum, wadever! hahaha.. i'll list out the songs that were performed tt nite - Symphony No. 5, Canon in D, Dream a Little Dream of Me, Dahil Say0, El Condor Pasa, Adagio in C, My Way, Somewhere Out There, Yu Jian, Itsumo Nando Demo, Cong Kai Shi Dao Xian Zai, Xi Shui Chang Liu, Remember Me This Way, Lydia, The Four Seasons Op.8 No.4 Winter Movt.2, Suteki Da Ne, Funiculi Funicula, Chinese Dance, Waltz of the Flowers, Candle on the Water, The Sound of Music Medley, If we Hold on Together, That Thing You Do (x2). Quite a spread wasn't it? I was amazed and really enjoyed myself temendously - thanks to the VJC Harmonica Band. =) Some other highlights also include getting the chance to see how my cuz's bf look like, giving VJC's princess flowers and taking photos together. LoLz.. incidentally, Bel's the vice chair for the band... cool!!! hahahaha.. amazing! ^^

The funny conductor! He's really a very nice guy =)

My cousin playing the harmonica ^^

The flowers we got for Ah Bel ^^

Left to right - cuz Germaine, cuz Belinda, my sister..

Me and ah bel. lolz