Wednesday, September 29, 2004

besides saying grace, wat else can we thank God for..
[dear friends, pls free feel to add to the list..]

iftheskywazamajorpieceofpapyrusandyouwroteallthethingsyoucouldpossiblythankGodforonit,itwouldntsuffice..
1. thank God for the sun rise.. sun set.. the vast oceans... the birds in the skies! that we can live n breathe! for our friends! - stan

2. Hah! Thank God that you are still alive and typing this message to acknowledge His goodness. - anon

3. thank God for the comp lab that alwaz has comps available whenever i needed to do work. - gnoliew

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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

during world war II, the allied forces were short on supplies after fighting a long-drawn war. there waz nowhere else to get help from except from china. wasting no time, the allied forces commander telegrammed the china commander immediately..

allied forces commander (AFC): hey, got supplies for us not?
china commander (CC): sure sure, we have lots!
AFC: can give us some?
CC: no problemo!
AFC: gd, we'll look fwd to your supplies coming soon.

2 mths later (as the allied forces were dying)..

AFC: eh, how come you said give us supplies, we wait so long liaoz still nothing happen?!
CC: oh yah hor, forget forget.. ok, on its way liaoz..

2 min later..

the china forces marched in unison towards the allied forces, raised their hands in unison, waved them frantically and with huge grins on their faces, shouted: SUPPLIES!!!

~~~
on a fateful thurs, everything waz normal: lessons went on as per normal, pple din smile as they walked ard/walked past me.. as usu, the sky waz the normal blue and white, the field in nie did not decide to surprise me with a new coat of striking pink. thus, being a normal day, i went for lessons and then decided to go for LM, as it waz a normal thurs; and LMs happen on normal thurs. however, i had a couple of hrs free b4 LM, so i decided to go to the lib to finish up some work. when i waz there i saw one of my fren (A) who shld have gone home. so i asked him wat he waz doing back in sch so late. he said he waz rushing some assignments, so i went on completing mine as well.
then i went for lm. after lm, i went back to hall for dinner with another fren (B). we were supposed to have maggie noodles in her rm, with both our room-mates. on the way back, the fren decided she wanted to go toilet, and boy did she take a long time! then we went back hall to eat. upon entering the room, i noticed the room's lights were off. so i thot our room-mates were in the kitchen cooking. but then again, i saw my roomie's slippers outside the room. so i waz a little puzzled, but i thot nothing of it.
then i opened the door.
a birthday song started singing.. "happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to.."
my room-mate, fren B's room-mate, 2 nie classmates, 3 other good frens not fr nie were in the room! my, wat a pleasant surprise indeed! not only dat, there waz alot of food: cheese omelette, nuggets, pasta, coke, green tea.. to top it off, there waz the ice-cream cake!
woohoo! such thoughtful frens i have! i thot after uni, birthday celebrations wun get any betta, but each yr my frens juz out-do themselves for me.. fr coming all the way fr outside ulu ntu to staying back after lessons juz to wait for the surprise when they cld have gone home to rush assignments to going all the way to jp to get the food secretly dat afternoon so that i wun find out to taking effort to organise and plan the surprise weeks in advance and keeping it so well that i dinno a single thing abt it to taking note of the food/things i said in passing i wanted the previous weeks and getting them for me..
i felt really important that day.. so many pple putting in so much effort for me..
p/s:
1. fren A stayed back not juz to do assignments, but to wait for the party
2. fren B waz stuck in toilet coz she waz making sure the surprise waz in place b4 i reached back the room
..things frens do juz to bless me. touched.

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well, after that sunday, it was a week-long of celebrations..

monday, 13th sept 2004
went for school experience, then went for dinner with good friends.. i treated them to seah street deli.. shiok!

tuesday, 14th sept 2004
went for school experience, then went to hang out at bedok macs with my ex-tuition kid.. haven seen him for nearly a year, really really happy to see him again.. then went out for dinner with my hall friends, had ajisen..

wednesday, 15th sept 2004
went for school experience, then went to watch "the terminal" with friend.. great show..

thursday, 16th sept 2004
went for school experience, then went yishun safra country club to swim with friend.. waz raining, but thankfully the fellowship waz gd and the water wasnt that cold.. grrr.. then it waz gd old hokkien mee for dinner..

friday, 17th sept 2004
went for school experience, then went out for dinner with bro.. BK.. then got a pair of pants fr U2.. my once in a blue moon shopping trip..

saturday, 18th sept 2004
went for a 16km run with army friends (new) and strained my left foot as a result.. shucks.. then went parkway hawker to eat.. then met army friends (old) for dinner at orchard.. dinner waz simple at scotts food court, but fellowship waz great at scotts coffee beans, all the way till 11+.. shiok!

sunday, 19th sept 2004
went for church, then went to meet army friends (another group different from the 2 above), then went karaoke! then it waz dinner at chinatown hawker..

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Wednesday, September 15, 2004

1. crumpler bag [my super cool bro got it for me! gan dong..]

2. nice leather shoes for work

3. nice clothes from g2000 for work

4. jj's latest album [2 nice friends got it for me! praise the Lord!]

5. another pair of levis [got a pair of U2 instead]

6. casting crowns' album; ginny owen's "w/o condition"

7. new pair of specs

8. tee [bought a cool giraffe tee at queensway]

adding on..

9. leather belt with silver buckle

10. blades

11. swimming trunks w/o the string that needs to be tied each time i wear it

12. adidas running socks

13. electric shaver


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Saturday, September 11, 2004

1. crumpler bag
2. nice leather shoes for work
3. nice clothes from g2000 for work
4. jj's latest album [2 nice friends got it for me! praise the Lord!]
5. another pair of levis
6. casting crowns' album; ginny owen's "w/o condition"
7. new pair of specs
8. tee [bought a cool giraffe tee at queensway]

adding on..
9. leather belt with silver buckle
10. blades
11. swimming trunks w/o the string that needs to be tied each time i wear it
12. adidas running socks
13. electric shaver

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Friday, September 10, 2004

i guess we all learn many lessons during the course of our passage through earth and time into heaven and eternity. some of these lessons were learnt subconsciously, and stoopid us only found out like mabbe 10,000 yrs later, whereas some were learnt consciously, as an act of the will. still others were learnt the hard way, and some the soft way. in any case, this yr alone, ive learnt many lessons, and i shall attempt to highlight some of them in my little blog here.

once upon a time, there waz a boy. he waz a rather nice boy, likeable and all, except that there waz something peculiar about him -- he had a pair of green shorts. if you think you know all about this boy just because you see the words "green shorts", you are sorely wrong, or wrongly sorry. because the peculiarity of it all was not the green shorts, but that the green shorts had pockets with holes. *gasp*

as such, as this boy walked along in life, from place to place, gold coins kept dropping out of his pockets until one day, all the gold coins were gone. (you might, at this point in time, like to ask what happened to the gold coins that dropped along the way. well, if you are a faithful hansel and gretel fan, you would know that they were picked up by... somebody *surprise!* hahah, gotcha! kaypoh..)

anyway, continuing on from the coinless pocket of the boy, it became so bad that one day, he had no more coins to take a bus home. so he walked home, which he was not too unhappy about, since he liked to walk around. it waz precisely because he loved walking around that the gold coins dropped everywhere. if not, his coins would only have dropped in his house.

and due to an unforeseen spate of events, somehow, some of the boy's friends found out about his predicament.

[when an author writes about "unforeseen" circumstances, its either
1. he is just super smoking out and has no idea what silly but convincing "unforeseen" circumstance to come up with; or
2. the "unforeseen" circumstance is just too surreal to be put into words, and even if put into words, most people would find it hard to believe. in fact, sometimes even the author finds it hard to swallow the truth of the "unforeseen" circumstances that he does not want to write it down.]

[now, if you (once again) think (smart alec-ly) that you know for sure this whole story is about the boy, you are (once again) sorely wrong, and wrongly sorry. for the central theme of this story is the boy's friends, and as such, they shall be promoted to begin with caps for the rest of the story -- Friends.]

so one of the boy's Friends decided to take the initiative to raise some funds for the boy, aptly named the "Love_Boy Fund". he pooled together some of the boy's closest Friends (who have since become even closer to the boy) to chip in some gold coins for the boy. then they gave the gold coins to the boy. the boy waz very shocked, but at the same time filled with gratitude, at the gesture. the boy waz not dying of starvation or thirst from the lack of food, nor did he not have a roof over his head, and as such did not warrant such attention from his Friends. but that act of showing concern and going the extra mile made the boy really thankful to God for this group of Friends. in fact, he is so thankful that he does not know how best to express his gratitude -- to express his gratitude, in any form, would not do any justice to what these Friends had done for him, and what it meant for him...

no wonder in chinese there is a saying that goes... 雪中送炭。

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Sunday, September 05, 2004

well, from the title of this blog entry, its clear that this week is a rather relaxed week for me. for one, there is no ped 513, that's why you dun see me typing an entry 1530, when lesson starts. which is also why you see me typing an entry now, at 1115, because i have not been doing any, i repeat, ANY, work the whole of yest and today. so im here in the cold comp lab, with some mooncakes and a couple of friends, trying to ease some of the guilt. reason for me being slack this week is because last week waz totally horrendous. I WAZ SO STRESSED OUT BY MY ESSAY THAT I WOKE UP ONE MORNING WITH A PSYCHOLOGIST'S NAME IN MY MIND THE FIRST THING IN THE MORN! super duper no life! cannot make it! loser! mugger toad! so thats why i decided to declare one wk off for myself this wk. also this is the wk leading up to sunday. as the chinese saying goes, this is the 暴风雨来临之前平静的时刻, coz after this wk, its gonna be a whirlwind of events tornado-ing their way through my life. first up is the 1-wk sch attachment, then its a mountain-full of assignments due end sept, beginning oct and mid-oct. i hope i can still breathe then man. anyway, im gonna go to do something. [now this is a really silly statement, coz you will almost alwaz be doing something. even if you go off doing nothing, thats doing something. but then again, this statement abt the previous statement is also nonsense, so we can see nonsense begets nonsense - this law of reap and sow.. more nonsense]
have i missed the point of "a relaxed week"?

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1. crumpler bag
2. nice leather shoes for work
3. nice clothes from g2000 for work
4. jj's latest album
5. another pair of levis
6. casting crowns' album; ginny owen's "w/o condition"
7. new pair of specs
8. tee


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