YFriday, December 29, 2006
title: salsa + a wedding
attended my cousin's wedding last nite.. and gosh.. the weddings are jus creeping up to my generation.. long gone are the times when it's like ur parents' cousins who're the ones getting married.. soon its gonna be my sister's and other cousin's and all tt.. haa.. we're all growing up SO fast!
anyways.. it was one of the better weddigns i've attended i guess.. in terms of non-conventionality.. cuz my cousin sang a whole lot of songs.. hahah which i really applaud him for cuz he's got a really really nice voice.. heh! hopefully the singing gene's been passed down the same line! hahaha i tink it did la.. but haaar.. oh well! :D he was belting out tunes from phantom of the opera, you raise me up, i know i love you.. so awwww rite? haa.. and he sang the last song to his bride Sarah (my cousin's name is colin by the way.. heh!) and it was a surprise that not even she knew about.. haa.. and they didn't have the usual yam seng thingie or the cake cutting which i personally find to be one of the most boring thigns at wedding dinners, symbolism aside. heh heh! =)
and here's a pic of my youngest niece.. Cheryl! (to WE: looks like i'll always have a cheryl in my life no matter wad.. haa) she's turning out to be such a darling.. and she's super super coherent even tho she's only 4 yrs old.. and boy.. she's smart! hahaah got her own lil tricks up her sleeves..
i have a feeling she's smiling this way cuz she jus got her teeth fixed at the dentist's.. when we met her last week she was going on about how she now has nice teeth.. cuz apparently she's been falling on her face a lil too often and some teeth got damaged in the process.. heh!
some pictures of the family.. heh! :)
wednesday nite.. headed down too goodwood park hotel for salsa with mummy, uncle danny, auntie ivy and uncle simon.. heh.. and i somehow got dragged into the salsa class with her cuz she didn't want to dance with another guy but later on there was someone la.. so.. went to dance lo.. haa.. the experience can only be described as interesting.. but i tink my interest in salsa is waning a bit.. not until i find a good partner that is.. i was complaining to my sis that there seems to be a dearth in the number of guys who can dance and well.. probably sing.. haa.. alright.. i prob sound a tad bit snobbish here.. i admit i'm not the best dancer arnd either.. but hmm.. someone who can keep count would be good.. :D hhahahahahah decided to snag a pic of one of the tealight-thingies outside the club while we were waiting tho.. heh! (look left)
yep.. eventful hols eh.. and i'm glad the sun's shining again.. yay! i lvoe sunshine! was telling jie that if the weather gets better today i'll go blading.. but my mum's jus informed me that we're heading down to seiyu for some shopping.. sigh.. i'm so not a shopping person.. i had a headache jus walking arn in taka that day (wednesday actually) and gargh.. i'm not an orchard person either.. send me to the extremes of singapore.. anything but central.. bleaaaaah! too many people la.. and too many tourists...the poor pp are jus confused about our ezlink system la.. like so many of em want to top up their cards but they can't and they stand at the top up machines for ages trying to figure out how to work the thing.. sigh.. my heart goes out to em.. really.. they should have staff walking arn assisting em or something.. tt's being tourist friendly.. but ar well.. i guess orchard's too crowded for most pp to take.. heh..
and i hope i get my modules.. sometimes mummy's not the best person to change plans suddenly with.. like if she says u're going out.. u're going out.. anything else receives a frown.. not unless u catch her on a good day.. heh! :D
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YTuesday, December 26, 2006
and of cuz.. its xmas time.. so here's a shot of the tree at bugis.. haaa.. mummy says i took a good pic.. and i agree!!! wahahahah :D this month's jus been so eventful.. and i'm thankful for that.. haa.. :D
title: wad happened in december.. :)
argh.. picasa is jus too slow to upload photos.. and hello can't be accessed somehow..so here goes goood ol' yahoo photos and blogger.. haa! so to continue the saga (read the posts from bottom up.. heh!) ....here's my funky sister with her head on a sushi plate.. wahahah! ohhh alrigth.. we jus ate a lot la.. and we went a lil crazy.. hence the pic.. :) sakae is the BEST! 
beaaaautiful desaru.. took this when we arrived first thing.. heh! youth camp was here and even tho everyone complained about how crappy the toilets and our rooms were... i actually enjoyed myself loads. God was really really there and Doug Lasit, our camp speaker was VERY relevant and VERY animated.. hahah he's jus good la.. period. :) my first youth camp and i'm loving it! i guess comparing it with how China was.. i could take desaru.. haa.. in sum, God did a mighty work in my life and i tink in the lives of the youths as well.. and He's spoken into every one of our lives on things like standards and convictions.. purity.. living a life FOR Him.. and all. i loved it when we all gathered together on the second night jus to talk about what God's been doing in our lives during camp..and it was jus so so awesome to share with everyone and to hear everybody. yep..
games were disgustingly dirty on the second day.. yeck! imagine sauces being thrown on u.. sand dumped down ur back (IN UR SHIRT) being shot by water guns.. and having to dunk ur face into some unknown liquid/concoction.. and heh.. soaking in monkey pee river! hahah alright.. the river contents are unknown.. but someone saw a monkey peeing into it so tt's how it got its name.. heh! but we were so dirty we jus jumped into it anyway. and of cuz.. the beach/ocean was beautiful.. the waves were huge! and at night.. the stars were jus so magnificent.. the sky layout was so dense.. sigh.. i miss desaru.. if anything i miss the convenience of having the beach so near. we could hear the waves breaking on the shore lo.. so beautiful.. :) and of cuz.. i'm now inseparable from the youth.. i lvoe em! they're like family now.. heh heh! i'm so glad i went..
xmas youth bash went down in history as the most happening one too.. haa.. not jus cuz of the games.. which werwe excellent! i went so crazy over em i fell over someone jus running out to answer a question.. hahah which rarely happens.. i jus went super high and whoops.. there i went. heh! but this bash was jus eventful and memorable cuz a fire started at the beginning of it, right outside the room we were having our bash. and really thank God the fire started before n not during the bash cuz if not ar.. we'd all be trapped in there and ya.. thank God for His divine protection. but yesh.. its pretty funny now tt i tink of it.. hahah in fact it was funny alr when i was sweeping up the ashes and burnt stuff.. hahah sharon la.. kept making funny comments abt the situation.. hahaha but all went well and i tk it was really really fun being there.. jus wished i still stayed in the east.. heh! cuz i had to run home before my last bus/mrt left.. so yep.. guys in the east.. better appreciate the convenience k!!
and finally its xmas.. spent the whole of last week dancing away for intensive practs with the team (i still can't believe we're kinda like the corporate dance team) and for rehearsals witht he rest of the cast of the musical.. i tink it was very veyr well done.. and yay! all glory to God! heh.. had two dances.. but only got photos at the end cuz i was jus to busy and lazy and sian to take photos.. only took em when mummy came and insisted tt i take some.. haaa.. good ol' mummy.. i need pp like her arn to remind me to take photos of landmark evetns like this.. heh! i jus hope they have a video now.. cuz its very rarely that u get to see ur dance performed on stage.. like.. not jus a dance.. but the fact that the steps were choreo-ed by u.. haa.. its a different feeling altogether man.. really very blessed by daffy and xiaowei who were my co-choreographers in this too.. heh! and also for all the lessons that God's been teaching me the past week.. thank u Daddy!!
i was supposed to be an angel in this get-up.. heh! our costumes were handmade k.. haa.. so yeah! not bad ar? but of cuz.. i obviously wasn't a part of the sewing.. u guys know i can't sew for nuts.. so i was jus invovled witht he buying of the cloth.. and the wearing and the dancing.. whahaha!!
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preteens encounter 7-9th dec.. some of the pics are of the kids at ecp.. having a ball of a time at the beach.. after blading and cycling and wad not.. heh! i finally bladed.. after a super super long time.. hahaha and the rest of the pics are of the kids taking a gp pic at the party we had for em at the end of the camp to celebrate their liberation from the stuff tt's held em back in their life and walk with God.. u know.. u can really see the difference in the kids.. like wheni went back to teach em they were SO different..t his jus shows tt God is real and He can speak to the hearts of all who want to hear Him.. His touch is jus immeasurably gentle but deep at the same time.. and its life changing man.. its more than jus pure discipline.. but a real difference that takes place and den driven by the pasison to be upkept.. heh! :D
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title: results
yaay.. results are out and i'm glad for em! i tink i did pretty alright this sem.. at least no Cs.. unlike the previous sems when i got like one C and the rest of em were Aminuses and Bs.. heh! and my cap went up.. hooray!! :D happy happy happy!
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YMonday, December 25, 2006
title: wad i've been up to..
phwaaah.. ir eally awol quite long ah.. hahaha anyways.. i've basically disappeared to preteen encounter - youth camp- kids encounter and then intensive dance practs for xmas production which jus wound up today.. and i'll jus let the pics do the talking but it's been one heck of a december and boy am i glad everything happened! haa.. and my DADDY accepted Christ!! and tt'sthe best present ever!! :D
wheeeeeee! i love U Jesus!!
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YWednesday, December 06, 2006
title: it's OVER!!!
-rejoices and does a victory dance-
gosh.. i never thot it'd feel so so so good! hahah to jus have exams be over.. wahahah.. i mean.. i thot i was living my hols during exams.. this is the real thing man.. now that exams are officially done.. its like i have this wave of liberation jus wash me over and knocking me off my feet.. hahaha.. and i hv like holiday plans popping up in my head.. all over! hahaha
and i'm SO hooked on ANTM cycle 7.. i tell u.. the show jus gets better. .and i have no idea what draws me to it but its GOOD.. it's prob something abt seeing beautiful girls take beautiful photos.. add in the drama and the challenge and voila.. ur perfect reality tv show.. haa.. i'm abt 5 episodes down alr.. thanks to good ol' youtube.. heh! and of cuz, the fast connection speeds over here at NU of S.
now i jus feel like going crazy and doing loads of shopping!! hahaha i tink the glance at the topshop card sitting in my wallet sparked me off.. haahah and tonite i'm meeting jie and prob mummy for dinner! yays! :D
everything's kinda packed up in my room now.. noo.. i'm not movign off yet.. jus paid up for my vacation stay in fact.. and i'm gonna be plopped right here in kent ridge till next sem ya.. so if u guys need a place.. let me know ya? i jus have to make sure my floor's clean enough.. sleeping bag not provided oh.. tho i tink i might remember to bring one if i feel like i haven't got a lot to bring to school when i get back.. heh! but i'm happy cuz i did my laundry.. washed my towels.. cleaned my filthy filthy floor.. packed my stuff (including my notes and esp clothes! cuz i'm going to a lot of camps) and ate my fav da bao (big chicken pao) and watched winx and watched ANTM !!!!! and of cuz.. it helped that the exam went well.. heh.. at least i hope it did.. twas a 100 mcq exam la.. and closed book of cuz.. err.. left early? heh heh.. so i got my dad's good luck msg like after i was done with my exam.. haahah so interesting.. so yesh.. it's been a good day.. i'm so glad my exam was in the morning.. wake me up early ANYTIME! well.. okay..not anytime.. but yeah.. i'd pick a morning over an afternoon most of... :P
sooo.. it's off to preteen encounter tmr till sat.. and in betw there's choreo session in the morn tmr.. dance auditions after encounter.. den char's bday party! woohoo.. and den it's sunday.. and mon-thu i'm off to youth camp! wohooo! and on the night of 14th.. it's kim's bday party!! :D aaaand.. 15th.. kids encounter! heh.. and den it's gonna be a week of intense dance pract for the xmas outreach.. and of cuz xmas bash at our region.. AAAAAND.. finally.. a breather after xmas.. when i'm jus gonna head down to sentosa to chill.. and of cuz.. do up my ism proposal/correspondance to dr joseph park.. heh! the Language of Prayer! cool eh? :P
skippity doooo!! happy happy happy! can u tell?? :D
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YTuesday, December 05, 2006
title: feeling satisfied
in every sense of the word i guess.. jus had my lunch of oldchangkee - springO, gyozaOnStik, YamFeelin' - and man.. i thot i would never get full at the rate my stomach was growling with hunger.. hahah but good thing is.. now its nice and full and satisfied..
yesh.. satisfied.. mmmMMMmmm
today's been a good day for eating.. was craving for subway cookies but it felt too early to be out of my room buying stuff and wad do u know.. cheryl tan smsed me to ask if she could come over and asked if i wanted anything.. so of cuz i said.. SUBWAY! and she very sweetly bought em for me.. and the two of us jus slacked in my room and tried to understand sem and prag before our paper.. heh! talk abt last min cramming eh.. this was cramming in every sense of the word! hahaha in my tiny lil room and with our limited-un-Grice-like-brains.. haahah but ah hah! we have better help.. from Jesus and we have the mind of Christ! yesh yesh.. must always remember tt eh.. :)
today's paper didn't go too bad.. and i tink i'm jus so intrigued at how patterns can be present everywhere that i was telling the girls.. even if i failed this paper (this exam.. hopefuly not the module!) i'd have no regrets so to speak.. cuz the paper was such a good one! as in.. the questions that HCL asked were so so brilliant that it really got you thinking... and they dealt with stuff that was so commonsensical and seemingly trivial that u wouldn't hv noticed em if u don't pay enough attention to these things.. and i tink tt's jus the mind of the linguist la.. to pick up the nuances of the languages you study and try to understand it a bit more.. i love doing such things.. picking up wat seems to be normal and common and jus analyzing em bit by bit.. one reason why i love soci too.. :D but of cuz.. back to the reality of exams.. let's jus hope he understands wad i'm trying to get at la.. heh! i really did my best.. and well.. let's jus see how la..
oh.. jus did my module preference thing.. finally got out wad i wanted to do next sem.. and it looks exciting.. i'm really gonna turn into some linguist next sem.. cuz i'm doing 4 elang mods and bahasa.. (hopefully). and this decision to do 4 mods of elang comes from finding out that if i do go on to honours yr.. i'll have to take 4 mods per sem unless i do an honours thesis.. which i'm not sure if i shld.. and even so.. the work load will be quite heavy.. so why not do it next sem? esp since the level 4000 mods seem particularly interesting.. heh!and i'm gonna try my hand at the more technical mods that i thot i'd try staying away from.. pragmatics and morphosyntax.. i mean.. this is wad linguistics is abt man.. going into the techinicalities of the language even tho i know that i'll prob be singing a painful tune in the middle of next sem.. heh! let's jus hope that my interest will fuel me thru the "confusion".. hahah! plus.. i can use the knowledge gained and apply it to bahasa as i'm studying it.. heh! this is so fun! but i'm seriously looking at cutting down my school activities oh.. i mean.. its gonna be an intense semester.. but something tt i'm looking fwd to as well.. sem 2's always exciting..somehow..
but in looking fwd to the next sem.. it's kinda sad too.. cuz i'm aware that a lot of pp are prob gonna grad by the end of it.. -wails- and its pp that i'm particularly close to! like erjie.. xuan.. rion.. maybe justina and hoho too?? and today me and tanny were discussing how it'll be like.. in yr4 u won't have any 'friends' like ur usual proj grp mates and all.. and how weird it'll be.. eeegh! and aiii.. it jus takes the smile off ur face to know that ur common journey/path ends here.. and it's like.. they're all gonna be released into the working world.. out of school forever! (well if they dun come back for masters/phd and all) and it makes me wonder... where do i want to be headed exactly? this sem.. i'm finding it increasingly easier to let go of how exams go.. is it cuz my perception's changed that lil bit? hmmm.. but right now.. in choosing my mods.. i'm honestly picking em so that i can possibly go for missions with the right kinds of knowledge/skills/expertise needed.. and well.. i'm not sure where God's gonna direct me.. but i'm wondering if its in the field of politics or public policy... so yeah.. the next sems are really gonna be ones filled with deep soul searching.. and heh.. to put things in perspective.. for all we know.. the world could end tmr and all our human planning will come to nought. heh heh.. really humbling if you think abt it this way.. makes u wonder where ur priorities really should lie..
heh! it's been a thought-full day.. :)
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YMonday, December 04, 2006
title: the Lord of the Rings
i can never say this enough.. that i tink Lord of the Rings is the BEST movie EVER made.. next to Moulin Rouge which is another fantastic movie..
i cried so so much while watching LOTR jus now and there are jus sooo many scenes that totally takes the cake.. its jus WOAH!
and of cuz.. not forgetting my hottie.. Legolas.. and well.. let's say i'm appreciating Aragorn more and more.. heh! i like his character but i'd go for Legolas' looks anytime..
are there any guys out there like that? :D
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title: sleepy head
haa. this is amusing.. no sooner had i flipped the first page of my notes that i decided that it was really time for a good nap.. and so i concussed all the way from 250pm thereabouts till about 430pm.. n guess wad my first thot was..
"oh darn.. i missed my princess barbie cartoon"
hahah yes.. laugh all you want now.. but i shall proudly admit here, to watching cartoons on a regularly basis when i can..
take during the study week.. i practically watched justice league every single day without fail and soon began watching johnny test the half hr before justice league followed by Winx club.. hahaha and i actually remembered to watch winx club when i got back from exam today.. which is startling because it shows my remarkable dexterity for remembering cartoon schedules even in the midst of exams when ur mind's supposed to be in study-mode. hahaha! amusing rite?
abt today's exam - interactional discourse.. well.. all i can say is i love Peter Tan!!! he's like the absolute best prof i've ever known la.. and its like he's jus all out to be the nice person he is.. making a difference where he can. its like for rion's table.. dr tan noticed that it was shaky and he actually went to get an un-used answer booklet (hahaha it'd be mean if it were used) and shoved it under the 'shorter' leg of the table.. and best part is.. rion didn't even notice it lo! but dr tan did! waaah.. he's my ou xiang alr.. and den when he realized that some pp might have needed to staple their papers back together when the exam was done, he walked arn armed with stapler in hand and jus looked out for those who needed it.. waah.. he's awesome! if i ever become a teacher/prof.. i'm gonna be jus like him!! seriously!! :D
but on the exam proper.. i tink it went better than expected for me.. i mean.. of cuz i dun tink i was totally clueless during the sem but the data-based nature of the module kinda threw me off since i'm more of a concept kinda person.. and i'll admit that i was a tad worried abt how well i'd do for this module.. but as it turned out.. i tink Daddy was right there with me in the exam hall..and i managed to fill up all my answers in good time.. like jus nice lo.. even had time to check and all.. and big big thanks to Him also for opening my sleepy eyes and letting me see that i was almost abt to anwer the wrong question with the wrong answer.. heh heh! so yep.. i felt like i put in enough framework and theory too.. so hopefully tt was sufficient and coherent for the answers i provided.. yep.. overall.. i felt kinda good after the exam.. and i'm really thankful for all the prayer that has been said over me the past few days by various pp.. prayer works man!!
it helped of cuz.. that the weekend went surprisingly well.. not that my weekends usually end up in disaster.. but this weekend was really enjoyable! like.. i got to meet up with my dad in the afternoon and we headed out for lunch and a short stroll arn crowded tampines (ugh!) and after that i stayed for evening service and mummy gave me a lift back to school.. :D wad a blessed lil girl i am.. and wad awesome parents i have! they really have been sacrificial parents and i'm jus so thankful for em right now.. wad interesting is that i was actually tinking of heading back to school on my own like after lunch with papa since dance was cancelled.. something that i have mixed feelings about (shall elaborate more later) but den it occurred to me that.. hey.. i have all to gain by staying in church for service.. i mean.. being fed in the spirit, hearing God speak to me and having a sweet ride home (plus mummy bought mos burger for dinner for me and she bought me pocky!!) and heh.. entertainment by the guys.. wat more can i ask for rite? managed to sleep early last nite too after looking thru my notes.. and i tink God was giving me tips on how to study lo!! cuz i jus had this sense that GSP (generic structure potential) would come out somehow and voila.. i had a whole text that was abt the service encounter.. and yep.. practicisng my GSP and looking thru the notes that nite really helped.. :)
so yesh.. THAnk U Jesus!! praise the Lord!
and abt dance.. haa.. admittedly i was a bit disappointed that i keep getting informed only at the last min abt pp not beign able to make it.. and it jus frustrating sometimes la.. cuz i have to travel a longer distance and this means that i carry more things with me to accomodate the schedule for the day.. and when time/effort is precious to me.. being informed and having to make last min changes affecting other pp make me feel yuck inside..
but the good thing was.. i finally got to meet up with papa and tt means more to me :) and plus.. i tink i really needed that break from dance on sundays.. it gets a lil tiring sometimes yeah.. as much as i love dance.. guess our bodies are jus not meant to run on hyperdrive all the time. but next week.. we really need to work on "only hope" for xmas.. and gargh.. some arrangments are driving me nuts.. too much hearsay and all..
sunday was awesome tho.. in general.. heh! the weekend was great! shall post pics up soon.. cuz i went to see my baby cousin who jus turned 1 on saturday and i've got loads of adorable photos that i know WE will be delighted with.. hahaha well at least for the girls! :P and the preteen class we started began on a good note.. and i'm praying that this initiative will follow thru and come to completion and we'll see alot more of these youth come into our ministry! wohooo!
hallelujah! thank U Jesus!! :D
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