mission: finish that bottle

i'm on selectives now...
selectives is that "brilliant" idea of IMU to waste one month of our time studying a subject that we supposedly have the freedom to choose from... which in reality isn't, cos' the choice of subject is pending availability.... so of course, what happens is that the kiasu-er ppl in class rush to the front to pass up the forms while "cooler" ppl at the back benches like ME, stay cool and wonder what's the rush all about...
all this of course happens until selectives actually start and you're stuck wif a crappy subject like BS... which is Behavioural Studies... haiz... one month of crappy classes... i which i could say more about the crappy classes... but... it's crappy...
oh yeah, add to that it's thot by crappy lecturers... not crappy as in funny crappy, but boring and senseless crappy...

ehhneeway...
to make the best of a boring selective, one of our projects is to modify behaviour... our own...
so the behaviour i'm modifying is to increase my fluid intake: read- Drink more Water...
so anyway, i'm now carrying a bottle of water around wif me now... yeah... crappy rite?

disney club

haha... there seems to be some high demand for a DISNEY CLUB...
hmm... i imagine if there really was such a club, everyone must dress up as a disney character...
the agenda of each meeting would be to sing disney songs... haha, that would be weird... a bunch of ppl sitting in mpH 5 singing disney songs... hahahaha... super weird...
and then for special activity to get money for the DISNEY FUND we can do busking in petaling street singing disney songs...
and then we organize annual trips to DISNEYLANDs around the world with the money we manage to collect :P...
haha.. i think a Disney Club would rock...
and imagine... this would the the perfect "family" club... cos' even when you get old you can still bring your kids along...

*reality check- after 2 meetings no one will come cos' it'd get pretty boring...

happiness

when you're still young, you think that stuff and people can make you happy...
which probably explains why most of our birthday wishes and christmas wish lists mostly encompass stuff that we hope people would give us...
i used to want an mp3 player, a new handphone, a digi cam, a lap top, new shoes, clothes... cool stuff that i still wish i could get for birthdays and christmases..haha...
but then as i discovered when i first got my first phone, that fun stuff stays fun... only for a while... some longer than others but eventually, the novelty fades and stuff just remains... stuff...
so as i get older... i begin to have new wish lists for birthdays and christmases...
things like... dinner with family and friends at home, mamak to talk over stuff, simply put... just time to spend with ppl close to my heart...
haha, not that i would reject stuff from the first list, or not that stuff from the first list aren't wanted anymore... but... well, sometimes what you want is just some time to "be" instead of time to "do"...

oh yeah, the reason for this post i cos i'm really looking forward to the singapore trip that my family is taking over the weekend for my bro's graduation... strange huh? i'm so looking forward to a weekend away from church... in fact, i think looking forward to this holiday after renal today beats any "post-exam" cc celebration i've looked to ever...
heh, maybe i'm just getting old...

forgotten blog

u know... it's really kinda irritating when u just thot of something that you wanna blog... and then halfway between waiting for the "new posts" page to load and listening to music, it totally slips my mind wat i was thinking about... it's quite like going upstairs to get something from my room, and by the time i've climbed 1 flight of stairs to my room, i've forgotten wat it was that i wanted to get (i hope this isn't indicative of some hidden pathology)...
hmm...
ok, i think i've got it.... i've recently gone on a spate of disney song downloading (which i know is bad, but i've nth much else to do to occupy myself when i don't want to study, maybe i'll just delete them after exams and look for someone who has a disney CD)
but anyway... i'm not talking about piracy... i'm talking about disney songs... there's something about disney songs that're different from other songs... i can't really put my finger down on it... maybe it's the fact that disney songs bring up memories of disney movies from childhood... times when we didn't have to worry about EXAMS (like RENAL this friday), or when our biggest worry was, wat game we were going to play with our cousins at our grandma's house... you know... things like these are generally grouped under the heading [HAPPY THOUGHTS] and stored somewhere back in our cerebral cortex and stimulated to be released by the thoughts gland upon stimulation by some nostalgic stimulation like songs, ppl, smells, places....
oh yeah, anyway... disney songs rox... like this one...

At The Beginning- Pirated soundtrack from the animated feature Anastasia
Sung by Richard Marx and Donna Lewis

We were strangers
Starting out on a journey
Never dreaming
What we'd have to go through
Now here we are
And I'm suddenly standing
At the beginning with you

No one told me
I was going to find you
Unexpected
What you did to my heart
When I lost hope
You were there to remind me
This is the start

Life is a road
And I want to keep going
Love is a river
I wanna keep flowing
Life is a road
Now and forever
Wonderful journey

I'll be there
When the world stops turning
I'll be there
When the storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing
At the beginning with you

We were strangers
On a crazy adventure
Never dreaming
How our dreams would come true
Now here we stand
Unafraid of the future
At the beginning with you

Life is a road
And I want to keep going
Love is a river
I wanna keep flowing
Life is a road
Now and forever
Wonderful journey

I'll be there
When the world stops turning
I'll be there
When the storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing
At the beginning with you

I knew there was somebody somewhere
Like me alone in the dark
Now I know my dream will live on
I've been waiting so long
Nothing's gonna tear us apart

Life is a road
And I want to keep going
Love is a river
I wanna keep flowing
Life is a road
Now and forever
Wonderful journey

I'll be there
When the world stops turning
I'll be there
When the storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing
At the beginning with you

Life is a road and I wanna keep going
Love is a river I wanna keep going on....
Starting out on a journey
Life is a road and I wanna going
Love is river I wanna keep flowing
In the end I wanna be standing
At the beginning with you.

i would have loved to put the music codec here, but as of yet, i can't find any disney music codecs... and i don't really know how to put up songs on the page...let me know if you know how...

futbal

ok... for all practical purposes the only reason, or rather 2 reasons i'm blogging is cos' i just got back to library and i'm looking for excuses not to start studying again... ANDDD... bcos' su chuen dropped by to say that my posts are short... which they are-lah...
ok, i'm so tempted to end this post right here and go look for something else to do...
heheh... eehhhnneeeway...
its not really that i'm so sooooo-per busy that i don't have time to post... more like, nothing much to post about...
anyway... since its world cup season, and since i actually have been spending a lot of my time watching matches or sleeping to recover from watching matches, i think the world cup deserves some mention at least in my blog...
i was quite disappointed that ghana failed to beat brazil... i mean... really... even though, like they're the world champions and ghana is some noob team from africa... but for some reason, i was really hoping that they would defy the odds, bookies, irritatingly noisy brazilian supporters who only support brazil cos' they're winning and many other defyable things to, maybe against all hope, defeat brazil... or at least score a goal-lah...
well, they came close, and they provided some entertaing football... not really by playing it, but by allowing brazil to play it on them... and not for lack of trying, but well... really bcos' of some defending naivete and just plain noobness in front of goal-lah...
but well, it actually really is, quite a imba situation... i mean like, if you've played in your umpteenth world cup, won quite a few, and making it to the quarter's is no big deal for you cos' you actually KNOW what to do... quite frankly, it's not easy for some newcomer who's never played in the world cup or played against a mega professional team in a KNOCKOUT competition(which is way different from playing in a group)... well, life's unfair... the winner's will keep on winning, and the losers will keep on losing...

oh, by the way... in all practicality, germany looks good to win this world cup if they make it past argentina, failing which, argentina will win, failing which... italy(who alredi have a free ticket to the semis) will beat brazil in the semis and proceed to life the world cup... but not brazil... no way... cos' brazil... brazil musn't win... it'll somehow upset the balance of good and evil in the world and precipitate a cataclysmic sequence of events that'll bring about the end of the world...
yah... brazil musn't win... :)

normal life

heh... i'm back to normal life... at least for now... no exams, no busy-ness...
normal life... kinda... :P

stressd

exams on wednesday... haiz... its been quite a while since i've been stressed...

home

yay!!! my sister's coming home :) :)... looking fwd to seeing her after 3 months... yay, yay!!!
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troublesomeness-ities

haiz... my car jammed up last nite...
i had just sent Ding back to vista C and was just about to turn out when suddenly the car refused to budge...
when i revved up the engine and forced it, the car moved... but it dragged the back left tyre...
so anyway, to cut the long story short and so as to not display my ignorance of car knowledge...
it appears that the back left tyre has jammed up... i think it's either the brake locking up or something's stuck between the brake and the tyre...
well, it means that i'm car-less for some time... hopefully not too long...

praise you in the storm

Casting crowns- Praise You in the Storm

I was sure by now God you would have reached down
and wiped our tears away,
stepped in and saved the day.
But once again, I say amen
that it's still raining
as the thunder rolls
I barely hear your whisper through the rain,
I'm with you
and as your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise
the God who gives and takes away.

Chorus:
And i'll praise you in this storm
and i will lift my hands
that you are who you are
no matter where I am
and every tear I've cried
you hold in your hand
you never left my side
and though my heart is torn
I will praise you in this storm

I remember when I stumbled in the wind
you heard my cry you raised me up again
my strength is almost gone how can I carry on
if I can't find you
and as the thunder rolls
I barely hear you whisper through the rain
I'm with you
and as your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise
the God who gives and takes away

Chorus

I lift my eyes unto the hills
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth
I lift my eyes unto the hills
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth

Chorus

hmm... i've been searching around for a change of song and i finally found something that not only sounds quite good, but is quite meaningful... on the other hand, i'm not going thru a really tough time now, but i think this is a song that needs quite some amount of faith and strength to sing when i actually DO go thru "storms"...

mona lisa

mona lisa weeps... haha, this cool pic was taken a couple of weeks back during the singing competition audition while we were "enjoying" the singing :P... i squeezed a bit of those flourescent tubes onto mona lisa and walah!!... picture courtesy of vickie's camera...

long last lap

heh... today was at cendol with wencheng and mok...
n then wencheng mentioned that almost a month after camp it seemed as if i still hadn't recovered from it...
hmm... in a way i realized its quite true... almost everyday i'm out... i'm mostly at home only to sleep... even my mum is starting to tell me not to treat home like a hotel... haiz... wish i didn't have so much to do...
on the other hand though... it doesn't really seem like much... it's only that class and church are starting to pull at the amount of time i'm available... hmm... there's an outing this weekend, and for the next few weeks i'm not at home during the weekends cos' of practice of the chinese song competition... and joyce is leaving(ok this doesn't affect the amount of time i'm free, but it's worth mentioning :P) heh, i suppose i mainly cos' during the weekdays i'm busy at school, at during the weekends when i'm supposedly "resting", i'm actually busier... haiz....
mok did say that this week is the last lap... but, heh... this is one looooooooooooooooooooooong last lap...
but as some girl hermit likes to say... i'm always busy for church... haiz... sometimes wish i wasn't so much... ;) i'd rather be busy for God...

toothpaste

i brushed my teeth just now...
i used a toothbrush and toothpaste...
my toothpaste promises me healthy teeth and gums and gives a minty flavour...
after i eat my breakfast i won't taste the minty flavour anymore...
i don't brush my teeth at night...
will i still gave healthy teeth and gums?

heh... can that be considered a poem? anyway... having CG today... spent last nite n this morning trying prepare something... in the end God reminded me it's not about how interesting i make the sharing or what i share about... it's about the Person i'm sharing about...

Who am i

Who Am I- Casting Crowns

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You're

Chorus:
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours

Who Am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who Am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me

I am Yours
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
'Cause I am Yours
I am Yours

if your volume is on... and you're not deaf... you would have heard this song playing on my site...
cool song about a cool God :P

sleepy

i'm actually quite sleepy and tired even though its only 11am... maybe its cos' of yesterday's 48 hour day...
yesterday i was out for almost 48 hours.... okay okay... let's rewind back to thursday...
onthursdayiwasinclassinthemorningafterwhichiwentbackhome...ikindatriedtotakealongnapfrom2-6pm...whichkindadidn'treallyworkoutcos'ikeptonwakinguptocontinuedoingmyrubik'scube(whichisnowsittinginminheng'scarcos'ileftitthereinmyrushinthePalaceofTheGoldenHorses..butmore onthatlater)soanyway...startingfrom830pmtillabout930pmliddattherewassundayworship...followingwhichthere wasthefranticpackingofchurch'sPAequipment,instruments...&tc,&tctothePalaceoftheGoldenHorsesforour church's30thanniversarywhichendedatabout12am...followingwhichwasthefranticsettingupofequipmenttill about3am...followingwhichwassomesortofsleep/naptillabout7amwhenthefranticcontinuationofsetting up/finetuning/gettingPAstufftoworktillabout10am...followingwhichwasfinallytherealevent-the30thanniversary...whichwasfranklyquiteanti-climacticconsideringallthebuilduptoit...butanyway...afterthatwaslunchandrushingbackhomeatabout3pm... followingwhichhavingexhaustedallremainingenergysourcesidroppedonthesofaand"died"foraboutan hour...onlytobeinterruptedbyaseriesofphonecallsbutanyway...ikindadidgetaboutanhour'ssleep...
afterwhichwastheChineseMusicComposingCompetitionsemifinals...itonlystartedat8pmbutwemet forpracticeatabout4somethingandthentriedouttheinstrumentsatthatchurchatabout5...andthenlepaked until8...heh...wewerelinedupfor1stand6thsongof7songsthatnite..the1stsongifeltwasatotaldisasterconsidering
mylousyplayingofthesynthy(whichissoooo....difficulttoplayconsideringthatthekeysyoudon't
wannapressgetpressedandthekeysyouwannapressjustdon'twannagodown...yeah,ihadtoplaythesynthy forthatsongcos'thepianowasslightlyoutoftune)anyway...the6thsongcameoutquitewellithink...so
anyway...amazingly..bothoursongsgotchosenforthefinals..yay!!XD...
sothatwasquitelikeanamazingendingtothe48hourday...yeah...soafterdinneratabout10something,
finallyreachedbackHOMEat11,almost12...andfinallyreallygottosleepafterthe48hourday...

heh... here's to the long... long... lonng day that just passed... feeling sleepy now...

Rubik's CUBE

i skipped YA today... actually had time to go, and actually was considering going seriously... but.. heh, guess the thought doesn't really count that much...
anyway... today was kinda "different" day... hung out wif minheng n wencheng.. went KL to look for confetti.. cos' he was gullible enuff to say "yes" to them to buy stuff:P...
anyway... the shop where we bought the stuff was super cool... it had all those games you played as a kid in primary school... you know.. those rubber snakes, frogs and lizards...
and then there're those card games that we used to play like the "soldier", "aladdin" and "fish" ... there.. those where each card is bigger then the next... but the the smallest card beats the biggest card... well... if you don't know, then u had a pretty miserable childhood...

then oh... i discovered this... Rubik's Cube...
i didn't know it was called that of course... the description on the package with lousy english only said "Magic Cube"... but through the wonders of the internet i discovered it's true identity :P...
but haha... this is one cool game/gadget/IQ increaser... i'm positive that by the time i've mastered it, my IQ would have increased 70%... yeah, planning to get one for JuLiang too when he like get's bored and has nothing to do... don't know when minheng's gonna go get it though...

X-cavated

phew.... it's been one hectic week... and i don't see it getting better with practice, YA n preparing for 30th anniversary...
heh... on another hand... the reason for my hecticness last week- CF camp, was quite an experience...
it was actually something like my first time organizing this sort of camp thingy where you need to look for place to stay, transport, food... and most importantly, money to make everything run...all the stuff u normally take for granted in a camp...
i think it was an encouraging experience to see prayers being answered and during the camp even though some minor problems popped up: like the shirt material being too thin, scheduling difficulties... it was cool to.... like, really see things work out...

time stop

you know... there are times in life when u think time stops or should stop cos' it seems like you have just so much to do...
at times you think that so much is happening in your life that you think the world should start revolving around you...
some times all you wish is for a moment of silence when you can stop to listen...
and then most of the time wat you need isn't more time but a moment in eternity(haha, oxymoron)...

heh... i know i hadn't been blogging recently, so it was kinda nice this morning to go thru my frens blogs, rememberin that life doesn't revolve around my small little world only...

aversion

hmm... i don't know why this is... but i actually have a certain degree of aversion towards CF in IMU actually... i'm not really sure why this is..it's not like it's evil or anything...
maybe it's bcos' my batch never really fit into the CF thingy... maybe cos' the many IMU activities just made CF... just another IMU activity...
or maybe its just that... it's distant... like looking at the dudes outside my house building the new highway... you know what they're doing... they're actually quite near you, but yet... it's like looking thru the window... you're not really "there"...
anyway... this friday is CF camp, and today i'm supposed to hold some sort of a camp briefing...
heheh... n there isn't really much to talk about anyway... but well... we'll see...

reload

heh... it's been a while... a very long while...
it hasn't really been cos' i haven't had time to update... things were and still are a little busy, but not so much so that i hadn't had any time to play computer or do anything else... it was more of...
not knowing wat to blog about... blogger's block?
heh, anyway... just came back from retreat... a rather inspirational one...
hmm... i suppose you can call these "hilltop" moments...
i think the biggest thing i took back from the retreat was learning to shutup and just... like, learning to "chill" with God...
i don't think i've ever, really thought of God being so real and personal before... but yeah, it was cool...
strangely though, on the way back home as we were sending ps. thomas chin n wife back to airport, we got "extra" lesson on BGR... heh, and i think these were the first BGR lessons that actually "spoke" to me...
still... it's been a while since i felt like this, and can't really remember if i had ever felt like this before... but it's nice to be able to "reload" my christian experience...