update...

been a rather eventful week i suppose... done a lot of things this week i feel...
been rather busy... i think i should ban this work from my vocab right now... been using it too often...
every other entry is about me being busy... guess i probably should re-evaluate the way i live...

having cell on monday is a little weird... haha... somehow, have yet to get accustomed to having cell on mondays...

tuesdays got a little free, but cos i needed the time to catch up on some of my school projects found some breathing space... manage to complete some of my work... but still ended up sleeping my evening away... din even watch CSI...

had to continue rushing out my projects for school on wednesday night... i so did not know that my brother has internet connection on his laptop... had i known earlier...  i would certainly have tried to borrow his laptop...

went for dinner at cartel on thursday to discuss some alumni stuff... really hope to see someone raise the alumni winds up from the dead... the seasoned folks shouldn't be the people raising it up from the dead so as to inject new blood... shall wait and see what God's perfect plans for this band of His are... after all He is the Maestro of this band... anyway, think i shouldn't eat cartel with people (dale, pearline & sean) whom i know can eat quite a bit, cos would end up over ordering... anyway, after dinner din feel exactly too well... next thing i knew, i was puking out my dinner... it was either food poisoning, stomach flu or seriously bad case of indigestion...  i was feeling so sick, perspiring cold sweat... and finally after drinking down a glass of eno thinking it was indigestion, i had to go to the toilet to puke... argh... hate it, such a waste of money... sigh... until today i still have that naeseous feeling... sigh...

went for band practice at NIE after a long time... (bout 2 years already)... my skills have turned rather rusty... but still am better than those who think they can play but cannot play... a certain mr. cf... irritating guy... sigh... the whole section i was the only person playing... the rest were like playing catch up or following me... if i stop they all stop... gosh and i tot i was pretty lousy... considering the fact that i have forgotten my scales in relation to the concert scales... sigh... anyway, am probably going to commit myself for this concert after all it is the tenth anniversary concert... wouldn't mind playing for this concert and then probably disappear again for a while... haha... been in this band for nearly five years already... and have only performed in less than four concerts... haha... sigh... mindy said i sounded rather snobbish... but i dunno la... teachers vs actors... i think actors would sound slightly high and mighty... haha... but nah... guess its just 2 years of not being in contact and have lost that in tune-ness with each other's vocabulary... guess i shall just have to be more sensitive la...

had my 2nd driving practical today... and i failed it again!!!!  this time 50 demerit points... i striked kerb 3 times, strike pole once... sigh... next time la... i will pass... maybe third time lucky and less nervous... well or maybe i am just simply destined to be driven around... haha... but my driving instructor said that i am not that bad a driver... he said i am not sotong... just simply not enough practice... so that's why i am not passing... so hopefully and prayerfully, i will pass the next time around...

 oh ya did a blog quiz... think is quite true of me... haha...

You, actually, dont sleep. There are just too many
things for you to do and see! Why spend half
your life lying in bed instead of enjoying
everything life has to offer?! Its not that
you are ridiculously hyper (usually), you just
have a far greater appreciation for life than

most people. Chances are youre very optimistic
and probably a little bit random sometimes, but
people love you for your happiness. Keep
smiling! Make someone's day! ^_^

How do you Sleep? (Anime Pics)
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it's been a long time...

it's been a long time since i last update this diary of mine...

over the weekend went to batam for a retreat...

spent about $10 on a traditional massage...
i felt a little more relaxed after the massage...

think it did good for my back...
anyway, had a nice time catching up with nuanyi...
been quite a long time since i've spent an extended amount of time with her...
am feeling glad that she is back...
there are many things that God does that i can't fathom in my puny mind...

the retreat was like eat, sing KTV, chat over supper, sleep...
thank goodness it was only 2D/1N...
or else i would have definitely feel too tai tai...
haha...

am getting so busy in school that i don't have time for day time activities...
and all my la-kopi kakis are starting to stop having night time activites too...
sigh... even if they still went out at night, doubt if i could continue it too with my hectic schedule...
now is a good time to fast from my social life... haha... (aiya just joking doubt i could do it...)

no good to distant myself too much from the community...

gotta go... another busy busy day ahead...

life....

tired...
zonked...
sleepy...
there are many words to describe my current physical condition now...
but i have no choice...
am at work now... so can't go sleep... or i'll be fired... haha...

anyway... i thank God for my kinda body...
the kind that can take the beatings of the lack of sleep...
the kind that need so little sleep that i can almost fully utilize my day...
haha... if i am running on batteries i would probably have energiser titanium/ lithium batteries in my system...
but i thank God i am running on His strength...
that's probably why i need so little recharge time...
cos as unfair as i can say my schedule is... (which i am not complaining cos i chose this lifestyle...)
God is good... He constantly recharge me as long as i go to Him daily to be recharged...
He is my source of strength...

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anyway... if looks could kill... W would have died a horrible death last night...
the blabber that he said... too bad looks cannot kill...
if not he would have felt the pain of all the daggers in his skin...
too bad his skin is too thick...
shan't say anymore bad stuff about him...
but seriously... he should learn to know where the limit points are... if not...
he would probably die a more horrible death outside...
i have been rather nice and cordial already...
i think he not only offended me last night... but many at the table too...
so i guess i am probably not that mean to him after all...

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going to the prison tomorrow... will blog about that tomorrow when i come back...

hmm... a little excitment in my week...

i'm having a pretty exciting week this week, knowing all the major projects that i have coming up... sooo exciting...
we're putting up a play in seven weeks time... this is actually a monologue, but it is now spilt into six different parts and everything is really exciting... haha... can't wait for rehearsals to start after we drop script next friday... the play is called the one-sided wall... argh final year... so everything just excites me... haha... going to the Changi Prison next monday to chat with the wardens to see if we could do a collaborative Community Theatre project with some of the inmates... ooohhhh.... everything is simply exciting... haha...

gonna put up a monologue next friday... taken it out from the bay at nice by david hare... first performance this academic year... hopefully i am ready for it by next tuesday... got the weekend ahead to memorise and interpret it for myself... =)

but this being the first week only, i am already rather exhausted by the activities i have at hand in school... kept dozing of in class... haha... but i think my system would kick into momentum soon and i will regain my hyperactiveness... haha...

had a whole week of harassment calls since saturday evening... some blangadeshi guy kept calling me and texting me... told him not to harass me or i would lodge a police report on wednesday evening, cos i was getting rather irritated by his incessant calling and texting... then last night, thursday night, as i was about to go to sleep, he called me on another number and challenged me to call the police... so at midnight i went to my neighbourhood police centre and finally made that report... it took me an hour and a half just to make that report cos of all the red tape that poor police officer had to go through... but it was a rather hilarious event as when the officer called the number, that guy did not answer the phone, but he called back and irritated the officer so much, the officer told him that should he call again, he is distrupting police hotline and would be charged with harassment of a police officer... haha... guess that scared him off... seriously speaking this foreigner doesn't speak proper English and it was so broken that i guess whenever i showed the messages he sent me to my friends as i related my plight, it was sorta like senseless humour of the day...

well, gotta go... meeting a whole bunch of people to go KTV at 6pm... and it is 5.15pm now... if i don't leave now, i'll be late!!!!

must say that the past week has been one eventful and blessed week...
the gateway cities youth convention was great!
not only did i get to know more people from different nationalities... i was deeply blessed by all their testimonies and their friendships...
Chika and Lidia are such funny girls... so fun to be around...
Rudi, John, Dimar and Kris are such simple people...
i enjoyed myself thoroughly throughout this whole convention..
bringing them around Singapore was great fun...
and all this started on thursday...

thursday evening...
after work, i went to queenstown area to pick up Pastor Paul Wakary, his wife and his grand-daughter, Mishela, for the dinner at a resturant in Bukit Merah...
a really gentle and warm man Pastor Wakary is...
he just gives off this warm vibe that puts people at ease...
when we reached the restaurant, i joined Mishela, Chika, Lidia, Dimar, Kris, John and Rudi with Melissa, Samuel and Pastor Debra at the table...
we had a round of introduction and sharing...
all the testimonies that these foreign delegates has shared at the table touched my heart...
it made me think about how my service to God can be put to better utilisation...
made me think about my ministry, the ministry God has entrusted to me...
suddenly, everything else seemed so mundane and out of place...
but God created each of us with a different mission on earth...
so i simply have to let go and let God... at the same time do my best in whatever arena God has placed me in...
that night after dinner, the delegates when back to their respective lodgings and mel and i helped out a little clearing up...
and because of Mel's helping out and not wanting to leave me alone, she missed the chance of sending mabel off at the airport...
in the end, we went out the whole night until morning 4am with Dex and Daniel...
went to Changi Village to look at trannies...
must say ah, they can be really quite pretty...
la teh at the Changi food centre...
went to the stretch of road off the airport to see planes land and fly off...
took out the pink straw mat Daniel had in his car boot... (he has quite a lot of pink stuff for a guy...)
felt that we needed some drinks so Daniel went to buy them...
he left saying he'll buy some soft drinks and vodka... but came back with 2 bottles of e33...
the police came and chased us away due to security reasons...
so we went back to Changi village area and went to look at haunted houses...
when into the so called haunted old Changi Hospital...
nothing scary about that, except for the ants that crawled into my pants and started biting me...
cos i lost my voice, when that Daniel tried to scare me by jumping at me i couldn't scream...
then from there we went to feng seng for prata...
of which of course i din eat cos of the condition of my voice...
and we ended the night at about 4am when i reached home i think...

was a little too zonked... cos was falling sick...

friday...
was the first day of convention and i missed the first half of it cos i overslept!!!!
wasn't thinking of sleeping that morning cos i reached home at that kinda hour...
but i took some medication and it zonked me out and so i overslept...
missed the first half of the convention...
reached in time for lunch... haha food always gets me out of bed...
thank God i din miss out too much... cos the indonesians have yet to share and my heart goes out for indonesia...
when they shared it touched my heart...
when we prayed for them i simply just cried...
i din understand why, but tears just flowed...
din cry for the other nations when i prayed but for indo the tears just flowed...

saturday...
woke up late... again...
think the late nights are having its toll on me...
was not that late cos the day's sharing just started...
missed devotion though...
fell asleep when the delegates from China were sharing... they simply went into too much details...
during the finale of the sharing... when the Malaysians prayed for Singapore, i felt so loved that tears just flowed...
brought Rudi and John to Trumpet Praise after we were dismissed...
while the rest made their way to Bugis first...
the amazing thing was when we reached Bugis to join the rest, they just reached...
so guess i am just simply fast... haha...
brought them to eat at the hawker centre behind Bugis Village...
bought Bah Kut Teh, Orh Luah, Char Hei Mee, Cai Tao Kueh (white and black each a plate,) two popiah and BBQ stingray...
it was a spread of everything unhealthy... haha...
but we had fun standing around the table eating buffet style...
everyone else were staring at us, but we din care a hoot about what they thought...
brought them to esplanade and the merlion...
Rudi and John walked with Samuel, Jeff and myself from Bugis... while the rest took the car...
Dex had a minor accident while parking and were delayed... A female driver swerved into his lane and scratched Vincent's car...
but no one was hurt in the process of it all... thank God...
we showed them the sights, and soon it was time to go back to Hope Centre cos it closes at 11.30pm...
Pastor Debra sent Dex, Samuel and Jeff to go collect the car...
while Mel, herself and i took cab with the four guys back to their lodging before they got locked out...
we got back at Hope in under 10 mins and were just in time before the doors locked...
after dropping the guys off, we crossed the road to get to the bus stop so that Mel and i could get home and Pastor Debra could walk home...
just as we got onto the other side, a cyclist suddenly appear and almost knocked Mel and Pastor Debra down...
i pulled Mel back and Mel pushed Pastor Debra out of the way...
it was rather chaotic...
but thank God that the cyclist din knock Pastor Debra into the drain that was so deep...
thank God for His protection...
Dex sorta insisted that he drove all of us home so as we waited for the three guys to come, we reflected and realised that hosting delegates would also result in us facing some kind of spiritual warfare...
the minor accident in the carpark, the near miss with that cyclist...
all spiritual warfare...
it is really amazing what T.E.O. would do to stop God's kingdom from coming...
but praise be to God for keeping us so safe...
almost went to la teh again, but thank God Samuel wanted to go home cos of the enrolment service the next morning...

sunday...
woke up late... again!!!!
second day in a roll... sigh...
reached Bukit View just in time before the bus left... phew... close shave...
tied the girls' hair for them...
checked all of their uniforms...
when we reached Singapore Expo, they all looked so pretty and smart in their uniforms...
during altar call, xinyi's mum came to know the Lord... praise be to God!!!
guess the sermon really speaked to adult and youths alike...
Life is not fair... But God is good... Amen!!!
the rest of the officers brought the girls home... Fiona, Von, Des, Charm Chng and Weiying...
while i went to the indonesian delegates to get them to eat some lunch... but failed terribly cos none of them wanted to eat...
tried to locate Dex's car to get Rudi his bible and stuff but failed terribly too... there were just simply too many cars...
and it din help that he pointed me to the wrong part of the carpark...
went in for the Chinese service...
played with Faith... she always goes "Hello Regina jie jie!" so excitedly whenever she sees me...
after the delegates were let out of the service, we brought them to the zoo...
somehow, for some weird reason, i always get to our destination before those driving... haha...
Pastor Debra, Mel and i took a cab to the zoo and since we reached early, we bought lunch...
despite my sore throat i still ate Zinger... nothing else to eat la...
we had such a fun day at the zoo, that by the end of it we were all sore and tired...
it has been such a long time since i went to the zoo...
the last time i went was probably when i was 12...
Singapore Zoo is simply the best...
my favourite animal, the penguin and the white tigers...
we reached TCT by 5.30pm... a little too early for the convention... so we had dinner...
bought satay bee hoon and char kway teow this time around for them to try... on top of their dinner...
they really like char kway teow... haha...
through this all, i realised that the taste of Singapore can be really quite unhealthy...
but whatever, i simply love the variety my nation has to offer...
went for the closing session... it was fantastic...
shared the Lord's supper with Aaron (malaysian) and Alvin (singaporean)... prayed for each other and broke bread...
quite amazing what God is doing in each of our lives...
Dex went back to get Kris' stuff that was left in Vincent's car...
and having heard Mel and I complain about our heels, he brought slippers for us to change into... how nice of him...
he came back in time for the reception... and in time for us all to go to Hope Centre to say goodbyes and last night with the delegates...
we crapped the whole night away... playing the animal game... talking and laughing...
Lidia is so funny... the way she drilled Dex about what kinda girl he likes, if he has anyone in mind etc is amazing...
but of course she din spare us at all... she drilled Mel, Von and myself too...
den Pastor Debra made a comment that this fillipino guy nicknamed "well done" was considered cute amongst some of the girls...
so John went down to get him to join us and Lidia and Chika grilled him...
it was soooooo funny...
being the social butterfly i simply ignored the fact that i was to be in school the next day...
din leave Hope Centre till 1.30am...
went to collect my things from Dex's car boot and Mel and i needed to change back to our heels and return him his slippers...
was about to change mine when he said no need la i give you... so i went home looking rather silly holding my heels in my hands...
reached home at 2am with my mum asking me if i need not go to school...
had she not woke me up this morning, i would probably be late again this morning...
thank God i am not late for class this morning... was perfectly on time...

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guess the bottomline of this whole week was that i had been so blessed to be allowed to be a blessing unto the lives of others... quite a priviledge to be a servant of God... =)