ooh so early today wor! haha i actually missed my bus so booked a cab in fear of being late for school. aha and in the end im here super early.. only 7 people here! :) haha okayyy.

oh yes i've decided not to make this place not so personal. as in, ive been divulging too much. as the person i am, once i get detailed i get very detailed. so every thing abt my simple life and doings all come spewing out, haha.

vague is best, yea? :)

ive been thinking abt it. ive weighed the options and finally decided that.... i live to eat. :D yess but of course along with all the other things that mean much to me!

yay alps is back! :) welcome back to classs darl.

will be helping li out in making the minus one tape. hees. soo exciting!

alritee shall go visit others' blogs then gather the people to pray. :)

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ahh. a sleepy sunday afternoon. shall try to make this snappy! ive a mere afew hours to cough up a thousand-two-hundred word essay plus alotalot of other things. well i've been absolutely slacking the past four days, leaving poor me to try complete all that today. ok i shall quit talking abt sian things. i know alot of ppl whom im sure are screaming shut up now. x)

yea so just went for net lunch. ok it wasnt really. kor, tj, cj, jen, claire, jus and i had katong laksa and hv nasi lemak at hv. the rest went to other places, but i think all in hv itself. yup so it was quite quiet and.. quick. :) oh but yumm yum it was really good. the food, i mean. mmm.

on wed we had our reunion at plaza parkroyal! the most rocking buffet of all times. and yup we had so so many helpings of food and yu sheng and all. like, this marked the beginning of a foodfrenzy! haha. later went to wah ku's place. haha we played taboo and uno. really fun la, like, all the kids and 1-3 adults. its always so funny when we play together. hmm these times come arnd so rarely. we meet every week but never play games only except during cny. and christmas. haha more reason to do so la anw.

ok then on the first day of cny. oh it wasnt quite the same bcos there wasnt the cny songs playing from downstairs. almost forgot it was chu yi! anw we all got changed then began our photo taking. :D you see, every first day of cny we take family pics in the garden. its a yearly affair. and we have specific positions that we pose at- starting 7-8 years ago i think? :) haha yup so we snapped snapped snapped then went to bai ni with our neighbours.

then we went to my godma's mother's place. they were our ex-neighbours. haha we had lor han zai! ooh yay! whooo. it was realllly good. i had like three bowls. haha yess. oh clifford got married last year! his wife is really pretty. and hes cute too la. and so zai! some really high-up position pilot. super cool! oh he's my godma's nephew. ok the family is quite big la. so we know all of them and its really nice! :)

then we went to clementi lor, like we do all the time. dont know if this year was more boring than the last or not. boring as in nothing to do, but i still find it fun just getting together la. the whole extended family. like.. the table of gamblers making loud remarks here and there (dont just think adults), the mj-ers in the room with their high-pitched laughter. us just sitting in front of the tv and the snack table. munching on bak kua the whole day long. hearing gabriel sing 'cai shen dao'. being reaaally hot and lifeless. stuffing our faces with 'hu jiu nyu wong' and 'ang zhao kuay'. oh yes and this year there was the silly fighting over the couch. hai but really, for the non-gamblers and those without crazy cousins to meet with, they prolly go to clementi for the sake of doing so. like, since it has been this way for ages. welll haha!

oh next day was at my place. haha yup, when the earlier entry was written. justin came this time round. the crowd was quite small, it seemed. and there was the dreary rain to dampen everyones mood. and we were like dragging our feet everywhere we went. really nothing to do kind of thing. oh yes we played taboo again. and bingo. but it was all waiting and no winning, for me. haha justin tan cherie and i went to walk the dogs. oh kor gambled! ok i didnt mention this earlier but clement is like the king gambler or sth. hahaha. what a terrible reputation. what with helping the dealer collect and distribute money he receives commission. hahah welll.

then later at night kel tried oh the sa uniform. okayy yess cous you got into sa!! haha. oh and our photo taking outside! haha with the screwedup faces and all. well it was all quite fun. but real stupid actually. i love taking photos, btw! ;) just for the fun of it.

then on saturday was supposed to go to cj's house but in the end was cancelled and i couldnt make it for jo's place. the plussses are, i got to meet with my godfamily again! wheeee. mum and i went to her place cos the rest were scattered. like, en stayed over at kel's. kor was in camp, jol at sch, dad at work. so only mum and i dropped by their place. haha she had prepared tang yuan with gula melaka, that tom yam prawn thing plus all kinds of cookies. and only mark and his parents were home. mark is my god bro. :)

then we met for lunch again at fook yuen. i took mark's car! the big thing abt it is, i barely talk to them. yes, whenever we meet it'll always be my mum and dad talking, with kor occasionally. i just keep silent most of the time. so like, wow so scary when i got into the car alone with them. haha yah so found out a couple of things from mark, got to know more. reached the place quite early and only matthew was there! (mark's brother) so yup we sat down and i talked to him! haha ok man i sound incredibly stupid. but i really like them alot la and its sad that i rarely get to spend time with all of them. heh.

so we had a really fun lunch with me having so many embarrassing moments. we must meet up again this year. at least once? mark's getting married end of the year!! :D whoohoo. to serene, whom i've never seen in person. its time for both brothers to settle down le man. matt's 30 already, currently lecturing at nus. mark's younger by afew years but marrying first! haha. hmm am real proud of them both. they are both geniuses la.

late in the day we went to kel's place. yup all of them from kel's side were there. but didnt see max at all. as in his family didnt go, which is quite sad, considering we never ever meet at all anytime through the year. well and yes haha it was quite sian also at her house. like, we went to her room and sat arnd staring into space. walk here and there. haha thats what we get every single new year at anyone's house. cant believe i actually like it. for the fellowship and company. :) well it was raining the whole entire day i tell you. soo dreary! oh then kor and i went to huayu's place. which is a minute's walk from kels'. it was super funny cos we got the wrong house and got caught in the rain and all that, haha.

and yesss im finally at the end of my story telling. oh and ive got a hundred plus photos i took over the past four days. shall find time sumtime this week to resize and upload for the viewing pleasure of my readers. :) wheeeps.

hmm jean and janis are leaving for aust today. to perth and melbourne respectively. hmm i barely know them but im still gonna miss em! take care girls.

okayy enough of my gg on and on. my mouth is itching for some oily fat-ful bak kua! hahaha. mmm cyas.

reality beckons!

blessed new year to all. :)

everyones coming over today. well at least its supposed to be. its already 3plus and the house is practially empty! grr everyones so late when it shouldnt be so. haha.

so we're waiting waiting waiting. i should make this time more productive right. hmm but not in the mood at all to do work. i've only done reading so far and theres so much more! jols pretty hardworking. doing work right now beside me.

ooh just put on the clip on and its starting to hurt already. yest was rather quiet too. as usual, we went to my godma's mother's place. highlight: lor han zai! :D mmm yummmy. it really rocks. its this vegetarian dish thats soo delicious and like, the family's speciality. sth like family heritage, secret recipe thing.

okie dokes anw my two darling cousins are here le. gtg catch ya again-

tadaaadaadaaaa! havent been able to find time in the past week to update. been meaning to but.. blame it all on school and trng and all that. i come home everyday and am poofed out! haha i actually slept at ten yest tho. i shocked myself through. x)

ok first of all. was quite an exciting two weeks i had. like, test-test of school. still not adjusted back to school life yet! really. whats more with cny now, rubbing it all in man. but post-cny will be tough. someone prolly has to give me a tight slap to bring me back to earth, away from holiday-land.

i'd like to thank God for making me class chair. elections was quite long ago but yah. i dont know la, maybe i kinda knew God would give me an opportunity for sth similar. so well. :D i'll be needing lotsa prayer! heh what with all the responsibilities to take up.. ministry and schoolwork too. hmm but i can do all things through Him who strengthens me yea!

i took the mbti test on friday. thats sth like a personality test, where you take a survey and receive an evaluation of who you are, like the way you do things and all. haha lemme share. i'm an extravert, a sensing, feeling and judging type. and heres my final verdict: warm-hearted, talkative, popular, conscientious, born-cooperators, active committee members. need harmony and may be good at creating it. always doing sth nice for someone. work best with enouragement and praise. main interest is in things that directly and visibly affect people's lives. hahahahaha. thats quite true. not all of it though, as you should be able to tell haha. hmm what i guessed of myself is more accurate than the actual results, i'd say. but maybe thats cos everyone has expectations of himself. :)

cny's just round the orner.. have been shopping arnd for stuff. was out on wed, sat and yest. but i barely got anything. im almost unbelievably sick of shopping (!!) and getting irritated at my picky-ness. haha. i'll just settle for sth i already have in my wardrobe, or else i'll just rummage thru mum's. which im pretty keen on doing. :D

oh we started this angel-mortal game in class. haha its quite fun la although we almost guess our angels the first time round. :) i've got a superb angel (heh) and a great mortal too! just that im somewhat ignoring my m. i burnt this compilation of songs for her, including songs like come home running, complete and to you and lots more. yupp we've been communicating quite alot yea? :) luv ya angel.

hmm reunion dinner tmr. we're having buffet at plaza parkroyal. yummm! haha for a change we're not having it at another chinese restaurant. getting more westernised now with the family! haha. really excited for the days to come, muahaha. just that the edge has been sadly cancelled. so i'll be over at kel's plae eating my heart out- again!

oh yah hahaha talk abt eating. the pe teahers have been telling us not to eat so much this festive season. ms yeo's bak-kua finger theory. one piece of bak kua adds a finger thick layer of extra flesh arnd your waist. haha ok that i think positively freaked us out. but i dont care im just gonna eat all i want. and then suffer extremely during trng next week and the following. too baaaad. xP

oh last sunday was pretty funny. i extra-ly joined jol for her lunch with the prayer shield. like i was conned into joining her. and then she later regretted it so much cos she said i made the entire setting so awkward. hmph haha! was quite funny. they were disussing things pertaining to the shield and all, then i sat there and tried to look away. buahaha. we were at kai sushi.

oh i was invited to watch a musical for my birthday! *hint. haha with another bday girl. :) its called phantom cats. not heard of it before tho.

ahhh i have so so much hw this weekend. workloads horrific. and i kinda have to do them by tmr right. the four days of new year will pretty much be taken up. yay im so excited to go visit my god-family! its depressing that we only get to meet one a year. and i like them alot! 've got two really nice god-kors. hope they get married soon, i think matthew is. and his bride shares my name. i just cant wait cos.. it'll be so lovely. hees i love weddings. and i love my kin.

gg for geog trip in march. its gonna be a three-day thing to kl. to make up, i guess, for the one we missed last year. was supposed to go to thailand. but cos of sars and all twas cancelled. and thankfully it was cos then i got to go to manila. :D it all works out for good. and church camps coming up too right.

oh yes we did 'lou-hei' today in class during lunch. it was.. messy. but really nice and fun too. cos we got most of our teahers to join us. and we were wishing things like less hw and all. haha cel got a stare from newby! hees. but really hope this year will be a smooth-sailing one, eh? :)

okie dokes. i'll probably be back sometime soon. till then, tc.

xin nian kuai le!

wow. God is a-m-a-z-i-n-g. He is ever so so faithful and He will never ever fail you! just this week, i've seen the hand of God upon me so much! and like, wow. hahaha thank you Lord. i really cant help standing in wide opened wonder of all He is! wow if you've never felt God just there and there, you've got to seek Him man. its hard to explain how it feels, really. :)

well what happened today made me think alot leh. ok i finally went thru my trials, had to play ash and chris. doing sth like tt is honestly difficult! its so hard having to fight and play against your dearest friend and teammate. anw, i am so sure it was God who led me thru man! the seond game was pretty tough but i laid it all down and asked God to take over! i mean these kind of things might seem small and unimportant. it was just playing a game of squash right. but its only when you trust God in these things that you will have that strong enough faith to seek His help in the bigger things! :) its true yah.

so well. thank you God thank you God. the cirumstance seemed extremely hard to overcome but God led me to victory, hahaha! im just gonna continue praying that God will grant me that anointing to know how to lead the team. that the Lord will grant us unity. right now, im so uncertain of how this year as a team is gonna look. but all i can do is ask, and i will receive, yea? :) im putting all my trust in Him and Him alone. haha i feel that sense of peace already. :)

its already thursday. i didnt think this day would come. when its a mere 2 days to sat! rockin, haha. just that there'll be two tests on mon. argh. well this very first week in school was like, funny. haha i was pratically sleeping off every lesson. only today was i awake and listening. haha tho i kept getting distracted by any and everything! like the two ppl sitting beside me. well but i am so thankful for you two. :) and definitely my friends outside school-world who sustain me, haha.

God sure has a purpose for all things man. was just thinking abt it today.. em knows eve. em is in the same class as zan. isa knows zan. eve is in the same class as bel! im together with kel. like wow right. we're all related in some way or another. makes things look like they'll all work out great! :) heheh. maybe we could set up some rg-the edge or sth. like that would be a dream come true, haha. and then we could hook up with groups from other schools right? haha the earth will shake and mountains tremble wor! imagine the power.

in terrific spirits! was listening to the tear-jerking edition cd from kel. ok it not only jerked my tear glands. haha i was like wailing. esp the song come home running. i kinda saw it two ways. firstly its like, God simply accepts us for who we are. even if we're guilty of hurting Him, He keeps beckoning us to go to Him. can you imagine the mercy? the immense amount of love which overlooks all our pathetic flaws. and then, He's calling out to the rest of the world to go to Him. my heart broke so much as i thought of my friends. man, we really ought to go out. in the power that has been given to us!

God is forever and ever and forever and forever and ever faithful. woah i am forever satisfied having Him in my life. this is one puny small fry me thats here. but availing oneself does please God. with this simple gesture, i know He will really bombard you with what He has. and.. miracles happen. you see sights and wonders unimaginable. after all, He is our magnifient God who does exceedingly abundantly more then all we could ever ask or imagine!

His wonders never cease.

well we had an english diagnostic compo test today. i did an essay titled A Meaningful Life. hahaha. i had all i wanted to say bubbling in me but i couldnt express it well la. so wasted. i felt so stuck after having not written an eng piece of work in so long. isnt it obvious to the naked eye that simply having GOD in your life will give it all the meaning it could hold? aha. sadly, apparently not. God rocks my world upsidedown, insideout, backsidefront, all way around.

was reading my manila journal yest. i am burning to go back there!! i miss navotas. i want to go back. we're not done with what we had set out to do. i mean, theres so much more we can do in our small capacities to bless the people there. thank God so much for the church to be set up soon. boy, i am so so so excited abt getting to see the church! small as it may start out, but it'll surely grow and grow many times fold. Lord pls give me another opportunity to return to that city! where the people are seeking but cannot find. wont You pls like, reveal Yourself. yepp. :)

so our core values are oh-so-cool. im kinda embarrassed that im only aware of them now, haha, but well. look on. professionalism. people-centredness. passion. principled. our 4 Ps to look upon. :) i should really make these the values for myself man.

hmm im praying actually that i'll be given a position of authority in our class. i'd like it so that i can speak out and have people listen.

welll. im gonna crash soon. hees. whose phrase? :) its unbelievably early a time for me to go to bed. played 9 sets today! ok its not the highest ever but i am bushed. haha if i do want to make it thru classes tmr awake, i should sleep soon haha.

do bao zhong. and let your flame never die away. keep that fervour for God glowing. :)

till then, later.

gonna make this a really quick one!

school is looking fine. i was warned abt my belt- oh tt reminds me i have to go adjust it. and i was dozing off during every single lesson today! exept geog (duh). but not as bad as kelly who was sleeping guang ming zheng da. hahaha. its only the third day of school..!

and we're selecting class comm soon. pretty exciting, knowing who'll be taking over us. :) God pls have your say in this choice! its does make a difference ya know. hmmm.

hope our study group thing works out! really really hope so. it'll be fun and yet we have to ensure it turns out effective! thats whats most impt right. or else well i wont be allowed to it either anw.

today was the first day we've prayed in class this year. hmm hope it'll be a good start. told everyone that its impt we commit this year and every single day to God! hmm this is something biig i've gotta constantly pray for.. pray with me too? :)

so thats already 3 things to add to my prayer list. well this week is prayer and fasting. aha! hahaha. going to seek God daily. not that i havent been, just thats it had always been too slipshort. there're so many things to request for and to talk to Him abt. esp now. hai i just lost something reallly impt and expensive. sighh.

do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

really thank God for His Word. which is always succh a comfort!

trials will be on thursday. :/ hahaha sigh.

thank you all who have been msging me just to send your greetings or simply to say hi. i really appreciate it lots. and its really encouraging! :) xie le. hugg-

my very first entry of the new year. had been wanting to update since the 1st but just couldnt find the time. so anw, to all my readers, my you have a fun-filled and fruitful year ahead! :)

its also apt for a brand new template! the picture on my current template never ever ever appears anymore right.

well. school has started. ant say much abt it as yet, friday was only talks here and there. the typical first day of sch thing. found out abt teahers etc. i am only hope this years will be better than the last. lui's gonna be both e AND a! what with squash, i'll be seeing him every single day. better not get sabo-ed into being math rep again, haha.

yest was cca orientation. was pretty successful despite our strong competition from gym :) and our ulu location. got quite alot of signups. and well. lil and i had to go for a leaders meeting thing which took up 2 hrs! and it was all mental skills talk. was dozing off at the first part can. then we had a disussion with all the leaders re: diffiulties we faced during competitions and all. that part was pretty good, like everyone spoke from their hearts. and i remember myself thinking: we differ so much in terms of our sport type but ultimately we are one big raffles family haha and we all strive toward the same goal. :) to bring glory to the school. and i like could feel this unity amongst us, heh. call me what you want but i do believe in patriotism and all that traditional stuff. :) like loving your sch and.. you get the picture. :)

but urggh we wont be gg for obs this year! soo unfair. last yr's captains from all ccas got to go. but this year, nah. maybe its the money thing. sigghh. i really really wanna go back to obs sometime. miss it so so much!

oh the edge will be having yet another keyboardist. :) yayy! so haha we'll be alternating for services. went down at abt 3 to elim yest. so joined them for pratice la. must listen out more for the drums man. kor's like, zai. cant stand it, haha. so it was the first time after very long that i joined the rest at the altar for worship. i was going to be very ons but in the end they were all reluctant to come down to the altar. :/ sigh haha. but nevertheless i enjoyed myself thoroughly. i think the medley part was nice. felt it didnt flow all too well but i guess i just wasnt like really worshipping in the spirit. cos i was listening out too much tsk. haha. derek and hilda have not been on duty for very long le hor.

yup so we had a nice service but had to rush off imm after for tania's party. bought her a sigg bottle. its super nice! really chio. white and purple and pinkish. if only it had been out at the time i got mine. :) im gonna be 16 this year le. haha thats pretty old. considering i was only 8 afew years back. :D

oh and this morning was corporate at expo! :) i told you before i love corporate services. hahaha and i got to sing with the choir! hahas it was so unexpected and still kinda hard to believe but yes i atually got this chance of a lifetime. :) haha really enjoyed it, was super fun. and i think the sermon today was really cool too. abt dreams. our dream-Maker. the Creator of all things!

oh boy am i glad to know that justins parents are now in our church! i rem always meeting them at long house when we were still in region C last time. and now they are in vfc too! considering how i now know justin well too. whee its gonna be exciting! wonder if they will get justin here too. hmm. wow then we'll be full force out to get jem tan and kel, haha. so maybe justin'll be coming to the edge more. :):)

just went to remove my red hair. sigh hahaha. and its now on my table. ack! haha. its pretty sad but well look at all the trouble i'll be saving with trying to hide and dodge at sch. :D heh not that i was intending not to get rid of it la. the fun's over! groan. its official that i (and we) hafta get serious and back to our books. i constantly get reminders to put in effort and more effort into this year. duuh, hai.

so with that said.

i'd like to send my regards to a dear friend! :)

and..

probably start writing my new year resolutions. but first to do some amath so as not to agitate lui on his very first day, and risk myself. :)

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