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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

so shermin left on sunday morning.haha at first she was sooo angry and upset with me and mel cos she thought we won't be going to send her off.haha silly girl.she gave mel and i each a care bear to look after though.


harmony bear!!summon the care bear spirit!


see...care bear made friends! (:

went to sleep over at ali's place cos there was worship prac at 8.30 in the morning.yurong says ali washes her bedsheets like once every 6 months.mmm let's not think about that.

worship was...not really what we had hoped.haha i guess this is why we opted for a saturday practice.i was sooo nervous for my piano 'solo' hahahaha.and i made super alot of mistakes.but yurong said it sounded seamless and i'm really?!! how can it be seamless? haha but oh well.more confident now.(:

I've been running, trying to be one who sees
I've been working, this salvation out on my knees
There is nothing better than knowing
That we are redeemed
I'm believing, trusting in creative hands
I am praying for our world to bow to Your plan
And this one thought is unmistakable
To take up my cross and follow You Lord

When You stand, the tall trees and mountains bow
When You speak, the fiercest of oceans is still
And I see the sinner seek devotion
The lost become chosen
And I fall to my knees

I'm forgiven by a Saviour who did not deserve death
He was blameless and I was lost in shamefulness
Undelivered, but it doesn't seem right
Unless I keep my eyes focused on the Saviour who gave His life
In the middle of a world that denies it believes
It is breaking apart at the very seams
There is one thing to be alive for
And it's to take up my cross and follow You Lord

When You stand, the tall trees and mountains bow
When You speak, the fiercest of oceans is still
And I see the sinner seek devotion
The lost become chosen
And I fall to my knees

I will take up my cross
And follow Lord where you lead me
I will take up my cross
And follow wherever You go

- Devotion by Hillsong United

i think this is a really beautiful song.but one which i dare not sing.the words are too declaring and powerful for me to really say them and mean it.dare i say that i'll take up His cross and follow WHEREVER He wants me to go?sigh.it's a 'goal' to aim towards i guess.

how do people write such beautiful lyrics? i want to write too!

first practical lesson tmr! haha so exciting! :D

smiles @ 22:46.
Saturday, March 28, 2009

wednesday was lunching with the going away girl!met shermin at clementi and we went botak jones.the food took soooo long!haha we were hungry, but the portions are like so huge, i think we each left like half our food behind.

thursday i went to work early!haha.left after devotion, and joined yurong david and dezmand crashing shermin's place.then we went down to the east for cheryl's graduation.she looks so pretty!(: yup then went to the flyer after that for shermin's 'last supper'.haha.she nearly didn't go!cos we wanted it to be a surprise, so we didn't tell her abt it.haha should have seen aaron's expression.we went to a christian bar of which aaron guanyou and shermin got lost looking for.haha but it was cool.although no idea what's the rational for pricing NON-alcoholic drinks at like 10bucks per glass after 9pm.

friday i woke up at 8.30, cos my dad said he could send me to work after his appointment.at 8.45 he called and went like, "the queue is not moving, i might not make it back in time." haha i was like, sian cos there was a meeting at 10.anyway, rush rush, took a cab at clementi to work cos it was already 9.45.

and when i reached work, there was no one there!SIGH.in the end we didn't start til 10.15.

after work it was like 6.15.rushed down to corps for practice and reached at 7.40!SORRY AMELIA!!!cell was kpt dinner/supper cos most of us haven't eaten.

i feel cheated by a taxi driver and a noodle stall aunty.

shermin is leaving on a jet plane... :(

REPLIES!!
honwah: haha nice cos i'm in it right. (: i spent quite some time on it, IT BETTER BE NICE.
eat watch movie: haha yes i had to do it myself in the end, cos no one responded to my blog entry voluntry job offer :(
shermin: yup yup.WEST COAST PLAZA! hahahaha. china got no waffles, don't go laaa.
mel: me like it too! :D and me is wondering when you will UPDATE YOUR OWN BLOG.

smiles @ 11:29.
Monday, March 23, 2009

saturday was spent eating and watching movies and travelling from corps to thompson area.my brother and i headed down to corps in the afternoon after famil lunch for the fireproof screening, followed by discussion after that.second time i've watched it.still cried though haha.refreshments after that.

after that timothy, cedric and i were orphaned with nowhere to go, so we followed matt.went up to tim's house cos matt needed to fix his computer, but apparantly it wasn't fixable.so ended up spendng time deciding where to go for dinner.EAT AGAIN.finally decided on thompson plaza.yurong decided not to go home to study, and she and david joined us.joel came after that and cedric opened his house for movie watching.so bought some ice cream and headed back to corps area and watched some russian movie.matt said its not horror, but i kinda spent nearly half the movie hidden behind the pillow.oh well.i think only matt and tim knew what was happening.

guanyou joined us after that, and we spent some time watching harry potter on channel 5.and it's all because we had two emma watson fanatics.headed down to meng's kitchen for supper cos the newly commissioned officer didn't want to travel so far to kpt.sigh, yes MORE EATING.headed home after that.

sunday was at corps at 8.30AM!!!shermin and i were the earliest can.haha although my dad sent us all the way there, but still we had to wake up the earliest and travel the furthest!i think prac went quite well considering all of us are definitely not morning pples and were like still half asleep.

after service went for class, and then lunch-ed with shermin.moody day :( yup and then went home.finally got to see my house in daylight.

smiles @ 23:19.
Saturday, March 21, 2009

okay new skin!haha been toying with the idea of upgrading my blog look, so yup ta-dah!haha so much more cheery and happy compared to the uh, reflective previous one.mmm not quite done with the skin yet though.i'm planning to put my own pics instead of the picture thing you see on top.haha yes, planning's the word yeah.don't really know how to go about doing it though haha.any kind soul wanna sacrifice some time to do it for me?(: (: (:

one thing about this new skin is that it looks as if i write alot for each post.

going to go grocery shopping tmr morning again.my mom's like, "we can't live without you now!"

so brillant right.feel sooo loved.
haha.

oh oh i passed my ftt on wed.haha yes, 1 step closer to driving!

smiles @ 00:18.
Sunday, March 15, 2009

"The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical branch of the univeral Christian church..."
it kinda struck me as ironic that we're supposed to be an "evangelical branch", but yet we're not actively pushing down the 4 walls to reach out to the community.in fact, we're not exactly the most welcoming bunch of people to newcomers.

okay sorry, having a cynical moment there.

on friday we watched freaky friday for cell.cos it was friday the 13th.haha so lame yes?but it was a nice show la.and there were a couple of thoughts to ponder about too.didn't realise that lindsay lohan was so round though.at the face la.

saturday morning was spent grocery shopping at imm.haha it was kinda cool la, went with my dad and brother cos my mom had to work the whole day.had family lunch after that with my grandparents, then off to corps for worship prac.a looong worship prac, cos rachel came down to give us a couple of pointers about transitions and stuff.went for cheap sushi dinner at ang mo kio after that.it cost like 5bucks per person only la.later persuaded joel to send me and shermin home.(:

today met shermin at shell bus stop to take 52.haha we realised that we really see each other everyday!my everyday friend!headed down to corps for prac before service.major bob gave the message today, about being fishers of men and women.had soldiership class after service, and then went down to meet shermin at her sin ming house!nuah-ed there for a while talking, cos it was raining and really really cold.decided to go to miss clarity cafe for some chocolate lovin' to make ourselves err, less depressed.haha.after that we had the idea to go visit cheeyong, and so we called and asked him if he was visitable.

went over to his place and played with ethan and emma.kids these days!toy cars and barbie dolls are replaced with wii lor.haha played tennis, bowling and baseball with ethan.he's real good.

he's only 5 years old by the way.

but nonetheless, he beat everyone else lor.matt, daniel me and shermin.yvonne ordered pizza for dinner, so ended up staying til nearly 11pm before we left.ali was kind enough to lend us her car and matt was kind enough to send us home.(: another ride home again!

work tmr!

smiles @ 23:50.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

perhaps the only things that still keep me under the category of a typical teen are my ever changing mood swings and sudden bouts of emo-ness.

smiles @ 22:48.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

woke up at 10.30 today!haha.meant to wake up at 10, but i nuah-ed in bed and contemplated on whether to go down to jurong point to get some photocopying done.i did in the end, although it was a lousy day to do anything cos it just rained and rained and rained.

oh and jp is a lousy place to go when its raining.seriously.much as i rave about how cool it is cos it was just renovated and so so huge, it has a seriously flawed design in terms of catering for a rainy day.tsk tsk.

driving final theory class tomorrow.SIGH.please don't let it be as boring at the basic theory ones.i'll just fall asleep laa.and please don't let it rain tmr either.i need to colloect the photocopying stuff.i don't wanna spend another 10bucks on cab fare :(

smiles @ 00:38.
Sunday, March 08, 2009

it was 9.30am in corps today.YES SO EARLY!mmm met shermin on 52.had practice before service started.ananthiy came for service today!haha so cute la.hopefully more will come someday.(:

had leader's meeting after service.ended before 4pm!haha i think it's been the earliest record so far.emo-ed with mel in the audi playing emo christian songs on the piano til it was time to head down to gracehaven.haha.

i don't like the accoustics at gracehaven! :( cannot hear myself at all, but mark keeps insisting that i'm too loud.got upset :( haha but overall it was okay in the end la.it's quite an experience.a good one.(: had dinner there after the worship.haha the food's amazing i tell you.after eating the whole group of us cam-whored doing different stuff.i'll upload them once cheryl tags me on facebook haha.it was hilarious la.we found out that cheryl and minghui have the oldest looking faces, and that mengren looks like some guy from death note.

work tmr!feel kinda guilty, cos i didn't really do work on friday at all cos of results and everything.shall go and make it up tmr!

maybe i'll start saving smiles again. :D

smiles @ 23:04.
Saturday, March 07, 2009

hello, okay shall update about my week!

let's start on thursday, cos i don't remember much of wednesday.haha oops.okay on thurs yurong and shermin came over to visit me at work!haha one of the many upsides to working at haven is that it's okay to just bring friends in.haha although sometimesquite random, but cos somehow everyone is connected somehow somewhere so no one's really afraid that one of the kids will run away with them or something.yup so anyway they came, and then they followed me around on my 'study rounds'.haha.they kinda got swamped at the girls section.yurong put her tutoring skills to use, and shermin found that she can't read chinese much.how to go china?!haha and she says one of the little boys looks like a mouse.ohh well.

met up with my brother after that, and then went to west coast plaza.haha so exciting right?ended up eating at the market, although west coast plaza has like alot of food for such a small place.and then waffles with ice cream.

okay, friday.met up with joel for breakfast at clementi.haha he actually took a bus down from hougang okay.he wanted to eat macs, so we went.but the macs at clementi is really small, so we ended up buying back and then he followed me to haven.haha yes, bringing random pple to work again.ate there, and then joel decided to be charitable since he had 2hours to kill.so we uh, revamped one of the rooms in the junior boys section.eh hard work okay!shift here shift there.then talked awhile before yurong came to find us.

after that i met up with my classmates to go back to ac for results.haha it's really cool to see everyone again.the guys that are in army already all look better actually haha.yup, got results.mmm i think i could have done better, but okay la i'm satisfied with it.enough to get into nus is fine with me.(:

went back to haven after that to go for staff appreciation dinner at someplace in novena.the event was...mmm.let's just say it's not quite my crowd and my taste in entertainment.haha.what really gets me is how they refuse to let me eat in peace!i mean, i go there for a dinner, i don't need to be entertained every minute and have someone talking or performing all the time.sigh.got a lift back from uncle bob after that.

today!got woken up at 8.30!!!by my dad, cos my mom went to work and so i had to go groccery shopping.went down to corps after that for gracehaven worship prac.haha i couldn't believe i was actually there at like 11.30 laa.on a typical saturday i'd still be sleeping.anyway, prac was done by 1pm, and then everyone had something to do, so matt decided to adopt me.we ordered food in to the sound room and watched fireproof from there.then guanyou yurong and alicia came to join us later.

had worship prac after that.it was okay la, i think everyone was kinda tired.got convinced to go to dezmand's house after prac, cos toa payoh is so far!didn't really stay very long though.later we all squeezed into joel's car and he dropped us off at corps.it was like guanyou, yurong, dora, shermin and me squashed at the backseat.mmm yup then took 52 with shermin and yurong home.

i'm home!

haha wow looong post.
i'm amazed at myself. :D

i think facebook is a strange thing.i don't understand how some pple can spend like HOURS on it.i mean, doesn't it get boring after awhile?haha maybe it's just because i don't go there and play games.i created a pet in some pet society thing.i never went back in after that.haha.it's like deja vu of my neopets account i created back once upon a time ten thousand years ago in pri school.

9.30am tmr!SIGH.
early early early early early...

smiles @ 23:35.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009

i've finally scolded someone today!

haha okay maybe its not exactly scold, more of like trying to talk sense.haha the key word here is trying.SIGH.i realise i'm not very good at rebuttals.haha.not the 'talk back' type of person i guess.okay i shall brush up on my rebuttal skills before confronting more pple haha.how can one go on and on and on about something is really beyond me.a guy whining.EEEEE.

met guanting and alvin at westmall today while meeting yurong and my brother for lunch.the most random thing and the randomest of people.haha they're dating and proud of it lol.

on the personality craze now:
1. i'm most like a strawberry
2. i'm a strawberry ice cream, sweet and genuine
3. i'm afraid of marriage - HAHA.
4. i can apparently make 68% of my crushes fall in love with me
5.
You Are White Chocolate
You are White Chocolate
You are sweet, caring, and truly very innocent.
Whether your naive ways are a bit of act or not, people like to take care of you.
You are a quiet flirt, and your power is often underestimated!

smiles @ 22:32.
Monday, March 02, 2009

hello!
been quite bored recently.haha yes work is still on, but there have been times during the day when i look around and be like, hmm what should i do now?haha okay don't tell my employers.

so have been doing personality tests online.haha yes so bo liao right?blame yurong.SHEEEEEP.between a horse and a sheep, you'll choose a sheep right?so cute and fluffy and comfy.but noooo, she laughed like crazy when i said i would save the sheep if the world was coming to an end.very funny meh.

shermin's not going away til another month!(: smiles smiles smiles.haha maybe it'll keep delaying until you eventually don't need to go friend!it's a SIGN.

RESULTS ON FRIDAY.i don't know what to feel.

read a couple of stuff online just now.don't know how to feel/react about that too.OHH WELL.haha i think i'm just in love with the idea of being in love.

i think i want to change my blogskin.i think it's too emo for my cute image. :D

yixuan:I UPDATE ABOUT MY LIFE LOR.haha see you at 12.grins.

smiles @ 23:31.

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