Faith, Hope and Love. ♥

Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:59 PM

And so, 2009 comes to a close with a smile. :)

It's a great way to conclude 2009, after the stresses and tears that I'd been through. But the good memories are something that I will always remember and forever cherish. :)

Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 is definitely worth a watch! 4.5 out of 5 stars, it's seriously really good and very funny! No wonder the tickets were selling out really fast.

Tabs is really eager to dig into that mudpie. x)
Super rich and sinful. But I like! :)

Tonight the super trouper lights are gonna find you :) somehow the lights reminds me of that old ABBA song. :)

Oh and earlier we were walking through Millenia Walk and I met Xinyi, working at frolick. :) and I met Bryan with his gf and another friend at marina, before the movie. :)

Nice way to end off 2009! :)

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:19 PM

东游记

I hope my com doesn't die a terribly painful death, it seems to be having a gazillion problems lately and service charge seems to be absolutely neccesary in this case. :(

Anyway, enough about com woes!

I can say that I really love my me-time. Very much.
东游记 today! Ok fine. I think it sounds a little silly when described like this. I just went to east side of the island today by myself. First time ever. Not that I've never been to the east side before, of course(Geez, if I'm really like that I think I'd be like a frog in the well. Seriously.)

I really like East Coast, it's a great place to be to feel the sea breeze. And to do your soul-searching and let your worries flee your mind. Though I've to say that it would be a lot better if there weren't so many people around today. That's 1 thing about holiday season.

The long walk from VJC after I alighted from 197 to East Coast is one thing that I really like, because I felt as though I was revitalised, and something else kind of awakened inside of me. It's the kind that makes you reflect on whatever you've done in the past, think ahead for the future, forget all your worries and most importantly the soul-searching.

I sat on this breakwater and snapped this picture, but I think it's not really very good. Well, I'm no pro photographer. But I felt a little sian-ed out when suddenly a group of malay guys came to the breakwater, then 1 of them told me 'Merry Christmas'. Talk about a little more than weird. I mean, it's going to be New Year! -.- I left a few seconds after because I didn't really fancy sharing the breakwater with a whole group of strangers.

I guess I could say that army isn't just all about training plus sian. I saw this very big group of army guys playing frisbee, and many more gathered near the sports station(I can't remember the name for it, I just know it's next to East Coast Prawning.)

And the sudden craving for a fruit smoothie strikes! Berry-lishus was the name of this smoothie. :)

The very long path to East Coast after alighting from 197. The trees are blocking the building next to it, so for those who aren't familiar with the east side, it's Victoria JC. :)

As I walked past VJC, I could hear cheering and emcee-ing going on from outside the school compound. And it brought back many memories about my JJC days, entering JJ for the first time, as part of Shadows, the many projects and events that we were involved in, as an OGL for '08 Orientation.
The cheering and the emcee-ing sure brings back a lot of fond times. And I miss it very much. But I'm definitely looking forward to entering varsity life next year, especially because I've delayed by 1 year already. It's definitely more than enough.

Actually, when I think back, I really wouldn't mind studying at VJC, if I stayed in the east and I had a single digit for O Levels. VJ always seemed like a 'fun' school to me, but then again life also isn't all about having fun. It would be pretty meaningless if life was just solely about having fun, isn't it? Like there's no equilibrium between work and fun.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:39 PM

working!

I'm blogging this from work now, because my computer at home seems to be hit by a virus. YET AGAIN. And it's so annoying and infuriating to get the stupid blue screen and I have to restart the com as a result. -.-

Anyway, I'm forgoing my lunch because I got into the office late. My boss gave me the wrong key and I got locked out cos he was coming in later. -.- So I had to self-entertain and I walked over to Chinatown Point for a coffee.

The major perk was that I wanted a normal coffee and a bagel, and I thought it was $7. It turned out to be $4.90 cos it was actually a set and I didn't know. I don't go coffee bean that often to eat anyway, it's always more of the coffee. That's why it's called COFFEE bean. :D Well, at least it was a good money-saver for me! :)

So, a Bagel Bounty set, good view from Coffee Bean, New Moon, and a near-empty Coffee Bean cheered me up abit because I was abit grouchy from the wait and my feet were killing me(stupid heels and blisters! *curses*)
But it was good exercise anyway, hence I'm forgoing lunch. Good way to cut down too, I think the christmas holidays have added inches to my waistline sigh. ><

Saturday, December 26, 2009 11:19 PM

Christmas '09!

没有火鸡，白鸡也好。反正都是鸡！

I saw this on 1 of my ex-commonwealth classmates' facebook statuses yesterday, and it really tickled every single funny bone in me. I was at my cousins' place for christmas dinner, and they saw the status too. It really set us off laughing hysterically. x)

Oh and christmas dinner was fantastic! We all ate a lot, way beyond our normal means, and we were all literally unable to move after such a dinner. Partially because it was a potluck dinner and my family brought a good lot of food there!

Note: This is just part of the actual amount of food. If I remember correctly most of the food on this table was done by my family. The egg tarts were made by my aunt. :)

Before the service started. Goodness, the crowd outside the church before and after the service was insane! Especially since more people would turn up for the second service at 12pm, while the first service I went to was at 10am.
Christmas service in the morning, a skit was included as well. And boy, 1 part of the play was incredibly funny and it caused a big ripple of laughter among all the church-goers when that occurred.
Ok, scenario is that 1 of the boys, hoe beng(teen rebels) was supposed to fill out an application form for counselling purposes.

Boy: Name.. Dragon Beng. Occupation.. Dinosaur. Address.. Jurassic Park.
Gosh, the laughter among the audience can easily be seen in the mind's eye indeed.

The power of the Word
The power of His Blood
Every thing was done so you would come
This was part of the lyrics for 1 of the songs during the service, I really like it and I feel that the power of God is really very strong too. :)

Anyway, the chilling out part with sabs and tabs after dinner was incredible! Whenever we get together to chat and gossip, we'll always end up laughing hysterically.

So, we were talking about something 1 of my friends told me about aging.
Glennda: So you know, my friend was telling me that man age like wine HAHAHA. I was like 'omg wth LOL!' when he told me that over msn
Sabrina: You should say that man age like wine while women age like milk!
Glennda: ?! Huh why so?!
Sabrina: 'Cause milk becomes sour after you leave it for too long, but wine tastes better if you leave it for a longer time!

My gosh, it really tickled all our funny bones and we were laughing so loudly in the room that later, when I stepped out of the room to get something, my mum asked me what was going on 'cause she could hear the laughter coming from the room even though the door was closed, and the clacking of mahjong tiles was pretty loud as well outside the room. It's always a mahjong session whenever it's christmas or new year celebrations'! :)

And really, that gossip session was nothing but hysterical fits of laughter as we reminisced our JC days and talked about everything under the sun. :) I really love these heart-to-heart sessions, makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. :D

Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:13 PM

All I Want For Christmas Is You!

Yep, I really like this song! It's my blog song now to mark the season of giving, and it's been on repeat mode ever since I made it my blog song. =)

Anyway, have been hitting town over the past few days. It's inevitable to hit town when you work in Chinatown, which is really very near to town.
And a super impromptu meet-up with Sarah! She called me to ask for my help in presents, and it just happened that I was at Orchard too. So it was catching up, eating, gossiping a lot and a good deal with me gushing about Taylor Lautner LOL.

My brother's 6 years younger than me but he's already taller than me! In a few years' time I bet I'm going to feel even more like a dwarf when I stand next to him.

No prizes for guessing whether I'm on Team Edward or Team Jacob! :D

OK the rest are on facebook, I really don't think I can upload so many photos at 1 go. Furthermore blogger tends to be slow and annoying sometimes.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:42 AM

Hot date with Jay Chou! =D

Needless to say, I've been kind of beside myself with excitement when Mayching told me that Jay was coming with Lin Chi-ling and Kevin Chu to promote Treasure Hunter. And even more so when I read about it in Life!

But what I certainly did not expect and like was the fact that 1 rather fat, 50-something-year-old woman kept pushing into me, and that made me lean very heavily on the china girl next to me. And I really can't get it, but there are an awful lot of China people at PS tonight(technically yesterday, cos it's already past 12am).
It kind of got my goat big time, but my initial annoyance with them vanished on the spot when that fat woman kept pushing into me.

I swear, it was as though she was trying to climb up on top of me. Fine, I know it sounds wrong! But she was really leaning very heavily on me, and I was wearing heels(BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER.) I was very sorely tempted to step on her foot as she really was getting on my nerves big time with the heavy leaning. I mean, I can understand the leaning as the crowd was so big, but leaning so heavily on me is a big no-no.

This was the extent on the crowd on the upper levels. I was on the 3rd level. If I had known, I'd have taken my dinner at Secret Recipe since I'd be able to get a more decent view.

Jay's doing some magic trick here, but I can't get a really good shot because my trusty 5-megapixel camera turned out to be not-so-trusty after all. -.-
His autograph can be seen! =D *gets all excited*
2 guys(I think they're around my age if I'm not wrong) saw me snapping this photo and they asked me to send it to them, as their phone cameras were also not fantastic. So they kind of struck up a conversation with me, and I realised that we had the common thing of being hardcore Jay fans hahahaha.

Ok the rest of them are on facebook, I'm really too lazy to load everything here, and furthermore the quality of the photos are not exactly fantastic, compared to that of a digital camera.

And yes, the great season of giving is coming in a few days' time! =D time to pig out, church, chill out to the max. but the pigging out = fat! ok nvm. Eat first, think later. x)

Sunday, December 20, 2009 8:26 PM

Eye-Opener.

Going to church is something that I enjoy, despite the fact that I don't go every week-due mainly to laziness. Gosh I feel so guilty. I should make it a point to go to church every weekend.

But something that happened at yesterday's miracle service was kind of shocking. For all those who don't know, I go to Lighthouse Evangelism at Woodlands. There's another branch at tampines but I'm obviously not that crazy to go there, considering that I stay at Jurong East hahaha.
There was this woman, during the healing session near the end of service, she suddenly screamed out loud when the pastor was listening to other people's testimonies. The way she screamed was as though she was going through an exorcism, or was in really great pain and agony. And the next instant, she slumped down into a Gospelighter's arms, as naturally a number of them would have rushed over to attend to her the moment the screaming started.

This sort of thing has never happened before in church, even though I've heard that this sort of thing can occur and is pretty common, just that I've never actually seen it happen before my eyes.

But I could say that this incident made me even more aware about the powerful impact christianity has on people, even for those who might not have believed in the power of Christ before coming to church.

5 Principles Of Faith:
1. Faith unlocks the power of God into your circumstances.
2. Faith comes by hearing God's word.
3. Faith is birthed in the heart.
4. Faith is expressed in words.
5. Faith is put into action.

This is really true indeed.

Saturday, December 19, 2009 1:14 AM

chocolate overdose! and the taylor lautner craze. =)

what can I say.. 1 of the most chilled-out and relaxed days ever!
life with these people is nothing but enjoyment, contentment and laughter. oh, and overeating too of course. =D

happy birthday grace! =D
more photos coming up, once I get them on facebook. =)

today was really a case of chocolate overdose! I had white chocolate coffee ice-blended at coffee bean earlier this afternoon, then met up with shihui and waited for her while she did her manicure.

oh and the main reason why I'm excited! =D you rarely see me get excited easily, especially over movies. I finally bought the novel itself, early this afternoon. And I was sitting in jp's coffee bean happily getting lost in the world of Edward, Bella and Jacob(omg I think he's really hot!), until 5 when I went to find shihui. By then I'd already gotten through a quarter of the book.

Digressing a little, from young I've had the ability to read through novels and storybooks really fast. Assuming that they're thick(about the size of the breadth of an arm I think) I could get through a book easily under 4 hours, assuming that I read non-stop.
And now, I've already finished the whole book. Not that I'm a total pro or what, but different people have different reading speeds, it just happens(and also by God's grace) that I'm a fast reader. =)

Favourite people's strength today was 4 out of 7. but what's more important is the fun that we had today. =D hit billy bombers for dinner/dessert. Actually, I think our dinner was more like dessert, come to think about it. LOL.
Cheese fondue, 3 american brownies, 1 waffle and a USA Party Platter was really wow. Plus the fact that grace's birthday cake was chocolate = severe chocolate overdose!
I think I'm going to stay away from chocolate for a few days. Really. The overdose was to the extent that we could barely move after everything. x)

Oh and Jay Chou's coming to PS next tues! =D I'm definitely going to go there after work to see him, the first time I ever see my favourite singer IN PERSON.
sheesh, I must sound like an over-excited and demented schoolgirl. Enough gushing! x)

Friday, December 18, 2009 11:06 AM

life's lessons.

If you don't grab ahead, it's more pitiful. (I grabbed this from a guy's blog because I found this quote really meaningful, and it's really true as well.)

Especially since life is full of obstacles and challenges ahead, and though all of us will naturally feel that obstacles are the worst things to occur, especially if they're long, drawn-out and cause you a lot of pain physically, emotionally and mentally, instead it is through obstacles where you will learn life's lessons, and perhaps be able to give away even more to other people.

But regardless of the obstacles that life throws at us, it's always better to learn to take things easy and not get so stressed out easily. (Though of course, that's easier said than done!)

33. But seek first his kingdom and righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well.
34. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
-Matthews 6:33-34

I came across this guy's blog, he's 2 years my senior if I'm not wrong, and reading his entries is really nothing short of inspiring.
It showed me the true power of God, and the faith that he has in God and everything in life.
Faith is a substance that no one sees, and indeed it seems like christianity is bound to evoke skepticism, especially those who are of other religions and don't believe in christianity.
But really, I somehow feel that as a christian, you see many sorts of miracles that occur, things that you never actually expect to occur will happen right in front of your eyes. (No offence to non-christians and the anti-christ, there are no hard feelings in this entry! =))

Of course, I'd like to have everything to go my way in life, but unfortunately life doesn't allow you to have everything go your way. Life is about knowing how to give and take, because without giving, you won't know what's taking and vice versa.

Because by faith, you receive, and you receive a lot more than what you just expect. =)

Monday, December 14, 2009 12:47 PM

Say It Isn't So-Gareth Gates

Skies are dark it's time for rain
Final call you board the train
Heading for tomorrow
I wave goodbye to yesterdays
Wipe the tears you hide your face
Blinded by the sorrow

How can I be smiling like before
When baby, you don't love me anymore

Say it isn't so
Tell me you're not leaving
Say you changed your mind now
That I am only dreaming
That this is not goodbye
This is starting over
If you wanna know
I don't wanna let go
So say it isn't so

Ten to five atleast we tried
We're still alive but hope just died
As they close the door behind you
Whistle blows and tons of steel
Shake the ground beneath the wheels
As I wish I never found you

How can I be smiling when you're gone
Will I be strong enough to carry on

Say it isn't so
Tell me you're not leaving
Say you changed your mind now
That I am only dreaming
That this is not goodbye
This is starting over
If you wanna know
I don't wanna let go
So say it isn't so

Miles and miles to go before I can say
Before I can lay my love for you to sleep
Oh, darling oh
I got miles and miles to go
Before anyone will ever hear me laugh again

Say it isn't so
Tell me you're not leaving
Say you changed your mind now
That I am only dreaming
That this is not goodbye
This is starting over
If you wanna know
I don't wanna let go
So say it isn't so

Friday, December 11, 2009 12:23 AM

new moon!

watched this with shihui earlier at PS. though it's quite ok to me, the ending is seriously o.O

I think taylor lautner is incredibly HOT! =D his body is really to die for. and I can't believe he's only 17 years old too.
though my mum said I was nuts to be crazy over him cos she doesn't think he's good looking. -.-

Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:12 AM

reminisce.

Anyone Of Us(Stupid Mistake)-Gareth Gates

I've been letting you down, down
Girl, I know I've been such a fool
Giving in to temptation
I should of played it cool

The situation got out of hand
I hope you understand

It can happen to anyone of us
Anyone you think of
Anyone can fall
Anyone can hurt someone they love
Hearts will break 'cause I made a stupid mistake
It can happen to anyone of us
Say you will forgive me
Anyone can fail
Say you will believe me
I can't take
My heart will break 'cause I made a stupid mistake, a stupid mistake

She was kind of exciting
A little crazy I should of known
She must have altered my senses
As I offered to walk her home

The situation got out of hand
I hope you understand

It can happen to anyone of us
Anyone you think of
Anyone can fall
Anyone can hurt someone they love
Hearts will break 'cos i made a stupid mistake
It can happen to anyone of us
Say you will forgive me
Anyone can fail
Say you will believe me
I can't take
My heart will break'cos i made a stupid mistake...a stupid mistakea stupid mistake

She means nothing to me,nothing to me
I swear every word is true
Don't wanna lose you

The situation got out of hand
I hope you understand

It can happen to anyone of us
Anyone you think of
Anyone can fall
Anyone can hurt someone they love
Hearts will break 'cause I made a stupid mistake
It can happen to anyone of us
Say you will forgive me
Anyone can fail
Say you will believe me
I can't take
My heart will break 'cause I made a stupid mistake...
Anyone can fall
Anyone can hurt someone they love
Their hearts will break 'cause I made a stupid mistake
A stupid mistake

I've been incredibly addicted to this song, ever since I started listening to it again very recently. I've always liked this song when it was released in 2002 if I remember correctly, but somehow after discovering jay chou and michael jackson, with westlife as the first lve, I didn't really listen to it that often. And the video reminds me really greatly about prom, which most of the JCs have gone through just a few days ago.

1 thing I can safely say: This song sure brings back loads of memories, especially about JC days and childhood days.

I miss JC life. very much.

Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:41 AM

It's quite hard to believe, but talking to an old friend kind of brought back a lot of memories somehow. and it's rather wow that what I told this friend on msn, this friend put it as a facebook status.

Did I really make that much impact? it's something that has never ever occurred to me before in the past, it's recent events that brought it to light.

But anyway, exams are over, and I pray that I can get into what I want. and to everyone who just finished As and uni exams, time to chill out and have fun! by busking in the christmas spirit and the jollity. =)

And most importantly, hope we all do well for exams!

Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:20 AM

post exams fun! =D

well, exams ended 30th nov for me technically, but it's the fun that we had that should go on the blog. =D

so it was party time at mayching's dormy at NUS. we laughed, camwhored, gossipped, watched videos, pigged out, games.. ok you get the idea of it.

ohohoh and mayching's friend(BFF=Best Freaky Friend HAHAHA) dorcas joined us yesterday too and this convo came about while we were playing heart attack.

Mayching: Wow this is like sets of 3 and 4.
Dorcas: omg I heard sex of 3 and 4!

LOL to the max, seriously.

anyway, photos!

CAUGHT ON CANDID CAMERA! =D

just a small amount of food we bought. =)

who knew that heart attack would churn cards out like this. and we didn't arrange them purposely or anything. =D

ginger beer is nice!