Things Happen

All these things happened a while ago. SO bear with the delay.

On 17th May, I was at ICE³ (Serangoon Garden) when Aloysius called me.

"Hey, where are you?"
"I'm at ICE³, Why, you wanna come?"
"Actually, I'm already ½ way there!"
"Wah! wat a coincidence"

And so I got to see him there.

ICE³ is a ice-cream cafe. Their specialty is the "alcohol-in-test-tube-held-by-a-test-tube-holder-with-a-cup-of-ice-cream" The alcohol are mainly fruit-flavoured to suit your ice-cream.

Well, 23rd, Samantha flew to UK under the ELLEL ministry. WE went to the airport to send her off. I was the only guy there who is from LCC youth, not many of the TPBC people recognised me. Kind of awkward, but I told myself that the reason for me to be there is to send her off, I need not be affected by the other people.

31st May. Constance's Birthday Celebration at Novena. We decided that giving her a surprise before giving her the actual Birthday present is a much better way to surprise her then only giving her the surprise present.

It began like this. After receiving her message that we are invited, some of us are fretting over what to get her. Initially we wanted to get her the movie vouchers. But after consulting her boyfriend, he told us that it would not be of great use for her as it is him who usually pay for the tickets. Then he revealed to us that she mentioned that she wanted a Crumpler. So that's it, a Crumpler Bag it will be.

On that day we had her by giving her a Crumpler bag, a plastic one, that's it. You could see that her expression was down by a fraction. But then she resumed her normal self after a while at the good food. After the meal was over, we then told her that there was actually another use for the plastic bag, and i got her to return me ther plastic bag. I asked her to close her eyes not to open until it's ready. I then placed her real present the Crumpler Western Lawn into the Crumpler Plastic Bag. She opened her eyes and got so excited, unable to wait to get to her new found bag.

Red Waste

You know eating this



could give you red pee and red poo. Trust me, it's kinda interestng looking at red pee and poo. Not that I'm perverse or what, but this red flesh dragon fruit is more interesting than its white flesh friend. The red flesh variety has a fuller taste, quite similar to grape, but the white flesh has a lighter and refreshing taste. The kind of difference is like the difference between ale and lager, subtle yet obvious. You should try the fruits for yourself to really tell the difference. Currently, I'm more interested in sinking my teeth into the red flesh.

Saturday night, the JC class went out to celebrate Valerie birthday. We had dinner at Village (The hereen), then we moved over to IndoChine at Wisma.



The band sang the birthday song & also Chasing Cars(Snow patrol) for Valerie. The band sang good. That was on Saturday.

Friday, Addison had his first book out and he asked us out. We went to the White Tangerine at Kovan CC. They have a Chinese based band, but they said that they will sing English songs too. They sang Chasing Cars. That is why I compared both bands and think that the one from IndoChine is so much better.

Tuesday, I went to the interview at Baxter Healthcare. Its at Woodlands Industrial Park 2. And it took me a lot of sweat to get there. I was in a long sleeved shirt and has to travel to Kranji MRT station to transfer to a bus. Then I need to climb up a hill to reach the place. I do not know how the interview went. This is because I am the interviewed, not the interviewer. They said that they will call me in about 2 weeks to inform me if I am shortlisted or not.

MayDay

Hey, since it's already May, therefore I'll talk about what happened in April. Then after April, I'm talk about what happened in May, till now!

So there. IT should be 6th of April, I went to help out Hao Jie at Kallang for a Duck Tour event. The time was fun, except that the 4 of us had to load and keep the 2 Dragonboats. From the day, other that getting a nice
tan, i also got this.



I applied some medicine on the affected spot. It is known to me only as some kind of bacterial or fungal infection. It's okay now. The only reason I am telling you this is that I want to post this picture. Talk about boring. And disgusting.

27th April, I was at Tampines. I was actually ready to go home, but the heavy downpour held me back. Thus I walked around the malls, I was also trying to find a bilingual bible with English Standard Version and the Chinese "xin1 yi4 ben3". All Life bookshop does not carry "xin1 yi4 ben3" explained by the sales assistant. So I went to Century Square and noticed that there was a recording going on there.



Well. This also added on to the "hold me back" factor and I stayed for a while longer to watch. After seeing the 2 host at a closer distance, Quan Yi Feng is the prettier of them 2.

I bought my Swatch Spring/Summer 2007 series watch! I don't actually know the series and model. It is the [feel up] from the [men naturally] series in the Swatch official website.
http://www.swatch.com/en/watches/mennaturally.html
I bought the leather strap watch, the 4th watch in the 2nd row from the watch selector in the website!

Last night, while I was in bed, attempting to sleep, I was disturbed by something small.



I first felt it when I felt that something was crawling on my left knee. Then I tried to flick it away, but still felt it. Then I sat up and swap it away from my knee using the side of my palm. I then use a flashlight (hey this flashlight is the one I used in Police NS! It comes in very handy) to see what exactly was it. If you cannot picture it properly, it is a Queen ant. I know from her big behind. Ants do not have wings except the male drones and the Queen ant. the male drones have much slimmer behind than the queen and is of a darker colour than her brown.

After being swapped away from my leg, she crawled around my mattress, right at the left corner. Soon after she conquered the left bed frame pole. Then she walked along the edge of the bottom end of the mattress. All along, I was using the flashlight. She was there until I took this picture. Right after that, I used the nails of my right index finger and thumb to nip at her wings and threw her out of my window. Freedom to both of us. She can go find her mate (she would not be here if she's mated; she would be too busy laying eggs) and I can go back to try and sleep.

In my last paragraph, I would like to apologise to those whom I'm part of their clique but have not seen me or gone out with me for the past few months. People like Daniel, Dean and Aloysius. (don't talk about Russell, he's in Australia) From MJC. People like Nigel, Lionel from NS. Sorry.

iWindows

Vista, at last. You know, when Microsoft launches new products., a lot of Mac/Apple fanatics will try to make some humor out of it. But although for me, I am not a Mac/Apple Fanatic, I just want to join in the fun.

Q: What does Vista stands for?
A: Various Improvements, Similar to Apple.

I heard this from my friends, quite funny, quite lame. But I'm calling my OS, the iWindows. Haha.

Initially, I thought that it would be a major "operation" for me to upgrade Xp Media Centre Edition to Vista Home Premium. Thus following the advices on the upgrade manual, I did back-up of my files and all. The upgrade, it really is only an upgrade of the OS from Xp to Vista. it does not affect he other programmes and stuffs unless you choose to install a clean copy of Windows. The advice to back-up the files, is simply, for back-up. Just in case. After that, there was a little hassle going on, where I have to manually install some of the audio and graphics divers from the HP website. That's about it all that I have to do. This looks more like a plastic surgery than an organ transplant operation. It beautifies the looks of the desktop, and it goes all smooth, you know what I mean by smooth when you start to use Vista.

My wisdom tooth is 'growing". I mean it is showing more and more of itself. So excited for my new teeth. I wonder when the other 3 will be born. Haha!

I'm still school-less, but I'm seeking help. So NO WORRIES!

Postman

Let me whine a little here.

When I did not Blog, friends says that I did Blog, fair enough. But when I blog regularly, no one notices it.

Sorry, things happens for over a month since the last entry, some big,some small.

But this is one new news, my upper left wisdom tooth is emerging. It's news, alright! It not painful; I just felt funny/weird, just like a big baby, teething at 21.

My next entry will be after I upgrade my Campaq system to Vista.

See you in the next generation!

Friend II

People are sculpted by friends around them during their growing phase, they are like some sort of mould. They mould one into the person that they will become.

I already am the person I am now. Do I still need friends to mould me?

Friend

After the listening to Min Hui on the bus, I now think that it does not mean the more you know a person, the better a friend the person is to you.

Often it when you want to give a person his/her status of being your own good friend before you will go and understand him/her more. This status of being another person's good friend is not up to you to earn, but rather for that other person to bestow to you. It is a gift.

I just get this feeling that a lot of friendships are like that. Think about it, analyse it. Why is there so much logical thinking involved in something that functions using emotion. There are so much external conditions and judging involved.

After Yang Mu Shi's sermon about friend (Proverbs) on Sunday, it then dawned onto me that being a friend that was described in his sermon is very easy. Very biblical, very easy. But being that 'friend' that your friend expects you to be, that is not so easy. Being someone that the person wants you to be, is not the image of friend that I think that Proverbs (or Yang Mu Shi) is talking about.

3rd time

I actually blew my top again for the 3rd time that I can remember. That's today.

The 1st time was at my Grandmother over some eating habits.
The 2nd time was at my sister over some disagreement.
Just now was the 3rd time.

I was transfered to Tan Tock Seng Hospital's Kopitiam foodcourt from Tampines's branch. I was very unwilling. Due to many factors.

When I started to work, I told myself that I will try to adapt. But all the things happening there are those that irritates me the most. All together. Handling cash, cannot have a mind of my own, no communication. I cannot expect myself follow commands that was barked at me, without knowing if I'm doing the correct thing; without knowing if I'm serving the correct beverage to the correct customer, because the other lady works like she is a separated limb from the 'team'. She just carry on asking the next person on the queue and prepare the drinks way too advance and then just ask me to serve and collect the money. I function this way: I must know that I am doing hte correct thing before I do it, or else I will feel very bad about the whole thing.

I excused myself when there was a one second break to go to the toilet. The queue is endless and it never seems to stop. I had to excuse myself when I spotted a break in the queue. In the toilet cubicle, I asked myself, why do I have to torture myself staying here? And then I started to unbutton my uniform. I marched out of the toilet towards the lift. I wanted to go visit my grandmother. When I reached the ward, I saw my grandmother, my mother, my uncle and my aunt. I had this thought, a very dramatic scene where you can only see in the shows. I could not control myself then and I threw that piece of uniform on the floor and I try to yell softly (because it is a hospital, and because it's been a long time I got so angry that I forgot how to shout) "I'm not working anymore!" in Chinese (wo bu yao zhuo le!). I proceeded to sit down next to my grandmother's bed. My uncle was the first to respond saying that I cannot lose my cool like that, what more there are patients here and the might be frightened. Then my mother said," since you don't like then stop working." And that was the thing I was deciding to do. I think walked straight in tot he office and told the manager that I want to quit in a very cold manner. I can see that she was very shocked by my actions and she was quite dumbfounded as she did not know how to respond. Her reply was that I need to give a 3 days in advance notice of termination of work. I answered immediately," today is the 1st day." Her idea was that I finished my work for the day before leaving, then I told her that I was sick ( i really felt so) and I have to go for an MC that day (which I did not in the end). Later she asked the OE to let me sign the termination form, I hesitated for awhile, and told her that I have to make a call. I called Min Hui to get Gina's number which then she told me that the branch manager is the one who plans the duty roster and for shopping malls, it is very hard to cater to our need to be excused from the weekends. That was one of the reasons that i was being transfered to TTSH branch. Thus I've got a proposal to work on Saturday morning. Gina told me to call the Tampines branch manager and tell him about it. I called. In the end we were transfered back to Tampines branch and I was not quitting the job yet.

The TTSH manager then talked to me about this thing, saying that she understood that us young people might get a bit impulsive (like me, but it worked) because for a lot of young people are educated and it is not the best job to be a shop assistant. She thought that people like us are more suitable to work in the administrative side instead. I agreed with her. We had a little small talk and that cooled me off a bit. I asked her about the other branches' people and the MD.

I returned to the ward. I thought to myself: I should have felt better after letting off some steam, but it did not. I would have if I'm not a Christian, but I not sure if I would have enjoyed the moment as a Christian.

growl

Too painful to stay awake.
Too hard to fall asleep.
Help me.

That was what I was feeling for the past 4 days.

Enough Time

Another realisation that I realised. This one happened yesterday at the hospital.

I was at the hospital visiting my grandmother. She was admitted a few days ago. She was fine until the eve of the CNY. On the eve and till now, she seems sort of lethargic and kept on falling into sleep every now and then, when she doing something or not doing something. When you talk to her, she could fall asleep responding to you. Then on the 2nd day of CNY there is a bruise on her right eye. It looked horrible. Tt covered the whole quarter of her face, and because of this bruise she could not even open her good eye to look at us properly. In the end the adults decided to admit her to the hospital.

What I have realised is that God had given us enough time.

I am 20 this year. I have lived 20 years on this earth. When I looked at my mother (yesterday at the hospital), I was thinking that I need to live another of my (until now) lifetime to reach 40 (or about my mother's age). Then I turned to look at my Grandmother, and then I thought that it would be another double life (2x40) to reach my grandmother's age (rough estimate).

I realised that 20 years and I have achieved so much, what more another 20, then another 40. It is very traumatising to know that you (I) have to go through another of what you (I) have gone through to reach say a parent's age, a more mature adult, a breadwinner's prime. And then live through another time of your (my) already gone through life to reach a grandparent's age, a successful guardian, a retired person. It is comforting to know that you (I) have to go through another of what you (I) have gone through to lead people into believing Christ, teaching new christians, organising camps. There is enough time for all these, for people like us. This life expectancy thing, God has given us about 100 or a little less, but lets just round it up to a hundred.

And I'm 20 now.

Everything. What is that?

Practice is not the only key to perfection.

During reunion dinner at my paternal grandmother's place, I noticed that her cooking taste as good as ever. You might argue that she has been cooking everyday. But cooking Chinese New Year dishes everyday?? Bamboo Shoots with Chicken & Sea Cucumber. I enjoyed this dish the most, and the reason that I look forward to go to her place every Chinese New Year Eve.

Experience and good memory counts. This is one new way that I view how things work in this world. Practice is not everything there is to carry out your life. Be it in studies, sports, gaming, eating, cooking, dating. From tonight, I saw that practice is not the key to make it or break it. Experience in the field is more essential to it, to the thing that you are doing. Experience as in experiencing the event and not experience as in accumulated experience over many practices.

Experiencing a certain event and remember it. To do it again, simply replicate. There does not contain any traces of doing it over and over and over again like in practising. To make something work, just did it a first time (found a successful time) and repeat it the second time if required. Add in some modifications if desired. Commit it to your good memory so that whenever you need this specific skill, your superb memory can recall.

Because being right is one way something works, the other is simply wrong. Either something is done right or its done wrong. There is only 2 side to this coin. Repeating the right movement for the activity that you do makes that thing being done correctly. Practice means trial and error. And error means that the action is not correct. You might have to try some a few times to get it right, but after that it is just repeating it.

Actually up to here, I think that practice is not the key to perfection. Trial and repetition is the way to get things done the correct way.

Well, maybe practice does have its worth to make you eventually do things faster, but you do have to get it right before you want to do it faster, don't you? Won't want to waste time practising on some wrong practices do you?

You may not agree instantly with my new view. But read it a few more times, see how i structure my argument. See if I make sense.

Men's Health

Last Tuesday, I tried something that was featured in Men's Health.



Have you spotted anything different?



I modified some of the ingredients. The fish tasted wonderful, although it is more overcooked compared to the original photograph's. But the salsa, well, lets just say that I'm not the chef that was meant to be.

So, then I decided to make it a simpler dish on Wednesday by making a mushroom sauce instead of the salsa. It taste much better then the salsa that I attempted to make previously, but I would say there there is room for improvement. But there is something very wrong. I did not use lemon for any part of the dish on Wednesday,thus the fish smell sticked to me wherever I went.

While eating my lunch, I got to know that Russell is flying off that very evening. He did not even tell me anything. What a good friend. So I planned my day: to go to the library, then to the airport.

And i went to Bishan Library to return books. Imagine the people who shunned me along the way and on the bus. I bet they smell something fishy that day. I popped by at BCH to say 'hi' to Qin Yi though, did not think she smell my fishiness maybe because the BBQ pork aroma had masked it.

The trip to the airport is about 1hr45mins. From the starting point to the end, or rather for bus 53, the loop.



A reunion, at last. Noticed that I am the only one wearing surf pants, and all the others are wearing long pants. Russell is going away for at least 7-8 years. I really hope that our relationship as good friends will not just fade away like that. What a friend lah, never even tell me his plans. Haha, but never mind lah... ... ...

Then the following 2 days, I went out to make money at Kallang from SAVA, a private Dragon boat association/company who organises and coordinate Dragonboating & kayaking events. They are also distributer for dragonboats. I guess that my description is correct. Yeah!! i got my tan from the 2 days of sun. Sanding and then lacquering the boats under the sun is no joke. This is really hard-earned money.

Friday is the day when the O levels result is announced. My sister got a L1R5 better than me. haha. 12. Wa lao. beter than me leh. How can. Tsk Tsk Tsk. Ok lah, very good. Now she can go almost wherever she wants. Friday is also the night when Addison's performance was on. I has been a long time since I have went for a band performance and I have lost touch with this kind of music, I realised.

(",)

Learn

I guess that I will be learning lessons of being patience and not to come to conclusion too quickly.

I do not know if it is God's intended lesson for me (because he is too almighty for me to know how he works) but i think I will be learning patience.

I did not get the starhub job. But the relief-teaching job seems hopeful because I am waiting for the online application to be fully processed. Currently I have been given provisional approval for my application to register as a Relief Teacher. It is an intern period. I have to check back at the web page one month later to see the result of the final status.

Meantime, I can go to a certain school, cause the OM (or i supposed) has promised my aunt that he will take me in when i go there. I think I am going to try tomorrow.

My plan for this week: to shed that fat for CNY!!
Go to my parent's shop in the morning. Go to the gym in the afternoon. Continue packing my room in the later afternoon (加油!!). Then have proper rest in the night.

Going to Dan's birthday chalet tomorrow. Hope that I will not miss the last episode of 最高点 tomorrow!!

Work work.

Last thing first. When I was about to reach home, I remembered that I had a missed call from an unknown number. I was at my doorstep when I returned the call. She answered the call, and the first thing she asked was "are you still looking for temp job?". Initially, I thought that she was the pet shop owner, calling to ask me if I'm still available to work at her shop. Then she was telling me about Sentosa and to go for some walk-in interview. Her voice sounds like Yan Fang, but is is unlike her tone. Then it struck me, the way she talked has a slight accent. I asked her," are you Cindy?' She replied," ..you thinking of another girl.. " or it sounded something like that (I was very tired, I could not catch much of what she was saying, only heard 'temp job', 'Sentosa', 'walk-in', 'other girl' and 'Serene'). All my guesses were wrong. She is Serene as she 're'-introduced herself to me. Then we had a short talk about looking for job.

Talking about jobs. And almost everything about me. When things don't come, they disappeared, vanished and almost like avoiding me. But when things come, they come in bunches, and the more it comes, the better it gets. Last time, it was outings. This week it is job opportunities. After December, I've actively asked many people about job vacancies, no one seems to be of help. I've sent out many resumes, but there was only one response. I've went to the pet shop behind my house and she said that she will keep me in mind and call me when the place gets besy (CNY period). But there was no call or email for so very long. Just 2 days ago, Aloysius told me that I could work at his parent's company. Last night, I heard my Mother said that my3rd aunt asked one of SA junior school staff if there are any vacancies for relief teaching because I am interested. He informed her that I can go down to the school to look for him. Just this afternoon, StarHub's staff called me and told me to go for an interview tomorrow afternoon.

For tomorrow.

(",)

One Month's Time

If you spotted the trend. It is really happening once every month.

My blog entries.

It is one month since Joel left Singapore for Caribbean. And only until now that I have 'spoken' to him (via MSN). So all I want to say now is that he is an extraordinary man.

Ah, today. A job found me. Aloysius called me in the morning and asked me if I'm still wanting a job. I asked him about the nature of the job and he replied that I am to be a driver for his father courier's company. I then discussed it with my father before agreeing to it.

When I reached there, I joined Aloysius, his father, and his cousin (who worked with his father too) for lunch. After lunch I had a conversation about dogs with his mother, because the real guy (the permanent employee) doing the delivery is not ready yet. Soon after we (actually only I) ventured into the strange world of MacPerson, West Coast, Bt Batok, Clementi, Sunset Way, Industrial Estates, Science Parks etc. He is very familiar with all these places, not me, I only do the driving, he knows the way. But even before the van was out of the building something scary happened; I accidentally drove too near to the multi storey carpark's wall and scratched the side of the van. Actually nothing much else happened, I drove there, he got out and sent the item, he got back into the van and I drove off to the next destination.

Except only one place. Sunset way area. While I was waiting for him (by the way he is Uncle Leong) in the van. I saw someone whom I know from the right side mirror. She was jogging. I never thought that it would be so coincidental. She is the one of the TL from BT Timah NPC. I got down and spoke to her. As usual, she talked only about work and Police stuffs. She asked me to consider joining VSC. It was a short conversation. I resumed my work after that.

Going back to the office was a tiring effort. There was a traffic jam and my feet were aching because I had to constantly exert force on the paddles. It was not a easy feat but i managed to complete it. For the sake of going home.

When reaching the office, I've noticed a very familiar blue-merc behind my van. Aloysius was driving it. We were at the dreaded multi storey carpark. Upon reaching, we got out and proceeded into the office. Aloysius's mother suggested that the van should be parked at a certain lot. Aloysius then took over the key and decided to give it a try. He failed. He said," I give up." Couldn't even start the vehicle properly. Haha.

Before we leave, Aloysius and his mother inspected the damage that I've unleashed. She told me not to worry since it is only a small scratch and a dent. I was comforted by the words she spoke. When we leave that place, Aloysius sent me to a coffee shop near my place so that I can have my dinner. That's about it all. Thank God for letting Aloysius be my friend, and thanks Aloysius that your father's company has a vacancy for me!!

Haha! I'm s$50 richer!

(",)

Backtrack

Today is actually 30th dec.

Well ORD loh.

But there's one thing I've yet to fulfil. TO maintain the tummy. haha. Remember the challenge to train up our tummy and to see who has the washboard abs achieed before ORD? haha

Soon to be free

The time is coming.

Soon to be free.

Haha.

Ok, lets talk about November!

1724 helped Joel celebrated his birthday at a location you would least expect anyone would held it at. MacDonalds!!


1744?


Definitely 1724?




We've played afool


We've played with Joel.


We've played with Baloons.


We've played with hair.


And we've played with Joel's hair.

Well, that was MacNight that was. We had a MacBirthday celebration!

On the 24th, I followed the SF camp committee to Choa Chu Kang. I forgot the exact address, but it is very near to the Home Team Academy. No 50 somewhere, just continue along Sungei Telok after the academy. I was thinking that it would be a great camp. Sorry I do not have any photos to show you guys. But the place, one whole campsite belongs to us; we can use the whole place without restriction. AND it is big too. Just wait for the actual day. 18th to 21st December!
The Next Big Thing is coming.

Then on Sunday, this Hao Jie dragged me to his house. Because his family was chosen for the Christmas event video interview. Well, he asked me to just go to his place as I have yet been to his place before. Haha, good reason. I agree. Reason number 2, becuase he said that he had something which he want to give to me. But when I reached his place, he said that he had hid it so well from his brother, that he could not find it himself. Joke leh. Haha. Hao Jie please do not, i repeat DO NOT read the statement in the brackets (actually i went to his place because more of reason no. 2. Don't tell him. Haha).
Well, to begin with, it was very last minute that he asked me to go to his place, and it will be in a rush because it is right after worship. Then we do not know if there is transport to and fro. Then the next thing is that I will be of no use to any part of the production, so all the more I should not be there to take up space.
But then, actually we had enough time in the end, as the filming team will only leave after lunch. Then Da Quan is going there in his Toyota Picnic which is spacious for 6 passengers. And well, lastly, Hao Jie asked me over to his place to, well, take up the space. Haha.

Just a question who else heard of the University of the Nations?

Yesterday, I went to Suntec. Addison Min Hui and me. Our original plan is to watch Casino Royale. But then we kinda missed the original time slot. So we decided to settle down for Subway sandwich (since I have not tried before) + Carl's Jr Drink (since it's free flow) and have sort of Bible study revision. After finishing the snadwich, we then shifted over to Carl's Junior. Addison and I shared another burger since he complained of not being so full.
Soon it was 915pm in the night. I then asked them if they want to watch the movie. After 5minutes in the toilet, I finally decided. I then told them that we should do what we came to do. And we watch the 945 show. 007
The show ended at 5 past midnight, and by the the time we reached the bus stop, we realised that the bus left like about 5 mins ago, almost got it. Worse, we do not have enough money with us, only left about 18 totaled up. Guessed what? We then walked from Suntec via Nicoll Highway then across Medake Bridge finally reaching some place around Kallang almost reaching Geylang, more accurately off Guillardmard Road. so there came a taxi and we hopped on. Wheni told that uncle that we hane only got about 10+ dollars, the uncle geve us the 'kinda-scared' expression. But according to Addison who is the last to alight, that the money is enough.

I am waiting for the Camp, and also for an event which is nearer to come.
ORD.

(",)

ITE

It is coming to an end. My NS.

But something had to happen at this point of time. Just to briefly mention it here. I accidentally got a portable radio set (walkie talkie that cost about S$7000++ each) spoilt during patrol. An official Police report had to be made as it is an official equipment, and it was being damaged during official duty time.

You might heard this in the Army that accidents like this can be covered up by superiors, but things do not work this way here. So, seriously, the report has to be made. Not anyone's fault to blame.

Not entirely a bad month. At least i have a lot of rest days due to the leave days and also the weekends. I was able to have bit more outings with my friends, from here and there.

Daniel had then present to me my birthday present when I gone over to his place after we watch "The Covenant". It is a "DC Showcase SUPERMAN vol1" comic book. I have always been interested in comics. Paticularly in Superman and his gang (DC) and also X-men (Marvel).

Just tuesday, I went to Dulos, the world largest floating bookfair. It is actually a ship dokced at Harbour Front. It is also a Christian Ministry, sort of, because as it has Christian related seminars and books there. Went there with HaoJie and Joel.

Ok, it is coming to the mid of November already.

October

Summary of October

Few significant events that I can remember.

1st October
Went to Heeren, at the used-to-be Marche restaurant. Now is is called Village. Hao Jie also went with me to have our dinner.
Here is the Beer, one of the alcoholic drinks I would recommend. Erdinger Beer. Try the light one, although I am having the Dark one. If you can get hold onto an Erdinger Crystal, that would be the best!



4th October
Kok Boon's got married! Our dear colleague (my chauffeur). He had held the event at Armaran Country Club at Pasir Ris. Not much pictures here because I am not the one who did the photogragh taking that night. Well, Seng was there with his trusty Ixus, and there is always the hired photographer! I only took a pic of someone putting on a Ultraman Helmet, kinda made her looked like that superhero...



Then I took a cab with Elaine, sent her home first before meeting my JC budds at Serangoon Garden, at a place called Happy Dazes Retro Bistro. It really is happy daze there. Played card, won some lost some.Altogether there were 4 of us. Aloy, Andy, Xue Qian and myself. So after that, the 4 curious boys spotted a dart machine there and decided to try our skills at throwing things.







The teams, 1 comprising of Andy and Xue Qian, 2 comprising of Aloy and me, ties at 2 games out of 4. Good throw.

7th October
My Birthday! I took leave. There was this class outing that night @ Plaza Singapura. Russ, Dan, Val, WeiJian, YongYi, Gabriel, Erienne, YunXuan, Rena were there. I might have missed out someone. Sorry about that, I'm not a supercomputer, can't recall everything. Well I was thinking if anyone could remember that it was my birthday. I had initially decided to keep quiet to see. Actually most of them remembered. Val bought a cake, well, it's a piece of cake for me with a candle on top.



Then we wen to watch the movie "scoop" as it was the only movie that weekend night that had enough seats for all of us.

13th October
I believed it was a Friday. HaoJie and I met Joel for a movie at Plaza Singapura again. The Departed. I have not watched the original story prior to that day. The original story is actually Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs. Joel suggested that we go for it as he had expected it to be a good show. I ended up liking the show quite a lot. Next is dinner time, we lingered around town and finally went down to citilink at City Hall. We had dinner at this Asian Kitchen place at the corner next to Thai express. As both HaoJie and me cannot make it for Saturday's 1724 Bible study, Joel thought that he might as well give us the lesson that night since we are at it. We were actually "watching the preview show" Haha. Then we moved over to Esplanade to continue to lesson as not to hogged onto the seats at the restaurant.



17th October
ORD Medical Chcekup. I was kena sabotaged to be the van driver to send my fellow NServicemen to Old Police Academy for the checkup. They just wanted someone who can drive and my dear friend SK volunteered me. Haha... becuase I have driven van before.
My medical shows that I am normal, meaning that I will be in the same Pess status (B) as when I entered NS.
After the Checkup, Sk, Louis and YongChuen decided that we shold catch a movie at the new VivoCity after lunching at DHQ.
MAN, the seats was big, huge. But i felt that it was not the best scorer in the comfortable test. It was far too hard and the seats are too straignt up, it seems like you are seated in a 90º position. We watched "Silk". It is supposed to be a horror film, but I thought that it becamae a science fiction film instead.
We took a walk at the building. Guess who we saw, I did not know her name, but she is the WPO trainee who was in training at the same time as us in TRACOM when were in NPCO course. I think you might remember her better as the better looking girl in her squad. Haha. There was not many to start with, so it should be easy to narrow down to who she is.


21st October
I attended a Worship training at Church

24th October
We had this DIY pizza buffet + Kong Ba Pau lunch at Joel's. It was really a great lunch. We mixed all sorts of ingredients onto the pizza dough and then chuck it one side into the oven for it to bake.
Then it was bible study by Joel. As it was my 1st off day. They sais that I looked so stoned. Thus this might explain the fact that I really did not get the lesson on the spot. I cannot really comprehend what Joel was trying to tell the class althogh I can remember what he said.
After class, we played card game "Loot" and then board game "Monopoly". Guess who was the richest. Me, of course. It was how I was saying, "little by little, it will generate into bigger wealth" heehee. I was like buying all the cheap land and utilities, which whenever, I would only collect $4 or $6. But then I was able to build Hotels on my lands all at a turn. It turned out that I will be collecting $660. Then in the end, all the others combined forces to play against me. Due to time constrain, we ended the game before we have a rightful winner.

27th October
Hao Jie and I went to Marina Bay to fly kite. It was my first time to try this activity. Well, it really is worth my try. We bought a $2.50 kite initially. Seeing how easily HJ flew the kite,

he still can use his phone, I then went back to the uncle to buy another one.
With the same ease, the kite flew up high too.

Can you spot the 2 kites? Click the image to find out where they are! Red is his, Green is mine.

28th October
I have to attend a Church Retreat Meeting. It was a full day event comprising of a workshop, lunch, sermon, fellowship and dinner. It was conducted at my friend's (han Wei) condo's MPH.
After that I took a walk with my friends (Han Ying, Min Hui) and her mother(Han Mama) .

It's Halloween Season!!

I think between 25th to 28th I went to Compasspoint wanting to get a phone, but to no avail. Instead we (family) bought a DVD player instead because I had hilighted to my pop that the player at home will have jerky images when showing DVD films. I thus rented some DVD to watch and found that it had the same problem as the previous player. So we went back on 28th with the DVD and the player wanting to get a change. But we found out that those rented discs might have been pirated disc. Well.....

In the end i trusted the Courts Salesman and did not change the palyer since the problems are the discs. I think I should start looking for new DVD rental places.

31st October
Work Work!!

Confession

Confession: It has been a long time since I have bible study session that awed me.

It is a ego thing, I know, and I know that it is wrong. But what is it. Is that the thing that will strike me when attending a good bible study session?

Then I can say that it has really been a long time since this thing hit me. Would I want to consider this thing the Holy Spirit. Who is the one inside me, telling me what is the Good, what is the Bad?

Or is the Holy Spirit only starting work recently? Then it might be considered a very sad thing; needing such long a time to warm up.

Hell with it! (Oops) These few times are good Bible Study sesions.

Why have I not gotten so inspired before after other Bible Study sessions. I learnt and picked up a lot from the recent sessions. I have discovered and made relisations that have never crossed my mind. Somehow my curious mind was satisfied.

Last time I only know that Jesus appearence is supposed to fulfil these prophecies, and now I explicitly know which action he did caused the great revolution among Believers. How exactly parts of the Old Testament linked to the New Testament.

Last time, I only take what was presented to me as it was. Now what I have experienced is that I know why it was like. Roses are red. Violets are blue? It is like that people just accept that red rose is red in colour. But do you know that white light is the light that is shone onto the red rose, and that the other 6 colours are being absorbed, thus only the red is being reflected. That is why our eyes detected this red so the rose appear red. Technically, the rose is not red; it only reflets red light. Christians should have fellowship. People accepts this fact. One can also believe in God, and not to go to Church. He is still a Christian because he is saved, isn't he? Well, fellowship, is made for man to stay close to God. For man to stay solo, it is against God's plan. The church should act as one body as Jesus have always taught. To love and to care about people around you will show that our love comes from God. Our love is limited; God's love is limitless. It is impossible to love everyone around us, unless we are powered by God's love. Coming together as a Body reminds one another of what we are, and that we need God's Love.
We are God's Children and He have us in his mind when we are still formless. You can try to not go Church, but you just remember that you do not answer to the pastor, your church leader, your guardian angel, your buddy, not even your father or mother. You will not face them during the Judgement.

I really hope that such Bible studies sessions are frequent scenes in my life.

Now that I've waited. I might have the chance to know how to prepare and lead a good Bible Study session.

Just pray that We will all get it.

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