Saturday, July 31, 2010

if not now, then when?

have not felt such a desire to do something as well as i can for quite a while already.

oh i do this in Your name and with Your strength.


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I'm Forever Yours - Planetshakers


I give my all to you
Send me and i will go for you
To the ends of the earth
I'll follow after you
I want the world to know
Your love endures forever

Tell me and i'll obey
This is far greater than sacrifice
Trusting you and not myself
Will always lead to blessing
Lord have your way in me
Not my will, yours be done

Here i stand within your presence
Longing for your touch
A thousand days cannot compare
To one day in your courts

Hold me now
And never ever let me go
My jesus, my precious saviour
I'm forever yours

I will worship you forever
I will worship you

Sunday, July 25, 2010

i forget so often that God loves me.

it's easy to believe in all the goodness and fairness in the world when life is smooth sailing.
but when your life downright sucks, like nothing seems to be going the way you wanted, it's hard to still say with a smile, that you know things are going to be alright.

life is a test of faith. faith the size of a mustard seed may be enough to get you going, but it takes one giant of a faith to keep you going when the giants in your life seem to suffocate you. i think i'll do well as a counselor, by simple virtue that i can empathise well with others, having gone through so many of those things myself.

i'm being excessively touchy-feely again.

Friday, July 23, 2010

another week come and gone; what have i done so far?
i'm not proud to say that i've accomplished little. even now i don't see how it makes sense to ask people to cram 2 years' worth of work into 40+ days of revision. but faith is beyond the things that can be seen, and i guess when one day someone is left with nothing, it takes faith to pull him or her through.

yesterday we got our PSC personality test results back. i must say that it's fairly accurate, though i'm pretty much aware of what kind of person i am for the most part already haha. it just takes some introspection. still, a rather useful and interesting report to have, and fun too i would think, to exchange with someone's and find out how well you know that person (or not!).

RI scholarship day last weekend was not all that useful for me; perhaps it's because i've already researched alot on the various organisations and i'm pretty much set in what i'm not going to want to work as in future, at least. i did enjoy the STB talk though, and i think they're really good at marketing (which partly explains the success in singapore's tourism sector eh). their promotional videos and stuff are awesome. and STB is responsible for coming up with Can You Serve! that's cool man. i did enjoy watching the whole season and even had many takeaways. i think a season 2's coming up too!

i'm taking a liking to this song currently. sheesh it's the song for the shanghai world expo, but the song is nice anyway. go youtube it! (it happens that STB screened this to start off their talk. perhaps they were in charge of this as well, seeing as its about world expo?)

40 days.

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孫燕姿+蔡健雅+阿杜+林俊傑 -【感動每一刻(2010上海世博會新加坡主題曲)


作曲:林俊傑
作詞:林秋離、許環良、Venus


夜里的霓虹與月光
思念漸漸的迷忘
不眠的街上X光芒
照不進心房 空蕩

天亮了擁擠的匆忙
沒太多的時間狂想
忙碌追逐遺忘 過往

眼看著高樓越高心更寂寞
冷冷的感覺總叫人失落
緊握 遺握 堅決不放手

要用多少未來的夢換一絲溫柔
沒有你我不懂生命算不算擁有過

別讓愛像冰山融化
來不及回頭
有你有我的執著
擁抱心中每一刻感動

未來或許有點迷茫
心靠近就不必驚慌
用愛讓城市更美好

眼看著高樓越高心更寂寞
冷冷的感覺總叫人失落
緊握 遺握 堅決不放手

啊~~~

要用多少未來的夢換一絲溫柔(孫燕姿:換一絲溫柔 )
沒有你我不懂生命算不算擁有過

別讓愛像冰山融化
來不及回頭
有你有我的執著
擁抱著心中每一刻感動

有你有我 直到永久
擁抱你我 每一刻感動

Monday, July 19, 2010

many things are not what we expect it to be.

lots of things seem alright at first, but when it gets down to doing it yourself...it becomes different.
i concur; life is really tough. recent events have more than demonstrated.

so what do we do when things don't go our way?
have faith that things will turn out well, and 2 Chronicles 20:17...

we don't have to fight this battle alone.

Friday, July 16, 2010

CTs have finally come back, and it wasn't too pretty.
if anything, i know for sure now that i do not belong in the "damn smart" category. i guess even one week a subject couldn't cut it; what could i have expected from the ridiculous amount of procrastination, really? in a sense i saw this coming, and in a sense i brought this upon myself.
but simply crying over spilt milk is silly, and after mopping up the tears we have got to move on. so, it's going to be serious. and, i'm going to need all the help i can get.

if only time could multiply.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

revelation of the day: you can know alot about a person from his/her blog. strangely enough, there are many things that we feel uncomfortable telling a person face to face, yet we are fine with saying it to a computer screen, which eventually would be made available for the world to see. the world's a funny place.

i appreciate it so much that people are willing to tell me stuff that they don't tell many others. it shows how much they trust you. and being able to trust and be trusted are some of the best feelings around.

if i could only not fall asleep, i would have all the time in the world to finish what i want. somehow i think that's taking things a little too idealistic though, since even if that were possible, i probably wouldn't spend those "sleeping hours" all doing constructive work.

as i watched my tv just now a scene made me think: how easy is it really for us to love someone again, even after they've ignored, neglected, harmed and hurt us? but that is the ultimate act of love you can show, my friend.

i had better stop typing on, if not i might not be able to sleep by 2am tonight. oh my.
time is a luxury that we can't afford.
make that a necessity.

whoo my nose has turned into a tap today. except that what comes out isn't water, it's...well how many sticky, gooey things can come out from a nose?

sigh i need to work that much harder!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

why am i so stupid.

Monday, July 5, 2010

suddenly, i feel that alot of things in this world don't matter much anymore.

being a human and being a being are not the same. being the living dead is not much better than being simply dead. so the question is, what will the choice we make be?

head feels funny, i guess i can't function properly now.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

something illuminating from the epsiode of ghost whisperer today.

"the good thing about technical problems is that once you identify what's wrong, just get it fixed and everything's good as gold again.
if only problems in life were the same. but often they're not; and when you do something wrong, sometimes all you can do is to say sorry."

but we all know that it takes so much courage to speak that one word and admit to our imperfection.

ghost whisperer is a really nice show (and not all too freaky either). even with jennifer love hewitt aside XD

how unexpected, unlimited and unmerited the blessings we recieve are.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

probably the last real weekend i'm going to have till prelims, and even till As as well. "enjoy it while it lasts", indeed.

no wonder why i'm blowing (almost) my whole weekend to let my hair down (not literally duh, hair not long enough). yay i'm so happy that i've got so much better at pool and bowling after going for just 2/3 times. haha i can remember my epic failure at pool the first time, with the gazillion jumping/flying cue balls which unfortunately got caught on candid camera. oh well, fond memories to look back upon in the near future. (Y)!

was just talking to jerome (actually more like he talked to me but whatever) regarding psc fair. it strikes me how few people actually know clearly and surely what they want to do in their adult working life. here i recommend ecareers.sg cause it's a really good site.

i really like msn even though it has been said to have so many cons. such as being a major distraction, a waste of time, becoming a weirdo because you'd be talking and perhaps laughing to a computer screen, etc etc. nevertheless when you talk with the right people so much meaningful stuff comes up. everything has its fair share of magic.
maybe if something about social media comes up for a GP essay question i'd say this, but i suppose i'd just die epicly because i can't back this up strongly enough. personal conviction, no matter how strong, ain't enough to convince objective examiners without substantial examples and superior reasoning. not that i'm dismissing the significance or usefulness of that, in fact i myself strongly support it because it's served me well so many times before. just that sometimes, you really just have to abandon all else and just listen to your heart.

can't believe i only just remembered today that i have a h3 test coming up next monday. i could say good game now since even one whole week of CT studying without school time didn't give me my confident feel of an A. let alone for h3, add on the fact that it's studying only after school hours. wow excellent.

just wanted to end off with a line from a mediacorp production, which i found impactful, somehow.
how one generation loves, the next generation learns.

ah eye pain eye pain. use too much computer already..

Thursday, July 1, 2010

post CTs mood. i can foresee a convoluted post coming, and so should you.
strangely, i don't feel particularly relieved. it's weird that i don't feel particularly elated when i should. maybe it was due to the rather mood spoiling "class outing", maybe it was due to the fact that i screwed up 3/4 exams (not counting GP), maybe cause there are a million other things that i have to attend to even after CTs have come and gone.

whatever the case, it feels as if things have not ended, but merely just begun.

CTs have been quite a bummer. econs was terrible as i didn't get to write what i wanted to, and i got a bit of a memory lapse when i panicked due to time shortage. math was just omg and it was freaky. i totally hate elucidation now, everyone could get compound A except me.
...why am i so stupid? sigh.
but that's that. everything can be a learning experience.

if there are some things that many people never quite get right, it's probably how to communicate, how to love others, how to learn and apply the basic tents of living life. it's such a pity that, even when we may have such brilliant minds and stunningly advanced technology, but the human essence is so sorely lacking in so many, many areas. are these things really that difficult to grasp? i wonder.
we are all broken-hearted people, that's why we can't survive on our own.

and my father was just telling me that this world we live in is far from simple. perhaps the most unfathomable thing is the human mind/emotion. he said not to trust people too much and not to tell your bestest bestest friend every secret you have. because for every thing you divulge, it can be a weapon the person can use against you if the day comes where the two of you no longer see eye to eye, or that he or she becomes tempted by some worldly desire. like what i just heard on the show, anyone can be heartless.
personally, i think no matter what, we all have to learn to protect ourselves. i don't think this necessarily means that we do not respect or trust our friends, just that we would want to keep ourselves safe and sound.

it's july already. how much more time do we have left in the hallowed halls of this institution that we so share a love-hate relationship with? indeed time and tide does wait for no man and i suppose in many many ways, time does > money. and i do need a whole lot of time now. even this 4 day weekend break seems so insignificant. time always seems most scarce when it is most needed, what a paradox.

speaking of paradoxes, life is a huge paradox in itself. like there's the saying, you learn to live when you learn to die. and when you give more, you recieve more. these are so counter intuitive but, they work somehow. what an amazing world.
(and frankly, i don't know what a paradox is defined as. sheesh.)

in an attempt to prevent this post from sounding too dead i will talk about something more interesting. haha ok so class outing (if there was even a properly defined one) was big time fail, but we made up for it with kovan peeps outing at superbowl@kovan =D and i only just found out that the building has bowling + arcade + pool + cafe. i am so happy i live at kovan now~

it really does help to pen things down. consolidates your thoughts, and stores them eternally (as long as dear blogger here does not crash, anyway).

(phew) i'm done with blabbering for today!