i bought a packet of NTUC butter crackers and khong guan lemon biscuits

apparently when I opened the NTUC crackers.. i noticed it's just khong guan biscuits (it's imprinted on the biscuit)... those square ones... u know... those kopitiam ah peks(not that drummer ah pek) dip in coffee..



mum was apparently very amused by the things i m bringing to camp..

she kept suggesting that i might as well bring the fridge along as well... which if ever it is possible, i would gladly get my dad to bring it down.. but well.. that's rather far fetched.. lol :P



had dinner with my family just now.. initially i postponed it to tmr cos mum not very free, lele have tuition and leong would be in library studying.. so only my dad and myself..

but leong came home rather early today.. and we weren't that hungry.. so we waited till around 9pm, went to fetch lele from tuition, before heading to a new coffeeshop at some old hakka building along the stretch of upper bukit timah...

i made it clear to my parents "no cereal prawns"

had em on friday and sunday

mum again suggested with much amuse that it's my "last supper"

had our fill of "zhu chao"

i realised we 3 brothers have really grown quite abit, cos its no longer as spacious sitting at the back seats of my dad's car...

well... lele is fat wad... look at his spare tyre..hahaha



got a couple of smses from zheng chong

my good friend since primary school, same class thruout my secondary sch days...a decade of friendship

he's starting ATEC tmr and wished me all the best for my days in NDU...

really great chap...

gotta catch up with him sometime soon when i m more settled in NS...



alright...

feeling quite tired..

had a long day of work..

good nite my dear friends :)

back for an update

so long since i typed something here...haha :P



well.. let's begin with the public hol that just passed

national day was a nice day spent..

went to catch sunrise (which was hidden behind trees) at east coast with ivy, sab and sier.

slept for just a few hours the previous nite...had to wake up early to prepare breakfast for the potluck and another portion for my family...

made egg w/ melted cheese sandwich and potato salad...

sab prepared hotdogs, nuggets and egg mayo (i still think it taste pretty good.. wonder why all the rest think it smells weird)

rent bikes for an hour to teach ivy how to cycle.. well... she almost caught it lah... prob another trip down to cycle should do the trick... she's so determined.. proud of her!





k.. back to what i've been up to recently

6 days count down..

been busy preparing/ shopping for stuffs for NS..

submitted application to terminate my broadband connection end of september..

1st... it's becoming too expensive... $75 plus for 512!!!

it's only when i asked to terminate then did the singnet staff offered me a better deal...sheesh.. if i didn't ask prob i will continue to pay that horrendous amount..

2nd... i'm going NS so wont need unlimited account for the time being

3rd... my brother is going to have his As so thought its not wise to pass this account to him



guess that's enough reasons to say goodbye to singnet...

i m seriously considering to go wireless with starhub maxonline when i finished my basic training and when leong has enlisted too...

then we can split cost... :P



so well...

guess wont be seeing me blog for some time bah...



pretty much things in mind now..

my family... dear...youth...worship ministry... NDU



i really hope that the older guys will rise up to see the need to ministering to the younger ones..

thinking back to my secondary sch days..

i have a mentor from youth for christ (YFC) called Jia Fu...

he was in charge of taking care of me and another guy my age called benny...

both of us are a notorious pair...

often we would be playing soccer across the room in the YFC office in jurong west.. until he screams at us to stop playing.. :P

but what i remembered most are the times when he asked us out to even do bible study with us... answer questions we have about aliens, ghosts, etc.. yea we were sec 1 then

he was just a poly student, in his final year...

of cos, then we had no idea how heavy his work load is but yet he dedicated his time and effort to meet up with us and even bring us to YFC events, and even subsidising us sometimes...

i remember the days where he would leave voicemails in his pager for us to retrieve...



although it was just simple things that he did...

it mattered alot to me and definitely impacted me one way and another...

he could have dedicated his time elsewhere... even in other areas of ministry... being concerned with his responsibilities..

but he chose to be a friend to benny and i..



being a friend...



maybe sometimes we are just so clogged up and stuck up with our own self, our well being and our own comfort that we have neglected the people around us who needs help.. needs guidance..

wallow in self pity and lament abt the world being unfair...





being a friend...



personally, i find it all pointing to the youths in the ministry...

they are at such a moudable age...

although i have no idea where Jia Fu is presently (i heard he MIA after enlistment...haha), but he left such blessings in my heart that i would want to pass on this blessing to the younger ones...



looking at another incident...

i still remembered the time when the older brother in church whom i look up to alot left the saturday service because of a failed r/s

i was so upset that i cried in church...

thankfully, things calmed down and he returned to church...

seriously, we never know how much the things that happen to us..may affect others around us who care, love and look up to us...





being a friend...



guess it's a humbling process altogether...

i remember the days where i was an arrogant guy who looks down on the childish behavior of the youths back in my previous church...

by God's grace, he changed my perspective...



to be honest...

one doesnt really have to be of a certain leadership role to start impacting lives..

wherever u are, the simple things you do, the way you carry yourself...

in your sch, yr workplace... to the people you mix around with

just look at Jesus when he was a little boy sitting among the teachers



to bear God's love and being a testimony...

it's the little things which amounts



i really thank God for Jia Fu... and of cos many others whom He has placed in my life.. whom have left such sweet memories in my heart...and even impacted me in one way or another..



this would be the beginning of a new challenge in NS...

pray that He will keep me strong in my faith and make me the light and salt he wants me to be