Sunday, December 31, 2006
oh. hah. yes.. i changed my blogskin. actually this blogskin is so unlike me. but i desperately want to change my blogskin because the old is so unlike me as well. ok. that was me umm.. 2 years ago.
right. it's 10.39pm now.happy new year everyone! the next time i blog.. it'll be the year 2007!
i thank everyone for everything that has happened to me this year. the good and the bad. experiences help you to grow. it has been a fascinating, exciting and fulfilling year for me.
cheers!
may the new year be filled with all things good and beautiful.
says oddball
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Lunch at Surf & Turf with Amy, Noreen, Xin Hui, Belinda and Pei Zhen
met up with amy, noreen, xinhui, bel and peizhen yesterday!
it's really nice seeing them again, especially amy. it was the first time seeing her since a year ago.
it wasn't the first time meeting up with the rest of them but it was still a rare chance to actually talk to them and find out how life has been. oh well.. girl-talk. felt like we were back in secondary school days. remember those days at Macs and the dou hua dian. i can almost hear the annoying high-pitched "yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." sound coming from the oven they have there.
having talked to them.. i kinda miss being in a girls' school although i haven't had much time to harbour that thought ever since midyears. although it's been a year, i must admit that none of us has had any dramatic transformation of any sort. amy is still that bookish ( i don't mean it in a bad way. she IS bookish..) and dance-crazy person she was. noreen is still our favourite sheep. xinhui still hasn't taken to wearing skirts (unfortunately..). bel.. haha. still so innocent. peizhen still the genius (just that now, she's better known as THE GODDESS).
hey people! thank you for the wonderful time we had.
i hope we won't have to wait another year before we meet up again!
we really must meet up at least once a year even when we are in our 60s and 70s, hobbling around with walking sticks.
a teacher once said that you'll meet the best friends you'll keep for life while you are in secondary school. and i must say that i think it's true.. hope you all think so too.
says oddball
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
haha. just wanted to share yesterday's (19th Dec) devotion from the christmas edition of our daily bread.
i liked it. hope you like it too.
i tried looking for it on the rbc ministries website but i couldn't find it. so i'll just have to type it out..
here goes:
The Star in the WindowDuring WWII, it became a custom in the US for a family who had a son serving in the military to place a star in a front window of their home. A gold star indicated that the son had died in support of his country's cause.
Sir Harry Lauder told a touching story about this custom. One night, a man was walking down a New York city street with his 5 year old son. The little boy was interested in the brightly lighted windows of the houses and wanted to know why some houses had a star in the window. The father explained that those families had a son fighting in the war. The child would clap his hands as he saw another star in the window and cry out, "Look daddy! There's another family who gave a son for his country!"
At last they came to an empty lot, and a break in the row of houses. Through the gapa star could be seen shining brightly in the sky. The little lad caught his breath, "Oh, daddy," he cried, "Look at the star in the window of heaven! God must have given his son too."
- For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. John 3:16
Many give their lives for their country, but Jesus gave his life for the world.
As we enter the season of christmas, let us remember the true meaning of christmas.
Here's wishing everyone a blessed christmas!says oddball
Monday, December 18, 2006
i've been sitting by the poolside again. if you haven't heard it before: the poolside is a good place for thinking. listening to the splashing water, rustling palm ( and whatever other tree that is) trees AND your own thoughts.
ok. you know i realise i have been talking a lot about my ocip trip lately. sorry to people, like xinhui, who are probably bored already with me going on and on about it. but i am somehow going to bring that up again. haha. too bad.
ok. christmas is like round the corner. it's a week away! right. anyway, here's wishing one and all a blessed and meaningful christmas. (dear xinhui! thank you so much for the christmas card! ) which means that new year would be coming right up and i'll be 18 next year.
WOW.. the big 1-8.
you know sometimes i feel that my parents treat me like a little kid. and i'm 17 already! oh well. not that it's always bad being treated like a kid. it's nice being daddy and mummy's little girl once in awhile but i wish they would give me a little more space. on the other hand, i think i have grown up a lot since the ocip trip. or at least i would like to show my parents that i have grown up during the trip and that they had done the right thing when they gave me permission to go.
hopefully, if i can show myself to be a responsible person, my parents will be convinced that i can take care of myself.
says oddball
Thursday, December 14, 2006
this is terrible. i desperately need to get my life back to normal.
weird things are happening to me. has been happening to me since i got back from cambodia.
for example..
1. i was making videos of of my group last week and beginning of this week. somehow i have resorted to do such things whenever i think about my group people.
2. my mom caught me laughing today while i was washing the dishes. it reminded me of our mosquitoes/flies dance routine and the "i need sunshine" thing. tricia just reminded me that our group did the most dish-washing. 3.3333333333333333 days in all.
3. i can't help laughing whenever i see that seaweed packaging. hmm.. wonder why.
4. i am watching that video i made at least once a day. i think i am losing my mind. AFTER watching it i'll go into a laughing fit and my mom will give me weird looks once again.
5. i am counting down to our group outing. (refer to my msn nickname.) i really am losing my mind.
anyway, i went for yuhua sec sch harmonica concert the other day. WOW. they were good.. they played some really nice pieces too. oh yes. they played "can can" for a group piece and it sounded way way way better than ours. the guest performer was a "he jia-yi" guy. yes GUY. he left me totally speechless. he played Carmen Overture on harmonica! O.O i was totally speechless. totally. anyway, i realised that mr tang has a way of getting the audience very zi-high at the end of every concert. oh well.. it's part of being a conductor i guess.
says oddball
Monday, December 04, 2006
hello people!
back from cambodia! ok. actually i've been back for.. 3 days already. u know i kinda miss cambodia, miss hope village, miss my group, miss the kids.. the list goes on and on. i think 9 days together makes everyone in the group feel like family. they met up on saturday night for dinner but i had to give that a miss because i was down with food poisoning. oh well. thank goodness i only fell ill after returning from the trip.
anyway, the trip has been a really really REALLY great experience. i think i enjoyed myself so much more than i expected to. i love the place (although i was quite disgusted with the dirt and lizards and sandflies initially), the people i met while i was there (especially my group. you people rock) and the lessons i've learnt.
it's amazing to see the staff and kids having their praise and worship session in the morning and afternoon respectively. they have so little yet they have so much to be thankful for. one lollipop is enough to make their day. yet i have 2 lollipops in my refrigerator and they have been there since dunno when. actually, the kids in the home are pretty blessed already, considering that they have a good 3 meals (good by their standard), usually some kind of soup with rice, as compared to the villagers whom we delivered food packages to. Apparently, 20kg of rice, 3 tins of sardines and a bottle of cooking oil is supposed to last them for 3 months. AND each family has roughly 2 or 3 adults (not including children).
if there's only one thing that i've learnt.. it's that if these people have so little yet they can praise God for everything they have. all the more should we be thankful for the many more things we have here in singapore as compared to these people.
shall end here though i have so much more to write. honestly, it's pretty difficult putting these things in words. all i can say is that my life would never be the same again.
says oddball
