RED RAIN

oh wow Red Rain was awesome! their songs are all really powerful! prayer meeting was super spiritually filling. i love the pouring-over-me song! the actual concert itself was really high ttm! i brought joo along and she really enjoyed herself. the most amazing thing is, God moved into her heart and she's starting to feel His presence! oh there was hangout after that with $2 ben&jerry's ice cream, pelican pizza, wii, xbox and basketball (:

jtc reunion! angie's the only one still working there haha

bong, esther, qing, skippy, janet, me , joo!

over me
the rain is falling pouring over me
i can see it now
the frangrance and the essence of my King
pouring over me
giving life to me

-by red rain

meetups and more!

ta-da! this is a cupcake-cake i baked for today's gathering at tamp. i settled the cake while des settled the presents to celebrate alena, ian, alex and philip's bdays. the jap place is really nice though i think the portion's quite small. it was really nice meeting up again and hearing all the retarded stuff the guys do in army. like poke each other with needles and some weird 'factory-like' injection place.

life's been busily fufilling recently (: i've been making it a point to meetup with at least one friend or one grp of friends per week! so far there were meetups with shixuan, megan, nuazies, ling, joo and crc! i'm looking forward to the coming week cos 1. gaston's coming home, 2. ppg meetup, 3. bmt (basic ministry training). yepp yepp exciting week if u dont count the stress from smu lkcsp and acctountancy interviews -.-

on a side note, rose flew back to indo last monday. coming back in 3 weeks but till then, lix has to do housework ):

i'll put up genting pics real soon! it was one of the best trips ever! esp since mikael came along (: till then, keep smiling!

-.-

i feel weird.

not that i'm weird but i just have this odd feeling lately. like my whole world's upside down again and i don't know why. i should be happy. work's great the northlight students are actually super warm and friendly. tuition's paying well. i finally have time to do things i love like reading and watching movies. my driving's improving (finally). i have frequent meetings with the ppl i love. i'm closer to God than i ever have been. going to genting on monday with dibomb. followup and helping out at church soon. yet i feel kinda... weird. i got my acceptance letter from nus today (they are seriously damn fast) and i should have felt happy and relieved but i just went "oh shit". i think i really just need to go away and rethink my life. won't somebody just take me away?

the sweetness of freedom

i finally got the guts to quit my job. haha. byebye jtc. it was an experience la. nice colleagues and amazing lunch times with joo qing and angie. but ohwell. gotta get rid of the old to make room for the new! and God has been good to us cos the day we quit, we got another job offer thanks to carolyn! thanks dear. so from monday onwards, joo and i are still colleagues at mediacorp's singapore media academy haha. helping out with video production courses at northlight!

mummy's 60th was last sunday but my dad and bro went to malacca so we had the surprise party on friday instead. mummy didn't suspect a thing! we called up our entire family and treated them to buffet at holiday inn. just our luck too! there was this really amazing band playing and we got to dian ge!

nice nice watch from dad bro and i!

awww!

mummy!

the four of us (:

daddy even sang for mummy hahaha. romantic. kinda. haha.

celebrated ting's bday at ice^3! it was our vintage/retro day! skippy brought her really cool card game, family business!

ordered a specialised sundae for ting with a really really long message!

tada!

birthday girl!

yumm!

ice cream!

our last day at JTC! me at my work desk!

joo at her work desk. which is just beside mine actually haha.

florence and i!

fang chyi and i!

yuet meng and i!

ellen and i!

joo and i!

us 4 (:

and then... PPG march outing at bugis! went to hip diners USA and had a really funny waiter, sunny and a cool named waiter, lovell. hahaha.

we actually had to ask someone in the mrt to help us take a pic cos we forgot to take it at the hip diner place haha.

because everything's just a battle isn't it
a struggle between what you want and what society calls for
who you want to be and what you really are inside
a fight between holding on and giving up
giving in and letting go

waiting to live

i'm totally blogging at work but i don't really care haha. i just finished the book "requiem for a dream" and it's constantly haunting me. it's a book about addiction in its many forms. not just drugs but addiction to dreams, self-deception and love. it tells about the downward spiral of the 4 main characters and i tell you, it is heartwrenching. physically heartwrenching. it's so hard to read but equally hard to put it down. joo and i are gonna watch the movie on thurs when we take leave haha. so yepp. one thing i've taken from this book is that we shouldn't wait to live, meanwhile allowing ourselves to be empty and feed off instant pleasures. and that we have much good all around us, it's all up to us whether we see it or not. no one is truly poor. if you think you are, you'll just be a hungry soul. that's what i was for a long time. but it's going to be different from now on. thank you God.

Proverbs 27:7 “A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.”

amazing (:

life has been different the past few weeks. it's the busiest i've been in some time now but also the happiest. work, meeting up with friends, driving lessons, tuition,... the biggest change in my life though is planting myself back in HOGC and i'm really glad i came back. my life has been really empty for such a long time and i was too clouded to see this was exactly what i needed. now i understand the reasons for all the shit i've been through. it's to bring me back. plus i'm a much more optimistic person about the future and clearer about what i want to get out of life (: anw! here's all the amazing people i've been spending time with since cny!

dibomb! went for bong's bday bbq with the rest of them and we pigged out on otah!
bong the bday girl!

a few of us dressed based on the floral theme

joo and i!

bong blowing out her magic candles. took her like 5min haha

mich came back from her interview in london and this is what she bought back for jean and clara -.-

vj dibombers who are a big big part of my life and happiness! we spent vday together watching valkyrie (which is really really good btw), playing some pirate card gmae and eating at suntec swensons! it was our "dress as your friend day" so we all kinda looked like each other haha. suntec was swarming with couples. especially swensons haha. there was serenading, candles, even someone who proposed using the fountain projection thingy!

skippy as me!

joo and i!

me as ting!

skippy and i!

qing and i!

us :D joo was qing who was skippy who was me who was ting who was joo!

this was super long ago but i attended this super high class wedding. i don't even know if i'm allowed to say whoose on a blog -.- but anw, it was my dad's ex classmate's second son. great food and music!
dad with a few of his SJI classmates

dad and i!

working at JTC has been... weird. hahaha in a good way. it actually feels like a school cos they have so many weird activities. bowling, sports night, taiji, friday bazaars, vegetable farm and yakult factory outing,... and their facilities include a pool table, gym, badminton court, karaoke,... so we're spoilt for choice during lunch breaks haha.

i'm really thankful for my bestie joo working with me. schoolmates since 6 and now even colleages!

we saw a gigantic fire the other day and our entire office was snapping pics and wanted to send to stomp haha.

joo angie qing and i during lunch break!

celebrated bong's (super belated) bday with hogc ppl at chomp chomp!

bong's shocked face when she saw all of us!

bong with her tweety bird cake!

and her nice nice board of notes from us!

us :)

then there's ppg! we met up pre-vday for dinner at citylink shokudo and vday gifts! this is what i made for them (:

mong and guin!

camwhored at a rather empty esplanade after that!

and of course lovely power ppl (: went for a super random dinner at suntec yesterday. then a few of them stayed back to kbox till 4am!!!

guin with penguin earmuffs from ling!

the girls! the group pic's with moose cos he's the most free out of all of us to send the pics haha.

results are coming out soon and i think i've thought through about what i wanna do. anw, whatever comes comes. i just hope i get to do sth i love so i'll be living my life daily and not just on weekends and after work. whatever it is, everything will be okay (: