Just a thought, cos Valerie mentioned it the other day. If you've been a reader of my blog or have known me kinda well since last year (around this period of time or earlier), you should've realised something. Pretty amusing thinking about it, but it's purely random and not some million-dollar realisation. Realised it? Wahaha.
Friday was great, from practice to Uth to Cheryl's birthday surprise. Nice seeing Doris, Xiuyi and Carmen back at DHS again. Probably the last time I'll see Xiuyi for the next one year, she left for Australia yesterday.
It's been wonderful knowing you, you're such a nice, encouraging, humble, funny person. Thank you for having been such an awesome senior, my only DHSCO dizi senior in VJCO! Thank you for all the advice, the laughter. I'm sure you'll adapt fast, and remember to miss me! :D
Uth! Teresa brought Vanessa! It was a pleasant surprise, though we hardly talked in 4C. But yeah, nice seeing her again after so long, my fellow chicken pox sufferer... Haha.
Cheryl's surprise after that, it's always funny to see people attempting to push one another into the pool and the result is that all end up in the pool *smirk* hahaha! Yeah Cheryl's 20! 20 20 20~
Didn't go for the rehearsal yesterday as I woke up a little late and was lazy to head down. Went for Blueprint in the afternoon. Pastor Chee Kheen talked about praying even about the little things. Like when you're running late and the bus refuses to come, pray instead of swearing. I felt like it was directed at me, cos I never fail to scold the buses hee. We had a test at the end of the lesson and yay, I got full marks! Along with Eleanor and someone else. Eleanor was saying that the reason behind our scores is that we're young and still in the EXAM MODE. Hahahaha. Yeah the prize was Pastor Mike's book, Move on to Maturity, with his signature on it. That's really cute, lol. Oh, and I'm still not over the excitement of getting my number up first on the screen. Fast and accurate okay. LOL!!!!! =.=
Wow, today's sermon. The moment I saw the words "Anger Management" on the slide I was like, "I so need that!" Especially since I very nearly yelled at someone last night (thank God I controlled), for some unknown reason was feeling irritated this morning, and I actually have a rather short fuse at home. I get annoyed with the most minor of issues sometimes, rail at my mum when I'm sleepy (sleepy = bad mood for me), get impatient with my dad when he asks me too many questions. Honour one's parents... And Valerie's favourite line comes to mind, "If I were your mum I'd drown you." Lol. To add on, I'm always scolding buses and cyclists.
Pray all the time, ask God for help.
Been paying 55 cents for my bus rides these two days cos my card ran out of money so I decided to try living like a student again. Almost got found out today but the uncle concluded that I must be a student when I flashed him my EZ link. Great way to save money eh? Cheat money, rather. Nah I won't do that anymore, finally topped up my card. I'm honest! Lol.
I sat on my bed for the longest time last night just thinking. Felt a little sad, a little guilty. Yet not really regretting what I said, felt that I should let them know how I feel. I guess the more understanding they are, the worse I feel. I don't wish for my words to be misinterpreted, isn't my intention to hurt anyone. I'm sorry...
Which is the real me?
Monday, February 16, 2009
Been suffering from a severe sleep deficit the past few days, yeah for once, seeing that I'm unemployed, free and aimless. So it was Valentine's Day on saturday, thank you all for the chocolates and cards! Yingxian's card made me feel so guilty. "Remember to come back more often, so that we can slack more!" Gosh, looks like I shouldn't go back too often lol. Anyway, that was one tiring day. Woke up at 6 plus, the earliest in a long long time other than those days when I wasn't asleep yet. I'd slept for only 3 hours, and I don't even get up so early for school! Went back to DHS for the rehearsal, and it was really bad. Especially our item, Mr Quek had to stop more than 3 times! What he said was true, each of us was only focused on our own parts, even for the other items. Just didn't feel anything, hopefully the next 2 rehearsals will see much improvement.
An amusing sight during the rehearsal.
Two guys carrying one Yangqin.
One girl carrying one Yangqin.
What's the world coming to!
Rushed for the Blueprint course after that, which I was extremely late for thanks to an annoying jam. It took half an hour to get from one bus stop to the other, it'd have been faster had I crawled. The lesson was awesome, the ARS was really fun! I felt so pleased everytime my number was first up on the screen LOL! But yeah the point is of course the four lessons on Assurance, Lordship, Faith and Power. Learnt a lot, and I feel much clearer about things now. The last part got me a little blur though. Yeah my memory doesn't have much space, I'll go read it again.
Went to Hort Park after that with the church people, loads of interesting things there haha. And whoa, the walk to Vivocity was soooooo tiring. We walked for around an hour and a half, almost died by the time we'd reached Vivo. But the bridge was really beautiful, some superb sights, and it was fun! Good exercise, even though I don't really need it hahaha.
Got up at 7 plus for service yesterday, after a mere few hours of sleep cos my cousins refused to go home haha. Was actually rather annoyed by something but oh well, forget it. Managed to stay awake during the service, thankfully. But was super tired for the rest of the day. Wanted to catch some sleep before the VJCOGY gathering but I barely slept for an hour before I got woken up by calls and msgs lol. The gathering was alright, the NS guys were sharing their wonderful stories haha. And they wouldn't stop suaning me about my house! Lol.
Alright, I do not have to call the remaining 50 plus schools anymore yay! Just the east zone schools and a few others that are more likely to go. Gonna call tomorrow, cos I woke up too late today hehe. Really hope that ticket sales will pick up, we've got 300 odd tickets left now. We face the same problem every year but in the end it'd be full house for both sessions, but I guess we can't take it for granted cos it's somehow different this year. Yes it's only one session, but gotta take into account that it's on a wednesday, it's during the primary schools CA 1 period, and perhaps common test period for several secondary schools. Well, hopefully it'll get better.
I'm already loving TAR 14! Wooh! :D
An amusing sight during the rehearsal.
Two guys carrying one Yangqin.
One girl carrying one Yangqin.
What's the world coming to!
Rushed for the Blueprint course after that, which I was extremely late for thanks to an annoying jam. It took half an hour to get from one bus stop to the other, it'd have been faster had I crawled. The lesson was awesome, the ARS was really fun! I felt so pleased everytime my number was first up on the screen LOL! But yeah the point is of course the four lessons on Assurance, Lordship, Faith and Power. Learnt a lot, and I feel much clearer about things now. The last part got me a little blur though. Yeah my memory doesn't have much space, I'll go read it again.
Went to Hort Park after that with the church people, loads of interesting things there haha. And whoa, the walk to Vivocity was soooooo tiring. We walked for around an hour and a half, almost died by the time we'd reached Vivo. But the bridge was really beautiful, some superb sights, and it was fun! Good exercise, even though I don't really need it hahaha.
Got up at 7 plus for service yesterday, after a mere few hours of sleep cos my cousins refused to go home haha. Was actually rather annoyed by something but oh well, forget it. Managed to stay awake during the service, thankfully. But was super tired for the rest of the day. Wanted to catch some sleep before the VJCOGY gathering but I barely slept for an hour before I got woken up by calls and msgs lol. The gathering was alright, the NS guys were sharing their wonderful stories haha. And they wouldn't stop suaning me about my house! Lol.
Alright, I do not have to call the remaining 50 plus schools anymore yay! Just the east zone schools and a few others that are more likely to go. Gonna call tomorrow, cos I woke up too late today hehe. Really hope that ticket sales will pick up, we've got 300 odd tickets left now. We face the same problem every year but in the end it'd be full house for both sessions, but I guess we can't take it for granted cos it's somehow different this year. Yes it's only one session, but gotta take into account that it's on a wednesday, it's during the primary schools CA 1 period, and perhaps common test period for several secondary schools. Well, hopefully it'll get better.
I'm already loving TAR 14! Wooh! :D
Thursday, February 12, 2009
I just love sectionals when I'm not required to conduct them, cos then I can do retarded stuff with my juniors like migrating out to the corridor to blast our di zis in an attempt to be louder than.............. Of course, we won. LOL!
I got to explore Tecman for the first time! Went there with Siqian on saturday cos she needed to get some stuff. That place is big, loads of cool stuff, nice place to get presents hoho. Oh, my cousins came over to my place that night with a mic, so we went to karaokeparty.com! Thank God the police didn't appear at my doorstep, cos it was past midnight, four crazy souls at the balcony singing "KEEP BLEEDING, KEEP KEEP BLEEDING LOVE" (I don't like that song, but my cousins love it and karaokeparty doesn't have that great a variety, so I had to make do with that) hahahaha. It was fun, all that mad singing lol.
Went for service at GLCC on sunday, was my first time attending, to find out how it's like. The sermon was really powerful. Encouraging, at the same time a blatant reminder never to lose our focus in the Lord, be it in mirth or sorrow, in triumph or failure. Like myself, I tend to pray more during difficult times, and turn away when everything's going smoothly. This quote especially rings so true.
"God whispers in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, and shouts in our pains."
Joined some of the girls for floorball after service, and all I can say is, wow! There's so much to learn, I learnt a lot from the pros there, and it's really fun! But when it came to the game, I'd forget most of the techniques and just play with this mindset, "just whack when the ball comes" HAHA. Chia Wen, coach me! Haha aye I've got no talent in floorball, but I really enjoyed myself, everyone was so pro, nice and patient, it was awesome! :D
Went down to Temasek Poly yesterday with Lam Lee and Yuqian to support Cristal's fruit tarts. The students from her faculty had to meet some sales target for the food I think. The food was not bad, I must say. And I still find it amusing that the chefs put their spoons in pockets at their arms, it feels that if they raise their arms more than ninety degrees, the spoons will fall out. Hahaha.
Heh, this is what I got up at 12 plus this afternoon (that's way early for me) to do.
"Hi, could I speak to the Chinese Orchestra teacher-in-charge?"
"Wait a moment, I'll transfer your call to the staff room." (Puts me on hold, annoying music starts playing for an eternity until someone finally picks up.)
"Hi, could I speak to the Chinese Orchestra teacher-in-charge?"
"Wait a moment." (Puts me on hold, annoying music plays for yet again an eternity until someone finally picks up.)
"I'm sorry, but Mr/Ms/Mdm Whoever is not around."
"Thank you."
The above, times 30. Yeah, I'm supposed to call up 63 schools to confirm their ticket orders for the DHSCO concert. But it's extremely frustrating when I'm always put on hold only to be told that the teachers aren't around. I called half the number of primary schools, thought it'd be better with the secondary schools but apparently not so I moved on to the JCs after calling half the number of secondary schools. After calling sooooooooo many schools, I only managed to get to 3 teachers, who also didn't manage to confirm the orders and said they'd get back to me but have yet to do so. So all that calling this afternoon comes up to nothing and I've got to start all over again tomorrow. Sigh, it's really exasperating, what's more ticket sales aren't that good now. Argh, please let the teachers be there tomorrow! Or rather, later on zzz.
Met up with Chia Wen in church just now for the second lesson of bible study. Yay I love the book of John, it's relatively easy to comprehend. The thought of Jesus dying for our sins struck me really hard again. The fact that He had a choice not to do so but He did, dying such a painful death for us sinners, us unworthy sinners. This great love, it's just so amazing. "There's nothing you can do to let God love you more; there's nothing you can do to let God love you less." Wow!
I'm suffering from a chronic illness, and it's called joblessness.
Whether trials come or cease
Keep me always on my knees
Lord, I need You
I got to explore Tecman for the first time! Went there with Siqian on saturday cos she needed to get some stuff. That place is big, loads of cool stuff, nice place to get presents hoho. Oh, my cousins came over to my place that night with a mic, so we went to karaokeparty.com! Thank God the police didn't appear at my doorstep, cos it was past midnight, four crazy souls at the balcony singing "KEEP BLEEDING, KEEP KEEP BLEEDING LOVE" (I don't like that song, but my cousins love it and karaokeparty doesn't have that great a variety, so I had to make do with that) hahahaha. It was fun, all that mad singing lol.
Went for service at GLCC on sunday, was my first time attending, to find out how it's like. The sermon was really powerful. Encouraging, at the same time a blatant reminder never to lose our focus in the Lord, be it in mirth or sorrow, in triumph or failure. Like myself, I tend to pray more during difficult times, and turn away when everything's going smoothly. This quote especially rings so true.
"God whispers in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, and shouts in our pains."
Joined some of the girls for floorball after service, and all I can say is, wow! There's so much to learn, I learnt a lot from the pros there, and it's really fun! But when it came to the game, I'd forget most of the techniques and just play with this mindset, "just whack when the ball comes" HAHA. Chia Wen, coach me! Haha aye I've got no talent in floorball, but I really enjoyed myself, everyone was so pro, nice and patient, it was awesome! :D
Went down to Temasek Poly yesterday with Lam Lee and Yuqian to support Cristal's fruit tarts. The students from her faculty had to meet some sales target for the food I think. The food was not bad, I must say. And I still find it amusing that the chefs put their spoons in pockets at their arms, it feels that if they raise their arms more than ninety degrees, the spoons will fall out. Hahaha.
Heh, this is what I got up at 12 plus this afternoon (that's way early for me) to do.
"Hi, could I speak to the Chinese Orchestra teacher-in-charge?"
"Wait a moment, I'll transfer your call to the staff room." (Puts me on hold, annoying music starts playing for an eternity until someone finally picks up.)
"Hi, could I speak to the Chinese Orchestra teacher-in-charge?"
"Wait a moment." (Puts me on hold, annoying music plays for yet again an eternity until someone finally picks up.)
"I'm sorry, but Mr/Ms/Mdm Whoever is not around."
"Thank you."
The above, times 30. Yeah, I'm supposed to call up 63 schools to confirm their ticket orders for the DHSCO concert. But it's extremely frustrating when I'm always put on hold only to be told that the teachers aren't around. I called half the number of primary schools, thought it'd be better with the secondary schools but apparently not so I moved on to the JCs after calling half the number of secondary schools. After calling sooooooooo many schools, I only managed to get to 3 teachers, who also didn't manage to confirm the orders and said they'd get back to me but have yet to do so. So all that calling this afternoon comes up to nothing and I've got to start all over again tomorrow. Sigh, it's really exasperating, what's more ticket sales aren't that good now. Argh, please let the teachers be there tomorrow! Or rather, later on zzz.
Met up with Chia Wen in church just now for the second lesson of bible study. Yay I love the book of John, it's relatively easy to comprehend. The thought of Jesus dying for our sins struck me really hard again. The fact that He had a choice not to do so but He did, dying such a painful death for us sinners, us unworthy sinners. This great love, it's just so amazing. "There's nothing you can do to let God love you more; there's nothing you can do to let God love you less." Wow!
I'm suffering from a chronic illness, and it's called joblessness.
Whether trials come or cease
Keep me always on my knees
Lord, I need You
Monday, February 02, 2009
My huhuhuhu Chinese New Year...
For the past many years, CNY had been one of my dreaded occassions of the year but this year's was pretty enjoyable I must say, minus the ongoing family conflicts and discoveries of human hypocrisy and materialism. Wasn't really looking forward to the reunion dinner initially, cos that simply meant a gathering of 90 odd people at my granddad's place, half of them mere strangers to me. I mean, I just don't see the point of having such a "grand" reunion dinner when all we know of one another is that everyone's either a Mr Toh, Mrs Toh or Ms Toh (and I'm neither HAHA). Yeah, Ruth Zhuo sounds a million times nicer than Ruth Toh, admit it! ;) And what with all that friction and one side refusing to even talk to the other, it just defeats the purpose of a reunion dinner. Still, thank God for the time spent talking with some of my very nice relatives. Advice from Xingyi Jiejie on university courses, encouragement from Josiah's mum regarding the A levels. Unlike the typical bombardment of "How do you think you fared?" "What do you wanna study next time?", she said a simple yet assuring line, "Don't worry, just pray." It was really comforting, something not one of my immediate relatives will say. Heheh.
Visiting seemed to pass really quickly, cos we only visited one house on each of the two days. The highlight of this CNY was of course the time spent with my cousins! Playing poker, bridge, hide and seek, catching, watching Liang Po Po (explains the huhuhuhu) and imitating all the retarded conversations on the show, until Vanessa can't stop saying "ALAMAK!!!!!" HAHAHA.
Argh I've been spending like nobody's business the past few days. Lots of shopping (I did my CNY shopping on the third and fourth days wahaha) and singing! Went to Topone, a KTV at Bugis, with Lam Lee and Yuqian on friday. It's quite a cool place, every room has very unique decorations with effects like disco lighting and smoke and some have mini stages! But our smoke thing wasn't working and the light was rather retarded haha. It was fun though, haven't gone singing in a long long time! I wanted to see if I could still sing properly while jumping so I tried, and Yuqian just had to take retarded videos of me doing that and doing my favourite banshee and opera. Don't worry, the videos will never ever be up. Oh yeah, those singers should totally hire me to do their special effects LOL.
Had DHSCOGY reunion dinner at my house on saturday. The food was nice! And I almost died laughing while playing asshole daidee. Justine was giving soooooo many comments. "Your cards are too good, you're OUT!" "We're gonna ban doubles from the next round onwards." "If you all have anything bigger than an 8, pass!" And and,
Someone puts a 7.
The next person puts a J.
Justine starts yelling: Why do you have to put such a big card!
The poor person: I don't have other cards!
Justine: THEN YOU PASS!
Yeah the whole time was spent going crazy, it was just extremely retarded lol!
Went to my cousins' house for dinner yesterday to lao yu sheng. Played with them for a while before the poor kids had to go do their homework. They asked me to entertain them so being the nice person I am, I agreed and ended up helping Vanessa do her homework. It was some colouring thing, was supposed to colour a cow. With my artistic colour sense and some help from Nicholas in the designing, here's our masterpiece!
For the past many years, CNY had been one of my dreaded occassions of the year but this year's was pretty enjoyable I must say, minus the ongoing family conflicts and discoveries of human hypocrisy and materialism. Wasn't really looking forward to the reunion dinner initially, cos that simply meant a gathering of 90 odd people at my granddad's place, half of them mere strangers to me. I mean, I just don't see the point of having such a "grand" reunion dinner when all we know of one another is that everyone's either a Mr Toh, Mrs Toh or Ms Toh (and I'm neither HAHA). Yeah, Ruth Zhuo sounds a million times nicer than Ruth Toh, admit it! ;) And what with all that friction and one side refusing to even talk to the other, it just defeats the purpose of a reunion dinner. Still, thank God for the time spent talking with some of my very nice relatives. Advice from Xingyi Jiejie on university courses, encouragement from Josiah's mum regarding the A levels. Unlike the typical bombardment of "How do you think you fared?" "What do you wanna study next time?", she said a simple yet assuring line, "Don't worry, just pray." It was really comforting, something not one of my immediate relatives will say. Heheh.
Visiting seemed to pass really quickly, cos we only visited one house on each of the two days. The highlight of this CNY was of course the time spent with my cousins! Playing poker, bridge, hide and seek, catching, watching Liang Po Po (explains the huhuhuhu) and imitating all the retarded conversations on the show, until Vanessa can't stop saying "ALAMAK!!!!!" HAHAHA.
Argh I've been spending like nobody's business the past few days. Lots of shopping (I did my CNY shopping on the third and fourth days wahaha) and singing! Went to Topone, a KTV at Bugis, with Lam Lee and Yuqian on friday. It's quite a cool place, every room has very unique decorations with effects like disco lighting and smoke and some have mini stages! But our smoke thing wasn't working and the light was rather retarded haha. It was fun though, haven't gone singing in a long long time! I wanted to see if I could still sing properly while jumping so I tried, and Yuqian just had to take retarded videos of me doing that and doing my favourite banshee and opera. Don't worry, the videos will never ever be up. Oh yeah, those singers should totally hire me to do their special effects LOL.
Had DHSCOGY reunion dinner at my house on saturday. The food was nice! And I almost died laughing while playing asshole daidee. Justine was giving soooooo many comments. "Your cards are too good, you're OUT!" "We're gonna ban doubles from the next round onwards." "If you all have anything bigger than an 8, pass!" And and,
Someone puts a 7.
The next person puts a J.
Justine starts yelling: Why do you have to put such a big card!
The poor person: I don't have other cards!
Justine: THEN YOU PASS!
Yeah the whole time was spent going crazy, it was just extremely retarded lol!
Went to my cousins' house for dinner yesterday to lao yu sheng. Played with them for a while before the poor kids had to go do their homework. They asked me to entertain them so being the nice person I am, I agreed and ended up helping Vanessa do her homework. It was some colouring thing, was supposed to colour a cow. With my artistic colour sense and some help from Nicholas in the designing, here's our masterpiece!
Vanessa said it's pretty and Vivian got a total shock when we showed it to her HAHA. I wonder what her teacher's reaction will be. But it's cute, no? SUPERCOW!!!!! :D :D :D
3 more lessons and I'll say bye to tuition and welcome jobless-ness again. But I'd rather be jobless and have no income than........ Heh. I'll attempt to look for another job after I've recovered from all these frustrations.
For once, I'm pleased with the Campus Superstar results.
Thank God for the past week, for a blessed CNY, for my family, for my friends.
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