Travel from East to West...

No $$$ to go holiday...?


Check out Shannen's tour photos of Jiu Zhai Gou (China)
and Steven Yeoh's photos of Califonia...

Anime? Fantasies

Recently, we see a lot of movies on the big screen based on famous Japanese comic(manga) stories... And it's not just asia-wide... but world-wide...

Here's some examples...



Interesting...

Everything in its time - Corrinne May

Sometimes I wonder what lies ahead
How long till my hunger is fed
They say it's hard to make it in this part of town
So many people on this merry-go-round

Some folks try astrology
Some turn to crystal balls
To find an answer,
To get through it all
I just fall on my knees and I try to pray
In the silence I can hear Him say

The river runs and the river hides
Out to the ocean and under the sky
I promise you, the answer will come
Hold on to patience and watch for the sign
Everything in its time

I often feel like I'm two steps behind
Somebody must have moved that finish line
There are a thousand reasons
Why I should give up
But I'm stubborn in the things I believe

The river runs and the river hides
Out to the ocean and under the sky
I promise you, the answer will come
Hold on to patience and watch for the sign

'cause maybe there's another plan
One I still can't see
A little surprise, like your love in my life
Funny how time changes how we see

The river runs and the river hides
Out to the ocean and under the sky
I promise you, the answer will come
Hold on to patience and watch for the sign
Everything in its time
Everything in its time

NYPCCC update!

Hey guys and girls! We have a new and ultimate vision in NYP as people who inherit the name of Christ! And that is, "Every Christian fulfilling their calling in nyp to reach out the 14k in the power of the Holy Spirit." Notice that it is every Christian, not every crusaders, because evangelising to the mass is never a solo job, even apostle Paul uses other people like Apollos, Timothy to help him! So we must also call every Christians in NYP to recognize each other and work together as different parts in the body of Christ, with Christ as head, to come together and recognize the forces in NYP and go against them, not physically but spiritually. And our slogan is, "14k, here we come!" (by Christine Tan) and yes indeed here we come!

For now, one of the strategy we came up with to reach out our friends and classmates is the 5-3-1 method, which means target 5 ppl we know, and pray for the divine opportunity to share the gospels with 3 in the 5 and believe that 1 will receive Christ. Some of us may already know we have been doing this since last semester but the difference now is that we are combining the 5-3-1 method and interest group together. Interest groups is a new idea we came up with where people from everywhere (let's not limit only to classmates though that is primary but also friends from outside) can gather together weekly, be it Christians or non-Christians to do things that they have in common interest like watching anime and all kinds of sports etc.

So let me elaborate why is it feasible to combine both together. First we start the interest group by ourselves and as time pass we bring and invite other friends we know who have common interest with us to have fun, and from there develop geunine friendship and this is when 5-3-1 comes in. How can one receive Christ if his heart is not opened? So we bring them to us by interest groups and show them our love, do the things we like together and link up with them.

This is the update for now bros and sis, it will commence when school starts again, do feedback questions or comments if you have, transparency is important in ministry. =)

Brothers and sisters, one of the most loving thing God let it happen is that we never have to work alone. ;)

Seraph,
(Campus Crusade For Christ)

Interesting local videos... (Courtesy of Mr Brown.com)

NTU lecturer shares funny teaching feedback survey results



The Mr (Light) Brown Show



A Singlish comedy skit from Tyler Creasman, 13, and his friend, David Rapa. Performed at the International Community School in Singapore for their International night on October 13, 2006.

Sent to us by Tyler's mom, who says it's a special talent of his after 6 years in a neighborhood school.

MAN... TYLER... MY IDOL!!!

Boulevard of Broken Dreams... (Green Day)

I walk a lonely road
The only one I that have ever known
Don't know were it goes
But its home and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find
Till then I'll walk alone

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And were I walk alone

Read between the lines of what's
Fucked up and every things all right
Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive
And I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find
Till then I'll walk alone

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh

I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a..

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find
Till then I'll walk away!

Boys to Men...

Time flies... 2 years & 2 months have flew past in 'our' lives...
We are now officially civilians, NSMen...
And no longer NSFs anymore...
(Army terms, pardon me ladies...)


'We', refers to the group of gentlemen from the 48th PTP Enhanced Batch of Delta Company, School One, BMTC, P.Tekong...


We started off as strangers, yet we spent almost 4 months together exploring the start of a new milestone of our lives. We had lots of fun... and loads of memories...

I still recall my bunk mates counting down to POP...
I still recall Adil saying "Goodnight" to everyone before we knock out...
I still recall Jared & I racing just for the the morning papers...
I still recall the guys running in and out of the washroom in their undies...
Haha... Those were the days...


Actually, many might dread National Service...
But for me, I think it does do Singaporean boys good...
Well, for a modernised country and so well-to-do, our children do get too pampered and take things for granted... 2 years of NS really 'wakes up their idea'...
To me, the National Service is really a training of your mental & physical powers.
It's a place where guys will go thru all emotions together where they've never done before... Joy, Fun, Anger, Vindication, Endurance, ...
But well, maybe once is enough... Haha

Well, Today I had organised a dinner gathering for all of us to catch up...
Really glad that most could come, except PC 1WO Karna & PS 2SG Randale...
as they were caught up with their work...

Those who turned up

Ah Xiang (Regular)

Sam (Further studying)

Zulhilmi

Adil

Gordon (Job Hunting)

Mingming (Job Hunting)

Yanguang (NUS)

Richard

Fabian (Job Hunting)

Wei Zhong

Beng Siong (Job Hunting)

Bang Lun

Jincong

WeiChong (Working)

Jared (Part-timer den Further Studying)

Marcus (Further Studying)

TeckBoon (Job Hunting)

HongThia (Regular)

Reuben (Further Studying)

Call me religious or superstitious, but as a Christian, I pray that may God put His graceful, blessing hands over all these names & those who couldn't make it... For those who are working, let them be able to find a job, and those studying... be able to cope with their studies.. And those who are still regular, pls do not let them get hurt, as they are probably supporting their families too. Keep them strong, healthy and blessed.

I am so gonna miss u guys man... LOL...
All the best man brothers, let me know if I can ever be of any help...

[16 Aug 04 - 02 Dec 04]

BAND OF BROTHERS! BAND OF DRAGONS!

"ORD LOH......"

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Man... Now that I've finished my National Service...
I suddenly feel very weird... I feel kinda insecure
I have gone thru 6 years of primary school, 4 years of secondary school, 3 years of Poly, 2 years of National Service... What's next?
There doesn't seem to be any milestone left for me to step onto except one...
[Step into the world]
Sigh... I have finally become an adult. Become an uncle.
I feel like half of my life has already flashed past...
I am seeing things so numb now...
I see people chasing over money, fame and life partners...
Me? I dunno? Sigh...
I've learnt that I dun live to please people...
and that I should not crave for attention from people...
But an observation tells me that Humans have always been looking 4 acknowledgement from Humans... Eg. Why does everyone have an MSN account? Why do people anticipate birthday surprises? Why does people bother to update their Friendster accounts and beautify it? (I hope I din offend anyone)

I suddenly remember my secondary friend 'LongTong', who committed suicide 9 years back(Due to stress)... Gosh, it's been 9 years already... Years are just flying past... My God... I dun wanna think anymore...

I need a friend... err... what am i saying...?
[Never mind... I think I am going crazy... LOL]
I'm guess I'm going thru my mid-life crisis now...

My strength is in you Lord...

Haven't been blogging much lately...
Have been very busy with work lately...
And kinda stress out...
Headache, stress... and I'm down with a cold & fever...

October has just so many activities this yr...

This week have been a really emotional week...
Not that I was emotional... But there were happy and sad moments...

Monday - VivoCity Day
Went to see the VivoCity @ HarbourFront with Yolanda, Weilin & HuiXian...
The roof floor was beautiful, awesomely designed & scenic, especially at night.
And the playground there was beautiful and fun.
Th girls were really having a great time there and they had lots of fun taking photos in the tunnel of stars...

Tuesday - KFC treat (Hope Anniversary thanksgiving)
Steven met up with all the multimedia gang who helped out in the church anniversary and gave a big KFC treat to all. Marsli, Windez, Peter, Levi, Bernice, etc... were there too. The evening was blessing and fulfilling. Thank God for the food and for Steven...

Wednesday - Pre Weilin's Birthday Preparations
Met up with Clarence after work to recce Esplanade so as to plan for Weilin's birthday surprise... Refer to email for more information...

Thursday - Weilin's birthday
She had been hurt in the past... Feeling neglected during her b'days for the past years...
Never got to really celebrate her birthday with her family...
To her, birthday was just a day to hold her emotions in....

Well, the CG was really unsure how to celebrate her birthday...
And some couldn't make it on the actual day...
Thus, Jennifer decided to do it after service last Sunday...
And so we did. With no proper planning, we just bought a cake and gave her a surprised be-early celebration...

And on the actual day, we knew surprises wouldn't be anything surprising to her anyway.. and so...
We laid a surprise over a surprise...
[Well, some things couldn't go according to plan as there were quite a number of pple who fell sick or had to go for night school]
1. BCG over dinner @ Thai Express (Esplanade)
She loves the Esplanade, goes there to draw and enjoy the breeze
2. On the way there from the MRT, Yolanda got a passerby (male) to hand her a rose that she bought earlier...
3. At Thai Express, the girls and Clarence had a simple dinner and Yolanda prepared a small cake for Weilin
4. While I was at the rooftop terrace setting up candles and sparklers...
I also laid affirmation 'flowers' all over the ground...
With the help of Clarence & Zhen Ru too..
5. After their dinner, Yolanda then brought the birthday girl up...
And there we let her play with the sparklers and to pick her own 'flowers' of affirmation...
6. I sang a song (Couldn't managed to learn the chords in time)

I'm glad Weilin was touched & healed from that wound people had left in her back then.

Friday - NRIC Day / Siew Ing flying back home...
Upon this week... There goes my ORD ticker in this blog...
I will be ORDing on Sunday... Wow... Time really flies...
So.. was told to go back camp to collect my NRIC...
But my officer was pissed off with my performance...
Well, the story is that I was working on some ops manual for him before I cleared my leave for ORD. and it required the higher authority to approve and vet the contents
By the time it was approved, I was already clearing my leave...
And my officer insist that I finished up the ops manual...
"Why make me come back to work on it when there are other NS boys?", I thought
Hmmm... But i felt bad after hearing that my officer stayed back late nights to work on it... In the end, he made me waste a whole day waiting for him to release my IC...
Felt angry (for his childish), Felt bad (for making him stay late in office), Felt sad (lots of memories in the army), Felt happy (Finally, out of this shitty organisation) A 'rojak' of emotions...

In the evening, went to meet Siew Ing for dinner before she flys back tomorrow.
As time went by, unnoticingly, Siew Ing had saturated into our CG...
And we had already made her part of our family...
(Remember when she just came into our CG to join us...)

And as she struggled to find a job...
It pains my heart to see her so struggling...
Especially when she was in grievence over the loss of a friend.
Although the gathering was short and we just chit chat...
I thanked God for her and her contributions to the care group...
Siew Ing, though it's gonna be a month till we see you again...
But we're gonna miss u so much...
Take good care & share ya great testimonies back at home!!!

Phew... What a week...

二十二

陶喆-二十二
词:陶喆娃娃曲:陶喆

春天是他最爱的季节
当微风随意吹乱他的头发
他并不在意身边世界的吵杂
只想著自己生命中的变化
还有十五分钟才午休
从早到晚没有想像中那么好过
安定的日子不一定就是幸福
忘不掉他在心里做过的梦
他今年农历三月六号刚满二十二
刚甩掉课本要离开家看看这世界
却发现许多烦恼要面对
oh yeah
他常会想望能回到那年他一十二
只需要好好上学生活单纯没忧愁
他就像一朵蓓蕾满怀希望
秋天是忽然间就来临
青春虽然有本钱可以洒脱
一场恋爱二十二个月就结束
才知道有些感情不值得赌
九月天气还是有点热
他想公车再不来就走一走路
他开始明白等待未必有结果
一个人也能走上梦的旅途
他今年农历三月六号刚满二十二
刚甩掉课本要离开家看看这世界
却发现许多烦恼要面对
oh yeah
他常会想望能回到那年他一十二
只需要好好上学生活单纯没忧愁
他一直满怀希望
人生偶尔会走上一条陌路
像是没有指标的地图
别让他们说你该知足
只有你知道什么是你的幸福
他常会想望能回到那年他一十二
只需要好好上学生活单纯没忧愁
他笑著想过未来
oh 他应该得到幸福
如此的简单的梦
有没有实现

iPod... iTunes... now... iJeans...

THE thing to do for companies these days is to make their products iPod-compatible. Nike did it with the Nike + iPod Sport Kit, Volkswagen and Toyota did it with the audio in their cars and some people may remember this iPod Nano belt buckle. And now Levi's can be added to the list with their RedWire DLX iPod-compatible jeans. RedWire DLX jeans have a built-in docking cradle and retractable headphones.



(Courtesy of Martjin from Fresh Creation.)

My comments:
"Now that's an interesting combo: an obsessively protected-from-scratches iPod, and fashionably worn, torn faded jeans."

Check out JY in the latest Redwire brochure!!!


(Redwire DLX is selling @ SGD$449 @ all Levi's main stores now)
Comes with a lucky draw coupon to win an Ipod and some discount vouchers to get an ipod.

My office table...

Photos photos Photos

It is Clarence's birthday and here we are to celebrate for him...


All thanks to me and my plot... Clarence was sulking all the way to the party. Complaining how could his Shepherd and EVEN Yolanda... forgot his birthday...

Plot:
Well, we finished lunch @ Le Meridien as usual & I'd told everyone to disperse with their usual weekend excuses... Thenafter Fuqiang and I walked him around... (Fuqiang whispered to me: Man, He is so blessed!!!) Where the rest planned his cake and party at the cafe @ Plaza Sing.

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On Saturday...

We had went to the zoo.. zoo.. zoo... How 'bout you?


All thanks to Queen Amber, we had the chance to go to the Zoo again. And relive our children days on the eve of Childrens' Day!... Haha... It was really fun seeing animals again... and glad to have my 2 secondary school buddies to join us for the outing... Think WeeKeong really enjoyed his whole 'National Geographic' experience.
Click the photo above to see more pics.