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i am going to superband!

SMS B1 to 71199!!!
(only on 30 June between 8 - 9.30pm btw)

byebye jerry! (yet again)

friday's lunch was farewell session for jerry @ fish & co. oh well, all good things muz come to an end (to the tune of nelly furtado's song.. hehheh)..

and before he leaves, snapped some pics for memory lane's sake. =)



[feeling] full from the meal and bittersweet from the farewell.
[thinking] when will my turn be next?

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30 june.. really the last day of work for jerry..

he went round distributing donuts to all of us. and to make some happier den others, he had to buy the durian donut.

for a moment, either i had to hold my breath and run to a bomb shelter, or i juz psycho myself into believing there's a gas leak. *faint*

~thank God i had the non-durian one..~

fruit of the Spirit

breathe...

あなたは
ちかくに 吐息のよう
みことば
すべてを つくられた

あなたの うるわしさ
われを　とらえ

Breathe いのちの
息吹を
ふきかけ　生かし
わが避けどころ
主の御つばさ
もとめる
今もとめる

暗闇
歌う
夜明けのうた
あわれみと
めぐみを
たえず歌う

日々　あなたを
待ち望む
主の臨在
だけを
どんなときも
あがめます
命の水の
川溢れ流れる

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garfield's car wash

steamboat (updated with pics)

~and here they are, the very stuffs that caused the sleepless night...~

~4 little pigs~**********

it's 2.11am in the morning and i am suffering from severe indigestion from all the number games and the self sabo. GRRRR.

i wan to sleep! but i scared i puke in my sleep.
argh! somebody help!!!!!!!

many many FIRST TIMES happened...:
1. first time i didnt have to look into the buying of food and ta-dah, all the food i like are there!
2. first time we had a big pot of yummy soup for steamboat!
3. first time our bowls look like we are eating maggi mee, communal style.
4. first time we finished all the food (with a price to pay of cos, sleeplessness and indigestion)!

back to basics

it's time to rethink the very existence of my blog.

no more periodic changing of blogskins, color schemes, and themes.

juz plain raving and ranting.

or should i?

arghs.

PUSH!

found this randomly. =)

10 truths about MINISTRY

The foundation of ministry is Character.
The nature of ministry is Service.
The motive for ministry is Love.
The measure of ministry is Sacrifice.
The authority of ministry is Submission.
The purpose of ministry is The glory of God.
The tools of ministry are The word of God and Prayer.
The privilege of ministry is Personal growth.
The power of ministry is The Holy Spirt.
The model for ministry is Jesus Christ.

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are you serving in a ministry?

EW's very own lifehouse skit!

remember the post on my crazy co-leaders? well, they were actually rehearsing for something great. and ta-dah! here it goes..

if it takes a long time to load... WAIT.. good things are worth the wait. =)

inspiring bday!

and after all the bbq and the skit. here comes the bday sabo! hehe..

next time, dun believe your cgl when she says 'everyone gather! we're gonna take a photo!' keke.

inspire bbq-ing time!

~ad and glad~~misa, angie, tiff, sheryl~

~all pretending to look busy bbq-ing har.. bluff one!~

~girls, do not fight!~

~now u see who's the worker and who's not. heh~

~in the midst of all the pple, lie a suspicious fierce cat
CAUTION: DO NOT FEED~

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btw, there happened to be a part 2 of the bbq where the poor hungry facilitators ate the leftovers of the bbq food.

but it was too good we forgot to snap some 'evidence' of ourselves... and we feasted all the way till 4am. hehheh.

techno yo ah yo!

inspire #1

ok, the first thing i had to do is to post up the long awaited BEST talentime performance!

for all the W378'ers who worked extra hard to make this happen..!

(disclaimer: when the camera shakes, it's either i am laughing and on the verge of rolling on the floor, or i am simply amateur. keke.)

the road not taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

~Robert Frost~

i am in class...

was in a new hire's orientation class (despite the fact that i was alrdy here for ONE YEAR THREE MONTHS TWO WEEKS AND SIX DAYS.

haha.. on the whole it was good though.. had some fun learning abt values.. teacher (wa, very long neva use this word liao) told us to write down the values that matter to us the most.

really, wat are your values?

God is fair

that's y some face a tornado and some face an earthquake.
that's y petrol is pricey in some places and not in others.
that's y sometimes we win, and sometimes we don't.
that's y some of us are so in love and others not.
that's y we have angels for colleagues and some who pretend they are angels.
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but at the end of the day, God is still good. =)

bball match

wat a way to spend a monday evening... to watch a bball match. after all, it's been aeons since i last caught a bball match.

and after the DF supporting on sunday, it is no wonder y we can cheer so well.. and of cos, we know we are the winners eventually. *grinz*

~yay, man of the match!~

dreamfactory rox! part II

oh yes, i belong to the fan club!

and so are my kids! oh well, could not gather 12 of them so some had to carry 2 letters. but all in all, we sure were having fun!

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from the mediacorp website...:

必杀伎：粉丝人数
Dreamfactory绝对“拿完彩”。他们号召了超过50位亲友团到场支持，声势浩大。记者在下午2时抵达现场，就看到支持者坐在空旷的场地上制作看板。（表演5时才开始！）

Dreamfactory还没上场，粉丝一样捧杨，高举看板，非常醒目；他们一上台，粉丝群立刻一阵骚动，狂摇看板尖叫，把主持人的声音都淹没。

oh and did i mention that nic is very cute!!! i like his stylo milo hair! hahhaa..

dreamfactory rox!

yayyay! we've put our hands down to complete our very own banner! so chio!

y ah?

spotted this car at a multi storey carpark...

Q: how come the car can have NO car decals at all ah? owner no need to pay road tax ah? somemore park at season parking lot...

car number plate has been blackened due to possible legal action. heh.

the next ERP...

~hehheh~

my crazy co-leaders

thankfully, God keeps them sane in the midst of fire and brimstone. =)

on jill lowe

come june, we are so privileged to hold a jill-lowe image class for our kids at the youth camp! it's amazing how God can bring pple into our lives. i mean, how many of us can walk along the streets and spot the founder of a huge company who happened to be your old-time friend and successfully invite her to come teach at a uber affordable price? the kids will be so blessed!

*simply blown away*

u noe u are a shopaholic when...

1.u call up your friend while you are working so that she's able to get that long coveted brolly from takashimaya while u're at work.
2. u rather starve during lunch and squeeze in an hour of shopping at a nearby SALE.
3. u walk from bugis to city hall in 5 minutes juz so dat u're able to get into the last 5 minutes of the coach private sale.
4. u shop in 3 topshops juz so dat u can get that top u were eyeing at the first shop, but they didnt have your size.
5. u save all year long juz for the GSS.
6. u have a bf who tells u that u're spending too much!
7. u neva ever get married, cos there's simply not enough money to do so. =(

how? die la.

thought of the day: CHARISMA

"How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you."
~Dan Reiland~

$25,400... $1,800...

take heart that we are at least above average. =)

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on 2nd thoughts, it doesnt matter how much i am earning. wat's impt is how much is being 'output'. with a $1.8k CC bill, no wonder i am still poor. =(

the monday that feels like sunday...

finally, another holiday on the calender.. been a busy sunday..

got up at 6+am to rush for a 7am prayer meeting.. i admire the koreans who wake up at 5am every day to pray. no wonder they can raise the dead.

went back home to concuss while the fortunate rest attended svc. keke. i finally managed to park perper for the 2nd time!

woke up again at 11+am to rush for another prayer meeting.. some day i will raise a dead.

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monday was sluggish..

contemplated going to suntan but the weather was too hot. contemplated going for the 2 hour combat (with my fav roger!) but i guessed it would be too crowded. contemplated going shopping, but i've alrdy incurred $1.6k in my CC in a short 1 month's span.

ended up driving to a "i-tot-it-would-be-empty" mall to have lunch at a "i-tot-it-would-be-empty" foodcourt. (oh, i parked perper for the 3rd time!) turned out to be bustling with pple too! and den went back home to concuss. haha. i am a pig.

~ppl watching (and snapping pics) at the foodcourt
"CELEBRATE EVERY MOMENT" how apt~

p.s. i parked a real car mel. not the facebook one! grrrr.

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oh and did i mention that my beloved mornkey is on cloud nine? LOVE is in the air... lalalalalalala...

return of the shopaholic

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total damage = $342.02. argh.

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mommy's day part 2!

hah! tis time round, it's mother's day for the real mom! dinner was simple fare at the seemingly simple high class chinese tze char.. cant help but wonder why that place always has so many pple.

bought mommy the best present i can think of. and i am simply pleased with myself. keke. =p

happy mother's day!

" A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." ~Tenneva Jordan~

~and here is the 'mother' and her wonderfully naughty kids. ha.~

byebye hair

they say when a girl cuts her hair, or do something drastic to it, it was cos something drastic happened to her life.

not for me, at least i thought.

for the longest time, i've been keeping the longest, straightest, most boring hair. finally, i mustered enough courage to do something big. hehheh. and i thought that was cos i indeed did muster up courage. maybe subconsciously something really drastic. the death of a dear fren, the death of trust in whom i call friends, the death of expectations. i do have to admit, life has its way of hitting you where you hurt the most. =(

but my God is a God of resurrection, He is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

in any case, welcome the new me. =)

how do you raise a dead?

In 1974, the Korean pastor Yonggi Cho (Seoul) was urgently called to go home from an elders meeting. When he arrived there, he found his 5-year-old son dying. At that time, fruit in Seoul had been poisoned by a deranged person. As Cho was called to his son, 30 other children had already died of the poisoning. Cho told us at a conference: "I simply did not want to accept the death of my son. After hours of intense prayer and crying, he died anyway. Beside myself, I had to watch him grow cold and stiff, yet I still could not give up. I told God I will not leave this room until you give my son back. And my son lived!" Cho's son told his father that he had met Jesus in heaven and that he had seen many dead Christians from Chos church there, who shouted "Look, here comes the pastor's son!" Jesus told him: "I cannot keep you here, because your father will not let you go, so I'll send you back to him."

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i have influential frens!

~jaz & jessica with randall, melody, daniel and jamie!~

it would be interesting if Jesus did come in person to your house & mine.

If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two
If he came unexpectedly, I wonder what you'd do.
Oh, I know you'd give your nicest room to such an honored Guest,
And all the food you'd serve to Him would be the very best,
And you'd keep assuring Him you're glad to have Him there
That serving Him in your own home is joy beyond compare.

But when you saw Him coming, would you meet Him at the door
With arms outstretched in welcome to your heavenly Visitor?
Or would you have to change your clothes before you let Him in?
Or hide some magazines and put the Bible where they'd been?
Would you turn off the radio and hope He hadn't heard?
And wish you hadn't uttered that last, loud, hasty word?

Would you hide your worldly music and put some hymn books out?
Could you let Jesus walk right in, or would you rush about?
And I wonder if the Savior spent a day or two with you,
Would you go right on doing the things you always do?
Would you go right on saying the things you always say?
Would life for you continue as it does from day to day?

Would your family conversation keep up its usual pace?
And would you find it hard each meal to say a table grace?
Would you sing the songs you always sing, and read the books you read,
And let him know the things on which your mind and spirit feed?
Would you take Jesus with you everywhere you'd planned to go?
Or would you, maybe, change your plans for just a day or so?

Would you be glad to have Him meet your very closest friends?
Or would you hope they'd stay away until His visit ends?
Would you be glad to have Him stay forever on and on?
Or would you sigh with great relief when He at last was gone?
It might be interesting to know the things that you would do?
If Jesus Christ in person came to spend some time with you.

beijing episode #8 - self-portraits

top reasons for taking 'self portraits':
#1: we are kiasee, that pple will run away with our cameras while we pose.
#2: and since they run away and we are too clumsy to chase, better not risk it.
#3: usually we cannot hiam the quality of the photos that other pple help us to take.
#4: it's an accomplishment to know that we are skilled enough to fit our faces into that tiny screen, simply based on intuition.
#5: we juz want to take ourselves. more fun lidat.

so, it didnt take us long to master the art of taking photos ourselves. in any situations, we cope juz fine!

~outdoor / indoor~

~dark / bright~

~cultural / simply glutton~

beijing episode #7 - the oh-so-very-great wall of china

they say you can see the great wall of china with your naked eyes from the moon. for me, it's awesome enough to see it right in front of you. a wee bit scary too.

~BEFORE~
[feeling] excited! yayyay finally we are climbing the great wall!!!!

~DURING~
[feeling] like an ah ma trying to run a marathon. tiring, lah!

~AFTER~

[feeling] thankful we are alive and there is such a thing called foot massage

so... we can call ourselves 好汉! cos we conquered the great wall (erm, 0.1% of the length, but still, better than nothing).

(notice in the ~DURING~ part, there aint alot of photos? hehheh, that's cos gladys was busy struggling for her dear life. she almost fell to her death!)

beijing episode #6 - imitation, the simplest form of flattery

seeing the many many stone carvings, we cant help but tried to be like a few of them to soak up some of their majesty. keke. after all, there muz be a reason why they are carved the way they are. aren't they supposed to look majestic and command respect and awe, or some sort?

sadly, the imitation turned out to be funnily weird.




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after a while, we grew tired of trying to be like the statues, so we decided to be part of them!

~weiwei finally found a trunk so big, it made her look slim,
while i decided to jump into one of the vats for a spa session.~

~we see more of weiwei trying to be part of the artefacts...
like looking for dandruff, playing the guzheng...
she's obviously having fun.~

procrastinate...

~this is soooo funny! how adequate!~

NEWcomers' dinner!

wat was meant for newcomers having completed the CIC course.

oh well, had been to newcomers' teas, but newcomers' dinner is a new thing for me! so i am a newcomer too! keke. and the dinner is really an 8-course kinda thing. we are happy pple! =)

wanted to snap alot of photos and send to keng for him to be jealous! but after the 2nd one, we were simply too lazy to snap photos anymore. hahaha!

~forlorn ad and glad~

~jiexiang, my bookstore next in line
& my beloved girls!~

all work and no play makes glad erm.. unglad

dat's y we are going to minds! hahahha... not a very exciting idea in the first place, but i guess, some play really boosts our morale a lil. played Blokus, easy to learn and play.. and den moved on to I'm the Boss, perhaps due to this desire in our subconscious state of mind to be boss over the real boss.. hehe .. not very easy to learn, but pretty fun haggling over share prices..

and how could we forget jenga.. the all time fav!