I'm Bored so i Blogged..........

Am I SAVED?

2009-12-16T22:05:00.004+08:00

Test Test Test......Test

Looks Like the blog still working fine. Ages since i last blog, some updates damn busy with work currently busy with climbing the corporate ladder :>, just compeleted anothe 42km under 5 hours (one of my best timing) and basically thats it.

Must be wondering why i post that title. Was reading up some blog posted about Jesus not saving everyone and the only way condition to be saved is not only believing He existed but also follow Him. Well to a certain points its true but seriously correct me if am wrong who in the world can actually follow His high standard. So if we cant follow that standard then I think all the believers would be condemn to hell.

Well there is a reason why Jesus died on the cross right and all of us knows it. And definately if you believe He existed is one thing but believing His God and abiding in His rule is another. But for sure my sins are forgiven.

It's still alive....alive

2009-06-27T20:17:00.005+08:00

Hello anyone still reading up on my blog? If you do, please drop me a hello on my chatterbox. It’s been a long time since I posted anything here (hope that the spiders have not taken a liking there). Here are the updates of what happen a year ago.

Was very busy with my final year, thank God I manage to grad. The busyness during the year sort of took over the stuff that I try to forget but then again it’s still coming back to haunt me. Guessed that there is time where you want to really leave everything messed up or nonchalant about solving it. Cause it really does hurts thinking about the decision that was made. So my brothers and sister I urged you all to communicate more (I think that’s what am going to do for the next few weeks).

In case my loyal blog reader didn’t know I started my career as an engineer already hurray!!!! Yup working for Jurong Shipyard pte ltd, under a year bond so no grad trip, no holiday, no rest as I selling my soul to work to climb the corporate ladder (hahahaha joking one). Well I thank God for landing me the opportunity to be able to start work the moment I grad and also for financing my studies through the ways that I never thought would ever happen to me.

Well that’s all for now do stay tune for more updates.

p.s i think university had rob me of my time to serve and learn more of Jesus my savior.

Farewell My love

2008-06-06T23:30:00.000+08:00

It has been a long and tiring journey traveling from one end of Singapore to another, and it all finally over TODAY!!! Yup NTU internship curriculum ends today as am officially declared jobless (jobless sound nasty). So would you rather study or work that’s the question most people would ask. To me going back to school would be my choice because:-

1) Doing work the whole day is pretty monotonous

2) No girls to ogle at in an engineering environment (maybe except for aunties)

3) Don’t need to be in constant fear of supervisor spot checking on your work

Overall internship was not that bad after all, especially when the projects given were able to complete. And also making one more proficient in Microsoft excel (e.g. design a GPA calculator when am super free). By the way if anyone wants my GPA calculator feel free to get it from me.

As one of the manager quoted “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”. Yup yesterday there was a Farewell lunch planned by the working colleagues as a token of appreciation for the diligent work that 4 outstanding individual had devoted to the organization. Sounded like am selling ourselves to future employers. Anyway lunch was not free as each intern has to give a speech on the experiences gained and the working environment there. Well the speech was crappy but lunch was salivating to hungry colleagues who eager for the moment when lunch was declared ready to dig in (sound like hungry ghost festival).

Well here is a note to future graduate interning in SAM, go work for the Quality assurance department cause they produces quality work just like how they produce quality engineers and interns :>

Diving Anyone?

2008-05-25T23:09:00.012+08:00

11th May ’08, a day to remember for failing to bring my shower foam, shampoo and goggle (Speedo) before plunging into the pool of eternal declaration to follow the one who bear our transgression and peccadillo on the cross of grandeur. The cross was a tool in ancient times, used to crucify or punish someone in the most gruesome way. Now it is a symbol that whenever someone sees the cross, they will know it’s of the Christian religion.

So how did it felt to get dunk in the icy pool, early in the morning with people cheering along side for you? Well most people might think that this bunch of people got nothing better to do on a Sunday morning. But to a believer of this faith, it’s more than a sacrament and holds a special meaning of cutting away from the old self and rebirth to a new being in putting trust on the higher authority that transformation will happen.

As the body slowly immerse into the square pool, the mind was in oblivion. Rays of the sun penetrates into the pool as my eye opens slightly to see what’s in there. It felt so helpless not able to get up from the pool despite the fact that my feet were touching the ground. With a gentle pull, a new person was created been cleansed with water that’s created by God and prayer of the ardent love for the one name Jesus. It didn’t end with just the prayer by the clergy but awaken by the roaring cheer of joy from peers and followers of Christ as the process ends.

This marks the end of the old being and a start of something new, challenges will be faced from the world and of Mr. Tan that consistently tout one mind that’s fixed to righteousness.

Ubin Jan '08

2008-03-11T00:41:00.007+08:00

Hahahah should have posted this picture decades ago, anyway enjoy the clips people

Crappy

2008-03-09T23:00:00.001+08:00

Hello it’s been awhile since I made an entry here, anyway I’m amazed that I didn’t make any blog entry last month. I was busy with tons of stuff last month and also feeling down with work, family, my future and other things. Maybe I’m just trying to keep myself busy so that some things can just be forgotten. Well the more I try the more vivid it gets, that’s ironic right.

Maybe I spent my time in church too much, neglecting people like my pals whom I knew since my schools days. Kind of feel bad about it, not meeting them up of a long time, but when I’m feeling blue they will be listening to my trouble over the messenger. Although it’s great to worship the One who I believe in but I don’t think He would not want me to forget the others that’s around me.

Secondly had been thinking lots of stuff after becoming a Christian, the stuff that I done and the thing that had happen, whether it was the right or wrong. I’m not saying that I regret becoming a Christian but the decision that I made. Always had the feeling that why I should follow what another tells me to do. Stuff like “oie why never go X-road” “go dg leh” “step up to lead a dg” “do u think that u can grow without making discipleship”. Well to tell the truth I’m sick of people leading me by the nose.

I didn’t make any commitment to God that I would do this stuff; I just purely joined so that I could know more about Christianity (I mean join crusade). That time I just wanted to know more as I was a fresh Christian and had no intention of anything extra. Then thing just went by really fast, 1st was becoming a gig leader. Ya at 1st it was great to get to know a pre- believer who finally came to know Christ but the next moment he gave me a shock of my life. Sometimes I wonder did I give him the wrong information about my beliefs or God is putting me to a test.

Okay I know evangelizing is part of what I suppose to do and I must say it’s not difficult. The hard part actually begins with doing the following up. Ya I know people going out to mission trips during the holidays but did you ever thought of whether the people after knowing Christ will or will not backslide the next day. Well I think it’s rather irresponsible to start a thing and not following through or maybe I just think too much.

Well God made everyone special, not everyone was made to be preachers or leaders in church or other Christian organization. But I think He also creates people who will excel in other areas example sports, music, studies and other places. Anyway when we use this gift in that particular area isn’t it worshiping Him too?

Sometimes great advice doesn’t really have to be from a Christian, other people can also have opinions that are great too. I knew a Christian who always tells me about life sucks; worry about not able to finish paying school fee, about not able to get a job upon graduation and other demoralizing topics. That really just puts me down when I have to work with this kind of people cause after listening repeatedly to what they say really bothers me to think in that area. I think this also add on to why I felt down for the past few weeks.

Last night had combine cell, and it was the 1st time had I step up to the front to be prayed for. Well am amazed by the ones who prayed for me, yup was really bothered by issues of why am I trying to be someone am not. Why must I follow what the rest do and not do it the way I like it or the way I think is also Christ like decisions. I was also bothered by getting myself baptized, kept thinking whether what my other not Christian relatives might think.

While praying and keeping my focus on recollecting my past walk with God, tears just flows down my face. Don’t know if it’s tears of joy or sorrow but I definitely knew that it’s the tears which release me from the gloominess for the past weeks that had been dwelling inside.

Anyway I think my entry quite messy there, lots of stuff going through me now. Can’t really think and write properly now. Well please pray for me then.

Who wants me to teach guitar???

2008-01-14T22:48:00.000+08:00

Wow had not been in here for quite awhile, anyway i was busy with my attachment at Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing company. Ya still going strong but everyday at work is like taking exams cause when the engineers at work starts to talk in their engineering language am totally lost. Its seems like their language is alien to me but then again if i dont understand their language how am i going to be a future engineer wanabe after graduating from NTU.

By the way i did a video, see if i can get anyone to learn guitar from me anyway hope u all enjoy and have a good laugh.

Pulau Ubin Part 2

2008-01-04T23:49:00.001+08:00

I really have nothing to do, anyway went to Pulau Ubin the 2nd time during this week. This time was accompanied by a much fitter group, at least manage to visit almost all the landmarks there.

Anyway manage to cycle to the German girl shrine which i didn’t go there the 1st time this week. Ya the amazing thing that kept me going to Ubin I guess it’s the scenery and the dirt riding in the forest there.

Heavy downfall almost spolit the fun but thank God that the spirit of fun among the group did not burn out. By the way the puppy at the village chef house was fun to play with, love the puppy and it was chewing on my asics running shoe hahahaha. Must go there again soon!!!!

Happy New Year

2008-01-01T23:18:00.000+08:00

Isn't it fast how 2007 is already over and a new year has just begun? Well 2007 is amazing year with tones of challengers and mugging to do. And of cause I finally ORD from army that’s the highlight of the 2007.

2007 was also the year that I really felt how great God has been, seeing through my studies and times of confusion. Close friendship was developed in church and also in the cell. Well my resolution for the year 2008 are finish reading my Bible, practicing kendo again, to be more vocal about issues am facing and run stand chart marathon again (cause the photos taken was ugly).

Today was spent overseas, was doing tracking with a bunch of Army friends (they are just weird). Guess what saw my cell mate and some people from my church at Pulau Ubin (what's the chance of meeting them there). Anyway ee fa can u stop stalking me wherever i go. Well it a fun place to unwind from the stress that we always piled up over the days or months or years on mainland Singapore. I think Ubin is a great place to organise group outing, maybe should have cell outing at there next time. Too bad only have this picture now, will upload more ubin pictures once someone send them to me.

Welcome to Pulau Ubin

Am falling and Great post for a camera shoot out

The amazing trio and the boat is sinking (help!!!)

Speechless

2007-12-14T23:30:00.000+08:00

Why is it called Alvin and the chipmunks, and not Simon or Theordor and the chipmunks? Anyway the movie was great, hard to imagine rodents can actually sing pretty well. Which reminds me of the 2D animation of the classic Alvin and the chipmunks that i watch a millions of years ago.

Suppose to do shopping with a friend but in the end buying a handphone was more important than shopping hahahaha. Anyway this holiday seems long and boring (really have to find something to do).

Anyway was ponding over the issue of "Did God allowed or planned for humans to fail". While reading through the bible i kinda learn that God dont intent for us to fail but allowed that to happen instead of planning for us to fail. Cause we cant say God planned for us to fail exams, fail in areas of relationship or fail the trial or tests that His giving us. Well thats normally the excuses we give ourselves when it comes to failures instead of finding the root to the problem.

Anyway God has plans for everyone and it's certainly not failure. Sometimes it's due to our pride or ego that led to our loss. Thats why in the bible God still uses our failure to achieve the greater things that He planned for His everlasting kingdom.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. (Romans 12:12)

Strength

2007-12-10T22:43:00.000+08:00

Been a week since i last blogged, went to the gym to tone up my fats. Do you know that bicep curl is really very tiring, needed my friend's help to lift the dumb bells after lifting for the 5th time on the 1st set (that's how weak i have been after my exams). So more I still have like 4 more set to finish. The gym session tells me that i have been slacking for a really long time, like my whole body have no strenght at all sianz.

This reminded me of Samson (one of Israel judge) who was blessed with God's strength but sometime failed to fully utilise the gift that God has given to him. Although samson may have sinned terribly but God is always so forgiving. In the end, samson lost he strength due to some reason (read judges 16:4-22) but God still used samson to bring victory over the philistine.

Moral of the story, don't always go to the gym to build up muscles but instead pray for God's strength to be with us. Hahahaha joking only.....anyway the part of "pray for God's strength to be with us" is really true cause without God nothing is impossible but with God impossible is nothing.

With God's strength i have done something that i thought was impossible for me (i think i looked really old in the picture)

Attachments.....

2007-12-03T23:27:00.000+08:00

The results for my internship is out today. Manage to be allocated to a company that's in my top ten list of attachment. Now i hope that am attached to their company at payar lebar cause nearer to my home. Anyway will be having my internship at singapore aerospace manufacturing pte ltd, wow sounds like a big firm but actually i know nuts about that company now. Well be doing research of what they do later.

Tomorrow is the inter-school games captain ball trial and am still having cramp in my legs. Wonder how am i going to make it throught the selection so tire feel like giving up. Oh God give me the strength and might to endure the pain.

I'm A finisher

2007-12-02T19:45:00.001+08:00

Today the big day where I tried something crazy enough that will break my legs. Woke up at 3:30am dragged myself out of the bed for standard charted singapore marathon. Anyway slept at 12am last night didnt know how i survived throught the run (must be God watching over me).

The race probably has ten thousand plus people running the full marathon and to be able to see someone you knew was slim. Guess what saw friends from the army and university. Actually have to say the organiser for the event did a very good job everything was in order, not as chaotic as AHM. Baggage deposit and collection was fast and tonnes of encouragement throughout the race.

Overall it was fun but there still afew digusting part:-

1) People peeing at the trees along the route (Am sure they think their still in army)

2) Motivater saying your already finishing the race when you still have 30KM to run.

3) When uncles and aunties run faster then you (Quite sad to see that)

4) Get nipple abrasion (It's true!!!)

5) Seeing peter parker(spiderman) running in the marathon when he should be web swinging

6) People using black tape to tape up their New balance running Shoe (Asics the best)

7) Making phone calls while running (I think i did that)

8) The last 10km is never ending

9) Why they give energy bar not nasi briyani at the turning point

10) Why the Kenyan run freaking fast (I think they run at 24km/hr)

Look at the sad expression before the race

Is that holy light?

Am i seeing spiderman running the marathon?

Look at the happy expression after crossing the finish line

My tag no. and medal A shirt of achivement

Will you be able to do it again?

2007-11-30T23:43:00.000+08:00

Have been reading the book of joshua, about how joshua manage to lead his people to the promised land that God promised to give to the people of Israel. One of the challenges Joshua faced was to actually overcome the crushing defeat at Ai. So why was it a crushing defeat, that's because Joshua had spied on Ai and the report says that 3000 warriors were enough to defeat the small army of Ai. In the end, it was the army of Ai that chased the Israelites away from the city of Ai.

Anyway the defeat was a major blow to Joshua who thought that God given Joshua the green light to purge the land of many sins. Then Joshua found out what actually gone wrong (to find out the reason please read Joshua chapter 6 verse 10). So after awhile God told him to go back to the battle field and claim the land that God will be giving to him. So Joshua with his warriors went back faithfully to the battle field and defeated Ai as God instructed.

So I'm wondering when facing a loss in competition, rejection from peers, BGR or even retrenchment from your job. Will we all be able to pick ourselves up easier without the help from God? It always hard to bounce back but it's even harder without a helping hand, a hand that's always so forgiving and faithful.

Well stand chart marathon is coming soon please pray for my safety as well as the other people whose participating in the marathon too.

(2 more days to the marathon)

Taking out the trash....

2007-11-29T22:04:00.000+08:00

Another rotting session at home today, well can't stand the fact that am rotting my life away so i decided to throw all the unwanted books, notes and other ploytechnic or secondary crap that i piled up in the store. Hahahaha it took me a hour plus to sort out what to throw and what to keep..... in the end i threw everything away.

Didnt know that i had so much rubbish..... i always thought that i might need those trash one day, until i decided to threw everything away today. Dont you all have something that you treasure probably you wont throw away, something that cling onto you that it's so hard to get rid of? Or a bad habit that's simply so hard to change.

As the saying goes Rome is not built in a day, so a habit is hard to be dispose off in a day. Well pray about it to God maybe it will be answered. So after clearing the trash decided to go for a swim, too bad the sun was not out so did not get the tan i wanted. Anyway will be going for a swim tomorow to see if i can catch the sun. P.S interest people can join me for the swim..... if u know my number give me a call.

(3 more days to marathon)

Tire....

2007-11-28T21:51:00.000+08:00

It's the 1st day of my holiday and i'm like bored to death. I find it so dumb that i always complain about how stressful mugging can be, always hope that the holidays can come sooner but now i feel so bored.

Went for a morning jog to bedok reservoir, now my legs feel darn tire now. Didnt expect that early in the morning there would be people there, apparently bedok reservoir is a place where lots of people go jogging, canoeing and etc. While jogging round the reservoir, felt like giving up the run back to home until i saw this girl jog pass me. Hahahaha i think is my ego which led me to increase my speed so as not to let her overtake me(should be i overtake her back).

By the way standard charted singapore marathon is this Sunday 2nd of dec. I think am going to walk all the way, dont know if i could finish the race. Have not been training ever since my exams started 3 week ago hope that God's protection will be with me throughout the race.

(4 more days to the marathon)

Hi I'm Back

2007-11-27T22:35:00.000+08:00

Hey it's been a long time I posted some crap in here. Well was busy with my exam campaign, but it's over now today was my last paper and am looking forward to the holidays.

Anyway i did a few stuff today went shopping for guitar picks, broke my pick recently (so sad that pick was the first pick i bought). Yup spent about $4 on 3 new picks and a pick holder and a treat from a friend so nice hahahaha.

Then I clean up my room, wow and it feels so good to clear all the notes and textbook that's like laying around the place. Even though I didn't do it as I expected it during some of the papers, but if I did it for Him, I think am satisfied. Well have to left the results in His hands liao cant do much already.

OK now for the important stuff....... plan what to do for the holidays, have a few stuff that i want to try like canoeing, teach guitar, train up my body and relac one corner. Well anyway i felt quite sad for the death of the dragon boaters, it shows how fragile our lives can be. We could be smiling and laughing at one other the next day things can just change. Importantly treasure the person around you and may the peace of God be with you.

Some pictures taken when i was stress up while mugging for my papers......

Hope that God's word can pass my accounts paper

New calculator that i bought which has function like simultaneous and cubic equation solver, matrix & vector calculation and alot of function i have not discover yet.

Run Run Run

2007-09-23T21:24:00.000+08:00

Hello it’s been a long time since I posted something in there. Yup was busy with school work, mug and other stuff in school. Since this coming week is my recess week and I got loads of time decided to come in here to write something for my die-hard blog fans whose been reading my crap hahahaha. Guess that u ppl have been reading the 10 stuff that u all don’t know about mi this past few weeks must have make u guys sick of it. That’s why am here to clean the cobwebs.

Anyway here is an update of the stuff that happen, been doing loads of catching up with school work, mug in school, running a lot to prepare for stand chart marathon (wa lau zheng guo u need to train up la), going to accounts class ogle at the pretty scenery there and busy committing with the reading up of the 40 days of purpose driven book.

Yup today marks the end of the 40 days of campaign (no more reading of the book liao hahahaha) that my church have been organising and am happy that I got to know more about my cell member where the ice was melted and become steam(hahahah). Praise God for the things that He has done during these 40days, the enlightenment and strength that He provides throughout these days.

About today did u know that today at bedok reservoir there’s these world cup wakeboarding? Anyway went there in the afternoon, den the crazy thing I did, I went home then run from pasir ris back to bedok reservoir (crazy rite I even run the reservoir 1 round). Hahahaha the whole journey to and fro took me about 1hr 45mins, wanted to break away from my usual route. Maybe my next route will be to run to east coast, anyone care to join?

Running is always a chore for the 1st 10km but when u finished with the 1st 10km u will be used to the tiredness and strain from the run. The sense of achievement is when the finish line is crossed. It the same in a Christian life, it’s always hard in the beginning of the race but when u get used to the continuous strain and unhappiness from life u will find that it’s a test that God planned for u. So that when u cross the finish line the satisfaction that u gain will really leave lasting impact in u for it’s all for God’s glory. Lastly stay…..in school……

"Let us not not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a havest if we do not give up . (Galatians 5:9)"

Tag am It

2007-08-19T22:46:00.000+08:00

Went for marathon training yesterday at west coast, well everything started fine then came the pour down from heaven. Manage to finish 1 big round there before heading to NUS to shower. The point was when i reached NUS, i must say everywhere i go need to pay carpark fees and there was no sheltered walkway from the carpark to the sport center. The amazing thing was that there's actually cleaners cleaning the shower room on SATURDAY. And everyone were waiting for the cleaners to finish their cleaning which took forever.

Ok anyway manage to shower somewhere in one of the hall, with the help of one friend. And it was not the last of it, had lunch at the new Arts canteen. After lunch went to the carpark to get out of NUS and to my surprise the parking fee was about $5 bucks when my friend only parked there for about 45mins. What a good way to earn easy money from students there.

Yesterday was really a packed program for me, later met up with secondary school friend and lastly cell group at night. Anyway why ben do you have to tag me now i have to write something about me -_-'''. Here is the rules of the game: Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end, you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names and no tagbacks.

1) I am quite vain

Usually i would use my 3g phone to check if my hair is messy and i try to do it without people knowing it

2) I am actually a samurai

Ok actually i took part in kendo before and won a competition before but due to some reason i retired from the martial art world.

3) I loves eating chocolate

If u all dun know i can actually finish a whole cadbury chocolate bar(the big one) in a night and i loves chocolate related food.

4) I suck at B/G relationship

Have to say dun really know how to start one.....hahahaha anyway dun know la someday i would know

5) I collect cards

Ya i collect post card or greeting card that people sent me. I still got cards from my sec school friends lor.

6) I'm afraid of lizard and cockroaches

These pests make my hair stand if i see them in my house. Normally i would ask my mum to get rid of them........-_-'''

7) I'm quite a self conscious person

It's regarding no. 6 although am afraid of lizard and cockroaches but if my friends or girls around i would put up a brave front, so that people would really know am afraid of that.

8) I started wearing lens to remove my tan lines

Actually i started wearing contact lens because of the tan line on my sideburn that i would have when i was in army. Now am used to wearing it, anyway my spec looks ugly too.

9) I love to do window shopping

Hahaha dun belive rite. Anyway love going to the sport shop to look out for lastest sport t-shirt or shoes. Normally would go afew places to check the price difference but i still wont buy if i needed it badly.

10) I took part in marathon to challenge myself

Did u know that i took part in this year Standard Chartered Marathon because i wanted to prove that i can do it. And also because of the word that would be on my back "finisher of 42.195KM".

Going to tag a few people and those lucky ones are

1) Georgie

2) Vignesh

3) Zhe Yu

4) Shirley

5) kenneth

6) Zheng Guo

oie u all read liao better write hor if not no bf n gf lor next time.

Marriage Oversea

2007-08-12T22:33:00.000+08:00

Dont get it wrong not writing about me, well i came back today from my cousin's wedding at johor bahru on saturday. Am sure i have been going to weddings recently, i guess must be the recently sermon on marriage that's why marriages have been poping out in the family(joking only).

Went into malaysia at 11am, althought there was not traffic jam on the causeway but the custom was packed with million of people queueing up the get their passport stamped. I must said that the malaysian custom sucks big time there no standard queueing lane, people was cut queue like nobody's bussiness. Especially people of surname tiong(ask NTU student about the surname) no lane discipline, try to cut queue whenever there's a chance.

Alright spent like 1hour plus to finish getting that stamp but the nightmare was not over. Had to called my cousins in johor to pick me up, guess what forgot the add the plus sign(+) in front of their house number. Spent like haft a hour trying to contact them, well need to thank God that there was a nice malaysian lady who told my mom about the telephone system in malaysia.

Hahaha it was like going on a holiday stayed in a hotel which my cousin booked. Had a good rest before the dinner starts, by the way the hotel have their pools and gym(didnt waste the facilities there). Dinner was great but seeing my cousin finally settled down with his wife was better. Well one more ang pao on chinese new year. Although it's their marriage, my brothers and i were bombarded with question like "got girlfriend liao" "when getting married" "cannot be no girlfriend wat" "next marriage is going to be one of the brothers la". Wa it's like chinese new year, these questions kept haunting my brothers and me during family gatherings -_-'''.

Anyway prayed that God bless their marriage and their child. Getting home was smooth sailing but with a little hiccup on the singapore custom due to the emigration office. Well not everything in singapore is always the best but i still prefer singapore over malaysia.

Missed today's first day of 40 days of purpose at church (i meant the 1st day of purpose driven life book reading with the church) but did the reading on my own. Anyway if anyone is interested come join this campaign, you can still join in. If you haven found your purpose to life, do join in to have a look. Anyway whats 40 days to you when theres still many many more days of your life to do other things. Heres a challenge to ya.

Memory verse day 1

Everything got started in him and find its purpose in him. (Colossians 1:16b)

Well everything created in this world were created by God
And he had everything planned
Everything had a purpose in this world
Overall it's up to us to believe in him and to find out his purpose for us in him

Cramp

2007-08-10T23:29:00.000+08:00

Have not been in here for quite a few days, well it's the first week of school there's loads of stuff to do, notes to print and make up lesson due to national day to attend. Anyway didnt take up much of my time really. It's actually quite a fast week due to the nation's birthday in the middle of the week. Well i guess national day is another holiday that people can make use of to do something that they themselves would want to do beside work. But really we need to think back how Singapore from a small fishing village transformed into a metropolis full of high rise buildings and vibrant night-life. Maybe it's because of a documentry that i watched about Singapore's history that made me thought of how fortunate we are in this generation.

By the way to kick off national day, went to kallang to play soccer at "the cage" and it was not the normal soccer we played during the day. This time our game started from 12am to 3am and it's crazy to play soccer at such an odd time. Well the game almost ended with haft of the 19 people involved injuring themselves including me. Yup towards the end of the game, someone hooked my ankle which made me fell to the ground thereby causing my left leg to cramp and the pain was unbearable.

Anyway during the game i could really see how people really contradict themselves. It's really funny when your opponent starts to play rough during the game and you starts to also play abit rough, so the opponent starts to say unpleasant stuff like "are you here to play soccer or asking for a fight". Well the contradicting part were them starting to play like they are out to get your legs and still got the guts to say other's of unsportmanship plays. I wonder whats going on in their mind, anyway it's only a friendly game of soccer and it's not the world cup finals or anything.

After the game, reached my home at 4:30am and i was sleeping outside my house. So sad the front door was locked and i could not get in. Had to sleep at the staircase till 5:30am, then my brother manage to heard the house phone ringing to open the door for me. Really had to thank God if not had to spent the night outside. Well the pain on my legs were still there, could not walk properly for the whole day. So decided to spend my national day at home in front of the tv, to watch NDP 2007 live on channel 8. Anyway the best present that i gave to my country this year would be my ORD hahaha (ORD jus last saturday).

A whole new Semester

2007-08-06T23:45:00.000+08:00

Today's the starts of the new life of mugging for my bright future next time when i step into the world of being a working professional. Well guess that i need to start eating, sleeping and shitting with my textbook always with me. Going to school actually beats going to army cause atleast in school i get to see real girls over the confused identity in found in my previous unit.Had new plans for this new semester, aimed to do better this sem than the crappy last sem. Hope that i get good tutors and group mates.

Anyway started lesson at 9:30am and to my surprise saw albert in my lecture. Hahaha his actually taking the same modules as me, have to say ntu is really small. I ended the day at 2:15pm cause my lab project incharge didnt came today so the whole group decided to go to the library to find rescources for the projects(am sure we did it). Yup the day started and ended well today, so i went to the gym after lessons then had a swim in the pool. Am like so tired now, well tomorrow no lesson anyway cause no tutorials on the first week.

New semester starts and also a new beginning and also a new chance. Dont it reminds you of the new life that Jesus gave when our sins was exchange for the chance that we maybe be closer to God. Facing closer to Him when the day He called us to go to His eternal kingdom.

Liberation

2007-08-03T23:51:00.000+08:00

As you all know it today is the day that liberation set eyes upon me, yup i got back my pink ic plus a sticker to paste on the back of my 11b that declares that am a nsmen. It felt really long to actually wait for that moment that finally am liberated from the restriction which binds me from doing what i want. Anyway what's the meaning of ORD, to many it means freedom and end of army. But ORD is actually not the end but a beginning of a new chapter of my book. A chapter of facing the harsh reality of life, well people always say army definitely trains boys to become men. But i think it's more like a stepping stone that gives you a taste of how life would be outside of army.

Went back to camp in the morning to collect my precious(pink ic), the wait for my clearance was about 4 hours. Had to wait for the officers to finish their meeting before i could get the clearance signature from the overall in charge of my unit. The wait was long but i need to thank God for that cause i forgot to bring my house key. So even if i could get myself out of camp early i would still had to wait for my mom to get home first. Anyway during the wait at camp, did catching up with people that's not going to ORD yet. It was fun joking around for 1 last time, basically the jokes revolves around the topic of ORD. Ya it felt GREAT that finally i completed my service, i got my ic back and was given a certificate of service. By the way my conduct was very good and performance was outstanding (thats what it's written in that cert).

Had dinner with bert and ben, dinner was great and went starbucks to relac one corner. Had great fellowship, talked about loads of stuff. So whats liberation from temptations, wow thats hard to avoid. Temptations that tries to lead you off from the christian walk, the effects sometimes makes you think that your not worthy of God grace. But then again if we are so unworthy then why God sent his only son to exchange for our sins and why God forgives sinners that done stuffs thats like more sinful. But then again temptations always knocks on your doors when your alone, trying to sell their stuff that's better than what God's offering eternally. Well i guess prayers can help liberate from temptation or otherwise talk about it to people who will be a listening ear. Few more minutes to official ORD and hello to the exclusive ORD club.

Am going to see Pink

2007-08-02T23:16:00.000+08:00

Overwhelm with the excitement that am going to get my pink ic which am forced to surrender, i mean whats the point of detaining someone's ic when his serving the nation. When you want someone to serve the nation whole-heartedly, why is there a need to detain that person's ic dont you trust him. Well it's a stupid idea to me, if they are so afraid of people running off to another country to hide. Why dont they keep the passports instead of the ic?

Well anyway tomorrow is the day that i get back my identity of a civilian and the sticker that shows i completed my 2 year 2 months of conscription to the nation(i think it's the best gift to the country's birthday hahahaha). If you say it's impossible to serve army in the happy go lucky atitude, i need to correct ya coz if your in the military band life there is always good.

Now am having a mixed feeling of getting out of my unit asap and at the same time the wonderful memories i had with my close buddies that i got to know. Well it kind of sad that eventually everyone got to part ways, cause there a saying "there no such thing as a endless banquet". Anyway am not the last of my batch to leave the band there's still nizam, hahahaha didnt see him at ORD function anyway wish him all the best in there. By the way i officially ORD on the 4th of Augest but will be getting my pink ic on the 3rd.

Am sure today i tried something stupid, went for a swim from 4pm to 5:30pm and after the swim went for a jog. Am like super tired now and my muscles aching but am not sleepy must be the excitement of liberation coming. Had been going to the pool thinking of getting myself "chao da" (getting a tan), well today was the only day i really felt that the UV ray barbecuing my skin. Cant wait for morning to come 2 more days to ORD!!!

It's coming to an end

2007-07-31T22:26:00.000+08:00

My holidays coming to an end and so is my NSF chapter, ORD so close that i can smell it. OK that long school vacational break is going to be over so and i felt that exams was like yesterday. So sad had to go back to the life of mugging, eat, sleep and shit with my textbook always around me. Well atleast when i go back to school i will be a NSMEN rather than someone whose still bonded with the army with restrictions of not able to do certain stuff while your on the disruption period.

Yesterday went to a friend's house to try out nintendo Wii, that console was totally awesome. Never thought that the japs could create such a console that could be so interactive with the movement of the human motion. It was tiring to play games like tennis, bowling and boxing cause you really need to move your body. Well it really felt like playing in a real match of tennis or boxing. After a few minute I was sweating like i forgot to turn the tap off. I would recommend this gaming console to people who wants to lose weight the fun way hahahaha.

Did nothing much today went swimming at SAFRA tampines and almost forgot about my dad's birthday dinner if not for my mom's message i would have gone out tonight. Anyway had to cancel my appointments that i made this evening sorry guys. By the way dinner was outstanding almost could not walk home cause i was too bloated with the delicacies thats in my stomach. Cant wait to get back my pink civilian IC which i surrendered back to the army 1+ month ago. 4 more days to ORD!!!

Aches

2007-07-29T23:42:00.000+08:00

My body is now feeling with aches all over now due to the running cum skating yesterday, i think am getting old for this kind activities. There's like abrasions and blisters on my feet, must be the uncomfortable skates that i wore yesterday. Well there is a price to pay for having fun hahaha and am sure.

Just given "my purpose driven life" book to a friend and today got a new "purpose driven life" book from my cell. Well it's just nice for the event "40 days of purpose driven life" that my church is organising. By the way if your still searching for your purpose to life, why not come down over to my church for 40 days and maybe you will find the answer that your seeking. Yup contact me at berty84@hotmail.com if your interested or can visit the above website.

Went to Ikea tampines for the 1st time, wow the place is huge. By the way Ikea having a clearance sale and the stuff there is dirt cheap hurry up before everything snatch up. Saw this food container that had a funny name called the ORDNING(it cost only $39) and am very sure it's reminding me that this coming friday is the date of my liberation from all the dumb restrictions that's making me grow stupid. 6 more days to ORD!!!

Cold......

2007-07-28T23:46:00.000+08:00

It has been raining for the past few days, just have the feeling of lying on my bed and rot for the whole day. As it was cooling and ideal to only laze on the bed thinking of nothing but enjoy the tranquility that God's providing. That what i have been doing for the past few days of the clearing leaves period. Really wanted to go swimming but the weather has been so discouraging. Anyway got afew running kakis whose joining me for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007. By the way anyone wants to run the race can join my training in NTU, every week 3km will be added to the training run.

Woke up early in the cold morning, had to rush down to bedok mrt station to meet my friend to have a jog at east coast. While it's sort of a training run to prepare for SCSM 07, althought i was supposed to meet him at 8:45am but ended changing the time to 9:40am. Am sure that when your driving you will still be late. It almost ended into a breakfast gathering instead of losing those layers of fats that's stuck on the body. While i guessed that God has been blessing us, cause we ran for about 4km in 40mins before it started to pour heavily.

After that had a short alpha follow-up at church, before i rushed down to jurong entertainment centre to meet up with my cell for an outing. Anyway went to fuji ice palace to do ice skating and i thought i was the latest but somehow met my cell leader at jurong mrt too(she overslept). Skating was fun but initially could not get use to skating without wheels and it was also my first time skating there too. Am sure i was the one who came out with the bright idea of ice skating when i never been to a a ice skating arena. Well it was fun taking pictures on the ice and fun learning to skate in a unglam manner. Ya for those who never been there before bring a sweater if your really afraid of the cold, cause skating there really will make you sweat. Next time maybe plan a canoeing or running outing.

Albert was so happy la after so long an outing was planned at the west side and am sure i was the last to get off from the train. It's like going to NTU from one end to another so sad, atleast there was company in the train if not rot in the train. Well not all was there today but pray they will go for cell next week, see you all there. 7 more days to ORD!!!

The day to return

2007-07-26T19:56:00.000+08:00

Haven been blogging for the pass few days, well i guessed that you all must be wondering why. Anyway was having headaches on tuesday so decided not to think too much about what to blog about that day and on wednesday was having flu so was occupied with clearing my nose the whole day and it was terrible. Anyway 2 movies to recommend try watching rocky bilbao and letters from iwo jima. Both movie quite emo, tears almost dropped while watching hahaha.

It feels different whenever i go back to camp, before i disrupted from service i always had the feeling of "sianz" in my head everytime when i had to book in. Cause am always doing the same thing again again and again from monday to friday. It's like am wasting my life away and the advertisement always says "It's a challenging Career" and am sure it's really challenging my patients. Back to the main point, it's always excites me that my ORD date draws closer everytime i go back to camp. Knowing that the day of liberation draws nearer, atleast i dont need to worry about employer not wanting to employ me cause i have not ORD yet. By the way for those who dont know it 's a chargerable offence to moonlight during your service.

Well that's the thing that turn me off whenever i want to find a part-time job to ease my miserable allowance that the army gives. Then again they will give the excuses of it's everyones duty to do a part for the country, so cant moonlight while your in service cause your going to get distracted when serving the nation(what a load of crap). Well there's always a saying "DO ANYTHING BUT DONT GET CAUGHT".

Yup went back to camp to return everything that was issued to me, returned mostly the no.1 costume and accessories. Waited for like a hour for the ninja to appear, hahahaha i think should have waited in the office cause normally the ninja can be detacted by the strong scent of "aroma" that was given out whenever the ninja appeared within vicinity. Anyway all was smooth got my clearance signature too left 3 more signature before am out of there. 9 more days to ORD!!!

Have u Run?

2007-07-23T23:05:00.001+08:00

Woke up early in the morning rushed to Raffles Place Park to sign up for Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007. Ya today was the event launch of the SCSM 07, reached there at about 10:50am a line of working professionals were already in the queue for registering into the run. Actually i could register online but since goodie bags were given today and am on leave too so why not go there to have a look and get myself a goodie bag too.

Wow it's worth the time going there today got to see the promoters painted their whole body blue, leaving only the armpit area unpainted. It's quite a funny view when they rised up their arms, that's not the important thing. Anyway the goodie bag contains loads of stuff like a can of 100plus, supplements for strong joints, a fake nalgene bottle and some other supplements from different sponsors. Anyway zheng guo need to thank me for helping you signed up for the run, if not your missing out on the goodie hahahaha.

Yup today's the ORD function, anyway dont take my crappy speech too seriously or else you wont make it alive. After the function i got this sms "U know what's huo cong kou chu(troubles that comes from the mouth)? Pls watch wat u say next time" and am sure that am going to give another ORD speech. By the way what was said today was totally crap, i also forgot what i said already. The day is coming 12 more days to ORD!!!

Marriage or Single or aka datang for someone

2007-07-22T23:59:00.000+08:00

Just came back from my cousin's wedding, wow it was a wonderful event to see that my god-sister married a good husband. Althought i dont really know her husband that well but from how well that he gel with my cousin's family i knew that she made a good choice. By the way it's a marriage of 2 doctors hahahaha i guess they will have loads of medicine talk in the future to come and God bless them in their marriage. Ate loads of food cause the table was not full, a table for 10 only 6 pple came probably some people could not make it.

So coincidently today at church, the sermon topic also evolved around the topic of marriage(maybe God's trying to tell me something). Today's message from persie was quite hard to understand but i roughy catch whats she was trying to say. Correct me if am wrong, summary of the whole message should be how everyone can serve God's ministry in marriage single or aka datang for someone. At different stages people can play different roll in different parts of God's ministry example singles could help out with the kids ministry (cause they got more time), while married couples can give advice to couples with troubles in their marriage.

Hopefully i get to view my cousin's wedding pictures, should had brought my brother's camera there for some photo taking session. Yup tml signing out for Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007 at Raffles Place Park anyway 1st 500 people who signed up tml will get a goodie bag. Yeah 13 more days to ORD!!!

Masks

2007-07-21T22:40:00.000+08:00

Do u wear masks to work, meet friends or even in front of your family? Well i guess everyone have their own mask that they always put on just so that they wont leak out their inner self. I too also have that mask, sometimes really hate to wear that piece of crap. Then again feels insecure without that mask on. It sucks to be in a world that what would people think of you, so a mask is a thing that covers your face from the harmful UV(unfriendly views) rays of the world. Hahahaha wat the crap am i writing.

Started the day with a crappy mood, played soccer but didnt enjoyed it. Dont feel that the sport is fun anymore.....maybe it's time to move onto another stuff that i can find joy in. Or maybe it's my mood swing today. Felt crappy on the way to church for alpha follow up, had to force myself to paste that smile on that face. Anyway it's not my way that i would show my a shitty face to other people there by spoiling their mood. So kept that feeling swallowed up in my stomach, it feels shitty. Anyway my religion is not like MLM and am not a saleman and i dont earn a single cent and dont miss interpret my word.

14 more days to ORD!!!

2007/2007

2007-07-20T20:20:00.000+08:00

It's that once in the life-time date again, have been receiving messages of greeting from friends about this once in the life-time stuff in the morning. Well it was nice receiving messages of blessing from a bunch of good friend. By the way 070707 also once in a life-time, plus 010101,20012001 and etc. Anyway there are still 10 more of this once in a life-time special dates left, since 14 of them had just gone pass. It would be easy to remember important things that had happened on those dates.

I still could remember 060606 was the date that I pass my driving test for the 1st time and it was the date that the movie 060606 was released. Probably next year film makers would make a movie call fafafa aka prosper prosper prosper due to release on the date 080808. Ok today went to SAF MMI(Military Medicine Institute) to have my ears checked. My hearings was alright nothing bad had happened to my ear drums during the short stay in band.

After the audiometry test, went for lunch with the ORD group and hitch a ride back to my camp. On the way back there was this driver who think that his playing "need for speed" cutting in and out of the lane hahahaha he was driving a Toyota SUV. Ya saw this car with the Singapore flag on top of his car, wow such a patriotic driver anyway national day coming too should start hanging flags now, i wonder can hang Brazil flag cause they won Copa America 2007 hahahaha.

This coming monday is the official launch of Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007 at Raffles Place Park and am going for the run anyone wants to join me in this crazy run? Monday is also my ORD function, had to go back when am clearing leave if not will get charged by some crazy fellow and the reason that mad man would give is why ever go back to collect your ORD coin that cost only $10 buck. 15 more days to ORD!!!

My unit logo and the SAF day parade coin

Duo Jiang You Tiao

2007-07-19T23:05:00.000+08:00

Forced to wake up at 9am by the heavy rain, had to quickly dragged myself off my slumber to make sure that all the windows was shut if not i would have a indoor pool. Well today's my first day of clearing leave period, did nothing much in the morning tried going online but electricity was cut off due to some maintenance that my block was doing. Luckily my laptop was fully charged survived through that hour of maintenance with loads of movies at hand.

Had dinner today with my friends at habour front, hahahaha i tried something stupid today i decide to take bus 80 there and the trip was suicidal, took me one and a haft hour to reach habour front interchange. Anyway i have lots of time to spare so decided to try rotting in the bus. Had dinner and bullshiting among my group, yup they kept talking about this particular sale girl at some clothes store at habour front. Ok she really is pretty, then again what's the point of looking when you dont even know her name. Is it not the same as most of us? When you had a crush on someone normally, our fear of rejection or pride just get the better of us. Then again without fear there would not be courage that eventually will triumph over fear.

Went to geylang lorong 19 for deserts, gone for the famous rochor beancurd. I ordered 1 Duo Jiang You Tiao(beancurd and deep fried bread stick). Wow the desert was outstanding, should go there for desert again if got a chance. Geylang is an interesting place to go where poultry farms are everywhere and the place is busting with people of different background. One of my friend was nearly got knocked down (when getting off the cab) by a biker who was chased by 2 other pursuer. Hahahaha then one stupid friend of mine saw the biker charging in and he say in a relac tone:" oie got bike coming." am sure he didnt instead tried to grab my friend to the side for safety. Luckily the biker stop just in time if not will be seeing people lying in the nearest hospital. Well tomorrow got my day planned cant wait to finish my army 16 more days to ORD!!!

Last Working Day

2007-07-18T21:51:00.000+08:00

Times really flies by really fast when your unaware of it but if your aware that time is ticking it will feel like every second felt like a minute and every minutes like a hour. It's been 37 days since i went back to army, loads of stuff had happened during my short stay there. Having been through the third SAF day was sad enough for me, then again without participating in the parade i wont have the 2 days of offs given so gracefully to me and a worthless coin stating my participation in the parade.

These 37 days was really a good rest from the stress that am having from school, stress over exam results and other crap from school. Enjoyed myself in the band watching stupidity at work among some crappy people in green. This morning started with the guy who could already walked normally but still holding on to his cructch with his dear life and that was the ultimate stupidity at worked in him. Anyway it was a funny sight cause i was wondering whether his stick would break due to his overgrown stomach. Went hunting for signature for clearance before people tried doing their ninja technic (especially this technic called stealth) when am going to ORD.

Anyway Donn (who ORD this friday) didnt managed to get someone's signature for his clearance and the reason was his hair too long. Hahahaha what the crap give him a break man when his only coming back for only 5 days then it curtains for him in his chapter of this unit. Well not going to bitch about this when more bitching is done at cpl v's blog (probably that someone was wearing a helmet or some headdress causing that crap of hair too long). Anyway the whole incident was settle without Donn going to the barber for that particular autograph.

Yup am very happy that today's my final working day and am clearing my annual leave. By the way my ORD function will be this coming monday, guess that the function will have loads of crap and bitching will be unleash that day. Anyway need to thank staff for enduring the 5 ORD corporals crap and other loads of rubbish. Now need to think of something to fill my time now if not rot and die at home. 17 more days to ORD!!!

1 day minus 1/2 day = ?

2007-07-17T22:03:00.000+08:00

Since i was the first to arrive at camp decided to go HQ to draw the office key (such a nice senior corporal rite). While drawing keys, there standing just beside me was an idiot who made me went through the July parade. I wonder how he manage to walk up the slope to HQ while holding on to his cructch.

Anyway here's what happened (from a reliable source) one fine day that idiot went for a parade at some place. Then suddenly he felt that a scorpion (or is it a centipede anyway some insect la) crawl up his leg. Luckily he manage to squash that insect to death with his leg when called to attention. After that he went for operation on his leg of that. Super cao keng rite, by the way can see him walking normally with his pair of legs and the cructch his holding on was probably used to kill any insect that might attempt to crawl up his leg again.

Ok back to what happened in the morning, i think that idiot was talking to me i guess. I just didnt bother to look at him or to respond to his remarks cause it's pretty irksome to see that piece of shit beside me. Did u know that a tuning fork was place inside his ears (ask band "the letter before b" for more infor), that why he got perfect pitch. Anyway he didnt even went for that parade for the 1st year la, then comes 2nd year now i need to do his job for him. Whats the point of joining parade band when u CANT march, take up other people's chance to get into the band.

Anyway my day was not ruined because of him, the day ended well quite early if u know wat i meant. Went prata place for lunch with 4 other ORDING corporals, anyway there's one corporal that came back for like 5 days only then it's sayonara for him. I sucked at swimming i think should practise that. Most likely tomorrow will be my last working day then it's 18 more days to ORD!!!

Alone...

2007-07-16T22:52:00.000+08:00

Off day today felt like shit today, with nothing planned today cause it's a off day. Basically rot at home in the morning before deciding to catch a movie in the afternoon. Thanks to my brother's free movie pass manage to watch "My wife's a Gangster 3" at GV yishun. Chose that place cause i will confirm get good seating but quite sad la had to watch the movie alone where inside the cinema are all couples (maybe should go get a girlfriend hahaha). Anyway the movie was funny laugh like mad.

Maybe because it's monday now suffering from the effects of monday blues everything seem to move so slowly. After the movie went to tampines again, did window shopping anyway metro having a closing down sale and the place is flooded with people rampaging the place like world war 2. Had dinner alone at white sand, well food tasted like food. Yup 19 days to ORD!!! Cant wait till it's over.

Busy Sunday

2007-07-15T23:47:00.000+08:00

Today was a busy day for me, I think the busy sunday i ever had. Went to church in the morning then back to work at camp and rushed for a family gathering at my aunty's house.

1st service in church was totally different from the normal 2nd service which i attend. Hymns was sung and theres a choir made up of people whose probably much older then me, am only 23 still young. Well felt that singing hymns was a little bit boring, but then what really matters is the attitude towards worshipping our God. Some of us might think singing hymns equals old fashion out of dated or playing loud christian rock music will irritate God's ears. Well it does not matter what music or song were used in praises but the the right attitude towards worshipping. Cause everyones different cant make everyone follow the same style of music. Creativity a God given gift will be much wasted then, if there's no variety of music in life.

Went to the turf today, it's been a long time since I went there to play. Dont get it wrong went there to play music not play on the odds of the horse that the turf club was offering. Anyway I didnt really went there to play music more like went there to help out in carrying mineral water and watch the band matches into the horse shit infested grass track. Most of the time was spent rotting at the holding area and i were so bored that with two other corporals decided to guess which horse will win the race so winners gets anything or watever.

The whole turf club was full of punters wasting their money away in races that finish in 2-3 mins by the way there were loads of races today. Can really see two kind of people there the super low class punters (sitting at the railings cheering for the horse that they place bets on) and the super high class punters (usually in the air con lounge viewing the horse from above betting in thousands which are peanuts). Anyway will be the last time going there, cause the place smell like horse shit and the PSI index there is like 500pts.

After the family gathering, finally reached back home and it was KO for me before blogging out the days happening. Ya who wants to go to my church 40 days of purpose driven life and contact me at berty84@hotmail.com. Update of my army days 20 more days to ORD!!!

It jus snapped

2007-07-13T22:43:00.000+08:00

Woke up this morning, still lying on my bed decided to grab my guitar and started strumming. It's feels cool to play my guitar while lying on bed anyway my guitar is just within my grabbing vicinity. Started to play song that just comes to my mind practised hammering and tried running my fingers on the strings.

After that went to watch tv for an hour, before decided to pick up the guitar again. I was suprised to see that the D string of my guitar, that i just played awhile ago, had snapped. Well it's a first time that the string just snapped, didnt expect it to be so sudden. Guess the constant tuning causes tension to build up on the strings which finally gives way, resulting it to snap and leaving a string hanging on the guitar.

In engineering term, when tension or we call it stress(force over area) acting at the both ends of the D string becomes too great for the material of the string. The string will starts to elongate and when stress is constantly added to the string, the stress will reach the ultimate tensile strength of the material of the string. Resulting in the terminal failure of the material causing the string to rupture or in lay man term snap. Is it not the same like us? When we are constantly at pressure, sometime we might bottle up that frustration and when that frustration just reach it's maximum things just exploded. Sometimes leaving behind problems unsolved or a scar in our life. So a solution to it is go buy a new string.

Ya went to peninsula plaza got new guitar strings from davis guitar. Walk around suntec before decided to rot and die in bus no. 10. The ride from suntec to tampines was about an hour, it was like me staying in camp office stoning my life away. By the way today was an off day too. Reached back home, a good friend of mine throws a physic question to me lucky i know how to do although i was stunned for awhile. I guessed it's the knowledge that i attained from rigourous mugging during the normal semester in NTU. Anyway now my guitar looks funny with the new string in the middle of the rest of the old strings.

Signs of ORD!!!!

2007-07-12T21:58:00.000+08:00

It has been clinically proven and tested by many people that when a NSF nearing ORD(operation ready date) draws closer this symptoms below begins to shows up:-

Uses ORD often in a conversation. e.g greets people by saying ORD lor , ask question to new birds(rookies) like "when are you all going to ORD" and etc.
Put a smile on their face even when the superior scolds them.
Always on a hack care mood.
Try to siam trainings and work.
Starts asking for incentive offs from superiors.
Goes to the dentist to remove wisdom tooth. Because MC up to a week is given for every pair taken out.
Starts clearing weird leaves example medical leaves.
Trys mean n ways to downgrade pes status.
Pass down their knowledge of How to CAO KENG(malinger) to the new batch coming in.
Finally try to piss people off, who are not going to ORD that soon.

Today was like any normal day in camp, did nothing much but laze around in the camp office and freeze to death under the air-con. Anyway work like yesterday and today only cause was on mc on Monday n Tuesday, and tml am on off. But this coming Sunday will be going to the turf club for a performance anyway most likely wont be playing maybe only use my eye power to watch over things.

Finally did my medical FFI(Fit For Infantry) review, wow i almost fainted when the medics wanted to draw like 10ml of my blood la. Didnt dare to looked at the needle when it was poking into my skin, anyway the medics there are quite professional la even ask if it hurts anot. Anyway the doctor there didnt even read my medical history properly, straight away the doc ask me when did i had high blood pressure. I need like tell him that theres a column in that piece of paper stating past family medical history, so WAKE UP YOUR IDEA MAN YOUR A DOC CANT MAKE A SILLY MISTAKE LIKE THAT(maybe he was wearing his helmet earlier).

Well before ending work, went around with 2 other ORDING candidates looking for vcd player to play a movie. The search for the stupid piece of machine tooks us like haft an hour la, but at least manage to enjoy the movie if not rot and die in office. Hahahaha by the way 23 more days to ORD!!!

Pay Day...

2007-07-10T22:09:00.000+08:00

It's been quite awhile since i received my internship allowance from the army. While for those who dont know basically the army pays their conscripts (forced to serve males) allowances, so that the conscripts can use the money to spend on stuff like non-camera phones, pay for cheverons membership (hardly go), pioneer maginese (didnt know rite) and other crappy essential items for army survival (etc FHM).

Anyway i got a pay rise cause am in the new army scheme, got 50 bucks extra pathetic rite. Actually better then nothing, later complaint somemore they might ask me go sign extras. Atleast am left with 25 more days to ORD!!!

Well was on medical leave today, my ankle recovering well hopefully will be up and running soon. It's so boring to stay at home although i rather stay at home then go to the place where alot of green men can be seen. Playing guitar and surfing the net was basically what i did for the day, well it beats rotting and stoning in camp. Ya am also giving guitar lessons to my friend hopefully am a good teacher hahahaha. Anyway if you all dun mind that am a rookie at playing guitar can always feel free to ask me about playing basic chords or other basic stuff about guitars.

Was reading a book, the book described that the church as a ship and that the cell groups or connect groups are it's life boat. This i totally agrees cause when someone stops going to church or losing faith in God, it's usually those small life boat that's goes to save the one that fell into the water. Well cell groups are important in a church where fellowship can be strengthen and help people in christ whenever their faith for God seem to be decreasing.

"For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.(Matthew 18:20)"

MC day again

2007-07-08T21:54:00.000+08:00

Today felt weird, didnt want to go church today but in the end dragged myself there. Maybe due to the injury on my ankle from yesterday's game. It really sucks to get injured because some idiot decided to ramp your ankle instead of the ball. Then again without that injury would not have gotten my 2 days of MC.

Ya went church today, and felt God talked to me. He said:" go talk the that china girl, that alighted at the same bus stop as you. And tell her the direction to Charis Methodist church." Well in the end i did not anwered what God wanted me to do, although i knew what He wanted but i was afraid that i might scare the shit out of her e.g "Hey God told me to tell you how to get to Charis Methodist church." Anyway i was thinking what's the chance of meeting someone who was going to the same place as me and she might think am crazy.

Ok you all might find it strange but it's the truth, anyway the amazing thing happened that girl actually came to ask me for direction to Charis Methodist church. Although I didnt responded to the calling but in the end that event still happened. Ya anyway i walked with her to church and told her about some stuff about my church. Hahahaha i forgot the important thing i didnt ask for her name. Well hope to see her in church again, although she is not singaporean.

After church went for lunch, today the group was small cause most of them are at aussie Hillsong conference. Hope to go there once to have an experience of the church there, see how different is it from Singapore's. After lunch decided to claim my MC from changi hospital A&E department. Wow the waiting is like 3 hours la, but the good part about it is the 2 days of medical leave the doc gave. If you ask is it worth the wait, i would say YES. Of coz the wait is long by it's for a good cause for example i can rest my ankle, sleep whole day, watch tv, dun need to wear beret(makes u stupid), no stoning in camp and most importantly relac one corner at home(ok this phrase sounds mud). Ya update 27 more days to ORD!!!

Pain...

2007-07-07T22:49:00.000+08:00

Thought that today would start out great, had made my plans for the day. Should start with soccer in the morning, followed by gathering at settler's cafe and finally cell group. In the end due to some idiot who didnt use his small brains, cause in the game of soccer u need to like kick the soccer ball and NOT THE ANKLE. Most likely that idiot left his brian at home before going to play soccer.

Ok i know am a christian and anger is a sin but then am still human not a robot, if am so forgiving about that then i would already be like Jesus. For He is so forgiving that He died on the cross for our sins. Then anger really will consume you when your not careful, thought of revenge and getting back at the other will keep flashing in your minds.

Today is like a torture for me cause i need to like limp all the way from Outram MRT station to settler's. Did catching up with secondary school friends and had a wonderful time doing stupid stuff hahahahaha. And Melody so blur like before, den the rest still about the same but kenneth you need to remove that stomach.
Ya cell was great today, and we got a new friend in cell today. Pray that God will guide, teach and continue to come to church or join our weekly cell groups. Most of the cell member went aussie for Hillsong Conference. Well the day ended with me limping back home.

Bday...a year older now

2007-07-06T22:26:00.000+08:00

Am officially 23 years old now, cant believe that time really flies. Secondary school days was like yesterday, now am a NTU student cant believe that i could ever make it there. Anyway have been spending my last 3 birthday in army that like not really fun at all. No birthday off given, haiz guess need to wait for another year to spend my birthday officially as a civilian.

Once again i rot in the office and stare at the clock waiting for book out. Anyway 50 bucks really drop from the sky hahahaha joking only actually thats my hong bao given by my mom. Can say that today is really peaceful, nothing much happen but manage to share christian thought with a colleague in army. It's good when the office is empty, can sleep with no one disturbing and bring my guitar to play. By the way it's energizing to play Hillsong music in the morning.

Thank you Lord for giving me life 23 years ago, thank you for leading and guiding me to you all these years for you said " You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breath. Everyday was recoded in your Book. (Psalm 139:16) And I commit my time to your hand that you will guide me in your path. Thank Lord in your son name Amen.

ZZzzz...Tired

2007-07-05T20:54:00.000+08:00

Didnt do much stuff in camp today, basically rotting my life away today. Have you ever try sitting on a chair, stare at the clock and asking yourself why the clock is moving so slowing. Every second feels like a minute, every minute feels like an hour. Thats like the worst kind of torture I almost need to face everyday, staring mindlessly at the clock waiting for when the tea-break and fall out going to come.

Well everyone went for parade, so am like the only one in the office. Taking lunch is like taking medication, it makes me feel drowsy. So i doze off while reading the Bible, wow it was a powerful nap. Felt energized after the nap, anyway the nap was short like 20 mins dont say i cao keng huh. Maybe i should bring my guitar to camp tomorrow, atleast i can do IP (individual practise) when the rest goes for parade.

Anyway 30 more days to ORD. Ya and tomorrow is like my birthday, quite reluctant to go to camp when my birthday is a working day and no off is given. Hope that something good will happen tomorrow like suddenly got $50 bucks drop from sky hahahaha.

"Love your neighbours like yourself. (Galatians 5:14)" Thats like what i cant really do for now, how can you forgive someone that easy when that person done something bad to you. Well should strive to achieve that stage.

Off day

2007-07-02T23:22:00.000+08:00

My first off day since i resume my service in army. Did lots of stuff today, i finally decided to get myself a guitar tuner hahahaha should have brought the tuner a long time ago. Finally can use that new tuner to tune my guitar, usually i would go to the net to find the tuning note den tune by feel now no need to stress my ears liao. By the way the tuner cost 15 bucks from davis guitar and i can clip it onto my guitar damn cool la.

Have to say that my toe hurts like it had been ramp over by a truck but it didnt hinder me from going for my movie "transformers". The movie was a flash back for my childhood, remembered that the kids back then in primary school used to show off their autobots toy. I could onli stare at their toy sad rite. Anyway why is megatron not a gun, devastator so small and why Bumblebee not a beetle but a Chevy Camaro. Overall the movie was great with the special effects combined with some sarcastic remakes on the US government hahahaha. Well hope that the old transformers cartoon can be retelecast again on the tv.

Heres a sentence from Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life, " We sing , "Onward Christian Soldies " on Sunday, then go AWOL on Monday". Some of us only have God's fire burning on Sunday but when Monday come somehow the gas that fuels that fire seems to be turn down. Well that should not be the way but the gas should be alway turned at the max for Him. Guess it's the same in army where some people swear the SAF pledge but goes AWOL during service. Lastly 33 more days to ORD!!!

1st of July SAF Day

2007-07-01T23:09:00.000+08:00

Just got back from SAF Day parade, anyway it's the 40th anniversary of army. Dont feel the excitement that i had from the parade last time when my batch mate were still in the band. Well i guess it suck to be the last to ORD, anyway joel i saw your PAUL in no.4 at the parade as audience. Felt that i wasted most of my time waiting for the parade to end.

But this year was quite different normally i would be in the parade playing my horn, this time round am sitting at the grandstand watching the parade. Actually it's quite different when your the spectator, can see the soldiers standing in the parade suffering hahahaha. Well i been through that before. By the way i was in no.1 too and i did join in the parade as a bass drum stand carrier basically carry the drum stand in for the drummers to place their drum so they dont need to carrier that heavy shit throughout the entire parade. Then before the march past, i need to remove the stand before the band marches off.

I felt that the whole parade this morning wasted my entire sunday. Firstly fall in 8am, then go SAFTI for morning rehersal till about 11am. Then break till 4pm to change to parade uniform, then parade start at about 5pm. Its like i wasted most of the time waiting could have gone to church or a movie then suffer there. Everyone was like sleeping in the squash court like some captive animal in a glass cage very funny la.

But then the food the organiser provided were great had western lunch with puddings and cookies for desserts. Later in the afternoon there was tea break snacks chicken pie with soft drink. Then dinner was KFC chicken with a can of cold 100 plus. It like the first time i see KFC dinner provided quite a moral riser after a tiring day a good meal will cheer me up. Anyway it's confirmed that this parade is my last parade coz am going to go for excuses not to take part in any other parades. The main cause for this is my bleeding toe wow the pain is like sensational la, can feel the pain everytime i walk. So hope that i get a super long excuse so that i can ORD in peace. And most importantly 34 more days to ORD!!!

Sick....(continue)

2007-06-29T21:30:00.000+08:00

Hello this is my 2nd day of my medical leave and am bored to death at home, but first 36 more days to ORD!!! Didnt do much today played my guitar for a while, watch tv and eat my medication den hibernate on my bed (most of the time). Never had such a day that i could think of nothing, sleep and relax at home ever since i resume my national service.

Anyway got my EID result, got a A- for that module must thank God for that coz didnt really put in much effort for that. And by the way the gst offset package has already banked into my account liao, now am $300 bucks richer. So need to spend before 1st July coz thats when the 7% gst starts hahahaha.

Well looking forward to the soccer match tomorow, where i can really get some excerise. Has being quite awhile that i have not played soccer with my saturday soccer kakis hope that my skills not gone.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mightly hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because he cares for you. (1 Peter 5:6,7)

Sick....

2007-06-28T21:50:00.000+08:00

Firstly 37 more days to ORD!!! Caught a flu yesterday, wow it's not cool when your on parade and your nose is pumping out nasal juice like theres no tomorrow. While am on parade am not allowed to move, can u imagine having a runny nose and u are not allowed to clear your nose that's like not so cool. Some how i managed to survive through the parade, felt feverish and my throat abit soar so decided to RSO(report sick outside---->army lingo) the next day.

So by now i think everyone in camp should be thinking that am cao kenging (malingering), well thats what everyone would think whenever someone from my unit take mc on a parade rehearsal date. The first thing when u hand the medical cert to the sergent in the company, he will say : " cao keng rite". Dont they even ask if u have recovered from the illness, probably they are afraid of their ass being kick by someone of higher rank. Well then i dont really care what comments i would receive later, most importantly is resting and recovering from now for 2 days.

Anyway was reading a book call " The Pupose Driven Life" by Rick Warren while waiting for my consultation. I felt like God was teaching me through that book, i was reading Chapter 8 there in that chapter it says that worship is far more than music. Well i always thought that worship is singing praises before the start the of church sermon but actually it more than that. Actually every part of the church service is a worship to Him. Even saying grace before a meal is a worship to Him. I especially like this sentence in that chapter "If worship were just music, then all who are nonmusical could never worship."

Sweat....n more sweat

2007-06-24T23:44:00.000+08:00

Went for a run today, wow it's been a long time since i really sweat while running. Past few week my knees was not working really well. Not that i cant walk or something like, i think maybe run too much for the past few week felt pain in my knees. Guess have to thank God for letting me rest my knees well for the past few weeks so that i could run the longer journey later.

While running around pasir ris park at 6pm i notice that i really haven being exploring my neighbourhood, lots of changes had been done at that park. The last time i went to that park was like........i forgot when already hahahaha.

Anyway the changes there were great, saw pretty gals there hahahaha thats not the point. Important note theres a horse stable there, didnt expect that there would be a horse stable build there. Saw kids riding on miniature horse, people looking at the horse n taking picture like they never seen a horse before. Well i guess it's a pretty nice place to have a stable there beside the beach, maybe next time i should bring my camera to take some pictures of the horse while i go for my run.

Ya many new bars and restaurants can be seen making they grounds there, it would be nice to have a dinner in the evening with your love one sitting by the sea and enjoy the beautiful sight of the sea, plus sea breeze blowing at you. Anyway wake up it's Singapore here the temperature is like burning here and you would wish that they install air-con there. Hope that am not a spoiler hahahaha, well it's still a pretty nice place to hang out at night.

Am sure i looked like them?

2007-06-22T22:08:00.000+08:00

I guess am bored nothing to do so went to myheritage.com to see who i would looked like wahahahaha. Anyway update of me .............43 days to ORD!!!!!

Well these people should have some achievement in their life and maybe they found their purpose in life. Well am still searching for that purpose. By the way read this verse from the Bible "It is God who directs the lives of his creatures, everyone's life is in his power(Job 12:10)". It means that there is a purpose for why we are born into this world through His power, God will guide us to what we are here in this world for. Basically put your trust in the Lord for the answer to your purpose in life.

Waiting Game

2007-06-19T22:54:00.000+08:00

Dont you feel frustrated when u have to Wait....e.g wait for people whose late, wait for parade to end, wait for bus to arrive and etc. The frustrating part for the whole waiting thing is WAIT, constantly asking when is this whole thing gonna end or ask how much time of my life have been wasted on waiting. Well i really cant wait for me to ORD!!!.......By the way 46 Days to ORD!!!

Cant remembered the last time that i had to put the decorations on my parade uniform already. While putting the stuff onto that piece of fabric i kept thinking of the wait, when i can really say good bye to SAF bands. That really frustrate a guy who just resume his national service.....am refering me. Anyway the unform is for SAF day parade on tuesday that's today.

The parade itself was a big waste of time, had to fall in like 6:45 am in the morning then reach SAFTI at about 8 am. Then start waiting for like an hour before the rehersal start. The waiting for the rehersal to start was really a killer, had to wait at the grand stand doing nothing. I think i wasted like 6 hours of my time away on waiting alone today. I guess army will never change the habit of making NSF wait for donkey hours to start any kind of activity and they said they are turning 3G, what the crap.

Anyway today's my 1st rehersal a few more to come which is equal to more of my life wasted on a meaningless stuff. The waiting game didnt end there at the parade, when wait for bus 169 i nearly wait like 30 mins and i thought that did i went to the wrong bus stop. When the bus finally came a guy boarded the bus and start saying " nowadays need to wait for haft a hour for the the bus the come" angrily to the bus driver. Wow that moment i thought there was gonna be a fight in the bus but too bad nothing happen.

Anyway moral of the story although waiting sucks, no matter what we still have to wait hahahaha. You might not know what will happen when u wait, maybe a surprise awaits ya at the end of the WAIT.

Evening of Great Music

2007-06-17T23:45:00.000+08:00

Still remembered the time when u last played Super Mario Brothers on nintendo or Sonic the Hedgehog on the mega drive. I bet that the themes song for this all-time favourite games would sound nostalgic to everyone of my gaming era. Well last Saturday I was at a concert called PLAY!, it 's a video game symphony.

The concert was excellent themes songs from Final Fantasy,Legend of Zelda, HALO and other popular games were played......by the way clips of the games was also screen during the concert, never seen a concert like that interesting. I like the part when they played Chrono Cross themes, it sounded perfect. Other pieces like One-Winged Angel was played combined with the choir, it's was almost like the one played in Final Fantasy VII.

During the concert Takennobu Mitsuyoshi sang and played on the piano for the game Daytona USA...........anyway his the composer for that game too. He even threw a sonic the hedgehog soft toy to the crowd too bad didnt get that toy. Lastly the encore piece was the theme song from "The Revenge of the Shinobi" very classic la the last time i saw the game was at SAF bands when one of the bandsmen was playing the game on his laptop la.

Well i guess theres alot of people missed the concert coz i hear the concert was a sold out. Too bad wait for the next time when they come back to Singapore, i think i would going to their concert if they ever come back again.

My Virgin Blog

2007-06-14T22:12:00.000+08:00

Didnt expect that i would one day create my own blog hahahaha.... Anyway am actually really posting in a blog. Well i guessed am bored.

By the way am now resuming my sevice in SAF (Serve and Fuck Off) Bands, i play the french horn in the band and if your wondering whats a french horn well it's a horn made by the french

-_-'''. Quite sianz coz i got to know that am going down for parades and that i have to draw the uniforms again haiz. Look at the non-camera phone and the cap that am using--------------->

My life in camp for the next 51 days without 3G phone service and talk about 3G army without 3G phone.

And today is my 3rd day in service (51 days to ORD!!!!) and also the 1st day of SAF day parade rehersal but the good thing is that i didnt go for the rehersal......coz i took MC wahahahaha. The waiting for the consultation was unbearable waited nearly an hour to actually see the doctor's face and am not late for the appointment what the problem with the doctor man cant keep to time or they forgotten about the fall-in on time thingy during their army days.

Hey anyway am a christian liao......anyway want to know more can contact mi la its a long story. By the way was reading the BIBLE in the bus and happen to saw this verse "But then you will search again for the Lord your God. And if you search for Him with all your heart and will, you will find Him (Deut 4:29)" Well i guess sometime when we are lost in the wilderness or busy with our busy time-table, we may not have the time to do our quiet time but if u search for Him wholeheartedly u will find Him.