my memories
Monday, October 31, 2005
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12:51 PM
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It was fun talking to Sandy and Serena today..haha...=)
Sandy! Give me your blog address!Bring your baby photos too kaes? =)
12:39 PM
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I bought two books today. One of them is entitled "Messianic Prophecies Fulfilled in Jesus Christ". That book may be simple and cheap but it contains valueless prophecies that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ alone (duh!). It wonderful to know that so many there have been so many prophecies and all of them have been fulfilled in just one man alone - Jesus Christ. In fact, there are still so many more prophecies in the Bible, some already come to pass and some that are to come to pass, soon. I especially love the ones on the End Times. Not that I will like the tribulation. It's just that God's power is going to be displayed on this earth! HALLELUJAH!
The other book i bought was a children's book, called "Hey, that's not what the Bible says!" It's hilarious! Extremely cute! I like the new testament submarine thing...hahaz..
I think Fish will like the book!
12:02 PM
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Finally Sunday came and it is about gone. I always love Sundays because it's God's day. Today's sermon was on remaining strong in our faith in God during trials and tribulations as well as temptations. The thing that caught my attention was the powerpoint on the Suffering Church. What is the Suffering Church? It is part of God's family who is being persecuted for turning to Christ. Fact and Figure: Each year,
250 million christians are persecuted for being a christian!
250 million!! Can you believe that? That is about sixty-two and a half times the number of Singaporeans! I never knew that in the modern world, there are still so many people who are being tortured for the cause of Christ. (That shows how covered up I am...=( ) Anyway, I really awed by Suffering Church's strength to be able to endure and withstand the trials yet continue to grow in numbers..Praise God! I hope and believe that when it is time for me to go through the same suffering, God will carry me through.
Another thing that really amazed me today (and yesterday was about Isreal. Such a small nation yet spotlights are all on that recently regathered nation. Throughout the ages almost ever since the beginning of time, Isreal has existed and still exists until today. Despite opposition from numerous strong nations and tonnes of attempts to totally destroy them, they have maintained their identity as Jews and lasted until today. When so many other races have slowly disappeared due to changes, this race has stood strong. But it is by the GRACE OF GOD that they are still a nation! They are God's Children and God will not allow His chosen ones to be wiped out. So I say to all, They will last as long as God wills and God will protect them. Whoever goes against them will unfortunately not be successful to destroy them totally because God will not allow it. (why try? It ain't very good to bring God's wrath upon oneself...it's disastrous...)
Need examples?
Hitler wiped out millions of Jews yet there still are millions of Jews out their in the world and they are still flourishing!
Look at the bible!
11:30 AM
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Sunday, October 30, 2005
I think I am going to blast out at smokers. Don't mind me.
DO YOU KNOW HOW DIRTY YOUR LUNGS ARE?!?!?!?!
You may say it's your right, but hey. You are intruding into NON-SMOKER'S rights! You might not mind getting your lungs filthy but we do! Please! Keep the smoke to yourself.
But I really do not get people who enjoy smoking. Why do people still want to smoke when they know it kills them? I have seen pictures of real lungs, diseased because of smoking. They are really grotesque looking things - black, mutilated by smoke, some are out of shape. I was doing the Kid's Against Cancer Smoking project last year and since then, I am totally against every single cigarette. Perhaps one day you will find me in one of those clubs advocating against smoking. =) But truly, if only the Cancer Centre was willing to give me a real human lung sample which was diseased due to smoking, I would have handled it gladly. Just so I can SCARE people. AA..but I didn't get what I requested though my friends and I managed to get our hands on some cool and good material.
Anyway, I am suddenly talking about this because there was this young male smoker in front of my house today. Reasons why I am irritated:
1. I get the smoke - my lungs get dirty.
2. He was smoking at the swimming pool when the rules specifically say
NO SMOKING. (complain!!!)
3. He was flicking his ash into a grass patch in front of my window. If the grass had caught fire, I would have been the first one to be BARBEQUED. AND I DO NOT INTEND TO BECOME BARBEQUED CHICKEN.
STOP SMOKING!!!
p.s. I don't want to die too early,
got it?
2:19 PM
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My dad found a passport photo of me when I was a baby. I was so
ADORABLE!! No, I am not being thickskin. If my dad hadn't told me it was me, I would have thought it so anyway. The photo was taken when photos came in only black and white and when I still had all my baby fats and 'chicken drumsticks' (as my mum describes baby's legs). I was sitting on my father's lap and staring rather intensely at something that was beside the camera, probably the photographer. I was frowning and my mouth was upturned as though wondering what funny adult business all this was about. How wierd adults must have seemed to a baby whose life is all about mummy, daddy, milk, sleep and biting things.
My mum says that my baby photo looked exactly like hers. Both of our foreheads are bIg (Tania calls me a senior with the luo-han forehead. AA!!) and both of us were frowning. I compared it with my brother's baby photo. His face is elongated while mine is squarish. I looked suspicious but he looked rather placid.
But we all have my mother's eyes! and I have my father's faceshape!
p.s. Judging by my frown, I must have been quite a fierce baby.
11:45 AM
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My brother put makeup today.
Shocked? lOl. Nothing really. He just was performing for his kindergarten' graduation. It was held at Victoria concert hall. Never remembered having my graduation concert anywhere else but at school. Anyway, he wore a shiny white costume and had a blue sash over it and a string tied at his waist. Whether he was an angel or a shepherd, I cannot decide. If he was perfoming as an angel, he had no halo. If he were a shepherd, he had no sheep (baa!). I didn't go and watch so my question can probably never be answered. Talking about sheep, when I performed at my own graduation concert, I performed as a sheep. So I sang a baa baa song. And won a prize! =) Still remember donning my ballet leotard and lace tutu that my mum made and wearing a fleecy hairband over my hair. I think we sang something about sheep and hypocrites. Well, they don't link but hey! That was exactly a decade ago?
My brother was an eskimo rubbing his bum trying to keep warm last year, this year he's and angel/shepherd/whoever who wears what he wore, I wonder what he will be next year. I am definitely going to watch that one!
11:15 AM
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Saturday, October 29, 2005
Interesting. I thought I was supposed to stay home to study for Os. Instead, I found myself out of the house and in the heart of Orchard Road, you guessed it - shopping. My mum insisted that I go out with her. Her aim was to buy an air pot. (not an air port, please.) My mum, brother and I took a taxi to Centre point and later we walked over to Orchard Point. To cut the long story short, my mum got an air pot with the dechlorination feature that she wanted as well as a pair of slippers, my brother bought a a microbead dolphin and I bought a white evening bag to match my grad nite dress and a pair of sunglasses. By the end of five and a half hours, I am totally dead out. Shopping isn't exactly my hobby though I like pretty things. Ater a while, I find it meaningless. I glad to back home and to my books.
12:38 PM
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I like the last page of yesterday's urban section. It was really funny. It featured this Artic explorer and things in his bag. Reasons why I like that article:
1. It did not feature another artiste or singer.
2. It was very interesting to find out how he survived the cold and the dirtiness! (he rubbed snot all over his face to protect it. YEW!!)
3. I found out that Polar bears love toothpaste! They can smell it 80 km away!!
THAT'S SO CUTE!! =)
12:30 PM
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Friday, October 28, 2005
Faith like a ChildI was just praying with my brother. He requested that my whole family pray before we sleep. I now realise something. I understand why Jesus told his disciples to be like little children in their faith. As I listened to Walter pray, he repeated thanked God for creating the things around him. He thanked God for food to eat. And he also said that he would "make a mountain to show how much I love You." He gave/dedicated everything unto God! He mentioned no requests at all because he knows that everything needed will be provided for.
So this is the childlike faith - to pray, to thank God, to express our love for Jesus and to dedicate our lives unto Him. God also wants us to trust Him for He will provide everything for us in His own special way. He has promised that.
"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil or spin; yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?" - Matthew 6:28-30
We must have faith in Him!
2:47 PM
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My mum's a superwoman. =) She's strong! In the morning, she managed to move her king'-size bed (complete with a superheavy mattress and bulky wooden bedframe) into another position all by herself. How does she do it? I tried pulling at the whole bed..can't even move it one bit. Oh well, knowing my mum, she will and can move almost everything. Otherwise, how will she keep the whole house so spick and span until the floor squeaks under our feet? Sometimes it's so clean, we want to levitate so we won't dirty the floor again. *grins. Ah..but I have learnt the art of cleaning the floor too!
Just after I woke up, my mum told me to occasionally try the grad nite dress we bought on last sunday. She says that I had better see whether I have grown too fat for it - within 4 days. I tried the dress again, and no, I haven't grown fat yet. (Hope I don't during the exam period. I suppose stress will burn off any won't it?) Even if she hadn't told me to put it on, I would have done so anyway. I absolutely love that dress! It's really beautiful! =) I love its bluish-emerald green shade and its frills. Come to think of it, it looks like one of those dresses that Hollywood actresses wear. So that was what my mum meant by a grad dress not made of the usual satin material. She didn't want me to wear a satin dress. She said it would make me look like a bridesmaid and I got this dress! Made of 100% pure silk (poor silk worms), it definitely didn't come in cheap. $230. My heart nearly stopped when I heard that price and it was already discounted. (poor papa's too, I think.) As a consolation, I know I am not going to buy another of this sort of dress for many-a-year. I don't have to because it's lovely. I am wearing for JC grad nite too, two years down the road. That is, if I keep my figure.=) Thank you papa and mama! (and God too!)
8:34 AM
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
How could I ever forget to describe the pau incident?! Before a scatter-brain of me forgets, here it is:
Yesterday morning, my mother wanted to eat pau (not you pearl! =D ) for breakfast so she steamed some in a pot (new one, mind you) while I was washing up in the toilet. When I came out of the toilet, I found her very frustrated because she could not open the pot cover! I saw her trying to lift the cover but to no avail so I offered to help. Unfortunately, I met with the same plight of not being able to open it. The cover wouldn't even budge. When asked how she manged to get the cover stuck, my mum said that she had left the paus boiling for too long, the cover went 'pop' and the its centre dented on its own. (I am thoroughly amazed at this particular pot. Never heard of one so intimidating.) For the next ten minutes or so, we pulled, pushed, yanked, tugged at it. We even used a screw driver to try to pry open the pot cover. People passing by our kitchen window seriously must have thought us mad. Indeed, my hungry mother was so mad she threatened the pot that if it didn't open, she would throw it away as well as the paus. Of course, pots and paus are deaf. I lifted the whole pot by the pot cover and started shaking it. My mum chided me for that because we would get
soggy paus. Oh well, it was worth a try. =) In the end, we ate something else for breakfast. I entered the kitchen again to wash my plate and I discovered that something was sizzling. I turned around to see what was making the noise.
It was the pot! I immediately called my mum who rushed to the kitchen and we both stared at the sizzling pot. When the sizzling became softer, I gently lifted the cover and TA DA! THE POT WAS OPEN! So. The pot finally opened didn't it? To reveal two big, fuzzy-wuzzy,
soggy paus. Guess I shook it too hard! =)
1:56 PM
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
What a day! Or rather what an exam!! haha..well, today I had chem O level practical and there was lots and lots of drama in my lab today. First we had a breakage of I do-not-know-what. I do suppose that is normal but what came next was quite unexpected. In the middle of our practical, Weiling suddenly vomitted..poor thing really..being sick during an O level exam. She looked fine earlier in the morning. Anyway, many teachers and lab-techs (about 7-8 people) swarmed in and started fussing over her. After fussing over her, they congregated in the small lab-tech room next my lab and there they remained talking and discussing. Then Audrey managed to set her portable bunsen burner on fire!! It was a reasonably big fire for her bench. As Audrey was panicking at the side, all the teachers peeked out of the room and Mrs. Chia began telling her loudly," Turn it off! Turn it off!" Audrey didn't dare and at that moment, everyone - whole troop of teachers and lab-techs, ran out of the small room to the rescue of the damsel in distress. A few of them tried to fan the fire, quite unsuccessfully. Mrs Chia threw a DRY rag over the fire which of course didn't work and Mr Lim picked up the whole bunsen burner and threw it into the sink. Macho guy, man! HAHA!! It was really a sight!! An extremely HILARIOUS one!! Apparently my friends do agree with me because after the exam, all who were in my lab were chortling and laughing over it. In fact, when I told my friends who were in the other lab next to mine about it, we were all in hysterics. Audrey definitely was laughing. Sakina (from the other lab) complained laughingly, if there is such a work, "How come all the drama is in your lab ar? My lab very boring leh!!"I have only 1 word for this, "HA!"
8:47 AM
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