Find Rest My Soul
Here's a really meaningful song that I love.. Still, by hillsongs.. Reminds me to come to God... =) The song has been around for some time, but it still speaks to me..
Hide me now,Under Your wingsCover me,With in Your mighty handWhen the oceans rise and thunders roarI will soar with You, a bove the stormFather, You are King o ver the floodI will be still and know You are GodFind rest my soulIn Christ a loneKnow His powerIn quietness and trustLyrics have been taken from
www.ultimate-guitar.com. Peeps interested in guitar can visit this site, it has guitar chords, fingerings and lyrics for all kinds of songs.
Mama Birthday
Yet another birthday celebration and my Da Jie's birthday is in another 5 days time.. For my mama's birthday, we wanted a celebration at Equinox, but we were unable to make a last minute reservation.. haha.. So, we ended up dining at some German restaurant; I didn't even like the food.. German meat just tastes so partially cooked, the experience felt almost barbaric, akin to tearing the meat on my plate. However, the ambience was pleasant and fairytale-like.
At the restaurant
Mom & me =)
My bean stalk to Heaven? It should be beyond the glass ceiling.. Home is heaven..
After the meal that wasn't really to my liking, we went of to the bakerzin for some sweet savouries. The no smoking sign printed in a glass block fascinated me, cause of the internal reflections and stuff..
Internal reflectionsWe wanted to go to the Equinox bar to catch the panoramic view of the city after having dessert, but entry costs $22 with complimentary house drink so its totally not worth it since we were only there for sight seeing, not clubbing... I'm really tempted to make a restaurant reservation 1 year in advance.. ha..
Guess what? On the way back home, we stopped by some stall that sells footwear from 90 cents.. Curious, I browsed through what they had to offer and this uncle waved a pair of slippers at my face, saying, 'Cuse me... Cuse me..' I spun around and he asked, 'What price ah?' Oh com'on! Did I look like the sales person, or was my attire too casual, or did I look like I was doing shelving?! Anyway, I took no offence, but still... ha.. Funny moments ya...
Cheers,
fudge
Full Circle
Now that my ORD is next, next Monday, I really feel my NS has come full circle. Sentimental as I am, I felt quite sad that I have to part with what used to take up 5 days of my week, but I really can't wait to leave - conflicting feelings isn't it? I went down memory lane today and visited my camp's heritage room, where my first sai kang still hangs proud - the 2005 National Day Parade moblie column display. My bunk also had an ORD steamboat dinner tonite. As we sat there eating around the round table, we felt like family. We reminisced about the past, our first day shifting in to the bunk and cleaning the mess. I felt almost like crying. However, we were like one family that is falling apart. Guan Zheng has started clearing his leave, Tian Ping and I will be civilians in 11 days, while Jeremiah won't be for another 9 years or so.
Whoa... good steamboat dinner! haha...
Ohana...
Haha.. this is funny.. act fierce, formal shot.haha...
Self shot.
ORD LOH~! 1 for Signal Specialist Bunk 1!!!
Kok's b'dae
Whoas... There are just so many birthdays in October! For Kok's birthday, we went to Vivo City on the 24th and spent nearly the entire day at Earle Swensens . Not that we wanted to take advantage of the salad buffet, but because we ate earlier, left the diner and accompanied the ladies there later for their lunch.. Rather pai seh lah... Queue twice under the pseudonym 'Wilson' - supposed to be Widyson but the manager heard Wilson.. haha..
@ Big Mega Store
Vivo nite shot
Me, 'Wilson', Kok, Andy, Linette, Yvonne.
SAF-Fantasy
This is a cute and funny animation done by a friend of a friend. As the name suggests, it has something to do with the army.. I shan't reveal too much, the rest is for you to find out!
SAF-FANTASYThank you Miss Haze
Thanks to Miss Haze, my sore throat has worsened and I can barely speak. Wonder how I am going to teach tomorrow if I don't recover.
@ Orchard 2dae
No haze is going to keep me indoors to bore away reading books and surfing forums all day. Today, Andy and I went down to Orchard to find something, something
hush-hush, confidential and secret.. haha..
sure looks hazey doesn't it?
Took this while resting our legs at Lido.. haha
In Wheelock Place
While walking back to the MRT station from Wheelock Place, this team of 4 RJC students stopped us on our tracks. The boy who spoke to us was rather polite, so Andy and I obliged to answer their question; besides, the quartet blocked our entire path! Well, I was embarrassed that I didn't know what 'Romancing Singapore' is, but let's just say that I don't fall within the target audience of the campaign. (rationalisation... haha) I seriously wonder why the RJCian said that we look like the "correct" age.
Anyway, we accomplished our mission and bought the hush-hush item that we were seeking for and I was entertained for another day..
Random Thoughts
Duang-ing is becoming better now, compared to last week or a few weeks back. That's because most of my JC friends have started clearing their off and leave and we can all chill together, rather than me confining myself most of the time or hanging around in camp, only to find out that I am more miserable than at home. I have rested for 6 weeks and I have another 2 weeks, during which I would try to find a job somewhere, somehow, as an accounts assistant and get my pink ic on 6th November. Until school starts, I should be working, giving tuition part time and learning driving.
I can't wait to start school. That's a really strange desire, especially if its from me. You see, from young, I hated school and didn't want to go to school. In JC, as with most councillors and union members, I skipped lectures like nobody's business. However, I've suffered almost 2 years while waiting to study and I have to wait another 7 months! As with human nature, when we wait, we just wish we could fast forward.. Besides, there's so much I want to do in Uni and I just wish I could start right away.. Also I'm planning to room with Chee Yuen in hall, so that should be quite fun. And I want to decorate my room! haha.. I'd have to work with limited space though, but it's gonna be fun!! haha...
Cheers,
Fuda
Forum people....
Honestly, forum people in general really have no life? Anyone of you reading my blog active on forums? They debate about really trivial issues.. One guy has this blog about bad habits of Singporeans. I suppose most of the clips where recorded by him.. All around Yishun. No doubts about where he stays. Its all about silly things like this old man cutting through the HDB block on his motorbike n such.. Is there a problem at all?
Not to mention a certain Sgcockroach...
gosh! he has nothing better to do... he was asking a whole lot of questions on NS... even started a tread asking if he should wear contact lenses in army. Guess wad? This
Si Gin Nah confessed that he has a few more years to NS?! Argh!! He is a huge waste of so many people's time giving him advice in vain..
gosh!I do like a few treads though. One is on whether females should serve NS and another on millitary adverts, whether they are a waste of money. Thought these were interesting topics for discussion. What's interesting about the forums is that you won't really know the age or educational background of the source, he may just be a lunatic or a genius, a wise sage or some sec 2 kid with nothing better to do.. haha.. However, I haven't really seen anything really impressive. I mean, its mainly common sense, that's all I've found. Alot of the treads are meaningless chatter.. discussion for the sake of dicussion, its no end in itself. There are threads on, 'What's your fave radio station' without deeper discussion into what makes for a good station, why issit that they prefer the station and what is the purpose of listening to radio stations.
So much for pointing fingers and all. I have no life too!!! Save me!!! Quick! haha... Its boredom that drove me to reading those silly forums and talking with people that have no life! haha.. and I guess you all know why there has been a sudden exponential increase in my blog entries... and lengthy wordy ones especially.. haha.. SAVE ME!!! haha...
Cheers,
fudge! =)
Happy 21st Birthday Chee Yuen!
Here's a tribute to one of my best friends. Silly jokes.. Playing funny DoTA maps.. Night's Outs.. Singing K box over nitez.. Wallace & Gromit.. Moonlight in Tokyo.. Improvised BBQ @ NTUC Resort... Swimmin in Sentosa, 'there're animals in the water!'.. 'It's snorkelling time'...
'So how?' & 'Anything' - that's how we had lotsa fun tog.. =P
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Miss Haze
I'm sorry for anyone called haze. These days, she's the most hated, second only to Indo.. *ahem.. ness ya... Miss haze didn't really bother me... though her index hit unhealthy levels of 150... until yest.. sore throat... headache! arghhhh!! couldn't even teach properly.. No thanks to Miss haze.
Good Movies
Though I have watched 2 lousy movies, there are some good ones out there.. depends on personal preference though. Last Sat, i just remembered, I watched John Tucker Must Die.. ha.. that was funny... Worth the watch.. And one thing to learn? Its easier to shift Jiang mountain than to change someone's personality.. haha
Good movies to come? I'm thinking of The Guardian.. Seems like a nice, cool lifeguard movie... damn zai... The Departed seems good too... good plot.. but the Infernal Affairs is said to be better still
Not liking horror movies, The Silk is a definite no no... There was one trailer that that was shown on GV that I thought, 'that's one boring movie that I will never watch...' Can't remember which one it is... must be even worse than World Trade Centre.
Stay Alive _ _ _ World Trade Centre
It must be the
"I've-got-nothing-better-to-do" bug that is causing me to turn to any form of entertainment available. Last night at Jurong Point, the suggestion to watch a movie sounded like a well-deserved treat for the week of boredom, 2 hours later, it was the disaster of the week.
"Let's watch
Stay Alive leh..." Zhong Yuan began curiously.
"Later they play DoTA and they will find themselves dying the same way they did in the game... haha" Chee Yuen added jokingly.
"So how? We watch
Stay Alive?"
"Anything."
With that, we sealed our fate for the next 2 hours. The movie is a horror flick, a mild one, but sufficiently distasteful to me - someone committed to watching comedies. The ghost wasn't exactly surreal or the kind of our worst nightmares. However, the film did manage to get Chee Yuen and myself sloughing into our seats and peeping through our finger slits on many occasions. It came to the extent that the aunty sitting beside me commented, "even guys are scared." Embarrassing as it was, I didn't really care. Besides, she probably can't see me in the dark, and will probably never see me again and remember watching
Stay Alive with 2 silhouettes cowering in the cinema.
I guess it was scary because the suspense was well built-up. The sound effects and the turn of events cause the viewer to cringe in fear that the certain character will die. What makes the film appealing is that reality is intertwined with the virtual; even if the game is paused, reality becomes the virtual. Hardcore horror flick lovers would find this mild, while
PG lovers like me don't appreciate seeing the film through my finger slits.
Interestingly, the bug didn't stop at one disastrous movie. It had me watching a movie I wanted to fast forward through the next day.
"You shouldn't watch
Stay Alive.." I recounted to Zong Yi "I didn't really want to watch it, but my friend wanted to, so I accompanied him..."
"Then you want to watch
World Trade Centre or not?
The Departed is not bad also..."
"Yah! I want to watch
The Departed!"
"It's the English version of the Chinese show XYZ..." (I can't remember the title of the Chinese drama series... haha)
"Never mind lah.. We watch
World Trade Centre loh.."
Once again, I subjected myself to 2 hours-or-so of misery. I don't really know how long the movie lasted. It must have been eons. The movie started off on a normal working day and Sergeant John woke up at 03:59, bathed, changed and drove to work. He conducted roll call as per normal and blah, blah, blah... You get the picture. The plane crashed into the first tower within minutes of the show. For most of the remaining time, you'll see Sarge John talking to one of his police officers, both crushed under the rubble, trying to stay alive.
On a number of occasions, when I wanted to fast forward the movie, I looked over at Zong Yi to see how he was enjoying the film. Nope, he showed no sign of boredom. When one of the police officers crushed under the debris took out his revolver to shorten his suffering, I looked over to Zong Yi and asked rhetorically, "can we watch a comedy?" Apparently, I have a low tolerance for anything that is not cheerful, optimistic or hilarious. Whatever it is, the 2 movies were a torture. Perhaps there are some who would enjoy watching a bunch of gamers running away from a ghost that exists in virtual and physical dimensions; perhaps there are some who would enjoy watching 2 cops talk under tons of concrete slabs. Perhaps there are some who enjoy watching both shows, where people try to
Stay Alive. I just fall into neither group.
Fudge on watching television
I haven't quite been fond of watching television for a couple of years now. However, in this time of doldrums, I randomly turn that poison box on to find some quality shows. I did find one. Nope, not during
prime time TV as they call it, I found The Oprah Winfrey Show, in the late morning when practically everyone would be at work, school or still in dreamland.
The charm of Oprah can't possibly be articulated in words. It's just an indescribable charisma. At the golden age of 50 (at the time of this episode. Now she's 52), I do believe her life experience and her relationship with God does play a major role in nurturing this ineffable trait. As we mature, I believe we either become more Christ-like or more evil, or even worse, sneakily evil or unscrupulous.
In the episode broadcast today, she entertained a number of personal questions from the audience. In response to a young lady saying that she respects Oprah and wants to become just like her, Oprah said that she should be herself, and that Oprah can only be a beacon, because she believes that God has a dream for everyone, and we should live that dream! How true, and I enjoyed the wit and humour in which she carried the message across.
Not surprisingly, that young lady was filled with gratitude and declared that she will name her daughter Oprah. Interestingly, Oprah revealed the origin of her name! In the bible:
Ruth 1:3-5 (New International Version)
Now Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. They married Moabite women, one named
Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
Notice a difference? Oprah Winfrey and Orpah, the Moabite. Interestingly, her name was insisted by her aunt, who misspelled Orpah.
I guess there are some good shows worth watching, especially Oprah. To me, it's mostly about life, about people who fought adversities and triumphed over hardships. It's also entertainment, humour and wit. Most importantly, I am really impressed by her advice to the young lady. To me, it means:
you may want to be someone else, but God has a specific dream for you - will you live that dream?Jeremiah 29:11-12
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you."
1 Corinthians 11:1
"Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ."Bible references have been taken from bibleGateway.com
