lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
And love that never fails
Let mercy fall on me
When everyone needs forgiveness
Kindness of the Saviour
The Hope of the nation
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything that i believe in
Now i surrender
Shine a light in and
let the whole world see
Singing, for the glory of the risen king
Jesus, Shine a light and
let the whole world see
Singing for the glory of the risen king
Sunday, August 31
-9:16 pm
We celebrated my mom's 50th birthday yesterday afternoon at Sakae Sushi. Haha. This is the only time when my family will splurge money on dining out. If not we would have eaten at a hawker centre loh. Anyway my dad was pretty sweet to fly back just so that he could be here to celebrate for her. I think they only like become this... sweet after we have gotten older. Haha. In the past, they always like do their own things. My mother is forever chasing us to do homework, chores, eat, sleep, whatever you have. Then my father will watch his own tv programmes and then go to sleep. But well, I'm glad they are happy together even though they have raised 3 ungrateful kids. Hahahahaha. No la, we are grateful, just that we don't know how to express. :]
Then in the evening, we went to Qi Ren's place for his 21st party. It wasn't a party in any sense. LOL. It was just a gathering of his closest friends ie all the church people. His mom cooked fantastic stuff. Too bad I didn't eat more of the curry. Had too much spaggetti. :p While eating dinner, we all camped in front of the TV. Haha. Like nothing to do lo. It was weird to have the birthday boy himself host his own party - he announced the cake-cutting session himself. Poor soul. But well, friends since young, he got over it. HAHA. Then we went to his room for some secret mission. It was for Mavis' farewell gift haha. We like so scared she would come in and check on us or what. But in the end, she left early. False alarm. :]
It was in his room then I finally realised what Ying Shing meant by Cindy's explanation of bad Ikea table. It was bent in the middle. I think he put too much weight in the middle with all his leaning and the table was too long, so I guess it had nowhere to go but down. I have yet to see mine like that and his should have been bought later than mine. But then again, my table is shorter in length, so lesser of the problem I guess.
We had Teacher's Day celebration today! Lee Wei gave me the bear above. So cute right. Aww. I got a whole bunch of stuff from the other students too. Actually not a lot la but a couple of cards and cookies by a very sweet but naughty boy haha. Oh and a notepad from Joel. He's another cute boy too. :] Ah, church has very cute children. One thing I found out from the tuition bunch was that I'm apparently very fierce. HAHA. Yes I concede to that fact. I tend to talk too loudly and forcefully and probably appear too concesending. hmmm. I will try to change. I've been trying to change that. Really. Trying not too slip in too many concesending remarks too like "Then what do you think it is, an elephant?" Not that exact same sentence, but if you know me, yah that kind of sentence. Like I'm trying to say "don't be duh to me". Yah. Yes I will try to change. Please pray for me and remind/rebuke me if I do too much of that. I know it gets on to a lot of people's nerve.
BUT if you really know me well, I'm actually all bark and no bite. HAHAH.
Yeah well. :/
Wednesday, August 27
-9:43 pm
1) Giving advices are so easy. Heeding them is tough.
2) Give thanks that Tuesday was finally done.
3) Sometimes I wonder, why do I even bother.
4) Studying is an uphill slope now.
Sunday, August 17
-11:48 pm
I have two guy friends and a girl friend who have not touch biology ever since Sec 2, damning biology.
HAHAHA.
Not that I can understand why they don't like it but it's just amusing.
Isn't biology fun? (I can hear Wee Wee's vehement protests.) It's body science at the micro-est level you can ever get. Don't you like to know how your body works? Chemistry and Physics can tell you how the things work, all the reaction and stuff but Biology tells you why it has to work like that. Or you just can't survive. It's amazing to see God's work at such a minute level (but that's another story for another day) in living things.
SMU kids are starting school tomorrow. It's time for the trains to get REALLY packed beyond words.
Singapore got the Table Tennis Sliver after all. But good work still! :]
Unresolved.
Friday, August 15
-9:54 pm
It's the Olympic Season once again! I caught the re-telecast of the Opening Ceremony and boy, was it a masterpiece. It was damn spectacular la. Can't expect anything lesser with Director Zhang Yimou at helm with the project. It's kinda hard not to feel proud as a Chinese at that moment. How many ancient civilisations have ceased to exist over the years? The Chinese is probably one of the very few that has survived with most of its culture, language and traditions still intact. Don't you think it's amazing? :]
Of course, they just had to ruin it by reporting how many fakes there were in the Opening Ceremony. -__-" Really, why can't for once they do everything by the book? They don't seem to really care what the rest of the world may say about all these?
But anyway, Singapore finally has a chance of getting an Olympic medal! All thanks to the women peddlers. :] I caught the third and most deciding set in school today. So many people were crowding around the Chinese Library to look at the match of the year (for Singapore that is) and there was a collective sigh when one of them missed a shot. I was amused by it. I don't know for a fact how many were Singaporeans or Chinese but it's heartwarming to see that at that moment all just want Singapore getting into the finals. So I guess we'll have to wait till Sunday before we know what colour medal they'll bring back. :]
It's already the 2nd week of school but I've yet to settle down to study. Like seriously. I've been running around like a headless chicken to get the RA stuff done, running around to find tutorial rooms and trying to get from one place to another in the fastest time ever. I've somehow become the group leader unknowingly because... I seem to know the things better than any of them since I can understand rudimentary computing languages.
I want to complain about somethings but I don't know if any of the others are reading this too though but what the hell. I know you guys have tuitions to go, other lessons to go, etc etc, but then I feel like I'm the more committed one here. Why is it that prof has different expectations for different group of us? Well I think it's because there could be some miscommunication. Somehow your intended reason for joining as a RA wasn't told to her properly I guess. I know the signs of trying to get out as much as possible because I've been through them as recently as just 2 weeks ago, but then, I can't say nor force anything. If you guys want to quit, I guess it's fine. So far I've been enjoying my work - I discover I do have a flair for computing languages. HAHAHA. I don't think she'll ask me to do the coding all by myself (since it's tough work), but yah hopefully she can find some more people to do it, if you guys may feel like leaving. I know you said you will stay, but then, I don't know. I know how it feels when your fellow colleagues don't seem to put in as much effort, I know them very well, having to feel them as early as 4-5 years ago. That's why I won't say a thing.
己所不欲 勿施于人. I think now it's just payback to Mee Cheng. Lols.
Well sad things aside, I'm taking advanced stats! Pats on the back anyone? It's actually not that difficult because it's mainly on regression and anova. Regression is actually just explaining how we get the best fit line to explain patterns (if there is any for the matter) and then interpreting the line and the results and yada yada. But we'll have to understand all the technicalities of it. So I guess that makes it hard. ANOVA is an unknown factor as of now since we won't touch it till mid sem or something. Doing some maths may be good for the brain since I already have 3 super heavy content modules and one chinese heavy content module to study for the semester. Maths is good though I don't understand how and why I couldn't understand statistics in JC. Hmmm..
I got my new spectacles too! Though I think it's not much different from my previous one. The frame is dark red though, very in vogue. Hahaha. It is, according to today's 我报 which has a special on how spectacles have become a fashion trend rather than a mere necessity.
I'm going to sleep soon. Please stop from doing too much shopping!! I'm really going to buy a lot of clothes which are only coming in like 1-2 months later. Which is damn slow. Haiz.
Friday, August 8
-11:29 pm
Today is 080808! Once in every 100 years! So these five couples from church decided to have their 2nd wedding to be held on the same day too. Heh. 2nd wedding because they didn't have their ceremony done in church when they were first married 'cause either one was not a Christian or both of them weren't Christians. In order to get married in churches, both the bride and groom have to be Christians. So they chose this day to reaffirm their vows again. It was a very sweet ceremony and they were all blushing brides again! So pretty! Heh. It's really true that brides are always the prettiest on their wedding day, no matter their age. So they had these walking in, saying their vows, signing their certificates all over again. But this time round, their kids are around on Earth. HAHAHAHA. So they had a song item for them and gave presents to their parents. :]
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Anyway, first week of school was alright. It feels weird that now I'm a year 3. It seems like it was only last year when I first entered university. Time passed too quickly already. I'm a year 3 now! I don't have the sense of reality yet. :[ Choosing subjects is a little hard now since they are no longer compulsory. All the electives are interesting but we can only choose a handful leh. And I have decided to drop Wei Ning's "no-main-points-but-still-try-to-catch-some-main-points" module in which it has no textbook on it for Ringo's "damn-difficult-but-well-explained" module in Advanced Statistics. Advanced Statistics. I never thought I would have taken that.
Sighs. Dear Lord, I need all the help from you. :[
Monday, August 4
-8:26 pm
Harvey: Any psychotic ex boyfriends that I should be wary of?
Alfred: Oh you have no idea.
Harvey: The night is dark just before the dawn.
Harvey: You die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.
Alfred: Would you be in the bat mobile sir?
Bruce: In the middle of the day Alfred? Not very subtle.
Alfred: The Lamborghini then. Much more subtle.
Alfred: Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Dark Knight is Love!
-6:02 pm
It's been a loooong week.
First there was FOC. To give it credit, it was fun but there were still some screw ups. Which I think it was more because of circumstances rather than any human errors. The main programmers did a good job to make a fun camp for the freshies. Although it may not be as exciting as some others but I guess it's alright since basically almost all the programmers were females and that they used most of last years ideas if i'm not wrong, I don't think they went too far to make it outrageously crazy. As for the top few heads, hmm, I don't think I'll work well with them haha. It feels like they are just trying to exert their authority but then, no one really cares about them. Because I've been a CP, though in a very much different capacity, I don't think I carry any of her work-attitude. Maybe it's just me been less assertive but... something is just off. I don't know how to express it. Just feels that like no one really cares about them. Maybe it's just me.
Their voices are pretty shrieky too. Gosh. For people who talk in low pitch, they are pretty high when they shriek. That's one wonder of the camp.
Had a pretty long talk with Sharon too. I'm glad things are heading up. I'm very grateful and happy to experience first hand that God listens to prayers. It's one big blessing for the year 2008.
Third year in university is coming up! Can't wait. :]
