Friday, 6 August 2004

I'm amazed I'm still awake at this hour... Good night to whoever is reading this...

Yup yup, I changed the music to "O Praise Him" from David Crowder's Band. I sort of really admire David Crowder's goatee... He's got this magnificent goatee that just sprouts from his chin, and I'm really wishing I can grow one like his. Then maybe I can dye it pink or something... But one glitch though, my mum will probably hit the roof before I can even suggest it. Yar, it's a good song from the Band, and a good goatee as well...

Nothing much happened today. Got double periods of Maths in the morning, then double Chinese in the afternoon, so you can pretty much guess what kind of mood I'm in... Never mind, hopefully tomorrow will be better... Tomorrow is National Day celebrations, henceforth no lessons whatsoever. Heck, I'm not even planning to go in the first place, but we'll see how.

Oh right. Spirited Away is showing on TV right now. It's this Japanese anime cartoon about this 10-year-old girl and her fairy tale adventures in some Boo Boo Land. It's extremely captivating, and I think the plot and story-telling is awesome. I heard this show won some awards for Best Cartoon or something, not so sure... Anyway, my favourite part (so far) is where the girl's parents are turned into pigs because they were gluttons and they ate up all the food for some important guest to the Boo Boo Land... Wish I could turn people into pigs and cats and mosquitoes as well... And ducks, yar, ducks. Everyone should be turned into ducks. QUACK...

Wednesday, 4 August 2004

I initially wanted to post an entry here, and I did... But owing to certain circumstances, I'm currently very lazy, so I couldn't really be bothered to type a lot of words into the keyboard. So, an apology to you if you're expecting a long post...

Anyway, walked home with Wilfred just now. I walk home everyday, but Fred has been walking home for the past few days. (He lives at around Ang Mo Kio, or somewhere thereabouts...) Good exercise for him to cut down those excess mass...

I got an exceptional result for Social Studies. 35 out of 50... I think I thrashed everyone in the level... MUAHAHAHA... Okie, shaldn't be too proud, or later Jia Hong say I'm like Jun Yuan again... A2 for Mathematics, B3 for Additional Mathematics... B4 for Chemistry, C6 for Physics... Good for my standards so far, but sort of wishing I'll get slightly higher.

Whatever... I'll redraw my apology earlier, cos I realised this post is quite long already... My fingers are aching from all these typing. Oh right, happy birthdays to Wilfred and Jun Xiong. Spawned date: August 05 1988, which is tomorrow... And Jun Xiong too, who share the exact same date with him.

Monday, 2 August 2004

Okie, I realised that the time now is (0130 hrs) a bit too late, since I've got school the next day, but never mind. I can't be bothered with sleeping anyway, cos I'm Iron-Man, and Iron-Mans don't need sleep... Erm, more about my doings...

I had my aunt and 6-year-old cousin coming over this weekend for a stay-over, so my house is more rowdy than usual... Which is a good thing, cos my house has been too quiet very lately. And believe me, 6-year-olds are terrors. At the sge of 6, these kids can run and jump and talk non-stop and whine and do absolutely anything destructive. They're not like their 3 year old counterparts, who at best, can only whine and cry and demand attention. So with a FEMALE 6-year-old cousin over at my house, it's complete pandemonium... My cousin finds it highly entertaining to hear me scream while she's pulling my hair, or force me at "gun-point" to piggy-back her everywhere, et cetra... *bites my lips*... But she's still quite cute, considering the disasters she created, AND I'm still cuter than her... As a result, last night I couldn't get to bed early, as she demanded that I play with her some pointless taxi-tourage game, and Cheryn chose an inconvenient time to call while my hair was being pulled by my cousin...

I only woke up at 0930 this morning, which was quite late by my standards, considering I wake up early on my Sunday mornings. Ate a hasty breakfast, then rushed over to my school to retrieve the last ticket to the concert... Oh right, I forgot to address the concert tickets... Okie, here's the complete story:~

My school is having this Elégance à l' Esplanade this afternoon. Think it's French, so go ask Ben Wong for the translation... Anyway, it's this Gala concert of my school's choir, symphony band, dance group and chinese orchestra at Esplanade Concert Hall. Sounds interesting to me, and it's my school anyway, so I placed orders for a ticket. Along with me who too placed tix were Daniel Basuki, Yicheng, and George with his "female friend". Initially we place orders with Mrs Pang through the office, but we changed our minds and placed the orders with Liang Hao, a class-mate of ours in choir... But disaster struck on Friday evening. Liang Hao left the tix unattended for a while and it got stolen. *Gasp* Yep, all 5 tix for us were stolen. But by some stroke of fortunate cosmic events, he managed to get back all the tix from the thief, except one which the thief kept at his home... Then Liang Hao agreed to pass the last ticket by putting it my locker, and all I have to do is to go down to collect it....

Uh-huh, that's the story of the stolen-but-retrieved tix...Liang Hao must really have his lucky stars with him to get those tix back... Yar, back to my original day account. After I got back all the tickets, I went over for Sunday service. Over there, those tix got stolen yet again, but this time it was Cheryn and Dora who were behind it... Dora was dividing the tix equally between herself, her brother, her sister, her mum and her dad, then Cheryn went further on to "hide" all the tix in different pages of her Bible... As if I can't find them... But their stealing wasn't considered "intentional", more like "playfully". But anyway, they returned the tix eventually without me having resort to violence, although Dora did pinch me twice...

Left the service halfway through the sermon, then rushed to City Hall MRT to meet the rest of the guys. Yup, I took the MRT, after about 4 months since I last boarded an actual MRT... I'm so proud of myself that I managed to get there without going in the wrong direction... Haha... And when Basuki heard of the tix being stolen, he went "Huh? Really arh?"... George was still " wanting to punch the guy who stole it", Yich heard of Cheryn hiding the tix and went "Expected...". And ol' Georgey's "female friend" turned out to be Kim...

Our seats were located at the second circle, which were quite good seats actually. The concert itself was a blast... The dance group were quite comical, cos they don't seem to be very enthusiastic and looked as if someone forced them to dance... But the choir was brilliant. They did this play-musical thing titled "The Reluctant Dragon", something about St Gearge killing a dragon according to the English legends... The band was playing the exact same songs as their last Aesthetique, then the chinese orchestra was quite good as well...

That was basically my entire day... Somewhere in the evening just now I brought my cousin out for a walk to buy food. Well, my aunt and cousin left for home after dinner, so at least there's some peace now at home... Gotta go sleep now, it's getting real late now...

Saturday, 31 July 2004

Yawwn... Why is everyone around me all so sleepy?? It's not that I mind people being sleepy or something, it's just that if you are sleepy, then it's fine with me. Go and sleep!! But hey, just don't come influencing me to go to sleep as well... Or worse, give a big yawn and send me yawning as well, then it'll all end up with me going to bed as well... Not that sleeping is a bad thing also, but I just don't like the feeling of someone being able to control my brain by making me sleep whenever they want to... It's a ugly hobby, making someone to go to bed... Horrible obsession... And dear ol' Cheryn, you better be reading this...

Life is still as normal as usual. I got wind of my results for Chemistry yesterday, and I'm proud to say I did extremely brilliant, or at least, only at the MCQ part... Okie, okie, I got a B3 on overall only, but I aced my MCQ. 28 out of a maximum possible 30... Awesome man. What's more disgusting is Yich and Leon all got their desired A1-s, so I have to withstand their lousy tauntings again... Speaking of Chemistry, yesterday during Chem practical, I destroyed a test-tube... We were supposed to be heating this chemical with Bunsen burners, then I heat too long until a crack appeared at the base of the tube and then it burst... So what remained was a small hole in the test-tube, and all the liquid in the tube drained out... Amazing... I actually "burnt a test-tube to death"...

I'm currently playing this game called Insaniquarium. It's a very lame game, stupid as well, but entertaining... It got me hooked feeding those fish...

Wednesday, 28 July 2004

I'm currently labelling myself as a lazy bum for the rest of the week. Somehow I like to see myself as a inactive and lazy carrot with four lims sticking out of my torso... And since I've decided to label myself as lazy bum, then I've got to act like it. So just now, after school I decided to take a bus home instead of the usual walking. Mind you, my school and home distance is only two bus stops away, and it takes a mere 15 minutes to walk the distance. 20 minutes if I take my own sweet time, or 5 minutes if I rush like heck... But today is an exception. I waited for a bus at the bus-stop, looked at some nutters playing with Engage and whooping like crazy, then when the first bus came I boarded it, smiled sweetly at the bus driver, walked staright to the back of the bus and sat there like an idiot, cos I'm alighting only after 2 stops... I think it's kinda wasting my money, considering I'm not on concession passes. But hey, I only take public transport once in a blue moon... The last time I actually took the MRT was on CHS Band Aesthetique, which was in April... So that means it's about three months since I last stepped into the MRT train... Never mind, I'm a lazy bum, remember??

I'm doing some severe pondering lately... I'm thinking a lot about what my life is revolving about and whatever that matters most in my life. I'm sort of pebbling to the point where I don't know what my surroundings are and what the heck I'm supposed to be doing next... I guess that's pretty bad. Well, who cares? I'm in my own thinking world, Ican pebble for all I want till the cows come home... I just find many things in my life that hold a special meaning...

Dunno, I guess I'll think some more. Missed a lot of pople already, so don't come telling me "Don't miss me" or "Try not to miss me too much"... Going to do my Maths homework now...

Monday, 26 July 2004

Ahh... I just finished my last paper for prelims 2... Well, it's not as if like I've just finished my last major exam for the year, cos there's still another prelim scheduled and then there's O'levels at the end of the year... But hey, it's not everyday that you get to enjoy the feeling of a "last paper of examinations"... I'm slowly letting the feeling of freedom engulfing me. And the best bit? There wouldn't be any school tomorrow at all!! Splendid!! Today's A Maths paper was quite a routined exercise... The questions that came out were mostly you average type of questions, not those tricky tricky ones that you will tear your hair just to figure it out... But then I'm still not very confident for it, cos I didn't get a lot of time remaining to check my answers... Knowing me, there's SURE bound to be some lousy careless mistakes... And that stupid Yi Cheng... He was chanting "A1... A1..." as soon as the paper is over... If you ask me, I say he ought to have a punch man... Yea! Punch Yich... Haha... Then after the paper ended and all the papers collected, there's this idiot guy who lost his calculator. So the examiner made us all stay back for 15 minutes, while this idiot went from table to table searching for his lost calculator... And being an idiot, of course he didn't find it... Duh... Stupid idiot, delayed my freedom for 15 minutes... I think this stupid idiot deserves to be punched too... Yea!! Punch both Yich and stupid idiot!! Eh, not that Yich is a stupid idiot... *hastily corrects my mistake* 

Saturday, 24 July 2004

Pooh!! I was kinda expecting Chemistry paper to be a killer, but it turned out to chickens... Only the short answer questions were slightly difficult, but the rest of it is pure chickens... History Elective was even more chickens. In fact, it's beyond chickens, it's ducks...I was kinda fretting that they'll test heavily on the Cold War, but they asked nuts on it. So in the end I chose the Germany topic for my Structured Essay, then Source-Based was quite good as well...

That was yesterday... Cell at night was horrible. I was the only guy in the "three-female-and-one-lousy-male" cell... It might have been worse if Lizzie was there, though. All the females ever talk about is guys and shopping, if not they will try to engage me in some silly talk about the "Bloody Eggs Episode". Erm, go figure that out yourself... I had a bad experience with Yan Peng and Cheryn too... They kept whacking and punching and hitting me with BARE HANDS... My goodness... What are all the females becoming to?? God, if you hear me, do something about these females...

Wednesday, 21 July 2004

Aargh... I suddenly got this unusual feeling to tear my hair out of my scalp... I'm getting very frustrated with Geography... I think it's a complete waste of time. It really makes me wonder how people like Mrs Pang, or worse, Mr Chris Chen, can ENJOY teaching this kind of senseless topic... Geography is totally horrendous...

So far all my papers are quite okay... I fell asleep during Chinese, but I woke up half an hour before the paper ended to complete the comprehension segment... Then English was surprisingly easier than Prelim 1... The rest of the papers so far are all manageable. I can't really say it's terrible, but I guess I wouldn't put it as phenomenal either...

Monday, 19 July 2004

My mind seriously isn't working now. It's 0500 in the morning now, so let's just say that nobody functions at this kind of awful hour... Hmm, if you are asking what am I doing now at this unearthly hour, then you're asking a good question... I have no idea why either... I actually went to bed at 2215 earlier on in the night, slept through the night, and just woke up with the clock reading 0430 in the morning... Knowing my sleeping patterns, I probably couldn't ge back to sleep anyway, so I got up and got online, which is what I'm doing here now...

Umm, my prelims will start in another 3 hours or thereabouts. English papers are due later in the day, and with the state of my mind now, I really hope I can make it... Actually I'm kinda agreeing with Leon. Our school is probably the only school with 3 prelims, so by the time we reach O'levels we'll probably be burnt out already... Stupid prelims... And for the rest of this week will be all the papers for prelim 2 for all the subjects that I'm taking, and after I'm done with p2, p3 will be in mid-August... Heck, why don't I just quit school and register for O'levels as a private candidate??

*YAWN*... I'm in a very yawn-ny mood now... *YAWN*... There goes another one... Earlier on, before I slept just now, I was revising Physics until Cheryn decided to interrupt by giving my house phone a ring... I needed a break anyway, so I thought I'll just entertain her till she was sleepy, then go back to more Physics... What a fatal mistake, cos I ended up the one who became sleepy... She was story-telling the entire Spiderman 2 plot, and I just kept yawning all the way... Not that Cheryn was boring, or Spiderman was boring, but I just kept yawning... And it continued that way 15 minutes after I put down the phone. What to do? So it's goodnight Cheryn and goodnight Physics, and hello pillow and bed... *YAWN*...
Okie, going to try and study some more... I still got 2 more hours before I'm to be at school...

Thursday, 15 July 2004

My life is seriously getting very chaotic. I seem to be misplacing all my worksheets and textbooks, such that if I need a particularly important handout that my teachers gave me five months ago, I'll take at least 10 minutes to search for it... Hmm... That day after school I saw Wilfred sorting out his massive chunk of papers under his table. That messy Freddy, he has worksheets dating back to last year still sitting under his table... I guess I have to follow Wilfred and start sorting out my files and whatever rubbish too... Everything's a mess.

Similarly is the state of my school classroom. Don't know what my classmates have been doing, but the classroom is beyond dirty. It's filthy... One of these days the DM will screw me for the foul stench coming from our class, but that day hasn't come yet... There are tables with legs mising, chairs that are broken, Luke's banana stains are still visible, people keep throwing things into the fans so all the fans are all wobbly, looking as if they'll drop down on us etc... And Shao Hong brought this Frisbee from somewhere to class, so in between lessons we'll toss that Frisbee in the class. It's terrible as well, cos the Frisbee kept being thrown out of the windows and out for a 4-storey drop, or it'll smash into the fans and crack... It's now more like a flying scotch-taped object rather than a Frisbee... If not, the class will engage in this "paper-bullet" skirmish, where there are allies shooting bullets at opposition... Goodness, I'm not involved, but Yicheng caught me twice with his bullets, and Luke has this string of rubber bands strewn together to make a massive elastic band...

I'm currently hooked on Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code", bestseller in the bookstores currently... I didn't buy it, but I borrowed it from Guang Wu... Man, it's way addictive... The plot is awesome, and I can't put it down. I heard some stuff about the book being satanic though... Got a lot of mind-blowing stuff about Christianity history... Foggy and fuzzy...

Tuesday, 13 July 2004

Sniff... Yesterday was a bad day... Don't know why, but all my Mondays seem very bad, so it's the Monday blues... Anyway, PE yesterday was quite fun... We were supposed to be playing soccer or handball (a game which is a cross between soccer and basketball), then those who failed NAPFA had to do conditioning... I failed my standing broad jump, so by right I should be at conditioning, but I think the teachers were a bit lax with people (like me) failing jumpings, so I went to play handball instead... It was fun, but I suffered a major blow to my stomach, which was a courtesy of Luke Wee trying to inflict permanent stomach malfunction to me... After PE, for some reasons unknown, I started to get this chill spells, although the weather was quite hot... I only found out after taking my temperature: 37.2 degrees... It went up to 37.9 degrees later in the day... That's not all, I started coughing badly and I caught a flu as well... So when I got home, I took one of those flu pills, got knocked out by the small pill and slept early at 2000... Man, it's the first time in donkey years that I've slept so early at night... But, I woke up at 2300 feeling very drowsy, then I realised it's night-time already, so I continued to sleep till the next day...

I'm still sniffing a bit, but I'm coughing more than I'm sniffing... The weather is very cold now... Temperature is 37.6 an hour ago, 37.2 now...

Wednesday, 7 July 2004

Ahh... My mood for the past few days has been very sleepy. Or at least, I think I'm sleepy at school only... The past two days at school has been a very tough struggle. A tough struggle to keep awake... And it's not helping when the weather is so rainy and cold, so all you want to do is lie down and sleep... Well, school hasn't exactly been very hard-working as well. The most active lesson is Maths. First Ms Tan will go through some previous homework, then she'll teach new topics like displacement and velocity... Well, I've learnt all this during tuition some donkey years ago, and I was sleepy anyway, and the skies were pouring rain down, and it was very cold, so I just went to sleep while Ms Tan kept droning on and on... Then the rest of the periods were either teachers on MC or slack periods, so I managed to catch up on a lot of sleep... Feeling very lazy with everything around me revolving so slowly... I think time is passing SOOO slowly that soon, it is going to come to a halt and go backwards... Haha... I'm a spectacular pebbler...

Monday, 5 July 2004

Schupp... I have been up to not much good lately... With plenty of slacking and sleeping... Yesterday during leaders' meeting almost fell asleep, then there were five or six hamsters biting me cos I kept trying to poke them... And Alicia is getting fatter, Peirong is leaving for five months... We'll see how I can cope then...

Wednesday, 30 June 2004

Umm... Can't say I've had a bad week so far, but can't say that I haven't got a good week as well... Okie, the Homecoming Day on last Saturday was a major flop... I was supposed to be in school by 0715 for the Walk-a-thon, but then I decided to skip it cos it was all pointless, but Mrs Pang woke me from my beautiful dreams at 0730, then she hollered at me to get my ass down immediately, but I dragged and only managed out of home at 0830... Then went to meet Yicheng, Luke and Fred... Stupid Luke, he was supposed to be in charge of designing the posters, but he only remembered on that morning. So we spent about two hours designing the poster with shoddy workmanship, then sneaked into school to pass Jie Yu the poster, bought towels for ourself, then scram... But I was feeling so guilty cos Mrs Pang was expecting me to be coordinating, so I went back to help, managed to sell about fifteen towels along, then left at around 1400... It was terrible anyway... Mrs Pang was very grumpy that the manpower was very little, so she started calling everyone to come down to school... Haha, smart me... I got away before she caught me... Then I spent the rest of the day slacking at Cheryn's house, then went over again at night to lend her my maths textbook...

School starting again is bad news for me... First thing back to school and I have to rush three Chinese essays... I sort of forgotten entirely about them, and the new time-table positioned Chinese period on the next day, so I gotta complete them... Not bad, I managed to rush it in time and still manage to sleep before midnight... Yesterday was another mediocre day... Went down to Junction 8 with Luke after school to get Biru's and my sister's birthday presents... Biru's birthday is today, then my sis's is 8 July. And guess what? I saw both of them at J8... Biru was with this guy from her school (hint hint...), then my sister was shopping for presents as well... I mean, just my luck to bump into them while I was getting their presents... Then I saw Cheryn too, who was in a grumpy mood like Mrs Pang on Saturday... Cheer up man!! What's with the world and Mr Grumpy??

Well, happy birthday to you Biru... And I will not be buying your lousy tickets...

Friday, 25 June 2004

Ahh... Finally it's the end of the week. This week has been quite good, considering that I managed to get a lot of things accomplished... And God bless me, I don't know what's becoming of me... I find myself listening to a lot of children's songs lately... I like the tune of "Clementine", but "Horsey Horsey" is stupid... Even praise'n'worship songs are replaced by "Here I Am To Worship FOR KIDS"... Well, maybe I'm just missing my childhood days. Erm, I sort of find the kids' voices a bit soothing... I mean, the way they sing is significantly different from what adults sing, cos their voices have a kind of innocence attached to it. Oh right... Go watch Barney if you have the time... They got some awesome kids songs...

Sunday, 20 June 2004

Hmm... I'm sort of degenerating into some kind of studying machine... So far I've been doing a lot of revision on Physics and A Maths, then I gotta take a leaf out of Fred's book and start on Chemistry soon, which sort of leaves my Humanities for the next week or some other day... I think I'm going cuckoo pretty soon. Studying is taking its toll on me... I mean, it's the holidays!! And what am I doing? Spending my precious time on studying. It's a pointless activity that is sapping away my youth, a vindictive way devised by the teachers to chain you to your desks and face the textbooks... But it can't be helped. Prelims 2 are starting in mid-July, so at least I'm slightly prepared for it... And I feel a GREAT sense of achievement on my part... Heh... GUAN YOU is STUDYING...

Anyway, life's pretty good. I've been eating regularly, although I still give that lunch break a miss occasionally... And I've been sleeping quite a fair bit most of the time. I think it's all those energy drained on homework and the textbooks... I would never have thought that I would enjoy sleeping that much, but I did... So all I do now is give a big YAWN, then to bed we go.

I'm listening to Avalon's "Testify To Love" right now. I think it was Biru who said that this song has a very nice tune... Yup, I gotta agree with her. Catchy beat, meaningful lyrics...

Tuesday, 15 June 2004

Okie. I'm having loads of fun right now... There's lessons for me practically everyday, but I still feel happy... Maybe it's because I've skipped some of those pointless ones, so it's not that bad... Heh... Feeling slightly guilty about me being naughty... And I seemed to visit a lot of people's houses these few days. It started on last Friday, I popped over to Cheryn's house after History to go play with her. It wasn't exactly playing, but more of sitting down in front of the weird TV and watching it play some images. Poking Cheryn was more fun anyway... And I think History bored me, cos I fell asleep there... That's not all. Yesterday after Physics, I was supposed to be due in Chemistry, but I "forgot" about it and went to Wilfred's house instead, with Luke and Yicheng. Went down to Thomson Plaza initially, but Fred says to go eat at the hawker centre at his house. Saw Andre at Thomson Plaza, was laughing at Luke about being the weirdo, Wilfred was all acidic with his snide remarks... At Fred's house, there was nothing much to do except slack... I recalled watching Superman on Kids Central, then Luke was trying to crack this Spider Solitaire game which he lost consecutively in five games (Yicheng got it on first try, I had to settle for two games)... Then played with Fred's collection of Gundam figurines, left with Luke an hour later, saw Kwang Han on the bus while we were waiting for our bus, (we beckoned him to come down from his bus, but he refused), then had one of those rare long chats with Luke while on the bus... And today? It's two houses that I've visited. First, after History in the morning, I saw Fred, Yich, Leon, Alex and Basuki going to Alex's house. So naturally, I tagged along... Went there to play with Dodger (Alex's dog), which we kinda enjoyed teasing. We'll try and roll this toy-ball (that Dodger loves to chew) between it's legs, then we'll go 'Ole'... Very lame... After Alex's house was one-and-a-half-hour of English with Mrs Bala, then I hopped over to Michael's house to pass him my Maths TYS... Not bad... All the houses had messy rooms, and I thought my study table alone was messy enough... Lucky thing is my room is messy-free, cos I share it with my sis. That's that, then Kevin at the fabric printing factory said the towel design is finalised and he'll send it for printing. Still couldn't locate Mrs Pang; I think she went for a holiday. I missed everybody as usual, but it's not that bad, cos I've been studying... I can't believe it. I'M ACTUALLY STUDYING... Can't be helped anyway, Prelim 2 is in 5 weeks time, and I've got to start somewhere... And I gotta start eating and sleeping more... And I've still got that wonderful Gmail that Ben Wong and Derek Khor are coo-ing over... Think I'll make them buy me lunch first before I send them the invitation... *Cue: Evil laughter starts here*

Sunday, 6 June 2004

Well, I'm bored again. Actually I feel like sleeping, but somehow I still feel energetic... Must be those stupid Frosties... I woke up at 0800 yesterday morning and was overcame with a sudden hunger pang, so I opened the cereal box containing the Frosties that I've bought the day before, ate some, then poured the rest into a big bowl and sat in front of the computer... I was feeling very drowsy for the entire of yesterday cos I only got to sleep at 0300 in the morning, and it's not helping when you are bored and sitting in front of the computer doing nothing constructive. Erm, I did manage to complete two Maths assignments... Goodness, those Frosties are definitely satanic. They are by itself honey-sweet, but it comes coated with extra sugar, so what you get is sugary cereal that is very sweet... So I was online for a while, got some funny feeling, ate Frosties, then moved the mouse to deactivate the screen saver, then ate more Frosties... What a sad life... But hey, there were some nice interruptions in between. Managed to contact Luke (finally), chatted with him a while, then called Cheryn who was watching some kids cartoon and being all weird over the characters. After that, I ate yet more Frosties, then Chris Ngoh called me twice later. The first was that he wanted to borrow some money from me, so now he owes me a grand total of $14. The second call was a plea for help, cos he became bored as well. He wanted me out of house to go do something together, but I was lazy, and he decided to go Felix's house but eventually did not. For me, I blew up three balloons and was playing with them... At around 1730, I finally left house, was at the bus-stop to meet Ngoh and Cheryn, then go over to the Festival Of Praise at Indoor Stadium. Ngoh was in this ridiculous pink shirt, as usual... Took a bus there, I was commenting about how men and transport system don't click well, Ngoh was disagreeing, Cheryn was agreeing. Then a few stops before Kallang, Dora came on board the bus and we went for the FOP together... It took us about 20 minutes to walk into the Indoor Stadium, then there was this long queue already there. I guess it's Hillsongs, that's why... Anyway, when we eventually went in, Yan Peng met us. She managed to reserve seats for us, then Sheena manage to find us. Yan Peng was with a bunch of friends from FCBC, then she told me some secret which I was teasing her about... I can't tell the secret, else it won't be a secret... Sat there, waited at least half an hour, and when the Hillsongs team came out, everybody shouted... Wow, the atmosphere to praise God was really there. There were a lot of youths, and when they started to worship everyone started to jump wildly. The experience is just... Mind-blowing, to see so many people worshipping in such a spirited jest simultaneously. It's definitely moving, and Hillsongs were really good. Darlene Zschech had this superb voice that Ngoh and Sheena were cooing over, then it was flanked by excellent guitars by Marty Sampson, and the bass was awesome. There was this giant sound mixer just a few steps below from where we are seated, then I could see the equalizer from where I was. There was a constant deep bass and the ground trembled when the drummer stepped on the amplified bass drum... Without guessing, I was blown over... Then when they asked all the youths to come down in front of the stage to dedicate their lives to God's ministries, Ngoh was pushing me to go, but I didn't really feel like going down. But he was pushy, so I ended up going down the steps with him. Woo... Any doubts that I had initially about NOT commiting my future, it must be Satan at work. Once that guy led us through prayer, I was feeling very refreshed with His guidance, which was a good thing... On the way back to our seats, I saw Ben Wong on the giant TV screen, then Yurong was telling me much later that she saw me and Ngoh, but she lost sight of us. Anyway, me and Ngoh were the ones who were lost, cos we took a wrong turning up the stairs and had to search where Yan Peng and Cheryn were... After that, it was more Hillsongs songs and more bass for me. But by then, I was feeling very drowsy already... Halfway through 'Shout To The Lord', I started leaning forward and almost fell down into the seat below me... So everyone was shouting to the Lord, then I was this sleepy rat. Dora was saying something like there were a lot of non-Christians who responded to God's calling, and she said "Hi-five", but I missed her palm twice. The last song was 'Free'. It was this fast-paced song with a lot of drums, and everyone was already jumping by then. So I attempted to jump along, but I almost lost my balance, so I figured I'll just sing along. I know the tune of the song, but didn't really know the lyrics, so for most parts of the song I was singing "I'm free" only. And Dora was trying to swing my arms in harmony to the bass drum, but I wasn't that responsive anymore. Left the Stadium at around 2210 or so, with my voice out and my ears ringing from the loud sounds... And it was to home and good night sleep...

And this morning? I wanted to go to Indoor Stadium for more Hillsongs', but this time it's an entire service. I sat on my bed trying to decide whether I should go, and didn't eventually... I went for service at corp instead, saw Dora first thing I entered the building, and she was supposed to go buy flour and M&M's. She was dragging me already, so I just tagged along. We met Clarence and Coleman along the way, and Dora dragged them along. Then Felix entered the store, so what was supposed to be Dora alone buying flour became five people buying flour... And Coleman gave me a 'Good morning saw', Felix followed up with a 'Good morning (two) saw', then later at corp, Cheryn tried to saw me as well... What's with the entire world, huh? Anyway, I sat through two hours of service feeling drained of my energy, then was hanging around for a while waiting for leader's meeting to begin. Dave came, Mark came, Dora was searching for her phone which went missing. I was in the toilet splashing water into my face trying to keep awake, and when I came out someone was saying hi to me. I initially thought that greeting wasn't for me, but out of curiosity I twisted my head, and there was Cheryn's mum grinning like a Cheshire cat. Had a short chat with her, then was reminding Clarissa about my sister's birthday one month away. And Dora found her phone, which she left inside Coleman's bag earlier... Leader's meeting was on, I pebbled my way through the entire meeting thinking about sleep. Matthew was going on about people weren't attending service on Sundays, but going to Sunday school to help out instead. Then Joseph was giving his opinion, and somehow the subject went to cell groups playing hide-n-seek on Friday. Someone went to comment about GUAN YOU's cell playing hide-n-seek for two consecutive weeks of cell and hiding from Ben Wong... And Chris Chen was like "We all need to fast and pray if Guan You is playing hide-n-seek"... Bleaugh, it wasn't my idea, it was Della...

I long for more Frosties... Sitting in front of this computer without a big bowl of sugar-coated Frosties is kinda weird... Think I'll go buy more...

Saturday, 5 June 2004

Hmm... This just happened about ten minutes ago, so I thought I better type it out immediately while the memories are still fresh...

As usual, I was bored out of my skin... So what do I do with boredom? I tried to flood my own mail. For those who don't yet know, I have a Gmail account and a Yahoo account for my e-mails. And with Gmail, I have 1000 MB to contain all my mail junk, and so far I have 73 mails probably amounting to 7MB, yet I'm still only using 0% of the 1GB I'm allowed... Just for the kicks of it, and I repeat, just for the kicks of it, I opened my Yahoo account in one window and the Gmail in the other. Then I was at Yahoo composing lame messages and sending them to the Gmail in a poor attempt to flood my mail. Not bad, the Gmail can take some real spamming damage. I received 6312 new mails amounting to some 220MB, and it's ONLY 20% of 1GB that I used up...

Well, anyway, as I started to slowly go page by page, click "All" then "Move to thrash", I suddenly had this weird feeling that just engulfed me. I was just thinking about Cheryn and her trying to squash me, and maybe I was thinking about Chris Ngoh and his flip-like-heck attitude, and still maybe my mind was on Yurong and a table-soccer game, and distantly about Wilfred and his target to revise Chemistry in two weeks, and even some more distance away, Shannon... And the feeling just whacked hard on my mind. I felt so blissful and happy that I thought I was in heaven. My mind went blank and the computer went into screen-saver blank as well. I thought I could fly, but didn't. I went into one of my pebbling state and just sat there for a good half an hour, just letting the bliss take over my mind... Then after a while I was so lethargic from all that pure happiness feeling and I thinked I got knocked out for three seconds or thereabouts... Don't know, if that was heaven, I might have gone to search for Shannon, but I never thought of doing that cos I just sat there like a goon with that dreamy smile on my face...

I've never felt this before. The closest was probably this fuzzy feeling that left me feeling very treasured and loved, by this special someone whom I wouldn't name... God bless this someone... But this was slightly different. It's a different sort of blissfulness... Whatever, I couldn't figure it out why I'm feeling like that out of the blue. Father in Heaven, whatever your reason for that blessing of momentary bliss, thank you... If possible, send it more often...

Wednesday, 2 June 2004

Nothing much happened these few days. Most of the time I'm left alone to my pebbling world. I'll think about something, but a few minutes later, if you'd ask me what I thought of, I'll have forgotten about it. My memory is getting horrendous. I can't remember anything that has happened after three minutes. I'm going to hire the next cheapest secretary that I could find to help me manage my life. Cheryn offered her services, but she demanded payment... Then Fred and Yich were already complaining that I owe them two months worth of salary... Guess I'll just look elsewhere...

The most major thing that happened was, well, yesterday afternoon... I was out eating lunch with Chris Ngoh at Hawkerway. Nothing too elaborate, just two plates of mee goreng and me and Ngoh sitting and eating. But halfway through, there was this fire that broke out in one of the stalls. The fire wasn't too big, but it wasn't small either... It's just... A fire... Then there were two or three guys who were obviously the bosses who quickly grabbed extinguishers and started to down the fire. We were sitting just in front of that stall, so I was like joking to Ngoh whether we should start running away or something. I mean, how often is it that you are eating lunch and this fire just broke out? It was probably the first for me, but did I do anything?? Did Ngoh do anything?? NO NO NO!! We just sat there like goons watching them fight the fire. STARING at them fight the fire... My goodness, I could have created a big commotion, or at least I could stand there and scream my lungs out, or I could start running like I saw Godzilla, or I could have helped fight the fire, or I'll rush in to be Fire-Man (or for that matter, Water-Man), or I'll start wailing like an ambulance and police car and fire engine at the same time, or......

I like my sister. I'm forever nice to her, yet she is forever evil to me. First, I helped her design her blog layout cos she wasn't familiar with html, which is linked at the sidebar (Wan Er's blog). Then I offered half of my curry puff to her cos she wanted it. But that evil sisterly git of mine... All I did was take three crisps of potato chips from her, then the other day at Taka I ate her sushi up, so she has been whining non-stop till today... Cute right?? Add the fact that she is a sumo wrestler, and you'll get an extremely adorable sister like mine...

I'm starting to cough quite a bit... My nose is going sniff, so I guess it's the normal cold. It's the weather; it suddenly starts to rain a lot these few days, and the temperature has been dropping a lot. Then it's not heping when I chilled my hot mug of tea in the freezer this morning before drinking it, and I chilled my bottle in the fridge as well... Er, Cheryn says no cold drinks for me, or she'll disturb me. Like she never does anyway... Fred says no more iced Milo for me, cos I was drinking superbly-diluted iced Milo yesterday afternoon, and I felt like puking for the next hour or so... Faith says no more ice-cream for me, but I'm missing the vanilla flavours and those pink strawberry flavours...

I like my bass surround system. I'm listening to hillsongs' right now on the computer, and I realised that I could make the bass louder by altering the graphic equalizer. So I'm now listening to double bass hillsongs', which is just awesome. I can't really hear the voices of the singers, and I can barely hear the acoustic guitars, but hey, the bass is brilliant. It makes my head go thump thump thump, and I will involuntarily nod to the rhythm of it like some rock star...