Hello Panda for BREAKFAST!!!!!

moving house, i mean blog

2007-07-06T01:10:00.000+10:00

HELLO PANDAS....!!!

im abandoning this space for my shared space wif billy on http://istillremember.blogspot.com - because i like sharing wif him... hee.... so now everybody gotta bear wif our mushyness and public display of affection!!!

BYE BYE PANDAS.............................

good day, mate!

2007-06-19T01:07:00.000+10:00

http://istillremember.blogspot.com

love is in the air!

2007-06-16T00:39:00.000+10:00

Ooo-OO-OO-ooo-Ooo....

love is in theeee air!!

haha...

yeah!!! exams are over!!!! One semester's over!!!!

Its saturday early am now!!! the start of my long waited fantastic weeks are coming!!!!

Ooo-OO-OO-oooo_Ooo.....

HEE HEE HEE...

STAY TUNED... MUCHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA...

Japanese tv tetris game

2007-06-13T00:51:00.001+10:00

ease my studying boredom... HAHA, this is an excellent laugh!

my fingers are numb!

2007-06-08T23:55:00.001+10:00

So cold today...!! not raining, but so cold!!! and my fingers have been finger like since the sun set...

one mth ago, i asked my landlord if i could move out earlier at end of jul instead of mid aug cos i wanted to move in wif G and her fren to this pent house unit in the city... she made the house sound so cool but actually i have nv actually seen the house cos she's been too busy... anyway, den my landlord say cannot move out earlier, so i told G i cant make it she better find someone else... in the mean time, R, me, and a couple wanted to rent a 3 bedroom very cool unit - we went to see the place but cos none of us can take it immediately so we kind of juz saw and left... anyway, tat house is not rented out and unavailable liao... :( den like last week, my landlord asked me how early do i want to move.. :s arghh... i told him, prob wun move till aug since he initially told me i cant move out early... den today he brought a girl to come and view the room im staying in... and verbally we agreed that if she moves in on 20th jul and i move out on 19th july, he will give me back my bond amount in full... so yea, i said tentatively we can aim for that, but we need to confirm it later... this evening, i called and found that G already found a tentative flatmate too, so i decided to call the new girl to tell her that i cant move out on 19th cos i would be a bit busy to look for flats (i'd be busy entertaining friends in the holidays! haa..) BUT she said she already signed a lease wif the landlord to start renting my room on the 20th! arggh... den i argued wif my landlord abt how can he not confirm wif me before signing a new lease, and my leasing contract wif him is still valid one lor... he made it sound like i do things all for my own convenience (which of cos i think of myself 1st la, if not think for him meh...) but i think he's doing things for his own convenience rather.. this really pissed me... but later i decided to give in and agree to move out cos anyway, billy and i reckon its prob better to move in july cos by aug, prob everywhere good would have been rented out by the new semester's students...

yea, so my lease will now end on 19th july! and i can move out to improve my standards of living already!! yeah!!! i wanna move above ground floor, so no more landed houses for me...!! (now i know i'll love HDB rather than the bungalows sia...) my new house must have a more decent TV, a sofa good enuff to nua in... yea, and either near uni or near the city or near the pubs... haa... ideally would be in the same area that im already living in.. oohooo!!

today...

2007-06-05T22:21:00.000+10:00

i woke up at 1.30pm - so shiok....
the sun didnt really seem to have shone...
it became pitch dark before 5.30pm...
i ate almost half of my 500g of m&ms - not just today but up till today...
raining outside now, but had been raining since 3 hrs ago...
the rain is cutting off my internet every once a while - arghh...
i need to study but have no mood...
its juz 10.30pm but i feel like sleeping again!

TODAY is ending...

my special TODAY..........................................

102nd post

2007-06-05T02:02:00.000+10:00

Ooo, i logged in and realised this is going to be my 102nd post since may last year when i started.. hehh... yeah! i finally crossed 100!!!! :P

Today is a special day!!! 8 yrs ago we held hands the 1st time, he told me a mushy, old fashion, unoriginal and funny(to me) but sweet (TO ME!!) story and asked me to be his girlfren... HEE... so today i tell the world, i miss my DARLING!!!!!

PHOTOS!!!! this was last sat, im going to do my shutterfly photos tmr, since i'll haf some time.. hee.... http://picasaweb.google.com/serene.ting/2007_06_02UnicellMarkTanA ndHelenSurprise

What haf i been up to? Lots of rushing of assignments, some studying... I am sooooo glad that the assignments are all due, my non-stop action is going to slow down significantly after today... last week was like wed research assignment due, fri PR assignment due, mon research exam... all are killers, the subjects themselves are pretty heavy... after this, i juz have 2 more exams on 13th and 15th den i'm DONE!! whahahahahahahahahaha...

and then, wonderful things will happen! :D

dang dang dang DANG!

2007-05-27T23:21:00.000+10:00

Congrats to Yasmine and Shaocai!!!! YOU'RE MARRIED!!! Yeah... yas' my 1st peer to get married!!! the closest before you would have been carlson, my then youth fellowship mentor... but though yas' a little older than i am, but she was a peer, colleague and friend - its BIG to me! haha... i was going to do my assignment, den saw billy's email and photos from the ceremony... so i got distracted instead... it all looks sooooo sweet.... :) *BIG SMILE*

speaking abt marriage - this was funny, y'day nite i ran into some frens at a cafe, 2 of them stays with another fren from church. den one heard from the church fren that she is planning to move out wif deborah, but the other heard that she was going to move out wif a newly wed couple... so, for some days they were quite shocked to "find out" that i was married! haha!!! yea, so i told them, "right, and the baby's coming in abt a year's time"... (for the record, me and that church fren were intending to move with a newly wed couple so that's 4 pple living together!)

yasmine i feel so happy for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if anyone remember, the link on the side of this blog was "yasmine bride to be", now she's "yasmine married woman now"!! :D

unicell "P" theme nite

2007-05-21T22:57:00.002+10:00

Bring anything associated with "P" or starts with "P" - or dress up to the same "P" theme...

photos! http://picasaweb.google.com/serene.ting/2007_05_12UnicellPQuiz?pli=1

sashimi story

2007-05-21T22:44:00.000+10:00

Finally ate my sashimi today! wanted to eat it after i view apartment on saturday, but den ruth and kezia and jace decided to go ikea instead so since i havent been there... i went with them lor... anyway, its was nice to go ikea, see all MY furniture in the stores.. haha... i miss my tree of bags at home... ikea was basically the same as sg's one, prob more like the tampines one than the queenstown one... it was only until we reached the stocking area where u pick up ur packed furniture, wooo... tat was very huge and amazing... haha...

den i wanted to wake early to eat sashimi in the city before i went to wilston to attend bill's commissioning service but overslept so i could only eat a picnic bar and went straight to wilston presbyterian church. it was a small church, but quite cozy... all the qut-christians pple played music and lead worship, which was great cos we always only hav bible study, its the 1st time i actually congregationally worshipped with them. there was bass guitar, piano, cello, and flute! it kind of lacked the sounds of drums but i guess the bass guitar made up for that a bit... but anyway, its not about the music, its abt the worship!

den today wanted to wake early to go buy stamp and post letter and EAT SASHIMI but i overslept again! the assignments are making my sleeping hours so wrong and causing me to miss my mornings everyday! BUT tutorial ended at 4.45pm and i got till 6pm for the next lecture so i finally went to city to EAT SASHIMI!!! haha... after such a long wait... sashimi tasted sooooo good!

sashimi!

2007-05-19T01:21:00.000+10:00

i finally had a taste of sashimi after months of being here... ate some sushi take-away in the city, like 3 or 4 days ago... wah, but it was genourous and good! normally the sushi take-aways i dun always see got sashimi, they always good weird cooked meat in it that i dun think goes at all... or maybe i've juz always passed by the lousy ones.. haha... but this one had raw salmon wrapped in seaweed and rice - fantastic!!

now i got BIG time craving!!! i must have some tmr!!!

the secret

2007-05-16T23:18:00.000+10:00

"the secret" - heard of that? it's quite big in aussie - i think... i've seen it a common of times on tv... juz now there was a oprah talk show on the secret... i've seen it in the bookshops too.. dunno sg got this or not... anyway.. the secret is the law of attraction.. which basically see us, human beings, as engery... and when we focus on something, it gives vibration and attracts the things we focus on (something like tat?).. so, if u focus on you will be rich rather than how pathetically poor you are now, or if u focus on feeling good rather than "im very stressed and strugglying" now - you'll get the good things instead of the bad...

whatever...

this sounds exactly like the kind of crap my dad would like, and believe... the law of attraction - the ends of it is good, a person becomes more focused, more positive, lives happy! BUT the means of it is bad... it kicks God out of the picture... there's something goofy about it, but i think, yea, the main prob is it disregards God's involvement. "the bad things happen to us becos WE focus on the bad things, and the good things happens becos WE focus on the good thing." ends justify mean - telelogical ethic approach (haha, see i really do study my PR subjects) - but i dun think ends should justify means... it doesnt work that way, not in this case at least...

in anycase, the more you see the secret in a more objective way, the more u'll start to find it goofy too... so world, be aware and be curious! but safeguard your souls... ;)

spiderman, spiderman...

2007-05-15T22:32:00.000+10:00

Yeah... I finally watched spiderman.. haha... i think i liked spidery 2 better, but this one's not bad too...

just got this photo link that i forgot to post.. hee.. from Mt Nebo trip... it was juz a hill, unicell went up there to have a gathering... http://picasaweb.google.com/serene.ting/2007_04_14UnicellOutingTo MountNebo

and then... i gotta get back to doing assignments again... :s

boxes

2007-05-09T23:04:00.000+10:00

haha... one funny thing wif my ang mo group mate today... (bkgrd infor, the group consists of 1 angmo guy, 2 chinese gals including moi)

guy: got this jap test tmr, i gotta remember all these (shows us some cards wif chinese/jap characters with jap writings and eng translation)

ya, cos u know, some jap words are identical to chinese words, so we'd (me and the other chinese gal) know the meaning of the words but not how to pronounce it in japanese.

me: tell me what is this? (shows a card that has the word "口")

him: man, i dunno what is that....

me: it's a box! haha... no its "mouth".. haha...

me: what is is? (shows a card that has the word "回")

him: oh no, i dunno whats that too...

me and other gal: its 2 boxes!!!

all burst out laughing, and that guy can only shake his head in disbelief.. HAHA!

later that gal and i figured out that we could go up to 4 boxes! 3 boxes is "品", and 4 boxes could be "田"!!!!!

even later today while on my way home, when the sky was dark at 6pm... i saw this small thing crossing the road in the dark... it was probably like only 3 drawers high, got a head, 2 legs, and 2 hands sticking out... i thoughti saw a baby gorilla!! den as 'it' moved reacher and faster towards me... pew.... it's juz a kid with a thick hoodie on... HAHAHAHA!

long weekend!

2007-05-07T23:44:00.000+10:00

It's labour day just today (monday)! haa.. weird that it's not on like 1st may but the 7th, but whatever, it's my holiday!!! lots of happenings this weekend, despite lots of assignments to complete.. hee...

friday...
went to sunnybank in the afternoon for my dose of xiao long bao!!! haha.. i juz have to eat it once in a while... out at nite with some fellows from church... went ard had rides in cars (there were like 3 or 4 carsm, but we ended up with 2 in the end cos some pple leave at earlier times)... anyway.. really quite cool.. we walked kangaroo point, the cliffs ard... went to story bridge, had supper at the valley... took lots of photos... which i will upload soon to my shutterfly page...

sat...
went house viewing wif amelia and helen, saw cathedral place apts, small unit but the estate was really cool... but one thing was that the 2 bedrooms didnt have windows... one was better cos it has a huge balcony door, but the other bedroom juz had some fake window facing the living room.. haha... den met this other gal whom i might move in to... had coffee, actually i waited very long for her, she was super late... so i had the coffee myself and chatted wif her when she finally arrived over ice water... :s besides making me wait for so long, she seemed quite alrite... havent seen the apt that we might share yet, so im not decided abt whether i will move there yet... den unicell at nite, and more coffee after our cell group! haa... but this time i had ice chocolate too... yummz....

sun...
church in the morning.. den had night time yumcha at this dim sum place very far away from the city.. haha... nite time really, like 10pm like tat... haha.. its my 1st time yumcha so late one lor... but it was fun to hang out, with the unicell pple in my group... den went wif a smaller group out of the pple there to issac's place watched movie, Hot Fuzz.. heh.. i wanted to catch that when it was screening but seemed like my movie buddies were not interested.. but yea, glad i saw it afterall! its funny!! i reached home, bathed, and slept at like 4.30am i think....

monday...
then today woke up early at 9am after like 4.5 hrs of sleep... to go yumcha again.. haha... this time wif shirley, sam, and huiyan... not that i loved yumcha-ing but we juz happened to plan to go yumcha on the labour day morning and happened that my unicell grp suggested nite time yumcha the nite before too.. hee.. anyway, i dun mind, its juz food to me... haha...

and now i gotta back get to my boring sch stuff.. hai~~~~~

hair is gone!

2007-05-02T17:08:00.000+10:00

Short hair deb now! haha... i like it leh... looks quite cute.. haha.. ya, im calling myself cute.. :P its bw the shoulder and ears now... got a fringe too... a cute bob cut... im not attaching photos cos like very zhi4 lian4 like tat.. haha... but im so glad my long frizzed out hair is all gone.. haha!

Paint Ball Anzac Day

2007-04-27T00:36:00.000+10:00

Anzac Day y'day! went to the parade in the city in the morning... was really quite packed, lots of aussie flags flying... the parade wasn't any big wow la, but i think its a meaningful day... remember the soldiers who fought in the war, "lest we forget"... nowadays, guys dun even wanna go army, i wonder how to survive if there's really war...

anyway.. the fun bit of y'day...

i had paint ball day!! we didnt use paint ball guns, nor was it like a centre that does paint ball fight, it was jus self organised by qut-christians. but it was really good... the games were fun, things turned out really messy and juz very fun! haa.. at the end of the day, we all went to mac for dinner with our hair colored in blue, yellow, green, and red, and some guys who didnt change were really colorful.. haa...

end of the day, i went home wif blue hair..

had that big "B" sprayed on cos was in the blue team.. haa... but tat "B" makes me think of billy immediately... haa... anyway, tat top was left by my previous housemate she didnt want it liao, and i threw it away after taking this shot, the shorts i havent wash yet, but i think the paint shld be washable la.. the bottle says its water soluble.

and thats how dirty my nails were in the end too.. i was juz blue all over...

arghhhh....

2007-04-22T00:46:00.000+10:00

aiya... da jie is not coming here afterall... dan's not coming till sep too... so how? who's gonna bring me my guitar??? arghh.... i feel so sian... heard from polly that kathy has been flying with jetstar often to melbourne... so she got kathy to bring her more stuff from sg.. i mean, polly already brought soooo much stuff here, and she still got things to bring over... oh man, can u imagine how sian i am... arghhhh.... and i need my sleeping bag, want more winter clothes too cos i only brought 3 jackets all of which is the very pretty kind, i wanna get the more casual looking kinds and my sweater here too leh... these i can actually buy here, but tat's only gonna use up my aussie dollars which i think i rather save for other living and activities expenditure lor...

somebody asked me about friendster today.. which reminded me that i've been wanting to upload new photos there for ages, i dun think i really go there anymore liao anyway.. haa.. but juz to keep my profile nice.. haa... den i logged on and remembered how irritating friendster is... like everything is too big to be uploaded.. or takes too long.. arghh....

anyways, this week i had been doing lots of homework.. HEE... its a good pace, not like im very stressed or what cos nothing due until 2 more weeks... so yea, i think its good that i've started at least... i hope i'll stay on this pace... HEE...

come leh come leh.....

2007-04-19T23:57:00.000+10:00

da jie come..

da jie come....

bring me my stuff!

:)

movie world kicks!

2007-04-15T17:05:00.000+10:00

Since i refuse to do homework now... got some links from youtube on the movie world rides! haha.. i wanted to do videos of these rides, but forgot!! cos rushing ard to catch every other rides mah.. haha!

Batwing Spaceshot! Brings u up fast! and drops u down fast! by the time it slowly drop down all the way, u already cannot really feel liao...

Lethal Weapon, it turns 5 times, and it really makes me giddy afterwards... haha...

Superman Escape!! this one loved! it doesnt turn 360degrees like lethal weapon, but its really good cos its extremely fast and steep! it is said tat it travels 0-100km/hr in 2 secs, and the highest point is like 40metres high!

i locked myself out

2007-04-15T16:08:00.000+10:00

this morning, i left my keys on my desk in my room, and reverse locked my room door. when i wanted to unlock my main door, then i realised tat my keys are locked in! :s anyway, housemate helped me with the main door, and after church i called landlord to help me open my room door, but he cant make it till 3pm...

so after lunch i met my housemate outside (cos she left home too already by then) and took her keys to go home.. i spent like 2 hrs juz watching tv, i cldn't change my clothes, no computers, cant even do homework cos everything was in the room... arghh... den after 2 hrs i was bored of tv so i tried to break into my own room... haha... i used fork and knife to try to meddle wif the lock and guess what?! I DID IT!!! i manged to break into my own room!! den juz as i opened the door and took my keys out, i heard my landlord coming liao... panic, and paiseh, cos he like wasted his trip, i reversed locked and closed the door again.. haha! so he did help me open my lock la.. :P

y'day mark left his keys inside his car and locked his doors too... haha... reminds me of how elaine chee locked all our galfrens and herself and me out of her house too on her 21st bday nite! see, all the more i should go learn locksmith skills!! can be my part time job too, one job takes less than 3 minutes and can earn close to $100! muahahahahahahhaaaa!!!

sunshine!

2007-04-13T00:26:00.000+10:00

oooo... watched tat today... yea yea, singapore movies release earlier anyway... but i watched 300 and sunshine juz the passed monday and today... 300 got release last thurs only... both were good... 300 is good cos what u see and what u hear is great! i like the visuals and i loved the script. sunshine is good too, cos its got a good twist leh, its an illogical twist haha, but i dun care abt logic is if gets me! haha... i was hugging my leg in the cinema.. haha...

speaking abt sunshine, its not hot anymore here! hehe... and it gets cold at nite.. ever since mother left, it became increasingly cold at nite anyway... but i juz managed to buy my quilt y'day! haha... havent slept wif it yet, cos i was up all nite last nite... but im soooo looking forward to my snuggling in my quilt tonite.. woooooo....

wanted to go rock climbing, but realised its bad timing so bo bian, gotta postpone. cos it's going to be 4.30-6pm, and it gets a little dark ard 5-6pm already.. not very dark, still can see, but i think shld climb like under some sun more shoick mah.. haha.. so i intend to do tat in nov or dec la.. hee... must do once in my 1.5 yrs here.. if i dun do it in nov or dec, i dun think i'll do it liao.. cos summer is too hot and im not going to have another spring!

non stop action

2007-04-08T16:10:00.000+10:00

easter holiday plus term break is here!

thurs was nite out. wanted to go catch 300, it was the release here in brissy. but by the time we reach the cinema at 9pm for 945pm show, it was sold out lor. so we bought some beer and went up to helen's place. wanted to go hit some pubs later mah, but west end was almost dead, so we took taxi up to the valley - which was so much more crowded, but seems like everybody is outside eating pizza. most clubs were closed, and the pubs were packed. we went to this cheesy small club lor, which was really bad... i think the music is not too bad, but the dj dun seem to be able to hype it up leh... and the pple inside were miserable, like mayb there were 50pple - or less? waste our money.. haha.. we sat for a while had one drink, den left for helen's house for more beer ourselves.. haha...

so spend the nite at helen's. i think i slept for maybe 3 hrs. walked home when it was 6am and bright, i found a way thats really fast, i think i only used less then 10 mins to get home. showered watever watever, slept for another 1 or half hr, den went for some sport games with unicell at 8.30am! haha.. played till after lunch, den went to kezia and jace's house.. talked, eat stuff... till evening time... knocked out at 9pm on friday nite...

den sat morning, woke early again - to go movie world! its my 1st theme park visit here.. hee.. more will come!! movie world was nice enuff for me! its got 3 most thrilling rides and the rest are pretty "family". anyway, i went for all that 3!! haha... i wasnt sure if my back can take it, but im still alive now so glad i went for it!! the superman roller coaster is the nicest, i find tat most exciting. its my 1st time on a roller coaster leh!! haa.. seriously for the past 22 yrs i had been on vikings and inverters but never on roller coasters. haha, but superman was really good, i wanted to do a video on tat in action but forgot leh... hai.. this i went wif 2 gals from church, and their 3 other frens. sam's friend's from melbourne - nice.. when i go melb i can go look her up too. haha... and huiyan's 2 other coursemates, one from hk one from sg. i enjoyed the company y'day too... we went for dinner together afterwards too, which was good... this plc in the valley. got restaurant area, snooker and arcade, and can rent hk dvds there too!

this morning went for church service lor. more than half the church are in the church camp in sunshine coast, i think. so very little pple, an elder was all the worship leader, announcement person, preacher, and whatever everything else. we sang from a hymm book with only one piano accompaniment. good fri the church didnt have service and i didnt got another church cos i was too tired... anyway, juz feels werid.. its the quietest easter i ever had since i became a christian. but juz as well, without the hype of everything, we shld still thank god and remember that He died for ME! :)

007 no more!

2007-04-03T22:30:00.000+10:00

yeah i finally changed my email! haha.. i've been wanting to do that for the longest time, juz couldn't get over my emotional attachment to deb_007@yahoo.com which i had for like a decade already! it was the time when i was 12 and internet was so new... the cool kid had to have a cool email. i wanted my name in it, but deborah, debbie, nor deb was available. so ihad to have a number to go wif deb (or so i thought), and the cool kid doesnt think its cool to put birth year - like so common... so the cool kid thought 007 was cool. haha..!!! of cos, over the years as i grew up.. i really dun like bond at all, in fact i've nv seen any bond movies. haha. so finally i decided to not be so lame anymore, new email is underthefigtree@yahoo.com . Because Jesus told Nathanael that He saw him under the fig tree and Nathanael believed!

Read on John 1:43-51. what amazes me abt the this passage is 1st of all... was Phillip, who was called by the Lord, and in excitement he jio his fren Nathanael!! Nathanael was doubt abt a Nazareth, but still k-po went out and see... den Jesus told him He saw him under a fig tree, and Nathanael proclaimed He was indeed Lord! phillip and nathanael are so typically "human"!! and wats wif the fig tree that made nathanael proclaim Jesus as Lord? read on http://www.freeingthespirit.org/Jesus%20the%20whole%20story%2020.htm for bible scholars' opinions. i wanna be under tat fig tree, to encounter God so awesomely too!

besides me setting up new email, i changed my msn email too... so i've totally rid off deb_007@yahoo.com. haha.. ok no la.. im still checking tat only for those subcriptions that i have and i still want. but my new underthefigtree email is sooooo clean now.. haha... while deb_007 still has 300 over unread mails, underthefigtree has clean ZERO! muahahahaha!!!!

today my housemate and i got our 1st electricity and gas bill for the 1st time! adds up to be $34 per person for the month, which works out to be like $8.50 per week per person. tat's fine, the landlord estimated it to be $7 per week when we 1st signed this rental lease. today tried very long in sch to connect my webcam so tat i can have a moment wif billy. haha.. but totally failed.. my webcam has failed me. it's not good anymore, and i dunno how to solve it.. anyways.. ya, so we gave up.. haha. den i went home, made potato salad for my dinner! haha! got potato, eggs, tuna, chilli, mayo, and avocado! hmm.. taste quite alrite.. hee...

the church cell grp is going on a road trip this sat to mt glorious. i wanted to yahoo to find out more, but kind of like by default.. i typed in my email password in the search field.. haha... and there were many stuff tat came out.. which looked really dodgy, so i didnt even click on the links.. den i tot why not, try searching for "Deborah Chua".. haha!! and to me horrible, the very top link that came out was really mine! its my friendster profile link!! gosh, i didnt know tat was listed out.. tat means i gotta go in and make sure i do look pretty!! haha... den somewhere down i saw another link, a blog for another gal called "Deborah Chua". ahahahaha!! so i k-po la, go see.. it really looks like the kind of blog skin i would use too! haha.. and she writes in the tag kind of the way i would talk.. tats soooo grossly creepy.. hahahahaha... k-po pple might wanna see http://debtalkscrap.diaryland.com/. haha.. but dun implicate me in whatever u do there huh... haha

chaos

bye bye mummy

2007-04-03T00:31:00.000+10:00

mid-sems are over! haha... im like the fastest ard... cos im juz suay la... last week was like thurs a test, fri assignment due, sat another test, and tues a grp assignment due and cos its a grp one so i gotta give the grp something by sunday... and in the midst of tat mother was leaving on sat.. i think she wld have appreciated if i had spent more time wif her on fri nite.. but i didnt cos i was studying.. :s and i had to study cos i was doing all the assignments stuff, i didnt touch the textbook for sat's test until friday afternoon lor. but i think mother also liked the idea that im studying la.. haha, cos she's mum. well.. pt is, all was bad timing...

y'day i went out late! haha.. dinner, movie, den for drinks... went out wif 2 frens, whom i feel like actually i dun really click wif them (like in terms of the things we talk about), but cos we made frens so its nice to hang out.

anyway, im realising that i've not been making enuff frens... and not doing enuff things... cos my main purpose here is to have some experience... if not i wld have studied in sg rite - and plus i dun even like studying.. haha..

so im going to start planning how to enjoy myself. hee!

went to new south wales last weekend! haha.. as in the weekend before mum flew on sat.. haha.. cos we were in gold coast and dan's dad was driving along the border of queensland and new south wales. is really just one side of the road was qld and the other side (the other direction) was nsw. haha.. den he took some wrong turns and we went into nsw! haha.. its really no big deal, but i jus wanted the world to know i've been to nsw! muahahahahaa...

last week in my busy-ness, i totally forgotten to go for qut-christians bible study on tues morning! haha... i liked going to tat bible study... im like an odd person there but i enjoyed listening to pple read the bible in such good english! haha... and the ang mo's views on the scriptures, they are pretty shy actually, when expressing things abt witnessing for christ, or answering bible study questions... im not going to miss tat tmr! hee! and im having breakfast wif them.. haha.. wake up at 8am argghhh.....

smart alex is not too smart

2007-03-30T03:00:00.000+10:00

hmm... test y'day was bad man... i didnt know how to do!! haha.. i think im not going to make it... every once in a blue moon, i'll fail some.. the moon is blue this time.. haa! anyway, on the bluff myself side, its only 10% of overall grade.. oh welll.. hee...

anyway, despite not my unfinished but due today assignment and totally not touched on revision for mid sem test on sat.. haa.. i went for hogs breathe with my mum! yummy yummy yummy!!! eat 2 steaks and one big dessert - our bills came up to $57 some cents, which i think is pretty cheap compared to sg's price! hee... mummy's leaving, so she's treating me to nice food mah.. so sch work can wait.. haa...

tat's why its 3am liao and im still awake now.. 1stly cos i overate and its keeping me awake.. haa.. den also cos i gan giong abt my assignment liao. it's a long story but the summary is i ended up discovering that i have not writen enuff... my guide is 1500 words plus another 5 pages, but now i only have 1212 and 8 other page.. the crux i think is meeting 1500 words, not 5 pgs la.. so im in shit mess... but its 3am liao, so im just going to leave it as it is ba.. actually its not done yet.. i still gotta go library to find some stuff to finish it up before handing in tmr... which means i would end up having more than 1212 words, or LESS.. :s

u see, u cant get back to being a smart student after u have not been a student for so long.. haha... i should have came here to teach or something... haha..!

good morning debbie

2007-03-29T00:43:00.000+10:00

i was dreaming that i was in tutorials before i woke up this morning.. :s yucks... haa... den my phone rang and woke me - "withheld" is shown, meaning its from singapore! but from who leh.. i tot it could be mother phone.. so i sat up and acted like i was wide awake to say "hello"... its billy!!! so happy its billy!! so sweet to wish me good morning so randomly.. hee...

the whole day's passed, its actually another day liao cos it almost 1am already.. i feel like i have so many things to do but i dunno which to do 1st.. shits, i hated studying... why then am i back to student life? :s :s :s

i gotta complete my pr assignment (which is a big headache, which will lead to a bigger headache in mths to come), revise int'l bus (which i havent even started), be ready for tmr gov bus and society test (which i have definitions in my head but they're not correctly matched wif the terms.. haa!)... sianz*10 times... and i need to sleep cos i gotta wake at 9am...

so...

i'll sleep ba... haa...

debbie always survive!!

good nite debbie

moving on

2007-03-23T23:57:00.000+10:00

mid sem is approaching... next week's i've got 2 mid sem exams and one assignment to hand in already... all making me a little nervious. i've stopped studying like 1.5 yrs ago already, its kinda hard to get back to being a student... i not even sure if i know anyway, haha... its not tat i know, or don't know, i just don't know if i know... and the thing wif exams... i prob had my last exam like 3.5 yrs ago... cos dip in marketing in tp is all project based, we dun do exams.. there were mid sem tests too, but its the kind of thing that i dun give enuff attention to.. haha!

bday's passed one week already... but im still getting bday cards and presents! haha... thanks to billy, my gal frens, my family... and one special bday card came from an aussie fren i got to know in qut christians - cos i run into her on the 12th and her being ang mo will ask "hows ur day"... i said fine, and said its my bday! yea, den this tues she passed me a bday card and wrote some things in it.. i tot it was very sweet...

my family gave me a card that has a recording function that you can playback, but on the playback, it jus sounds like noise.. ha! dad wrote "malcolm sang and spoilt the song. how can?" - which i tot is really funny... da jie said "you were not born in the zoo, i know cos i was there" - haha! according to er jie, malcolm didnt ruin the recording, daddy was the one who was screaming... haha..

persis, kim, nic, karen and elaine sent me a teddy who holds a piece of cake and on the cake it has a candle. its really cute! the candle even has the "string", the one to light fire on. yea, but its part of the teddy so obviously it cant be lit. a card together wif it..

billy made necklaces for me! yea, he made them! tats so cool... and of cos wif a card that made me teared... hee... sweet... :)

dang dang dang-dang!

2007-03-15T23:47:00.000+10:00

jus saw yasmine's wedding photos sneak preview... weddings sound so exciting! i cant empathesize why pple wld say weddings are a chore or a drag.. "so many things to do, juz sign a paper la" kind of attitute... tats... insulting... juz by seeing frens wed, i feel that air of happiness ard.. who looks at wedding photos not smile at them? who heards of a couple being newly wed and gives a face? if u do, u need to be more passionate abt life and love man!

the yoked cannot be with the unyoked - so true to that, and not just to marriage - how many of you feel like u don't completely belong wif ur non-believing frens becos values are diff? i do... but that doesnt mean that i dun make frens wif unbelieving frens la... just to me, the r'ship is not the same... but if friendship is like this already, wat more about a guy-gal r'ship...

saw more babies medical surviving stories today again... babies born wif blood clotting in the brain, premature, lacking with one bone in his arms... who can look at suffering baby and think "oh he will get thru it" and think that cool-ly? juz watching tv, i feel like crying... if that's MY baby, i cannot take it...

but all this reminds me once more about passion. not to just go thru life and its stages, but to go thru life passionately! not take things for granted... what does having life in Jesus means - not just in the next life, but the current life on earth. It means sooo much! it means hope and passion! why does mel gib name his film "passion of christ" and refer it the the cruxifixtion?

badly organised massive thoughts i have.. haha...

dang dang dang-dang!!

cheap slippers vs havaianas

2007-03-15T23:36:00.000+10:00

how many times have i been fooled by the cheap-po ways and still how many times did i refuse to not not fall into that same trap? Countless.

In the last trip to Thailand wif billy, we bought cheap rubber slippers for ourselves... really dirt cheap like converted to be less than S$3 per pair... compared to my expensive havaianas (whose price cannot be named! ha..), that's HUGE savings...

but i didnt start wearing the cheap slippers till i came to brissy. after days of wearing it, the part inbtw my big toe and second long toe is kinda sore now lor.. juz now i almost had a feet cramp while crossing the road... arghh... cheap slippers for cheap quality... havainas on the other hand, has no such problems... and are so far absolutely comforty... :)

well, i still like my cheap slippers - but only cos i bought it together wif billy and he as matching pairs.. hee!

juz need to complain...

japanese curry rice - and sky diving

2007-03-13T00:52:00.000+10:00

Some days ago, i dreamt that i was wif lots of sg church pple, from antioch, soar and glowing... having japanese curry rice, which comes with a free sky dive per meal ordered! hee...

so y'day i made myself jap curry rice! its my 1st time... had to fry the onions 1st, den add in the chicken, den add in carrots, den veg and potatoes... cook all until like 80%, den add water... after it boils for a while, den add in the jap curry paste... wah... very nice and shoick leh...! my 1st time, but very successfully! :) If it really comes wif a free sky dive, tat wld be excellent.. haha.. but ok lor... tats only in my sweet dreams... anyway, tat was like my bdy treat for myself!

today, 12th march, actually it's the 13th already but cos i havent sleep so i dun count it as the day has passed! hee...

y'day the grp at CCCB gave me a surprise cake! hee... den today mark and dawn brought me, mum, and huiyan up to mt coot-tha at nite, cos i had classes from 1pm to 8pm... it's got an amazing view of brisbane city and its surburbs... really pretty! den we had coffee at Park Street, italian cafe wif a mini eiffel tower... haha... like they dun go, but tat's juz how the design is lor...

bday present from bdayalarms - haha, a stupid personality reading thingy...

2007-03-13T00:38:00.000+10:00

Section 1: The Inner You: Your Real Motivation

At heart you are very gentle, impressionable, and receptive -a dreamer. The world of your imagination, feelings, and intuition is as real to you as anything in the outer world, though you may have trouble verbalizing or interpreting your inner experiences in a way others can understand. Mystical, artistic, musical, emotional and imaginative, you have a rich inner life, though you may seem rather unobtrusive and quiet outwardly. You usually keep to yourself.

Section 2: Mental Interests and Abilities

Outspoken and direct, you are always eager to express your ideas and opinions and don't mind opposing the consensus and stirring up a little controversy. You have fresh, original ideas and much enthusiasm for anything new and untried, but once the novelty has worn off, you are interested in another new idea or project. You never seem to have enough time to do all you want to. You are very honest, speak decisively and convincingly about things you believe in, and are unable to pretend to agree with someone if you honestly don't. You may be somewhat deficient in tact.

insec-terminator

2007-03-06T23:09:00.000+10:00

More of my grossy insect adventure yea... Today i successfully removed a long dead and dried up lizard that was stuck in a sticky tape right above my BED! Yucks! Yucks! Yucks! Yucks! Yucks! Yucks!!!!!!

so u see, beside my bed is a security door thing (for me to escape out of the house in case of fire or watever), so to cover up or maybe is for beautifying (but i really dun think it's very beautiful), my landlord place a huge piece of cloth over it, and there's like lacy curtain thingy on top of the cloth so that it looks better (to him - not me). so the lacy curtain thing dropped down and when mother and i looked up this morning, yucks, the very dead lizard was there, stuck in the sticky tape that used to stick up the lacy curtain...

i tried to use my insect garget to get rid of it, but the thing get stuck to the tape too.. so in my desperate attempt, i juz tore the whole stretch of sticky tape out, together with the lizard, and threw that thing far away from my unit.. YUCKSS!

To keep everything looking like how the landlord intented it, i juz taped the lacy curtain back using my own masking tape.. haha! i dun think he'll notice... :P

Children - Our hope for Tomorrow!

2007-03-06T22:47:00.000+10:00

Watched TV on amazing medical stories tonite... Having babies is really such a daunting experience... The show featured a little girl with mutated chromosomes resulting in smaller than dwarf features. She's like really tiny! her body alone is as as big as the palm of the doctor - and she's already 3 years old! And there was another boy who when given birth to, his intestines were outside of his body. Well, the boy had to undergo surgery immediately after birth, and surgeries after that and he's alive and healthy now, and normal.

reminds of me bio class in SAC, when ms wee told us the shocking facts that genes mutation is a very easy and only by chance occasion. Therefore meaning to say that chances of having a normal baby vs a not normal baby is just 50-50! That being, classifying babies as "normal" like the regular u and me, and "not normal" like being blind, deaf, dwarf, retarded. But the world's statistics shows that the normal population is sooo much more than the not normal population, and all this, we owe to God's Grace and Mercy.

reminds me also of friends i've known who cannot have kids due to various reasons, and friends who have kids that they don't want to have. reminds me of who unmarried pple who daydream abt the names of their future children, and pple who claim that they rather have dogs than children.

I think to be able to conceive is already such an amazing blessing, but to give birth to a normal child is lots and lots of abounding blessings! To my young mind (yes, i think im still quite young), having a children is too much to bear! It's daunting, man.... But one day, when im ready, i wanna bravely embrace it!

head.heart.hands.His

2007-03-03T01:26:00.000+10:00

"All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." 2 tim 3:16-17

and since all scripture is inspired by God, then the bible as good as the very breath of God, and whenever we speak of it, we teach it, we preach it, we obey it, we are not listening, listening to the very breath of God! I think tat is awesome! it's a very intimate gesture, like to a friend or someone/ anyone close! God is so real all the time! it's a very encouraging reminder... :)

That, i got out of bible study today after lecture! joined the QUT-Christians (QC in short) group today - they're an in-campus christian grp who meet in the daytime on weekdays and inside the uni. i think it's good this way, cos it's more convenient. and everybody's from diff churches, unlike the unicell or CCM.. But this grp is largely ang mos.. so the 1st step to join them was quite arkward, but thank God i picked up some guts to jus go and sit beside someone and ask, for the sake of it - hee, "is this the bible study?" and the answer was obviously yes, so i juz continued siting there. haha... they had the bible study on the grass patch under a hug tree beside the goodwill bridge.. haa.. ya, funny place to imagine, and def not somewhere i would usually sit, but i juz did anyway.. i wanted to try a diff culture after all... so i sat and allowed ants to crawl on my feet... :s Ya, but i wasn't bitten, i juz kept killing them whenever i caught them.. haa...

The sun is too hot!! it's making me sick... started with a sore throat, leading on to a flu... ooo... today is much better than y'day... i felt more sick yesterday... den drank like 3.5 litres of water... slept earlier.. today im a good fellow again! haha...

moved house again!

2007-02-27T01:09:00.000+10:00

i moved, within, the same house, from unit 2 to unit 4 y'day! yupz, unit 4 was the one i signed to rent till aug... i did think that i liked it when i viewed it, small little unit, small bedroom, living rm, kitchen, toilet - all are small size one... hee.. even the small is so small - like a very old monitor... :P but now that i've moved in and be inside, i dun really like it.. i find the plc quite dirty... y'day when i 1st moved in... i killed a live cockroach 1st, den killed a live lizard (and the worst part is removing it's body, cos i couldn't find my garget yet!), killed LOTS of ants.. cleaned lots of insect shit... yucckkkksssss lor!!! den later i found a dead cockroach in the toilet drawer... totally grossed out, i juz left it there and close the drawer back.. den today, my mom cleared it! hee.. so good to have mommy there..

started 1st day of sch today! had 2 lectures, 1-3pm and 6-8pm.. inbtw, 3-6pm - i went to visit the associations booths (like CCAs in singapore), and left my name and contact wif the qutchristans group - it's a fellowship and bible study grp that meet inside campus... and i think it might be a good idea cos its inside campus and in the day time.. i went for CCM, grp i met in sg during pre-departure briefing, but they have theirs on fridays nite in another district, and i went for unicell, an indepent grp from the Chinese Christian Church, also in another district, and they meet every sat nites. although both grps provide transport, i juz think it might be inconvenent.. Then i was looking out for the sg association, and then the hong kong association tried to recruit me... -.-

Then i get out of sch and met my 2 gal frens in the city, shopping and had chit chatting over coffee.. we talked many things, including tattoos and piercings... ooooo, im intrigued to pierce my uppper ear.. haha! but scared leh... im been wif that idea since like 18 i think... hee... scared from then till now... tat's why no actions yet... den amelia asked if it's wrong for a christian to tattoo and will i get a tattoo... my answer was no, simply cos of the stumbling block thing. i told them im more religious (actually i wld say serious abt my faith, but i didnt cos i didnt wanna make it sound like they are not), and i wanna be preaching jesus and going for missions, and how can pple take me seriously if i had tattoos all over... and amelia said but tat's the social perception that bad guys have tattoo, if she has a diff perspective and she knows the body is a temple of god, but she not demaging it or ruining it, she thinks tattoos are very nice and arty - obviously she's not talking abt the big scary dragons kinds, but the small ones in some interesting corners of the body... so what's so wrong abt getting tattoo? anyone any answer? i would think of it as if u, or her, say so - it's your, or her, freewill and only your own r'ship wif God can give u the answer.

den i head back to class, ended sch and went home at 7.30 when it's already pitch dark... found it not as scary as my mom keep nagging abt... ya, mommy's asleep now.. its my 2am now... shes snoring really loudly... and she's occupied the whole bed liao lor.. im going to kick her to get in.. hee.. (yup, we share one SINGLE bed)

scary scary nite

2007-02-23T09:13:00.000+10:00

As nite, a car packed outside my unit. The taiwan gal says its prob the Japanese guy's car - from unit 2 (unit im renting).. So mom and i think he's prob packing up his stuff to move out (so we can move in, yeah!)... den hours later, out auto-sensor light, which would light up outside the door if they sense someone at the door, lighted up! and it lighted up 3 or 4 times too... but everytime it lights up, and we turn our heads, there's no one there! so we locked up all the doors.. haha.... scared leh... later to calm ourselves, we decided that the jap guy run up to light up the sensor and quickly run away to not be supicious so he can have light to see his packing.. anyway, we are still alive.. :)

then later in the room, had my 1st fight againt the ugly cockroach!!! BIG one!!! yucks!!! i tried to catch it with my big insect catcher garget (same one i bought polly), and i broke it!! so in the end, gotta use old fashion, scream-as-u-hit-cockroach-with-newspaper!! and i juz took the taiwan gal's insect spray without asking.. haha!!

the garget is fixed back now... not terminally broken.. haha.. and im gonna buy my own roach stray later.. YUCKSSSS...!!!!

Clips clips

2007-02-23T01:14:00.000+10:00

takes soooo long to upload... i still got some chinatown lion dance and fire crackers clips... hee... another time ba...

my ride on the ferry, which is called the CityCat

Orientation program, the welcome dance by indigenious australians

O-Week

2007-02-22T16:26:00.000+10:00

Orientation started on tues, ended today... it's not the typical sg play stupid games, shout abt kind of orientation, juz sit down information sessions... ya, not very interesting but informative enuff.

im going thru the hassles of credit exemptions... they granted me the max of 12 subjects, but out of the 12, 3 are counted as electives... but of the 12 that i have to do, 4 other seems like repeated subjects from poly... so im trying to ask if i can exemp those and do electives, which i can choose, instead... BUT it seems like there's so much hassle to do it, im jus thinking of leaving everything as it is... my repeat subjects are like market research (oh gosh...), IMC, e-marketing, and strategic marketing. Seriously, i didnt wanna do research again, cos i even worked in that field already... and strategic marketing, my poly grades was B but i seriously didnt know how i got that grade and what actually went on, so im jus trying to avoid it.. haha... BUT im jus too lazy to go up and down and to diff buildings to do the exemptions things.. hai... why so ma fan, i tot they would do everything nice nice for me liao... so now, im juz like 80% feeling that i shld juz leave everything as it is... maybe i'll get better grades for those 4 subjects and hence push up my overall grades.. hehee...

made some acquaintances - 1 french guy, 1 belgium guy, 3 singaporeans guys and gal, 2 china gals, 1 taiwanese (plus one more older taiwanese whom im currently living wif), 1 norway gal.. But I've been hanging out with the singapore guy and gal and the norway gal more for the past 2 days...

got approached by Unicell, which is a campus fellowship grp - they invited me for BBQ on sat morning (yes, morning...), and the UQ campus fellowship grp, some are having steamboat on fri nite... im going, im going.. hee...

Settled in Oz!!

2007-02-18T22:05:00.000+10:00

Okkkieee lah everybody.... I'm alive in Brisbane!! Thanks for seeing me off, so many of you...

Thank God for the safe journey!! The flight was alrite, except that i had some probs with the tv for a while in the start of the journey. I've watched Little Miss Sunshine and The Last King of Scotland on the plane.. hee... Both are good movies... :)

I've moved out of the backpacker's hostel already, now settled in a rented room in South Brisbane. My new place is walking distance to the uni, and very convenient to take a bus to the city - but the way home is really very dark and extremely quiet at night.

this house is divided into 4 parts/compartments/units - whatever u call it. i'm renting a small unit that has 2 bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, toilet and bath. im renting the small bedroom cos the bigger bedroom is already booked by another chinese indonesian gal, who has not moved in yet so i have not seen her. anyway, my room is still being occupied until the 24th feb so im temporarily in another unit's medium size bedroom... hee...

i took some photos but it's taking forever to load, so i'll share it again some other time... hee..

bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce away liao!

brisbane singaporeans

2007-02-02T02:31:00.000+10:00

met some singaporeans from brisbane campus crusade... hee... they are very much singaporean all over... they talk with some chinese mixed in the english, say lame jokes, eat a lot... but one tot taka was inside vivocity, many tot that the mochi sweet is very new and interesting, and they didnt finish up their sambal stingray!! - that is so not singaporean.. haha...

ok, so seems like they are all live in Toowong or St Lucia, the inner city surburbs... ok, im intending to get a plc in the inner city surburbs too, prob Toowong... accordingly, Toowong is like a little singapore there.. haha...

came to the realization that im flying away 11 days from now... so fast... i need to pack! i wanted to pack leh, den i looked at my luggage, dunno how to start.. so i online again.. :P

Trying out picasa... hee...

2007-02-01T05:17:00.000+10:00

Found these - took from william to blog, but forgot leh... On the night that antioch was locked inside church, with 14 people and 2 vehicles.. haha... while waiting for our rescuer, the keyholder, we took photos and played games!!!

i juz dun wanna sleep!

2007-02-01T04:29:00.000+10:00

very late in the night liao... or rather, very early in the morning.. juz dun wanna sleep leh... tmr no plans for the day... i wanna sleep in very late tmr! haha... today woke up at 10am, too early.. :P woke up to collect mobile phone from my aunt, ok la, so worth it to wake up...! hahaha...

her samsung dunno what model looks like cindy's, who also said she will give me her old phone, but i havent met her since quite long ago liao.. hee.. thanks cindy if u see this, dun need liao, u keep as spare ba... moto chua is very dead now... was thinking should i juz dump it or bury it or what... hmm.. den i decided to put in zip lock bag and up in my wardrobe! haha... moto chua is like my 1st ever mobile phone that i bought for myself lor... new old samsung was my dad's sister's - so it's also already a chua. but it's not my chua, so it's juz going to be called handphone... :s actually i can afford to buy a no plan new mobile, but i juz dun wanna spend that kind of money - esp when i didnt prepare moto chua to die so suddenly...

finally got my new haircut!! wah the whole thing took 3 hrs sia... i fell asleep while they washed my hair.. haha... i like the new color!! the cut is somewhat the same la... i changed my parting, got a fringe and thin-en my hair generally... looks neater ba.. haha... but i like the color... i've always went for brown, this time its reddish purple - more red than purple la actually... base color is dark brown, highlights are mixed red and purple lor... so there's actually 3 colors on my head now!

Byebye Synovate

2007-01-30T02:31:00.000+10:00

My Synovate Healthcare colleagues, in order of appearance: Andrew, Eric, John (blurred), John (clear), Xiaohan (our intern!), Lawrence (our temp staff), Yen Yu, Chermayn, Yasmine, Sabrina, Yee, Claudine, Mary, and my final look at the 11th floor door before the lift arrives....

No work today cos my last day was last friday!!! Wah, today i woke up at 1.30pm... saved on lunch.. haha... den cleaned up my desk, cos it was duper messy and DUSTY... so i cleaned and wiped and threw many things away.. now my desk is kind of empty.. haha...

den went for dinner with antioch gals... it was our farewell ladies nite.. den man yin told her bro to come cos she tot it was antioch farewell... and chi lam almost made it there.. haha.. almost becos while he was still in jurong trying to rush here, he called and we told him actually it's ladies nite but since he's already on his way we welcome him.. haha... but since he wasn't really on his way, so he say he dun come liao.. haha...

Hahaha - funnier than PANDAS!!

2007-01-26T04:08:00.003+10:00

Sneezing Panda

2007-01-26T04:08:00.001+10:00

hahaha... Pandas are soooo adorable!!

My remaining days...

2007-01-24T16:30:00.000+10:00

So many pple to meet... So check out my schedule and do ur arrangements.. hee..

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bounce.away%40gmail.com&pvttk=348725e7e629cb533c2a42f5b1554177

bye bye moto

2007-01-22T17:04:00.000+10:00

In case u guys dunno how is Moto Chua - that's my dear motorola t720, which i bought in some time in the year 2002...

Which has died of old age on Sunday, 21 Jan 2007...

Forever in loving memory, i say bye bye moto.... *sobs, sobs

So now... haha... i gotta re-make my farewell gift ideas list... handphone vouchers definitely welcomed now! er.. but i havent think shld it be singtel, starhub or m1... haha... stay tuned...

1800-DEB-A-PHONE

Bangkok photos!! Finally~~~

2007-01-22T04:11:00.000+10:00

My long toes

2007-01-19T03:59:00.000+10:00

Hee.. discovered ka hei's blog and why is it called 3 front teeth.. so decide to do a random post on my long toes...

Billy has short toes, and he says my toes are long. I've nv considered that my toes are long until he told me i have long toes... so i started noticing pple's toes in the mrt... and decide that hmm.. my toes are really longer... den after i name my blog mylongtoes, i started to notice that long toes are not uncommon wat...

so when i wanted to change blog name and address, i happened to keep buying shoes that my toes are too long for... Covered toes shoes i mean... when toes are too long, my toes wld curl a little inside the shoe and i walk ard wif curled toes... haha... ya, so i decided that mylongtoes are still funny...

that's it.. haha!

It is set!

2007-01-18T17:21:00.000+10:00

Yea... managed to change my tic back to leave on the 12th nite... Hee... I still cant decide, is it sadder to leave on valentine's night or is it sadder to not even see each other on valentine's... hmm... i'll discover....

this year, i'll have valentine's with my mom.... i don't know what i should feel.... mother just cant be assured to let me go there myself... i nv knew i can cause her so much worry... haha...

Before i leave... there a some pple whom i owe some things...

Angela - your princess hours vcds.. hee.. *opps, i keep forgetting to return i think u also forgotten!
Carmen - your devotional book....
MZ and MY - your antioch claims...
Joey - the antioch funds! haha... still in MOI bank account! haha... *donations, donations...

Farewell presents for me?
Office pple - get me the deuter bag!
Others
- Mobile phone (if you are rich.. haha... if not, vouchers are not entertained! :P)
- Insects catching gargets - the one that does not require contact...
- One year devotional book - i dunno which or what is good leh... juz tot i should get one... hee...
- Rice-cooking microwavable container ( i heard i can get in aussie, but might as well come as a present if u all know of this here.. haha...)
- Brisbane tourist guidebook
- Skype Phone
- Other thoughtful things are warmely appreciated! Hee... (this line added in to not sound so mean.. wahahahahaaaaa)

thank you. thank you.

Sleepless nite

2007-01-17T05:07:00.000+10:00

Cant sleep... So came to write some stuff...

I had actually decided to leave on 14th Feb.. Anyway, my mom has STA holding the ticket... She'll confirm it only tmr so i can still change... Now, i think i might stick back to original plans to leave on the 12th... Had tot that Polly is also leaving on the 12th at 9 plus pm... She'll be in T2, while i in T1... So church mates who wanna be there will be in a very terrible fix lor... But now that i clarify that her flight is 11 plus pm... so it means 12th is not too bad anyway... Leaving on the 12th is a more relaxed date as compared to 14th... i think i'll change it to 12th...

Maybe this is what's keeping me awake.......

My going away feels more real now.. it's really happening now... how do i feel, i don't noe... it made me wanna puke for a moment.. ya, really... when i was on the bus and i kept thinking abt im really going away, i'll be alone there... i suddenly felt like vomiting... *yucks

I have to ensure that boss announce my leaving too... i shall go directly to my direct head tmr to ask her to tell boss to tell everybody else... i dun care if half the office is away on business trips or whatever... i juz want my backpack!! haha...

hai.. so much going on in my mind now... and i got a bible study to lead... how how how???

New look AGAIN!

2007-01-16T15:51:00.000+10:00

Hee... changed skin again... Finally, this is one skin i really like... So this shall be it until further plans... HAHA.

2 weeks more before last day at work! But my boss havent announce me leaving leh... chey... den i heard he's going away from 19th jan till feb, so when will he finally announce? You see, this is very impt cos if he dun announce, colleagues will not think of farewelling me, and dear Yasmine cannot tell them what i want for farewell present! hee... I want a deuter bag, this trekking bag, Model is Futura 26 SL:

Sleekly designed small top loader for those day trips. New Futura SL versions, equipped with shorter, narrower SL shoulder straps and a more lavishly padded, conical shaped waist belt to deliver the perfect fit that women users have been looking for. Now with practical front zip pocket and side mesh pockets. Other details include top lid pocket, interior valuables pocket. An internal separation pocket, stabiliser straps, compression straps, hiking pole and ice axe loops.

Ya, i like this color too... nice? But no actions yet, let me go find it in the bags shops and try it out 1st.. haha...

Ok, now gotta go back to work... No mood leh... Im in retiring mood....

Swadee Kha

2007-01-10T21:36:00.000+10:00

Im back from thailand!! No bombings, no blood on the floor, no riots, no fighting, no theives, no baddies... Very normal state of country.. haha... Yeah, im so glad i didnt cancel this trip!!

bangkok is quite clean but can be quite smelly some places.. haha... looks like the very rich and the very poor can live together in the same street... standing on the same spot in the streets of thong lo, not moving my legs at all, on the right there are beautiful high rising condos with excellent artitecture; but on the left is a totally ran down shophouse smelling of pee.

let's not waste time on sight-seeing since they are mostly temples.. haha... but when i do pass by, the temples are indeed really grand. but it saddens my heart to think of all the time and effort man put into building this thing that they mistakenly thinks will benefit them. in a country where poverty, on the whole, is still struggling hard, i wonder how many thais really know what their religion is about? I tend to think that buddhism is juz a way of life they, believers might not even think of it spiritually. Poverty is a straight forward thing. If one does not even have a proper shelter over his hand, what exactly do they think God can do for them? i then to think then, that religion should not stand alone, but be straighten together. Thailand needs more good missionaries, and they need more good politicians as well. One who can re-make the nation. Sg got out of poverty fast and easy becos we are small, but thailand is so much bigger. When will thailand ever catch up then?

tourist eat and drink all the time! wah, it was tom yum craze for me!! Wo-hoo... i've tasted tom yum that are more sour, more sweet, more hot, and boring there.... haha... i've avoided all the street side stores, but billy had a chicken wing from the road side store and viola! diarrhea for the next 2 days.. haha... poor guy... good thing i didnt eat and remained healthy to take care of him! haha... for all the tom yums i've had, my vote goes to the one from "Oldies Cafe" at Siam Center... very nice, it's the one that more sweet... yupz...

shopping shopping! Shopping centres are much much more expensive then at the markets. esp things in siam discovery/center/paragon - is anyhow put price tag one! MBK and Platinum Fashion Mall are fine, quite ok prices but not so nice goods i think.. for me.. my shopping came from:
1. Sapthan Prut night market - 1 t-shirt
2. Chatuchak Weekend market - 2 t-shirts, 2 dresses, 6 lamps
3. Suan Lum night market - 2 necklaces
4. Siam Discovery - 2 bradges
5. Siam Center - 1 cup
6. Streets of Thong lo - slippers
7. Playground shopping centre - 3 tissue covers, 1 notebook from billy
8. Emporium shopping centre - lots of wacoal!!
9. Khao San Road market - 1 necklace, 1 bag, 2 shoes
10. MBK - food snacks as presents
Yupz, should be all that ba... my vote for the best shopping centre, i like siam discovery most despite can be quite expensive. my vote for the best markets are of couse Chatuchak Weekend market (lots of things but not easy to bargain), and Khao San Road market (lesser things but very good bargaining)!!!!

Bye bye bangkok...

updates

2007-01-04T01:49:00.000+10:00

thailand bombed.....

but billy is still confident to go... nic and persis opted out liao... kim 2 days ago already decided to not go liao... hmm...

aussie visa approved!

but i still need to clarify when exactly is my orientation starting... cos i havent book air flights.... going to do that after i come back from thailand... if i even come back alive.. or if i even decide to go.. haha..

sick now...

sian... and drowsy.... asthmatic sickness... juz drank expired water to pop my medicine.. haha... which is grosssssss..... *pukes

Countries in history

2006-12-30T02:55:00.000+10:00

1950s after the japanese occupation, the bristish gov passed a law that says all country dwellers, if not born in sg will be considered overseas chinese and will not be granted citizenship. At that time, the chinese community was very stirred by this law and came up with petitions to overrule it twice over 2 years... "We toiled here almost all our lives, fought for the country's survival, how came you not recognise us as citizen?!" was the angry response among the chinese. So our ancestors fought on and finally with more overseas-educated chinese young men joining the gov also, the bristish gov finally passed a new law that allows overseas chinese to be granted citizenship if they lived in sg for more than 8 years - which made everybody happy.

50 years down the road, in our times now... Overseas pple, guys in this instance, after being here for some years and granted citizenship - "Huh... but i dun wanna serve army!" ..................

Dan, from australia, is trying to settle in SG cos he thinks it's a better place. Pat, from Hong Kong, thinks that HK is still superior to SG in many ways. My granddad moves btw China and SG, considering each his equal home. Msia students come to SG for a better environment, but some even go back home every single week. Filippinos leave Phillippines for good to settle anyway else they can, some graduates even willing to work as maids in SG juz for the opportunity to leave their home country.

Some time ago, in the train, i heard some China youngsters talking abt our SG team in the sports games (was it SEA games? the one that just passed).. they were say the team shouldnt be called "Team SG", should be called "Team international"... But isnt it true that team SG really are all Sgaporeans, despite they all might be from different lands of birth. Yet, the older ping pong player (who i dun remember the name) who was originally from China, married a sgaporean and calls herself a sgaporean as well...

Back in the 1950s, the chinese commerce association while fighting for the petition, decided that it is more impt for their children of the next generation to keep their roots and not become overly westernized. Together, they raised money, even msia chinese came into the picture, and founded the 1st and only chinese local uni, Nanyang University, now known as Nanyang Technological University (which has became eng speaking). The land that held the Nanyang university was donated by the Hokkien Hui Guan - wah i didn't know we hokkiens had such a glorious contribution.. haha...

In the past, msia helped sg, sg helped msia... Now, quarrel over water - and Mr Brown appears... I am sgaporean and I dun like being mistaken for a msian here. Yet, alone in Ireland, the sight of a malaysian convenient store feels so much like home and juz being with a msian person is like having found a fellow country man...

Life is full of paradox, indeed. But it's heartening to know that Christ died not just for His own earthly country, nor for just sg, hk, australia, phillippines... But Christ died for all countries in the world. His plans and history is written differently for all, but His love is equal to everybody and His grace is not hidden. Give BIG praises to Him!

muz be the rain....

2006-12-29T04:32:00.000+10:00

Juz received a Preparation for student life in brisbane handbook... But my visa is not stamped approved yet... and i'm still waiting for a new confirmation student number frm the school to give to the aussie high comm... but everybody is having holiday and not doing anything... idp say no problem... then like juz 5 mins ago, i juz carefully read and realised that my orientation starts on 15th feb!! OH MAN... im feeling so gan giong now...

And my dear laptop got some kind of spyware again.. this time the wonderful spybot cant find all of it... it's not really disturbing me but it seems like some tracking cookie... IRRITATING... da jie also say her acer comp always a lot of virus or other problems... now i cant send email attachments cos my files are all infected.... hai~~~~~

Den the rain is like non stop... actually compared to the misery in Taiwan, i think we are much more blessed... but still it makes my person very gloomy and slow... and now im feeling so suay-ed...

Random

2006-12-28T13:26:00.000+10:00

OoohOO.... finally found a new skin... the last one was kind of juz-for-the-sake... cos my itchy hands went to try out the blogger beta new template thingy... den my old skin got erased and unrecoverable, so i juz had to have something... ok, anyway.. ya...

hee... This skin's so much more readable, i think.... hee...

Went for my christmas date with billy on the 26th... i bought him weights... so i had like 5 kg in my bag the whole thing and i couldnt let him help me carry cos he'd be able to guess - like what other thing can be so heavy rite... ya, den i carry my heavy bag but gotta look like it's not heavy at all.. haa... so my brilliant plans was to do sit down activities... like watch movies... The curse of the golden flower... very gloomy and depressing show, to me... i cant decide if i like it or not...

Christmas!

2006-12-26T03:53:00.000+10:00

Christmas is CHRIST My Almighty Saviour!!!

So glad it's christmas... And now all the christmas buzz is all over... almost all over.. hee... Yea, went thru JTTW, then Soar camp, Antioch xmas gathering, Glowing fairytale party... Finally, tmr i can celebrate christmas with billy... ur ultimate date... i call it ultimate cos it's like we finally get to go out after 2 weeks of not doing so...

That day while buying his present, i found a very nice present for myself too!! haha...!! i bought a Mango winter jacket for myself... was on sale... $74 for a long and fat winter jacket, i tot it was very cheap!! anyway, ya, 1st time carry such a huge mango shopping bag with my purchase inside... feels very wild to spend just like tat, but i guess it was neccessary anyway... HEE..

Received so many christmas cards and sweets... thank you everybody who gave!! i had also intended to write cards this yr, but couldn't make it in time... so i wrote and gave some only... wanted to continue writing and giving on christmas day itself at the fairytale party, den cos the night before i drank too high so no sanity to write so didnt.. haa... sorry arh, those who didnt receive cards from me.. it's not cos i dun like u as much, juz i cannot make it la.. haa...

Fairytale party was fun.. our theme expanded to be more than fairytales, like u can be almost any character liao.. haa... so i was chun li!! haa... billy was mr incredible.. there were quite a lot of fairies there... one prince, one almost princess, and many many...

Thailand trip is coming soon!! 2 weeks time! anticipation arising... hee..!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY!! i hope u all will discover Jesus this rest of the year and the whole of next year and the years to come!!!

Black Christmas

2006-12-21T05:52:00.000+10:00

Since I'm not having a white christmas this year...

Why not make it literally black... Hehh...

And that rose is real one hor.. is a real pretty purple rose... Not paper!

JESUS TAKE THE WHEELS!

2006-12-18T04:13:00.000+10:00

JTTW is finally over! I can finally breathe... Karen, Kenneth, Billy, Mum and Dad came on either fri or sat nites... I gave the tics to Mary and her husband, but seems like they were not on their seats, so i dun think they came... Hmm.... But for those who came, im sure God blessed them all in some ways... For us on stage, each and every one of us are blessed in all so many ways! yea? On top of everything, I'm gladful and honoured to be part of the wonderful salvation plan God as in store for the one sitting below...

Karen gave me a purple rose after the show... it's really pretty!! and it's fully bloom now... at its prettiest... makes me wanna name my daughter Rose.. haa!! kidding la... "Above all" is singing non stop in my head.. and the purple rose is like God's illustration to me... Such a pretty purple rose, depicted to be my dear Jesus, yet sinful people have the heart to trample it on the ground.. and when He took the fall, He thought of me above all... What, Lord, do we say? What, Lord, should we do? Kyrie Eleison, Lord, if i had wings you'd be the wind. Thank you Lord, I just want to thank you, for Your love is amazing steady and unchanging. Kyrie Eleison take the wheels from me.

Company D&D is over too... I didn't win any mobile phones... :S But i did win a Robinsons voucher! Not like i can think of its usefulness, but thank God i won something.. haa... My prayer was like if God thinks that i should not win the mobile, then please let my phone work for the next 2 yrs to last me throughout australia... hee... which i believe, then, my God and my phone will not fail me... In fact, i do like my old and outdated phone alot... it's been thru many times with me.. haa..!

Relax-a-while time

2006-12-12T12:16:00.000+10:00

Relax a while before the day's activities tense up. Yesterday while rushing everything, my dad sms-ed me (and my sis and other pple too la, i think)... "Even eagles need to rest in order to go further. In our daily struggle, take short but frequent breaks. Slowdown, breathe slowly then go on. Do it now." haa.. but obviously i didn't slow down and breathe cos i was really rushing... But i still have delayed obedience in me, so im doing that now...

Full day packed, later gotta do lunch time shopping (again). I have my 6 items shopping list ready liao, shld be very fast... den after work gotta leave sharp at 5.30pm cos i'm supposed to be in church by 5pm... like how rite... -.- So i already have thick foundation on moi face now liao, hopefully can cheat time a bit this way, since 5pm is got get dressed, make up and hair done.

After practice gotta go karen house pass her the tics...

We got our costumes for the kyrie dance liao.. A bright christmas blue sequin dress!! Aiyo, i feel like a dumpling in it man... so fat.. too fat!!! So right now got an incredible aim to slim down tone up in 3 days... no time to go gym also lor, so my aim is indeed incredible - gotta do tat thru dieting and simple stretching... :s

Aussie dreams

2006-12-10T03:15:00.000+10:00

Hee... i took leave last thursday to do my hair, apply visa, and make plans for my move to australia, den go for JTTW rehearsal... BUT... everything went wrong man...

1st of all, i didnt pre-make a salon appointment and so suay my hairstylist was on leave... Took a taxi to IDP to for visa application, but i forgot to bring my passport! But the application can still go on la.. but after that, if i had my passport with me, i could have proceeded to go for medical check ups but cant lor... den i realised my sch leave out "Deborah" in my given name, i tot omission doesn't matter as long as Jing Fang was there... but it's not the case... so i gotta scan my passport and email to the australia high commission to say that "Chua Jing Fang" and "Chua Jing Fang Deborah" are the same person... -.-! But again, i dun have scanner, so gotta go pay $1 to scan at those internet surf shops...

So... this time i planning to take leave again on wed... hee... to do my hair, medical check up and then JTTW practice... Tmr, i gotta skip the nite "thingy" (if u know wat, u will know) so that i can go buy tights and the tank top required for the kyrie dance... hai yo... speaking abt making time for everything man....

Today zhanchi was at billy's house... a decent 7 of us... not very big grp, but i would consider as a ok no. for fellowship... i guess many of us are bothered when less than 10 come, but if u think abt it... 7 is only 3 less than 10... and is small enuff to have everybody talking to everybody... my hops is that the next fellowship we have, even if we have 6 pple, let all 6 be encouraged to really fellowship with each and every other person! :)

How great is our God! Sing with me, how great is our God. And all will see how great, how great is our God!

Office blogging again!

2006-12-04T19:24:00.000+10:00

Been sleepy since yesterday.. haa.. Still in office now, i figured since i'm intending to stay later, might as well slack and blog a bit... haa... Gave verbal notice to my project director abt my termination liao... I told her end of Jan, earn one more month of salary mah... Now i gotta save as much as i can... I don't even have half of 5k to bring to australia lor... All money matters, im going by faith... May God bless my parents.. hehh... Staying on later today to finish some work, cos it's my clear leave month... YEAH! i'm staggering 5 days of leave in this whole month, plus the 2 days off given by the company, its only a 14 days work month for me!! SWEET SWEET DECEMBER.....!!! And when the office is left with lesser people, i shall go let the big boss know abt my plans...

Gerald excused me for Thursday!! Yeah!! It wasn’t hard… In fact he was very logical and reasonable – he say “anyway, you don’t have another option what”. I think everybody is just too intimidated by him over too many things – so the assumption is he is unreasonable? I dunno, I only have a few encounters with him so no comments. Anyway, God don’t like pple judging each other. Now my other hurdle is the HR manager – I hope I don’t need to come back to office for whatever, I wanna go the hotel straight from JTTW – so I can leave JTTW later and reach hotel juz in time (not before time!)… That would be the best!

He's Popeye the sailor man!

2006-11-30T20:18:00.000+10:00

Popeye...

LOOK!! IT'S POPEYE'S MUM!!!!!

Making time

2006-11-30T03:13:00.000+10:00

Oh, making time for things nowadays is really such a big deal... Everybody's so busy with everything... Just had a tel conference with my gal friends.. haa! Persis' brilliant idea... Cos everybody juz cannot settle on one date to have our christmas dinner... As usual, when gals talk, we talk altogether... so the call lasted for quite long, plus there were 6 of us on the line.. haa.. In the end, our christmas dinner is set to be this sunday! Crazy rite, celebrate christmas on 3rd Dec... haa... But tat's really juz the next available time we all have in common!

Me? Busy with work (forever), studies planning, youth fellowship, young adult cell group, christmas musical (weekends sold to the church!)... And Kyo said tat gerald might "threaten" that i cannot perform if i dun go for the 14th nite rehearsal. Well, she didn't really use the word "threaten" but it sounded as intimidating to me anyway. story goes, my company ADD will be on the 14th night and i am the involved committee and i need to be there. So wat am i supposed to do? tell my hr manager i'm not going for the ADD, put her on a spot and apply to be irresponsible because of religion - or skip final musical rehearsal and offend gerald? i chose to be responsible to work la actually, i think its an impt testimony. the ADD is like the actual thing already, the final rehearsal is the prob the most impt of all rehearsals, but it's still a rehearsal not an actual thing.. Now tat kyo say gerald might have a prob, it sets me thinking that i do really want to perform after all. Not for the fame or fun (i dun think there's either anyway), but cos i've have given up so much of my time for the regular rehearsals, burning all my sundays and some weekdays, give up dating time, offend my family by rejecting family time to do this dancing rehearsal.. though i was really quite sian-ed and did reject the idea that i have to dance on top of just singing, but now at this point in time, i think i wanna continue to finish the 'show'. to him, it may be a professional show, but it me, its being part of a great tool tat God has in mind to reach to others - and i want to bless and be blessed too. So may God's mercy be shown.

So billy and i finally manged to spend some time together, like a dating couple... when in groups, i wld classify our time together as friend bonding time.. when like on one-on-one outings, tat's classified as dating time! hee... ya, which both are important but have to be balanced. for the past weeks, we only met for quick lunch if he's nearby my office, or supper, even on weekends we are either going out together with big groups or families... I treasure time spend with fellowship pple as well, so i dun mind the big groups, but i find that it's really hard to make time for just the 2 of us. Finally this week's work not too tight for either of us. So movies on tues and juz now (wed) had a nice dinner date... hee.. we watched Happy Feet! Very nice!

Funny email - 495 unread mails (again)

2006-11-29T19:49:00.000+10:00

Not that I really stand by this, but it's just so funny!! I like that billy is dinosaur - unlike the typicals! HAA!

To all women (and men with a sense of humour) to brighten up your day!!…. and when we have real trouble, it’s a HISterectomy!

TWO YEAR DEGREE COURSE

A new two-year degree is being offered at the University that many of you should be interested in:
Becoming a Real Man. That’s right, in just six mini-semesters, you, too, can be a real man as well as earn an MA degree. (Male Arts)

Please take a moment to look over the program outline.

FIRST YEAR
Autumn Schedule:
MEN 101: Combating Stupidity
MEN 102: You, Too, Can Do Housework
MEN 103: PMS-Learn To Keep Your Mouth Shut
MEN 104: We Do Not Want Sleazy Under things for Christmas

Winter Schedule:
MEN 110: Wonderful Laundry Techniques
MEN 111: Understanding the Female Response to Getting in at 4am
MEN 112: Parenting: It Doesn’t End with Conception
EAT 100: Get a Life, Learn to Cook
EAT 101: Get a Life, Learn to Cook II
ECON 001A: What’s Hers is Hers

Spring Schedule:
MEN 120: How NOT to Act like an arse when you’re Wrong
MEN 121: Understanding Your Incompetence
MEN 122: YOU, The Weaker Sex
MEN 123: Reasons to Give Flowers
ECON 001C: What Was Yours is Hers
SECOND YEAR

Autumn Schedule:
SEX 101: You CAN Fall Asleep without It
SEX 102: Morning Dilemma: If It’s Awake, Take a Shower
SEX 103: How to Stay Awake After Sex
MEN 201: How To Put the Toilet Seat Down
(Elective)
(See Electives Below)

Winter Schedule:
MEN 210: The Remote Control: Overcoming Your Dependency
MEN 211: How to Not Act Younger than Your Children
MEN 212: You, Too, Can be a Designated Driver
MEN 213: Honest, You Don’t Look Like Brad Pitt
MEN 230A: Her Birthdays and Anniversaries are Important

Spring Schedule:
MEN 220: Omitting %&*!@ from Your Vocabulary (Pass/Fail Only)
MEN 221: Fluffing the Blanket after Farting Is NOT Necessary
MEN 222: Real Men Ask For Directions
MEN 223: Thirty Minutes of Begging is NOT Considered Foreplay
MEN 230B: Her Birthdays and Anniversaries are Important II

Course Electives:
EAT 102: Cooking with Tofu
EAT 103: Utilization of Eating Utensils
EAT 103: Burping and Belching Discreetly
MEN 231: Mothers-In-Law
MEN 232: Appear to Be Listening
MEN 233: Just Say “Yes, Dear”
ECON 001C: Cheaper to Keep Her

Just a thought for all the women out there.
MENtal Illness
MENstrual cramps
MENtal breakdown
MENopause
GUYnocologist (poetic spelling)
Ever notice how all of women’s problems start with men?

Shut up your mouth!

2006-11-27T19:23:00.000+10:00

Arghh... $70 just to make new passport... which last only for 5 years, instead of 10... ARGHHH!!!!

Anyway, went just now during lunch time, and i so duper exceeded my lunch hours lor... haa... there was 157 pple in queeue, and while waiting i took light sleeping naps.. hee! Like i always do.. the ART of being able to sleep anytime anywhere is one good skill. I napped for like 45 mins, still not my turn... Den got this family of a mother, grandma, and 2 young daughters came and sit beside me. The mother non-stop talking and talking very loudly one lor... but at the same time, keep telling her little gal to "better shut up your mouth!", "I beat u ah, u better shut up your mouth!", "I call police ah, u better shut up your mouth!" Firstly, "Shut up your mouth" sounds very rude for a mom to use to her daughter, i feel. And i wonder whether the english is even correct... 2ndly, the thing about using police to scare the kids is juz a total bad idea - children should feel like police are your friends man, and be scared of the bad guys not police.. 3rdly, the mother herself is so noisy yet she expects her splitted-out-chromosome be quiet.. 4thly (ya, i got lots of comments on this mother).. that little gal is so cute and not noisy arh, she was just doing cute things like smiling to herself, talking to her mom(not overly loudly), etc and the mother keep spoiling her mood... :S

Anyway, finally got my new passport!! They needed right thrumb print, den i show the counter lady my right thrumb condition - which is badly scarred by ezcema, she say nvm can try... den she try 2 times, she say "ya, let's use left thrumb print instead". haa... den she show my both left and right prints on her computer - the right one is really bad man, cannot see one... If one day i get murdered huh... my left hand better be ard, later my body become unrecognizable.

New traveling chapter of my life shall begin with this new passport - My goal is to use up all the pages! muahahahaa!!! So far, my world touring has been thur:
1. Malaysia (since forever)
2. Australia (1995)
3. China (2000, 2005)
4. Thailand (2001)
5. Indonesia (2004)
6. Ireland (2004)
7. Hong Kong (2005)

Next stop:
1. Thailand (Jan 07)
2. Australia (again) (Feb 07)

I'M EXCITED!

2006-11-25T06:04:00.000+10:00

PMS SURVIVAL TIPS

471 unread mails

2006-11-24T04:10:00.000+10:00

spend some time going thru some of my hundreds of unread mails today... currently still got 471 more to go thru... anyway, found many funny emails and videos.. haa.. got check out my youtube videos posted below or not? Anyways, thanks to mostly nic, mich, and kat... I enjoyed quite some funny jokes today.. haa... ok, post 2 of them for dear readers:

1) MBA AND ENGINEER WENT CAMPING:

A MBA and an Engineer go on a camping trip, set up their tent, and fall asleep. Some hours later, the Engineer wakes his MBA friend up and asked "Look up at the sky and tell me what you see.

The MBA replies, "I see millions of stars."

The Engineer asks "What does that tell you?"

The MBA ponders for a minute: Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.

Astrologically speaking, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo.

Time wise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three.

Theologically speaking, it's evident the Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant.

Meteorologically speaking, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow.

What does it tell you asked the MBA?

The Engineer friend kept silent for a moment, and then said.

My friend. Practically speaking, someone has stolen our tent".

2) CHINESE NAMES - ANNIE WAN (ANYONE)

Caller : Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan?

Operator : Yes, you can speak to me.

Caller: No, I want to speak to Annie Wan!

Operator: You are talking to someone! Who is this?

Caller: I'm Sam Wan. And I need to talk to Annie Wan! It's urgent.

Operator: I know you are someone and you want to talk to anyone! But what's this urgent matter about?

Caller: Well... just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother Noel Wan was involved in an accident. Noel Wan got injured and now Noel Wan is being sent to the hospital. Right now, Avery Wan is on his way to the hospital.

Operator: Look if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital, then the accident isn't an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I don't have time for this!

Caller: You are so rude! Who are you?

Operator: I'm Saw Lee.

Caller: Yes! You should be sorry. Now give me your name!!

2006-11-24T04:08:00.000+10:00

Pigeon Mobile

Thailand craze part 2!!! My mobile is much better than this!!! haa!

2006-11-24T04:07:00.000+10:00

thailand's electric company ad

Thailand craze!! Hope my bangkok hotel pays their bills.. haa..!

2006-11-24T04:06:00.000+10:00

OkGo - Perform the Beach Boys!

Met these OkGo guys some months ago, this is redone wif a newer song.. haa.. and as smooth moves...! YEA MAN...

Fitness debbie

2006-11-23T02:40:00.000+10:00

I'm living in wednesday (although thurs juz came), and thinking im still in tuesday.. hmm... but i really cant remember wat i wore to work on tues leh... i cant seem to remember tuesday...

and cos i forgot its wednesday.. man, i forgot to watch my favorite documentary Taboo sia.. aiyo, today they talk about how men in diff cultures prove themselves to be men... extreme ways of cos, but since i didnt watch, i dunno how...

Jus now spend abt one hr in the gym, working out of cos.. i have a colleague who goes to the gym but dun work out and instead juz talk on the phone and tell others tat he's in the gym.. haa..! juz now gym was good! i forgot to ask my gym khakis along, but my determination brought me there anyway.. :) and the excellent thing was the gym was empty!! i had a super worked out session sia.. i love empty gyms...!! den abt an hr later, this middle age man had to come in and destroy my serenity.. haa.. but anyway i was tired already...

Being abt to run and not feel pain in my back is beautiful grace to me! in the past, i used to feel extremely pain in my back juz halfway thru my 2.4km run in sch.. in sec 4, i even took a doc's mc to excuse myself from the run cos i didnt wanna suffer the pain... when i was in hospital the 3rd time for the same problem, i even told God that i will not take my health or muscles for granted and i will make it a point to work out and not be so lazy... but seems like my promise to Him is not very consistent... but i juz wanna share here that not everybody can juz say run and run, so do not take your muscles for granted... and to frens who need to abtain from exercise becos of injuries or health problems... pls do not test ur limits, compared to a lifetime, ur recuperating time is only so short!!

and to women body builders, i applaude u for loving ur muscles sooooo much. but pls do not take your female hormones for granted as well... :)

2006-11-17T04:25:00.000+10:00

Fitness Olympia Competition

Alright everybody, seeing is more convincing man... rathering my previous post on women body builders, well this is the FEEL... Which makes my goosebumps stand... And this is just light weight catagory man...

Accordingly, women body builder are judged like men's regular - they haf set poses to perform, their own pose to show how nice their muscles flex.. On top of that, women body builders gotta do a dance to show how fit their are, and their dance is like turn one round with hands on the ground and head,body,legs totally at 90%!! And they are also judged on looking pretty - make up and lady-like-ness...

These women tend to take steroids but according to them, its none of our business (because taking steroids has always been a senstive issue to both men and women body builders).. Women body builders, as a result, often sound manly and features incline to look more like men because these steroid often has male hormones in it, or/and encourage more male hormones to grow...

Well, im not laughing at them, but it's really interesting new knowledge to me! It's not something i wld accept, but that does not mean i will condemn it. But as a women, i think it is better to think of why God made you a women, and what are you going to do about it.. :)

Women

2006-11-16T04:37:00.000+10:00

Yesterday went to Minds cafe with my colleagues... 1st time to board games cafe, quite fun leh, i like!! There was this game where we build tracks to reach our destinations (and i went to the wrong destination out of my own blur-ness), and we played settlers too... Which gave me my game idea for sat's zhanchi bible study.. haa... Hope it turns out fun too!! Cant wat...

Today got off work early... And opps, i forgot my dinner date with billy and i didnt wait for him, i juz went home... Den he called... :P SORRY BILLY...

So watched a lot of TV today... I like the channel U 7pm "Goong" show, who can lend me dvd? 9pm channel 8, there was a "happy family" (kinda show name) drama series... There's a bro in the family who has a wife and 2 kids... and in the show, his wife bought a new terrace house without telling him 1st... And i tot, wah saz, a man's greatest misfortune is getting them 2 talkative kids+1 vain wife+1 foolish mother.. the wife made the kids nag him "mummy say u rather spend money on another woman and don't want to buy us a house"... the wife make the mother think that her intention is to move the mother into the new terrace house as well... really very vain lor...

Den after tat watched Tabboo at 10pm - tat's like one of my most chased after programs this period... and it's actually a documentary, but really interesting... today is about gender blending... in india, there's a festival where men, even married men with kids, will dress up like women and have one night stand with another man... :s In las vegas, women like to be body builders... which is essentially women's head in a beefy body... grosssssss. And in Japan, women westlers whose westlering performances look more real than WWF, and these women will really be bleeding and bloody all over at the end of the fight... *faints*

Ya, so i named this post WOMEN... And i like being a lady yea... :)

Lessons time!

2006-11-11T04:36:00.000+10:00

Almost the whole week, except for monday, i was attending seminars/talks/learning sessions... HAI~~~ Tues-thurs company training on market research methodologies and some concepts, friday had company talk on proposal writing (which the whole time i translated it in my mind as resume/cover letter writing.. hee) and at night in church, seminar on the book of Revelations.

I must say i enjoy tonight's Revelations seminar the most!! Haa... so much more relevant and meaningful, easy to apply, easy to engage... Today's summary is that Revelations' focus is not on prohency, its abt teaching the truth and applying it (and being blessed as a result Rev1:1, 22:7). 666 was John's implication of an anti-christ at that time, who might be politically strong and he cannot write down his exact name... makes me thing of all the rubbish movies on 666 and the ultimate devil tat 666 is... which did influence me to think that the 666 referred to an ultimate evil - but thank God for revealing to me today that the 666 is prevalent everywhere in the world we live in - in the various forms of any anti-christ (such as worldly values).

Last week the Christmas musical singing team did some tracks in recording studio... Quite interesting experience, no stress for me even though i had a sore throat because i was part of the choir and i blended in fine... haa... PICTURES!!

Clean clean clean

2006-11-08T02:27:00.000+10:00

Today i skipped company dinner to go home early to rest cos im still feeling sick... My idea of resting equals relaxing, meaning doing things i like... I was feeling tired and sleepy, but determined not to nap, if not i cannot fall asleep at night again..

So while watching tv, i folded my family's hill of washed clothes... Its been washed and collected at the sofa for weeks already and no one just wants to fold them... so i folded them... den my tv programs still not finished so i continued to clear the coffee table after folding the clothes... and once started, cannot stop.. so i kept clearing and cleaning till it became all so drastically clean!! Da jie came home slightly after i was done...

she: "who's coming?"
me: "no one"
she: "den why is our house so clean?!"
me: "cos im sick of the mess man..."

den mother came home slightly after her...

mom to da jie: "When debbie goes to australia, no one is going to clean up our mess liao - but it's ok, when she comes back for holiday, she can fold all our clothes accumlated!"
me: ....................

Taboo

2006-11-02T01:22:00.000+10:00

Watched this documentary, Taboo, on arts central juz now at 10pm... About spirits possession. showed the rituals involving spirits, shamans, exorcism... Den there was a part on the charismatic Pentecostal churches... Extreme lor... God is good but believers are only human. I was telling my mum, and to all who reads, that the bible teaches us to worship the Lord with our minds... When the Holy Spirit is in you, u will know what you are doing you are still in control - God will not let you lose control of yourself becos self-control is also the fruit of the Spirit. the documentary compared the possession of the holy spirit to the rituals in African rituals - both with music, lots of excitement, dancing and then possession. In both cases, the worshipper has to give up self control to let the spirit be in total control... But a spirit that takes always your self control of speech and/or behaviour is not a spirit from the Lord man... To give ourselves into total surrender of God is out of freewill and rational commitment, not because we are “out of control”…

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” – Mark 12:30

“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” – Rom 12:2

Comrades!

2006-10-31T02:46:00.000+10:00

Ok.. my sweettalk post is causing everybody's blood sugar to raise... which is reminding me of my work... which is no sweet..AT ALL.. haa..!

Sunday had my family cell grp gathering again... Family cell as in real family by blood.. Our testimony started from my grandma (mum's mum) who lived her last yrs full of joy and passion for the Lord. After she passed away, my mother grew closer to god and went back to church. 3 other aunts and uncles were were intially already believers continued to walk with God, and slowly over several months, almost all my mum's siblings, 7 out of 8 of them, and their spouses accepted Christ as well. My uncle Sherman and Seng came up with a family cell grp idea, and so we meet once a month to have worship, pastors sharing (from their church), and individual sharings...

Sunday we also farewelled our uncle seng, who will be rebased in Shanghai in his work for at leat 2 yrs. Er jie who juz came back from vietname decided that we shld all wear her vietnam t-shirt present together.

Hence, we formed the 同志 (comrades) gang! I was supposed to tell billy to wear his tee too but forgot as there were so many other things going on my head too.. den da jie bought him her vietnam hat, so he sort of became the 领长 (leader). haa..

Dan was high that day.. He keep going “我名叫阿丹”。And saluted and shouted 同志 to almost every stranger who walks pass him..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mylongtoes/sets/72157594351971843/

Sweettalk me!!

2006-10-28T05:17:00.000+10:00

I read somewhere in Bonnie's blog this quote she read somewhere:
"I dreamt of a wedding of elaborate elegance, a church filled with family and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for. He said one that would make me his wife"

Which is sooooo sweet!!!

I tot abt my dear guy... Which brings about a smile on my face!!

Me: Pretty or not?
Him: Always very pretty.

Me: He(another guy) was just joking about staying with me la...
Him: Arrgh... All these guys just wanna snatch my girl...

Me: Oh, so you are going to wait till after my choir prac ends?
Him: Huh? Not meh?

(He feeds me a slide of his pork chop)
Me: Wah, u really very full liao arh?
Him: I saw u looking so cute, i just automatically feed you.

Ok, that's examples of my idea of sweettalk from him... I dunno if he meant them be sweet-talks, but they are very sweet to me!! Thank you for today!

Holidays!! Celebrate!!!

2006-10-24T03:51:00.000+10:00

Hee... No work today, and tmr!!

Went out, shopping, buffet and movie wif billy juz now... Caught The Departed... stupid show, really... I seldom say any movie is bad... Like i would say one movie is bad out of 10 movies i watched, cos even if others think its bad, i wld see some good in it... The Departed is really bad... 1st of all, the language overly vulgar, like i dun see why shld it be so... Some things juz happen and no link after tat, though its a re-make of Infernal Affairs, but the way it was re-made so so bad it's kind of like scary movie, juz anyhow re-make (except tat scary movie's actually's funny)... There no excitement at all, even the soundtracks were not exciting... it's juz BAD...

But wif that movie, we finally finished our eng wah cinemas discounted tickets.. haa... Wah saz, eng wah is really quite lousy sia...

Billy left something very important with me.. HAA... and he doesn't know what he left with me.. HAHAHAAA... very important and precious... my dear, u should think harder man... before its too late!

What Zodiac Sign Should You Be?

2006-10-18T13:41:00.000+10:00

http://uk.tickle.com/test/astrologymakeover.html

I am a Pisces but it say im....

Aries!
It's sooo you!The planets are very complex. Maybe your astrologer will disagree, and maybe a few tendencies will vary, but overall you're an ARIES. You've got a feisty and energetic style coupled with an optimistic outlook. That Aries assertiveness shines through in your independent ways. It's what guarantees you success no matter what you decide to pursue. The only problem is how little time you give yourself to meet your goals. Patience is definitely not an Aries virtue. On the other hand, your open heart and creative mind give you a deep self-confidence. And let's not forget your very sexual and impulsive side. Hidden or not -- it's definitely there. Your fire sign also gives you the ability to ignite the passion of others. Your symbol is a ram, and you're known and respected for your courage.

Some famous Aries are:

Vincent van Gogh
Victoria Beckham
Ewan McGregor
Elton John
Rachel Stevens

Homeless for 2 hrs...

2006-10-17T03:33:00.000+10:00

Crazy monday i had...

Started from home in the morning:
Woke up at like 9.20am, brushed and dressed in 10mins, den found out that my keys were not in its useful place... Suspecting that Dan prob mistakeningly took it as da jie's key and hence took it wif him, i was left wif no keys! Well, rushed for time and no time to think much, i went out without my keys... Caught a cab, realised i got no cash, shit, gotta waste more time at the atm...

In the office:
Paiseh-ly explained to yas and john i overslept... haa... Den happily wanna start on my ppt, to find out that my most hated listings jobs has more to be done AGAIN... :s

After work:
Worked out in the gym for an hr, wah quite shoick, i tot my life was begining again. On the bus (scary bus experience again... ) received a call from da jie, saying tat Dan is locked out with no one at home... and i at only 1 bus stop away and without my keys... ARgghHH..... Dan wasn't at the door when i went to the door, nor was he downstairs or ard the neighbourhood, so i didnt mind him and went for an extreme slow dinner at "121 Reservoir Kopi Point", finished dinner in an hr leh, cldnt drag longer... so sat at coffee shop and watched channel 8 for another hr before da jie finally reached to rescue me (and Dan)...

HAI~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2006-10-14T05:00:00.000+10:00

Male Restroom Etiquette

I have just had a out-of-the-world lesson on men and their toilet needs.. :s

For the good of all MANkind...

Kung fu MASter

2006-10-13T03:41:00.000+10:00

Today, after like maybe half a year, of not going to friendster, i logged on and found a old time fren from pri sch... So cool, she remembered me.. and more cool, i remember her TOO..!! Hello chew lian...

Den billy introduced me to this kung fu master:

if it doesn't play,

click

to experience kung fu master mighty power!!

PHOTOsssss

2006-10-12T04:41:00.000+10:00

PhoTo of the day.. er nite...

Nic tries to make a face...

~~~ Click and see the whole album la ~~~

Nice dinner... And a fight in the bus!

2006-10-12T03:45:00.000+10:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY (belated) TO NICOLE!!!! Yea... juz met up wif my gal friends... Wooo... had a very jolly time!!! Angie failed to show up, she forgot our arrangment for tonite... Hmm.. while i understand its hard for her to cancel her dinner appointment wif her bf's family, but..oh well... Hehh...

After dinner, on my bus ride home.. There was a fight!! Not me fighting this time.. but this one quite scary... 2 group of youngsters, maybe 17-19 yrs old, each grp of abt 3-4 pple, were fighting at the back of the bus.. fight as in exchanging fists wor... the gals were screaming, shrieking actually... the guys were scolding each other loudly... den the silly bus driver, he juz stopped the bus tat's all. he didn't like walk up to warn/persuade/do anything to them. He didn't open the door, didn't chase them out nor did he let the innocent other passengers like myself escape... :s until the 2 fighting grps moved to the door (near where i was standing too), den he opened the door for them to go out and fight..

Thinking of taking leave again.. HAHAHA... hMMMmmmmmm........

Came across this from Timo's blog

2006-10-10T03:48:00.000+10:00

I copied the whole thing, cos the thing touched me so much.. Pass it it, pass it on..

This video:
Team Hoyt is a father (Dick Hoyt) and son (Rick Hoyt, b. 1962) in Massachusetts who compete together in marathons, triathlons, and other athletic endeavors. Rick was disabled at birth by a loss of oxygen to his brain because his umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, and he also suffers from cerebral palsy. Dick carries him in a special seat up front as they bike, pulls him in a special boat as they swim, and pushes him in a special wheelchair as they run.

Thanks to his parents, who ignored the advice of doctors that he would be a vegetable, and Tufts University engineers, who recognized that his sense of humor indicated intelligence, at the age of 12, Rick was able to learn how to use a special computer to communicate, using movements from his head. The first words he typed were, "Go Bruins!", and the family learned he was a sports fan. They entered their first race in 1977, a 5 mile benefit run for an injured lacrosse player who was a schoolmate of Rick's.

Dick is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard. Rick earned a college degree from Boston University in special education, and now works at Boston College. They continue to compete in races, and are also motivational speakers.

As of June 2005, Team Hoyt had participated in a total of 911 events, including 206 Triathlons (6 of which were Ironman competitions), 20 Duathlons, and 64 Marathons, including 24 consecutive Boston Marathons. They also biked and ran across the USA in 1992 -- a 3,735 mile journey that took them 45 days.

When asked what one thing Rick wished he could give his father, his reply was "The thing I'd most like is that my dad would sit in the chair and I would push him once."

Timo shared this in his blog, which bala shared during CF camp. It brought him, then me, to 2 passages abt our Heavenly Father's love:

Luke 11
"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?

13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

1 John 3:1
1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

Polly is back!

2006-10-10T03:32:00.000+10:00

Oooo... ah Polly is back today!! Kim had been back for very long already too... I had cherished those short times when Kim was back for like 1 week or a month... but now that she'll be around for a year, we only met up like once or twice so far... Hmm... sorry kimmie, i really cherish our times together...

Which makes me happy that we'll be meeting soon!! I'm looking forward to wednesday!!

Ooo... and ah Polly...!!! We got great plans in store, which cannot be blogged... haa..!! You and I shall be far and near, and near and far for the next 2 yrs at least!!

2006-10-06T03:28:00.000+10:00

IndigNation - mrbrownshow.com

FUNNY but TRUE lor...

Crazy woman on the bus

2006-10-06T03:14:00.000+10:00

Juz now on my bus ride home, sat beside a crazy woman.. As in crazy, i don't think she's really mad... Haa... It was the back row seats, and she sat at the far corner, and her bag and NTUC plastic bag took the seat beside her. As i had always been untolerant of non human beings sitting where human beings could have been, i sat down right beside her stuff, and even pushed them towards her a bit! haa.. (billy beside me too la) Den after tat she start mumbling some things... den keep moving her stuff, like making sure im not sitting on them, actually she's juz trying to make me sit away or just stand la... so i turned and told her "im not sitting on ur stuff". Haa... tat spiked her crazy-ness.. she keep on mumbling things, den look at me and say things abt me... say like "you little gal", "xiao mei mei", den something something "interested in me", "jealous of me"... I tell her in her face "sorry lor, auntie"... den she say something somthing "jealous of my age, jealous tat i am older, you xiao mei mei" - after i cal her auntie.. haa... den billy tell me to dun fight her, so ok lor.. i dun wanna put billy in a spot... but i dun wanna let her get her way.. she while she keep on mumbling, i keep on smiling at her.. HAA...

Met Gerald for the 1st time today... The impression is not the same as what i had heard abt him so far... ok lor.. i find him normal ah...

Chicken POX!

2006-10-05T02:15:00.000+10:00

Da jie's australian fren, Dan, who is here for a while had been staying in our house. Guess wat, he kanna chicken pox sia!! And i juz had shingles....which is caused by the chicken pox virus!! Seems like i had passed the virus to him wor... The doc told me im not contagious unless pple touch my sores, yet he gave me a week of MC to stay away from the crowd... den i went to him for a self initiated follow-up... he say im "not very contagious" and can go back to the office already, and tat i dun need to see him again... den how did Dan get it from me? i didn't touch him, he didn't touch me... i didn't even sit down and talk to him for more than 5 mins... Er jie's theory is tat i happily walk ard the house, sit ard the house... sit on the sofa... must be i leave germs ard and he shuay-ly picked them up...! :s

Whatever, now my selfish concern is tat he dun pass it back to me again... cos according to colleagues Andrew and Mary, shingles will not cure, and they can keep coming back! @@!

Shingles painful one leh.. i dun want.. my sores are still ard, but all dried up liao.. juz tat the cloth havent grow back to become skin again... so for the passed week, everything i walk by pretty clothes in the shopping centres, i cant try them... cos i scared i'll leave germs ard.. now tat i'm almost done, i wanna go shopping again!! so shingles better not come back!!

got my dad to help me buy more shingles medicine this morning.. juz now i asked him where is my medicine, he suddenly juz cant remember.. den i let him search ard the house himself, and i went back to my room to change my clothes, moisturizes, did a couple of things.. when i came out, dad was still looking for the cream!! later i found it on my bed, below some other of my stuff.. and i told him he put it there and he didn't remember... is tat a sign of him being senile?!!

When i was a kid, dad used to say im forgetful, small things also can forget, and he wld look very annoyed at my forgetfulness... (i wld forget, for e.g., where i put my spectacles) Now im rather concerned abt his forgetfulness man... hmm..

Little red flower

2006-10-04T03:23:00.000+10:00

Little Red Flower, China film by Director Zhang Yuan, and co-done wif an Italian team. This a very interesting art film. Unlike the out-of-the-world kinda art film, where pple juz catch-no-ball-but-pretend-to-appreciate-it.. HAA.. This movie is very enjoyable. It's engaging and thought provoking, not very direct at what the director is going for, yet easy to understand if think a little deeper...

Storyline goes... 4 yr old Qiang is sent to a kindergarden board sch because there's no one to look after him. The sch has standards for everything - there's a time to play, time to learn, rise the right hand to add more porridge and the left for another bun, there's even a time to shit together as a class! Qiang does not follow such routines and standards, but he starts trying so as to to be rewarded by his teacher, a little red flower (that every other children has except himself), for good performance. The story ends when Qiang is released from his confidment and re-joins his classmates again. His classmates however ignored him and in an effort to catch their, and the teachers', attention, he runs away and kept running until he was outside the sch. He saw a chinese band street performance wif loud gongs and music, suddenly Qiang became very tired and he lay himself down outside the wall of the sch. Inside, the teachers and children are looking for the missing Qiang and call out his name.

And here's my thoughts:

The movie is acted by children as you can tell, and it's amazing how natural and good these children can act!! But Zhang Yuan uses children for a purpose. It seems to me like this whole movie hints at the failure of the development of China. The teacher, at one point, asked "Why is it important for children to learn to dress themselves?", and the children's reply (which was a satisfactory answer for the teacher) was "Little children have to learn how to dress themselves". Like the society says something, and nobody questions but naturally accept that they "have to"/ "it is a must". Grown-ups are like little children who dun ask.

The movie uses lots of "irony" as literature tool. Like the teacher lectures that "girls cannot show boys their butts" (qiang was playing a doc-give-injection role play game), yet boys and girls can sleep beside each other without their clothes on. (i think half the time the boys are always not clothed from below the waist). The teacher also teaches that "children have to learn how to cloth themselves", yet the clothes the sch provides are all torn with huge holes that don't cover up the body - which is almost as bad as not wearing pants.

The little red flower that is rewarded to good behaving children represents praise and acknowledgement from the society (the sch, in this case). Qiang is willing to conform and try to poop at the correct time, learn to clothe himself up (but fails of cos), in his attempts to receive some little red flowers too. But the movie ends after Qiang saw the band street performance. Chinese bands in the past wears simple one-color clothes wif a big red flower in front of their chest (like the bands older days chinese weddings). It seems like suddnely Qiang saw that his vision was so narrow. He thought the little red flower is beautiful, but then he realises that there are bigger and more beautiful red flowers around that he has not yet seen.

And the final scene seemed abrupt initially, like it could continue as a drama serials after this. (haa!) Before the final scene, there was a lot of action, the boy was running, the music in the background was very happening, he saw the street performance, whose performance was very loud.. but Qiang suddenly lay himself down and fell asleep on top a of rock out the sch after the band passed by him. den suddenly, but almost not drastically, everything became quiet with only the shouts of the pple behind the wall. But this is actually a very meaningful ending. I feel, that the director wants to show that Qiang is tired from both rebelling and conforming. He realises his hard-earned little red flower is so little and uncomparable, and it's not worth his efforts to go after. He decides that inside the walls are not the things he like, therefore he rather take his rest outside the walls. and the teacher and children inside the walls who were looking for him, were still shouting out for him because inside the walls, nothing changes and no one thinks anything will change.

This movie makes me a little sad for China in some ways. I dunno wat is this system/standard that Zhang Yuan is trying to criticize, but it's very clear to me, that there's a lot of irony and narrow-minded-ness being told. The society calls out "clothe urselves", yet the clothes they provide do not cover up - don't that saddens you?

For those who wanna watch and have your own other interpretation, go ahead! it's a very good film really. The way it was directed, the acting, the script... all very engjoyable!!

Weekend has come!

2006-10-01T04:10:00.000+10:00

Y'day went to for the QBC outreach... went door to door to the block near church... to invite the residents to join our lantern festival event next week and distribute flyers to them... Quite fun!! And funny.. cos u can actually see the peep-hole was initially bright, den it gets dark becos the resident is looking thru the peep-hole at whoever's knocking... den many times the hole gets dark for very long, but juz dun wanna open the door, like the person behind is analysing me - "is she salesperson/ suryvor/ selling vitagen/ etc.." haa.. den some analyse very long, juz dun wanna open door, i know i failed their analysis.. ha...!

den went to picturehouse to catch a movie... we juz wanna stay out late so anything lor.. randomly chose "Little red flower" to watch... very nice movie!! talk abt tat another time, cos i can talk very long.. haa.. i was a literature student afterall!! :) BUT... one thing i tot was rather silly is the picturehouse itself.. it's abt movies appreciation, not enjoyment.. so u are supposed to be juz watching the movie and appreciating it.. SO.. cannot eat popcorn or drink coke one.. but i LOVE my movies with popcorn!! so was like only 3/4 satisfied.. hee..

went home and found tat my nose is full of blackheads.. so i squeezed hard (i shldn't hv, but i did! hehh...) and got some out!! but half my nose became very red... and remained red the next day.. den went wif billy to buy his Chocolate mobile... and while i was lookin at the windown display of phones.. haaa... my bumped my nose into the window screen! Ouch!

So this nite, i pore-packed my nose.. no more funny ideas..

Office blogging

2006-09-29T18:43:00.000+10:00

Today, after y'day's post abit being on time... I reached office at 9.30!! LATE AGAIN... haa... This morning walked by a qi-gong master who was executing his qi-gong on another guy... by putting 4 of his finger at the spine-butt of that other guy!!

rite now finished all tasks at the office.. nothing more to do... so blog a bit lor... juz as i wanted to begin, the 2 new guys started talking to me... actually looks a bit more like they talking amg themselves but hang ard my work station... cos i didnt wanna engage in the conversation mah, was more interested to do a post here.. haa!! Ok, my my work station is surrounded by guys... im careful abt talking/being wif them... dun wanna be seem as a desperado... :s And i re-positioned billy and mine photo to a more obvious location on my desk! Haa!

I'm a happy gal again!!

2006-09-29T03:28:00.000+10:00

THREE CHEERS TO SPYBOT!! My lappy (aka laptop) had kanna-ed some spyware but Spybot fixed it!! It least, it looks fixed enuff... and nothing is popping out and disturbing me liao!!! Thanks to Teck Chin's introduction of spybot!! Woo-hoo... In these 3 sad days... I think Billy had it hard on facing my changing moods... esp everything i reach home and see lappy, my mood will change... haa... and Chung Man recommended me SUPERantiSpyware at download.com... Thanks Chung Man for showing my support too!! *sobs *sobs... But since Teck Chin's recommendation thru Billy reached me 1st.. i went to get Spybot at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html - and it works!! So if any other shuay pple need spyware cleaner, these 2 will be my recommendations... :)

2 day back at work!! And i realised the office is still as germ-ly as it was... Pple sneezing, coughing, signing loudly... :s I'm determined to treat the rest of the months left in the year, which is like only 3 more mths, to be like how it was during my probation... no MCs and always on time.. So far, i had failed to be on time still... haa... but improvment as in instead of reaching at 9.30, now i can reach at 9.15!!! (ahem.. supposed time shld be 9am la.. :P)Anyway, i think i might have already reached my MC limit liao.. so no choice, i die die mus be healthy and cannot take MC liao...!!

I cleared my fridge!

2006-09-24T00:33:00.000+10:00

beer!
Originally uploaded by Deb just wanna sleep.

Today, im stuck at home again... to avoid the crowds... becos of ZOSTER... :s

My sister and her friends are outside enjoying Erdinger and Absolute and some other alcholic stuff....

Mine are in my newly-cleared-thrown-away-all-mum's-expired-bakery-stuffs fridge!!!! It's really MY fridge btw, case u think im a meanie for throwing away my mum's stuff.... The fridge's mine and in my room, and mum's stuff are long expired in 2003!!!

**sHaKe leG*sHaKe LeG**

2006-09-21T20:50:00.000+10:00

4th day of MC today.... my zosterlooks like they have flatten down a bit... i tot the doc says it wld burst leh... anyway... still gross..!

finished accumlated work today! yeah!! though on MC, i had been working from home... Hai~~~ But nvm la, cos i also noe tat on going proj is very screwed... so help a bit lor... was expecting more work, but after phone call to the office, hee... They say tmr den send to me.. haa.. so good lor, den i can play more puzzle bubble for now.. haa...

boss' orders are for me to stay at home until all the virus is gone... i am not to step in the office and spread the virus ard! haa.. feels a bit outcasted... haa... but also good lor... den i can sleep in late for more days... haa... doc bok can expect to earn more money from me liao... haa.. gotta go back to him to get more mc... I hope i had not reached my company MC leave days and claim limit... why am i always sick huh.... :s

2006-09-20T03:48:00.000+10:00

BLOG SKIN CHANGED!

Woo-hoo! I had wanted to start out from scatch, do a whole new skin myself... after just 5 mins of writing those nasty htmls, i decided to just take from blogskins.com sia.. Haa... K lor, i modified from the skin i down loaded... thanks to pple teachers, billy, and the books that taught me htmls like 7 years ago... :s Haa... i managed to make this bloggie quite nice huh... and in the end when i juz can't move the whole alignment to the centre, billy catch to the rescue! yeah! thanks to billy!

last nite when my er jie and her boyfriend came to noe about my zoster, they were all out to write a "tiger" on me, to scare away the "snake"... Ya, cos zoster is called "grow snake" (sheng se) in chinese... so write a "tiger" using white vinegar on the face to scare the snake away! and then they went on to say i gotta use joss stick to catch the head of the snake, den the rest of the snake will self destruct! THAT WAS SO DUH..... HAA! in the 1st place, dear er jie, how do u identify the head cos everything looks like moles to me! same moles! and instead of writing "tiger", how about i tatoo a "Jesus Christ" so God can scare away any and every thing permanently! HAA! Sad to say, people of the 21st century can still be so foolish... and my er jie studies law lor... :s

2nd day of mc today... my lappy had been on since 2pm till now sia... billy came to visit me... tommy warned me to not spread him the virus.. haa... Billy came with bubble tea! I like bubble tea!! and ban mian... i had ban mian craving, unexplainable why... haa... But so nice, spend whole afternoon with him... :) did some silly but sweet things... like msn-ing each other in the same room.. play stupid online poker games... etc... haa...

zoster still very painful today... i stared at it for a while... looks a bit flater to me, i think... but den i look again, looks the same also leh... in any case, still looks as gross! *yucks!