Hectic week

So first week of school is over, it doesn't feel like a week has gone by, it kinda feels like a months has passed. This week has just been crazy.
I don't like weeks like this. I don't like crazy timetables, I don't like the fact that my first assignment started on the first day of school. I don't like the idea of coming back to school on saturday in formal shirt to present something about education in Hainan.
But all in all, its been worth it. Friends always make up for the boredom and frus.
Monday, school ended at 5pm. Headed down to Subway at CP.
Hung out there, fun fun.
Tuesday, school ended at 4pm, went to print lectures and tutorials.
Met Pamela at Hougang interchange first before going for caregroup.
Fiery worship at caregroup, very powerful, prayer time was incredible, as always.
Shared many many many things there, and I went home with a bigger head I guess.
Wednesday, ended school at 3pm, went home to slack.
Thursday, ended at 2pm, met Lavette for lunch together with Ivan, saw Lavette's classmates.
Haha they're just as crazy as her.
Went for prayer meeting, freaking awesome sermon, did headcounting so missed the video.
Heard it was good.
Friday, after school chiong to Dhoby Ghaut to meet Lavette, Andes, Ivan and James for movie!
And note, it wasn't an exclusive outing, cos I invited many.
Net was quiet again, played jenga and had lesson, after that John Gnin's net came over to chill.
Saturday, which was just 2 hours ago, went back to school.
Corporate worship practice. Edge. Dinner. Go home.
Thats all BYEBYE.

Monday blues all over again.

And here we are, back in school for year 2.1
First day was kinda crappy, noted that my timetable sucks.
I have 22 CUs, and the maximum is 28, I guess I can add one subject?
But will I cope?
I don't think so.
Anyway, today was a good and a bad day.
Good in a way that I got to enjoy being in the company of friends,
bad because I was having sinus the whole day, with 1 leaking nostril and 1 blocked nostril.
CMSK 4 looks kinda promising, because the teacher is Serena,
my SIWM tutor, so it should be pretty okay.
OOPG, ohmyword, I can't stand it, haha I won't say it here, MSN me if you're curious.
WWNK, looks promising, but the lecturer is just, weird.
Well, dinner was spent well, Subway with study group / Seoul garden group/ Suntec at 12am group.
Had a good time of just chilling out, and joking around like we always do.
And the organiser, Miss Lavette Chua failed to turn up.
So we were ALL disappointed, especially Evelyn, haha cos we could see that she felt a little left out when we were talking about polytechnics.
Anyway my blocked nose is killing me now, vicks has made it worse, my whole nose is red now due to the heat.

RECAP OF LAST WEEK

Monday : Went to Lavette's house to play wii / slack. Lavette's mum made dinner for us, it was good, after dinner played some sequence game with Lavette's parents, haha.

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Tuesday : Went back to school, for something I can't remember. At night had barbeque at home.

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Wednesday : Stayed at home and slacked the whole day.

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Thursday : Met up with friends to go to Seoul Garden, trust me, although it was just 5 of us, it wasn't an exclusive outing cos we invited many others but all didn't wanna come. We stayed in Seoul Garden for 5 hours straight! Eating meat, prawns, meat, meat, meat. And no veggies! It was just meat all the way! The soup was disgusting though, haha I wouldn't say what we added inside.

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Friday : Was supposed to meet with Valerie to discuss something, but we cancelled it so I went to Marcia's house early, went there to slack, after that we went as a net to Starbucks, saw bro Paul Lim there, said Hi, bought our starbucks and left, went to Sengkang CC to have net, planned for next outreach, and so on...

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Saturday : Andes and band recording! Woooo! Recorded 3 songs, but can't download them cos Andes uploaded the tracks so some website which probably doesn't support our browsers. Edge was awesomezxzx! The Anthem! What Anthem are you singing today? It was a great message, many salvations.

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Sunday : Sunday service, sleep, evening service, sleep, wake up at 11.30pm, couldn't go back to sleep, headache, sinus, that explains why I'm falling sick today.

Well, lets just say, now,
when i think about you
I smile.

Hainan Trip =D

Okay, I shall try a new style of blogging for this post, cos there are pictures!
So I'll use the pictures as a guideline for the post.
Here goes!

At the budget teminal waiting for our flight off to Hainan, quite a big group eh?

Okay this picture was taken on the 2nd day, we didn't get to take pictures on the first day because we were too tired to do so, but we stayed up and told ghost stories, and made new friends from the other classes, it was really fun, then when the girls went to bed we stayed up and talked about stuff which I can't mention here. Haha. So yeah, the 2nd day, the picture above was taken at the temple/memorial of someone great from Hainan I think? The tour guide was speaking Chinese so I couldn't understand well.
The next stop after this temple was the volcano (coolness)
The pictures taken there aren't up yet, will edit this post after it comes up on Facebook.
But to get to the volcano, we had to climb up a flight of stairs which is 1 year's worth of exercise for me. But it was worth it to see the breathtaking view from the top.

This picture was taken at the 2nd hotel, we changed hotel almost everyday, as I said we didn't take any photos on the first day, so you won't get to see how our first hotel looked like.
We went for a foot massage at night, cos the huge flight of steps really caused our feet to ache, and we had more walking to do the next day. The bath robes are just for show, was quite comfortable. Hehe.Well, this shirt belongs to my brother, dunno why I brought it along, oh yeah and I changed out of it immediately after taking this photo. And, no we didn't squeeze the 3 of us in this bed.
Ain had the whole bed to herself after that.Okay, so the pictures above were taken in our 3rd hotel, yes, its where we took the most videos and photos, cos we stayed here for 3 days, as we were helping the students who study in the school of this town.Yup, this is how their primary school looks like, see the newly painted doors and windows in the background? Yup, we painted it for them. The students were kinda fun loving, but too much of it made us kinda annoyed, because they were disturbing us when we were painting, and making alot of noise and being super kaypoh as we were rehearsing our skit. But the time spent in this town was the best, we did lotsa lame stuff, we bought pellet guns and did target practice in the hotel rooms, played orientation group games together, blablabla.

These next few photos were taken during our farm stay, its not in order, but I'll describe, in the day we made lanterns, the kinds that we release and make it fly into the air, dunno how to describe, there's a video on Facebook which shows, you can go see if you like. After the making of the lanterns we went to the plantation to help them with the farming.~Picture taken with one of our tour guides~

~The other tour guide~

~Self pics~http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=636044763&ref=ts#/video/video.php?v=70156349763
These 2 photos were taken during the release of the lantern, cool stuff, I like the 2nd photo alot.Camwhoring here, but I only put one photo here.Being JiaHua's bodyguards for the night, armed with pellet guns =DWhile waiting for the fireworks to start, yup, we played with REAL fireworks, the kind you see at the NDP, theres a video on Facebook as well, haha.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=71352133261This was taken during the last day, after lunch, a group photo for Baini.Doing last minute shopping for souveneirs before leaving.The new friends I made in Hainan, not all are new friends, some only. They're a really fun and cool bunch of people to hang out and chat with, very funny guys here as well.

All in all the trip was a good one, hope for more overseas trips like this with classmates, its really a time of bonding and having a lot of fun.
Okay, I guess that's all, more photos will be up on Facebook.
~Soon~

China, ughh

Okay, so this will be my last post before I leave for China, gonna be away for a week there in Hainan.
Gonna miss Good News Singapore, Planetshakers and all my good friends from region 3/4.
Okay, so how shall I start with this post?
I'm guessing maybe I should describe this week, which has been the worst week of the year so far.
All started on Sunday I guess, we got caught in the rain while on the way to Tampines, and felt really cold during service and blah, we didn't even have enough people to play taiti.
Was kinda sleepy, moody and was in the 'do not disturb' mode.
Monday, felt kinda sick, so I skipped school, but felt better after that.
And basically, my whole life this week has been, wake up at 11am, use laptop, Facebook, MSN, the usual, then there's prayer meeting, and at night we play Dota till 2-3am, but cos my parents don't really approve of me being online so late I have to be pretty sneaky about it cos my dad doesn't sleep till 2am every night.
Okay, so tuesday, original plan was to have caregroup at Lynette's house, thought it would be a good idea to go there early with James to play wii first, but in the end they moved the caregroup to after prayer meeting, so we made a wasted trip all the way to punggol, sweating like mad but at least got to enjoy the peacefulness of Punggol which can't be found anywhere else in Singapore.
After prayer, went with the guys who just returned from Seattle, and they told us about their trip, the funny stuff that happened and everything.
Wednesday, can't really remember what happened exactly, I believed we just played dota the whole day till prayer meeting?
Thursday, best.
Woke up and immediately left for Hougang to eat mixed grill, yummy.
Met up with Johnathon, Gabriel Gnin, James and Ivan.
Went to James' house to play dota.
AI all the way.
Went to prayer meeting after that.
Blablabla.
Yesterday, went with Ivan to change his guitar strings and buy myself a new tuner.
Was so looking forward to recording today, but due to handbilling we had to cancel, oh well, I guess thats the true meaning of personal sacrifice.
I realise that my life during this holiday revolves around dota.
Haha. So lowlife.
Was hoping to spend one last dinner with 3/4 people tonight, but my parents forbid it.-.-
Gonna miss everyone!
Don't miss me y'all!
XD

Who am I?
That the Lord of all the earth,
Would care to know my name,
Would care to feel my hurt.
Who am I?
That the bright and morning star,
Would choose to light the way,
For my ever wondering heart.

Who am I?
That the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again
Who am I?
That the voice that calm the sea,
Would call out through the rain,
And calm the storm in me.

Not because of who I am.
But because of what you've done.
Not because of what I've done.
But because of who you are.

I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow.
A wave tossed in the ocean,
A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I'm calling,
Lord you catch me when I'm falling,
You told me who I am.
I am yours.

Dear Father, i know you are not like my earthly father.
and i want to declare this into my soul.
That You will never leave me, forsake me nor abandon me.
You have always been there. Throughout all the pain i feel.
You see it all. Nothing escapes Your eyes.
And yet i know, You will never treat me like how men does.
Because You have loved me with an everlasting love.

Today, I learnt a very important lesson.
That God will put me through tests and trials,
in the knowledge that I'll rise up stronger than ever.
Tonight, I made a decision to trust God.
It won't be easy, no.
But today, I broke down, and I let God heal my heart.
Forgive me, dear readers for bombarding you with depressing posts.
I'm going through a season which isn't easy to deal with.
And with 2 kinds of emotional pain coming at the same time.
I thought I wouldn't make it.
But through friends, people who love God and show concern for me,
I learnt that I'm not alone,
I know that there are people praying for me,
I know that I'm loved in the body of Christ.
And thanks to all those who care.
I wouldn't be alive if not for you guys.
Really, my life would have literally ended if not for you.