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char(:

2008-09-29T22:55:00.000-07:00

hello to joey and charlene's friends!

we have come to the end of the road for the beloved kanduckyballers.

it's time to move on to greener pastures at

http://paradoxicallyus.livejournal.com

see you there! (:

(& hopefully that lazy bum will start some blogging for you fans who miss her and don't like the mysterious char(: who monopolises all the entries)

char(:

2008-09-11T06:10:00.000-07:00

today, september 11.

the world might remember it as a day of tragedy. i remember it more like this:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIANCI!

yeah dont ask me why i had a centre-parting. i happen to think that her hairstyle in that pic was really cute tho. haha.

and i thought it was so apt today that han and izzati both commented that nianci's pretty! cause they looked at the picture in the previous post. i agree, but i just had to mention that she was cheating with mascara. oh, jealous me.

wishing my darling friend all the best for promos and we'll meet up right after ok! <3

char(:

2008-09-02T11:17:00.000-07:00

yesterday's m1 tournament was good. plate champs! but i think it could have been better if only IF ONLY my boots were not locked up in school =( i was sliding and rolling about in the mud and i could barely run =(

today is Rasul's birthday! happy happy birthday. i think math tutorial was cancelled specially for him.

more pics from seniors' farewell! we decided we'd take more photos to make life easier for next year's juniors to prepare for our farewell :P

presentation of gifts from 07 exco to 08 exco.

on friday, went back to sc for teachers' day celebrations!

first time seeing nianci in a loooooong while. realised i missed sc as my second home. the atmosphere was really different from sa. when the teachers were performing on stage, the cheering was almost continous and terribly ear-splitting. however in sa, if the performance isnt particularly good, there's hardly any clapping at all.

played netball for awhile, but we all got really tired fast. but it was great catching up with everyone. photos on facebook! now if only joey had come =(

okay my chronological order for the post is entirely messed up but whatever. im supposed to be studying =/

char(:

2008-09-01T23:19:00.000-07:00

it's teachers' day today! (:

HAHA, how apt.

seniors farewell on sat!

the theme was "back to school." so here i am, and i think i look the part of a true-blue IJ girl.

i told yiwen to stand beside that sign. living proof that we are rebels =D

we were so bored we reverted back to childhood and started playing hopscotch.

the princess and I (with woei xin emoing in the background)

stalling the seniors while we waited for dinner to arrive. wanyu was desecrating sc's uniform!

highlight of the day: esther accidentally started a fire! too bad i was too stunned to take pictures. diana poured drink all over it and saved us all from burning in hell. so here's the heroine and the aftermath.

yiwen drowning in her uniform

hungry girl devoured the remaining scraps.

miss soh and I!

seniors gave us weird gifts. brushes? i think its a tradition though. haha.

and this is the photoframe i designed for one of the seniors!

char(:

2008-08-27T23:07:00.000-07:00

today, im finally...

this is the new me.

a perfect blonde! given by hayati. happy meal from macs im guessing.

random notes in lecture...

i got a pleasant surprise when during training, i distractedly looked around to find keann and sher sneaking past me! so after training it was celebration time. highly embarassing too, i might add. haha.

bro wearing my birthday hat! i begged him to wear it and he finally conceded cos i insisted he couldnt refuse me, it was my birthday wish.

many thanks to keann, keenan, charr, and sher!

and happy birthday to Mr Keenan too! who btw drowned himself in the shower and came out soaking wet, just for the fun of it. i told my friend i needed a leash cos keenan and keann were running around the school with joy.

it was a good day today! thanks to all those who messaged me - phone, friendster, facebook. to those who shook hands with me. and to my class too! the sweet things got elise and I a cake each even though we supposedly shared leonard's cake yesterday.

i feel loved (:

(according to keann, i have to do the traditional reflecting on the past seventeen years of my life, but im too lazy :P)

char(:

2008-08-26T23:14:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEONARD (:

today we went to school just to do reflections for service learning since we'd already done it on sat -.-

we went for the heartstrings walk! with mentally handicapped people. my buddy was John and he was 21 years old.

then han decided to give everyone a massage.

wince!

I'm on the edge of seventeen! and so is elise and huishan and uhhh joey's best friend in primary one i forgot what's her name but i think it starts with 'V'.

just like a white winged dove sings a song sounds like she's singing

early birthday presents!

from Mama and grandpa...

mandatory birthday letter from the insurance agent...

and early birthday teh ping from hayati! (:

char(:

2008-08-20T23:24:00.000-07:00

aileen knows i was debating over whether i should go to church today. well im so glad i did!

oh yes. i wanna help pay for your guitar girl! anything to further the kingdom =D

our church is catching on to the realm of the supernatural. han said that he was afraid of the whole speaking in tongues, uncontrollable crying and all sorts of weird things, but my reply was simply that if you're looking for religion, why would you want something that's so normal that it wouldn't even make you believe in a God that transcends this world we live in? doesnt the term religion bring to mind the realm of the supernatural? and anything that is out of this world is bound to be uncomfortable.

hence my discomfort tonight when some people started breaking out in high-pitched laughter. it kinda sounded like a witch cackling. just her way of laughing i guess. it's weird and all i know, but it just goes to show that there is something to the joy of the Lord.

a friend was so shocked that my church has female pastors. i was shocked that he was shocked. why not, really? true, paul said that women should keep quiet in church. something to that effect. but then again, when you think of all the outstanding women in the Bible, people like the prophetess Deborah who judged Israel, they were leaders and pastors in their own right. Women were never meant to be inferior to men, although by saying this I'm not advocating feminism. Women do have to submit to men, and their role is to be a helper to the man, who is a leader. But when there are so many men who fail to step up, step out, and take up leadership roles, women just have no choice but to be the ones who take responsibility. Plus, within the ranks of leadership there is hierarchy as well. Women will still be under men and in submission to them.

Looking at SA, my dad commented that our school is run by females. The principal and deputy principals, the president and vice-president of the student council, as well as the majority of the rest of the student council and house councils are females. where are the men?

and more importantly, WHERE IS THE MAN? I'VE BEEN WAITING ONLINE, HELLOOOOOO.

haha =D

(my teacher asked us to write down a hobby)

char(:

2008-08-11T20:54:00.000-07:00

national day! alan called during cell and i crashed the pae gang of 08A06. only the second time i've seen national day fireworks live!

and my favourite..

it was so sweet how alan and dixon were trying to protect me from the supposedly pervertic crowds. lol. now I know for sure Dixon's bark is worse than his bite :P

i thought it was curiously interesting how everytime i miss youth service, something big happens. and it's not like i miss youth frequently or something. there's once i missed it when deborah reed was down *#(%&(@! amazing stuff that woman brings. anointed, really. and im not sure what happened on sat night but it sounded pretty awesome too. i think that's God warning me in that cute subtle way of his.

went for Day of His Power. and the part that impacted me most was when representatives from where the majority of singapore's migrant workers come from (e.g: the Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) were invited onstage and the congregation knelt down to ask for forgiveness for the way we've mistreated them and dishonoured them. from now on, there better be a sharp decline in maid abuse cases, seriously. AND, in verbal abuse of construction workers ahemahem.

since national day's just over, i wanna declare this over Singapore.

greater things have yet to come
greater things are still to be done in this city

char(:

2008-08-08T10:35:00.000-07:00

I've never had such a strong allergic reaction before. and best of all, it happened the moment i stepped into the lecture theatre for math remedial. I was scratching like nobody's business and wondering why all the available mosquitoes in the room had decided to zoom in on me. church after, and I was granted a reprieve. but the moment i sat down at the prata shop downstairs with florence, it was time for butt-scratching all over again. it's quite embarassing y'know, to have to keep scratching your butt in public.

here are some pictures for the boyfriend who didnt believe it was that bad!

the butt was the worst-hit but i figured it'd be porn if i posted it up so ohwell.

believe me now? I WAS DISFIGURED (even more than normal).

thanks to chonghao, mum and boyfriend for praying for me (: when lil bro woke me up in the morn my skin was perfectly fine. but now there seems to be some stubborn bits that still refuse to go. keep me in your prayers, people!

aww. im missing national day celebrations and getting to dress Mr Tan up in magazines and whatnot.

today is a very auspicious date! happy beijing olympics!

char(:

2008-08-05T14:23:00.000-07:00

i realised the last post was our 444th one! =D

anw this post is up for lazy joey. to publicise that next sunday her pw group is organising a business competition! they'll be providing materials and you create an apparel on the spot. so form groups of 4/5. anyone interested? just tag!

i miss joeeeeeeey <3

my pw has gone all the way back to square one. cos one fine day dp decided to sit in on our lesson to observe the teacher. instead she ended up worrying over our proj cos she thought it wasnt feasible. so a complete overhaul is in progress. and we were supposed to spend today discussing it but ahemahem our group leader didnt turn up!

tdy is the first time i've ever been back from school so early. two teachers on course so i ended at one! yay. came online to check if the man was on but =( today's his first day of school(: haha, how cute is that.

okay im going to treasure today and take a nice nap after devotion =D

char(:

2008-07-31T22:35:00.000-07:00

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOUYING THOUGHT WE BROKE UP =(

now that is a far worse nightmare then when i dreamt joey got the hot brother while mine is like... HAHA okay no untrue people say my brother very handsome eh :P

anyway. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO MR K!

pictures from leaders retreat yesterday.

billy had prophetic inspirations and drew me a picture of my future.

the somewhat flat building on the left is a green garage. solar panels to recycle light energy! and then there's my car below it. plus a private jet plane that's a new and improved Airbus. then there's the school crest, cos it was leaders' retreat so bopian have to be loyal. HAHA. and then there's my house! which consists of two towers that are connected by an escalator. one tower has the olympic symbol while the other has a rugby on it. in the middle there's a sorta trampoline so i can fly all the way up to the spire. btw. that's my castle in the clouds. and below there's a tiny little church cos he asked if i were a strong christian and i said yes. then theres a ladder to heaven.

you cannot get more random than that.

soccer dudes.

billy.

gay men. there were worse scenes but i couldnt bear to take a picture.

leaders' retreat was fun stuff. glad i went =)

after that was rapture! khym was the total bomb. seductive, flamingly so. =D i never ever knew she was so cool, she totally stood out from the rest. good job to charr too! (:

char(:

2008-07-26T11:25:00.000-07:00

for those of you not yet in the know, i want to save my breath.

THE MAN'S OFFICIALLY OFF TO PERTH.

aww. I'll miss the sleepyhead!

edit: picture taken off cos he thinks he looks unglam. i tell you the truth, he was actually cute. ohwell, just don't believe me alright.

EMO!

haha. The upside is I've got more time for those whom I havent been seeing much of.

shoutout: WHO WANTS TO DATE ME? =D

char(:

2008-07-06T20:22:00.000-07:00

friday was college day! i think it's quite weird that we don't allow strangers in. i want more supernormal profit. but ohwell i think we had fun. our stall was selling balloon sculptures!

an unexpected person totally made my day. YUJIE. previously she told me she wasnt gonna come for thurs practice and college day itself, but both days she came. im not sure if i scared her into coming or anything, but actually i only said one word. "Thanks." might have sounded harsher than normally sweet charlene though. heh. seeing her first thing when i arrived at school on friday made me think that maybe i wasnt being pangsehed by the entire class afterall. heh, im sorry i had such little faith in you guys.

awesome hat innovations by leonard snapped up some coupons.

i had the most eye-catching ones, but photos aren't with me.

han and alan!

leonard and more crazy balloon hats to pierce the soul.

pretty hair ties!

thanks to the five who helped out at the muslim stall, we profited by about slightly less than 200? nice =D

then saturday, st margs pri school funfair! some kind soul donated 2000 bucks worth of coupons to our church, so we decided to take the psixers out for some fun. the girls at least. the guys had soccer.

the crazy hundred steps had the girls laughing at us old ladies.

our group! isabel brought two friends.

alina the lil girl <3

i managed to sink the balls in!

after which, i emoed.

vivid memories of the first and last time i ever rode a viking ship at escape theme park surfaced. it was cell outing. i sat right at the end with clare and florence. pitifully screaming "STOP! STOP!" shld've known. i can barely stand lifts that fall too fast. and the long curving highway to kuantan kills me with all those sudden hills that the car flies over.

the girls were just like me. went in all macho and came out pussified. teeheehee. dont say i didnt warn you with my absence.

aww, surely im worth more than that?

everyone cept alina got face painted. i almost didnt want to wash my face.

service after was amazing, as usual. Pastor derrick called again for those who wanted to receive tongues. and at least 4 of my cell members received it. =D praise God! i'm just waiting for my entire cell to receive it. you should never miss service cos you miss out on alot man.

today nianci and i explored lil india to search for stuff for racial harmony day. and i saw the most retarded sign that was hanging in a restaurant ever ...

ohwell, it was good to see the desk partner after a million years. <3

char(:

2008-06-29T19:22:00.000-07:00

long overdue post about secondary segment leaders camp.

it was a small, cosy group, so you could interact with every single person. i guess the main objective of the camp was fulfilled: bonding among the leaders. but in the face of the oncoming cts which thankfully are over, i was wondering if i'd made the right decision. especially since i had a minor flu, exams were next week, and i hadnt really studied.

but no regrets (:

things that were shared: the establishment of a culture of honour in our church, and a greater emphasis on prophecy. which i think is the bomb =D

people tend to think of prophecy as a declaration of doomsday, and TURN FROM YOUR EVIL WAYS. but in 1 Cor 14: 1-5, prophesy is...

loving.
strengthening.
encouraging.
comforting.

prophesying, the looking at things from God's perspective.

it's like telling a tadpole, YOU WILL LEAP!

after that amazing insight, we had a time of prophesying over each other in our clusters. and i was so blessed.

yisin saw a really big bubble with me inside. it represented God's love that envelopes and surrounds me. God's love NEVER FAILS. it's like falling, yet knowing God's gonna catch you. 2 Peter 3:9 - God's promise is ever faithful.

such an apt picture.

that was zorbing in nz, and me and my cousin were inside. btw, that caucasian was totally hot. ehhhh =D

when you're in the zorb, you basically roll down this hill. and inside there's water and all.

the part about God's love never fails was what spoke to me most. cos recently, a dear friend and a classmate have regaled me with stories of how they're not loved at home. and yet, here was such a stark reminder that no matter what, GOD's love will never fail.

fang saw a sunflower.

(pretty new zealand flowers!)

apparently when i smile, i bring joy and comfort. so here's a smile for you =D, and you, =D, and you...

=DDD megawatts to the rescue!

"Believe you're a princess in God, not what others tell you"

Pastor John saw me as a bottle of perfume!

an indescribable, sweet aroma that can't be seen, but I bring joy and make people feel good. a perfume is very valuable - I am precious and very valuable in God's sight. and what seems a separate note, there's something only I can bring. hmm.

this picture made me want to laugh, cos i was reminded of how my sa friends tease me for not bathing before going to school. fragrant charlene indeed.

mel had a single sentence for me: God is in control.
http://family.webshots.com/photo/2968601870045146464pAfyCg?vhost=family

at that point of time I was wondering about it, what it specifically meant. and now that im typing this, i feel comforted. just yesterday I was feeling the pressure of being a cell leader with members who don't seem to respect you. and I wondered just when they would realise that they might listen, they might copy down notes in their identical journals... but if they dont apply what they learn, and if they dont take these words to heart, they are like the foolish men building the house on sand. and when the wind and rain comes, that house will collapse. yet now i know and believe, that God indeed knows the plans He has for them, plans to prosper them and not to harm them, plans to give them a hope and a future, a future in Him. and i have nothing to worry about ((:

alina said that I have a quiet trust in God. precious.

although I've never had it pointed out to me before, I recognise that it is true. some people come to me when they're down. they come disillusioned about God, whether they will ever receive a personal touch from Him, whether He will ever answer their prayers. or, they turn away from Him, they refuse to go to Him for help and answers. and I'm like, why do you do that! it makes zilch sense to me. because all along I've had this quiet trust in God. no matter what happens, setbacks that seem to prevent me from progressing, I've always known, once again, that God knows the plans He has for me, plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me a hope and a future.

thanksgiving time!

yesterday pastor charissa was led to ask the church if there was anyone who had a desire to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. those who were standing had others praying for them. i went to find Delia from my cell, and asked her if she would like to receive it. during a time of prayer in which i was observing her acutely, i saw her lips moving. she received the gift of tongues =D

and i've yet to hear keann's testimony.

char(:

2008-06-12T11:28:00.000-07:00

who remembers our dear old HEMAN from childhood!

you would think it was such a funky, original name. i mean, it's HEMAN. he's the man? yeah. -.-

but here i am to dispel such a notion! because Heman has biblical roots!

1 Chronicles 16: 41-42

"With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the Lord, "for his love endures forever." Heman and Jeduthun were responsible for the sounding of the trumpets and cymbals and for the playing of the other instruments for sacred song."

now we know. Heman was a musician-turned-hero!

char(:

2008-06-11T22:57:00.000-07:00

so CUTE! in both ways. =D

something thought-provoking. my bro is out right now at church sleeping over. he claims that firstly, he can't come back because it's a waste of travelling time. secondly, he has a new friend and he cant leave him to someone else.

my parents said: sometimes you've got to put your evangelistic acts aside to concentrate on your studies.

is that true? does evangelism ever take a backseat?

my first reaction was no way man. i mean, that's our primary purpose for living, the Great Commission. we're commanded to spread the gospel and baptise everyone in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. i know studies are important, but shouldnt we always keep a clear focus on the main goals in life?

but while starting on this post i suddenly thought back to when Jesus was a kid. there was this whole fuss about him as a cute lil baby boy in a manger, a mention of him saying he must be about his Father's business at the tender age of 12, and the next time he was mentioned was when he was a fully matured 30 year old. why such big time lapses?

we'll never know what Jesus was doing specifically during that time. he might have been helping out with his father's carpentry business, going to the nearby school if they had those at that time, helping out at home... but one thing we do know, Jesus was "growing in stature and in favour with God and man." now that's one thing acsi has successfully drilled into me with all those chapel services. and also that acsi boys are great achievers and wonderful gentlemen. which i am still hoping that that's something my brother will one day become.

anyway, then i thought that maybe that's Jesus way of "putting aside" evangelism for that time. because he was concentrating on growing closer to God and learning more that would aid him in his ministry later on in life.

and that passage about seasons in life from Ecclesiastes (coincidentally, name of my 5.13 class in acsi!) came to mind too.

there's a time for everything...

well. i was getting quite sad at the thought that for once, i wouldnt have a proper conclusion for a post musing about God and life. i like to take stands on things. sitting on the fence just hurts your butt. particularly you have alot of muscles in your butt that must be taken care of. HAHA.

but i've made my decision. i think that yes, there are certain points in life when you have to reorder your priorities. right now, for my j2 brother, studies are definitely number one. it makes no sense to serve so much in church as an usher. it is really time consuming cos i know he has to reach church much earlier and leave later than he normally has to when he's serving, and it takes up precious study time. not that im saying he should quit ushering wholesale. but maybe, stop volunteering for extra work if possible.

and i think that whole reordering-priorities-thing holds for evangelism as well. similarly, its not as if you have to stop evangelising. but you can change your methods of doing so. even when you invite your friend to church, but you know you cant hang around for too long, maybe you could leave him with another friend. it's not an ideal situation, but i guess it cant be helped.

having personally experienced first hand all the restrictions my parents are trying to impose on my bro (not necessarily succeeding though), ive had enough warning and i know what im in for next year :S

char(:

2008-06-10T11:37:00.000-07:00

wow. devotion today was interesting. the title is "worship with warts". basically it was about not being afraid to confess your sins publicly, because Jesus' opinion is all you should care about. i took it another way though.

for those not in the know, i am currently suffering from two disgusting warts. well actually, one is big and disgusting, the other is tiny and quite unnoticeable. but still, the big one has been around for really long, about 6 months. it's all due to my tendency to be stoic and just bear with it, especially cos i didnt think it was anything to worry about. so i only told my parents about this alien thing on my foot when it started affecting the way i walk without shoes on.

so i read today's devotion in a different way. the way i see it, no matter what you're afflicted with, be it warts, in the physical sense, or too much work stressing you out, in the emotional sense, you've got to learn to give thanks to God in all circumstances and give Him all the glory. just like Job! he lost literally everything in just a single day, his family, health and all, but yet he refused to curse God for his lot. that's truly admirable.

on a random note, this caught my eye.

when Jesus died on the cross, it is done. and for us, and so, it begins. =D

char(:

2008-06-10T00:24:00.000-07:00

im so contradictory. when there's school, i would die for a holiday. when there's a holiday, im just wishing for school again where i'd see people all around. least aileen came over to accompany me today! and help me clear out my wardrobe. which is chock full of scgs netball/track shirts and jerseys. seriously. i gave away my sec1 - 3 class shirts. and a whole lot of other stuff. and my closet looks like it has some space for GSS buys! =D hahaha.

just took a survey on spiritual gifts. here's the link if you wanna: http://www.churchgrowth.org/cgi-cg/gifts.cgi?intro=1

i figure it's quite useful, so i understand more about people and how to place them in ministries and what avenues to provide them so they can serve, so im making my psixers do that long quiz.

my dominant gift is shepherding or pastoring, secondary gift is prophecy.

now i understand my motherly instincts towards my psixers, and actually every other Christian who enters my life. haha. the prophecy part only backs it up, cos i realised i have this thing about telling others what they've done wrong. prophets are all about burning brimstone and the sulfury pits. gee God, just remind me not to look at the speck in my brother's eye when i've got a plank in my own (:

but like me, my gifts are contradictary in a sense. shepherding supposedly means im patient and all, while prophecy means im not. haha. i kinda think im not actually. love is patient, love is kind huh. God help me (:

ps: happy birthday audrey cheong! i kinda miss my netballers.

char(:

2008-06-08T16:27:00.000-07:00

i am COW
hear me mooooooo!

MOO-HAHAHAHA =D

char(:

2008-06-01T09:46:00.000-07:00

lead me to the cross where your love poured out
bring me to my knees Lord i lay me down
rid me of myself i belong to you

char(:

2008-05-30T15:56:00.000-07:00

a few weeks earlier, the deputy principal made us stand for really long on the tracks listening to a citation of the various most recent scams to hit Singapore. one that i remembered was this random lady claiming to be from PUB who wants to check your water supply. when you let her in to check, she claims you've got a leaky pipe or something and asks for money to repair it.

but this one from an email gets the prize.

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gee, totally the bomb right! i actually got contacted by MR BAN KI-MOON. can almost die happy right now. i'd be happier if it was an email from american idol telling me david cook thinks im his greatest fan and wants to award me a cash sum though.

=D

char(:

2008-05-29T11:46:00.000-07:00

its been amazing how God has been speaking to me so much recently, using my devotion guide and keann! haha.

was telling keann online that sometimes i feel that some people are missing out on alotalotalot. and we had a debate about it, but i went offline thinking that i was still right. until i opened up my Daily Bread and the title of the reading was A community of mercy.

"We have all been saved by God's mercy, so it's utterly foolish to think of ourselves as superior to any other Christian. If we have faith, it is given by God. Any gifts we have are just that - gifts of God's grace."

And the gifts given by the Spirit are found in 1 Cor 12: 7 - 11

"Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines."

my point is that it cannot be denied that not all Christians have the exact same beliefs. that's why we have so many denominations. but yet at the same time it also cannot be denied that we were all sinners saved by God's grace, so who is to say that just because i have certain gifts of the Spirit and you don't, i can proudly say that i am closer to God in any way?

also recently an issue that has come up is the issue of submission to authority. i know people who're against the Singaporean government, others have an issue against authority on a smaller scale, against teachers. it has always been my belief that we must submit to authority, respect our leaders, and all that. and i was convicted when han asked me if i was respecting a teacher. he annoys me to hell and back alot of the time, so i wasnt being nice to him either. i tried to defend myself, but after that i realised how hollow the words sounded. so i came home, and i made a resolution that i would respect that teacher. the last lesson we had, sad to say i still felt traces of resentment, but i tried my best to respect him (:

on the issue of grassroots opposition to the goverment, during devotion Romans 13:1 jumped out at me.

"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God."

immediately i thought to myself, aha! and highlighted it as evidence that we should not oppose the government. but then right after that, in the commentary on the passage:

"These are some of the most abused verses in the New Testament. They were used to combat Christian opposition to Nazi rule in Germany, and to justify apartheid."

oh, right.

it goes on to say that:

"All authority is God's, including that of governments. But this does not mean that God approves of the policies or methods of any government."

As Christians, we are to practice "revolutionary subordination" - the voluntary subordination of people who know that another kingdom is one that really matters, and who follow one who overcame the powers through the cross. Therefore we should rightly challenge any regime that relies on abuse of power.

i hardly think Singapore's government is one that can be considered a "regime that relies on abuse of power" though.

besides God speaking to me, i was very encouraged when two nights ago, youying asked me to pray for her cos she was afraid she got dengue. After the blood test, she was cleared of it though. yay (((:

and yesterday, the break was the most fulfilling it'd ever been. i faced unparalleled opposition akin to THE atheist in acsi, except that this time it was directed right at me, not at a class of believers. questions about the Anglican faith were shot at me, and sorry to say i dont know my own history.

weida said that the Anglican denomination was founded by some Henry guy because he was angry that the church did not want to grant him his divorce when he wanted to marry some young girl, i was like, who's Henry?

but Google turns up something different.

"There is a public perception, especially in the United States, that Henry VIII created the Anglican church in anger over the Pope's refusal to grant his divorce, but the historical record indicates that Henry spent most of his reign challenging the authority of Rome, and that the divorce issue was just one of a series of acts that collectively split the English church from the Roman church in much the same way that the Orthodox church had split off five hundred years before."

tada! not true.

yesterday was the day that i felt quite unequipped to deal with pre-believers. a shame because the Bible tells us to always have an answer for the hope that we have. i realised that im more comfortable dealing with people like my psixers, people who are already Christian but lack the knowledge about the Bible and God. and i have tried to train my psixers for some questions that their pre-believing friends might ask. but those questions are really indirect, questions that someone who is really shy but a lil curious about Christianity might ask.

but yesterday questions like "God parted the Red Sea for the Egyptians, but why dont things like that happen nowadays?"

my reply was, "God parted the sea for the ISRAELITES, and did you even ask for such a thing to happen? and even if you did, you dont believe that it will happen, so it wont".

these are the questions of an intelligent brain who knows what he's talking about: he searches for the evidence, tries to piece things together, then comes and fires a question at a believer, in order to create a loophole in our belief.

a Christian friend's response was to tell me not to bother, and not to answer his questions. I saw where she was coming from, because i told weida directly that his heart is closed and no matter what i say, he will not accept it. but then again, to the pre-believer whose questions are ignored, it serves to reinforce his belief that you have zero tolerance for people who challenge you, either because you take it as a personal attack, or worse, because you simply dont have an answer, which they take to mean that it's because your God is not real.

but i say that even if you dont have an answer, fear not, because if we are able to understand everything about God, who He is and why He does certain things, would our God be considered so great and so mighty? would He even be a God in the first place?

and weida goes, not in his exact words: so if God has determined that someone will be saved and someone wont, then it's not my fault that im like that!

thank God i remembered a passage that spoke about just that argument.

Romans 9: 18 - 23

"Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?"

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' "

Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath - prepared for destruction?

What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory - " ...

so yes, God hardens the hearts of some, but that is for His greater glory. It is nothing we can argue about, because we are merely His creation, and cannot dictate what God can or cannot do.

aside from all those theological questions, there were the simple and innocent ones:

"Why do you believe in God?"
"Do you believe in spirits?"
"How can you be so sure you will go to heaven?"

the answer to all of that is simply faith. Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain for what we do not see. and in a gp presentation later on in the day, a point was brought up that religion should be considered undebatable, because the moment someone uses faith as the basis for their belief, everything is subjective and the argument is forcibly brought to a fullstop right there.

so yup, my answer is faith.

period. (:

char(:

2008-05-25T21:30:00.000-07:00

sat was the second round of m1 tournament for the year!

in the prelimary rounds:

drew with bukit batok SECONDARY 0 - 0
drew with njc 2 - 2

i think both were quite disappointing matches really. considering that bukit batok's team is younger than us and the other time we played nj in friendly, we won 7 nil. no wonder they were so happy =/

and cos njc lost to bb sec 3 nil, we entered into the plate rounds.

for those not in the know, the top 3 teams of each group of 3 enter the cup rounds, the next 3 into the plate, and the last 3 into the bowl. interesting way of grouping aye. why not forks and spoons i ask you.

plate round:

won innova 1 nil. improved (: first m1 tourn the game with them was quite exciting, cos both teams were taking turns to score until they beat us 5 - 4 =(

won acs international 2 nil. rawr, my teammates kept telling me acsi was around, and i got so excited, but for some reason i just couldnt recognise any of the players. then i realised -.-

i scored 4 tries, diana 1 (: yay us.

serena and juan? if that's how you spell her name, asked me how come i run so fast (((: which is such an encouragement, seeing how ive met with nothing but failure in the last few races of what i consider to be the end of my running life. so i just told them that i was in track, 400 and 800. but of course by sec3 i couldnt do 800 anymore, lack of stamina. least, 400 is more of a sprint so it was alright, and i hit my pb that year ((: and they were like, sure or not! wrong event lah. why not 100.

gee, i remember the first and last time i ran 100 indiv, was at my first sports day in bukit batok primary. i got fourth, and then i refused to admit defeat and pretended that i had a stomachache. which was true in a sense, cos it was a stomachache that i psycho-ed myself into believing that i really had and for a few years after that, actually believed my own lie. ish.

hahaha ohwell. at least we did quite okay at the tourns lah. ive yet to collect my medal cos i rushed off to city harvest, but yeps (:

yay sa touch<3

char(:

2008-05-19T20:50:00.000-07:00

touch camp from friday to sunday!

first night was tekan night. a combination of that, tiredness, feeling stupid, made me cry right out there in the field where we were made to stand in a straight line holding rugbys up in the air with our arms straight. and then after that i felt so retarded for crying over something so stupid, just cause i couldnt hold the ball for more than 6 minutes, and all the encouragement from my own teammates worsened the whole situation, making me feel the worst in ages cause it was just torture sitting out while they were suffering.

i was vaguely comforted to learn that our very own captain and vicecaptain were the first to drop their balls last year when their seniors made them go through the same thing. although the time that i spent holding the ball was 1 sixth of what they managed to do.

saturday was way better. fitness during trng wasnt as tough as expected. for some inexplicable reason i tire out faster when we're doing drills than just sprinting. dont ever make me run long d tho. after that was an amazing 9 hour amazing race, leading us all the way from potong pasir to sembawang to macritchie to ccab to botanic gardens and finally to sentosa where im having cell outreach this sat! that is, if the tournament doesnt stretch too long so i can join my cell =/

presenting photos of the amazing race.

first hitchhiking experience!

photographic evidence of going green

making limejuice in our own mouths

sugar, spice and everything nice, always satisfies =D

cool sports car!

passing hc in a truck

this is the windblown look.

building sandcastles in the air

oasis

touch not the cool white baby

random stranger, batman the bomb

tree hugger for life

you are my hiding, you are my hiding place

bang bang, you shot me down

positively suicidal

going sexy the pyjamas way

singapore's next top model!

thank God for camp, thank God it's over =D

on a topic completely unrelated, i miss the cousin. <3

char(:

2008-05-11T18:16:00.000-07:00

honour your father and your mother (:

love not by preference, but by commandment;

yet love not because you're under pressure to, but for pleasure.

tough love.

char(:

2008-05-06T21:43:00.000-07:00

fri was friendly against njc!

twas alright i guess. scored 4 or 5 tries. and i would've been annoyed with the ref if i was really exhausted cos she didnt blow the whistle but just yelled "TOUCH TOUCH". so i just assumed it was an nj j1 player and kept on running.

didnt manage to see the joey tho =(

i just realised diana's sticking her butt out HAHAH

nice playing on the rare astro-turf

island creamery! reminiscent of netball days.

daily bread today made me think of touch.

"It's obvious that we all need wisdom. As much as we can try, life is too difficult just to wing it. When we're faced with the trials of the world, we need more than just our own minds and willpower to make it through. We need help from above!"

don't try to burn the sides (run past defending wing) on your own strength, you might end up getting burnt instead.

char(:

2008-05-04T20:42:00.000-07:00

You Will Be a Cool Parent

You seem to naturally know a lot about parenting, and you know what kids need.

You can tell when it's time to let kids off the hook, and when it's time to lay down the law.

While your parenting is modern and hip, it's not over the top.

You know that there's nothing cool about a parent who acts like a teenager... or a drill sergeant!

http://blogthings.com/wouldyoubeacoolparentquiz/

i want a beautiful baby boy. or girl. and i keep imagining them blonde. SIGHHHH. =P

jason and ashley.

<3

char(:

2008-04-27T18:13:00.000-07:00

today was earth week! and sa was super on about it, as shown in the pictures below taken of comments written on the earth week board.

and my favourite...

God save the earth seriously. seeing as how we've tons of caring people in it. lol.

sports day! the only event i participated in was the exciting 10 by 200m relay. haha nothing came out of my plan to do long jump cos i forgot to bring track shoes that day =/ ohwell. we got like second last!but it's alright. i was a little disappointed with my timing though. give me a little leeway cos i ran abit more as i was the person cutting in, but still. 32 secs. and the last part i was so dying. =(

ohwell. it's alright (: musical chairs was vaguely retarded. wanted to watch my dad jostling for butt space but he didnt participate =( ahhaha.

sports day wasnt all that great though. it was the only one in all living memory that i never ran an indiv event. gross stuff. hahaha. but it was what happened after that made my day (: the shiqi and i went to jurong point and talked and talked and talked for i dunno how long. then off to meet the mutt-rocker =D

char(:

2008-04-19T23:16:00.000-07:00

ytd was my first ever touch rug tournament as part of team SAJC! we drew 1 and lost 2, didnt make it to second round =( but it was fun, considering that in the first game our defence was really strong against Overseas Family School, who has a super wing that literally does gymnastics on the field with her excellent dodging. i think OFS does sommersaults and cartwheels for warmup seriously! super energetic.

second game against innova. met oi ee ( i dont know how to spell! ) and siti on the field. that was quite an exciting game, cos both teams took turns to try. but we didnt adapt to their playing style fast enough and the exact same move that they did worked twice =( but oi ee says im fast (: scored a try! =D

third game against hc! met zelei and ling en! but i only noticed zelei as wing actl. in a sense, i dont mind that much losing to them, cause i know they started training super early whereas our team has alot of raw talent. although i did get some exposure to the game in acsi. it was a win that our team thinks that shouldnt have been. what happened was a dramatic dive by a hc player who elyssa managed to catch by the leg. but unfortunately our game only had one ref compared with the under 20s. and the ref was really far away and she couldnt see. she believed the hc player's account of the story though. so yups. no complaining yes, because we all know that the referee is the god on the field.

ive got a good feeling about our team. was appointed captain for this tournament, and really appreciated the help i got from louisa, secretary for our debrief. yeps, we analysed each and every person's strengths and weaknesses inside out. and i've concluded that i desperately need to run. stamina-wise, im completely lacking. so im afraid there's no slacking this year for 2.4 =( which might possibly be on monday! at least ive got the guys who could either demoralise me by lapping me a few million times, but who can also spur me on to run faster =) let's see if i can um, reach my sec2 timing. 11.20, how bout that. ahhhhhhh, just the thought of running that scares me =/ but then, i got an sms from van seah tdy asking me for my 2.4 timing. cos she did an amazing sub-12 that i wouldnt expect from a non-athlete. so hmm, how bout some friendly competition =D

and today! sc carnivallllllllll. met e jin, joshua and adwyn on top of juniors and all other random peoples. they're still the same, randomly retarded. and im not used to tall people anymore. i find joshua's habit of bending down to listen to me vaguely amusing ((:

got my o level cert and yearbook today.

best class (:

wise words of the loviest captain

and never forgetting, the team that made netball so special.

after awhile you know that yes, you have a passion for the sport. so what? like me, you slowly grow to love another sport more. and you realise that the real deal's not the sport itself, rather it's the team that makes or breaks a sport. no wonder i've given up running. but if ever again, it'll be for team SAJC.

char(:

2008-04-16T23:10:00.000-07:00

TODAY when i got back to school after TWO-DAY hiatus, i was told that im president of the SUNSHINE CLUB comprising me, khym, ru, izzati and hayati.

so this shall be our theme song for the SUNSHINE CLUB!

sunshine girls we are sunshine girls........

okay it's late and i dont have time to change all the lyrics to fit us.

quick summary of our super fun training that totally made my day, and gave me the idea that touch rug should be in the morn so that i can be happy and sunshiney everyday for the rest of the day:

super cool tries! of course our resident scorer diana was ever splendid with her hit-and-run guerilla warfare tactics from right out of the history books. and naomi was totally awesome with that unseen-before intercept. and oh oh oh dont forget me! =D

but, im humble.

ah heck.

HAHAHA =D

eh it was so fun. i had a try which had me skidding and literally leaving my mark on the field. i tore up the grass with the coolest adidas red and black studs ever. WHOO.

and another one to end training which involved dodging three people in a row!

ahhhhhhhhhh. high =D and tired.

touch is fun i cant wait for match on fri!

ps: PEARLYN IM SORRY FOR FORGETTING YOUR BIRTHDAY.

but HAPPY SWEET SEVENTEENTH anyway!! lovessssss <3

char(:

2008-04-04T23:07:00.000-07:00

ytd was sa vs ac at nj. unfortunately the game was postponed due to a thunderstorm. but ohwell, gave me more time to catch up with only the best. =D

council posters that just show how far my fame has spread.

hah nahh im kidding. but charlyn, if you ever read this, thank me for the free publicity. i hear there have been nj people checking out the blog. lol.

the skinny one. in stark contrast, i have stars in my eyes and thunder in my thighs. okay that was copied from han lol.
that idiotically tall freak of nature had the cheek to suggest that my head wouldnt be in the picture cos i was holding the phone up high to get her head in. gee at least i know you're still alive. and growing. kicking? maybe.

you're busy and all with barely any time for me, but you're still just the best i ever had (((:

p.s: IF, does not exist. but if there really has to be an if, that yes, you'll be the first to know.

char(:

2008-04-02T22:02:00.000-07:00

Kayi left at 930 am for aussie today. i didnt give her a proper farewell, no gift or anything, but that doesnt mean i dont treasure you okay! so here is a picture-filled post to make up for it =))

all the way back in sec2 which was when i first knew kayi. when joey was still around. and there i am with my toot belt.

2co reunion while in sec3

kayi gave me a flower on valentines! <3

sec3 post-sports day celebrations. jasmine kayi aileen me at toa payoh central.

chinese new year '08. i remember nianci was complaining how hot it was cos she was wearing three layers. lol.

sports day '08! kayi's class in blue.

and then kayi the smart one had pneumonia and got hospitalised.

this is what i wore to visit her =D

i spent my time there reading mags. random shot cos i wanted to take photo with kayi but she looked really terrible so i decided to spare her. and this photo is proof that i am supermodel material.

teachers' day '08 and 4GR got super high. sitting outside the staff room and singing songs so loudly that when i came out of the library i thought lower sec cheerleading competition was on.

letter for my birthday!

and random presents.

the magnetic photo frames kayi gave me which i stuck on the metal of my double-decker bed. and that's you in the middle =D

prom night with the girls in black

my fair ladies once again

aileen's baptism!

dinner with the cassanova and 2 others after

im still waiting for the photos and extremely retarded vid that we took yesterday at kayi's house. the dear girl had packed her cable already so she said she'd send me the photos when she's in aussie.

sigh i cant wait til you come back to visit next year. with an accent? hmm. and im so jealous you can get an angmoh boyfriend =D hahahaha im totally going to miss your mild retardness. although i know you dont miss my singing, im sure you'll miss other parts of me LOL.

here's wishing you all the best kayi (: you're the latest person aussie has stolen from me and certainly not the last =(

LOVES.

char(:

2008-03-30T18:21:00.000-07:00

From Pearlyn's class blog!

Charlene! HAHAHA. that sound would describe her exactly. She bought a 'Little Miss Shy' shirt and that was the joke of the year.

Charlene was my lab partner. Always had a lot of funny things happening in lab, especially chem lab. She once poured H2O2 on her self while trying to adjust her goggles. Turned half her uniform pink. heehee. She was also always very worried for my safety :) everytime we used the bunsen burner, she was afraid I would burn myself because my arm would be lying over the mouth of the burner. Hmmm, Bio lab was fun too :) Charl was squeamish about the sheep's heart, prawn and fish we disected. Can't blame her. Her fish was really very bloody. Poor Charl. haha. Her Bio drawings always looked like cartoons, and apparently, she hasn't lost that because her Econs graphs are cute too :) I was sad when she dropped Physics though. No more fun partner during the boring Physics labs ...

Nian-Ci:

Didn't really get to know her all that well. She was always with Charlene though, I guess coz they sat next to each other in class and they lived quite near each other..... hmmm.... but Nian-Ci was sort of like a neutraliser for Charl I guess. I would get crazy with Charl and all the lame jokes and suan-ing would come, and then we would look like little kids next to Nian-Ci :)

i bought red and black adidas boots today! i asked my dad if there were any girlier designs but no =(

there's grace in being an angel on the field.

char(:

2008-03-24T21:27:00.000-07:00

Charlene takes my breath away. says:
baby say you love me.

Shiqi requested a post to tell the world how much i love her. so here it is.

we talk about random things like being on a pink polkadotted scooter, and just for the fun of opposing her i insist on a striped black and white one.

this is the most google was willing to cooperate with me. see? pink and polkadots and scooters do not go together.

I'm a charlene wannabe. I haven't bathe. says:
GO BLOG.

she's such a liar, im smelling of sweet sweet dove and scented love.

and i have something to confess. actually the only reason im bothering to do this random post for shiqi, is cos i WANT HER TO STAY IN TOUCH BADLY.

it's fun to slap each other's knees and play monkey together and have you sabo me by making me run non-stop. you're terrible y'know that.

BUT I LOVE YOU SO YOU MUST STAY IN TOUCH SO THERE =D

char(:

2008-03-23T22:51:00.000-07:00

this easter weekend has been filled with church. which is how i like it (:

good friday: city harvest expo. glowing reviews of the drama. even my grandma wanted to watch it.

reunion of the three musketeers.

read the shirt. it says one way --> little miss chatterbox. you're RIGHT.

saturday: my church

i love that singapino pastor. he's so cute and full of energy. the power of words aye. i remember writing an essay on that last year.

sunday: city harvest jurong west.

fun time of fellowship and all. i really like the cell. hah.

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Quality Time
with a secondary love language being
Physical Touch.

Complete set of results

Quality Time:		8
Physical Touch:		7
Words of Affirmation:		7
Acts of Service:		5
Receiving Gifts:		3

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz

so different from sec2 when my primary love language was receiving gifts followed by quality time, acts of service, words of affirmation, and finally physical touch.

love. the message of easter. JESUS LOVES YOU! and you and you and you

char(

2008-03-16T19:41:00.000-07:00

march hols? WHAT hols. totally filled up with church camp, hospital visits, shopping in between, and back to church again, plus my cousin's one-month old birthday bash.

wouldn't miss it for the world.

of course the highlight was church camp. called iCamp, the theme was about your identity in Christ.

i especially like these three verses.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (one of the memory verses i've successfully managed to hammer into my kids)

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

here i know the past is forgiven and everything is new. praise the Lord!

Psalm 139:14

"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well."

im B-E-A-U-T-F-U-L, whatever you say

Psalm 13: 23
"Love the Lord, all his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full."

im a SAINT =D

the camp was not just fun, it helped us to bond. one of my shy, quiet psixers actually kacau-ed me at my bunk a few times, when normally she wont say anything to me unless it's a necessity. and another one from my cell was healed! not sure about the details, but isn't our God great =)

right now we've already started planning for the next church camp in june! so exciting huh. im going to drag my lil bro there if i have to.

sadly, i left camp on thurs and reached home at midnight. cos i'd received news that my dad had been warded for suspected appendicitis. which turned out to be inflammation of the colon. thanks to those who prayed, and for the pastors for being so considerate and letting me go early. dad was just discharged tdy, thank God (:

and now it's back to doll-drum school life and lousy homework.

char(:

2008-03-08T21:48:00.000-08:00

i'm hopelessly in love with frankie j.

daddy's lil girl wasnt so good ytd though. after assembly in the morning, we walked past an eeriely quiet block with j2s doing their block tests. and daddy heard an extremely familiar laughter and voice before he saw anyone. and he thought to himself, uhoh, that sounds like my little girl. oops =/

I would do anything in return
I'll clean my room
Try hard in school
I'll be good
I promise you

that's like exactly what i told my parents. plus doing chores. i totally drove a hard bargain for myself. but y'know what, it's worth very single bit of sacrifice.

char(:

2008-03-03T21:34:00.000-08:00

on sunday kayi and i witnessed a very special occasion for aileen...

her WEDDING! complete with the 1 billion trillion trillion carat diamond that scientists have recently discovered exists in space which graced her forth finger rather precariously.

i wish.

something better.

her BAPTISM!

aileen's baptism! click to check out the vid.

i know i know im such a lousy camerist or whatever you call the person behind the video cam. i need to register for Film, Sound and Video at ngee ann with ~~aileen~~ GABRIELLA! i only managed to catch her rebirth but not her death to sin. oops. both processes are very important yeah.

this brings back such a great memory of an important ceremony for me too, on the 1st of nov 2003.

my baptism! my vid's here too!

my two specially invited witnesses dawn and xianwei =) i have a random memory of asking xw how come she wore scandals to church and she got so frantic "ahh why you never tell me cannot wear scandals to church!" then i was like nonono i just didnt know people wore scandals to church. seriously. i always wore shoes.

oh we look so different now. i havent seen nic in specs since uhhh. sec1. the vain pok absolutely refuses to be seen in specs now and the other time she got an eye infection, she wore contacts in one eye. right.

and why does aileen get to have a cool second name Gabriella while im stuck with Charlene? okay im going to add an angelica.

CHARLENE ANGELICA ONG WENTING

now i sound like a new addition to rugrats. ohwell.

Baptism is not an option, it's an obligation.

Romans 6:4

"We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life."

okay im going to nag my psixers to go for baptism & membership classes =D

char(:

2008-02-28T20:42:00.000-08:00

once upon a time, there lived a princess in the exotic land of bukit timah. for sixteen whole years she lived life quite happily, but she always knew there was something better waiting for her. one fine day, she met a charming young(?) handsome prince who swept her right off her feet ...

and set her on top of a dustbin. a COLEX branded dustbin no less.

this princess feels really lucky, y'know that?

just like a bedtime story that puts a child to sleep
tales of fighting dragons and a princess' true love's kiss

If I kissed you
Would fireworks fly
Would angels sing with lollipops
Would dinosaurs cry
Would babies all gurgle in laughter and surprise
If I kissed you

If I kissed you
What would Michelangelo say
Would he still have sculpted David
Would we be immortalized in clay
Would the poets write of love like ours
Would John Donne have his say
If I kissed you

You could be one in a million
You could be the one for me
But I guess I'll never know if I never try
I guess I'll just have to grab you in my arms
And kiss you

If I kissed you
Would you lose track of time
Would you feel a surge of happiness
Running up your spine
Would you run naked in the street
With a tattoo of my name on your behind
If I kissed you

Oh, if I kissed you
Yeah, if I kissed you

Uma Thurman: "I think we should search for the fairy-tale ending. Why not? Let's be real about how unreal we all are."

hopeless romantics club membership fees to be paid to charlene by sunday.

char(:

2008-02-27T22:13:00.000-08:00

it's time for some photos of sa!

me, shing, grace, elyssa

OG 5 =)

shing was my dance partner! leonard tells me i should be honoured that i got t dance with such a fit guy cos uhhh my friend was complaining about her partner and i shall not say anything more =X mass dance was hilarious la we were damn blur together. and i realised something ytd.

SHING STOLE MY FIRST DANCE

ohwell, i'll save the second dance for you <3

and oops thats like the only photo i have cos unlike leonard who actually waited for his sis to get back from thailand so they could take a family photo with him in his new uni, i think my dad is quite sian of seeing this same uniform for the past 20 years or so. so no pics =(

yup we're in our classes now. 08A03! such uncool names.but ohwell. bunch of fun people in there who're really retarded yay. its like having 3 e jins/su-anns around LOL.

just one example.

khym: so do you come to school with your dad?

me: no my father drives and i take bus to school

i have walking jokes around me =DDD

char(:

2008-02-26T18:42:00.000-08:00

more sneak peaks into acsi's very own 5.13!

the smile of the Perfect One

i miss yaoooooo. the crazy guy who loves to punch my hair.

adwyn and his cosy spot

camera shy =P

the antisocial leftists (quote jeremy!)

wayne the man

dreamland for the smarties

ORHHH

thanks for all the memories guys! and be nice to your new classmates. meanwhile, my period of mourning is over. im done groaning moaning whining pining, and its time to have some FUN in sajc!

5 minutes ago...

dad: please set a good model with your skirt length

dad: you should start reading more newspapers for gp

dad: ...

oh yes, fun is subjective.

char(:

2008-02-25T22:36:00.000-08:00

take time to watch this guys! its amazingggggggggg.

Man is appointed mortal sorrow. But the blessed God shall come down teaching and his death shall bring the despairing comfort.

how wonderful
how beautiful
name above every name
exalted high

e jin and joshua are the bestbestbest =D i could just sit here and listen to you guys for an hour more seriously.

char(:

2008-02-22T22:49:00.000-08:00

so today i went back to acsi for the appointment with dr ong. he was real nice about it, telling us there're no vacancies but, he made a special note on my form to consider me if someone backs out or something. and thats my only ray of sunshine.

met rekha, lex and deb the councillors when i walked out. nice seeing you guys. ah.

and these are photos from orientation!

my og might not have been very united, but it was still fun all the same.

and this post is to thank all of you who have been so sweet to me.

touch ruggers for praying for me after training.

my younger bro for offering me a hug after posting results were released, and patting my head after the appointment with dr ong, and oh! being with me in the office to see dr ong. and having dr ong squash his self-esteem by asking him if he was in the junior school, and being amazed that "you're in my school!" hah. sorry, my brother is a head shorter and me and he's in sec2, for those of you who dont know. lol.

daryl for drawing a sad face on the white board next to the "19/19" attendance.

others telling me just how much they love me =D

a reason and a lifetime says:
how's history without me man =D

peiyi. AMAZE. says:
boring

peiyi. AMAZE. says:
no high pitched hysterical laughter

[ adwyn ] and through the rise and the falling apart says:
danggit

[ adwyn ] and through the rise and the falling apart says:
school's gonna be so dull without you !

a reason and a lifetime says:
haha nooooooo

a reason and a lifetime says:
you still have retarded e jin and hyper su-ann and joshua just being joshua

su-ann and joshua for calling.

e jin for having no one to annoy during econs =D

and of course the rest of you who have in many ways showed me care and concern.

so HONEYS, if you love me, please smile =)))

friends. joey pearlyn nianci aileen kayi and my acsians.

i dont want to just be a friend for a season, i want to be a friend for a reason and a lifetime. please don't forget me.

char(:

2008-02-21T19:28:00.000-08:00

72 words

Speedtest

i shall blame my slow speed on my mum coming out of the room and distracting me. my parents went to acsi tdy to look for dr ong, but he was busy. and the lady at the counter said there're no places left, and they've already accepted way more than the previous years. so now all i have to look forward to is an appointment with dr ong tmr with my dad.

people, this is NOT alright. stop lying to me. i hate this i hate this i hate this.

char(:

2008-02-19T23:30:00.000-08:00

posted to sajc. i have various reasons for not going there, but most importantly it would be because I LOVE ACSI. the friendships, the programme itself, the touch rugby.

just some random pics. i have alot more, but in keeping with my new role is daddy's little girl, i should stick to my curfew of 11.15 to get offline. and oops, im already late. so chopchop!

e jin's famous sheep

the three girls

the nanyang thesis

my two favourite guys in acsi

& my favourite girl in acsi (with my first ever touch rug carnival)

Su-Ann says:
LOVE YOU CHARLENE <3

i know i cried and im still feeling not to enthusiastic about being forced into another school, but this song has been my theme song.

IT'S NOT OVER

so dear God

char(:

2008-02-14T23:36:00.000-08:00

stupid cupid, stop pickin' on me

ive got an esprit sweater that is simply BEAUTIFUL! thank for kelvin for the retardedly pretty card and the spastically sweet song too! i love you (:

& all you people who got smses and CDS and sweets from me, you are LOVED.

however in this season of fairytale love and happily ever afters, let's not forget
the greatest love that anyone could ever know
it overcame the cross and grave to find my soul

for all my brothers and sisters in Christ,

I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

-ephesians 3: 17b - 19

and a shoutout to those who do not yet know the Lord as their personal Saviour, accept the love that is freely and abundantly given!

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

this is THE love story of the ages. way better than some grandma korean drama. so

keep smilin' let His joy bubble over
behold love in its finest honour

this is OUR love story =D

charlene ong owns your place.

charlene ong is OWNING (((:

joey.

2008-02-10T23:04:00.000-08:00

BSB!

char(:

2008-02-09T14:40:00.000-08:00

i just felt this sudden need to post this.

pearl complained about that big hole in her life because...

- "no more charl with lame mistakes in lab"

(that's true, i once poured hydrochloric acid all over my hands and didnt even care cos i thought it was water till she alerted me to it)

- "n her laughter in the classroom"

(yeah but see the cool thing about college is now you have belly chuckles from guys which is a foreign sound in an scgs setting)

- "n her funny fun-ness"

(im sure there're retarded people in your class too dont worry. guys normally outstrip girls in the ways of retardism anw)

but you know, even after trying to encourage you and persuade you that life without charlene isnt that bad, i have to recognise something.

its just NOT THE SAME ANYMORE.

AWWW!

but you know what guys,

to all of you who have made my life so beautiful in sc...

im never going to forget any of you.

see how i just bug you guys to keep meeting up!!

pearlyn nianci youying aileen kayi joey and all of sc netball
including every other scgs girl ive ever known

its forever love.

char(:

2008-02-07T14:58:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

the house is relatively quiet now cos mich and lil ones are out visiting their mum's side. sighhh.

went t visit a grandaunt's place earlier, and she started asking about stuff related to christianity. i remember my mum saying something like even when you are camatose, your spirit can respond to the gospel, so you are never sure if that person might have accepted Christ before he died. interesting aye. shows that you should never ever give up on anyone.

and that visit also made me realise how important chinese is. gee i know that whole argument that adwyn so daringly put forth in chinese class about hey, the chinese in china are learning english also so why do we need to learn chinese? but what about the chinese speaking community in sg/msia? they need to hear the gospel too. we were struggling so hard to put our points across today.

i think our church should have a crash course for how to share the gospel in chinese. haha.

alright i think i shall go back to my new korean drama. witch amusement or something. =))

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY EVAN <33

char(:

2008-02-05T21:49:00.000-08:00

charlene

Ever so pristine and clean,
in her studies she is keen,
many suitors there have been,
with flaming passion like kerosene,
yet rejected them she has like rubbish into bin,
angelic and devoid of sin

a classic work of genius done by wayne on the last page of my technicolour notebook in a guiness world record breaking timing of a minute (:

besides the above mentioned mensa genius, there is another classmate with a mind filled with high and lofty thoughts like siddhartha.

exerpts from the e jin classics:

my current nick --> get the girl, rule the world

it's okay to go for a girl in church, but its not okay to go to church for a girl

love is a lie

i dont agree with the last one tho. cos God is love, are you saying that God is a lie??!

BLASPHEMY

but nahhhhhhhhhhhh i still applaud e jin as the guy who should be editor of reader's digest quotable quotes section.

and for the benefit of joanna and ex-sc girls with stm, here's our school cheer!

yellow and green are our sc school badge
ain't nobody gonna be our match
dont mess around with scgs
cos we're gonna do our best

SCGS, sc AH gs AH
SCGS, sc AH gs AH

we'll rock you shock you
bring you down to your knees say
sc AH gs AH
sc AH gs AH

do what it takes to reach the top so watch out
cos we won't stop say
sc AH gs AH
sc AH gs AH

*11 claps*
so there! PUNCH!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

yay i love sc. and i love sc NETBALL <3333 =D

updates for the rest of you sc netball lovers! we are INTO THE NEXT ROUND!!!

hallelujah praise the Lord, first time in 4 years. im sad such a great honour skipped my batch but im really happy for you guys. and subha was even talent spotted by singapore netball!!

so what if we lost to stmargs we trashed the rest =D and im so proud of you guys.

next lineup:

rgs
cedar (su-ann WATCH OUT =D)
chong boon

come and support!!

& it's you who has the backstage pass to my life

guitar hero.

char(:

2008-02-01T23:51:00.000-08:00

alright i havent been blogging in a while joey even managed to sneak in a post! =O

haha anw mon and wed's touch rug. me yue chin joey wong are training with seniors. which meant a terribly long training on wed that lasted almost 4 hours =O ohhhhhhh i see i trend the shocked face is going to be coming out alot =O =O yup and i almost got a heart attack upon finding out i was supp to play in a friendly TODAY, which was cancelled cos my dumb coach didnt register us properly, and he's dumber cos when i "scolded" him he said "oh cos you guys cant play properly" =O. hahaha. whatever man. he's just sore cos i laughed at him when he attempted to throw the rugby from his back over his head and catch it but he missed so badly it kinda bounced on his head. tell me how hilarious that is.

mm. random discussions with parents in which ive assured them that yes i totally understand your concerns, BUT. and yet again, yes i still completely understand your concerns, BUT. and im a lousy storyteller so i understand your concerns perfectly BUT. you see my determination shining through aye.

ohh ytd econs lesson was very interesting. btw i happen to be the only girl in my econs class =O ratio of 1 girl to 20 guys. and i only realised it halfway through my first econs lesson when one of the guys happened to laugh like a girl and i turned around wondering, "eh? su-ann's in class?" and then i realised that HEY IM THE ONLY ONE WITH TWO X CHROMOSOMES IN CLASS. =O

so yes it was interesting because while a number had fallen asleep, my neighbour was playing with my phone. which was perfectly alright since he was looking at pictures and i was a watchdog censorship board on what he was allowed to view. but then he decided to be naughty and pass the phone to another friend. and hey, im naive i know, but look at it this way, i believe in human goodness and common sense. did NOT expect someone to just open my inbox like that.

when i realised he was taken just a teensy wee bit too long with my phone and i had no idea what he was doing, i stood up and walked behind. and promptly threw doug's wallet at him when i found out he was reading my messages. i was shocked okay. =O

after which he apologised profusely and maintains he owes me lunch although i do not want to accept anything from him.

and after class my teacher actually came up to ask if i was alright cos he thought i had a fight with isaac. lol.

hmm another interesting anecdote. my form/chem teacher actually told us we had a "sucky f***ing attidude" because she didnt see the teamwork in the deco of our classroom =O mm she actually made me think about not appealing after all. im sorry man but if there's one thing i absolutely cannotCANNOT stand it'll be extreme vulgarities.

me: hears vulgarities
reaction: CRINGE

yes, cringe is my favourite reaction right about now. perhaps not favourite. more like default conditioned reaction when certain people decide to torture me by poking me in the side.

i will rue the day i actually become accustomed to vulgarities. nononono. (remembers ann loh in sec 1 covering her ears and rolling her eyes and going "POLLUTED" when certain people were effing each other in school)

yup. so now on when i write sf for significant figures in math/chem, im going to remember that fateful day when i actually paid 450 bucks in monthly school fees to hear a teacher swear at me.

tdy was actually a holiday but then i went back to school for chem. and then went to watch 27 dresses with kev i love you

<3

i cant wait for the st margs match tmr!!

char(:

2008-01-26T23:28:00.000-08:00

results day!

that piano was so out of tune. and i remember how we were mugging for os in the amphi and the lil pri sch girls were annoying us with their pro piano playing =D

graceeee

those idiots got seven distinctions

the lab partner. who i greeted at the swing with a hug and promptly got shocked at some random guy who i didnt know was a photographer until i heard multiple consecutive clicks of a camera.

& its purplicious as always. thanks for vandalising my jae booklet (:

ahhhhhh i love you girl-who-owes-me-my-funky-red-belt

project work by the partner and me! still up =D we're goooood.

pretty pond. joey and aileen's sec 1 class =D

corner in the canteen! chess club was super in last year and everyone wanted to join to buck up their cca points haha.

the new design of the netball board! either deb's or gek's work luh.

book found in the library =D

library deco. & its netball!

modelling the new tables and chairs.

show some legggggggg

queen of emo black im sure

its nap time for the lil one

oops, i saw red

nianci lookin cosy

i own this place.

so thankful ms lee the librarian didnt come up just then

and pouts. why didnt we get such cool furniture during our day.

retail therapy afterward with aileen and thats my macho mannequin boyfriend

SO CUTE that miracle girl congrats =D

char(:

2008-01-25T22:47:00.000-08:00

still my favourite emo song.

Leona Lewis Lyrics

But I don’t care what they say
I’m in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don’t know the truth
My heart’s crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

Trying hard not to hear
But they talk so loud
Their piercing sounds fill my ears
Try to fill me with doubt
Yet I know that the goal
Is to keep me from falling

But nothing’s greater
Than the rush that comes with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness I see your face
Yet everyone around me
Thinks that I’m going crazy, maybe, maybe

And it’s draining all of me
Oh they find it hard to believe
I’ll be wearing these scars
For everyone to see

& to those who care so much for me, thank you.

char(:

2008-01-23T23:11:00.000-08:00

touch rug was really fun tdy. first time we played the actual game! and yeah it was quite funny when we were attacking against the seniors and i chionged, got tapped by a super fast senior and i dont know what i was doing i think i panicked and just threw the ball up in the air. LOL. so i got commended for chionging but ohgee im so sad that i could get tapped by someone running diagonally when i was going straight. i need to run.

had the honour of closing training tdy with a word of prayer, and i asked God to give us His peace that transcends all understanding, so that no matter how the results turn out, we'll still give Him praise.

Dear God i need you to be bigger than ever.

something to cheer all you people up!

and of course not forgetting someone who's been beside me for the past four years...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILEEN <333

char(:

2008-01-21T23:34:00.000-08:00

oh gee ive been skipping touch rug too much. ahhhhhh.

"Chairmen, please see ___ after assembly. Chairladies, please see me."

=D

char(:

2008-01-20T23:16:00.000-08:00

ytd's service!

char(:

2008-01-19T10:20:00.000-08:00

anglolympics! a fun time of captains ball in which i was disgusted by immaturity, lack of sportsmanship, evidence of a bully in the making and blatant disregard of the rules. okay that was just one person. but ohwell, even tho we didnt make it to quarterfinals it was still tons of fun! reks is in my senior class =D

rushed off to ignite conference at my bro's church only to discover that KEANN TOLD ME THE WRONG TIMING =( for which he apologised profusely afterward and i had to hang up on him. hahah.

but in the less than two hours i spent there i realised two things.

one: either i havent eaten alone ever, or else i havent eaten alone in so long i can't remember. i obviously can't live without human company. delifranced.

two: i need more friends. i called up a million random people to come accompany me and not a single one could or would. this is patheticism at its peak.

but ohwell. the conference more than made up for my earlier loneliness with its amazing inspiring videos and testimonies and the super cute preacher ooops =P plus i got greeted by "hi jeremy's sister!" my bro was ushering (:

keann was uberly drunk on the mrt ride home.

keann: (saying something extremely lame)

char: mygosh.

keann: who's gosh?! why're you cheating on ...

YEAH IM SURE HAHAHA.

repeat incident of the 970 bus: two years ago flor and i waited for the bus an entire hour before an uncle came to tell us that the last bus was gone and so we had to walk to commonwealth mrt and take the mrt to clementi and take a bus home and my mum got pissed because we didnt take the mrt to bukit batok. hahaha flor's wonderful memory <3

but yeah we waited only 20 mins lah thank God. but now we know that if we ever have to go home together again, we better pray hard. hahaha.

i was so tired when i got home i just crashed. but tdy im ready for my psixers! =D

char(:

2008-01-17T21:57:00.000-08:00

im in the class com! and throughout the entire nominating process i was completely silent. then suddenly someone goes CHARLENE! and hands come up to second the nomination. hmm. it was quite funny when someone nominated himself hha. friend tells me i had the second most no. of votes. which amazes me cos i havent talked to almost the entire left half of the class at all.

and after that teacher goes, "touch wood but if Charlene doesnt come back in second intake then someone will have to replace her" -.- thanks! i am so confident for o lvl results now. the other four com people have no worries cos they're ib boys all the way.

ah i so want to join council. sigh.

and the school administration finally realised that the class postings were kinda screwed. there were random people with extremely different combis in our class. so a couple of them are out of our class now. makes for one less girl =( ohwell.

& mothergoose loves you too (:

char(:

2008-01-16T22:42:00.000-08:00

today we had a very interesting Theory of Knowledge (TOK) lesson. it's something like KI, for you guys in jc. basically philosophy. something that my dad says i absolutely should not do because he thinks you have to be top calibre to do that. and he thinks that i hate to think. so then i think to myself, do i hate to think? and okay im just obsessed with the word think now.

it was supposed to be a light-hearted lesson in which we once again intro ourselves. but then suddenly it got so into religion and everyone was introducing themselves as atheists and christians and what not. teachers did that on purpose cos they wanted to find out who were the more vocal ones, the ones who can talk but held back (me), and those who didnt want to talk at all.

there was this hardcore atheist. he said something interesting.

i believe the default question should be why do you believe there is a God? and not why do you not believe there is a God?

if you think about it, it kinda makes sense. shouldnt you ask the more "positive" side of the question first?

but then you think about it again, and you realise that how can there NOT be a God? you dont have to be in new zealand to see the beauty of creation all around you. even the hardest of the hardcore atheists absolutely have to agree that somehow, we were formed. and since darwin's theory of evolution has been proven wrong even by scientists, how else do you explain how the universe came into being without a Creator?

one of the points brought up was the universe is sooooooo big, why would God care for you when you're a tiny speck in the universe?

so there was this huge debate and they got kinda aggressive. sir had to stop it because he wanted all of us to get a chance to speak. so then my turn.

me: hi im charlene. and i can talk about something with reference to that? (points at atheist)

atheist: bring it man!

me: well i believe in God. and i believe that He created every single one of us. and He loves us because He has moulded us.

at this point i got interrupted. such passionate people, tok lessons are going to be such a blast.

but what i really want to put forth is this:

God has a heart for each and every one of us. so what if if the cosmos is so big and you feel that you are less than a speck of dust?

Matthew 6:26

"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"

Matthew 6: 28-30

"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet i tell you that not even Solomon in all his spledor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?"

you are THAT precious in God's eyes. and that you is both plural and singular. the plural you is because God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son to die for us on the cross. but then if you're Will Smith in I am Legend as the last man on earth, God would die for you as well. and that's when the singular you comes in.

because God so loved YOU that He gave His one and only Son to die for YOU.

it is truly hard to comprehend how such a great and mighty being would care for you when you are seemingly insignificant, but then God's a God of ironies. it's our world that has everything twisted around, and us living in it thus find such concepts strange and hard to grasp.

God, is love.

not because of who I am
but because of who you are
not because of what I've done
but because of what you've done

just accept it people ;) God is just DYING to show you what true love really is about.

another interesting point.

we have a religion because we want comfort?

to some people i guess it's true. religion gives them comfort because they have this being or force that they believe in and can call upon for blessings. it also brings structure and order to society, even unity and bonding when people celebrate festivals together.

but why do I have religion?

firstly, Christianity is not a religion. according to the world it is. but really, it is a relationship with God. and that sets us apart from all the other "religions" because in others, the god does not speak to his devout believers.

secondly, Christianity is hardly comforting. okay, so we know that we have eternal life in Christ. hurrah and thank God. but here on earth, we suffer persecution particularly in communist or Muslim countries. it is a calling to follow Christ. life as a Christian is not smooth sailing, rather it can actually be the opposite. because we are called not to love the things of the world (materialism and whatnot), but rather to be the light and salt of the earth. that means we're gonna stand out, we're gonna be criticised, and in the worst case, persecuted. how is that comforting?

my third and final point. why am I a Christian then? because i believe in God, that He came down to earth as a man to die for our sins. and i believe that i was created to worship Him.

Aravind (Hindu) to atheist: If you happen to come back in your next life as a tree, don't go to Indonesia cos they have forest fires.

ah, i love my class =D

char(:

2008-01-13T19:49:00.000-08:00

im sick! but i went to meet darling today. and in case you're wondering who's darling, its NIANCI HAHAHAHA. just testing reactions =D you can tell me what you guys were thinking later HAHA.

oh we had this super nice chat. hc guys and all =D

darnnnnnnnn im super high! all darling's fault lah HAHAHAHA.

nianci says:
OHNO
nianci says:
KELVIN ROBBED WO XIN AI DE

that AHLIAN HAHAHAH.

NIC! holding hands never made me feel this way says:
REALLY TRULY FINALLY?
NIC! holding hands never made me feel this way says:
YESSSSSSSSS

that girl was actually annoyed with me LOL.

yesyesyouying@gmail.com says:
wa u damn fast man!!

i know i know, thats why im running a million events for sports day.

in every heart there is a room; a sanctuary safe and strong says:
picture picture

you dont even know the half of it =D

recorded reactions =D

char(:

2008-01-12T11:16:00.000-08:00

finally, here is my long-awaited graduation post.

Look at this photograph

at hannah's farewell, with jocelyn being possessive

Everytime I do it makes me laugh

the woman herself, with her spasticated big white underwear for a farewell present

How did our eyes get so red

hey netballers, put that big smile on your face cos even though we might've lost to RGS, we've faced the giants and lived to tell the tale. and all thanks to the bballers for coming down to support as well.

And what the hell is on Joey's head

why, none other than the Rizalina of course

And this is where I grew up

in SC's first netball camp where we learnt not to be (quote sasha) "sissies". we're all flour and fun. and i think i was chubbier O.O

I think the present owner fixed it up

yeah, low ay nar put those rainbow swings in our compound.

I never knew we'd ever went without

Joeyyyy where're you? stop hiding already.

The second floor is hard for sneaking out

except this was the third floor and why would we wanna sneak out anyway school is fun!

And this is where I went to school

see that big shiny trophy? yeahhh. now that's us, CHAMPIONS.

Most of the time had better things to do

like pop the cork for 2006! and create a banner after which posing in my garden

Criminal record says I broke in twice

netball trip to KL! sunway lagoon.

I must have done it half a dozen times

Loretta's birthday party!

I wonder if it's too late

Should i go back and try to graduate

Thank you for that flattering testimonial Ms Tan

Life's better now then it was back then

cos i've got you to make me stronger

If I was them I wouldn't let me in

high on drugs. sorry

Oh, oh, oh

Every memory of looking out the back door

I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor

and i remember my p6 buddy. hope you're in sc right now, cos that's the best in store for you.

It's hard to say it, time to say it

hey dodo bird i'll miss you

Goodbye, goodbye.

ms heng and all that she stood for

Every memory of walking out the front door

yy come back

I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for

hey sista

It's hard to say it, time to say it

yellow and green are our sc school badge

ain't nobody gonna be our match

Goodbye, goodbye.

Remember the old arcade

& i love the part where aileen eats her own head

Blew every dollar that we ever made

neoprints are so ex but hey i got a tiara for free

The cops hated us hangin' out

we meet like 4 times a year or something. so amazing, you'd think singapore was the size of china.

They say somebody went and burned it down

syzzling hot and you can't deny it

We used to listen to the radio

and im sorry for my horrible singing during class

and sing along with every song we know

count on me Singapore

We said someday we'd find out how it feels

the three musketeers having adventures all round the world

To sing to more than just the steering wheel

4sy YEAH

DO YOU WANNA ROCK THE HOUSE

Kim's the first girl I kissed

meet kim the elephant

I was so nervous that I nearly missed

She's had a couple of kids since then

I haven't seen her since god knows when

Oh, oh, oh

jocelyn acting shy on racial harmony day

I miss that town

I miss the faces

trackers <3

You can't erase

the fact that we're just the best

You can't replace it

the times we had together and the memories captured by photos worth a thousand words

I miss it now

I can't believe it

sec 3 dual indiv champs (:

So hard to stay

cos pearl's so smart she should just keep jc and hop on to harvard already

Too hard to leave it

SC netballer always, to the very end of the age

If I could I relive those days

when i could crash your house on a whim

I know the one thing that would never change

it starts with L and ends with an OVE

for love of the game

so many random and bittersweet memories, so many photos to sort through and yet too little. my oscar-winning thank you speech would take a whole 24 hours. but for all of you who constituted a part of SCGS and my life, I LOVE YOU.

char(:

2008-01-11T22:45:00.000-08:00

But something happened
For the very first time with you
My heart melts into the ground
Found something true
And everyone's looking round
Thinking I'm going crazy

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

favourite favourite.

& it seems that i can't initiate a complete breakup with something that has practically been my life during my first three years of SCGS.

N - E - T - B - A - DOUBLE L

just as i'd made up my mind not to ever join netball because firstly, i dont want to ruin my memories of SCGS netball, and secondly because ACSI netball is quite pathetic im sorry, and thirdly because i wanna commit to touch rug.

but then i meet the netball teacher and she persuades me to just write my name down. she knows netball will not be my first priority tho because i asked if i could come as and when im free just to make up their numbers. currently other than me there're about 8 girls. and i think that's such a waste cos a professional coach will be coming to train us mostly as a personal favour to one of the teachers he knows.

ah netball <3

today is 11.01.08

2008-01-08T08:51:00.000-08:00

facebook.

You would fall for a Sensitive Guy

Your man will have dreamy, mysterious eyes and a shy, sweet smile. You'll be head over heels from the moment he first quotes Shakespeare to you in that inspired voice of his. Your Mr. Perfect knows how to be extremely romantic and is in tune to all your moods. He will be able share tears with you. He will always notice when you get a haircut or wear a special dress. Besides being poetical, he may be also musically talented and play you sweet melodies to win your heart. Needless to say, he will love you like crazy.

hah, interesting. my romeo <3

btw people, this is a long overdue advertisement.

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let me tell you, its goooooooooooooood (:

char(:

2008-01-05T11:31:00.000-08:00

the past three days have been filled with fun, boredom, highs and exhaustion.

orientation week.

the first day a conspicuous group of pretty girls in sky blue could be found loitering outside the school gate, especially prominent since the mgs girls in particular fit in well with the acsi uniform.

when we finally gathered up enough courage to walk in, we were separated into our various ogs. tanya was with me. and i had a pleasant surprise when my pri 2 exclassmate walked into Ruth, my class for the time being. Luke didnt recognise me til after two long seconds had passed though.

my first chapel and i regret to say i fell asleep during the prolonged address from our revered Dr. Ong. that droning voice could send a pilot crashing his plane if he was listening to the radio in the air cos he fell asleep. the rooms are so freaking cold. advantages of this is that it helps increase your metabolism rate so you could probably lose a few pounds by the end of the year, and also you'd probably be too cold to fall asleep.

the mass dance! that i can't remember the steps to but it's great fun anyway.

during icebreakers some extremely privileged people had to go onstage to do forfeit. a game called honey if you love me, please smile (: but because the two girls were sc year sixers, they were sent offstage and new girls had to be picked. one of the acsi guys said he wanted an sc girl. and then REKHA, was introduced as student council vice president, and as a former sc girl. i just knew what was coming after that.

yes she was supposed to pick a junior. and all the people around me were pointing at me. i just refused to look at that evil person. but then out of the corner of my eye i saw her coming. nuggets.

being the gentlewoman she is, she helped me up. i hope you can sense the sarcasm.

she got what she deserved after that. a nice, hard SMACK on her pretty little ass. i heard a collective groan from the guys who felt her pain.

but yeah i went up on stage anyway and had two guys propose to me. the first was an acsi guy who sent me into fits of laughter cos he started singing to me. he went away triumphant but HUMMPH. unfair advantage cos you're only supposed to plead, honey if you love me please smile and nothing else. so i fell in love obviously.

i managed to resist the charms of the second guy though. he went away mock angry.

TEEHEE

second day. amazing race round town and suntec. made to do stupid stuff like duckwalking around that circle fountain thingy ohgosh i forgot the name but its at suntec. yeah, i dont know why i was cooperating with the OGLs in the destruction of my knee joints. it was so tiring i fell asleep on the bus halfway through the race hah.

third day. emotionally wrecking as it was the end of orientation week. ah, the drama queen speaks (:

discipline briefings are the funnest. i felt a slight shame though because one of the FOUR deputy principals we have started talking about how SCGS has strict rules on colours of hair ties - black navy blue white, and i was wearing yellow. oops =/

talking about bullying and its demerit points,
guys, dont beat up guys. girls don't beat up guys.

MMHMM. nods! =D

there was a telematch in which someone ruffled my hair with hair gell and made it all hard and i just want to stab him whoever he is.

then there was break time which we spent talking to the guys in our og and yeah man they're alot friendlier now yay.

dinner in which the food was simple but good. it sorta reminded me of prom night but waay more fun. prom was kinda boring except for the band =D yep performances, which included one by the ogls and ohmy debbie's extremely talented =) great voice! and nice guitaring.

at the end there was a photo presentation and i was up there a coupla times. i want picturesssss.

and i need to learn the school song. it's rather nice (:

yay orientation! & im still not done with my grad post =/

happy birthday joy <3

char(:

2007-12-30T18:53:00.000-08:00

My personalDNA Report

Because you trust people, you take violations of that trust very seriously.

so dont hurt me =) and i wont hurt you.

Lord i love You because i am fearfully and wonderfully made

char(:

2007-12-29T12:22:00.000-08:00

FUEL UP!

camp was totally awesome. realised that there are so many youth in my church that either i've totally never seen before or i just know them by face, it was like going to another church's camp altogether. pics here were all taken on the last day because the other two days i was lazy oops.

one of the highlights of the camp for me was praying for all the schools represented by our church youth.

i love sc.

prayed that my dream will become reality. i long to see netballers sitting in a circle on the court praying. i want to see the netballers being good role models for the rest of the school.

though the school badge might be the taoist symbol, our secular school will be transformed to become a Christian one.

that all the girls will truly be kimgeks and daughters of the most high God. that we will espouse the values of sincerity, courage, generosity, and service. that since the "nu zi" part looks like "hao" (sher's handwriting!), we will be a good school not just recognised for our academic or cca excellence, but also because we are precious, like jade and gold.

even as alumni, that we will continue to cherish our heritage and keep SCGS in our prayers.

for my new school. even though im terrified that i'll be kicked out when the o level results come in, may God's will be done =)

i want to make a difference there, really.

and i've been warned about the acsi guys. esp since the current ratio of guys to girls is 6:1, they'll swarm around you. open doors for you and everything, absolutely charming. ive been given three weeks to hold out. THANKS ALOT HAHAHAHA. but then i look at my brother, and at ping, and i wonder if we're talking about the same school =P

Keann =)

prayer walking at ngee ann! this is my group, PRAWN NOODLE. cos my group leader's name is stephanie SEAH. cool sia =D

yeah our weird pose is in reference to that really touching movie, facing the giants. i cried, aww. hahaha definitely recommended to watch. the part that touched me most was the death crawl. i learnt that even leaders need encouragement, and someone to go with them and inspire them all the way. and that even leaders have the potential to be developed, so they should not just focus on developing others but themselves as well. sometimes it is just your mind that stops you from being a champion, because in your mind you have already lost.

anyone can lead when he is strong. you are a true leader when you continue leading even when you are weak =)

and something else. It's not our job to convert them, it's our job to reach them. i just wanna thank God for putting my mind at rest about that issue.

after the camp everyone was still hyped up. went for service and worship was a blast. everyone jumping and screaming and just giving their all to God, it was a totally awesome experience. HALLELUJAH, this is what i have always wanted and prayed for my church. i know some churches think that charismatics are the falling away as talked about in revelations, but i just wanna challenge that idea. because sometimes even pastors, our shepherds, can be wrong. we have to test everything according to the scripture.

i dont think there is anything wrong with the songs that charismatics sing. one of the arguments put forth to me by a bible presbytarian was that this is all just hype, that we dont really mean what we sing but we're just carried along by the flow. but when you sing hymns, it doesnt mean that you DO mean what you sing.

also, king David danced for God in the bible. and his wife looked on in contempt. why? because he was being a fool in front of everyone. but like paul says, if i am a fool, i am a fool for God. im not sure where that verse is though.

i just wanna give God all the praise, BODY, MIND, SPIRIT. body would include physically dancing for God. mind would mean thinking about the lyrics that i sing, not just singing something so familiar it doesnt really register in my brain. and worshipping in spirit, in the tongues that i have been blessed with.

and i will continue to pray for my church, that our worship will never be the same again, and that we will always give our best to God.

people actually ran up on stage you know. alison tried to drag me with her up there but i didnt go cos i wasnt sure if pastor Jen's surprised expression meant good news. also there was so much floor space to dance on since alot of people were up on stage lol. the first time that the youth have actually lead the worship team =)

how can i keep from singing your praise?

how can i ever say enough?

how amazing is your love!

how can i keep from shouting Your name?

i know i am loved by the King,

and it makes my heart want to sing!

char(:

2007-12-26T23:23:00.000-08:00

christmas (:

party at my neighbour's house and we snuck out to the yacht club =D

David was lying down on the ground and his bro mistook him for a construction worker and walked right past!

the ground was moving man

a very interesting application i added on facebook.

Your blood type is AB.

Your personality is popular yet controlled, sociable yet aloof,
Outgoing yet shy, sensitive yet thoughtless, a very split personality.

This makes you very exciting friend indeed.

You are most compatible with: everyone!

HAHA wth, this really helps.

still waiting for some christmassy photos.

and thanks nc for the brownies, they were really yummy (:

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but shall have eternal life.

camp tmr and i havent packed!

fuel up people!

Guest :D

2007-12-25T08:51:00.000-08:00

HELLO WORLD!
And Joey! And Joey's friend Charlene! Who own this blog! :D

Okay so this is obviously not anyone of the owners, :D
Who might I be?
It's... (dum dum DUMMMM!) MEGAN!

Yes,
HAPPY & BLESSED CHRISTMAS EVERYONE WHO READS JOEY&CHARLENE'S BLOG! :D

But it's actually Boxing day already, SO, happy boxing each other !

We're all real sad Christmas is over ):
BUT! We should still be happy that it was here anyway :D

BYE! (:

char(:

2007-12-24T18:54:00.000-08:00

went to the zoo with nc tdy!

and i'll bet you didnt know giraffes are the horniest creatures around.

principal low ay nar's favourite saying is "Be BOLD, BE BEAUTIFUL" and this just reminded me of her

this is how a joey jumps

random facts...

in the words of Cartoon Network, I R Baboon!

hello my friend so long no see!

i wanted to get this sign for joey when we transited at sydney! then i realised that im broke and then i wouldnt be able to get something for her from nz

well that sure explains why joey's skinny as a stick

so she needs to be fed!

and of course after that natural body processes will occur...

and this is the beginning of my dustbin crush!

ohh the dustbin crasher (:

typeless says:
i'm smiling when u say that
typeless says:
like a little girl so cute like that

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYI <3333

char(:

2007-12-23T00:50:00.000-08:00

this is a random post because nianci, my devoted reader, is dying to know more about my life.

was doing some lifecareer quiz that nianci took and i gave up at qn 14 cos i realised its 12:45 am and there're a hundred questions to do.

tdy was a blah day. saw my cousins and ahhhh my darling natasha is the sweetest. she's 7 and oh-so-cute. i told my bro to stop flirting with her cos she's MINE hah.

and i was so hoping lyd and pj would bike/walk over to my house tdy but it poured =( i sorta wish i'd be staying for least half the day more tmr so i can go for their church's christmas service but ahwell.

went to visit my grandpa's sister and her kids. recalling some past incident where she called and my younger bro picked up the phone.

"siapa tu?"

"huh, xiao bai tu??!"

hah ohmy so damn funny.

no one stands as tall as a Christian on his knees says:
my nudge will knock you off the cliff, puny
Joakim - Ave Maria Gracia Plena says:
as long as u're happy charlene
no one stands as tall as a Christian on his knees says:
wow
no one stands as tall as a Christian on his knees says:
you would DIE for me?
no one stands as tall as a Christian on his knees says:
im tearing
Joakim - Ave Maria Gracia Plena says:
.
Joakim - Ave Maria Gracia Plena says:
uh
Joakim - Ave Maria Gracia Plena says:
don't push it ah
Joakim - Ave Maria Gracia Plena says:
:P

oh gee nianci went to sleep and this post was for her =/

who wants to watch Chestnuts with me next year? =D

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actually i wanna go with aileen cos 23rd is her birthday! hahaha. but no concession =( how?

char(

2007-12-22T10:14:00.000-08:00

day after i came back frm nz, lunch with nianci and kev! havent seen the female nugget so so long. and we have many many plans ahhhhhhhhhh and i thought that after i get back frm msia i'll have way too much time on my hands.

crashed cousin's place after to transfer pics from their cam to ours but currently i only have about half of them cos they brought 2 cameras. 2000+ pics not including videos!

then went t holland to dinner with netballers. jocelyn's bday! i miss you. yea and finding out that ib chem is apparently tougher than jc but i dont want to do bio! so nuggety. also discovered my seniors have colourful lives. hahahaha.

currently in msia where i thought life would be the boringest but i havent had need of the books i brought to keep me occupied cos the net keeps me alive.

ytd went for christmas party at lydia's church. funny how i usually dont really like the event itself but i like the people. yeah lovely group of young beauties including lydia's godsister who is so sweet i'd date her if i were a guy. hahaha. i shook hands with a million random people and i cant remember most of their names.but then one of them is comin to singapore so im going to show him around!

and now this is the part where michel starts laughing her head off cos when she came to singapore, she was more of showing me around. for one thing, i got on the wrong mrt line and didnt realise til about 4 stops later. tell me im the best.

hey mich our three musketeers aint complete without you! =(

oh, ytd was felly's bday <3 and today is my cell outing! missing out on the partying =(

char(:

2007-12-21T01:00:00.000-08:00

new zealand, home to millions of sheep

from the highest of heights

to the depths of the sea

creation's revealing Your majesty

from the colours of fall

to the fragrance of spring

every creature unique in the song that it sings

all exclaiming

indescribable

uncontainable

You placed the stars in the sky

and You know them by name

You are amazing God

all powerful

untameable

awestruck

we fall to our knees

as we humbly proclaim

You are amazing God

who has told every lightning bolt

where it should go

or seen heavenly storehouses

laden with snow

who imagines the sun

and gives source to its light

yet conceals it

to bring us the coolness of night

none can fathom

incomparable

unchangeable

You see the depths of my heart

and You love me the same

You are amazing God

joey.

2007-12-08T22:22:00.000-08:00

we were halfway through a song during rehearsal today when i got a call, and it was from joe! but joe was directly behind me?! retard :D

it's just today.
it's just today.
it's just today.
it's just today.

tomorrow, then (:

joey! :D

2007-12-06T22:30:00.000-08:00

i shall blog while waiting in vain for people to email me the songs :O

awww :D

ew i just realised that jing and i have a DISGUSTING tan-line -.-

we took really long to get this picture right :D i wonder why!

that was some random day after training (:

im dreading tomorrow night! rawr. and saturday morning. bad bad.

yf camp next week. excited, definitely! let's hope that i don't forget to bring the thumbdrive, or forget to bring the song sheets to outing. if that happens, it'll be.. quite an experience.

i still haven't received any emails :( man.

joey! :D

2007-11-30T23:56:00.000-08:00

back from cambodia! :D have been greeted by "hello cambodian" everywhere for the past three days. tsk.

us in our tuk-tuk! that was in phnom penh.

the team at omf team centre where we stayed for the first two nights. comparing to snuol (where we stayed at the rest of the time), that was like a 5-star hotel (:

fried tarantulas?!?!!

the pig was ACTUALLY OINKING! totally blended into the surroundings until it made weird sounds and peter saw it :/

our first meal at the "restaurant" at snuol!

that's evelyn's (the koenig's daughter) best friend!

that's marlen and her three kids! julia's in front, two years old only :D bianca and evelyn behind.

those who attended the khmer Bible Study.

me, peter and james playing twister after open house! james was badly knotted, clearly :/

aunty rebecca's house!

the koenig's kittens :D

the sunset at snuol!

us in the van to kratie for our day off :D

looking for the irrawaddy dolphins!

that's proof that i DID train a bit! 160 steps ++ okay :D we went up to some mountain to see the sunset, but we came down before the sun actually set. tsk. so we didn't catch it, how lame!

heh :D was fun! definitely. i totally became a guy there since there was no other youth-girl around. tsk! my mum ACTUALLY called me "the son we never had". was especially fun being able to stay for the two days of open house and just hang around and teach the youths different games. frisbee and captain's ball! the guys there are good man. gaahhh missing the three kids already :( especially bianca!

anyway, really thank God for the experience (:

char(:

2007-11-30T13:40:00.000-08:00

MICHEL ONG I MISS YOU

ASTA-LA-BYEBYE

we wanna run away to the country of the free

where the skies are purple with cauliflowers floating in it

but you can't seem to find your way on toward home

so you just keep wandering follow the yellow brick road

keep moving on

look in the mirror and discover your true self

then you'll find your way out of this place

to the heavens filled with grace

don't you worry cause you will finish this race

and at the final stretch to dash

all the angels cheering on

you'll find the strength within yourself to asta-la-byebye

then we pondered on the heroes of faith

realising we were meant to be this way

- an Ong family production

char(:

2007-11-28T21:00:00.000-08:00

i liked the first two days of this week (:

watched stardust and enchanted!

and yeah its true there're no happily ever afters =(

mum bought me two books tdy:

every teenager's little black book on sex and dating, which kinda reminds me of Mao's little Red book on the sayings of Chairman Mao

and

I Gave Dating A Chance, which is the total opposite of I Kissed Dating Goodbye that i have yet to read.

rah, stab me already.

how does she know that you love her?

char(:

2007-11-24T16:32:00.000-08:00

mel's sweet sixteenth!

cousins! lilo and stitch style

hot babe alert!

running on water

hiding from a splash attack

the sc girls (:

im flyinggggggggg without wings!

my ghostly feet with blue toenails

bern and her random dog

mel thinks was i was trying to pose for ms singapore

birthday girl and i

but it'll never be washed away

sher is totally completely irrevocably in love with me (:

hey there handsome

that olympus rocks

this is what happens when you refuse to smile for charlene

rawrrrrrrrr. sunburnt so bad i cant even sleep properly. and im going to start peeling. =(

char(:

2007-11-23T19:29:00.000-08:00

prom night on the 19th felt like any other night actually. and i spent less time getting ready for it than i normally do for church. oops =/

kayi and i looking pretty much like twins

okay this photo's up to make joey jealous =D LORETTA THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN SC

that, is audrey. she was wearing a dress =O and the best part was she was jumping around in it. i guess some things never change =) & that's the way uh-huh uh-huh i like it uh-huh uh-huh

the best part of prom was...

~~drum roll~~

GUITAR =D =D

i recognised him and the bassist from sleepy bus trips to school, cos they're from barker. and ohmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. swoon XD

sigh. and i maintain that his name sounds jap.

sweet home alabama

joey! :D

2007-11-18T22:56:00.000-08:00

more zoo pics first!

fu and i look emo!

and, i know i mentioned this already, but last friday's and saturday's dinners were REALLY good! :D but it was a good thing that i happened to pay extra attention to the previous week's message. sitting on a table with four pastors ain't too good :/

anyway, YLTC! was quite mad. i didn't intend on elaborating but for the sake of talking less to char tomorrow, i shall. don't you love me cow!

land ex on the first day, walked around with our backpacks and stuff. we learnt, resourcefulness :D but it was a really good start, being able to reach changi SO FAST that we actually had to wait for the teachers! and coconut, how refreshing! the best part of it all.

kayaking totally left me burnt! we learnt a new lesson: do not put sunblock on your forehead before kayaking! if not you'll end up having to kayak at the back :D but it was pretty much relaxing, heh. changed from gemini to the wanderer halfway through! and yes, it was a whole lot harder to control. 1,1,2. sigh. right hand blistered! and my fingers got a weird tan. and the whole bunch of us fell asleep while waiting to go back on land :P

rafting and dragon boating was probably the funnest part (: "and the ropes are over there!" cheongstar kept sneaking pics! tsk. dragon boat team was called man-eating-dolphin. wow. and a few of us got to swim back to shore :D

rope courses.. heh all i can say is, i wish my CG was a little lower. gr. (yes, i hated this day the most) oh the guys looked like monkeys climbing over the wall :P campfire after that got me completely HIGH! little strong frog, and little sexy frog eh!

and the last day, slept at 1plus am, woke up at 250am. walked from VJ to NJ?! 5 hours 40 mins, with our backpacks, starting from 5am. now thinking back, i really can't believe we did that. total of 5 JCs - VJ, SAJC, CJC, HC, NJ! wow. the picture clearly shows how tired we are. that was at 6am? our first stop at paya lebar, i think. and, returning last wasn't too bad :D i liked the chat back all the way down bukit timah!

pt was the maddest part of everything. the girls in my dorm all personally saw how i SCREAMED when it started raining on wednesday morning! tsk.

oh and i've concluded that super was really super at everything EXCEPT cooking. hee :D oh and definitely, we were the superest at making full use of our bus rides (: and here's a rare bus ride when we're all awake! (minghan and sukiat look retarded!)

we are the mighty ones! *pupu*
we are the super ones! *pupu*
we are the mighty, we are the super, we are the number one! :D

aw, missing it already.

guys: sukiat, minghan, terence, huzaifah, jianhao, norman
girls: marissa, joey, joanne, becky, shanshan, carline, nora, samantha

:D

so now, busy preparing for cambodia mission trip. quite excited. except that i'm gonna miss lots of trainings, plus an outing for yf! oh well. hopefully worship stuff will be settled when i'm away. hinthint :D

char(:

2007-11-18T21:00:00.000-08:00

went t nc's house for squash tdy. and i figure my ball loves ceiling shots. haha. the ball was damn cute too, it had a hole in it so PUCKER UP BABY MWUAHHHH =D

that might be the last time i see youying before she leaves =(

& i finally calculated that i spent a grand total of $141.35 in three days on shopping. congratulate me. RAWR GUILT GUILT GUILT.

speaking of money issues.

who says the church can't be rich?

some people might argue:

1. James 2:5

"Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?"

God is the god of everything, including irony.

2. Matt 6: 19-21, 24

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ... No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

3. Matt 19:21

"Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.""

These versus seem to indicate that yeah, apparently the church shouldn't be rich cos if we have anything, we should give it to the poor who need it more than us.

However,

Matt 6:33

"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

you will be blessed when you seek God first, and it could be material blessings that you receive!

also in 1 Kings 3, God was pleased that Solomon asked for discernment and not wealth or long life, and he said that,

vs 13: "Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for - both riches and honour - so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings."

consider also the tabernacle. exact details on its design can easily be read up on, and it includes tons of gold, silver and bronze.

so gee, whats wrong with the church being rich? i think it's also a form of honour to God. just like you dress up in your "Sunday best", you also want to church to be dressed up for God.

i guess its all a matter of calling. if God wants you to give up everything to follow Him, then so be it.

okay, bored.

char(:

2007-11-17T23:44:00.000-08:00

HAHA omg im genius im top 21% in singapore =D hahahah this is crazy math.

hmm thought through pae.

1. acjc arts

2. sa arts

3. cjc arts

4. jurong arts.

and then the rest dont care. haha. but i dont know if my parents are going to make me put acsi b arts first choice. sigh.

anw, it turns out i couldnt get into nj even if i wanted. ohwell.

happy tdy cos terence and alan came to church! =D

hah yes. and alan was commenting that i worship with my hand raised up. i told him it was for exercise (KIDDING).

well actually, its all symbolic. raising hands is a sign of:

1. surrender - like, put your hands up and give me all your money

2. physically trying to get closer to God - unless you want to climb mount everest, suit yourself

3. receiving - God wants to bless! healing, love, you name it.

hmmm, i hope they come back again. and i really wanna bring my entire nh batch to church. =D!

alan and his juggling stunt with cake LOL

char(:

2007-11-16T00:08:00.000-08:00

i have graduated from sc.

but then again, once an sc girl, always an sc girl (:

my dad has the honour of holding my cert. and he thought i was moody with him for choosing to play soccer at smu over attending my graduation ceremony. actually i was, abit, cos the first excuse he gave for not coming was that he needed to grade pw stuff. but then he finished everything ytd. =(

went out for lunch with deb! <3>

helped out at mum's leadership camp yesterday. which basically was a walk-a-thon. i burned a 1000 calories at least! hah. and it was infused with shopping too =D got a green top. and wanted more stuff but then the groups arrived and it was time to um, help out. hahaha. i dont think i was much of a help except in easing the instructor le ming's boredom. apparently he remembers me when i was a tiny lil tot at SWIFT, which is a track and field meet. he was a high-jumper. i was doing 800m then.

le ming: as long as you do your best, everything else is secondary

me: so that's why we're always stuck in secondary school

le ming: because we can only do our best

hmm. psychic partners that finish each others' sentences. haha.

and cos we were waiting a million years at the hotel for the last group to arrive, i told the poor staff who was working overtime that my mum was " a stone's throw away", and that "so it depends how far you throw your stone". she didnt get it -.-

[c=39][i]Ryan [/i][/c] says:
i jus had a adrenalin rush to hug u and jus (cry)

awwww. praying for you!

=[{Hung.Hin}]= 13slc; dreamsofmishra says:
charlene is the supreme.

agreed.

char(:

2007-11-13T20:41:00.000-08:00

alright, os are over.

im feeling quite calm tho. haha. and i almost dont know what to do with my new found freedom. ohwell at least for now im occupied =D

for prom im representing class as miss my-jokes-are-funny! -.- hahaha aileen is miss snores for her class. mm i know thats really fitting lol.

went t nianci's house for pool! youying was suaning me cos when we stepped into cheers, the bell only rang twice. when we stepped out it was the same case. so she was saying that im too small to be detected. thanks huh. well at least i know if i dont make it to being a pre-school teacher i can always join the FBI as a spy! mm spy charlene sounds damn cool to me =D

then off to town with exclassmates! hah im planning on seeing alot of dawn, if not the rest as well =D

yep, weitsi james dawn me watched game plan!

nice movie. i liked the part when the football star was singing to his daughter. twas really sweet (: elvis-like yea.

then we played air hockey. tiringgggggggggg. and daytona (:

wanted to buy a shirt that says "smack me if i misbehave" but dawn said the cutting wasnt very nice.

i'd rather "poke me if i misbehave" tho. =D

off to home, and im here. feeling lonely online =( hah.

need to wash clothes later =(

char(:

2007-11-12T21:39:00.000-08:00

i think my brother and his girlfriend are the sweetest couple on earth (:

& i got two qns wrong for chem mcq so far.

random notes to brighten your day (:

anw, there's been a furore over this movie thats gonna come out on 7th dec, the Golden Compass.

it's based on a series of books by a hard-line atheist.

"In the trilogy, a young streetwise girl becomes enmeshed in an epic struggle to ultimately defeat the oppressive forces of a senile God. Another character, an ex-nun, describes Christianity as 'a very powerful and convincing mistake.' In the final book, characters representing Adam and Eve eventually kill God, who at times is called YAHWEH. Each book in the trilogy gets progressively worse regarding Pullman's hatred of Jesus Christ. "

hmm. that's one movie to cross off my movie marathon list.

i would be blogging more if not for my lil bro who loves to remind me that, ITS O LEVELS.

well guess what lil twit, YOU CANT TELL ME THAT TMR MUAHAHAHAHA =D

joey joey come back you cant leave me too =(

james says:
you wouldnt dao me WOULD you

sad little clown says:
of course not

sad little clown says:
hahahahhaa

sad little clown says:
sheeeeeeeeesh.

sad little clown says:
why are guys always so afraid that girls are daoing them.

sad little clown says:
it amuses me.

sad little clown says:
haha.

james says:
cos dao = no chance at sex (:

james says:
MOST MOST MOST MOST MOST boiled down form (:

men are from earth, women are from earth, deal with it.

char(:

2007-11-11T23:34:00.000-08:00

=[{Hung.Hin}]= 13slc; dreamsofmishra says:
RAWR
=[{Hung.Hin}]= 13slc; dreamsofmishra says:
bite you
-dash- says:
i aint no subway sandwich!
=[{Hung.Hin}]= 13slc; dreamsofmishra says:
hahaha
=[{Hung.Hin}]= 13slc; dreamsofmishra says:
you're charlene!
=[{Hung.Hin}]= 13slc; dreamsofmishra says:
YUM

IM SUFFERING FROM CHALET HANGOVER

chem mcq tmr. LET IT BE OVER OVER PLEASEEEEEEEEE.

joey! :D

2007-11-11T23:00:00.000-08:00

one zoo and three from yesterday! (:

two great dinners in a row :D yum. now i know why i have to go for YLTC. to put off all that fat that i put on in just TWO nights! more when i come back after camp!

char(;

2007-11-09T12:24:00.000-08:00

i fanned the flames til i got muscles and went to show them off to the guys who were slacking inside. THEN they come out with the novel idea of using a fan.

WAHAHAHA this is technology at its greatest. this is the new and improved society.

the best and the brightest.

"Fireman is such an oxymoron."

acks, i found out that someone turned gay. and he's pretty open about it. leon was laughing at me when he saw my face.

was sitting in the doorway of my room stoning when suddenly the landing is flooded with guys. joel looking interested in james practicing his martial arts moves.

free entertainment when weitsi tries to get drunk. he ended up puking all over the stairs. and apparently the last time he got drunk, he wore a miniskirt AHAHA =D so yeah, asked sheryl to go get her stinky tennis skirt.

i was sitting next to the two guys who were gaying.

waiting for more photos from leon! meanwhile shall continue my very interesting story from yesterday.

dawn and i taught xw and huiyi to play mahjong. huiyi is girl power man she caught on really quickly and owned us. xw however, is ONE KIND.

"So you pung and chi other people's tiles."

"What if they dont want to give it to you?"

a dazzling show of intellect, considering that this girl got 4.0 for every subject except chinese.

we watched fight club in the evening. which is a really weird movie with a plot that is impossible to understand til you reach the end. yeah, basically some dr jekyl and mr hyde story.

his name is robert paulsen. & i'm in love with him =D

yeah, thats the one thing that i took away from the movie. besides knowing that liposuction has eviler uses than you could ever imagine. yeah, human fats can be used to make soap. and with enough soap, you could blow up anything.

after the bbq mahjonged somemore and neo accused me of spying for dawn. hahaha im innocent i swear.

neo: tell her relationships are built on trust! (before chalet talkin to him online telling him that dawn only half-believes he was coming)

yup next was supposed to be bowling. but we decided to go to arcade first.

AIR HOCKEY IS THE BEST GAME IN THE ENTIRE WORLD

but warning, i get uncontainably noisy. dont even try to stop me from screaming. and i have two bruises on my knee from where i got so excited i think i kicked the table. i also backed up to the ledge behind where my ice lemon tea was and stuck my fingers in it. ACCIDENTALLY OF COURSE. and james' phone got icelemontea-ed. oops.

but revenge would come later. it was me and someone versus james and someone, and he slammed the puck so hard it flew off the table and hit my ice lemon tea, tearing the plastic cup til it leaked. AHAHA. how spectacular.

me and dawn trashed fabian and terence 7 nil! WHOO. queens of air hockey.

oh, and the machine was conky so when the guy came to fix it he kinda gave us 9 free games =D i am unashamed to say i made full use of it haha.

off to bowling. james said i owned the guys. which is pretty true =D hahahaha beginner's luck la. dawn thought i was lying about being noob at bowling. i got two strikes in a row! how cool is that. and i had three gutter balls in a row! how much cooler is that! hah. top score was 88 only. sigh. the pro-er guys were in the next bowling lane. all their scores were higher than our highest scores ohmy.

then dawn pangsehed me. which was such a heinous crime because xw and huiyi'd left and sheryl wanted to sleep. so i deprived her of precious dreamland cos i didnt want to be left alone with the guys. but in the end i was, turned out not so bad.

we bounded off to the playground. and weijie perched right on top of the playground. he wanted to take a photo of me cos i claimed this trampoline-like thingy as a nest. then we got chased off by the guard =( dawn and her friend had to run out from the poolside too.

decided life cooped up in the chalet watching extremely boring soccer with half-asleep people would just kill us, so 10 of us had a midnight walk. mm. i never knew so many people fish at night. and i never knew fishes had ears so you shouldnt make too much noise or you'll scare them away.

sat on the rocks at the beach once again. i was really quiet cos yeah, im oddball =( haha. rgs, ri gossip mostly. dawn is gossip queen seriously, she even knows who the sec3 rich kids in sc are. for about two hours i was staring out at the lights on the other side, and watching planes landing and what not. it was utterly romantic. and that was not sarcasm either.

then i complained my stomach was grumbling so we trooped back to the chalet. where i ate bread and potata chips. hah. then decided to sleep cos they werent doing much. well they were gonna play mahjong but i thought it was abit inconsiderate la. considering there were corpses all around us. but i was evil too, i was laughing at daniel lu cos he suddenly sat up like he was gonna sleep walk. but he just sat there and looked like he was sleeping sitting up. then he opened his eyes, looked around and lay back down to sleep. ahahaha damn cute.

random incident: jiachen said charlene shutup. for whatever reason. and dawn was like, what happened to mr nice guy? jiachen how can you tell charlene to shut up! and he was so repentant after that hah damn funny.

hmm woke up in the morning and i ran for the bathroom cos everyone was waiting for it. the downstairs toilet is unusable cos they washed weitsi's puke inside. grossssssss.

packed up and left for tanah merah mrt where there was a slight alarm when daniel lu thought he left his ezlink and wallet back at chalet. but ohwell they were with him. and alan was being retarded about his bag. theres a bomb! gee.

stopped at bugis and made it for macdonalds breakfast!

then off to home and me dawn weitsi and james are up for many more rounds of air hockey. set!

took a long walk to accompany jiachen and dawn. where we laughed at dawn for being retarded walking like she was drunk and almost spraining her ankle. then my turn to get laughed at for being retarded for running for the bus when it wasnt mine. it was unfair cos we didnt get to laugh at jiachen. haha.

sigh, i am missing chalet already.

things i took away from chalet:

shaun ang is himbo. SELF-ADMITTED! hahaha.

according to dawn, everyone has ISSUES.

james and his puck sounds. GOATS!

and OH MY SON!

okay. random. i have feeling im going to be saying those lines for awhile.

joey.

2007-11-09T00:00:00.000-08:00

so the enrichment stuff turned out not too bad (: our group's stuff turned out surprisingly.. interesting too! the only bad part was the lack of food on wed :/ ended up eating macs half an hour before training started?!

and! i'm aching madly now. spent yesterday and today hobbling around. wow.

anyway, meeting today was good (: got quite a bit out of bs.

thought the parallel drawn between sin and leprosy stood out at me. just like leprosy, sin destroys your relationships with other people, eats you up, gets worse and is contagious, affects people around you. how scarily appropriate. timely. thank God (: in fact, was just thinking about exactly that just before bs started today. quite clear isn't it, time to move on.

so long ago!

char(:

2007-11-08T20:36:00.000-08:00

im back from chalet and its a miracle im still alive.

when i got there it was designated mahjong morning, and i stoned off the first part. twas fun listening to the retarded conversations all around, being amazed that the guys sound no different from when i remember them from p6. i think its a boy thang =/

then xw and huiyi came! i havent seen those two since p6. and they kinda look the same as they did. but xw says i look really diff. james the ultimate luh, he compared me to this chinese teacher we had in nh. says i have a motherly look. RIGHT. that explains my motherly instincts ahahaha.

was gonna antisocially play cards upstairs with just us girls but the guys wanted to play bball. we followed and took a detour to the not-so-clean beach. sat on the rocks where i listened to rg gossip and them talking about combis for jc and whatnot. and i realised that its almost the end of os and i still have no idea bout where im going. apparently most of them are all taking pcme, with about two bcme and dawn wanting a weird pmeg. i think i will be the only one taking arts among them.

hah i am such an oddball. firstly going to a non-generic school, then continuing to be dumb while the rest of them are geniuses, and now planning to take an arts combi. gee. yeah. and now sam lim has a new name. where previously he was called 282, being the top psle student of our year, his new name is 4.0. yes, perfect score for gpa. RAWR. of course xw was annoyed, cos they've had a rivalry since p1. they alternate each year to be top. sheesh. haha.

then we had bbq! oh yum. NOT. ahahaha. spaghetti was barely cooked, thank God i was just so hungry i could eat a hippopotamus. and considering that there were about 20 guys with voracious appetities looking as if they want to eat the barbeque pit itself, it was a wonder we got any food at all.

okay i shall finish this post tmr! need to go mug now after enjoying myself =(

char(:

2007-11-06T20:41:00.000-08:00

gee i dont have a good feeling about lit.

and i got off to a good adrenaline-pumping start when i forgot my ezlink and had to run out of the hall, beg the technician for the key to the com lab to get to my bag.

ohwell, time and the hour runs through the roughest day (:

there was some article bout two days ago abt gepers getting to mix with the mainstream now? thats cool man. should've been done in our time. i never even knew the mainstream didnt like us til i got into same class with tiff, ex vice head of nhps, in sec1. hmm, im not entirely sure what they have against us. must think we're too proud. i happen to agree =/

CANT WAIT FOR CHALET TMR =D

char(;

2007-11-05T23:17:00.000-08:00

wow ive been crapping like there is no tmr. ss was urghhhhh so retarded i thought the background information was the source and wrote the first question answer on that til i turned the page and found that source A was actually behind. fyi, a map is NOT a cartoon. duh-uh.

yeah and unlike history where i spotted everything right, ss was total rubbish and none of the sec3 topics i crammed on sunday came out. so i had to think up my own dumb factors and im not entirely sure it was relevant.

then bio was crazily like chem, utterly decontextualised. makes me wonder why i even bothered to stuff two thick-ass books into my head.

okay, im ranting.

on the upside, saw mr angggg tdy! hahaha. and i kinda had a delayed reaction cos we were walking really quickly to the hall so i saw him and mrs lee coming up the stairs and i was like hi and walked past. then my nerves finally got across the message that hey, that's mr ang whom i havent seen for a million months cos he was on course so i stuck my head back past the wall and went hi mr ang and rushed off. he laughed out my name hha.

hmm yeah and after lit aileen and i were studying in unusual spots. first in the amphi, then outside our customary netball toilet next to the gym, then at the court! it was really cooling too ahhhhh. and it felt really good to be back there tho we didnt even play or anything. but i touched the good luck ball for bio ahaha. yeah and pear and jeanette were lookin retarded cos jeanette kept throwing the ball so high it rebounded off the ceiling. and pear has a weird way of catching the ball which aileen tried to video but was unsuccessful cos there were band people crashing our court and we were afraid one of them was a prefect.

and i think faking is the ultimate cool. rawr. we're invited to come back and play on the 21st! us and all the other seniors. mm funnn. joey come and play! ha.i so bet we're going to get trashed by our ultra cool juniors whee whoo. and i dont even mind. wahaha. i wont miss their south zone matches next year for the world. unless the world includes being chained back in school til really late which will annoy me thoroughly.

they won the friendly against acs international tdy =)

13slc; =[{Hung.Hin}]= dreamsofmishra says:
plus she's so fond of you and stuff.

dawn dawn cant wait to see you again =D

joey.

2007-11-05T00:05:00.000-08:00

gah this ain't nice. ah whatever, im determined to find it.

ANYWAY. i saw a little one today! and the brother. which got me so happy :D danny knows it.

zjs today was good too (: thank God. playing was fine. focused a lot better, i felt. thanks for prayers (: message was good!

ZOO! was fun :D even though the group was so small. perfect COW! yes megan?

char(;

2007-11-02T23:39:00.000-07:00

memories of my old notebook! im trashin' everything =D

so sick of love songs

so tired of tears

so done with wishin'

that you were still here

hah my pri sch mates are having chalet from 6-8 of nov! and the sixth are lit papers. hoping to join them after that, cos then im exam free till the next week which has retarded bio and chem mcq papers.

spasticated instructions on what to bring:

Towel (important - you must shower)

Any other random items eg. laptops, PSPs, books, MP3 players, etc.

Sleeping bags and any other sleeping gear (not enough beds)

Sense of humour

Tolerance

gee. =D damn i cant wait. haha. and in the middle of os somemore oooops =X but yeah think im allowed to go for only a day. darnnit.

and when patheticism reaches its peak, i made up my mind to quit being a poor little clownish worm and go and play bball!! =D hah funfun. with a bunch of crazy random kids. there was one kid who couldnt stop talking. and apparently he was saying some very sick stuff in chinese thank God i couldn't understand.

yup and the leader of the gang was a sec2 kiddo who was really quite pro. hah. and obviously alot more mature than the rest, he even made small talk like asking for names, my school, whether os was over, blah. nice guy (:

im stronger than this.

char(:

2007-11-01T19:02:00.000-07:00

i am the queen of retardism. few days back wanted to go to orchard library, ended up running around borders for a whole 20 mins before i realised i was in the wrong building. today, i was supposed to go jurong point and i didnt even realise i was in jurong entertainment centre til i couldnt be found. help me.

ended up mugging with aileen in west mall, which ended with shopping! =D

my mum's student is at our dining table now and im feeling insecure for bio. rah.

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