Chen-Voon def. Wong-Wu, 6-0, 6-1
yippee! haha.. i'm beat. zzzz
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Monday, February 27, 2006
game life and real life
haha.. i'm going to say it again but, I honestly feel like quitting dota liaoz.. i know it doesn't work, already owe a hand and leg to some friends who bet with me i couldn't resist the temptation or what.. and then another taunts me that till i can own at every single character then i should quit. bleah...
played like on last tues, fri and sat.. seems like everytime go back camp will have people jioing me to go play liao =) then today came another invitation.. but cannot liao lah.. i need to do something else before i get fat and blind over sitting at the screen the whole day..
went to east coast yet again for another blading session which went well considering the childish antics we (ok.. mostly me and Jack) indulged in.. oh well.. some things wouldn't change.
i need a new game. edgar, please burn Civ4 for me.. wanna do something interesting on my computer..
speaking of the REAL life, i'm a little disappointed with my tutee's performance in a maths vectors test that i gave her. sigh... many questions i thought i taught liao but still very wrong fundamentally... i finally realised the importance of tests and so on. when you tutor and teach, the tutee can be nodding and agreeing to everything you say even when you keep asking whether he/she understands or not.. but it is only through a test that all the mistakes and misconceptions start tumbling out and you get a little discouraged over how little of what u taught has been absorbed.
i need to get my driving lessons back, hope for a few acceptances from US unis, pray for my cousin getting the 'A's this wednesday, and finally get down to finishing my room.. which is like some ill fated building production that keeps getting halted over disagreements from vendors, rain checks and so on.. haha.. oh well
played like on last tues, fri and sat.. seems like everytime go back camp will have people jioing me to go play liao =) then today came another invitation.. but cannot liao lah.. i need to do something else before i get fat and blind over sitting at the screen the whole day..
went to east coast yet again for another blading session which went well considering the childish antics we (ok.. mostly me and Jack) indulged in.. oh well.. some things wouldn't change.
i need a new game. edgar, please burn Civ4 for me.. wanna do something interesting on my computer..
speaking of the REAL life, i'm a little disappointed with my tutee's performance in a maths vectors test that i gave her. sigh... many questions i thought i taught liao but still very wrong fundamentally... i finally realised the importance of tests and so on. when you tutor and teach, the tutee can be nodding and agreeing to everything you say even when you keep asking whether he/she understands or not.. but it is only through a test that all the mistakes and misconceptions start tumbling out and you get a little discouraged over how little of what u taught has been absorbed.
i need to get my driving lessons back, hope for a few acceptances from US unis, pray for my cousin getting the 'A's this wednesday, and finally get down to finishing my room.. which is like some ill fated building production that keeps getting halted over disagreements from vendors, rain checks and so on.. haha.. oh well
Saturday, February 25, 2006
range rants
wah.. one week since i last posted.. and i'm supposed to be free.. hehe
the problem with having one whole week of civillian life slouching at home and going out to meet various friends is that, it is SO darn tough to re-adjust back into army life.. it is so tiresome to have to wear no. 4 the whole day and have to stay in cos we needed to wake up early the next day for range.
oh well. aniwez, speaking of range, i'm so glad it's all over liao.. no more the need to fashion the pirate-ish eyepatch everytime before range and get teased over and over, no more incessant worrying and the constant prayers and self-assurances before the shoot, no more frustrations over retarded Figure 11s and 12s not falling when they are supposed to, and yeah, no more hard benches that you are forced to sit on the whole day till you wind up with a backache..
well to tell the truth, range this time was really pretty blissful and nice. first, some people finally had the brains to bring about some backed chairs to sit around with and then the frequent ninja vans kept up satiated and happy. bonus was the Burger King dinner that Waikit got for us.. haha.. that's life sia.. furthermore i was actually secretly pretty pleased with the detailing cos there was no pressure to get marksman or what shit from an "officer's detail" so I just shot to pass.. hee..
aniwez, must really thank God for making range so painless this time.. i remember myself sweating buckets in BMTC over not passing and sick with the idea of having the stay back on saturday for a reshoot, then being completely desolate over the fiendishly difficult ATP during OCS which had me really wondering was that a credible reason for me being an officer - can't run, can't shoot, can't do SOC.. bleah. then came the first combat shoot where I panicked over disappointing the officer's detail if I didn't shoot well and so on so forth...
now it's all over!
better get some sleep liao...
the problem with having one whole week of civillian life slouching at home and going out to meet various friends is that, it is SO darn tough to re-adjust back into army life.. it is so tiresome to have to wear no. 4 the whole day and have to stay in cos we needed to wake up early the next day for range.
oh well. aniwez, speaking of range, i'm so glad it's all over liao.. no more the need to fashion the pirate-ish eyepatch everytime before range and get teased over and over, no more incessant worrying and the constant prayers and self-assurances before the shoot, no more frustrations over retarded Figure 11s and 12s not falling when they are supposed to, and yeah, no more hard benches that you are forced to sit on the whole day till you wind up with a backache..
well to tell the truth, range this time was really pretty blissful and nice. first, some people finally had the brains to bring about some backed chairs to sit around with and then the frequent ninja vans kept up satiated and happy. bonus was the Burger King dinner that Waikit got for us.. haha.. that's life sia.. furthermore i was actually secretly pretty pleased with the detailing cos there was no pressure to get marksman or what shit from an "officer's detail" so I just shot to pass.. hee..
aniwez, must really thank God for making range so painless this time.. i remember myself sweating buckets in BMTC over not passing and sick with the idea of having the stay back on saturday for a reshoot, then being completely desolate over the fiendishly difficult ATP during OCS which had me really wondering was that a credible reason for me being an officer - can't run, can't shoot, can't do SOC.. bleah. then came the first combat shoot where I panicked over disappointing the officer's detail if I didn't shoot well and so on so forth...
now it's all over!
better get some sleep liao...
Sunday, February 19, 2006
second chances
warning: boring, christian-theological post ahead.. i needed to clear my head a bit...
i've always contemplate the stance of my church on various issues, and have always admitted that grace church is somewhat conservative in some ways... today @ bible study, a pastor mentioned something about our religion being one of infinite second chances, a faith concerned with the reconciliation with God from our deviant and Godless ways. Who are we to condemn others who have seemingly sinned bigger sins like adultery and even divorce when there's no obvious distinction between "bigger" sins and "smaller" sins? Are we giving out this "exclusivity" vibe to others, repelling them because of the sins they committed before when we ourselves are probably wallowing in our own sins daily and in need to pray for forgiveness daily? and honestly, who came up with this severity chart for sins -- is it purely societal driven, where society and culture influences the depths of rights and wrongs?
then again, I am fearful of falling into the trap of being overly liberal with my thinking. it is simple - am I coming up with excuses and justifications of a faith that has been steadily deviating with the gospel truth? are we over compromising our stances yet again to fit what society whats to perceive as right, and in fact deviating further from what the bible says?
another arguments comes into play.. are we interpreting the bible correctly, with all the presonal interpretations and cultural and era biases infused in it? will anyone have sufficient intelligence to be able to understand what God truly wants for us or are we honestly grasping for some light in the murky darkness? fact is, I realised today how amazingly pathetic huamn beings are as compared to God... we think, we attempt to intepret, we attempt to understand, we throw out theories, we debate furiously through forums, yet honestly are we getting anywhere closer to any answers? or is nature merely laughing at us when we prod a little into her mysteries and find yet another vast labyrinth of unsolved questions?
then we think we can use moral standards to gauge rights and wrongs.. yet Romans said that morals can easily be corrupted and changed as with the times... there's no empirical standard for morals and hence no way to ensure it does not shift according to what the times dictates... we think we can use our emotions and innate feelings to "do the right thing", yet the Bible explicitly tells us not to indulge in bodily feelings and stuff... so what can we rely on?
nothing.
we have no hope except to cling onto God's love for us and our faith to him..
i've always contemplate the stance of my church on various issues, and have always admitted that grace church is somewhat conservative in some ways... today @ bible study, a pastor mentioned something about our religion being one of infinite second chances, a faith concerned with the reconciliation with God from our deviant and Godless ways. Who are we to condemn others who have seemingly sinned bigger sins like adultery and even divorce when there's no obvious distinction between "bigger" sins and "smaller" sins? Are we giving out this "exclusivity" vibe to others, repelling them because of the sins they committed before when we ourselves are probably wallowing in our own sins daily and in need to pray for forgiveness daily? and honestly, who came up with this severity chart for sins -- is it purely societal driven, where society and culture influences the depths of rights and wrongs?
then again, I am fearful of falling into the trap of being overly liberal with my thinking. it is simple - am I coming up with excuses and justifications of a faith that has been steadily deviating with the gospel truth? are we over compromising our stances yet again to fit what society whats to perceive as right, and in fact deviating further from what the bible says?
another arguments comes into play.. are we interpreting the bible correctly, with all the presonal interpretations and cultural and era biases infused in it? will anyone have sufficient intelligence to be able to understand what God truly wants for us or are we honestly grasping for some light in the murky darkness? fact is, I realised today how amazingly pathetic huamn beings are as compared to God... we think, we attempt to intepret, we attempt to understand, we throw out theories, we debate furiously through forums, yet honestly are we getting anywhere closer to any answers? or is nature merely laughing at us when we prod a little into her mysteries and find yet another vast labyrinth of unsolved questions?
then we think we can use moral standards to gauge rights and wrongs.. yet Romans said that morals can easily be corrupted and changed as with the times... there's no empirical standard for morals and hence no way to ensure it does not shift according to what the times dictates... we think we can use our emotions and innate feelings to "do the right thing", yet the Bible explicitly tells us not to indulge in bodily feelings and stuff... so what can we rely on?
nothing.
we have no hope except to cling onto God's love for us and our faith to him..
heartache and frustrations
am i going to pretend-live my whole life? sigh..
things that seriously frustrate me...
1. michigan sends back an email telling me i still have not submitted this and that.. yadda yadda..
2. my room is still not done. and i'm not intending to do much still.
3. people keep asking me about my unis, and about when i'm going to leave. problem is, i still haven't gotten a freaking school. and if problems keep mounting, i might seriously not get any.
what am i trying to procrastinate from?! honestly what am i trying to do?! i think i'm so smart sometimes that when I look back, I just cringe at my idiocy. i think i'm so darn emotionally capable that i can disect people's emotions and expressions and persuade them to do this and that.. yet PLEASE... i don't even understand myself. sometimes i really wonder just who am i? a product modelled by the society and conditioned to think likewise? a clueless know-it-all searching for stuff to anchor himself to so that he can feel secure?
the one thing i only know now is, that my God is real, and He loves me. other than that, it's pretty much a mess. sometimes i don't understand why God allows some things to happen.
i'm going to sleep. there's no point drowning in things that wouldn't heal themselves by just complaining about them.
things that seriously frustrate me...
1. michigan sends back an email telling me i still have not submitted this and that.. yadda yadda..
2. my room is still not done. and i'm not intending to do much still.
3. people keep asking me about my unis, and about when i'm going to leave. problem is, i still haven't gotten a freaking school. and if problems keep mounting, i might seriously not get any.
what am i trying to procrastinate from?! honestly what am i trying to do?! i think i'm so smart sometimes that when I look back, I just cringe at my idiocy. i think i'm so darn emotionally capable that i can disect people's emotions and expressions and persuade them to do this and that.. yet PLEASE... i don't even understand myself. sometimes i really wonder just who am i? a product modelled by the society and conditioned to think likewise? a clueless know-it-all searching for stuff to anchor himself to so that he can feel secure?
the one thing i only know now is, that my God is real, and He loves me. other than that, it's pretty much a mess. sometimes i don't understand why God allows some things to happen.
i'm going to sleep. there's no point drowning in things that wouldn't heal themselves by just complaining about them.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
i am a dirty slob
man.. i think i'm going to DIE when i actually live alone. hehe
it's like i was so grateful for our weekly household helper to come around and clean up the muck and mess that has accumulated in our house since my parents left on monday.. and trust me, it WAS a mess. first was the unearthed dust and grime from my room revamp (which is honestly in a pretty pathetic state.. sigh), then it was me being idiotic and spilling nearly 3/4 of the contents of my cup noodles onto the dining room floor on monday itself...
that's like the worst calamity that could have befallen on me during that period of time. cos it wasn't the nissin cup noodles that's pretty small, it's the big bowl type of cup noodles with extra sesame oil toppings and so on.. and honestly, if there's anything you can spill, sesame oil-ed noodles probably tops the charts.. you have the muck of noodles swimming around this sea of oily water...
my lame attempts at mopping up and cleaning up were pretty sad.. cos my sis complained that the floor was sticky and the sesame smell still lingered.. -_-
i never ate at home from that day on. too much risk! haha
so it was a GREAT GREAT RELIEF to step into the house and feel the smooth surface of the floor brush past the soles of my feet again.. THANKS ALOT!! =) (honestly, i got pretty pissed off with the household help last time cos she was a like an alarm clock from hell on my friday sleep-ins where she would like purposely come to my room first thing in the morning at like 9 plus and start vacuum cleaning my room... sigh..)
today was spent mainly at camp trying to be mediator, mentor and ICS2 helpdesk personnel yet again... oh yah.. and my main job of signing my name on an impossible amount of paperwork.. SAF, seriously cut down on this paperwork shit man! it delays every single job (including the payment to ME for the $300 of ice cream i bought for the bn!!!), and it forces whichever appointment holder to like what, be desk bound and office bound for his whole tenure?
like when my S4 went on nearly a 1 month overseas leave, all the logistics stuff was like cuiz cos no one could sign any AORs or approve all the monetary stuff besides CO, who of course is darn busy himself... so like everything pile up for no good reason...
oh well... should be sleeping soon.. k-lunch here i come again! hehe~
it's like i was so grateful for our weekly household helper to come around and clean up the muck and mess that has accumulated in our house since my parents left on monday.. and trust me, it WAS a mess. first was the unearthed dust and grime from my room revamp (which is honestly in a pretty pathetic state.. sigh), then it was me being idiotic and spilling nearly 3/4 of the contents of my cup noodles onto the dining room floor on monday itself...
that's like the worst calamity that could have befallen on me during that period of time. cos it wasn't the nissin cup noodles that's pretty small, it's the big bowl type of cup noodles with extra sesame oil toppings and so on.. and honestly, if there's anything you can spill, sesame oil-ed noodles probably tops the charts.. you have the muck of noodles swimming around this sea of oily water...
my lame attempts at mopping up and cleaning up were pretty sad.. cos my sis complained that the floor was sticky and the sesame smell still lingered.. -_-
i never ate at home from that day on. too much risk! haha
so it was a GREAT GREAT RELIEF to step into the house and feel the smooth surface of the floor brush past the soles of my feet again.. THANKS ALOT!! =) (honestly, i got pretty pissed off with the household help last time cos she was a like an alarm clock from hell on my friday sleep-ins where she would like purposely come to my room first thing in the morning at like 9 plus and start vacuum cleaning my room... sigh..)
today was spent mainly at camp trying to be mediator, mentor and ICS2 helpdesk personnel yet again... oh yah.. and my main job of signing my name on an impossible amount of paperwork.. SAF, seriously cut down on this paperwork shit man! it delays every single job (including the payment to ME for the $300 of ice cream i bought for the bn!!!), and it forces whichever appointment holder to like what, be desk bound and office bound for his whole tenure?
like when my S4 went on nearly a 1 month overseas leave, all the logistics stuff was like cuiz cos no one could sign any AORs or approve all the monetary stuff besides CO, who of course is darn busy himself... so like everything pile up for no good reason...
oh well... should be sleeping soon.. k-lunch here i come again! hehe~
Thursday, February 16, 2006
extreme makeover: room edition
my bones ache alot. spent these two days scurrying around with my big project of redoing my room aka facelift by debbie travis (guilty TV pleasures @ 12 noon)...
so i started the painting on tuesday. and boy, i wanna shoot debbie travis for making everything D.I.Y. look so simple. sheesh. realised my paint was uneven, realised somehow i was like very various shades of blue across the wall... got really pissed with the paint roller that kept falling off and dirtying my floor, forgot the turpentine, left my brush with paint to dry and harden and spoil...
-_- i SUCK at such stuff man. and thanks to my procrastination, now i only have done two panels of nice blue-y walls (thankfully it turned out well) and am started to fret my choice of colour.. cos it makes my room seem very dark.. then.. it doesn't seem to match my furniture leh... sianz!
whatever lah.. must go buy more paint liao for the next 2.. dun even know whether i have enough time.. pooh
aniwez, Jack had the unfortunate coincidence of planning an outing on V Day itself, so it was me, Jack, Ed and Luke walking around realising the whole singapore was out flooding restaurants with retardedly expensive "love" menus... since we couldn't enter like ANY food joint besides fast food, we just walked around finding the most mismatched couples, counting the wierdest gifts and yeah... spotting the random gay couples here and there.. haha..
realised a few things -
1. there's a very cool shop @ Millenia Walk called Candy Empire... somehow any shop crammed to the brim with assortments of glittering chocolate wrappers and boxes just makes people feel happy and tempted to walk in and soak up the "chocolatmosphere".. kinda understand Charlie's feelings when he entered Willy Wonka's factory liaoz..
2. Marina Square is really completely different now and the shops are very ultra-modernistic chic too... there's even a Baleno:Attitude.. which i guess sells more up market Baleno stuff... hehe..
3. Carl's Jr is a dream come true for people who complain of measly burgers.
4. Brokeback mountain tix were ACTUALLY selling fast at the Marina Square cinema.. wah.. first time i see a R21 show that is selling fast lor.. amazing.
tired... tommorow i wanna buy the IKEA stuff to fill my room liaoz.. ciao
so i started the painting on tuesday. and boy, i wanna shoot debbie travis for making everything D.I.Y. look so simple. sheesh. realised my paint was uneven, realised somehow i was like very various shades of blue across the wall... got really pissed with the paint roller that kept falling off and dirtying my floor, forgot the turpentine, left my brush with paint to dry and harden and spoil...
-_- i SUCK at such stuff man. and thanks to my procrastination, now i only have done two panels of nice blue-y walls (thankfully it turned out well) and am started to fret my choice of colour.. cos it makes my room seem very dark.. then.. it doesn't seem to match my furniture leh... sianz!
whatever lah.. must go buy more paint liao for the next 2.. dun even know whether i have enough time.. pooh
aniwez, Jack had the unfortunate coincidence of planning an outing on V Day itself, so it was me, Jack, Ed and Luke walking around realising the whole singapore was out flooding restaurants with retardedly expensive "love" menus... since we couldn't enter like ANY food joint besides fast food, we just walked around finding the most mismatched couples, counting the wierdest gifts and yeah... spotting the random gay couples here and there.. haha..
realised a few things -
1. there's a very cool shop @ Millenia Walk called Candy Empire... somehow any shop crammed to the brim with assortments of glittering chocolate wrappers and boxes just makes people feel happy and tempted to walk in and soak up the "chocolatmosphere".. kinda understand Charlie's feelings when he entered Willy Wonka's factory liaoz..
2. Marina Square is really completely different now and the shops are very ultra-modernistic chic too... there's even a Baleno:Attitude.. which i guess sells more up market Baleno stuff... hehe..
3. Carl's Jr is a dream come true for people who complain of measly burgers.
4. Brokeback mountain tix were ACTUALLY selling fast at the Marina Square cinema.. wah.. first time i see a R21 show that is selling fast lor.. amazing.
tired... tommorow i wanna buy the IKEA stuff to fill my room liaoz.. ciao
Sunday, February 12, 2006
a dilemna yet again
was sharing with junlin and some other friends at fellowship today regarding the dilemna of fitting in with the "popular" crowd and being able to connect with them, establish good relationships with them and maybe with a good testimony make them slightly interested in christianity, and what's the great joy behind it.
problem is, are we influencing them or are we getting influenced ourselves?
i always felt that christians adopted two extremes when mixing around with friends - either they completed distanced themselves away all the "worldy" activities and stood firm against everything deemed wrong and refused to budge in their stance, or they would just be like a sunday christian and act just like the rest and fit in perfectly fine until people actually are surprised they are christians.
honestly.. where do we draw the line? can there be a balance?
i used to think that distancing yourself didn't make sense cos it meant there wasn't a chance to build up a good relationship with your friends and hence it would be a very unconvincing testimony to talk to them about... then if u just be so rigid and shut people up regarding controversial topics without listening to what they have to say, then honestly how to reach out?
but then again, adopting my stance isn't much better.. i feel like in my bid to reach out and (ok.. maybe it's also partially altruistic) be with the "popular" crowd, i'm getting inlfluenced by them instead of me influencing them. it's really really tough.. and i'm really worried I'm giving a bad testimony to people.. worried that my viewpoints are accepted by my friends as the "general christian consensus" and it poisons their view of christians.
how to strike the balance? i really dunno.. i think many a times i've already fallen into the "being influenced" side cos i'm so insecure.. like one "incident" recently.. so, how?
food for thought
problem is, are we influencing them or are we getting influenced ourselves?
i always felt that christians adopted two extremes when mixing around with friends - either they completed distanced themselves away all the "worldy" activities and stood firm against everything deemed wrong and refused to budge in their stance, or they would just be like a sunday christian and act just like the rest and fit in perfectly fine until people actually are surprised they are christians.
honestly.. where do we draw the line? can there be a balance?
i used to think that distancing yourself didn't make sense cos it meant there wasn't a chance to build up a good relationship with your friends and hence it would be a very unconvincing testimony to talk to them about... then if u just be so rigid and shut people up regarding controversial topics without listening to what they have to say, then honestly how to reach out?
but then again, adopting my stance isn't much better.. i feel like in my bid to reach out and (ok.. maybe it's also partially altruistic) be with the "popular" crowd, i'm getting inlfluenced by them instead of me influencing them. it's really really tough.. and i'm really worried I'm giving a bad testimony to people.. worried that my viewpoints are accepted by my friends as the "general christian consensus" and it poisons their view of christians.
how to strike the balance? i really dunno.. i think many a times i've already fallen into the "being influenced" side cos i'm so insecure.. like one "incident" recently.. so, how?
food for thought
ignorant fella
i realised something. i'm actually quite a ignorant fella with pathetically few interests and shallow knowledge of alot of stuff...
like yesterday when i lost terribly at mahjong, (sigh... no more liaoz!) i realised i know nuts about anime, naruto, computer games stuff and so on... well i rationalised that (as linken would say) it's just not my thang so yeah, it's ok...
then today i went out with alvin & co and then realised how little i know about english music scenes cos i got dissed about saying dixie chicks was country music. (what's wrong with that honestly?!?)
then when went out with the 3F guys at night i like switch off when they talk about soccer matches and so on...
so seriously.. what do i know hor? how come people got time to memorise naruto powers, music artiste albums, soccer form-ups and i like so ditzy and dumb like that? i mean not like it's very important or what.. but.. just very wierd. like i no "entertainment" life like that besides reality tv, which (according to the bitch linken again) is so passe.
oh well.. just musing...
--some ground rules about posting on my tag board--
my blog ain't some forum for free speech and neither is it some place for people to openly diss me or whatever. hello? this is my blog so i have the right whether or not to delete tags i wanna delete.
dun leave your name as anonymous or someone. you write a tag so i can at least decipher who you are and if needed, reply to you or diss you back. insulting me using anonymous will almost guarantee your tag being deleted. and honestly, it is pretty stupid to remain as anonymous/someone when I can quite obviously guess who it is.
honestly i very suay-bian one.. you wanna diss me, talk cock, write rubbish, go on.. but just at least lemme know who's the person writing such stuff.
like yesterday when i lost terribly at mahjong, (sigh... no more liaoz!) i realised i know nuts about anime, naruto, computer games stuff and so on... well i rationalised that (as linken would say) it's just not my thang so yeah, it's ok...
then today i went out with alvin & co and then realised how little i know about english music scenes cos i got dissed about saying dixie chicks was country music. (what's wrong with that honestly?!?)
then when went out with the 3F guys at night i like switch off when they talk about soccer matches and so on...
so seriously.. what do i know hor? how come people got time to memorise naruto powers, music artiste albums, soccer form-ups and i like so ditzy and dumb like that? i mean not like it's very important or what.. but.. just very wierd. like i no "entertainment" life like that besides reality tv, which (according to the bitch linken again) is so passe.
oh well.. just musing...
--some ground rules about posting on my tag board--
my blog ain't some forum for free speech and neither is it some place for people to openly diss me or whatever. hello? this is my blog so i have the right whether or not to delete tags i wanna delete.
dun leave your name as anonymous or someone. you write a tag so i can at least decipher who you are and if needed, reply to you or diss you back. insulting me using anonymous will almost guarantee your tag being deleted. and honestly, it is pretty stupid to remain as anonymous/someone when I can quite obviously guess who it is.
honestly i very suay-bian one.. you wanna diss me, talk cock, write rubbish, go on.. but just at least lemme know who's the person writing such stuff.
Friday, February 10, 2006
Jesus Take The Wheel
Carrie Underwood
She was driving last Friday on her way to Cincinnati
On a snow white Christmas Eve
Going home to see her Mama and her Daddy with the baby in the backseat
Fifty miles to go and she was running low on faith and gasoline
It would been a long hard year
She had a lot on her mind and she didn't pay attention
She was going way to fast
Before she knew it she was spinning on a thin black sheet of glass
She saw both their lives flash before her eyes
She didn't even have time to cry
She was sooo scared
She threw her hands up in the air
Jesus take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can't do this all on my own
I'm letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I'm on
Jesus take the wheel
It was still getting colder when she made it to the shoulder
And the car came to a stop
She cried when she saw that baby in the backseat sleeping like a rock
And for the first time in a long time
She bowed her head to pray
She said I'm sorry for the way
I've been living my life
I know I've got to change
So from now on tonight
Jesus take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can't do this all my own
I'm letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I'm on
Oh, Jesus take the wheel
Oh, I'm letting go
So give me one more chance
Save me from this road I'm on
From this road I'm on
Jesus take the wheel
Oh, take it, take it from me
Oh, why, oh
She was driving last Friday on her way to Cincinnati
On a snow white Christmas Eve
Going home to see her Mama and her Daddy with the baby in the backseat
Fifty miles to go and she was running low on faith and gasoline
It would been a long hard year
She had a lot on her mind and she didn't pay attention
She was going way to fast
Before she knew it she was spinning on a thin black sheet of glass
She saw both their lives flash before her eyes
She didn't even have time to cry
She was sooo scared
She threw her hands up in the air
Jesus take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can't do this all on my own
I'm letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I'm on
Jesus take the wheel
It was still getting colder when she made it to the shoulder
And the car came to a stop
She cried when she saw that baby in the backseat sleeping like a rock
And for the first time in a long time
She bowed her head to pray
She said I'm sorry for the way
I've been living my life
I know I've got to change
So from now on tonight
Jesus take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can't do this all my own
I'm letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I'm on
Oh, Jesus take the wheel
Oh, I'm letting go
So give me one more chance
Save me from this road I'm on
From this road I'm on
Jesus take the wheel
Oh, take it, take it from me
Oh, why, oh
winning 3 = loser?!
thanks to reagan and wee kiat, i actually did the unthinkable and accompanied them to watch fearless for the second time in two days.. sia la! ok lah.. not that bad, at least it wasn't geisha and I could appreciate the fighting scenes and choreography better this time round.. but wah, the village scenes really took its toll on me...
oh well.. had intended to just go to camp, do afr/sar and then siam.. but then folowed TCC1 to eat lunch then drag drag drag till 3+, watch movie, play dota till 11.. WAH..
oh well..not as if I would have had much things to do at home, but hmm... made me realise how time flies when you are preoccupied.
oh, and i was happily surprised that kelly clarkson beat the aging walrus of a mariah for female pop perfomance.. wonder whether lin ken now considers his leave taken in vain.. HAHA.. to see mariah sit there and get snub once through again.
mariah - the only person who can win 3 grammys and still look like a loser. congrats!
oh well.. had intended to just go to camp, do afr/sar and then siam.. but then folowed TCC1 to eat lunch then drag drag drag till 3+, watch movie, play dota till 11.. WAH..
oh well..not as if I would have had much things to do at home, but hmm... made me realise how time flies when you are preoccupied.
oh, and i was happily surprised that kelly clarkson beat the aging walrus of a mariah for female pop perfomance.. wonder whether lin ken now considers his leave taken in vain.. HAHA.. to see mariah sit there and get snub once through again.
mariah - the only person who can win 3 grammys and still look like a loser. congrats!
Thursday, February 09, 2006
australia bound
fearless was pretty decent. i was quite surprised they depicted the japanese fighter to be a person of integrity and honour, considering how chinese are like traditionally supposed to hate japanese. it's a good step towards chinese-jap relationships i guess =)
went out with jeremy khoo to watch it.. prob his last chinese movie for a while cos he's going to go Ozzie and study liaoz.. sad to see frens leaving yet again but well, at least tresure them when they are there still...
so yeah, farewell to jeremy, royston, christine, diane, tang and anyone else whom will be poofing off to australia by next week to start yet another academic chapter...
gonna sleep liao.. pissed off that i have to go camp tmr to finish up some crap things... -_-
went out with jeremy khoo to watch it.. prob his last chinese movie for a while cos he's going to go Ozzie and study liaoz.. sad to see frens leaving yet again but well, at least tresure them when they are there still...
so yeah, farewell to jeremy, royston, christine, diane, tang and anyone else whom will be poofing off to australia by next week to start yet another academic chapter...
gonna sleep liao.. pissed off that i have to go camp tmr to finish up some crap things... -_-
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
new year snacks
i think my mum was awfully smart in her choice of new year goodies to buy and place at home this year round.
why? cos she bought stuff that I shied away from and din even bother tasting... stuff like dried mushroom snacks (what the!?) and assorted chinese candies and wierdish nuts and snacks..
she didn't even buy like the barbecqued pork and love letters and that sort, and BEST, when people gave her goodies like ferrero roche and stuff, she gave it to other people or brought it to parties...
then my dad went to buy the most odd combination of "soft drinks" to serve guests, what mandarin orange tea?! green apple mirinda!? i give up sia, dun even bother tempting my taste buds.
sigh.. so bleak. i can't stand it liao... =(
and what's it with counting CNY ang bao money? i thought we are supposed to wait till Day 12 before can open!? aniwez i need the money.. have been spending a bomb on everything from lan shops to food to com games..
why? cos she bought stuff that I shied away from and din even bother tasting... stuff like dried mushroom snacks (what the!?) and assorted chinese candies and wierdish nuts and snacks..
she didn't even buy like the barbecqued pork and love letters and that sort, and BEST, when people gave her goodies like ferrero roche and stuff, she gave it to other people or brought it to parties...
then my dad went to buy the most odd combination of "soft drinks" to serve guests, what mandarin orange tea?! green apple mirinda!? i give up sia, dun even bother tempting my taste buds.
sigh.. so bleak. i can't stand it liao... =(
and what's it with counting CNY ang bao money? i thought we are supposed to wait till Day 12 before can open!? aniwez i need the money.. have been spending a bomb on everything from lan shops to food to com games..
one day work week
hehe.. i'm currently trying to work out a one-day work week schedule for my remaining weeks left in army. so I met my quota this week liaoz.. haha! but seriously, I think it's like a rarity to find a NSF LTA still scurrying around busy like mad and having to work through the day and sorts... endangered liao..
aniwez all my frens who are going to ORD aren't around liao.. like when i messaged Fred @ 8am "U in camp?" his reply only came at 1.15pm "No..." -_- duh!
spent the first half of the day clearing rubbish from the past week and shooting arrows for the next, then happily realising that S4 didn't shoot a single arrow at me for this month. and prob the next. =) got more delighted when I realised my duty was to be taken over by poor Wai Kit who kenaed 7 extra cos he suay-suay mentioned a wrong topic in front of his out-going OC... suay sia..
was talking about blogs and how majority are just avenues to vent and bitch about people, or to become a media whore and scream for attention with controversial topics... how's my blog going eh?
1st blog of mine was too forced and strained bitchy, then my secret blog kena found out and was obviously too offensive and hurtful... so now 3rd blog liao.. when nothing to blog just shut up.. hehe.. blog when got some urge...
like when i wanna say i kinda enjoyed playing doTa today with TCC1 people again... hehe.. got to try out new wierdish characters like enchantress and silencer and OWNED to some extent.. hee =) ok.. stop this arrogant rubbish shit since it only brings about bad repercussions - people think I'm wa-ay over addicted over doTa or people play with me and I tio owned and then feel like kena slap back in the face.
so.. no more doTa talk.. =)
sian... need to call Berkeley liao regarding my missing SAT scores.. -_- wish me luck!
aniwez all my frens who are going to ORD aren't around liao.. like when i messaged Fred @ 8am "U in camp?" his reply only came at 1.15pm "No..." -_- duh!
spent the first half of the day clearing rubbish from the past week and shooting arrows for the next, then happily realising that S4 didn't shoot a single arrow at me for this month. and prob the next. =) got more delighted when I realised my duty was to be taken over by poor Wai Kit who kenaed 7 extra cos he suay-suay mentioned a wrong topic in front of his out-going OC... suay sia..
was talking about blogs and how majority are just avenues to vent and bitch about people, or to become a media whore and scream for attention with controversial topics... how's my blog going eh?
1st blog of mine was too forced and strained bitchy, then my secret blog kena found out and was obviously too offensive and hurtful... so now 3rd blog liao.. when nothing to blog just shut up.. hehe.. blog when got some urge...
like when i wanna say i kinda enjoyed playing doTa today with TCC1 people again... hehe.. got to try out new wierdish characters like enchantress and silencer and OWNED to some extent.. hee =) ok.. stop this arrogant rubbish shit since it only brings about bad repercussions - people think I'm wa-ay over addicted over doTa or people play with me and I tio owned and then feel like kena slap back in the face.
so.. no more doTa talk.. =)
sian... need to call Berkeley liao regarding my missing SAT scores.. -_- wish me luck!
Friday, February 03, 2006
spending the first few dog days
my life is currently boring me to tears, and mainly cos I dun actually know what to do with that much time! haha... no lah, i'm not clearing for those who think it's just wrong for a April-ORDer to clear together with the March-ORD peeps. It's just a taste of what's to come =)
aniwez, basically did some boh liao stuff, watched the most painful movie for quite some time and.. that's about it.. haha.. yeah i know, I'd start getting my life up, planning for stuff and so on so forth. but for these few days, just let my life spell DECADENCE. hmm...
aniwez, spent a good part of first few days of new year escaping outta coloured rooms and anode and cathode houses.. basically you're trapped in a room and you have to click on stuff and collect miscellaneous items to combine and find a way to get out of the room.
i've currently escaped out of Crimson Room, Viridian Room, White Chamber, Travelogue, Blue Chamber, Anode and Cathode Museum, Casino, House and Office.
think Viridian was the most challenging and Museum was the most fun. Blue Chamber was a complete borefest and Crimson Room was a failure cos the safe didn't work properly. =)
reminds me of the most fun game devised on reality TV which was where 3 people were trapped in 3 different rooms and had to figure out how to get each other out. Was part of The Mole Final 3 challenge and was REALLY intriguing and cool. too bad those two contenders (besides the Mole) weren't too bothered to finish the challenge. -_-
Wedsneday i ventured out of my comfy house only to plunge into what I consider the biggest insult to Japanese culture ever.. yeah, Memoirs of a Geisha. Not only was it a snoozefest cos the plot was crawling inexplicably slowly, the torturous Japenglish or what ever garbled crap that Zhang Ziyi was spewing out made me seriously wince. not to mention them saying the most retarded lines ever thanks to a direct translation of Japanese idioms.
seriously, what the hell is "You can't tell the sun, More Sun. or the rain, Less rain." wah liao. travesty man. it's just complete orientalist-fest with bad dubbing. might as well just take a step further and cast an all ang-moh cast akin to that like Tom Cruise's turn in The Last Samurai lah..
Keira Knightley can be Sayuri, Angelina Jolie can be Hatsumom, Nicole Kidman can be Mameha and eh-hm! MARIAH CAREY can be PUMPKIN. and a darn good one to boot!
and today i went to buy AOE3 to play and well.. haha.. it's quite fun so far.. so let's see.. i think i better go sleep early liao.. (haha... considering the time now is 12:21)
aniwez, basically did some boh liao stuff, watched the most painful movie for quite some time and.. that's about it.. haha.. yeah i know, I'd start getting my life up, planning for stuff and so on so forth. but for these few days, just let my life spell DECADENCE. hmm...
aniwez, spent a good part of first few days of new year escaping outta coloured rooms and anode and cathode houses.. basically you're trapped in a room and you have to click on stuff and collect miscellaneous items to combine and find a way to get out of the room.
i've currently escaped out of Crimson Room, Viridian Room, White Chamber, Travelogue, Blue Chamber, Anode and Cathode Museum, Casino, House and Office.
think Viridian was the most challenging and Museum was the most fun. Blue Chamber was a complete borefest and Crimson Room was a failure cos the safe didn't work properly. =)
reminds me of the most fun game devised on reality TV which was where 3 people were trapped in 3 different rooms and had to figure out how to get each other out. Was part of The Mole Final 3 challenge and was REALLY intriguing and cool. too bad those two contenders (besides the Mole) weren't too bothered to finish the challenge. -_-
Wedsneday i ventured out of my comfy house only to plunge into what I consider the biggest insult to Japanese culture ever.. yeah, Memoirs of a Geisha. Not only was it a snoozefest cos the plot was crawling inexplicably slowly, the torturous Japenglish or what ever garbled crap that Zhang Ziyi was spewing out made me seriously wince. not to mention them saying the most retarded lines ever thanks to a direct translation of Japanese idioms.
seriously, what the hell is "You can't tell the sun, More Sun. or the rain, Less rain." wah liao. travesty man. it's just complete orientalist-fest with bad dubbing. might as well just take a step further and cast an all ang-moh cast akin to that like Tom Cruise's turn in The Last Samurai lah..
Keira Knightley can be Sayuri, Angelina Jolie can be Hatsumom, Nicole Kidman can be Mameha and eh-hm! MARIAH CAREY can be PUMPKIN. and a darn good one to boot!
and today i went to buy AOE3 to play and well.. haha.. it's quite fun so far.. so let's see.. i think i better go sleep early liao.. (haha... considering the time now is 12:21)
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