~Blessed~

I'm not sure about this crazy 2nd post, but I just had something to say.

Today was tiring to have 3 tuition lessons at a go, consecutively. But the last one which was 2.5hrs was indeed fruitful and God made that happen.

Geraldine, this girl I have been tutoring since 2001 is a really beautiful student I have. She's a God-fearing girl whom I was so shamed talking to her. She talks about God every lesson and shares with me stuff.

She kindda just 'got out' of a relationship with this guy at school & it was because she felt that she wasn't doing the right thing. Probing further, the guy isn't a Christian and she felt that he was in priority instead of God. Not only that, it wasn't love but infatuation. The past few lessons she has been sharing with me how God has helped her through these weeks of 'separation', and just now, she finally said she did the right thing, though painful. She said that now God is her priority and she does everything because she wants to obey God.

I'm not sure about you. But I am ministered yet shamed at the same time. A girl 7 years my junior is telling me things I have just and yet to discover. She said that being in a relationship is tiring and she looks for a God-fearing man, but not now. She educated me on the true difference infatuation and love. She taught me how to let go of stuff even when it hurts so much.

I really don't know. I'm so speechless and yet spiritually satisfied after every lesson with her. She has taught me much more than I have done for her. I know that God has been working through her life as a perfect living testimony for all those who thought that some things were impossible.

~She's amazing~

Poor me, of all times, this big teeth had to give me problems. Yes.. my wisdom tooth. It's certainly not a blessing to have wisdom teeth because there is no logical explanation that having wisdom teeth makes u any wiser. Then again, maybe it does, because of the pain you have to go through and then the decaying process and then the extraction process. How wise is that~

I have two impacted wisdom teeth on the lower set and the right one is decaying. :( Went to the dentist down my house and he quoted S$700! (but it's a young dentist with some freaking accent. He's very sweet though, think he wants my money that's why) So I told him i'll consider first. Went home, kicked up a fuss and almost cried thinking of the surgery I had to go through. Then called up my dad's dentist and they quoted S$450. Went over in the evening and Dr Ng took an X-ray of my tooth (so cute!!!) and gave so medication to stop the infection, advising me to go back as soon as possible for extraction. Then, after some bargaining, he brought it down to S$350! What a difference! But hey, I think I trust him more with his 30+ years of experience. (and he's very sweet & gentle too)

Wisdom Teeth... :(
see... that's how a wisdom tooth is slanted.But mine's out of the gum

Mom says that nowadays young dentists are out to slash people in the throat before treating the teeth. haha...

I'm so praying that the real pain doesn't come before my extraction next week... Doomsday: 2 October 10am. hellllpp...

Mooncakes!

Mooncake eating festival is here again! Yippie. I love such chinese festivals 'cuz that will give me a reason to eat. Just like our Lunar Chinese New Year is the time to binge bak kwa, shrimp rolls, love letters, pumkin seeds, pineapple tarts, yadayada...

Mooncakes are nice, if we get the right ones. But the Straits Times has to spoil it all by running an article on the calorie count of a beautiful, yummylicious mooncake.. grrr...

TRUE or false: One mooncake contains a whopping 1,000 calories?

Bad news - it's true.

The Health Promotion Board's website ( www.hpb.gov.sg ) lists just how calorie-laden these pastries are.

A lotus seed paste mooncake contains 716 calories
A lotus seed paste mooncake with one salted egg yolk has 790 calories
If it has two salted egg yolks, that's 890 calories
If it has four salted egg yolks, you're looking at 975 calories.
The average recommended daily intake of calories is 2,500 for men and 2,000 for women, so eating an entire mooncake could take up almost half your daily quota.

Ms Cyndy Au, a regional nutritionist with a multi-national food corporation, says mooncakes are very high in calories because of their high sugar and fat content.

A lotus seed paste mooncake with two salted egg yolks contains the equivalent number of calories found in 45 teaspoons of sugar. Its total fat content of 55g is equivalent to 11 teaspoons of oil.

But she adds that it is still possible to enjoy mooncakes without guilt. As always, moderation is key.
Have just a quarter piece per day as a dessert or snack, she says. Or cut the mooncake into eighths instead of quarters, so you can enjoy more varieties. Then, eat it slowly and savour it.
She adds that there are many lower-fat, lower-sugar mooncakes available that taste like, if not better than traditional ones.
Even low-sugar desserts can taste good, she says. 'Remember, train your tongue. Tastes are acquired.'

Starbucks came up with their range of moonies this time and i got to sample it at the starbucks outside my workplace!

Moonies @ starbucks!


3 different flavours

Caramel Macchiato
Multi-layered sensations of smokey caramel-like coffee with bits of almond.
Cranberry Hibiscus
Bits of cranberry and hibiscus flowers in a smooth bean paste accented with a tinge of berry aroma.
Orange Citron
Slivers of orange peel and lemon rind combined perfectly in bean paste.

I like the Cranberry Hibiscus best! Sourish berrish... teehee.. but it's freaking ex! If i didn't remember wrongly, it's 6 small pieces for $35. Daylight robbery! Just sample enough lah~

Blog addiction

2nd post in a day. Technically speaking, half an hour apart.

I realised I have lotsa mistakes in my previous posts, grammar, spelling, sentence structure. hm.. don't care.

Mid-sem break is here again. It's not even a good break. I've class on Monday & thurs and a event to host over the weekend. Not sure if it will be cancelled suddenly due to "Oh.. they want male host not femalessss".
Projects and assignments due as well. What a vicious cycle.

Anyway, I've to stage a play sometime in Nov for the Praxis module. And it's three short plays, so each group is doing one play. Do come and support yea, small production but good experience. Will be held in school, evening, cosy place. Lend your support then yea?

:)

Wardrobe Makeover!

I didn't have class on Monday and it was such a great day to take a break, laze around and take over become a one-day professional You-tube coucher. But heck no, with Mom aka the room supervisor, Monday was bad. She bugged the helluva me to clean up my wardrobe.

After careful deliberation, I decided to put up the photos. Who cares, it's my
blog!!

wardrobe makeover


I started at 3pm and ended at 7pm. 4 hours long of battle. My supervisor had to do spot check now and then. Gosh... I don't feel like a girl.

Yeah, this reminds me, back in Secondary School, my table was just as messy and after Chinese class, I come back only to find my table neat, tidy and clean. Thanks to CK, the Mr. Neat Freak. It's embarrassing how my bro had to teach me to be a girl. But seriously, I never learn. :)

Anyway, this wardrobe makeover comes with a resolution --> keep my wardrobe neat for till the end of this year. Muahaha...

Babies are cute! But...

Babies are Cute!

"They're so cute!!!" So often people (esp. girls who coo when they see babies). Other than giving a weak smile, I would jus feel so edgy. No I don't hate kids, i just don't like them. Some girlfriends of mine would ask in excitement how many of them I would love to have, I would lie about the number. But in truth, I want none. If I had openly confessed to them, they would just run away from me.

I think that very often, these girls/people who proclaim their immense love for children are very deluded and shortsighted. I think their love is mainly for CUTE ones, not naughty brats and so often, they forget the hassle and the nightmare they need to go through to rear these brats up. If I could 'CLICK' this moment for them, they would probably wished they said, 'they hate kids'.

Before you start thinking I'm an Anti-kid, I would like to say, I'm not. Or am I?

Technically speaking, if I hate kids, I wouldn't be a current tutor to 7 kids. Wait... 3 kids, 4 adolescents. Ok. I think I hate the 3 kids. They drive me nuts with their attitude. Yes, so if you think raising a CUTE baby is easy, wait till you hit the phase where he/she is ten years old.

I think a little bit of reasoning ought to be done here to stop me from rattling on and on about how I dislike young children.

Actually I'm just afraid of having a bad kid. My reasons are justified.
1. My genes aren't that great - tracing back all the way from my predecessors
--> Hot-headedness, violent, bad looks, medium height.. etc
2. I'm afraid of being in my mom's shoes to face another me or my sis.

I think two reasons are good enough to scare me off. As I was listening to Jay Chou's 听妈妈的话, I started to reflect on my life with mom in it. I think I hurt her more than I cared for her, maybe that's why I don't want to be in her shoes to feel the hurt.

I think I'm thinking too much... ...
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听妈妈的话

jay

Not exactly a fan of his, but his latest album caught my 'ears'. It's been playing so often on 93.3fm, it's hard to miss it. They were introducing the latest album, Still Fantasy, and they said the following song, though the tempo is quick, some still tear upon hearing this song, 听妈妈的话. (i've loaded on my blog.Read the lyrics and listen to it :)) Enjoy~

听妈妈的话
小朋友 你是否有很多问号
为什麼 别人在那看漫画 我却在学画画 对著钢琴说话
别人在玩游戏 我却靠在墙壁背我的ABC
我说我要一架大大的飞机 我却得到一只旧旧螺旋机
为什麼要听妈妈的话 长大後你就会开始懂得这种话 哼

长大後我开始明白 为什麼我 跑的比别人快 飞的比别人高
将来大家看的都是我画的漫画
大家唱的都是 我写的歌
妈妈的辛苦 不让你看见 温柔的事 是否在她心里面
有空就多多握著她的手 把手牵著一起梦游

听妈妈的话 别让她受伤
想快快长大 才能保护她
美丽的白发 幸福中发芽
天使的魔法 温暖中慈祥

在你的未来 音乐是你的王牌
那王牌谈个恋爱 而我不想被你教坏
还是听妈妈的话吧 晚点在恋爱吧
我知道你未来的路 干嘛比我更清楚
你因为太多学习的同学在这块写东写西
但我在 妈妈我会用功读书
用功读书怎麼会从我嘴巴说出
不想你输所以要叫你用功读书吗
妈妈交给你的毛笔你要好好收著
因为不许告诉我 也告诉他我还留著 对了
我会遇到了周润发 所以你可以跟同学炫耀
赌神未来是你爸爸

我找不到你写的情书 你喜欢的要承认
因为我会了解你会在操场上牵她
你会开始喜欢唱流行歌 因为张学友开始准备唱吻别

풀하우스 - (Pool-ha-woo-seu) Full House!

Full House!

Yeah! I managed to get music up on my blog. After years of trying. Haha. Sounds like a comp idiot right? I wanted to put up another song to blog about something, but I couldn't get the song. So I put this up! A beautiful, memorable song for the cutesy show I watched.

People familiar with the Korean media industry, the show features their Korea Tourism Ambassdor, 비, Rain. The pretty & cute girl in red, 송혜교, Song Hye-kyo, the cutest guy in the show, 2nd from left, 김성수, Kim Sung-soo and the other girl, 한은정, Han Eun-jeong.

Well, it's a very typical fantasy plot, but i liked it 'cuz it's not the teary kind of drama unlike. Sometimes we need something to laugh when we watch. Therefore this show is so recommended for you :).

Arr..... Pool-Ha-Woo-Seu!! Acha Acha Fightin'!

~Second to Nothing~

Birds in ORDER!~

Haha... I finally found this picture, after so long. I first received it in an email when I was at STATS. Then few months back, I encountered something which I made think of this picture.

How true, in any organisations, the lower u are, the more shit you get. This reminded me that I used to be extremely obssessive with being first in things I really want ... the most common was power. I wanted to be the leader in society and since secondary school I was the president of the ELDDS, I got even more confident I have that quality.

I was wishful in my thinking. After I stepped out of BP, I entered Campus Crusade in SP. In my 2nd year, I was the secretary of the committee and I knew what I wanted the year after. When I get confident, is the time I felt there was no better person to assume that post. I felt even 'bigger' when one of my senior brought up the topic on the 'appointment of the Student Coordinator' (will be the one who is the highest in post as well). He said it's either me or another girl. But soon the staff told me I got another post, and the other girl obviously got the post. I was angry (naturally), upset and disappointed. I rejected the alternative post I was given and became an ordinary member.

Recently, during my cell I was asked to be the Apprentice Leader, I took a long time to reply them on the spot (in front of the whole grp). I wasn't expecting to be the leader in cell anyway because this cell is a total difference in composition of members. hwee Lan thought I didn't want it. But in the end, i told her the whole story.

This is something only Sam knows, because I would tell him such stuff. I hesitated alot before posting this online. But WTH! It's my blog, and my heartfelt thoughts. Anyway, I'm really not thinking much now, I just hope that even though I'm sitting on the second row, I don't want to kena any unpleasant excretion on me.
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How can I tell the difference between good ambition and self-centeredness?

Look at your motives. Genesis 11:1-9

All human beings face many temptations to become self-centered—whether they are married, single, or single again. In particular, a single may worry that if she doesn't take care of herself, no one else will. Ambition is good—at least up to a point—because it keeps her from having to depend on others.

But ambition can also become self-centered. And self-centeredness can become dangerous. In the mysterious story of Genesis 11, a group of ambitious people decided to build "a tower whose top is in the heavens" (11:4). Their motive? "Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth" (11:4).

For reasons not entirely understood by Bible scholars, God smashed their plans. They became famous all right. A famous failure.

It's not wrong for a woman to be ambitious. But a wise woman will recognize the dangers of ambition and look carefully at her motives. Are they selfish? Are they likely to hurt someone? Or are they guided by what she knows of God's will and character?

A discerning woman evaluates first; then decides whether she should pull back or charge ahead.

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel,will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.' ~ Matthew 8:34-38

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. ~ Hebrews 4:12,13

Good Words to Remember:
They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves. —Genesis 11:4

Today's Challenge:
Why do you want to succeed—for selfish reasons or for godly ones?

Two down more to go!

When school starts, things just keep going in circles. Projects, assignments, term tests, presentations.

The reason for my MIA-ing, was I had the Mahabharata paper due on tues, and a presentation just today. Everything's done. Happy & elated. But I've got class later at night. Tired.

Today in praxis class, there's this guest lecturer and he's really cute. Calls himself T.C. and is the director for FingerPlayers. His lesson was great. Except, I felt a little stupid inside.

He asked us to use our imagination to ANIMATE the INANIMATE. hm.. I thought my little acts didn't quite make sense. Was a little bit disappointed.

During the presentation at Business class today, my classmates looked so stoned. Either it was too early or I was boring. But then again, Alison said the girl beside her kept complimenting me. I'm flattered, but yet I'm sceptical. Mdm Lok says we could've used one more speaker and didn't comment on my presentation. I thought I did badly.

But at least now I know my talent. It took me 21 years to discover... I'll work on it!!!

:) Rainy Thurs

Brain Fag on Sunday Afternoon

It's a amazing how I 'crawled' back to the school library with Sam on a Sunday afternoon. Sitting in front of the comp here trying to read stuff on Colorblind Casting is the greatest challenge I have faced in the past days. Sigh!

I've an assignment due on Tues and it's a paper for my Intro to Asian Theatre module. Why did I even do this module? *sob* I have to read the history of Indian Theatre (anything from Natyasastra to Mahabharata), Chinese Theatre (Opera, Qing Theatre) to Japanese Theatre (Noh, Kabuki). And history is something I abhor to the core. Despite the huge packet of Iced Coffee I shared with Sam, it was really so ineffective, and my screen keeps blurring out in front of me because the development of temporal visual slur I am experiencing.

Thank God I have my little blog to write on and get my engine started. Though I tried to load 내 이름은 김삼순 My Name is Kim Sam-Soon on Youtube to no avail. (Bloody comp, no flash player). *Snigger* left with an hour before the library closes, otherwise I have to go home to fight for the net with Ivy. I so hate it.

~1460 and Counting!~

Yesterday was our 1460 days anniversary. Truly amazing. If you divide that number by 365 days, you'll get 4 years. *^O^*

I had school so we didn't know where to go except to the place we were longing for eons! Off to Pizza Hut at Suntec City for our Cheesy Bite Pizza!


Cheesy Bites BBQ Chicken Supreme!

We ordered the one with 18 cheesy bites (the pointy thing surrounding our pizza) and each slice contains 3 pieces. I would like to say that, it's fantastic fantastic fantastic! Mainly, I'm a cheese lover. Inside the finger-like cheesy bites contain 3 different kinds of cheese - Parmesan, Mozarella & Cheese (ok, I can't remember the 3rd kind). We chose BBQ Chicken Supreme as topping, but I think leaving the BBQ part out would have been better cuz the BBQ sauce is too salty.

It was filling for just a meal like that and we ended off with BEN & JERRY's Coffee Coffee BuzzBuzzBuzz~! It's great!

Well, 1460 days and still counting... hrm.. I think it's a long way to go. :)

Missing in action

Oh! Finally. Hello was giving me so much problems just trying to upload some pictures over here, as if my week wasn't bad enough.

Right after my last post, which was on Ivy's birthday, my throat was getting worst. From scratchy, dry to itchy and then my nose started clogging up and became uncontrollably runny. My remedy? Odenlandia Water - this is called Snake Grass Water if I were to translate from Mandarin to English.


Odenlandia Water

This is something we drank since young as a medication. Ivy loves stocking up on these. We chill it and then add a pinch of salt, wait for it to sizzle and then gulp it down. Some people hate it, but we like it. :)

Then it was just chips chips and more chips for me. I believed in, using poison to treat poison. Muahaha... obviously it didn't work. Till now, my mucus is still flowing down my nostril in a cold, slow manner. *urgh* bad week.

It's the birthday of the King's Daughter!

5th September.. a day to remember. Yeah, it is my responsibility to remember as much as I hate birthdays. I've a lousy memory on birthdates and my friends know that. Upset or not, I really don't want to know. It is disappointing but it always slip my mind and only to realise it two months later that I missed wishing them well. Erp.. yeah, terrible isn't it?

But for today, I remember it out of obligation. Yeah, the psychotic in my house makes pple remember and if I don't she'll start her rampage. So I got her a T-shirt titled "Princess" and a beautiful necklace which also can be a belt and a cute little card (it's a tradition that we always give prezzies to each other with a card).

Silly me, I wanted to blog the prezzies and accidentally showed her the photo of the T-shirt i took a few days back and she had to ask if it was for her. What a spoiler. And being the one who stutters when lying, I gave myself totally away. Damn.


Ivy's little surprise!

So when she went to bathe today, I sneaked into her room and placed the little kids around the prezzies and snap them into my camera. Cute ey? The aerial view of the kids look pretty scary, like there is a crowd of humans and worst I have more kids in my room and that's why I don't want anymore stuffies as presents anymore. I just cannot handle too many of them. Muahaha...

Anyway to my BIG 'lil Sis ---> Happy 26th Birthday! (oppz.. did i just blurt her age? Yeah.. the small girl is still so childish.. poor me)

We Live in Singapura by Hossan Leong

I really take my hat off to this scrawny-near-to-40 yr old boy! He's great!

Enjoy~

Crocodile Hunter Stung to death!

A shock to all and me included. Famous Aussie Crocodile Hunter - Steve Irwin died today while filming.

Crocodile Hunter - Steve Irwin

"Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called “Ocean’s Deadliest” when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.
He came on top of the stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart, said Stainton, who was on board Irwin’s boat at the time."

© 2006 MSNBC.com

Frankly, it is a shock. But after the shock slowly began to sink into me, I thought it's really an expected piece of news, just a matter of time, but I didn't see it coming so soon. Just two years back he caused an uproar while holding his daughter in one arm while feeding a crocodile at close proximity. The thought was, his daughter is only 8 and son 3. Pretty sad. As much as I have always disagreed with the way he films his documentary, I also do admire him for his undying courage, passion and love to be so close to the cold-blooded animals. Only an avid conservationalist would be able to work like he did.

Life is short, how sad. Sam once told me about what his DGL illustrated life as a week...

An average human life expectancy is 70-80years. Let's split these 70 years into groups of seven, naming each group from Monday to Sunday. So Monday will be age 0-10, Tues will be age 11-20 and so on. Right now, I am on a Wednesday noon and my parents are already on Saturday tea-time. What about you my friends? If we see life in this manner, will we still live as we are now, knowing Sunday is the day we leave this earth?

I'm really not sure, but it does make me sit up and do something about my life. One point my dad brought up when discussing about this was, he said that life is so unexpected that sometimes, a Tuesday will go before a Friday. How blunt, but yet truthful...

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"

~ Matthew 6:25-27 NIV

All's in a Day's Work!

Whoa, an exciting Sunday @ Work! Not the usual boring scooping day but it was Kueh Makcik's Birthday. All the gelato girls were called back to MS to give her a surprise and it was cool! Check out the pictures below!

Yummy-licious! Bravissimo Gelato @ Marina Sq

Uncle Trying to get Auntie to turn 

Surprise! 

Touched to tears 

Delicious Durian with Oreo base crust - Toppings Green Mint, Mango & Double Choc 

Smile before digging in! 

"Storybook-Card!"crys Auntie 

Crazy PL-TS Girls 

When Bollywood meets Singawood 

Crazy Gelato Girls! 

Surprise! 

I couldn't resist snapping this Bollywood star! 

Junior Poly-Colleagues 

Sleepdaze

Ah... it's been such a long time I've got a good nap. 3 hrs. Ha! That's why I say, I hate taking naps, because my naps are more like real sleep.

I've just managed to get the tag board, counter and some links up on my blog. Simple things to spice it up. Ivy showed me her friend's blog. Pretty good, but lengthy and it obviously captured his craze about running. *Phoo* who gets crazy over running man? It's the most boring sports I can ever embark on.

Sometimes I think that Ivy is slightly more tech-savvy than I am. She had to tell me all about Hello Picasa and Webshots while I'm struggling to do some html editing. I never liked webdesign class back in SP.

This brings me back to the conversation I had with Deb & YH last night in church. Deb found a job and we were just talking about their starting pay and I've no idea how the conversation gets directed back at me with how much I can earn as a graduate of Theatre Studies. I was stuck at that point, not sure how to defend myself and I wasn't quite ready to start. To Each His Own. I can only say. I had the same reaction or even worst when I told my previous project mates about what I am majoring in.

"I can't believe why anyone would do TS! Like what do you study there? Acting? only?" commented one Science geek, cringing.

Urgh, what do you Life Science nerds know? At least I don't get stuck in the lab day in and out. I have a whole stage to work around! After a while, I just give up convincing people the kind of satisfaction I get from just standing on stage alone. I wouldn't think I possessed the nature of attention-seeking. If I really did want that, I would have fixed my face and body at all cost just to get into the media.

Ultimately, it boils down to how God created each of His children differently. If he had made all the same, it would be an insult to His creativity and the world would not be able to function as it is now. How wonderful...

The Blessings of the Lord makes One Rich ~ Proverbs 10:22 NKJV

I'm Back!

It's time! And I think I've been missing in action for the longest time. Don't worry, it happens to me all the time. Especially trying to keep a journal. I lose it after a while.

I stopped blogging for half a year and I think it was a good rest. I kind of lost my direction in blogging because I realised I couldn't stop ranting and because the more people visit my blog, the more restricted my thoughts become. And to me, a blog shouldn't be that way. I should be able to express my thoughts, not rants.

Yep, secondly, I have to keep two journals for my TS modules and I just couldn't get down to doing. So I needed to start somewhere. HERE!

Also, these days... I've been daydreaming, a lot. I thought to keep my mind off from lala land, I need to write them down! Great! And I'm starting once again. On a new blog, new look, new add, new thoughts!

Yippie! Await......... Ahey!