Clearing my Sleep Debt

Deepavali is one holiday I'm so thankful for...

after a long weekend, I spent 15 hours clearing my sleep debt. waking up at 2.30pm and falling back to sleep till 5pm.

what a luxury!

i was so lazy to reply anybody's msges and thumbing my phone is the last thing i want to do.

now to make up for some ME time, i am back online, blogging, updating photobucket with Kairos photos (yes, long overdue), wikipedia-ing and reading some awesome bible stories online (for kids)... and if time allows... (facebooking) <- urgh... I completely hate this hobby.

Let me go back to why i hate facebooking -> it's a complete waste of time. Uploading photos (and allowing people to steal it, like Ivan did), then you start to kaypo into other people's lives... and before you know it, 3 hours gone and nothing learnt!

Instead, when I wikipedia, i went from cairn rocks to buffalo jump to plains bison.. all in just 3 minutes! and boy do i feel smarter already... =.=

Now you know why i don't really facebook? Because aileen has grown wiser..

and let me hear some Amen to that!

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Last night, kairos was so sweet enough to come by and watch Wizard.

To be honest, I was a little skeptical, hesitant and doubtful about everything... with Chelsea and Liverpool going live at the same time, I was wondering if I made the right choice getting the gang over to the theatre.

i believed my director WILL do a good job, that was why i bugged them to pay and support THE 'arts'.

but when i watched the opening show, things were scratchy and watching it from my perspective as a theatre grad, it was OK, not superb.

show and actors got better by the fifth show and I am proud to say, Yes it is good :)

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cOoK Out, PiG oUt!

saturday's session at Cin's place was a blast!

i missed dentist's pasta ALOT...

because ....

no one else does it better than him...

no one has cooked pasta for me..

no one i know does pasta from SCRATCH!

and.. he will specially make cream sauce pasta for ME!

Ended up, everyone finished the small portion of cream sauce and i took only one with a few miserable shrooms... *pouts*

anyway, to cook for 17 people is a feat... but at least Cin & him did it :P

it was a wonderful fellowship that God has made a success, putting together different people to work.

for an amazing moment, I did the dishes. I hated this role most but surprisingly i did it with no complaints that night. :P

Next pig out session.. Cin promised to be a Chinese meal.

Now... i can take charge of the veggie dishes department. :D

for the GIRL so nice

i must have caught some book bug lately.

it's just books after books on my to-do list.

sure feels good 'cuz i haven't been reading much ever since i started uni.

Actually, no. I HAVE been reading. Pile of notes, textbooks etc... gosh...

Anyway, CK swopped one book with me... one which I don't quite understand why I need...

Yes, the title is really cute. And to be honest, I can't put it down once I picked it up.

to sum it up, author Sherry Argov describes what differentiates a 'bitch' to the nice girl.

the 'BITCH' is a woman who is nice, but knows where she stands.
the NICE girl falls all over for a guy.

what i found so interesting is the list of descriptions and advices Sherry dishes out to all the nice women, encouraging them to be the clever dreamgirl of all men.

My reading time is usually on my way to work and i have been receiving side glances, stares from morning commuters.

it's just.. strange, and i was so tempted to throw the book out of the door and pretend it just dropped from heaven. "not mine, not mine, I don't need it" nervous laugh and frantically walks away.

oh well, but in my opinion, it's important for girls to read this and master it.

nothing for those with two balls and a stick!

an answer found...

if you knew you have an unborn child that is handicapped or deficient, would you abort it?

while it's three against one at home, i never found the right answer to justify my stand for keeping that precious life.

tonight... i found the beautiful answer that needed no words.




it was nine minutes of tears non-stop, nine minutes of 'flying' thoughts non stop.

for a father who was never a runner, he became a tri-athlete, running a race for two.

a man who never thought of fame, got himself known around the world the love he has for his son... it was just amazing.

i still take my stand for not taking a life that is given to you.

Everything happens for a reason... every gift is a surprise that could change your life two ways, for better or for worse.

in the end, the father became someone whom he never thought he could be. he embraced what was given to him. He saw it as a special gift that moulded the next forty years of his life. That was why his life changed for the better.

I have a little inspiration card that is stuck to my table which says,
"Lord, Remind me that nothing is going to happen today that YOU and I together can't handle".

Yes. God will never give you more than you can handle. He always makes it, JUST RIGHT.

get down... to work!

Blogging has been rare these days and even more so at such a strange hour.

I'm not quite sure which noun to put to myself - workaholic, procrastinator or just last-minute lazy bug?

I'm meeting a potential big sponsor in 6 hours time and I'm still rushing to put together something for them.

This is crazy.

I've been conceptualising everything in my head the past few days confident I could put together something within a day. Obviously not.

Then in the midst of doing work, I got distracted. Needed a breather and started surfing the web to dig people's blogs. None updated. That much for a breather.

oh heck* I rather pen something myself to whine before I get back to work.

Wizard is starting in about two weeks. Work has been crazy just trying to cover everything in the office. It doesn't help that one colleague is running off, but then again I'm happy for her to get out of a place where she can't belong. Sigh! Like my PM says, missy here is going to die.
of course, i know God never gives me something I cannot handle.

So, aileen WILL pull through.

at least it cheers me up when I head to the production area just watching the puppet master at work! it's awesome... :)