A place to come home to..
Saturday, March 28, 2009
sun set at 6:04 PM


Yo!

CA is coming; PW's really getting started; SYF around the corner; haiz, so tired... ... -.-

Wish I could just dedicate 1 whole day to sleeping, but that's out of the question, well, unless I can freeze time. If I could, I would take my time to recuperate, then start time again.

The war against lassitude.

I miss ToraDora!


Sunday, March 22, 2009
sun set at 2:49 PM
Class outing!


Yep, this is our first ever class outing! Well, not everyone who turned up is in this picture, since this was taken halfway thru where some had already left, but nevertheless this is the best picture I got, haha!
Oh, we went to Cineleisure, ate lunch together at Pastamania, then watched Paul Blart Mall Cop. Not bad for a comedy movie, quite funny in the middle. After that we walked to Dhoby Ghaut mrt to play a bit of arcade!
Anyway, the turnout was well... some would say pathethic (less than half the class made it), but I would say not bad! 13 out of 25 turned up when I only expected a maximum of 10, so it's quite good I guess! I feel that even if only a handful of people could come, we should still go for the outing cause it's better than not goin at all! Nevertheless, pretty good effort for our first class outing! Hope the whole class can come for the next one! (think we'll be going to Samuel's house, lol!)
Oh btw, 'ZHAM! vs Strings' wasn't really 'ZHAM! vs Strings'. Well it didn't turn out that way as there were not enough 'String' players. In the end we just split into 2 groups and played our own soccer match. So it was 'Cat high + chenying vs the rest of ZHAM!' 8 - 5!!


Thursday, March 19, 2009
sun set at 12:19 AM


Haha, someone recently told me that my life seemed so perfect. Well, the truth is... it's NOT! Hahaha!


Well, this brings me to recall one important lesson that I've learnt...


My life is NOT perfect. It is NOTHING CLOSE to perfection, well because one's life cannot be COMPLETELY AND ABSOLUTELY PERFECT IN ITS ENTIETY. As a matter of fact, my life is somewhat pretty MESSED UP! If my life is like a garden, then there'll be FLOWERS STREWN ABOUT, some DEAD PLANT MATTER, BALD PATCHES of land, DIRT, SOIL and MUD puddles, WEEDS and THORNS and untidy parts here and there. If I compare everyone's lives as each individual 'garden', then IN THE SAME WAY their gardens will be in a mess, BUT in a DIFFERENT KIND OF MESS. Well, to simply put it, that's the beauty of it all. That UNIQUELY WONDERFUL MESS is what DEFINES each of our lives; when you look at it closely, it's HORRID, UGLY AND DETESTABLE, but walk further away and look at it as a whole from afar and you will get a beautiful view a special work of art, painted by your own hands, with the help of The One Above.


As a lone gardener, it is impossible, no matter how hard you try, to make your 'garden' perfect in every sense. The mess is simply too overwhelming, too much for you to manage alone. Therefore, if you welcome Him into your life, He will help you beautify your garden. He will guide your hands as He instructs you in His will. You will gain a helping hand in managing your 'garden' and along with that, much wisdom as you learn from Him. He will keep you company, and take a stroll with you in your own garden, and He will point out to you the hidden beauty of your 'garden' in which you, when you were alone, have failed to see because you were too busy trying to perfect your 'garden'. Then with Him, you will begin to truly see and admire the inner workings of your life in its entiety and realise that your 'garden' is perfectly messy and thus perfectly wonderful and beautiful in all aspects. Finally, you will then be able to see that the MESS is PERFECT, and in turn appreciate the mess in your 'garden', and find happiness and satisfaction in your life as well as yourself =)


What then is life without its troubles?

Ans: no life :)



Monday, March 9, 2009
sun set at 11:33 PM


(Oo, pls ignore the above date for this post. It shld be Wednesday, 18 March)


On a random note...


I've been thinking about it for quite awhile: If I can get just one opportunity to be able to meet any one person for a day regardless of the boundaries of time, then I would really want to meet myself, 10 years from now.




I have like so much to ask! I'll like spend time with 'him'(me^^) and just hang around for the entire day, meet his/my family and friends and get to know them, and just talk about life and ask a whole bunch of questions. I'm sure my future-self will warmly welcome me and maybe become my host family for a day, haha! That would be cool... haiz, wishful thinking!! Lol!




Hope I'll grow up to be (er... lemme think) a decent and happy person (i guess...) in 10 year's time. If I can just stay happy forever, that'll be great! =)



Anw, went back to cat high today with hubert, eric, xindi and jonathan to visit CHSCO. Before that we ate lunch together; jon left shortly after; met sebas, yong kang, chun xian and guo yan in school later. We heard both SYF pieces, really not bad I think, but stil can polish up a bit and make it even better. All the best to CHSCO for SYF! I wonder if I can go watch on the actual day... ...
Oh after that we played soccer! And speaking of which, I'm lookin forward to friday at GE - ZHAM! versus strings soccer match!!


On the more pressing side, I'm lagging behind school work! I dunno why I just feel that I'll forever be behind time... it seems that this long-awaited and certainly much needed March holidays just isn't enough. I feel that I just can't get a firm grasp of whatever the school has been teaching, like the concept and applications seems to be all blurred/jumbled up... If a test comes right smack in front of me I'll definitely fail. I'm cracking my head thinking of how I am gonna like wrap up and get on top of everything (my subjects), seems like an insurmountable task - it's just too many information, brain overload! And I'm only starting J1! Well, I guess this kinda thing needs several factors, like perhaps the last minute 'spur of the moment', a spark of ingenuity, and divine intervention, haha! Of course, me alone = nothing, but God + me = a lot of things. Bottom line, I'll be fine so long as I don't give up. If I continue to strive for the best in faith, then somehow, I know that I'll be alright! Daijoobu desu!


Btw, it's class outing tmr, and soccer match at GE on fri - ZHAM! vs strings!! That's 2 things to look forward to.

Ja mata!


Quote of the day:
So many things I wanna do, but so little time... ...
Well, I'll MAKE TIME!!
(Lol, not much of a 'quote' i guess, just feel like exclaiming this, haha!)


Sunday, March 8, 2009
sun set at 10:23 PM
おくりびと・okuribito・Departures

This movie is truly amazing, stunningly beautiful... ...

Got no words to describe...

A must watch!



I'll put up the trailer here again:

JUST go and watch it if you haven't, this is probably the best movie I'll get to see in a while.


Friday, March 6, 2009
sun set at 11:38 PM
1SB3!

My wacky class... ...


Smiley!



I think I've landed in a great, fun-loving class of 1SB3! Super cool hanging out with the class. Well, here are the beautiful people of 1SB3:


From left to right -

3rd (last) row: Yong Qing, Girish (The Dark Knight), Justin, Zhong Han, Li Wei, Wen Bin (Alson), myself, Natalie, Amanda, Joanna.

Between 3rd and middle row: Benjamin and Jansen (Joker).

Middle row: Xi Lei, Wei Hui, Yan Yao, Jewel, Joyce, Zi Ting, Jia Yu, Jin.

1st row: Samuel, Yun Feng, JunKai, Jerome (Rachel), Kai Xiang.

I hope to get to know everyone in class in a deeper way at the end of this year, And also hope that I won't get kidnapped, gagged, and watch broken by the class, lol!


Sunday, March 1, 2009
sun set at 11:27 PM


Yo! Went out with my good 'ol Cat High buddies at J8 today! Thanks for wanting to celebrate my birthday guys, haha! It's really good to see y'all again, and I really had a great time! Anw, I think that's it's really good that we can still meet up despite having gone our separate ways into different JCs, but the kind of friendship that we had in 4-4, class of 2008, is irreplaceable! I hope we can all continue to meet up occasionally, and do celebrate everyone's birthday together!

Yup, so today, Jie Qi, Jie Chou, Samuel, Jeffrey, Sebastian and I ate at Swensens, talked, laughed, cracked some lame jokes, caught up with each other and did some window shopping around J8. Later, we made an impromptu decision to catch a movie - Slumdog Millionaire, mainly because we heard it's a pretty good movie, there wasn't really much of a choice to watch other movies due to the lousy timing, and lastly because it was raining very heavily and we're like: "Sian... raining..., aiyah let's just go watch movie..." Lol!


Anyway, even though we sat at the 3rd row seats from the front, I think the movie was not bad. It's my first Indian-based movie/story/plot that I've watched (cause usually most mainstream movies are American based/themed) and I think I can see why the movie won it's oscars. Oo, btw, I came across this trailer in the cinema, I think I'll catch this movie, seems good... ...





Us at Swensens... ...