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Thursday, December 13, 2007

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HAHA! I promise this post to be one of the longest that I've ever written! Since I have been absent from the blogging scene for so long. 'A'-levels ended exactly 3 weeks ago... Everytime others ask me about it, I tell them that I can't remember anything... lol. But no la I guess I just don't wanna talk about it again la... lol... after waiting so long for it to be over!~ Anyhow, I think the papers were quite tough actually, relative to the past year papers that I've done. The exception was math paper 2, which everyone was especially confident about... haha. Hmmm but I think the best thing to remember about 'A'-levels is that I wasn't as stressed as I would've been even though I was quite disappointed with some of the papers, like making careless mistakes where I shouldn't have. heh I think I have learnt to let go a lot and relax more! which is a great feeling! And I think I gotta thank God for my mum coz she was so supportive, especially regarding fetching me home from school almost every single night without fail as I stayed in school to study and also preparing dinner for me before going to bed. I'm really touched by this act of love <3 haha I must be a more loving daughter too =)

Well, I've kinda forgotten what it's like to study already... ahah but okay either way I don't think I wanna remember. yupyup my post-'A's have been fun and meaningful! :)

On 22Nov, when our bio MCQ ended, there wasn't a great burst of screams and shouts in the hall as expected... I guess the atmosphere was a lot milder than everyone thought coz some people still have papers to take, and also partly because many people have already started to slack before this bio MCQ paper... haha. Ahem. For example, some 76 people like Wayne, Sutyee, Leon, Margaret, Ivan, LUJIE!!! and I spent time playing scrabble and citadels in the school library in the midst of studying. Also, we had fun koping food from the Japanese people since they were having some attachment programme in our school. lol this certainly doesn't sound like what should be happening before the end of 'A's, especially for LUJIE (lol but then again he's smart enough la right =p). For the arts people, they had an 11-day break to go shopping and slacking and dunno what! And Yan Yin also went shopping on the weekend before her physics MCQ paper! ahha... see how much slacking there was! oops! Anyway, my class went to play basketball (as usual!) and volleyball after our papers... And we had pizza too! =) But too bad I was talking to Seokh and LiPing, so I had to share the cold pizza with the birds (Wenwei I don't like yr kind!). Thereafter we went to Minds Cafe at Prinsep Street, where we had a great time playing games like 'I'm the boss!', 'Mr. X', etc. Haha I'm sure we all had a fun time losing our voices. Hmmm after that we went to Plaza Sing to have dinner (and for the 3rd time in a row I wasted my ban mian, haha I promise not to eat that again unless I'm really hungry)... and then swensens was our dessert! wheee there was a promotion going on where you buy 1 earthquake and get 1 free! And willis got his free birthday ice-cream... and he stood on the swensens chair and sang a birthday song to himself... lol. Oh ya XinYi and I saw Adora there too! so qiao... Hmmm yupyup it was a great day of fun with the class la. I love our class =) We never go out as cliques but we are always all there together for class activities coz we will all naturally put our class above almost everything =)

On 23Nov, we had CG at the very same Minds Cafe (for Wenwei, Leon and I)! Oh ya Wenwei brought his cute little brother along! haha... I still think he's cute! lol. Hmmm oh but I had to leave very soon coz my mum wanted to go out with my sister and I...but at least I managed to be there to play 'ugly ugly ugly!' with people at my table. haha... Hmmm after that my mum, sis and I went to the orchard area to shop for my prom dress and also to shop around for clothes for fun... haha, I must say I had quite a fun time trying on clothes that my mum chose for me coz I haven't seen myself much in such girly stuff since I was in lower primary. lol... ok but we didn't buy anything la... just try for fun. haha... coz I doubt I will wear those clothes out anyway, so it would be a waste of money$$. Heh.

On 24Nov, I went for this Hope Centre talk which was held at NYP. Finally there's something that's organised in my ULU-ated area - Yio Chu Kang! =) haha not bad la, coz of the food, and we got a shoe bag each too! Lol... okok just joking... the event itself was great la. I didn't know that our church had extended its hand to help the community at large... and it's great to see how people can benefit from the kindness of our church! Hmmm yep after that we had a refreshing service coz it's the first service since 'A's ended! haha... Oh yeah and I had quite a wonderful time with my family coz we went for a family dinner to celebrate my mum's belated birthday. My mum wanted to celebrate her birthday with the family but also wanted to wait until my 'A'-levels were over coz her birthday was in the midst of it. So nice right =) But too bad the food wasn't so nice, even though we went for dinner at a hotel... Quite sad. But it's okay la, I guess the time spent was worth it!

Hmmm on 25Nov I went to study for SATs in the morning at Orchard library first before meeting Lim Mian in the evening at the Swensens along Orchard Road! haha... For those who don't know, that's our usual dating place! haha. So romantic right! lol... we go there for dinner and ice-cream about once in every 6 months =p Yay I'm really glad that we still make the effort to meet up to talk and share about our lives with each other even though we belong to different groups of friends. Think Lim Mian is the only person whom I share a friendship that's so mutual even though we are apart in every way. Different class, different CCA, and she can't go to church for now... and so there's nothing that can connect us and allow us the opportunity to talk. But luckily both of us treasure this friendship lots and so we both make a great effort to meet up. We're also a strong source of encouragement during exam periods, even though sometimes our SMS may sound boring... like always contain the words 'jia you!' ahha, but we appreciate it all the same =) yay thanks Lim Mian for being such a wonderful wonderful friend! =)

hehe. On 26Nov, I was supposed to meet Abigail for movie and lunch! Unfortunately she had to go bake cookies for her CG so we had to postpone this date to a week later. Haha, but maybe it's God's great plan to allow me more time to meet Weiwen! haha we almost ate the "zhen bu tong ban mian" but luckily I remembered my promise not to waste food again... so Weiwen introduced me to another noodle stall... okay but I still wasted quite a lot of food coz the bowls always come in such a large size! =( Oh well but nvm we had a great time talking! And guess what! After that I treated her to TCC! hahaha... Are you jealous! okok yupyup we had an even better time talking there in the comfortable and cosy ambience! Thanks Weiwen for your time! Haha we shall have more of these cool dates more often =p Hmmm after that I had to go for class chalet at costa sands resort! woah took such a long time to get there... and when I finally reached, it seemed that many people were falling sick =( And many couldn't stay for the night, so it was quite sad... but luckily there were still quite a number of us left and so we had quite a lot of fun playing la... Although it didn't seem as eventful as the previous chalets throughout the 3 days and 2 nights, I still enjoyed myself very much all the same. Oh yeah Leon came up with this CS game which was quite cool la... like have to attack each other with ammunition (mini twisties packets) in semi-darkness. haha I thought it was quite frightening at first but in the midst of playing all the fears were forgotten. ahah... oh ya and I must proclaim this to the world: I finally talked a few more sentences to ChiLoooong!!! Lol! Haha... ya and I finally realise that he's a lot nicer than the ChiLoong I pictured in my head for the past 2 years... lol...

On 29Nov, we had our last combined CG with J1s and J2s... It was a farewell CG for the J2s... So the programme was a special one which included lots of affirmations for each other and also recollections about our times together as a J2 batch and definitely not forgetting the all-entertaining "HC Grammy Awards" by R&R! Lol the awards were hilarious lah... Thanks to R&R for putting in so much effort to come up with all the personalised award titles... =)

On 30Nov, ahha that's the last day to try studying a little more for SATs... oh man. But there has been so many things happening throughout the week that I have really neglected my SATs =( horrible. Oh well... but I think I really left it to God! Coz it was my first time taking SATs too. Hmmm I really hope it turns out fine! haha, oh well at night our church attended a corporate prayer meet where we really prayed very hard for ourselves, for our sheep, for our friends, for the church, etc. I think it's great la. God really moves when everyone comes together to pray. I think God really assured me that night that patience, continual prayer and trust in His timing will really pay off... Oh yeah it reminds me of this verse I love: "For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently." [Romans 8:24-25]

Okiez, so finally 1Dec arrives... And I wake up sleepily to welcome the SATs. Haha the previous night, JunYao and I were in a mad rush to get home... I think I reached home at around 12.40am. Not to talk about sleeping early the night before your exams. AH. But at least God was kind and somehow my parents didn't scold me or nag at me. yay! Hmmm ok so I met Willis and Juan Boon on the train and we got to ACJC in time. Oh man the paper was really really long... around close to 4 hours. Halfway through I got really bored la. heh... And there was one toilet break in the middle of the paper when Weiwen and I returned about 5 minutes into the paper (which was 25min long). Oh man! They started without us! coz the girls toilet queue is always so long! Moreover, the next section had 35 questions so we had to rush a lot to complete 35 questions in 20 minutes. Fortunately I managed to finish in time, but I'm really not sure about my accuracy. haha... Hmmm oh well, after the paper, we went for a refreshing service which I learnt a lot about adaptability. And ok after that we had a unit meeting to announce the 4 restructured CGs. Heh, it wasn't very saddening la I guess since it's quite expected, except for the pioneering group, which is led by my shepherd Fungmin! =) Yay I'm really excited to see how God will lead your group through you and I'm really expectant for great breakthroughs! Jia you shepherd!! =) Yay I think it's great that I didn't change shepherd la, coz I really have much more to learn from you still. haha... if not I would have switched back to Tracy right... But God is smart la, coz I will be learning lots from Tracy even though she's not my shepherd coz I would be much closer to her in this new CG... and then I will learn lots from you too because God appointed you as my shepherd! So it's like "yi ju liang de" is it? haha ok nvm... the point is that God's plans are great =D yay!

On 3Dec, finally Abigail and I have our movie date at The Cathay to watch "Enchanted"! LOL. But it was a really nice show! We caught the earliest movie of the day at 10.30am or something, so the theatre was practically empty!~ Lol... I think when Abi and I left the cinema we were still stuck in the fairytale land... haha and the song "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss" also kept playing in our heads. haha... but anyway it was a great time with you Abi! Even though it was a v short while coz after that we had our Word For Life session back at Nexus!

4 Dec - HC PROM 2007! Woah what a glamorous night. It's fun to see everyone looking their best =) But somehow I wasn't extremely stunned la. haha... maybe it's because I've already attended 1 prom and 1 graduation night back in NY where everyone would dress up this way. haha. oh yea you know something! 90% of the time spent at the wonderful ball room of Shangri-la Hotel was to take photos! So here are some photos which I took! (I'm so sorry for the red eyes......oops...)

the first people I met at Shangri-la!
Eating and eating!~ lol...
tRacEE and me! =)
Oh man... Mr. KHAIRULZAD... lol!
Xin Yi!

Wayne HO!
Uncle Joe!
My shepherd's so pretty!!!
And my sheep-mate's so pretty too!!!
yay Jason my shifu!
The former chinese high CG - shepherd, grandsheep, sheep!
Awww... such a loving couple!

CG photo!

choir photo!

4/5 clique

Jie Xun!

I like Simon's hat!

Angelic Seraphina!

Kai Xuan!

another loving couple! (wei wei why you two-time!)

Willis and Leonzy!

haha having fun with ties and scarfs~

hey how come my ear rings are on their ears!

haha so cool to see Leon smiling in photos right!
His anti-photo disease is starting to wear off!

I love this photo! Margaret!

Yvonne and I!

Yongsheng and I!

On 5Dec after Word For Life, JunYao, Shaun and I went down to choir chalet! Yup I enjoyed myself talking with all my batchmates once again, but somehow I think I don't feel that strong sense of belonging that I can feel with my NY batchmates. The things we talk about - ghosts/horror and sex... oh man... I feel quite sad actually. Halfway when Kimberly was sharing about the Tiger Show during her Cambodia trip, I think I was quite glad that SeokHui asked me to lend her my Word For Life book and so I took the chance to get out of the room for a while to also teach her about it, and partly to cleanse my insides. Oh man I really felt quite crappy. haha. There wasn't any conversation about how we missed singing as a batch or missed our batch itself... but okay la I did enjoy the time when we were singing Christmas carols together =) heh... I really miss the special feeling of singing in a choir... Hmmm oh but I wanna affirm the J1s, especially SeokHui, for putting in so much effort into making this choir chalet a wonderful one for us J2s! Heh... yup too bad I couldn't be there to enjoy the games nor the pasta~! Aww man. haha...

Hmmm okiez on 8 Dec, my sister and I went out before I went for the LCL meeting at Istana Park. Haha... my sister specially bugged me to blog about HER la... LOL. So funny... Ok yes here you go ok. haha... we had breakfast with our mum in the morning at Hans coz somehow the other food outlets at Thomson Plaza either closed down or have not opened yet. After that we took a train to ECP and went cycling! Haha my sister had been waiting for years for my exams to end so that we can go cycling la lol... so cute. So finally after asking for so long, she finally got her wish. But really quite cute la, coz I don't think I'm a very loving sister (oops)... like when I'm studying and she comes into my room, sometimes I'll just ignore her or appear irritated especially when I'm stressed... Then she keep wanting to go out with me still. haha. she's a cool sister to have la right? =p haha okok I'd better treasure her more and treat her better... heh. Yup anyway we had a great time at ECP =) We took some photos but it's in her phone so I don't have them now... Well I guess although it's not as if we engaged in very deep conversation, but I'm just grateful for the time spent with her after neglecting her for so long. Hehe. Oh yea after that we watched Golden Compass at The Cathay haha... Not a bad movie la but I didn't understand some parts. Oh yea guess what! I met Cutcake outside the toilets after the movie! We were actually in the same cinema theatre! ahha so coincidental... =p

Oh and finally here comes: Church Camp! X29 - It's Our Chapter! This lasted for 4 days and 3 nights from 9-12 Dec at the Singapore Sports School! haha the time passed a lot faster than I imagined... I think it was perhaps we already roughly knew what we could expect from the previous 2 church camps. Anyhow, I must say that God spoke to me a lot during this church camp. Not that I had some great revelation or whatever, but He reminded me about many simple attitudes and other things in my daily life that I had to discipline myself in before I can start thinking about breakthroughs in other areas of my life. Oh yeah I definitely had a great time with my sheepy Weiwen this time, since we had so much more opportunity to talk to each other =) I think I've really found great company in her and I find it a joy to share and be very open towards her too! yay! =) I'm so glad for her openness as well... I think she's starting to open up much more not only to me, but also other people like Suet and Abigail who were roommates with us. haha... I'm very contented with our sharing sessions at night! =D I really learnt a lot from all of us. I think having less girls in the CG sort of helped all of us to make the extra effort to get to know everyone better. Yup... even when Zelanie came, oh man! you should have seen... Vanessa + Weiwen + Zelanie = 100x noisier girls until the guys looked at us in shock and worry at our craziness. lol... Oh ya Vanessa and Zelanie are really similar in every way I must say... even their personalities! haha look at their photo below... lol Weiwen very amusing!~ She said that she felt like a mirror when she was talking to Vanessa and Zelanie and was in between them! LOL! Hmmm anyway yup the AC guys were easier to talk to than I expected... haha... But er still quite scary. BUT but but I agree with Tracy that it's still exceeding expectations! Haha... I think they really make the effort to try to integrate into this CG as well la, even though it's quite hard for them... =) yep all in all I'm really quite satisfied with this camp, especially since I have met almost all my camp objectives... But I'm quite disappointed with 2 things la, both which will require a lot of time, prayers, and reliance on God's timing... but hmmm I shan't mention them here... Alright, sit back and enjoy more photos... taken at the camp! =D

At BK!
On the bus trip to SSS!

Whose feet are these!

CA1!

CA3!
CA4!

CA2! (lol the only willing one... the rest all infected by Leon's anti-photo disease)
Room-mates!
Our survival tools at camp!
We all love Jesus! <3>

awww... my dear suetty!

oh my I managed to get a photo of the AC guys! lol...

CA4!

everything alike! haha...

some CG guys at meal time!

CG girls at meal time!

The Chinese High shirt is so awful!!! =(

In the lift...=)

Raphael on the screen!

Shepherd and sheep!

tired...

yay I love Eunice!

so sweet! =)
some CA4 girls!
Suet I wanna pinch your cheeks!
we are so HUGE!
But we're only gonna get BIGGER!
CG!!!
my shepherd and i!
so cute! lol...
Eugene, Weiwei, me, Weiwen
multi-racial (1)
multi-racial (2)
Eunice and Eugene!
choir peeps!
act cute. lol...
shepherd and sheep!
xiang and joanne (hope I got it right)!
The Ravi Dance.
woooo. Raphael is in the air!
wei wei is pregnant!!! AH.
i love weiwen!

Weiwen loves me!

cutcake!
macho man!
same height! haha... ok Kenny says he's 1cm taller =p

why you shoot me!
i shoot you back!
suet and abi =)
woah the 2 tall girls of HC!
splits!
luke!

wei wen! wei wei! haha...
my guai guai pets. lol...
lol. zi pai.
Jun Yao is a BIG BULLY! =(

Unit photo! =)

Patrice and I!
WanChien and I!
X29 - It's Our Chapter! =)
The verses of CA4 in X29!

Alright! That's about all for this entry! For those who finished reading every word of it, I really kowtow to you. haha! I shall be leaving for Italy and Switzerland tonight (or rather tomorrow 1am) with my family... haha. Hope I'm not making you jealous... I shall bring back gifts or chocolates or some things for you guys! Heh I do pray for a great Christmas harvest! I'm really sad that I can't be part of it this year since I'll only be back on the 26th. But anyhow, I will be praying and I'll join you guys in the post-Christmas harvest! Heh... Yup have an awesome + fruitful time! =) see ya guys!

~.*hUiYiNg*.~ says Amen. @ | Thursday, December 13, 2007

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