Living The Difference 08

This is our GIDEON EXPERIENCE.
Hearts are moved, new things are birthed.
Lives are changed forever.
just like what Brother Stoneking says,
"You'll never be the same again..."


p.s I'll blog more another day, with pictures. =)

i know i said i wun be bloggin till after exams...
but seriously, i really dunno how else to voice this out other than here.
hur hur...
I don't think I have been quite myself lately.
and i dun quite seemed to be able to trace it back like since whn it started kind of thing...
but i guess, ironically, i'm feeling quite upset.
confused, lost, i dunno wht...
ironic cause now i should be actually feeling quite the opposite.
hurrrrr...

i am so dying to voice out wht's wrong,
but i dunno who to say to... w/o someone feeling hurt.
and i can't really bare saying it out either...
i dunno. hah. i'm confusing myself.

it's very irritating being so sensitive sometimes,
i over-read wht ppl say to me,
and so easily get hurt.
hahhhh...
wht am i supposed to do?
putting up a front is so totally suffocatingggg...

and ya, the wall is still there,
maybe it got thicker...
i dunnoooooo...

ok.i m rambling here.
i think i need to talk to someone.
hah... but who?
... ... ... ... ...
argh.

From God:
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding."
Proverbs 3:5

I don't comprehend fully what's going on, but I know God told me to TRUST. and I don't deny the fact that often I have found myself comtemplating with the thought of giving up. thinking that maybe it would be easier back how it was...
such a lie.

where else could I possibly go? There's no other way to walk, no other path to take! It's all not worth it. How can I possibly turn my back on Him after what He has shown me, after all that He has done, the promises He has given me?
ohh so much more... can I possibly count His goodness?
it's measureless.

"Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life." (John 6:68)

I don't want to go through the motion no more, I don't want to just simply go with the flow and continue to go in circles leading no where.
I don't know where exactly this path will take me, but I know I am going to follow Jesus.
and it is worth it all.


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SOCCER FINALS AT JALAN BESAR STADIUM!!!!

for once, I'm not the photographer. LOL.

but my attention span only lasted for first half of the match, I was walking ard talking nonsense with wong and meeting my friends from other schs all over the place.

LOL.

And after finals ended, me and wong decided to walk to potong pasir, 'cause she said it was near and I have been thinking of bubble tea somewhere deep inside my mind since I dunno when.

soooo... Overall, it was a fun day! hahaha.

oh ya. sooo happppyyyy... MJ won the school challenge for MONTAGE!

new printers, new bag and new batteries! lol.

and finallyyyy...

I hereby declare myself disappearing from the net until my mid yrs are over.

I seriously have to mug like i dunno what or I'll just screw my exams up again.

OKKKKKKK...

I WILL MISS YOU MY BLOG. SO MANY PHOTOS NOT UPLOADED!

but nvm... I will control control control...

noooooooo blogginggggg till exams are over!!!!

OK. SOOOOO BYE EVERYONE!

happy happy happy happyyyyy...
=DDDDDDDDDDDDD
hehhhh...
ok, this is still unbelievable but hahhhh...
happyyy... happyyy happyyy...
I spent dunno how long screaming my head off when I saw the email.
heh. so i'm happyyy happyy happyyy...

I won 3rd prize in the Youth category of NUS Montage photo competition!
and this year's theme is 'Tension'
and this photo's title is 'Breaking Point'.
(sp named it.)

I won a canon powershot and a tripod and some batteries.
haha. errr... I dunno wht batteries I won cause the name sounds very chim. lol

ok. yay! I'm happy and encouraged by this!
I hope i can somehow win a dslr one day!
dream dream dream...
I can dream abt it first!
haha...

and nope, I am not really going to tell you how i took this,
cause you will feel like killing me, although I have already told a few people.
heh.

ok byeeee!!!

"HI EVERYONE! THIS IS YOUR ''LONG-AWAITED'' PHOTOS FROM THE FLEA-FLY MARKET BROTHER AND SISTER STORE!"

SETTING UP OF STORE

"wahh... very heavy lehhh..."

"You sure you know who to open this umbrella not? What is this string for???"

"Aiyaa... I teach you how to open it laa..."
KG: "wahh.. auntie so pro..."

TADAAAA!!! DONE! We had SUPER SUPER GOOD DIVINE FAVOUR from the auntie you see in the previous picture who is the in-charged person of this flea market.
As you can see, we have tables! Auntie allowed us to use tables when the rest of the stores there only used mats. Auntie provided us with 2 huge umbrellas for free 'cause it's a hot day and I think we can attract more people with them 'cause it makes the store looks so stand out in a way. (I think you are blind if you can't see our store! hahahaha)
From this picture you can't see many things laid out, actually we still have bags and bags of stuff! And when the crowd came, auntie loaned us extra mats so that we can display everything that we have! Last but not least, Auntie allowed us to play our own music!
Thank God! hahaha. =DDD

The bags and bags of stuff that are not laid out despite having the store already set up!

half way through most of us got a little crazy and we kind of camwhored with a 350D.

"EVERYTHING VERY CHEAP COME AND BUY!!!"
and kind of went around and took nonsense pictures of people there. hahaha.

INTRODUCING! MODELS OF THE DAY

(from left, Keiji, Baba, Justin)
I guess they somehow got bored or I dunno is whose brilliant idea, but these 3 guys went to take erm 'random' t-shirts that were on sale at the flea market and wore them.
hahahaha...

FINALLY!
INTRODUCING THE MANY FACES OF PETER JAMES!!!



I realised I have the most individual shots of Peter James. LOL. and these photos are taken by either me, Abby, Charles, or some other random people.
Peter, photogenic arr???
hahaha, although I think you look hilarious in some of the photos!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST!
All our earnings from this flea market will go to missions, basically to help children get an education in poor countries. =))))
And our initial target for 2 flea markets was $450, but the first one was cancelled due to heavy rain and we didn't get a refund for our rental payment.
SO theoretically we had only 1 flea market in the quite ulu not the busy busy popular with alot of crowd place call Far East Square in Chinatown.
Despite all these, we earned $573 in total!!! OVERSHOT our target for 2 flea markets!!!
wohoooo... this is overdued post but yeahhh this is still a happy thing to cheer abt!

God really helped us and gave us divine favour and awesome weather for the flea market! Although we don't have massive crowds, but our customers that came in groups of 2 or 3 still managed to somehow help us earned so much!
hoho... =DDD

Today is blood donation day! so exciting, though it kind of departed from my mind till i saw it the set-up at the study room after school. heh. Considering that I am 18 now! I don't need my mum to sign any form. hoho. =DDD

sooo... me and con went to donate blood after I finished AQ after sch today. Both of us got rejected last year so haha it's scary and exciting to try again. LOL. But, con got rejected again cause of low iron level but I made it all the way to the seat. hahaha... =D

I don't know why but I find it quite a funny experience. I was trying not to laugh when the doctor was measuring my blood pressure and when the worker there was going to insert the needle into my vein! hahaha.

ok. ultimate question of the day! PAIN NOT?
errrr... no... LOL. ok the most most painful part would be the stapling part where they do a mini test of your blood and the injection they give before they finally insert the bigger needle to transfer blood into the bag.
but then again the stapling part maybe it's painful to the extent of a red ant's bite???
then the injection was painful when it first went in and when the fluid was injected, but after that the pain was gone totally.
AND, the biggest needle that went in to transfer the blood wasn't pain at all, like almost no feeling. haha

okok... here comes the HIGHLIGHT!
during the mini check-up, doctor said my blood pressure only just passed so she requested i drank some/alot of water before the blood transfer because i might feel giddy afterwards. And I feel totally fine through the whole process when my blood was oozing out from my vein into the bag. Until when the bag was full and the person was going to remove everything, thennnn... the next thing I know, I was lying flat and some 3 people surrounded me, telling me to rest and not move.

Apparently, I fainted.
haha.

I never fainted before, so I guess this experience was quite interesting and I somehow find it funny too, although I kind of scared the people that was around at that time.
When she was going the remove the stuff, I just started to feel a little giddy then I just blacked out. It happened so fast, I didn't realise I fainted. It feels like those kind of times whereby you doze off in class and you didn't realise you dozed off until you woke up. Just that I was usually half awake when I doze off in class but just now when I fainted, I was totally unaware of whatever that was happening around me.

Con said the person asked me, "Miss, are you ok? Miss, are you ok?" But I made no response at all, so she hurriedly called the people to help and got me to lie down.
(I think I totally lost consciousness, I had totally no idea what happened.)

I only realised after a while and confirmed with con that I fainted. tskk. so malu. lol. Then she still asked me if I saw Jesus when I blacked out. lol. hahaha. Anyway, con was so motherly cause she made sure I rest enough and remained sitted down till colour returned on my face. I had to drink alot alot of water to replenish my body. I got oreo biscuits and raisins to eat from the reception outside too. Con was very nice to send me home too, in case I faint again on my way home. heh.

In conclusion, today is quite an interesting day because I fainted and I never faint before. Not that I wish to faint again! lol. Good thing I was on sitted on the chair when I fainted, if I was standing, I probably would have hurt myself by falling down.

ALRIGHT! THAT'S ALL FOR TODAY! =DDD
AND I FEEL PERFECTLY FINE NOW AND I WILL MAKE SURE I DRINK ALOT ALOT OF WATER! =DDD
AND I WILL GO DONATE BLOOD AGAIN DE!
(next time donate blood must do pre-blood donation preparation. lol)

super tempted k.
super tempted to put old time photos!
haha.
for a good laugh and woah.
we changed alot.
hahaha...
no. don't worry wenqi.
I have my principles.
I won't display ugly pictures of people.
although, you know, I know, we know,
I have the resources to so destroy your life.
HAHA.
but no...
i will put nice pictures of you k!
I don't want my life to be destroyed too...
=DDDD

yes new template!
yes.
not only i have small fonts.
now i want to kill your eyes with striking orange.
I LIKE IT!
as in i like the orange background, not i like to kill your eyes.
hurr...
although the more i look at it the more it looks like chinese new year.
but nevermind!
don't care. cause orange is nice.
(but i still love purple)
andddd I think purple goes with orange therefore the purple headings.
ok.
and yes.
now i think icons look nice.
and i'll try doing my own icons ONE DAY too...
=D

hahaha
I just going to paste this photo here cause I really really like it alot.
and cause it amuses me. hahaha.
never fail to want to laugh looking at it, cause it looks so dumb and we look so dumb and funny as well. LOL

the 07/08 batch of exco is perhaps the smallest (shortest) one,
with the exception of quentin.
considering the previous batch of seniors, most of guys and they are all big size.
esp the legendary mr chee howe. LOL.
luckily? the new batch of exco, kind of grew a bit compared to us.
ANYWAY. HEIGHT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.
LOL. hahaha... yaya I'm not particularly TALLLLL...

but I don't really care anyway, I'm fine with my height.

And one more thing, if you realise from the picture.
You can actually see we are actually all the same height like as if you can draw the straight line across our head.
and Quentin is just being TOO 'OUTSTANDING'.


okkk... BYEBYE! =D

hah...
random shoutouts!
I want to change my blogskin!
I dunno why, but I find icons so cute and niceeeeeee... (these words are so overused and should be banned but... my vocab bank hasn't been growing... soooo, i'll replace them till my vocab bank grows. LOL)
soooo... my new blogskin should probably be having some icons...
IF NOT, hahaha... I think pictures in polaroids are nice too!
somehow...

I saw some interesting photoshop tutorial.
since I have decided to go and clone myself one day!
(I STILL intend to do so ONE DAY!)
hahaha...
nowwww... I want to miniaturise myself!
or maybe someone else also cannn...
not like with the miniaturisation thingin if you get what I mean...
though I am quite wanting to miniaturise some photos of buildings or sth.

I want to drink oreo thick bubble tea and eat guava!
HAHA.
GUAVA IS A WONDER FRUIT.
lol.
though i quite agree with wen that actually alot of other fruits have health properties like guava,
but nevertheless, guava is still =)))))))
i'll elaborate more another day.
and i miss oreo thick bubble tea.
maybe i'll go pp buy one day...
hopefully soon!
=D lol.

"GOOOODDDDD DAY/NIGHT EVERYONE!
This is silly Lily, your proud and very retarded talk host from the De-Noise Radio Broadcasting Station! I simply love sooo much to share with you the BRILLIANT time I had with UNSOUND on my birthday!"


INTRODUCING UNSOUND!
FINALLY, all 6 of us has gathered once again, no missing people!!!
We went to Out of the Pan at Raffles City and enjoyed delicious Crêpes!

hoho.

Wong (girl in 1st picture if you happen to not know) had her favouritest SALMON.

Wen had some snail thing which I dunno call what, and I dunno how to spell. LOL.

I had FISH MASALA. Extremely rare that I would eat fish, but cause it's masala, I couldn't resist! (and I had the lamest/retarded/ran out of vocab words to describe experience with eating masala.)
As for Charl, Englee and Ping. I so totally cannot remember what they ate. LOL.
Fill me in if you happen to remember. HAHA.

What is a meal without desserts or sweets or... (aiya you get what I mean)
Charl's eyes is like so totally glued to the cake.
And this cake is so adored by us all... HAHA.
Look at the joy in Ping's face.
LOL.
And PING! DOES THIS PHOTO REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING?
(seriously what is inside your nose? gold ar? why is it that people are so keen to dig it?)
LOL. (remember the toy screwdriver photo?)


This is so ultimately LATE. btw, englee's birthday was in April, EARLY april. And now it's MAY!
Apparently I have procrastinated for a month before uploading this.
AND LILY YOU MUST LIKE GO MEMORISE OR SOMETHING THE 101 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW!
lol. then you can internalize what we say ma.
Next time take bus from bugis to esplanade must remember to alight and not take until it looped back to bugis hor... =)

more photos to be uploaded soon!
stay tuned! =D

hi everybodyy.
looking at the list of photos that I wish to upload,
it's like 0.0
but I still want to upload it!
cause, I really love photos, and
I see them as a form of preserving the moment (so called) and the memories of course!
what you call "Seize the Moment".
I think that's why, I find myself taking more photos of people during events,
like birthdays or church events or miscellaneous stuffs more than I actually try out or willing to go try out taking nice pictures around Singapore or have fun with a certain type of photography.
which I think is a good and bad thing?
or maybe I am just plain lazy la har?
lol.

anyway I'm going to add one more to the list, that is the photos from TJ Family Day.
which I spent the whole afternoon under the sun for, and sooooo
DID NOT realise I was getting burnt. HAHA.
But, it was REALLY FUN! And we have like 3 or 4 photographers going around,
and I got to help take photos for our so called "photo booth".
altho, this year's "business" was quite bad compared to last year when Kheng went on shooting people for hours (like studio/glamour shot/whatever you call it shot) and there was this EXTREMELY long quene that never seem to end.
Plus, they were doing on-site printing and we did not do that this year.
But my experience was a gan jiong, funny, hilarious, with me running around screaming kind.
LOL. ANDDDD I SHALL not elaborate why other than the fact that I was standing on a mini
ladder shooting the people.
(if you get what i mean)

and I TELL YOU.
although the sun was scorching hot,
but the SKY WAS LIKE BRILLIANTLY BLUE
AND WOAH CUTE FLUFFY CLOUDS...
this is the time, you can jump for joy,
cause I happen to borrow 10-22!
HAHA.
altho the photos i took are not the kind you will go wahh laa...
hahaha... but the sky was REALLY NICE!

now I have a tee-shirt tanline.
"brilliant!" =)


ohh. last but not least.
I want to say.
NOW THE LOFT BED IS IN MY ROOM!
wohoo. =DDD

I haven been updatingggg...
causeee... I am trying to cope with my work in sch.
and I so think that the phrase "no time" shld be banned.
hur hur...
causeee... it is such an overused excuse,
and it irritates me so, everytime I use it.
causeee... it's not a matter of no time,
but a matter of how I manage my time.
so, it's not how I find time to do it, but whether i will make time to do it.
it's does make a difference.

photos that I will upload as soon as I can:
en and ting's travel back in time episode 2!
Lily's birthday celebration
Josheen's birthday celebration
My SYPA photos (maybe)
Flea-Fly Market aka Brothers and Sisters Store
Charlotte's birthday celebration
photos of today's church service. =)

(I'll upload when I'm like really quite free, since this is in the lowest priority level, or when my brain is totally fried and I really cannot think or function anymore then I might just come upload some photos... lol.)

wow... it's really the tearing down process, tearing down the strongholds, the me me me me me, so that You can come in, so that we can become more like You.
This is not about me, but all about You.

Ended last last week feeling demoralised, discouraged. Started last week feeling traces of it... God knew it all. Came into service on friday, and so timely the BOTT sermon we watched was related to fighting against discouragement. Last week, somehow or another, I was directed to this verse.

Hebrews 12:1-3 "[1]Therefore we also, since we are surrounded y so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,[2] looking nto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set efore Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.[3] For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls."

There is a God lor! Don't tell me it's coincedence. I don't believe in it. If He had died for us, gave us the VICTORY from even seemingly 'small' things like discouragement, then how can I even allow myself to dwell in that kind of state, when I already got the VICTORY?
Definitely NOT going to stay in that and allow it to overpower me and wait for people to come and comfort me and move only when I feel encouraged.

David encouraged himself in the LORD. If there's no one to encourage me, I'm going to encourage myself!


The 6 of us finally had a chance whereby all 6 are present so that we can share/talk/update one another.
Lily said this: She considers herself right now, being in a courtship with God, and if she places thoughts on other guys, it would be considered unfaithfulness unto Him.
This really made alot of sense. Plus we just came out of Sis Barb's sermon about Choosing God's Best. =)

hoooohh... THIS IS SO EXCITING! THIS IS SO EXCITING!!! =DDD God is doing something, and we have a choice to be a part of it or not! =)

finalllyyyy... I want to sayyy...
ohhh you slothfulness. YOU ARE SO COMING DOWN.

I had the lamest sms convo today.

Josheen: "JOSHEEN HAHA."
en: "LOL. Wat you send me? siao ar. Hahaha..."
Josheen: "EH. not april's fool joke hor! hahaha. ask zx if you don't believe lol!"
en: "Haha. Lol. Random lor. Haha ok. I'll ask her. Funny lor you..."
Josheen: "eh. where got random! hahah. you then funny. you made me laugh out loud in class. HA. try to come k! :) "
en: "Go where? You sure you got send the rigt person? Lol."
Josheen: "yesss i asked all of you! hahah. it's at my hs! :) "
en: "LOL. This is wat you sent me. 'JOSHEEN HAHA.' I blur know... dunno what you hahaing abt. that's y i tot you siao alr. LOL."
Josheen: "omg. I sent wrongly! haha. and I didn't know. i send you the correct one!! NOW THEN YOU TELL ME HAHA."
Josheen: "hello! you're invited to my bday party on 13th april, 6pm. come k! :) "

... ...
this is really -.-
HAHAHA...

we are doing 雪山飞狐(martial arts novel) in chinese lit class right now,
which I quite like, and because of xuan, I find it hilarious... HAHAHAHA.
Not cause she made funny jokes out of it, but cause she feels like a character in those kind of novels. HAHA. (she will so kill me.)
so i 'nicknamed' her 苏老娘 (and she was the one who called herself 老娘, I only added her sir name) and told her that she is 闯荡江湖的强手.
cause whenever tchers give back essays/tests/etc, she is most of the time mentioned.

en: "Xuan, 你是闯荡读书界的强手."
xuan: "sorry hor, i failed maths."
con: "你是闯荡江湖, 不会算盘的强手."
xuan: (going to whack us)

(i can't rmb exactly what was said... sth like tt la. lol)

ok. this is the end of the exciting story of 苏老娘 and her friend Jo.
you might not find it funny, but ok, I have been laughing the whole day, good enough.
HAHA. =D
for more adventures of 苏老娘, find her at MJ. =)

9th March - 12th March, 23th March - 25th March

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EN AND WONG
ON AN ISLAND ADVENTURE!

In this episode...
En and Wong stepped into a time machine and travelled back in time!
not just to the 1950s, but the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, and 2000s!!!!!!!
imagine the excitement in the city kids! Getting the chance to have a glimpse at their forefathers' past!

hereeee goessss...

A banana note!

to all coke lovers...
I suppose this is your wonderland.
LOL.

now. we ALLLLL know abt Darlie.
but who knew?!?!?
Darlie's forefather is DARKIE himself!!!
LOL.

coolios...

LET US NOW INTRODUCE you to this game call KUTI KUTI.

This is KUTI KUTI!
SEE how much it has EVOLVED over the years???
LOL.

stay tune for more. =)

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(note* captions are not actual words they said!)
=)))

HI ALL!!!! (whether you are there or not)
MISS ME???? (cause I have disappeared for so long...)
LOL.

anyway...
I'M BACK!!!!
FINALLLYYYYY... ...
i miss blogging and posting photos in some sense.
heh.

ok. here's what I'm planning to do.
(blog/photo related stuff)
#1 I'm going to photoshop some of DCD and School of Prayer photos.
#2 quent said he'll teach me how to do the gallery thing.
#3 and I'll post up my (i like very much) very nice gallery!!!
(i can see it... i can see it...)
#4 post up pictures from Tian Cheng and Ian's birthday celebration
#5 photoshop my photo for the LIGHT OF LIFE photo competition
(maybe I'll post it up here, and give you all the link, so that you all can VOTE! I think there's some online voting thing for that competition. heh)
#6 ask the person for permission to submit the photo of him/her for the competition.
(HAHAHA! MAYBE IT'S YOUUUUUUU!!!! exciting right.)
(i'm like just trying to think of things to make this list longer. LOL)
#7 (OH YA!) get a decent photo taken for the inter-jc exhibition.
(heh...)

now that my blocks (aka common tests) are over,
I HAVE TIME FOR ALL THESE...
I should be able to get all of them done by the end of the weekend.
except the gallery thing. =)

soooooo...
something to look forward to.
STAY TUNED!
HAHAHAHAHA!

just a QUICK post!
I RAN 2.4KM IN 14MINS 29SEC last PE lesson!!!
*WAVES HAND IN THE AIR AND RUN ARD*

it's 30sec away from an A!
and the last time I had an A,
I think it's during my track days, which was whn I was sec 1!!!!
btw, I got D for last yr's 2.4km k.
and decided to go for a re-run then got a C.
so a B now is miraculous!!!
hoho!

THANK YOU GOD!
I will go for the A the next time I run.
now that I know,
it's not impossible.
hahaha. =DDDD

btw.
wong said,
it's cause there's a tracker in me.
LOL.
i gave her this face -.-
LOL.

anw.
block test is coming!
and I have to mug!
soooo... my blog would continue to be stagnant!
I have quite alot of photos to upload I think.
plus king kong's unglam shots.
soooo...
yup.
I'll do it REALLLLYYYY SOON.
in the meanwhile, you can just stare at the words.
BYE!