PSALM 27:4 "One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple."

Sunday, December 31, 2006

My very Last Post for 2006

Man...Its been a long time since i last posted here...loads of stuff over the past 2weeks....and what a busy weekend...Friday: went for dinner with Peter, Freda, Linus, Ricky, Jem & Johann at the Singapore Swimming Club....ate the beef noodles recommanded by Freda....she said it was really good...but hmmm.....haaa...the uncle that cooked the REALLY GOOD beef noodles no longer works there and we ended up eating some funny beef ball(and we all agreed on it) the club came up with....haaa...luckily the rest of the food made up for it....then Sat: whole day out with my course mates and in the night drove down to meet all the camy guys and gals(camy retreat)...im glad i went down despite a few factors that made me procrastinate(tired after such a long day, very far----camp was in G2 but they were having dinner at Keat Hong and i dunnoe how to get there =), gotta lug my stuff down if im staying over, i gotta wake up early to drum in G2 e next day) and kept changing my mind here and there....but finally i decided to go....y? Because i want to keep my word....told joey, johann, joel, jeremy and ricky i'll be going...and im sure glad i went...though it wasnt long and i din managed to talk to everybody...at least i spoke to a few people whom i think i barely spoken 3 words to in the whole of 2006. Firstly was Kerpal....managed to talk to him cos a few of us went to play Lan in Orchard till 3am....haaa....then there was HuiYi and Grace Ng...cos i "dong pan" them home along with Huifen....i had fun and enjoyed myself though i was really tired....Finally Sun: woke up at 6am(2hours of slp only....blame myself....haaa..) went to church in the morning and almost dozed of when Pastor Calvin was preaching...but i din....then helped my DAD for the rest of the day...so thats how i spent my last wk end of 2006....Thinking back about what Pastor Calvin preached about today..."FINISHING STRONG"... this year was really a tough year for me...but through the ups and downs...i know it was GOD who carried me through time and time again....and HE always stood by me in my lowest moments...i pray 2007 will be a new beginning for me...one where i'll be able to forget the past and move to fulfilling God's will and purpose for me in my life....

Peter tries putting him in the baby seat.......

He cried and even managed to find time to pose for a shot...

Then he got grumpy....after his "i'll force my tears out and bluff daddy so i can come down from the chair and go run around and play" got revealed by Peter when he said "stop forcing your tears"...

Then he took a last look at the other kids who were having fun before he decided to just give up since he's not gonna get down anyway.......

Then when the food came....he started to find the chair rather interesting...

Happy boy after all...

Chicken Wing..

Beef noodles...

Malay Version of Kueh Tu Tu...

Jem staring at Johann...

Freda eating the Malay Kueh Tu Tu...

Ricky's Emo Shot...

Pic of Peter and Freda...

Johann, Jeremy and Ricky...

Ricky and Linus...

Time to go home...

Peter and Freda staring at Baby Linus...

Linus and I...

Linus looking COOL...

AND THE PICTURE OF THE DAY WILL HAVE TO GO TO THIS GUY! Love having a DSLR at times like these....

Linus on the swing...

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Busy DEC!!

Haven been blogging cos i DUN have the time so im just gonna sum up the past week at one go....haaa...lets start with last tuesday.....went to camp as usual but left camp earlier cos went for my cohesion day with other pals from my unit....we went to marina square to have lunch at kenny rogers then went for bowling...had a good time cos i haven seen them in ages...but a bad time also cos i was feeling so sick the whole time....my throat was burning and i felt feverish....dun know why all of sudden fell sick...so was on MC and until today im still having a bad throat....really dun know whats going on....

Chengkun and I at Marina Bowling centre

Saturday went to sentosa with my coursemates again....i must say they're pretty "gung ho" abt going sentosa to play volleyball, chill and suntan....since the start of the course i think we've been there at least 3times already man....haaa....met issac and dino at 7plus as usual but i only reached at 8....then we went to siloso beach, which is our usual hang out and started playing volleyball....the weather was pretty bad when we first got there...even rained....really dampened our spirits....but thank God that din last long....cos the sun was out around 10ish....and from there the whole day just took a turn....had so much fun with the guys playing volleball and challenging other people who came to play as well....i got to know some new people too...cos before we went back i actually teamed up with 4 other strangers (nicholas, augustine, albert and xiao qi) to play a match against another team that was pretty good too....i had a really great time and really enjoyed the whole match....it was exciting, fast and competitive....shiok man!!! Made me thought about the days when i played volleyball in St Hilda's Sec...

Collage of Sentosa Pics

I played volleyball till i got burnt!!

Sunday celebrated my granny's(dad's mom) birthday at Rach's house...had lotsa food and a great time catching up with my cousins...felt something was missing though.... anyway Rhema Conference started on Sunday and today's the last day....i signed up for the night rallies thinking i can make it in time....but i forgot these few weeks are "chiong sua" week....arrgh....

Granny giving thanks for the food

Getting ready to sing the birthday song for granny

Blowing the candle and Cutting the cake

Uncle struggling to hold shen long down

My nephew aka "Long Ge"

My nephew aka "Chao Ah Beng"

Monday(had to stay in), Tuesday outfield (reached home 9plus), Today (reached home 7ish, 8) also outfield but within camp....sigh....the one thing i really regret is not being able to go for any of the Rhema rallies....hope i can make it for the next one if our youth is gonna do another conference....tmw still got training and prep for exercise UNDERSLUNG, fri's actual UNDERSLUNG and next weeks outfield outfield outfield again....think i shall go sleep now....

Component training day....try finding me....not hard at all....haaa

Shaun and I

Doris and I

Dehydrated!!!

RAINBOW...

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Sunday, December 03, 2006

D-Day!!!

Today's THE DAY...cos it's Standard Chartered Marathon Day!! Been waiting for this day to run my 21km...woke up early...kind of....5.15am....took 2 bananas, 1 snicker bar and 1 endurance drink to prepare myself for the run...felt so full after all that intake...=)...then DAD fetched me to Esplanade where the starting point is....MAN!!! i was SHOCKED to see so many runners....i din know Singaporeans run....haaaa....i can barely squeeze myself to the front where the starting point is....in fact when the 21km run was flagged off i had to wait like 7min plus plus for the crowd to clear before i got to the starting line and started my run....phew...wat a way to start...but from there it was AWESOME man....got to see loads of stuff besides the scenary...firstly was the un-sightly peeing the guys did at the marina U-TURN point....there was like.... one whole stretch of guys in a horizontal row doing their business admist the bushes IN THE OPEN!!!! Cant imagine singaporeans do that in public where eveyone can see....but then again cant blame them....the toilet queues were SUPER long...talk abt toilet...i din even go to the toilet once for the entire 21km....even though i felt really urgent when i started the race...i thought i could just dispose it by running....haaa....must be the numerous cups of plain water yesterday and endurance drink this morning...so that was the first sight...next sight was completely stunning...left me SPEECHLESS....as i was passing my 10click mark this lady came from behind and overtook me....ok...tts normal...alot of good female runners....but wat happened next was lik....she took off her top after overtaking...i was thinking to myself what just happened....dun even know how to describe it....of cos she had her sports bra on but the whole thing was like out of no where....OUTRAGEOUS...then was the sight of people in strange outfit or people carrying strange stuff...there was this lady dragging some boxand tyre behind her which says ice-lady....then another lady wearing some reindeer hat which had hoofs....wats really encouraging was there were a few other ladies helping the lady who's dragging the box thingy to pull the box so she dun have to carry so much weight while running....then the next sight was this blind guy running with a helper....that kinda thing is like...happens only in movies....haaa...BUT the greatest experience i had while running was i actually managed to worship (in my heart of cos).... and by doing so i felt like the Holy Spirit was running next to me (even though i think it should be floating instead) and it really touched my heart...during the run there was this song that came up on my ipod..."AMAZED"...at that point i was reminded of how much God loves me and how blessed i am to be able to breathe...to walk...to RUN! I recalled what i've been going through the last few months and i thank God for it...i thank God for true friends who guided me through and gave me encouragement when i needed it most...i thank God for bringing new friends into my life...friends who cares for me...ALL of that gave me strength and even more determination to run my race....so i ran and ran and finally completed my run....i felt rather good after the run....after all its my first half marathon...and im glad i ran it well....so after my run i waited for DINO to finish his 42km (you did really well bro, good job!!) before we both headed to Suntec for Fish & Co...had a good meal and DAD picked me up and sent me home (thank God he was still in the area)...was talking to JOEY on the phone and SHEIKH via sms....they both did the 42km run too....proud of you guys man...good run guys! Now i think for the next few days im gonna have to limp my way here and there!!
=(.....wat a run!

My Timing
Distance: 21km
Timing: 2hr 23min

Dino's Timing
Distance: 42.195km
Timing: 4hr 51min

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