January 29, 2008

Ahhhh!
I cant wait to watch the kite runner!!!
gonna be released on 31st Jan!!!! which is in.... 2 days!!



:DDDDDDDDDDDDD
i wanna watch i wanna watch i wanna watch!

I forgot whether ive raved about this book before but anyway im gonna do it now
GO READ IT!!!!
best book i've ever read!!!
okay maybe because i really havent read much books in my life
and because i loveee this kind of books - exposes cultural stuff, aspects relating to life
I naturally have this dislike for fantasy which is why i gave up reading Lord of the rings and Harry potter
so yes i adoreeeeeee Khaled Hosseni's writing style!
this book is so beautifully crafted!
He somehow has the power to engage the reader.really draws you into the story
The story is about the friendship between 2 boys in Afghanistan. I like how the struggles within the narrator and his insecurities, feelings of guilty etc are depicted. soo convincing
and and and this is one book where the narrator is finally a bad guy! yay!
and i guess another winning factor for this book is that its in first person POV! Thousand splendid suns is in third person! x[

k im done. that was rather messy. but anyway go read the book!!

January 27, 2008

what are you living for?

what do you hope to achieve in your life?


im so glad i have God in my life! :D
.

January 26, 2008


paper cranes!


Haha doesnt it look like a pic out of a horror movie
(thats an eyeball if you didnt realise)

We did eyeball dissection for bio lab yesterday!
so gross and scary!
i dont like being stared at.
we had to cut the eyeball and black juice oozed out!
but the lens inside was rather cool!
could magnify stuff:DD

January 24, 2008

crushinggggggggggg!

Jeanne and olly and jiayi came back today!! i miss you all so muchhhhhh!

but we all realised a hard cold fact today
our team is so screwed.
wang thinks so too more than anybody else

darn.
so encouraging

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how i wish i could alakazam! and make everybody have the perfect tao!
its so difficultttttttttttttt
i dont know what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

somebody make all of these disappear!
(^$#%@!!(#$

January 21, 2008

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LA presentation is finally over!!!
One huge boulder off my shoulders
but but the presentation was unexpectedly fun anyway! :D
The lame intro skit was so uber duper funny!
wingyau screamed so loud and refused to die! hahahahah!
lalala the rest of the presentation was kinda okay
i think our case studies are interesting :D
Hope ms sebastian doesnt make us present during mass lecture!
can imagine the whole lecture theater diao-ing us!

sigh i still have NYAA and R&R to do!
never ending pile of work grr!

January 18, 2008

i dont know what to blog about
except that life is so stressful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
arghhhhh
especially with all the deadly news that keep coming


our taos arent forming!!! we are supposed to jie already!!
where where where?!?!
goshhhh!!!

but nevertheless
TO MY DEAREST JUNIORS
dont stress okay!!
keep smiling and stay happy!
im happy for the fact that you all are caring for your taos and we can see the effort you all put in
but dont stress yourselves outt!!!
relax!!! though still train hard! :D
Jiayou people!~

January 15, 2008

what the.................................................
whats with the sudden surge of disasters
saddening

January 12, 2008

FLAG DAY!

okay i admit im super lousy at begging for money.
jiale, qian wen, jasmine, bear bear all finished their stickers!
and i had one page left!
plus i gave one page to jiale!
hahaha okay okay i'll be the first to die if we all go bankrupt

=]

January 11, 2008

This week was great! Thank God!
ive been trying my best to listen in class and talk more. the former is working but the latter is a total failure. but nvrmind! i shall continue trying
but im sorry Lord. im guilty to say im too overwhelmed by work, too tempted by sleep.
excuses excuses excuses.
this whole week i've been falling asleep by accident, convincing myself im too tired.
i want to hang out with God! i want to listen to you talk.
help me free my time as i step into another week of even more crushing schedule, so that i can spend more time with you=]]
let me see that nothing else matters! I love you!!!

the worst thing that happened this week was wang lao shi leaving.
he didnt say why, nor where he was going.
Its a lost for us, gym is gonna blehhhhhhhhhhhhh
but ultimately its his decision. hope he's happy with it! ,
hope hes heading for a better place!

go wu lao shi!

i see myself beginning to take training easy. in the good kinda way.
happy and contented

January 08, 2008

Thank you nattttttttt!
some verses for everyone:

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. – Psalm 42:5-6a



Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. - Deuteronomy 31:6


II Corinthians 12:10
Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.


II Corinthians 4:8-9
We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.


II Corinthians 4:16-18
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.


Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.



amen.

January 06, 2008

hohoho!:))))) chinese book review!:D i wanna read a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini and my sister's keeper by jodi picoult!but i'm so busy=( oh wells!to everyone i know,please don't think skinny is cool okay.it's really not good:C especially when people keep starving themselves to become skinny!okay!back to doing work=))
I wanna share this article!
with the non nanyang people

ms sebastian gave this to us during class

Shifting into neutered

The lunchtime tutorial on being a man didn't take -- and that's just fine.

Los Angeles Times April 4, 2006

I'VE NEVER been the manliest guy. As a kid I had all female friends, loved musicals, owned an Easy-Bake Oven, had a sticker collection and freely told people that my favorite character in "Star Wars" was C-3PO, a robot so gay they gave him a British voice. I was able to find the one gay thing about "Star Wars." That's like going to a strip club because you like dance music.

And it's only gotten worse since I moved to L.A., where straight men wear shirts with prints on them and jeans with holes in suspicious places. After just three months of living here, I had gotten Lasik, a creme brulee torch and a yellow Mini Cooper convertible.

To stem the tide, I had lunch with Norah Vincent, a former L.A. Times columnist who spent more than a year undercover as a man for her new book, "Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again." One of the tips she apparently failed to pick up from my gender was to not use so many words.

Still, if anyone knew how to butch someone up, it was Vincent. So I took her to lunch in New York and asked for some advice.

Right away, Vincent, a 5-foot-10 lesbian, noticed that my handshake was neither strong nor assertive. Also, my eyes were too gentle. "That's a sign of weakness. That will not get you women," she said. "Make your eyes harder. When you look at people, think mean thoughts." She was making the last part easy.

Vincent suggested that I take some vocal training to lower my voice, as she did for her book. "It's not the timbre but the intonation. You're a questioner. You don't have the sense that you know exactly what you're talking about." Apparently, I talk like a Canadian.

She's right. A few months ago, I Googled an article on some blog about how my voice on the radio is the voice of a "neuter … educated and acculturated out of … any gender at all."

Apparently, I'm not sure of myself, which makes me unmanly. Also, it seems to cause me to Google myself a lot.

To fix this, Vincent suggested that I "project more authority. More ego. Less emotional accessibility. Don't be available for elaboration. Give them a very terse answer. Become a little more autistic." What I needed to do was bark orders. Like for the omelet with ratatouille and goat cheese I was ordering for lunch.

Even the way I sat was completely wrong. I kind of crossed my legs. This horrified her.

"Maybe Brad Pitt could sit like that," she said. "But Brad Pitt could wear a pearl necklace and get away with it." She suggested that I spread my legs as far apart as possible, which didn't sound very manly until she explained it: "Take up more space than you should because you're entitled to it."

Feeling more than a little emasculated, especially after being accused of having something called "sweet boy sneakers," I started to brag about wanting to cheat on my wife all the time. This didn't work at all. "The fact that you're able to identify and articulate your emotions puts you miles ahead of most guys," she said.

After we shared some beignets and hot chocolate, Vincent looked me up and down and said that I might be a wuss, but I was definitely not gay. "A gay man would have put more thought into his ensemble." It was the nicest thing anyone had ever said to me.

The truth is, I don't mind being a little neutered. Gender is so primary in our society that we spend all this effort exaggerating our sex — hair, makeup, boob jobs, weight-lifting, sitting through NCAA games. And now that technology and societal changes have created a sea of liminal characters in the way of transsexuals, cross-dressers and gays, the rest of us are even more desperate to assert the purity of our chromosomes.

But I don't like myself when I fall into the easy, learned patterns of masculinity. I don't like that I've learned not to cry, that I get real quiet during fights, that I always have to be in charge, that I judge women first by how they look. And if questioning all of that has made me undesirably sexless, I can live with that. Plus it will keep anyone from cheating with me.


yay for cool articles!!
it makes me really think about the sad society
how people keep stressing other fellow humans
how the media brainwashes us that we have to be stick skinny to be popular
kinda disastrous world.
and it makes me realised that i too think that guys who sit crossing their legs are gay
hahahaha oh nooo how come!
bad baddd. x[


I met auntie laykeng and rachel in the morning.
what hit me was how come we can choose to do allll stuff we like, and how we can choose to hang out with our friends for hours and hours,
but yet cant take even 15minutes off to hang out with God.
=/


and okay im doing this for the sake of this person called ______
_____ is 16! and _____'s chinese cmi! xD
he/she loves cooking! and is good at it!
and should learn to love baking too! :DD
___ loves kinder bueno!! like meee! :DDDD
hahaha and ____ loves his/her little cousin!
____ loves saying hohoho!
lastly __ hasnt succeeded in teaching me how to camwhore mwahahah! :D

yay! i tried!

January 02, 2008

First day of school!

Was unexpectedly happy =]
I was thinking i would be super sian to return but when i stepped into the class i just suddenly realised i missed everybody so muchhhh

the first hilarious thing happened in the morning
I WAS LATE FOR SCHOOL
stupid long jam along bukit timah road. the traffic was crawling all the way from sixth avenue
haha but well i was the first late comer!! not too bad
and then another uhh 50 people came along hahaha
so cool to be late with 50 people =]
luckily they are voiding everybody for latecoming today :D
zoe was late too! haha!

and after that we had our new seating arrangement in class =]
im sitting next to jo! :D
but oh no im sitting in front of eva again!!! noooooo....... hahahahah!

and Miss Sebastian asked us today what we are looking for in 2008
she said maroon 5 concert
Some said chinese new year
Jessica said this weekend
some said cca performances
and loadsssssss said the end of year holidays. hahaha me too!!!!! :D
haha we are so lousy. we just came back from the end of year holidays and we are looking forward to the end of year holidays. wahahah!

hope 2008 will be a good and stress-less one

January 01, 2008

As morning dawns and evening fades
You inspire songs of praise
That rise from earth to touch Your heart and glorify Your Name

Your Name is a strong and mighty tower
Your Name is a shelter like no other
Your Name, let the nations sing it louder
'Cause nothing has the power to save
But Your Name

Jesus, in Your Name we pray
Come and fill our hearts today
Lord, give us strength to live for You and glorify Your Name

I've always loved watchnight service.
Theres no better way to start the new year than in the arms of God.
together with so many brothers and sisters who loves you
:D