Haven't been updating this for quite some time due to my uber packed schedule. Its been raining responsibilities after responsibilities. It's been tiring yet rewarding.

Tuesday, had a meeting to plan for the upcoming CH empowerment, funny how it seems that I'm in committee after committee. Had lunch, well dessert actually, at Adam hawker. Janella and I finished like 5 fruits. I ate less than her though, funny it may seem. Then meeting was pretty bad :/ Everyone was like Haruki this Haruki that. Was quite annoyed haha, but i took it in my stride. We walked to Botanics to check the place out. Then when meeting ended, went to Samina's place, from there we left for Orchard. Ate at Cineleisure, Chet Nat and I ate 2 servings. Then everyone was burping on coke. Then we left that place and walked to Plaza Sing. Walked around quite abit. Went to Yamaha for quite a while. Then home :)

PHOTOS

Wednesday, Nat, Jan and I went to Chet's place. Played COD4 there, realized Chet's COD was noly version 1.1 when there's alrdy 1.7 available. Well it was still quite fun raked a 25 kill 5 death round which was quite awesome considering i've not played for quite some time. We discovered a rare talent. Janella! She could navigate around on her 1st attempt in an FPS game, normally people would be either looking to the ground or to the sky at their 1st attempt. She even killed 4 people, well at the expense of 18 deaths though. Funny how she killed the 1st person. Well, then I had camp com meeting so I left earlier. Meeting went so smoothly we ended earlier than expected.

PHOTOS

Thursday, met Gideon for movie, Madagascar 2, Abel couldn't make it cus he was told last minute that he had to serve during SP empowerment that evening. Well movie was good, fellowship with an ol' buddy was better. Met Adriel and Nat at The Cathay, they forced me to pay $10 for a 3 scoop ice cream. We headed to church from there, well i stopped over at Adam Hawker to meet Ben for dinner. We were just on time. See Ben I told you i am a master of time and your SPC trip coulda cost us our punctuality. SP empowerment was a renewing of something so important yet often left unsaid. The Great Commission. What a way to kick start 2009 before it even begins. Then went for supper at Adam Hawker with Joseph, Fuwei, Sister Jerlyn, Sister Esther, Ben, Nat and Janella, had stingray and kangkong. I had 2 and 3/4 bowl of rice, coulda eaten more if not for time. Thanks Joseph for the rice and everything else. And admit it you said Bro Andy was fat. hohoho. Evil Joseph.

Friday, pretty much the plain old friday, what could I expect haha. Well. Stonned quite abit Played quite abit. Slept alot..

Saturday: Went out early for basketball, wasn't my usual self on the court. I got quite agitated with almost everything. Calmed down much after ball. Went to Ariel's place for lunch. Natty wetty and jelly were there too. YAY! I finally proved my worth by beating Janella at driving. See I told you it was just the steering wheel I was not acustomed to. Nat was nonsensically pathetic at driving. He still could criticize Janella saying he'd never let her drive his car. Well turns out he wasn't much better himself. Well Nat, looks like your car would be left in the carpark, no one would be driving it. Well in any case. Ariel (Samina's) mum makes quite awesome pasta. <3 the chunks of tomatoes. We headed to church soon after, cus some of them had to be there early.

Service, I think we really need more seats in the chapel! The guys and I had to sit all the way behind! We are growing. Haha. More importantly, the message was very very timely. Bro Andy, my deepest condolences goes to you and your family over the loss of your grandma. P. Gary's message spoke to me. It really reminded me of how God made use of the little that I had. Much could be seen when I joined CH up till now. When I first started off I had almost completely nothing, except a heart that was all ready to serve but didn't know how to. However He gave me mentors, He gave me leaders, who were key in my upbringing to where I am today. Looking from where I started till where I am today, I must say one thing. God is faithful.

Dinner was sumptuous. Had it at westlake restaurant, it was simply splendid there. Zhi Han's mum owns the place. Side note, Pi Wei all along thought Hans belonged to Zhi Han. How naive haha.

Sunday, woke up early again, this time for service. This time God spoke another message through the same message. Afternoon, had lunch, then we did games testing. Now i'm simply too tired to type anymore about today.

Yesterday:

Went out early, had lunch with Kinnon, Ariel Mae, Janella and Nathanael. Nathanael was uber late. Had hokkien mee. I was all scared when Ariel told me Janella has a tendency to fumble with soupy food. She did fumble with her Korean soup after all that faithful Sunday evening. Worse of all I was right opposite her.

After lunch, we walked around Orchard, we went up and down and escalator to take photos unfortunately they were not very clear. Jan couldn't stop playing with my camera even on the streets. Took loads of random shots. Went to cenileisure to check out movie times. None fitted our schedule. Went to arcade. I was quite hesitant to spend there but still eventually wasted $2 there HAHAH. Kinnon had O levels and Nat had piano lessons.

The 3 of us that were left decided to crash Ariel's place, played some demo game. Jan thrashed me D: wait til we rematch with the remote! HAHAHA. No one was at home except Pepper, Ariel's dog. Had more fun playing with Pepper than with the xbox hahaha.

Ariel had SP interview so Jan and i went to macs. Rain started. Ariel joined us back at macs, Kinnon came soon after. Told us he was late by 2 minutes and how he just slipped on his uniform and took his exam. They had a tough time deciding where to eat.

I went on for camp com meeting which was so hilarious.

Bro Andy: who's doing _____?
Sister Raine: erm, Haruki and Brenda very free.
Bro Andy: HARUKI!
Me: yeah?(blurly)
Bro Andy: you'll be doing _____.
Me: okay..... HUH?!
Bro Andy: Don't worry la I'll assist you. I'll do 80% you'll do 20%.
Sis kassey: No la brother Andy, you'll do 20%, He'll do 80%
Me: okay....HUH?!
Me: Err, okay....

____ shall not be released until camp hahaha.

Then Joseph slapped my right arm twice. Once for saying he needed the 10cents to pay the agency to get his vietnamese bride and the other for calling him Josie~

HAHAHA, rest well Joseph, hang in there.

PHOTOS

Today:

woke up early, couldn't sleep, God knows why. Had a prayerton this morning. Just asking for direction and wisdom and strength to juggle so many responsibilities, SP duties, CH, Camp com. Transitions and more transitions. Putting me on the spot as always, but worse this time round. God led me to Genesis 12:1-5

The Call of Abram

1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.

2 "I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you."

4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

Abram (Abraham) left his comfort zone too (country, father's household, people) but neither fear nor faltered, never did he look back. Why should I then?

Amazing insight from God from a verse as simple and often over repeated. A new season has begun sacrifices have to be made, time will be drained, much energy needed but God will sustain me.

Jeremiah 16:19 (extracted)

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress





Chatted with Meiyan through lunchtime on msn. Talked dumb stuff like trees and Pines and ANGSANA hahaha. Made up weird theories for her, haha, we encouraged each other and challenged one another. Amazing what the wonders of msn does in this mordern age.

Slept and stoned and had Ben & Jerry's til now.

Today, went to church in the morning to do Christmas decorations. It was really fun haha. We managed to complete what was supposed to be a 3 day work. Praise God! And too bad for the wednesday thursday people HAHAHA.. Thank goodness i changed to today :D

Anyway we basically sticked 3M tapes on all the ceilings which were available, well, the lower ones of course. Han, Wei and Nat were smacking each others nipples the whole day. Especially Han and Wei. And Han was a racist as he always is. The girls gave us goosebumps when they sang HSM3 songs. Well at least Wei had goosebumps. I had to stand under the air con to "make some". You get what I mean, Air con, goosebumps, okay never mind.

Lunch, ah how can a big eater like me forget about lunch. We has chicken rice, with a twist, there was chicken but the rice was duck rice rice. Duck rice rice, okay that will take you some time to get what I mean. Kinnon was super generous, he bought drinks for everyone. I wanted to chip in $10 cus i felt bad. But he declined D:

After that i practically slacked for almost half an hour. They were hanging the long long things down the stairway. My group was the last, but well eventually we didn't even hang it up. What a waste.

Then we had to do the ladder job. To think that I was made to do it when there were many many other taller ones around. It was all dirty and dusty, especially the church doors. Argh I leaned on 1 and had like 1 long black line. Took me quite some time to wash it off.

Well the job was very well done. What can I say, we, the youths of Ignyte are efficient. Bravo!

Then we went to play at CCAB. Nat, Janella, Meiyan and I had arranged the day before. Until Meiyan PANGSEH-ed us to play tennis for some reason... Ended up playing soccer 1st. I was like super lousy, cus i'm like unfit. Had a few good chances squandered cus of my slow acceleration. Oh well, i scored one goal in the end as a consolation.

Took ages till Janella, Nat and Kinnon to arrive, Justin was there too. Started playing. Played hard, laughed harder. Hahaha I played with doubles with Kinnon on my team and Nat and Janella were our opponents, okay haha they were super funny. They had loads of miscommunications. Then Kinnon and Nat teamed up against Lester and me. We were thrashed flat. Nat only scored a point though, Kinnon did most of the damage. Or should I say, all but 1 of them. Oh well had a few singles match too lol. I beat Janella 15-14, close call phew! In your face Lester! Then Joshua beat me like 15-8. He cheated much though. He was like using the fact that there was no net to give me cheap shots. How annoying. If a net was there I'd beat him any day!

Supposed to eat dinner with Kinnon, Janella and Nat. Ended up at home instead cus my parents were in a bad mood. Oh well, better luck tomorrow. Well at least this time I told them I'd be out the whole day!

Going out tomorrow! Wee!

Picture call:


Me!


Everyone watching Joshua cheat to beat me >:O


The Thrashed


The victorious (Nat scored just 1 point)


Candid moment of today goes to Nat!


Shot of the day, courtesy of Janella

More of Today can be found here

Spent the past few hours clearing stuff in this computer. Found a few funny, memorable, sad, happy things.

Something I found in "My received Files". Some juicy details of the me in the past. Sometimes pasts bring about lessons. Lessons that will teach us to be stronger for the future. Lessons that will mould us to more of Him and less of us.

Enjoy the Juicy stuff, (it was done by an ex)

WHAT IF......

» I committed suicide: I would die too.

» I said I liked you: I would tell you I LOVE YOU!

» I kissed you: I would kiss you back man

» I lived next door to you: I would be like so happy. Wait. U do kinda live like next door.. haha.

» I started smoking: I will box you no luh! I would tell u stop.

» I stole something: I would tell you not to. But if u wouldn’t listen to me I would keep nagging(:

» I was hospitalized: I will visit you every single day

» I ran away from home: I will invite you to stay at my house(:

» I got into a fight and you weren't there: I will GO THERE n fight with you

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MY:

» Personality: you are so loving n sweet n I LOVE YOU

» Eyes: very small n cute!

» Face: very nice! Nth I would want to change cos I love everything about you

» Hair: very perfect

» Clothes: yeah nice wat

» Mannerisms: quite polite. But its okay I will teach you how to be polite

[1] Who are you? YOUR LAO PO LA

[2] Are we friends? More than frens, silly

[3] When and how did we meet? Erm. Bus 18.

[4] How have I affected you? U made my life so great.

[5] What do you think of me? I think ure the best lao gong ever.

[6] What's the fondest memory you have of me? Hmm. When u kissed me!

[7] How long do you think we will be friends or enemies? I think we will be together forever.

[8] Do you love me? YEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[9] Have I ever hurt you? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo

[10] Would you hug me? YEAAHHH

[11] Would you kiss me? YUPPPP

SKIP 12

[13] Are we close? Yeahh veryvery close

[14] Emotionally, what stands out? I think u very sweet. N I like that.

[15] Do you wish I was cooler? U very cool already!

[16] On a scale of 1-10, how nice am I? 1000000000000000000000000000000

[17] Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it. AHH U PIGGENINNYY

[18] Am I loveable? YEAH TOTALLY

[19] How long have you known me? Since p1

[20] Describe me in one word. PIG

[21] What was your first impression? Very quiet too! Cos u nvr talk to me

[22] Do you still think that way about me now? Kinda.

[23] What do you think my weakness is? Poketty poke!

[24] Do you think I'll get married? Yeah cos I will marry you

[25] What about me makes you happy? When u kissed me I was VERYVERY happy(:

[26] What about me makes you sad? The fact that ur hp is gone =(

[27] What reminds you of me? Hmm. I see a pig, I think of you.

[28] What's something you would change about me? Nothing luh!

[29] How well do you know me? Very well. I guess

[30] Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn’t? hmm. Yes……. But sorry cannot.

[31] Do you think I would kill someone? Haha. My frens think so! (:

some weird test that my ex did of me haha. Isn't it just amusing how blurred your vision is when you are in a relationship. How misled I was.

The weekday were not much of worth to mention.

Saturday, Went to church early in the morning for camp com meeting. After meeting we had CH interview. I was pretty shaky when it was my turn to do the interview. Hahaha. Meiyan was simply staring at the "script" and she went," eh what's the attire for guys arh?" That shocked the bai ka hahaha. Service talked about how to make your life count. Alter call, I reaffirmed my calling and wanted strength to remain resolute.

Went to Thompson Plaza with my family after that, had dinner. Sis wanted to buy her spectacles. Fancy the irony, i use the computer so much but I don't wear spectacles. Whereas the rest of my family members do.

Sunday, went for Webmedia meeting. Some shocking changes, some awesome new objectives for year 2009. Now I can't wait to get the year started! After that I shared cab with John Ho and Matthew (2 AF dudes). Then the taxi driver was like," you all in army ah?" Then i was pretty shocked! Then he was like why you(refered to me) no need cut hair ah?" Then I joked that I was in the Republic of Singapore Air Force. He believed for a moment til John Ho had to pop my ego bubble with a sentence," no la, he's still a secondary school kid." Then the taxi driver got racist as we were approaching PL, we stopped next to a traffic light with a police car with 2 malays inside and started being racist. Talking about cisoco only having malays and the civil defence and so on. Then he went on to NS. and blah blah blah til we reached PL.

LCE, was simply funny, DL teacher's led us for an example of how next year's DL services would be like. HILARIOUS! It was also a time of checking of my heart, I guess I am partially guilty of having the Onan factor of Leadership. I shoulda let Moses be released as a PSP a long time ago.

After LCE, took a bus to Bishan with Ryan, Ben, Meiyan and Janella. Sis Raine was with us til serangoon area where she lived. She was like," Ok ok I show ya'll my house." Everyone was expecting some terrace semi D like thing cus she said she'd show it to us. Turned out to be HDB flat near where i play soccer. HAHAHA. Continued the trip all the way to Bishan. Ben and Ryan Pang seh-ed us cus they had to be home for dinner, Nat was gonna join us.

Ate at the food court. Had omelette chicken for dinner. Lent Meiyan $7.50 in all. MEIYAN DON'T FORGET YOU OWE ME. Oh and i forgot to collect a dollar from the rest for fruits. Had an awesome time of sharing. From love stories to scary encounters to random things. Oh and fun with rhythm banging on the table. And occassional screams which made the rest of the public stare at us. HILARIOUS! And of course Jacking meiyan. Her brain standard kept fluctuating. Worse then stock prices. From a Mac she dropped to DOS to even Noah's Ark and then to a Sampan and donkey and an elephant. Beat that! Mos code was the funnest! Nat, Janella and I had our's stuck at windows XP. Meiyan was so blur she couldn't tell apart a glass door from a glass wall. She stood in front of a glass wall for seconds. Janella had to show her the glass door.

That paragraph is almost a tribute to the almighty blur Meiyan. God give her wisdom. xD

HEY, what was shared within that table stays within that table OKAY!

Went home did some work went to bed.

As expected the holidays just got better as it goes. Best thing has to be God's imminent presence daily. Saturday, church, never as usual, always different. Fuel we talked deeper in depth about fasting. Wei Don came again, hope to see him more often and frequently in church. Service message was so strong. Passion, Perseverance always important in a relationship with God. Alter call had to be one moment of refreshing and committing myself to God's plans. He reminded me of the plans he has for me. Plans that I have been running away from, fearing to lose my comfort as I am enjoying now. God showed me a glimpse of me, a Humanitarian or a missionary, whichever suited the vision he showed me. Hard to believe and understand. Why? Why not something I can do within my reach, like reaching out to some folks here, locally. God reminded me of this song more importantly the chorus.

Give me your eyes for just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me your love for humanity
Give me your arms for the broken hearted
Ones that are far beyond my reach.
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see


Now i shall not doubt any further, if God is for me, who can be against me?




Sunday, woke up early to pack my stuff for the chalet. 1st thing we did was breakfast at macs. Didn't have much since I already had mine at home. We went out to rent bicycles for the rest of our stay. Had lunch which was kinda pathetic, well, at least for the price we paid it was a pittance. Then we went to the arcade. I mostly just played the basketball machine. Other than that I had some fun with the Japanese throw-ball-at-screen-game. Christopher, Joel (Poh and Loh), Wen Xuan, Lin Chun and Ying Hao were there. Then Zachary, Jun Yong and Chee Chin(bird) joined us. We caught a movie. Alas! High School Musical 3! Movie was great. But it left me thinking, is life ever so perfect like that? Well, maybe not. I love Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) hahaha. Okay that was random. Remember this?




Oh well, back to the point, after movie we went back to the chalet. Had nothing to do. I brought J Loh, Jun Yong, Chee Chin, Zachary, Wen Xuan out for a ride. Joel learnt how to ride a bike! With the help of yours faithfully and most importantly, Zachary who was teaching like a father would. Rain started, cycled in the rain. Accidently splatted some mud on the back of my shirt for going too fast. But it was pretty fun riding in the rain. Went back to BBQ, many thanks to Christopher's mother who made her way all the way to the chalet to be our head chef. well, I wasn't doing too bad either before she came. I did some perfect Otah(s)! After BBQ, I brought Chee Chin, J Loh, Jun Yong and Wen Xuan out for another go since the rain had died down and the weather was just marvelous. We had 4 bikes, 5 people. I volunteered to tompang Jun Yong but he complained the my bike was too "sharp" and his buttocks were aching. Jun Yong then shared with Chee Chin. They were looking super gay, cycling together, falling together. At certain point one would opt to run. We cycled to the end and back. Isaac and Hao Zhi were back at the chalet waiting for me. Thus, I had to go a second round that night. Altogether i cycled approximately 4 rounds around the whole Pasir Ris park yesterday. My buttocks were aching after all that. Then when everyone left, Those staying overnight (Christopher, Joel (Poh and Loh), Wen Xuan, Lin Chun and myself) decided to find something to do instead of sleeping. Went to Ehub! Last movie was at 12am,we just missed it by 15 mins or so. Headed to the bowling alley, all lanes were taken, went back to the chalet, the rest played cards while I went to sleep.

Monday, nothing much happened, we returned our bikes. We were utterly dismayed by the vendors working etiquette clearly the signboard stated he opens at 10am but he only came in 45 mins later. We were supposed to check out by 10.30am But ended up leaving the room only at 11.20am. Went home, slept, dinner till i ended up here.


:)