Thursday, December 04, 2008
PROM :D
it was a blast- definitely. and sheikh haikel was really really good. (: everybody looked gorgeous and handsome (:
shall not say much. just photos. (:
bel!
mr lim (: awesome and cool teacher, really fun and nice to talk to.
sweet sweet joce. (:
jeanne and megan. (: best friend forever aye! lol!
jiayi- hahahahaha is all i can and should say.
yixiang. lol. maybe in 10 years time we should meet up to see whether you will continue to be ever so bitchy. haha. and to check if you've lost your ahem..
mr victoria! :D eh, i voted for you! (:
simin-da (:
76 clan. (: look at wayne's hair!! hahahaha.
rarr. (: for being spastic and caring always.
jiahaooooo (: such a small adorable boy.
huimin&shu :D hahaha. they're way cool. shu won best costume! (:
jeanne and mel! these two always make me laugh eh. (:
council boys. eeeeeeh. hahahaha :D
council BABES. notice the difference between boys and babes ;D actually there were more, but like these were at our table. (:
i was mobbed. o.0 gabriel li that retarded boy won best dressed. hahaha.
margaret ((: ever sweet and cute in her baby pink dress. and wearing heels even though she's already so tall.
melmel!
curvy dhilshad :D
iiiiiiiiiillooooooooooovvvvvvveeeeeeezzzzzaaaaarrrrraaaaaaaa.
my gorgeous. (:
sexonthebeach. o.0 what a name. but it was really quite nice. (:
he looks like some undercover detective. haha. so cool huh.
nothing but :D
so they said.
"we can't change the cards we're dealt, we can only change how we play them"
the late randy pausch said that. i never knew him, i wish i met him or saw him in real life. he's a true inspiration. he's the kind of person whom you'd just have to meet and you'd be energized to carry on with life and to continue battling through it. i'm not likening him to Jesus, cos that is just irreverant, but Jesus has that same effect on people don't you think. and i'm looking forward to meeting Him during conference. i'm going to keep holding on.
anyway, that wasn't my point. i was thinking about how this lesson is a universal lesson. when i use the word universal i basically mean it's both a secular as well as christian idea. basically it is choosing our response to situations. when something crops up, how do we respond.. with tears, hopelessness, despair or with joy, hope and prayer. the rhyme was completely unintended. of course that's not an exhaustive list of responses, but the idea of choice is seen everyday in every action and thought we make.
"Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!"
#phil 4:4
until now, i find this the hardest response to cultivate. even after 3 years after the "shout for joy" conference, i still struggle choosing joy when things seem bleak, and when i'm lost and don't know what to do in life. yes, i choose to trust and i still do- and that brings joy, but the hard part is sustaining the joy when joy-sappers keep coming along to shake your trust. but i am thankful for the little spurts of joy that come. (:
"Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you."
#phil 4:8,9
choice of thought, practising self-control on the mind. i think what tr aileen said that struck me the most was not to let other people's sins taint you. that was a really cool lesson. the mind can be the most powerful and the weakest part of you, that can work for or against you. as much as people always say that women are confusing and difficult to understand, i think anyone with a deep and complex entity such as a mind will be confusing and difficult to understand.
at this point the movie irobot comes into mind. even if humans are able to wield such technology to create robots with minds of their own, do we really want to.. i doubt anybody would be able completely fathom the mind and its powers. as much as we want to progress and help mankind with science and technology, do we really want to play God when our understanding, no matter how deep and wide will always have a limit.
i know my blog entry is completely incoherent and disorganised with ideas everywhere.. but it's just a random string of thoughts. lol!
ANYWAY. to continue with my thoughts on making choices and our responses. i was then thinking about how the ambiguity of the english language affects this so much. you know, although jackson wasn't a very good substitte for a gp tutor.. his perspective of the ambuigity of languages really stuck with me, and i've been thinking a lot about it, it's a very refreshing opinion. yeah. anyway, there are a myriad of responses that we can make, an each response can be intrepreted in many different ways. and when it comes to interpreting something that someone says, there's always good and bad. and somehow i find that as much as i wish people would always give me the benefit of the doubt, i hardly do that to others, somehow, this growing cynicism tends to let the positive interpretations gloss over me, and what i sieve out are always the negative connotations, which isn't good because i tend to misinterpret a lot of people. and on top of that, being highly sensitive, misinterpretation sometimes makes me upset. and after typing this long incoherent entry, i realise i make it worse by letting my thoughts spiral on and on.
well, that was a long entry. i'm done rambling. haha. now to post prom photos! (:
i'm sorry you feel that way. and i will always be sorry we're not friends anymore.
so they said.
Monday, December 01, 2008
It's gonna be a night (Can't wait)
To remember (oh, man)
C'mon now (Big fun, alright)
It's gonna be the night (I guess)
To last forever
We'll never, ever, ever Forget!
(:
it's alright cam, not all dreams and wishes can come true.
chocolate chip cookies. (: i only dare put the picture of what i baked cos it actually tasted normal and nice!
caught up with jeanne and wayne over dinner at the restaurant with no gst. and we covered all the necessary topics! late night shopping that made jeanne and cam happy :D
went to watch that little choir president sing her heart out on stage. (: it made me really happy to hear how proud everyone was of her (:
it was definitely an experience, unprecedented feelings and thoughts. it's really not that i'm hardup for everybody to like me, it really is just them.
kolo mee at vivo. (: haha. such uncanny coincidences that freak me out. we were wearing the same thing and eating the same thing one whole year ago!
anyway, we realised that banquet and kopitiam are right next to each other, and food from one side cannot be brought over to either side. so we had a lonely lunch on either side of the barrier. such losers eh.
in the back of uncle ahgong's car. (:
with her new chip and dale watch from those spinny machine things. and as any other girl, she took a long time to decide which toy she wanted. her watch came in handy though (: she kept telling us the time throughout the day and she was happily counting down to the start of the movie. (:
awww.. cousin benben and lovette.
the two of them playing wii. these two ah.. kept fighting and fighting over winning and losing. HAHAHAHA. well, it was my first time playing wii! yet nobody was nice enough to help me take photos of how retarded i was jumping up and down trying to make my princess peach jump up and down the trampoline. well i don't think i'm going to be playing wii for quite awhile, i don't really like playing wii. i've never advocated vicarious living, and i must say this completely embodies all i am against. i'd rather go into the pool and swim or pick up a tennis racket and slide all across the court. not just flick my wrist and watch myself do a smash hardly breaking a sweat. hahahaha. and i think just being lousy at any computer game or digital game compounds my dislike for wii. hahahaha.
and today, despite my abhorrence for winx club, i actually watched winx club the movie. dundundundun!! but seeing how happy and excited little lovette was really made me smile. (: just holding her hand and walking around felt wonderful (: we got the mom and tot ticket which meant lovette got in for free and also meant that i felt weird.. cos uhh, i'm not old enough to be her mum. o.0 brought her to the toys section to look at toys and she ended up watching some kid playing some wall-e game. hahaha. and this weirdo overgrown kid standing in the toy section was helping him get through the different levels. ben would have just called me bossy. but i was just trying to help. oh yes, and while lovette and i were doing all this, ben was happily scaring himself silly watching quarantine in another theatre. cos he just refused to watch winx. hahaha. but we all had a goooood time. (: it's actually quite cool taking little children out. lol. ben will make a very responsible father, but an overly paranoid one too. haha. :D
anyway. happy birthday supermanmarktanfukun! :D
if i were a boy. not you.
so they said.
