happy depavalii!

erm... oops.
wrong date. Blessed CHRISTmas everyone!

heh... i guess when cliches start to make sense, and returns that impact it's supposed to have... it's really, erm, impactful...

May God's PEACE and JOY be upon you.

peace and joy.

heh. really man.

so here's the cliche for u!!

=D


anyways...

2006's been a brul... i mean blur.

time to take some time to have some reflection time :D

HAHA

poly life somehow seems to make time accelerate more than other times in my life.
heh... i guess for others my age.. JC life... haha
they're all partying/working/enlisting/slacking/retaining etc.. HAHA

oh well

maybe cuz at this station of life it feels fast.
maybe there'll be more to come, i'm sure...

but its time to reflect.. haha.. to be honest, never really thought about the year that's past...

it's been a blur really.

but lots to be thankful in that blur.

cuz a blur king like me has lived a thankful blurred life, which makes 2006 blur.

HUH????


oops.


anyways... take an insincere cliche home! :D

living a/the different life

is it really that difficult just to be different?
just to have a different lifestyle?
just to have a different upbringing?
just to have a different mindset?

oh well.
the answer is yes.

in this conformist soceity we're in lah...

where people just try so hard to be cool, without realising that cool is actually not, the contrary actually. the irony of it all. (if cool means standing out from the crowd...)

we want to stand out from the crowd but want to follow trends, of which the crowd would have already been doing/dressing. strange hor?


i blogged this before..

but it gets hard in life when you are just so different, even from those whom u hang out with.

ah well.

thank God for people around who are willing to be friends who welcome, accepts and engage you for who you just are...

thankful for all these people around me. thank you.

Qn to myself is... do i? am i the friend that i want others to be?

heh, i seem to be blogging in circles, and keep typing the things which i did before.
shows alot of my life at times.. circles. or maybe it could be spiralling downwards??? hope not.

oh well. i guess that's life for alot of us. this is the world and soceity we are in.

you're either in or out. out? get the hell out of sight.
and if you're ang-moh-pai in a chinese speaking env or chinese-speaking in an ang-moh speaking env.. all the more i suppose... :P esp the latter i think :D

oh well.

God's kingdom is an upside-down one.
or rather, we're the ones on the wrong side. we are upside down.

He accepts all. He wants all to return. Not just the ang-moh-speaking. not just those who speak with a certain angmoh-nized accent.

this is our God.

living the/a different life? (ie: plain weird from others??)
heh, it doesn't really matter.

:D

The-Mind-Cafe-Saturated :P

heh, went to The Mind Cafe at Boat Quay twice within 4days? piang...

haha oh well.. it's a great concept lah, all these cafes, like settlers and minds'. where ppl can chill and enjoy all the board games there. bored games for bored people.

hmm not exactly.. haha it's a good place to just catch up and have some board fun. tho i don't think they have surfboards for u to surf at the s'pore river.

oh well.. it gives me an option for a part time job if i have to go find one. not in the next few months tho..... ... nic is a lazy squanderer pig :S HAHAA

anyways... it's a gd place to chill with board games, unless..... u yourself have lotsa interesting games liao..

tho not recommended that u go there too often... especially in a span of 4 days??? HAHAA jelaht feeling man...

once in a green moon maybe? or is it blue? heh.. find a nite with a psychedelic moon lah. solve the problem whether red, green or blue moon. :D

BB 2001-2004 gathering.... 15dec06

on the train lah.. have no idea why i am putting up this pic also... oh well... :D

hmm.. 19dec06.. PCFers (eng and chinese side only though)... hahhaha. bad cam. so bad pics.....


;P

interesting. very interesting indeed.

it's interesting how a personal opinion on something (which i think isn't really the main point and was just a comment) cause so much hype among people.

isn't it so in any aspect of our life?

i guess we are called to be lights. not flames.
not flames so we can flame others.

it's reaaalllllyy interesting.

it was an interesting 3hours that had just passed.
how anger, emotions, and our own wanting for credit for a job well done can snow ball and multiply (it didn't happen on multiply though... :P:P:D ) or should i say entropy out of control.

i guess that's life.
we go through life going through different emotions, different opinions. but i suppose let's use these 'wisely' and responsibly. try to see the big pic first.... if u can't see, can always go to the Singapore Art Museum, or any art gallery for that matter, to see a big picture... :P alternatively, zi lian by taking a self-pic and print it in A1 size. now, that's BIG... :D ;P HAHAHAHAHA...oops...

anyways.

blogs aren't safe man.... hahha... so, ppl be wise in how we emote yar? and "coat your tongues with SALT. and a torchLIGHT too." it's not meant to be understood btw. juz look at the words in caps can liao. i am too lorsor la... so i end up saying things liddat.

yea.. and cuz i am lorsor i just wanna type this whole paragraph which really means nothing, and i juz wanna emphasise that i am lorsor in this post so thats why hor, i am typing this. as i am typing this i realise i have a deja vu.. which means i probably had done something as boliao as this before. sigh. yea boring lorsor etc....

but if u get my main pt, can already. sieve it out through the crap. i am sorry to u, who read it.. :D HAHAHHA.

[bad english. bad grammar.bad vocab bad linkage of thoughts. tsk. u fail english lar, nic... :P]

Maksim - The Gypsy Maid

thanks eliza leong for sharing with me this album...
song's just so awe-inspiring.... ;P

casting crowns "konsert" :D

hmmm....

i am impressed with Casting Crowns now.
I once just listen to some songs of theirs, and i thought they were bland... probably cuz i am visual-learner type of guy (i think).. couldn't really catch lyrics when i hear any song....

but yesterday's concert... yea.. i am impressed at them.

their songs, if u hear carefully (or read, for that matter..) are filled with lotsa meanings behind.

of judging, ostracising, and basically what we aren't doing well as believers....

and they managed not to make it preachy... they sang it..

though many would have heard their songs already, i suppose, watching any band live will be more impactful...

quite interesting lar... it's the first concert which makes me think. alot.

so we can sing or preach about not judging people and sing about going to pray, but that's just it. we continue judging people, and "choosing who comes in or out". and we just know that we should pray.
hmm.. better still, let's pray about who to judge. cus we are so good. and others must do it our way.

it's interesting how they managed to point people back to "the voice of truth".

i suppose they brought a message that is super relevant to us. messages i suppose. there were many issues talked abt......

Christianity as a religion where we put on and off like a jacket. Jesus wasn't meant to be put on in the first place. but in.

yea the lyrics of their songs speak for themselves don't they?

Are we happy plastic people
Under shiny plastic steeples
With walls around our weakness
And smiles to hide our pain
But if the invitation’s open
To every heart that has been broken
Maybe then we close the curtain
On our stained glass masquerade

But if we are the body
Why aren't His arms reaching?
Why aren't His hands healing?
Why aren't His words teaching?
And if we are the body
Why aren't His feet going?
Why is His love not showing them there is a way?
There is a way

I’ll praise You in this storm
And I will life my hands
For You are who You are
No matter where I am
Every tear I’ve cried
You hold in Your hand
You never left my side
And though my heart is torn
I will praise You in this storm

Your love is extravagant
Your friendship, it is intimate
I feel like moving to the rhythm of Your grace
Your fragrance is intoxicating in our secret place
Your love is extravagant

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You're

Let my lifesong sing to You
Let my lifesong sing to You
I want to sign Your name to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to You

oh well. no photos, cuz phototaking was prohibitted. maybe except some pics ale, rach and leon took of themselves.. whats new?

AHHAA :D:D jk


oya... there's still another round tonight. if you're reading this today (fri 8dec06 from 1138am to 5+pm?) and never heard of this and u wanna go do consider lar... as in, really consider.
www.konquerors.org



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hey! this is a really serious post! HAHAHAHAHHAHA.

heh ;P

heh.... uniting factors that rly bonds ppl:
- food
- trying to defeat some totem-pole-eating monster on retro games like metal slugX at 4.37am. :D jon, we make a gd team ;P
- pillow war
- everyone else tickling someone =D =D .