Sunburnt on Wednesday, June 29, 2005
I felt a revelation comin’ around
I guess it's right, it's so amazing
Every time I see you I'm alive
You're all I’ve got, you lift me up
The sun and moonlight
All my dreams are in your eyes
I wanna be inside your heaven
Take me to the place you cry from
When the storm blows your way
I wanna be the earth to hold you
Every bit of air you’re breathing in, a soothing wind
I wanna be inside your heaven
When minutes turn to days and years
If mountains fall I’ll still be here
Holding you until the day I die
I wanna be inside your heaven
Take me to the place you cry from
When the storm blows your way
I wanna be inside your heaven
Take me to the place you cry from
When the storm blows your way
I wanna be the earth to hold you
Every bit of air you’re breathing in, a soothing wind
I wanna be inside your heaven
Oh yes I do
I wanna be inside your heaven
I lover her song called "Save Me". I got the brosure from sistic outlet at T.mall while i was with lim teh and we were thinking of going to esplanade to catch her one night performance which priced at 38 bucks and even discounts for students. By 10 August i would be a student!
Some of her songs are re-made by Gigi and Angela i was pretty amazed at such a talent from a local singer-songwriter.
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Today is wednesday, and i actually wanted to jog but unfortunately, the sky started to pee like nobody's business.
Though my workplace is like 10-15min walk from my house,i still got drenched to a moderate extent.
Friday steve ask me to go for the prayer meeting for singapore christians at the singapore expo and i am still pondering whether i should go or not.
Yesterday met linda in tampines(again) coz i need to return her her scrub and she wanted to pass to me that cream of hers from myanmar. In end she had finally heeded the advice of her conscience and saved one for me haha. And she also brought her laptop along and showed me my timetable as well as the advisable timetable she worked out for me. Woah..so touched, YING GAI de.
ANyway, she got to explained some UNI jargons to me, which sounded so "alien" to me. She showed me her powerpoint of the pictures she took at myanmar, the living conditions, the kids, the "guy" a.k.a Fabian, erm some depressing stories which she shared. An example is the outright practices of corruption especially when linda saw a car owner stretching his hands to pass some dollar notes to the traffic police.
Today read a news on NEW PAPER which talks about this US tabloid who names the top 10 ugly ppl. One of whom is a cop who got himself burnt when a cab rammed into his car. Frankly speaking, he was grostesque. But casting that aside, i read of a tremendous love that struck at my heart strings. He was so badly burnt till only his lips and legs were spared from the kind of hell-like pain he was sufffering. When his wife saw him in this condition, she took his toes and kiss them one by one, saying :"i love you so much". The headline on the frontpage of the newspaper reads, "He is not ugly, he is my hubby."
Sometimes love is so amazing, yet i am always more inclined to believe that beauty comes from skin deep perception. A sensational visual treat? I mean come on, all of us in one or another fall to deadly trap isn't it?
Hmm nothing wrong with seeing pretty gals, with voluptuous figures, but a fruit always comes to the picture. LEMON. A pretty oval-shaped fruit with that bright yellow colour, yet it is sour within.
Today is the day when War of the Worlds OPEN! Great.
98.7 do such a great re-shuffle to the DJs for their programs. I was listening to the morning madness on monday when suddenly there is weird interruption while daniel and grace were talking. There was a pause. And a voice came in: "Sorry for this interruption, daniel ong and grace chua had been taken away from the airway, brace urself, in 30s, for a brand new 98.7".
I was like ??? What in the world is going on? Then there was this beeping sounds which really countdown to 30s. At the end of it, came songs with various remixes. That was when i realise they are changing the programs and the DJs. LAME.
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Sunburnt on Sunday, June 26, 2005
My pc was in a cranky mood so i can't really get access to internet for almost a week.
Many things to blog about. First of all, linda tay is back from her mission trip with scandalous stories to tell hahaha. No lar, actually she was juz very impressionable by gentleman(s) over there at Myanmar. Met her on wedesday i think to catch up with her stories at the Billy Bombers. She giving some so much praises to the Banana milkshake yet in the end we can't finished the milkshake and she even attempted to shover her milkshake down my throat too. Futile attempt. =P
Oh well, and I also kena persuaded by her to buy "a moment to remmeber" vcd. If anyone remembers i blog about this movie b4, some time back. A real tearing movie which melt any heart of stone. Anyway, she wanted to watch first coz she hadn't watched it b4.
Oh ya..and linda tay forgot to buy that miracle cream for me haha. Oh well, she owe me alot hahah.
As usual i had been a ardent viewer of the megasuper star. I guess many are skeptical over this kind of talent-search kind of show. Esp, when one of the contestants turn out to be a blind guy. I am pretty happy with the choice of judges coz they are quite professional and sometimes downright straight forward with their comments.
When the results one announced on thursday 1130pm(so late), almost all the contestants started to weep. The scene was simply horrible and morbid. As if death is hanging in the air like that. My frens said i am heartless and i wun understand how they feel bla bla bla. Actually i am aware of the strong bonds that each of them have for one another. However, this is like one the first round of elimination, and this is competition. Seems like all the contestants got the mentality of "win or never win is ok" kind of mentality. Where is that strong primitive motivation to win?
I believe esp for guys in nation broadcasted show like this, tears shouldn't be wept without thinking twice. Tears are wept with a good reason, "YOU JIA ZHI".
Oh well. At least when i was watching with my little brother, those that we predicted were out were indeed out. This brings to a realisation how easily this chinese idol show can be predicted.
After watching Batman begins, i realised that i was completely wrong with the presumption that this movie sucks. While sitting thru the show, i was very into the action-packed scenes, the dramatic emotions displayed by the characters in the movie. As far as i can remember, Michael Caine seems to favour the kind of hairstyle he dons on his head. Everytime i see him in a show he is always in that hairdo. I am not sure why reviewers mentioned to keep a lookout for a immense beauty, Katie Holmes. Personally Nicole Kidman is better to me =)
I also understand that Christian Bale was also a child actor back in a movie called Empire of the sun, reminding me Kirsten Dunst in Jumanji, looking so small and young.
War of the worlds, one show which i am keeping a lookout for. Esp for that Daktota Fannings. Like her acting in Hide and Seek with Robert Deniro.
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Sunburnt on Sunday, June 19, 2005
My pc juz is lagging beyond hope. It juz got hung by itself while i am doing my stuff. Freaking irritating!
Yesterday's service at the FCBC was pretty ok to me. Juz a tiny bit of discomfort thats all. There are alot of things i find it difficult to comment, esp right infront of steve. Coz i dun wish to really dampen or affect his worship on that day. Not that i can really do that anyway.
Ok. Rubbish aside. Hmmm FCBC is quite a big church from what i had heard. Yeap and the church service itself really bears certain resemblance to a concert thingy since it is held in a big auditorium with 2 levels.
I mentioned b4 that i dun really like to hold up my hands to praise the Lord...coz i dun really feel like doing that.
When i was at the church, i keep asking God to remind me to avoid any unfounded or self-determined judgement. I know that i am pretty fond of doing that.
That was the shortest church service that i had ever attended. I had hoped that the sermon portion could be slightly longer. Esp when the "Lord's prayer" in matthew weren't really completely touched on.
Steve mentioned to me that i can be pretty technical at times...and sometimes i really agree on that..
I told steve that i was pretty distracted by his pastor's charismatic gestures while preaching the sermon..and the whole while i was really listening to his doctrines.
As expected, the church members praise God in their dancing and lifting up of hands which of coz i have no right to comment on that, even though i am uncomfortable with that.
Steve intro me to his cell group members, erm like his cell group leader, Jerome,and the rest. A young bunch of young students.
After the service we packet some food from the hawker at marine parade and went to some void deck for some sharing session.
THe session ended with Jerome praying...and i was pretty caught off guard when he started praying in tongues.
The last time i heard this 'tongues' thingy was when in sec4 when Liyue prayed for my family over the phone regarding their salvation.
Tongues apparently had been kind of a controversy in so many churches..
Steve told me that we should set aside this differences in opinions towards this tongues issue and to really see God as who He really is. To some extent i agree on that..but somehow if certain doctrinal issues are not resolved...it became quite a big tripping stone for me. The Bible is not self-contradictory. It never "is" meant to be anyway. So there shouldn't be doctrinal differences or even variations. I find it pretty difficult to come to terms on that.
That sermon by the pastor yesterday was ok, reminding me the essence behind the "template" for the prayer to God.
One thing i did realise is that i find that cell group sometimes can a bit of result-oriented. I mean all of us as christians are always very prone to that too..
I believe a good sermon should focus on the key points, with bible references aplenty. Usually a sermon should always end with something that i can bring back for this coming week. Perhaps even at the end of the sermon, we should gather as brothers or sisters, to think about the sermon and to really for one another with regards to those pointers in God's Word.
As a whole..i told steve, the service was alright, but not really a church that i can identify and grow up in. Anyway, steve was fine with that. THank God for that.
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Sunburnt on Saturday, June 18, 2005
Your Brain is 46.67% Female, 53.33% Male
Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female
You are both sensitive and savvy
Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed
But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve
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Ha... Just the opposite of mine, which is 53.33% female and 46.67% male. But we got the same comments!
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Sunburnt on Friday, June 17, 2005
Tmr going to steve's church at TOUCH center. Actually I knew that FCBC is juz like another city harvest church. Thats why lim teh and I dun really fancy those annual festival of praise at indoor stadium.
Perhaps YFC might have given me a different point of view. I always dun like to worship God in dances and those jumping thingy. By saying this, i am not so judging ppl who do that.
Perhaps growing up as a young christian in Emmanus had taught me the beauty of worshipping God in that tranquility, a portrayal of that peace i can dwell in the Lord?
Then the clash between Emmaus and yfc had really troubled me back then. Always have to make a stand to my church to inform them of my committment to yfc events.
Emmaus had very good solid teachings, esp i still remembered those by Brian Cummings..however sometimes i feel that the brothers there are pretty quick to judge, esp in questioning my priorities.
Like what steve had reminded me, nobody is perfect, that speaks for Christians too.
Back in Emmaus, i devote large part of my weekends to meetings and service, so much so that i have lost that genuine sincerity in attending Church.
I dun wish to be those church-goers who are there juz to warm the seats.
The life that is consumed by self-consciousness is indeed something so virulent that is can be deemed as something normal. Sometimes i wonder why i am so vain at times. Yet i wonder why i can't.
God never contradict himself in his Bible. I guess all the comfort i need is in His Word. Praise Him.
As for tmr service at FCBC, pray that God Himself is my focus.
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I believe that the fault of most people is to take the extremes. For example, some say that God is love, and then ignore His commandments. Some say that God is Judge and tries to keep the 600++ laws in the Old Testament like the Pharisee.
I believe we always need a balanced view of God and how we approach Him. Personally I love the tranquility where I can be still before Him. But I believe that there's always time to dance before God in rejoicing too.
At the end of the day, the point is to choose to please God who is both Love and Judge. =>
Sunburnt on Saturday, June 11, 2005
This morning went to the great world city to catch mr and mrs smith with vin. Morning go town really feels so nice. Esp when there are fewer ppl and we dun have to squeeze in between crowds, though i know i am capable of doing that.
Was watching the variety show by by econ on channel 8 juz now. Pretty enthralled by the dancing performances put up by the kids. Impressive..
There was this song that i had never heard for some time that were being played while this group of kids were dancing. It was Together Again by Janet jackson. Nice old song.
Nothing exciting today for a saturday for me. Boring..and was kind of tired when i come back from town in the early noon. Took a nap. Woke up at 5 plus, took dinner...read a book..watch tv..freaking boring.
ANyway i am really looking forward to watch War of the worlds..i watched the 3 different trailers from apple.com and I must say that trailers can do wonders to really captivate your senses. 29 June.
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Sunburnt on Tuesday, June 07, 2005
To many stuff to go and maintained so i will juz stick to my photobucket link and i have done away with that new blog called photo essay. Pictues paint a thousand words..so i shan't waste time bla bla about this trip to Kranji and CCK. 
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Sunburnt on Monday, June 06, 2005
Today i went to Kranji memorial park to take pictures.. with the accompaniment of Ken and Xiaoting. XT was bored so she decided to join us. Well i do hope that she weren't that bored lar. Afterall we are there to juz take pictures ma.
The weather was pretty fickle-minded today. At times the dark ominous clouds gather to speak of rain, and not long after that the sun triumph again. We were actually pouring out sweat and we spent some time going thru some of the tombstones. Some are different from one another perhaps due to the difference in religions. Some have no names, while some have their child and spouses' tombstone together with them, side by side.
Of course, it's sad to see so many allied soldiers died in the battle to preserve the integrity of this island.
We saw a number bangla worker dozing at some of the sheltered part of the monument...and orchids hanging on some of the trees.
When we first entered this memorial park, we saw this relatively big brown-marbled tombstone solitary on a turf-like kind of grass field. We went to look at it and it was president Benjamin sheares' tombstone.
After this we head off to CCK cemetery with only ken, coz XT need to go and she of coz had no plans to go cemetery with us. That i can fully understand. =)
Thank God for such a wan-to-rain-dunwan-to-rain kind of weather, sustaining us thru out my photo shoot. I thought we could find that abandoned 3 blocks of HDB flat in Kranji...but to dismay it was a no..
Ya...i am all tired out..drenched in that weariness that i am so lazy to move now....
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Sunburnt on Sunday, June 05, 2005
Who knows what tomorrow brings.
In a world, few hearts survive.
All I know is the way i feel.
When it's real, I keep it alive.
The road is long, there are mountains in your way.
But we climb a step every day.
Love lift us up where we belong, where the eagles cry.
On a mountain high.
Love lift us up where we belong, far from the world.
We know, up where the clear wind blow.
Some hang on to used to be.
Live their lives, loking behind.
All we have is here and now.
All our life, out there to find.
The road is long, there are mountains in our way,
But we climb them a step ev'ry day.
Love lift us up where we belong, where the eagles cry.
On a mountain high.
Love lift us up where we belong, far from the world.
We know, up where the clear winds blow.
Time goes by, no time to cry, life's you and I.
A live today.
Love lift us up where we belong, where the eagles cry.
On a mountain high.
Love lift us up where we belong, far from the world.
We know, where the clear winds blow.
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Was chatting with this ex-recruit of mine online when suddenly i tok about my little brother and how i had almost exhausted any form of ideas to encourage him to study diligently for his examinations and tests.
It became a heated discussion of how unempathetic i was..
It dawned upon me that this recruit (justin) of mine actually is also the youngest in the family and all his siblings had done pretty well in their studies and work while he wallow in self-pity, continuing to neglect his studies coz he felt that there was no need to study hard since his sibling had done well.
My fren kept persuading me to "coax" or even to speak nicely to my brother to encourage him to study. I really doubt that pacification can do any good to him. I mean, seriously, he will not take me seriously when i speak nicely to him.
Nowadays, he is on the phone and playing online games with frens all at the same time, despite failing his two core subjects.
I told him to end the game, he told me he created the game and all his frens are all linked to this game. I replied with a cold answer, "so?".
He reluctantly ended the game and stormed out of the room.
FOr this june holidays, i have thought of getting assessment books for him do but my fren actually asked me to seek my little brother's permission first before i go buy the books. I was real pissed to hear that from justin(recruit)...And he even added on it's coz of respect. Respect? Come on, considering my brother's performance in his studies, you wan to talk about respecting him, asking him before buying assessment books for him to do? Oh pls, tell me about it.
On and on justin told me that i should look from my brother's point of view, coz parents will definitely compared him to all his brothers..and he will juz feel super bad and even purposely dun do well in his studies. This might be true...however..i juz ...feel that i can't give up...at least not now.
If my parents ain't doing anything about it, i should start by asking to stop playing games online. I never stop him from using the pc for msn, frenster..(less time consuming) but i have strictly limit his usage on the pc now.
Oh well...at his age, frens are everything ... but somehow his generation and ours during secondary school is totally worlds apart..
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One thing to clarify is that i seriously never intend to go to Old changi hospital to seek "ghost", but merely to take some nice pics from there... In the first place the site weren't really that spooky, except for parts which were pretty darker due to the lack of windows.
Ken brought a reflector with him to take some potraits shots of myself. And boy, am i impressed with his photography skills man. Oh well, 2 grown-up man seeking nice shots with nice exposures at a dilapidated building...ya we are brave. :P
This particular pic tat he took of me near the window is pretty nice, coz the exposure was juz nice, not too dark nor bright. Considering that simmering temperature and bright light from the early noon, it's pretty easy to get a over exposed shots. I was using a digi cam, and was taking some leisure pics, instead of altering those shutter speed to get the appropriate exposure.
One part of the OCGH was relatively more run-down than the other side. This was the part which is darker and perhaps creepier.
We always hear of the basement but we couldn't find the basement when we went there. In the end we gave up...coz we were really thirsty, forgetting to bring mineral water with us. We saw other groups of teenagers exploring the place and a group of malays even asked if they can follow us. Come on...broad day light, scared of me meh?
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Sunburnt on Thursday, June 02, 2005
Heard this over class 95 today. Glen was giving some tips to Venetta if any guys trip to use some pick up lines on her.
1. Oh gal, your body is like a temple to me...
Retaliation: Sorry, but there is no service today.
2. Oh gal what's your sign?
Retaliation: Do not enter.
3. Oh gal, you look so familiar, i seem to have seen u somewhere before..
Retaliation: Yes, at the VD clinic.
4. Hi girl, is the seat empty?
Retaliation: It will be two if you sit down.
5. I will go to the end of the world for you...
Retaliation: Alright but can u stay there?
6. Hi there, what do u do for a living?
Retaliation: Female impersonator
Haha the rest i can't really remember...but i think the number 5 is pretty funny to me...
Sometimes glen and rod can really a great duo in hiking up that slow momentum of that boring morning.
Finally today got my pay. Yeah.
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Sunburnt on Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Watched the Madagascar with aung yesterday. And i actually told angel and xt that i have watched the movie already and i have to forsake them this time round. Yup, but there is another movie outing going on. Linda was suggesting watching mr and mrs sniff. This friday my company having a cohesion at bugis. Company as in my company in tekong island.
I am so weary today.. so tired..that i have to drag my feet all the way back home from work.
So my work had been extended to the end of this week and my pay is coming tmr! Yeah...but there are a few cds i wan to buy but i have told myself not to...hopefully i can succeed for this month of june.
1. Coldplay newest album X & Y
2. Black-eyed Peas, Monkey business
3. Gorillaz, demon days
Oh well this is the top 3 albums.
I postpone my old changi hospital trip to this coming saturday afternoon due to the extension of my work.
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