Sunday, April 06, 2008
In the afternoon at around four, went with Jerome and his uncle to Depot Road to play some pool. Played 8-Ball haven't gotten a chance to play 9-Ball yet. So I was like getting thrashed by the Chua family. Jerome's uncle is more pro that Jerome so you can imagine. (Ouch!) Well, after pool went to buy the Oreo vanilla drink. It's very nice and soothing to your taste buds. Then Jerome and I went to Botak Jones to buy some food home to watch the Arsenal, Liverpool match. Bought the cheese burger thing and Jerome got fish and chips. So he came to my house and watched the match and eat at the same time.
The match was not bad. Overall quite entertaining. (For me at least) Too bad Arsenal drew with Liverpool!! Really wanted Arsenal to win. Lucas, the next Gerrard? No way!! (:
After the match just talked to Jerome about the past and everything. It's really good to just look back to a certain point in our life and just laugh at how we think in the past.
Lol. I'm typing proper english!
Hopefully I'll be able to wake up tomorrow morning for church?
Friday, April 04, 2008
ok anyway this is the first time in my life i got stood up. ok, it's not really considered stood up cause i had 2 other friends with me. ok it was disappointing especially since i consider one of the person who stood us up to be a close friend. i won't say i'm sad la.. i'm just a little bit disappointed? lol.. some might say i'm over reacting but that's how i feel lol. ok so it's like A, B, C were supposed to join D,E and F to watch a movie. A, B and C didn't turn up but that was ok. they called us 10 minutes before the movie started to tell us which i find pretty reasonable (no sarcasm intended here, seriously) anyway, i don't really care about B and C not coming because i'm not close to them. ok i sound like a total ass but i'll still go on. lol. ok but the thing was like A called us to tell us and he was like laughing while telling us that they weren't coming. this is like one of the last times we get to go out as a 'gang' (not that kind of gang!!). ya so, i could tell that this outing didn't mean much to him but it meant quite alot to me la. i was tired after soccer and jogging but i still decided to come as this would be one of the last times we could go out together.
now on a lighter note, today was a great day in all. in the morning met alex with jerome to go jogging at queenstown. as usual they did the whole 'after jog debate routine' they do this almost all of the time after jogging together. after that we went back home and played soccer downstairs. we didn't really play soccer, we just trained together. had lots of fun with them but i just can't cross today!! gonna work on that. all this memories will definitely stay with me for a long long time, most probably forever. i can still see almost everything that happened in sabah, cambodia and in school over the past few years in my life. but i'll definitely always remember jerome crossing the ball to alex and alex failing to trap it and then they will debate again. (classic scene) really appreciate this friends that i get to spend one phase of my life with and hopefully it does not end here.
anyway after 'soccer training', showered. Alex, Jerome and I then made our way to Lido to catch be kind rewind. starting part was super lame and funny. overall it was not that bad a show. quite entertaining. actually all movies to me are entertaining with the exception of horror shows. (i dislike them and try to avoid them as much as possible but sometimes a scare does help in your life) had an early dinner after the show. Jerome and I ate subway while Alex ate fried rice. (trying consciously hard to type in proper english and start names and each sentence with capital letter) ok crap, for a moment i forgot how to spell letter. argh!! I suppose today was a great time of bonding for Jerome, Alex and I. I'm sure that we'll treasure this times in time to come.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
OH YA.. when i boarded the bus to anfield, i realised my ez link card was not inside and that i left it at the pool place at depot road yesterday... lol sucks rite.. so after soccer, went by there to get it. oh and i bought the oreo vanilla drink. it's nice but they jacked the price up.................
ok... i'm gonna state 5 reasons why girls are bitches.
1)they make use of guys alot (MANY EXAMPLES)
2)they are early game heroes (like to harrass alot)
3)they cause guys their downfalls
4)majority of the cam whores are girls.
ok maybe 4 reasons la.. this is so dumb. feeling sian now anw
just played with alex and alden warcraft. moomoo.. lol..
i make it a point to exercise everyday. so it's days like this i feel screwed up cause i didn't exercise enough and i didn't exercise after that. so it's like if i don't play soccer, i will exercise at home for 30min and if i play soccer i won't exercise at home. so it's like today didn't exercise alot then i wanna exercise at home but i reached home at 8.30pm and had dinner at 8.40pm too so i cant exercise... ok this sounds dumb...
anyway, i don't know if i'm like obsessed with exercising or what lol...... ok la not obsessed lol..
feeling tired should i stay up for the arsenal liverpool match?? lol..
today's post may seem weird because i feel emotionally confused.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
well, yesterday alex wasn't late. cause he totally didn't come at all. well alden, alex and i were supposed to go to orchard. he had to fix his specs and i had to send my vaio in for servicing. (crap right) his dad gave him an errand so he could not come. lol
hmm.. so went with alden to wisma and sent my notebook in for servicing. hopefully they find the fault man.. and the lag problem does not happen again? oh ya.. met khai dan sophia christabel qilin and wen hui at wisma. they were going to watch movie.
well walked around orchard and ended up at taka. the basement there has lots of gd food. so alden and i got tako yaki first and then thought about what to eat for lunch. well, ended up eating fish and chips. the fish is much nicer than botak jones one but the chips at botak jones are nicer. much nicer. really felt like buying churros but it costed $2.50 and for just fried dough with sugar and cinnamon, it really isn't that worth it. but i can hardly find it in singapore. ok after lunch tried finding khai dan they all but they were watching the movie already so we went to depot road to play pool.
was really off form yesterday. i only played well for around 7 turns before i went back to my earlier form. yea so basically that was it for yesterday.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
well yesterday was a great day actually. ok.. maybe not that great but not bad. well the day started off as usual. waking up late, slacking after bathing, watching tv, playing ps3, was still trying to fix my laptop yesterday but to no avail.. wth.. i just bought it la. OH YA! i started watching DIGIMON SEASON 2! LOL. lame right. just trying to enjoy the past. lol. i used to love it.
well left home at 4.15 to go to anfield! but guess what? alex said be there at 445. i reached at 440 la. i always try to reach a place 5 min early to don't screw people's lives up. but alex reached there at 5.15.. cool right. he's always late. anw yesterday may not have been his fault (so he says) BUT late is still late. up till now he's wasted more than 24 hours of my life BY BEING LATE! no one has ever been so late.. except my father la.. he's worse than alex. lol. sadly. lucky the 2 korean boys came and brought their ball so we just started kicking around while waiting for alex and alden to come. ok really clicked quite well with alden yesterday. our passes with each other really connected very well. there was this once he passed to me then i back heeled. ok it failed by abit. the ball was abit too ahead but it was really close to executing a brilliant move like those u see man u doing. really cool. ok scored 1 goal yesterday. finish wasn't that great but i really like the set up for it. the ball came from a throw in. alden passed the ball to me. did u watch the man u liverpool match where nani scored. he cut super well then went for the bottom left? yea i did something like that just that my shot landed on the top part of the net. the shot wasn't hard either but it dipped so i guess it made up for the lack of power. really gotta start working on my shot power. and sorry alden for kicking the ball to ur face man.. unintentional. OH some buddha boy came too. he's quite fat hence alot of ppl made fun of him. i really pity him man.. i hope he does not let the insults affect him.. hope he is christian too. anw tried doing the move i've been practicing with alex. the one where i cross the ball from the right side to the left. my crosses are quite ok but it's just not meant for alex as in i either kick it abit too front of him or just at him. ok, my passes are ok too just that i can't judge the pace of the person receiving the pass hence it's either too front or too slow. lol.
well at night played warcraft with alden. played some defiance open rpg thing. was quite fun but alden disconnected halfway and did not save the character so u can imagine.. lol. well gonna blog again later about today.
catch you soon!
Monday, March 31, 2008
right now there is like this cold war in my family. my mum and i against my father. ok i have not talked to my father since i went to alden's house that day which means it has been 3 days?? lol. really got nothing to say to him at all.
well today has really been a sugary day. consumed alot of sugar stuff today like soya bean (4 cups), chin chow, tao hui, rum rasin ice cream. lol.
anw at night went to tiong with my mum and brother. sent my grand ma back on the way. tiong now has subway, ajisen, tcc coming up. cool ei.. they need to upgrade the cinema though. it's quite outdated compated to cathay and vivo those kind. lol. gonna start going church next week already HOPEFULLY! :)
Saturday, March 29, 2008
ok i'm seriously pissed off at my father la... most of the readers here already know why so i don't have to explain it here but seriously my mum and i treat my maid like family so he should honestly not treat her the way he did. utterly no respect and i'm utterly disgusted. the worst part is i talked to him nicely at first then he lost his cool but he did not shout la but i could tell he really lost his cool. he has too much pride. way too much.
ok. the first part was fun. i really sweated alot which meant that i ran alot. i guess what alex said is true la that i'm naturally defensive but i can attack too but that is because everyone else goes up and no one defends. up till now i still haven't found my best position but i'm guessing it should be right midfield, central midfield, right back and i'm not sure of this yet but support striker haven't really explored playing that position yet. there are many things i like about playing at heng guang's place. there are many nice people there gabriel, yong tsu (if that is how it's spelt, i don't know), daniel, heng guang, alex (all these are the regulars who play there la most stay in that dover area). really fun people to play with. i like it when people i know like alden, mok (when he does not mess too much) play too! i also like the court. it appears small when there are people playing in it but actually it's quite big. i saw it myself earlier when it was rather empty. stuff i don't like about playing there is when people keep saying no goal no goal when it was a goal. really gets on my nerves sometimes. well sometimes when we have to wait to play i don't really like it.
the better part was later when feng yuan and his friends came. ppl who came were chuan hao, kenneth yip, brandon, daryl and some people i do not know. but they were not bad. it was really a good match for me though. we played whoever reach 3 goals first. so first they scored then we scored then they scored again then we scored so it was like 2-2. then i scored the last goal it was a good goal cause i scored at the bottom left from like half of a half from the right side. i'm happy with myself for that. i almost celebrated la. i like ran after i scored but decided not to in the end. i really wanted to win that match. it's like those matches where u can't lose that kind so you can imagine how i felt. after that walked to the ac bus stop with alden and jun jer who was walking the same way. i felt really happy when alden and jun jer recognized my effort in the game when alden said i played like the team captain and that my goal was very nice and jun jer agreed with alden because i kept running up to attack and back to defend. well it really felt good to have ur efforts recognized by your friends so people, encourage ur friends as much as you can whenever you can. try la. it's easier to dao than to encourage. lol.
ok i played soccer for like around 4 and a half hours? really tired. when i went home after dinner, called jerome and he and his cousins went downstairs to play soccer so i brought my brother down along too and some other neighbours came as well so we could play a match. played from 8.30 to close to 10? really couldn't do much i was exhausted from such a long day already but it was fun la. i realize when u really feel the pinch from your fatigue, you will seriously under perform alot like you can't shoot properly ur passes will be screwed. everything justs becomes damn screwed up and it is very different from when you have energy. lol. you can't even dribble for nuts. lol. really really tired now. hopefully i can wake up for the morning service tomorrow and go there with my family (excluding my father he does not go church).
Friday, March 28, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
well.. yesterday was quite fun. alden and alex came over to stay over again. lol. played lots of games with them and jerome too. played pro evolution, dota, xhero, moo moo, more moo moo, rainbow six. slept really late yesterday like at 5am? or maybe 4.30am? but well, had fun so it's ok and school is gonna start soon too. slept for around 4 hours only . woke up at around 9 something. then played moomoo and dota again after that.
after that, played soccer downstairs. actually we did not intend to play la but just kick the ball around and practice but some other ppl came 1hour after we played. i was running alot and it's really damn tiring. i practiced crossing to alex and alex will trap and also lots of 1 touch passing. was fun but as i said earlier, tiring. after that some other ppl came so we played. wa alex and i played very well initially lots of good passes to each other like arsenal like that. but i was too tired to play properly after that already. lol. we went to library after that alex borrowed some books, jerome at some food, and i drank some drinks. lol.
hmm.. i've done some research on universities in U.K. and if i go to that one that i'm going which is University of St. Andrews, it is 4th place in the U.K. just below oxford, cambridge and imperial college. quite cool going to such a gd school.
OK wAIT back to yesterday morning! Alex and i went to np to do our laptops and me not knowing that i should not bring another laptop for servicing, naively brought it there expected everything to go on as smoothly as last time. but NO! second day in NP and i'm labeled a cheat, thief, stealer, bad person, dishonest. cool right. i serviced my old laptop before already in NP so i brought my new one for servicing too. so they think i'm trying to steal their software and use it for my own purpose. it's really damn screwed up la, i seriously did not know i was supposed to do that. but well the other laptop is reformatted already so all the stuff is gone already. worse thing is i gotta go there again to install all the programs and stuff and BRING THE OLDER LAPTOP TO VERIFY THAT I DID NOT STEAL! what an auspicious way to start the school year.
Monday, March 24, 2008
ok tomorrow alden and alex shld be staying over so it's gonna be cool.
yea & i really got to start changing.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Highligh of the day, i got a new laptop. as in a Brand New laptop! it's super cool. well but it came at a high price though. i bought it at $3999 which in other words, is 4k.. lol paying half of it. but my mum keeps rejecting my offer. haha. got it from funan. well it is a sony vaio. the higher end model.
hmm gonna sleep earlier today so that i will be able to join my mum for adult service tml. well.. she's gonna drive there! so it's cool.
Friday, March 21, 2008
OK MY LAPTOP SERIOUSLY SUCKS! even warcraft has choppy graphics on it!!....... SIANZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!
school's gonna start soon. looking forward to it! i really wanna make new friends and not stick to the old ones that i know. hard to explain. of course i'll still be friends with the current friends la. duh.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Saturday, March 08, 2008
ON TO THE BEST PART OF THE DAY. THE MAN U & PORTSMOUTH. man u lost 1-0. funny part was that kuszczak their only keeper for that match got sent off. and ferdinand replaced him. how lame could that get. anyway i'm not a supporter of any of the big 4 and here are the reasons why.
Liverpool- too many supporters especially after 2005! i dare say some of them are fake. (don't be offended if u are a liverpool fan, i'm sure u are a true fan) ESPECIALLY ALL THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW TORRES BEFORE HE JOINED LIVERPOOL. i didnt watch soccer then,so i didn't know alot of players. lol. but he is a good player.
Chealsea- THEY SUCK! buy all the good players but still so sucky!and cause matthew supports them makes it easier to hate them.
ManU- i like their players & manager but i just don't know why i got this thing against them. i like watching them lose to the underdogs. lol.
Arsenal- i don't mind them. actually i feel neutral towards them. just don't feel like supporting them.
ok... basically i just enjoy watching the big 4 lose to the underdogs. fun to watch. anyway time to watch newcastle be owned by liverpool.. lol!
Friday, March 07, 2008
i seriously hate him man. he's supposed to be a father but he's screwed up. all he does is break the family up even if he does it unintentionally. seriously, ok first let me describe his character. he is lazy, hypocritical, irritating, arrogant, chauvanistic, egoistic, self absorbed, big talker and the thing which pisses me off the most is he can't practice what he preaches.
let me start with lazy. now that he's without a job he wastes away at home almost everyday. he often talks about 'opportunities' through friends. but i really have no idea if he really does have any true friends at all. he also sees gambling as an income. he buys 4d, toto and bets on soccer on a almost weekly basis spending at least on an average, $200+ a week. he is incomeless FYI and this really pisses me off especially after seeing how hard my mum works. GET A LIFE! LITERALLY!
hypocritical- PLEASE GO STRAIGHT TO THE DAMN POINT! especially if u want something. He says "Lincoln, what is your notebook for? can i borrow it because my OWN (which my mum paid for) notebook got very little battery life and i want to type in my room" when this is his actual intention "Lincoln, land me your notebook because i am too lazy to unplug my notebook from outside and put it back after using it." I can see ur motives and thoughts too well especially after living with you for 16+ years. well anyway my reply to him was "my laptop also no battery life. only last 1 hour"
now on to irritating. sometimes he really talks alot of crap. he talks about saving money all day! DON'T GET ME WRONG! SAVING MONEY IS A GOOD HABIT AND ONE THAT WE SHOULD ALL PRACTICE! in the afternoon, he will be like off the light electricity is more expensive now. i really think it's alright if any other human says it. I hate him for saying this when i look at how much he spends on gambling and all his other shit. if u save on ur gambling and other shit, you'll definitely save much more than turning off the damn light. "the wind is windy, you might want to turn off the fan" is another one of his favourites nowadays and it is really pissing me off.
arrogant, chauvanistic, egoistic, self absorbed, big talker are all linked into one. to have either one of those flaws, you are bound to have the other. his arrogance really pisses me off. he honestly talks very proudly. he will often try to make himself seem powerful and high up in front of others. like during chinese new year, he will tell ppl i'm working in mediacorp working on some project. A DAMN NICE WAY OF PUTTING IT HUH! when ppl hear this they must think WAH EARN SO MUCH AH! but they don't know the truth la of course. this links to big talker as well. lol. ok let me start on his self absorbification and how it leads to even more big talking. he thinks he is damn handsome and young which i find utterly disgusting for a person who is supposed to be mature. he will often ask my brother who is the most handsome of us all (refering to my brother, him and i) bo liao right? and when people call him uncle, he will say just call me brother will do. ppl usually think he is joking but he actually means it (some part of him does) dumb right? and whenever he gets a freaking pimple, he will purposely emphasise on it to prove the point that he is young.. seriously nothing better to do. his egoism and chauvanisticness can be seen when he treats my mum like dirt. i can tell that there is no love between them anymore and that my mum is only keeping this marriage for the sake of my brother and i and he is only keeping it because my mum is the only person who can & will support him. thats why he always expects my mum to give him money, pay for bill, debts, ect. it really disgusts me for a husband to treat his wife this way. i mean it may not seem as bad as physical abuse but to me it's around the same level.
well you might think, lincoln, what's the point of typing this? well it definitely helps me to feel better. i don't feel comfortable telling my friends about this so i won't relate to them about this directly. and only 2 of my closests friends know my blog so i feel comfortable typing such things. well, yet another ranting session.
on to today. today was a really mixed day. i guess the sickness is still there so it affected the mood. was supposed to go for some it fair but in the end, went to tiong with alden and shengwei. got my laptop bag and a mouse for my father............................ ate burger king which i definitely regret. bad for my throat. went to safra to play pool. well i really suck at it now. all of my losses except one of them was caused by me hitting the white ball in after the black. well, my skill really sucks now. well.. pretty tired now. see ya!
Thursday, March 06, 2008
well, don't really understand what to do about the poly forms but at least i've filled up the form E which deadline is on the 10th of march. well.. hmm.. you know just 2 years ago, i would have never expected my spiritual walk to be in this state. lol. well, guess life is really unpredictable so you gotta live each day as ur last? well, easier said than done but that's one thing i'm gonna try doing. well, glad to see my father is still putting in abit of effort into seeking for an income. i just pray that he will accept christ as his Lord and Saviour. but it's hard to reach out to him.
i've been trying to imagine what life in scotland would be like, and to be honest, it's hard to imagine. lol. i gotta do everything on my own. stuff like ironing ect. well, i've been pretty worried about my mum too. she seriously has been overworking herself and i seriously think she should not as it's very health harming. and she has started driving to work and she is a new driver so i'm quite worried about that too but i'm gonna commit that to God as well.
well, i seroiusly have to start giving thanks to God too. ok today i wanna thank God for showing me what great friends i have. i realised that i've not too many true friends. my only true friends i have right now are jerome, alex, alden. i mean i know we will be there for each other no matter what. whereas for my other friends, my relationship with them is based on meeting up. like if we don't meet/talk we won't be as close. well.. lol. pray for me whoever reads this yea? that i will be healed of my illness.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
soccer was ok. i seriously need to improve but i'm not that hungry for improvment as in i don't feel that it is a neccesity. well, i guess i spent more time sitting than playing, but played quite alot. there were really alot of people there at the later part of the day so went home first.
hmm... life's been pretty slack for the past few months! past 5 months actually! never really had that long a holiday in my life. nowadays i find it hard to get up early. that also means, for the past 5 months, i went to chuch less than 4 times which is bad when i think about it now. not to say that i'm not interested in going back it's just that when you don't see eye to eye with your leader, it makes it harder to go back. and no, this is definitely not about pride. well.. maybe i should just switch church.
well come to think of it, it has been a long time since i used my hands to do some writing. NP life will definitely be different from fairfield life though.
Monday, March 03, 2008
anyway yesterday was just a great day of catching up with kenneth, tai li and timothy. it's hard to imagine how close i was with them just a few years ago and how much i've drifted apart from them over this few years. i guess this is the result of not going to church for a long long time. well, ended up playing pool and lan with them. it was a crazy night though. we finished playing lan at like 9.30 so we couldn't find a place to eat at paradiz. so we ended up going back to plaza sing to grab a bite at burger king which was still open. really had a great time with them today and i'm looking forward to my next outing with them.
feelings towards my dad are still the same. he never fails to piss me off once a day. i mean if you got hands then use it. i'm not petty about helping him. it's just that he is really very lazy and inconsiderate. will illustrate on it soon hopefully with some pictures too.
Friday, February 29, 2008
ok.. that was long.. lol.. ranted enough. well today i finally learnt how to make lime juice? as in the really nice one. hahaha. can't go to gameslab tomorrow cause of some appointment. well.. i really don't feel synchronised with God at all. i'm like super distant. i have no idea how i have drifted this far from God. i remember being very close to Him in the past but now.. it's like a whole new story. whenever i go back to church and all, my relationship with my family goes bad. i mean it's like whenever i try to go back to God the devil tries very hard to take me down. and this has happened many many times already. but i don't think thats the thing keeping me away from God.
anyway.. schools gonna start soon. business studies @np.. don't really know how i'm feeling about it. neutral i guess. but i really wanna go to scotland to study cause i really wanna get away from Singapore for awhile. i mean i've got some really great friends here but there's so little worth staying here for. and it's really a great experience and opportunity to be able to go there. haha.. well what a long post today.. longest i've ever typed i think.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Saturday, June 30, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
i can really feel alot of evil building up in my heart and it feels very sucky. as each day passes by, i see my heart feeling more and more bitter towards everything around me. i really don't know what's going on with me at all.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
it was a special day though, in a special way!
Monday, June 25, 2007
GOD BLESS YOU!
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Continuing from my previous post, I can't really blame my tutor about my spiritual problem as my quiet time is not consistent at all. Ya, anyway after O Levels (still hating the O word!), everything's gonna be great! :D
anyway today sucks la. why do i always have to give up my spiritual/social life for the sake of a maths tuition. i mean it's not that i don't want to have the tuition it's just that the tuition used to be on Sunday morning but now the tutor can't make it, SO I CONSTANTLY HAVE TO GIVE UP GOING TO CHURCH SO I CAN GO FOR TUITION cause if i don't go my mum will scold and make a big fuss about it. and the worst part is the tutor knows that i go to church at that time and told me to put tuition as a priority. another example is tomorrow, my cousin has a one month old party but i can't go BECAUSE OF TUITION. NEITHER CAN I GO TO CHURCH.. and my mum supports it. i told him to put tomorrow's tuition in the morning but he keep saying cannot and he always expects me to GIVE UP my rights to church, etc. just for tuition. i don't think it's fair at all!
God show me a way.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
gave church a miss yesterday sadly.. went for a math tuition in the evening and learnt more about integration then my family and i went to swensens at holland v to celebrate father's day! hah, good food! watched de javu later.. super cool show but it's a bit freaky!
Saturday, June 16, 2007
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Friday, June 08, 2007
Service Learning Cambodia 2007! (:
Day 1
Left for the airport and Jerome’s uncle fetched us there at like 3.30am. We reached the airport at around 4am. Met alden, sheng wei, leroy, alex at burger king and we ate there. after that checked in with the group of 40+. went to the departure hall after that and walked around abit before boarding the plane. Plane ride was pretty funny. Sat next to qiao sen and Leroy. Crapped a whole lot about final destination & we were pretty scared the plane would crashhh. Touched down and boarded the bus which brought us to the hotel named princess hotel. Couldn’t check in as it was still too early for that so we left our baggages in the teacher’s room. Ms toh fell sick with fever so she rested there. Went to the hotel restaurant to catch breakfast. Did’nt eat much as I ate earlier already. After that went for a city tour to like some flea market like that. Sold many many stuff there. I bought 2 shirts as it was quite cheap and nice. After that continued the city tour to a lot of different places. Took some group photos. Then we went to some high class buffet lunch. After that it was a drive to see the school we were gonna help in the village. The place looked quite run down and had many flies there but the sight of the children took all that away. They were so cute la!! We were told of what we had to do for the next few days. After checking the school out, checked in to the hotel. We were given some time to wash up before going for dinner. Watched the hotel tv. To my surprise there were so many channels!!! :D my room mate was alex. Yea so we went for dinner at some place which I can’t remember. Went back to hotel after that and had devotions with the group. Then after that it was our own free time.
Day 2
Today we had to wake up pretty early. Morning call was at 5.30 . woke up & showered then jerome, alex, alden, Leroy, sheng wei and I went down for breakfast. Haha it was the same place as the day before. After that, went to the school. We were divided into groups of 3. the diggers, the painters and the teachers. I was in the diggers. So we went to collect our tools and started digging the area to lay the pipes down. It was real tough work especially under the very very very hot sun!! however, it was the first time I did such a thing and it really left me with quite an experience. We had many many water breaks and never did water taste so sweet! Went for lunch at some village place. I guess it was the food there that caused the food poisoning later on. After lunch, went back to the school to work. Many people started to fall sick, some vomited, others had real bad headaches. but, we just continued working. At 4+, we had Cambodian language class. The teacher was great and interesting but I just couldn’t grasp the concept of khmer. Haha, the children there were really very poor but contented. It really tells me how much I should appreciate what I have and not keep asking for more. After the class we went off back to the hotel to shower and then go for dinner. By dinner, I started to have fever. It really sucked though. I thought that it was just a normal fever. After dinner, went back to the hotel and showered. Caught abit of tv and then went to sleep. Alex was not feeling well already. He felt like vomiting la. Suddenly in the middle of the night, I woke up to vomit. I thought I would feel better already la but in the end that was just the start of a long long nightmare.We had devotions that night as well and that really lightened up my day.
Day 3
Woke up at 5 to bathe. Was feeling super sick. Alex was already very sick so I brought him to go look for ms toh. We were given some medicine which tasted pretty crappy. By then I realized my fever reached 39.7 la. I was experiencing serious vertigo. Never felt anything like it before. So basically, I slept on the bed for almost the whole morning. When ms toh woke me up to go to the hospital, I was feeling even sicker!! I could not even stand properly la. So we went to the hospital by a van along with mark ho, joseph, Joanna. Amy & alden accompanied their various friends there. I was first to see the doctor. The doctor said I had to be hospitalized la!!!! I was thinking wa crap!! And I had to be put on drip to replace the salt level in my body.. the needle was very big, bigger than the usual vaccination needles. Felt very very uncomfortable. Rested on the hospital bed. My bunkmate was joseph, my p4 friend. So we had a lot of chances to catch up on life. It was great talking to him again. But it was a great pity that we were unable to help in the school. The children really needed our help la. But I couldn’t give it to them. Then it struck me, why am I always worrying about my problems and all. My problems are so small compared to what so many other people are going through. I was saddened by that fact as it only goes to show that I may be a Christian but some where in my heart, there still is selfishness. But that’s all gonna change soon. Skipped the hospital dinner and basically just slept there and talked the whole day. Time seemed to pass so slowly. We were practically counting down the hours till day break. Everything throughout that day felt so dreamy. I even lost my sense of humor!! I knocked out at 7pm.
Day 4
Woke up asking joseph: is it 8pm?? It felt like only 1 hour had passed since I fell asleep but actually, it was already 4.30am in the morning. Boy was I relieved. Almost 10 hours had passed in the blink of an eye. Immediately, I went to mr wong’s room and asked me what time can we go back? Had a breakfast of porridge. It was quite tasty excluding the liver part. Really really really really wanted to go to the school in the later part of the day to help but I guess we couldn’t. so we were discharged eventually and I went back to the hotel feeling much better. Ever since then, I had a phobia whenever I put something in my mouth. I was scared of getting food poisoning again. Went back to the hotel room to catch more sleep as we only had to meet for dinner at 6.30 and it was only lunch time. It was a good time of reflection for me as I was able to see through my past actions through a different set of eyes. I guess after exposure to the people of
Day 5
Today would be the second best day of the trip. the long bus ride to siem reap was quite fun la except for the boring sleeping parts. It was a 4 hour + bus ride la! Had a few stops in between the journey to catch a breather etc. so once we reached the place, we went for lunch at some place. It was buffet style AGAIN! But this time round the food wasn’t that bad. In fact after so many days, I have just started to get used to the food there. After that, we checked in the hotel. OH MAN! THE HOTEL WAS BIG BIG BIG. We could climb and we did clim over the balcony to get to the next room la. There was a single bed and a queen size bed! Oh ya, and that day was the star wars marathon crap so there wasn’t any other movie on star movies except for STAR WARS.. it’s a nice show but it gets real boring after watching it a few times. After that, we went to
Day 6
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so basically that's a brief break down of what happened in cambodia. it was really an eye-opener for me. it has changed my view on life alot. i miss cambodia STILL! i guess God has many ways of showing us new stuff!
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Monday, June 04, 2007
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Monday, May 28, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Dear daddy,
it's been a long road since sec 1 in chinese. my grades have been constantly dipping. i know i may not even deserve to pass this paper, but whatever the results, what ever you bless me with, i'm content. i may feel unsastisfied about a C or a B grade or maybe even a fail. but i'll be content with the results because i know my preperation for the paper does not deserve high grades. i commit it all to you daddy. i'm sorry for drifiting away from you so much for the past 1 & 1/2 years.. sorry for forsaking my relationship with you. i've been broken many times but yet almost everytime i fail to see your broken heart at my wrong doings. i yearn to change my heart o daddy, may it be a heart of humbleness and be full of the joy of the lord! once again i commit everything to you. i pray that you'll bless all the participants in the exams & bless them too with good grades. in daddy's most precious name, AMEN! :D:D:D
i feel much better now! :)
Saturday, May 26, 2007
this morning had chinese tuition. went pretty well. we talked about some 'hot' topics that might come out. went through letter writing. after tuition pranked called alex with jerome! it was super super lame la. then slacked abit & studied abit more. then later we went to ikea for a late lunch. went to queensway on the way for jerome to go get a bag for cambodia. "MY HIT-O-METER IS RINGING!!" LOL! after that we then went to ikea. ate super alot. the meatballs are just fantastic! played PS2 with my brother to catch up as well. gonna study chinese AGAIN soon before daddy's birthday dinner! ciaos!:D