Yawns

Hi again!

Had some more time... so i've put up one more video of Jean.

Been learning tonnes at classes- very soon will be conducting some classes of my own... all the planning and research for content, plus the creative and interesting ways to do classroom management.... I'm really enjoying this course.

So some of my loyal readers are asking what this course is all about. Basically it's the Graduate Diploma in Education- and we are trained with practicums and coursework as pre-service teachers. My majors are SOCE (society and environment- the study of History, geog, politics and economics) and the other major is TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of other languages).

So far it's all been introductory- Code of ethics, the rationale and principles behind teaching... i'm still absorbing it and we have to do tonnes of reflective journals- just evaluating what we've learnt and just so we can digest the information.

ok gotta go will update more soon!

Scoot

Lunar New Year

So far... it's been pineapple tarts, steamboat dinner, many durian puffs... *yum*
Tonight's the reunion dinner at my grandma's place.... hee hee.
Ain't Jean's new hair cut nice? haha we wanted a prim and neat girl for the new year. haha... she looks skinnier, but still greedy.

Last day of work was yesterday, i've learnt so much... from my students, colleagues and the whole experience. Makes me appreciate how much God has given me. So today's the eve of CNY... to all those in perth-- keep an Ang Bao for me. haha... =)

Hair cut!

woo hoo

eat.sleep.teach.climb.jean! And all over again.

Video

Can't seem to load the video on. sigh.

Click here to see jean!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Pensive

A dog's life.

Mom and Jean

So now... everyday Jean poos and pees at least twice per day.
Either she's urgent and runs to the toilet, or we randomly bring her there to see if she wants to do her business.
She's gloomy when she knows we're all leaving the house and that she'll be home alone. haha, sometimes she looks like she's sulking and i feel bad for having to leave the house. She's such a joy to have around the house. She's ever so excited when anyone comes home, she's even excited when strangers visit us. Such a friendly dog, can't be a guard dog. haha.
Her leg's improving, walking up the living room platform now... still abit scared to come down, but sometimes she succeeds.
She's been eating well, bit greedy sometimes when we're eatin fruit especially. She'll try to 'manja look' and get some pity morsels. =)
on weekends when i'm sleeping in til 10 she'll lie in my room til i wake up... haha cute girl. and i brought her out for a short walk the other day with a leash. She likes walks! haha. We shower her twice a week on weds and sundays. I clean her eyes everyday, and her butt when she poos.
Her head tilts when we talk to her. haha... she recognises words like "let's go" and "toy". hehe.... such a darling.

Compassion

An incident which happened in class yesterday made me really think.
You know, i wasn't expecting to be blessed with a job so early in my summer break. Sometimes the more i think about it, i guess it was sort of in a shocking manner 'thrust' upon me. Maybe that's why it took me til today to realise i didn't mentally prepare myself for the challenge. Or maybe i never could have been prepared, and this is just the beginning of something God is revealing.

Basically, the students i teach are sitting for their O and N levels as private candidates. We run the learning centre very much like a normal school- polo tees for uniforms, recess breaks, no dyed hair etc etc. Thing is, many of the students are here either because they have bad records in their schools and can't go to government schools or they're re-taking their examinations, or in some cases like my brother and a few, have had their education elsewhere and now need to obtain a Cambridge certificate to move along the singapore system.

I didn't realise my attitude was bad til yesterday. (don't worry, i didn't do anything bad) It's just that an incident (involving a student who was rude to me) made me think, and i revealed my innermost thoughts. maybe alot of times i thought that i could be doing better things, other things rather then in a classroom with rowdy students, or maybe i thought that i should, or deserved to teach students who were 'easier' to teach. It was eating me up.

Bottomline is: You can't be an effective teacher if you don't respect and love your students. You cannot teach if you are not teachable yourself.

The word of God reveals the hearts of men in amazing ways...when during my QT i realised that i was tired, angry and frustrated at myself, a huge surge of compassion overwhelmed me from the top of my head to my toes. I felt like weeping. I felt ugly for all the things and all the pride that i had shown in dealing with kids who simply needed love and acceptance. I thank God for giving me the time and oppurtunity to touch all these individual lives and faces who have potential and hope in Him.

= )

Got this from Lewis.
If you leave a comment on this post:

1. I'll respond with something random about you
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I'll tell you something I like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours

New vision

Had my lasik surgery done at Eagle eye centre by Dr Julian Theng in Mount Alvernia yesterday at around 3pm. =)
Everything went smoothly and the whole op only took 10 minutes! The quick and simple procedure really helped with the 'laser to my eye' pre- surgery jitter.

I have good, clear vision now. Even the sunlight glares that i'm supposed to have post-op are fading away already. Doc said my vision will only keep improving for the next week or so, then i'll have to look after my perfect eyesight- don't read in the dark, resting my eyes after working at the computer for long hours... etc.

Highly recommended!

Personality vs Principle- based Character

Was reading the first few chapters of Stephen Covey's '7 Habits for highly effective people' on the journeys back from work and realised something that stood out biblically in his book. He talked about many 'quick fixes' to today's problems found in self-help books which addressed 'personality' issues.

He stated that "Success became more a function of personality, of public image, of attitudes and behaviours, skills and techniques, that lubricate the processes of human interaction." Positive mental attitude slogans like "Your attitude determines your altitude" or "Smiling wins more friends than frowning".

Not saying that any of the above are wrong, some have contributed to defining the principles in alot of people's successes, but some parts of this personality approach are clearly manipulative, even deceptive, encouraging people to use techniques to get other people to like them, or to fake interest in the hobbies of other to get out of them what they wanted, or to intimidate their way through life.

'Today we come across a person who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain. Two statements may be said concerning this individual. One is that he suffers from defects of spontaneity and individuality which may seem to be incurable. At the same time it may be said of him he does not differ essentially from the millions of the rest of us who walk upon this earth.'
-- Erich Fromm

Addressing the 'Principle' issues however, touches the essence of who we are. Principles are like lighthouses which ground us. Covey talks about principles like making them natural laws in our lives which cannot be broken. Which i believe he was referring to biblical principles (honouring your parents, tithing, the fear of the Lord, etc) that are enduring and have permanent value to be used as basic guidelines in our lives.

So are you personality geared or principle centered?

Chronicles (part 2)

Chronicles of Jean

Check out my new haircut, my clean ears and my trimmed nails!
What are you staring at?! Don't i look more and more like a floor rug with each passing day?
This is my favourite toy!

My new bed! i cuddle up and sleep here every night~

Seeing God.

Met up with my girls for dinner today...
Seeing them grow and bloom in the Lord becomes one of my key reasons for serving.
Each of them very special in their own unique way....
Averil: Even tho you won't be with us next year... u're always a part of us. Keep fighting the good fight. In the marketplace, may God give you favour and blessings!
Alicia: Always on your feet! haha, have fun teaching this hols... we can share classroom stories when we meet soon!
Faith: haha tootface, u're such a joy to have around. Bit noisy, but u're being transformed in His image every day. haha. since the many years ago that i've known you... =)

Side note: Learning and teaching biology has really helped me to see God's creative side.

Amazing.

Camp 5

Hi all! We're back from Camp 5 in KL. yes, Asia's largest indoor rock climbing gym. It was heaps fun, plenty of pain... sweat and well, more pain. haha... it was super fun travelling with yingzi and mari... hanging around foreign places with them. Pictures r up on Flickr... do go see.

Work's been fun, but really tiring. I'm teaching 'O' and 'N' level biology at Touch Youth Learning Centre for a short stint. The hours are pretty alright.... about 10-3pm average every day. =p Need to drink more water, cos i'm talking quite a bit in class. *yikes* Hope everyone is moving their gears in the new year!

Mere Christianity

Thanks Derek...

"Or again, suppose a person who knew nothing about salt. You give him a pinch to taste and he experiences a particular strong, sharp taste. You then tell him that in your country people use salt in all their cookery. Might he not reply 'In that case I suppose all your dishes taste exactly the same because the taste of that stuff you have just given me is so strong that it will kill the taste of everything else.' But you and I know that the real effect of salt is exactly the opposite. So far from killing the taste of the egg and the tripe and the cabbage, it actually brings it out. They do not show their real taste till you have added the salt. (Of course, as I warned you, this is not really a very good illustration, because you can, after all, kill the other tastes by putting in to much salt, whereas you cannot kill the taste of a human personality by putting in too much Christ. I am doing the best I can.)

It is something like that with Christ and us. The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become. There is so much of Him that millions and millions of 'little Christs', all different, will still be too few to express Him fully. He made them all. He invented - as an author invents characters in a novel - all the different men that you and I were intended to be. In that sense our real selves are all waiting for us in Him. It is no good trying to 'be myself' without Him. The more I resist Him and try to live on my own, the more I become dominated by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires. In fact what I so proudly call 'Myself' becomes merely the meeting place for trains of events which I never started and which I cannot stop. What I call 'My wishes' become merely the desires thrown up by my physical organism or pumped into me by other men's thoughts or even suggested to me by devils. Eggs and alcohol and a good night's sleep will be the real origins of what I flatter myself by regarding as my own highly personal and discriminating decision to make love to the girl opposite to me in the railway carriage. Propoganda will be the real origin of what I regard as my own personal political ideas. I am not, in my natural state, nearly so much of a person as I like to believe: most of what I call 'me' can be very easily explained. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

At the beginning I said there were Personalities in God. I will go further now. There are no real personalities anywhere else. Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self. Sameness is to be found most among the most 'natural' men, not among those who surrender to Christ. How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

But there must be a real giving up of the self. You must throw it away 'blindly' so to speak. Christ will indeed give you a real personality: but you must not go to Him for the sake of that. As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will really be yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, lonelienss, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."

C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity

Humility

Humility doesn’t mean you think less of yourself but that you think of yourself less.

-Max Lucado

Time out

It's really good spending time alone.
Took a train down to Bugis yesterday... walked down Bugis St with all the street shops and all the fruit markets. I bought a packet of 8 durians. hhaha and i ate it all. i was walking and eating and people were staring at me. weird.
My bro claims that all singaporeans like to stare, regardless of what you're doing that may seem out of place. haha. i think it's a strange phenomenon.
But the New Year is here... yes, i have to sign off on cards the digits 2007 already.

Like Nikki mentioned in one of her posts... we have the freedom 'of' choice, not the freedom 'from' choice. Even inaction is considered a choice. the fact that we did not do anything, or that we had allowed something to happen. That in itself is a choice. My attitude towards people, things.... it is a conscious choice. Yes, we do not dictate circumstances... but we can't say things like 'i didn't have a choice', or when asked to take up a responsibility we can't say something like 'does it look like i have a choice?' God has given us free reign on the choices we make, since genesis... since Adam and Eve. Every thought, every word, every action is a choice. Your choices determine you.

Jean is an extremely smart dog. Behaves exactly like a little girl. Sometimes she pouts and drags her feet around... haha, and she dreams! haha kicks the side of my bed at night, makes squealy noises. got a shock last night. but she was just having a bad dream. hehe. so now she's all camped out on the floor.... groggily passing the afternoon like every other day. It's a dog's life! i wish i were a dog. haha.... she gets her hair brushed... her paws wiped... =) gets hugs and kisses from us... Thing about her is... she loves people. she'll only be in a room if there's somebody around. She doesn't like to be alone. Like if i'm typing on the computer... she'll be lying here next to the chair. when we're watching tv... she'll lie in the living room. haha... and she only barks when other dogs bark in the faraway distance. Or short barks if she brings the toy to you and you ignore her. haha... so cute right?

Ziii...Quick come and see her!

2007

Usually i make my new year resolutions at Christmas, because for me that's when i feel a new year starts... but this year, i suppose i'll start the year proper (not that the other years were improper). Sat down to think and ponder. So many things to thank God for... of course there are regrets, dissapointments, joys and sorrows. But above all, He is still walking beside me. And i am continually amazed by that. Sometimes i ask God why? not the 'why do bad things happen' question, but the 'why God are You still so faithful when i grieve you?' question.

It is something when friendships over a long time never change. But it is more astounding when Jesus promises that He is the same yesterday, today and forever- and He delivers. All the time.

Had a bashing new year at the Tan's residence. It's a yearly event. We gather round a table to talk, laugh, eat and play.... Texas Hold'em Poker. hhah.. this year we upgraded from that to Taboo- guys versus girls (singaporean version) with words like HDB, Eric Khoo and Orchard Road light-up. haha. Back to my roots, i say. Best line of the night i think was.... Person A describing ' Tommorrow going you know...' and the guys went was like 'Macdonalds!!' haha the girls were stunned, it took me a while to get that it was an advertisement line. haha.
I think we did pretty darn well too.... eve was describing ' i'm talking...' she didn't even finish her sentence and i simply shouted.... 'nonsense!' which happened to be the answer... haha, that was the funniest telepathic moment. haha. We discovered Sarah is a serial word killer. She keeps quiet and all of a sudden she shouts the right word. One word, one hit. haha... ggrrreat.

ok going to play with Jean now... =)
To all you people! have a Happy new year and remember to finish well!

Jean (part 2)

Meet Jean! This girl is sooo gentle yet playful... =) Hangs around the house, follows people. Fav snack is the doggie chicken sticks. haha.... very trained in the game of 'fetch' and 'sit'. haha.

Jean

There's been a new addition to the family!
She's such a dar.... ling.
will post a picture soon, and tell u all about her!
meanwhile... the weather's been looking better in the last 5 hours. ahah

laters~

Portraits of a Zone (part 2)

Portraits of a zone (part 1)

Giving Glory....

.... where glory is due.

Thank you God for the 2nd upper. =)
All of it belongs to You.

pitter patter

rain rain rain....

boo hooooo....

Bye Portia

Today's one of those days i feel sentimental and sad.
Sold the trusty car. Miss her curves and cutesy eyes.
So easy to park and smooooth. =)
Bye portia... you have served the uwa community well.

Shoes and Men

Slippery slope.

This Guy thing called CS

So apparently LAN shops have lost their business to home-set-up.... the kinda DIY LAN gaming that our zone guys have established. wow... you gotta give it to them.
Here i am in edison's place... with crazy people playing CS (short for Counter Strike) :)
Singapore vs Malaysia style. haha, inevitable?

The house moving is going well... the place is almost empty... feels clean and green.
Leaving for Brisbane this Sunday... exciting!
Catch you later!

Informal Evening

That's Samina in the kitchen moulding the Chappatti. Mari and i helped out too! ended up playing with the dough. haha fun.

This curry was great! even eggplant, which i normally wouldn't eat, tasted good!

Had a great dinner at Samina's place today.
Well, it lasted for well over 4 hours... not the actual dinner but the nice, long relaxed chats we had.
i had 4 cups of tea! haha Mari's eyes lit up everytime the word 'tea' was mentioned.
-Thank you for coming with me girl, hope you enjoyed urself!

Just sitting and talking was really refreshing. Especially when u're with a woman who's accomplished not just academically, but who's caring, inspirational, smart and heart-warming.
I've learnt alot, not just how to interact with people but how to deal with different situations. She's somebody who's had to deal with huge, i mean HUGE challenges in her line of research and work. It's funny how God places people in your life, and how much favour He promises to give you. I am deeply grateful and thankful, no matter what the thesis grades say... i've come out stronger, more resilient, i want to keep learning and improving.

Brekkie with Love

Woke up to a danish sitting pretty on the coffee table waiting to be consumed =) Thanks Ja!

Home affairs

We never knew we had so much junk, so much of other friends' junk... and junk that belonged to people whom we've never met. haha how about that!
Cleared out the whole house and kitchen... never seen it empty in 4 years since i've moved in here. It's quite cathartic and therapeutic... i was telling Ja. I think she's finding it sad that we're actually moving. I told Chris about the move, and he was saying he liked our place.... i like it too.... I guess we still get free access since the Princesses are moving in. =)

I've brought the trash out 5 times now... still counting. Filled out 2 large garbage containers (not counting our recycled material). We have so much stuff!! Plus some bags we're going to transport to the Salvation Army containers at broadway. Everytime i bring the trash down... the resident Magpie downstairs follows me, glaring at me intently. grrr

Here's to the Magpie:
Stop staring at me! i'm not purposefully threatening your nest... because guess what? i don't even know where it is! and i'm not wearing anything shiny on me... so you can't have it. Stay away! Bah!!

oof!

After an hour of bouldering along the miniature cliffs @ Point Walter, i'm OOF-ed.
Really enjoyed myself... i wanna go do it a couple more times. =)

Unfortunately no pictures my friends... wouldn't wanna risk bringing my precious panasonic lumix on the cliffs and get it wet n 'sea changed'.

Now after that and 3 hours of basketball... i'm OOF-ed.

Daylight Robbery!

As most of you informed people would know... we in western australia have lost an hour of our lives.....

And i want it back!

For more info on daylight savings.... click here.

for all you office people

An Ode to Tiger

You're funny, i know it gets lonely in that tank... but unless u're incorrectly labelled. I'm pretty sure i read 'hermit'. But i also read that u're not literally meant to be alone. In fact, you would like company. I would get u a partner, until i can figure whether u're male or female. It's a confusing discovery, i'll read more websites and den check you out again. I've had you for almost 9 months now... you're quite the pet. Low maintanence, and not very attention seeking. Still, i find you very amusing. Like the other day, when i wanted to change the water in the bowl... you hung around it- almost indicating to me that it was time for fresh water. And that branch that u love to climb up on, sometimes u 'fall' off it- right at the highest point, as if you meant for it to happen. At night u scrouge around, and i hear the gravel moving. I doubt that u've grown much all these months.... but i'm sure you will. I just need to find someone to look after you over summer.... =)

More about hermit crabs here.

woo hoo

Psalms 121

Heard a song in Jason's car from Wei Jun's ipod.... this verse stood out.

I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?

My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;

indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
-Psalms 121:1-4

make it simple

Life doesn't have to be complicated.
Although sometimes we like that.
We like it to be full of adventure- sometimes doubt and uncertainty creep in w.o us asking them to. Most times when we want peace and quiet.... the chaos rages all around and we find ourselves tossed about in the waves- wavering, wondering, wandering....

The search for simplicity is on... esp in our modern world now. Simple, quick, fast, effective.
simple designs are considered the "in" thing, Zen styles and all that. The world's version of simplicity, seeking to replicate a "peaceful" life... one that is serene and uncluttered.
But is that really what simplicity is? - to look uncluttered?

What does it mean to you? To BE uncluttered?
Take all that clutter- throw it out.
You think u need it, you think it makes up who you are. But it doesn't.
Security, comfort, pleasure, glory.... in Christ alone. Nothing else.

Innocence

Innocence talks to old people on the commuter train. Sometimes she talks to herself. sometimes she talks to the man sitting next to her hiding behind the newspaper. sometimes she talks to the window and sometimes she sings a little song. She tells secrets in between her words, but most people don't think they're secrets cos she says them right out. She told me that it takes alot of sophistication for her to stay innocent (that was a secret.) Since her affair with Danger, she is not afraid of anything.

-Anonymous

All play and no work...

... makes mishi really really fit....
.... but i do ache now...


(note to self: keep playing so you know how much u'll miss it when you stop)

Amazing 6race Part 1

Life

You will not desire something as much until you have it.
Once you have it, you might not treasure it as much until you lose it.

(applicable to objects, relationships etc etc...)

www.upgrade.com

I am not, but He is...

Whenever i am not, He is.

I am not gracious, But He is
I am not kind, But He is
I am not strong, But He is
I am not loving, But He is
I am not patient, But He is
I am not faithful, But He is
I am not steadfast, But He is
I am not humble, But He is
I am not wise, But He is
I am not all-knowing, But He is
I am not Alpha and Omega, But He is

He is the Bread of life, the True Vine, the Good shepherd, the Door, my Foundation stone, living waters, the Word, the light of the world, the great Physician, the Way, the Truth and the One.

You are.... God. Yes You are.

house hunt

yes... these 2 days have the housemate and i exhilarated and exhausted.
hahah. we hit 5 apartments in 2 days! (not "hit" hit, you get my gist)
But after 4yrs here i've finally gotten to know the area better.
Like i didn't know that we had little crooks and nannys of studio apartments all over the nedlands region. in fact, they are so near to brdway...
This is the advantage we get opposed to the freshmen who come in when houses are in demand.
We're probably in good time for all the people who are vacating houses, to leave us some to pick.

As you can tell, my written english is deteriorating by the day... and my spoken english is probably going down also, because of the lack of human interaction i get( apart from the dvd people on me laptop).

ok dinner now. shoo.

book club

LOTR (extended)

Ok, i know i've said it ALOT.
but JRR Tolkien is a genius. ( a story-telling genius at least)

Amazing and compelling.
The books are great, but i think Peter Jackson did an admirable job at creating Tolkien's world on film. Anyway, the extended version gives you heaps of scenes which you don't get in the cinemas.
So catch it after the exams... and spend 12 hours munching on popcorn crying with Frodo, drooling over Aragon, wondering why Legolas looks so pretty even in battle, laughing at Gimli, wishing that Gandalf was your grandfather, pitying and cursing Gollum/Smeagol at the same time, pondering on how to speak elvish and where you can go learn it.... etc. i could go on... trust me.

A story of courage, love and hope.

ok back to Gilmore girls now.

Dedication

Today, i dedicate myself.. to the UWA community and your needs (reasonable ones of course).

$20 for a 15 mins shoulder and neck massage. (jk lah)

book an appointment to come over for dinners
(depending on how much i cook and at whether there's Aussie Idol)

Yes, i can do those late midnight supper cravings if you need
(ice cream, tiramisu and muffins are available for choice)

Nope, you don't need to pay for my company direct- but if you want to you can ask me out for coffee/tea/any other meal (in the guise of catching up) and offer to pay for me.

Besides the time i spend catching up on Prison Break, Gilmore Girls season 3 and other misc stuff.... do drop me an sms or an msn message to inform me/ hint to me that you would like me to take you out for a cuppa.

P.S Exams will be over for you guys in a jiff!! Your one month of torture beats our one year of eternal pain. (with reference honours students' or anyone doing a dissertation)

P/S Please leave your exam dates/ unit names and time of exam in the comments below... and u can count on me to pray for you. and please leave your name with that too. ( i don't want to be praying for abel's economics paper when he doesn't do econs-u get my drift)

Finish...ing

C'mon mishi... finish well.

scribbles

As the exam dawns on me... i can safely say that after one year of typing, i do not know how to write legibly anymore. it has deteriorated into scrawls, or wormy-looking like worms. haha.

i think my handwriting is very PL-like.
haha there's a PL form of handwriting. and i know it when i see it.
For e.g. Faith's handwriting is PL like.... Louise as well.
In fact, i know of non-PL lites who write like PL girls.

Amazing.

ok... back to work.

A gift

i bought a present for Fernando.
I hope he likes it.
I like it.
Hopefully he does.
It's 'killing' me... i need to know.
*grins*

Humour

ok.... altho the only person who's assuring me is marianne...
that my sense of humour is perfectly normal.... n that i'm funny.... still.

ok, but i'm convinced that the different zones have diff senses of humour! =)
alright... Fernando has made no signs, or left no trail.... so i shall pretend that he doesn't exist.
soooo i have been incredibly unproductive these few days...

EXAM EXAM on sat... ='(
Please pray for meeeee *bijia tone*

Was listening to Delirious on the beach today.. (ok now you know why i was unproductive...)
and this song really stood out... as i closed my eyes and Martin Smith sang...

Our God Reigns.
"For there is only one true God,
But we’ve lost the reins on this world,
Forgive us all, forgive us please,
As we fight for this broken world on our knees."

Very apt. Poignant. made me think.