Life by the AYE.

so this week I'm 'staying' at Normanton.
I say 'staying' because I'm only effectively sleeping here for 4 nights.
on tuesday there is fellowship and then wed and thursday nights I'll be at mayfair, and friday till sunday it's YMLC.
SO yes. not very much of a staying.
And now I'm being a pirate by tapping on my neighbour's internet.. until tmw when I can try to get my wireless up and running.. not that I'm going to use much of it.
I finally appreciate how accessible mayfair is..
I mean, I always knew mayfair was really convenient.
But after having to take the train and then wait for almost half an hour for the cursed 33 to come, I really appreciate the vast number of buses that go to mayfair.
I shall not touch on how I wanted to punch the bus drivers when THREE 33s came ALL AT ONCE.

Today was a very weird(debs, i thought you said i before the e except after c?) sunday as I came 'home' to a wide open gate and door and a whole crowd of ppl.
the aunties and uncles were all over.
Now I know how my cousins feel every sunday.
Staying with your grandparents can be a very good thing.
For one, we now have THE MAID.
no more dishes and laundry for the next... four days -.-
then it's just really good to be able to see my grandparents WHENEVER I WANT and not have to travel all the way to Neptune(aka simei) to see them :)
But tts all boring talk for my own record so that I can remember THIS IMPORTANT MOMENT OF MY LIFE.

THIS WEEK, is busy.
Monday: I'm being a good girl and staying at home to be with my nai nai and yeye.
Tuesday: Errands day. also fellowship day.. volunteers to help me pack mayfair and put on bed sheets please contact me via sms or phone. thanks.
Wednesday: Mentoring day and...... *drumroll* KICKBOXING WITH DEBS DAY! I cannot describe my excitement. Kickboxing is what I've been wanting to do since I was conceived.
Thursday: pack for YMLC day...
Friday to Sunday: YMLC

It's too packed to be called a holiday week.

I went for Comex today and came home (almost) empty handed.. considering that most of the things I bought were NOT from comex.
but anyway, I went online and got myself a Mac and a iPod touch.
this is really exciting..
I hope everything turns out fine in the end...
cause actually, its very confusing.
And a tiny bit frustrating.
I had to send the payment details like 67483 times before it got through.
My holidays have started and I'm moving tmw.
Internet access is unconfirmed.
We are suppose to go to jb on thursday but nothing is booked yet and no one is replying anything.
So I'm thinking its more or less off.
I'm slightly relieved and slightly irritated.
I'm planning to take up kickboxing though I'm still thinking if $441 for 3 months is worth it.
I feel as if I'm spending more money than I'm earning even though it is far from the truth.
But I feel that if I didn't go out so much and didn't spend so much time on the computer, I would have saved alot more money.
But I'm making things that are pretty good sound so sad.
ITS THE HOLIDAYS.
tt's all that really matters for now :)

so today is the day before the day before MY HOLIDAYS and its FABULOUS :)
I have my holidays ALL PLANNED OUT and its EXCITING.
I CAN'T WAIT :)

If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life. – The Leap Years

I was looking forward to the pre-YMLC trip :(
WAS :(
At least I have tuesday night to look forward to :)
AND gossip girl :)

I'm slacking in my blogging :(
My current colour craze is navy blue!
I want everything in navy blue.. from tees to nail polish.
Went to do nails with amanda yesterday and got my toes painted the most gorgeous shade of NAVY BLUE :D
there are so many things I want in navy blue too...
IF I had all the money in the world......

I slept from 5pm last night till 6am this morning.
I don't know how
I just did.
It was suppose to be a nap but I just slept all the way till morning.
All the better anyway since I managed to not eat dinner and that makes eating so much cheesecake not that bad after all...
don't you think this blogging thing is getting boring.
I have less and less interesting stuff to talk about.

I marked the science practical for my Primary 3 Class today and I don't know if I should laugh or cry.


Qn: What will the specimen grow up to be? (the specimen was a mealworm.)

The correct answer is suppose to be a Beetle. Look what I got:
An Adult Specimen (WHICH IS???)
A mosquito?!?!?!
A bigger mealworm (AND AFTER THAT?!?)
A butterfly
A moth
A cockroach

sigh. I think I'm a bad teacher.

Because I didn't bring the cheesecake to the fellowship, I'm eating it now.
I've finished about a fifth of it... and I can't seem to stop.

must

stop

eating...

I've been eating a lot lately.
buffet last night, I had so much more than EVERYONE at the table... even David who is supposedly the bottomless pit.
The only thing I could stop myself from eating was a second serving of ice cream because I told myself I would be too full to move and have a tummy ache.
You know that rule where you eat till you are 70% full?
I never know what is 70% till I'm 110% and I look back thinking:"I shouldn't have eaten that chicken."
But anyway, I will start my exercise regime again when I really feel bigger fat bulbous.

oops. the fifth has become a quarter.

Tonight's fellowship was one that I will never regret going.
The discussion (though Caleb says was way off topic) was very...
I really don't know the right word to describe it.
It challenged me to work out what I believed and my faith.
I have to be honest that I have never thought about all this before..
no doubt I have been asked and have heard the question about whether our believing in God is predestined or not
and this is a huge debate topic amongst many christians.
However, I never really gave it thought.
And today, at the discussion table, I came face to face with that question once again.
And this time, I gave it thought and worked it out clearly.

This made me realize how many times I push questions like these aside, causing uncertainty in my faith to rise within me.
No more will I allow this to happen.
It definitely felt better when I chose to work out these uncertainties.

EVEN THOUGH we were off topic and our mis-interpretation of the passage and the question led us to this topic, I am thankful. AND I do believe, it was all in God's divine plans.

Turn back the time and fall in love again.

Zach Hanson, the drummer <3

mmmbob, done better than ever.

photos

thrifting is not a word.

The Month of Endless Birthdays......
Teresa's bday is today!! but I didn't take ANY pictures so there will have to be no collage for hers.. but anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL THE AUGUST BABIES: Toshi, Quen, Teresa, Mark, Shir and Lembu...

Yesterday was thrifting with debs and rach but pictures will have to wait. I'm lazy.
anyways, I totally acted out yesterday.
I was bathing and my room door was locked: obviously because I was bathing, and my sister went to take the key to OPEN IT UP.
I was part in shock and part pissed off.
Now the key is in my possession and no one, i repeat, NO ONE is to open my door.
it is LOCKED for very valid reasons.
I made a pretty big hoo haa about it
and I don't see why I shouldn't have.
The outcome: parents agreeing to a new MAC and a trip to HK.
NOW I know why my sisters always act like that.
They get things after being unreasonable.
why didn't I discover it earlier.....

Today I went laptop shopping...
I saw many many MANY things I wanted to buy..
but it came down to what I needed.
I could go with the total minimal and get the EeePC..
or be practical and think further and get something with at least a disk reader thingy.
So it was down to ASUS, Vaio or the MAC.
to me, MAC wins hands down.
but i'm biased.
If I can get an 11.1 inch Vaio for the same price, I'll do that.. only cause its lighter and prettier and I break at beauty.
I am really bad at stuff like that.
I cannot compare specs cause the appearance is so much more impt to me.

ANYWAY, June Wu has asked me to go to Hong Kong with her and has offered to share cost with me since her share is paid by some guy who is totally in love with her (why don't I get admirers like tt) and so I only need to pay S$461.50. which is TOTALLY reasonable.. only I have to convince my parents to let me go....
And with the impending financial strain after I go to uni, I don't know if i should go... though 500 bucks is essentially about a week and a half's wages... so....
Should I stay, or should I go.......

I LOST A SECOND EZLINK CARD THIS WEEK!
I'm so angry at myself :(
The first one was still ok cause there was only about 5 bucks in it..
THIS ONE HAD 30 BUCKS IN IT.
I had no dinner tonight cause I had to rush for rehearsal and in the spirit of being absent minded, i forgot about dinner till it was time to go.
And now I have absolutely NO appetite to eat.
I really have to do something about this lousy brain of mine.

:)

Things I have been wanting...

for the LONGEST time.

Happy 43rd birthday Singapore!

Just remember in the winter,
far beneath the bitter snow
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose

Relief teachers training was fun to a certain extent.
I made new friends... somewhat.
I have a feeling this is more like training for UQ.
ok.
So I'm more excited about UQ than I should be since the official offer has not been made..
BUT STILL
I was ALL ALONE and I re-emphasize ALL ALONE in the whole workshop.
In the first 5 minutes, I became good friends with this 23 year old relief teacher who doesn't look 23.
not to be mean or anything but... she looked older than 23.
I hope I don't look old being 22.......
and then by lunch, I had this whole group of new friends whom I can't remember the names of.....I'm really bad at this :(
I need training from toshi.
I only remember the name of this girl called Candy cause her name is the same as this trouble kid I teach in science remedial and the first thing she said to me was:"has anyone told you that you are really pretty?"
WHO ASKS PPL STUFF LIKE THAT. and HOW ON EARTH do you answer that?!?!?!
I felt totally red after that and she kept laughing at me cause I was red :(
I am never going to believe teachers when they complain about these courses again.
ALL you do is listen and eat.
you eat tea 2 hours after the start of the course and before you get hungry, its lunch.
and then before you get hungry again, its tea number 2.
what's so hard about eating and listening?

After the course I felt totally bloated from all that eating so I stopped at serene centre (also cause there was a jam) and walked home from there.
bad choice, especially when you are in slippers.
but oh well.
I feel good..except my feet.

I just had a WHOLE packet of ritter sports cornflakes chocolate ON MY OWN.
:(
this is terrible.
anyway, the rest of this week is going to be REAL busy and I almost have no time for myself...
but i'm not complaining...YET.
being busy's good too... cause then I have less time to slack around and EAT RUBBISH like today.
the rest of today is going to be spent drinking tons of water to get rid of the heatiness from eating all that chocolate.
I read in the papers that spending more time on the internet leads to weight gain in girls.
Maybe tts why........................

In other news, WHO IS ON FOR THRIFTING NEXT WEEK?!?!?!

Yesterday was fun.
Went out with amanda and rachel
did pedicures and now we have $5 off the next treatment (yay!)
I hope that when I go to aussie, making friends would be as easy as it seems to be now.
It was a good day also because my tuition kid scored an A in her recent test...
I don't really think its the tuition that's helping...
but we'll see when she sits for her upcoming CA.

It's such a lazy day today.
Woke up way before the time I had to wake up (I blame my 6am alarm)
But was still late for church because I online shopped past the official waking up time. oops.
went to church
ate the best shou gong mian
wondered what to do next
came home in the end
will be going to pasir ris later for dinner.
this week's going to be a long and busy week.
But i'll be having my short week next week :) yay!
SCHOOL HOLS SOON!
I can't wait!
ps: Toshi, this is another HAPPY post.