New Year's Eve

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Here's the first part of the post. the dead no emotion listing of what happened.

New year's eve:
Went to church in the morning. Presented an item with Sean, Debbie Tan, Abigail. Accompanied 2 groups of people to eat lunch. Joined up with Jamie, Abi and Claudia and went to Orchard with a few other youths to pick up Nick's iPod. Went to Auntie Wendy's house and helped setup the place. Played a bit of Basketball. Hung around till the party started. Listened to a few testimonies. Counted down. Shook hands and sent my wishes. Stayed back and cleaned up. Played games in a cirlce, Whose line is it anyway with the youths. Sang songs and made jokes. Caught 2 hours of sleep. Woke, ate, cleaned up and left for Katong to play LAN. Came home and crashed. Woke up to get ready for JB with a few YAFers. Leaving soon.

ok, now the accounting's out of the way... here's my thots.

New Year's Eve:
Woke up quite stressed coz i was puttin up an item i just learnt the day before and i was majorly late since i forgot that i had to go early. stupid me. i really blame myself for not making it a priority in my useless brain. Anyways, after reaching there, it went quite well la. i think it sounded ok. anyways, put up the item [which in my opinion was horrible on my part].. heard feedback from the rest that they couldn't hear me and abi coz of the mic until halfway where the mic was adjusted... so thank goodness they only had half of the torture. haha.. anyways, did my testimony after that. spoke about army, YF leadership, YF younger ones steppin up, family [dad performing, mum's operation, sab's graduation] and finally shalom being a place i treasure a lot. then after service, went downstairs to talk to people like Luke and catch up with others who i always talk to too. After that we went out for lunch but i had no appetite. Was like, waiting for them to eat and then Nick called and said he's going orchard, asked me to join him. so i met up with him and we left for white sands. Met up with Jamie, Abi and Claudia and caught the train. made the journey with my music and thots flying thru my head as i couldn't help but look straight. I'm glad shawn was there coz it was nice i guess, seeing him all fine and all.
Went to orchard and just took the time to people watch and be myself, alone. Met up with jodi and Seng Lee and arranged transport so the girls could go together. Was hopin that transport was some other way but small matter rite? :) So upon reaching, was able to hang in Cherie's room with the youths after helping Uncle Aric setup tables and chairs. Just sitting there watching was a bit hard to do coz i would have loved to say sumthing to people. talked to claudia and managed to at least keep a short conversation going. :) hope she didn't feel left out.

People came and i had dinner. Got my shirt from Tricia. it has a heart that's half filled o... forget it. here's a pic.

Love the shirt and was really glad that i got it. thanks Tricia if you're reading it. i love it. :)

Anyways, after that, we had testimony sharing. Sat there in front of the crowd coz i was clicking the laptop. sitting there, it's like there was no crowd at all except one person. you know who you are. couldn't really focus that much coz my head was kinda filled with thots and all. every smile was like an earth shattering rock to my world. anyways, after that we had our countdown and joella stole my first 2007 hug. haha but it's ok. she had been buggin me for it for a long long time. :) managed to grab jamie in the hurry and blurry of things... mei, you're ultra skinny u know? :) haha... anyways, was hard prying her off, gripped me like some life float in a storm. haha. :) thanks mei. :) then she left after that with the rest of the crowd. Said bye to Auntie bee leng and all those who had to leave too... like the Puas....

after that we stayed back and cleaned up the total mess and had games that were super fun. had so much laughs and fun playing the "saat saat" game in a circle. haha... then we had whose line issit anyways and realized that i could actually think quite fast on my feet and it was tough yes, but i'm glad that we had some fun people who were sporting enuf to participate. :) aaron was a holler. :)

Yup, then we stayed up and tried to stay awake and all... fighting the ZZZ monster by entertaining each other with songs and on-the-spot jokes and lines. :) it was real fun. haha always singing about how Cheryl's falling asleep or Lynn's nodding off. haha sigh. but after a while, it was real hard and we slowly knocked out one by one. :P haha

Woke and had breakfast there... spent the morning jus hanging, chilling and being youths... played boggle, pictionary, basket ball. :) then we cleared up the place and left after lunch. it was still quite fun and surreal that it was already 2007. ended up in Katong with Adrian, Ben, Jodi, Yuan, Joash, Shawn for LANing... haha.. the Rubber clan still rocks i guess. :) it was like super fun playing with 7 other people. :) it's been a while i guess.

Yeh, then went home and almost crashed... haha cleared up the normal stuff like blogs and all and then crashed after my much needed shower. :) but it was a real fun experience i guess. having a great new year's party [kinda] and having fond memories of the first day of the new year. :)


Jodi, Rui, Sean and Rachel posing for a great new year's eve shot.





At the stroke of midnight, party poopers sent ablaze and abanging. Cheer was in the air as everyone ushered in the new year with a bang. literally.


Everyone captivated by a slideshow of the history of the YF done by Jodi. Full of incriminatingly bad shots of me yes... argh.


Playin some games to keep the atmosphere alive and awake. Stayover games are the fun-nest coz everyone's fighting sleep. :)


The girls playing boogle the next day. Look at the expression on their faces, sheer joy.


Charming Princes of the Youth Fellowship


Lovely Beauties of the Youth Fellowship


The youths who stayed for lunch and clean up. Took a group shot just before we left the place.