Baby got Book

quite the hilarious. haha but more so if you know the original song, baby got back.

New Strings

Baby just got herself restrung. Now she sounds so sweet, so clear. The music she produces now is just floating above my head, surrounding me and entering into my ear like a teasing symphony. wow. to think changing strings could make such a big diff.

She was really depressed today when one of her strings snapped during practice. Likewise, i felt baby's pain when i tried playing chords that involved the last string. She was as empty as a jar without a cap, a flower without petals, a chord with no ending note. I couldn't take it any longer. Called off the practice [since we were ending anyways] and headed down to Tampines. Bought the strings and came home to restring her up.

now she sounds so good. i dunno whether i'll end up restringing her more and more jus to hear this fresh new sound again. but alas, as precious as baby is to me, my wallet is not as generous as my emotions. :)

ok so i'm weird. but i love my guitar. Even the guy at Yamaha said it was a real nice piece. He thot it was from Swee Lee. Take that!!! Expensive guitar owners! hah! my baby's a Cort.. and she was bought at a steal. :) NOT from Swee Lee. :)

O Levels

The Os start tomolo... it's finally here. wowz.

to all those taking the Os, 3 or 4 more weeks. then you're free. press on!!!

God knows how much i want these exams to end.

Long Lost friends

Recently, i found a friend i've lost for a long time. Back in sec 2, i met a choir fren on a cruise ship that our schools had jointly organized.

I recall her being someone who left a deep impression on me and all these years i've tried and failed to find this friend of mine. however, facebook justified and salvaged itself in my eyes when i chanced upon my fren's profile after linking it from another friend's.
What shocked me was how much she has changed since the last time i saw her. obviously but still, could the few years that we never contacted have made her who she is today, how much has affected her life and mine to have caused such a change in person. :0

nonetheless, i chatted her up and amazingly she rememebers me and it stunned me to think how much we haven't caught up on. :)
only then did i think facebook was useful. :) haha... but seriously. it made me ponder and wonder whether people can really change so much. i prob wouldn't recognize her if i saw her on the street. :) so it was pretty cool getting back in contact...


on other news, i'm currently [prob not for long la] hooked on the song JENNY by The Click Five. i think it's pretty cool coz the lyrics really speak to me and heh... they have some interesting twists to it. :) but anwyays, if you dunno the song, u should know it by now coz it's on autoplay... jus above the tagboard. :)

totally random

BLOGGING FROM REID'S HOUSE! whee!

evidence:

Combined YF

Yesterday was fun fun. :) Made it a point to step out of my comfort zone, get out of the shell and really take the initiative to talk to the combined YF people...

*shawn rocks* sorry.. that was added in by the Tiangster... see i'm in the church office with my trusty Bumble Bee.... okok, that's the name of my laptop [given by Lydia]... haha... anyways, about combined YF... it was quite different from the other years coz this year's games were a bit less organized and tight for time... wasn't too greatly happy about it but hey, it gave us more time to interact within our own grp. :) got to know some fun people in my grp. mainly Andrew, Kim, Alicia and Dipna.. the whole group was quite fun too la. it was cool seeing how people were jus working together and not having boundaries of churches in the middle blocking everything.

so it was a fun time getting to know people and jus chilling over games and food... i always look forward to combined yf every year coz it's a chance to get out of the normal bunch of frens and meet new frens... catch up with old frens from different churches and also to network frenships. :)

anyhows, i'm kinda sian recently. was trying to share with a pair of frens today but jus wasn't the right mood and stuff... i guess it's jus hard to also kinda breech the topic. :) It's ok, i've got a fren i can share with in church too la. even if he comes and hijacks my blog once in a while... *looks up to the top of this blog post* heh...

summary of the whole thing, i need to move on with my life and stop sulking in this valley and get a grip of life around me la. :) combined yf was a good experience.i should try to get that emulated everyday. always wonder to myself if i should really try to be more sociable. :) see how la.

Something's really bugging me. it's been bothering me for a few weeks now and today i just told myself enough is enough. i can't keep getting bothered by it. so if it's not working out, i dun really think i should keep trying. no point hitting against a brick wall that won't budge or reply. :) so that's that.... i'm jus gonna heck it till it comes up again. sad... it makes me sad.. but i guess it's necessary. :) better now than later.. or never.

blog entry's done. stop reading.

On Exercise till friday

Hey guys, will be on exercise from today till friday so won't be home till then. Praying for good weather and working vehicles so i dun have to do anything.
basically i sit there and wait for vehicles to spoil. so hopefully, nothing goes wrong. haha.

See ya on friday!

Happy 21st Birthday Debbie

You may not read this at all. It doesn't really matter. But thank you for making my life that much easier to live. Thank you for being my close fren all these 21 years. For being you and for giving me something to thank God for all this time. You are a dear friend of mine and I pray the Lord blesses you always and continues to allow you to bless others as how you already have. :)
Today's gathering reminded me that no matter how far apart frens are, no matter what happens, the frenships that God has called us together for, will last a lifetime. Yours surely will.

Happy 21st Birthday Debbie



Here's to many years ahead. :) btw, you looked gorgeous today.
p.s. thanks for tolerating ALL my nonsense. bwhaha i even piss myself off sometimes. :)

Overtime Killer

So recently, my company has been Overtiming to pass out vehicles from the workshop so that we can be prepared for the upcoming exercises... sigh. it's been eating at not only our health but also the general morale of the troops. It's been quite a long time since we left the workshop when the sun was still up... it's like by the time we walk back to the bunk, the road back's always dark and quiet... no more troops marching to dinner or people booking out... now, it's jus spoilt street lamps and quiet chirps from the insects... by the time we get home, we barely have time to come online and chat... thus the lack of entries recently.

today was a saturday. i slept.. and i slept good... woke at 8.30am [trust me, that's really late for us]... slept at 11.30 last nite coz i couldn't tahan staying up. haha... haiz.. what to do? and today's a busy busy day for me. My close fren's 21st birthday. :) finally. haha....

Just wanna say that sometimes when you know you've asked for something in prayer, you start to regret it after.... take for instance... i prayed for patience and the ability to be content in whatever situation i was thrown into.. and now that my patience is tested, when my commitment to God should outweigh my desires, that's when the Lord Almighty is saying to me, look here... i'm all you need. you prayed for patience rite? this is the best way to test and train it up. :) so show me son, how you have patience.

and that's the tough part... but i guess it's enuf to make it thru rite? :) There's a saying i can't exactly remember but i think it's true... it says something like...

Only when you have nothing but Jesus will you really realize Jesus is all you need.

power packed no? :) and i'm sure you'll agree with me coz the matter of the fact is that... :)
on other news, driving is going good... been quite fun i guess.. been trying to drive everyday... but coz of OT, it's not so easy. but i drive to work la... with my parents then they take the car back. HAHA. :) but i don't need the car la so it's wise to do that. :) Getting used to the roads and the drivers on the roads... haven't ventured out of the east side [save for my army camp] so i'm still quite fresh on the roads la. i wouldn't dream of driving in orchard road or even bugis or cityhall area... yet. :) maybe in a month's time or sumthing then i'll start venturing outside more and more la. like kallang... eunos... then maybe city hall area.. though i'd rather not at this point in time. hehe.

oki. so i'm gonna head off to church later on. i'll catch ya all yeh? :) heh take care people.
oh... i cut my hair recently. and it's really really short now. haiz. here's a preview pic... no gel no nothing. :)

Ultimate Cellphone

Oh Gosh, this is so funny la...

You'd know what these were if you were born in the 80s

You grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse, Ninja turtles, Carebears, Robocop, My Little Pony and Smurfs. [I used to have the he-man sword and of course, i still have robocop and ninja turtle toys from back then]

You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in Primary school during recess time. You would squat by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured mug.

You hated or loved the school nurse (she was either pretty or mean).

You know what SBC stands for. [SINGAPORE BROADCASTING CORPORATION! totally!]

You paid 40 cents for cartons of Chocolate or Strawberry milk every week in class.

Everyone’s wallet used to be the velcro type [tee hee. guilty as charged!]

It was cool to have pagers in primary school [Memojazz, yellow in colour. I remember how i was so facinated at how fast my sister could type alpha-numeric with a house phone keypad.... until i could do it too. HAHA]

SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The bus seats are made of wood and the cushionwere red. The big red bell gave a loud BEEP! when pressed.

There were still bus tickets and bus conductors would come up to check them.

Envelopes were given to us to donate to Sharity Elephant every Children’s Day. [gosh, sharity. now how old is THAT!]

You’ve probably read Young Generation magazine.You know who’s Vinny the little vampire and Acai the constable. [I loved YG... like, THE magazine for kids]

You know what PETS are and the hidden animals in all the text pages. You hated penmanship.

Writing lines and caning hands were common, esp if you failed chinese spelling (caning was actually allowed. no shit).

You were there when they first introduced the MRT here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.

Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.

Gals were fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake and Barbie Dolls.

You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.

You bought tidbits called beebee (20 cents per pack, 10 cents in MGS), and mamee (30 cents), that had a different sticker in it every time. [I still buy mamee. oops! haha.]

You carried a lunch box to school but either threw away the food or brought it back home again.

You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10) cartoons because Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.

Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Famous Five and Secret Seven were probably the thickest
story books you thought you would ever read.

KFC used to be a high class restaurant that served food in plates and had metal forks and knives. (I dont remember this, anyone?)

The most vulgar thing you said was asshole and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS ‘chicken pie’…you just couldn’t bring yourself to say the hokkien translation.

Catching and pepsi-cola was the IN thing, and twist was the magic word. [Used to play Pepsi Cola EVERYDAY at recess. i still remember exactly where in the sch]

Your English workbooks were made of some damn poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow. [Do you remember how the PETs worksheet used to be those tear off kind? like foolscap!]

You came to school 15 mins before the bell every morning just so you could copy someone’s homework.

CDIS was your best friend.

The only computer lessons in school involved funny pixellized characters in 16 colours walking about trying to teach you math.

Waterbottles were slung around your neck and a must everywhere you went. [YARH! Those press the button then the cover flicks open and the 'white plastic straw' can be pressed in]

Boys loved to play soccer with small stones or tennis balls in the basketball court.

Girls played five stones and boys played with marbles.

Science was fun with the Balsam and the Angsana being the most important plants of our lives, guppies and swordtail being the most important fishes.

Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and John, immortalized in our minds from school textbooks.

We conducted experiments of our own to get badges for being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc. [I was crazy bout this for a while. Get all those done for wad? spastik. haha but at that age, it was like our greatest achievement to get a badge]

Every Children’s day and National day you either got pins or pens with ‘Happy Children’s Day 1993′ or useless plastic files with ‘Happy National Day 1994′.

You wore BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.

Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.

You went to school in slippers and a raincoat when it rained, and you find a dry spot in the school
to sit down, dry your feet, and wear your dry and warm socks and shoes.

There would be spelling tests and mental sums to do almost everyday (you hated them).

Your friends considered you lucky and rich if your parents gave you $2 or more for pocket mone everyday.

You saw Wee Kim Wee’s face in the school hall.

Boys liked catching fighting spiders, earthworms or tadpoles.

Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys. [Totally. really.]

Class monitors and prefects loved to say, “You talk somemore, I write your name ah!” [Haha.. i used to be a monitor... and yes, that's SO true... to think we had power. haha]

You got booked for muddy shoes in class.

There were at least 40 people in one class.

You brought every single book to school, even though there was a timetable.

There was a pro-yo/bumblebee, digimon craze at some point in time [Guilty as charged. i had at least one of all of those mentioned... at diff times of course. hey, you forgot Tamagotchi! haha]

Stickers, stamps, erazers. The best were the stickers with fur, and those cheap erasers with flags printed on top. [I used to have a box of those flag erasers. then play that flick my eraser game... used to be so happy when my eraser flicked and landed on top of another. those were play for keeps days... loser loses his eraser! my fav was iceland. i dunno why, but it always won]

“ti Kam” things you can buy, ‘xiao ding dang’ which was sold for 50 cents and ‘tora’ at a buck!

Standing up

Today, during our parade, one of my friends got called up to receive an award of commendation for something he did. The point was, my whole company [k, not whole la.. but a huge chunk of them] were so shocked and surprised beyond reasoning why he would get an award. Like it's something that can never happen and even the higher management were stunned. I felt quite irritated as i watched them joke amongst themselves at how it must have been a typo or what...

Then he came back to join us after rehearsing and they went on and on about how they must have made a mistake... and he was right there la. they were saying, sure not? you get award... typo la. must have read wrong name la. cannot be la.

and boy was i getting more and more flustered. I was jus tolerating it all hoping he was ok about it all. He is normally picked on in company line too la. And i told myself if they say one more sentence about how he cannot have received it, i would have spoken up and told my superior off in a way that was nice. Told myself that if they said one more i'd jus tell my superior... with all due respect, i dun think we should be laughing or doubting his potential. Let's rather joy and celebrate with him. I'm sure he can do with the encouragement and recognition.

but thankfully they stopped before i had the chance. really... my blood was almost 80degrees.. almost getting to boiling. haha... but it all ... boiled over after a while and he received the award... then later on after the parade, he was recognized in front of company line and we all clapped for him... but i still felt that it was really childish, immature and ultra insensitive to be laughing about it with or without him around.

So here's to my friend. I believed in you and i didn't doubt for one second that they might have gotten your name wrong. You know who you are and i'm real glad you were recognized for your good effort in that particular event. Keep it up and dun worry if you feel you dun deserve it... in my eyes, you did great. Plus, dun care bout what they might say or how they may look at you... you jus believe in yourself and let them mumble all they want k? :)


Stand up for what is right, Right what is wrong.

I Passed!!! :)

Thank You Lord. Thank You for constantly showering the blessings of my life upon me when i don't deserve it.
Lord, i thank you for giving me this chance to drive and with this license, may i bring more joy and help to your community. May i use the gift that you have given to me to be a blessing to others. Lord, thank You for being with me throughout the whole test, giving me peace and assurance.

Thank You for letting me pass my driving test. All honour and glory belongs to You.



The day started out scary. Sky loomed grey and it actually started to rain when i was driving my warm up. Circuit warming up was not bad except for directional change. Instructor said to pay more attention to it coz today i seemed to be turning the wheel more frantically. so go slower and pay attention to the unconscious signs and signals i'm giving while driving.
After i got my tester and route, i got in the car and the circuit went flawlessly. Thank God coz the 'starting on a hill' [which is my most unconfident part] was the first... that went well, didn't roll back at all, jus went straight up, controlled and calm. The rest of the circuit went according to plan, no glitches whatsoever. Once i got onto the road, i was already really happy inside coz i cleared the circuit.

The road section was interesting. There was a point in time jus after coming out of the circuit where i wondered whether i was on the right lane... coz he said go forward at the traffic light... and i was on the left lane [slow cars wad]... then i was like.. OH CRAP. wait a minute, the lane i'm on now... can go forward or not? or issit a left turn lane? then i was like... man man man!!!!.. then the cars in front of me started driving off... forward! YAY. aha.. so there was no mistake there.

I came to a hump at the later part of the day and i slowed down but apparently not enuf coz when we went over it, the tester leaned forward and backwards like some rocking chair [so spastik lor]... and i knew i'd get points deducted for that... no matter. To cut it all short, when i went back to the test circuit, i parked and followed the tester up but i managed to give a thumbs up to my instructor before i disappeared into the building. After he sat me down and showed me all the mistakes i made [3]... he ticked passed. WAH! i tell you, the feeling was like a volcano erupting inside... i was so happy. :) relieved la. coz i got points deducted for 3 things.

1. Early Clutching [apparently when i E braked, i stepped on the clutch first instead of the brake] i think that's nonsense coz my technique was correct. whatever!
2. Never slow down enuf at the hump.
3. Turn into wrong lane. [which is true too la. i was turning right and went to lane 2 [left lane] so i'll admit, that was wrong. i should have turned to the right lane then filtered left]

yeh so all in all, 12 points. :) great la! i was so happy. got out and called my instructor straight away. He said after he heard who i got as a tester, he knew i'd pass coz my tester wasn't so ngiao... jus make sure i did the normal stuff like check blind spots and all. :) so yayz. haha made my license and then headed to camp.

yarh.. then to cut a long day short, i graduated today from Driving School AND Section Commander Course. so effectively today, i am a driver and a section commander. wowz. big day huh? hahah... sad thing is, course is over... so tml must go back to unit. sighz. haha. and i heard we're going to OT on wednesday. yayz. what a start.

heh. so great day. and it's not over yet. going to meet some YAFers outside for prata in... half an hour's time. haha. yup. great feeling now! :) heh

11hours

11 hours till i have my driving test.

it's funny. it's only now that i'm really thinking of it and getting a bit scared. here i was saying it's not a problem. i have full confidence and telling people that the more you think about it, the more stressed up you'll be.

and yet, i can't seem to follow my advice. scary la.. but i am fighting internally to turn my thots somewhere else... jus so i won't think of it and get stressed. it's jus another driving lesson. jus another time on the road. no biggie. test or no test... no biggie. come on Rui... it's not a big deal.

so the next post you'll get from me will be either titled I PASSED!!!! or I FAILED! :(
heh... catch you then. Pray for me, those who see this post before 9.15am 24th Sept. thank you so very much. i appreciate it tremendously.

To God be the Glory!

One more lesson till TP test

Wow... i had my driving lesson last nite and it was one of the best lessons ever. Didn't make any mistakes in the circuit. actually, it was really almost faultless. I'm not trying to make it sound good, but you must know i haven't had a faultless lesson in circuit before so this is a big thing. :)

anyways, the road was good too. made a mistake though... turned a bit too early and had to stop for a pedestrian in the middle of the road. but i learn from that. :) i met an amber light but managed to stop nicely too... so that lesson really was an encouragement to me.

As i was telling jodi online... i just really really want to pass. I really don't wanna fail. but i know that if it's in His plans for me to fail or pass, it'll come to pass and i'll have to not only learn to accept it but to praise God in it. :)

but yeh, i wanna pass. hahaha.

Then i can drive people around, drive the wonderful honda fit and maybe let my parents get off the wheel a bit more.. driving is stressful and it's not good for them to be so stressed up. :)
Whatever it is, 3 more days to next driving lesson and 5 MORE DAYS till TP test.

One week till endofcourse and tptest

I've got a week left of my course. A week till my course ends and gives me rank and pay. A week till i have to go back to my unit and expect to be able to lead well as a 2ic for my section. A week till people start to look up to me for decisions and for guidance.

A week is too fast to be true. I dun really want the course to end neither do i want the bonds to disappear. I pray that in a week's time, everything will have run it's course and that it'll all work out. That things will fall into place and that these 5 weeks on course were good, useful and beneficial.

The course was great. so fun and so memorable. I just came back from an exercise in Tekong that made me do foot topo-ing for about 15-20km. :) shag like shit. haha... but it was great. an experience i'll never be able to have again [or i hope so at least]

A week till i take my driving license traffic police test. A week left to stuff all the lessons i can. A week till my instructor knows whether he has another first time pass or a repeat student.

anyhows, i pray that whatever happens, that i'll be safe and that i'll learn from it. whether i pass or fail right now isn't impt. more so whether i take it seriously and whether it's in God's good timing coz frankly, i'd rather fail and obey Him than to pass and face His wrath later.

This week isn't small, it's quite big actually.

On Exercise

Hi guys, booking in now. However, this weekend, i'm only booking out on sunday afternoon and booking back in on monday afternoon so prob no time to blog and stuff. so i'll see you guys whenever la yeh? :) Take care of yourselves!

10th Sept - Monday [book in]
16th Sept - Sunday afternoon [book out]
17th Sept - Monday afternoon [book in]

Bad start of the day

Oh man, i'm having a real bad day... started out bad i guess. I woke up, [early.. thankfully] but woke up quite tired... then my network was down... so had to fix it, my mouse spoiled too and then get ready for driving. Goodness. It was raining... so i ran a bit in the rain.
Met him outside my guardhouse and took over from there. drove to eunos area and i was feeling quite good about it all... driving was smooth, felt quite comfortable and not tense or anything... felt almost second nature.

Then we got into the circuit and my first mistake was the slope [as always]... couldn't really get the correct biting point... ended up having the car slide back a bit.. which isn't an immediate failure.. but minus points la.. so i have to watch out for that one on my test date...
Anyways, to wrap the whole lesson up [coz i really dun wanna think about it again], i drove quite badly today. stalled SO MANY times la. i normally dun stall la. so dunno why today so jia lat. then there was a point in time that i had to E-brake [or well, my instructor did] coz i was almost gonna turn a junction and there was this dumb cyclist who was crossing really slowly. I couldn't jus turn coz then i'll get stuck in the center of a junction while i wait for him to cycle across. so
i had to stop at the turn to wait for him. But i wasn't prepared to stop, so when he braked for me i was like, oh man! haha.. sighz...

yeh.. anyways, after that, went to my aunt's house to fix her com. ended up fixing it really easily but then she said that since i was there to look at her printer. dunno why cannot print. spend like 1 and a half hours or 1 hour trying to figure out how come the printer doesn't communicate with the laptop. installed drivers and uninstalled them... did everything i thot possible. but in the end, i had to leave and tell her i couldn't. haiz that was frustrating and discouraging. an addition to my already bad day.

yeh so here i am. blogging bout it before i leave for yf. and it's like my day jus started. sigh... it jus means it can turn out worse... we'll see.

good news though. i'm working on a song i wrote last nite out of inspiration due to a friend... i've got the whole song out liao [lyrics took a bit longer to write then my tune]... but it was all done in maybe 2 hours max? aha so cool la. recorded my bridge and chorus liao. so will work on a tune for the verse... when it's all done.. i might jus post it up. see how. :) hehe.. cool stuff. writing songs are cool.

p.s. hope your day is better than mine.

Bored and Empty

I think i'm going thru PMS again... OH OH I MEAN UMMM... :) haha. dunno la. the past week i've been feeling quite down and empty. the thing is, there's nothing specific bugging me. jus this omnious cloud floating above me head. couldn't really get very joyful the past weekend for some unknown reason. thot it'll be over once i book back into camp... but i realized that it's kinda still having a toil on me.

Today, kept fighting to stay awake in class... dunno why i'm tired coz i slept relatively early last nite and stuff. dunno la. i think i'll jus tuck in early for the night and hope tomolo's not as tiring. :) My mind's been kinda playin with me again. hoping for things that aren't there and getting disappointed when things really aren't there. :S I just sumtimes wish i could either speed up time or jus not feel at all. helps in so many ways. :S

Yeh, so i'm sitting here in the lab, trying to unload into this blog but yet i've got nothing much to say. just need to be content in the position God has placed me, try not to seek for personal gains and stop desiring for things that i'm not ready for.

I gotta keep telling myself... Singlehood's not that bad and I don't need a GF to worship and love God. :) Told that to myself a while back, guess i just gotta keep saying it till it's part of me.

"All of me, why not take all of me. can't you see, i'm no good without you." From the song "All of Me by John Stevens. Don't ask why, it was running in my head since i started this entry.

Honda Fit

It finally came. after waiting for wad? 6 plus months? since feb or march... :) so yayz. haha it's my main motivation now to pass. :) i've got 2 reasons why i wanna pass my driving test and this is one of them. look at the beauty of it all. Pearl White. Even the number plate is nice. :) anyhows, it's a normal honda fit but with Mugen body kit. you should see the back of the car, it's beautiful. The bottom part of car is the best. The spoiler isn't too big to be obnoxious... it's jus nice. and there's a nice sticker on the spoiler that says 'MUGEN POWER'... fwah le mah! HAHA. :) anyways, i love it and it loves me. :) 3 more weeks till my TP test day... let's pray i pass. heh