Happy New Year Everyone!

Its so fast. A few weeks back then, it was just the talk and shopping about the lunar new year. Right now, the first 4 days are going to be over soon.

The first 2 days of CNY were spent in the exact the same fashion as last year. Just that this year, I could feel more connected to the different families and everyone became more lively and bonded. Noy that we were on super bad terms or ignoring each other, just that we dont see each other often and therefore do not have much topics to talk about. This year, its different and Im glad to see everyone more concerned about one another.

Of course, mahjong was played. I mean, CNY is the best excuse to have some small gambles. Haha.But my losses were merely contained to a few dollars so its alright. =)

Back to school now and work is seriously piling in. PDPR board to complete. Though I feel that my board is more presentable than the rest of the others in the class, Im super afraid that I might lagg behind the rest and this could spell worse. PDPR test is coming up soon and even though I know how to handle it, I will still feel shaky and nervous on that day. HMFR and AS looming nearer and soon everything will be strewn onto us. Then hols! Not sure whether to learn driving or to look for a job during the hols. Hmmmmm....

Now, if you were to read the above para Im sure many of you will be thinking, "if you're so busy, go do your work then! why blog" Well, its because, the answer is contained in this last para.

Recently, I have heard and seen many of those around me having close encounters with death, or have closed ones dead. Seriously, it just saddens me. In the new year with the burden of a financial crisis, all of those affected have still to be burdened with the saddle of someone close leaving them. In this world, how many of us are truely, spritually happy? Or are all of us busy chasing glory, being jealous, maintaining our pride? Its all these facades that we have in us which blocks us from attaining true spritual freedom. From all these incidents that are happening around me, I learnt something, which is to forgive, for you never know what will happen to the person you have a grudge on.

Sometimes I feel, God is planning every stage of my life to allow me to get to know more about Him and about what is going through in my life. His words make me feel how small and insignificant I am. Take for instance, out of the 2 services I went, they were the 2 that I feel is the most important in human life. One of which is forgiving. When I think about Jesus telling Peter to forgive his brother 77 times, it just gives me another reason to cool down and think about things rationally. God talks, God speaks, God makes things happen. Amen.

Busy busy week ahead!

Well just as busy as my parents are with the CNY, Im damn busy with schoolwork. Yet to complete my HMFR report which is due this friday but Im confident it will be done in a few days time. Calculated today as to how many weeks are there to the exams and the cruel answer is 3 weeks, if I exclude this week. So with next week sorta reserved for CNY, the hard truth is that there's only 14 solid days left. So I gotta start on revision real soon. I dont want my average GPA to fall. =P I think I should be able to score a 3.6-3.7 this semester =) Oh before I forget, there's AS presentation to do. SIANZ!

Reached home at 8 today. Well cos me and marcus took bus 74e and thinking that it would bring us faster to our destinations, it instead took longer. The bus went onto the expressway and damn, caught in a jam. If expressways are meant to ease the flow of traffic, how come there still can be a jam on it. So my take on it is that, its just a psycological "trick". People get bluffed onto the fact that the expressway would certainly be much faster than the ordinary roads so all of them rush onto it, thus causing a HUGE jam. Its been like 3-4 times that I was caught in a jam on the PIE. Im NEVER ever gonna take an express bus again.

Well but partly 1 of the reasons that we were late was that me and marcus wanted to have an overview of the track and field training. Erm, he insisted on wanting to meet the president so I accompanied him then. Saw the president, quite friendly chap and chatted for awhile. Loads of people on the track for the various CCAs, canoepolo, taekwondo, rugby, soccer, volleyball, netball and NAPFA. Track training for Ngee Ann was abt the same as that of those I'd done before, the striding, bounding, stretching and stuff. Looks quite tempting to join track again but Im gonna wait for marcus's opinion first when he goes down for the training on weds. =)

So as for now, im gonna continue with my swimming and running. =D

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

But you may ask, who is Love?

So just like algebra, we substitute it with another perfect Constant on the other end of the equation.

And that being

God is Love.

Fullstop. =)

Yeah the weekends are finally here! Woo..time to ....STUDY. Yeah I think what my DCNT lecturer said was somehow.........right? Yeah he was asking us if we have revised for our exams, and some of us said that it was still a little tiny wee bit too early. But after he explained, I think it makes sense to start early because the rest of the modules will be rushing to complete their syllabus and by then it will be too cramped. So it pays to sit at the front. Though the teacher is a little "strange", he does give tips to those at the front! Well at least I know what is coming out for this labtest. Hahahahaha.

Saw the news on Catholic High. Super imba results. Haha. Bro said last few years were imba too, but this year slightly imba, 9.86 for average L1R5. Then news keep reporting on them. But I think its due mostly to the teaching force there and the principle that's super good in leading the school onto the right path I guess =X See principals DO make a difference.

Weighed myself and realised I lost some weight! Well a little but its a good start. Seems like all the swimming and running is showing some results! And marcus recently prompted me to join track as a leisure CCA. Well I'd LOVE to but somehow Im afraid that with my bulky figure I might not have the old running power i'd used to have =( But nvm, its fine time to train again. =)

Well today was a long long day.

Skipped lecture in the morning so that I could sleep longer. Anyway the CAEM lecture is just damn boring and I'd learnt NTH at all from it. =P Then while sleeping mel tan sms-ed me to tell the teacher that he couldnt take it any longer and wants to drop the module. I replied saying I sleeping. =)

Went to sch to exercise at 10 with marcus. Jogged round the track for 3 rounds before going to play soccer at the bball court. Security guard was damn inflexible. Told us that we couldnt use the field to play. Like the sch is damn dumb lar, build a SYNTHETIC field that is new, and dont let the students play? Whatsmore the field was EMPTY! Waste of resources I'd say.

Lessons started at 12 and PDPR was quite fun. Finally knew how to strip the wire using the sch's wire stripper since my "more higher efficient" wire stripper dad gave me was spoilt. Did up the remaining parts left from the last session and Im sure by this week I can wrap up the MOD 6 section =D

Marcus's grandfather passed away so I followed him to the funeral wake. Pray for his grandfather people, bless that he will safely be in the arms of God. We went to his house first to get some stuffs before going down. Now I know why marcus is 5-10 minutes late most of the time. The bus ride is just soooooo sooooo far and the journey is longgg.. Imagine travelling all the way from upper East Coast road to Bukit Timah. Woahhhh... Anyway, his house was quite nice, old private apartment. Interior was comparable to a 5 room flat. But uber messy, even he admits it too. Hahahaha. But his dad owns load and loads of DVDs and they have like 5 bikes?! Took the photo printer and went down to the funeral wake at Kallang.

Saw mum's ex colleague Auntie Linda. She's marcus aunt and also my pri sch friend's mum! Yeah and they said I changed, of course which means grow fatter le =) Hey I mean its not a good thing so yeah =( Prayed for his grandfather and only sat for a while before going home.

Woo gonna watch red cliff II tomorrow *)

Finished the fourth day of school and so far so good!

Passed my IS alr! Which is quite expected cos mum said she will go down to sch to complain if I didnt pass =X Well cos the adults present on tt day during the event see no reason for the teacher to fail us, since he left the place after only 5 minutes. Hahahaha. Sooo happy to have passed it. Finally weds its just 10-12 and home after tt!

Been exercising alot recently. Mon was running, tues was running too. Ystd was swimming. Today was running again. And nonetheless to make the week complete it will AGAIN be running tomorrow =) All of these daily exercising is coupled with loads of push-ups, crunches, jumping jacks. So I hope to lose some weight soon =D

Anyway, I realised that I keep having a habit to visit the RC hobby sites these few days. Its a must-see daily even though I kw mentally they wont update the page much. Ahhh...and I guess I have to make a trip down this week to buy the brushless motor and epoxy. Then I decided.......I will buy a plane after CNY! Cos I dont want foam ones, I want the Balsa wood ones! More ex, but better, stronger and nicer. =) Calculating the cost, the body would cost about 200, 3 servos about 100, ESC, brushless motor and propellor about 120. So total its about 400, round it up to 450. Therefore I need the stuff inside the red packet. Hehehe. the higher the value the better. Get it.

Avionics is the most expensive CCA in ngee ann I can conclude. Not because we receive enormous fundings, but the stuff is too ex for us to handle =P

First day of school!

Well it all kickstarted with a cancelled practical session which pissed me totally cos I woke up early to come to sch and attend......?#$#$^&*

MPI lecture next and lecturer started telling us how bad all of us did for the CTs and blah blah blah. Lucky for me I wasnt in for retest which means I passed so I dont have to worry much.

Lunch was at Bukit Timah Plaza's KFC and pool later on. Hahaha, my pool improved quite a fair bit and even marcus was quite surprised by it. Hmmmm...looks like an occasional mix of slow balls do help afterall. But I lost to marcus TWICE by hitting both the black and white ball in. And both were simple straight shots. =(

So after lunch was DCNT tutorial. Which means giving back of the CT papers. Crap. Marcus got 78, I got 76. He won me by 2 again. But this time Im proud to say I only made a 2 mark careless mistake. And anyway since the paper was out of 50, so the differences naturally mutiplied by 2 when upon 100 marks. The main thing was, both of us were the only 2 to be 70 and above in the class. We were seriously shocked cos the paper seemed quite okay except for a few theory qns. So we didnt expect the class to do so badly =X Seems like this CT is quite scary.

Er so Im quite determined this term to work doubly hard and score much much better for the exams. I seriously wanna maintain my average GPA of at least 3.7 so that I can enter uni. Well, I MUST!

Oh and tmr is tues which means its exercise day! Gonna run 4km at the track tmr. Hehehe. And talking abt exercising, I really miss soccer alot. Havent played in AGES......

Ok gonna read now. Byee

School's starting tomorrow!

Well it feels kinda wierd to start sch. As in for the past 3 weeks its a super nice thing to laze ard at home, read, watch TV, go out, eat, pool, and so many many more things. But starting school's nice as well, with open house this week, CTs coming back, and getting to see the rest. But I think the main reason I still feel better about it is because CNY is coming. Yup, everyone's so looking forward to those chain of hols and celebrations and food and most important of all.........MONEY! Money Money Money! =)

Spent ystd evening at the grass patch near the lorong 1 market flying the plane. Finally I know how to take off the RC plane! But it didnt seem long enough before incidents happen. The plane took off but I keep having this fear that it might go out of control blah blah blah so I crazily closed the throttle and the whole plane practically dipped all the way down ending with a "piak". The wing came off =P But luckily its a styrofoam plane so I can try to use epoxy to stick it back. It just gives me 1 more reason to buy another brand new plane =)

Ate dinner at the market there and went off to Chinatown! Yeah super crowded but pathetically I couldnt even find 1 tin of pineapple tarts! Yeah I was craving for them but couldnt find any. I mean so many stores and not 1 store sells them? Mayb its still too early to sell these perishable goods. Econs =) Got damn bored so we drove to TPY central to get my bro's new phone. W910i. Not really v new but the features were quite fine. And its for $0 value so quite worth it. Mum saw it and went to change it today too. However, my family isnt too crazy about phones unlike others who change their handsets every 6 months.

Had a hair cut in the afternoon and it just feels so cooling! I love hair cuts and short hair. =D

Had a game of mahjong just now and I LOST again. Wah sian I keep losing everytime but I've learnt my "lessons" and I now know how to play better, since my parents are "pros". hehehehe.

Haiz, dropped my black screw on my brown coloured stairs. OMG so Im gonna spend my time finding it now. Nites everyone! =(

What a great and interesting way to kickstart the New Year. First and foremost, Happy 2009 everyone! =)

So, now I shall let you in on what happened on the 31st of December.

Woke up in the morning and played bball at the nearby bball court. Ages since I last shot a ball. Then went home and packed some stuff before going to grandma's place to have lunch. Took a peek at my cousins doing the game quiz which we were going to play in the night. Played the Wii while waiting for Bro to come back from sch then we went to TPY central to have a game of pool. It was just so crowded, mostly ppl who had a half-day off from work or the old uncles. It was 4.30pm by then when we went off the collect the b'day cake at Prima Deli and I rushed to Popular to get my reserved book, "How Starbucks saved my life". Bought some Famous Amos cookies on the way and got home before 5.15. Without much delay, packed all the BBQ stuffs in dad's car then off to my auntie's place.

Started the fire and bbq-ed the chicken wings first. Aunt's house had this countdown party going on and it was sorta fun. There were clowns, "ah guas" singing, karoke comp, games, costume comp. So sat there eating the stuff while having a good view of everything. Dosed the fire at about 9 plus then went upstairs to bath, settle down and we started the game! Its a small replica of those HK game shows and everyone enjoyed themselves alot. Even the maids got to play. 5 minutes to 12 and we proceeded to the living room to do the countdown. At 12 exactly, we blew the whistles and party poopers were "poop-ed" Took out the b'day cake since it was my grandma and aunt's b'day. So nice to have it on 1st Jan. Ate the cakes and continued with the games till 3 plus in the morning. Of course the uncles and dad played mahjong otherwise they'd suffered from extreme boredom. By the time we got home and was ready for bed, it was alr 4am.

All in all, it was a good New Year celebration.

Now, to welcome in a New Year also means to reflect on the year that passed and to set priorities right for the coming one.

I felt that God really showered me with His blessings in 2008, of course some unknowingly to me. I could sense that He will provide help for me when Im in trouble and He would somehow talk to me in my heart to advice me on certain stuffs. Im grateful to You my Lord for walking my journey hand-in-hand with me. Im not saying this just because I was blessed with the right solutions at the right time. God is really there. He has a greater purpose for ALL of us. Remember, greater purpose. What you think you deserve does not reflect what God should do for you. He does what is best.

So now to usher in the New Year with resolutions. Its a good way to set stuffs right. Well now, I hope I can learn more about the Gospel and about God, to know his teachings and apply it in my life. To appreciate everything He has done for me. Hmmmm....and also I hope to be more patient and understanding because I always seem to run out on both of these. Erm... to read more (Yeah I love reading now! =D) Be more fit (Gosh, time for a fitness plan) Push my academic studies from great to greater heights. And last but not least, to own another 2 more RC aircrafts. =P Well actually I alr have a plan to purchase 1 more aircraft body before CNY so it just means almost 1 WHOLE year for me to purchase another 1 more =)

Lucky for me, Ngee Ann is kind enough to start sch on a monday. But then again, for those starting sch tmr, it may not be a bad thing, since its Fri and everyone would be looking forward to the weekends. A good time to do another 1 more last min recharge before serious work kicks in.

Blah blah blah, Im off to catch my drama now. =P