okay so the comments thingy dint work. andrea the html idiot wheeeeee. hahahaha

NARNIA!! yayayay.

ameel misread it as narinda. like, LOL.

i sound mega bimbo today. xD

nata de coco!

minus ameel aaww. hahaha i look super gay with my stupid legs but nevermind.

christmas isnt christmas

-till it happens in your heart.

gahh i was having such a great time this morning doing charades and (i acted as Jesus for 3 times, no less. =D ) receiving presents like some bottomless pit lol.. till becky came along and talked to me bout the outreach on friday. then i felt really bad bout tim they all luh. aiya whatodo. >.< im sorry. asked him to come at 4 cos i thought he would be super late as usual sighhhh. then rehearsal was super messy cos we dint pray before we started. and i was so tensed i couldnt eat a THING for dinner cos my stomach was simply clenched up. then we had like 10 min of pre-service prayer and seriously, it went better than expected. yeah i know it was messy in between the songs, and the kids werent ra-ra-ed enough, but ohwell. so long as i know i did my best. God'll do the rest! tim was being veh nice too.. helping me with the sequences and stuff.

the band itself never played together before: zhangwei and jon lim on piano, timothy on drums, russell on acoustic and samuel on both electric and bass haha.

the sec 4s left for becky's house after that.. and we had fun playing games with the kids! making stupid airport announcements with the piano and the microphones HAHA so gay. then we showed them a hermie video. utter CUTENESS mmmm. so after the whole thing ended we jammed.. stayed till like 10 plus luh lol. shall i make this a gayer post and start describing the rest of my weekend? yes i shall. :D

saturday went to chiong christmas-shopping with samuel at town.. and after like 3 hrs 50 min we only bought 1 gift each (sam is unproductive not me) so we left for bugis and got everything else there within the short short time of-tada!! 30 mins. HAHA please say im thoroughly efficient. oh and samuel was repeating like almost everything i told him on friday cos apparently he dint get any sleep at all and he condensed 2 days into 1. stupid blur geper. xD

after THAT i chionged back to pasir ris to meet my mum and the rest of my relatives for family gathering. it was funn!! ilovemycousins yayy. we had turkey and lamb and ribs and mashed potato and pizza and chicken and and and logcake!!! <333

i bet i sound like a pig. nevermind Jesus loves pig and chicken. xDD okay next. we (sec 2s) were conference-calling last night it was mega mega fun!! so many people on the phone at the same time-when i called in to count down with them it was me, zhangwei, jon lim, jon tay and clara. other times there were mark, rebekah and samuel as well haha.. then one by one they left and in the end there were only me zhangs samuel and jon lim left. talked till bout 2am and jon's mum screamed him off the phone. okay not really screamed but she sounded scary. lol. but i slept at like 2:55 after messaging hahaha.

YAY we should conference more. :D i love confusing people. becky was being super whiny.. and mark was dominating the conversation with his "HI, i'm STACEY" thing in this ultra manly voice. hahahaha. and we were telling him that samuel chao was actually daniel yim and he believed it! lol. anyway whatever it is, limies RULE!!

3 limies in the convo last night wow.

P.S. im a turquoise freak.


P.P.S. THANKS FOR ALL THE PRESENTS PEOPLE! the only stupid one i got was from mark whew. toe socks with a message on them hahaha. i dont understand why him and evan love giving me toe socks. -.- okay im lazy to type anymore so TA!

woot do i look cool or do i look cool. haha vivian at the back.. go away luh. xD

for all those people who keep complaining about my disappeared tagboard, may i please refer you to the... TADA!! comments link at the bottom? yes that one, thank you very much. *disables salesgirl voice*

actually it's just another word for tagboard, but less conspicuous. =)

okay i'll just go to another subject. i wanna be sec one again!! seeing my brother's new anglican high uniform and GREEN (!!) orientation tee and school books and badge and stuff i get so excited. *jumps around*

new stuff (plus spending money of course) never fails to up my adrenaline level. :D

anyway yes i'm so glad my bro dint get into ri or some pokpok dunman high school. (HAHA in your face daniel) ahs is cheena but i dont mind it luh. mostly cos most of my pri school friends are there. lols. and their uniform is nice and comfy! i shall wear my bro's pe shirt to church camps next time yayy.

cant wait to get outta my stupid 2 layered uniform and go to rj. (how do you wear your uniform gayly anyway?? some people just have enormous imaginations. -.-) although sajc's uniform owns the most. hahaha. but rj's next! haha nevermind that i'll be anti-drug campaigning for 2 years. (:

today's the big day today's the big day! stressful leading a band. especially with sore throat and a blocked nose. pray pray pray.. >.<

went to visit my grampa in the hospital today. i dunno why... but i've never felt so close to him and so concerned for him before.

all those times when i visited him at his house he's well and healthy-the usual fit grampa. i couldnt care less about what he did, seriously, and how he was feeling and all that, cos i'm not close at all to my dad's side of the family. now he looks so frail and weak.. but his eyes still have that shine in them. it sort of earns a certain kind of respect. seeing him so helpless in the hospital bed pained me; i never thought it would that much!

maybe it's cos i've already lost 2 grandparents in the course of just 3 months this year.. from january to march. and this grampa's not saved. so i'm especially especially worried. after my dad's mum's death, i simply cant lose another loved one who doesnt know God yet! Lord please dont take him away he's not ready to go yet...

=( sigh.

i keep on praying; keep praying till it hurts... but it never seems to be enough.

prayer prayer prayer.

without it i'm gonna blow up soon. like a ticking bomb. haha.. God i need 28 hours a day!! let's see what i needa do.

13-17 dec: ypm camp (darn darn shack)

all free time from 17 dec onwards till 23 dec: plan plus come up with skit plus rehearse plus brief CM teachers and people involved in christmas outreach. OUCH.

after that till 31 dec: rehearse for co-workers' nite dance. aarrgh.

but i'm looking forward to it. it's december after all!! haha. just that this time it seems to pass so so quickly. stop running december. stop it. you better walk now or i'll book you. 3 times and you see pr*m* for DC.

goodnight.

saturdayy!!

that was a momentous occasion.

when my ypm life group finally had an interesting, lively time. see, we combined with samson's group cos there were very little people, and he led the teaching. then everyone started joining in and contributing to the conversation, and before long it was 735. can you believe it? we used to be the earliest cell groups to end, like at 7 or at the latest, 710.

and now we're like wishing it wouldnt end.. that's how life group should be like! i was so happy luh. after all the prayers, after all the discussions, God really did step in. =)

we talked about fellowship, and the differences and similarities that the present church has versus the 2000 years ago church led by the apostles. and lots of interesting stuff just popped up.. like the more we talked the more we wanted to talk. and we talked about different different churches in singapore, then aunty evelyn shared something that we all needed to learn. how the style of worship in each church doesnt really matter, but that our personal walk with God was most important.

also learnt about how we could sometimes get really distracted by the medium used in worship.. so much so that we forget to focus on God, but focus on the medium instead. like "i felt God's presence during the rock song by delirious?, but not during the uncle tony hymns" hahaha. yeah so that's another food for thought. =)

oh oh we're gonna break bread the next time we meet in january!! so exciting whee.. cant wait cant wait.

remember? remember how we felt when it was the exam period? and we were all talking and discussing about what to do after that? remember?

then what now? all the sec 2s just disappear after the exam period. doesnt feel like the times when we were all talking rubbish and laughing and having a whole load of fun at kfc or smth anymore. sighh. but i guess we had our fair share of fun and fellowship during the camps.. yeah.

haha yesterday was funny though. on the bus with zhangwei.. i tell you i have the funniest and most nonsensical conversations with her. xD talked about camp and yada yada.. then i told her that her cousin was good looking. okay you can probably guess which guy. she protested a bit, then i told her it's only when he doesnt wear specs. hahaha.. then the crazy girl blurted out smth like "andrea chao" and the convo went reeeally out of hand.

she started going on about how if we were married (?!) i could attend all her family gatherings.. which consists of almost 1/10 of everyone in church hahaha. and i was like no if you think he isnt good looking i got a lot more to choose from. wheee... then i'll be related to her!! from best friends to cousin-in-laws so cool!! hahahaha okay i'm going mad.

oh dear i made isaac chong sick. just when his exams are coming. i feel so guilty. i think he wasnt the only one though. sorryy!! =X

children's camp!!

i'm lazy to say too much and i know you'll be lazy to read too. so here are some highlights.

first and first and first and foremost. MY GROUP WON!!! hahahahaha can you believe it. super unlikely (okay not luh we were quite 'gum') group of teachers plus different different kids.. including for the second time, tadaa! mitchel khoo. also got abigail tay and rachel leong yayayay. but abigail demoralised me. daniel said she was mega mega mature. like fine luh.

anyway there was also this p2 girl from student care. very scary. okay i shall not disclose names in case one day she finds my blog and starts owning me. she was homesick and cried for like dunno how many times and i had to promise to sleep with her for the 2nd night but aunty cindy did. okay i cant blame her for that. and she dint wanna participate in any of the simple simple games we played at west coast. but the scary part is, she'll suddenly come up behind me and put her head on my shoulder and her hands on my back and go like,"jie jie i cannot finish my food..." or she'll randomly start roaming around my legs with her hands when i'm trying to rush the hawaiian night skit URRGHH.

why does every camp seem to have molesters.

on to matthias yeo. can you imagine 4 whole days with a sec1 guy who can scream so ear-piercingly, girlishly loudly that glass can literally break? the worst thing is, he's always the one starting off the whole camp in screaming. thanks matt, for teaching me what our vocals can do.

ah well i think this year's camp was goood. other than a few things which kinda spoiled the whole camp for me, i think the planning and stuff were very good. and the sec 2 teachers' attitudes! my. changed so much after just one night of lecturing by victor. i like victor he's super funny. we should have him as chairman every year. xD

but i think some teachers still havent broken out of that selfish shell yet.. not so much selfish luh. but like not knowing their priorities in the camp. they're talking and smsing among themselves while the kids were blatantly creating chaos right under their noses. i'm not anyone to tell them off or anything, just wanna say that i realised how the senior teachers felt towards us during last year's camp and this year's CAC. yeah.

and the fact that there were lesser teachers-40 compared to last year's 70-meant that we all had to work harder and rush around a lot more, and i think that really made most of us realise how important it was for us not to clique around unnecessarily, only when it was lights out for the kids. =)

thanksgiving! i liked the service, though to be honest the skit was boring, other than a few very entertaining people with thai accents and big whips. xD okay i have a picture here.

daniel li doing an improvised version of the 'i love Jesus' game with parsley. HAHAHA. "i lub jeshush!"

he's disgusting luh. next he did this.

eeew. and he said,"later someone ask you which chiobu kiss you."

and guess what. someone actually DID. we were like laughing our asses off!! xDD

yeah that was when the teachers started going crazy after thanksgiving.. and after daniel matthias rebecca kan and i looked desperately for some p3 camper's bag. lost his entire belongings ie sleeping bag, bag, shoebag. then he got super scared, like biting his cup and stuff, so dan had to call his 21 year old sister who eventually scolded him like hell when he got home. and she actually wanted to make a police report. daniel saved her number under michelle monster HAHAHA. poor boy. then it turned out that the bag ended up with some super blur pok bukit timah kid.

and they just called the church TODAY. can you believe it. TWO whole days after the camp. when aunty cindy bought new bag, sleeping bag, and clothes for him already. piss me off.

anyway i'm really glad it's solved. we were like mega worried. okay i needa sleep. shall blog about today, tomorrow! i shall be the drama mama. gnight cruel world. HAHA.

grass-eater

Q: what do you do when you wanna spend only 5 cents for dinner?
A: you eat grass.

Q: what do you your friends do when they wanna spend as little as possible on dinner?
A: they join you in eating grass.

Q: what is the grass-eater's favourite dessert?
A: grassjelly.

Q: what's the grass-eaters' favourite club?
A: grassroots club.

Q: why are the power praise team dancers/support singers wearing green?
A: cos they eat grass.

courtesy of daniel li the carnivore.

get ready to find singapore stripped bare of grass tomorrow.

thank yous and prayer

when i'm feeling down or something, or i need someone to talk to... it just seems that God always sends the right person to me. either by smsing or talking on the phone or talking face to face. ((:

see, there was once i was feeling super super super super ultra depressed and irritated and mad and.. yah you get the idea. then out of the blue i got this message from zhangs (cant remember exactly): hey are you feeling really irritated and frustrated after today?

i was like WHOA. God still remembers me. just that simple simple act of faith that zhangwei took to message me, and the fact that He told her how i was feeling and told her to comfort me.. the feeling is just. indescribably awesome. (okay i just described it) i was like, who am i that the God of all creation should go through all that trouble just for me?

wow. so right now i wanna thank those people that've stayed by me as good friends, and somehow or other, always seem to be there for me at the right time. i love you-zhangwei vivian jane jesslyn rebekah isaac evan mark john ho sean miffy olly zeslene zhengning alison.

only like less than half of these people'll read this but. it's nice to say thank you.

God loves me God loves me God loves me i wanna dance and slide and sing and twirl around and revel in his love. it's more than enough. (:

i found out i'm in daniel ong's group AGAIN for kids camp. what the pokkk.

last year children's camp plus ypm camp not enough is it? hahaha dont mind luh he's a super funny guy. but always disappearing. -.- and this time, he's gonna leave me alone with matthias. "just dump the devotions to him.. oh now that'll be funny." excuse me mr ong not everything is a joke okay! xD

then i heard that he requested to take moses.. i shall give you a piece of the convo.

daniel: you're just lucky you're not a boy
or else i'd give you the job of patting him to sleep and making sure the stuff are in his bag
his bed has a buffer zone
like he'll lay out all his stinky towels and all in one huge rectangle and then put his mattress in the middle of it
and this huge stinky buffer zone is in the middle of the room
and you're expected to sit/sleep in it to pat him to bed

xDD when he told me about it, we made a deal.

me: great
more shoe washing. haha actually i dont mind la
daniel: what shoe washing?
me: this year creative arts camp? when he had to wear your slippers? and got sand in his eyes?
daniel: ok if there's anything to do with soap water/dirty clothes, matthias handles it

poor matthias. first year as a teacher somemore. hahahaha.

but moses.. he's really sweet luh. i like him actually. i mean, he's autistic and all, but he's just really innocent and deep inside he doesnt have bad intentions at all. when i took care of him during games last year it was a challenge, but him willingly obeying me and holding my hand.. it was more than i could ask for.

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we needa be a lot more sensitive to those people around us i guess.. like what the site said, every weird behaviour has a reason behind it. so now i'll be more careful before sniggering about something that someone said, or did that seems weird.

the most beautiful thing about these people is, they usually cant lie. but they get ostracized for it. for not covering up for their classmates in front of their teachers, for telling on siblings.. etc etc. and they get bullied real bad in school. family members bear the butt of it as well-people around them give them hell. pierced my heart like nothing, when i read about that.

well, if we really do get moses, i'm gonna try to protect him and love him with everything God's given me. actually, i think i already do. (:

busybusybusy

but not too busy for a few jokes! haha. or rather, funny incidents. i think those're what keeps me going anyway.

so yesterday zhangwei came over to my place.. and not knowing what to do, we decided to cook lunch! and since my fridge is about as full of food as my brain is as full of brain cells, we had to do some grocery shopping.

two ben xiao hai zi who've never exactly grocery shopped on their own before almost got lost in the huuuge supermarket. and we wanted to eat broccoli. (yes zhangs it's spelt this way) but dint know how to prepare the gravy.. so just decided to boil it and "marinate" it with mayo. not very healthy i know.

then we went to the counter and suddenly realised that we had to weigh the veggy first before paying for it. *bangs head*

finally got home.. and i prepared broccoli and fishballs while she did crabsticks and instant prawn noodles. YUMM. so that was our delicious lunch! HAHA. and now my dining table seat is broccoli-scented. i shall not say why. =D

then we were on our way to church! (no isaac i am not trying to act holy -.-) supposed to be there at 1 but reached at 330 heh. called clara and beckah and the nutcase clara said, "we're still at jurong eating!" "doing WHAT?!" "oh err.. we're at jurong.. buying furniture for the church!"

dots......

ok i shall fast forward to the jokes.

clara: zhangs! i use my nokia to call you, rebekah's panasonic to call you.. all no reception one!
zhangs: but i'm using singtel!

HAHAHAHAHA. and she looked so innocent! xD

okay... then.

becky: eee why the camp books so nice one! our year not nice one lorh!
victor: ya lorh, your EAR very ugly.

clara to victor: i'm princess of romania! you better call me princess.
victor: i'd rather die.

HAHAHAHA.

and i/we invented names for the sec 2 CM teachers!

rebekah lamo
clara nutto aka pedo (short for what figure out yourself xD)
andrea freako
vivian bimbo
zhangwei potato
amelia tomato
jon tay crappo
jon lim oreo

and together, we're nata de coco! =D

have i told you i love my batch? yayy.

-you have an ego as big as the universe-

ameel's birthday

for amelia's birthday.. we went plaza sing to watch zathura. I'M IN LOVE WITH THE GUY WHO PLAYED DANNY!!! aaahhhh. his name is jonah bobo. so cuteee!!! big round blue eyes, adorable cheeks, curly blonde hair and soft baby lips... *aawwww*

hahaha it actually rhymes. and the rhythm's perfect too. o.O

ok back to wednesday. everyone was like super high after the movie.. then we took 36 back to ameel's house. and we kept laughing at rebekah cos she was being an ultra lame. xDD "look the lamo's talking to herself again!" "lamo thinks she's elmo.. but elmo's a freak!" hahahahaa. just by looking at her face you can laugh your head off. dunno why.

then another particularly funny thing was zhang not being able to talk. she either sounds super manly, or so squeaky that you have to listen to the air that comes out of her mouth to figure out what she's saying. mama! so with 7 hysterical teenagers on board, it's no wonder the bus driver got pissed.

next we had pizza (yum thanks ameel!) and junk food and a sweet secrets mocha cake to die for at her house. it was so nice i spilt some crumbs on my skirt.. and had to go wash up in the kitchen. so i made my way to where it was supposed to be.. and

"amelia! your kitchen disappeared!!"

i dont think it's very funny. i find it creepy. so at that point of time i had absolutely no idea why the whole lot of them burst out laughing. then van got up and opened a door for me-into the kitchen. so i was like, okay fine. hahahahahahaha..

and and and we watched the ch8 9pm show!! actually there're only 2 things we watched it for. the dancing, and JIAN YI!!! <333! we were all swooning over him luh. i think he's from taiwan or smth.. he's got this super sexy way of speaking chinese and he just looks... well, good enough to eat. HAHA.

then we trooped home at around 1045. tired tired tired. 4 consecutive days of burning midnight oil aint exactly very good for my health. xD

next up, thursday at church. where we helped compile kids camp booklets.

vbs camp

i'm back and i'm gonna blog with a vengeance hahahaha. watch out people!

shall start with pre-VBS-camp stayover on sunday. (for those who dont know, it's a camp for 4-8 year olds.) yupp so like about ten of us stayed over on sunday night.. and worked from 10 all the way till 1230 am to finish decorations-WHICH they took down on the second day of camp. *&!^#*!%@!

okay.. but it was wonderfully, terribly, terrifically, hysterically... FUN*jumps up and down* haha so after decorations everyone was like super super high. then the girls went over to the guys' dorm at galilee and we all jammed. just that aunty cindy chased us off the drums. AAWWW.

I LEARNT HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR. muahaha. it's like super easy luh. especially the strumming. down, down-up, up-down-up, down, down-up, up-down-up etc etc. taught by *drum roll* vivian and jon tay! TADA. xD and guess what. the first guitar i played was daniel li's TWELVE-STRINGED guitar hahahaha. be very jealous. =D then we relunctantly went to sleep. at like 230am?? haha. (vivian simply refused to sleep luh naughty girl. kept jaslyn awake somemore. tskk.) ok funny part.

see, i woke up at 5 cos it was FREEZING and i couldnt tahan no more. (hey i was in shorts, a t-shirt and a sweater, and blanket-less.) so i left mini creche and went outside to sleep on the couch at the lift lobby. at 530 jon tay came and apparently he suffered the same problem hahaha. just that aaron kept pulling the sleeping bag away from him. so he slept on the couch next to mine. and he had a dream. dreamt that he and i took the lift up to the sixth floor of the church-hello there isnt even a freaking 5th floor. then the lift opened and it was pitch black. wohoho.. then we were like, "creeeepy." closed the lift door and went back. and he woke up.

HAHAHA jon tay has weird dreams.

next day. which was monday. super super tiring. i think the k1 and k2 kids were described very accurately by estee: they're SPACERS man. one day in VBS is like macham one whole children's camp. hahaha.

it's like, you try to get them in twos, and they just wander off into another group.. and when you take them back to scold them, they just give you this super blur and wide-eyed innocent puppy-dog look and you just cant bear to do anything but love them. xD

little boy: jie jie why they can be in 3s then we must be in 2s! not fair not fair i also want to be in 3s!
me: *bangs head*

but i love them all the same. (: haha then there was debrief. zhangwei told us bout this girl called shayna in her group. licked her fingers non-stop.. then proceeded to hug her. caleb suggested putting chilli. xD and worse, i saw shayna trying to disrobe zhangwei-ie take off her shorts. HAHAHAA. she was like super freaked out luh! then caleb heard and he was like shit she kept coming to me and asking me to cuddle her to sleep. OH MAN!! ok enough bout monday.

last day of VBS! before praise and worship, the balloon guy (uncle christopher/the speaker sounds less cool) made a reeeally adorable pink and white flower with balloons (what else) and came up to me and tied it round my hand! i felt really touched luh.. it's so sweet! and i just praised God in my heart there and then, cos i was feeling quite down and well, moody. yeah. i was feeling so pleased with it that i tied it in my hair haha. thank You Lord! (:

then sometime in the evening, i went downstairs with a few people.. to help take the photo frames up. then i ended up in a sort of fight with daniel li aaron and gideon-if you call it a fair fight at all. they were like pinning me down to the wall and then to the floor and trying to terrorize me by pretending to burst my ballon luh!! stupid daniel. tried to cut my hair with the scissors too. aaron helped!!! i'm not helping him with vivian anymore!! hahaha not like i did in the first place. xD

ok went up after that.. to pray for the kids and for dismissal. i dunno if i was too stressed out or what.. but i was clinging on to my photo frame.. then i noticed red stains on the wood and on the glass. i thought it was just red paint so i just wiped it off. about a minute later i looked again and found the stains all over the frame. then i remembered that i hadnt used any red paint at all. and the stains looked like, for the life of me, fingerprints. i'd cut my middle finger while holding the frame too tightly HAHA. dint know whether to laugh or what. so i just plaster-ed it up. sigh.

went for dinner after that.. and at the bus stop with beverly and kimberly, i destroyed kim's balloon. AAHH i'm so sorry!! i was just making the flower kiss me.. then then then i noticed it getting shorter and shorter and shorter until... poof! it became coco crunch! okay not. the stalk disappeared. and bev was lmao-ing. xD kim was like, "i wanted to give that to my boyfriend!!!"

ahahahaha andrea the balloon destroyer. beware!