Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:38 AM
A letter from mum, on the eve of my exams:
Subject : the eve of exam.........
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"Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee;yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Isaiah 41: 10
"Be careful for nothing;but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know unto God. And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" Philippians 4:6,7
hello boy,
These are the 2 scriptures which I pasted on your small blue bible ten years ago. Remembered you were going to take your psle exam. Mum hoped the scriptures would give you peace and courage during the psle exam. God kept you in perfect peace, you did well in your psle.
Years after years, things changed. God's promises and our love to you remain the same. You went through many many exams. Surely you experienced god's grace and protection. We thank god for his kindness and faithfullness for giving you good health and wisdom to go through every exam.
Tomorrow onwards is the starting of your final exam. Although you are abroad, we can not take care of you physically. we are with you. The Lord is with you too. We often keep you in prayer. Prayers always keep relationship close and healthy. hope you will experience it.
Now is the eve of exam, mum still give you the same verses, may the Lord keep you in perfect peace. Take care.
mum
6.44pm
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It has been 10 years or so in a flash. Come to think of it, those verses ar still true eh? The first to a young Joshua, having to lead Israel after Moses moved on. The second to the Christians in Philippi, when they needed help.
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Monday, October 30, 2006 2:26 PM
"Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for a bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?"
--quotation from the Zahir by Paulo Coelho
Ripped this off my fren's blog (HAHA sorry DQ) coz it sorta ties in wif how i feel... lol
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:59 AM
Physics came back and i got the mark i deserve methinks.. Bleah...
ah well at least it came as a wakeup call to me. 6 days before the 3 major papers. Going all out to reclaim my position.
Ciaoz
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:44 AM
It has been a while... quite a long while.. its not for the lack of events happening here but sometimes not in the mood for blogging. also not helped by the lousy internet at times.
Lemme see if i can recollect what happened in the past fortnight. We had a mini moon cake festival/bday celebration for Trish and Erina and it was quite a party with so many people. We played games like Mafia (like murderer) and it was pretty hilarious who were the ones who always got arrowed (like me?!) I had a very satisfying round in which i was a civilian fighting against all odds to eliminate 3 assasins on my own.. hahah beat that! and i survived till the last round and the civvies won!! haha..
The following week we had another bday celebration, in ways more elaborate but less people for Yaya. Amin was going around taking video clips of O Rorkians wishing her happy bday and complied it into a video. I got over my camera aversion by hiding behind a toilet bowl which i "vandalised" to look like a face haha go figure. So many bdays so many social activities.
Besides all fun and games there were pressing matters. I had to rush to submit an application coz i clean forgot abt it and faxing is so exp. $1 per page lor.. waliao le.. and after clearing all the procedures for my last min conference i am attending after school ends, (yes i am attending a conference thats y i coming home late) I realised i cant change my flight ticket anymore?! wth??!? So began a flurry of emails to my parents and my scholarship officer and scrambling around diff agencies to get a flight home. End of story--> I had to cancel and rebook, meaning i burnt a hole in my pocket. OUCHHHHH.... hopefully I can be somewhat recompensated.
And then there's the problem to accomodation. I have to find a place to bunk for a week before my conference and after school ends. I was trying to bunk wif Bernie as she would be working until Dec to share costs (i dun mind paying an angbao hahah and stop righhht there those dirty minded ones!) Well happily i tot i had solved the problem until lol she told me her boyfriend objected. zzz... ah well, back to square one. haha all my protests of my honour and innocence met a wall of you-are-not-romantic-one-so-you-wont-understand jibes from the gals.
My blazer is flying in this week from spore courtesy of my parents. I really wonder what it looks like and i hope it can last me a while haha.. haiz so much expenditure, i feel absolutely broke.
Today i have physics test which i absolutely have no sense of urgency about. Yes i had studied and practiced so i guess its...ok but we will see. Tomolo will have yet another formal dinner at O rorke. On one hand its a nice distraction but the other hand means i have to go hunt and borrow clothes again from people... haizzzzzzzz.. need to sigh to clear my alveoli.. surface tension too much.
I guess as one grows older the more things hang upon ones' mind. Darn.
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Friday, October 06, 2006 1:07 PM
Yeah!!! Coming home in 2 mths time 2 mths time 2 mths time.. coming home in 2 mths time!!
Kinda really look forward to that 10hr flight home.. but i am knocked back to sober reality by so many things piling up in front of me. Like the Chem test in 3 days time(which i still feel totally bochup lor!! ARGH!!!) and the physics test next week.. and other deadlines on my mind like changes to flight tickets, temp accomodations, storage of stuff, visas etc.. ARGH!! and of coz MOOLAH!! NoooNOooo my moolah is running short.. gotta save!!! muhahaha yes i am a damn miser sniff..but rest assured i save my money for the best of intentions!
Some misc stuff. My skipping of lunch has not been very consistent lol.. cheated once wif lunch yest coz it was EGG and bacon Pie.. i must have swallowed at least 3 whole eggs!! muhahaha wat to do i lurve eggs and they are the BEST source of Essential Amino Acids beatable ONLY BY HUMAN BREAST MILK! Yeah i also luve the old man who serves me coz he always wanna fatten me up.. haha keep asking if i wanted seconds or thirds. haha.. I also cut my hair yesterday at the same hairdresser.. haha i must be a masochist to say just cut short and let her cut whatever pattern she wants. Now my hair is like my prev funky one except its MUCH shorter haha.. Actually i kinda like just letting the hairdresser do whatever she wants coz i can see new patterns. And my hair grows back in a mth or so so no worries.. and if its really horrible.. there's always the Army Crew Cut to fall back!
Argh!! My face is CHUBBIER!! Argh!! i didnt really believe HY when he said but after cutting this haircut i looked in the mirror and some self shots wif my handphone and its like DOT DOT DOT.. haiz.. my time back home shall be dedicated to regaining my fitness again.. I did it once before in 3mths i can do it again!! haha...
Oh yeah pa u might LIKE to know my sunglasses have been smashed.... boohoohoo coz i kept them in my bag and one day i went to check on them and they were broken already.. haha so much for 10 dollars and the zero care i gave them... actually i found them more troublesome as i had to like hang both my specs and shades tog and its like sooooooooooo zzzz...
lalalalala time to come home...
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Monday, October 02, 2006 3:27 PM
Its been spring for quite a while and while the flowers are all starting to bloom and birdsongs fill the air from 4am onwards, wif temps no longer so frosty.. BUT rain has been pouring for the last few days and by pouring i mean tropical storm lvl.. not as bad as monsoon rains back home but i heard my first thunder roll yesterday night. Boggle...
The internet connection has been absolutely atrocious here. Its not even the standard of 56k here at times. For the last few days when i try to use the net from 4pm onwards to midnight i wld be dealing wif multiple disconnects, ages to load a single page,impossiblities of msning or skyping. Even gaming on the internal LAN network has droppers and leavers!!! ARGH!?!??!?!
Hmm it seems that i wouldnt be going home so early due to commitments here in NZ. Haiz, added expenditures will be coming and i prob have to go over budget.. grrr... haha mebbe i shld try to be homeless for the time period. Save moolah hahah.. Wanna go hooooooome..
Hahha a fun fact for u guys to know is that since last fri or so, i had been trying to subsist on 2 meals a day, basically breakfast and dinner. Haha no no no i am not trying to lose weight or what, just trying it out to see if such a diet is good for me. I have a feeling that it aids my concentration in the afternoons, saves money haha next time and also semi inspired by the muslims who are fasting for ramadan now. Just wanna see how it feels like though there's NO WAY i am gonna wake and eat my breakfast at 5am in the morning! (Army days are over!). I am drinking water throughout the day too though... haha. Also watching my food intake of unneccessary salt, sugar and etc after doing so much bioscience about nutrition lol...
Exams are acoming.. Didnt really feel it but October is here and i have my chem test next week and Physics test in the following week and at the end of the month the finals START!! wow its that fast eh and my first year at Auckland is almost done! Hmm... feels that time really flew faster than any period of my life le..thus far that is..
kk time to do some major mugging.. ciaoz people.
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