(A melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of repose or resolution.)
"But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever." - Psalms 52:8
Monday, July 31, 2006
snore.
finally. coming to the end of the day.
Round 1a is normally pretty ok, and it used to be ok... until the CORS unit decided we need to take down ALL calls electronically.
it. is. such. a. pain!!
grr. so the whole time after we get a call, we have to take down the particulars, and then key in everything.
sian.
can't imagine what will happen in round 1c where the freshmen will start calling and ask simple questions which can be settled in like, less than a minute, but will now take 5 minutes instead.
*sigh*
i'm sleepy, coz it's rainy, and i wanna bundle up in my blankets and cuddle with patrick starr. mmmf.
oopsee. heh. ANYWAY, i've got the other version up already. listen to it on earphones!! then u can hear the fantastic crowd singing along. so cool.
:D
also, i was planning to let my tuition girl know about the planetshakers concert next week... so i mentioned it during tuition.
wah lau. she was more excited than me lor. 'YA YA YA I KNOW!! YAY!! SO EXCITING!!!'
i think it's great when people of God get together. coz we all love and want the same things; it just feels so good.
and there's FOP this coming fri, sat and sun! though Hillsong can't come, i'm still going. i think it's fantastic that there're so many things going on in the birthday month of Singapore! (am feeling rather patriotic now, after the Take the City walk. heh.)
i was trying the fit of my oddica shirts yesterday when Darkie (my bro) came in. i excitedly thrust the shirts into his face and went, 'STAR WARS LEH!! SEE SEE, IT'S DARTH VADER!! SO FUNNY!'
as i showed him the shirts, i suddenly thought: eh maybe he can wear.
so being the retarded people we were, Darkie was game. 'eh okok! i try HAHAHAHA.'
guess what?
HE CAN WEAR MY SHIRT. but he's got the TTS (tight t-shirt) thing going on, so while showing our mom how fitting the shirt was, i couldn't stop laughing, and Darkie couldn't help but wrap his arms across his chest while exclaiming 'eh damn disgusting la - so tight!!'
it really wasn't tight lor. i was pretty sadded. :(
too bad i was laughing too hard to grab my camera.
Take It All - Hillsong United Searching the world The lost will be found In freedom we live As one we cry out You carried the cross You died and rose again My God I’ll only ever give my all
You sent Your Son From heaven to earth You delivered us all It’s eternally heard I searched for truth And all I found was You My God I’ll only ever give my all
Jesus we’re living for Your Name We’ll never be ashamed of You (Whoa oh oh) ---> missing in this version i have.T_T Our praise and all we are today Take take take it all Take take take it all
Running to the One Who heals the blind Following the shining light In Your hands The power to save the world My life
wow, i'm bored. no calls nor walk-ins today, so i'm reduced to trapping students to talk to me:
1. smile sweetly at random students walking into the SSC 2. they normally walk over with a query 3. then i trap them by asking, "so, do you have any questions about CORS?" 4. "yes."
that's the end of their afternoon, man. i'll start going on and on about how CORS works, what are bidding points, how they work, how to get around bidding and the CORS website blah blah blah...
heh, maybe this will make them read the darn website before they come here with questions. teehee.
the most insignificant and unimportant questions i've had the whole day
random cockster #1: (strides into the SSC and sits in front of me after taking a queue number) uh, actually my question is very small la. you see ah, i want to put up two posters on campus...
at which i gape at him and go 'uhhh...' while trying to point at the sign on my counter that says "FOR WALK-IN CORS ENQUIRIES".
random cockster #1 continues: ... so i was wondering if i can lor, coz u see ah...
at which his friend, random cockster #2 prods him and says: oi this is not the OSA (office of student affairs) la.
random cockster #1: no meh?
random cockster #2: this is not la.
me: er, er, yes, this is the SSC.
random cockster #1: SSC and OSA. NOT THE SAME MEH? *befuddled*
random cockster #2: no lah! must go to OSA!
me: yes, and it's on the 3rd floor.
random cockster #1: oh. haha. thanks. *thumbs up*
as they walk away... random cockster #2: is there anywhere i can fill my water bottle?
they also have another friend, but i didn't get to talk to him so i haven't an inkling whether he's a cockster too.
well, it's the time again... 3 weeks before the sem starts - CORS.
the pay's good, so i always don't mind, but this time i'm taking time off from my project to work at the Helpdesk. not sure if it was wise, especially when the masters student just joined us, we've got our cultures today, and my drug is IN. bah!
horrendous timing, eh?
and it's pretty boring here. no calls, just waiting for walk-ins. *yawn*
me and farty met our prof this morning to plan for phase 2 of our project.
i think we screwed up. BIG TIME.
prof: so, what are the limitations of RT? me: uh...
(20 seconds of uncomfortable silence - i actually started to zone out)
farty: OH! genomic DNA?
*phew* passed the first test. but suddenly...
prof: so do you do the PCR portion? me and farty: o_O
what went through my mind: ISN'T RT = PCR??!!! oh ho i was how mistaken. and once again, i blanked out. (i'm so gonna flunk my poster presentation)
there was yet another uncomfortable silence. that dragged on. and on. and on. no words. no promptings. just a lot of staring across the table.
*draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggg*
me: uh... i don't get it... farty: *stony silence*
it turned out that my prof was asking if we amplify the signal from RT using PCR.
oh, so desu ne.
wah lau eh can die la boo hoo hoo!
note: if you don't get all the jargon, just realize that the silence dragged on for so long, it passed into the time limit where you just look really stupid. and in front of my supervisor too! noooooo~.
travelling to school in the mornings is where i take my time to slowly wake up to the world.
i wake up not by the incessant noise in the mrt, but by drowning out everyone with the genre of choice that morning. with music, i mean.
oh how i enjoy my mornings.
today as i strode out of my condo gates, i chose anberlin first (one day i'm SURE i will trip and fall coz of peering at my mp3 player instead of looking at where i'm heading).
but alas, the train ride was so long; i finished BOTH albums. ok, so... hmm...
AH. savage garden. good.
...
usually when i get to truly, madly, deeply i tend to skip it coz it was so overplayed over the radio. but that also being, like, 6 years ago (*gasp!!*) i decided to just let the player run.
wow, i love his voice. just try singing the song without going flat. especially the parts "i'll be your dream, i'll be your wish, i'll be your fantasy"... his voice slides like butter.
listening to the song just reminded me how i loved it the moment i heard it. until it became overplayed. hmmph.
oh wells. i really liked darren hayes! his voice is unique, he's not blond (which was something different from all the boy bands then) and he's got this dark, edgy look to him.
well, at least that was what's going through my mind before i opened the Newpaper and read:
"Coming out of the Closet! Darren Hayes to wed 2-year Brit boyfriend."
sidetrack: i have decided not to name names anymore, but i'll just use nicknames like angel (ok, this is the last name i'll ever write) does. see if you know who's who, i guess.
... ah gua qia again! all of us were sitting at carl's junior after the movie with AGQ and i sitting at the end of the table. conversation was rife at the other end when AGQ turned to me and asked, 'eh, don't you feel left out of that conversation? there's a lack of one here.'
i gave a 'doesn't matter' shrug and said, 'but there's food here.' and obviously we felt the same when we nodded vigorously and continued stuffing our faces in silence. ah, nice comfortable munchy silence (while grinning, i don't know how we managed that).
i don't know, but it felt weird for awhile after the whole debacle a few months back, and i was tentative about whether this friendship will still hold, but there was proof of camaraderie when...
subway, which was opposite carl's, was nearing its closing time when they started to play really loud techno.
AGQ: EEYUR. eh it's your kinda music leh! eurodance. haha. me: what! i'm not ah-lian ok! and i enjoy the likes of KYLIE, DANII and MADONNA. not teh-no. AGQ: yeah, but their music comes from this!! me: no lor! it's different! it's euro... erm, pop. AGQ: HAHAHA! rubbish! (implies that my taste in music sucks big time)
techno music continues to blare... *diu-diu-diu*
me: eh, why are you bopping? AGQ: oh, i like this song.
/PENG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
me: yucks man! it's techno!! eeyur!
'baby, you're gonna drive me crazy...' me: *gasp* ... eh, i like this song too!!
both of us start laughing our heads off, wait a couple of seconds for the chorus, and start bopping and shaking our heads to the beat.
today was a turning point in church. not so much due to the sermon, but because of all the events that have been leading to this day.
i'm tired of my excuses, of the horrid side of me that has emerged after fighting it off for years since i knew Christ.
ever since last december... since the brief flame that took hold of me got extinguished so quickly, i've allowed myself to lose control to all my sinful desires, lose sight of my direction, lose all my senses to the things i'd rather do than to serve God's purposes.
i'm so wretched.
i hated it when i prayed and i knew i wasn't going to change.
i hated it when i prayed for a miracle knowing that it won't happen because You're unhappy with me.
i hated knowing it hurt You to see me in this state, and worse that i kept doing it.
i want to change. i really do.
it's been awhile. did you read my previous blog from multiply? it used to be full of posts talking about my spiritual life... which was my life. since when did my life and spiritual life become separate?
when i started out blogging, my intention was to put the attention on Him, not myself. it wasn't to be self-centered at all.
i'm glad everything's falling apart now. serves me right.
OMG SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO SMACK SOME OF THEM BUT I CAN'T COZ I'M NOT THEIR MOM SO I THINK THEIR MOM SHOULD AND I SHOULD CALL THEM AND I THINK IF I WAS THEIR MOM THEY'D GET HELL BUT THEN I MIGHT GO TO JAIL.
grrr.
i hate brats. I DO!
'ehhh so unfair! so unfair! this is unfair! that is unfair! UNFAIRRRR!!!'
*smack*
me: come on let's sing together! *broad grin* xxx: no. me: ok at least stand together with us and do the actions together? *slightly stretched grin* xxx: NO. i don't want. me: so you're going to lean against the wall and sit down? xxx: yes. me: fine. me: ok everybody else... (goes on with praise)
*smack*
xxx: boohoo! my hamster bit me! me: okay. xxx: it's very deep! very pain! (starts sobbing) i'm going to need to put the hamster down! boohoo! me: (place plaster on her surface wound) hamsters are animals. you took it out in front of everyone though i told you not to. (TODAY'S LESSON WAS ON OBEDIENCE FOR GOD'S SAKE!) with so many people grabbing it, of course it'll get scared and bite right?!
me (to the rest): i don't want to see anymore hamsters next week. OK?!
and xxx had the audacity to glare at me.
*smack!!! arghhhhh!!!!!*
i do love my kids. but allowing them to turn into little tyrants is NOT what i came here for.
yeah i've watched Superman Returns... and i thought it was a satisfying movie. though i got mixed reactions - but i liked it!
anyways, while watching Brandon Routh playing Superman, i get to see the dorky Clark Kent vs man in tights Superman!
ok, Superman is like an ultra SNAG... no, he's a SNAA (sensitive new age ALIEN) - he's like, so... sensitive. and new age, i guess? while being an alien.
but yeah, he's too handsome. as Superman. i prefer Clark Kent.
went shopping yesterday at bugis street for almost 6 hours and i bought SO MUCH!!
seriously, retail therapy works. but i'm so so afraid i'd get addicted to it. *scared*
it was nice to spend the day trawling through bugis street; the bargaining, the $6 tops and cheap earrings etc. i spent a total of...
hmm...
1. brown belt with sewn-on flower design (hurhurhur so pretty, and just what i needed) - $10 2. a pair of lingerie looking tube tops to cover my modesty (i don't know what they're really called!) - 2 for $10 3. an eyelet tube! and it doesn't show my er, bak-bak areas! a must buy - $22 (so expensive T_T) 4. a green top that looks absolutely faaaaabulous, but i just hope i don't bust the buttons (haha pun intended) - $20 original price... bargained to $17! 5. 2 pairs of earrings - $2 for 2 6. another kimono-ish top - $6
hmm is that all??? felt like i was just buying and buying all the way... so it's a total of $67! only!!! and out of that $42 came from my birthday fund from angel mel and xinwei.
these girls really know how to give me a good birthday gift man. *beam*
10 Favorites Favorite Color: hawt pink Favorite Food: linguini (aglio olio... plus fresh PRAWNS!! *lao nua*) Favorite Song: too many! Favorite Movie: not sure Favorite Sport: swimming (no obvious sweating involved) Favorite Season: autumn (i only like the idea of autumn coz in singapore there's no autumn dammit) Favourite Day Of the Week: saturday Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: triple chocolate
9 Current Current Mood: sleepy Current Taste: chocolate ice-cream Current Clothes: tattered home tee and cgs shorts Current Desktop: some retro looking pattern Current Toenail Color: natural pink Current Time: 8:45pm Current Surroundings: gold walls and my bed behind me Current Annoyance(s): i'm getting fat. Current Thought: hmm.
8 Firsts First Best Friend: tania goh ming fang (3 cheers for the same chinese name) First Crush: eric teh First Movie: either jacky chan's police story or the little mermaid First Piercing: JC2 First Lie: i started too young to remember First Music: 93.3fm First Car: i wish. toy car, maybe?
7 Lasts Last Drink: water Last Car Ride: greg's mini to thompson Last Crush: :X Last Movie Seen: x-men 3 Last Phone Call: alvin Last CD Played: vertical horizon (coz everything else is in mp3 heh)
6 Have You Ever Have You Ever Dated One Of Your Best Friends: yes Have You Ever Broken the Law: no Have You Ever Been Arrested: no Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: no Have You Ever Been on TV: yes Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn’t Know: no
