2:06 AM
Blessed week..I can truly say that this whole week has been a blessing and anointing one for me... Especially last Wednesday for the 1st fellowship with this small group of Christian bus enthusiasts.. Despite all the spotting and taking photos of buses, we come together to fellowship and pray as a group.. This is really the best moment for me so far throughout my entire life as a bus enthusiast.. I can really see how God can transform my life... Compare my "before 2008" self with "in year 2008" self, I can say I have really changed a lot, so much so until it's too many to say..
Life is so much better for me after I experience the presence the holy spirit that come to me.. Abundance flow of blessings fall onto me, and now, God is going to use me in a great way, although I may not be the leader of the group, although I am not bold, vocal or eloquent, or zai in many ways as what my CGL told me... The importance of having this fellowship, to really want to have the goal of impact and touched people's lives in a good way... Everyday we see all those barriers, we felt really sad for that and this isn't the way to treat and guide the juniors (as what some may called) and vice-versa too. We come together, to share all our worries, fears, and troubles to one another, and help one another in a way or other, not only as fellow bus enthusiasts but as brothers in Christ also.. The idea of having our small group actually come from MCF (military christian fellowship) and XY & me chatted on Sunday night, that why not we also form our own fellowship group as well, and true enough, we are really for the idea of having it, and last Wednesday, we had our 1st meeting, and it went very smoothly, only this is the bus engine sound which we really have no idea which part of T3 we should settle down and pray, and we sat down on the floor right at T3 bus terminal.. Next time we will find a more quiet place..
Later on in a few hours' time, I will go for my usual cell group meeting and evening we would have cell group BBQ as well.. Then Sunday we will witness the baptism for Jia Yun at our Jurong West church after the morning service.. It's really going to be a blessing weekend for me...
Hope you guys have a blessed week as well... Take care everyone and God bless!
Last of all, I really want to pray that this group will really grow... It may take a very long time to grow, but as long we really believe in it, one fine day, we will see the fruits of the success...
Dear Lord, i want to pray for our small group here. No doubt we have a great passion for buses, but we have a greater passion for You, it's really a great blessing that we can come together as a small group to fellowship and to pray. I pray that our group will grow and we can make a great difference to the others in this bus enthusiasts community, to show our abundance love and care for them, just like how You have showed it to us. I pray that You will guide us and lead us, whenever we got lost somewhere.. As we come together as a group, we really want to impact our dear bus enthusiasts' lives in a great positive way and touch their hearts as well. I pray this in Jesus name, Amen.
Victor Lim
Friday, March 28, 20082:52 PM
Bus Enthusiasts...Sometimes, I really feel sad, for that some seniors treat some juniors very differently, and it's very different until it can turn out to be a sad case, like criticism and maybe biasness?
Kiddies....
Kiddos...
These are the 2 common terms that some seniors may use it towards some juniors.. I hear until I don't even want to accept the fact that these 2 words exist in my dictionary...
Barriers....
Sometimes I really feel very sad when there are barriers in between the seniors and the juniors.. The seniors will tend to restrict not a little, but a lot of things to the juniors... It's like the juniors are not given any chances and the seniors straightaway label them differently.. I HATE this feeling and barriers don't exist in my dictionary as well..
Sometimes I just feel very sad, even within our interest group alone, there's such barrier exist, and criticism occurs frequently... Just because of a particular mistake or any wrongdoing that the juniors may have done just in the forum itself (SGForums), and it has created a very bad impression among the seniors towards them and hence resulted in treating them very differently.. Attitude and behaviors in bus forum doesn't mean EVERYTHING..
Yes... I admit that last time I used to commit quite a number of mistakes/wrongdoings, and the seniors were willing to give me chances to change it... But I found out that this doesn't happen to every single one of the people.. Still, with the chances that were given to me, I slowly really changed and transform myself to a person with a better character, and I really thank for all the chances that were given to me... Likewise, I feel that everyone should be treated the same way too..
This has been in my mind for quite some time, and now, this is the time that I really want to voice it out...
Ben, XY and Isaac, if you have read this entry, I really hope that the 4 of us can really lead by example, to really show our love, care and concern to all our friends, especially within this interest group itself, instead of having lots of barriers and everything that cause that gap to be widen further... Together, we can really have a good and great impact on others and of course, to be forgiving to them for the mistakes/wrongdoing that anyone here may have done.. Let's continue to be the salt and the light of the world and really show others what we can do. Cheers!
Victor Lim
2:28 PM
Yesterday...Stayed at home for the whole morning since I woke up late as I slept very late the night before.. XY came to my house in the afternoon to get some stuff from me and after that we headed down to Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange staff canteen to check out the duty roster and have a drink/eat. While in the canteen, XY told me about Ben asking whether he's free in the evening to go Toa Payoh to meet up with KP also. Knowing about KP feeling very down through XY, I was pretty worried and I asked XY to tell Ben that I was with him and that I would join in later on... So after that, both XY and me went back home for dinner first before headed down to Toa Payoh. As usual, I was the latest one to reach there, all thanks to the massive serious jam from end of BKE, until Jln Toa Payoh along PIE also jam..
After that, we chatted about some stuff, and cheer him up.. ^_^ Hope he feels better after that and really pick back up his motivation to carry on in his life, be it work or school or something else.. Read his blog, and he seem to feel that he's so lifeless...
KP, please, doesn't mean that your friends are not free to meet up with you means that you are so lifeless.. Don't think or feel this way.. And don't always think too lowly of yourself, don't think that you are so useless etc etc etc... We are created in this world to shine the talents that we have.. Everyone has at least 1 talent.. It's only up to oneself to find out his/her talent and really to shine at it... Cheer up bro, don't think too much and lowly of yourself anymore... ^_^
Victor Lim
11:54 AM
Well done, the only 1 out of 2 Superstar Award Winner!His name is none other than Mr Chua Aik Ngwen, and this is the complaint I have sent in full through SBS Transit website:
I want to complain about the poor attitude of a Toa Payoh Route Group Master, by the name of Chua Aik Ngwen. I saw his photo at the advertisement on the bus which showed about him being 1 of the only 2 Superstar award winners. However, this has contradicted with his actual attitude towards customers or members of the public. Whenever I want to ask for the next departure time for a "special" bus (For eg: The Nokia WiFi bus on Service 88 or 143), he would just questioned me a lot of questions, and in the end, he just told me off and ask me to just take the next bus instead, regardless of whether that bus is the Nokia WiFi bus. It is not only 1 time that he did this to me, but quite a number of times. I seriously hope that disciplinary action will take against him and I really hope not to see any other route group master who has the same poor attitude as him, needless to say that he was once a Superstar award winner. They should be the one who lead by example to the bus captains, not to anyhow scold people and tell people off.
Haha... KP has sent in 1, I have sent in 1, Ben has sent in 2... Help to spread the love around... Even 2 of his Service 143 BCs have complained to the head of BR (Braddell) in SBS Transit HQ @ Braddell.. Please more bus fans to go write in and shoot him as well... He seriously don't deserve the Superstar award winner... Haha...
Labels: buses
Victor Lim
Thursday, March 27, 20082:45 AM
Wonderful day...It's 2:45am and I just finished bathing.. Lolx..
Just now at around 12pm, met Raymond for my usual bible study at Riverwalk, it's indeed very anointing for me as in the lesson for the week..
Went with him to Plaza Singapura for lunch and happened to pass by a gift shop which has all those inspiring small posters, so I bought a few for myself.. and we went to B2 to meet up with his friends, Bing Shun, Brian and 1 more I keep forgetting his name.. After which we went for DOTA at the usual LAN shop opposite Paradiz Centre, played from 2:30pm to 5:30pm before I went off first to meet Ben, Isaac and XY at Changi Airport T3.. Initially it's 7pm at Tampines Int, but somehow after I walked out of the LAN shop, I received a sms from Ben regarding the change in venue to Airport T3 and timing change to 7:30pm, so I went around hopping buses instead of the direct Service 36 bus down..
700: TIB 425 R (Bras Basah Rd - 2 stops down)
036: SBS 2730 P (Bras Basah Rd - Marine Parade Rd)
197: SBS 2755 T (Marine Parade Rd - Bedok Int)
069: SBS 9819 Y (Bedok Int - Bedok North Ave 3)
067: TIB 580 Y (Bedok North Ave 3 - Tampines Ave 5)
034: SBS 2643 H (Tampines Ave 5 - Changi Airport T3)
I reached there late all thanks to myself to be kay kiang, go and take 1 big round to the airport, if not I can reach there very early like say around 7pm.. And notice there's no SBST merz in my ride, and i simply want to AVOID taking it especially Service 24 ones... Every Sunday I take until =.= liao, come out of the Merz become a half-roasted human being, I still prefer the Volvo Mk 4 DM3500 ones.. Pray for a MAJOR upgrade of Service 24 fleets, that it will happen by the end of this year... Now I shall label my Service 24 buses as "scrap metal" liao... Haha... While Charles label his Scania N113CRB as "scrap metals", I shall label my Service 24 Merz as well... Please all become laid up ASAP... I can't wait to see the SBST Merz go off too!!
Reached Changi Airport T3, we settled out dinner at Popeye (not T1 or T2, but T3) and we ordered a big set something like the family feast that kind of meal, with 8 pieces of chicken in total to be shared among the 4 of us, with fries, whipped potato and drinks.. After which we chatted about quite a lot of things and especially when it comes to the new China girl announcement in SMRT trains, I can really laugh till my tears dropping and went crazy.. 1st time that the 4 of us came together to fellowship together... Was feeling very anointed and motivated after the fellowship, and get recharged for the next day =)
In SBS989Z of Service 27 after our fellowship, on the way back home..
"For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
"And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ."
- Philippians 1:6, 9, 10
Victor Lim
Tuesday, March 25, 200811:26 AM
Ride SMRT, "Celebrating Life"!!From now on, whenever I tell my friends that I am going to take SMRT buses and trains to anywhere, for example, if I want to take Service 190 (SMRT bus) back home from Central Mall, I will say something like "I going to celebrating life with Service 190.." Lolx.. Why this slogan? Because SMRT keep advertising about it, be in on buses or internet... All got..
Internet:
https://www.ridesmrtcelebratelife.com/index.aspx
Ownself combined all 3 flash photos together:
Buses:
Yishun Int alone, 3-4 days back i saw 3 of such bendy buses with that propaganda advertisment, and hence I decided to snap this "wonderful" moments..
Whole picture..
Zoom in the 1st and 2nd bus parking..
Zoom in the 2nd and 3rd bus..
How do we go on "celebrating life" with SMRT? Very simple and easy!
- Waiting at the bus stop for more than 20 minutes and lucky enough, the bus will just zoom past you without stopping to allow you to board and another 20 minutes additional to "celebrate".
- "Celebrate" with a lots of people even off peak hours (both day and night) in the buses and trains, especially for people that "celebrate" by squeezing and standing inside the buses and trains
- Waiting for 7 or more minutes for train and celebrating by having buttock-to-buttock and body-to-body contact with one another because it's simply too packed!!
- With the latest "China technology" with the new "China girl" announcement system, "celebrating" by listening to the very "high class" pronunciation announcement and trying to play some stunt by having the seducing type of sound when SMRT wants to attract people to board their 1 and only cross-border service, Service 950, to Kota Raya II terminal at Johor Bahru..
For those who think that I am very sarcastic about it, maybe yes, maybe no... Lolx..
But... This is the truth fact.. I am only helping SMRT to publicize and promote this "good" campaign of theirs.. Even their buses also have that advertisment... No joke!
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The LAST Service 700A Scania that I was able to board (and thank God i do not need to wait for long for that, less than 8 minutes in fact). Memorable ride indeed... Will always be remembered... Miss the Scanias on Service 700A..
old 1960s black and white photo
edited color with "tungsten " style color balance
original photo..
Cheers and God bless!
Labels: buses
Victor Lim
9:46 AM
Podcast...Man.... I noticed that I have not touched my podcast project for a long time liao.... Perhaps I shall really set a target that I MUST have a real interview/interactive session with the commuters and upload the audio clip by the END of this week....
Labels: buses
Victor Lim
8:59 AM
TIB1062Y!!Anyone happen to see a SMRT bendy bus by the rego of TIB1062Y, please tell me!!!
It has not been doing its perm service (Service 700) for the past 3-4 weeks before the redeployment...
And now after the redeployment, it's NOWHERE to be seen.....
Where will TIB1062Y go to next? Depot transfer? or perm on another WLDEP service? or become WLDEP SP? Hmmmm...
TIB1062Y on Service 700A, will always be remembered... No more bendies on Service 700A anymore for perm slot.... TIB1026C new perm on Service 700, will not appear on Saturdays according to the duty roster, reduction of duty 700AM10, reduction of the bendy on Service 700A...
Labels: buses
Victor Lim
Monday, March 24, 200810:21 AM
Easter (events)So much so for blogging about the meaning behind this important day for all Christians, let me blog about the events that was going on for the past 3 days from Friday to Sunday..
Friday:
Reached Expo at around 10:15am (late by 15 minutes), in the end the people there say the support activity was canceled, and I went to Jack's house to borrow his Canon A510 camera because I really wish to snap the last few moments of Scanias on Service 75, 700/700A and 970, Lance on Service 852 and 859, & DAFs on Service 173 (no luck for that) before the massive SMRT Redeployment started..
Reached back Expo around close to 2pm (late by half an hour), and really so happy that I got to the internal traffic section for the 2nd time, which somehow or rather, I like doing internal traffic more than the zone sector..
First service at Expo started at 4pm. It's the first time I am really celebrating this important day plus somemore first time I serving in the ministry for such a very important event, and at Expo Hall 1 somemore.. Halfway during the drama performance, some of the actors came in from the back of the hall, where I was serving, I saw Jun Jie acting like crying away very pitifully and I SMILED at him, in his blog, he said that he has successfully tried not to laugh away too... Haha.. But anyway, the drama team (or should I say the drama ministry as a whole) really did a excellent effort and the story of the iMing really touched my heart a lot. I really feel like having tears but I try not to, because I was standing at the back at Tunnel 5...
But... When it came to 2nd service at 7pm, I got to have the privilege to sit at the Echo zone because not many people turned out for the 2nd service unlike the 1st one.. After the drama show when all of us were worshiping, I really couldn't resist my tears anymore, and I really gave all my tears and heart and everything to our great saviour.. It was really too touching for me and really, I can say that Easter Day is even more meaningful than Christmas Day, and it really gave me the great impact of everything..
Saturday:
Went to snap some last moments of the Scanias on 75, 700, etc etc in the morning with Terence and I went for Ben's youth church service in evening around 5pm++. I can say it's a new experience for me, as I visited other churches and really see how they grow in their church... Although it's like only a few hundreds of people down there in a room, but I can really see the hyper active spirit that they have, and the way, the procedures during his service is kind of a bit different from ours..
After service, there's a shuttle bus there that will ferry all of us to Bishan MRT Station, where we had our dinner at S11 coffeeshop nearby and after that went to the playground next to it and fellowship.. Then his cell group friends all keep testing him all the bus knowledge and they really went to test in great details, such as where this particular service (for Eg: 143, his favourite service) going and it serve which area other than the 2 ending point interchange such as via Orchard, Thomson, Chinatown and Harbourfront area.. Thankfully my cell group friends never really go and test me to that extent... Haha.. Went home after that..
Sunday: (The most meaningful day I ever had..)
Not serving for Sunday, so no need to reach Expo as early as 7:30am.. Met XY and Isaac at Bedok Interchange for breakfast at the hawker centre next to it, Ben also joining us for breakfast down there as he came from Choa Chu Kang for Service 190 AMDEP side spotting.. After which, Ben went off to his church service at Jalan Besar, while XY and Isaac came along with me to Expo to enjoy the service at 10am..
After that I went off with XY and Isaac (not joining my cell group for the 2nd service at 12:30pm), and we went to Changi Airport T3 and T2 to walk walk and ride on the skytrain, before we took Service 36 down to Orchard area, to meet Ben and Bing He for lunch at Cineleisure, and chit chat down there for quite some time before Isaac and me went to visit XY's church at St Andrew's Cathedral and attend a really traditional way of service, with all the Hymms etc etc.. First timer and experience for both Isaac and me, and great experience indeed.. XY's parents also went with him for this service, and after which, his parents suggested us to go to the food court at Raffles City Shopping Centre as there are more varieties of foods down there. So all of us went there and really want to thank XY's parents for treating all of us for dinner.. As we were having our dinner, XY, Isaac and me, were sharing with one another about our church, how it operates (as every church has their different way of doing things), and a lot more things..
After dinner, the 3 of us went to Funan IT Mall as Isaac wanted to search for memory card adapter but the shop has closed its operation for the day in the end, end up going to Terence's shop (the place he went for his ITP) and find him to chit chat a while.. And after which, the 3 of us have no idea where to go next and keep saying the keyword of the day which is "anything", so we banned the word "anything" and must suggested a place, ANY place..
XY choose Esplanade, I choose Benjamin Shears Bridge (since it's really ANY places lo.. Haha,and I just randomly choose that place =D ), and left Isaac to choose, and he choose Sengkang, so we came to conclusion to choose from the 3 places:
- 3 tries to wait for Service 80 or 51 trident
- "Celebrating Life" with SMRT (Take AMDEP Service 190)
- Another one I forgot what choice le..
So in the end also, XY took a Service 63 Scania K230UB back, while Terence took a box bendy on Service 190 back home, and for me took Service 54 Merz (Merz again? I am already getting sick and tired of the Sauna Merz on Service 24 especially the DM bodywork and I may just called it as "scrap metal" as how Charles called it for his Scania N113CRBs also..) to Far East Plaza down there and "celebrating life" on Service 190... (Why I called it "celebrating life", i will mention in my next post..)
Reached back home, was MSN-ing with Isaac and XY, and somehow, God just gave us the great plan, to do something really great to Him.. and both XY and me was discussing about the future plans that we may have.. It's really a wonderful time for me to fellowship with them, even as a interest group, instead of the usual school or working friends..
Hope all of you really enjoy your day well too, and have a wonderful week ahead.. Cheers and God bless! ^_^
Victor Lim
Friday, March 21, 200811:59 AM
Good Friday (Easter)A very meaningful and important day to celebrate for all Christians.. This day, it's for all us to remember our saviour, Jesus Christ, who went up on the cross 2000 years ago, and die on the cross to bear for all our sins that we committed. It's because of Him who make so much sacrifices for us that we can live with righteousness and also with the unconditional love and forgiveness from Him, that we should do the same to all our friends out there.. It's because of Him that we can received the salvation and be saved, and eventually, lead our life according to God's plan and destiny..
Read through XY's blog just now and I wish to share with all of you my salvation as well, to let others get inspired by my journey throughout this tough initial times.. (later you will know why is it tough...)
How I got into Christ, it is through 1 of my ex-VE (Venture Era) friend (who also in the end quit liao..), his name is Raymond... Really, I never expect him to read through my blog last time and got to bring me in to Christ just like that.. He understands the emo-ness and the downs of my life that I have gone through so far through reading my blog.. So, on 4th August 2007, 1st Saturday of the month, he invited me in to the Singapore Indoor Stadium, for this very grand event which held annually called "Festival of Praise" or FOP in short. After the whole thing ended, I was indeed quite touched by that, but at that time, I have a lot of doubts here and there especially when it comes to parental objections..
Then 1 of the days for the next few weeks, Raymond specially came all the way to Clementi central area (the cheapest but nice Japanese restaurant called the Sumo House) to meet me, and really to help clear all my doubts. From there, another 2-3 weeks later I started to attend the service at Saturday night, giving the excuse to my parents saying that I went out with friends to town or somewhere else.. That's my very 1st few times before the 1st breakthrough with them..
Subsequently, I was also been invited from him to his cell group, for the 1st time , which from there, I started to know people like Hai Jie, Jia Yun, a lot a lot more, and of course not forgetting the cell group leader, Quan Han.. All of them have helped me a lot in 1 way or another throughout the struggling times that I had with my parents last time, in terms of this breakthrough.. By fate or coincidence, I have friends in this cell group who also knows of their friends that share the same hobby as mine, and not surprisingly, all 3 of them I know, and are my seniors somemore... 1st is Malcolm who knows You Si (or usher ministry we usually called him "Isaiah"), 2nd is Jack who knows Owen, and 3rd is Kai Guan who knows Melody (and probably Chun Yee also?)
Continue to read my post from October 2007 entries and you will know the spiritual journey that I have with God and with all my brothers and sisters in Christ..
Let me talk about 3 of my bus enthusiast friends who are also Christians and I will say something about them..
Just a month ++ ago, I started to know a bus enthusiast friend, called Ben. Although he is younger than me, but his heart is really full of Christ, and in my spiritual walk of my life, he also gave me advices and encouragements whenever I feel down or I have committed sins such as unforgiveness to others..
I also know of a bus enthusiast friend called XY (or Xiang Yu in short), I know him since last year and from there, we started to share with each other in terms of our spiritual walk of life, the challenges and breakthroughs that we faced in our journey so far.. He also share with me some of the daily devotions that he got from his church and let me read it, and also bring me around his church at St Andrews Cathedral to explore around and know the history of his church, being 1 of the oldest church in Singapore..
Isaac is another bus enthusiast friend that I know about 1-2 years ago. Although he's my junior last time in terms of accepting a person as my junior within this whole big group of bus enthusiasts community, he really gave me a lot of advices and encouragement throughout my spiritual walk of life when I encountered a lot of doubts.. Now that I don't regard him as my junior (although some friends may still think he is still my junior all along), and I also don't regard anyone in this community as my junior anymore, simply because I really don't wish to have this level gap/barrier between me and them, and I should treat them equally well, just like how I treated my seniors well.. Anyway, come on la, junior is also still regarded as friend in my own perspective, and I treat them more like friends rather than juniors..
Now that I have accepted Christ, that I am starting to break all the barriers that I may have, especially when it comes to junior this kind of thing. Yes, although some juniors (like what you people may called) maybe a eyesore to you because he has committed any wrongdoing that makes you have a bad impression of him, but I have learned through Christ, that no matter what, I will provide unconditional love and forgiveness to others, for what others may have done, just like how God gave us as well.. Amen..
Okay i got to stop till here le... Got more important stuffs to settle and will be busy for the whole of Saturday and Sunday. Happy Easter day and enjoy your day!
This is what Angela shared to me a few days ago and I find this really very meaningful..
Labels: church
Victor Lim
Tuesday, March 18, 200811:08 AM
W64R chaletNow at this time, I am with Jonathan in our guys room in the chalet itself with nice air-con and peacefully doing our stuff. He went for 1 hour sleep before we all going for cycling, while Xian Hao, Winnie, Qian Hui and Wendy continued to play mahjong and Melissa went to our guys room and sleep... Lolx..
Went to the chalet late yesterday all thanks to the B9 on Service 5, making its 1st time appearance (as cameo) on Service 5, SBS7340Z.. Yesterday early in the morning went down to the usual spot at Shenton Way for SBST Premium services spotting, and then went down to Toa Payoh to meet Ben (Wen Wei was also there with him at Toa Payoh Int also). Chatted for a while and Wen Wei went off to somewhere whereas Ben and me went down to the HDB Hub staff canteen for his breakfast and my lunch before went to his house to get some more songs from him and chatted about some stuffs about buses.
Initially I was to go down to the chalet at 2:30pm, ended up reaching there like say about 7:30pm all thanks to SBS7340Z on Service 5. Took the last and full trip back to Pasir Ris Int from Bt Merah Int and I went off to take the shuttle bus to the chalet liao..
Night time, after the BBQ, we went to the swimming pool nearby within Aloha Loyang chalet and then we played some games which in the end, I got myself wet the most... Zzz... Thank God that the security guard came and chase us out (because the swimming pool only opens till 9pm and thereafter it's prohibited for us to go down to the swimming pool), and hence no further "damage" is being done on me liao (for the shorts part..)
Went back to our chalet after that for some card games with this penalty that the person who got the penalty will drink 1 full cup of TAP water (which tasted like shit...) So far the worst one was Jonathan with a total of 9 cups and followed by me which is 4 cups.. The rest of them (Lincoln, Wendy, Qian Hui, Winnie, Melissa and Han Guang) also got to drink but not as worst as me and Jonathan. Xian Hao was the lucky star among all because he never got the chance to drink it at all.. So good..
At about 12am++, Gary and Lincoln drove the rest of us to Airport Terminal 2 for supper at Swensens with our beach wear (except Han Guang because he had to go home after that as he got work on the next day). Nice experience that I had with them at airport at this hour and we stayed until 2pm++ and took their car back to our chalet..
Back to chalet, we went to bath and then some played mahjong (including me) while a few went to sleep. Hui Xian left the chalet much more earlier at around 9pm++ with her child.
2nd day morning (which is today), 7am, Xian Hao, Jonathan and me went down to the beach nearby to sit down and had some peaceful time chatting and viewing the morning breeze scenery.. Very cooling I must say.. After that (before 8am) we went back and some had mahjong again (including me again) and some went to sleep.. After that all of us planned to go to White Sand Shopping Centre for breakfast, ended up, we just MISSED the shuttle bus at 8:55am from the chalet resort itself and Jonathan lead us for a short walk to Downtown East for breakfast at the food court there.. And after that we bought some stuffs before we went back to our chalet itself.
And until now... I have been using my laptop and of course going to toilet for countless times, all thanks to the game that we played in the chalet yesterday... Lolx..
Later on some more people will be coming and I not sure whether they staying overnight or not... But 90% i will not be staying overnight because I may have work tomorrow morning. Have to ask Zhen Hao for any latest update about the job first...
Okay... Hope you guys also enjoy your day well too =) Take care and God bless =)
Labels: outings
Victor Lim
Friday, March 14, 20082:00 PM
Forgiving others..This morning, while I was reading through SG Forums (bus section), I was rather very pissed off by what this infamous guy called tintinspartan in SG Forums is posting..
Please seek permission for photographs
I was telling Ben this morning through MSN and asking him how will he feel when other people just took his photos without his permission to post to Youtube video.. He seems not to be angry about that, and then he also told me to learn to let it go... I rather find it hard at first, but somehow, he has reminded me of how our graceful God has forgiven for all our sins, and that we should forgive others for their wrongdoing also.. He also told me that many times, we may take our graceful God for granted, and the same thing goes for tintinspartan, taking copyright matters for granted... Main thing in this lesson is to learn to let it go and forgive them...
All along, Ben has been a very (3x) good brother in Christ in my heart, gave me a lot of advices and encourage me all along in this spiritual life.. Thank God for such a blessing to me to have such a good bus enthusiast friend whom i can look up to and learn from him, although he's younger than me.. Probably next time we will have fellowship together with all the bus enthusiasts in our big community.. Hopefully the Hillsong concert in Singapore this coming June (date not known yet), we can have our 1st gathering, and together, we will grow spiritually as a community and we believe God will bring all of us from glory to glory! Amen!
If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.
- Matthew 6:14-15
Victor Lim
1:09 PM
The fate for my dearest TIB1062Y on WLDEP 700 & 700A..*** Disclamer ***
Photos that has the copyright tag of either TIB1062Y or TIB967T belongs to ME, myself and I.
Photos that has the copyright tag of either TIB1062Y or TIB967T belongs to ME, myself and I.
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TIB1062Y serving its last Saturday of the glory days with Guardian ad on Service 700A before it's removed and became naked with SMRT livery 5 days after that on Thursday..
© Victor Lim Wei Liang
Well well... 23th March 2008 is approaching soon... Just in about a week's time..
It will definitely lose its only WLDEP bendy bus business class status for sure, because after that no WLDEP bendies service will pass by Shenton Way...
But the question is, will it be redeployed to some other WLDEP services (hopefully NOT Service 960 or 980 for those who know what I mean..)? Or will it undergo depot transfer from WLDEP to KJDEP and remain on Service 700? Well.. ** pray pray **
Currently, TIB1062Y has a quite well balanced air-con temperature (meaning not too hot or not too cold), clean interior and exterior with the representative SL (Service Leader) of Service 700 leading a good example to take care and maintain the bus well, and he likes to play around with the Neutral gear cruising along PIE and BKE... (will greatly miss his driving skills a lot after 23th March 2008)
But.. I also don't want my dearest favourite WLDEP bendy bus, TIB1062Y, to be treated badly just like the interior of TIB1152X (the photos which I just posted a few entries back) or as dirty and badly maintained with the sufferings of KJDEP technician team and SLs... Haiz...
Well... For a moment, let's recall back its glory days of TIB1062Y cameo-ing on other WLDEP services, such as...
Service 960 (The most common ones among other WLDEP services)
The glory days of Guardian on Service 960
(Just quite recent this year, taken at Pending Rd bus stop)
On Service 913E
The glory days of Guardian on Service 913E.. (Sorry for poor shots as I was still very noob then..)
On its perm service..
(During the glory days of Guardian, before amendment to ply Pending Rd and Petir Rd, taken at Bt Panjang Rd bus stop)
(After the ad was removed and the date is on my copyright tag itself, after the amendment to ply Pending Rd and Petir Rd, taken at Pending Rd bus stop)
(After the ad was removed and the date is on my copyright tag itself, before the amendment to ply Pending Rd and Petir Rd, taken at Bt Panjang Rd bus stop)
Labels: buses
Victor Lim
Thursday, March 13, 200810:28 AM
If you see him, call police NOW!!The after-effect of Mas Selamat escape:
Posters are everywhere for now... HDB void decks, train stations, bus interchange, buses, almost everywhere you will see this!!
And because of the tighten security at Woodlands CIQ, it caused those poor trucks to stuck in this jam along Woodlands Rd... Photos shown below are as of 2 Wednesdays back (5th March 2008). As of yesterday, the jam stretched all the way till Ten Mile Junction, which is from 1 end of Woodlands Rd to the other end... Good luck to those trucks which have to be stucked there for a few days to a week...
Labels: photos
Victor Lim