12:09 PM
Yesterday's happening at Little India MRT Station bus stop..Video and forum post speak a thousand words...
SGForums post (refer to the user TIB1062Y one)
Youtube one... (Refer to SGForums post)
Enjoy the show! and continue to GO GREEN WITH SMRT through the "by left" ways!
Labels: buses
Victor Lim
Thursday, June 26, 20082:22 PM
Well....Screenshot speaks louder than words...
I am not so cold-hearted after all....
“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.”
Leviticus 19:18 (NIV)
Leviticus 19:18 (NIV)
Today's verse of the days really describes this situation very well... It's not that I really 100% go against this verse, but perhaps my RJ to her seems to be too harsh that it may seem to be the fact that I bear a grudge against her.. I believe it's the HS that has spoken to me and asked me to write an e-mail to her...
Still waiting for the daily grade to come out... Lolx...
Victor Lim
Wednesday, June 25, 20084:47 PM
Long time no post..Greetings to all..
Quite a long time since my last post liao... These days, it has been quite tired for me, although I may seem to be a bit slack because my FYP meeting is no longer very intense liao..
I shall make this blog entry a more casual one... In the sense the topics that I going to say are all sort of random, rather than already thought of what to post about..
These days, that peacock in that SMRT North Bridge Rd HQ building (SPH in short) has been messed up with its redeployment of buses again, but this time, it seems to me that it somehow bring back the glory days of Bt Panjang Interchange with the Scanias (both Strider and ELBOs) back on Service 75, 700 and 970 although it's no longer WLDEP (Woodlands Depot) dominated liao..
Yesterday, while I boarded TIB1090R on Service 169 (TIB868X's slot) and stood on the exit door steps as usual, it seem to me that the STUPID door sensor can actually detect even for the usual step that I stood (count 2 steps from the bottom). The situation for a lot of SMRT bus services is way too jia liak until I couldn't stand it anymore and I just chop any place that is not occupied.. This is how SMRT commuters trying to GO GREEN with SMRT...
And talking about Woodlands Regional Interchange(WRI), the SMRT staff that I dislike the most is a guy by the name of "Tay Chin Tian". Everytime when he guard Service 169 berth in the morning, my face already turned quite "black", especially last Monday when everything is screwed up for me...
The story goes like this:
I waited for Service 187/963/966 at the usual bus stop at the usual timing (around 7:45am). Just because 4 stupid Service 190/190A buses (3 bendies and 1 rigid) jam up the bus stop area (not only bus jam, but human jam too, because there are a lot of people who cannot board it, and trying very hard to squeeze through it, hence a lot of time is wasted). End up I reached WRI a bit late then usual, and I rushed (by brisk walk, not run) to Service 169 berth and saw TIB978L picking up passengers.. In the end, I am the 2nd person in the queue that couldn't able to board, all thanks to that Tay Chin Tian, who won't even let a few more people to squeeze through... Having a very pissed off face of mine, I dashed off from the queue and went to the taxi stand to take a cab down to school, because for this day module (Financial Accounting), I can't afford to be late even by a single second because this is the module that I can score quite a fair bit of As to help to push up my lousy GPA..
Ok enough of this whinning, lets talk about the new SMRT Mercedes Benz OC500LE WAB (Wheelchair Accessible Bus). Few days ago, some of my bus enthusiast friends told me that 1 of them has been registered liao... Rego is SMB1H..
What a weird rego man... Some of the comments made by both my bus enthusiast friends and myself about this rego:
1. SMB = SumMon Bus (this bus always tio summon one)
2. SMB1H = got Small, Medium, and Big one (1), How ah? (this one is by myself.. Lolx..)
3. SMB = Super Mario Brothers (a very classic and old time favourite game) =D
More creative negative ideas coming up from the fellow bus enthusiasts... Shall not talk about it..
One last thing before I end off this blog post, yesterday a relief facilitator took over my class for 1 of the module (I shall not name it out to protect her identity), and somemore she's the module chair for this module according to some of my unlucky friends who kena her as their facilitator.. Don't wish to say anything much over here, but really it has been quite a long time (for months) ever since I last wrote this kind of RJ to facilitator liao.. Usually this kind of RJ I will only write when my whole class classmates super buay tahan him/her... For this case it's a she..
Question:
Quantify your level contribution in class (not team) today. What strategies did you adopt in contributing actively to class discussion today?
Answer:
My level contribution in class is very low. In fact, I find that most of us in the class here also have a low contribution as well. I can boldly say that my level contribution level is ZERO.
Firstly, the 1st impression that you gave all of us when you stepped into our class is very bad. It is so bad that I ever thought of going off halfway after 1st meeting, and coming back to school again for the Marketing UT later on in the afternoon.
Secondly, your voice projection in class seems to us that you are really talking to the thin air or the wall. You are truly indeed talking to yourself, and expecting all of us in the classroom to be able to hear you talking where I don't even bother to hear whatever you mentioned actually.
Ok... 2 points are enough to express my anger out because of the poor attitude that you portray to us right from the start where you stepped into our class. It is so disappointing for me to find out that you are actually the module chair for this module, and yet you show very good example to the classes that you have taught them. Well done... Continue this any further and promise me, your current/future students will seriously have an even good impressions, and don't ever regret if any of your students actually complained about you facilitating their class.
As what I have mentioned in the 1st paragraph, since my level contribution for today's lesson is ZERO, I do not even need to adopt any strategies in contributing actively to class discussion. Thankfully that you only facilitated us for this very unlucky day, and you can give me a very bad grade for this problem for all you care, because with you facilitating us, I seriously don't deserve any GOOD grades from you. Period.
Okay.. That's all for now and it's time for me to go off for dinner and meet up with my bus enthusiasts cell group later at Tampines liao... Take care guys and God bless.. ^_^
Victor Lim
Saturday, June 21, 20089:34 AM
Walking Through the Valleys of Life"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me."
- Psalms 23:4 (NKJV)
This verse describes my situation and even for friends around me too...
Lately, things have been happening around, and so much so that it happens to our loved ones..
Last Wednesday, I went down to NUH in the morning to visit my grandma who is still being hospitalized... Thank God that she's currently in the normal ward (as in not in ICU or SICU etc..), and at least I got to see her smile, but 1 bad thing about her is that it seems to us (my mum, relatives, and myself) that she suffered a great loss in terms of her memory... It just seem so bad that after 30 seconds, she can asked for our names again.. But then... also saw her crying halfway when she speaks about certain stuffs to my mum and relative, which I don't understand what they are talking about one another because I am super weak in dialect (Hokkien in this case). Before we left the ward while they were still talking among one another, I quietly pray for my grandma's recovery..
Throughout the morning in NUH, I keep constantly remind myself that I shouldn't be worrying and having fears. Instead I choose to believe by faith that God can touch my grandma in a special way, and all these, I shall cast all my burdens and worries to Him for whom He will take care of her.. And I sense my heart, that God wants me not to think too much regarding this situation, and continue to pray during my QT. (quiet time)
Yesterday night, I accompanied 1 of my friends down to Chinatown for dinner and after that went to SGH to visit his dad, who is currently in the final stage of the treatment for blood cancer in the ICU ward.. Both me and my friends sat at a corner somewhere to have a heart-to-heart talk, and after that, went back to the ICU ward to look at his dad again and pray together with him before we left SGH..
Friends, what I going to bring this message is that anything can happen to us, even when we are the believers of our Lord Jesus Christ. Doesn't mean that if we are Christians, means that everything will be a smooth sailing one for us. To the non-believers here, this also applies to you, in fact all of us here will be affected.. In life, sometimes we should told ourselves not to worry too much over a certain things or matters, even if something bad happened to our loved ones, our trust level should not drop. Continue to believe that they will recover, and this really tells us 1 thing, i.e., life is just too fragile for every single one of us here, and we really need to cherish whatever things we have here and treasured the moment with our loved ones.. With that, I shall end off this post of mine here and busy my own stuff... Take care everyone and may God bless you in a special way.. ^_^
Victor Lim
Sunday, June 15, 20089:56 PM
General post...This whole week, it has been a blessing week for me... Majority part came from the amazing race as it really sacrifices a lot of time for the organizing committee members.. As usual I will cut this post as SHORT as possible...
Other than the blessings that came from the amazing race, this morning, my dad also came to my church service that I have been inviting him to go. Although he didn't respond to the alter call, but can really see that God has anointed him in a certain way, especially for the True Worshippers when they sing praise and worship, and the drama show specially for Father's Day as well.. Can see that he really enjoyed the drama a lot, and also told me after service that he wanted to buy the CD album that was featured during the announcement (for True Worshippers one) because he said that the songs that they sang are very nice.. I was like feeling so blessed for a moment because I didn't expected my dad to told me that way..
After the service, my usher team section also celebrated my belated birthday for me (for the month of May) and Jane (for the month of June) together.. Feeling very blessed by them as they prayed for the both of us for our needs... For mine is my dad's salvation..
Also, my Father's day celebration with my family members at Dian Xiao Er @ Causeway point in the evening also... Had a wonderful week indeed..
Tomorrow is the start of a new term of my Semester 1 for Year 3.. Another 8 weeks more to go.. Lord, bless me for the remaining 8 weeks before I complete 1 more semester in my RP life.. I don't want my past depression and sadness to come back again... Let me complete this semester with joy, passion and enthusiasm, with positive approach.. Gonna say farewell to my 2 weeks of school holiday... It's a new beginning in school from tomorrow...
Victor Lim
7:37 PM
Amazing Bus Fans Race June 2008What a wonderful event for all the bus enthusiasts who participate in this race yesterday...
1st time organizing for such a more major type of activity for my fellow bus enthusiasts here.. Main objective is to allow them to have fun in this race and also to foster bonding & understanding among one another..
As the organizer for this race, first of all I would like to thank all my organizing team (Ben, XY, Terence). They have put in a lot of effort in assisting me and contributing interesting ideas for this race.. We have actually spend quite a lot of money for this race including the printing cost (which is about $33 in total) and all the vouchers that we have given out for the winning team, and also out of my own expenses, I went to VivoMart to buy some stuffs for everyone to eat after the race.. Though it is quite a lot of money spent, but we (at least for me myself) find it worthwhile to spend on.. To be able to bless every single participants and my organizing team + 2 helpers (Alan and Wen Jun) with all I can provide is a pleasure for me.. ^_^
On my organizing team members' behalf, I would like to thank every single participants here to really come all the way to Youth Park early in the morning (8:30am) just to enjoy this race with passion and enthusiasm.. Without you guys coming, this race definitely won't be a success.. Hope you guys really enjoy this race a lot and if the response is very positive, we may be having another round in the coming December school holidays..
Won't actually say a very long story here... Trying to cut my post as SHORT as possible (which I have always failed to do so in this point..)..
Here goes the "SHORT" story.. (Putting in point form should look shorter perhaps?)
- 8:30am to 9:20am: Participants gathered at Youth Park stage area
- 9:20am to 10am: My opening speech, introduction of organizing team members, ice breaker games, grouping into teams of 3.. (6 teams in total)
- 10am: FLAG OFF!
- Teams have to go to various checkpoints for their deetour (Detour) and Road Blok (Road Block) and also Pit Stop halfway for a mandatory 30 minutes lunch break..
- 1st checkpoint: Novena Square; deetour; 1 of the team members have to choose between answering 8 questions or finding 10 items.. (All teams choosing the 8 questions one)
- 1st checkpoint: There is also Fast Forward, 2 teams tried to attempt, but only 1 team managed to succeed in the end..
- 2nd checkpoint: Ten Mile Junction; deetour; 1 of the team members have to choose between a LRT ride (answering 6 questions, only 1 team did) or borrow 2 books from Bt Panjang Plaza library with a certain requirement.. (which other teams did)
- 3rd checkpoint: Teban Garden Food Centre; pit stop; mandatory 30 minutes lunch break for every team.
- 4th checkpoint: Hougang Central Bus Interchange; Road Block; 1 of the team members have to snap 2 cameos buses and 1 Dennis Trident.. (a lot of time wasted for some teams because of the Tridents.. Only about 5 Tridents were deployed on that day, 3 from Service 89 while 2 from Service 51)
- 5th checkpoint: Jalan Angin Laut; Road Block; 1 of the team members have to snap 3 specific photocopied TIBS service guides around the area.. I am also very lenient for this part as I only pasted it around the playground and the small road area, instead of all the way down to the pillars along the MRT track as suggested by Ben earlier... Make things easier for the team members and myself + Alan... Lolx..
- 6th checkpoint: Kallang Leisure Park; Speed Bump; the 1st few arriving teams will get this speed bump. They have to follow instructions given by Terence... The later teams that arrived will just proceed to the last checkpoint.
- 7th checkpoint: Sky Park @ Vivocity; ending point for all the teams...
Once again, thanks to all who came for this race, be it participant, helpers or organizing team for making this a big success.. Definitely there are room for improvements, and will try to improve as much as possible for the 2nd round in December 2008..
Lord, I thank You for making this race a success. Whatever prayers that we have prayed for for this amazing bus fan race, You have answered every single one of them. You have blessed all of us with good weather, strength and protection throughout this race, and the participant show a lot of enthusiasm and passion for this race, even to the extent that they wish to have another round for this coming December school holiday. Lord, thank You also for being able to testify my faith, love and the passion for serving them throughout this race, Your Holy Spirit allow me to show my care and concern to the participating teams, by closing 1 eye and trying to show them their way to my checkpoint at Ten Mile Junction over the phone without any demerit points. Lord, I believe that in future, You will be able to bring me up to the next level, to be able to serve the people in the whole big family of bus enthusiast community, with confidence, with love and care, and faith.. Throughout this race, I did not worry about the weather, although it may seem to a bit negative in the morning, because I believe in Your Word, that we should live by faith and not by sight. I know that though You and Your precious only son, Jesus who have sacrificed himself 2000 years ago on the cross for all of us here, all things are possible through all the prayers that we have prayed for. Thank you Lord for having such a great blessing for us and to be able to touch the people here in a special way. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.... ^_^
Our life is lived by faith. We do not live by what we see in front of us.
- 2 Corinthians 5:7 (New Life Version/NLV)
Victor Lim
Tuesday, June 10, 200810:07 AM
To The Ends of the EarthWhenever I listen to this song, it reminds me back of my bus enthusiast CG... The God's calling for me to serve in this CG.. Although it is just only the beginning of this CG since a few months back with Isaac, Ben and XY, but we have been starting to grow, and I believe this group of people will expand in numbers too.. We must know the purpose of forming this CG, and be able to go forth towards the goal that God has called every single one of us here to achieve it. Although we may have difficult times throughout this entire walk in this CG, but 1 thing we know, through all these times that as we overcome it, we will eventually be more stronger in terms of our spiritual level with you. I guess I will share more during this coming Thursday's meeting with the rest of them =)
As I was having my QT yesterday, God has spoken to me through this verse....
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
- Isaiah 10:27 (21st Century King James Version)
With more commitment towards my church cell group and ministry, and also my bus enthusiast cell group, my responsibility level gets higher and higher (especially for my bus enthusiast's one), and together with my school's Final Year Project and school stuff, I will have greater burden, greater worries perhaps... But this verse that God spoke to me yesterday, I really feel encouraged a lot, that once again, I am reminded of God's blessing for me, for that He shall take away all my burdens (and perhaps worries also?) that I have, and all my yokes (i.e. the influence of being heavily burden by troubles, etc..) shall be destroyed because of the anointing presence of the Holy Spirit.
Okay shall end off this blog entry here with the song "To The Ends of the Earth" by Hillsong..
Love unfailing
Overtaking my heart
You take me in
Finding peace again
Fear is lost in all you are
And I would give the world to tell you're story
'Cause I know that you've called me
I know that you've called me
I've lost myself for good within your promise
And I won't hide it
I won't hide it
Jesus, I believe in You
And I would go, to the ends of the earth
To the ends of the earth
For you alone are the son of God
And all the world will see
That You are God
You are God
Victor Lim
Monday, June 09, 20087:34 PM
Thoughts to share..Some thoughts which I wish to share about the sub-zone camp that I have just attended last weekend..
1st of all, from this camp, I really get to experience and have a deeper encounter with God, through all the praise, worship and prayer sessions that we had.. Before attending the camp, my spiritual and hunger level was only like this.. After the camp, I really find that my spiritual level start to grow stronger, in terms of prayer during QT and reading the word of God i.e. the holy bible.. I also somehow started to feel God's calling in serving even more in my bus enthusiast CG. (okay from now on I just use the term CG, as we don't just come together and fellowship only but really it has becoming more like a CG itself..) Speaking of which, this coming Thursday night, I am going to meet up with some of my bus enthusiast brothers-in-Christ to have dinner/fellowship with them and after that find somewhere to settle down to share our thoughts/problems and pray about it.. Although things has been improving lately, but still... Our prayer time together, we could never ever neglect it..
2nd, from this camp, I get to see a lot of CG in my sub-zone which are younger than me.. All the while throughout the camp, whenever I look at the Team 2 members, sometimes I really feel like sighing... Somehow it reminds me of my younger days in the past, the lively spirit that I used to feel, now... About 2 week back, my age still starts with "1", but right now, it's no longer a "1" anymore. It's a "2" instead.. Gone were the days of my youth.. Missed it so much.. Got to meet Shu Wen (from Cecilia's CG) in person during the camp, and chatted with her for a while at night.. Later on the next day evening time, she chatted with me in MSN, and I shared with her about the points I mentioned above.. She also shared the same sentiments with me, just that for her CG, it is still not too bad, as in the fact that most of her CG members are under the age of 18..
She told me that she is 1 of the eldest member in terms of age, in her CG..
I told her that I am 1 of the youngest member in terms of age, in my CG...
And after that, I sigh to her, and she sigh back to me in MSN.. What I really wish to say is, for those who are still in their young teenage days (i.e. Secondary school level or below), you must really treasure this period of time a lot, for it will never happen again once you reach 20 years old and above, really... I wouldn't want to see anyone of you here, regretting about your youth days just because of a certain thing..
I also have certain thoughts regarding my big family of bus enthusiasts.. Somehow I just feel that I need to serve even more in this family.. Some of them, they really lack certain things in their own personal life, such as love, care and forgiveness.. Maybe they came from a different family background which has really affected them negatively a lot, and hence their character, their attitude and behaviour right now... Perhaps, our this small bus enthusiast CG, we can do something to really be able to touch their heart, show them the love, care and forgiveness like they have never received it before, let them know that this big family is not just about flaming and criticize and shoot people back especially in SG Forums... Every single day when I view at this forum, I have been sighing, and I have always want to see at least 95% peace in this forum, but I always fail to see that, every single day.. Once I get a guitar, perhaps......I really feel like organizing a kind of session/meet up with as many bus enthusiasts as possible, let them share their thoughts freely, and let all of us have a open heart to receive all the thoughts, and help one another in a great way.. I can visualize......The day whereby all of us sit down peacefully at a quiet place, and as I play the guitar to create the atmosphere, let the rest of them share all their problems that they encountered in their life, and receive advices and words of encouragement from one another...
Okay... Time to log off my laptop and go off to a quiet place somewhere near where I am right now... I just wish to have a moment of QT with the Lord, tell Him all my thoughts, and seek His guidance in all the things that I do... Take care everyone and God bless!~
"I will instruct you and teach you in the way should go; I will guide you with My eye."
- Psalm 32:8
My whole team for camp A.L.I.V.E...
Victor Lim
Sunday, June 08, 200811:59 PM
Thoughts that came through my mind...Just attended my church youth camp (A.L.I.V.E) for 2 days since yesterday... Have my own thoughts to share which I foresee that my blog entry will be quite a long one, hence I have decided to blog about it tomorrow late afternoon when I go to National Library..
Just bought my desire CD album which is the one with "Top 25 Praise & Worship instrumental".. Loaded to my mp3 player just now and listen to it while I was having my quiet time (QT), seem that I received even more wisdom in praying when I listen to it.. Lots of thing which I really wanted to pray for.. 1 hour, and I only managed to give my praise & thanks to Him, pray for my grandma who is currently still hospitalized in NUH, and majority part for my bus enthusiasts community (means I still haven finish praying for this group of friends). Indeed this is really the anointing and the amount of wisdom that He has given to me when I listen to the instrumental worship music, and I just couldn't stop praying... Too many things happening around, and I find that there is really a need to pray for it, to see the great revival and breakthroughs in all the things that we do...
Okay... Share with you guys more when I blog about it tomorrow.. Nitez everyone! Take care and God bless to all..
Victor Lim
Wednesday, June 04, 20089:53 AM
YMCA to Clarke Quay night scenery shots..It has also been quite some time since I last snap night scenery shots.. As a avid night scenery shot enthusiast, I will take some time off whenever I have extra spare free time to go around the city area and snap some night scenery shots... For yesterday, I snapped from opposite YMCA bus stop, all the way till Clarke Quay.. Thank God for the perfect weather & producing clearer shots than the day before..
While snapping photos of buses at opposite YMCA bus stop, when I got nothing to do, I will just snap the surrounding place...
After snapping photos of buses, I started my journey down to Clarke Quay from YMCA...
Passing by SMU...
Dropped by outside Singapore History Museum for some shots..
Going back to SMU again...
Bus stop along SMU..
Walking towards City Hall...
There goes the stalker bus again!! 2 days back it stalked me at Orchard Rd, yesterday it stalked me again at SMU...
At the traffic junction when I wanted to proceed on, walking towards Clarke Quay..
Walking past the cross junction between Coleman St and Hill St..
Passing by Central Fire Station along Hill St..
Passing by the entrance of Fort Canning Park..
Going towards MITA aka very colourful building..
The bus stop along MITA building..
As I continue my journey along MITA building towards Clarke Quay..
At the cross-junction between River Valley Rd and Hill St.. This effect is purposely done by me because only with longer exposure (i.e. slower shuttle speed of more than 3 seconds) can the effect be messy yet nice and artistic... For this shot below, it's with exposure time of 15 seconds & aperture value of 8...
Bus enthusiasts, you should know the rego of this bus... Gone were the good old times when this bus was perm on Service 700/700A.... Now it has to suffer under the LONGEST route among all SMRT bus services... Reaching here is only about half the journey (Total journey time from Bt Batok Int to Eunos Int and vice versa:
>2 hours)
Farewell... You have another 1 hour ++ of journey towards Eunos Int... May you have a peaceful journey...
Back to the cross-junction between Hill St and River Valley Rd..
Now to Clarke Quay area (towards Central Mall)
Back to the same cross-junction, in the middle of the road (Don't worry, that position where I am standing is pretty safe although people by right are not supposed to cross here but to use the underpass instead..)
Cross to the opposite side, decided to snap some shots there.. This effect that you are viewing is when a Service 12 Double-deck bus pass by there, together with my slow shuttle speed of 13 seconds & narrow aperture value of 8...
Proceed on further down a bit towards South Bridge Rd..
Tryout a self shot... Lolx..
Praying before proceeding to Central Mall bus stop to have my Service 190 ride back home..
Okay that's all for yesterday... Enjoy!!~
Take care everyone and God bless!~
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Victor Lim