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Lost the meaning...

2010-03-06T01:27:00.002+08:00

Seriously.... I just feel that I have lost the meaning of the following words:

- Nights out

- CV attire

- Vending Machine

- Walking (not marching) from point to point..

At least until 2 months later.... Don't wanna talk so much here le...

Life in 21SA after Course in Arty Institute (AI)

2010-02-27T00:18:00.005+08:00

Yes... Life is gonna be much more tougher... 1st impression already gave me a negative feeling, to the extent that people there whom we saw them sweep the leaves on the road telling us "welcome to hell". Heard of the negative stuffs that they have, and it's all true...

No doubt, life in 21SA is gonna be at least 100 times more xiong den back in AI i believe, but I gotta learn to look on the bright side of it.. Yes, I complained and keep whining bad things about it, but I think this is not going to last throughout my stay in 21SA till I ORD next year August... I must think of positive things, like I believe that I am able to get Gold, or at least Sliver for my IPPT, and perform well in my role as a GA... Everyday in camp, no matter how tough or xiong or ridiculous the training can be, I must choose to carry the joy of the Lord in my heart. It's the joy that carries the strength that I need for my daily life especially in camp.

Perhaps, my life in BMT and in 6th AOC @ AI has been pretty slack and relaxed, and now I kena posted to this 21SA, which I really (3x) have cultural shock in a very xiong way... And especially when right now I know that I am allocated to battery line, just don't know which battery, and life in there can be even more tougher as compared to HQ line, and no matter how sick and tired I am going to be, I must choose to rely more on God and less of myself, because I know and I know that all these while, I keep depending on my own strength until I am pretty drained out, and right now, I believe this is the time....

Like what my CGL shared to me yesterday during the BS with me, my quiet time has to be interesting and new, in a sense that I don't do the usual quiet time style every time, and like what she shared and what I feel about myself, I need to really start changing for the better. I realised for the past few weeks, whenever I go for service or CG or serving in Usher Ministry, the feeling that I have is much different from the past before my NS... I used to be full of passion, and being an active helper in my CG, right now it has changed a lot from bad to worst... Everytime I will ask "where is my turning point of my life?", and when will I start prospering in my life, this answer may seem to come but always never come so far until now... Until yesterday when she shared a verse with me....

"Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers."

- 3 John 1:2 (NKJV)

The words "just as your soul prospers" stumbled me when I read that, and reflecting back, I find that it is very true why am I not prospering in my life... My soul already like quite cui, how to expect myself to prosper in all things and be in (good) health?

And everytime when I seem to forget the things that I have thought, I pray that God will lead me back to this blog and refer back to this blog entry, and always be reminded the things that God reveals or said to me through things and people around me....

Till then, I expect improvement for myself for the next few months at least....

P.S: and oh yea, I can't forget that everything that I have right now is from the grace of God, even the 2 days off for my unit, and a lot of other things....

Hurting reflections and thoughts

2010-02-07T18:40:00.004+08:00

Gonna do a bit but hurting reflection on myself right now since I'm in a mood of doing so..

Thinking back, comparing my BMT days and my current course in AI, I find that I got 1 common worry and mistakes which upsets me...

Remember during the schooling days, we tend to say something like "all the things we learnt all give back to teacher already"?

Well... That happens for my BMT and my current course as well. I tend to have short-term memory at times (or many times?) and the important things that I learnt, especially in my current course, I can even get blurred, confused, messed up, and even FORGET the concepts behind it. Just 2 more weeks to end of the course and the rest of my NS life will be spent in the unit that I am gonna posted to, and if I still like that by then, my unit life will be damn miserable...

Also, being an IC for my course last Thursday and Friday, though it's a new experience for me cos I haven't being an IC in a course/platoon level with funny and memorable encounters like "stand by area" incident, but still, when people asked me "how? being IC good?", my answer will still be "NO"... Imagine being "tekan" and cause inner hurts in me, tell me is it fun or not?!

Now that the burden of being an IC is lifted away, I feel slightly better and really wanna make use of this coming week to really seek God and ask for restoration and heal my inner hurts, and also to mould and change me from the inside out for the better, so that after 2 weeks time from now, when I am being posted to unit, I won't suffer that much, at least for the weak points that I mentioned above...

And my time has come for the worst this coming Friday and Saturday, but at least I am not alone or with another coursemate, cos at least got the OCT ppl and I pray that I can really come back home this coming Saturday for reunion dinner with my family for this year CNY.

Having to miss the CNY church service on Friday night is already enough for me le, and I really don't want this year to be the first year that I don't get to have reunion dinner...

Pray and trust God for better things to come and for grace to come upon me....

God bless...

The feeling of Booking In...

2010-01-24T19:11:00.004+08:00

1st of all, thank God for the confinement weekend postponed, so that I can freely go out meeting friends, going for 1st cell group meeting of the year, launch of Chinatown deco lightings + firecrackers 2010, attending church service just now, and now back home. Lately I feel that my weekends has getting shorter, especially when I know and I know that the confinement weekend awaits me but don't know when.. Every Sunday, after church service & fellowship, I always have to try to rush back home ASAP or elsewhere to get things done before booking in, and I starting to treasure the time spending with friends even more...

It's Sunday late evening now (7:25pm) and I still got my lunch to settle at home + bathing and time left for me is really not much.. In fact it's gonna be rushing for me... I got to leave house at around 8:15pm latest to go to Sheng Siong @ Ten Mile Junction and then rush to meet my bunkmate to booking in early...

And (sorry to use the word "damn") my mum is rushing me for dinner and I feeling kinda frustrated and don't have the sense of peace in my heart right now... Really what I feel like doing is, before I sleep in my bunk later, I really wanna quieten down myself before God, and really wanna pray and ask for restoration in my heart and the peace of God to flow in me....

Whether my confinement gonna be this coming weekend or following weekend or etc, I gotta be ready for it, and not gonna waste the weekend in camp doing things that is not worth of value to me and to God...

Before I end off here, just wanna share this song with every reader here... (from Youtube) It's a very touching worship song that I just can't stop listening...

I Have Come To Bow Down

I will come and bow down

At Your feet Lord Jesus

In Your presence

Is fulness of joy

There is nothing

There is no one

Who compares with You

I take pleasure in

Worshiping You Lord

Some thoughts again

2010-01-17T20:10:00.003+08:00

As I am spending my final few minutes at home before I gonna miss home, friends outside army, cell group and church service + fellowship for 1 week, I happened to view through my sergeants' facebook (from Arty Institute (AI), not BMT) and here comes 1 of them who happened to be in the same church as me. As I continue to read on his blog, focusing onto his walk with God especially during his NS life, somehow I feel encouraged and inspired...

I feel that God has a great purpose in placing me in AI and not other army units. In BMT, God only revealed to me a small portion of it, but when comes to AI, this is when God wants to show me great examples of my fellow brothers-in-Christ who really live up to their Christian values despite of how positive/negative examples of their personal character can be. More details of this I will say it here after my next bookout after the confinement weekend.

Well... As for the confinement weekend, I learn to take it positively. I will be confined with 1 of my coursemate but different bunk. Though I may spend in my bunk alone especially at night and will feel very lonely, I know that God is with me and He will not leave nor forsake me, and His presence will be always there for me. This is also the best time that I will spend a peaceful quiet time with God, seeking after Him, and just wanna dwell into His presence..

Alright.. I shall go bathing and set off to camp le... Blog again 2 weeks later...

Entering Into Year 2010

2010-01-03T19:12:00.006+08:00

I thank God for today's message/sermon during the service just now in the morning by Pst Tan. He really preached an awesome message about this new Year 2010. Out of the 3 important points that he shared, 1 of which he talks about forgetting the things of the past, and he shared this verse which hits me really damn hard, in Isaiah 43:18, in NIV version, it says "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.", and he also shared another verse along that line, in Philippians 3:13-14, in NLT version, it says "No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.". Well... for a moment, I paused, and really ask myself this question, i.e., whether am I willing to TOTALLY forget all the past bad moments and memories that I have, and really looking forward to what lies ahead in Year 2010 that God has instilled for me?

Well... Sometimes I wonder whether the race of life for me is as fast as this F1 car above in the photo?? (Photo taken during last year 2009's F1 night race)

And before I close off this blog entry and going for a bath before I book in to my camp, times when I am really feeling very down or faithless, sometimes I don't know whether I really live my life upon this verse above.... God I pray, that this year, let me once again really (3x) believe 100% totally, that through You, all things are possible to those who believe in Christ Jesus. Amen. (Photo taken during Year 2008 Christmas season outside Tangs Plaza)

Transiting to Year 2010

2010-01-02T13:52:00.004+08:00

By right, I should be feeling good to end off Year 2009, but end up this time I feeling the opposite way round.. In my whole life I never feel drunk before, but this time it marks my 1st time in doing so, at least sub-consciously drunk.. 2 very most sway things happened on the last day of Year 2009, 1 of which mp3 tio confiscated + need to write statement + disciplinary actions (hopefully it's just confinement), another one in which $50 will be gone cos of the camp pass (not lost, but broken!).

On that night, supposingly to have countdown with CG, but end up was told that the plan was cancelled, and I really felt super sianz 1/2. End up I met with 1 of my very good CG friend + 1 of his friends for dinner and countdown at pub thereafter. 3 person shared 2 jugs of Tiger Beer, and for the first time, as a very passive and noob drinker, I just felt like drinking even more and after that found myself swaying to left and right, feeling kinda unconscious.. Thank God that I still can control after that and being able to cross the road feeling conscious at that moment till after crossing it.

I really thought at first after drinking, I can totally let go of all these unhappy and "sway" events that happened, but end up I was wrong... The next day which is yesterday, I really literately rot at home for the whole day with my face in front of my laptop screen, just wasting my time away.. Felt that I still can't totally let go of everything and move on, and felt like going for drinking somemore, but somehow, God has reminded me in 1 Corinthians 6:19, that my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and I shouldn't harm my body just like that..

Transiting to Year 2010, although I haven't set my resolution for this year, but I really wanna believe that this year will be a greater and better year in which through Christ, I will excel well in the various aspects of my life, and 1 thing for sure is that each and every single year, I tell myself that I really want to grow more stronger and deeper in my Christian walk, but whether how stronger and deeper, that will be another question...

Right now... I'm really lost in words to type it here... I really don't want to think anything further and just let the peace of God come into my heart.......

Before ending off, just wanna wish everyone a Happy and Blessed Year 2010!

9 weeks of BMT

2009-12-12T22:38:00.001+08:00

Yo everyone! Quite some time since my last update, also cos i am lazy, but this time really must update cos it concerns BMT man...

These 9 weeks I can say that it was indeed a defining moment for all of us, I believe especially in platoon 4 aka the best platoon of Gryphon Coy 04/09!

Time to share my thoughts man!

First of all, I really feel that 9 weeks is pretty fast for us. It's like we only enlisted yesterday that kind of feeling. Through thick and thin, sufferings and enjoyment together as a coy, as a platoon or even as a section. I really wanna thank especially to those in my section one, how they encouraged and supported me especially in pull up, and in the areas that I am weak in. If I really wanna put my thanking speech, it can be long here.

I am so thankful to have a awesome platoon with great PC (after 2LT Wu Feng came in), and PS + SCs, and it so happened that my PS is also my SC as well. I really believe that they gave us a lot of welfare as compared to other platoons and we don't really have much problems among our platoon as compared to the rest, which is very good.

In BMT, I really experience things that I have not get it before, such as rain everyday in outfield be in field camp or SIT Test, and during the 2nd night my 2 buddies in the same bashaar tent as me kena commando mosquito bites with me being hit the most i.e. neck (just below my Adam's Apple), and I really literally struggled and cried until my buddies saw me and bring me to the training shed to look for the sergeants for help.

All in all, don't wanna be long-winded so much, really wanna thank for the great buddies that I make with, and really believing for greater destiny ahead for all of us in future after BMT, be it OCS, SISPEC or other vocations/units, and I shall keep in touch with them, especially those in my section ones. Okay... Time for photos liao....

Gryphon Coy marching in...

Largest batch of recruits in BMTC - Gryphon Coy 04/09

Marching past GOH, Mr Liang Eng Hwa.

With my parents.

With my with our PS cum SC cum Contingent Sergeant Major.

With my coy 2IC.

Platoon 4 Section 4, with our PS cum SC cum Contingent Sergeant Major.

Platoon 4 Section 4, with our PC.

Another photo of Platoon 4 Section 4, with our PC.

Platoon 4 Section 4, with our coy CSM.

Platoon 4 photo.

Really wanna give thanks to God for what He has placed me in BMT, and going through these 9 memorable weeks in Tekong with all my awesome platoon mates. With that, I end my BMT story/life here, but the friendships that I have made will not end, and will cherish it! =)

Most Hell Week of BMT finished!!

2009-11-08T15:07:00.000+08:00

Thank God for His grace to me during the field camp aka hell week for the past few days from Monday to Saturday!

Initially I thought that I would not make it for the field camp as in will fall out or report sick... Initially I thought that it will be really 6 days 5 nights of living hell.. But the hell part is mainly the digging of shell scrap part on day 3... It's really a living hell until my bunkmates noticed that I dig until I somehow literately cry, and best thing was, during the break for that segment, we received letters from our love ones, and I just couldn't stop crying... Field camp got its fun part and also living hell part lar...

Thank God for the rain also although I initially don't want and expect the rain to happen, because if not I think I would already reported sick due to severe heat rash and all the shit stuff, and need to redo the field camp again which I DON'T WANT!! Thank God for our good OC because if not for him, 5th night we won't get to step into our heavenly bunk.

Field camp, all in all, is really an eye-opener to me and a new experience and through this, I really learn how to appreciate more things around, even our own bunk, and treat it like our heaven like that...

5 more weeks to POP, almost half of BMT is over, most living hell week is over.. Really looking forward to POP, but meanwhile I really wanna have a enjoyable experience especially with my platoon mates...

Take care and God bless! =)

2 More Days To Hell Week...

2009-10-31T12:22:00.003+08:00

Week 3 over, left 6 more weeks to go before end of BMT...

Next week gonna be very hell week, cos of field camp... Last 2 days had IFC, was already hell enough le...

Really need to depend on God even more during the hell week... Need His grace and also strength and love... I can sense that during the hell week i will get even more emotional...

Right now is a 2 days break before going through hell for 6 days and 5 nights... Gonna get myself prepared for it mentally, physically and spiritually...

For the past 3 weeks, I have been struggling with different things such as pull up, and the si bei jia liat SOC obstacles... Although I got support from my section/bunk mates, at times I still felt very discouraged, especially when they already told me my mistakes and I still couldn't overcome it.. At times I felt that I am really a fool in certain ways... Haiz....

Come to think of it, right now I learn to appreciate a lot more things outside, even to my coy line area, the bunks that we sleep at night...

Okay la I gotta stop here for now... Need to go out later for buy stuff and meet friends... All the best for those who will be going through hell in weeks to come...

New Phase of my life...

2009-10-07T10:30:00.002+08:00

Okay... This is it... This is the day... 2pm...

Will update again after my bookout...

Cya all!

Financial Issues

2009-10-02T17:43:00.002+08:00

Haiz...

Right now I really feel that money itself can hurt my feelings...

First thing, my pay for the past few months is low...

Second thing, I really got a lot of things that I wanna do with it, but it's always the financial issue that cause the hindering...

And then, because of that and past few weeks I have been meeting people and spending $$$ along the way for transport and food etc, my cash in hand and cash at bank has been depleting, even with the extra allowance that I got from my relatives, it's also somehow used up already...

Before my NS, I have been wanting to meet as many group of friends as possible, but all these means that more $$$ will be gone...

And the fact that my family's financial is just like barely okok only, makes me sometimes feel very bad when I look at other people...

I always longing wanted to travel to places like Hong Kong, and everytime I said that I wanna save up $$$ to go, it always failed in the end? Why? The expenses in the end will go to necessities such as food and transportation, and in the end, my savings equals to no saving at all...

At times, when I see others having the luxury to do things that I can't afford to do and like to do, I will feel heartbroken... When my parents told me that (quote a example) "F1 is for those rich people to watch one, not for you to watch", deep in my heart, I really felt very heartbroken, and at times, I just think that "why others can do this but I can't?" and hide in a cosy corner and broke down...

Even right now as I blog this entry, I have been trying to control my tears because I'm in a public place now... Right now what I feel like doing is to just hug at someone who really cares at me and cry it all out...

Just couldn't blog any further now......... No mood to type any further....

Haiz...

*sobx*

No one is perfect in this world..

2009-09-22T23:56:00.006+08:00

Yeap... That's with exception of God and His only Son...

Always when I wanna blog about some good things which I blogged till halfway, when I wanna continue it, there is bound to have something at least to stop me from doing that...

Anyway, in this case, there is really a big negative happening around the bus community, but I shall NOT talk anything much about it... What I really wanna say is that in this world, we can't satisfy everyone's (and I mean ALL) expectations and agree with their thoughts etc... This world is really imperfect... Let alone bus community which is a good example.. People have their own reasons to "shoot" or say something unpleasant in a particular way, but not everyone sees the intention and the motive.. and even if they see it, they may not fully understand and treat it with a positive approach... Yes.. Some people maybe too sensitive about certain issues or even certain words, but well.........................

As what 1 of my bus enthusiast friends said to me... " 做好人真难啊！" (In English it means being a nice person is really hard)

Yes... I agree.. and sometimes it may be hard for me to forgive certain people and forget about their past mistakes (and sins as Christians put it this way). For me, I just wanna love the people but hate the sin... As believers of Christ, I believe that all of us are imperfect (me included), and at times, it is because of the various sins that they have, which makes people around them hate them, but in actual fact, I believe that the person itself is innocent, but not the sins that they have.

Sometimes it is really quite a sad thing for me to see such things happening around, when at times they don't wish to have it, and they are the victims when the sin (or rather the devil in Christian context), is the culprit.. Personally I have seen it (and perhaps experience it too?) quite a lot of times, and I pray, especially for my NS, that this kind of things will minimise.

Times when I have made grave mistakes to others, and vice-versa in this case, I find that it is really important for us to still be able to forgive others. Although it may be hard in this case, but these 3 verses from the Bible somehow encourages me, and I hope it encourages you too...

Colossians 3:12-14 (New Living Translation)

¹² Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. ¹³ Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. ¹⁴ Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.

It is clearly stated already so I just emphasis it in bold and color...

Especially to the believers, let us do some reflection shall we?

- Victor

My Reflection for my work in South West CDC (Part 1)

2009-08-20T22:39:00.001+08:00

Time really flies… 6 more working days and it marks the end of my 6 and a half months in South West CDC…

I dare say that although the pay (salary) of this job for a temp staff is very low, but this is probably the best job exposure that I ever had…

In Part 1, I’m gonna talk about my milestone in South West CDC, as in over the past 6 and a half, what I have been doing (i.e. job scope) and the negative and positive experiences, and also the colleagues and temp staffs/interns that I have..

I first started work on 16th February 2009 (if I remember the date correctly). During the first few days, 1 of my 2 bosses, Christine, gave me a very simple work which is to key in data entry for the Bridge Newsletter related stuffs.

During the first week of my work, I got the chance to attend their monthly staff meeting. It’s a good experience for me as I get to understand more about South West CDC. During that same day as the meeting, there are 2 fires happening (1 at Bukit Batok West Ave 6, the other one at some factory building areas in Jurong area. At the same week, due to shortage of manpower for Exxonmobil Student Transport Bursary presentation ceremony, I was being called up to help. It’s another exposure that I get to experience. Not bad through.

Over the next few weeks, I get to know more colleagues from Corporate Management Department (the department that I worked in) and Project Management Department, and even get to interact with son of Dr Amy Khor, Mayor of South West District. His name is Esmond. He came in to South West CDC a few months before me (under a more good life aka Project Management side), after his ‘A’ Levels, and left on 9th April 2009 if I remembered correctly, for his few weeks of break before his NS life began. I’m actually very blessed to have him around because at that point of time for lunch, most of the time, we are the only 2 guys and the rest are colleagues which are female (not our generation one). In a way I can relate to him easier than others.

As time flies, more workload start to fall upon me… More higher level but sai kang jobs scopes were given to me… At times I did well, but there are (a lot?) of times when my 2 bosses are disappointed with my performance and my behavior in the office. At times, I also felt that I am very useless because I kept disappoint my 2 bosses despite many many chances they gave me as a temp staff. On the positive side, I get to see a lot more things and knowing + experiencing more things as well.

I can say that the 2 event which I love the most is South West CDC Appointment Ceremony 2009 & South West District Meeting 2009.

For South West CDC Appointment Ceremony 2009, I actually get to see the councilors & committee members, including the one who makes me really inspired, his name is Kenny Low (in CHC also, and founder of CHEC). The 2 only things that I regretted not doing is to take the courage to go forward to talk to him, and to take photos by professional photography studio (probably with him). Btw he’s a councilor in South West CDC, under Youth Functional Committee (Youth FC).

After that event, when I went back home, I actually went to add him (Kenny Low) as a friend on Facebook, and knowing that he’s invited for the next event which is South West District Meeting 2009, I send PM (private message) to him about that.

Here comes the South West District Meeting 2009, and I was expecting him to come as what he told me that he should be coming, but in the end, due to something else, he didn’t came. At the district meeting, I get to exposure even more things and get to know even more things at the CDC level. At that same day, I get to interact with another councilor which is also in Youth FC, his name is Terence Quek. He’s also a very nice & friendly person, and is very active also. Through him, I get to know even more about Youth FC and invited me to go for meetings. Just a week ++ back, I actually went to Telok Blangah Youth Executive Meeting (YEC) meeting at Telok Blangah CC as invited by him. It’s really an eye opener for me as I attended the meeting leading by him.

In the next part, I will share about my experience with the NTU & NUS Interns, and things happening during that period of time. Shall end off my first part here…

Heartbroken...

2009-08-04T09:10:00.000+08:00

Felt so hearbroken this morning… I really couldn’t concentrate on my work today…

Right now I just wanna wait till night time comes and after going back home from work, I will just change my attire, and straight away take a bus down to Bukit Timah and walk up the Bukit Timah Hill to the top, and just cry out to Him, seeking Him and asking Him… I just don’t wanna say so much here because it’s supposed to be work time in office, but as I sit down in front of the computer screen, with the scenery view towards the city from the office (26th level of JTC Summit), and sun shining towards me (45 degrees to my left), all the more I really couldn’t concentrate and just don’t feel like doing anything (but this one cannot be escaped especially when my bosses are around).

Right now just wanna pray that God will pull me through this day in office, and won’t get any shooting or scolding from anyone in office…………………… In His most precious name I pray… Amen…

Don't Know Is A Good Or Bad Dream...

2009-07-15T07:01:00.002+08:00

Lately, I have been dreaming about Hong Kong again... Don't know why, somehow somewhere in my sleep, this dream often pop up... I have been imagine that I am there, thinking of all the good things there. Then when I wake up each time, aiya it's only a dream...

Looks like I am really so fascinated to the extent that when one fine day I travel to there, I would really wanna stay there for a month instead for a week.

Yeap, some of you may think that Singapore is still better than Hong Kong... I agree only to a certain extent, for eg the health environment. But when it comes to many other things like food, scenery and transportation, I still think that Hong Kong is still far off better than Singapore, especially transportation...

And for a certain reason, I always try to relate the sceneries in Singapore with Hong Kong whenever I go, especially when I travel on the MRT every weekday to work... But in a way it also makes me inspired to go for night shots... (Must wait until I buy a decent tripod to replace my spoilt tripod)

Okay la I gotta go work le... SHall blog another time...

Feeling bad..

2009-06-09T20:23:00.002+08:00

How I wish, I can drive a car into the tunnel and speed as fast as the photo above....

That's how I felt right now... At least after I did a facebook quiz about the percentage of my happiness. I got 59% for overall which is quite accurate.. Lots of reasons to explain why it is only 59%...

The main reason would be because I have already missed a lot of things in my life, and I am just 21 years old, I cannot afford to miss even more things which would only make me feel hurt and miserable on the inside of me...

Already at work, I felt hurtful enough (especially of that incident a few weeks back) and ill-treated by that someone at times, I don't want to receive anymore hurt from anywhere else...

Just wondering... How long more do I have/want/wish to work in the CDC? Some of them encouraged me to stay on till mid-September, that particular person hope that I can work till END of September (which left only 1 week of break before my NS and she claims that it is enough for me. **Totally bull crap!**

Personally, for now, I think at most I will work till end of August before I take a month of break before NS...

South West CDC

2009-06-08T21:11:00.005+08:00

Yeap... It has been months since I last touch this blog, and I have just changed my blog address again because my previous blog address is simply too lengthy...

Time flies...

1 more week and it would be the my 4th month in South West CDC. These 4 months, went through ups and downs, from the best treatment to the worst treatment which I got from different colleagues and temp staffs. Life for me in South West CDC was pretty bored until the interns from various universities (majority ones are from Nanyang Business School in NTU). Just last Friday, we (all the interns and I) went to celebrate their 1 month anniversary in South West CDC, and had a great time with the "great" F&B services. Another 1 month ++ more and they will be back to their various school for their new semesters, and I wonder how will my life be without them around *sad sad*.

** Just feels like sharing some thoughts I had at workplace **

I came South West CDC (through a agency) to work as a temp staff (under Corporate Management side) until somewhere before I go for NS in 7th October 2009. By right, temp staff's responsibility should be not as intensive as the perm staffs. At first when I came in, it's still alright, as in the workload.

Over time, I started to have more and more responsibilties and workload to do, and starting to acting like a perm staff instead. I tahan that until one not-fine Wednesday (after the interns came in), when I feel that this is not going to work on me anymore, I just voice it out to other perm staffs aka collegues especially to neighbouring department aka Project Management side. Thereafter a particular colleague at their side also feels that 1 of my particular "boss" (cos I got more than 1 "boss") (what I am refering to right now is the lowest rank for perm staffs) kept bullying me.

This is when the drama scene started. My bigger boss saw me feeling so down and asking me whether I am ok or not, and I voice it all out to her. Thereafter, me, together with the affected parties, kena called out for meetings which last for a few hours. And I swear, this is the ever 1st time that I weeped in office, because I felt so broke down and bullied by my lowest rank "boss". This is how politics can affect me badly to this kind of extent, at least in government sector.

Thereafter, more colleagues + the interns starting to know more about how she has treated me, and some of them shared their past experiences with her to me, my bigger boss included.

Nowadays, my job scope and workload is getting more and more sai kang, and at times (because the store for collaterals has been shifted to IMM) I have to go to IMM to get heavy and bulky stuff back when various colleagues requested it for their events. The best thing is that my lowest rank aka bully "boss" asked me to go to IMM for 2 times for just 1 person's requested stuff because she doesn't want me to take taxi but to take the IMM shuttle bus instead. I hack care what she say and insist on taking taxi... At most I incurred $5++ for the taxi fare rather than following her advice and waste more time!

Thankfully, there are a few events which I get the chance to go down to help out with some of the interns as well, which i can learn new things and gain more exposures from there rather than just SITTING IN THE OFFICE AND DO ALL THE SAI KANG STUFFS!!!

Do all the sai kang stuffs is one thing, the fact that my pay is freaking low shows that my workload is NOT justifiable. At least make me a useful person by learning useful stuffs, rather than just SAI KANGs, SAI KANGs, and MORE SAI KANGs!!!! **angry level to the max**

Currently, it is not as bad, but within the next few months till the last day of this job for me, I can't imagine what else negative happening will happen to me, especially with that particular bully "boss" around... I tried to improve my attitude towards her, but well... I don't know how long this can last, as in my patience level also...

Wish that I can find some of my colleagues to share all my working sorrows with especially those who knows about that bully "boss" well...

Long time no blog...

2009-03-31T11:50:00.003+08:00

Time flies...

Quite a long time since I last blogged... Busy and shag and feel tired for the past months, especially work...

Now I don't know how and what should I say here because there is simply too many things to talk about over here...

There's also up and downs that are happening to me for the past 2 months or so, between me and my friends and family members... Looking back, I feel that I have walked quite a long distance in my life journey, and I thank God for everything that happen to me...

Sometimes, I wonder if I work too much until I have negliected the friends around me... Constantly when I view some of my friend's blog, they seem to have a lot of things happening around, and all I am doing is work, work and work... Whole day work until I feel sleepy and can fall asleep in the bus, or even at the bus interchange waiting for bus easily...

Everyday (weekdays), my usual routine will be:

Home ==> Work ==> Home

Now tell me, isn't it sianz?

Haiz... Sometimes I am just feeling discouraged by the things that are happening around, and especially by friends...

I will say till here today cos I am in my workplace and it's lunch time soon...

P.S: I will use this blogskin till I have designed a new blogskin again, but that will be quite some time because I got a lot of things to settle...

Thoughts again..

2009-01-22T23:59:00.001+08:00

Well.. Tomorrow is the final lesson that I am going to spend in class before graduating from RP..

As usual, certain thoughts just came into my mind once again..

One thing would be for 1 of my hobbies which is buses.. Well... I guess, I am just too tired to see myself spotting buses for the whole day.. These days, all I want to do is to just relax and spend time with friends doing fruitful and enjoyable stuffs, rather than keep bus here bus there.. Notice that everytime bus enthusiasts ask me out for bus spotting, I keep rejecting their request.. But if they ask mi out for casual dinner and relax talk cock sing song, I would most likely be going.. This is me...

And also, I also have mixed thoughts and emotions right now.. On the positive side, I am feeling happy and excited because tomorrow is the last day of lesson for me in RP... On the negative side, really there are lots for me to express it out, and some things which I only wish to express it to about 1 or 2 of my friends whom I felt that I am most comfortable sharing it with... More towards after graduating like how I stay in contact with my friends and meet them...

Okay... I think I will share till here... The rest in MSN then say...

FYP2 Over and some thoughts

2009-01-10T11:03:00.003+08:00

Finally....

So fast, just a second, and everything's over...

No more burden for FYP2...

Just 2 more weeks of lesson and that's it..

I wonder how and what will my life be after I graduate from Republic Polytechnic..

Sometimes, lots of thoughts just gush through my mind...

Sometimes, I just don't know how to express it in words...

Sometimes, I just don't know why I feel so emo after watching certain shows or movies..

After watching Little Nonya's final episode, I feel so emo that I couldn't concentrate on doing anything (especially FYP), and the whole night, all I have done was just think until I fall asleep.. Reason being is not for the war and killing part, but it's the part whereby they talk about their family trees, their ancestors, grandparents, etc, which makes me really ............................. and when I think back of the times that I spent with my grandparents when my family visited them, all these has became a past... Haiz...

Another one is Red Cliff 2 which I watched yesterday. No doubt the show is really nice and deserve a 4 or 5 star rating, but yet again, don't know why when I watch all the war show/movies, I just feel very emo.. I keep thinking and thinking and thinking, thinking of a lot of things and at times always feel like asking some questions... I just don't know why, when it comes to watching movies, I will tend to be very emotional and I do feel scared, joy of laughter, sad, and tend to laugh or cry (especially cry) more easily.. I can say that so far till now, all the movies by Jack Neo never fail to make me cry before, or at least, feel so touched that tears just drop down my cheeks..

Few days back, when I happened to view photos of Hong Kong night scenery shots, it really brings me a kind of feeling that is indescrible.. It just add more colours and vibrant into my life, and I just feel so disgusted when I look at all the night scenery photos of Singapore... It's like throwing my face down when I look at all the Singapore ones..

And not to mention, the public transport service level that is being brought to their fellow commuters.. Singapore ones is just like a piece of junk and shit when compared to Hong Kong ones.. and in a few years time when I start to work, I will make plans of buying a car and probably rely lesser on the 'very unreliable' SBS Transit and SMRT bus and train services. (especially bus). The thing that I cannot tolerate the most is when commuters CANNOT BOARD THE LAST BUS of the day/night for a particular service (especially SMRT Bus Service 190). This service (190) has gone from good (old SBS and TIBS days) to bad and worst (when SMRT took over TIBS) and right now it's HOPELESS until it has becoming 1 of the bus services that I most DESPISE of... =.="

Another 2 SMRT Bus service that I am most DESIPSE of is Service 169 and 902... No doubt it's a point-to-point service from Woodlands Regional Int to Republic Polytechnic in the morning, everytime when I take Service 903 (another much better alternative route). Service 902 is because of what I called the "Hello Kitty" queue. Service 169 is because of the irritating SMRT staff (especially Tay Chin Tian) who "hug" the front door when the bus (Service 169 ones) is ALMOST full (not totally full), and don't allow anymore people to squeeze in through..

One fine day and night I shall do stunts to Service 169 before I graduate, and one fine night I shall do another stunt (more severe and serious this time) on Service 190 at 1 of the 2 most sensitive bus stop (i.e. opposite Far East Plaza bus stop, outside Thong Teck Building), and I will make sure the last bus driver and SMRT management die until 10 times jia liak, even to the extent of calling the police down by the driver.. And I will make sure SMRT kena fine 10 times jia liak like a few million dollars also and hopefully allow SBS Transit to control back Service 190 and improve their fleets..

Wondering if next Thursday should I go for the Student Forum II about Transport Issues since I complete my CE points long time ago.. But if I go, I may or will shoot/feedback them until quite jia liak also... Singapore is indeed a first class city with THIRD class public transportation..

Some more thoughts in my mind...

My Year 2009 resolution and goals.. When am I going to finish thinking and writing it, and making sure that I achieve it..

Lots of commitments coming along the way too... I really need to better manage my time...

In terms of my expenses wise, I also gotta better manage it...

Priorities: Tithes, Arise and Build 2008 (building funds), planning of having chalet for my 21st Birthday..

But firstly, I must find a job, at least to substain my income till the day of my NS Enlistment...

In terms of a lot of areas, I really need to improve it, and I will never be satisfied of who I am and what I am right, because I believe in doing and achieving things from glory to glory..

Okay that's all for now... Have other stuffs going on and indeed I am quite a busy man... =D

Cya guys around... Take care and God bless! ^_^

FYP Submission

2009-01-05T08:53:00.002+08:00

At the time of blogging, there is only THREE / 三 HOURS LEFT to our FYP2 submission... Guess what? Only half of my teammates are here, i.e., Melissa and myself are there.. Youkai 1st breakout then come, Edwin say he 10am then reach, when he woke up at 8:15am (or earlier).

Sometimes I do wonder if my team as a group got the sense of urgency when it comes to projects like this, and moreover it's the submission date... =.="

Don't wish to say any further... Just have no comments or whatsoever for now..

** PISSED OFF **

Lost?

2009-01-03T22:39:00.002+08:00

Felt quite lost while onboard Service 190 (TIB838H) bus back home from New Bridge Rd Bus Terminal.. Lost not as in physically lost, but spiritually lost...

Thinking back of the 1st few days of the brand new year 2009, I really enjoyed myself too much that I really forgot the presence of God in my life, and by going on like this for the rest of the year, first thing I will do is to backslide away from God, second thing is I will lost all my sense of vision and dreams and goals and everything in my life, which I DON'T WISH TO HAPPEN!!!

Well... Just before I walked back home, I was at my house bus stop, sitting down there with mp3, and I just keep staring at the pavement area and asking God to bring me back to the right path that He wants me to go to, and not to be lost.

Sometimes, I just don't have much words to express how I feel especially when I am emo (and maybe sad/upset also?).. This year I really want to lead a happy and positive life, just like what I have tagged Cyril yesterday in his blog about what Dr Kim have mentioned during the service which she came last year.. "Be a HAPPY man". Sometimes, I just feel like telling God, that how I ever wish that I can be a HAPPY man every SINGLE day of my life, as much as I can... But year after year, there will sure bound to have a certain period of time whereby we just feel very emo and at times I just feel like crying (which I really did last year).

Let tonight be a peaceful one for me, as I begin to reflect and think back of everything that I have done and not done, and allow God to speak to me, be it through tonight's sleeping or the next day when I am going to take the 1st Service 966 long journey bus ride as I go early to church for serving (as usual 7:30am for ushers). I really need a good rest/sleep these few days especially tonight and tomorrow night as this coming Monday is the submission date for our final FYP.

Bye 2008!

2008-12-31T10:10:00.003+08:00

As I am waiting for my FYP teammates in school library, I start to think and reflect back the things that I did and etc etc...

Indeed it's a fruitful yet challenging year for me because I faced lots of tough times, times where I feel like giving up, times where I had to suffer a lot..

Reflecting back on my school life, it's a very fruitful journey for me not just in Year 2008, but the whole of 3 years of RP life as it is coming to a end for me before I enter my next phase of my life.... which is N.S..

How I wish I can rewind myself to 3 years back and experience it again and again, but yea, once it has past, means it has past, and will never come back again... What I can do is just to treasure all my poly friends and spend more time with them especially to my closer ones..

Reflecting back on my life as a bus enthusiast, this year it has been a challenging one for me, especially after our 1st bus enthusiasts cell group is formed with some of the Christian bus enthusiasts. Conflicts and misunderstandings happening everywhere, from SGforums to MSN to face-to-face, all I have seen before (but thank God I don't have any conflicts with them, and I don't wish that to happen to me). Flame wars can be seen every month especially in SGforums and some of the bus enthusiasts starting to gang up together and deal with some other particular bus enthusiasts that they hate it to the core... All these things I have seen it all..

On the positive side, I have also helped in the organizing committee in organizing activities for the fellow bus enthusiasts to come and enjoy and at the same time, to foster stronger bondings among one another and to get to interact with more bus enthusiasts that they don't know. Things that I have helped out are activities such Amazing Race and the farewell tour for the various very old buses that are going to scrap in a few months' time. It's not easy to organize and make the activities a success..

Reflecting back on my Christian walk of life, I also faced lots of ups and downs, especially at the point of time when I told my parents that I have decided to be a Christian and to go for church service every Sunday morning and I just cried and cried at that night after I got scolded and threatened upside down...

But on the positive side, God has blessed me with lots of things, and I love my cell group (E447) so much because they really take care of me well, being the 2nd youngest (IIRC) member in my cell group.. In my spiritual walk, at times (I think is most of the time??) I negliect God so much that at times I don't treat Him seriously...

In Year 2009, I hope that things really start to change for the better, in all areas of my life...

In a few days' time, I am going to finish setting all my goals and resolution for Year 2009, and I really pray and hope that whatever new challenges that I am going to face it, I will overcome it with FAITH and not FEAR.... =)

Before ending this post, I wanna wish everyone here a Happy New Year 2009 and all the best in your future goals and dreams and every part in your life!! ^_^

To End Off This Year (2008) Well?

2008-12-20T22:17:00.003+08:00

Just attended CG meeting, and my CGL talked about ending this year well.. Just last Monday, we had our Sundown chillout at Temasek Poly, then today + tomorrow + this coming Wednesday and Thursday got christmas services also and also thanksgiving for next week CG meeting..

Moreover, this coming week my FYP team is going to chiong all the way liao.. (Deadline for submission is 5th Jan 2009), and I promised Raymond's friends (Brian, Bing Xun, etc...) about DOTA outing this coming week (most likely is either Thursday afternoon or Friday then I can make it), plus lots of other stuffs to do...

Last time, I used to complain that I got nothing to do and my life is so sianz full of boredom... Now? It's 180 degrees/opposite way round, i.e., a lot of things to do and my life is full of challenges, thrilling journey, excitment, a lot a lot more to describe it..

Reflecting on my spiritual life, I find that I have not done well in many areas, and at times I find that I have screwed myself up especially during serving in Usher Ministry.. Maybe I should have a seperate post about Thanksgiving also because speaking of which, I got quite a number of people who I really wanna thank them for, even for those who were not in my CG..

At times, I feel so discouraged and disheartened because of certain things that happened to me directly and indirectly, and I feel so disappointed about certain areas in my life, especially on the spiritual level..

This year has been a exciting yet challenging one for me.. Having to deal with lots of stuffs and problems is not an easy job.. I believe that this is what God wants me to go through all these tough times and eventually to mould me into a better person, but at times, I keep disappointing God, I negliect my everything with God, and I treat things too lightly especially when it's God's work..

As time goes by, I get more (and perhaps higher level also?) responsibilities, in CG and in Usher Ministry, and at times, I just get too drained out especially in Usher Ministry.. Every Sunday morning (except on the week that I am not on duty), I gotta take Service 966 1st bus early in the morning and transfer to 2 more buses and reach Expo by 7:30am, then after that help out in preparation before service starts, and when service starts, that's when I feel stressed the most (whenever I am doing acute point and/or taking care of a zone, especially the zone one). When I see the congregation Praising and Worshipping God, I don't usually get to do so too whenever I am doing the zone part.. (Okay la... Maybe during later part of worship still got some time..) Usually it's quite okay for me because I have been getting used to this style, but at times when I felt very down on the particular week (like 1-2 weeks back), I would just broke down and cry out to God.. (when I say "cry" in this post over here, I literally mean crying and weeping with tears..)

Haiz... These few days, I just have too much thoughts that every single night, I can't sleep well and early.. Nowadays if you notice, 2-3am I may still be online (and not in Idle mode for those who have MSN Plus installed on your Windows Live Messenger) and perhaps either blogging away or stonning away or facebook here and there and etc etc...

Okay I think I shall stop here for now... Next day still got Usher duty.. Need to wake up super early... Nite guys..

More and more busy!!

2008-12-18T00:09:00.006+08:00

Ahh... How I wish I can just migrate to Hong Kong to enjoy life and escape from all troubles and all the busy and hectic stuffs which make me ___________...

But... this is not the way... At least not the God's way....

Just went for bus enthusiasts cell meeting at Wilcent's house.. We watched 1 of the video for the My Hope Singapore campaign, about a ex-convict whose now is a pastor in his church.. I was so touched especially the part whereby he couldn't get to see his grandma/mum (I forgot who's the right one liao) for 1 last time before she passed away while he is still in prison, and the one in which he remembered his school times whereby his teacher said this to him "God loves you, Jesus loves you and I love you too". Immediately tears just went down my cheeks..

Right now, Sundown event has just finished successful and smoothly last Monday, and right now, more things coming ahead, in my CG, ministry, school, and all the outings that are coming ahead.. God, I really need more of Your everything, especially in the area of strength, because too many things just happening around, and at times, I may just feel very drained out and weak..

At times, especially during my quiet time or while I am in a long journey bus ride along expressway, I ponder and ask God, why am I going through all these things? But I believe that God does that because He has a purpose for me in every single thing that happens.. In times when I feel very down because of certain things that happened to me, God gave me this verse from Psalms 23:4-5 to really encourage me in my Christian walk...

Now I just really wanna finish this year fast, steady and good, and to start off a new year with a new year and resolution... A new year, a new beginning...

Just a photo to end off this blog post... With thanks to those NS Medical checkup people (the one who gave me injection to my right hand) to suck out 2 tubes containing my BLOOD! See how screwed these people can be?!? Before next Tuesday I will go to polyclinic if this persist on... 1 more thing!! For my left hand which is used for blood pressure test, thanks to that my last finger got a numb feeling until NOW!!~ Thank you CMPB for the "GREAT" (internal) injuries/hurts that were done for me!!! Well done.. (2x) **sarcastic**

Changing of blog address

2008-12-17T16:17:00.002+08:00

Just changed the blogskin again... Actually it's from Maplestory theme one, but then I modify it to my own liking.. Since I so fall in love with night scenery shots (and I am kinda sick and tired of Singapore night scenery shots), hence I took this Hong Kong night shot from Wikipedia.. (Speaking of which, I don't how how should I ask for the permission of using this photo since there's no contact information i.e. e-mail etc..)

Another thing is that I am wondering if I should change my blog address since it says 2008.. Hmm.. And then need to trouble all bloggers to relink my blog address again.. So... I shall put up this voting thingy on the side of my blog, and let you guys to vote...

Touched..

2008-12-15T11:54:00.004+08:00

Yesterday morning, while I was on 2nd Service 966 bus early in the morning on my way for morning service, and reflecting on the week that I have went through, indeed it's pretty busy and shag for me.. As I was reflecting back, I thought of the days that I neglect God so much that I did not spend my daily quiet time with Him, and being able to come back to Him once again, I felt so touched by His presense, and couldn't resist my emotions in a very public place (i.e. bus).. That one still nvm..

As I served in my zone (Charlie Terrace 03), I kept feeling so rushing and stress during Praise and the beginning part of Worship until I thought that I couldn't just concentrate Worshipping Him, and finally when my zone is about to be done settling on the number of empty seats, I just stand on 1 side along the pathway and just worship Him, and as I do so, this time I just couldn't resist my emotions any further, and I just broke down before Him.. As the worship was coming to a end before the preaching and etc, I just feel that the time that I spend with Him is too short, and really felt like worshipping Him even more...

As for the preaching/sermon part, the message also really describes the situation that I am facing right now, i.e., the bus farewell tour.. (more focus into the committee section). Later in the afternoon, I met Alan first after our service (since we from same church service but different cell only) and then we went to meet up with the rest of the bus farewell tour committee at Buangkok area... It was a very fruitful one down there, where the seniors gave chance to the organizer, each one of us who were present there, pointed out the mistakes and problems that is being done, and then came out with suggestions to the mistakes and problems so that mistakes will not repeat itself next time when we have such bus farewell tour again..

After that went to Jurong Point to meet up with my parents and brother (as my sister was still having her Xtreme Challenge (a kind of amazing race but doing all sorts of Xtreme sports), and for myself I managed to get my new year t-shirts from there.. After walking around the new extention, I still prefer the t-shirts from Spade, and 1 shot I bought 2 t-shirts, 1 with the attractive sliver thingy, and another with the cross.. Super nice... Their staffs (all youngsters) were all super friendly and they provide very great service to me! I even get the Spade membership card for free (as the total amount for the 2 t-shirt were $50 and above). Either during the chinese new year or new year end then I will start wearing it le...

After that have dinner first before taking train (as my parents wanted me to take train with them) back home, and guess what? The train that I took is the one without the seats in the middle section of every carriage.. (Carriage 059-060) Let the photos do the talking..

The carriage that we were in at Boon Lay MRT Station..

No sitting at the middle of the carriage..

No seats resulting people sitting in the middle of the 2 carriages..!! I was kind enough not to STOMP it.. xD

No seats! Please stand!!

Still sitting at the middle of the 2 carriages!!!

STOMP!!! Haha... (in the end I never STOMP). As what other STOMPers posted in STOMP website about people sitting at the floor.. Here you go!!

Yea.. Sit somemore!! (Later they also transferred to North South line train at Jurong East MRT Station)

Enjoy!~ ^_^

Updates..

2008-12-13T00:37:00.002+08:00

Okay... Time for me to do some updates too after reading some of my friends' blogs.. Will make it a short one because later on in the day I still have Amazing Race for Bus Enthusiasts..

Past few weeks (especially this week) is quite a hectic and busy period for me because I have to manage my time well especially with FYP and all the other serious meetings i.e. regarding bus enthusiasts stuffs.. Being part of the organizing committee for the farewell tour and Amazing Race is not easy, and lots of commitments and efforts need to be done..

Good thing is that these few weeks, I have been staying back in school after lesson for Badminton and Tennis sports game with Dreamers, which is physically very tired but worthwhile because it is a time when I get to relieve all my STRESSES away and spend time with all my great friends there! Sometimes I see all my non bus enthusiast friends (i.e. school friends, etc) everyday like so carefree (as in no need to worry super ultra much as compared to me), not much variety of commitments as compared to mine.. I still have to jagar (manage)

Church (CG and Usher ministries)
School (FYP)
Bus Enthusiasts!!!! (70% of my stress comes from there... Long story man..)

Yesterday (Friday), it is indeed a very tired and rushing day.. Morning went for the 4 hours Medical Checkup for NS early in the morning (8am need to reach there at CMPB), then went for lunch and take bus to Bt Batok to get back my Canon S5IS camera from Christopher and went back to school for UT and NAPFA, and supposingly, I need to be at Riverwalk by 8pm for Manhood Conference by my church, but because I didn't expect NAPFA to start and end so late (delay due to don't know what reasons!), we finished everything at about 7:50pm, and after that dinner at Lobster House (at RP Sports Complex) with some of the Dreamers before we all went to play Tennis till the lights switched off at 10pm, then we slowly made our way back home..

Okay I feel so tired right now and all I need is SLEEP! Will update again when I am free and wish to post... Nitez to everyone..

Thoughts once again..

2008-12-11T23:05:00.003+08:00

I'm about to sleep (because I need to wake up very early for NS checkup tml morning) but I sense that God wants me to write up a blog post about certain things that are happening around for the negative parts..

1st of all, I wanna thank God for the open heart of 2 of my friends, Terence and Fang Sheng, for being able to give the organizer of last Saturday's Nissan Diesel U31RCN (bus) farewell tour a 2nd (and last?) chance.. For those who went there last week (bus enthusiasts), especially the committee members (including myself), we would know how screwed up the tour was. I won't explain much because most of the story has been explained in Fang Sheng's and Terence's blog (links on the left).. I can see how other committee members and even advisors (except Terence and Fang Sheng AFAIK) express not only their unhappiness but also their unforgiveness attitude towards the organizer..

This really makes me remind of my fellow bus enthusiasts within this unique interest group here.. Although the flaming's activity in the forum has somewhat decrease a bit, but still I wonder when will be the time where this kind of flaming activities which is caused by misunderstandings or conflicts end.. Probably by the time I go up to heaven to see my heavenly Father (aka Daddy God) face to face, all these things will be still happening around? Well, only my Daddy God knows..

Seeing all these bad things happening around really makes me feel so heartpain, especially when it's within the interest/hobby group whereby all the more we should be more friendly, caring, showing our care and concern, learning how to forgive one another... Speaking of which, God spoke to me these 2 verses, Galatians 5:22-23. I shall put these 2 verses in The Message version:

But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

I especially highlighted the main points that I wish to say out here in red.. I wonder how many of my fellow bus enthusiast friends have these kind of characteristics in them... Okay... Shall not say anything much... Must make you all think (bus enthusiasts) also... I need to sleep because tomorrow will be a long + rushing day for me.. God bless everyone and take care, all my friends and readers.. Nitez everyone!

Hello Mr Wee Kah Huat!

2008-12-10T16:39:00.003+08:00

This blog post is dedicated to our very dearest (er pui!) IT Security and Management module chair, Mr Wee Kah Huat.

As all of us know (especially those who are/were taught by him before), that he is well famous for giving his students a "F" grade to his students even if they come for his lesson for the whole day, and anyhow mark his students' attendance as "NIFM" which simply stands for "Not In 1st Meeting" when it's the fact that they came before the 1st meeting ends.. This happens every now and then, and he still happily give his students as many "F" grades as possible so that they would FAIL his module and make them repeat the module AGAIN.. What's more, currently he is the MODULE CHAIR for C235 IT Security and Management. Who knows he will just anyhow edit and change the grades even for other students that are not taught by him and give a lot of excuses (especially moderation). So what if he is the module chair? Module chair has the power to ANYHOW give students as many "F" grade as possible?

This time I really want to make sure that the whole world knows about the 賤人 aka Mr Wee Kah Huat, what "FABULOUS" things he has done to make himself feel PROUD and FAMOUS for the WRONG reason!! Darn...

FYP Survey Part 1

2008-12-10T11:53:00.005+08:00

Hello all!!

Please help me to do survey for my team's FYP!!

Go to

http://sit.rp.edu.sg/60750/FYP2_163/limesurvey/index.php?

and then choose the 1st one to do!!

Thanks a lot!!!

Bus Accident! New bus somemore!

2008-12-03T23:38:00.005+08:00

Hoho! Thank God for all the wonderful surprises and blessings that He has given me, especially the bus accident..

I just finished cutting my hair at the usual place at Bt Batok (Vincent & Daniel hair saloon) in the morning when Christopher sms me saying that SMB15T (Newest SMRT bus model) and TIB1172M (SMRT Merz Habit bendy) kena accident at around 11am. So immediately after that, I took 963 transfer 106 down to the accident site (a few metres away before Clementi MRT bus stop towards city).

Let the photos do the talking! Enjoy!!~

Some thoughts..

2008-12-02T21:55:00.002+08:00

Just sharing some of my thoughts here for now..

Lately I had been filled with lots of stuffs to settle..

FYP (especially)
Cell group stuff (this one can let anyone know except my CGL! Haha..)
NAPFA training (speaking of this, I have not even started to train yet again because too busy and tired..)
Bus enthusiast related stuffs (Nissan UD Farewell tour committee & Amazing Race committee)

That's all for right now.. It may seem very short, 4 points only... BUT... These 4 points above are enough for me to be very BUSY... It's gonna be a super BUSY DECEMBER 2008 ahead for me!! (I haven even count in all the Christmas celebrations yet with my school and church friends!) Sometimes I just don't know what I should focus on 1st, because some of them are almost equally important..

Time flies very fast.. Now is already the 12th week and next Friday will be the last day of lesson in Year 2008 before our 3 weeks term break.. 3-4 more school weeks and that's it for me in RP man... Gonna miss my poly life although I hate the PBL system very much (because got friends like you around... especially W26L, W64R, W66C, W64G and Dreamers)

Facilitator (facis) wise, I will miss the times where I keep shooting the facis especially through RJ.. And I wanna dedicated this section of my blog post to my dear ex-SAD (System Analysis and Design) faci who keep stalking (maybe? because he has been telling his current IT Security and Management's class about the mysterious guy who blog about him..) my blog.. Haha.. This morning I happened to see him at W6 level 4 gents after 3rd meeting before Business Finance UT3.. Andy was with him doing the small business, and I saw both of them chatting with each other in the urinal area when I stepped inside the gents.. Immediately I acted (very fake) that I was washing my hands in the washing basin area and face my head down, until when Wee Kah Huat left and then I called Andy..

Okay... I shall specially dedicate this message to you:

Hello Mr Wee,

I think it's a blessing for me not to be taught by you for IT Security & Management module for this semester, and congrats for you being the module chair for this module.. xD

I have heard a lot of stories that your beloved current semester students telling me about you telling them that I am going to blog about you this and that... Well.. It's not all the time that I wanna blog about you de.. Fancy telling the whole class that that "someone" is going to blog about you again which is not 100% true all the time... If it's true, then I would have blog about you stepping into the class when I am still eating (although I am no longer in your class le lo), and also the previous time when I happened to see you in the same gents again and you 'diao-ing' back at me through the mirror..

If you still choose to tell around, then I have no comments, because it doesn't hurt me much..

Take care..

Yours faithfully,

Victor Lim

your ex-SAD student in W64R (Year 2007/2008)

Okay end of the dedication message.. I gonna settle some stuffs and will blog again when I am free or feel like blogging! Take care everyone and God bless!

Busy weeks..

2008-11-24T13:42:00.011+08:00

Hello all! It's me again... Long time no update cos I was super busy for the past few weeks, especially last week for Asia Conference 2008...

Things has been going quite well for me except for FYP..
Pon 2-3 lessons with Dreamers for outings (except 1 time for FYP and other stuffs)..
Went off 1-2 times during 2nd breakout/3rd meeting to rush off to settle some stuffs..
Daily grades oso got ups and downs..
UT1 grades worst (1 B, 1 C, 1 D, 1 D+)
FYP weekly log haven touch yet.. Minutes of Meetings only submitted 2 to FYP portal..
NAPFA test choose to postpone due to rushing off to collect refund (for IC) + parent's marriage anniversary dinner..
Think it's just like that as far as I can remember ba..

CHC (E447) (CG - Cell Group)

Chiong-ed 1 day for doing most of the part for CG blog..
More busy (and stress?) thanks to Jia Yun who arrowed me to take over her as Birthday I/C for CG..
Very soon I will arrow another person in CG to take over me as Song Sheet I/C liao.. Cannot 1 shot take too many roles because in Usher Ministry I still got some other roles..
Other than that it's as usual..

CHC (Usher Ministry)

Reshuffling of groups --> Re-allocation of groups.
Previous group: G4S5-C
Current group: G4S1-A
Asia Conference, served for Wednesday night, Saturday afternoon & evening, Sunday morning.. Super tired after every night (when serving).. Really need to pray for strength man..
Because of reshuffling of groups, therefore Welfare I/Cs part also somehow affected..
New/additional roles to play within this new group of Welfare I/Cs dept = More responsibilities..
Think that's all for now ba..

Bus Enthusiasts

As usual problems keep happening..
Some sensitive/private issues which are not convenient to say it out here..
But it's not everything problems here and there, as there are still bound to have a bit of good things happening..
Quite disappointed for BECG (West side).. Don't wish to say anything further here..

Other things which I wanna thank God for.. (for the past few weeks)

A kind soul found back all my lost cards (when I lost my wallet about 3 weeks back) which includes the most important thing - IC.
Because of IC found close to the end of the 2 weeks grace period (from the day I go ICA to pay $100 for new IC), I get my $100 refund!!
1 of my bus enthusiast friends whose has a open heart for Christ.. But whether he chooses to commit to which church (whether mine or Roderick's one), it's all up to him because we respect his decision and not to forcefully drag him in as we want to be fair to everyone..
Asia Conference 2008 to be a anointing and impacting one as I learnt something great out from the sessions and in terms of ushering, having a great time too..

For the last 2 days after the night session, I don't know is it God's blessing or what, kena the only Service 24 bus with Asia Conference ad (ah I still haven snap that shot SBS8238E, with SBS8042C from Service 24 and 2 other buses from Service 128 with the crossovers to Service 265 and 269). More than just that, it's the various sessions that really impacted me a lot especially the opening session on Wednesday night and Sunday morning's session..

I think I will update till here first.. Got time I will post more... Lolx..

Some super overdue photos below.. Lolx..

JT's birthday:

Irvin's birthday:

A tragic day to be remembered..

2008-11-01T22:08:00.002+08:00

(Sorry to delay the photos for JT and Irvin's birthday because of what I am gonna blog below..)

A tragic day to be remembered..

Yes... This day/date shall be Thursday. 30th October 2008.. Around 6pm, at the bus stop along Changi Rd (outside Venture Era there) =.="

What a way to end off the month of October... =.="

And it's just nice when Reuben and myself were about to onboard Service 2 down to City Hall area for dinner at around 5pm++ (close to 6pm) and this tragic thing happened to me..

All the while I have been quite cautious of my wallet and other important belongings such as handphones etc..

But....

On this very tragic date and time, I don't know how come I can freaking afford to drop my wallet (I guess so), and let me list down the things which was inside my wallet (those which I can remember one..)

IC
POSB ATM Card
EZ-link Card
Cash money of about $100
Passion membership card (RP and Community Club one)
ZONE-X Arcade Card
SD Card (Which contains the recent photos in my camera cos my camera under maintainence)
Some of the older bus tickets
TECMAN membership card
Some other cards which I forgot what liao..

The most heartbroken thing is that the wallet is something which my sister bought for me for my birthday this year, and the amount is a sum which is not cheap at all.... $99....

Yesterday night, got a good lecture by my mum, and on this night I felt super sad, super useless, super condemned, and I just can't resist it but to weep for like say half an hour..

At 1 point of time, I just feel that I have let down to my family a lot, especially my parents and sister, for all the wrongdoings or the carelessness things that I have done.. Been on this Earth for 20 years ++ and I still can afford to commit such things... Sometimes I just really need to reflect more deeply onto myself, what I have done for the past 20 years.. Next year is going to be the start of my adulthood when I turn 21, and how can I change myself for the better... Haiz..

This afternoon after my cell group meeting, I feel much more better but still not 100% yet.. I guess my life still have to move on no matter what.. What's done cannot be undone, and through this, it is a great lesson to be taught to me..

Have a few people that I really wish to thank for the past few days when this thing happened..

Reuben (for being by my side when this thing happened, and the treat for dinner + trip back home, and all the things that you have told me especially at the bridge at Harbourfront..)
Fang Sheng (for being my companion when taking Service 963 back home from Harbourfront, and to cheer up my mood while inside the bus)
My parents (for the new wallet + ez-link card that they have made for me although I get hell lecture from my mum)
A few other friends for being a listening ear to me when I told them about it..

I just hope that after this incident, I will be more (100x) cautious than ever in future, and not to lose my wallet in future (especially when there's my original IC inside).. Meanwhile I need some time to regain my mood...

JT's birthday

2008-10-24T12:40:00.004+08:00

Had a very great birthday celebration for JT at his chalet at The Chevrons, which is the most nicest chalet I ever went so far..

Thanks JT for the invitation.. It's indeed a enjoyable and memorable one.. Although I am part of their click, but I feel comfortable to be with them (i.e. not feeling anything bad). Out of my 4 different classes in this semester, I find that W64G is still the best one.. Although there are some black sheeps, I still have people like Sam, JT, Velina (Xiao Wei), Bob and Yin Min around which really brighten up my day..

Okay back to his birthday, most of us stay throughout overnight at the chalet for Tuesday night, and we really had a lot of fun playing Wii, mahjong, some poker game when the penalty was drinking some alcoholic drink + soft drinks mixed together, BBQ, and sleep..

1st night, I went to prepare and BBQ with Sam, Edison and Irvin.. Darren also came to help out as well when he reached there, and I can say that Darren was our saviour of the night.. Anything screwed up for the BBQ or need any help, he's always there.. Very zai I must say! Because of the reactive charcoal and the firestarter, my role down there would mostly be the "fireman". What I did? Whenever I saw the fire growing more and more stronger, I would use tap water to spray over it (of course we got shift the BBQ foods first before I sprayed). And I also use the paper plate to act as a mobile fan to the rest of them.

After BBQ, we went back inside to play poker card game with the rest, and the unlucky ones who kena the specific card, will get to drink a cup of Chivas that was mixed with some soft drinks.. Lucky for me, I never get to kena at all, but instead help Irvin (or someone I forgot who liao but should be Irvin) to drink a cup because Irvin was about to get drunk.. Had a late night sleep after that at around 4-5am in the wee morning..

2nd day, I was 1 of the latest person to wake up (together with JT's brother when he slept beside me) which is at around 12pm.. Went down to the swimming pool with Sam, Darren and the rest.. Feel very scared when Sam wanted to drag me down the pool, and I told him that I would come down by my own... Lolx... After that when I went down the pool and Sam wanted to guide me and teach me how to swim, I told him once again that I can't even float on the water. In the end, I walked on the water from 1 end to the other, and after that, keep leaning myself to the side of the pool cos I was so scared of getting drown la...

Went up to have a bath (inside the bath tub at the 2nd floor toilet) after that and accompany Irvin to fetch Shumin and Xiaowei from Jurong East Int.. It's raining cats and dogs at that period of time (Around 1pm), and guess what? Not only we reached Jurong East Int late, but we also took the wrong shuttle bus which only goes round and round the IBP (International Business Park) opposite The Chevrons. It's no wonder we saw a number of people wearing so formal and taking the bus, and guess what? The driver is a CHINAMAN, and I guess he also feeling very =.=" and ??=.="?? when people asking him to stop at a specific point and they just ran in the heavy rain to their building without a single umbrella.. Ended up we alighted up at the slip road exiting to the main road and went into the bus stop to wait for Service 105..

Reached Jurong East Int, and we went for lunch at a coffee shop at the Int itself.. Took Service 105 back to the chalet, and after that, I think most of the time I was either playing Wii, or playing Mahjong with Sam they all... All I must remember about that Mahjong session is that I had "zha hu" when I had 1 tile of "五万 (5 million in chinese)" and waiting for 1 more of the same one to win the game... Guess what? Right after I asked Sam about the 1 tile (whether can I only picked the tile myself in order to win or what?) and then when my next player (I forgot his name pai seh..) throw the tile that I wanted, immediately I declared "hu" (which means win the game), GG after that for the next few rounds.. Lolx.. Sam called this "zha hu" a lesson fee for me... =D

Thanks to Edison & Andy they all for serving us hot dogs etc when I was playing Mahjong with Sam they all.. It's even less burnt-out that the previous day one and it taste nicer.. After that chill out for a while before most of us went back home..

Thursday after school, we gathered at a empty classroom to celebrate his birthday too, but I didn't went out with them for dinner after that because some of my friends coming to my house in the evening and I gotta rush back..

Overall, I really had a wonderful time especially at the chalet itself, and it's the best chalet that I have ever went so far... Facilities there all very nice lor.. I may consider to book there next year for my 21th birthday also... Lolx.. Till then, I shall stop here for now..

(Will upload photos tonight when I get back home..)

What happen if...

2008-10-24T12:15:00.002+08:00

During IT Security & Management class at the 2nd breakout, while I was in a very sleepy and lazy mood, I have this urge to listen to Jay Chow's song... As some of you may know, some of his songs, whenever I listen to it, I will start to recall and think back of something, and usually that something would always be a memorable one..

But this time, it's somehow a bit different..

What happen if...

... I am not a bus enthusiast in the 1st place? Will my life be very different from what I am right now? Will I be more carefree and live my life more happily because I do not need to deal with bus enthusiasts that create a lot of troubles and unhappiness and conflicts to other bus enthusiasts? Will I be able to live my life normally as compared to MANY of my poly friends?

Sometimes, whenever I compare all my poly friends with myself, I just feel that I am the most odd one out and being outcasted by others.. I just don't know why sometimes I will think this way.. I have always been wanting to let ALL my secondary school and poly friends know that I am not someone who is a distinctive bus enthusiast who just live by the buses alone.. That's why sometimes I just don't feel like talk or do anything that is related to bus (other than taking bus as a form of transport to bring me to somewhere), and that's why when my year 1 poly friends asked me "Victor, how's your bus photo taking and etc?", I told them that I have no time for that. I don't wish to be made well-known to all my friends about me having bus as 1 of my hobbies, and I just wish to keep a very low-profile to others (except my fellow bus enthusiast friends) about it.

It's already the last day of school before we are going to have 1 pathetic week of term break before we continue our semester 2 till week 16, and I am already feeling like that...

Pon-ing mood, sleepy mood, lazy mood, THINKING mood...

Replies to tagboard...

2008-10-08T22:01:00.003+08:00

To amosatlantis: Yea... I was from Zhenghua last time one.. Sec 5 in year 2005, right now in my final year of poly...

To SBS n SMRT: Lolx... Where got in Kent Ridge? Which photo of mine?

To SBS8033D: Are you the user SBS8033D in SGF one?

To 8086B: Mine was just walkabout... But got 1 point of time I was at Pit Grandstand area.. Yea.. quite near the Singapore Flyer there, at the starting/ending point of the race there.. And yea, I just checked the roster at WRI today and found out that TIB793C actually replaces TIB852R slot because TIB852R is not listed in anywhere inside the WRI roster.. Wonder why the downgrading of a bendy to a rigid... Hmm... I rather TIB852R replaces that hopeless slot TIB644A on Service 902/964 crossover because rigids on Service 902 (or even 169) is asking for trouble to come.. Thankfully I found out an alternative route which is via Service 903.. Service 902 and 169 right now is simply hopeless with the way SMRT starter does things and the irritating SMRT staffs at Service 902 and 169 berth especially Tay Chin Tian..

To Xing Wei: Lolx... I also long time never go your blog liao... Currently still no preferred team to support but in time to come, I should have it ba.. Since I mentioned in my blog that it's through this year which inspires me to really like F1 even more..

To Shumin: Okay!! ^_^ Tyty!! Cya in school..

SingaporeGP 2008 @ Marina Bay Street Circuit

2008-09-29T12:40:00.007+08:00

** Warning: Long post of photos **

What a wonderful blessing that I get during the F1 season in Singapore for the past 3 days especially during work time as Traffic Marshals..

I must say that as a 1st timer watching F1 race, I am truly inspired by the teams, drivers and the F1 car itself, and the whole atmosphere as a whole, even though I really know nuts about the driver or team names.. And perhaps I can start to explore more about it over the internet to know more about everything in F1 race..

Day 1 (Friday): During the random pick by the manager, I get to stand under the shelter and shade at the floyer near Kallang Leisure park where the Paddock Club shuttle buses picking up area is.. Drivers of the shuttle buses were generally friendly, nice to crap and chat with..

Day 2 (Saturday): Stick back to the same place, same old bunch of nice drivers... After work, get to tour around the circuit area via Gate 1 thanks to 1 of the Kelly Services staff as he's also keen to go there but WALK all the way from Kallang Leisure Park..

Day 3 (Sunday): Last minute redeployment of manpower, I get to station outside the Paddock Club to direct the traffic and people, can see the race track but not that clear because of the barricade.. Managed to take the Paddock Club shuttle bus down instead of WALK all the way.. At the Overhead 2nd bridge area, 2 kind souls give me and my working friends 2 entry pass to pit grandstand area, where we can have a view of the pitstop too! After the race, people started to go down to the track area and do their stunts and take lots of photos! From 10pm take photo and walk walk until 11:30pm++ where I met Bing He and his friends to walk to City Hall MRT Station to take train back... On the way back, I wanted to buy the F1 programme booklet at the booth which cost $20, but thank God, the staff was not there, and I managed to take a copy for myself for free since nobody cares after that... Chaos all over the place... =D

Reached back home safe and sound at around 1:25am.. Slept at 3:30am and woke up at 7am next day which is today for school..

Shall let the photos do the talking!

First... Some post of myself at the circuit area..

At the starting/ending line of the race track..

Ready.. Get set.. GO!!!

Being inspired by a foreigner Ang Moh to do that which he did the same thing before I follow suit! Not easy to climb up ok? Haha..

Then, some shots around circuit area.. (Before going to Pit Grandstand area)

At the Pit Grandstand area..

After the 61 laps finished, everyone chionging and going to the circuit track as it's open to all of us to walk through and doing stunts and taking photos!!

This is the one which I pity the team because of the last 4th lap which it crashes... Noticed the right side of the car with no wheel..

The video man wants to flim the scene along the row where I am standing... Lolx..

Finally, on my way back home... Some bo liao self shots.. Shots taken after Marsling MRT Station whereby I am the only person left in the carriage that I am in..

Just a BIG LIE to share from SMRT Buses...

2008-09-20T08:53:00.014+08:00

WHAT BUGS ME

Posted on 19 Sep, 2008 16:44

Bus takes 91 mins because picture taken before service starts, says SMRT

SMRT has reponded to a STOMPer's queries on a bus service, which, according to the digital timetable at the bus stop, was scheduled to take 91 minutes to arrive at the Clarke Quay station.

In their response, an SMRT spokesperson says:

"I refer to the STOMP post on the arrival time of Service 61 displayed at the bus stop outside Clarke Quay Station (3 September).

"Service 61 has an average frequency of between 7 and 11 minutes from 5.30am to 8.30am on weekdays.

"Based on the information provided and from our investigation, this photograph of the real-time bus arrival information display at the bus stop outside Clarke Quay Station was likely to have been taken at about 5am.

"The real-time bus arrival information then would show 91 minutes as Service 61 begins operation from Bukit Batok Interchange at 5.30am and would reach the bus stop outside Clarke Quay Station at about 6.30am.

We would appreciate if STOMP could share this (they forget to add in the word "LIE" also?) with its audience."

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What a BIG LIE from SMRT!!! 5am and there are so many other SBST bus services at Clarke Quay?? I didn't know about that man!! Since when SBST has buses that downroute or pass by at Clarke Quay MRT Station (Central Mall) bus stop at like say.... 5am?!?!?

I just don't want to comment anything else... SMRT just loves to talk big cock and tell lots of lies... Now I know that whatever their slogan or tagline that they have, are also a bunch of LIES.... Well done SMRT! Keep it up!! Continuing to LIE more to their fellow commuters out there yeah? =.="

4 years back..

2008-09-19T11:28:00.004+08:00

4 years back, when I was still not a avid bus enthusiast yet, ....................................

Right now, when I am a avid bus enthusiast (but not as crazy as some of them), .............................

Throughout these 4 years, it affected my life really a lot, and it somehow changed the way people think about me as a person... And in terms of my lifestyle, I find that it has somehow changed a lot too..

4 years back, I lead a normal life like what my school friends do... Right now, I find that I have somehow being drifted away from the reality teenage world... I don't want to end up in a world of buses only.. What I really desire is to lead a normal happy life like what my classmates have... I want to strike a balance in my life, and I really don't want to waste my school life just like that... Haiz..

I guess my group of bus enthusiast friends have much more problems and conflicts and misunderstandings among themselves as compared to my other group of friends such as classmates/schoolmates.. Sometimes, it makes me ponder over it and I really feel sad about it...

At times, how I wish that the time machine can bring me back to Year 2004 and restart my life from there once again... But... What's over means over liao... In reality world, there is no such thing called the time machine... And no matter what, I still have to live on... Yeah..

Okay... Time for me to get back to work (school). Shall blog again when I am free...

Replying to tags

2008-09-18T23:54:00.002+08:00

Okay... I shall just reply back the taggies before I go orh orh... I have updated the links and only link those whose blog is not MIA one..

To....

Jun Kai - np! hope to have more of such activities in future =)

KP - hard to say whether the dogs that are harmless or not... lolx.. someday i will go snap 8042C when I am free and not so tired.

tengswee - thanks for all your encouragements =) I am feeling much more better right now... u guys oso dun think too much yeah.. =)

varun - hmmm... no point being those discriminating type one.. if u know mi well u should know what kind of person i am.. Yeah... and dun just judge people based on how they behave in SGF... Must see his/her face to face then will know better.. =)

Faizal - Stress ah... Busy with lots of commitments.. But dun worry too much about me yeah... I will be okay =) You too oso take care well and study hard for your exams! Cya soon!

Andrew - Lolx.. same answer as Faizal.. You used that blogskin before? I also find it a bit familiar after you saying that... =)

Year 3 Semester 2..

2008-09-17T12:57:00.002+08:00

Well.. This is the final semester that I am going to have in my 3 years of poly life.. Looking back to my past semesters, I find that my year 1 semester 1 (W26L), year 2 semester 2 (W64R) and year 3 semester 1 (W66F) are the better classmates that I ever had so far, and truly it leaves me a lot of good old memories of these 3 classes...

Right now, I am kinda not getting used to the fact that I have to change class every single day... Everyday I see different people, and having their cliques because most of the days they are in the same class unlike me... Sometimes, I just find it kinda hard to talk to some people, and I guess over the weeks, I have to overcome it.. So far, out of the 4 classes that I am having currently, I like W64G (Human Resource Management) the most, because there are a lot of familiar faces that I see, and inside that class, I feel like I am really part of the class, unlike my 3 other classes which I have the kind of stranger feeling.. Really hope that I will have a good time being together with W64G, although I only see them once per week.. =(

Some thoughts.. (Bus Enthusiasts)

2008-09-08T02:14:00.005+08:00

Time now is 2:13am, and I just can't leave my thoughts aside and go to sleep.. In a 6 more hours and I have to report to school for lesson.. A bus enthusiast (i am not going to name that person) called me and chat about certain things just now for 1 hour 43 minutes and 7 seconds.. Right now, instead of feeling very tired, I feel otherwise, and the Lord has prompted me to blog about it..

Out of all my circle of friends, although having buses as 1 of my hobbies, but being together with the fellow bus enthusiast friends, the majority of the problem comes from that side.. It's like it's quite amazed yet a sad thing that just for a hobby group of friends like this, there are really a lot (100x) of problems happening around, and it's not just small minor problems, but major problems which affects the friendship among these people a lot.. Sometimes I just think that "isn't hobby friends supposed to be a group of friends that is the more carefree type one when they hang out with one another?"..

As what my nick says, "Broken world... Broken people.. The lack of love .. The lack of something in their life."

Everytime when my CG meeting or church service talks about love in the sermon, it really makes me feeling quite down.. It's like I see a broken world out there, with broken people that lack of something in their life.. Whenever I compare my church/cell group friends with other friends of mine, I can see the significant difference in them..

Something which really burdens me a lot in the bus enthusiasts community, is the friendship among one another, the way they treated one another... Sometimes I am thinking, that how I ever wish if everyone in this community will be like me, having my type of character, and having peace both in the cyber world (forums and MSN) and in the real world out there, showing unfailing love among one another... But... Right now, with all these things happening on in this broken world, it's really very hard to salvage it.. More and more chaotic stuffs have been happening around, and at the rate that it's going, it's going to get worst each moment..

Sometimes when I think back of the times when I am still a very novice (or noob which some of you may called it as) bus enthusiasts in Year 2005, I find that this world is really super duper ultra ultimate unfair, and it's very true in this very cruel world.. Back then, I also do commit mistakes and offend other bus enthusiasts in the forum at times, but I received numerous chances and forgiveness from the seniors especially. It is even to the extent that some people in z8 private forum almost wanted to kick me out.. Through all these years, I find that I have changed really a lot especially in terms of my character, really thankful for that...

Coming back to the present (currently), I really see a great change between the different generations within this community here.. Although age gap between the different generations may not be significant, but the conficts, misunderstanding, broken friendships, chaos.... has been happening around.. It's as good as saying that this is a broken community.. Sometimes, I just think that how I wish if I can just don't give a damn about it and let the situation carry on like this forever... But.. the HS somehow spoke to me, that I should share/carry the burden that is happening around currently, and doing my best to change the situation around and eventually experience a great revival in this community here..

For now... I shall see how the situation goes for the next few weeks or months, and I will share my thoughts from there again...

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)

Asia Conference 2008 ad on SBST buses

2008-09-04T03:20:00.006+08:00

Well... Asia Conference 2008 is coming up, and probably this is the 1st time my church (CHC) go and advertise it on public buses.. What a good start for it! Last week I saw a few, but never caught it because of my grandma's wake, that's why I told myself that I would wait till last Monday and then here I go all out to snap every buses with that ad.. This is probably the 1st time also, that I am so enthu in going after every single of SBST buses with that ad.. Till now, there are 13 buses with that advertisment (full bodied ad somemore). They are:

SBS 8067 G (HGDEP 64)
SBS 8070 X (HGDEP 64)
SBS 8134 X (HGDEP 27)
SBS 8164 J (AMDEP 53)
SBS 8172 K (AMDEP 57)
SBS 8183 D (AMDEP 128/269*)
SBS 8190 H (SLBP 51)
SBS 8191 E (SLBP 105)
SBS 8200 M (SLBP 157)
SBS 8459 J (AMDEP 128/265*)
SBS 8470 A (BRBP 131)
SBS 8489 Y (SLBP 105)
Another BRBP bus that Choww has seen when he bypass BRBP (Either from Service 26, 60, 63, 131, 154 or 157)

* denotes buses that does crossover to another service
Orange denotes buses which I have photos of it.
Green denotes buses which I have yet to chase after for its photo.

Really want to thank God and my bus enthusiast friends for all the surprises that came our timely without me expecting it and all the timings + spottings that has done by my fellow bus enthusiast friends.. Shall let the photos do the talking..

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Featuring SBS8067G.. (Hougang Depot - Service 64 permerant bus)

Quite obvious that this background is from Expo Hall 8 ba... (CHC members you should know!)

Not obvious enough? This is a close-up shot! The red LED lyrics board with the time is quite obvious enough liao... Lolx..

Needless to say which verse is that ba? Lolx.. Quite a famous verse in the bible..

The rest are all up here!
http://chce447.my2gig.com/Asia_Conference_2008_SBST_ad/index.html
(Right click and select "Open Image in New Window" to zoom to 800x600 size)

Take care everyone and God bless! ^_^

P.s: School starting for me in a few hours' time... While the rest of the polytechnics are enjoying their "more than 1 month" semester break, our "3 weeks ONLY" semester break is coming to a end.. :-(

Year 3 Semester 2 (Modules, classes and faciliators)

2008-08-29T17:04:00.007+08:00

Woohoo!! First of all, I never kena WEE KAH HUAT for IT Security and Management module.. Praise God for that!!

Okay... Now for the rest...

C235 - IT Security and Management
Class: W64E
Facilitator: William Kwok (No WEE KAH HUAT!! Those who kena him, I wish you a happy new year and "GOOD LUCK" first!!! 1 of my friends kena liao..)

C216 - Digital Media Technologies
Class: W67C
Facilitator: Should be Julian Wong (If yes, good, if not, see how..)

B320 - Business Finance
Class: W64P
Facilitator: Lorraine Jow (Hopefully her faciliation and teaching is good..)

B221 - Human Resource Management
Class: W64G
Facilitator: Gilbert Wong (Wasted.. Never kena Jacob Ng.. Hopefully Gilbert Wong's faciliation and teaching is good too..)

Touched.... Blessed... This whole week so great!

2008-08-24T23:46:00.005+08:00

Yeah! For this whole week, I went to the morning prayer meeting every single weekday... The feeling is super great, although we started as early as 7am every morning.. So happy that for this 1 week, I got to know more friends within our (Meiyan) sub-zone, and for the next sub-zone camp, I really (3x) wish to get to know even more people and interact with them ;-)

This whole week, I felt so blessed too... Blessed by everything that God has provided me..

Financial blessing for new guitar for me (as a beginner, my friends said that $200 is enough... Lolx..).

God has also surprised me with bus cameos (not only just saw but RIDE too). One afternoon when I wanted to wait for Service 171, a Dennis Lance (with Volgren bodyworks which there are only 2 of them in entire SMRT bus fleets, and their permerant route are all Service 851) came. TIB1017D for those bus enthusiasts reading my blog... (swapped with TIB820H on that day which went over to Service 851). There was also one late morning when a Volvo B10M Mk 4 (DM3500 bodywork) did Service 124, and I saw it while I was on Service 700, so I alighted at SMU and boarded it...

God has also enlarged my capacity as well... Just within this month, I was being called to be 1 of the welfare I/Cs in my church ministry (usher). I also gain more ideas for the past few weeks for my CG blog (E447) and it's more or less done, just that my CGL got suggestions which I can improve on, which is good, because even as the blog I/C for my CG, I have to admit that I do commit mistakes at times too. Even in my bus enthusiast CG, I am also called to be the leader to lead the West group. But for now, thank God that currently, Ben (our zone leader who oversees both East and West group currently) would be sitting by my side to guide me...

It's not easy to lead a group... And I really want to visualize that my West group is a very active CG, that we would be serious in our spiritual life, and lively + casual when it comes to CG casual/relax activities every month which I don't want to have anything related to bus for it, with a reason behind it..

This morning, was the graduation service for the graduates from SOT (School of Theology aka bible school), and when Dr Abraham prayed for our pastor Dr Kong Hee, it touched my heart a lot too to the extent of tears coming out when we sang "Although Thousand Collapse" during worship... Seeing all the SOT graduates, really makes me feel very motivated to join... When my 2 years of NS finish, I really want to go for it..

Well... Shall stop here for now... Got other things to do... Haha.. What a busy man I am.... =.="\

Meiyan's subzone Brothers and Sisters who went for the morning prayer meeting on the last day of 2nd week.. (Eeee.... I should post in that shot that way... Argh.. Haha!)

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ALTHOUGH THOUSAND COLLAPSES - CITY HARVEST CHURCH

MERCIES THAT RISE WITH THE NEW MORN
SET ME APART AS A NEW BORN
EACH MOMENT I LIVE
BY FAITH I BELIEVE
WITH YOU I'M NEVER ALONE

DARKNESS MAY COME, TRIALS SEEM SO LONG
YOU ARE THE LIGHT I DEPEND ON
THROUGH VALLEYS AND STORMS
YOUR WORD KEEPS ME STRONG
MY SHELTER, REFUGE AND SONG
I TRUST IN YOU

EVERYDAY I LIVE I KNOW YOU ARE MY GOD
I LIFT MY FACE AND LOOK TO YOU MY LORD
EVEN WHEN THE MOUNTAINS TREMBLE
AND A THOUSAND FALL
I WILL STAND WITH YOU
MY JESUS TAKE MY ALL

Busy...

2008-08-17T22:36:00.002+08:00

Few days back I had been busying doing certain stuffs, and for the next 2-3 weeks of my semester break, I can kiss my break goodbye... More commitments in my church ministry, bus enthusiasts "cell group", FYP2 coming up, and my E447 cell group blog (which I expected to complete it before my 3 weeks of semester break ends), and not forgetting my daily quiet time which sometimes I have been neglected about it..

So which also means that I will not be updating my blog for quite some time... Anyway please do comment on my new modified blog template.. 1st time I put in so much effort to revamp my blog.. Thanks thanks ^o^

Festival of Praise 2008

2008-08-10T19:47:00.009+08:00

Hey all! Long time no update... These few days I have been busying with my own stuff, mainly school and church stuff, and with things going on especially for weekends which packed my day..

Last Friday to Sunday (1st - 3rd August 2008), I went for FOP (Festival of Praise) with my bus enthusiast and my E447 cell group friends.. This year, we have Reuben Morgan from Hillsong Australia and Parachute Band from New Zealand who led us for praise & worship, and Pastor Mark Conner from CityLife Church who led us for sermon..

First night of FOP 2008, I went with 2 of my bus enthusiast friends (Reuben and XY) and 2 of my E447 cell group friends (Quanhan and Ben). KP was invited by his friend, Ming Wei, for the 1st night of FOP 2008.. Everything was great there, especially the sermon part which really impact my heart a lot. The sermon is about building a strong spiritual atmosphere and there are 4 ingredients that are important for creating an atmosphere of power and growth which consist of "Peace", "Encouragement", "Comfort" and "Fear of the Lord". Won't elaborate it here ba, probably in my spiritual blog I will talk more about it.. After the whole service finished, XY went home while Reuben and myself went to Plaza Singapura for late night dinner cum supper inside MacDonald.. Took SBS1936U (crossover from Service 506) of Niteowl 3N back home after that.. Super chiongster like Singapore version of Tokyo Drift..

Second night of FOP 2008, I went with 3 of my bus enthusiast friends (Reuben, Wilcent and Isaac) and some of my E447 cell group friends after cell group meeting.. Inside there, Wilcent sat right beside my E447 cell group leader (Quanhan), and he was quite shocked at first when he saw my cell group leader using laptop during sermon to take down sermon notes.. Lolx.. Sermon was about growing old or growing up.. Also won't elaborate much down here... After the whole service finished, I went with my bus enthusiast friends to the MacDonald at Plaza Singapura for late night dinner cum supper again.. After that rush out to the bus stop at Dohby Ghaut MRT Station there to wait for our night buses back home.. Praise the LORD!! The main entrance door wasn't lock unlike the previous night when Reuben and myself had to walk a big round via Carrefour there to the bus stop, hence after that, we stop rushing and take our time to walk to the bus stop and waited.. Wilcent took Niteowl 4N (At after 1am when his bus came and I have finished bathing at home liao..), Reuben and myself took Niteowl 3N (SBS2607M, Service 506 crossover also but this time never chiong as there were a lot of cars along the way), and Isaac went to the bus stop further down towards MacDonald's house and took the 2nd last Service 65 bus back home (which is around 12:25am, lucky him that the last bus from Harbourfront bus interchange is 12am).

Third day of FOP 2008, instead of joining my friends for the whole service, I was serving in Zone A2 along the North Sector instead.. Helped Reuben and Wilcent to book seats for them also, and I supposed that they can see how stressed and worried I am at the point of time of serving (usher), especially after offering and sermon, during the praise and worship after that, when I was already broke down but I managed to resist my tears until I reached back home and doing my quiet time before I slept.. Felt so discouraged and shag especially when the gates inside towards the stage area were opened and I saw a lot of youngster who were very on fire with the LORD when it comes to praise.. (More about that can be found on my spiritual blog..) Btw, the sermon was about "Living in the Light of Eternity" which I will also elaborate more in my spiritual blog as well.. Went home after service immediately because next day I still got lesson, and really I wanna thank God for the SMB1H (bus enthusiasts you should know what is this bus) on Service 190 when I transferred to it from Service 14, which managed to cheer my mood up at least by a bit..

I remembered that I 1st stepped into church atmosphere during last year's FOP (Year 2007) when Raymond (1 of my E447 cell group friends) invited and brought me over, and I accepted Christ in 1 month++ after that in September 2007.. Hence I was so looking forward to this year's FOP and for once, my burning passion for the LORD became stronger and stronger.. (Except the third day when I was serving in my allocated zone). It's from this point of time last year that I experienced my turning point of life to a better one.. I realised that my life really changed a lot from the point of time when I accepted Christ as my LORD and saviour... Till now, I never regret my decision to believe in Christianity despite the numerous setbacks and difficulties that I have faced. In fact, it is through all these setbacks and difficulties that increase my faith level over time..

I will stop blogging here for now, and I will blog about the rest of it (such as national day and etc etc probably after a few days when my semester break starts..) God bless everyone! Take care!

2 more days to my 3 weeks (only) semester break...

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Night 1: Myself, Reuben, XY

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Night 2: Isaac, Reuben, Wilcent, myself

Night 2: Reuben, Isaac, Wilcent, myself

Night 2: Reuben, myself, Isaac, Wilcent

Night 2: Reuben, Isaac, Wilcent, myself

Night 2: Reuben, myself, Wilcent, Isaac

Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters.
- Hebrews 13:1 (NLT)

Financial Accounting UT 4

2008-07-25T12:58:00.004+08:00

So stressed..!! Especially when it comes to Problem 12...

It's a RIGHTFUL choice for me to pon lesson for today's BPM lesson... Heard that there is a need to draw all the Use Case diagram, and all the stuffs that we have done for Year 2's SAD module, but bad thing is that today's problem is tested in the upcoming UT4 of BPM... Boo!!!

Although I pon class, but at least I am feeling so stress and frustrated (by Problem 12) studying for today's UT later on.. I cannot afford to get a "C" grade anymore...

Good luck to all for UT later...

Going to meet my FYP1 advisor and teammates for lunch liao...

FYP 1 Die and Over!

2008-07-24T17:09:00.006+08:00

Friends: Hey... So how's your FYP presentation? Good?
Me: Die ah... (Hand finger showing the dying sign)
Friends: How come?
Me: That Frank Ng la... He shoot us until very jia liak... And that Juan Sng (not Leong Wai Kit anymore) like buck up with that Frank Ng already... Shoot also shoot together and laugh together...

For the rest of the story just ask me personally... I will tell you the whole story.. Lolx..

Anyway... I really wish to thank for my FYP1 team a lot... Although we kena shoot by the 2 evaluators (Frank Ng and Juan Sng) until very jia liak, but still, we should not think that all our efforts have gone to a waste...

The lesson of the day that we have learnt from the FYP1 presentation:

"Don't think that everything your advisor say is 100% correct and accurate! You have to really think through and decide which is right for you, ok?!?"
- Frank Ng (Evaluator 1)

Okay time for photos!

My FYP teammates with our presentation ppt in the laptop before the actual presentation @ 12pm, W64L classroom..

Pek + Yiqi + Mel

My 2 beloved teammates =)

Another post again.. =)

Me and mel.. I am somehow "forced" to post this style, but looks nice in the end! =)

Whites (You Kai's FYP1 team) vs Blacks (my FYP1 team)

2 Whites & 2 Blacks =)

Another post by them..

You Kai & myself.. 1 of my next FYP2 teammates and current semester classmates..

Me and mel.. This looks more decent..

You Kai's FYP1 teammates..

My beloved FYP1 teammates.. ^_^

Another post by beloved FYP1 teammates.. ^_^

This should looks more formal ba in terms of the posting style..

Today's marketing lesson... Guys were generally more formal in attire than the girls... At least for the top... In the end, Cavvy Chin (my year 2 sem 1 Multimedia faci) and Wan Lin (my current sem classmate) asked whether am I going for Wedding Dinner later... Some of my friends asked if I am selling anything today.. Most of them keep addressing me as "boss"!!! =.=" Especially my teammates...

When I reached back home, I took out my Canon S5 camera and start using tripod to take photos of myself.. Haha..

Me and my study (laptop) table..

Me sitting down in front of my table... Looks like a typical business man? Lolx..

Now, when I try using my blazer/black coat to wear it on, I do look more like a businessman or boss isn't it? Lolx..

When I am sitting down with my blazer..

Lucky I never wear like this for Marketing lesson today... If not... I think i will get comments that are worst than the expected.. Lolx..

Okay that's all! FYP1 is finally over!!! But whether need to do re-work or not, I don't know... Tomorrow my FYP1 advisor is going to meet my team for lunch... Well.. See what she wants to say to calm us down as mentioned in her e-mail to us... Lolx..

And before I end off this blog post, I really like to thank all my friends who prayed for my sickness, FYP1 presentation and this coming Friday's Financial Accounting final UT... ^_^ Take care and God bless everyone!

FYP presentation

2008-07-22T13:51:00.003+08:00

In 1 more day's time....

Yesterday I seem to be very screwed up during my mock-up FYP presentation with my teammates and advisor by how and what I have presented, especially when I mentioned about PESTLE Analysis and my part for Demonstration..

This morning, I found out that I suffer from throat pain.. Argh... Which means no fried food and I can only drink herbal teas or starfruit juice or worst come to worst, seek medical care from the doctor... Zzz...

Tomorrow morning I really need to meet up with my teammates for the last bit of preparation before the judgement day comes at 12pm, W64L, with Frank Ng and Leong Wai Kit (previously before the change was Julian Wong).. Good luck to all those who have not presented yet... =)

Hope that on the actual presentation I won't screwed everything up and everything goes very smoothly..

Zhenghua Sec 5Ns in Year 2005..

2008-07-15T15:55:00.012+08:00

Some of the good old memories that I have... To think back of my past, I really miss all my secondary school friends a lot, especially to all my classmates... Thinking back, the times that we used to be fool around with one another, do stupid things and keep bullying me for Jia Keng, Lucas and Wen Xian.. All the childish actions that we have done... Really miss those times a lot... And now, all of us have grown up, to be a more matured and grown up bunch of teenagers...

This coming Teachers' Day gathering, if the celebration falls on that day itself, I will go back with my secondary school classmates, and get to update one another on our poly life and everything etc..

Just a few photos here to have a glimpse of the good old times that we had..

At Esplanade...

At Marina South Steamboat: (Chin Huat Live Seafood Restaurant)

Last Day of school in Zhenghua Sec..

My NPCC teacher.. Mr Dennis Ong.. He's not in Zhenghua Sec anymore liao.. =(

My Sec 3-5 Chinese teacher.. Miss Soh Bee Kim..

Hari Raya visit to Rafizah's house..

In the Month of August 2005 when the "I WAS HERE" was 1st at Esplanade before shifting to NUS Cultural Centre now..

The days that I get "tortured" by my classmates in a fun way at Sentosa..

Taken during 1 of the lunch gathering that we have after lesson... Used to be 1 of the common hangout place as some of my guys classmates would gather for lunch after school to places like Pizza Hut @ Greenridge Shopping Centre.. The students rates, that we always wait until the time comes, and we start our ordering..

Time really flies very fast... Just a split second away, it's our final year of our poly life...

No matter how tough our poly life is for the past 2 years and this year as our final year in poly before moving on to our next phase of life (NS), we must endure and treasure the tough moments that we have, for that we will miss our fun times that we have in our various polys once we are enlisted for NS (for guys)..

Stay strong always!

Take care guys! Looking forward to the next gathering... (Hope it's the actual day itself so that I can make it..)

Zhenghua Sec class 5N1 (2005) - The best class I ever had...

Updates!!

2008-07-15T13:26:00.008+08:00

Lolx... Although some/most of them are quite outdated ones, I shall just update it here in 1 shot... Lolx..

My Year 3 Semester 2 Module Selection:

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Second, is the FYP Presentation which for my team, is on 23th July 2008, 12pm. Guess what? Both of my evaluators, are those who ....................................... 总之就是没有好下场的。。

Frank Ng.....
Julian Wong.....

Good luck....

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Third, is that my new FYP team for semester 2, has done our project selection, and awaiting for the result to come out. Although the chances of getting our 1st choice is low because a lot of people are choosing that as well, just pray hard that we will still get the choice that we opted for, and pray for a smooth journey for the semester ahead...

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Finally, I have the free time (at least for these few weeks) on Wednesday to go gym liao... Last Wednesday I did not went because I have something on... This time (this week) I am really looking forward to it... Although 1st FYP is over, but that doesn't mean that I will be very free. My schedule is still quite tight, at least for this week..

Phew...

2008-07-11T13:35:00.002+08:00

Finally... My part for the weekly log and minutes meetings for the 1st FYP have completed... Now I have less 1 burden to worry about... Thank God for that... These few days have been a very stressful and rushing week for me and it's very tired for me....

"Come to Me, all of you who work and have heavy loads. I will give you rest"
Matthew 11:28

FYP 1 Judgement Day is coming..

2008-07-10T22:58:00.003+08:00

This coming Monday - submission of the FYP CD...
The following Wednesday (23th July 2008) - Formal Presentation (aka Judgement Day)

FYP 2 wise, it's really indeed stressful for me, especially when it comes to selecting teammates.. I just don't wish to talk anything much down there.. I still got my daily RJ which I haven do, plus the BPMN UT tomorrow... From Lesson 1 to lesson 11.. During the 2nd meeting, I also couldn't concentrate at all.. GG liao.. I need some rest after that... May peace be with everyone..

Psalm 23:4

2008-07-09T10:21:00.006+08:00

If anyone of you asked whether I am living by which verse (or similiar questions like that) right now, I would say that it's Psalm 23:4... Let me share with you this verse over here..

"Yes, even if I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of anything, because You are with me. You have a walking stick with which to guide and one with which to help. These comfort me. "
- Psalm 23:4 (New Life Version)

I have put it up in this NLV version, which is easier to understand it.. What I mean by "the valley of the shadow of death", to put into our modern context, is about all our tough times in our life, all the obstacles, difficulties or troubles that we faced in our life.

Speaking of which, God reminded me about all of us here living in a broken world..

"We live in a broken world which has never been healthier, wealthier or bizarrely, free of conflict, but some 500 kilometers south of here they die of want, ... It's not only intellectually absurd, but also morally repulsive."
-Bob geldof

This quote really describes this world very well.. Especially the one about "free of conflicts".

And this reminded me back of my friends, especially bus enthusiast friends.. Every night when i view through sgforums, a very well known bus forum in Singapore, I see bus enthusiasts "shooting" one another, sometimes in a very unpleasant way.. It kinda makes me feel very heartbroken, that it really defeats the purpose of having this forum. Although I am not 1 of the moderators in this forum, but what I wish to say is that a forums is a place that is meant for friendly discussion, and sharing of knowledge to other bus enthusiasts or any other forumers. This is especially for the newcomers of this forum. They may not know whether they have offended other bus enthusiasts in any way, and unwillingly, they are the ones who are been "shoot off" by the more senior bus enthusiasts.

What I personally feel is that they should not deserve this kind of treatment here, and they should be given equal opportunity to learn from their mistakes, even it's a repetitive one, because some bus enthusiasts just need more time to change themselves. We have to be patient at times, and to be able to tolerate all these things..

Okay, coming back to Psalm 23:4, all these unpleasant things that we are currently facing/going through in our own life, we shouldn't be afraid of it. Especially for Christians here, we know that God sees through all the things in every single one of us here, and God is with us all the time, hence we can just pray (and speak) to God for help, and God would be there for us.. This is when the "walking stick" in this verse came in, whereby the "walking stick" is the aid which God gives to us, and comfort us in a special way..

Sometimes over here, you just feel that the more you afraid of a particular things that you are going through in your life, the more you will feel that things are getting worst, and feeling even more afraid in a sense..

For me, as some of you here may have known about it, that my grandma is still hospitalised in NUH, and last week, my parents told me that "for now, we just wait for the time to end" in chinese. Upon hearing it, instead of being very depressed and keep worrying and crying, I had decided to tell God about it, and cast out all my worries and burdens to God, and let God decides everything for me... No point crying over it just because it has/going to happen..

All these things that happened in my life, God knows about it, and for me, God wants me to go through it, and to be able to overcome it. Thank God for allowing me to go through and testify my faith and trust, and once the crisis is over, that I would grow spiritually stronger in Christ..

Hmmm... I hope this entry here will inspires and encourages all of you here, especially those who are going through tough times right now, and hope it really impact your life a lot...

Cheers to all and God bless.. ^_^

Gym time!

2008-07-07T16:19:00.002+08:00

This Wednesday, I feel like going for a round of exercise at the gym...

I have not been to gym for quite a long long time liao.. And I want to experience the shiokness feeling that I can get after the exercise...

Hmm... Feel like going for a evening to night one somewhere not near my house.. (Definitely not Choa Chu Kang, Yishun or Woodlands of course..) and after that, I can go and have dinner and my QT before going back home...

Faster... Let this Wednesday come faster...

Monday Blues...

2008-07-07T15:10:00.003+08:00

Don't know why.... These few days I just feel very tired... Not tired of my life, but is really the physically tired... Last week for Marketing module, I got my 1st "C" grade, just because I fall asleep throughout the 3rd meeting, from after we presented (4th team), till the faciliator and a few classmates left.. That was the worst feeling that I can ever had throughout my entire years of my RP life.. Then right now, it's like I feeling like sleeping almost all the time...

When will this ever end? I wonder...

Back to blogging again..

2008-07-01T13:55:00.003+08:00

Okay back to blogging here again... 1st time pon lesson just to chase after buses. This time is not some ordinary buses horz... It's the brand new Mercedes Benz OC500LE, Southeast Asia's 1st Euro 5 bus. It is wheelchair friendly...

SMB1H on Service 190:

During the SMRT Go Green Campaign @ NUS Cultural Centre:

Okay enough of the buses... Come back to my own life..

It has been quite some time since I last attended my poly's CCC LM (live meeting). Although I seem to be a pretty new member inside there, I hope that I can be able to talk to the people there more in time to come as I get to know them better.. On my way back home, I also get to understand more about my Financial Accounting's faciliator better through Jacob's sharing session with me, and his high expectations for the daily grades as well.. After he told me about it, I was feeling very blessed that I have him as my faciliator for this module because as a Assistant Director of CIE, he only teaches 1 class per semester, and he's really the one who will motivates us in my class to really do well for this module. He's 1 of the best faciliator that ever facilate my class so far throughout my poly life and I cannot afford to disappoint him.. =)

Come to think of it, my personal desire is to be a teacher/faciliator when I grow up, because I have a passion for teaching, but my current accumulated GPA (year 1 and 2) is 2.61, which is very bad, all thanks to programming in Year 2, my GPA became like that.. For this year, since the modules I taking, focus more on business/marketing side, I really have faith and trust that I will be able to excel well and eventually push up my GPA to at least 3...

Random feeling and thoughts keep coming into my mind, but sometimes I just don't know how to express it in words... Hmmm... I think I shall stop here for now and to continue to do my quiet time in National Library... Cheers to everyone who read my blog and God bless! ^_^

Yesterday's happening at Little India MRT Station bus stop..

2008-06-30T12:09:00.003+08:00

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!

Well....

2008-06-26T14:22:00.009+08:00

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)

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...

Long time no post..

2008-06-25T16:47:00.003+08:00

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.. ^_^

Walking Through the Valleys of Life

2008-06-21T09:34:00.004+08:00

"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.. ^_^

General post...

2008-06-15T21:56:00.002+08:00

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...

Amazing Bus Fans Race June 2008

2008-06-15T19:37:00.006+08:00

What 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...

After prize presentation, the whole lot of us (except some who needs to leave earlier) went over to Seah Im Food Centre for dinner and off service back home after that...

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)

To The Ends of the Earth

2008-06-10T10:07:00.003+08:00

Whenever 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

Thoughts to share..

2008-06-09T19:34:00.004+08:00

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...

Thoughts that came through my mind...

2008-06-08T23:59:00.002+08:00

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..

YMCA to Clarke Quay night scenery shots..

2008-06-04T09:53:00.014+08:00

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!~

After a long hiatus...

2008-06-03T10:00:00.010+08:00

... for not taking bus photos for a long time (about 3-6 months), I finally have a whole free afternoon for me to take bus photos and some night scenery shots at night...

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Same number on Same Service:

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Buses with RP ad are just a bunch of STALKERS to me... Everywhere I go, buses with RP ad will follow me.. Even for cameos, it won't let me off also!!

TIB516L on Service 77: (Permerant depot & service of this bus: KJDEP 189)

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How about the Duty-Unpaid cigarettes advertisement?

TIB610Y on Service 700: (Permerant depot & service of this bus: KJDEP 67)

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How about a Nikon D300 ad as well?

TIB668G on Service 171:

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How about going back to the good old nostalgic days? (Featuring some memorable cameo shots)

TIB1001Z never failed to cameo on Service 700A during the December season for the past 2 years... And now it becomes a nostalgic because this service is no longer controlled by Woodlands Depot, and that Kranji Depot was quite stingy in dumping bendies on Service 700A for weekends..

December 2007:

December 2006:

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TIB595H on Service 700/700A. Although it used to be perm under Woodlands Depot, ever since after 23th March 2008's massive redeployment, this bus on this service has became a history...

This is after the accident at Whitley Rd when this became the 2nd rigid bus to be fitted with new LAWO EDS which is Orange in color, after TIB484U..

Tempted for night shot since it looks nice with orange EDS on a night..

When it cameo on Service 75: (this is also a history as this service is also controlled by Kranji Depot liao)

When it got changed to Tiger Airway ads..

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How can we forget the elite bendies on Service 700?

As this service does not have perm Volgren bendies during its glory Woodlands Depot days, this photo is also nostalgic liao...

TIB1178Y on Service 700: (Permerant depot & service: WLDEP 169)

TIB1182J on Service 700: (Permerant depot & service: WLDEP 963)

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Nissan Diesel (or UDs in short) on those "not supposed to get the super old bus" services... Nostalgic isn't it? Anyway these UDs are due to scrap by this year end when the new Euro 5 Mercedes Benz OC500LE arrive..

CSS183U on Service 966: (Permerant depot & service: WLDEP 980/SP?)

CSS193R on Service 75: (Permerant depot & service: WLDEP 852)
This bus on this service has also became a history because of a change in depot control of this service to Kranji Depot

CSS190Z on Service 187: (Already deregistered/scrapped to date)
The 1st and the last time I saw and snapped this bus on any service.. I guess not many bus enthusiasts saw this bus during its SMRT Buses days..

How can we forget the 2 joker UDs on a TOWN service? Somemore it's SMRT's best frequency, top cashcow service!!

CSS179H on Service 190: (Permerant depot & service: KJDEP 975)

CSS180C on Service 190: (Permerant depot & service: KJDEP 975)

By the way, these 2 buses happened on the very same day...

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How about an current BNDEP bus on ex-AMDEP service?

SBS2754X on Service 186: (Used to be AMDEP spare bus)

Earlier on (a few weeks/months before the top photo one), it cameo on the same service but on a faithful Friday and it hit the jackpot of sole Service 186/400 night crossover.... (I guess I am the only one who got Mk 4 bus photo on Service 400? Somemore it's crossover to Service 400 for 2 trips IIRC, not on Service 400 the whole day)

The top cameo of this post goes to......

SBS2754X on Service 400: (Used to be AMDEP spare bus)

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How about cute little bus cameoing on other services other than its permerant service, 42 and 92..?

SBS8018Z on Service 58: (Permerant depot & service: BNDEP 42)
Top speed of close to 90km/h at night along a deserted long stretch road when it's heading towards Pasir Ris!!

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How about the sole bendy bus with new Hanover orange EDS cameoing on other service?

TIB1034D on Service 184: (Permerant depot & service: KJDEP 190)

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How about the sole Hino Volgren demonstrator bus cameoing on other service?

TIB905Y on Service 975: (Permerant depot & service: KJDEP 941)

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How about a current BNDEP Volvo B10TL aka VSO on an ex-BRBP service?

SBS9812R on Service 157: (Current permerant depot & service: BNDEP 14)

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How about a Volvo B10TL aka VSO on a service which does not exist anymore?

SBS9803S on Service C2: (Current permerant depot & service: AMDEP 133)

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The glory days with TIBS livery...

TIB835R on Service 920: (Current permerant depot & service: WLDEP 852)

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Service 921... Will always be remembered.......

TIB663U on Service 921: (Current permerant depot & service: WLDEP 167)

TIB638T on Service 921: (Ex-permerant depot & service: WLDEP 921)
Taken on the last day of this service using 12m bus before it switched to mini busplus buses. Eventually this service was withdrawn and Service 700/700A was amended to cover up for the lost of Service 921 with the new Petir Rd extension being opened.. This bus is currently permerant on Service 922, which is well known for its 30 mins frequency thanks to the Bt Panjang LRT...

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That's all for the super long post... Lolx... Hope you enjoy viewing my past and present collections.. =D

My 20th Birthday...

2008-06-03T09:38:00.002+08:00

Hi all... Long time no blog liao... As usual these day pretty busy for me...

I must say that I really have a meaningful birthday celebration, especially with the day-care centre kids (which is situated at somewhere in Tiong Bahru area) after the community service (Amazing Race @ Singapore Botanical Garden) while we were inside the bus.. Seeing the kids (who came from different family background whom got various kinds of negative problems) with their smile makes me really feeling very happy and overwhelmed. That's for Saturday.. After that in the evening I meet up with my family members for birthday celebration dinner before I accompanied my brother to go home since he insisted on wanting to go home..

On Sunday, my CG celebrated my birthday after service, and indeed, I am really very happy and appreciative that they put in their best effort (Jia Yun, please don't condemn yourself again and say that you all did it until it's not so good ok?!) to specially do this for me, knowing that I am famous in the CG for having this unique interest/hobby of buses...

Went for lunch + fellowship with my CG at Changi Airport until late afternoon before I made my way down to Plaza Singapura to meet up with XY (met for a while before he rushed back home for dinner) and Jack for dinner and walk around at Ngee Ann City before we headed back home..

In all, really wanna thank u guys for all the birthday wishes and presents especially for my E447 CG and my fellow Bus Enthusiast friends.. Really appreciated it a lot a lot!! ^_^

Acts 20:24

2008-05-28T09:16:00.003+08:00

Was reading the verse of the day in my blog seconds ago, and it reminds me of Jacob's sub-MSN nick when he mentioned about this verse as well.. During the DG meeting yesterday, he shared with us about his mission trips to Thailand and China in the month of June, and he showed us the video of the mission work that he had gone to in the previous time to Thailand, and I really almost broke down and cry when I saw the whole thing... The situation in Thailand, is really really very bad.. Visit this website if you haven done so, and read the blog entry on the 25th May 2008...

http://thehmongshope.blogspot.com/

Lets start to pray for all the people in Hmong and all the needs that they required which is listed on that website.. (as I am lazy to copy and paste here, and so as to make you all really go to that website and see everything which is there and read up about it..)

Acts 20:24
“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.”

Things revolving around me....

2008-05-28T08:09:00.004+08:00

Lately, lots of things are revolving around and within me, to the extent that negative stuff > positive stuff.. It happens from my bus enthusiast community (both juniors & seniors), to my school (RP), and even around the world also (especially Asia for the past few weeks till now)..

During the DG (Discipleship Group) meeting yesterday with a few students (guys in CCC) plus Jacob (who is our head/advisor for CCC) at a small secret meeting room in the school.. 1st of all I wanna thank Jacob for inviting me down to DG meeting (whom he got to know it when Qiu Yun told him that I am interested in the DG as well... Thanks Qiu Yun also!). In yesterday's DG meeting, Jacob talked about the 3 types of calling, which indeed lead us to really think through what is our level of calling right now, and how to proceed on to a higher level... He also mentioned about the whole of Psalms 90..

In verse 10, it says that:
"The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away"

We don't live in this world just to enjoy our life.. All of us here bound to encounter any troubles and sorrow somewhere in our walk of life, and it's through this that God really lead us to walk though it and overcome it as well... As what I have mentioned in my blog months or years ago, that life is never easy for all of us living in this world, but thank God that whenever I faced all the troubles and sorrow and even any trials and obstacles, that He will always be by my side, to walk with me together and overcome it...

Our walk of life, is never always smooth, and is never always peaceful..

In verse 12, it says that:
"Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."

In a sense it's very true for me.. Life is always too short for all of us here, and hence, we have to really live life to the fullest, and not having to stick onto a certain troubles or any difficulties, and not go forth to solve it, to overcome it... Sad to say, some of us here have failed to achieve this point.. In Buses@SgForums, I can already see very clearly... Every single week or even day, I have never failed to see any person either trying to create troubles/flamings, or continuing to make the troubles/flamings go even worst... I believe this is not the way that we should lead our life, and at times, when we lack a heart of wisdom in this area, some of us tend to do such things..

This evening, I am going to meet up with Ben and Isaac (Wilcent may join us as well if he's free) for dinner at Bedok, and after that, to share our troubles or problems which happened around and within us, and closing off with prayer as well, because the main objective of the meet up tonight is for prayer.. It's when I feel that there is a urgent need for us to gather together as brother-in-Christ and pray for one another.. Too many things have been happening around and within every single one of us here, and there is really an urgent need to seek God for His help, directions, and blessing as well...

Okay... time for me to have my breakfast and busy my own stuff...

May God bless every single one of us here, and take care everyone.. ^_^

Don't lead me to any negative thoughts...

2008-05-26T17:52:00.003+08:00

Sigh... Now... Things around me in school is starting to get more secretive towards me.. Somehow or rather, I just feel that............that................ I guess... It's better for me to talk it over the phone... I don't want to let this affect my FYP meeting...

Anointed by Your presence..

2008-05-25T23:59:00.000+08:00

Quite some time every since I had a proper blogging...

Past few days, it seemed to me that I had faced quite a tough and depressing moments in the area of school life.. It's only until 2 days back when things started to get better for me..

Right now, I am not going to say anything much because I have school lesson the next day morning.. But I just really want to thank God that He has guided me on the right path and to give me words of encouragement whenever I am feeling very down or depressed or even stressed in my spiritual walk of life.. Thank God for all Your blessings that He has provided me, especially in the area of emotionally wise..

Just now during the service (both morning service & prayer meeting), I can really sense the ultimate strong spiritual atmosphere and the anointing presence of God. When pastor asked us to visualize all our visions and dreams, I know that God in indeed giving me the call to vision myself that I will become CGL or even my bus enthusiasts Christian fellowship/prayer group leader..

This coming end of May and 14th June, there are 2 activity in total,

31th May: CG community service which I needs to lead a small kids group with my assistant leaders (there are 8 teams with 1 main leader each on every team, which I am 1 of the 8 main leaders) at Botanic Garden.
14th June: De Amazing Bus Fans Race (June 2008), with me as the organizer of this race..

I believe that this is the time whereby God will really want to testify my faith and leadership level, to be really called by Him to do greater things and lead the team/group of people well.. I pray that everything will goes on smoothly, and that God will really use me in a great way, to do things which will glorify His name, to shine for Him.. Amen..

Okay shouldn't talk much here le... I am pretty sleepy liao... Got time I will blog more... Cya and take care everyone... God bless everyone here =) Nitez..

Just don't feel good...

2008-05-22T19:39:00.002+08:00

I also don't know how should I describe my feeling right now, 7:46pm at 2nd level of RP library..

And right now, I don't know why, I just feel like thinking back of the past... There was this saying:

"The only easy day was yesterday"

How nice if time can bring me back to the days when I was in Zhenghua Sec.. I really miss those good old times that my schoolmates and I had back then...

Right now, I just don't feel totally right... I just feel that I am not fit to be part of the group.. It's like every time I am with them, I am always so quiet... I am really so lousy in talking crap, and then all their topics, most of it I don't seem to know about it and I just keep my mouth shut.. The feeling is just very negative, very bad, very not alright... I just feel like don't do anything now and just lie down my head on the table and keep quiet for a moment...

Leave me alone for a while... I will feel better after that....

Reflecting on my spiritual life..

2008-05-17T22:37:00.004+08:00

It's time to reflect on my own spiritual life...

I still find that my spiritual hunger level is pretty dry... My level has not reached till the expectation that I myself want to see.. Now the pattern for me is like: (in terms of the spiritual hunger level)

Sunday - Monday: High..
Tuesday: Starting to get a bit lower..
Wednesday - Friday: Very low & dry..
Saturday: High up again..

In terms of my spiritual discipline wise, it's also pretty bad for me... Especially when it comes to daily prayer and quiet time with God.. Every single day, God has indeed blessed me in certain ways, just like this morning for a Mercedes bus for Service 966 (instead of all the crap Scanias cameo which for today, there's 3 of them at least, TIB564Y, TIB658K, and 1 more with ICM rear blue ad), and without much waiting time for Scania K230s on Service 24, and not to forget the NTU buses this afternoon and night (SBS2822H for Service 174 and SBS2818X on Service 16). Of course in areas other than buses, God has indeed provided me with blessings.. But sometimes, I just failed to speak to Him and thank Him for what He has done for me, which I feel that it's a very sad and disappointment for me, that I have failed to do my part even for a simple yet grateful task to thank Him...

Talking about my prayer life, I feel like sighing even more.. Often, when I pray with a few people together, I will hear them praying for a very long time just for a certain stuff and I tend to feel very panic because I know that when I pray, I don't speak very fluently (and very fast as well?!) and have a lot of things to say.. During my quiet time, I will just speak to God naturally, just like how I usually speak to all my friends here, and hence, there isn't any so-called 'chim chim' words being used as my vocabulary isn't that great actually.. Someone did actually mentioned that it's not the 'chim chim' words which determines my prayer level.. The most important thing is that I must really have the hunger for more prayer and pray for wisdom from Him, so that I have even more things which I really wish to pray for in all areas of my life..

Talking about my daily quiet time, it's also actually pretty bad, in the sense that I failed to do so every single day.. I just find that I have encountered with obstructions and barriers to it, most of the time it's at my home whereby I have disruptions from my parents and brother, especially the latter. There isn't any open space court or what around my block area. In the bus, usually the amount of time I have in a particular bus does not exceed 45 minutes (which I find that 45 minutes is too short for me to have my quiet time), and usually for SMRT Buses (it's not because I am biased but that's the true fact because SMRT is well known for poor frequency during peak hours, both in the area of buses and trains), it's already grateful for me to be able to step onto the entrance/exit steps and board the bus, let alone having the luxury to sit down and be able to concentrate for my quiet time... The only time when I successfully get to have my own quiet time so far is when I settle dinner outside alone at night in the city area and after that either go to Benjamin Shears Bridge or somewhere else (for last Tuesday, it's somewhere along Singapore River near the Parliament House).. Indeed, I really find that my spiritual hunger level is not really there yet, because when it's there, no matter what, I will still set aside some time for my quiet time...

For now, I just really need to pray that I will have even greater anointing, stronger presence of God, and that God will speak to me especially when my spiritual level is dry and really need Him to refresh me..

Something in STOMP which attracts my attention

2008-05-14T11:46:00.005+08:00

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=22910

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=22206

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=22880

This issue really caught my attention while I was casually browsing through STOMP...

My views to this issue:
Even if this is a form of punishment, I would say that it's really nothing compared to NS... In NS, that's when the real form of torture begins... For this NCC one, I can already see that cadets were very happy enjoying the Mud PT, especially after a stressful week of lessons and perhaps a hot weather week... It's a form of de-stress for those cadets to really have fun and get bonded together... I strongly agree to some comments made by the viewers in STOMP that talk about kids nowadays are getting more and more pampered...

Was on MSN just now with Xing Wei, and I showed him this link and discuss about it...

Btw the link for the blog is as below:
http://creative-indeed.blogspot.com/

Have fun discussing about this issue especially for those in UGs... Haha... I will be discussing it with Wei Chuen and Jian Yew about it when I see them on MSN... Lolx..

Cheers and God bless to all! ^_^

Unexpected disasters

2008-05-14T11:17:00.005+08:00

Some say that the World is coming to an end soon...

Well... for the past few weeks, unexpected disasters have been happening around, especially in China and Myanmar. I hope most of you are aware of these 2 unexpectedly and deadly disasters... Attended the GDOP (Global Day of Prayer) last Sunday and they got mentioned about it... And we as Singaporeans living in our safe country, we should be feeling very fortunate and blessed.. Throughout all these years, our neighboring countries have been experiencing disasters, such as the Tsunami in Indonesia and all the usual flooding and famines everywhere around us, and our safe country, Singapore, managed to escape from all of them... Thank God for the safe location that Singapore has...

It's truly a painful and heart-breaking thing for me (and for all of you here also?) to see such disasters happening around, and countless innocent lives were lost just like that... Thank God that we have kind soul to be sent out to these affected countries to save as many innocent lives as possible...

Perhaps in our quiet time, we can pray for the world's peace, especially in Asia whereby even disasters can happen around us... The world is dying, and we will do all our best to salvage the situation... What SMRT has implemented (The "Go Green With SMRT") is definitely the right time.. Although I may have condemned SMRT a lot in the past because of the well-known poor services that SMRT has brought to us, but definitely, this campaign is definitely going to make us feel proud and honored of it.. Being the 1st in the whole of SEA (South-East-Asia) to implement Euro V buses (Euro 5), I finally have a good impression of SMRT for once, for what they have done...

Speaking of which, Saw Phaik Hwa (The CEO of SMRT) has promised that the new Mercedes Benz O.500LE Euro 5 bus is going to be on the road by today, but until now, still no news to it.. At least please don't make me and my bus enthusiast friends to be disappointed about it.. Broken promise that the CEO has brought to us..

Hope you guys here will be able to appreciate that all of us live in such a safe place and not whining here and there.. And do whatever you can to save the world..

May God bless those poor victims over at Myanmar and China..

Why I join CCC?

2008-05-14T10:40:00.002+08:00

Hmmm.. Some people may wonder and start asking me how come I join RP CCC (Campus Crusade for Christ)..

Well.. It all starts with 1 fine Monday when I saw something happening at Agora Hall (Forum area), Qiu Yun saw me and approached me, and told me about CCC in RP, and it really inspired me to join..

XY had been telling me about his own poly CCC (NP/Ngee Ann Poly, and Hai Jie also told me about his own poly CCC (SP/Singapore Poly). All the while I thought that RP don't have it, until Qiu Yun told me about it, and immediately, I told her that I will join the next Live meeting which falls on every Monday.

Last Monday, I went for the Live meeting for the 2nd time, and indeed, it has been an eye-opener for me, for me to explore and get to know more people, and interact with them. Edwin and Raymond were the 1st 2 that approached me when I sat beside them in the lecture room during the Live meeting. Jacob Ng, whom I thought that he's a student at first because of his appearance and heart-warming attitude, also talk to me a lot from school to church to off-topic during the fellowship & dinner last Monday at Causeway Point, and rather, I think I will treat him as a friend more like a facilitator.. When Melissa saw him together with a few RP CCC student at the library walking past us while we were doing our FYP, she was like "huh? he's a facilitator ah?".. Was kinda shocked to hear Melissa saying that... Lolx.. But indeed, such a very good facilitator in RP is really hard to find... Speaking of which, I kinda miss some of my year 1 faciliators, especially Lawrence Wong (Y1S2 Enterprise faci), Vicky Wong (Y1S1 Communication faci), and Susan Sek (Y1S1 Enterprise faci). These 3 facilitators were my top 3 favourite ones among all the facilitators that had taught me for my Year 1 modules, because they have left me a very deep and positive impression of them... Long story for that...

Okay... time to get back on track... I was reading though Qiu Yun's past blog entries, and I know that she has a very fruitful time being together with the people in RP CCC.. I hope the same thing will apply to me too, as I get along in RP CCC... ^_^

I hope this will answer you why I have decided to join CCC le ba?

Manhood Seminar & GDOP 2008

2008-05-12T13:25:00.004+08:00

Past few weeks have been a busy period for me, even till the extent that some night I only slept at about 3-4am and wake up early the next day.. Truly it has been a very shag and tired period, but God has indeed blessed me even through tough times.. Busy with school work (FYP and Year 3 modules), church & CG commitments (Usher ministry & doing up my CG blog, target to finish at least 3/4 of the whole blog by 2nd week of June), and also within the bus community (planning & preparation of our very 1st Amazing Race adopting from the Amazing Race show in Channel 5 instead of the usual ones we had), and now, the freelance work (which will last till 1-2 months later based on assignments) & the upcoming tuition job.. Well well... I really have to "jagar" (manage) my time well and let God decide on the path that I am going to take for the next 1 year or so before my enlistment for NS..

Last Saturday, my CG brothers, together with a few of other CG brothers in other CG until the same sub-zone, went for combined manhood seminar that was organized by my CGL. Actually in 1 way or another, I am pretty honored to have Quanhan as my CGL because in this sub-zone, he's the only male CGL..

3 sessions in total, but I only went for the 1st 2, because I got to go to Causeway Point in the evening for Mother's Day dinner, and it has been quite some time since the last time we have dinner together as a family (which means must have a full strength of 5 people consisting of my parents, my elder sister, my younger brother, and myself). Coming back to the manhood topic, I really learn quite a lot from the sessions, but so sad that I cannot attend the evening one.. (Nvm I will find out more from my CG brothers who went for the evening one..) ^_^

Sunday morning, went for service as usual.. And my section (in usher ministry), were chosen for the external traffic again.. Guess what, I was chosen AGAIN to do Traffic 2 (for the 2nd consecutive week) , which is the back door for the VIP cars, the most 'siong' among all the roles in the ushering ministry.. Thank God the weather is very positive or else we would have more work to do... Went for lunch with Jia Yun and Zi Xuan at ** CENSORED: cannot say location because of Amazing Race for bus enthisiasts, if not you all will know and it's of no fun le.. ** Meet Ben later on to recee the place and then we took bus down to City Hall to meet up with XY. Together, the 3 of us went somewhere to have discussion and casual talks for a while at Kallang Leisure Park before Ben went for his Mother's Day dinner while XY and myself went for GDOP 2008 at Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Inside the indoor stadium, I was quite surprised (and happy also) that 1 of my current semester classmates was there, and somemore he sat beside XY.. The GDOP event was a very meaningful one for all of us to witness and to pray as a nation.. Saw Pastor Derek (from my church) there as among the few people who sat at the stage area too, and when the speaker called up Pastor Derek to stand beside the representatives of different country people to lay hands to pray for them, I heard a loud *woo* sound and it's truly a very positive feeling..

After the whole event finished, we took some photos before we proceeded to Stadium Walk (outside Singapore Indoor Stadium) to GO GREEN WITH SMRT!! In the end we took TIB805C which bears the GO GREEN WITH SMRT advertisement to Kallang MRT Station bus stop and went home from there..

XY and myself.. (using XY's camera)

My classmate, Tengyu, and myself (using Tengyu's camera)

Inside the Indoor Stadium (using Tengyu's camera)

Cheers & God Bless! Have a great day everyone! ^_^

2nd Bus Enthusiasts outing

2008-05-01T23:59:00.003+08:00

Shall take some time to blog about it first before I went to sleep... 1st I really wish to thank all those who turned up today.. Without all of your presence, this thing won't turn out to be a successful one.. 2nd thing I wish to thank, is XY for organizing this activity and made this a successful and smooth one.. Not to forgot to thank God also, for everything that I (and probably XY & Ben also) had prayed for this activity..

Really, I feel very touched and happy that we as fellow bus enthusiasts can come together and bond together as 1 big family... This is the way that that we want it to be (at least for XY, Ben and myself). Previously, there were some issues and conflicts between the seniors and the juniors, and for now, through these kind of bonding and gathering, we really hope that all these conflicts and negative issues will minimize.

Quote from XY in SG Forums as I am quite lazy to describe everything here.. Lolx...:

First of all, some of us have lunch together at Kovan Area. After that we have Ice Breaker by introducing each other followed by the mini Amazing Race.

After that, we took Sv 119 followed by Sv 132 to Hougang Int
Took Sv 72 to Tampines Int
Followed by Sv 27/MRT to Changi Airport
Dinner at Popeye's Fast Food Restaurant(Terminal 1)
with interactions...

Bidded farewell by taking different bus services from Changi Airport T1

Next of the event, will be the coming big-scale Amazing Race which will involves running all over Singapore for checkpoints, and as the upcoming organizer for this event, I will do to my utmost best to run this whole event smoothly and successfully, with the help of all of you guys here.. Every month, we will organize activities for our fellow bus enthusiasts friends to come and bond together as 1 big family, and between XY, Ben, and myself, the 3 of us will rotate the role of being the organizer and the sub-organizers for our upcoming activities...

Shall post the photos before I end off this post... (All photos credited to Afiq, lazy to put captions and not in order)

Take care everyone and God bless!~

SMRT Go-Green Campaign @ NUS Cultural Centre

2008-05-01T08:40:00.004+08:00

Went over there yesterday since it's on a Wednesday and Wednesday I have no classes other than FYP meeting in the afternoon... Shall let the photos do the talking from here...

Arrival of SMRT CEO, Saw Phiak Hwa, with a warm greeting from her "hello" when she walked past us..

Token of appreciate from SMRT CEO to the Guest of Honour.. I would say that it's very creative for her to use a plant for that instead of the normal plaque... Lolx..

The rear EDS so small for who to see? Lolx...

The very low bumper integrated with the small headlight. What happens if the bumper suffered from any damaged? The headlight also affected..

LAWO EDS and Konvekta air-con controller..

In-build CD player as told by the senior Service Leader who drove this bus. Probably it will be used as the announcement system because even the exit door chime is using SMRT train door-closing style..

SMRT CEO Saw Phiak Hwa being interviewed by many reporters...

SMRT CEO Saw Phiak Hwa being interviewed by many reporters...

After the interview, she made sure that she still looks very neat and presentable in her dress code..

Huat ah! Group photo shot of the CEO and all the SMRT staffs who were present there..

Enjoy!~

CG blog..

2008-04-30T17:52:00.002+08:00

I guess I really need to take this whole week off for break.... I seriously really need to take a break from all the negative things that are happening around me.. Next week then I will resume on the making for my CG blog... Hope all my CG brothers & sisters understand my situation right now... Need you guys to pray for me too... Really appreciated you guys for the understanding and God bless everyone here...

Still... I still have to MOVE on!!

2008-04-30T17:35:00.002+08:00

Had been busying and feeling very down for the past few days and weeks..

!@()@#$%&*(#$%^&*(@#$%^&*(#$%^&*(@#$%^&*()(*&$#@#$%^&*(&#@$%^&*

Don't wish to describe everything for the past few days and weeks... Just feeling so tired and sickening at times... So many things which bothered me a lot, and I have been getting ENOUGH OF ALL THESE SHIT THINGS...

No matter what, I still have to MOVE on in my life... I must tell myself that I am not going to ruin myself or making myself feel even more depressed just because of someone... To think back, it's not worth it for me to really bother it, and what for I still do that?! Sorry if I seem to be too harsh but I just want to be DIRECT... Period...

My external hard disk and Singtel also makes me feel very angry and frustrated.. Also don't wish to say anything much here.... The more I mentioned about it, the more headache that I have...

RIGHT NOW, I GOT TO MOVE OUT OF THIS UNHAPPINESS HERE AND GET MYSELF MOVING ON IN MY LIFE, instead of feeling @!#$%^&*(*&^%$#@#$%^& (sorry I just don't wish to type any word here hence all the symbols, not vulgar words, it's just to vent off my anger and everything that are negative)!!!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH... I JUST WISH TO STOP ALL THESE STUPID CRAP THINGS WHICH MAKES MY LIFE EVEN MORE MISERABLE!! PERIOD!!

Feeling weary...

2008-04-25T11:20:00.002+08:00

This whole week, I just somehow having emotional breakdown.. It's like everyday I am dragging myself to go to school (except Thursday's lesson because that's the only module which will bring my mood up..)

Every single day, I slept after 12am...

Monday night slept at around 4am
Tuesday night slept at around 3am
Wednesday night slept at around 2am
Yesterday night fall asleep with my laptop on at around 12am++

Tonight, I don't think I will sleep early either.. Every night, I see my fellow bus enthusiasts friends feeling very down... I myself also feeling very down for the past few days due to certain issues, and really made me feel weary... Before I could even do my quiet time for the past few days, I was already falling asleep... Imagine how tired I am every single night... I don't wish to say anything much for now... I just need to pray to God for supernatural strength that will be able to recharge myself, both spiritually and physically...

God bless everyone..

Trials & Tribulations - Spiritual Breakthrough

2008-04-24T21:02:00.002+08:00

Sigh.....

2 nights back, we had our 2nd fellowship meeting. As usual, Isaac, Ben, XY and me were there.. I brought Raymond there too.. All 5 of of us were at XY's relative house, and thank God for providing us a very nice location and still in Tampines area for the benefit of Isaac...

Had meeting from around 7:45pm to 9:30pm, and besides worship, we also shared our problems and concerns for both ourselves and our fellow bus enthusiast friends out there, and after that we closed off with prayer and worship.... Wonderful meeting we had over there, especially when Raymond's our guitarist for this meeting, and that he can really see how our bus enthusiasts fellowship group growing.. It's really truly a blessing for me to be part of this group...

========================================

Yesterday night, while we were on the MSN group convo, we realized that all of us have been facing a tough time right now... As what Ben told us, we are currently facing trials and tribulations, and we have to stay strong in order to overcome it and have our spiritual breakthrough..

But 1 thing we have to bear it in mind, is that no matter how tough our spiritual life is right now, God will be always there to provide solutions and guidance for all of us, giving us encouragement as He takes control of all of us...

Most of us we are too stressed or moody due to all these factors like school, friends, etc.. We do also feel very weary at times... And to the extent, that some of us couldn't resist our emotions, and we cried...

For now, what we can do, is to continue to pray that everything goes smoothly especially for the next few weeks.... And leave everything to His hands, to let Him take control of us and guide us well...

Before I end off this post, I will really like to share with you guys this song, which is indeed very encouraging for me whenever I feel very down... Sent this song to our leader yesterday, because I can see that he's indeed really super duple feeling very very down, and God told me to share this song with him... And I even feel the urge and wanted to initiate a conference call with XY and Ben, just like how I did to Terence last Monday midnight, but Ben's not free in the end....

Sanctuary- CHC

WHEN MY WORLD WAS IN DARKNESS
YOU SPOKE YOUR WORD
NIGHT TURNED INTO DAY
YOUR BEAUTY FILLED THIS PLACE

WHEN MY WORLD STOOD IN SILENCE
YOU FILLED MY HEART
WITH SONGS THAT NEVER END
FOREVER I WILL PRAISE

TO THINK THAT THE UNIVERSE
COULD NOT WITHHOLD YOUR GLORY
YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE IN ME
I'M SO AMAZED

(AND) I WORSHIP YOU LORD
MY LIFE IN YOU RESTORED
HERE IS MY HEART
MAKE IT YOUR SANCTUARY
FOR NOBODY ELSE
BUT JESUS ONLY (YOU)

YOU ARE FAITHFUL AND TRUE GLORIOUS LORD ALL MY LIFE IT IS YOU I ADORE YOU'VE TOUCHED MY SOUL COMPLETED MY WORLD I SURRENDER TO YOU

Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John 14:1 KJV

THE LONGEST RJ I HAVE WRITTEN SO FAR!!!

2008-04-24T20:18:00.003+08:00

Well done lah!!! =.="

All thanks to my Financial Accounting faci, Mr Sim Choon Hou.... But he's really the most respectful facilitator that I have seen so far. Although he's really deem strict and particular even for the slightest minor thing such as the spelling mistake in our PowerPoint slides, but when it comes to teaching and everything, his lessons are really the most interactive ones among all the facilitators that have facilitated me so far, and he really makes sure that he really wants all of us to push our limits to the max, and making sure that his class will always be the BEST class that we ever had...

Okay enough of craps, let's proceed to the stupid and longest RJ that I have ever write so far... (Usually all my RJs are less than 10 sentences long only...) And if I don't get an A grade for the RJ section, I seriously can go and ________ liao.... =.="

Question: Evaluate your members (including yourself), on the level of competency they have for the module. Justify your evaluation.

Response:I will evaluate on myself first follow by my teammates.

For myself, I find that I am actually quite strong in
this module, probably due to my prior knowledge that I
have gained during Secondary 3 to 5 when I took up POA
(Principles of Accounting) as 1 of the subjects. I
actually scored quite well in most of my POA tests and
exams, at least a B grade, and also have quite a strong
foundation in the area of calculations, I actually refer
to my Ten-Year-Series (TYS) book that I have bought, and
keep practicing the questions until I really fully
understand the whole concept, and also for the fact that
I did actually coach my peers who were weak in this
subject and it helps to enhance my learning as well in a
way that I can recap all the knowledge and concepts that
I have learned so far.

For Fanni, I find that she is actually quite weak in it,
but she really puts in 100 of her effort and hardwork
to try to understand the concepts behind it as much as
possible. It's a pity that she did not take up POA as 1
of the subjects for upper secondary level, hence she did
not have prior knowledge of accounting and foundation
before this module (Financial Accounting). However, she
is very helpful in this team in a sense that she really
tries her very best to help out in whatever she can do,
such as doing up the PowerPoint slides while the rest of
us are trying very hard to figure out for the
calculation part in all the accounts that we did.

For Wei Guo, I find that he has a very strong foundation
and prior knowledge in accounting. He told me before
that he scored a B grade in his O level exam for POA,
and he has a strong determination and confidence that he
would be able to get all the calculations for all the
accounts and ledgers right. He is also very helpful in a
way that he would help the weaker ones to make sure that
they really understand the whole concept of a particular
thing, and having initiatives to start the discussion
going during the first meeting after the problem
statement for the day is being released.

For Muhammad, I find that he is actually quite weak in
it, although he took POA as 1 of the subject in upper
secondary level, but he did not score well during the O
level. His foundation is actually not too bad because he
has been exposed to the accounting concepts through POA,
just that he needs to practice more, just like
Mathematics when we also practice more to gain a better
understanding and foundation in the subject. He’s
actually quite helpful also in a way that he tried his
best to help to solve the problem.

For Wan Lin, I find that she also has a very strong
foundation and prior knowledge in accounting. She also
scored the same grade as me during the O level for POA.
She is also very determined and willing to help her
teammates whenever they need any help in understanding
the concepts in accounting. She also has the initiative
to start the discussion going during the first meeting
after the problem statement for the day is being
released, as usually, we would be sitting down there
waiting for other teammates to start the discussion.

It sets my thinking..

2008-04-23T10:08:00.005+08:00

It sets my thinking, whether to left this group of friends... Sometimes... I just feel very negatively and useless deep in my heart when I am thinking of someone in this group.. It's like I don't even feel the friendship in her heart... Sometimes I just feel that I shouldn't be part of the group... It sets my thinking when she start disregarded me as part of the group.. It seem that there is a sudden change of her attitude towards me which really makes me really thinking through lots of things...

I really hope that she read this entry and really, whatever she wants to voice out, be in negative or positive, just say it all out to me... At least I feel better when things are being said to me...

The next question that I have in mind for myself is:
Whether to continuing to stay or .................?

Haiz.....

I hope you guys should know who is the "she" or "her" that I am refering to....
and I am wondering how many of you even bothered to read it in the 1st place.... Haiz...

This week...

2008-04-19T02:23:00.000+08:00

Last Wednesday, went for some night shot at Toa Payoh during the outing with some of my bus enthusiast friends.. Had a lot of great fun down there and I really feel very happy that we as the fellow bus enthusiasts, can really come together and build better bonds among one another... This should be the way, and in future activities, we will include the seniors as well provided if time allows for them, because some may work until very late everyday.. Shall not describe the night that we have on that day, next activity you (for bus enthusiasts) shall experience it yourself.. Those who went on that day, all of them enjoy themselves very much, and it's really meaningful that we can sit down in circle somewhere and really getting to know one another well..

Some photos that were snapped from the new 40th story HDB flats..

Can you see the Singapore Flyer from here?

Just now in the morning(Friday), somehow I just feel really very bad for a certain reason... You can regard that as emo or what I don't care.. To be honest, just now at the Cafe Esplanade in school after lesson, I really feel like having tears roll down my eyes, but managed to resist and control in the end.. Just somehow I feel that my freedom of speech level really dropped down to -100%, even if the particular sentence was meant to be a joke or just say it without any negative intention.. And whole day in school (excluding in class), I was really very (3x) quiet.. Somehow or rather I just got the feeling of being outcast, in a way... Okay, enough of the what-you-all-called-it-as-emo thoughts of mine..

Went to meet some of my bus enthusiast friends for buffet dinner at Sakae Sushi (CPF Building, along Robinson Rd) as Bing He's going to enter Tekong and have botak head next week (if you get what I mean). Got Kenny, Bing He, Kok Pern, Wei Chuen, Terence and myself over there.. Had a very good dinner there with me spamming at the Salmon sushi.. Spam about 6-7 plates of Salmon sushi in total... (plus some other stuffs of course)

All of us took Service 130 after that to pass by Sin Ming area (near Vicom Inspection Centre) to check out on the new SBS Transit M.A.N single-deck bus, but it wasn't parked there anymore when we passed by there... All of us departed from Ang Mo Kio and I transferred a few buses back to Bt Panjang... Then when I was about to enter the lift in my block back home, I saw Lucas cycling and he called me, and I accompanied him, Cassandra, Clement, Rui Ping and Serene to Kim San Leng 24 hours coffee shop to have a drink and chit chat... Really, it has been a very (3x) long time (I think got more than 1 year) ever since I last saw some of them.. Some of them really changed quite a lot, and I really miss all of my Sec 5N friends very much... Probably this year's Teachers Day we would all go back to Zhenghua Sec together? As many as possible...

Chatted from 12am to 1:20am, and we went home after that.. Thankfully my facilitator has extended the assignment to next day 10am, which is about 7 hrs 30 mins from now.. And I am going to finish up the assignment before I go to sleep...

During Teacher's Day 2006, with our Principal, Mr Lim; and our A-Maths teacher cum HOD for Maths, Mrs Michelle Chew/Mdm Michelle Low

Sometimes I just feel very tired in my life journey... Too many things and changes happening around and also feel the sudden heavy burden of stress onto me.. But 1 thing I learn from the bible, is that I should trust God that He will be able to lift up all my burden away and don't have any worries about the burden.. In this case, the burden can refer to all the whatever-you-called-it-as-emo thoughts that I have.. Okay I going to stop until here today... Got time I will update again...

Take care everyone and God bless! ^_^

Cast your burden on the LORD,And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.
- Psalm 52:22