Lamentations

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Had quite a bad nightmare this morning. Geez. I don't know whether you can call it a nightmare =/. Well, it sure was as hell of a nightmare to me! I dreamt that I was in school, and a few lecturers were telling the class who passed what subjects. I was the last one to be given my results (everyone else had passed) and I passed every single subject except one. I was like "what the hell!" and that's when I abruptly woke up and was like "WHAT THE HELL!" in real life. Hmmm =/. I hope I'm not having a premonition -.-. Zzz.

Anyway, the last few days for work were quite bad. Geez. There was a very cocky uncle, who kept making a lot of assumptions about the broadband service, and talked as though he knew everything about the internet. He also spoke as though he knew about all the cheap and hidden costs companies have for internet, which further pissed me off. Also, some guy that stopped by was taking a look at the computer screen. I said "Hi, can I help you?" He gave me one very ugly stare and was like "You Malay ah?" I was like what the hell? "No, I'm Chinese." And he looked stuped, as though there were no Chinese in this world who spoke English. Aye, I got annoyed by that racist moron, so I let my mom talk to him instead. A lot of people also think its a wireless service, even after constant repeats that its bloody fibre optics! My gosh, one guy asked what's the wireless speed compared to 3G? That was after I explained fibre optics was a stationary wire. You'd think there'd be greater intelligence among the public -.-.

Anyhoo, yesterday was service, and Keith preached about having the Word of God in us, and not just knowing it, but actually applying it. As usual, his sermon was very practical. Although it was one of the less enjoyable services though. Two girls beside me weren't even paying attention for the majority of the service, but were chatting among each other and looking at pictures in their phones. Also, during the preaching, three people walked out during service, and not in a quiet manner either. They walked out as though they owned the place, in a very cocky and loud manner. Aiks.

We stayed in the cafe to eat though, and later discussed the details and specifics for the cellgroup multiplication on Thursday. I'm in charge of the video. As I have been for the last 2 (at least, involved) multiplications. Lol.

I can't wait for this job to end, honestly. I'm so tired. I just want to sleep!

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3:58 AM

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Friday, April 24, 2009

A few days before I left Singapore, I wanted to go out alone to some place I've never went to before. I was thinking of the ex-courthouse or something that was converted into an art gallery a few years ago. Thing is, I didn't know where to go or the price.

Thanks to poor info by Ruz (ahem!) who had returned to KL by then, I decided to screw the art gallery and be a nerd instead. Yeah, I became a geek for the day and went to the Science Centre all by myself. In case you didn't know, I loved science as a kid, and up till secondary 3 in Singapore, where the moles in chemistry and formulas for physics killed my interest completely -.-. I still like science, no doubt, and I'm still in awe of many, many things science has discovered. I just hate the subjects we did in school.

So, since I was nerd for the day, going all alone, I took a lot of pictures I thought would interest you. So, in the rare act of posting more pictures than I type, here's the Singapore Science Centre.

First up, the optical illusions section. This was a picture on the ground. You can hardly see what it is.

But on the metallic pole, the reflection and bending of the image creates a perfect face. Heh.

In the next section about energy, here's a manmade tornado. That's the best shot I could get -.-.

And speaking of things that turn, here's some ice crystals in water. When comets and stuff react in water, this is what happens. All of them will spin and release carbon dioxide. It's similar to the dry ice concept.

A close up.

And another close up.

I hope this didn't freak you out? Lol... this is what happens if you turn the eyes and mouth upside down while everything else is in correct order. If you turn the picture upside down, it still looks alright, because the eyes and mouth are right side up. But when it's right side up though... well, you can see for yourself -.-.

Talking about faces, here's one I think you can recognize. if not, just look at the hair -.-. It's a photo mosaic machine, which takes a picture of you and then uses hundreds of small stock images to recreate the picture. Mine took a lot longer than other people. What? Were my spikes that hard to recreate?!

In the marine section, I got to see some stonefish. Highly poisonous (stepping on one can kill you) and highly adept at camouflage as a stone, which kinda sucks, 'cause the next time you step on a rock you might just step on their spines and die two hours later 'cause of neurotoxins. Try guessing where it is?

Much easier to see this one.

The fishes don't have brilliant intelligence. Regardless, even when it's this deep in the sand, stepping on their spines can still kill you.

I have no idea what the hell this is. It just ended up in my pictures.

When you see this from far away, it really looks like a bunch of buttons or something. On a closer look though...

It's seashells! An entire wall-ful of them.

There's a machine that checks out your uniqueness among people. My earlobe isn't attached by the way. The button for un-attached was spoiled -.-. Regardless, I'm only 1% unique. Means that for every hundred people, there's one of me. Meh -.-, don't know whether thats a good or bad thing.

I went to the Genome section, and there were displays and stuff about viruses, bacteria, cells and the such. There's a machine that compares human genes with other species. 89%! WOW! I'm only 11% different from a mouse!

I also happen to be related to an underwater plant. Next time there's a family reunion...

And the ultimate one (to me). I'm also related to rice. Geez! It means when we eat rice, we're 1/10 cannibals. Lol!

The genome section had a virus section that would spray air (it better be air) when we entered the area, and some alarms ringing. I think this was my favourite area. There's tons of information and videos of how viruses infect cells and multiply. There's also many real life cases displayed, and quite a major section just for HIV and sex. Hmmm... =/.

I honestly have no idea what these numbers mean. I checked it out on wiki and found this:

Dang, my diastolic just crossed the border of prehypertension! My systolic is normal though, whatever that means.

Here's a bunch of quotes as I was leaving.

It's pretty interesting, the Science Centre. I don't know if I covered much of the areas, 'cause I entered quite late. I also caught a movie at an IMAX theatre, which is those giant wide-curved screen kinds. The last time I went for an IMAX movie was... back in Canada I think, in the Science Centre in Toronto. Heh. I watched "Sea Monsters" which talked about prehistoric sea creatures in the age of the dinosaurs. Eh, there were more "dollies" than monsters in the film, but it was interesting to see the huge creatures of the past.

Some interesting things I found out were that life on earth used to be anaerobic, which meant they didn't need oxygen. In fact, it would kill them. Later on aerobic bacteria began respiration with oxygen, and increased the levels of oxygen in the earth to the extent that 90% of the anaerobic creatures were wiped out. This increased the level of oxygen in the atmoshere to the extent it is today. Also, with so much oxygen, it eventually began to form into ozone, and the once deadly gas became a protective layer later on, forming the ozone layer. Nice.

Here's a tardigrade. It was on the bulletins somewhere there. It's nicknamed the water bear because it looks and moves like a bear. Yet this is a microscopic insect of sorts. They can survive temperatures close to absolute zero, temperatures as high as 151 °C, 1,000 times more radiation than humans, nearly a decade without water, and even the vacuum of space. *Applause*

Here's the start of a mile-long walk full of bulletins, describing how the earth began and up to the point it reached the present. Just look at the scale. Humans have only been around for a puny amount of time.

This is an interesting way to find out your weight. Start from the end and walk closer to the silver ball. Once you've balanced yourself and the ball, look at where you're standing. The number there is your weight. I'm 70kg. Up 2kg from last year =/,

And as I'm leaving, here's a fountain at the entrance/exit. Pretty unique.

So there you go. Complete geekdom from me. I got so many stares in the science centre. You wouldn't expect spiky hair, chains and ripped jeans from a guy who likes going to the science centre right?

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5:53 AM

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Is this really what computers have done for us?

This just proves that we have become too dependent on our computers.

Are you male or female?

To find out the answer, look down...

I said look down, not scroll down... you idiot.

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8:57 AM

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Meh... I'm back in KL.

And what's the first thing I do upon reaching Puduraya Station? Go home myself! My mom was working so I had to carry all my luggage to take the LRT, take it to the nearest station to my house and walk home after that. Yeah, walk. Half an hour. Zzz. With all my bags and stuff.

I barely got to rest at all anyway. I slept at 2am after settling down and eating. Then today I had to wake up for the morning prayer meeting and work later on.

Heh, oh well. I'll be blogging about the last few days of my trip in Singapore soon. A lot of people read my previous post, plenty of people whom I would have preferred not to have read it. Lol... Aiks -.-. But like I said, whether I do or say something good or bad, I don't take it back. 'Cause it just shows you're hiding things. I don't lie, I don't hide things. If I revealed too much, then too bad, my fault. But yeah, I guess the previous post did have some sensitive stuff -.-.

On a completely unrelated note. I guess a wave or just a simple hi would have been better than turning away from you. But then again, you did break your promise anyway.

I told ya so.

Chronicled
5:11 AM

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

I just came back from Dolce. It's in The Zon, which is my dad's workplace. The last time I went, on New Year's Eve/Day, my dad wasn't working. But this time, he was! It feels freaking awkward to go club in the area where your dad works. He also said he didn't want to see me there also, 'cause he mentioned all the dangers and all. Well, honestly, nothing happened =/. Nothing dangerous at least =p.

Anyhoo, it was easily one of my most fun nights. Despite having a very limited and small dancing crowd, I managed to dance with a girl. Actually, its credits to Ron, the bloody handsome guy who walked over to a table full of girls. Chia Sheng and I were just sitting at our own table. After Ron dragged (yes, literally dragged!) me over to the other table, things started to pick up. Well, after a few chats and dancing, I had a girl to myself.

And I had a great time with her. It's hard to explain clubbing anyway; it's mainly drinking and dancing (and a bit more). Chia Sheng, Ron and I only had like half a bottle of Black Label to ourselves earlier, so it was bloody hard to get loose, and you know my alcohol intake, nothing gets past it (only once so far). There were 4 girls, so it was like one girl to each guy, lmao. There was some other dude, who I didn't get his name. Anyhoo, their table had more drinks, so when I told my girl I hadn't drank enough, she promptly poured me a glass. Woots, thanks!

The whole night was spent dancing with my girl, Addy. After the first few dances, she walked off for a while and I was wondering what was up. Then she came back, and promptly kissed me. At first I thought it was just a kiss but it turns out she was actually passing a drink through a kiss. That was pretty cool. This heated things up between us and we continued to dance (sensually), make out and grind for the rest of the night. When the club closed, and I wanted to say bye, she gave a good night kiss, ignoring the handshake.

Well, anyway, eight kisses (of variable length) was pretty much enjoyable to top off the night. Drinking through a kiss was also a first. Yum?

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3:42 PM

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Monday, April 13, 2009

My first time having internet access in Johor Bashru for a really, really long time. It's coming up to almost a year that I've since moved to Kuala Lumpur. Heh. Well, I'll be leaving here on the 19th or 20th, and back up to KL again.

So how was my journey down? Like I said, whenever I go down, something eventful always happens. So what happened this time round? The gas tank exploded. No kidding. Ruz and I got onboard a Plusliner bus and after a while realized that there were only 5 passengers! Heck, we obviously abused the large amount of space we had, and after a while we heard a loud sound and a slight jerk on the bus. It didn't seem like a big deal, until the bus stopped suddenly later.

Turns out that the gas tank had exploded, which was the source of the loud bang earlier.

Here's the bus broken down in the middle of those "split zones" when there's an exit from the highway.

And here's the leak from the explosion! It may not look like much, but underneath it was way more soaked. And you can roughly see a dark trail of gasoline thanks to the tyre wheels. That dark line stretched for miles!

You know how some inconsiderate people flick out cigarettes out their car window when driving? I was wondering what would happen if some moron did that while we were stuck.

We got onboard the next Plusliner bus, which was, unfortunately, quite packed. Reached JB, and my dad picked us up from Kip Mart. My room was exactly as I left it when I left, and my aircon is finally working again (the batteries for the remote were dead last time).

Anyhoo, on Friday Ruz and I went to church for the Easter service. For the drama, it was titled The Final Solution. It's about a guy called Dr Silas, a friend of Luke's, who creates a formula (called the Final Solution) that actually alters your DNA so that you won't sin anymore. Its administered to prisoners everywhere and he's hailed as a medical hero. People start to compare Jesus and Silas' miracles, and Silas ends up injecting his own daughter, a troublesome girl, with the formula. Later on, it turns out the formula isn't all its hyped up to be. People administered with the Final Solution start falling ill and die.

Silas also ends up killing his wife's murderer, even though he was told to administer the Final Solution to the guy. After doubting in Jesus, the two meet in prison and he ends up believing. There's also a very interesting storyline twist where Silas' real name is Silas Barabbas, thereby fitting him with the biblical account of Pilate releasing one prisoner. Very smart! And as per tradition, there's the crucifixion of Jesus with This Is Your Saviour as the main theme. And of course, the resurrection at the end. Interestingly though, this year, they didn't show the ascension into heaven. Instead, the lights slowly faded as Jesus gave the Great Commission.

I liked the drama a lot. How they took certain liberties with minor parts of the Easter story yet mixed it in well with the biblical chronology. Very smart and impressive in terms of storyline! I'd say it was comparable to 2006's version, which is still my favourite. I realize that in-drama songs are also being cut down compared to last time. Oh well.

Had fellowship with the cellgroup at some place in Bedok. Went to Koh Wee's place after to spend the night! Next day Yao Qi joined along for a movie. The Shinjuku Incident. Great movie! Just ouch for Jie... you seriously gotta pity him -.-.

Anyhoo, later on Ruz and I went to Bugis to meet up with the cellgroup and join some other ex-GT people to support Michelle and Rezound, who were singing in a pub, called All About Eve. A Chivas bottle only costs $108! Dirt CHEAP! The pub was bloody small though, but I was impressed with the live performances by all the different bands and singers. Enjoying so much Chivas (I drank the most, as usual) was also very enjoyable, and I had a good chat with Desmond, who I haven't seen in years.

All About Eve, along with many other pubs, is in a shady alleyway with quite a lot of life. This signboard was there. Cute!

And some guy spray painted a pillar with Mas Selamat's face. Read the words on his forehead. There's tons of grafitti and vandalism in the alleyway.

There's me with Karnex. He's such a bad drinker =p.

Ruz and I stayed over at Ashley's place, and the next day ate at his dad's stall in Khatib. Ruz and I headed to Causeway Point to check out the arcade (where he got whooped in air hockey) and to explore a bit. I met Yao Yang, Sylvia Mok and Fiona too. Been ages.

After a trip back home, we watched a few movies and went to sleep. He just went back today. I've still got a week to enjoy. Let's see... what did I plan to do this time round?

Go out with the Magic gang
Go club
Go to Saint Andrews Cathedral
Go out with Ms Koeh!
Meet up Adrian, Zhe Ming and Alvin Lim, my secondary school classmates
Meet up with Chia Sheng, my brother, who called me when I was half asleep

I wanted to meet up with Tiffany, but she seems pissed at me, or maybe I caught her at a bad time. Either that, or she's not interested in meeting up. Eh, oh well then.

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1:48 PM

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Wow... today, for almost 12 hours, there were only like less than 10 customers. Geez.

I also spent a lot of time catching up on songs I had in mind to download, but hadn't had the chance to. Plus, I also updated myself on WWE, as I haven't checked it out in ages. Mostly Kane stuff. Heh.

Anyhoo, I'm going down to Johor Bahru tomorrow with Ruz. Most likely will be attending service on Friday, since majority of the cellgroup is going then. I'm expecting a lot from the Easter drama, since they are always the biggest and usually best dramas of the year. I still love the Judas/Peter storyline they had in 2006. At least, I think it was 2006. It's still the best drama I've ever seen from CHC.

Anyhoo, I finally spoke to Xuen Zhi for the first time! The first things outta my mouth were asking for her contacts -.-. Well yeah. I found out her English name is Wendy anyway. And she studies in Lim Kok Wing! Lawl.

I hope the journey down isn't too eventful. Something inconvenient or stupid always happens when I take the coach. The last time I went down, there was some guy sitting beside me who spread his legs while sitting down. And I mean spread as in really SPREAD. He nearly did the splits on the chair! I mean what the hell? This obviously took up space on my side of the chair, and unfortunately, led to his thigh touching mine, which besides feeling extremely gay, also made it extremely warm (when I got off, I realized that part was a little sweaty! Yucks!). You'd think there'd be a little consideration, regardless of his damn sexual orientation.

Aiks. Nevermind... here's something to make you laugh!

LOL!

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9:18 AM

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

We put pressure on ourselves to get married. Women tell me that they feel more pressure to settle down because they can't have children as easily past a certain age. I don't feel pressure in that sense, but I do fear that my appearance and my "game" (not that either are working for me presently) will fade as I get older. It's fun being one of the few guys in my group of friends who hasn't yet found love, but at the same time I wonder what is wrong with me...and I'm trying to decide if time is running out. I'm so far behind, I can't imagine being asked to meet on Sunday for brunch by a girl I've dated for a month, much less having a child or being married.

Read an article, and copied this excerpt. Exactly how I'm feeling...

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11:10 AM

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I nearly fell asleep while sitting down just now -.-. Blame the lack of sleep last night due to a freaking nightmare. Worse than the usual me-falling nightmare, it was more intense. Shook me up and I woke up in the later hours of 4am, heart beating quite fast. Aiks -.-.

Anyway, yesterday I finally attended Faith Station, which is a Christian fellowship held in school. I took 2 hours off from work to attend. Well, it's not bad, even though it was my first time, they were very warm and we shared a lot about church, our experiences and the lessons learnt. Very enjoyable, and I'll be sure to attend every week when I can. Heh! It's almost like a mini-cellgroup meeting. Thanks Fei Yan for the invite.

Oh, the other day, there was a certain customer who came over and ended up chatting with my mom for hours on end. After the work ended, we ended up having coffee with him, and he's actually an Australian, born in Malaysia. He works in the Malaysian embassy in Australia, and due to making a few sensitive remarks, was prompty arrested by the ISA when he came back. Ouch. He told us quite a lot of things about a few ministers too. Najib, the current Prime Minister of Malaysia, actually asked him for Australian horses. Unless you read Cyanide and Happiness, you won't get it. And I'll leave you to find out what that meant =D.

Anyway, work today seems so dull. Only 5 people left their contacts the entire day, and time seems to pass so fast too! I downloaded around 20 brush sets and updated my deviantART at long last. I'm also downloading Man On Fire, one of the best movies ever, in my opinion. Oh, and Xuen Zhi is still killing me with her beautiful smile -.-! Even more so today than the usual days.

*Smiles like a stupid idiot*

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8:30 AM

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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Aye... work has been alright the last few days. I'm promoting fibre optics broadband in Giant, at Puchong area. Every morning my mom and I drive over there, set up the computer, cables and stuff and well, I think you know the rest.

It's quite dull, honestly. Most customers are nice, but a few are plain rude or ignorant. There's long periods of time where there's no customers at all though, so I surf the net and lately, I've finally been organizing the files in my computer. Prior to this, I had a thousand or so disorganized files, which I dumped in a folder called unfiled. Uh yeah, very predictable name right? I save a lot of pictures and songs, and I always rename them to make them more neat.

Call it OCD if you'd like, but I know many times in the past where I'd wanted to find a certain picture but I couldn't because I didn't remember the filename it was saved as. Plus for songs, I didn't care much 'cause I only had 4 mp3 songs in my computer last time. Then I stayed in Adrian's place, and he asked me to play a certain song. I searched through his entire damn playlist and I couldn't find it! Guess what was the name of the song? Unknown artist - Track 1. What the hell right? After I started getting more songs, I noticed that many of them had typos, or weren't typed in a neat way. So to make things easier and find the songs when I wanted, plus to make it more neat, I retype every single song that isn't according to the usual format. As far as I know, I'm the only person I know that does all this. Gee...

I had a thousand unfiled files. By the end of 2 days, with lots of free time, I only have a hundred or so left unfiled. Pretty impressive eh? Finally my documents make more sense, and pictures like Jupiter and the Sun are no longer in subfolders called "howe3" (I'm not joking about that folder name -.-).

Anyhoo! The environment is good. Plenty of customers walk past. At a P1 W1Max stall nearby, there are 2 pretty girls who work there. I haven't spoken to them but eh, what can I say, free eye candy ^^. Speaking of eye candy, right beside us is a Hotlink store and a very pretty girl called Xuen Zhi (I never asked about the spelling) works there. Eh, I don't know, I just know her name and we just smile at each other all the time. Yeah, funny thing actually, whenever I see her I just smile. When I go to the washroom and walk past her, I smile. When I'm walking back, drying my hands, and I walk past her, again I smile (why did that sentence sound extremely wrong?!). When I sit down and eat, I look at her and I STILL smile! Damn! Anyone paying attention would think I'm some stalker or something -.-.

She's not amazingly gorgeous and all, just very attractive. There's something about her smile that makes you smile. And I feel like an idiot 'cause I have problems smiling. Serious! I think it's some kinda facial muscle problems or something. Hmmm... maybe that's a bad excuse. Either way, I feel like a dufus when I smile, but at least she smiles back (probably thinking in her head what a messed up smile I have -.-). Eh... okay, whatever, I think I'm smitten over her or something -.-, it's very rare for me to smile by just looking at someone. The last person I remember was...

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1:08 PM

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

About time I updated. People have just been pissing me off the last few days. Seriously. Immature, or retarded, they're the things I have the least tolerance for. And I've been bombarded all over. I mean, seriously, I'm surprised people can be so stupid! And unfortunately, some are friends too! What the hell? Yeah, sure, no one's perfect, but to be able to hide your immaturity so well or your retardness (or maybe both) so well makes me amazed. Aiks. Not to mention the level that it reaches. Geez!

Nevermind... considering I'm covering up quite a lot of stuff... expect a long post! Friends night 2 Fridays ago was a great time. It's hard to describe it. Just imagine a normal church service crowd, except everyone's standing, and there's group games plus performances and event a talentime for some of the audience members. And Ruz was one of the chosen! Heh, he got 3rd out of the 5 chosen. He did his fire dancing with my chains. My old one I gave him and the new one I'm using now. So I had like 600 people watching what I wear spinning around. Lmao?

There were also 2 free iPod nanos given away, and I didn't get one. Sobs! Ervina managed to get 10 free hotdogs -.-, so yeah, roflol@her. There were also several segments talking about friendships and the such built in church, and a few testimonies given by members. It really helped build the atmosphere of friendship in there. Yeaps. Great time.

Service for the last 2 weeks was also good. Pastor Kevin finally ended the series of "Now That We Have Grown", the last message about flexibility in leadership. Hmmm... that struck a chord against my usual "I don't wanna be a leader" thinking of course. Also, I remember Issey once said something; "If you don't want to lead and be a leader, what's the point of rising up?" That's pretty hard to argue against, if you think through carefully. I just want to rise up to serve more? Well, the ultimate servicing is in leadership, where you serve all under you and above you. I just want to be a normal member with stronger spiritual maturity. Then what? Leave it at that and feel good about yourself? HELP! I'm arguing against myself! I really can't think of an answer to what he said. Aiks.

Nevermind... that's an issue for another day. Pastor Kong was supposed to come last weekend, but it was announced he couldn't make it on Thursday. Then at around midnight that same night, it was announced he could come. Okay, good. The next day, after morning prayer meeting (Issey, Denise and I all overslept the previous day for morning prayer meeting =x) I was asked to help out in some backstage stuff for Pastor Kong's service, I would need to reach church by 5pm. Considering Ruz, Henry, Licia, Kok Kin and I were planning to go to Ikea at 2 plus, I decided to postponed the plan and go another time. Then around 1pm Pastor Kong couldn't come again -.-. Due to Sun's intestinal problems. Ouchies, take care!

I reached school around 9. Ruz and the rest were arriving around noon. While killing time playing games on my laptop, I met tons of people I knew, including Peggy, Xin Yi, Priscilla, Nash, and well... you get the picture. Anyhoo, since Pastor Kong's service was canceled (again) I was free for Ikea! We went and enjoyed their SWEDISH MEATBALLS! They're some of the best tasting food in the entire world! I kid you not! If you haven't eaten their Swedish meatballs you haven't eaten properly yet! We walked around the Curve, Ikano and Cineleisure (yeah, Singaporeans, there's another Cineleisure here too) a bit and ended up in a neoprint store, which had an arcade game inside called Evil Night. It's a very old shooter game, but the unique thing is that there's 3 guns, one of which is a shotgun. Also, it's very hard to tell if the enemies are dead, and the bosses are freaking insane, especially that stupid snake. The game is pretty long for an 11 year old game, and it's much more scarier than any horror shooter I've played. They also don't give you very much resting time in between stages. 5 Seconds is like all you get before you needa blast off the undead again. Well... after spamming the screen with our bullets, we died a stage from the final. Zzz.

For the weekend (which was the same weekend Pastor Kevin finished the series), Ruz and I stayed over at Henry's place. Before that, we went to Nuraini's (wrong spelling?) birthday celebration. This is actually the first time we formally met, although we've seen each other before. And even when I didn't know her she referred to me as the spiky-hair guy -.-. Heh... we chatted and ate some pretty good food, and later on we played Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Wii! My first time actually touching a Wii. And playing one of my favourite game series too. I used my classic Kirby and rock bottomed everyone pretty often, heh. It's quite confusing though, the controls, 'cause I'm not used to the Wii controllers. I preferred the N64 controller. That was one of the most unique ever. Anyhoo, I always ended up second place for every match -.-.

After going back to Henry's place, we played 2 freaking long sessions of Resident Evil 5 over 2 days, and completed the game. It's quite tough at certain parts. The enemies are spammed at you more than the Ganados, and it's quite tense in many parts. What I don't quite like though, is that the horror factor is practically gone. It's not really survival horror now, its more like survival action, more so than action horror to me. But it's very fun, and the co-op was a very nice factor. Ruz and I double teamed very well on Wesker (well... except when I let him let go and die). Ruz is also a complete moron when it comes to healing! I'm like dying, and he goes and sprays the first aid spray on himself! LOL!

We celebrated Issey's birthday on Sunday too. We planned a major sabotage of him. Heh! This picture will pretty much describe everything we did to him.

Ouchies?

After he showered and everything we gave a cake and a few gifts, as well as a slideshow presentation I created myself, and as a result, made me lose 99% of my sleep, heh. It was a short "story" with pictures that were photoshopped, from infancy, to child, to teen and adulthood and finally his age. I cropped his head and put them over other bodies that represented the different ages in his life. Success! Turns out a lot of people liked it. So whew... mission accomplished =p.

Tuesday we had our caring system in church reiterated and in thorough detail. Reminds me alot of Pastor Kong's Church Without Walls message over 5 years ago. Very similar in many areas. But yeah, it was part teaching, and part discussion with our own cellgroups. Pretty fruitful.

Anyway, since I had the morning prayer meetings last week, followed by Issey's birthday preparations and all, plus the caring system thing on Tuesday, I only officially began my holiday yesterday. And guess what? I'm working. I'm helping my mom to promote fibre optics broadband, and its damn reliable, compared to most other services. It's just not available in many areas. Zzz.

Yeah... so in a sense I'm not getting my holidays at all until I go visit singapore. Which is... soon =D.

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