clarissa and mil with their CANDY!!

the lifts at the lobby of plaza sing were decorated with open season characters! this guy is my favourite!!! 'BUDDY...' hahah stick it to the man! :D

and steph brought her friend cindy to join us today! so with the two of them, tiff, liz and stella, we went to mos burger for lunch and sat there for so long just talking about nonsense!! and i found out some remotely interesting things today.. hehehehe

i can't believe we actually spent time in an arcade on christmas day! of all things to do on christmas! hahaha. liz and i shared one DDR player against tiff and we still got a D in the end!! hahah we sucked! well i was never that gd at ddr anyway. i feel more like im stomping away than anything else :P tiff and i didnt even get to play bishi bashi in the end! the buttons were there but the screen wasnt! hahaha after racing, shooting, walking around plaza sing, we finally decided to go home to our families to spend the rest of christmas! :D this was the first christmas i spent with so many friends from church! hahaha i feel so blessed! have a great christmas everyone and remember the Lord's love for us on this very special day!

10:54 PM.

" Sunday, December 24, 2006

IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE TODAY! everyone in church was all in the festive mood, exchanging gifts, cards and hugs, greeting each other with 'MERRY CHRISTMAS so-and so!!' I got cards, gifts and a big scrumptious brownie baked personally by mil!! but we ate half of it before i could get a decent picture of it :) thanks mil! and after half our small group (plus tiff) had lunch at pizza hut, i had to go home so we could go to my grandma's house!

it's was raining slightly as my whole family cruised down the highway towards bedok. we were all so cosy in the car even though there was a disgusting pungent odour of prawns in our car!! thanks to my silly old mum. we were all being silly and high, talking away... well my dad was doing most of the talking actually :) i was wearing this blue shirt that i got from india that says 'i was born intelligent. but education ruined me'. haha and i wanted my sis to wear the matching one that says 'if being sexy is a crime, arrest me' but she refused to! hahah spoilsport!

the first present i opened was from my uncle and auntie!! it was soooo pretty... it's this make-up kit called THE COLOUR WORKSHOP. and it was named that for a reason.. it was sooo.. COLOURFUL!! hahaha! it has 17 kinds of lip gloss, 15 colours of eyeshadows, 6 cream eyeshadows and 8 brush powders and applicators. and although i have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE AT ALL on how to put on make-up.. it's still so pretty! hahaha i will LEARN and find a use for it soon :D i got this cute pig stuff toy that freaked me out when i squashed it to my face and it SQUEAKED! hahaha and my grandma gave me money cos she said she didn't know what to buy :D

ooh... look at the PRETTY COLOURS... :D haha! i will learn how to use make-up properly one day!

oh christmas tree... ohh christmas tree... if you fall down don't FALL ON ME!

it was so fun playing with my 5 and 7 year old cousins! one is so in love with hello kitty and she finds everything so hilarious, while the other is already some computer genius at the age of 7, glued to his precious computer half the time. hahaha but they are so CUTE i wanna SQUISH their CHUBBY FACES!

we played like a million games, took pictures, ate log cake, played with a rabbit and screamed and squealed. But we didnt stay for the GINGERBREAD HOUSE!!! hahah ohwells it was too pretty to gobble up anyways. anyway im not complaining that we left at 930, i have to wake up at 645 tmr to get to church early for christmas service! need sleep...

we played MONOPOLY, DISNEY EDITION for like 2o mins till their attention turned somewhere else... hahah typical little kids. attention spans of a squirrel :D

i. was. PETER PAN!! he can FLY!!!

SO MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!!!

11:37 PM.

" Saturday, December 23, 2006

Whee! i just returned from CANDLELIGHT service! my whole family was actually there! christmas brings a whole family together to one church at one time :D hahaha! stupid old mil made me go to orchard at like 430! even though the service only started at 8!! we just sat in starbucks while she wrote her christmas cards. but i forgive her cos she wrote MY christmas card! hahaha :D after eating WATERY PORRIDGE and paying $6.50 for that , we went to church at 7 to 'chope' seats! haha luckily we did! half the place was already filled and everyone was 'chope-ing' for everyone! LIZ and TIFF you better thank us! if not you guys would have been sitting on the floor or SQUASHED like SARDINES at the back! worse still, you guys would have been standing at the car park outside like those poor people who came too late.. hahaha

with MIL TIFF AND LIZZY!!!

the rhythm ministry was so cool! next time im gonna join the rhythm ministry and bang along with them! even if it means i have to wear those tribal-looking outfits. so fun! pastor alvin chan gave the candlelight message about the meaning of christmas, and we attempted to sing so many hymns we werent familiar with!

and of course the most fun part was LIGHTING THE CANDLES!! they switched off all the lights and we were almost in complete darkness. then the ushers started to pass the flame on, people were passing the flame on to one another, and soon the whole place was lit up!! such a pretty sight! :D apparently i poked my candle up the base of the cup the wrong way and the WAX so cunningly trickled down when i wasn't looking and BURNT my fingers! haha well it didnt really hurt. im just exaggerating. on the contrary it felt nice and warm, like the flame :D the funniest was my DAD! he was so engrossed with singing the hymn, his booming voice so loud among the other voices, and his paper cup suddenly caught fire from the flame and one-quarter of his cup went up in smoke, literally! haha he's so silly sometimes.

this little light of mine! im gonna let it shine! let it shine, let it shine, let it SHINE!!!!

the last time i went for candlelight in wesley was when i was like 5 or something. so i always thought we light up the candles to get into the christmas mood, and we could all be like the pretty shiny ornaments on the christmas tree! haha but i guess not :D we light the candle to symbolize the Morning Star that the wise men followed. it signifies how we will persevere in following the light through pain and joy, and even if other people call us fools we will gladly be 'fools' like those wise men, and continue to follow the Morning Star for Christ! something like that :D

SI-EYE-LENT NIGHT... HO-OH-LY NIGHT....

after the whole service we went for supper at chinatown something something market? i dunno. but practically all the stalls with the good food had already closed for the day. nevertheless, there was CARROT CAKE! hahaha and on the way home my whole family actually had a very engaging conversation/debate about today's message, the meaning of Christmas, what it means to be 'saved' and all kinds of different perspectives on various topics. WOW. my mummy and sis are so knowledgeable. i love it whenever we start talking about all these and my mummy suddenly starts talking a whole lot that she churned out from bible study many years ago :D so impressive. and i could only give my two cents worth here and there. even my bro was so cute. asking all kinds of weird questions that were.. intellectual to some extend. hahaha but we came to a conclusion that some things just cannot be comprehended. Like our mind trying to figure our mind out.

min looks kinda spooky if u just keep staring at her. and cute little piggy there claims he doesnt know how to smile. poor chap :)

and when i came home, all jolly and cheerful from today's events, i found 3 christmas cards on my table, posted to me!! it just made my day even better!!! hahaha thank you STACE JUN and LIZ!! love u guys!

can't wait for tmr's christmas eve service at ym! we can all celebrate christmas eve together!! (and then go shopping afterwards with my mummy... hehehe)

I've finally found a reason for living

It's in giving every part of my heart to Him...

We are the reason, that He gave His life

We are the reason, that He suffered and died

To a world that was lost, He gave all He could give

To show us the reason to live

2:34 PM.

"

hahaha liz!! i managed to figure out how to put up the video all by myself! HAH! too bad the quality is so lousy.. can't see you retarded face!! :P darn.. that was the good part...

scroll down to read about liz's retarded 'sexbomb' dance!!

11:18 PM.

" Friday, December 22, 2006

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling,
Ring ting tingling too
Come on, it's lovely weather
For a sleigh ride together with you
Outside the snow is falling
And friends are calling "yoo hoo",
Come on, it's lovely weather
For a sleigh ride together with you.

Giddy yap, giddy yap, giddy yap,
Let's go, let's look at the show,
We're riding in a wonderland of snow.
Giddy yap, giddy yap, giddy yap,
It's grand, just holding your hand,
We're gliding along with a song of a wintry fairy land!

Our cheeks are nice and rosy
And comfy cozy are we
We're snuggled up together
Like two birds of a feather would be
Let's take that road before us
And sing a chorus or two
Come on, it's lovely weather
For a sleigh ride together with you.

There's a birthday party
At the home of Farmer Gray
It'll be the perfect ending a perfect day
We'll be singing the songs
We love to sing without a single stop
At the fireplace while we watch the chestnuts pop.
Pop! pop! pop!

There's a happy feeling
Nothing in the world can buy
When they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie
It'll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives
These wonderful things are the things
We remember all through our lives!

WHEEE i LOVE this CHRISTMAS song!!! come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with YOU!!!

9:13 PM.

"

today i actually got my very own personal wake-up call!! at 1016am tang hui shan and liz called my house phone and hollered into my ear, screaming at me to "WAKE UP JIA!!" i was sooo dead tired from sleeping at 3 in the morning. this has got to stop mann. i've completely screwed up my internal clock!

gradually, but reluctantly, i dragged myself out of bed and stumbled into the toilet to brush up. after the whole usual morning process, i finally met liz tang and zhimin at venezia!! i hadn't seen tang and zhimin for what seemed like eternity! too bad the lazy netballers didnt wanna join us. i havent seen bush jac and jun for so long too. and stupid bush keeps blaming me that we havent gone out this hol!

the most HILARIOUS thing happened at venezia when liz was proudly showing us her newly-learnt 'dance'. she was like rocking to and fro pumping her fists downwards, going 'sexbomb! sexbomb!' and simply because it was liz doing it, it made it like a hundred times funnier! so we dared her to go to the open space in the middle of guthrie to do her 'dance'. for five dollars, she had to do that weird rocking thing five times and scream sexbomb! so that we could hear it from inside venezia. and liz, thinking she was so brave and all, pompously agreed and went out. so she stood in the middle of guthrie, ready to go! then suddenly she chickened out and kept stalling for time, hoping that all the people outside cold storage would suddenly just vanish so they won't see her act all retarted!

sexbomb! sexbomb! hahaha go liz!
there's a ultra-HILARIOUS VIDEO of liz dancing and acting all stupid! but i can't put it up! uggh :(

the funniest part was that this cute little boy outside cold storage, kept glaring at liz and scrunching up his face in utter disgust of this insane freaky girl standing in the middle of guthrie acting all weird and suspicious. hahaha he was so cute!! he just kept making funny faces at her! well anyway liz was obviously too scared to humiliate herself in public and didnt accomplish her dare in the end. so we just went back to school for our study party!! hahaha i love saying that.. study party!! :D

hahaha there's the cute little boy! he was still giving liz weird looks as he was leaving! :)

but due to my lack of sleep, i was kinda dazed when we finally sat down at the benches besides the new hideous looking lockers. i kept catching myself stoning so much that my eyes were hurting from being so dry. i had to blink so hard to get rid of the painful prickly feeling in my eyes. and i actually fell asleep for 40 mins on the bench while tang and liz finished a whole zhou ji each!!! and i have no idea how many embarrasing pics liz took of me while i was stoning and sleeping!!

frantically scribbling away...

our mp3s!! :)

ohwells i guess i managed to accomplish a BIT today :D. two chapters of bio. hmmm... well it was fun! we should have another study partayye! hahaha :)

12:05 AM.

"

As a result from sleeping at 330 am last night, I woke up at 12 today!! My attempts to spend my mornings fruitfully by diligently doing my homework all went down the drain. Ohwells I guess it’s a good thing cos nowadays I can’t seem to function without at least 8 hours of sleep. Plus I can’t even post anything yet since the html for all the different blogskins I tried seem to have some sort of html problem. It’s so frustrating! I can’t even get started properly. Darn the html... what does html even stand for!? I don’t know how to spot where the problem lies much less fix it.
Ohwells, I’m just waiting for help to descend now. Coming in the form of ZHIMIN!

Today I carried my spankin' new tennis bag for training! (the black white and lime green Wilson one that EVERYONE has now. But it’s ok, I still like it) I can’t believe we actually had a full 2 hours training today! It’s definitely considered a MIRACLE since every single time HANNAH the JINX comes for training with me at coach’s place it POURS like mad. Every. Single. Time. Without fail. Hahaha so it’s really amazing how we actually got to train for 2 hours. Congrats on putting your jinx history behind you hannah! Oh and coach didn’t even make any comments about your nails! Must have something to do with his weird orange shirt.

zhimin finally helped me to get my blogskin up! thanks zhimin! i have seen the light... hahaha. this one is quite plain... but nevermind, still testing out :) will get better at all these.

11:37 PM.

" Thursday, December 21, 2006

alright this is my very first post ever! hahaha it was written yesterday but i only managed to put it up now! but here it is anyways...


Ok this is seriously quite intriguing; what a single moment’s spurt of emotion can do to you! Since sec 1 I was like, ok I will never ever tempt myself into getting a blog.. It’s simply time-consuming and you shall not get yourselves into such things… And here I am, at 2! In the morning! Creating a blog! Queer I tell you. Go figure.
Well since I promised some sort of a tribute to LIZ ONG! Here it is! :) Seriously lizzo, I have no idea why. It must have been because I nearly died of hysteria laughing at your super duper funny posts and suddenly I was like, ok it’s really quite fun to have a blog! Why keep all the significant and funny moments in your own little memory box when you can write it all down!
It’s no wonder I always forget something that happened two weeks ago and when somebody reminds me of it I’m usually like ‘huh!? When did that happen!?’ for the first few nanoseconds. Yeah so anyways, it’s all thanks to liz’s contagious influence that actually got me started on a blog at 2 plus in the morning!!! Hahaha I’ll see whether or not to thank you later on liz.

So for all the lucky few whom I happened to spend time with on the very day I created this blog… you can have honours of being on my FIRST POST! Hahaha well…
At the indecent hour of 8 this morning, I had to drag myself out of bed to go for a stupid CC meeting. Nevertheless it was so fun seeing the CC after like... 4-5 weeks! Well half the CC anyways. Namely char, pam, amanda and hui!! Well I have nothing to say but sorry manda!! We can’t help but constantly sidetrack from the meeting’s agenda there’s just too much to talk about! Seriously amanda, just bonk us on the head when we aren’t paying attention to you and keep rattling on and on…
After rushing home in a cab to drop off the troublesome blazer, I went to cine to meet the old ‘sec one gang’! Cos ame is back from Australia!! Whoo! Almost all of us were there except silly old stace. It felt exactly like in sec one when we were all still so close to each other and goofing around. Except now we’re like older, probably fatter and stinky ame had to immigrate to Australia. But today was really loads of fun guys! Thanks mari, jia en, becky and ame! And seriously ame, we just don’t like those mint pods ok! Hahaha thanks for all the yummy stuff you brought back :) milk flavouring STRAWS!! hahaha

eating at PASTAMANIA! bbq chicken and chicken with mushroom pizzas! mmmm...

mari, me, jia and ame! BECKY isnt here cos she OVERSLEPT! hahaha :)

strawberry milk flavouring STRAWS!!! how intriguing... hahaha i havent tried them yet though

After that I went to meet good old MIL! Who FORCED me to run from CINE all the way to FAR EAST and making phone calls, THREATENING me and yelling ‘you better be SWEATING when you get here!’ All this because I was slightly late. Tsk tsk impatient mil… Patience is a virtue! Hahaha then next she tempted me into eating fried mars bars even though I can just feel myself becoming fatter and fatter each day! And we didn’t even buy a bag in the end mil! All that endless walking and walking for like… 3 and a half hours!! Hahaha that was fun, but tiring. I needed a new pair of knees. Seriously mil, you’re one of the few who can stop me from buying stuff on impulse. Let me know when you finally decide to go buy a bag with me! Hahaha!

And yang xuan! You interrupted me while I was watching my movie! Hahaha but welcome back from korea! Made me so jealous going on about your skiing trip! I wanna go skiing too! Hey si! Even though ur like in L.A right now, you promised you’d go skiing with me when are old enough to go on a holiday ourselves! Hahaha yes and yang xuan was trying to sound knowledgeable with his newly discovered Korean words :) haha which he didn’t even know the correct spelling for. According to him ‘agashi mujimuji yibayo’ means ‘girl is very very pretty’. Tsk tsk, I bet you were wolf whistling to all the pretty Korean girls right?! Hahaha don’t act all shocked and innocent. :) ahem.. and i shan't mention how you thought someone got a *ahem* on one *ahem* only.. hahaha!

Woah... now it’s like 3:15 AM. I have no idea why I don’t feel sleepy when I had to wake up at such an unearthly hour this (well, yesterday) morning. I still can’t believe I just got a blog like that. Not that it’s a big deal but I told myself not to get one. Hahaha si, I can imagine you gloating ‘I told you so!’ all the way from LA if you knew. So anyways, yupp I think that concludes it! This blog thing is gonna be fun…