baptism, shuttlecock magnet & chicken wings

heehee... odd title?

well, i thank God for 16th Apr, cos I saw two of my dear friends/cg members get baptised!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woohoo! so happy for them... =) plus one of them also had her mum getting baptised as well! there was also another lady who started coming to church cos her little boy was in our sunday school, and she actually sat in and listened to all these bible stories for a good 3 to 4 years! i was the sunday school teacher for a year or two then... heehee... so it's nice to see my 'student' take this step of declaration of her faith in God... =)

i thank God that we've been keeping up with our weekly badminton sessions... my cell's just so great! heehee... the only sad thing is that my sister doesn't like badminton and so she doesn't join us... so it's like our cell not complete... =(

anyway, why shuttlecock magnet? cos i've got this amazing ability to attract shuttlecocks from all directions... lol... it doesn't have to be a smash from my opponent, i've been hit my my own partner a couple of times too! gosh... it's really not very safe... thank God that it's just shuttlecocks and not like tennis or basketball... i'll be all black and blue by now if that was the case! they don't really hurt, except for one smash into my undefined abs... now that one hurt... but thankfully it didn't bruise... tho it hurt a couple of days.. but ok liao! =)

oh i discovered this lovely chicken wing stall at the kopitiam near my office! it's really very yummy... and only 90cents! all the other stalls selling chicken wings (not even the same standard) are at least $1! so yeah... me happy... but now i have to keep steering clear of the stall cos i've had more than one person remind me that they inject chickens by the wing and the neck... so it isn't healthy blahblahblah... once in a while! heehee... *drool* =P so yeah! thank God for this new stall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gonna play badminton again this sunday and monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! monday's a holiday! yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! so happy... i like holidays! nice and restful...

oh and i thank God for keeping my palm (pda) in good condition... i took it out of hibernation last wednesday and it's working fine... in fact it's great mrt entertainment! heehee... i'm hooked onto this game called flying snake... it's a lot like the snake game we find in nokia phones but u eat numbers instead and u can eat hearts to get extra lives blahblah... it's fun... =) and it was free! heehee... so i thank God for my palm ( a gift for several of my church mates for my 21st birthday) and for free games! heehee...

also thank God for keeping the rain away when I'm travelling home... it's happened three times already... when i'm finally safe under shelter, the skies open up! so praise God!

i thank God that Xiang will be coming back soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the three years of ldr is finally coming to an end and we can begin a new paktor lifestyle! heehee... i think God really watched over us during this time and the distance apart has taught us many valuable lessons and made us treasure each other so much more... many pple now tell me, whoa! so fast he's back hor! i shake my head... at this pt with only 50plus days more, it sure seems fast, but they weren't the ones going through the three years... i'm not sayin it was a terrible three years, but there are so many couple things that people often take for granted that xiang and i haven't been able to enjoy these past three years... most of these 3 years we weren't on the same continent... things like meeting up for a meal, sending an sms, calling for a short chat, going to the movies, hanging out over teh c... were not possible or not without a high cost... the time difference meant an alteration in lifestyles... it meant a lot of giving and taking... many pple told me at the start of this relationship, 'i don't mean to be a wet blanket, but ldrs hardly ever work out'... well, i've got news for you, it has and will work out cos effort, prayer and love was put into the relationship... =) so really thank God for seeing us through these past three years... =)

badminton fun, killed a roach & yummy dinner

hello! it feels good to wake up to a saturday.. no one's home... sis has gone off to be her friend's 'sister' cos friend's getting married.... parents have gone off to send her there and then proceed to some polyclinic... so at 8am i'm all alone in the house.. feels nice... cos there's no noise and all... normally i like having my family around... just ask my sis and she'll tell you how much i pined away for my parents while they were in nz. but today... i just feel like being alone a little... decisions decisions decisions.... for me... family's view always weighs heavily... and often i feel obligated to change my decision just because they disagree. but ought i now?

anyway, i thank God for

1. a fun-and-water-filled badminton session yesterday... we took a train to clementi as there was time and five can't fit into a cab... but it started to pour when we were at buona vista... and when i saw pour... i mean it rained BIG tigers and wolves! it's like there were a million buckets overturning at the same time... my shoes were soaked right thru and even after more than 18 hours are still dripping... my shorts t-shirt all got wet... but i think it's one of those things that we'll remember forever... out of the five of us, only two had umbrellas.... so we went two at a time... i made a mistake of not taking the second umbrella with me when i went back to get our last person... oh well, but it did a good deed as huifen passed her umbrella on to someone else and as such one less person was drenched in the relentless downpour. The whole session was really fun.. just six of us so we played many matches... but the best was the last hour (which was free cos we didn't leave and no one came) and we tried all sorts of shots.... just stroking around.. it was fun despite me being the target of daffy's unintentional smashes at one time... lol...
   
2. after badminton the sixth person, ling and daffy's friend chien drove... so when deciding where to proceed for dinner, sneaky little me suggested tiong bahru market... heh! lol... but they agreed! amazing... so we had yummy hokkien mee, bbq chicken wings, chuee kueh, rat tails and sugarcane with lime, lime juice, soya bean and coke... of cos the drinks were all individiual lah.. everything else shared... i tried sugarcane with lime for the first time and i must say it's rather nice... must try again but must make sure got lime... cos i think i tried before when i was younger and no lime, no nice! hehehe...
   
3. oh oh oh and yes i killed a roach... a cockroach... poor chien shrieked in the middle of her shower... and i was already done (cos i decided to stay stinky and just have a powder bath) we asked what was wrong, and she said 'cockroach'... i turned to look at her cubicle and true enough i saw this naughty little pest running around her toilet... poor girl.. it's not like we could dash in or anything... so after more mini shrieks i asked her to wrap herself in a towel and come out and i'll help her get rid of the roach... so out she came and i asked for her slipper... the silly little fella was just sitting in a corner waiting for his death sentence... i sauntered over and thwack! no more... i'm sure i got it squarely on the head so it died and slipped thru the grills and that was the end of the roach... chien then proceeded with her bath... lol... she looked at me in awe and said 'you're so brave'... LOL.... ling of cos has to point out that i'm afraid of even cute creatures like hamsters but i dare kill a cockroach... 'well, i know i can just bash the cockroach on the head and it'll die... i can't bash a hamster when i'm afraid... so i scared lor...' i quip. hehehe...
4. the movie and fellowship time i'll be having with daffy adn lingy in less than two hours... ling mentioned the producers... it looks amusing.. and daff wanted to catch it too... so here i am... all dressed and ready to go out... gonna head for a leisurely breakfast alone with a good book soon... =)
   

so yeah... yesterday was a nice nice day... except maybe towards the end.... sigh... hope it works out... decisions decisions decisions...

protection from leery men

it was a traumatic evening yesterday as i encountered two leery men. one at the bus stop near my work place. this fella actually almost crashed into some big object when he had his head turned to look at me. after stopping just in time. He got his bearings and turned his head 75 degrees to stare at me again! it's not a hmm i know you look... it was a leer! yuckyuckyuck.... i gave him a 'what are you staring at blink' and he quickly cycled away...

i was relieved when my bus came and it looked nice and empty which was rare for 54 which travels thru town... so i boarded and there were many seats... i was going to proceed to my usual seat but there was another leery man there... he was huge and dirty... dirty in more ways than one... so i chose to sit nearer the door... i was very tired and wanted to nap... but tried as i could i couldn't... and suddenly i was aware of a shuffling behind me... now the seat mehind me is a raised one, and i knew a school girl was sitting there... so when i turned my head towards the window i saw the figure behind was so huge that it couldn't have been the slight schoolgirl i had seen earlier. i wasn't sure so i looked to my right and caught sight of a huge figure sitting right behind me in the reflection on the windows. the guy was literally breathing down my neck. groan... i looked around for a good place to sit, and decided to move to the row on the right and sit next to the window with a lady on my left... but the lady got off the bus just as i made my move to sit next to her. so there in the empty bus i was vulnerable to have the huge chunk sit next to me. i felt his gaze shift and it was really really really uncomfortable. i prayed and prayed that God will protect me... i got my umbrella out ready to brandish or whack if necessary should he have chosen to sit right next to me. thankfully he didn't... one would think i was imagining things... but as he got off the bus several stops later, he hovered around my seat as i purposely avoided his gaze and he kept turning to stare somemore... if any of you watched kill bill, u'd know which skill i would have liked to acquire at that time to relieve him of his eyeballs.

i thank God that I didn't have to resort to any skills that i didn't have and i was actually thinkin of getting off and just grabbing a cab but i was worried i'd get trailed... so i asked God for wisdom and asked Him that if it were a good thing to get off, have someone else press the bell and i'd jump off at the last minute to prevent following... but no one pressed the bell for the bus stop that usually has quite a few people dropping off. so while logic told me to run, my heart told me to trust in Him. and i did... the chunk got off at the next bus stop. whew...

it's been quite a while since i last encountered such a nasty thing... and realised how much i detested such things... it makes one feel violated... i've been told that some males say that we should feel honoured that they even bother to look at us... but really, i don't need to be leered at to feel appreciated. i'm not saying that the whole male gender is like that or has this idea, but the thought repulses me to think that we ought to feel flattered that these men stare at us like we are nothing but a piece of meat. it has no respect. it leaves us with no dignity. so the next time u think of looking at a lady that way, thinking that it's 'praising her' think again buddy.

sleep and da cang jing

haha... yes that what i've been doing most nights so never got around to blogging... day time has been pretty busy too with work and tuition... just ask poor xiang and he'll tell you how soon after we start our conversation via phone (cos i'm too tired to webcam) that i tell him 'i'm sleepy!' then he'll ask the same question very time 'do you wanna go sleep now?' and 90% of time time i go 'uhuh!' haha... yup... anyway life's been boring so nothing much to blog about either...

I thank God for...

1. Lots and lots of sleep last night... went to bed at 9 and woke up at 6.45am...
2. a cousin who was so nice to lend us da cang jing that korean serial that everyone's been talking about... it's pretty nice lah... think the chemistry between the two leads very sweet... and they act pretty well... but very drama ah the plot...
3. not letting me be able to book the badminton courts for last sunday 2nd april... cos that gave me time to rest... (i was really bummed abt it but this is the only view i can think of to thank God for in spite of the yucky circumstances)
4. a pay increment =)
5. 32 months with xiang
6. allowing me to get the badminton courts for this sunday!!!! =)
   
7. meeting up with an old friend that i haven't met up with for a year (which reminds me May, if you are reading, sorry for the last minute pull out in march... was very stressed with home stuff... too many things to do when parents weren't in singapore)
   
8. making the rain lighter for the length of time that i'll be it (this week it rained everyday at 5pm save for yesterday)
9. for the weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay... gonna take my tuition kids to watch ice age 2 today.. hope it's good...
10. been reading a lot... read on the train... waitin for the bus... during tuition when kid's doing an assessment... think i've read a good two books a week for quite a while now...
    

alrightey... hope i'll blog more often tho from the lack of tags, i think it won't really matter even if i don't... heehee... ;)