The days of days

What days? Birddays. Literally! It's daniel(DA NIAO's)'s birdday! Wee. Also not to forget, happy birthday 1803! Haven't forgotten you guys too. Anyhow, the star tonight will be Daniel, since I went for his birthday celebration with Sivam, Russell, and...Daniel.

Anyway, it was a simple meetup for dinner and a little pool session. I do suppose it was about time? It seems that all of us were so soaked up with the nitty gritties of life that the fellowship was broken. Alas, it was not to be!

Anyway the plan was simple:

1800hrs
City Hall - Start Point

1810hrs
Douby Gout? Goud? Gourd?

1830hrs - xxxxhrs (Check Point 1)
Parkmall - Sakae Sushi (buffet)

xxxx=2130hrs..
Eat and talk cock..

2130hrs
Paradiz center (Check Point 2)
fy_pool_day..kidding. just pool

2300hrs
head for home..boonlay!@!

Well. That's the brief outline. I do feel quite lazy to type properly...especially when distracted with stuff. Well for one, Russell seemed overly love-sick! Lethargic, distracted, emo-tional, anxious. Well Russ, like Adeline said, pluck some courage from SOMEwhere. It may be infatuation, it may be not. Either way, you have to choose to act like a man, or turn away. That's my take.

I'm happy to see you guys surviving. Especially Dan and Sivam...going to ORD soon. Well we'll meet up soon yeah. It's a pity player1 not there. Nvm. U got GM hax.

Anyway to show that we are in the -IN- thing..here are some pics..

The four of us stoning...

The 3 of us in the right mind...

Guess who's emo-ing?

Told ya...he went to find her church!

Daniel sighing..he's 22 now..a year older and 10 KGs heavier.

That's all for now folks!
-ps Russ. was careful not to release any info!

Jon

The BB Vesper

Great God who knowest all our needs
Bless Thou our watch, and guard our sleep;
Forgive our sins of thought and deed,
And in Thy peace Thy servants keep.

We thank Thee for the day that's done
We trust Thee for the days to be;
Thy love we learn in Christ Thy Son,
O May we all His glory see!

Amen.

Cheers! The BB spirit lives.
Jon

Programming Headaches

So...here I am trying to make things right. Let's take a look...

include
Main(void)
{
int A, a, sumInt;
flaot B, divFloat;
character c;

printf("\n Type a character A or a: ");
scanf("%f", &c);
if(c=A){
printf(" you have typed '%c' \n", c);
}else{
printf(" you have typed '%c' \n", c);
}

printf("\n Type integer numbers for A and a: \n");
scanf("%d", &A, &a);
sumInt = A+a;
printf(" Sum of A(%d) and a(%d) is %d \n", A,a, sumInt);

printf("\n Type a float number for B: \n");
scanf("%d", B);
divFloat = A*B;
printf(" A(%d) over B(%f) is %f \n",A,B, divFloat);
divFloat = A/a;
printf(" A(%d) over a(%d) is %f \n",A,a, divFloat);
divFloat = float A/a;
printf(" A(%f) over a(%d) is %f \n",A,a, divFloat);
}

and this is what i made it..

#include
#define d 0
#define D 0
Main(void)
{
int A, a, sumInt;
float B, divFloat;
char c;

printf("\n Type a character d or D: ");
scanf("%c", &c);
if(c=D){
printf(" you have typed '%c' \n", c);
}else{
printf(" you have typed '%c' \n", c);
}

printf("\n Type integer numbers for A and a: \n");
scanf("%d", &A, &a);
sumInt = A+a;
printf(" Sum of A(%d) and a(%d) is %d \n", A,a, sumInt);

printf("\n Type a float number for B: \n");
scanf("%f", &B);
divFloat = (float) A*B;
printf(" A(%d) over B(%f) is %f \n",A,B, divFloat);
divFloat = (float) A/a;
printf(" A(%d) over a(%d) is %f \n",A,a, divFloat);
divFloat = (float) A/a;
printf(" A(%d) over a(%d) is %f \n",A,a, divFloat);

}

but no..it just can't compile!!

blabberings 08..

A grandiose closure to 21st year of my life

17th January 08 17:30 hrs

We went to visit Darren in SGH as a class. I'm really glad to see him sober up and think straight, determined to set things right. I'm sure can do it bro! Waiting for you to come out then we can go out together.. You , Ren De...Me! Enjoy your stay there ya! Make it meaningful and fun!

20:00

Alex & Mei Lin, Jude & Yan Ru, Esther & I, and of course, You Sheng & Daniel. We went down to the food court opposite Outram MRT. Had some quick bites and a little catching up. Although I was pretty disappointed there wasn't enough stalls opened at that timing, I enjoyed the people! I mean, the company.

22:00

Headed down to Butter Factory with Dear for my school bash. It's my first time clubbing! Excited. Here are some pics:

Cool Guy

Cool Girl

Some Pics I took of the place...

Nice right!? I mean, the shots. Ha Ha. Anyway, we danced a little. 12:00, January 18 08. Mr. Jonathan hits 22. Thanks for all that remembered! Thanks for all that didn't either, because all my friends made a difference in my life! And family of course. And so, dancing was cool. Although I'm not really into it, whatever. It's like my first time clubbing, why not just go with the groove and dance? Ha.

18 January 08 18:30

My dear had a surprise for me. She brought me to Dan Ryan's Chicago Grill. Americanized.
There was something that caught my eye. At the bottom of the menu it reads: " Warning. We serve American portions only." I mean, ROFL! That's cute~!

Anyway, my dear ordered carrot cake. Erm. The ENGLISH carrot cake which looks like (see below) that. Not Chai Tao Kuay ah!! Appetisers & Baby back ribs or something like that (we forgot to take any pics of those.)











And that's it! Great food. I was really surprised when they, the staff, brought the cake and sang "Happy Birthday" right there. My dear knew, and it was kind of a nice surprise..I feel so loved! Hee. So dear, thank you very much for an enjoyable 22nd birthday!~

19 January 08 13:00 hrs

Me and Daniel met up earlier to buy prezzie for my 2 nephews at Sun Tec. We headed down to Bugis to meet up with the cell group for Reachlight lunch at Oxford Hotel at 13:30 hrs. When we met Eugene and Denise, we heard the most shocking (albeit interesting) news. The two were fined drinking in the MRT. Actually, if you can visualise Bugis MRT, there were standing at the far right corner after you exit the gantry, which is near the exit. For a normal commuter (that is, me) I would not consider drinking there an offense! I think most people don't know. I think the management is just being a SNUB - whatever that means..it just sounds nice. Anyway, if it were me I'll be sure to STOMP the issue. I mean come on. The guys claimed that they played the "NO EATING AND DRINKING" announcement 5 or 6 times over the PA system. Would anyone, thinking that they are not in offense, pay any attention to that? I would certainly think it would be an offense if I were to be drinking within the gantry, train side; But certainly not when I'm near the exit?! Ridiculous. They didn't even have the courtesy to come over and warn them personally. I think they FAIL...maybe that's why they get stuck with that job. Pft.

Just to create some awareness.

Anyway, lunch was crappy for $18 bucks. Serious. So I shan't talk too much about it.

However, Dinner was just too great. Pariss International @ Marina Square. Oh no I forgot to thank my sisters. Anyhow, it was pretty pricy so I did expect much of it. It delivered...somewhat. The choices wasn't too fantastic, but it's been a long time since I indulged myself in such a spread. I'm glad dear you enjoyed yourself. Sorry forgot about the photos; too busy eating. My dear took a few at the end though, when I was happily eating black pepper crab. Hope it appetizers you! Here's one:



Sunday January 20 08 11:00

Cellgroup. I was surprised with a Birthday Cake at the end. Really thank you all for the great company. Above all, thank God I have you all!





Once again, Thank you all! And I love the water bottle it is really handy!
And thanks Lie Cong bro. You've been very attentive and caring to the needs of the cell group, and also listening to me/us.

15:00 or...15:30...since the 2 lovey dovey were kinda late..

Yanru & Jude, Me and Dear went Pasir Ris park for a photoshoot.
For this one, I think pictures will speak a volume much larger than words, so i'll direct you to Jude's flikr webby once he uploaded them. Here's a sample of what I took with Jude's DSLR...Oooh I'm loving DSLR now.




Great shots! Thanks Jude and Yan Ru for the wonderful time-out at the beach. We had fun...should do that some other time...with some other couple.

That's all for now...too long and I need to prep for tomorrow.
So Ciao!

Jonathan

Fill In The Bits

FITB or Fill In The Bits.

I think that's what professors expect us to do. What a day to start of the new semester. Being shocked at the content we're going cover. The maths lecturer was another chinese national that could hardly be heard. Materials Science wasn't as bad but still bad. Thermodynamics was like some old uncle you'd expect to be at a Kopitiam drinking kopi talking on and on about how we should behave in lectures and how difficult a subject thermodynamics is. Bah.

Lovely! My friend said, he simply can't see himself running around chemical plants and manhandling machinery. I'm not sure about myself but certainly not the best thing to do. Might probably cause some big explosion in Singapore. Wee! Meso Explosion! Im sure Shell could afford it..so rich.

And so. This is going to be a very challenging semester, especially when I don't feel very studious. I only know I need to be, and feel like being, but am not. And I didn't get any electives assigned to me! What the hell? I think I need to be more prayerful about everything I do.

I just failed my driving test my 2nd time. Not going to blog much...if you ask I'd tell. But yea.
Let's see how far into the Sem I can go before I start losing steam..

Jonathan

Happy New Year 2008

It was a great year that has passed. Eventful, so to speak. So much has happened in the 21st year of my life. Ups, and downs, and everything new.

I'm, for one, very thankful for the friends around me. It's wonderful to start the new year with so many of them, surely. But first off, I thank David for hosting the party, for without which there would be none so enjoyable. All the chefs, Mei Lin, Jude, David, that did a great job whipping up magic, Betty for her wonderful, truly wonderful Tiramisu and strawberry cheesecake. The best I've ever tried, really. Thanks dear for a fun time with Ice Kachang, and thanks for those that came! I had much fun.

2008 started off a little crazy after a night at David's place. Let's say we went to try a famous Ba Kut Teh...and followed up by watching AVP2 on it's opening day. Madness for mad classmates! Haha. AVP2 was quite a let down for me. Messy, not-so-original storyline, dark and unexplained many's. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the company of my friends! Thanks David for the drive around town, sorry for the detour haha.

But above all, this year I have to thank God for my dear. If not for her, I would have probably been a very lost soul in uni. If not for her I would have let a much more boring 2007. There were ups, and there were downs. There will be too, in the future. But let's strive together in love! I've grown much and learnt much. Enjoyed my 2007 thanks to you. Love ya! Happy 2008 ahead.

Let's all reflect and enjoy the past year. And to the challenges ahead in 2008, I'd say. Come.

Jonathan

Back from HK

Hi people. Sorry got back from Hong Kong some time already but too lazy to post something. Actually I've already uploaded photos to facebook already. So do check out there.. Will post when the urge comes..but right now..not really.

here's the link to album 1 http://ntu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14851&l=d27c2&id=672308195

there are a total of 8 albums! hahaha

An After(exam)thought.

Firstly,

Thank God for bringing me through this. I would never have survived it without Him. Will otherwise flunk a couple of subjects already, and die of stress overload.

Well, me and dearie went JP and she got her shoes! I've got...Hellgate! Qweee..But I have problems running in on Vista. SIGH! And it's not too OK to do a patch update if ya know what I mean. But well, I've got BioShock and, Maple!

Just now when I was a the laundry room, I saw the queerest insect ever! It looked like a huge spider with four legs and it flew around the fan. Eventually it rested on the doorway and that made me fear going out (and in). On closer inspection, there are 5 legs(2 behind, 3 in front, symmetrically spaced those at the front). It has a dragonfly looking body and small wings. Very weird indeed! Legs and wings, never seen any with these two. Sure scared the shit out of me..somewhat.

Anyway, I feel very relieved. But hey! I've got 6 more examinable semesters to go. Jia you!
Hopefully the grades will not turn out too bad this sem, that would at least give me motivation to work harder in the course. Yap.

I'm off...lots of things to do this hols. See ya after my HK trip!

(p.s. I hope to catch "I Am Legend" with my friends.)

LoL

HAHAHAHA...sorry. I just can't study.

Restless hours

Oh my! I'm feeling extremely restless and finding much difficulty in settling down to study for my last paper which is tomorrow afternoon: Physics!

Sigh! I never knew what it meant or feels to be this way. I guess the exams dragged too long, more than half a month! Very taxing on the mind, contents are heavier than I thought, yada yada yada. It seems like I'd rather do anything else other than study! Restless!

HELPPP..

Word Trap!

Are you word trapped? I think I am. I'm beginning to feel the ill effects of going through army - brain vegetation. Let's make it sound nicer, neural vegetation! Ah, that's more bio - sounding.

The thing is, it came upon me, and impressed me deeply, about the lack of any effort whatsoever to further improve my, our, standard of English. Like the lack of muscles leads to "atrophy", quite evidently the lack of use of "proper" English led to a decline in the standard. Thus, I propose that we do the:

"Vocabulary List"!

In fact, I've just started today! I'm ashamed to not keep up with a lexicon that educated people of our age demands! I am, however, not ashamed to start today! Shall we? I aim to at least cover 5 words a week. www.dictionary.com is a good place to start. Of course, it would be better when our interest is sparked of a word which we read in some article that we know not of, then that word becomes listed! And, to ensure integration into our repertoire of words, we must attempt to phrase it in a sentence ourselves, much like that Chinese exercise we used to do last time.

Cheers for good English! Hurray!

Is HE? or is he not?

Something I just read, and it echoes what I'm mentioned a couple of posts much earlier.

Among the Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time… One part of the claim tends to slip past us unnoticed because we have heard it so often that we no longer see what it amounts to. I mean the claim to forgive sins: any sins. Now unless the speaker is God, this is really so preposterous as to be comic… He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offences. This make sense only if He really was the God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin. In the mouth of any speaker who is not God, these words would imply what I can only regard as a silliness and conceit unrivalled by any other character in history.

Yet (and this is the strange, significant thing) even His enemies, when they read the gospels, do not usually get the impression of silliness and conceit. Still less do unprejudiced readers. Christ says that He is "humble and meek" and we believe Him; not noticing that, if He were merely a man, humility and meekness are the very last characteristics we could attribute to some of His sayings.

(Lunatic, Liar Or Lord)

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

- C.S Lewis

Something else I came across that struck a chord with what was discussed earlier about the cure for cancer and was used as a analogy to the Gospel - The Good News of God's Salvation:

Paul owed the gospel to every member of the human race. At one point in his life Paul (Saul of Tarsus) felt an obligation to persecute every Christian; but now Paul felt an obligation to preach to every creature (Paul was probably familiar with Mark 16:15). What obligation or gospel duty do you have (see 2 Cor. 5:17-21)? Those who are recipients of God’s good news feel burdened and obligated to pass it on to others! If you were a medical researcher and you discovered a cure for cancer, would you keep it a secret? Life is short; death is sure; sin the cause, CHRIST THE CURE!

Interesting..

Cliffhangers

Well, not exactly, but these exams give me that feeling. Don't know what to expect, dread for it to come, yet yearn for it to finish fast.

Nevertheless, Last Saturday was Ree Yi's birthday at Aloha Chalet #5, the same one as Clarence's. I got a clock for her birthday. I'm so sorry though if she was affected by it. But anyhow, I received clocks before and, I will never be so superstitious to such a degree. When I first saw it, I thought, "hey lovely clock!" Then Daniel said "ya.." And I was thinking "Hmm..clock..good meaning! Time is precious, use your time wisely" along those lines.

Although Russell later said it's bad omen to give a clock for a birthday, eventually we had a unanimous decision to buy it. Besides, let's not be ridiculously superstitious because of a clock!

Anyhow, pictures of the party I've uploaded on facebook..here's the link : http://ntu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11383&l=67f1e&id=672308195

Oh...guess who I saw..en teng(?sp). He kinda like pretended he didn't see me. So I did likewise. Heard from Ree Yi's he's her primary school friend. Small world eh..

The birthday cake was..well..see it yourself in the pics. The most strawberry, cheesy-cake tasting cake i've ever seen. STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE FTW!

Oh and check out the SADAKO hottie, lol.

Anyway peace. I've just gotta take a retreat from blogging and facebooking for this exam period. Cheers!

THE PERIOD!

Just finished with a makeup quiz, one on one, face to face, with the man. I think prof Vincent is a funny hongkie, should have attempted to listen to him during lectures more, he's actually pretty good!

Anyway I felt relieved. This is round 2 of the quizzes, right smack after round 1 and ends 1 week before exams. I think it's just madness. Tomorrow I have maths, testing on Laplace transformation. Next week I've got physics and bio on thursday. On the 6th I've got energy balance quiz. Exam starts on the 19th and ends on the 30th.

I'm 26 days away from exams and 38 days away from holiday. WOW. Oh and I think I might be flying to HK on the 3rd or 4th can't remember...

I just wanna SCREAAAM!! I think I'm placed in the wrong course...it's too much to handle BAAH. It's like..LIFE SCIENCES...+ engineering maths. sweet..triple science combi! And I'm not the only one groaning..ugh. I..wan ..to...slack!

I miss my games. I miss gaming all day long. I wanna play many new games that came out, like HALO 3. Hellgate sounds like fun too. Oh and yea, Bioshock! Orange Box looks nice. Always wanted to play the PS2 range of Final Fantasy..especially the newest one. Days of lying down on the couch just playing PS during those school holidays back in secondary school. AHHH where did those days go too???

To top it up School of Biological Sciences suck! I have a lecture in an hour and the lecture notes are NOT UP...bleeeeeh..what's up with this elective man..

SCREEEAAAAAAAAAAAM

Jonathan-
stressed..

Fail!

Opps..failed my driving test.

1 immediate failure ..when returning to the test centre! w00t.
i was turning right and the stupid truck opposite me looks like it was tilted and turning left w/o signal so i thought he was turning..he went straight and so did the handbrake..sigh..

think i got an easy test road though..when i exited one stupid taxi stopped and i tagged behind after exiting right. he then moved off...and stop again!!! I was..stupid taxi. Didn't overtake cuz they normally move off fast and my instructor always tell me no need overtake cuz moving off..so when the TP told me to overtake i followed..but i forgot to signal..bleh

oh and i kan choing when starting off forgot to release handbrake..baah
nvm..can take again ^^ thought it was pretty fun though..just hope can take asap and not cut in the middle of semester again..right before exams somemore!@! Bah..tmr got physical chemistry test and i really dunno anything..i'm so screwed..

Choice: Is it yours to make?

I suddenly recalled something Dr.Tan said while I was showering earlier. He once said (something along these lines), "Medicine is a regression to Mankind's progression" or "Medicine is a regressive science to Mankind"

It sure was food for thought. The progress in medical frontiers translates into better health and thus people live longer - Life expectancy increases as a direct influence of medical advancements and education of course. Is this a bad thing?

Well according to Dr. Tan, whatever then happens to the 'evolution' of Mankind? Whatever happens to 'survival of the fittest'? With medicine, 'survival of the fittest' is obsolete, because people are born inferior physically or mentally will have due care and treatment that increasingly becomes better. People used to fall prey to infectious diseases such as smallpox, and all but the resilient ones or those with immunity will be subjected to 'natural selection'. As with non-human species, the weak die and are unable to reach the age of propagation and hence are selectively disadvantageous. And so according to Neo-Darwinism theory, these weaker ones will die out and the stronger ones will continue to propagate and, on top of these traits, some may hopefully 'mutate' such that these stronger ones become even more selective advantageous and get BETTER..and BETTER. Well that's how WE - Mankind, came about according to the evolutionists.

And so, because of medicine that took away the need for 'natural selection', Mankind can no longer evolve into a stronger specie(s). (Of course, Mankind has replaced 'natural selection' in another form as the wheels of society turns and turns)That's the whole gist of the argument, and I'll leave it at that for you to think.

Now something about what I was talking with Russell about.

The cure for Aids

The question posed was, what would you do if you found the cure for Aids?
Would you release it to save the whole, the millions that are infected and become one of the richest and most powerful man on earth while doing so?

Or would you not release such a potent drug or cure? Knowing full well that promiscuity, being on the rise, would scale to unprecedented heights? I just read a survey: 69% of Singapore youths have AIDS as the top sexual concern. What would happen if AIDS becomes an obsolete concern? Pause for a moment to think of the moral decay of society in the present situation and then...would you still release the cure?

If you decide to say, no, that what if, just what if, someone close to you is suffering from AIDS? Your closest family or friend perhaps? Would you still knowingly let that person die because you refuse to allow moral decay to seep into society? Or what about the poor children suffering from AIDS from reasons other than sexual promiscuity? Such as child prostitution, or perhaps a congenital infection carried down by pregnancy? Is it fair to let these people die? Who gave YOU the choice of LIFE and DEATH for these people? Would it be tantamount to be playing 'god'?
What then, if you say that these people are the exception and ought to live, who or what gave you the authority to judge over the lives of men, whether they be guilty of sexual promiscuity or otherwise? I believe that as a doctor or scientist, they very well should adhere to the Hippocratic Oath - essentially to save a life be it a criminal on death row or any citizen of the world.

It is a tough choice really...what would YOU do? The right thing? Which is? Giving to save lives regardless whether they are deserving of it or not? Or, not giving to curb the down-spiraling of society into decadence and lawlessness?

I would give. I think saving lives first is paramount. I cannot play god and judge lives, nor do I have a say to someone else's life and death. Most importantly to rid the curse of being ridden with AIDS, especially to someone innocent and unsuspecting, yet to be eternally cursed in this form, a highway , a point of no return, to a certain horrible death? Subsequently the effects of such an invention would be globe shaking. I'm certain of that outburst of immorality too. Nevertheless, the immediate problem as I see it is a life and death situation. Rather, life OR death.

So, what is your choice?

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Growing Up

What does growing up mean to you?

The day when you hit 21?

Freedom? Booze, RA movies, cars and babes? Sex?
Anything goes, but Whatever is cool.

Neither for me. 20 made me feel old. 21 was nothing special.
Well, at the very least i ROD from army and get to do things I love to do.

26 Sept 07 - Wednesday

Class outing:
The day spent at esplanade library was fantastic. What place to enjoy the scenery and get lost in literature and music and the arts. Simply the joy of life. Unfortunately, I was doing my lab report. Either way, the piano in the practice room was enticing..except that it costs money for rental for the hour.

Like many smart Singaporeans, me and dear went to enjoy a free performance, a string ensemble by dunno-whom. A typically chinese string orchestra, except that there were some non-chinese pieces played, which were pretty interesting. The chinese ones on the other hand though, some of them sounded pretty nostalgic, like playing Elysium or other chinese martial arts based games.

Dinner was a simple and quick affair by the bay. The esplanade open food court, or other wise known as makan-sutra foodcourt (i think) was pretty expensive, but oh well. As usual we talked cock even when we got no cock to talk...

The group later split up. Some went Zouk to Zonk themselves out, while the other few - Alex, Meilin Rende Dom Esther and me went to (supposedly settlers) starbucks to chill. Had a few good laughs really. Showed them my 'ahem' video. Spending the night travelling back to Boon Lay sucks; Needless to say we missed the last bus. We saw 2 girls looking at the 199 signboard and thought they too missed the bus, so we tried to call them to take cab. We assumed wrongly; made an ass of ourselves haha. We (actually Rende) tried to call out to the remaining girl as she was walking towards the road. Finally she turned around and we asked her if she was taking cab to NTU. She turned around and shook her head and laughed. Blab.

28 Sept 07 - Friday

Not exactly eventful for the earlier half of the day, except that Esther cannot remember, till now, the food we ate for lunch. Let me tell u la! It's nasi-briyani(sp?) and Muthabak...haha...silly you.

Anyway, friday evening at 8pm was the first time I attended Lighthouse Woodlands. My, it has a grand lobby and a huge interior. I thought it was a grand 5* hotel lobby haha. It was the once every 3 months "Holy Ghost Meeting". I get to see unusual manifestations, at least the last time I went. I shan't elaborate too much on this.

Nevertheless we ended at 10pm, met Russell (as usual he was late). His philosophy: Other people will surely be late so I(as in him) dun need to be early. Anyway we took a cab down to ECP. At 10pm? Yup.

We had an organised overnight cycling for the cell group to meet at 11pm at the previously known costa sands resort. I'll try to recall who went: Daniel, Russell, Lisa, Lie Cong, Eugene, Flannery, Zhi Wei, Esther and me.

I'll just bring up the general route we took (photos below and more to be added):
From costa sands we wrote to the other end of ECP. Near the end of ECP, Zhi Wei was taking photos on his bike, and i thought, Wow cool idea. Esther was saying "wa, so skilled" and the next thing he braked and fell. His camera broke..ouch..599bucks(he later bought the same model at Mustafa) Quite a shocking start... anyway we headed down to fort road>>
Anyway, shopping at this hour with very little people to contend with gives me a certain...thrill and excitement. Makes you feel like buying everything if you stay there for long, or so Eugene says. And so we did...stayed there for a tad too long...not too sure but it probably was an hour or so.

And thus our troubles began..
The trip back was fraught with danger. It was the road leading up all the way to Serangoon, and the road was treacherous to the inexperienced. The pavement was narrow and littered with lamp posts and dust bins that threatened to knock over the unsuspecting rider. Knocking into them is okay, but there is that danger of falling on the wrong side of the road. That person is Esther. She was so wobbly with every obstacle I got really worried, and cycling behind her initially was amusing because she kept banging to the sides of things, such as the construction fence and poles and such. But at this point of time the cars were threateningly close and fast, and danger was real.

There was a junction where things got really bad. There was literally no pedestrian crossings. The first we took we had to cut across the road when the lights turned red. Bear in mind that as we were cyclists we need to take turn to take off. This particular crossing Esther tried to cross and stumbled, and it turned green when she was halfway across it. The cars and buses, which were now increasing in numbers, were ever speeding. So it was a moment of panic and chaos and all of us, who were waiting on the other side of the road shouted: Off the road!! Go up! Up! As cars and some buses zoomed so close to us, I did feel my rear tires so close to being run down. The next crossing also had no pedestrian crossings, we crossed only when our side turned green and had to take turns as the ones at the back cannot cross in time. I was particularly worried about Esther as she has problems starting off, almost every time wobbling and sometimes stumbling. Somehow, we got across that huge circle junction eventually...I think it's Macpherson something?

Anyway, dawn was breaking and the number of buses and cars were speedily increasing as we made our way east towards Ubi. What a mad decision. An experienced cyclist like me know how treacherous that road was. The busy hussling of cars and buses, as well as undulating pavements, if there were any present was difficult for the less experienced cyclists. Before we reached Ubi however, the road along Serangoon was bad enough. The lamp posts made the pavement to cycle very narrow, even I had difficulty and fear of knocking into the lamp post and falling unto the roadside into on coming cars. Esther had a much worse time than I had. Everytime she stumbled she cannot catch her balance as her bike was too tall for her. That whole stretch made me worry excessively as to how to handle Ubi...ohh treacherous Ubi. We resorted to walking at certain stretches of the road due to the stupid lamp posts.

Anyway when we finally reached the Paya Lebar side of Ubi, there was a close shave for Esther. She braked at the junction and somehow lost her balance and nearly, just nearly, toppled unto an on-coming bus. It was insanely scary and I could scarcely breathe. That particular junction was excessively tricky to cross, when you keep stumbling each time you start off. The other side of the road we got to had no pavements, and the road was narrow and the buses shave pass your bike if you would cycle too close. A little while later I realised Esther was shaking involuntarily and very stressed. I would think so too...so many life threatening situations and a long way more to go back to ECP.

Eventually, we made our way to Eunos. There was some incident at yet another crossing that Esther broke down in tears from the overwhelming stress and fear...nevertheless we pressed on. Wei ling met an accident. She bumped into a lady and got the lady's leg scratched. Poor lady. Anyway, we eventually parted ways after crossing a junction as the people in front decided to head towards the main Ubi connecting to parkway and I thought...CRAZY!! No way am I going that way...so I brought Russell(he too agrees) and Esther and went our way through Tanjong Katong, through Parkway, and eventually reaching the underpass and its safety. The sight of Parkway was unprecedented in the way it gave the assurance of safety. We finally made it. Amazingly alive and unscathed safe for a few scratches from the bumps that Esther had. Amazingly she didn't fall unto any oncoming traffic which I feared so much throughout the later half of the journey I was literally praying under my breathe all the time. She broke down...but I too was very stressed... Life and Death was very real...and suddenly the human being seems very frail and vulnerable.

And so, I thank God for bringing us through safely...all 9 of us. It was, undoubtly, an enjoyable and memorable event after all. But I would, the next time round, consider very carefully safety as the top priority now.

Anyway, Russell and I, thought to be crazy, ran from costa sands (we finished everything at 8 plus in the morning) to Mac. After 9 hours of cycling we think we could be Iron pussies. It was a good run though and I felt my body was strange in that nearing Mac I was neither tired nor breathless as I normally would. But that was enough anyhow.

We rested, played sandcastle:

Yep that's Daniel..dunno what he doing.

Went subway and had a very hearty meal (and drink). Yummy. Makes me crave for some subway now..NOW!!

I taught the group how to play this ice-breaker game I played during Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) FOC. We had a good, extremely good laughing session. I swear, Daniel is extremely amusing in this game. I'll teach the game the next time we(whomever 'we' is) get to meet.

Anyway, we ended around 12 plus and simply had to head home. On the way out of ECP we did this:



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Other photos:

First pitstop at esplanade @ 12+...look at the faces!

Hmm sugar cane rox!

The hungry men!!

He's got that "WHAT U WANT?" look...3+ 4 at Chinatown Chok shop..

Blogging from the lecture hall

Zzzzzzz....Zzzzzzz...what is he talking??ZZZzzz...zzz...
*mumble mumble...*...*grumble grumble*..*and the...* *DNA..we have to...make sure..*

Sigh! Stop wasting our time listening to you mumble to yourself!!!..Ba..
Blogging now is a better utilization of time imo..
but i got nothing to blog about..life's been routinely routine..the only thing that keeps me going is my dear ;p

anyway..i'm feeling so super deprived of a piano..how i wish i can get an advanced xmas present haha..>< I feel I should volunteer to play during cell..and maybe during campus crusade's crossroads and stuff.. Hmm..grumble grumble..

Alright; Night time blogging. Something I wanna share for all believers. Was reading about fellowship and community. And these verses teach us how we should act:
1 John 3:16 - 23
16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us:and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20 For if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then we have we confidence toward God.
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love on another, as he gave us commandment.

Remember, we ought to lay down our lives for our brethren. Is anything too much too ask then?

John.13
[34] A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
[35] By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

The word love occurs 261 times in the NT of KJV (note love in cor13 appears as charity, apparently the greek word used for charity is different). Anyway, the main emphasis of the entire law is summed up:

Matt22
[36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
[37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
[38] This is the first and great commandment.
[39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
[40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Alright...digest on it..I gotta so sleep lest I miss lecture in the morning again

Independent Living

Heey All! Long time no see..eh..blog.

Wednesday and Fridays are my only 'free' days aside from weekends.. Just ponned my genetics lecture cause it's too easy. Nah, actually I went for a Meet-the-Mentor session: what for?
The freebie!
Ooosh! No T-shirt or stupid mugs. 1GB thumbdrive: just when I wanted to buy one! Wow. And it thought it was some wulu(unknown) brand...it's SanDisk..better than nothing eh? Haha. So cheapo. They weren't strict about giving out... If you were here you probably would have gotten one too! Unless you have integrity ;x

Anyway, so I ponned lecture and went back to hall. Bought some hangers and gonna attempt to try my first laundry done by myself. MYSELF! Woo. Me. Laundry. First Time. CooL.
BRB. I'll go check on my clothes...

Check it out...the laundry room!

My Dirty Laundry! Eeee.looks like a potty hole ><

Anyway, u guys at NTU..we should meet up soon :P
Alright peace..hope to see u guys soon


I almost forgot, here's a pic of my block! The yellow one, third window from the left. hehe. Level one that is...


Jonathan