After so long...

My goodness, i haven't touched this blog in ages! Well after coming back to Singapore for the holidays, i haven't had much time to update this blog so i guess this would be a pretty long entry. Firstly i want to thank God that i passed all my subjects this sem and so i am officially left with one more sem! Hopefully i will be able to clear my last sem and come home for good = )

So well, what have i been doing then? Not long after i returned, i went on a family trip with my family! Its been a long time since i went on a holiday with my parents and sis, and also my first time going on a holiday with the kids. I must say that going on a holiday with the kids is a bit tougher and more tiring, but they kept me occupied as well. Not forgetting the laughters they brought to the family. If given a second chance, I would definitely want them there. Well some pics of what we did..

At the airport before leaving to Hk

Ocean Park with the family

Me and Sis

So sweet!

Waiting for some dolphin show to start...

Now at Disneyland...

At the entrance with Evan

At Tarzan's house!

Random pics we took along the way...

Victoria Peak with baby Esaius

In the train with Evangeline

Well i don't have much pics of HK this time cause another camera was used so that's it for the HK part. I can't remember all the stuff i did this holiday and it will be far too long for me to talk about everything so i shall just talk about the more significant events. Ok i admit, i am just lazy haha.

Yoke Huey's Bday. This year we gave her a surprise again. We went to Crystal Jade for dinner and Susan as usual had to be the one to lure her away. When Huey arrived her face was quite black and we were quite worried that she was unhappy to see us but of course not! Haha after some warming up the dinner was great and after our dinner we went to a open air pub at East Coast to chill. Pictures pictures again!

Our dinner at Crystal Jade..

Me and the bday gal

In the car on the way to East Coast Park...

Random pics at the open air pub...

Time for presents!

We finished off the nite by trying to take pictures by the sea. But it was too dark, so there was no view at all, but oh well, hope you had a good day huey!

I guess the next event will have to be christmas! This year i went for two parties, one with the church mates and the other with my poly friends. This year we went to Suye's house for a mini celebration. Supposed to have a theme but in the end due to some miscommunication and slow response there was no theme and it was just casual for all. That night we basically played some games like indian poker, some guessing the time game and a very simple gift exchange. I guess what made this xmas special was the catching up that we got to do with each other. Nothing filled with glitz and glamour but definitely an event filled with warmth = )

Shiwei, me and Suye- the two sweeties i will never get sick of

The folks having their pizza dinner

The chaos of gift exchanging!

The peeps happy with their presents

The gals

And finally, a big group photo, cheers!

For the party with my poly friends, we decided on a colour theme this year. Through drawing lots, there will be two people that will be wearing the same colour. And i present to you our colours of the night!

Gold


Green


Silver

Yellow

Pink

Orange

White

Black


And together the colours combine!

We also had names that we picked-again through drawing lots, on whom we are supposed to buy a christmas present for the gift exchange, and I got Colin! Well got him slippers. However, I don't have the gift exchange pics with me now so moving on to some other random pics!

Trying to figure out how we should cut the roast chicken


This is of course not all the food we had!


Our log cake, Merry Christmas!

Zhenni, me and Amy

Some games that we were playing


Me with Jiesi and Susan

If you are thinking the next event will be New Year, its not haha. I didn't go for any countdown cause i didn't feel like squeezing with the crowd that day, so i ended up at a coffee shop with leb for dinner. Nevertheless, i enjoyed it = ) So for a more recent event, it would be.... Kelissa's and Wei Lun's wedding! Finally a wedding that i attended where the bride and groom's age is near mine, and the sweetest part is that both of them are my classmates in poly. And please, its not shot gun okay. Guess everyone from my poly year one were just waiting for the day that this couple would wed. We saw them from being friends, to him chasing her, to her accepting him, and finally them getting married! So for the photo part...

Our dresses

Waiting for the feast to start

The stars of the night

Greedy Susan!

Yoke Huey and me

Our table that night

Well guess that is all the events i feel like updating. I have dragged too long until i cannot remember what i want to update! Anyways i guess what would be coming up next should be some CNY stuf? Hopefully i don't drag again *bleah* And i am going back soon! I know i am going to miss home, especially Esiaus, cause i have been taking care of him so much this holiday. Bathing him, feeding him, putting him to sleep...urgh!I don't want to think about it, off to Yee Lin's farewell/early bday celebration tomorrow!

Life is so unpredictable

My church friend is diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer after giving birth to her baby gal 2 months ago. When i heard this news, my heart sunk and tears just welled up in my eyes when i read the e mail that said "it is confirmed cancerous". Well, i am not very close to this lady but i have known her for many many years already. She is a very sweet lady-good tempered, always smiling, kind, godly and just so friendly and caring to everyone around her. She never fails to greet me with a smile when i see her around in church.

I believe this news struck her and her family harder than me. She has a two year old son, and a newborn girl that is only two months old. She just dropped from utter happiness- having a baby girl, to utter despair. Never did she expect herself to be suffering from stage 4 colon cancer i guess. Its just so unfair to her, such a kind and nice lady, but still having to suffer from such a disease. I don't see evil people(i am not talking about random people but people whom i know) getting stage 4 cancer, on the other hand, they recover from cancer. It just makes me wonder WHY? What plans does God have? How come in this world the evil prosper but the good suffer? Is it supposed to be this way? I guess i will never know and really have no choice but to see what God has in plan for her.

I really hope everyone that sees this will pray for this lady. Pray that God will be merciful to her and heal her. It really takes a miracle from God.

Rape in Congo

I just finished an article talking about how bad the rape situation in Congo and i really sympathize with the women there.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/the-rape-epidemic-at-the-heart-of-congos-darkness/2007/10/07/1191695742001.html

I don't understand why such perverted peopleexist. Don't they have wives or daughters? This just reminded me of a feature article i wrote for one of my first assignments. I was talking about child rapes after being inspired by ing ing that came back from Africa for a mission trip. She got to interact with many children in the orphanage there and sad to say, many of the young children were raped, and by their own relatives. Worse of all, they don't only get raped once by one person but ganged rape and over a period of time. Can you imagine being raped by your dad, then your uncle then some random person from somewhere? Like i don't understand why they can actually bring themselves to rape someone that is supposed to be kin to them. It's just so bloody perverted.

When i was doing research for my feature article, i also found out that the men rape young children because-especially virgins, because they are pure and can take away their disease such as Aids. How stupid can they get.

When i read this sentence in the article, "Dr Mukwege said his oldest patient was 75, his youngest three", i felt the tears forming in my eyes. How can you bring yourself to rape a child that is only 3 years old??That bloody asshole that did that seriously deserves to die. When i read this, mei mei(my 5 year old niece) just came into my mind. A child so young, and so lovable, yet they can do such a cruel act to her.

Another thing is that, i think these men are beasts, savage beasts. "Many have been so sadistically attacked that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair". How do you rape someone till you can destroy their reproductive and digestive system? I really don't want to think what those men actually did to the poor women.

Dear Lord, please help to control the rape situation in Congo. Do not let the evil get their way and may you protect the women and children there and keep them sane. Grant the political leaders wisdom that they may know how to reinfore the law there, please take care of your people. Amen.

God is good!

I often wonder to myself what did i do to deserve God's blessing? I am not a perfect person, or extremely Godly, but instead sometimes i find myself to be more sinful and less deserving than others; but God never gave up on me and he has blessed me so many times in the area of studies. It makes me feel bad at times, that he is so good to me when i am so underserving. I guess there is only one word to explain, that is his love for me.

Got back another 2 of my assignments and i did relatively well for them and i really didn't expect such results. Glitches in the TV production, not enough lighting, too much head space and stuff like that but our group still did well. When i was doing this radio journ thing, in my mind i just kept thinking "gosh this is so bad, i doubt we will do well, so many mistakes i can see now, what more Amy(the tutor)", But God can make it perfect. I guess this teaches me never to doubt God. Do something, commit it to the Lord and trust him. There is nothing you can worry about after doing it cause you cannot change anything anymore so just trust = ) Maybe you could try? Doesn't have to only be on studies, but on any aspect of your life. Don't know what to do? Feeling down and sad? Pushed to desperation? Just try telling it to God, and giving him all your worries. Leave it alone and wait for him to perform a miracle. It won't take up much of your time and there is no harm trying. God bless all of you out there.

The Melbourne Show

Went to The Melbourne Show with Huey yesterday. Its something like a carnival with rides, game stores, food and candy floss.I guessed the only difference is that it has exhibitions as well? Stuff like animal farms, dog shows, information booths on police and some other related stuff. Didn't get to see everything haha, cause there were stuff that me and Huey found boring like agriculture exhibition and all so yea. Let me show you what we did for the day.

This was when we just arrived. Huey was queuing for the tickets. We actually had a photo together but i don't know what happened to my camera card, that pic was corrupted so just me alone haha. It's just that particular entrance that looks quiet, but actually there are so many people inside the arena.

We went to watch some car show thingy, i don't really know what significance it has but something to do with being in the history of Australia.

This was at the police exhibition.I know i can never become a police woman because i can't even reach the floor when i am on the bike! Haha but its cool, never been on a police bike before = ) Huey refused to go on it for a photo, cause those that were queuing for the pic were kids!

We then went to the open animal farm. One of my anticipations in this show was to go look at the animals.


Baba BLACK sheep

The Lama's

You can see that the animals are behind fences but its not meant to protect them from people but just to prevent them from running out. We can pat the animals, something like an open zoo. Hmm not much animals were there though, only sheeps, lama's, and ya, i guess more of sheeps haha. But thats not all to it, there was also this enclosed area with pets inside! Dogs, cats, rabbits you know household pets and they were all so cute. Think they are also hoping that people will adopt some of these pets through the Melbourne Show. Didn't get to take any pictures there though, but i did in the animal nursery. Its another section and inside were mainly baby animals. I even got to see a sheep giving birth to an ewe! It looks kinda gross but then i am glad i saw that.

See the bloody part on the Lamb's ass? I think that is the placenta, or maybe another baby is coming out. I have no idea too; when i was there it was like that already. The little lamb that the mommy kept licking is the new born = )

There is Huey with a fake Cow. If it was a real cow, there is no way that she would stand so close to it haha. She is scared of animals! Actually cause she finds them very dirty. Even making her just walk through the petting zoo where the animals were roaming freely she almost died. She was really dying to get out of that area man. And for me, i went to take a pic with a baby lamb.

The baby lamb is real although it looks fake

Saw something that was pretty interesting on the way. Horse carts without the horse, just the seats. I think it will a cool concept if there were coffee houses like such. Don't you think so? Like open air, sitting on such seats, sipping tea.

The management were afraid people might misuse the seats so....

After a relaxing tour around the exhibitions, we went for the rides! After just taking one ride, i felt so exhuasted. I think i was physically and mentally freaked out. During the whole ride i couldn't stop shouting, and my voice became hoarse after i came down from the ride. And Huey was just laughing at me throughout the ride, so evil!! The ride was something like viking; except it goes more then 90 degrees and the seats revolve 360 degrees when its swinging.

Us in the queue for the first ride

Us after the ride.

My goodness, after that ride i told huey i am not going to try another one. And she wanted me to try even a scarier one! This one......

Can you see Huey?

There was no way i was going to go on this ride man. It goes up 360 degrees and comes back down again. Gosh 41meters high, i will surely die if i went on that ride. Its too exciting for me, i think i am really becoming old, becoming more and more of a coward haha.

Anyways while she was playing that ride, i went around to look at the game store and went to this string game thingy. I went to play that because i know that i will get a prize for sure. And the person tending the store was really nice, he gave me a discount. Supposedly one pull of a string is $4 and 10 pull's $10; but he gave me a special offer of 2 pulls for $5. Not bad right, and in the end he even gave me a nice toy-Little piglet. He chose little piglet for me because he thought i was 16 and i thought he was 28 or so when he was only 20. Ironic huh? Caucassians just some how look older then Asians.

Anyway, i ended the day with these items.

The pink colour bag you see is a showbag. One of the highlights of the Melbourne Show. Everyone that leaves the show will at least buy one bag but most end up going back with more then one. Inside the bag has like sweets, toys, mags, miniature creams, perfumes etc. It depends on what bag you got. Anyways i got this bag cause of that monkey, i wanna give that to my nephew and the little piglet to my niece = )

P.s Don't know whats wrong with the blog today, keeps having error here and there so i couldn't upload some of my pics so irritating urgh!

The Phantom of the Opera

Only one word to describe it, sooo good! I went to watch Phantom of the Opera yesterday with huey. This is my second time watching an opera, the first was kinda boring, and i couldn't understand what the whole thing was about cause they were singing their lines throughout. That gave me a bad impression of opera but i am telling you, Phantom of the Opera is so different!Totally changed my impressions of operas man. At least there were like conversations other than singing.

The settings, the technology, the cast, everything was almost perfect. There was this scene where the Phantom and Christine(the female lead) were on a boat an he was rowing it, and yes on the stage. They used mist to cover up the floorboard and i don't know how they did it but it really looked like they were rowing a boat on the lake! It moved from the back of the stage to the front and then back haha, so cool man.

And i guess most would agree one of the best part of this opera would be the music. When the Phantom and Christine was doing the duet-i don't know if the title is "Phantom of the Opera" as well but i think it is, my hair just stood. I can't describe it in words but they were so good! The symphony, the singing, the setting and that song, woo! Clichely speaking, it just takes your breath away.

Anyway i never knew what happened to the Phantom and Christine before i watched this, and i thought the Phantom would end up becaming so obsessed with Christine and killed her or something, but it was the total opposite. He was such a sweet character and actually gave up his so called "happiness" to let Christine have hers. I pitied him at that moment but reality struck me. Well let me just ask a question. How many of us can stand being with a disfigured man no matter how sweet and kind he was? I guess the truth hurts but not much people can do that. So as much as i pitied the Phantom then, i knew that any normal girl would definitely not choose to be with him; not forgetting that there was also hot Raoul(Christine's fiance)waiting for her.

Anyway back to topic. I really reccommend you guys to go watch it if you haven't. I think it came to Singapore already-if i am not wrong, but nevermind, if they ever come again make sure you go catch it! 5 Stars for sure = )

I can't stop shopping

I don't know what has happened to me recently but i just can't stop shopping! i feel so bad, like i am wasting unnecessary money. I have been shopping almost everyday and buying truckloads of stuff. Things which i used to think are too expensive are now wat i am buying. Ok let me clarify, i am not talking about stuff like Prada, Gucci or branded stuff as such; i am not that rich.

However, my new favourite shopping place is SUPRE (http://www.supre.com.au/). I dun shop online but at the main shop. Its something like a Singapore Topshop i guess? They have a new shop and the stuff there are so pretty, esp the dresses. If you wanna compare it against Topshop, its cheaper so i just keep buying and buying, especially dresses. Last time when i saw a dress or skirt that is AUd 35.00 i would be thinking, hmmm after conversion and all its about $40 plus, too expensive not worth it. But now i will be like wow, not that ex, can buy, besides it looks so nice and i might not be able to find this is Singapore. An excuse i always give myself. Well, according to my own analysis, i guess its because of the new shop design. In the past before the new SUPRE shop was open, the only SUPRE shop they had was quite small, like maybe a Giodarno shop in Singapore so i thought that the clothes are a bit expensive for that shop. However, the new shop opened is much more spacious and the design of the new shop is more boutique like. The walls are all black, and the lighting dim as well. So overall it gives a more classy feel; maybe thats why i don't feel the pinch that much now.

Oh no!!! This is bad, and its not only SUPRE. Even at the supermarket(something like carrefour) i can buy stuff back, everywhere i go i see something i like i just buy. I think i really need to lock myself at home for at least a week or two or else this vicious cycle will never end. Anyways just go look at the SUPRE website, and see if the clothes are nice = )