Wednesday, August 29, 2007

"year 1 studio project" season finale

my, how time really flies aye.

in the blink of an eye, its almost september...how vivid can i still remember my first day in nanyang poly. the shy and nerdy guy i was...who didn't took the initiative to talk to the many people around me. how i regret it now, who still hasn't built the bond between my very own classmates whom i see every single day. :(

well, time does flies indeed. tmrw is the day i am gonna present my end-of-sem project to my "clients", who are, of course, our very own teachers. finally after 3 weeks of hard work, our game is done! after tmrw, i would not be disturbed anymore by annoying teachers or endless assignments. for a month or so, at the very least...

yesterday when we met our supervisor, i realised how little work i've done. not that i am not putting in enough effort, but the amount of work available to me was so much less than the workload of my other team-mates. maybe it was because of the little knowledge i have about programming...maybe it was because of the capabilities of my more inclined team-mates...

saw some of the other teams' games at the computer lab yesterday. what could i say? i'm indeed impressed. compared to our game, theirs are far more complicated. indeed we have put in alot of effort into this particular assignment, probably some of us, even our heart and soul...but the entertainment industry doesn't look at our efforts, instead they look at our talents.

i would dare to say perhaps i'm pretty creative, although ideas do tend to run out. maybe that's the talent God has placed in me. but having creativity alone and lacking the hard work would not result in much achievement as well. how many assignments have i owed my teachers? how many times have i not fulfilled their datelines?

most probably i would retake my first sem again next year. although i know that failing every single module is not a possibility, i believe my passion demands more of my effort. i want to get my fundamentals straight and i hope history would not yet again repeat itself.

i've been wanting to organise an outing with my class but yet i have no faith. looking at the situation right now, most probably they'd turn me down. i really hope that we can not just get along well with each other, but have a strong sense of team spirit between us. well it does take 2 hands to clap...

how challenging it is to be in this industry...not the carefree and easy life i once thought. yes, indeed we all know that the nice computer graphics we see in the action packed movies we see or even the powerful game engine in our all time favourite computer games come from months or even years of hard work...but to actually experience doing it yourself, it is a different story.

it demands more than just large amounts of time. it is the passion within the makers that keeps them going for years to accomplish what they had imagined, something visually created in their minds into visually captivating and breathtaking scenes for all to see. that's what inspired me, to share your ideas in the most creative way man has ever known...

Sunday, August 26, 2007

spiritual concentration

i'm really happy today. yesterday was a great day, and today is gonna be better. :D

as you can see, i woke up with almost half my day gone...i just seem to cannot wake up once i get connected with my wonderful bed. ahhh...

anyway, sorry guys for not blogging the past 2 days. i was really tired when i got home and i did turned on the computer, intending to post, but i fell asleep while the laptop was still loading. :X

actually once, my internet connection failed me. kinda understandable since my dear router is in the study room, which is next to my room. hmm...frankly speaking, i experience some problems with my school's wireless connection as well. how many times have it happened when i wanted to surf the net but i couldn't have internet access... =.=

ok so just to share what happened the past 2 days:

on friday, i was at home all day "stoning". with nothing to do, i almost slept through the day. originally, i was to have bible study with cedric but unfortunately, he forgot to bring his bs book...

i went down to meet cedric in the evening at orchard. we walked around the mall before finally settling at yoshinoya.(takashimaya) ced didn't order anything while i ate the new? spicy beef thingy. he kept asking me whether i wanna buy a bracelet, said it was really nice...found out later that actually he wanted one for himself because there's an offer 2 for $28. =.=

we met up with michelle, jon, isabel and huizhen before going to eat fish & chips at taka. i wanted to try the beer battered fish & chips so i ate again. =.= haiz...i must start spending less and saving more! anyway, james joined us some time later. after dinner we went over to starbucks(paragon) to discuss about the cellgroup appreciation. eleanore and cheekiong joined us. then i realised that i was the only person who is not a helper... they were discussing about cellgroup stuff and i had nothing to do. zZz well, i did try to help by brianstorming for ideas for the chalet/bbq and games, but i guess i wasn't really resourceful enuff huh?

so anyway to keep the long story short, i left early with my parents since they were around orchard too.

sat was really fun. in the morning i went over to cckss for the carnival. intended to meet jinnyang and weikai at 8.30am but i woke up late...ahh i forgot to set alarm!(see i fell asleep while i was waiting for my laptop to start up the previous night...) so i went to school alone. met up with weikai and his classmates at macdonalds and we went to cckss together. i felt as if i'm part of 4/9. =.= didn't wanna be extra so i stayed at the basketball court area to watch the people play basketball while they went to walk around the stalls. my classmates only arrived like one and a half hour later...so when they finally came, we went to check out the stalls at the carnival. i didn't buy any coupons :X but i kope some cocktails from the others. :D

rushed over to jurong west to support isabel's, olivia's and candice's water baptism at 1.30pm. originally i was thinking it would be sooo sian to leave so early because i wanted to stay longer at the carnival...in the end i realised it was pretty a great idea anyway since the carnival was kinda boring anyway. so at jurong west church, we waited in the hot sun for the candidates to get baptised. unable to stand the heat, joshua and i went to vend some drinks before going down to the stairs to enjoy the air-con indoors. when we went back up...they already got baptised and we missed it. =.=

anyway, we took one of the church's shuttle buses to expo for service after they bathed and got changed. we had to pay $1 for the shuttle bus. man why do we have to spend for everything?! guess it's because of the church building fund, they gotta start saving up if they want a nice hall eh?

service was great, which leads to my title of this post. pst Kong continued on the sermon of the mount series and talked about spiritual concentration. the service was really long so just to share what impacted me most, pst Kong talked about a question of ambition.

we should not worry all the time. just like what matthew 6:25-34 says, God feeds the birds of the air and clothes the lilies of the fields, what more are we, who are of more significance to Him? who of you by worrying can add a single hour his life?(matt 6:27) therefore do not worry about tommorow, for tommorow will worry for itself. each day has enough trouble of its own.(matt 6:34)

i remembered that pst Prince once shared that stress is the number 1 killer in singapore. stress leads to many sicknesses, such as heart diseases, depression etc. and worrying only adds to our stress! thus we should not worry, worrying does not change the situation or make things any better. it is unproductive, it is unreasonable, and it is unnecessary.

after a really lonnnnggg service, we went over to changi airport to eat at popeye. the mash potato, choeslaw and fries are like sooo nice lah! but the chicken is okay only lah. xD hey but i ain't complaining aye? great fellowship that night. had bible study with cedric after dinner and both my legs became numb after sitting on the chair so long!

haha, we had a really enjoyable day and the ride back home was just as fun as well. on the mrt, an angmoh was looking at the mrt stations map, then jessica asked me to compare whether i was taller than him anot, so i stood up and pretended to look at the advertisments...then the rest all laughed so loud. =.= then the angmoh turned and look at me sia...like we making fun of him...sian lo, give people bad impression of singaporeans le lah...

hey guys i tried to post some pictures...but it is not in the right place where i want it so yah...sorry lah i'm not very good with computer stuff. i will ask around and post more pictures the next time. PROMISE!

cheers :D

Thursday, August 23, 2007

fruitful :D

practically spent the whole day at sean's house doing my end-of-sem project. sean actually switched off his router so that we would not get distracted.(no internet access :[ ) our team have been spending alot of time this whole week working on our project. i'm so proud of myself, i wouldn't have done any better myself studying at home. :X

we finally managed to compile our programs. yes, there were about 100+ errors. lol. but we slowly debugged them.(took the whole afternoon...) in the evening around 9pm, our game was almost working perfectly and the others were actually playing the very game we made! wow, really cool huh?! haha don't think too highly of us, it's just a simple game with nothing visually appealing. xD

just wanted to show my appreciation to sean and weihao. they really put in alot of effort into this project. everytime i couldn't debug my program, i would turn to sean. they really made our team more lively, without them, we wouldn't be achieving so much progress and probably done everything last minute. thanks for all the free meals as well...your moms can sure cook. :D

i understand that many other people are mugging for their exams, so here are some tips which i thought might be helpful (:

"The Top 10 Steps to DeStress"

1. Heal yourself.
2. Get organized.
3. Set boundaries.
4. Take time for yourself.
5. Be positive.
6. Work in a career you love.
7. Surround yourself with a supportive community.
8. Learn to say, "No."
9. Zap tolerations.
10. Get your needs met.

check out this website for more details! :

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Top-10-Steps-to-DeStress&id=6506

PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES...cuz i don't want you guys to spread your sicknesses to me...haha just joking, but still , don't stress yourselves out yah? actually i'm also kinda sick. went to see the doctor last week, but until now i haven't touched the medicine yet...argh and i lost my thumb-drive...sian.

umm...actually there's an 11th good way to de-stress: reading my blog. xD

cheers :D

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

we can choose to see the problems in our lives or the visions of God

ok i'm so tired i can fall asleep anytime now...

just came back from prayer meeting...pst Kong emphaised this verse: not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD Almighty.(zechariah 4:6) in case its not idiot-proof, it simply meant that we cannot depend on our own strength, but with Him, all things are possible.

the korean delicates were fantasitc, the singer(sorry i can't really rmb the korean names) was marvellous, thankfully there weren't any windows at expo,(praise the Lord) or it would have been raining glass. her pitch was like sooo high lah and her voice was probably about 10000000Hz. weapon of mass destruction. =.=

dr joshua preached a really good word, although half the time i was trying to understand his "korean english" on one part and resisting the humor and at how he pronunces some words on the other. i really respect him, as with the many other pastors that came with him from Yoido Full Gospel Church. we're like so honoured to have leaders from the world's largest church with us.

before prayer meeting, i was at weihao's place to do our end-of-sem project, along with the other group members. was there since 11am and left around 6.30pm for prayer meeting. never had i spent so much time programming before. but hey, i realised that it's kinda enjoyable if you do it together as a team...although we still get all kinds of errors, we have each other to help ourselves out. :D the feeling of your program eventually working(after all that hard work coding it and debugging it...) really gives you a kind of satisfaction.

alright its late now, i think i should be more merciful to my body...it can collapse any moment now...

tata :D

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

chee kiong's birthday

today was a really busy day.

i met my team-members for my end-of-sem project in school at 10 am. we were supposed to compile our work and show it to our supervisor. unfortunately, we encountered many problems. so we went over to blk Q computer labs to debug our errors. several other teams were there as well, apparently they had arranged appointments with their respective supervisors as well. i have no idea how, but one moment everyone was doing their projects, the next, all the guys were playing dota, screaming at each other across the room. =.= i couldn't believe how they could run warcraft on the school workstations! man they sure are computer geeks...made me felt so zibei you know. zzz

so we only managed to present our work to mr fritz lim at 3pm. spent another hour or so in his office trying to solve more problems...tobie's team like came in to meet their supervisor after us, and was gone way before we were even almost done. half the time i had no idea what are they talking about... so yeah i just nodded and smiled at them... xD

i guess the rest gave up in the end, and so we went down to the canteen to eat.(mmm...programming makes me hungry!) i was planning to save up for some stuff but i guess i just couldn't resist all that food! realised that my team-members found a new play thing: the rubik's cube. allen's kinda pretty good at it. he can solve it in 11 secs! ok i was just joking...he wouldn't be in nyp if he could do that... so anyway, the rest went home after their meals and i went over to the library to pass time cuz i still had cca later on in the evening.

i went to cafe hotshot with a stack of tintin comics. i was reading "king ottokar’s sceptre" when i fell asleep. the next moment i was awake, a librarian was standing next to the sofa i was lying on and said, "you cannot sleep here!" to me. i was like so malu lah...so many people were walking in and out of the cafe. =.=

cca was great. the other polo guys were kinda nice and friendly actually. they even helped me with my thread water. i think i'm kinda getting it. was looking at the mirror in the changing room after training...was soo disappointed lah...no 6 pacs...no chest...no nothing... just look at darren's body...so sexy lo, when can i get a bod like his man.

anyway, rushed over to katong to celebrate cheekiong's birthday after training. i can't believe how troublesome the journey could get: had to take a train to alljunid, then had to take a susposingly 20min bus ride to the venue. i waited like ages for the bus to arrive lah...worst still, i alighted on the wrong stop! =.= couldn't believe it...i was rushing for time, stuck in the middle of nowhere, exhausted after a really long day and filled with chlorine all over my body. what more could i ask for?! grr...

thanks to joshua, i managed to walk all the way to katong mall. but unfortunately, by then, they had finished the celebration so i went over to hong kong cafe to join them for dinner.

we really enjoyed each others' presence, just fellowshipping over dinner. the cake was soooo niceee!!! one day, i'm gonna buy one and just lock myself the whole day at home indulging it. finally, after a veeeerrrryyy long time, our food came, and boy i got instant noodles and pork chop. i can't believe they actually put "instant noodles with pork chop" in the menu. =.= like what the... i didn't even notice it before ordering. haha, and cheekiong ordered a lemon coke, which is actually coke(can) with a few slices of lemon in a glass of ice. =.=

cabbed home after that with jessica, elizabeth and jace...i hate cabs...so expensive, always. zZz

k don't worry guys, i will work hard on the 'muscles' part, for now, its time for bed. nitez. :D

Monday, August 20, 2007

live life to the fullest

this week services are by dr joyce meyer, and is she good or what?!

yep, we should live life to the fullest. like what dr meyer said, we should not waste TODAY, regretting about the things we done YESTERDAY(past) or worrying about TOMMOROW.(future) how true is that? God gave us 1 life to live, shouldn't we live it to the fullest? regretting the things we've done won't change the past, so doesn't worrying about the future helps make anything better. ahh i remembered pst prince said smth really true, God told us not to worry because everything has been taken care of, but He didn't said don't PLAN for the future!

i was late for saturday service and boy i sure had a nice talk with cedric. :X well michelle said something during cellgroup: doing something consistently forms a habit, and habits form our lifestyle. so i'm consistently making people wait for me when i arrange an appointment with them, hence it becomes a habit, particularly, a bad one. since it's a bad habit, it would be really hard to change. now i wouldn't want to be wasting peoples' time, which in turn waste their lives just waiting for me, but i guess i've done it so many times. so today i'm gonna make a conviction that i would form a good habit of being puntual and so next time, because it's so habitual, i find it sooo hard for me to be late. :D

after service went to eat with my dad since i had no more money left after paying cedric the money i owe him and for the NYP camp/bbq. my dad asked me on the car: "so if you had cash, you wouldn't be joining me lah..." i was like ok...*speechless.* so anyway, we ate at a japanese resturant, and since my dad was paying i was free to order anything!(ANYTHING!) xD

sunday service was great too! dr meyer is such a living testimony, her life already reflects on how God is working in people. i mean how could someone not feel sorry for herself after being sexually abused by her own father for 15 years! for those who missed such a good word, dr meyer said this morning about how we should love ourselves. she gave her own example by how she doesn't feel sorry for herself after what she has been through. if we despise ourselves, which we see everyday, every minute, every second, how can we start to love others? dr meyer also demostrated how she loved her "enemies" by not only forgiving her father but even took good care of him. on saturday, she mentioned that there are bound to be people to hate us(around 10%), it is statistically proven! but instead of focusing on the 10%(and feel miserable for ourselves all day), why not look on the other 90%? nobody is perfect in this world, and we should just be ourselves and stop trying so hard to be someone else. now if everyone was the same, wouldn't our world be sooo boring?

well i guess this message really spoke to me in a way. in case any of you don't know, i'm actually a really paranoid person. i'm always worried about whether people will laugh at my jokes, whether i will look awkward in any situation, whether will people like me, whether will i be rejected etc. the list goes on...i guess i should stop worrying all the time and just be myself haha, kinda makes life easier huh?

i have no idea why but instead of actually posting on happening things in my life(actually i do!), i really like posting about my thoughts and feelings. i want to express how i feel and i guess the blog's just the thing! so i hope i don't really bore anyone to death cuz i kinda enjoy doing it. (:

so just to share the things that happened today: i rushed to raffles place for the complimentry hip hop dance lesson at studio wu after service. man it was really fun although i still feel i look werid dancing.(you know, long and really bony hands...eeeew) the instructor is sooo pretty! hmm wonder why i start feeling all kinds of girls look pretty in some way. xD

after the dance thingy, went over to takashimaya to eat KFC and meet my dad. he "lunched" as well before we went up to kinokuniya. after that i fell asleep in the car while he drove around to various apartments to...er i have no idea what real estate agents do all the time so yah whatever stuff he do all the time. argh i still haven't bought the psp yet...zZz c'mon my mrt journeys are sooo boring...i need a psp!

yup tmrw have to go to school 9.30 am again...weihao called me today and said i had to the spring thingy for our game. =.= great i'm like so screwed...

Saturday, August 18, 2007

for transformation, one must learn to love and act(action speaks louder than words)

i just came back from cell group. it was really fun today. we played a really lame game which i don't even know what is it called. =.= we went down to the basketball court area to play captain ball after cell group. our team kinda got trashed...but nevermind we had a great time together. (:

i was surfing the internet, and yes, i was wondering whether dinosaurs were mentioned in the bibe. it seemed that some atheists think that dinosaurs are not mentioned in the bible and because we have tons of dinosaur fossils as evidence, the bible is so screwed.

well, for any atheists reading this, i'm really sorry to disappoint you. in fact, the bible did mentioned dinosaurs! tanniyn(dragon), behemoth and leviathan are mentioned in the bible several times representing dinosaur, brachiosaurus and kronosaurus respectively. now why didn't they use their scientific names?

well because the word dinosaur was invented in the 1800s. we would not expect to find the word dinosaur in bibles like the authorized version (1611), as it was translated well before the word dinosaur was ever used. like duhh...

this website would help explain the existence of dinosaurs using the bible.(this book never fails us!)

http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/2.asp

just to give a summary of what the website is about:

basically evolutionist will always be able to concoct an ‘answer’ because evolution is a belief. it is not science—it is not fact!

let us take the extinction of dinosaurs for example. when reading evolutionist literature, you will be astonished at the range of ideas concerning their supposed extinction. the following is just a small list of theories:

dinosaurs starved to death; they died from overeating; they were poisoned; they became blind from cataracts and could not reproduce; mammals ate their eggs. other causes include-volcanic dust, poisonous gases, comets, sunspots, meteorites, mass suicide, constipation, parasites, shrinking brain (and greater stupidity), slipped discs, changes in the composition of air, etc.

it is obvious that evolutionists don’t know what happened and are grasping at straws. in a recent evolutionary book on dinosaurs, ‘A New Look At the Dinosaurs,’ the author made the statement:

‘now comes the important question. what caused all these extinctions at one particular point in time, approximately 65 million years ago? dozens of reasons have been suggested, some serious and sensible, others quite crazy, and yet others merely as a joke. every year people come up with new theories on this thorny problem. the trouble is that if we are to find just one reason to account for them all, it would have to explain the death, all at the same time, of animals living on land and of animals living in the sea; but, in both cases, of only some of those animals, for many of the land dwellers and many of the sea-dwellers went on living quite happily into the following period. alas, no such one explanation exists’ (Alan Charig, p. 150).

but, one such explanation does exist. if you remove the evolutionary framework, get rid of the millions of years, and then take the bible seriously, you will find an explanation that fits the facts and makes perfect sense:

at the time of the Flood, many of the sea creatures died, but some survived. in addition, all of the land creatures outside the Ark died, but the representatives of all the kinds that survived on the Ark lived in the new world after the Flood. those land animals (including dinosaurs) found the new world to be much different than the one before the Flood. due to (1) competition for food that was no longer in abundance, (2) other catastrophes, (3) man killing for food (and perhaps for fun), and (4) the destruction of habitats, etc., many species of animals eventually died out. the group of animals we now call dinosaurs just happened to die out too. in fact, quite a number of animals become extinct each year. extinction seems to be the rule in Earth history (not the formation of new types of animals as you would expect from evolution).

my my...man's insatiable hunger for knowledge just amazes me. the bible has proven many wrong over and over again. now perhaps the only reason left for atheists to actually exist is not because of any lack of evidence but just a stubborn attitude that somehow mircales just don't happen and angels don't exist.

atheist: duhh you mean you actually believe in angels?! i haven't seen any mircales yet hello?!

"hmm...i haven't seen snow, i guess snow don't exist." (:

Thursday, August 16, 2007

i sleep too much huh?

for the second time this week, i overslept and missed the meeting with my team-members to show mr fritz lim our progress for our end-of-sem project...

actually waking up around 12-1pm has been the norm since school ended last week. i've been sleeping late since school ended. i'm like so disappointed with myself lah...i always fail to get up on time. even when school was still on-going, i was always late for morning lectures or practicals...sometimes reaching almost before the lesson ended. my dad was right, probably that was one of the reasons why i was encountering so much problems with my school work, imagine missing out all the valuable information that would be helpful in my assignments...and what about appointments with my friends? i'm always the last if not last guy to arrive, which doesn't matter since either, i'm usually late. it's time i start kicking my bad habit yah?

anyway the past few days have been pretty boring: stayed at home all day to emo. haha no lah...tinking. :D

watched 200 pound beauty a few nights ago. ya im like the last person at home to actually watch it. =.= wow, the show was really gooood! i almost(almost...ALMOST) cried at certain parts like one particular scene when hana confessed during her concert about how she went for plastic surgery and the actual hana was not the popular, beautiful and sexy celebrity the audience was looking at but a really hideous looking ghost singer. obssessed with love,(for her producer) and yet unable to receive the same love, she decided to change her physical appearance.

and what about hana before she went for an extreme makeover? she was rejected and looked down upon. and the same person, just differing in looks received so much popularity and well-liked. she was the same hana, one with the same voice and character, but look at how differently people treated her.

i believe that there are people out in this world, just like hana, talented with a great personality, but yet not appreciated because of a lack of good looks. look at the schools we go to, often bullies make fun of people. the victims are usually ugly, werid-looking, fat or dumb. another example would be chen wei lian. i think he's a pretty good singer, why do people criticise about him that much about how he looks or his defects and says that people vote for him out of smpathy? why right do they have to judge whether other's votes are genuine anot? do we humans seek outer beauty that much? much as presenting one's image is important, i believe that we should build more on our character and inner beauty. afterall, what good is there in a beautiful lady with an evil heart?

hana mentioned that can someone be blamed if he/she is borned ugly? is it a crime to be fat? no! but often we see people destroying others' ego or self-esteem. they can't help it if they are not physically as perfect as some people, perhaps they even feel bad about it despite having no fault with themselves, but our sarcasims can only make things worst. i am not implying that i'm the most understanding person on earth. i definitely have made fun of some people at some point of my life but perhaps we should think and empathise with the victims and think how would we feel in their shoes before we actually shoot a negative comment right into their faces.

the show really made me reflect(not that i'm jealous of good-looking people...hmm maybe i am! :X) but besides that, it was really funny. i don't know why but comedies sometimes make me cry...well almost at least.

just came back from cca today. coach lewis went off for an "appointment" at 8. =.= only 4 guys came for training today. i guess the others are still mugging for their exams huh? well, as usual, swam my 2k m. the other guys were practising their shooting and passing but i guess i still got to work more on my thread water and swimming before i start handling with the ball. tried gripping 1 of the balls today, it sure looked harder to grip den it seemed! in the end, i decided to contiune swimming throughout the whole training...felt kinda proud of myself...

was thinking of joining the lifesaving team...gosh they sure have some babes there haha. now i was just joking, what i really want to do is to save lives! i feel that it is so meaningful...of cuz the babes are a bonus. :D

ok anyway, i guess i shouldn't join too much activities...kinda have to concentrate on my studies more...speaking of studies, i just hate it whenever i think of all the complicated applications that i have to learn...argh i'm starting to detest the computer.

kept forgetting about the free complimentry dance classes euguene spoke of...i sure hope the hip-hop class is not full yet, really wanna join, gonna call up studio wu tmrw! (:

speaking of tmrw ima gonna go jogging with daddy in the morning and then ask him to get me a psp! can't imagine how long(and boring of cuz...) my journeys on the train is all the time...ahhh how wonderful to have something to keep me entertained...provided he agree to it of course =.= ... but hey i have faith yah!

nitez everyone :D ... or else i can't wake up again tmrw =.=

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Does God Exist?

i've been questioning my faith for much. often i had doubts on whether we did evolved from some ape-like creature. moreover, i've seen some videos on youtube about atheistism that made some sense. i could not explain the loopholes in the bible, so has not my cellgroup and my dad's cellgroup actually convince me how the word is truth. i prayed and asked God to show me if He did exist. indeed God has opened my eyes to see the truth, and i hope that ppl would actually ponder about this. thus correct me if anything is wrong (:

i find that i understand how ppl think that God is like some stupid genie in the bottle fairy tale, so i hope to change this mindset. i saw comments by an atheist on youtube and find how they dun understand christians at all. i hope that ppl would stop insulting something or someone without any knowledge of what they are insulting...

first and foremost, i would like to insist that im not a SOT graduate or super bible-knowledgable, but smth i realised for the past few days is like what the song sang by don moen, indeed "God works in ways we cannot see." we may not always understand God(Lev. 11:20-3), or the way he does things(10 plagues of Egypt), but bible loopholes doesn't prove God inexistence!

my friend fabian told me after the last day of FOP that our God is poetic, pst Kong also once said that one cannot possibly make a doctrine out of a single verse! hence certain verses by alone makes no sense, or seemed absurb, but the truth of the matter is, when you read the bible as a whole, it is a beautiful masterpiece, self proven and explanatory.

in case some of you ppl still ponder abt how could God possibly make a mistake on his creation, this website might be helpful (:

http://www.tektonics.org/af/buglegs.html

obviously no one can technically prove the existence of God, unless he/she died(presumly went to heaven or hell) and rose again.

but let us look at this at a more naive point of view, if it could actually be proven, wouldn't the whole world be christians? but den why do millions if not billions of people(for ur info, christianity is the largest religon in the world) around the world believes in someone whom no historian have any detailed records of? are christians ignornant? or are they plain stupid? good question. hmm...

firstly, let me remind you of many christian leaders around the world having the status of "Dr" or "Rev." if having a PhD is stupid and ignornant of truth, then what more are the many atheists out there?(now get this straight, i did not say atheists are stupid ok.)

now let's get smth straight: God doesn't need to PROVE to us that he exists. now, what abt science? and evolution?

let me define science:

According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is "knowledge attained through study or practice," or "knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] concerned with the physical world."

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/science-definition.html

scientists, by their nature, are "truth-seekers." indeed, scientists, according to nature, use nature to explain truth. we cannot explain God or prove Him through natural explainations because He's supernatural !

im not uber religious or bible-trained, but hey i've seen God working in ppl lives! thru the services of pst Benny Hinn, pst Mike Conner etc, along with the thousands who were present.

how can a person born deaf suddenly able to hear? or a crippled bound to a wheelchair able to walk? it is obviously smth we cannot explain. yet it is one of the happening things that keeps our faith going.

evidently smth not natural, how can so many dudes get healed at the same time? no it is definitely not a concidence, it is a mircale.

i understand that many scientists claim that evolution is backed by tons of historical proof, but hey, all these are claimed by men. how can one ensure they make no mistakes? there have been incidents where fossils are assembled wrongly. this shows that man makes mistakes!

and what if they were wrong? fossils can change rite? what if there were earthquakes or landslides or storms or floods that affected the fossils? what if there was corrosion or some parts of the fossil being completely decomposed? what if two different species died on the same spot or near each other? what make us so sure the fossil we see is not something halfway between two different animals?

the bible may not be a history textbook, but what explains the mircales that happens? what explains the peace felt when we come into the presence of God? God doesn't need to be explained, you will know He is true once you experienced it. THAT, is the best evidence of His existence.

in case i haven't convince you, this website:

http://www.crystalinks.com/evolution.html

stats that the theory of evolution cannot be verified as the 'missing link' has not yet been found. there is no conclusive evidence to prove that man evolved from apes.

to further support my stand, i have done some research on evolution.

here are some reasons why natural evolution cannot be the answer to the question of origins:

Natural law
scientists investigate the laws of nature. the very existence of law and order in the universe points to a source or lawgiver.

Law of cause and effect
all current scientific evidence indicates that the universe had a beginning. before this evidence was found, many scientists thought that the universe had existed eternally and had no beginning. according to the law of cause and effect, every effect must have a cause. since we have an effect (the beginning of the universe and life), there must have been a cause. that cause would necessarily be outside the present realm of nature.

First law of thermodynamics
the first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. in the current order of nature, energy is transformed from one form to another, for example from nuclear energy (sun), to light, to chemical energy (in plants), to heat (when the food is eaten and the calories are used to warm the body), to motion (walking) or sound (speaking). electricity is an additional form of energy. energy can never be created or destroyed. this is not a theory, it's a law. matter is related to energy (e=mc2), so energy can sometimes be transformed into matter and vice versa, but the energy itself cannot be created or destroyed. since we have matter and energy, and since the universe has not always been in existence, energy had to have been created at some time in the past. today's natural laws must not have always been in operation.

Second law of thermodynamics
the second law of thermodynamics describes the natural tendency of things to progress from order to disorder. this law states that order does not arise spontaneously from chaos. in other words, the universe is "running down." in the past, there was more usable energy in the universe than there is now. the same amount of energy exists because energy cannot be created or destroyed, but on the whole it is in ever less usable form.

the theory of natural evolution proposes that over millions of years, the universe and life on earth naturally proceeded from chaos (disorder) to the amazing degree of order we observe today. although scientists argue that the excess energy of the sun could have powered these improvements without violating the law, evolution would have required not one but hundreds of millions of small movements "uphill". even a single incidence of this would be unusual! note that the apparent uphill movement of a seed to a tree or a fertilized egg to an adult animal is not random. the seeds contain the design code and instructions for "building" the organism from available materials. the question is, can information come from nothing? can information organize itself in an orderly way?

Law of biogenesis
people once believed that maggots were spontaneously generated from the flesh of dead animals. they thought life could come from non-life. Louis Pasteur proved beyond doubt that life cannot arise from non-life. this is not a scientific theory, but a law. proponents of evolution contend that life did arise spontaneously from non-life at least once in the past, in other words, that this particular natural law was broken or nonexistent sometime in the past.

Complexity of living cell
a single cell is far more complicated than any machine intelligent man has invented. a typical cell contains ten million million atoms (quadrillion). to reconstruct a model of a cell, atom by atom, one atom per second, would take about ten million years to finish. to get a cell by chance would require at least 100 functional proteins to appear simultaneously in one place. even if that happened, would it be alive? a dead body (or a dead cell) has all of the proper proteins, enzymes, the cell wall, and the DNA design in one place, yet it is not alive.

Complexity of DNA code
the capacity of DNA to store information vastly exceeds that of any known system created by intelligent man. if the information in an individual's DNA were in small type in books like the telephone book, it would take a stack of books 46 feet high to hold all the information. yet there is a DNA molecule in every one of the ten trillion cells in a human body. the design information to specify every person who has ever lived and every species of animal and plant which has ever existed would fit into a cup, with room left over.

Sexual reproduction
evolutionists often point out that humans and chimpanzees share 99% of genetic material. yet humans have 26 sets of chromosomes and chimps have 39. for two animals to mate, their chromosomes must match or "zip together." the proposed divergence of chimps and humans from a common ancestor is said to have occurred after sexual reproduction began. if the theory of evolution is true, an animal must have been born at some time in the past with a different number of chromosomes than its parents. unless that animal was able to mate, it would have no adaptive advantage. therefore, if evolution as proposed is true, two animals must have experienced the same change in the number of chromosomes in the same geographic location during the same generation. although "coincidences" such as this have not been observed in nature, they must have happened thousands of times in the course of history if natural evolution is to account for what exists today.

Interdependence of proteins and DNA
the proteins needed for life cannot be manufactured without the design specifications of DNA. DNA cannot replicate itself without enzymes (proteins). according to atheist Richard Dawkins, "DNA and protein are two pillars of a stable and elegant arch, which persists once all its parts simultaneously exist. it is hard to imagine it arising by any step-by-step process unless some earlier scaffolding has completely disappeared." such scaffolding is completely speculative.

Complexity of the brain
microelectronics, created by intelligent man, can pack more than a million circuits within a cubic foot. the brain has been estimated to pack a million million circuits per cubic foot. the human brain contains about ten billion nerve cells, each of which can put out between 10,000 and 100,000 connectors. the number of possible associations, hence the number of potential thoughts a person can think, may exceed the number of atoms in the universe. the brain is by far the most complex thing known to man.

Probability
there are about 1070 atoms in the observable universe. there are only 1090 seconds in the 15 billion years generally said to be the age of the universe. the probability of spontaneously forming the smallest replicating protein molecule by chance is 1 in 10450. the probability of spontaneously forming proteins and DNA for the smallest self-replicating entity is 1 in 10167,626. the probability of a simple living cell reassembling itself under ideal natural conditions if all components were present but chemical bonds were broken is 1 in 10100,000,000,000. mathematicians consider any event with a probability of less than 1 in 1050 to have a zero probability, i.e. to be impossible regardless of how much time is available.

Mutations
mutations are errors in DNA copying. they are very rare and 99.99% of them are harmful or fatal. DNA has a built-in "proofreading" system with such accuracy that a typist would each have to type 20 billion books with only one typographical error for it to be matched. the neo-Darwinian synthesis proposes that mutations are the primary source of improved genetic material.

Natural selection
can select from an existing gene pool that which is "fittest" for a particular environment. it does not even attempt to explain the origin of the material in the gene pool from which selections are made. where did the huge variety of genetic information come from in the first place? information must come from somewhere. it does not arise spontaneously.

Adaptation
or "fit" of organisms to their environment. in many cases, many interlocking parts would have to come about at once for any mutation to be functional enough to be naturally selected.

an example is the bombardier beetle. when threatened by an enemy, it blasts boiling hot gases from two tail pipes into the face of an attacker. the explosive is made inside the beetle's body by mixing together two dangerous chemicals (hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide). in addition to these two chemicals, the beetle manufactures another type of chemical known as an "inhibitor." the inhibitor prevents the chemicals from blowing up and enables the beetle to store the chemicals indefinitely. when the beetle is approached by a predator, he squirts the stored chemicals into the two combustion tubes and at precisely the right moment he adds another chemical (an anti-inhibitor). this knocks out the inhibitor and a violent explosion occurs right in the face of the attacker. how could such as system, utilizing such dangerous chemicals, have evolved randomly step by step? all parts are necessary for any of them to have an adaptive advantage. the probability of more than one advantageous mutation arising at once is incredibly slim.

Darwin himself wrote:

if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.

Convergence
the eye is an example of an extremely complex organ. yet it is said to have evolved independently numerous times. vertebrate eyes are imperfect. they're wired backwards and have a blind spot. evolutionists argue that God would certainly not have designed them that way. yet these imperfect eyes work better than any camera man has invented. by pure random chance, a single appearance of an eye would be highly improbable, impossible according to mathematicians.

Darwin wrote:

to suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection seems, i freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

the ability to fly supposedly evolved spontaneously by chance at least four times: for insects, birds, mammals (bats) and reptiles. yet intelligent man did not figure out the principles of flight until the past century.

Transitional species
many of what Darwin considered to be transitional species have been discredited. even Archaeopteryx, once thought to be transitional between reptiles and birds, is not. modern birds have been found deeper in the fossil record. for the most part nature's divisions are not blurred and indistinct, currently or in the fossil record. the phyla appear in the fossil record almost instantaneously in what is known as the Cambrian explosion, with no apparent connections.

Transitional leaps
according to evolutionists, reptiles evolved into birds. yet the lung of a reptile is very different from the lung of a bird. how could one design evolve into the other step by tiny step, with each step being an improvement over the previous one? microevolution cannot be extrapolated to explain macroevolution. microevolution (one species of bird to another closely related species) has been fairly well established. but no natural mechanism has been even been suggested to explain how macroevolution (from reptile to bird, for example) could possibly have happened.

The Anthropic Principle
the more scientists learn, the more it appears that the universe is tailor-made for life. the more accurately and extensively astronomers measure the universe, the more finely tuned they find it to be. there are a minimum of 25 characteristics of the universe which must be "just so" for life of any kind to be possible. there are more than 40 characteristics which must be "just so" for life as we know it on earth to exist.

Here are some examples:

  • distance from the moon to earth. if the moon were farther away, there would not be enough mixing of ocean waters by the tides. if it were closer, the tidal effects would be too great.
  • atmospheric electric discharge rate. if there were more lightning, there would be too much fire destruction. if less, not enough nitrogen would be fixed in the atmosphere.
  • rotational speed of the earth. if it were slower, there would be too much temperature difference between day and night. if it were faster, the wind velocities would be catastrophic.
  • surface gravity. if it were greater, the atmosphere would retain too much ammonia and methane. if it were less, the atmosphere would lose too much water vapor.
  • tilt of axis and distance from the sun. if it were different, the temperature variations would be too great to support a stable water cycle.
  • amount of water vapor. if it were greater, there would be a runaway greenhouse effect. if less, there would not be enough rainfall.
  • amount of carbon dioxide. if it were greater, there would be a runaway greenhouse effect. if less, plants would be unable to maintain efficient photosynthesis.

if these things and many others were just slightly different, life as we know it would be impossible.

science itself has proven that chaos does not naturally and normally turn into order. life comes only from life (law of biogenesis). things do not improve naturally as a matter of course (second law of thermodynamics). things improve because of intelligent input. for example, the technology we enjoy in the present age is a result of human intelligence, not random chance.

science has given us a great deal, but not everything that exists can be explained scientifically.

you can read more about it from this website:

http://www.susancanthony.com/aboutSusan/evolution.html

and what of the bible? how do we prove its true? well, as i mentioned, scientifically we cannot.

"The Bible cannot be proved scientifically any more than can the natural origin of life proposed by Darwin. Nor is it possible to prove scientifically that Socrates taught in Athens or that Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo. All of these events fall into the realm of history and are not subject to experimental proof. "

http://www.susancanthony.com/aboutSusan/bible.html

in the case of O.J. Simpson, there is no way to know beyond any doubt whether he is innocent or guilty of murder. nor is there any way to know beyond a doubt that the Bible is true. faith is necessary. the best definition of "faith" i've found is, "the leap from where the evidence leaves off to where the evidence seems to be pointing." evolutionists believe much of what they believe on faith, because from their perspective the evidence points in a certain direction. the evidence for evolution is not complete nor, by its nature, can it ever be complete. the natural origin of life, if it occurred, is historical rather than scientific. it cannot be replicated in a laboratory. science cannot tell the whole story.

there is a big difference between faith and blind faith. faith requires gathering all the available evidence and seeing which way it points, then making the leap. blind faith is taking a leap in the dark and hoping everything will be OK.

C.S. Lewis:

christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. the one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
christianity claims to give an account of facts--to tell you what the real universe is like. its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. if christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

of a person who chooses not to undertake the investigation, Lewis says:

the man is shirking. he is deliberately trying not to know whether christianity is true or false, because he foresees endless trouble if it should turn out to be true. he is like the man who deliberately "forgets" to look at the notice board because, if he did, he might find his name down for some unpleasant duty. he is like the man who won't look at his bank account because he's afraid of what he might find there. he is like the man who won't go to the doctor when he first feels a mysterious pain, because he is afraid of what the doctor may tell him.

it is impossible to determine whether christianity is true or false without knowing what it is about. in addition, it is not possible to determine that something is false simply because the people who testify to it are flawed or unreliable. it is, of course, easier to believe witnesses with integrity, but truth exists independently of the people who proclaim it.

in the words of Phillip Johnson, "it may be rational to argue about whether God is real or unreal, but it is clearly irrational to assume that a God who is real can safely be ignored." the important thing is to make an informed choice.

now i'm not trying to really evangelize but seriously, think about what i said. it makes sense doesn't it? wouldn't it be too late to regret after we die? its not an attempt to convince any non-believer, but i hoped that i've stimulated some thinking and challenge you to convince yourself whether the bible is true.

would you be the man shriking? are you afraid of what you might discover? if you read read this and close this window although having some thoughts, then believe me, obviously you've missed my whole point...

Monday Blues...

its 2am now. nono im not nocturnal, just that i feel so tired everytime i reach home, i fall asleep on the sofa watching tv. yes it has been a bad habit and i am working hard to change it.

but i guess being nocturnal isn't that bad after all. since week 15, i have been sleeping after coming home from a tired day of school, only to wake up around midnight to rush my projects. this seemed kinda effective however. during the whole morning where everyone was sleeping, i could concentrate on my work. compared to me trying to finish all my assignments in the school library, there was alot less distractions and i was more focused.

well im in poly now, kinda stressed in case u ppl studying in JCs think life here in polys is a breeze. im totally sick at trying to communicate with the computer everyday. he just stones at me all day. seriously, computers are very idiotic. they are very stupid and completely retarded. they dun think and rationalize, they dun understand and care how you feel. they do not help you with your studies, they do not help you solve your problems. most of the time they are the ones causing problems argh.

anyway, i went to school around 10+ in the morning today. i can't believe i cannot catch a cab to school. my team-mates were already waiting in school for me at around 9.30am. i was rushing to get to campus asap but all the cab drivers seemed to be busy at the very wrong time. worst still i realised i did not bring my hp to school! argh how troublesome. i can't call my team-members when i reached school and i was uber late so i rushed to blk N to look for mr fritz lim, my supervisor for the end-of-sem project. as expected, weihao, sean, allen and jeff showed him our proposal already. man i think i got 0marks for missing this meeting. zZz

so, unable to contact them, i went over to the library to do my end-of-sem assignment. gosh i already met a problem with my program just when i started coding it. argh how annoying. searched google for tips on coding navigation menus but i can't understand all the crap on those webbies. fustrated, i started to eat... =.=

i went to cafe hotshot to grab a bag of keattle chips and hazelnut cold milk. then i found a stack of tintin comics on one of the shelves and took the whole stack to read. before long...i was so engrossed in the comics i forgot about my assignment. nvm, i can't seem to find a solution for it anyway...

it was around 3pm and i have nothing else to fill up my time. the guys sitting beside me were all playing dota. grr...made me even more fed up...i din bring any mouse and kinda unable to play any games...my lappy didn't have much games anyway. thought of going home, but still have cca later on so...

i just can't get enuff of food, especially when i have loads of time with nothing better to do. so i went over to koufu to grab some food...not really hungry, but just needed to fill up my time. but anyway...seriously, i gotta start saving some cash up. saw some really nice looking shirts and shoes at cine, and i wanna stop being ever dependent on my parents.

went for cca at 7pm...had to swim 2k m...which is like erm 10 laps? when im finished, had to thread water and do walking...basically thats what i did for the entire training today. coach lewis sucks man...he keeps screaming at me, made me so paiseh luhh...infront of the other water polo guys and the swim team girls who were there. zZz i hate him lahh...den somemore im not very outspoken as many of you know...

after training both my legs cramped when i got out of the pool. i 腿软 and almost fell when walking the stairs...gosh all that thread water is gonna kill me. i left my laptop and wallet along with my bag on the bench when i went to shower with the other water polo guys...coach lewis started screaming at me again at how i left my wallet unattended. zZz well i guess he meant well for me in a way, just that he's so blunt lah...keeps screaming at ppl...im like so innocent lo =X

haiz, almost morning, going back to grab some sleep. tmrw im gonna give my bedroom an extrmeme makeover :D yep its too messy and i keep losing stuff =.= i gotta start being more organised, will be planing out a time table for myself so i wun find myself having nothing to do all the time.

tata :D

Monday, August 13, 2007

Power Packed Weekend

wow! what an awesome weekend! the past 3 days have been really amazing.

to start things off, cellgroup on friday was indeed great. i met james at yck mrt after school before going to isabel's place for cellgroup together. we had combined cellgroup with gwyn's and cliff's cellgroups. isabel's place was totally packed! michelle preached for the first time and cedric led the praise & worship the first time as well. speaking of which, our cellgroup is going to multiply, well actually it has already officially multiplied. this meant that more of us had to rise up instead of just staying in our comfort zones.

on sat service, during praise & worship, i suddenly felt really uncomfortable and wanted to go to the restroom. worst still, pastor kept repeating the song "God of my Forever" and we prayed quite a bit. immediately after the pastor kong passed the mike over to dr bernard, i rushed to the toilet. the security personnel told me that i would not be able to return to my seat later since they want to avoid having much movement when the speaker is preaching. so i took my bible and went to the overflow room after im done with my business in the toilet. wow! simply, dr bernard blew me away! his message really impacted me alot. despite adam sinning against God, and subsequently cause all men to have death, God sent his son to die for us. wow! who would love another who had cause such hurt to him so deeply? indeed what a glorious God we serve.

we(cellgroup) went over to "bbq chicken" at cineleisure after service for fellowship. man, the chicken was fantastic. the sisters kept complaining at how cedric(kang) was such a glutton and "koping" other peoples' food. haha, well i guess they weren't that petty since they kept giving chunks of meat to him. (:

james told me something really funny! he said that during service before i was about to rush to the toilet, he asked me where was i going and i replied "我想要拉屎!" den the row behind our cellgroup started laughing...and i din even notice =.=

after dinner, the sisters went over to the ice-cream shop next door for dessert. they can sure eat haha. james, cedric kang, cedric koh and i talked over the messy table of chicken bones and salad leftovers. they kept talking about how to train more muscles lol. argh i want to change hairstyle man...looks really ugly huh? =X

saturday's message was so awesome that i told myself i simply could not miss part 2. so i woke up next morning and went for the sun service. i woke up late and thank God my dad actually drove me to church. the sermon was even better! never regretted coming for this one. dr bernard just has this aura, carrying the presence of God. he's so charismatic lah...anyway, what really impacted me was how we could engage the world and yet not be worldly! we must learn to draw the line, dr bernard beautifully illustrated how daniel did it.

many times, we are filled with dissatisfaction. often we look at what we don't have instead of what we have. people start scarificing what they have for what they don't have. why not be satisfied with what we have and be thankful. in my opinion, we are man, and man cannot possible have everything yah?

i was surprise my dad joined me for dr bernard's service. he was sitting alone and i only get to know he was in the hall until he called me after service. my dad even pre-ordered the dr bernard's audio sermon! wow, i believe i am gonna listen to it again and again until it really sinks into my heart. i still lack the spiritual dicipline dr bernard spoke of. after meeting up with my dad, went over to aunt's optical shop to make new glasses yay! argh originally, i wanted oakley sporty glasses...haiz but i couldn't find any in my aunt's shop, or anything close to something like that. in the end i picked a really cool looking nikon one. well, one must learn to be satisfied aye?

went over to "bbq chicken" again, this time with my dad, because i wanted to try the terriyaki flavoured one. after lunch, we went to the shop(i forgot name) on level 3 to look at iPods, iMacs and stuff. my dad was looking for better earphones for his iPod i guess. he even considered buying the 21 inch iMac for me! OMG i can't believe it! i am so blessed to have such a wonderful dad. saw some really cool sneakers at both the nike and addidas shops. i guess i shouldn't get my dad to buy everything...i'll start saving up for stuff (:

met my mom and went to havery norman at bukit panjang plaza to look at fridges(ours broke down). they looked all day and can't decide so they decided to go to imm. however my dad insisted that i see a doctor because i have been delaying it for days. so my parents accompanied me to the clinic and missed the trip to imm...

i can't believe how much time i have been spending time with my parents. in the past, schools would take up all our time, along with countless tuition and stuff. but now, we seemed so bonded, i believe God has a great destiny for my family.

i can't wait...truly "He works in ways we cannot see!" don moen (:

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Happy Birthday Singapore!

OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I FELL ASLEEP LAST NIGHT!

i had a great national day and i wanted to update the blog but i fell asleep after watching troy on channel 5 argh...

ok anyway yesterday was awesome. woke up early in the morning and decided to blow off the thick layer of dust on my xbox to play kingdom under fire. nothing special, just thought i would pay my xbox a visit after i last on it a gazillion years ago.

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the day before was great too(and yes i forgot to update too -.- i noe im a terrible blogger ok). yup...eve of national day(our beloved nation's birthday lei!), and yet we still need to return to school for tests. well, i supposed this goes the norm for all polys in singapore.

during the nite, went over to south view to ball with brian and friends. lol i can't remember the last time i touched a basketball(ok now that's exaggerating lah). we all did i guess, from all the terrible shooting we "showcased" to everyone on the court. brian plays basketball as cute as ever xD

oh ya and dere was this group of guys shooting hoops before we arrived. when we started to play friendly games, they retreated to the shelter behind the court. percy said he thought he saw them laughing at us while we were playing =.= then when we were finished, they came back onto the court to shoot again. then there was this guy wearing specs who had his basketball hit me straight on the face! i'm not ben wallace yah, i don't kill people for accidentally landing a ball on my face, but he said "sorry," then walked over under the basketball and had the basketball in his hand, his bag in the other and started "acting cool." gosh im so disgusted lah...i felt like taking a ball and smashing it into his face and walk off...now how would that feel?! gosh i think my teeth got disfigured or smth...my gums still hurt like *&!#$@!

anyway, after that, we went over to lot 1 to grab our dinners. hongjie and friends came over to meet us at food junction...i was having claypot rice and it was smoking hot! then the rest all finish eating liao, and i had like almost 3/4 portion of my dish unfinished...brian went up with the rest to check movie times and colborn and a few others were kind enough to stay back and kept me company =D

we got to the cinema shortly after, and couldn't decide what we wanted to watch! lol "the simpsons" had a 6pm last show(it was 8pm then), hongjie said "secret" sucked, zhenye and zhongliang said they were gonna watch "rush hour 3" with their classmates the next day(national day), there was no "invisible target"(which i wanted to watch de zZz), i hate watching all the horror films and "881" show was like almost midnight, which many of the others didn't want(curfew i guess). in the end we decided on "rush hour 3" since it was the closest to our time(8.20pm if i din't rmb wrongly), and it seemed pretty convincing. well, poor zhenye and zhongliang had to go home since they didn't want to catch the same film twice, erm willingly yah.

the show was awesome...hysterical, chris tucker is soooo funny xD oh yah and btw while we were waiting for the movie, we went over to the arcade. and i played dis fighting game called teken or smth. colborn and the rest were watching me play before suddenly i had a challenger. hongjie went over to the opposite machine and saw a four-five year old kid playing. it was so cute lah...he was smilling so cute and jamming the buttons. well it worked though =.= i lost to him eventually and it was well since we had to leave for the movie anyway.

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so anyway, back to national day, after playing on my xbox for rougly less than an hour, dad and mom came home with breakfast! my sis had congee while i had chicken rice.

i took a bath after breakfast and checked the time...oh no its 11.30am! and im supposed to meet my cellgroup at 12 noon! ahhh!!! im sooo late.

i eventually reached youth park and thank God they barely started. we were gonna play games that day and i was in the white team! because i was late, white team got deducted 40 points =.=

anyway, it was really fun and lots of things happened.

some hightlights:

after receiving our first clue, we rushed over to cineleisure arcade. unfortunately, the black team got there first and we had to do forfeit, which is playing imaginary badminton...we looked like complete idiots lah, infront of all the people queueing up for their movie tickets...den there was one part of our first task that was to compete in DDR(dance dance revolution) lol because almost everyone can't play that game, they looked so funny erm..."dancing."

our second clue was rocky master...dam cedric tricked us and we got fooled to some other place argh...in the end the black team got there first again...but because they ran off to get themselves drinks, we all had to do forfeit: saying the pledge infront of the entrance in cineleisure...lol it was so embarassing man...all the people walking in and out of cine saw us definitely...but it was hell of a experience yah.

another task was to solve a number of really lame riddles...i guess we were not lame enough and the black team solved it first and ran off with their next clue...

for two clues, we had to take a video and traid picture of ourselves at califonia fittness centre and ngee ann city respectively. nothing very interesting but really fun though.

then our next task was to grab a number of items and eat them in sequence. we went to the cold storage at ngee ann city. james and jace rushed off to buy the items while we waited for them near the fountain beside auntie ann erm pastry shop? they took a while so juswin and i decided to grab some bites. i got myself a lovely looking brownie and gosh it was the best i ever tasted, juwin "nodded in agreement" after having a bite himself. he got himself a tiramisu ice-cream and yes it was fantastic as well. the others got themselves ice-cream, donuts etc. i was un-satisfied and bought a few sticks of "terriyaki-liked" meat. mmm it looked better than it taste though. eventually james and jace bought the items and we shared the food among us before moving on to the next task.

we needed to go to 6 different shops where 3 sisters and 3 brothers had to wear one of their shop's item and take a picture each. shimin got me into this really luxurious shop and the salesman was like giving me the "are you sure you noe how much is this?" kinda look when i asked to try out one of the shirt and sweater. it was so paiseh luhh...obviously a 17 year old teenager in a high-class shop...um smth must be wrong huh? luckily i got my photo in the changing room without much trouble before "escaping" from the shop. we met back at the fountain infront of ngee ann city and complied all our photos before showing it to our ic.

basically that was our last task i tink(well there were more but i couldn't rmb all of them) we rushed back to the youth park to show the evidences of completion of all tasks to our "tua tao" which is our cg leader, chee kiong! we saw numerous people skateboarding around the area. wow skateboarding looked so cool...for a moment i thought of picking it up. i can't believe my eyes when i saw girls skateboarding too! one of them was really cute though :D

anyway, we had 1 tasked unfinished and had to rushed back to cineleisure to complete it before we can be declared the winner. by now the black team should be on their way back to the "pit stop" as well so we were really rushing against time.

well i had to leave since it was nearly 5pm to meet my parents at lido to catch bourne ultimatum. so i informed james+cedric before rushing over to shaw house. the movie was awesome! jason bourne is like so cool lah. the storyline was fantastic. i din't really understand the ending though, but who cares, i loved the action throughout the film.

went over to fullerton building with parents after that to catch live fireworks. wow hundreds if not thousands of people were already camping there before we arrived. we tried to go as near to the floating stadium as possible but the crowd got tighter and "squeezier" as the distance closed in. eventually we were stuck in an area behind a tree and a traffic light =.= well thank God the fire works was high enough to see from our view. it was beautiful, the crowd was screaming like they never seem fireworks before!

after the short but wonderful fireworks display, we went to bugis to eat steamboat! ahh...the food was great! well nothing special happened while we eat(praise the lord lol) and we got home right before midnight and i caught troy on tv! haha, my sis and i was glued onto the tv before i fell asleep on the sofa...which was where i started this entry...

have a c++ lecture later on at 3pm and another pop quiz argh...but i'll enjoy it :D
cellgroup meeting will be great tonight, i just know it. (:

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

first post!

this is my very FIRST post on my very FIRST blog yay!!! *clap*

wow everyone seems to be blogging...so i thought why not? XD

it seems kinda interesting yah?

keeping memo of all the exciting events going on in our lives, sharing with the world about our colourful youth.

its not like im living on another planet and just heard of something call the "blog" like 5 minutes ago...

probably the best excuse for me is that i am a computer idiot.

and yes i know i keep quoting that, but the fact is i really am!

well, of course i love this little thing call the computer, i mean who can live a day without one? technically, the whole world is dependent on it, and it grows every single day. look at the airplanes, millions of vehicles on the road, even the medium we submit our assignments and receives our notes here in NYP...


everything around us is being digitalised, even simple watches or our 3G handphones. it has made life so much more convenient that many of us take it for granted.

well of course, as i mentioned, it would be an excuse. why? simply because there are girls in my course who don't lock themselves in their rooms and face their monitors all day while jamming the keyboards like its free...

and yet they are able to do many cool blogs despite guys interacting more time with mr computer via "dota."

in fact many of the top students in my course are females! oh and yes, i am in diploma in digital entertainment technology in NYP. what do we do? basically some animation & games programming.

kinda ironic huh? me, a guy who doesn't even know how to access my school's reference drive on the first day of school(for ur info, im like the only guy who doesn't know...which made me looked like a complete idiot), a guy who until now still have no idea how to customize my friendster, or take days just to discover how to post comments on youtube...and im actually trying to write programs and design websites =.=

well like what i said, even girls(some don't even have computers at home) can do it, why not me? well lets just say im a slower learner, which gives me problems in school evidently...

well ever since i started school, my course has taught me to overcome the fear of learning new applications(such as this).

so yah, here i am, blogging....actually its not as hard as i thought XD

i know its kinda wordy but hey i not some girl who treats her camera phone like her survival kit...but i'll try make my blog as colourful and as full of images as possible aye? after all, "a pictue speaks a thousand words" :D

so ill end here for now, having a web development test later on in school and i haven't studied a tiniee weeniee little bit. neat.