what a week

been quite a meaningful and eventful week...lemme try to recap....

monday= dry run for senior's concert in school. pav and chin yong can rap quite well. it's going to be a blast. my band...a bit off la cos it was our first time with drums for those pieces. but with a lil practice, it should be fine. YEA LAWFLOWERS! after that, soccer with xudes gerald lion ravi zhuang shao muzahair da peng. quite fun but was a lil too wet. was damn tired was my 3rd day of soccer in a row. then dinner at marina with gerald xudes lion and jun. we stayed up till 11 plus talking about stuff. good chat and catching up, guys.

tuesday= inaug dry run. unwittingly, i am the chairs ic. but it's quite a simple job anyway. went to have a simple forum with NUS dean of students to discuss amenities and facilities we might need in bukit timah campus. am thinking of running for law club this round. anything but chair or vice chair.at night, shu's dinner. very entertaining group of people there and we had a good time, including making fun of HOM HOM. supper with Ros at prata bomb.(this was the first of 3 nights there).

wednesday= met bernice at coffee club for a chat, met kathy jess jo pam mel for 'lunch' at HV crystal jade la mian xiao long bao. the senior stewards/managers were having their lunch beside us. and were they having a SPREAD! so much good food! cant believe the staff get to eat so good food! and nicely laid out for them at the restaurant itself some more. wow. the perks of working in crystal jade. then we had QUEST dry run. VERY VERY VERY VERY VEYR VEY VEY4YVERYWERVAWFGHSG; FUN. HELLUVA(if you catch my pun) FUN!!!!!!!!!!!. PART OF THE ENJOYMENT COMES FROM working with some people i usually dont work with. my station people are jordan, kathy, colleen, siok hoon, cynthia, andre, and sheena. ended quite late, plus all the debrief and all that. then started my adventure. yes, it was about 1 plus am already.

the plan was to send pam back, then jac and i would go prata bomb for supper with kathy shawn sylvia and vicky. pam reached home safely and seeing that jac was damn tired, sent her home. at serangoon gardens, on making a very late turn, the car became very jerky, like beef jerky you know? take the stick of beef jerky and whack on jac's head you know? ya so the car became jerky and my worst fears came true. a bloody punctured tyre.....rims were like grounding the floor already.

thankfully we were about a 10 minute walk from jac's house. so we parked at the bus stop, walked to jac's house, she drove me to the shell. where the midnight man say he is an owl so he want to eat nests. so cannot fix my tyre. damn. went back to the car, found the spare tyre under the mountain of shit that my dad keeps in the boot. yay! got spare tyre! but dunno how to fix!
shit! idioit! last time in taiwan when the rover tyre punctured i just stood around doing nothing. diddnt bother learning. thankfully, my pal gerald and bernice came to my rescue! all the way from clementi! haha! so they arrived at like 3 plus am.

gerald tan weijun, the fastest WRX in Singapore as of now, fixed it in 10 minutes. he's damn used to it. always changing his tyres when he goes racing. anyone want to buy car, pls find me or him. got many kangtao and sure get you a good deal. and free trye changing services too.

ok so off to prata bomb with gerald and bernice for supper. 2nd night in a row!!!!!!!!!!! thankks jac chua for staying up with me and waiting all the way till 4am. had a good chat. jac chua is damn funny la. and her dog is called cola. reached home and slept at 530am. dead shacked like a camel who ran 27km like that.

thurs= work at Acts. kinda miss it but i know i cant be there forever. went for the ravi Zaccharias talk. i dozed off about 10 times. you know when you are at lectures or sermons and you fall asleep and your head like tilts until you suddenly jerk and wake up? ya i experienced it many times that night. it was a good talk. i am just a bad guy la. so after that, i thought, ok good, time to go home! yea! and Yan Cheng Kang gave me sumei and lion a lift home. but he was kinda hungry so we thought, what the heck since sumei stays at thomson, where should we eat?

THOMSON PRATA PLACE. BOMB. AGAIN.

ok la but to its credit its quite shiok. their mushroom cheese is good, $3.50 though. it's still half the price of the mad jalan kayu. that mushroom cheese is $7. shiokay man. ok it was very fun with yan, sumei and lion. great to have ho sumei back from princeton. she's really really really funny and entertaining and though she's 23 like me, she's damn aunty. but still cute in her aunty way la. i once thought she was going to be our first female prime minister. but looking at her now, i think tai tai more like it. still, she is one step behind Yang Lin, the soon to be Married one!!!!!!!!!!!

3 nights of thomson prata in a row makes zhiwei a full bodied 200 pounder.

friday= LAST DAY AT ACTS. had lunch with kenny, he bought puffs for everyone! but that bloody xudes ate his yam one without waiting for me! jun came to visit. i wolfed down her ya kun toast in 2 minutes. i love ya kun. ok its a bit sad leaving Acts la. going to miss everyitng.EVERYTHING! BYE TO ALL MY COLLEAGUES!!!!! I WILL BE BACK TO VISIT AND DISTURB YOU!!!!!!!!!! I WILL BE BACK TO SHOUT, DANCE AND ALL THAT. BYE BYE BANQUET TEH HALIA! HONG LIM WONTON MEE!!!!!!! CUTE FEMALE CUSTOMERS!!!!! STOCKTAKING!!!! ARRANGING BOOKS!!!! 3PM LUNCHES!!! SURFING INTERNET WHEN ITS EMPTY! UNCLE PETER AND HIS BELOVED ARSENAL!!!!!! MY GREAT AND BLOODY FUUNY MANAGERS!!!!!!!! it's been real fun there. but well, we have to move on........

so went for cell. we had 2 newcomers, bernice from SMU and Joni from NTU. we had one sheep back from michigan, Mark, the 'sexy mark' according to Yang Lin. it was a very interesting cell session to say the least. great worship by lion king and discussion. we ended on a very serious note though. supper at adam road. and cab back homeeeeeee.

saturday, which is today. lawflowers practice, good. lunch with keny shawn and vic at commonwealth. shiokay cheap and tasty chicken rice and fishball noodles. $2 and they give you a big bowl of noodles and 7 fishballs. how to beat that? Ym training session in church, and then dinner with gary at Macpherson Kopitiam. we had a great chat about everything. my life, his life, whats going on and hows God working. indeed God is working strongly in my life. it's truly exciting man.

ok matriculation week ahead. one year ago i was a freshmen and now i am helping out in O Team and starting year 2. my my my how time does fly. chiupee lives in my toilet.

one step up

in this week alone i have 3 times come across the need to go further in my christian walk. i know it is God's call for me. time to step up. enough of the basics. no more a new believer. i guess that explains my yearning for deeper Bible study and more intellectual discussions and apologetics. so exciting seeing God prepare me for the next step. so maybe the 'emptiness' i was feeling the past 6 months was just a step and to prepare me for greater things ahead.

i would like someone willing to brave the front with me, to do what God calls me to do, even if it means living an uncomfortable life. even if it means no BMW or nice house.

frustration

i am damn frustrated. i got my pc fixed, i got my internet back, but i bloody hell cant post pics up this damn blog. and my other blogs! whats wrong!! ARGHHH.

ok after reading Jac's entry on friendship and visiting old folks and talking to her about it on thursday night when i met them at prata bomb i have mulled over it, and i am not too happy about the 'comm service' i recently performed at All Saint's Home. feel a bit hypocritical cos i think i was in it for the fun and a bit of the feel good factor but not really to do service. after all, without RnF, i wouldnt be going down to any home would i?

friday. last day of RnF. we had a concert and the residents were treated to some better food. felt really bad when i saw the folks unable to feed themselves and looking so poorthing. my heart bled a little. and my heart was also lifted when i saw some freshmen actually feeding and REALLY helping the folks. cleaning them, feeding them etc... some of whom i thought would never do such stuff. well. and i, i had to bring myself to do it.

sometimes i feel that we(or i) are using the old folks. its like,

'hey, thats an old folks home, lets go do some work there'. it's like i am doing for the sake of doing and not because i really love them or something.

i learnt one really important thing. not to think of myself as noble or what shit just by the fact that i performed some meagre Comm Service last year and this year. i think i need to GENUINELY love people. and it should start by showing love to my family, friends, and people around me first. it's strange if you can 'show' so much love to old folks you hardly know but yet swear at or treat your friends like shit.

in response

This is in addition to a friend's response. This message also goes to christians especially, and, myself.

Just do the right thing that you know GOD wants you to do and everything will be alright. Too many times we know what to do but we fall and we choose the wrong route and we get hurt and we suffer the consequences and we ask, WHY WHY WHY.....

When in the first place we consciously decided to trod the wide path, which leads to destruction. Sin has its consequences. But if we repent and seek for forgiveness God brings healing.

The road to recovery is open. It starts with us.

that aside, another friend of mine has been trying to matchmake me too. she is aunty Rebecca, my 49 year old colleague at ACTs. she also constantly asks me to pray for my future wife. and she asks me to pray using Proverbs 31. and this is my favourite verse out of that chapter -

'Charm can be deceiving, and beauty fades away,
but a woman who honours the Lord deserves to be praised.'

adidas gazelle

i love adidas gazelle and i lost a pair a few years ago. so please, buy for me friends. i cant find them in singapore!!!!!

THE TOP ONE IS THE PAIR I LOST. BURGUNDY GAZELLE, SIZE 9. DAMN. I REALLY LOVE IT UNTIL I DIE OF SPASM!!!!!!!!

saturday's events

saturday was a nice day so shall recap it.

slacked in the day, read some books, watched some news, ate beef kway teow.

4pm - went for a jog in Botanic Gardens and my future campus with lionking, jun, and xudes. nice place, ood for a jog and stuff. xudes and lion are considerably fitter so they went off after the first 20 mins. jun and i continued for another 25mins before we started walking and enjoying the scenery, dogs, swans, duck, and various groups of people enjoying their day out at breezy Botanic Gardens. good run, i enjoyed it, i think i also need such runs frequently.

i had dinner at newton with kenny's mum and shawn. and what a spread we had! OOOH!
sambal stingray, BBQ sotong, sambal kangkong, 3 BBQ chicken wings(i ate them all, and Or Lua. shiok!!!! i also had a big bottle of Tiger. MMMM....beautiful. i rounded up the meal by washing away the oil with a teh tarik. AHHHHHH. thick milky creamy sweet TEH. yea......

then i went to jun's place. had to wait quite long for xudes and lion so jun and i baked betty crocker's blueberry muffins. oh yea. quite easy la, and we added the cow cheese in the middle, just like how kerong taught. and AH, delicious. i had 4 before they arrived. and i also had 3 cups of milk. was really quite full. then they came, we watched some TV, ate the muffins again, i drank COKE, and we had durian!!!!!

i dieded of fullness man john.

ok then go home xudes fetched. great. i love food.

blonde

i am going blonde soon so i have decided to put up some pics of me blonde.

gerald and i at newton after law bash


cutting my hair at kojimaya in chinatown


'hui ge' cutting my hair


me at yakun at far east square


me mel and shawn milking the cow in china square central. pam refused to be in the pic.

Glory to God

went for the benny ho talk yesterday at church, organized by the YAM. wesley church's new Young Adult Ministry. gary was commenting that it seemed a little SDUish. Because there were many young adults. anyway my cell is one of those 'involved' in the startup of this ministry. personally, i think it's a good idea and i hope it can serve the young adult's needs. as for my own contribution, i am unsure. play drums maybe. like i did last night and i am doing tonight.

the benny ho talk was really good and i am excited to go for the 2nd session tonight. it's on Discerning God's will. 1 very important thing is that if you already walk closely with God and are constantly listening, following and obeying, USUALLY, you will not need to try too hard to 'find' or 'discern' HIS will.

cos if you know HIM well enough, you will naturally know what HIS will is in difficult situations. for example, choices between right and right. like a job, your lifetime partner, or something like that. something that does not involve moral choices.
anyway, i will talk more on this another time.

another interesting matter is that some of my small group members are trying to matchmake me with a good friend of theirs. i am grateful for their worrying for me, that i will never find someone to live life with me. my cellmates are really hilarious. and i appreciate it. so there, thanks girls, for your effort. this is a public THANKEW.

for my friends who dont know, my small group is one OnBendedKnees, formed in 1999 by a batch of 17 year olds then who wanted to meet outside of church. we grew, we split into 2, we merged, and now we have many different faces and people who come from different walks of life, but all who want to know GOD and seek christian support as well as good in-depth BS(bible study, but sometimes we like to bullshit as well). for some of my friends who didnt know, this is the group i hang out with every friday night till1 or 2 am and it is one of my life priorities. i love them.

a few of us are in uni now, a few in army(but all getting out soon), a few working adults. and we are a crazy lot. i guess most people think christian small groups must be rather solemn and serious or something like that. well, if you know me, do i look or seem solemn? haha. actually my cell is something like a madhouse. and got all kinda animals in there too. including myself(yes manu calls me the beast). i think i shall post more on the cell another time, and i will add fotos!! WOOHOO!!!

to round up, i went for the talk last night not exactly looking forward to it. in fact, i thought i was going to be bored and all that. i did not even really want to play for the worship in the first place. but it felt like an obligation and something just pushed me to it. even at the rehearsal on monday night, i was a bit sian and tired. but last night, GOD breathed into the worship and the worship really spoKe to me and helped me rekindle my fire. everything was perfect last night. i can't thank God enough for bringing me close and speaking out to me and assuring me He's there. just when i am dwindling in the faith. make no mistake. GOD led me here and He wants me to follow Him. and i want to. Faith is so exciting. thanks to the Mighty God whom i serve. thanks. Seriously.

happy

ok i am in a good mood. it will last for the next 10 minutes. a very cute girl just smiled at me as she walked out of the bookshop. seen her around for more than half a year already but i dont speak to her. she's cute. ok that's all.

go watch initial d.

initial D

i watched 3 movies on the big screen and 3 on the small screen last week. i liked fantastic 4 best, and i slept in batman. war of the worlds waas good too. i slept in infernal affairs 2, i watched dark water and did not get scared(cos it's my 2nd time) and i witnessed chinese being treated as a dof in 'unleashed', staring jet li.

so far, this week i have watched initial D. i really enjoyed it. i like all the characters. it's very good, go watch it.

test pics

testing testing 1 2 3.

this is testing testing. i am testing to see if i can post pics on the blog. this is Gerald and i at Bernice's 2oth birthday.

law camp is over. it's very sad, although fulfilling.
looking forward to R n F.
i went JB with the kia. it was fantastic. i will put up the pics soon. also, i will put up the pics for law camp soon. ok ok pics pics pics.