christinelee

2008-12-13T22:41:00.002+08:00

How do i want to live my life?

today, i seem obsessed by this question.
all kinds of things are going through my mind..
can i just laze through life and just move on non stop making everything a blur?
what kind of legacy will i leave in people?
and will i even leave a legacy?

what's the point of everything?

but i realise..
the question i should be asking is

who does God want me to be?

5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!
9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Phillipians 2:5-11

2008-11-19T22:37:00.002+08:00

can't believe all that was over in a flash...
US trip was soooooo fun. i can't help smiling just by thinking about it.
ok, so first we went to intel where we did some circuit thingy. it's quite cool actually but i think everyone's like super tired so whenever the person asks questions, it's just like complete silence. haha. they had quite a lot of cool stuff there like a talking robot that talks back.
then we went on DUCK tours!!! so fun. we all got our quacker thingys! and our duck captain is some weird guy from sweden whose actually quite funny. we went to see chinatown and bay bridge, etc. sast with Bea, Anna and ABigial and took so many random pictures of the streets.. Then we went to Stanford!!! At that time, everyone was talking about hsm3 so we were all like trying to guess where they shot the scene from the campus for the movie. haha. we went for a lecture first on logic mathematics. it was super sleep inducing. it's like if you look around, half of the ppl are falling asleep and trying very very hard to stay awake (including grace!!!! and myself of course) haha.. i kinda understand the whole thing which is quite cool/ THere was also this standford guy who was super fast with the rubik's cube and he showed us how he solved it in like 15 seconds. quite cool. apparently he was some champion in some rubik's competition.
Next day, we went to Alcatraz! i love that place. it is very cool! first we took a ferry there which was fun and cold and windy cos we all sat on the toppest deck. we had an audio tour which means like you hold a recorder and earphones which will guide you along the way. learnt abt Al "scarface" Capone, "birdman", etc. and learnt also abt the different escapes and the Indians who stayed there for a while. After that, we had Clam chowder at firsherman's wharf. i shared one in a bread bowl with Anna. it was super yummy. haha. abi, bea, grace, maddie and clare were all sitting down and there were pigeons EVERYWHERE. and there was this boy who was chasing them about and all them were flying around them. haha! it was super funny to see all of them cringe simultaneously. haha. then we had calamari. hmm. it made me feel sick after that.... but it tasted okay. then, we went to the California Academy of Sciences. SUPER CROWDED!!! it was so scary. really upsetting that the planetarium was closed. went to see the natural history and african what-nots. it was all quite nice. and i saw an albino crocodile!!! how cool is that!
next day. we went to the winery at Napa valley. it was a long bus ride. Vineyard was so beautiful and the weather was wonderful. we ahd a cool old guide who taught us abt the vines that get that disease that make the leaves turn red, how they make wine, etc. quite interesting. and he let us tasted the grapes too. bought a magnet from there, the cashier took super long! after that we ate A&W for lunch. Anna & I were messing with the jukebox for a while. haah. then we went to Safari West! Soooo many animals. and we saw cows with horns! We could ALMOST touch the animals cos we were so close. our guide was half korean but we couldn't really tell. tried the bubble gum ball thing which was NOT nice.
Next day, we went to the Lawrence Hall of Sciences which was somehting like science centre really except smaller and on a hilltop. Saw many cool stuff like a robot dinosaur. went for some squid lesson which was veryc ool but a little smelly. Anna & I were partners and we got a female squid! THen we had the tin can camera workshop. it was so cool. we took pictures with our tin can thingy and developed the negative photo. quite cool. then we had hot dogs and salad! yum. after that, we went to berkeley. it was very cool. they had an underground library that was four stories deep! the whole campus was very nice. so cool! after that, we had pizza which was huge! like the 18-inch kind.
Day 6, we went to the Jelly Belly factory. it was fun and... ... colorful. there were vans and cars all colorful looking like jelly beans. the factory was crowsded. we got cute factory hats when we were walking inside. guessing all the flavours with clare was super fun. i bought disgusting flavours! like the ones from harrypotter. so cool!
next day, we went to yosemite. it was soooo beautiful. the air was sooo fresh. we saw deers, ravens, squirrels and halfdome, elcaptain, mirror lake etc. mirror lake is slowly being filled up with sand though. so sad. our guide was called pete. he was veryc ool and hilarious. he was like "Photosynthesis! ahh, i love that word! Someone should make a song out of that word!" HAHAA.
he also had a small book with info about all kinds of animals inside. sooo funny. i love yosemite. it's a really lovely place. learnt about John Muir. haha. pete was like "He rocks, doesn't he?!" hahaaha.
next day was GILROY!!! i bought sooo many things. it was very hot and sunny though.
day 9 was DISNEY LAND!!!! had a leadership course. our guide was Marie who totlaly reminded us of minnie mouse cos her voice is super high pitched. anna got made the leadership inspirational atom!!!! HAHAHAAHAH!!!! i got made curiosity(?). we ot to ride pirates of teh caribean but at the same time we ahd to ask our partner radom questions to be active listeners or something like that. haha. then we went to do brainstorming which was actually quite dumb. then we went on SPLASH MOUNTAIN!!! so cool. i raised my hands up when we went down the giant slope. so fun!
next day was DISNEYLAND again. got a physics workshop and a guide called Josh. it was qutie fun. sat ont he maliboomer which was my first "drop" ride. it'll launch you up in the air and then drop you. but it was kinda short. then we ride the Mulholland Madness wild mouse coaster, super fun! haha,. made our own model coaster but we couldn't get it to work properly. haha. then we ride the grizzly rapids thingy. so cool. but the water made everyone get rashes. eww. had popcorn, cherros and salad for lunch, yum,. we ride SOOO many rides, like the monsters inc, tower of terror which was super freaky, california screamin! <<>
the last day, we had a tour of LA~!!
went to sunset boulevard, hollywood bowl, saw the hollywood sign, the chinese theatre, the kodak theatre, and saw all the starts along the street and the handprints and footprints... apparently, we passed lindsay lohan hha so cool. got stopped my some guy in a zorro costume outside the theatre. there were batman, elvis, etc. outside the theatre who wanted to take pictures. but we had to pay so none of us took with them. then we went to UNIVERSAL STUDIOS!!! went on the studio tour which was super cool. saw the sets for jaws, war of the worlds aeroplane thing, fast the furios tokyo drift cars, back to the future cars, the mummy, experienced an earthquake thingy underground. so fun! and we went pass the psycho hotel. the one with norman bates. it was cool. cos he started chasing the tram with a knife. cos we were all like sitting at the back, so we SCREAMED like crazy. hahaa. and he scared us a second time again. then we went on the simpsons ride which was super amusing especially the last part where they took picture of us. HAHA. then we sat on Jurassic Park which wasnt very scary. then we sat the mummy roller coaster... it goes backwards!! so cool. lots of head choppers, no real slopes. we went on it twice!!!! ther was a guy dressed in a mummy suit who scared bea twice! HAHAHA. it was super funny. she kept walking into him... haha. then we went into the house of horrors. FREAKY! the whole thing was like cold and sets were like scary. there were people who like came out of nowhere to scare you. we were screaming like crazy. and we were singing abc. which in my opinion, made it way scarier. there was one set where there bodies in plastic bags hanging from the ceiling. so scary!!! i was so afraid that one of them would come alive or something. haha. at the end, when we saw the door we screamed and ran for it... there were people outside who stared at us weirdly. ahahahahhha!!!
so fun!
but this universal didn't have the spiderman ride like the one in japan. :(
sigh...
i think i'll remember this trip forever.
i think i got my whole body clock like messed up. cos i slept at like 4pm just now and woke up at 10pm for dinner. so now i'm super awake. and there's choir tmr from 8.50-5... sigh...
how???!!!

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were big things.

2008-10-27T19:32:00.002+08:00

whoa
realised i haven't blogged in a while.
yay!
that means i've been busy playing. haha
i caught up with the list of movies that i wanted to watch.
so far, i watched mama mia, which was awesome! ("This fricking yoga made my feet bigger!"HAHA)
and hsm3, which was...

better than hsm2.
and i watched them both on the same day! haha!
then on the next day, i watched cloverfield at home on dvd.
it's nice! although the whole thing was shaky, but itw as really quite scary..
it's good.
and i watched pearl harbour AGAIN for the dunno-what-th time on dvd.
that movie is seriously way too long!
and a few movies that were playing on tv.
like saving private ryan..
yay!
i STILL wanna watch eagle eye and max payne...

i feel like i'm working harder for chinese tuition than for chinese 'o' levels.
or is it the same thing?

Ecclesiastes 12:1
"Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, "I have no delight in them" "

2008-10-05T22:00:00.002+08:00

Sang this song in church today
a good reminder that God is the one in control, the creator

This is my Father's world,
and to my listening ears
all nature sings, and round me rings
the music of the spheres. 
This is my Father's world: 
I rest me in the thought
of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
his hand the wonders wrought.

This is my Father's world,
the birds their carols raise,
the morning light, the lily white,
declare their maker's praise. 
This is my Father's world: 
he shines in all that's fair;
in the rustling grass I hear him pass;
he speaks to me everywhere.

This is my Father's world. 
O let me ne'er forget
that though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet. 
This is my Father's world: 
why should my heart be sad? 
The Lord is King; let the heavens ring! 
God reigns; let the earth be glad!

2008-10-05T21:36:00.003+08:00

everything is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 1:2-11
""Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."

What does man gain from all his labor
at which he toils under the sun?

Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises and the sun sets
and hurries back to where it rises

The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.

All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.

All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done
again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.

There is no remembrance of men of old,
and even those who are yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow."

(NIV)

everything is meaningless,
no satisfaction, no destination.

not unless there's God
in your life.

2008-10-04T22:06:00.003+08:00

sigh
i think i'm relaxing too much
and it's having some kind of effect on my brain...
partly because i've been wasting all my hours playing 60 minute free trial games on the internet.
haha.
i realise that end of years pass really fast.
i mean like the first week of it passed and all i can remember is going into a classroom filled with people studying, trying to memorise stuff (like cherry, you should see her trying to memorise MEP stuff, it was like she was possessed!) and then going to the hall where you hear people shrieking about forgetting to bring their IC, then doing the paper, then getting a stupid headache, then taking the bus to go home to
study.
it's like repetitive.
haha
can't wait for exams to END!!!

"My brothers and sisters, when you have many kinds of troubles,
you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith,
and this will give you patience.
Let your patience show itself perfectly in what you do. Then you will be perfect and complete and will have everything you need."
James 1:2-4

2008-10-01T20:12:00.003+08:00

today was quite a good break. :)
we should have more day-offs to mug!
but i was mugging mep for quite long and going through all the math formulas
haha
now i'm like listening to all the mep world music on the com. haha.
can't wait for ALL the exams to be over!!!

haha i just watched the super old mr bean movie today. the first one when he went to america.
HAHA. so funny. i think it's better than mr bean's holiday.
one of the funniest parts ever:
"Why am I worried about this? You did it! All I gotta do is go tell 'em what happened. But they'll say, "Who left him alone with the picture?" And I'll say, "Me". And they'll say, "You're fired" and I'll say, "Fine". They'll say, "No, no, no, firing's not good enough. Let's prosecute you for negligence". I go to jail, my wife leaves me, my daughter becomes a prostitute, I wind up on death row sharing a cell with Butch McDick!"
Hahaha! funny!
sigh
can't wait for all this to be over so i can go watch all my favourite movies again..

"The LORD is my light and my salvation
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life
of whom shall I be afraid?"
Psalm 27:1

2008-09-29T14:13:00.002+08:00

ahhhhhhhhhhh

is this the second post i started with "ahhhhhhhhhhhhh"?
ok, it's only the 2nd paper and i feel like dying. HA.
partly cos of this STUPID sinus that doesn't go away and is now making me super drowsy till i can't open my eyes properly.
F1 is soooo cooooool!!!
can't believe the whole thing was just like over in 3 days. haha.
today, my mum's sunflowers BLOOOMED. so there are like 2 giant sunflowers in my balcony now. so pretty! :)
ugh, don't feel like studying for ss. especially with this runny nose!

i cooked my own chasoba last thursday! so cool! haha.
first time i'm cooking jap stuff. quite fun. although my sauce tasted funny. and my noodles weren't cold enough cos i was too hungry. so half of the noodles were cold and the other half was... urgh. but it still tasted nice. HAHA!

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal"
2 Corinthians 4:16-18

these verses really makes you think!

2008-09-19T21:58:00.003+08:00

ahhhhhhhh
eoys are in a weeks' time.
scary.
my mugging notebook is running out of space. :(

i had an afternoon nap today!
cos yesterday night, all the days of "not watching tv" feelings accumulated and i couldn't help it but watched tv for 3 hours straight frm 10-1am. it was.. fun. but i was like dying when i switched it off and i almost wanted to sleep on the sofa. so today i'm like... tired.
i realise i'm very not used to taking afternoon naps... cos when i woke up at 6 before dinner, i kept thinking it was saturday morning. and i was in such a daze!!!
when we went out for dinner, i almost wanted to take all my voice training stuff like on sat mornings. haha. so weird. i was like totally zonked out. haha.

you are an attention-seeking pyscho-bsh and think you're very smart...
you think you know everything.. and this just proves that you know nothing.

2008-09-15T22:57:00.002+08:00

today was... funny
everyone was like worrying for MEP practicals so we were all just floating about during lessons.
it's quite cool cos in every lesson, you can hear at least one person thumping her fingers on the table playing an air piano. haha.

my mep practical went.. quite bad.
haha.
i thought the vocal was quite good but apparently she thought i changed the scores.. and didn't understand that my vocal teacher told me to add that part in deliberately... she was like "but you can't prove it." -.-
and for my piano song, she was like "who's your piano teacher?" "did you play this song to her?"
haha! i'm going to failllllllllll..........

ah well, i guess she's just being herself -.-

ONE MORE PRACTICAL LEFT and apparently it was quite easy!! yayyyyy!!

Lord of all
I depend on You

2008-09-08T18:41:00.002+08:00

going to school today was a total waste of time.
:(
we should get study breaks!!!!
and i hate heymath!!!

2008-09-04T21:45:00.006+08:00

today was the most fun day of the holiday, so far!
i did mug by the way. but it was still the most fun
cos i didn't have anything on.
so i was up bright and early at 8am. got 8 hours of sleep!!!
then i ate breakfast in front of the tv. watched akeelah and the bee.
then i went to walk my dog who pooped downstairs. yay mission accomplished!

then i mug chem

after that i baked OATMEAL cookies!!!!!
yay....
only thing is i bought this cookie cutter which was like mickey mouse shaped. and after doing like the first 6, i gave up and started making the rest circle-shaped. so all the mickey mouse shaped ones were in the first batch, where i was still trying to figure out when to take out the cookies. and they got burnt. :( so all my mickey mouse cookies were burnt. so stupid.
haha
but anyway, i got like 30+ successful oatmeal cookies.!! yay.

oh ya, and i was alone at home today (except for my dog). i was alone for like the whole day except during the morning to about 11am.
so while waiting for the oven to cool down & all that, i turned on the radio in the dining room which was right outside the kitchen and started singing and jumping about. HAHA!
so fun.

most fun day ever!

Jesus
You are so Good

2008-09-03T20:53:00.002+08:00

went to make my IC today... which was quite fun! :D
i didn't know i was supposed to put my thumb on the black inky thing so when she took it out... i just stared at it. like. ew what's that?
and then the woman grabbed my hand and put my thumb on it and i was like... ohhhhhhhhhh...
cool.
and i realise that my thumbprint looks quite nice. haha. so pretty-looking!
...
i notice that i watch TV for very very long hours.

great artists steal!!

2008-09-01T21:43:00.002+08:00

ahhh
had to go back to school today from 9-3pm. -.-
it passed quite fast but... still coming back to school on teacher's day for extra lessons has never happened in my whole life before.... until today. :(
haha anna and i were supposed to write about famous places in LA and SF for our trip booklet but we didn't know the dateline's today. so we're like cramping it all now. haha!!!
i just made my study schedule and relised that i have to study at least 3 subjects in one day. which is bad. :(
can't wait for eoys to be over!!!!!

i shall spend the whole of September mugging...

today is my LAST free day before 10 October.. sigh...

“Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.”

Psalm 78:7

2008-08-29T15:44:00.006+08:00

teachers day celebration was.... okay.
some parts were funny and cool but some parts were not.
can't believe we had some weird socratic seminar philo thingy before that. -.-
and i hit my head against the computer table there at the library :(

had a hard time finding all the teachers to give my muffins to. didn't manage to give to laoshi & mr.soo cos laoshi didn't come. -.- mr.soo's outfit was... .... blinding. it was like a light green neon shirt and he was wearing sunglasses. owww my eyes...

haha gave sherri 3 muffins. you're so cute, sherri. glad you liked them!
the "academy awards" theme for teachers' day was quite cute. the trophies were nice. both mrs chow and ms ho got down-to-earth. haha. funny. Mrs Ng got best-dressed! hahaha.
i think it was so cool that we sent sherri up onto the stage in her school uniform! hahahahahah!!!!
and she was like blowing kisses at everyone.. HAHA.
generally, the celebration was quite fun

haha. went back to primary school and saw so many old friends. it's so cool to see them all again after so long... sigh. besides the looks, i relise we're all still kinda the same... haha. there was: suikee, valerie, mabel, abigail, jedidah, isabel, amanda, jinghurng, mark, natheneil, chris, adriel, wanxin, etc. so many... love you guys!

sigh... suikee and i were like exploring the school... which was... interesting. the whole place was so ... bright. haha. mr tong really went to dig up all the funds and spend it all. so many new stuff... so many new teachers. and a new securtiy guard too!!! last time, our security guard was super nice, he was not only security guard, he was also a garderner and like a cleaner or something. hahaha! now they replace him with this old BALD guy who refused to let us in from the gate. -.-
then he gave up and let us all in, but refused to let us cross the big assembly area or go pass the office! haha! funny. and the outfit looks like the fairfield uniform for guys, haha!
we saw qui lao shi!!! miss her so much. the last time we came, she was retired. and she came back today!!! just in time to see us all!!!! she looked... ... the same. haha.
at first suik and i thought she was like this super old-looking person but then we realise that it wasn't her. HAHA!
mr. chua was on mc. -.-
on the times when i didn't come, he's in sch, but when i come, he's not. sigh. so anyway i just left him a muffin on his desk. HAHA. i think it'll like rot when he comes on monday, and he might not even come. but whatever... it's the thought that counts. haha.

wonder how it'll be like next year.

all one in christ

2008-08-28T23:25:00.002+08:00

teacher's day celebration tmr..
we were like deciding on what to wear as a class for the 'be yourself day' thingy but we all decided that since there's no competition, there's no point paying anyway. so i think most of us are gonna wear school uniform. haha

baked super a lot of muffins yesterday for teachers. but i have extra so i can give them to friends! :)
made a lot of chocolate-corn flake crisps thingy. don't know what to call it. hope they don't melt when i bring them to school!

got my commendation award today. my stupid eye kept swelling up and it was so itchy the whole day. :( anyway, thanks violette for being so patient and coming with me to wash my eye for like a million times. haha.

can't wait to see all my old friends again from primary school. wonder how everyone looks like now...

the tree of life

2008-08-26T20:27:00.004+08:00

NO HOMEWORK TODAY!!!!!
oh my, i think this is like the 1st day on a school day, in the middle of a week, of not having any homework. yay!!! what a miracle.
and i wasn't sleepy at all today. yay! slept 45 min earlier than i usually do. it makes a lot of difference.
wonder what i'm gonna do now.

all the excuses you give now are the same as what i gave last time.
please please please stop dieting..

""I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
John 16:33

2008-08-25T18:22:00.002+08:00

Another meaningful song...

Knowing You
All I once held dear built my life upon
All this world reveres, and wars to own
All I once thought gain I have counted loss
Spent and worthless now, compared to this

Chorus:
Knowing you, Jesus knowing you
There is no greater thing
You're my all you're the best
You're my joy, my righteousness
And I love you ,lord

Now my heart's desire is to know you more
To be found in you, and known as yours
To possess by faith what I could not earn
All surpassing gift of righteousness

Oh to know the power of your risen life
And to know you in your suffering
To become like you in your death my Lord
So with You to live
And never die

2008-08-25T18:00:00.003+08:00

...
was super sleepy today. sigh.
there's something wrong with me. i'm sleepy everyday. :(
don't know why but i just can't open my eyes properly. haha.
today was very boring... except maybe chapel which was...
...
interesting.

other than that,
today was a totally uneventful boring day. i guess i don't really want an event either.
i mean term 3 has been cramped up with so many events (just too many to count) that now not having any event seems.. funny. haha i guess its good to have a break..

OLYMPICS is over... so sad. gone are the days where i can sit on the sofa and watch tv non-stop with no one asking me to stop. hha. am looking forward to the london olympics. not sure how it's going to be like. but their advertising is quite cool.
haha
beckham appeared for like ... ...5 seconds.

sigh
no movie to watch in the cinemas now. zzz.

All I once thought gain I have counted loss
Spent and worthless now, compared to this

knowing you

2008-08-23T22:53:00.003+08:00

had my vocal pre-exam today...
it was quite okay.. at first vi and i were like looking for a room to practice. and we couldn't find any rooms so we just went into this random room where theres no one inside. and we couldn't get the dumb electric piano thingy to start so we used the ORGAN
hahahaa!!!!
it was so funny... cos we were like pressing random buttons everywhere. HAHA.
but it was still very cool

and then when it was time for my exam, all the rooms were used, so we had to go down to the basement. which smelled like some rotten beast. haha. it was so gross.
yay.. just glad it went quite well...

THEN when we came down to the road for vi to get a cab, i saw this LITTLE girl in this HUGE car who started waving madly at us.
and i'm like thinking: who's that child?
and then i realise that it was lizzy!!!!! HAHAHAHAAH
so i started waving back, and whacking vi. i was like "Ay! Lizzy!"
HAHAHA

burn brightly... but don't burn out.

2008-08-21T00:02:00.003+08:00

had a looong day in school today...
choir comm meeting all the way from 3-6pm. haha. was quite fun but very hot.. :( was sweating like crazy.
i am going to FAIL my physics test.
i totally answered half the questions wrongly.
NOOOOHHHHHHH.
:(
Emath test tmr.. and then NO MORE TESTS!!!
yayyy...
:)
whoa. mood swing.
"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself & take up his cross daily & follow me." Luke 9:23

you think the whole world revolves around you when it doesn't.
you didn't have anything to say because you can't take people pointing out your mistakes.

why do you think you're so smart?

2008-08-19T21:41:00.002+08:00

i forgot to bring my giant file to school today!!!
this file has ALL my stuff and it's the second time it's happening. -.-
yay i'm so excited next week is the last week of term 3 and this week is the last week of common tests!! YAYYYY!!
but tht also means end-of-years are coming so it's still kinda sad. :( haha.

God You
are mighty to save

30August

2008-08-17T22:19:00.001+08:00

images, numbers replay replay replay.
forever and forever

just glad my heart is pumping now.

32.4

There in the ground His body lay,
Light of the world by darkness slain;
Then bursting forth in glorious day,
Up from the grave He rose again!
And as He stands in victory,
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me;
For I am His and He is mine—
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

2008-08-15T23:01:00.002+08:00

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

mg choir concert was a blast.

i think the choir really just... went on to stage and just... enjoyed what they were singing
although most songs were rushed or out of tune, i think we really put in everything that we have learnt from all the past practices and rehearsals.
abba was fabulous. we really just enjoyed it and sang out. the audience was wonderful.
and to see all our old friends again was amazing. grace, feli, qing, enqi, rachel, patty, nicole, etc seeing all of them again was just... so awesome. and anna, jan, michelle chan, abi, roxanne, suat, all those from 3t and 3g. you guys were such an awesome audience and such good friends. i will never forget you guys for coming to support us. you guys are just great.
tjc was great too. i loved their dance moves. they did it with so much energy. i wish i could dance as well as them. HAHA.

we couldn't start dancing queen properly!!! HAHAHAHAHA and the encore was worse. HAHAHAA. but it was fun, cos we just sang and didn't care. HAHAHA.

after that when we went backstage, my ears were practically bleeding from all the screaming. it was like
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
non-stop.
so fun, i haven't screamed like that in such a long time. just couldn't stop screaming. HAHA.
and all our old friends came back to give us flowers. it was so sweet. i can never thank them enough. my gratitude towards them can't be put in words.

good job mg choir.

i can't believe this is my last day as an sl.
i love you guys sop ones. you guys are a great bunch and are lovely people to be with. and you ALL have amazing voices, unique voices. and it's really an honor be your leader. i know you guys have always been putting in your all and i thank you guys for that. i will never forget this experience of being an sl of you guys. i hope you guys continue to grow to be better singers and better performers. i will always be supporting all of you. and i'll be there if you need me.

i really can't believe it's my last day as an sl.
i hope i did well. i hope you guys continue to grow and love not only the choir, but music more each day. you guys have such great voices and it's been an honor.
:)
i will never forget all my experiences with all of you as an sl.

hope you won't too.

but i know that all this isn't about us. it just goes to show how faithful God is. He truly is miraculous in helping and guiding us through everything.
Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks unto the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son
Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks unto the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son

And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"
And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"

God is amazing. and all this goes back to Him.

In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
this Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
when fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
here in the love of Christ I stand

it's overwhelming. gosh, this really is my favourite song...

tonight has been so wonderful. everything passed so fast.. but they will remain in my heart and my mind forever.

2008-08-14T14:58:00.002+08:00

stupid lead.... all the dumb assignments can't work properly. i hate lead.
can't believe choir concert is tomorrow..
ahhhh
my brother turns 18 today! so weird...

LOOK AT THIS!!!
http://www.universalorlando.com/harrypotter/
ahhh so exciting!
and i still can't wait for 20 November

"Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say,
"I find no pleasure in them""
Ecclesiastes 12:1 NIV

2008-08-13T22:43:00.002+08:00

choir announcements again! the announcement itself was okayyeee i guess, at least i didn't say anything stupid like coming to have a great ball. dancing and singing were fine, just longer than usual... and energy-less. haha. but it was still a good effort. :)
choir today was fun... but i realised that my pants was overly-baggy and super loose. haha.

1 MORE DAY TO CHOIR CONCERT

i'm don't know what to feel actually... confident? scared? i don't know. all i know now is that i've got all that butterflies in my stomach thingy and all that crap. ><
can't believe it's so soon....

e-learning tomorrow. -.- and i have to go back to school haha for lit elect. AND i have tuition in the morning. AND piano lesson after that. sigh... not forgetting TONS of e-learning hw. :(
feel like i'm about to diieeee. or i'm dead. haha.

I can make things move without touching them. I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me. I can speak to snakes too. They find me.... whisper things.

can't wait for 20 november!!!

2008-08-12T19:58:00.002+08:00

i realised that i totally missed the 08080808 thingy this year. you know the ol' 8th August 08, 0808h thingy. i missed it. cos of the NDC thing. haha. anyway shall look forward to 9th Sept 09 0909h. next year. haha!
i totally messed up choir announcements today! HAHAHAAH. although it was super fun. to mess it up. haha. i was like "what are we for?" when it's supposed to be what are we in for. HAHA
and i was also like "You can come and have a great.... .... ball."
HAHA
& everyone laughed hahahaha! it's supposed to be a great ball of a time. but like whatever, hahaha!! it's quite fun to mess up announcements!
bio test tomorrow!! and i'm still here. haha.
i can't believe it. it's already my bday. i made a note to myself last year saying something like after this day, the rest of the year it's just gonna pass REALLY fast... not that it hasn't. it's just gonna be 2009 real soon. after all the eoys and all that.
ahhhhhh.... 2 more days to choir concert!!!!! exciting! hahaa.
was watching olympics swimming thingy just now. and the commentator was introducing s'pore and he was like.. "Tao Li, representing Singapore...... born in China."
and i was like... "he just HAD to say that.."
recess was fun today cos we were all laughing about how tiff went to ask for a bottle of tamtams from the drink store. yea the short blue one with a crab on it.

where can i flee

2008-08-09T10:58:00.003+08:00

ahhhhhhhhh!!!!
choir concert is in 5 days... not including concert day..
ahhhhhhhh!!!
they gave us shirts yesterday for abba which were... interesting. haha. nicole's had giraffes on them! hahaha and that was one of the better ones. haaha. mine was okayyee, not that bad.. same as rachel's and rachael's. haha.

yesterday's ndc was sleep-inducing except for the last 20 min where we sang all the national day songs. haha. am still quite pissed that the stupid ____ didn't told us our skit didn't have any relevance when they said it was 'ok' last week. & everyone was rushing like crazy on thursday cos we had to do our SS sbq thingy, some had full humans and mep thingy. so only like 10 ppl turned up. then they said they're only picking 6 classes to present and ours wasn't chosen.. WASTE OUR TIME!!!

spent last night watching the olympics thingy. i only started watching at abt 10+ at night so all the athletes were being introduced and it took super long for s'pore's team to appear.. then i fell asleep.... then i woke up again at 1+ and the olympics thing was still on. they were doing some taiji thing. and i was like... "when's it going to endd" and my dad who was sitting at the edge of the bed since like 11 was like "no, this is a repeat." and so i watched the whole thing until all the athletes started coming out again and went to sleep. haha.

yay am so glad i dropped out of the asean summit thing so i have the 11th freeeee... yay. shall bake a cake for myself :)

"My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever."

Psalm 73:26

2008-08-04T17:12:00.002+08:00

feels so weird wearing a tie... although i wore a tie for 6 years in primary school, the 2 years of not wearing a tie made me feel so strange wearing one.
i passed my chinese test!! and i improved! haha. say it with me.. WHOA..
i have no idea what to do for my philo task thing... art piece or song??

she is the aunty-est person i ever met on earth!

i shall die trying to do my portfolio. haha!

even the wind and waves obey him

2008-08-03T13:13:00.000+08:00

yesterday was funn.... had choir all the way from 8-12 and all we did was choreo, which went quite smoothly. can't believe we're having our full dress next wed... and the concert is next next friday!!!
voice training was quite good too. kudos to violette for being such a great accompanist! you're a really good pianist.
acs wind ensemble concert was amazing (despite having so many mistakes). so fun to go with tiff and cherry. haha. this might be 6th and final one i'll ever attend. ever since i was p4 and my brother was sec1. haha now i'm sec3. can't believe it. saw ellisa and her family there!!
i think if i don't go to band concerts anymore, i will really miss it. they're always so fun. and they get the lamest and yet the funniest MCs. haha.

had the first service in woodlands today. the building is HUGE. there were so many people.
i think God really is doing something here. it's hard to believe tht we've completed this building thingy which started like ages ago... passed the last blue offering bag today...
the journey there was.. interesting. cos first we got lost finding our way to woodlands, then we got lost in the HDB estate where my mum and i parked the car. haha. and we had to sit in the gallery cos the 2nd level was full and the 2nd level was HUGE. it was amazing..
i think God really guided our church through this whole journey. none of this would have been possible if it weren't for him. :)

"Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

2008-08-01T22:25:00.000+08:00

today was so funn!!! but really busy cos we had soooo many things...
1. bio heart practical
2. ROCs meeting
3. N.E. skit thing
4. Prefect's Installation rehearsal
5. Choir

thank you roxanne for letting me have one of your hearts!!
bio was so fun today even though the whole lab stank of blood and rubber gloves. it was so fun to stick in all the straws and cut it up. hahaha. some people's hearts were frozen solid! and i cut mine into 3 seperate parts, when it's supposed to be intact. HAHA
anyway, the most icky part was the clumps of fat at the top. the fats are like HARD. eurgh...

ROCs meeting, YAYYYYYYEEEE!!! grace, bea, abby, anna and i manged to get "disney world of physics" project. so funn! we're gonna do something abt roller coasters. how exciting!

N.E. skit thing.... only like 6-7 ppl turned up when it's supposed to be the whole class. HAHA. we improvised like crazy on the spot. haha.

i missed most of the prefect's installation rehearsal cos ms tham came and i didn't want to miss anymore sessions when the concert is 2 weeks away!!! 15th August, Friday, 8pm, Victoria Concert Hall (if you're interested!) and i forgot to wear my tie when i went there. ><
btw, the choir doesn't even know that they're performing until today. and the installations next monday. haha. nvm, at least the song we're singing is something we already know.
but i realise the choir's been really busy over these few days.. founders day, chinese chapel, prefects installation and our concert is coming up!! haha.
it's quite exciting but also really tiring sometimes. can't seem to memorise my scores properly. :(
i realise i keep forgetting to do stuff. like i was supposed to bring chocolates to school today for ___, but then i forgot, and i didn't want to turn back, so we (my mum and i) stopped by 7-11 to buy a giant box of ferrero roche... and ___ thought they were poisoned. -.-

i am so looking forward to tomorrow! cos there's choir and we'll be doing choreography. then voice training, then the acs(i) band concert. it's gonna be my brother's last band performance...
can't believe it... i realise i've been there ever since the first one when he was sec 1 and i was.. ... p4... haha.

why do you keep sucking up to her??? can't you just relax?

i want to watch the mummy!!

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24

2008-07-29T21:56:00.000+08:00

today was quite okay because i managed to sleep for six and a half hours last night compared to the usual 5 or four and a half. :D
felt like i got a heavy burden lifted off my shoulders.
btw, i think that thing in the pipes yesterday died because there was no more scratching sound today. haha. rest in peace, whatever you are!
did physics practical with anna and violette, which was quite cool and fun! haha. chem was okayyy... ____wasn't as irritating as she usually is, i think her voice didn't seem so bad cos it kinda spreads in the lab, compared to the classroom with bad acoustics, today was wayyy better. :D
SOMEONE kept falling asleep beside me!!! >.<>
the last part of the day was a bore..... apart from listening to 2 songs. haha.
am quite excited for our N.E. skit thing. wonder how it'll turn out although it's got nothing much to do with "Lost"...

can't wait for my dad to come back from Canada this sunday.

no doubt you are a good friend, and you always do your best. but sometimes, you hurt someone without even knowing it. sometimes (or every time), it's better to think reeeaaaallll carefully before you say something.

there are certain things that don't need to be mentioned.

don't face all your obstacles yourself. depend on God to help you and give you strength. don't carry all your burdens, submit them to God. just do your best, and God will do the rest!

"But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish."
Psalm 9:18

2008-07-28T19:39:00.000+08:00

am SUPER tired today. had to wake up so early for the chinese chapel thingy that involved the choir. was falling asleep during lit. actually EVERYONE was falling asleep during lit. and had our presentation today, which despite having quite a long period of time to do, was TOTALLY unprepared. totally unprepared meaning coming up with a script 5 minutes before our presentation. and having caocao slaughter us. >.<
i wanted to DIIIEEEEE during the first-half of the day. was complaining so much that i felt bad for the people around me.. >.<>

i didn't manage to take a nap... :( instead i stayed in school all the way to 6+ to do homework. was quite fun... hahahaa...

i think there's something ALIVE stuck in some pipe in my kitchen, cos scrappy and i can hear the scratching and all that coming from the pipe. eww. poor thing. whatever it is.

what's up with you lately? it's like you're literally like a flower, 'fading...'. like you're not really there. it's like you're getting weaker and weaker and more frail compared to how lively and fun you were. are you under lots of stress? cos starving yourself will only make things worse.

please don't be anorexic.

you're really really really self-centered! one of the most self-centered people i will ever know in my whole life. it's like the whole world resolves around you! like it's your own world! urgh. the world's not all about you... there are others with greater problems than you!

"Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge."
Psalm 62:8 NIV

am looking forward to Saturday!!!!!!!

2008-07-27T12:46:00.000+08:00

it's like i'm thinking.... but yet i'm not thinking...
like i'm counting but i'm not...
...
it makes sense but then it doesn't...
like i'm zonked out... but yet i'm not.
...
it's like it's eating inside you. like it's consuming you.
when you don't consume
it spreads. like a cancer.
but it's all in your mind...
...
like you're sinking. and it's eating you. slowly.
like i can't get rid of those feelings/thoughts...

even though it's only 6 months or (2 years and 6 months), it lasts with you for a lifetime. and it will forever leave a scar on you. and no matter how hard you try, it's always there.
in your head.

am i crazy?

no power of hell, no scheme of man
can ever pluck me from his hand

2008-07-27T01:05:00.001+08:00

yay decided to create a new blog today, cos i totally forgot how to get into the old one.:P
had super a lot of trouble with the stupid skin cos i totally forgot how to change it. and i was like getting all confused with all the different buttons. haha. & the stupid xml errors. anyway, finally found a way to deal with it by simply reverting to classic or something like that. haha

went to watch the singapore international band festival open div thingy today.
which lasted for 3hr+. was super tired that i slept through the last 2 performances by the winners of 1st and 2nd div.
acs (i) symphonic band got 2nd. good job ac! solo for 'blue shades' was pro. 'charming asia' was really great too.
maris stella (alumni) got 1st. although i thought both were equally good. o well, i guess they had to pick a "1st" in the end. maris stella is really serious. like... tense. like... they really really really want need to win this. while ac is more relaxed(?) ... was a little weird that neither acjc band nor raffles got through..

watched red cliff for the 2nd time yesterday. with tiff, nicole and vi (i still owe you $9). i love it.
although zhuge liang does nothing except ride around and advice. haha. i still love it. it's so cool. no matter how many times you watch it. & the music is really nice!
had fun singing abba in the car together. hahaa. shall bring the cd to choir practice one day. show them how its done!

i need to watch hellboy2 someday. and x-files. >.< haha... i want to believe... so cool.

i wish you'd just listen to me. sometimes you're just so caught up with your own stuff, it's like you totally don't respond to me. like i'm invincible. and you're too busy and tired. you're always tired. i'm tired of you being tired...

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is life not more important than food and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life."
Matthew 6:25-27