finishing up two paces tomorrow. two of the last three for 2009. the remaining one.. i'll just do it next year. can't finish a pace in a day, let alone an english composition pace. hm, probably only geil knows what i'm talking about.. pacey talk. but nevermind. whatever.

my throat is killing me. and my mom puked in the taxi on the way home, while with my dad, because of her migrane. puked in the taxi leh, grosse. so today is considered a sick day. a day when quite a few people are sick.

i planned out 2010. paces, uni application, volunteer stuff. i'll post it up soon. so i can just refer you here if you ask. it's quite a chore explaining it over and over. eh heh. :)

TODAY GEIL HAD TWO TEETH YANKED OUT OF HER POOR MOUTH. three cheers for her courage.

i remember i IBS-ed the whole morning of my extraction, hahah.

met her at the busstop and went with her. she was like, not very nervous? weird girl! we were there early and she went in. it was really fast, like 15 mins. came out looking like a vampire! so we changed the dressing before leaving, and changed it again at northpoint. said bye at the mrt station.

now i have a sore, sore throat. =(

BRACIES SHOT!
oh my goodness my face so huge.

taking a break from school work now.

went for my braces appointment yesterday with geil. think we were both quite zombied. got my braces tightened, and geil got her teeth prepped for extraction. after that, we went to bishan, just because we'd never been there together before. it was so weird shopping (although we couldn't buy anything. this is how you develop taste.) in the morning. left for lunch, had lunch, and bye byes. later in the evening there was choir practice.

my two front teeth hurt like mad today. guess that means they're being aligned.

3 more PACES for the year. fighting!

braces appointment tomorrow. rest well tonight, zoomskay!

it's been forever since i blogged. quite lazy so i'll summarize everything. came back from church camp at port dickson on saturday night and totally fell flat on my bed after unpacking and talking a bit to timmy.

the camp was alright. the word was good but something seemed to dissapoint us (geil and i) every day. you know, shopping, paintball, banana boat closed, etc. i guess it's bcos we're so desperate for a teens' camp kinda camp with action packed fun. but anyhow, we took it in our stride and didn't brood or anything. there were other things to be thankful for. the messages were on faith, holiness, love, and service, with the overall theme of growth in Christ.

got to spend lotsa time with geil and jake, both of whom i hold absolutely close to my heart now bcos they are so sweet and good to me. it's funny seeing my parents trying to be fine with jake and me being good friends. it's a very foreign idea to them bcos of their upbringing and culture of the day. geil is seriously like my little sister and we were so psyched about being roommates during camp. she wore the hoodie i gave her throughout the five days! i will forever treat her like my little sis and take care of her and make sure she's okay and stuff. :) thank God for the fellowship.

yesterday was draining because some stuff happened and blah blah i can't mention it here. went to louisa's party really late. i sang part of a spanish song too hastily, not knowing the meaning or remembering that latin americans are such passionate people. and the meaning, as kenny so translated, was totally embarrassing. ugh~ yeah geil, you're laughing now right?

this month has been pretty hectic so far. what with my schoolwork and VBS. and last night! i had a little fright last night when i heard my aunt had to go to A&E. mom and i went with her. thank God it's not as serious as we thought, and the docs managed to diagnose her quickly and accurately. came back late last night. missed that jap movie on okto. it didn't seem like any good anyways. :)


VBS was a blast. a blast of kindies in my face. haha, some kids are firecrackers! but it was so so good to hear about the children who accepted Christ as Saviour. Thank God for the weather and safety. That the kids were quite receptive, no doubt rowdy. it was a good VBS!

Mama's Day;

i'd better blog this before i get too lazy and never get to it.

friday was a holiday, so my mom, aunt, and i brought mama out the whole day. long car ride to the home to get her, then to ang mo kio hub to get her hair cut. lunch at new york new york (FAIYA!) and another long car ride to the botanic gardens. the weather was weird there so we ended up running from shelter to shelter. we headed back to my aunt's place for an early dinner, and sent my gran back by 6pm. came home and had a quick shower, then my aunt sent my dad and i to church for prayer meeting.

had really bad cramps on saturday so i stayed home and pretty much sat down the whole day. took lots of meds too. but i couldn't escape going out, cause it was my uncle's birthday. so i went to my aunt's place again for dinner. sat down there the whole time too. heh.

i need to make puppets for VBS now. anyong~

LaTrobe just called me to ask about my (future) application. (super shocker out of the blue.) since they called, i asked whatever i wanted to ask. pretty helpful but not exactly assuring, cause i'm still not sure if my ICCE cert will have any chance of being accepted and i forsee more studying for other certs to get in. sighs, so much to think about.

bangs head on big pink wall and faints.

but on a happier note, i'm really looking forward to change in 2011. my life right now is too status quo socially speaking and i am bored. i think it will be good. please buy me winter clothes for my birthday in 2011. and if i come back fat, well don't laugh at me.

conversation with daddy and mommy.

mom: what's that animal? (on TV)
dad: ded... ded... dedy... what...
mom: no what's that animal?
dad: dunno what ded... ded... *looks at me*
aggie: world's deadliest animals lah.
mom: NO WHAT'S THAT ANIMAL!
dad: oh, bison.

two minutes later--

aggie: pa, you gonna bathe?
dad: ya.
aggie: how long you gonna take? or is that indefinite?
dad: where can be indefinite one???
aggie:*thinks why he replied that way* i said indefinite lah not infinite.
dad: *pauses to think* OHHH hahahahahahhahaha.

daddy so cute.

i am being swarmed by research papers and (lame) stuff like that. *CRIES!*

there's a weird muffled ring in the air that's been going on for a while and i keep thinking it's the rapture or something. yeah, everytime i hear any loud trumpet sound or funny noise, i think it's the rapture and i squint my eyes to get ready to fly. it's hilarious... my mom saw me do it once at the OLD FOLKS' HOME. lol.

pay me $1 if you laughed. :D

quick post, since i'm checking my mail.

tim's at the polyclinic to get his skin disease (ha, that's what i call it) checked out. it itches like mad and it's killing him, so maybe he'll take mc. he says it's worse around the fingers. eee~

bran still has mites, but it's a kind of parasite that all dogs are born with in their blood that's supposed to be dormant but can flare up in times of stress (?). meaning it's not contagious to both humans and other dogs. big phew! given he sleeps on my bed.

ok back to work. :( aiming for 3 tests this week.

tests today were just fine. :) the weather's great too. i'm sort of having a headache from i dunno what, but the done tests and the nice weather overwrite the headache so i'm happy.

i'm still a molting dragon, but nevermind. i figured the more i relax and not think about it, the faster my skin will heal and be normal again.

yesterday i made sushi for my parents. daddy said he thought i bought it! (FAIYA!) sushi is so so so fun to make. i'm gonna buy proper sushi stuff to make more. hoohoo~

last night i called some of the VBS contacts... alot of them cannot come. :( tonight we'll pray for more kids.

thank God that my dad's been able to sell the stuff quite well of late, since there's a special offer. he used to sell 2 or 3 a day, but he's selling like double now. so that's good. ^^

from little angels, that fav photobook of mine.

the rain is so refreshing. it helps me study study. for my two tests tomorrow. *sighs* oh, last night i was awoken by bran, cause he was sitting up on my bed and looking right at me in my face. idk why! i got up and tim was leaving for camp, so i said bye to him. and after that i figured bran wanted to wake me up to say bye to tim.

ha.

VBS is on the week i want to finish my paces for the year. it's on the week that i'll be very busy. uhhhhhhh. i have to push back my work. :(

ooooh i'm tired. american agnes would say, "i'm beat!" i think ...

came back from seeing mama and there were guests at our place! (???) dad and mom's old friends came to talk about something seemingly serious.

mama's doing the same. funny, while praying she suddenly gave me a funny strained face (yalah my eyes open lah.) and then she mouthed "berak!" AHAHA, she pooped. and she recited some peranakan poetry for us too. panton or whatever it's called. it's cool that she can remember them. and she recites them with a certain lively springy tone. i super like being half peranakan!

had dinner with mommy and she started with her introspective emo talk again, as she does everytime i eat with her alone.

M- blah blah realization eureka horizon blah blah ...
A- wah mommy you really like this introspective, emotional kind of talk hor?
M- (thinks...) yahh.

no worries, mommy. honest introspection seems like a good thing to do. just that if you keep talking about it all the time, i get bored.

then we went to watsons and i bought a bunch of facial care stuff because this week, my skin has been --no words to describe because i'm so upset about it--. it's peeling and pocky and it makes me feel like a pimply molting lizard AAAAAAAAAAHH! on top of that it's red. so i'm a pimply molting dragon. 0_0 and my hair has transmorgafied into bristly grass too. so i have concluded that it's a hormonal thing. i must eat more tofu. it has those estrogen mimicking ... things. and estrogen makes people pretty. and i should stop tying.

GOODNIGHT!

nice to see you jamie. you look all just-came-back-from-paris-ish. which is a good thing. :)

geil's doing good with the braces. and our current favourite snack is tau hway.

WEEKEND
roy's birthday was on saturday, so we headed over to his place for lunch, which was awesomely packed with cheesy foods like pasta and pizza. italiano! after that, choir. there were only six of us practicing that day, four guys and my mom and i. but we had some fun playing around and stuff... doing weird stretches. then in the evening mommy went to get a haircut so i accompanied her as usual. made a stop at watsons to buy plasters for my ugly blisters before going home. i have ugly blisters on my feet.
and that was saturday.

today we continued learning about baptist history in the first lesson. the message later on was about whether we think living for God is worth it or not. i got so frozen that i went out halfway to listen from the back. lunch, home, nap, dinner, now.

bran loves fruitloops. idk why.

timmy is coming home tomorrow.

went to KKH just now to check out the speech therapy workshop thing. most of the time i was being introduced to i dunno how many people by my mom. (ha) reached back at around 2.

2 of my favorite t-shirts have disappeared from the face of the planet. boyah!

TREESareGREAT

"Trees are great. They are both meanings of 'great', if you would nutshell the many definitions of the word into just two. They are big and they are awesome. Trees look like hands. Trees look like people. Some are stiff and straight and extremely arrogant. Some seem like they would shade the whole world of they could. Those in between aren't really noticed. Trees look scabby. Like old people's feet. But they're supposed to be that way. They'd be no fun to climb were they slick and smooth. Trees are committed. Well, mostly. They stay in one place for hundreds of years. Sometimes they outlive us.

Trees are great."

today i drew! from my now-favourite photo book titled little angels. will post up pics sometime whenever.

HAPPYFRIEND

after my keep-thinking-of-mama morning, i went to meet geil to accompany her for her braces appointment. so she finally got her braces on! i felt kinda buzzed cause i didn't get to eat lunch. planned to buy something along the way to eat but a delivery came at the last minute, so i had to spend some time opening up the stuff and making sure everything was 'fittable'.

i went in with geil to see her braces being fixed on. at first i stayed outside, but the very nice counter lady told me to just go in so i won't be bored. the counter lady is Filipino too, which i think is why she likes us so much. she's rrrreally nice. anyway, i dunno why, but when i was in the room i was like a total idiot. usually people laugh at my funny answers to their questions, but the doctor didn't laugh at all. so my supposed-to-be-funny answers just turned into stupid answers. AND the doc called me a busybody because he caught me bending over his table checking out stuff when he abruptly came back from attending to another patient. so embarrassing. geil was trying to laugh with the mouth-opening plastic thing on her. hahar!

after everything we went to eat tau hui... tao hway? a very appropriate food for braced people. and i just realized i've been spelling appropriate as appropiate all my life. wow.

mama's not doing good, again. she's really nauseous and stuff. she's going to SGH today. she's so skinny compared to the last i saw her, which is sad. it was actually really sad visiting her. she was glad to see us, but the whole thing was so sad. i tried to just, focus on lifting her spirits by talking to her and occupying her. and i felt like if i just paused my mind to think of how much she wanted to come back home, or if i stilled my heart to feel anything for a moment i would just burst into a pathetic puddle of tears. because she is so pitiful. she should just be getting so much more now. sometimes i wake up in the night and wonder what mama would be thinking if she were awake in her bed, in the home, right at that very same minute i was awake. she would want me to make kopi-o for her and get her ice for her arm.

it really eats me up that i can't take care of her. or rather, that she can't come home when she wants to so much. and i am crying my heart out right now.

i'm making roy's present now.

today we learned a little about baptist history, just briefly up to the 5th century. then aunty janet and i took the kids to chapel. really thankful that today was better. i made up some art and craft for the bored kids that occupied them all the way until the service was over (YES!). they shared blessings, and they thanked God for the simplest of things.. things i often overlook. it was good today. i think.

gonna see mama at the home later. miss her. can't wait to see her.

miss you, jamie.
hope you feel better soon, geil.

oh i forgot to mention that speech therapy day at KKH is next friday.

just vame back from prayer meeting. the message was from james 4: 7-10. very important lessons about the heart's condition of requiring constant and conscientious humbling. i noticed that verse 7 says "submit to God" before saying "resist the devil". i think it only works out if you follow the order. anyways, the lesson was a great reminder.

i bought some stuff for my hairband project.

ladies, check out the chi ma pa ji (skirt pants, or culottes) on this page! it costs S$7, without shipping lah. i'm not sure about the material quality and stuff, so don't hold me liable for that if it's bad. or maybe i'll order it next month and tell you if it's good or not. i think it'll be good for VBS and stuff.

so hard to find good looking, modest clothes.

lunchtime was nice today. met up with geil to go somewhere and had lunch with her. haha, i was gonna post up pics but i read her blog first, and she made the whole thing very vague, so i guessed i should make it vague too. anyway monday will be awesome for her.

zoomskay let's buy those aussie burgers next time. they seem yummier.

very sadly, i couldn't go jalan jalan or to geil's place after that, cause i hadta study for my tests. sad right? sad. ^~^

2D1N was wicked funny today.

ppyong! <3

my teeth aren't straight enough to put in the magic jaw puller-backer band yet. bummer. maybe on the next appointment.

hoping to have lunch with geil at ion on thurs. it's kinda early so i gotta rush my schoolwork, or continue it after i go back home. oh, and this friday is speech therapy day at KKH! mommy's speech therapy friend sent me the info. i shall go. i should lah, although the timing is also quite inconvenient.

i have sudden inspiration to make my own hairbands. well not make, more like decorate them. you know those fancy hairbands people sell nowadays for like, 10-20 bucks? it costs like $4 to make. (i think lah.) so i'm gonna buy some plain bands and decorate them myself.

i need to write an essay on the discovery of neptune for an english related subject. nice.

cozy lunch at geil's place today. we brought micah back home but forgot the keys so roy had to come back too in the end. (sorry roy.) bought nasi lemak, yums! then she let me surf gmarket, haha. no lah i was trying to find her birthday present online. couldn't find anything. :|

we watched the arirang channel for a while, then i went back home. zonked out when i got sleepy and got up for dinner. super relaxed day today.

monday again tomorrow, everybody. ppyong!

today i chopped garlic and now my hands are just big garlic cloves. i am a garlic monsterrr.

2D1N was pretty funnay. i hope i get to take a ferry like the one in the show one day. maybe an overnight ferry ride. play games like mad, feed seagulls, sleep on the floor. british agnes would say-- why, what fun that would be! ferry ride is on my life's to do list.

i haven't bought anything from gmarket yet. ah lian agnes would say-- bo lui.

i need to finish a compo on pasteur's discovery of the causes of anthrax now. faiya brainz, people. FAIYA. (fire lah.)

english and english composition tests this friday.
FAIYA BRAINZ!

i go sleep now. ppyong! <3

i just watched "sophie scholl- the final days". wiki-ing sophie scholl now. she was so brave.

i was crying my eyeballs out during the parents' visiting scene. her parents reminded me of my parents and she was gonna be executed, so i inevitably put myself in her shoes. she said she would see them in eternity. what perspective.

i'm glad that the film did some justice in portraying her religious motives and beliefs. you know how religion tends to be toned way down. anyway, she supposedly had great faith in God and she wanted to do what's right and she and her bro got beheaded for that.

sophie is a very nice name, don'tchya think?

tummy was feeling really bad today. came back from church and zonked out on the sofa, so i didn't get to bring bran to the vet with mom and dad.

bran's better, his skin is doing good. he's still on meds though. his tumor thing has shrunk. i think it was just filled with fluid and he reabsorbed it after a few days.

i watched the news about the rising trend of the mini pig. after bran, i'm gonna get a mini pig. they're clean and cute and affectionate.

oh, i discovered gmarket and it is fabuloso-max man. the korean gmarket is 10 times awesomer than the sg one. but i haven't bought anyhting. i'm trying not to until next month or december or something. must control. i must save up for my mini pig. uh, i mean college.

nerds forever.

tim finally got his six pack.

ZITTY.
it's pimple week! must be the funny weather, making my face all oily. :(

bran has a strange tumor growing on his paw, between his nails. it's big and it's red and it's freaky. his follow up at the vet's is this sunday so i'll ask the doc what it is then. poor bran. he's already 9. that gives him about 3 or 4 years max. AH BRAN'S GONNA DIEEEE kjrshflkSJDkjwrearjsdfjlksjfASj !

oh, and this morning i had coffee and there was a little bit left in the mug. i went away and when i came back i was gonna finish it up, but then i saw something swimming around and when i looked closely it was a huge fruit fly.

i thank God for letting me see that. yes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIMMAY.

and happy birthday yesterday ezra baby monkey panda!

saturday's happenings: i went for breakfast alonely at ssc. was the first at church for teens. the lesson was on conflict, or people not getting along and how to deal with it. i headed out for lunch with the alamons, we decided to have subway since the foodcourt was too 'sian'. then i was off to ezra's party (aw, cute.) in sembawang. i found my way there, was early in fact.

the balloon sculpturing was disastrous! they kept popping, or i kept popping them? idk, i really did my bestest. it was bad and funny at the same time. uncle ro helped me alot though, he pumped some balloons saving me the workout. anyways, i felt bad at how it turned out but i don't really wanna harp on it. :) ezra was too cute to be true. today too, he wore a panda suit to church. (yeow cannot tahan!)

later at 9pm, geil, roy, eddy, jerry, and celine came over to surprise tim who was downstairs with BJ. they only came up at 10pm (!!!!). but it was nice. tim almost took off his shirt once he came back but we shouted "surprise" just in time. we all had a sugar high and played with the nerfs. nerfs are awesome.

TODAY: had a spat with mommy in the morning, it fizzled out into nothing by the afternoon. went to church as usual, taught chapel, lost my voice, got mad at the kids when they screamed. (especially at the end after chapel while i wasn't there. the big scream. roller coaster scream. i made them all sit down on the floor like refugees. stared all of them down and scolded them.) the lesson was alright, but it takes ALOT to get their attention. the english is really olden british, bores them out. i paraphrase everything. thank God they actually ask when they don't understand some word. so they did coloring again, they didn't really like it but had to do it, played games, the end.

went for lunch at astons with my family, isa, and eddy. we had to eat at the outdoor seats and it was hot like blah. :( but still, it was so cozy. like our extended family with us. it's nice that tim had the teens over last night and isa and ed today just being with him. on my birthday i was quite depressed. and i've come not to like my birthday much anymore to be quite frank. it's just not as fun as it should be for my age, and i can't force it just for the sake of having fun. and tim wasn't around, just my two clueless parents trying their best.

anyway, tim had a haircut, and mom went to buy shampoo. it was then that i pranced upon my favourite kdrama at the vid shop. SHINING INHERITANCE or alternative title BRILLIANT LEGACY. it's like super wholesome and gah! it is also new arrival and 60 buckeroos. *weeps* i wanna watch it with my family cos i know they'll love it. i've already watched the whole thing just as it came out earlier this year.. followed it closely on the net. it is nice. *winks* saw some others that are worth watching like 3 daddies one mommy (super cute cos of the babe!), robbers, etc.

for once i'm naming dramas on my blog. i usually avoid doing so.

GEIL WHERE ARE YOUUUUUUU. i know your phone no money, but find some other way to reply me plees. tag tag.

goodness super long post. there's a war movie on later (yess!). i shall name no more. :D bye bye everyone remember to eat lots of fruits and veggies so you won't get colon cancer!

i didn't get to enjoy my weekly laugh blast from 2D1N, because of 3 reasons. first, i got a call from the groomers saying bran's grooming was done just as the show started. so i rushed down and missed the whole opening. i still had to tend to bran when he was back. lost another 10 mins. managed to watch a good half hour or so of it, but IT WASN'T FUNNY. and then i got really hungry so i spent half an hour making a roti prata hot dog wrap. and the show finished! sighs. nevermind.

i've been feeding bran his meds everyday. i think he's getting better? i hope so. last night, he peed on my bed for no reason. good thing there's that lining sheet for old people who pee on their beds below the bedsheet. i put it there after seeing bran pee on tim's bed. so that soaked it up and it was pretty much fine. he is now banned from my bed, that is, when i'm actually around to ban him. he jumped up while i was sleeping last night... sneaky fella. i was really frustrated with him when he peed on the bed. whacked him nicely with the featherduster.

had a history test today. sure pass! whoo~

haha, tautological expressions:

"the reason why" or "the reason is because"
"free gift"
"cheapest price"
"first introduced"
"new innovation"
"forward planning" or "planning ahead"
"faster speed"
"unsolved mystery"
"added bonus"

i use them too! sometimes. try to sound chim then end up sound dumb right?

:( i'm still mugging. i don't wanna fail this.

met up with mommy at the old folks' home to visit mama just now. mom bought dinner there, and i brought a korean pear (a mama's fave) and a pack of biscuits. had a good hour with her, she's doing quite alright. then we dropped by northpoint to get some stuff and headed home.

it's so embarrassing when i sleep in the bus. my head, man... it keeps bobbing up and down. and sometimes i alllmost lean on people. aughhhh!

i cannot wait for the next braces appointment. there is now a huge gap in between my two front teeth. i can't wait for the rubber band to be put in so it'll pull by teeth back and my jaw won't protrude anymore. fasterrrrrrr. :) exciting leh.

funny bunny has to shave botak tomorrow, for his skin's sake. :( english composition test tomorrow too. yikes.

conv at the vet:
ag- ma, fill out the form.
mom- ya i did.
ag- did you write his full name?
mom-full name?
ag-his chinese name also.
mom- what?
ag- bran lee ben dan.
mom- hahaha.

Funny Bunny goes to the doc's.




bran's skin thing got worse because he kept scratching. his skin in general is really bad.. flakey scabby red-- the works. so mom and i brought him to the sembawang branch of mt. pleasant (animal hospital) just now to get it checked out.
we were late for our appointment and had to wait for like, an hour? had fun looking at other dogs there.
anyways to sum it all up, bran's problem is-- skin mites. it's a mite that's usually dormant in every dog, but when the dog's immune system is down, the mites flare up and traumatize the skin. he had to take a skin scrape test (quite jiat lat. got blood.) and a heartworm test, cause if he had heartworm, the mite treatment might get more complicated. go google it. he turned out to be negative for heartworm and positive for angry mites. the assistant let us see the mites under the microscope. creepy things. the cause of his bad immunity is genes. he's a purebred dog so, his ancestors were probably frequently inbred and stuff... careless breeders. but that explains why he looks so pretty and fluffy on his good hair days.
got the meds, which came with risks. :| but i think he'll be just fine. next appointment in two weeks.

and, i found charlie in the master bedroom dustbin. it is an inexplicable phenomenon. i'm still trying to figure out how he got in. (it's quite tall, the bin.) on a sad note, i can't take care of him anymore so i may have to release him somewhere, unless someone wants him. anybody want a big, fat, shower-door-opening, dustbin-climbing, dog-biting terrapin named charlie? he's a fast little thing, would win you a gold in any turtle race. yes, no? i thought not...

I CAN'T FIND CHARLIE!

he got out again and i really can't find him. i'm not very worried though. he's gonna have to come out sooner or later. i just hope he doesn't bite bran. this turtle ah... watch too much TV already.

the incredible mulk.

(mud-mask-hulk... mulk.)

haha i do actually look a wee bit like chua enlai in that pic! whasdisman?! today was fine. lessons on the devil and nehemiah. lunched at SSC and got some stuff from daiso. had a small tiff with my mom but came back and slept it off. woke up and had another lengthy talk with tim. had dinner, chilled, and switched on my comp to blog but ended up looking at old pics. that's been sunday.

mommy's almost totally fine, thanks for the concern everyone. :)

ah what to get for tim's birthday? ahhhhhhh.

thank God:
#1- mommy's better and i don't think it's mumps.
#2- i found my beloved and long lost korean dictionary (three cheers to randomly rummaging through stuff!)
#3- bran's wound is better but he's still in the cone.
#4- we (teens) got to eat at astons today. we all unanimously love astons (for the price).
#5- 2D1N is such relief from mugging. variety chong shin yeah.

many more to mention, of course. i thought of listing things to thank God for cause today's teens club lesson was on prayer and a point was on giving thanks. oh one more...

#6- singapore is generally natural-disaster-free.

got an email from JM about the situation where he is in the phils, and stuff. it's hard to imgine how they deal with that kind of thing every month or so (if i'm not wrong?) although this time it's pretty bad. shoutout to JM and joannaR: WE'RE PRAYING FOR YOU GUYS!

right, it's late. i'm gonna wash off my mud mask (heh heh) and zee zee. :)

tout le monde, la pluie est merveilleux.

everyone, the rain is wonderful.

my turtle should act in prison break. he (i just presume it's a he.) got out again and made his little pilgrimage to my room door. this time, bran got to him. but bran didn't bite him or anything.. he just sniffed like crazy and got into a little panick. cute picture, but i dunno if charlie bit bran or something, cause bran has a huge bald-red patch of skin below his cheek and it looks freakishly painful. almost bleeding! might bring him to the vet (ouch, wallet.) if it gets infected or something, but for now we're just making use of antiseptic stuff and the cone thing to stop him from scratching. he looks pathetic... hate it when he has to wear the cone. :(( POOR BRAN.

had dinner with the parents just now, downstairs, and guess what? daddy had his laughing fit thing. it can almost really be classified as a medical problem, i'm serious. mommy joined in, and it got so loud, ugh talk about embarrassment. but it's fun. they're fantastic lah. they can get high without drugs. they just look at each other laughing and they find it funny and they continue laughing.. and i just join in and pretend to laugh like them so at least people sitting around us think we're laughing over some joke, and they find my pretending so funny and they laugh somemore. they only stop when they're blue and passing out. will i be like them when i grow old, i wonder.

is it a compliment or insult that my face makes them wanna laugh? i know tim says i look like chua en lai, and that's no compliment.

my sentence topics are getting too random. i think i need sleep. goo-night peepol.

James 1:2-8
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally,
and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

i should blog more verses.

Happy Birthday Angel.
went to angel's party on saturday. cupcake decorating is one of the funnest things on earth, seriously. but i didn't get to eat mine... i gave it up for adoption. :( went to get my hair cut after that. i have a very good girl hairdo now. *blink blink*

sunday was as usual. one lesson i learned was about humility. i realized that humility and modesty are often mixed up. people think that to avoid talking about accomplishments or abilities or whatever is being humble, but it's not. that's modesty. humility is giving all the glory to whom it is due, which is basically God. so that's some food for thought. :)

mommy wasn't feeling well again so we went home for lunch. timmy lunched with jake. he had work to do, some filming at the istana, and he left to do that in the late afternoon.

i have a volcano zit on my chin and it hurts like wow.
i hope gran's doing okay. :|

ahaha, today i found my turtle in the living room. he crawled out while i was studying... busted out of the toilet again, i have no idea how. now he's really daring. he scratches me when i pick him up and he poops on dry ground. ( both of which he didn't use to do.) sinful turtle.

i haven't touched a paintbrush or drawing pencil in ages and it feels funny. it feels like i'm ignoring my art stuff as they're calling out to me. oh, and i heard a painter moved into the house across the road from church. interestingg~

teeth are much better. finally.

HAPPY BIRFDAY EDWARD! :)

HAPPY BIRFDAY S. WEICHERN! :)

had the wire in my braces changed last friday. not that i wanted it changed, it's just part of the braces 'schedule'. (haha.) the wire's smaller, and it's giving me a very hard time. it is so painful, and i CAN"T EAT. well, dinner just now was better cause i could bite spaghetti. but the whole of today, the day i needed the most energy with the outing and what not, the whole of today i was hungry and i did not feel like moving at all. bought the nutritional milk ensure at guardian and that's all i had. =( super sad. so i sorta spaced out at the park just now, didn't really play anything with the kids. oh but i filled waterbombs and carried water until my back broke. all for the love of children, ah yes.

but like i said, dinner helped alot. feel so much better after some hot food. :)

yesterday was a hungry day too. had to eat porridge for lunch and dinner. and had to accompany mommy again.. this time to use up some metro vouchers. i bought a campbells tomato soup tee which is totally rad. bought some clothes for timmy too, to replace (some of ) his lame-o old ones. got back home at 10pm (!). was so tired. slept at 1am. bad timing.

randomly, the skit we did for the kids today was.. alright? at least we brought the message across quite clearly. thank God we didn't mess up. as a side note: i'm still praying about whether or not to join the children's ministry next year after my school ends. i want to help in the teens ministry, but, well, i'm a teen? so maybe next time.

tired. have to cheong for tests this week. good night lah.

went to see mama yesterday. mama's doing just fine. she's eating and pooping well, still very sane and sound. she's sane enough to make fun of people at the old folks' home. haha. you know when they have those exercise sessions and they sit in a circle and have to throw a ball around or something. well most of them are zombied out of their wits half the time so, just imagine how they look like. mama describes those scenes to us and tells us how dumb it looks. but, it's good for her. it keeps her mind working, observing and stuff.

she's in a new room now and the ladies in the room are hilarious. at least two of them. one is mentally unstable but she grabs anything within her reach trying to get attention. she grabs it and tugs it. yesterday she got mom's bag. and this other lady will curse and swear at her, all the hokkien malay what have you. goodness it's mad funny! literally cursing non stop, she gets so mad and the tugging lady. GOOD THING MAMA'S DEAF i dunno how she would tahan this duo if she wasn't.

anyways, we had a cozy time, just mom, me and mama. mama jjang lah.

helped jake with the games a little last night. (for the children's day thing coming up this sunday.) gonna be a long day. he needs people to fill up water bombs so, go volunteer plees. haha like war.

oh, when mama sees me... she'll pretend she didn't see me then when i walk up to her she'll shout "BOMMM!" idk why but it's so cute. she has big eyes and nostrils, the latter of which i inherited. yeah tim got the sharpie nose. tsk.
don stare at me when you see me next ah.

i find myself cooking alot these days. why? because i find myself eating alone alot. well, with bran, but it's not like he sits at the table and talks with me. frozen foods jjang!

having tummy trouble again. ah yes, i'm a girl. :\

thank God that daddy made 6 sales on his first day. and thank God that timmy passed some driving test.. think it's the theory test or something. :)

yesterday night i sat on a bunch of ants and got bitten real bad all over my arms. ants are nasty. just now i had to clear out the fridge. rotting bananas (!), old ketupat, and old pasta. kjnsflwkjf.

it's daddy's first day at his new job tomorrow. he's a sales promoter at NUH, selling medical stuff from europe like blood pressure monitors and stuff. :)

spent the holiday today just totally 'relaking' at home. my headache carried on from yesterday so i sorta spent the day trying to get rid of it. today was quite boring. :|

mom doesn't have gallstones. she has fatty liver (fats around the liver). she says it's probably cos of her high cholesterol. :( bugger.

thanks for doing the calling for me jamie! owe you.

glare.

shock.

half an hour time-kill at daiso.

uhh, i'm trying to think of stuff for the kids to do in chapel. they're always so bored. =( visual aid plees. i dunno what to do for art and craft and games alsoooooo. *cries*

very tired today. had to accompany mom to thrift shop and hair cut and giant to buy groceries (!) after teens and choir. my skin is peeling off my face because of idk. (freak out pls.) then i came back and had this long and heavy talk with tim.

i headache now. i go bathe.

yesterday before dinnertime timmy suddenly called me from the kitchen.

A: WHAT LAH!
T: where's your turtle?!

charlie escaped from the toilet! he crawled out of the shower area and the toilet altogether! and nobody knew! not even bran. so the three of us (tim me bran) searched everywhere for about 15 mins. found him sandwiched between some boxes in my dad's study. good thing he didn't poop anywhere. he doesn't poop unless he's in water. strange right? civilized turtle.

mom's 2 days of MC finished yesterday. now tim is sick and took MC. oh, my mom went for a scan yesterday to check if she has gallstones. her abdomen hurts. =(

i have nineteen more PACEs for the year, those who know what i'm talking about. aza!

i hope there's 2D1N today. please please have.

sher this look suits you.
<3

(????)
now the posting page is back to normal! whaa?

right, so i passed the CPR first aid be-a-hero course! it was quite fun lah, i guess because i was pretty interested. some girls were dozing off beside me while the guy was talking, which made me feel very nerdy since i was somehow so attentive. (hha) on sunday my lips were sore... because of all the ventilations on the dummy. (mouth to mouth.) think my braces rubbed against my skin inside. yeouch~

and i kept asking tim and jake if they were choking during lunch, since i am now certified to help. yeah!

attended prayer retreat as a non-stayer on thursday and friday. there were messages on prayer and how to pray, and we prayed for hours? my neck was just, broken by the time it ended. was seriously tired but i held up. :)

got a new portrait to do, yes money come money. waiting for the fella to send me the pic.

lunch with da bros. both refused to pay for me, the only one with no allowance whatsoever. tim and i headed over to the boitmans' to wish the september babes happy birthmonth after that. walked like mad in my black heels... almost died.

HAVE A GOOD TRIP BACK BRO. RICHIE!

uhh really tired, i gave the same person CPR about 300 times today. :)

will bloggabout prayer retreat and today's stuff tomorrow.

fighting!

haha today was strangely funny. went for the first aid course, which ends with a test tomorrow (!)(die). okay lah, frankly and i dunno why, i expected the civil defence to teach us so i was expecting a young guy or girl to be the instructor, but it ended up being an old man from raffles medical. still he's reallly cute. like a funky grandpa. he is not slow AT ALL he talks like a machine gun (with those medical terms. brain like wow for old person.) AND he seems to need to crack a joke every minute. some super funny, some lame beyond imagination. i think i learned quite a good bit of first aid today. *satisfied grin*

haven't gotten to dramatic CPR yet, just learned how to 'bao' ppl up in bandages properly.

other than the older people i only talked to becca and sher. and becca's little brother named reuben, because he said my hair color is nice. bet he doesn't know i have white hair. reuben has big hair.

suddenly.
R: is your hair naturally brown?
A: huh? yah.
R: oh. it's very nice.
A: nice right? haha.
R: *runs away*





A: shouts- I'm seventeen years old! i'm old!
Ubin: laugh laugh.

ugh kbs didn't air today's ep of 2D1N and i am not happy. because i rushed back to watch it. boo lah.

my friend's grandpa committed suicide yesterday. sad news. i visited him every CNY. i'm not exactly close to him, but there is a weird feeling knowing that someone you know has left this earth.

my grandma's better, although i dunno why she went to hospital again yesterday.. i think it's just a checkup. i hope she stays safe and sound where she is, although i still wish she could come home. sigh.

prayer retreat later. and two tests-- history and english composition. bashia!

mm, boohoo. i changed the template to one from blogger and it's still the same.

LAST WEEK: monday.
geil and i were supposed to have lunch with mr. patrick but he bailed because of a meeting. but he gave us 20 bucks to fulfill his promise of a treat. we went to astons and ate our hearts out, bought extra stuff and all. i love astons. food is okay, price is good, no service charge, and the waiters are super nice. guess that's why the place is always so crowded. i can imagine the whole SSC closing down except astons, still bustling with business. hah~

later in the evening daddy and i met up with tim and mom after work and headed to funan for dinner. then we went to the dead sea scrolls exhibition. i found it pretty cool... followed an old lecturer around and listened to him explain everything. there were scrolls and bibles on display. archeology seems cooler than i previously thought. ;) the lecturer was quite daring in his speech. at the end he encouraged us all to love God's Word and abide by it after seeing the its wonderful preservation and hearing about the men who died for it. (like tyndale. sad.) and so the evening ended very thoughtfully for me.

his name was doctor quek. daddy promptly said: quek doctor. hah~

trying to fully conquer the sorethroat, argh.

i'm still having the blogger problemmmmmmm ah!

i picked up a turtle from the drain beside church yesterday. his name is charlie and he now lives in my room. maybe just temporarily, idk. but for now he's here. i feel like i rescued him. he's the size of a hand. bran hates him to the max. i was supposed to set him free in a reservoir. that's illegal anyway, from what i just heard. :|

was pretty sick last week with a fever and the works, and then i got better nearing the weekend, and then now i have a sorethroat again. must be some funky strain of flu, it's so hard to get rid of. ahem ahem.

was invited to some community work thing where they let you paint and provide canvasses free and display your stuff, and of course you make a donation after that. sounds cool, but it's all the way in serangoon so, nah. but thanks for the invite tim! if you're reading this... which i doubt since it's been so horribly stagnant. =(

tim's some guy i met at the park. ;D

plan to frame up my paintings with cheap frames from daiso.

HAPPY BIRFDAY TITO RICHIE. :)

my friend's teachers' day present. at student price. ;)

just finished this today. watercolor, just black. (money saver!)
ah-mah perms are very hard to paint!
for sale? i dunno. very precious. if the price is good enough.
note: this one has no source pic. pure original. woots!

went to tim's passing out parade again today.

blogger problem again (i think it's blogger's fault??) and it's so yucky blogging like this. bleh.

"WHAT HAPPEN MAN?!" - torrence

FINALLY.

bran bran was especially cute today. almost like he did something wrong...
what am i supposed to do with this little boy, huh?

sphinx? he thinks i won't see him if he stays perfectly still like a statue. pfft.

the beloved font bar has come home! wah gerlynn, you have some power man! you tag and the problem is solved. hahah~ happy coincidence.

spent last night and after-school hours today making stuff for the ongsters' art project tomorrow. cute (i hope) finger puppets, complete with the jiggly plastic eyeballs. made out of glove fingers and lots of felt.



bought two tees for 14 bucks yesterday. long tees. they were 8 bucks each but i asked for 14 for 2. i actually bargained in the shopping center, no doubt it was at a booth, but still. aiyah, they will still make money mah. anyways i came back home and decorated the tees some more. keehee.

a-g-n-e-s

summary of last weekend:

thursday- cupcakes at the ong home. 2D1N!
friday- school, braces appointment. geil came along. got info for her about braces. went to library after some bubbleT and old chang kee. looked for cheap plain tees to paint, dun have. bought dinner and ate at bro. francis' house, went for SG with geil and roy.
saturday- teens club. special speaker pastor chantha from the US! painting trip to sembawang park. got caught up drawing portraits for $5 each (super fun). met timmy and went for cousin's birthday celebration. tired out but couldn't crash because... i dunno i just couldn't fall asleep.
sunday- woah, really tired. church, pastor chantha's testimony was so heartwarming. got home, crashed. woke up, got into an arguement with mom. :| sighs.

CUPCAKES at sis. suwei's.

AH, there's so much to blog about that i dunno where to start alreadyyyy. the font bar is still nowhere to be found. (?)

where in the world is that text bar??!

blogger problem, font bar not appearing. (boo)

art blog update. will update this one when the font bar appears again because i have pics to post. font bar, come back.

Umm, mind is really clogged. lots of things to think about. (i know i seem really carefree, that's just because i'm not emo.) but seriously there are suddenly some pretty serious things to think about. must pray hard for wisdom and God's hand to be in things so they can be sorted out with good ends. :)

had choir practice and another song practice for the independence service, and we had to learn a new song. felt bad cause kenny couldn't get one part and i ended up outrightly saying, "no! no not like that like this. NO NO!" haha~ but i apologized and he says he didn't feel affected. the air is clear. ^^

had school. studied for math test. (dying) got stuff from popular. went cold storage, bought chips for timmy to welcome him back. went to friday night. tummy feeling really bad now. :( end of friday.

feeling pretty... mad/ irritated with some people because of the things they said, but i'll let it slide lah, not worth pursuing. if they do it again i'm totally gonna tell them not to talk that way. ugh so many things i wanna type out. must control. no details no details.

planning to make this super cute 'specialized' card for isa's friend.. something with a camper, hockey stuff, and mamee noodles. it's gonna be one cool card.
preparing for next thursday's class too. how should i get a 3 yr old and a 9 yr old to draw the same thing? brain teaser. i think i'll just use the good ol' dotted lines for the younger ones lah. will be teaching them how to draw faces for both genders, and the body. different clothes and stuff. :)

gonna make some bear bear cards, pray and ask God to help me not be angry, and zeeeeeee.

ART CLASS: cards!
flower cards, bear bear cards, and birthday cake cards! today was tiring but cute. the time just flew by! guess that's what happens when you're talking nonstop. i think i answered, about 2000 questions today. :D

bookmarks from last week. the kids strung in the ribbon themselves just now.

i call the one on the left the 'traffic light' one. ha~

at 5pm miss alamon was waiting for me below my house. we were happily watching our favourite show when she got a call with some bad news. so she's real sad now. praying for you girl! things just happen. :|

face very pocky now. oh, one more irritating thing is, everything i plan to buy for ages and save up money for and finally get to buy-- always sold out. or only show piece available. jajeng na jin jja. mom bears witness to my shopping curse. -.-

aha i just answered the phone and tim called only to say bye bcos he only needed to talk to mom and dad about some stuff, and they're not home lah. yep, i'm his one and only sister.

T: hullo? hold on ah. hullo?
A haalo? yes, what.
T: where's mama papa?
A: out.
T: again?
A: yes papa went office then met mama for dinner why? anything important? anything i can help you with... sir? (at this point i feel like counter staff.)
T: no nevermind i'll call them.
A: okay sir. goodbye~~