the hmong mission trip was one of the funnest times of my life! made good friends quickly and i miss them SO much now. i wanna cry.

there's just so much tt happened, i can't list it all down. i'll just write about the impressions i took home after the trip.

the people up there in the mountain, the hmong -- they're so nice and hospitable. they're courteous and polite. most of all, they're tenderhearted. they're tenederhearted to preaching. they're united as a church and they love one another. i used to think they'd be better off in singapore or america, but, no. their lifestyle makes them what they are today, innocent and respectful. all they need is more food, water, clothes, and freedom. they don't need shopping malls or burgers or swimming pools. they'd be so different if they were rich. they wouldn't be happy.

i love them so much. when we were leaving the village, we didn't wanna walk. we didn't wanna go. the girls there, they cried. they cried and stuck their hands into the window of the van hoping to catch one last glimpse of us before we left. they kept saying thank you for coming and God bless you. it was almost too much for me to take. it was so sad. i can still see their faces right now.

during the preaching and invitation, mr. chang asked one question that made me feel so exposed and criminalized. so many hmong ppl were gg up to the alter to pray, some crying, some shutting their eyes so tight and praying so hard. mr. chang said : WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR GOD TODAY? i needed that, so much. another thing tt he said tt hit me was about being a spiritual baby. God knows i've read 1 corinthians 13 like, 1000 times, but never before in that light. i need to put away childish things and start eating some solid bible food. i gotta grow, because ultimately me and God, that's all that's gonna be left. not fitting in, not looking good, not anything. just me and God.

leaving for thailand tonite ! will be back on monday, ya? pray and smile people! <3

YAHHHHHHHH! another kaya-king pickie!  

today was the last of the four draining VBS days! lets look at some hilights. on the first day, i wore a hotpink polo-tee. BIG MISTAKE. weather too hot. i realized tt the class i was helping out in [pri. 1-3] had 60 children in it. tt day i acted as moses' mother and tim was my husband.[grosse] on the second day, i was real busy doing some rewards thing for the kids. junxiong was there and i kept teasing him with much vocal power about something which made him respond quite violently. :) joined the kindies for their games, one of which was catching.they were supposed to catch the teachers. all of them kept patting my butt when they caught me cause they were so short. butt-patting day, whooo! goodness the kindies are soo cute! the third day was watery-wet. it rained. it stopped raining. we played waterbombs. yaoming went. i was quite dry until he bombed me. i got mad and bombed him back. he didn't have an extra shirt i think? heh. my bad. we packed up the classrooms after everything was done to shift all the stuff to bishan where the final day of vbs would be. yaoming can't even lift two classroom tables. muahahahaha! TOODAY! had vbs at jalan pimple ! the kids were so everything! noisy, cute, rowdy, funny, hungry, small-bladdered, sweet, fidgitive. saw some parents, made some small talk, saw my dad talking about me and how old i look. plaayed a whole lot with isaiah [baby] before i left, and i told his mom tt he was real heavy [true]. she said i had to learn the baby carrying method and i had to exersise more, then she squeezed my arm.

ARGH !

hmong trip, here i come! raye bring my clothes nd frech stuff tmr i neeed them !!

ANOTHER WEDDING DAYE! today was so fun, ushering and all. (raye you may nt agree with tt part) seriously, i found it fun, seeing weird ppl and looking weird myself. heee. my day started at 8 when i rolled out of bed to get dressed and ready to go to raye's house. left at 10 and reached jurong at 10:50? round theres. anyways, when i was walking to the busstop the ribbon bow on my dress loosened and flew out. imagine the rest la. in summary today i looked like a total idiot the whole day, be it by dropping bows or getting heels stuck in the drain or by knocking poor old ah mas down with my clutzy giordano bag or by sitting beside a fat man with real bad breath who yawns a whole lot in the train. ahh. fingers tired. heh. the time at the wedding went okays. for my ushering job, i ushered ppl, some willing to be ushered and some plain unwilling. i gave out chocolates. i put up with lame jokes from some guests and lots of stares from the bride's students, and, i smiled a whole lot. probbly more than i wd smile in a week. =) i just hope i looked ok in the dress.....

ANNOUNCEMENT: i know i'm not at all the oficial card maker or anything, but i've been making cards fer church ppl esp lately. this will nt work bcos sometimes i forget some ppl's bdays or i dont have enuff time to make a card so some ppl get cards and some dont. it seems unfair, so i'm nt gonna make anymore cards for church ppl for everyone who wants to sign to sign on from now onwards! wah fingers relly tired.

this past week has been so different -- different from any other kind of week i've ever had. it's been a week of daiper changing and medicine giving. i've never done stuff like that before and it's not very enjoyable. anyway my granny's a lil better now. she's stopped squirting (thank God).
i've been having so much on my mind, and i can't really write. i'm so distracted, like, i can't even sit and do school work without spacing out. goodness, i can't even draw properly. i feel so serious. i feel so deep and strange. i don't feel like writing funny, stupid, lame stories anymore or painting or running or drawing. something's wrong, or maybe just changing.
i really want something to happen on the hmong trip to thailand. something. anything. painting my shoes with glow in de dark paint now .. HEE. gonna wear them there. heard it may be muddy! looking very forward to it. :)
thanks for bothering to read. ciao for now ~

bran and i were really busy making stupid funny faces today. so, whassup dawg ? oh. i got my one and only pic from kayaking taken on the first day. thanks, gabe !


 

mothers' day lahhh. must be special rite? yeah, so i got my lazy butt up and bought my mom a nice gift for her day. paradise, an estee lauder fragrance. my dad and tim contributed to the fund.made her a nice card, i think the nicest i've made sofar. GOT ALOT OF LOVE ONE LORR. ha. corny. ain't the gold trimming nice? presented her gift to her on sunday morning and took as many lame pics as we could. here are some.

 

 

 

DDA WEDDDING!! DA WEDDINGGG! DAAAA WEDIIIIING! WOOOOOH! ya, ok, lol, guess you could say i was excited. it was real fun and a real good experience. i'm relly using the word real alot. argh! in summary, i woke up at 4:30, went to sophie's (bride) house with carol and then went to novena with carol and adrian and met tim and tingshan and went to the church, attended the ceremony and totally messed up my filming job there. i massacared it. anyways, i then came home. here're some relly random pics of wadeva tim took at he wedding. wooots! mre pics to come, tt is, if you guys don't protest. here are pics of TINGSHAN (woots.) tim, jacob from TRBC (whom i thought was so totally funneeeee) jacob low with someone holding his hand ? bro. dan, Pastor sng, joshua yip with his camera pionting at me which i thought was so irritating, Mr. Roy Cheong, weichern and isaiah, no, not her baby. adrian with the camera sucking out his eye, and a foot. nice foot. OK i know its weird tt i dont hae any pics of the bride and groom YET. coming soon lahh. wooh so fun. hung out with shan the whole day, well, almost lah. ATE BEN AND JERRY'S!! but i chose some nutty flavour. oh ya, iforgot to mention the weird thing at the window in the BBQ post was some guy looking at us from his window for like, a whole hour. freeeeeeeaky.

 

 

 

i want to lift the curse of too many things to blog off my shoulders today! YAY! ha. lame. okok, BBQ at aunt's hse to celebrate my cousin's bday. some pics of the birthday girl and my in-the-navy cousin and me being antisocial and glued to my phone. basically this day was so long ago tt i have no recollection of anth let alone anth funny tt happened other than just being there and eating. and being antisocial. :)


 

ohkays, ya'll church ppl saw me all red and lobstery tooday! well, it is with all joy that i declare the following : I COMPLETED MY ONE STAR KAYAKING COURSEE! *smiles stupidly*

yaya i know lots of ppl complain about me being law-saw and posting too much so i'll make it quick [as if] and run through yesterday. many apologies for not posting yesterday. i was too busy sleeping.

waited at yishun mcdonalds and met everyone there. b.darren picked us all up and headed for kallangggg! we did not get lost this time, and found the place with ease. once we reached there, got our kayaks and vests and went toilet and locked our bags up in the wooden locker and headed to the beach! launched off and warmed up for a while, practicing what we learned in the previous week. zhiyang had problems fitting into the kayak and had to test a few to find the right 'size'. lol. this week we got single kayaks, which we had not used before, and we had to get used to it. it wasn't very hard, in fact, it was easier than the doubles. the sun was blazing hot. after warming up, sir made us practice our 360dgree spin. did that with easee. :) now it was what everyone had been 'waiting' for -- RESCUE ! we broke up into groups of three and each of us had to be either victim, main rescuer, or assistant rescuer. i was victim first, and i had to capsize. [says capsize with much drama!] i managed to get rescued after much .. comotion. LUNCH! went for lunch. i had BEEF HORR FANNN! WHOO! it was nice. i stuffed myself because in the sun, my energy gets drained relly fast. purposely drank sugar cane for the extra suger. smart rite? lol. [rolls eyes] by that time all of us were red and burning, but more heat was to come! headed punctually back to the beach and waited for our instructor. once we got back, we did more capsizing so everyone got a turn at every role, especially victim. i rescued shermaine and she rescued clara. had more practice and practice and then learned how to do some rudder manuvering thing. i didn't spell tt right, did i. lol. wells, we practiced again. he then taught us to do something with the paddles to avoid capsizing. while he was demonstrating, he accidentally capsized. as if tt isn't enough, he tried to get back up by himself so we didn't have to rescue him. haha. in the end tim and zhiyang got to put their knowledge to the test and rescued him. yah. rescue sounds so drama. helped him lah. lol. now the jc ppl had to go home, and we from church could go on a mini expedition. anyways, we were out of time and it was about to rain, so in the end, we just played a game on our kayaks. at first we were supposed to do a kallang wave and STAND in our kayaks. then we changed game and just sat on top of the kayaks with our legs wrapping around the kayak and paddled around like idiots toward the instructor. lol. he told us this was the kayak igallop. we paddled to shore and headed home.

some funny things tt happened in our day:

zhiyang found a tennis ball and we got possession of it. played around with it for a while and finally i flung it at sir. he got fedup and confisicated it. i took it back before lunch when he was doing smth. yay! souvenier. shermaine has it now.

zhiyang capsized like, 5 times.

the sir called the victim a patient, then laughed at himself.

gabriel turned naughty and started pouring and splashing water on us girls.

tim tried to splash water on sir, and sir almost capsized him. before he could, tim jumped out of his boat.

tim did not loose any shoe. yay!!

when the wakeboaders pass by they make a huge wave. we were lining up and it made our kayaks bang from side to side very.. noisily. our screamings made it even more noisy. seriously, we were screaming our lungs out.

TOODAY WE ALL LOOK LIKE LOBSTERSSS!!