yesterday was a full day! went to meet raye after church for budget-pastamania lunch and budget-shoe shopping. this meeting has been postponed week after week AFTER WEEK and i was really down about it, so i'm thankful that we finally got to spend some time together. we walked and talked alot and made fun of some live singers that were totally making my brains vibrate in my skull. it was irritating. some couldn't even sing and they were waving their hands about, you know, imitating real singers. i think it was some competition. anyway i determined to buy white shoes and got a pair at my current fav shoe shop. they basically sell low quality stuff that looks good at low prices. after paying i realized there was 20%off and rejoiced accordingly. i almost bought another pair, but i control okay. because the money i earn one mah, haha. oh yes, before that we shared a meal at pastamania. that's the great thing about being a girl. you don't have to eat alot. :D i taught raye some french too. funnyness lah.

after i came home i DISCOVERED that a family was coming to take a look at our school materials cause their kids are gonna do it too. they're nice people. haha. and that was how my evening went.

today's sermon was about, well i forgot the title. but the lesson i learned, which i think is absolutely forgotten amongst christians my age, is that we don't follow a set of do's and dont's. we love God, and that's all. all we do or abstain from should root from wanting to please God. we would go to any measure and put up with anything willingly and happily if we do all in love for God. we don't dress modestly, or listen to conservative music, or stay away from bad company, or not watch some movies because someone else said so or because we might get in trouble if we do. if those are our reasons, then we have lost our focus. if we really love God, we'd want more than anything to please Him by obeying Him. sometimes, areas seem gray. we should then determine what God would want us to do, factoring in all the principles he has given us. i realize this is why we in church do so many things people deem weird and over-conservative. our love-driven lifestyle if often misunderstood as too rigid, legalistic, full of rules. that really isn't the case. we're living in the footsteps of the one who saved us, doing all for the glory of the one who first loved us.

we all forget every now and then. that's why i think the sermon was a very encouraging one for me. it really reminded me.

cupcake collection! $6.00 for all, individually: $3.00 for the big one, $2.00 for the pop-ups.

TEDDY BEAR CARDS. one BIG birthday and two pop-up hello cards.
$6.00 for all.
individually, big birthday card = $3.00 pop up card= $2.00
comes with blue envelopes.

retro font hor? ahaa..

bunny and flower cards. 4 cards for $6.00. two birthdays and two thank yous.
$2.00 individually. comes with pink envelopes. handpainted one ohkay!

sms me if you want any! =)
aza aza fighting!

I HAVE DECIDED, to follow jesus (starts doing actions). haha, and i have decided to do business with portraits too! $20 each. $30 for two faces in a picture. email me the photograph at my gmail address with whatever specifications you want (like, take out all my blemishes or something) and i'll get back to you. all in drawing block and pencil. portraits make good gifts. *winks* i'll draw them as best i can! and i'll make sure it looks like the person it's supposed to.

oh yah, try to send me good quality photos hor. blur blur very hard to draw lah.

CARDS SOLDDDD! yay thank God.

a new drawing. =) not finished yet. the camera's a little bad so it looks overexposed sometimes. drew it on nights when i couldn't sleep.

my toes are GROSSE! i don't know why leh. the skin just keeps peeling. i'm malting. maybe i'm part reptile. eeee..

daddy made super banana pancakes out of the blue. they're seriously good.

a pancake monster.

i failed a test today. my first test of the year-- FAILED. must press on man.

my aunt emailed me some cute phrases. there're 20 of them but i decided not to post the last one up. it was a little fency. =D i just made that word up.

1. Give God what's right -- not what's left.

2. Man's way leads to a hopeless end -- God's way leads to an endless hope.

3. A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.

4. He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.

5. Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.

6. When praying, don't give God instructions- just report for duty.

7. Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.

8. We don't change God's message--His message changes us.

9. When God ordains, He sustains.

10. WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.

11. Plan ahead--It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

12. Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position.

13. Exercise daily--walk with the Lord.

14. Never give the devil a ride--he will always want to drive.

15. Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.

16. Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.

17. He who angers you controls you.

18. Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

19. Be ye fishers of men--you catch them & He'll clean them.

sis. suwei posted my latest portrait on her blog! and a little compo i wrote about my hobby too. :)

lifting weights has left me with oddly huge upper arms that look fatty instead of muscley. i guess it's better than how i looked in the past. i remember tim low calling me chopsticks at a pot luck at uncle soo ann's house, and everyone telling me i was too skinny and should eat more when i went to family gatherings. now, i am putting on weight like mad, but i'm not very happy with how it's being distributed. anyway, as i always say, it's not about size or weight, it's about being healthy. when tim starts boot camp with dad for army i might follow him. might as well right? people pay to have trainers... this one's free.

AZA! fighting!

today's message was one of nine parts. the title was "the focus". good message! and i found my fountain pen. =) lots of people thought i straightened my hair AGAIN, but no, i just had it cut. bye bye bangs! had lunch with a small group.

pray for cherebelle! (spelling?) she fell and it's quite serious. mommy's at KKH with her parents now. BJ and some others went too. apparently it was pretty bloody and i'm SO SCARED. cherebelle is almost the cutest baby on earth! yes, lets pray for her and her sis too, who's quite in distress.

i drew this on the 31st of december! the photo isn't very nice because of the lighting (yes, just blame it on the lighting) but i think this is my best so far! i wonder what God wants me to do with these hands in future. am i supposed to pursue art? BLAH, IDK! i'm praying about my future plans. there's not alot of time left to think. =| can i be a tai tai? that seems easy.

agnes' card business is ON THE GO! i aim to save a few hundred bucks this year. last year in july i saved 90 bucks in a month FROM CARDS, so i think it's possible if i manage my time properly. i am going to make ALOT of cards this year. i will be hardworking! AZA! i'll train with my drawing too, so i can draw portraits for all you guys someday. i always imagine archaeologists 100 years from now digging up a fossilized drawing of mine and putting it in a museum with my name below it, beside the mona lisa. =)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTY JANET. thanks for all the nice things you've done. (heart)

after church yesterday we had lunch at a cafe for the january babies. ^_^in the end jake wanted to treat us, i mean those at our table, since we paid up by the table. so, oh well. FREE MEAL! =D thank you jacob. anyway, it was nice spending some time together with the church, joking and having fun. thank God for everyone lah.
geil took that photo. alien agnes with headlights one. LOL.

yesterday my throat was kinda getting sore, and today when i woke up it was SO PAINFUL. so i took some meds and went to sleep, trying to avoid getting a fever. woke up for lunch feeling much better.

please pray for my mom and her neck. she can't sleep well and it's really quite painful, to the point where i can only watch her and feel helpless. makes me feel like crying. i'm trying not to underestimate the power of prayer, you know, like sometimes i say all i can do is pray, like it's so not helpful or something. but i know it can do wonders when done in faith and all. :)

school is go go again. :\ i have many new subjects like english compo and greek! greek's hard. i'm stuck at the alphabet. but i found out my name has greek origin. AZA! must do better this year.

what's up with people and their anti-new year resolution-ness?? it's like everyone makes resolutions sound dumb and pointless. i have lots and am planning to fulfill them. bleah~
FIGHTING!

photos from LAST YEAR. yes, happy new year everyone! my HP battery went flat yesterday night so i couldn't reply your many new year messages, sorry. anyways this was on geil's birfday. dragged her bro along to eat with us right after he got his head shaved. that's me and mommy drinking starbuckz and geil the birfday girl. :)

i spent the 25th at church and at my aunt's. :) nothing very exciting, but it was nice. yesterday was evacuation day for my family and neighbours. people came to hack down the corridoor cement floor so that it could be replaced and it's super loud. so we fled to eat lunch outside and then went up to the hill. we brought bran along, of course. on the way out i saw my neighbour taking her dog out too. today the hacking continues, but it's not right outside our house so it's not that unbearable.

SIGHS...

it's xmas eve people! i've gotten three presents. one from mommy and two from aunts. ^-^ the singing yesterday was fine, although attendance was a little low. i was feeling seriously tired after service so i came home and napped, but when i woke up i had this pounding headache on my left side, so so disabling. today i feel much better lah. went down for breakfast with parents and came back first to read bible, blog, and do work. i don't wanna waste xmas eve idling away.

a note on the use of the word XMAS. people always say, "don't X Christ out of christmas!" well i say christmas isn't a christian word in the first place. christ + mass = mass of christ. UM, i'm not catholic so i don't do masses. Christ wasn't born on the 25th too, someone was just very misleading and made everyone think so. besides, the whole 'spirit' of christmas nowadays amongst the general public has nothing to do with God or Christ or His birth or the purpose of His coming. it's become a materialistic eat drink and be merry holiday where you kiss under funny plants and be good for ulterior motives [santa]. i find it ironic that people 'die die' want to put Christ's name in a holiday that now has so littttle to do with Him, and if you study the origin of christmas you would even be more reluctant to do so. but anyhow, i'm not saying you should or shouldn't call christmas christmas. i'm saying there is no point forming convictions on this trivial matter because it would hardly make a difference in the end. i use xmas because i want to save typing/writing energy, not for the sake of being a rebel or what not. i kind of had to explain all this to people a few times, so i thought i'd just throw everything out here and ask people to read it if they asked me why i used the word xmas.

i shall go wash off my face mask now. :D

YAY i have gotten my comp back [thank GOD!] and carol's back too! :D today some of us went to play captain's ball. at first they played at a court near my house, but it started raining so everyone went to the semb mart void deck and i joined them. the way we play very funny one lor! got screaming and falling down and cheating [sort of la.] funfunfun. after that we went for lunch near northpoint. shared porridge with geil and i just realized i forgot to pay s. weichern back [AIYOH]. a very happening morning!

christmas is coming. i know it's some worldly holiday and all, but the festive air is so refreshing. there're sales and good buys and starbuckz at NP is even giving away sample drinks in nice big cups, so much so it's as good as a free drink! when else does that happen?? :D i think i'm getting carried away. change subject.

lets remember to pray for people. the number of things to pray for is really overwhelming, but we should still give it a shot right? pray for people who are finding it tough running the race, people who are doing right, people who are not.

goodnight everybody. sleep well. :)

i am so sad. my comp is down, and no it wasn't my doing. some male in my family used it to test something and tadah, now it's spoiled. anyway now i gotta use tim's comp. keyboard so funny one, tsk. this week's my mom's leave week so we're trying to spend time together.

last night i ate and ate until i was so bloated that i had to turn to tiger balm for help. i think i'm suffering from indigestion. :( so if you see me these few days, just know that i'm not actually that fat. it feels awful.

on monday my mom and i went to eat with geil to celebrate her being born day! roy was having a haircut so we invited him along. BTW he's botak now [so cuuuute] LOL.

for SOME ccamp pics click HERE. tm's saving the really 'good' [or rather idiotic] pics for watchnite.

aza aza fighting!

reached home from church camp on saturday evening! aiyoh, there's so much to tell about the camp i seriously dunno where to start lah. let me generalize everything. the messages were great and i will remember them. the weather was awesome, thanks to God. the people were super funny and nice and family-like. the facilities were quite run down but i guess everything else made up for that. =) the theme was pressing on! hebrews 12:1,2. we went to a waterfall and went crazy there, we saw an injured horse, we tried out archery and went back again cause it was too fun, we hunted for tarantulas, we played captain's ball in the rain, scrabbled and unoed, and made idiots of ourselves during charades. FUN RIGHT? my roommate was GEIL; we both got freaked out by scary bugs and stayed awake for hours. i bunked in a room with her, and in the other rooms of our apartment were the bornays, a very cute family. sometimes i felt like i was in the philippines when geil and everyone spoke tagalog, but that's fine. ;) the bus rides were okay and pretty funny OTHER THAN when the ride up the mountain starts. the way up was alright but the ride down was seriously pukey and like, 3 ppl puked in the bus. i almost did but i held it in by crouching into a ball in the seat beside roy. when we were down from the mt. i went back to my seat beside u. roland and jake.
alright, there are some weird ideas going on now because i sat beside jacob and was laughing like a mad person there. clarification: i was actually sitting with geil and planned to spend the whole ride with her. then we played uno and aunty janet, who was sitting beside her son in the backest row, told me to change seats with her so it'd be easier. geil sat with roy and i promptly sat one seat away from jake. then we played that micro-scrabble with jerry and i moved beside him. on the ride back, my dear buddy geil was already sitting beside my bro so i just sat beside u. roland, who was beside jake. later i changes places with u. roland. and all the laughing was just lame stuff. the END. no, i don't like jacob, there are no sparks flying or anything, please stop speculating. i will be more reserved next time.
anyways, when i was sitting beside u. roland on the ride home, i said i was hungry and he pulled out 2 cinnamon buns out of his pocket. FYI i love cinnamon stuff. so i ate the chocolate one and when i came to the plain one i realized it was full of huge black ants. so i can proudly say i have eaten ants before! [ unconsciously] some of us were supposed to go shopping at JB but in the end it was too late. reached home around 8. at 11 the lows came to get their dog. LOL.

i came back from church yesterday and CRASSSHED until about 8. yesterday was the last day of VBS! oh yes, i taught on the second day right? and it was successful, just the lesson part, but everything else was crazy-out-of-control. kids just love storybooks lah. you start telling the story and suddenly all the kids hush and look. amazing. so THANK GOD even if they were wild the rest of day, at least they payed attention to the lesson. that's like the most important part. =)

sis. weichern took the third day lesson where we acted out some funny skit. i was delilah, a clever bully, and isa was mary, a good christian. my character [i say it like i'm some big shot actress HAHAHA] can dance ballet, sing, and knows taekwando. she also likes to bully christians. in the end she gets saved and her life changes. that was the main point.. a change of life. :)

and finally, yesterday isa shared the gospel to the kids that could come. they're really young but they all said they wanted Jesus to save them from their sins and they said they believed in Him. ^^ may God keep them and their faith safe as they grow up.

NOWW, church camp! i'm overly excited, as usual lah. i need more casual dresses to wear over jeans and i need track pants. but there's no time/money to buy them now so WHO CARES. isa is quite sick, so please pray for her! i really want her to go. =| it's supposedly very cold there so i'm bringing some long sleeved stuff. the bus ride is very long too so i'm bringing dumb stuff like eye masks and uno. i may write or draw too. if roy brings his dvd player then problem solved. =D AAAH i hope i don't puke.

my kayaking shoes spoiled. =( so sentimental.

WAHWAHWAH vbs is tough stuff! the first day was alright, i suppose. honestly i think this vbs is the one with the most hiccups i've ever seen. my mom kept reminding me to focus on the important things like giving the message to the children and depending on God. so that's what i plan to try to do today.

funny things about yesterday: half the kids in my kindies class are foreign. a bit of a language problem there. one boy is unimaginably hyper. i think he eats jet fuel or something. one boy is heart-wrenchingly sweeeeet. one girl doesn't wanna play anything or do art and craft. one girl basically is in her own world and does whatever she wants e.g. strangle and slap her friend and run around screaming. also, along with the kids come a group of helpers and moms. for art and craft we made sunglasses which are so sooooo cute. thanks geil for helping!!

today is scary. isa and sis. maria won't be there, so it's just sis. weichern and me, unexperienced me. AND I'M TEACHING LAH. i made a giant story book. the lesson's about the boy who gave 5 loaves & 2 fishes. AZA! pray for me. :) must depend on God. *chants*

pray for:
mememe. hah.
tim & games.
safety of kids.
strength for all workers.
kids to understand lesson.
kids to be good.
daddy & the bus.
parents to be nice.
kids to know Christ!