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Had a great time at camp preparations. Kinda missed Hannah though. As I was going out she was coming in and when she saw me she was like super excited and ran to hug me. hahaha.. oh man. Then I didn’t feel like going out already. Anyway, I’m attending my first indian muslim wedding tomorrow. Interesting is the word. haha.. I don’t have any malay friends at all! other than NS. And this guy’s indian muslim so he doesn’t really count. Super weird la, I feel like I’m missing out on great malay friends. lol.. okay going to rest now. Finding out the location then going to sleep. Looks like its along the NEL! super awesome. Haven’t visited google reader for 2 days. haha..

So after a day out and about I’ve come back home, ran 2k and ended up spending quite abit of time on the computer. of course, in between I cleaned up a lens as well. Total time about 1hours here. Not too bad. I’m just here to log my progress and today’s happenings which was really quite nice and queer.

I got up at about 8 today, left the house at 830 and went over to YX’s.

Opened up the present and left at about 1030 (waiting for her mom to come back with the car) then went over to hatched for a nice eggy breakfast. The food there isn’t spectacular, neither is the service but it was still pretty nice.  I managed to get very nice shots at the window-side seats where we were.

WB set to cloudy for extra warm-ification.

Then since we were at bukit timah, we thought of going to the botanical gardens! Just to take a look around and to catch some more snaps. I didn’t bring a tripod so I stayed behind the camera all the way. It was an interesting walk.. went all about, to the cool room, the symphony stage and evolution garden.

It was getting pretty warm so we left for cooler pastures and thought to visit Cheryl at her V for Vase exhibition. She so happened to be on duty to jaga the exhibition.. how coincidental is that! haha.. So we got to see all kinds of amusing concepts of vases and stuff. Took some snaps. Again. Why not?

She finished her shift at 330 and we went over to ion where Cheryl got some sweets for YX! and we walked around for abit getting stuff done. Picked up YX”s watch, wandered around for abit more at borders then went to black angus for dinner. For the first time in my life, I think I left quite abit of food untouched. Wah man, either getting old, feeling fat or both. Still, I quite enjoyed it. A little over-done though. Ate nice vanilla ice cream with brownie, sent her home, took bus back to my home and called it a day. It was a really unscripted, pleasant and enjoyable day.

Happy Birthday!

Well, firstly I think my life has been too overwhelmed by digital media. Facebook, flickr, and google reader being chief culprits. While they all strive to make our social lives efficient, its strange how they actually suck up even more time because now you do useless things more efficiently. Although you do spend less time achieving a greater amount of useless stuff, the amount of information entering the brain is increased substantially in a shorter period of time. That crowds out alot of useful thought time. I think I’d like to change that abit and dumb down my life for abit. No facebook, no flickr, no google reader, no email even, progressively over the next few days. haha.. Impossible for a web monkey like me? watch me. If at the end of it I still end up the same, well.. it means that it just didn’t enrich my life in any way, a possibility that is very remote. I do suppose I will be able to get alot of reading, photography and job hunting done. Not to mention carry out some ideas that have just remained ideas for too long.

Anyway in other news, I just completed my final FINAL exam just yesterday. 25th November 2009. The exam was quick and unspectacular, I wrote till my hands cried out for mercy.. especially that final 5 minutes where I discovered I had missed out a question that I skipped. Also, I am pretty sure I’ve nailed everything down, just have to upload my thesis and I’m really done for good.

Its been a fantastic 4.5 year journey. From first year sticking around with friends in common engin and breezing through the modules, my second year of disaster results and pretty dull hall life with ZG, my third year first sem of quiet lonely lecture attendance which really got a little better once I had a lecture buddy in the second sem. My fourth year which was uneventful and went by like nothing and finally this extra sem I’m doing which has had its gan cheong times and slack times. All in all its been a wonderful self-discovering journey sometimes walking with God and sometimes walking my own way, still arriving at the destination safe and sound but not as well off if  I hadn’t strayed.

This marks end of academia and start of working life. Something I look forward to because of all the possibilities it opens up. A new journey which I will probably have to take all the way to the end of my life. Haha..  pretty happy.

Just some thoughts that are ultimately not that important but notable in living the Christian life

Living a double-life makes it impossible to share beliefs

Whether its vegetarianism, religion, study methods or some other inconsequesntial belief. Not doing what you claim to believe is a slap in your own face when you try and share it (eg. claiming serangoon garden won ton mee is best but you regularly eat parklane won ton mee when given a choice).

We can’t just live in our little church-bubble-life

This is a good read and I think I’ve said it somewhere before. Putting ourselves into the harvest by spending time with the unsaved builds relations and enables us to love in action.Since we are bound by physical limitations, we need to physically spend time with people in order to evangelize. Nobody will know you love them if you never show it. Its impossibly difficult to show someone you love  them without ever being there for them. Skipping church activities to be with family or the unsaved is well.. really nothing bad if you know what you’re doing.

Re-thinking things that have already been thought before

Its not necessarily a bad thing. I haven’t exactly formed my opinion of this. In fact, this is kind of what I’m doing all the time. Since the Bereans continuously re-evaluated new information they received maybe its not bad. I’m just wondering if not examining an opinion yourself is a good trade-off for efficiency in living life. Like, if we keep asking questions, life will be a minefield of questions every time something comes along and we’ll never be able to get anything done. Progress is built on previous progress but maybe we are capable of all the progress we need to have in this short life by just studying directly from the word and ignoring everything that might come along such as teaching methodologies, church practice and such.

How discipleship works and is carried out in this day?

No presentable thoughts.

I seriously have to do a post about my birthday. haha..

I spent a while seeing what I could do with a random photo on my hard drive. Its surprising how much just correcting color for skin will do for a photo. “auto adjust” just doesn’t cut it. The top is the original, the second adjusted for skin color and the rest are just well.. some exercising of the presets.

edit: now that I look at it again with fresh eyes, she’s kinda jaundiced. lol! I wonder how these people get it right all the time.

In other news, I just got my clarinet back from Jocelyn. How nice.. Prob pick it up and play in the next few days.

I saw some pretty amusing social interview thingys on my facebook

Then this one half amused me and got me thinking also

I mean, for a while I imagined in my mind what it would be like to be Sandra’s brother.

*a while*

THATS weird. hahaha..but that is the relationship we already have in Christ. We (everyone in church) address each other as brothers and sisters in Christ but we don’t really believe or act like it very much, probably only to those that are much closer to us. Haha, things would be very different if our relationship to our churchmates were perceived to be as un-replaceable, un-removeable, un-renounceable, non-negotiable as the blood you share with family. To accept each others’ unique ‘crazy’ and not go postal when someone does something that you don’t like.

Having been born (again) into the same family and sharing salvation paid for with the same blood of Christ. Lets all behave like how brothers and sisters should be. Yes, I know alot of  sibling relationships are not how they should be but well, we don’t model our ideals after the imperfect, we model them after the perfect standard already set before us. Haha..

“God’s not looking for the religious type.
He’s looking for the sinner type,” he said.
“No one is beyond the reach of God.”
-Greg Laurie

With my academic life effectively. Finished up my FYP presentation at about 12.40 and then went for a nice lunch at Joe’s Kitchen Thai Cuisine with my brother. The honey chicken and the olive rice are really great! Should go try, just that its quite troublesome to park.

Went over to vivo to read read.. there was this book i found very good just a week ago but today when I returned it got sold out. I can’t believe it. hahaha.. next time I should buy right.. then I was thinking.. so many books are so nice, can’t possibly buy them all.

Anyway, its been such a long tiring day. Now at FBI. haha.. Going to go out a little longer then go back and crash. tomorrow got presentation in the afternoon but not by me.