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This place has really taken a holiday man. I could never have imagined I would be this busy during holidays! With what you ask? I’m not sure.. its just.. I guess when I have the time, these things (blogging and general online activities) suddenly take a backseat. I’ve been house-sitting when my mom goes out, helping out at (read: slacking) at pastor’s place. Its quite funny actually cos there’s nothing much I could actually do other than just be around and carry stuff here and there abit. Most of the time is spent just spending time together talking and messing with his things. I’ve to rest more I guess, and read too. Anyways, I came across this funny picture from last year.

I think I did it when I microwaved an egg and covered it thinking it would prevent a mess - obviously I was wrong cos the explosion was so strong the cover flew off.

That was utterly unrelated. Anyway, I had a few fruitful talks this week. Daniel on Sunday, pastor on most other days and Jonathan today. It was not really the talks or its contents that were edifying, it was the realizations about myself that I gained after thinking about what they/I had said and viewing firstly in the context of being a church member and then in the context of supposedly being bible believing Christians. When I look at these two, really the Christianity I live is so shallow, as with so many others around. How much we obsess about people around us really suprised me greatly and I became very conscious of it in my own talk and in others this week. Surely when we are judged we stand alone.

Lastly, although I’ve been with people this whole week, I’m feeling quite lonely already cos theres nothing much to do with myself. Now its the end of another week and I’m just.. here. I really want to go out lim kopi but theres nobody to go with me. Sitting down and doing some reading would be nice.. I keep falling asleep when I read myself, even after 3 chapters of the bible I’m so tired I doze off sitting outside the house where its bright and green with all the plants.

William seems to be busy. Gone are the days where we were all slackers, free at a moment’s notice. Haha.. I wonder if growing up really catches up with you and your friends so much so that its not so simple to just call each other and go out for coffee. Really as one of my GP essay topics put so rightly: youth is wasted on the young.

I’ve decided I want a canon G9 so I’m going to start saving for it. Thats a funny thought cos I can just buy it outright with the money I have. Still, I feel I’ve lost the art of saving. When the money in my bank account reaches a certain (undisclosed) amount I’ll just ask my bro to buy it from the states if the warranty covers it.

Thats all for now. Maybe I’ll sleep early today. hahaha.. who am I kidding..

YX is staying here!

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So near yet so far..

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..for this site that is. Its still being touched up but its totally doped! Its a shame half of the features nobody will ever see or notice. haha.. Its really meant for me. Time for some link love.

Things you will see

1. Ginormous image support thanks to wp-imagefit
2. Bible verses thanks to ESV plugin
3. Tooltips thanks to tippy
4. Twitter updates thanks to twitter tools
5. Latest Comments thanks to Brian’s Latest Comments

Things you won’t see/notice

1. Easy Flickr photo insertion thanks to Flickr Manager
2. Spam Free thanks to Akismet
3. Convenient admin navigation thanks to ozh
4. Backend kept in order by gamerz
5. Easy edit, admin and login/logout links
6. Easy aside posting thanks to the Prologue theme
7. Theme is xhtml & css valid (its a first for me!)

Well, its so nice and decent that I’ll be sharing it with my brother cos we do exactly the same things with our blog. Almost.. just waiting for that elusive iphone admin interface to get working with WordPress 2.5. I think I have just a little bit of details here and there such as his header and the colour scheme to take care of. Total time spent.. hmm… 10-15hours spread over a few days? Thats like really fast man. I guess its because its very low on graphics and I didn’t have to mess around with the CSS alot. I paid attention to web standards, typography, shades and author useability more than anything this time. I really like it! Don’t foresee it changing much in the near future. Think my skillz are not yet madz.. but it is getting there. My design still needs tons of improvement.

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My lovely niece is getting cuter everyday!

Quite quiet day. Woke up with a start cos the starhub guy came to deliver and install the new modem. Then after that I went with my dad to ikea to find a suitable thing to mount it above my door cos we decided there was the best place due to the signal strenth from the SCV tv point compared to upstairs. In the end we got a thick wire thing we bent into a holder shape. He drilled it in while I was at church anniversary practise. Speaking of which, it was super fast and like.. wa man, just practise a little while. Its the first time I’m not singing though. It frees me up to do the tech stuff in such a more relaxed state. Went for dinner after with dency, yx and ther cherns minus the little chern. Ate unti like super full. Now at my heaviest I’m only 93! haha.. and the lowest weight I’ve recorded is 90.7 so far.

Oh well, I’m going to rest. Have to go early to church and read scripture. I feel my life is like a super SUPER flat line now and its really dreary. Like I have no interest in anything at all or drive to do anything. Sigh.

Sometimes I want to rewind to a point in my life and choose not to be where I was. Minutes, hours, days or months.. doesn’t matter.

“What a difference a day makes”

Dinah Washington

How true it is. Hai. Sian man. Should have stayed home and wasted my life away on something else.

You know those flags and stuff you see around at national day? I went hanging them with my brother today.. wha, very xiong man. This is a picture of it before we started.

And the “after” picture will come tomorrow when I get them out of the other camera… Here’s the picture of the banners all done!

This is a picture of my brother tying it up with the wire that made my hand ache so much..

Rest of the photos are here

I think I need some peace and quiet from everyone, even if it means isolation for now. Thank you very much. I’m so tired of thinking and thinking of what to say so as not to sound wrong or get anyone upset. My blog doesn’t match up with my real life? Then maybe you shouldn’t read it or maybe you shouldn’t talk to me and think you know me like you used to. Choose one, don’t come disturb can already. I hate this kinda cryptic message to a certain so and so kinda thing crap but I mean, what does anyone expect me to do? What? Like what man? Tell me and I’ll do it..

Anyway now I’m kena-ing from everyone. Sigh. Sucks to be me.

Going to send my aunty for checkup for a lump on her chest. Probably going to take a whole morning. Maybe lunch with my sister and bro, maybe after that I can come back and continue packing my room up. This is making me pretty fed up already.

7am - Went to church ultra early in the morn because Dency was going that way to school. Went there, wiggled the Bb and it got unstuck just like the piano tuner said! Anyway it needs alot more wiggling before it gets permanently unstuck

8am - Left car at church and took bus to temple there and ate breakfast with Zegang then went to his house and slacked

9am - Listened to Benny Ho again, 4 down, a few more to go in the series. Found out he’s from FCBC! haha.. ops.. his expository is quite sound as far as I have heard.

12noon - Went back to church and drove the 12 air mattresses to Josh’s place. wah.. its like.. maybe 20-30kg? goodness.. had to carry it up to his place

2pm - Ate lunch with josh, jan and zg. They’ve been married twice already.. haha.. 3rd times the charm!

3pm - Pick Dency

4pm - go YX’s house and filddle with some midi stuff. Wanted to input the whole piano score but the Saffire LE won’t output it! RAH! I think I’ll just have to ask Eunice to play it for me and I’ll record it once through

8pm - Go Sandra’s house. Watched deal or no deal while they played sudoku (supposed to be tuitioning la!)

1030pm - Home after some fries and ice cream with YX.

1159pm - finished this blog post! (its still 27th! argh! I’m going to quickly hit the publish button!)

Have you ever felt like reading and listening were no good and you can’t get anything in your head although you really wanted to? I feel like that now. Anyway, I’ve been listening to Benny Ho’s Workshop on the beattitudes one at a time.. I promise I’ll upload it! Its a really good exposition (up to the 3rd one at least) with such real application. I think poverty of spirit, mourning over sin and meekness are all missing from my life. What do you do when you realise that? haha.. Sigh.

Does Romans 7:20 really mean what it means? of course, must read in context la.. Romans 7:13-25

So interesting, Romans 9:17-18 talks about a question I had last time about the Pharaoh and how he had no choice when God decided to harden him to show his power. Romans 9:19 basically says “Wha! but thats not fair! how can any man not do what God makes him do?” and then Romans 9:20-33 is the long reply that is summed up as “God can do whatever he wants because he is God” Sounds mean but honestly quite true. If I made a nice model and decided to squash it I would have every right to do so.