Mothers' Day Cum Mum's Birthday!

Thursday night... i was supposed to have dragonboat training but due to the injuries i decided to pontant! HAHA but im not that kind who cant take hardships! Of course there was a more substantial reason for skipping the training! It was Mummy's birthday! Haha the previous day mum keep asking sis and me "TOmorrow nobody eating dinner with me huh?" We of cos the dummy crabs din get the hint and i even told her eat at home la! Eat at home we eat with u wad! Only at night before she sleep she told me it's her birthday the next day!

Well, we decided to eat at Thai Village Sharksfins because Dad still have the voucher that was expiring on 9 May. Hmmm, now recently with all the hoolabaloo regarding eating Sharksfin, yep we do have to cut down a little but i believe mum's birthday is a good reason to break the NO SHARKFIN RULE YEAH? haha but the 3 of them ate and not me... Somehow i lost interest in delicacies!

Snapshot of mum and me! So blur rite? (handphone camera abit faulty!)

Anyway, i didnt get mum anything but hmmm, i think in every mums' heart, they just want their children and family to be safe and healthy. For those who think that mums being housewives are useless, Think Again! According to the Sunday Times, a stay home mother would actually be paid a gross amount of $23,000 per month if you consider her work scope! That is so much more than what working mothers actually earn! So i know mummy doesnt bother that she is presentless after all she did receive flowers and cakes from her colleagues!

Well, i would like to share with all of you an ice-cream lover's heaven and dream ice cream platter! Dad, Sis and me indulge in this 40 bucks ice cream heaven included 7 scoops of ice crea flavours of your choice and with extra touches of presentation of fruits. Well, i think personally it was a rip off as 40 bucks for 7 scoops it's like almost 6 bucks per scoop! We paid so much extra for the dried ice and the smokey smokey presentation! But oh well, this is marketing and branding! For the experience and the family fun and bonding of tucking into the ice cream, this price is a small price to pay.

Love you all. A HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY TO ALL!

A very Unlucky Day for me

Hey ya all... Today events and events keep pouncing on my minute body and soul so much that i feel powerless. Powerless to control anything at all... Firstly, let's talk about the Statistics Project. My group mates and I spent extra time in school to discuss the project and we came up with "Setting up a LaNshop in NYP". But you know, today during the discussion with Stats teacher, all she had to do was check a piece of paper, and she bellowed "Cannot this one not allowed. REDO!" And what can we all do but scramble back to our seats as little rats and make our little minds think fast again to produce another entire new idea!

Hmmmm, the next one is about dragonboat training. This training is no laughing matter! We started of with a 1.2km jog. WHat was to come next was beyond my wildest imagination. The coach gave us 15 sets of push-ups, crunches, jumping jacks and another thing called "breacher" where you can only balance your entire body with your elbows and toes. Each set has 15-20 reps and the worse thing was if anyone one was to do it incorrectly, we kena another extra 5. I tell you guys, the pumps and all that was OK. But the ground which was the track was so rough, can you imaging doing the breacher for 1 whole minute? Look at my elbows and knees! THey have serious serious abrasions!

Oh well, forget about that. I got home and the first question my sis asked was "Jie, how did you come home?" And of course i was puzzled why such a question was posted to me! WHy no "HEllo, you are back?" But my sis then told me that my stats lecturer was trying to contact me, he even called my house phone which my sis answered. Apparently, my wallet was found by a group of students and the cash inside ALL GONE but the cards and all that are still intact. So he wants me to get it back. IM SO SUAY TODAY! My wallet is gone! GONE GONE! I lost trust in mankind now, really. I always tried to look at the good side of people but now reality has opened my eyes.

My whole body aches now... ANd i just applied Zembark to my wounds... Gonna hit the sack and praying that tomorrow will be a better day.... =( Sayonara.

Worrying about old Age

Yeah, the puzzling thing is im yet to hit 18, why am i worrying about growing old?
Growing old is a beautiful thing, is part and parcel of life, it is a process that God has given everyone on the earth.

Sadly though, people age differently. Some age gracefully, with their faces free of free running "train lines" and with faces as if they've just stepped out of a plastic surgeon clinic. For my grandparents though, they seemed to be plagued with illnesses. Cycles and cycles of haunting evils that attack there once healthy and strong bodies and reduce them to skin and bones.

God is a God of humour indeed. My paternal grandma who recently got a stroke and lose the use of her legs for now got better enough to be transferred to the Ang Mo Kio hospital-- a stone's throw away from my house but my maternal grandpa was warded into Tan TOck Seng hospital instead.

Mum went to see grandma in the hospital this morning and she came back lamenting to me that grandma kept asking about me. Funny thing was she didnt ask about my sis... Later in the afternoon, when i visited grandpa at TTSH, my heart ache at seeing the strong man that used to be so fit. THe GOng GOng that i once used to play with, the one who always let me touch his biceps, reducing to almost a child size...

Mum said that he had lost his appetite recently, but when we arrived, he was tucking into his bowl of mee kia. He even managed to finish the bowl of mee kia, that's quite a feat if you compare that to him eating only 2 spoonfuls of rice at other times! HMM, i must have given him the appetite! When he saw me, tears seemed to form within his hollow eyes, i say hollow because his eyes has sunken in due to the tremendous weight loss. I asked Grandpa if he was crying, but of cos he defended and said no.

For that brief half hour visit, i kept touching GOng GOng. I know sick people like the human touch, the touch of humanity, the unsaid bond that amazing flows from a healthy being to a sick one. Most importantly, THE LOVE that carries along that moment of contact. I never seen grandpa for months, and i know he misses me. Yet, i kept putting off visiting my grandparents house.

I asked mum why he cried, she says im the closest to him since he babysitted me, bathe, took me for walks, pat me to sleep at 3am in the night during my first year of my life. Even though that period of time is forgotten in my small baby memory, GONG GONG still have those memories with him... I asked mum since he misses me then why dun he talk more to me in the hospital, mum said that just my presence made his day and sometimes there are things which words cannot replace... oh gosh, im wondering how he is right now in the hospital...

Im not gonna waste the time in my life anymore, while my grandparents are alive and well, with their hearts beating and with their bodies stilll warm, i wanna feel that body temperature. It will be too late if one day there bodies become just an empty shell and with a temperature that is colder than the rainy days. So tomorrow and the days coming, no matter how busy i may be, i will try to visit them.

Why must old age rob people of their vitality? I wanna be Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up...

Take my life and do it as you will!

"Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of GOd" (Romans 10:17)

Hey ya all, how is the faith going along? Faith in every step of your life. Faith in my wonderful Abba Father. Today, i had my first Campus Crusade for Christ Discipleship meeting. It's actually a bible study and there were supposed to be 6 girls in the group. The funny thing is, after my project work with my group mates which ended at 3.30pm i wanted to leave the school. Wanted to give an excuse like "Im sick" or "I have extra lessons" to skip the bible meeting group. I even walked to the Yio Chu Kang Mrt with Kailing and Casslyn and intended to head home. But whoa a soft whisper was in my head telling me not to. There was something waiting back in school for me. A promise to meet with my group leader. The dilemma and the struggle to head home and escape GOd yet again or to attend the bible group was disturbing. Finally, guess who won? GOD WON! How can me a mere human tackle GOd?

Boy im so glad i i attended it. I had to call the leader Selina cos it's my first time meeting her and i have no idea how her features, her body figure or her dressing style will turn out to be. HAHA but when i finally met her, everything just came down to a halt. I felt reconnected again, with God... The funny thing is all the other members in the group couldnt come so it was literally just me and group leader. HAHA. Awkward? Yeah, you bet but being our first face to face meeting, it was a good chance to know each other. THANKS LORD. I NOE YOU PROVIDED FOR ME THIS CHANCE.

Hmmm, i thank the Lord for providing me a very good project group! HAHA the boys are so nice to bully. My members are so willing to endure the torturing heat in the Mcdonald canteen and a half hour meeting actually extended to 1 and a half hour one! But at least we did our Stats ICA questions, hey thinking questions is really brain wrecking ya noe?

HAHA, hey to the girls who laughed at me during Stats lecture about you know la...hmmm, there's absolutely nothing between us. I told you my darkest secret so you 5 keep the secret k!! WHoa, ok im having writer's block now. Shall stop now. SEE YA ALL SOON!