Because of Picasa 3, I started playing around with my photos.

And because I play around with the photos, I have to display it somewhere.

Because I want to display it somewhere, I blog.

So all thanks to Picasa 3, my blog is coming alive! =) haha..

Last weekend was funfilled! =)

Started my Saturday with my swimming kakis-Jidi, jiejie and elvin! Actually we swim just so we can eat breakfast after that. haha.. the Porridge near Jidi's house's market is SUPERB! =) It's our routine to eat there after swimming. =)


Went home to do some work after that and off we went for the Singapore Hit Awards!


It was rather disappointing as many artists were unable to come last minute BUT Fish Leong, Eason Tan and Mayday saved the day! =) There is a reason why they won so many awards over the years and can still be in the market for so many years!

The ceremony lasted for 3+hours and there were no train service anymore when it ended! Thank God for recent craze of Cantonese Drama! Haha.. Uncle Allan was still watching DVD when Fabian called him at 12:30am and he came to pick us up at City Hall! Happy! =)

On Sunday, esther, elvin, jidi and i went in to Msia to help out for the Final registration day for the BIGGEST spelling competition in Johor! Our family is the main organisor! When we closed, we had near 1000 sign ups!

One of the newspaper organised a "Spell it right" competition last yr and they only had 100+ sign ups! haha.. Really thank God for FAVOUR. Not just with the high number of registration but all the supportive sponsors, friends and relatives!

I'm really happy for my sister.. She has been back from Timor for 6+mths and God's hands have been really over her life and everything she does. Our God is really good eh? hee.. Her learning Hub is going to be ready by end of November and The Seed Holdings is really expanding! haha.. First was The Seed Childcare Centre and now The Seed Learning Hub. =) Elvin wants to open cafe so sis say we shall call it The coffee Seed. haha.. Maybe if esther open a boutique, we'll call it Fashion Seed. haha.. ok. not funny.

Monday was public holiday and we were at Nancy's Hair Salon's opening. We were invited to perform the opening song. Jidi led, elvin played guitar, esther me von and dory sang. =)

Ever since Nancy and I became friends about 1yr ago, my hair have been taken care by her. Just as I am typing this, esther chong just called to ask for nancy's number cos she's going to cut her hair! haha.. =) I have an appointment at Gracious Image tmr to colour my hair too! haha.. =)

Everyone who have been to Gracious Image will definitely agree with me that it's the most comfortable place to relax and have your hair done. They serve the NICEST red date tea! haha.. =)

I remembered when I needed to colour my hair for my wedding photoshoot, I had TWO stylists doing my hair. They sat down to discuss which colour to go with my skin tone. Shone light on my hair to see if the colours were even just so my hair colour will be consistent in every photographs. I'm serious. This is how serious they are about their work. =)

Serious they are but they are still the most friendly and fun pple EVER. haha.. Nancy and her staff are always very sincere and they actually make effort to remember what you share from previous visits. =)

Anyway, if you're interested to try them out, here's the address:

Gracious Image

Block 445 Clementi Ave 3 #01-149

(right beside Singapore Pools)

Alright.. Need to do other things le.

No sun today so no swimming for me. haha.. =)

This is a video Jin Quan and I did during IT class today. Learnt about movie maker and we totally finished the task teacher asked us to in 5min! haha.. =) But it's totally nonsensical. Just gotta hope that teacher won't flip. haha.. =)

ENJOY!

New Picasa is super cool! u can drag and resize the pictures for collage! cool! haha.. i gotta tell esther later sia! =)

Just some updates la.. have been very busy and exhausted from sch, house, etc..

I'm glad semester is coming to an end. Exams are coming but by God's grace, so far, i'm still quite on track. one more report, two more papers, i'm done with my supposedly last semester in my Uni life. Can't wait to start work cos I will be paid! Poor elvin have to pay all our household expenses and loans himself... DEARIE! I promise i will not skip another coaching session again! haha.. =) that's my only income now..

Anyway, elvin and i celebrated our 4th mth anniversary! haha.. have been so busy that we keep forgetting about special dates... alright! we went to Awon! recommended by Esther. Cheap and NICE! the marinated meat is really superb! not forgetting the soup that was literally sweet from the meat juices and the best part is it's only $19 per person! Korean BBQ and steamboat buffet. quite a steal i feel. (rhymes!)

Went to walk walk a bit after the very filling dinner. =)

Elvin's MANY expressions.

(p/s: this is only about 30%)

Dim Sum breakfast with the foongs!

(Tung lok restaurants are really not bad)

Arissa's bday celebration of which i didn't get to take a pic with her! hahhaa..

Hair Raya Makan at neighbour's place

His baby is so cute! always blurblur one. hee.. neighbour Nash has a jamming room with two drum sets, many different type of guitars and MANY MANY EG distortion paddles! (are they call paddles? whatever.) There were another young couple who came for the dinner. Christians too! so after playing some secular songs, elvin and young neighbour started playing "What the world will never take"! haha.. =) Frankly, this is my first time visiting neighbours. Always have weird and creepy neighbours who like to peep and watch. Ask my sis and you will understand. =)

Alright, i need to type out my presentation script to send to my class for revision purposes.

Back to work! =)

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
- Sir Winston Churchill

Have you given today? =)

I can't feel You movin' inside
I don't hear Your voice whisperin' in the night
And I've never seen You with these eyes
Am I a fool, am I just a fool?

They ask how I follow what I can't see
Why I trust in a love that my arms won't reach
I don't need You, don't need You, to prove it to me
I'll be a fool, yes I'll be a fool

'Cause blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe
And blessed are the hands that keep givin' but never receive
Blessed is the heart that gets broken but keeps holdin' on
Holdin' on for another day
'Cause that's what it means to live by faith

So I cry for Your help while the world looks on
And they laugh at my hope when all hope is gone
But I'll just keep prayin' when answers won't come
Am I a fool, am I just a fool..

For standing alone while they mock Your name
"Well if your God is so good, tell us why all the pain?"
I'm not sure, not so sure that God is to blame
So don't be a fool, please don't be a fool..

Cause blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe
And blessed are the hands that keep givin' but never receive
Blessed is the heart that gets broken but keeps holdin' on
Holdin' on for another day'
'Cause that's what it means to live by faith.

In a world where our questions are haunted
'Cause life's not as fair as we all wanted
Where the innocent die, we ask why
And still we await the reply...

Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe
And blessed are the hands that keep givin' but never receive
Blessed is the heart that gets broken but keeps holdin' on
Holdin' on for another day
Cause that's what it means...
it means holdin' on for another day.

'Cause that's what it means to live by faith
Yes that's what it means to live by faith
That's what it means to live by faith,
To live by faith.

-Live by Faith

my house is so nice now~! =)

Shifted the study out of our master bedroom to the future baby room and the former study is now a cosy corner AND the unintended "storeroom" is now clean and transformed into a nice guest room AND we are gonna do up the balcony! =)

So funny tt many people are so puzzled when we say that we are revamping our house. haha.. they are like "but u just shifted in for 3mths!" haha.. ANYWAY, now it's so much nicer! (although many say previously already very nice. muahaha...)

Anyway, I'm so glad elvin is home and no more night shift for a while. =)

AND we got our wedding photostory! it's so nice! all of u who will get married MUST engage 1950photography!

Alright.. i seriously need to sleep le. the movers are coming in real early tmr. =)

SO HAPPY! I love my house! =)

I love elvin foong! haha.. (dun faint.)

Today I saw a 5min slideshow of paralympics on Channel 5.
I was so touched, I teared.
Their determination and the confidence really amazed me.
Homan/Walraven won Women's Doubles Open on wheelchair.



The soccer team with blind players.



The many swimmers who do not have limbs and needed "tappers".

Igor Plotnikov of Russia won the gold medal in the Men's 100m Backstroke and he has no arms.
Li Duan who won the Men's Triple Jump and he is blind.All of them are so focused.
They are not obstructed by their disabilities or insecurities as they have converted their disabilities into abilities. They are not defeated by their disabilities.
Disability does not equate to inability.
I truly admire them.


Zhang Zhen who is blind and ran with a guide won Men's 1500m.

Zhang won and he was so happy but I wondered how the guide feels. No one knows the guide's name but what I saw was a selfless person, a father beaming with pride and joy, watching his son succeed.

It's time for some self-evaluation I guess..

Can I be like the athletes?

Can I be like the guide?

Not easy.

With esther pui see around, I just totally have no drive to blog cos she'll do all the blogging! haha.. =) Anyway, this wk hasn't seen esther much cos I was really rushing sch work, shoe orders, house warming invitation cards, FUN on SUN flyers, slacking, cooking and having frens over. =) Quite a good Sabbath cos I took time to just slow down, rest and really pondered about my life. haha.. my life. sounds big deal but it wasn't at all. haha.. but one thing for sure, I'm falling in love with resting.

Anyway, on MONDAY, my NIE friends came over for their turn of housewarming at our place! man.. it was madness rush cos preparation was in between lessons and I was having a very bad headache from sleeping only at 3am the previous night. NONETHELESS it was FUN! Really thank God for the MOST wonderful classmates EVER!
Joseph, XW and I meet almost every morning for breakfast. We'll have mini bible sharing before lessons. We try our best not to let the content deviate too far. haha.. =) Have been praying and working hard with them to tell my ONES more about God and things have definitely been quite smooth sailing! GOD IS GOOD! =)

TUESDAY was spent at my MIL and FIL's place for dinner. Elvin and I rushed down from SGH cos elvin was having his MRI for his back.. Praying hard that it won't deteriorate. DINNER was fantastic! What's even better was the company! Sis and Jidi! =) A great night of rehearsing for the photo challenge! DANGER.

the C.T.S.S kids came over on WEDNESDAY for dinner! oh my! they were hilarious! esp VERONICA! man.. she CAN eat sia! and YANJING is a rice pot!she just keep eating A LOT of rice! haha.. As usual, once the netballers meet, it's nonstop netball talk. Poor darren, elvin and yiqing.. They were trying so hard to watch TV cos we were so loud in our discussion! haha.. =) Then we starting talking about shoes and YanJing's prom dress. It felt funny cos they like 8yrs younger and they were asking for some advices and I totally felt SO old. BUT I love this bunch! Told them they can come again when they are free and veronica immediately asked if she can come over to study tmr! hahaha.. =)

didn't go NUS on THURS cos I was SO tired.. After elvin got off from his OT, we rushed to IMM to get ingredients for TODAY's dinner feast. GIANT is so cool. It's huge and they really sell almost EVERYTHING.

FRIDAY!!!!!! Charis wong was my highlight of the day! Went out with her to get some craft materials and after that she came by my place to do craft! haha.. i'm seriously spreading this craft thing!! fun!

SATURDAY!! Just ended Dinner with kor, kaixin, elvin, sis, raj. I cooked a storm! two types of dumpling, roasted prok belly, special egg dish, vegetables, ABCDEF soup, etc!! Thank God for elvin! who always clean up after me! =)
AND elvin and I played NETBALL for 3hrs at NUS in the morning! super shiok! Playing something that u like so much with someone whom u like so much is the best thing ever! =)

SUNDAY! going NIE to support my students for PESS. AND watch veronica and qian hui compete! =)

ok.... falling asleep.

是时间到了吗？

我们不甘心，因为那是我们应该在的地方。

但是应该和属于是不一样的。

害怕了。

厌恶了。

不快乐了。

需要时间修养、养伤。

可能是时候学习爱自己多一点。

所以时间到了吗？

大叹一口气。

再吸一口其他地方的氧气。

有精神了。

轻松了。

时间到了吗？

好像是。

真的是。

I realised I'm so lazy to blog because my xiao gu aka bestie aka esther foong (the real one for 20yrs) blog everything in such great details! AND she's so willing to wait for the pics to load! i'm totally impatient when it comes to photo blogs.. anyway, if u wanna know about:
1. Kuishin-bo makan outing
2. Jessie's 21st bday party
3. KT trip
4. KL trip
please visit her blog at http://innocuous-reliance.blogspot.com

YEAH! i only need to blog about my teaching experience now! haha.. Was having my 3rd attachment at P.i.o.n.e.e.r Primary for 5 wks~ really thank God for favour, wisdom and protection.

Primary 5 girls
Primary 5 boys
Primary 2

Ok.. like now, i've totally lost patience.. gonna go lib to borrow some bks.. maybe i'll come back and blog later. hahaha..oh ya! check out my new designs at http://myloveforshoes.blogspot.com !!

Dun really have time to update yet but just some photos to keep u guys engaged first.
wait k? hee... =)

me
elvin