TGIGF

祂做了人做不到的事。

Chio slip-ons

The looooong wait at Science CBLC these days due to the supersized lecture notes prepared by lecturers who paste high-res pictures like no-one's business.

And my 2-page tutorial is finally out.

During which I grew bored and looked online for slip-ons to feed my fantasies, and indeed I have found some of note :)

the Supra Cuban Black. It's the bling, seriously.

DVS El Gringo. Smooth.

Passing Phenomenon

Levis' shoes FTW

Some Levis' sale at Tampines Mall.

Impre 1st runner-up

NY Chronicles Reoprter: "So why did you guys choose to incorporate 'I Will Survive' and 'Nobody' into your medley?"

Evan: "You want the technical answer?"

All I want in the midst of this mess

is to spend time on what matters.

Cornered

Been in a mood swing these few days, between pressure and comfort, and then from extreme stress to exhilaration.

I guess, after calling off jam session after jam session, finally clearing 6 songs in one single night of jamming did its trick :D

Still, adrift the sea of concepts and assignments, I wonder if I can ever surface. And the 50-page SS reading does NOT help!

First time

第一次新年不能吃肉干 :(

第一次过情人节 :)

You know you're a postmodernist when

You know you're a postmodernist when you see this message on the copy machine

and you think,

"You didactic piece of shit."

Festive mood

There's no escaping the New Year mood. Not if you dine at Engin Canteen these few days.

There's of course Valentine's Day too!

Also at Engin...

REIS, in the form of L.I.M. (Less is More), got into Impresario 2010 Finals! I should be keeping our group number tag in my wallet for quite some time... :D

Head Games

I fondly recall my crazy TJC Online Forum days when I actually had the luxury of time to do lame shit like this.

That's most of our batch of Forum moderators, by the way.

Before it's Ready

我们教会对于「会友当中谁和谁在一起」这方面的观察力似乎很强。这话是听妳说的。

我倒是在猜想，妳当时说这番话时，心里想的是什么。尤其是如今，当弟兄姐妹说已开始察觉到妳和我之间的…情谊。

我选择冷静，选择避免自己胡思乱想。但今天还是忽然觉得「旁观者清」这句话蛮好听的。

但我绝不会在时机成熟之前惊动…「那个字」。

Equation

Somehow I've equated simple to boring. And boring to unappealing, and many other things.

Given that, I might not have the chance to experience simplicity for quite some time.

When you know you're living in danger of losing that special something or someone you know that all you have to do is to

get your game back together.

isaiah lives in the constant fear of

one day seeing the biggest & fattest house lizard he'll ever encounter.

The chalet where we had Bible Study Camp merely fed that phobia till it got about as fat as that lizard in his mental picture.

2nd chance at a huge price

I guess that means I'll have to take Organic Chem again next semester. In every other way, things are better than the previous Semesters, so next Sem if I can finally nail Organic, things will take a good turn.

I mean a good turn divided by 2.

Somehow because of this shit that happened, I'm less anxious at clearing my 2000s by the end of year 2 -- it has now become impossible anyway. All I'm having questions about is where God is leading everything in relation to, erm, matters of the heart.

My confidence at taking things further suffered a hull breach when CM2121 gave me the _|_. For that split second, questions upon questions about my supposed future career came upon me and for once I fully realised the importance of having a future which I can then lead someone into.

I'm improving, albeit too slowly. Too slowly. I suddenly have the urge to punish myself by delaying gratification until the end of the next Sem, when I can finally chalk up better grades to... prove myself? Prove my worthiness? Worthiness of what? By God's standards I'm not worthy of anything and everything I've been given had been grace. This pursuit of mine in question is going to be so much more of a grace from God.

But I guess, in spite of the little struggle I've just reportedly been through, I'm not the waiting kind. I foresee I'll be fine in the few days to come, when we'll next meet. What immediately follows will be crucial. Whether this tiny series of events will be a foretaste of things to come next Semester, I don't wanna know. All I know is that I might not want to do uncalculated things like ripping off my own heart in the middle of a Semester, again.

Home Home

I totally get what Kelvin said about not wanting to shop in SG again. For some reason, stuff's always cheaper outside Singapore, be it US or Batam!

Still, going to 2 neighbouring countries within this short week (on church assignments for both) made me stop and think about how much I've taken the clean and orderly streets of Singapore (and the traffic lights!!) for granted. National Education can't do shit, seriously, while an overseas trip or two was all it took to make me treasure my home country and the level of creature comfort and religious freedom that we enjoy. Now I can finally truly say, there's no place I'd rather be.

Still, it's good training for next summer, when I'll be out teaching music to kids in the plains of Mongolia, if Steph & gang's plans come to fruition.

Since I last blogged

I've

• Taken my exams. Urgh.
• Braved JLPT2 after mugging for 2 days.
• Participated in church camp and now feel more spiritually revitalised than ever (and finally grew tired of prawns)
• Gone for my first short mission trip with my church to Batam and having my life changed by a S$5 polo tee.
• Gotten sore fingers from playing Bass.

... and I'll be

• Doing posters for Campus Fellowship activities the next semester
• Carolling and spreading the Good News at Dhoby Ghaut on, of all days, Dec 22
• (while trying to keep the BAD news out of my mind)
• Spending the most unromantic New Year's eve ever. With my BAND!

The next level for our band is so near yet so far, especially in times like this when the Ben & Jerry's Open Mic programme is being suspended and suddenly we realised that for now, we've lost our source of regular gigs. We've just gotta keep at doing what we love, and take active steps to improve. For me, "Improvement" in a very real sense might only be possible after Emerge, when I'll contemplate leaving VOICES.

GG

The good kind of GG.

Giving it a pass though, it's not gonna be that affordable and I've already got a white/gold watch, but still!

5

2 things I will start doing. No, 3 things on my to-do list, now that I got my 5-string bass.

• Perfect my muting techniques which are, sad to say, pretty immature as of now.
• Practice playing with a pick.
• Continue on my quest for Muse's HYSTERIA!

One night in YIH

2 cans of Red Bull, one pack of sweets.

Motivation: deadline.

Incentive: ???