tagboard

19th July, Tuesday
time to get my tagboard up....hai. try try try.

sign on?

18th July, Monday
recently got a letter from the army recruitment centre about an invitation to join a career talk on the 30th July. apparently they are offering a study award as part of the terms for signing on as an officer in the armed forces. i have to admit that the offer is really tempting. they are gonna pay for the entire cost my uni school fees, not exactly a small sum, i think for my 4 years in smu it'll cost my parents more than 20k, plus theres a $9000 yearly allowance on top of that and a computer and hostel allowance, not to mention a guaranteed job upon graduation. a really good deal. so far i've talked to a couple of people about it and the feedback has been positive. my parents are open to the option too, except that dad has had bad experiences with bonds so he's always weary whenever that 4 letter word appears.

funny thing is, mom and dad always tell me not to worry about our finances but then i look at my dad working as a taxi driver trying to support a household of 5 and my common sense tells me it isn't as easy as they make it out to be. i guess they just don't want me to worry so that i can concentrate on my studies. at the end of the day i'm not about the money, we can make do with less, but i am keen to do what i can to ease the financial burden off my dad's shoulders. i mean all my life i've been sponging off my parents, i think its time i gave something back to the family. haha, sounds so wei2 da4. so although it'll probably mean signing off a good part of the best years of my life, i'm pretty much ready to do it. anyway we'll see how it goes, maybe in the end the army might not even want me. haha. leave it in God's hands, he knows best.

on a lighter note, i went to eat kamping soup today, the chinese kind. then went to top up the soup, at first i din know if it was allowed so i kinda asked in a sheepish way. heng the auntie nice, she say okay and give me almost a full bowl. of course no meat lah but the soup alone also shiok ah. but i still prefer the malay type, got more ooomph! haha. i didn't sleep 10 hours yesterday man, i only slept 9/1/2. which is actually a lot also lah. haha. but i din sleep 10 hours. bleh. its 12:30 now, just did qt a while ago then was thinking whether or not to play a game of dota first then sleep but i think i shall resist the temptation to do so and go turn in early instead. so thats all for today folks. peace out.

god

14th July, Thursday
lead worship last sunday. everytime i lead its a new experience and i still get really nervous, even though its been more than half a decade since the first time i did it. last sunday was no different. you know sometimes the practice turns out great but somehow the actual worship turns out different? well, i was afraid that would happen again on sunday. spent the night before praying and committing the session to the Lord. i was reminded again for the upteenth time that i had very little control over the outcome of the worship and that it was God's presence and power that i had to rely on at the end of the day, all i could do was practice hard, pray and prepare as well as i could. that i did. i think the worship went well enough in the end, praise god. once again i'm grateful to Him for coming through for me time and again.

been working out the details of this blog for a while. so far i managed to put up my own pic as the background of the layout. accomplishment =). put in the links as well, and they actually work. accomplishment number 2 =). now left the tagboard, heh heh heh. you may think whats e big deal but you have to realise that i belonged to blogdrive before this. i.e noob land for new bloggers. so this is a pretty big step up.

went to ecp on wednesday with my ltb(leadership team building) buds. had a great time kayaking and blading, although i kanna burnt from the first activity and scraped my knee on the second, i still had fun. took 197 back from ecp and got pple complain that its the long way to the mrt cos gotta walk an extra 100m. lol. sorry, haha. went to pst jon and mich's place for bdae dinner. we had steak and potatoes and thailand coffee for dessert. managed to resist the temptation to have an ice cream at the end, so proud! haha. although i really wanted to eat but cuzzin keeps poking fun at the dissappearing length of my chin. booo. that makes us even, cos i poke about her having puffy cheeks. haha. no offense cuz. ;)

lastly, big mac meal costs 5bucks only. hah! couldn't help saying that...

finding the one

7th July, Thursday
erm, i mean finding the right template. its 8:20am, AM in the morning and i'm sitting infront of my laptop. din sleep well the previous night, not sure why though, just couldn't get a restfull sleep. woke up at 6:00am in fact. so i thought why not come up with something new for a blog, like how difficult can it get right? just put up a picture, underline a few things, cut here, paste there...haha. wrong. 2 hours later and i still can't get the alignment right, the tagboard, font size...blah blah blah. what am i doing awake at this hour anyway?? lol. anyway, hope that this thing turns out okay. the first layout will probably suck cos its my first time so hopefully things will get better along the way. guess i'll have to resort to drag, drop, cut, paste for now. hopefully one day i'll graduate to html, haha, like real.

life is unpredictable...hmmm. except birth and death, can't run away. everything else inbetween is made up of choices you make. bad ones you learn from, good ones you thank for. there is someone who watches over all of us to make sure that even the worst choices you make can turn out with a good ending. i believe.

a new beginning

7th July, Thursday
hello,

testing....123