ZERO TO HERO

Hi girls

long time no see :) 

i guess that’s an understatement right haha. 

i admit i haven’t been following the blog, so today, about 3 hours before i leave for iceland for what will probably be the best 6 days of my life, i’m going to do a post to you all ….

…but looking at all the posts, it’s truly astonishing how much you’ve grown. i don’t have to be there to literally see it, i can already read from your writings that you’ve all gained a better perspective of life, on seeing the larger the picture of faith, and giving thanks to God in all trials and tribulations. ok maybe except for naomi who posts the retarded pictures. 

joking la. (is singlish allowed here?)

i smile at rachel’s wit about man’s ability to understand and conceive great ideas, it’s not bad, even if it’s waffling haha. i laugh at how jan and nat quibble about hating long posts, when they are the main contributors to them. i cheer at naomi’s abiility to find the RANDOMEST stuff to post here. and how she reposts stuff from mel’s blog. hahaha. i like Hill’s sharing about her life (man your mum is hilarious)….i dun really like how i have to turn my computer sideways to read what claire is posting, but i like the words. 

little fragments of your lives, and as i read them, i feel like i’m picking them up one by one…metaphorically anyway. 

WHERE’S YAN YAN?! 

but anyway, i just want to tell you girls that i’m more than good, i’ve learnt and lived through so much in this past three months…past half a year, if you include new york, that i don’t know how to share it without me jumping and tripping over myself like an angry bird clattering into a bunch of those pigs. 

maybe some pictures will help. just to let you know what i’ve been up to for the past couple of months..

the horizon from Cork, Ireland…

another one from bristol harbour, england….

…flocking around the pissing boy in brussels, belgium. it’s just a statue of a boy peeing, but they make a big deal about their city icons, which are essentially 3 statues - a pissing boy, a pissing girl, and a pissing dog. well it’s not like we have our own city icon - the peeing lion at esplanade. 

….cycling through the night lights of amsterdam. man, amsterdam is crazily eye-opening. 

…here’s a side of paris people won’t show you often. i thought abt putting up a picture of the eiffel but i bet you weren’t expecting this. haha. they are real by the way. the skulls and bones. it made me think: in the end, we all look the same leh, famous or unknown, rich or poor, saint or tyrant. 

this is like 3 months in a VERY VERY small nutshell. 

i’m off to iceland tomorrow, for one last hurrah! it’s going to be CRAZY. my original plan with my friend was to rent a car and a tent and sleep outside, and just drive to some random God-knows-where on the map, but looking at the temperatures in iceland - minus 9 to minus 11 types… i don’t know if i’ll freeze to death there. and now there’s this icelander who’s having this winter party there and we’re all going… it’s just crazy. who knows what will happen when we’re there. excited just thinking about it. woo! 

i think i’m going to hate packing up for singapore.

but, whenever i read your posts, i think of the cell i’ve called family in the last 4 years back in church…..i can’t help but look forward to it :) 

cya soon

Josh Q 

Argh gah the page refreshed and I lost my entire draft tsk tsk. Anyways here’s my post as best as I could rememberrr:)

Hey yow all ye darlings!!! Hope you guys are enjoying the holidays immensely especially with the Christmassy spirit in the air. :) anyways I haven’t been posting much and actually skipped a couple of my slots…but I’ll make up for it!!! Reeaally! ahaha. So I just wanted to share a littlely loverly testimony, just those things that the Lord does because He can which makes me happy and encourages me lots.

On Sunday, we got all our church camp stuff, the shirts and nametags and all that and I was pretty much set for it. Then Dad came home on Monday evening and said that he was going to be away and overseas for a business trip almost too quickly, which also meant he couldn’t possibly go for the church camp. One pax, no biggie right? But Mum said that if dad wasn’t going for the camp, the whole family was not going!!! It made no sense to me. I could not see the logic in it. Mum wasn’t interested in being a super mum and have 2 kids on her hands while travelling out of Singapore. I was pretty bummed. Whined a bit, but not outrightly arguing for it. I glumly accepted it. For a while.

On Tuesday morning, I was just walking alone to the MRT station and the sun was up and everything was heavenly and I wondered why I didn’t pray to God about it. For one thing, I didn’t doubt that God hadn’t the capabilities. I know He could do anything. So I just walked and prayed. Because it still didn’t make sense to me. I was like, Lord, come on! It’s your camp! I don’t want to miss it! Why would you let me miss your camp?!?!?! You can do it I know you can…grumble grumble whine whine… but I still prayed that His will be done. And I shoved it at the back of my mind as I met my friend at the MRT.

My friend and I hung out he entire afternoon playing Wii Mariokart, Mario Party Mario galaxy and stuff. And I had a blast! Then mum swung by to pick me up at 4ish. No sooner had I entered the car did she announce that we were going ahead with the camp after all!!! She declared that life goes on and that we would go without dad, but visit him overseas during Christmas time!

I was so blown away. For one thing, I hadn’t expected it to happen just yet, it was so fast( I just entered the car with my mind still on Mario) and for another, I hadn’t expected it to happen like that, so dynamically and confidently declared. I hadn’t had a mental picture prepared of what would actually happen, to be honest, but this was unexpected. My first thought was wow, what just happened? and the next was yay!!!

So now, I hope that there won’t be anymore changes to the plans and I am looking forward to the camp much. :) I’m really happy, not to mention amazed that my prayer was answered in less than 12 hours!!! Ahaha. Hope to see you all there and that we’ll all have a blast!!! Don’t stress out on the Christmas shopping! I’m not fussy about my presents. hee hee hee. jk jk. It’s the thought that counts :)

Besides, we’ve already got the greatest gift of all.

God bless,

Hills

Hi all! Oh my goodness I haven’t set foot in here for ages. Heh. Fair warning, this post has little, if any, relevance to the majesty of our Lord.

Exams are over (at least Os are. ‘A’s are still ongoing)! Whoohoo so sparkly and happy, goodbye thought process! Not sure if any of you feel this way, but all this freedom is frightening. I don’t know what to do with myself; there is only so much partying one can do. However my fear of being utterly useless and all that rot has yet to come true; my grandmother passed away a few days ago and we had to make arrangements asap and such. So there’s been some activity at least.

This is absolutely callous of me to say, but I don’t feel sad at all about her being dead. I just feel sad that her house will have to be sold. Plenty of fond memories there and I will definitely miss it. She had a fraction of the impact that my grandfather had on me, which was obviously not the case for the hordes of relatives and half sisters that came to the wake and stuff. They talked about what an entrepreneur my ex-heiress of a grandmother was (she married my utter pauper/kampong boy of a grandfather because she loved him), how kind, how etc etc etc and I cannot share their grief because I don’t know any of this. Grandma’s niece even tried to stop the coffin from being carted to the crematorium.

Anyway main point here is: forget about drinking lead and arsenic. Make good of the time God gave you with friends and family. It sometimes sucks being emotionally attached to people (especially because they die so easily and hurt your feelings sometimes), but this is the immortality that we can have; to live forever in the minds of people. K this is getting too sappy and philosophical so I shall stop here. Happy holidays, and don’t forget to make every day a summer of love!

Rachel

HELLO EVERYONE. :D

Os are finally over for EVERYONE (YAY) and i’m sure we’ve all been having super doses of fun :) i know i had fun!

i think we’re all awesome for being able to conquer the o levels and now is really the time for us to all relax, and just have fun :D 

In the spirit of fun, i think we should all go for a cell outing :) to like ice skating or a movie or dinner or to you know some place awesome. (click it) 

I’m really hoping we can go out together as a cell, afterall, we are pretty free now. HAHAHAHAHA. 

Don’t forget to thank God for getting us through the O levels, cos i know how easy it is to depend on him when we need him, but conveniently forget or procrastinate talking to him when we don’t feel the need to talk to him anymore. I know I’m guilty of it, and i’ll be trying to talk to God at  least once a day :) 

He’s given us the gift of time, and we should give just that little bit back. :D

ps: Janice, if you didn’t realise, i think i’m responsible for most of the long posts. HAHAH.

-Nat :)

i know i was suppose to post yesterday but i figured that you guys probably wont see it till tonight, after you guys are done celebrating the end of Os(: this week i thought i’ll share with you guys about a movie(:

so this movie. In Time. basically, it’s about how humans after they got genetically modified to stop aging at 25. but their clock begins. time is their currency. the rich live forever while the poor struggle with time. i’ll spoil the movie a bit for you. there are 12 time zones, 12(the ghetto) being for the poor and 1(new greewich) being for the rich. so cut everything short, this guy, will salas, lives in the ghetto, some guy with over a century on his clock, gives his time to will, will watched his mum time out before him, gets pissed with the system and then leave for new greenwich and try to change things. he then meets this rich man’s daughter, runs away with her and become some kind of dynamic duo that steals from the rich to help the poor.

i think one thing that stood out was human greed. people would just steal time from each other. and the rich would belive that “for some to be immortal, many must die” and what came to me at that point of time was the food distribution problem in the world… maybe i’ve been studying too much geog but it’s pretty much the same idea. there is more than enough food for everyone and yet people are dying from starvation. we cant do like the movie but we can pray and i believe that that is our greatest weapon. 

ps sorry nat, i know you dont like wordy posts ><

-jan