some people don't know how to treasure what they've got in life. they just like to look at what they dont have, and not at what they have. so to everyone out there, before you start complaining about how your life sucks and family sucks, just look at what there is for you, and compare it to those who are less fortunate than you. nobody can choose what kinda family they wanna be born into. its just a matter of fate, and once its like that, there's no changing it. just accept the fact that you're stuck with a life thats like that, and seek ways to improve it. not complain about it. AND also. some people like to count the bad stuff in others rather than counting the good stuff. and they like to FOCUS on that.
take for example, the minute my mother got home today, she was like. "come downstairs and help me keep clothes." and "go hang up those jackets" and "go tidy up the living room". yeah. and she makes remarks like. "EH. go cover the piano lah!" then i though she meant the solid cover. so i just said i covered it already. then she goes scolding me saying that i can't keep my eyes open cos the cloth to cover the piano is just on top of the piano blahblahblah. and cos i forgot to open the window, she just calls me a "kick one time move one time" sorta kid. see? she just counts the imperfections too. she didnt look at the little details like how i helped wash the dishes before she got home and tidied my room and stuff. and then she ended the scolding by saying "what a bad child." and i told her, "a disobedient child is when you tell him/her to do something, and she/he just ignores it and refuses to obey. a bad child does not mean chucking a whole load of chores at him/her and forgetting to do one small simple task." which in my case was opening the window. =.="
uhhuh. lame? yes. but what can i do? nothing.
hah. today was a sian day at school. had 2 maths and 2 science periods, and an oh-so-boring geography lab session. first thing, i'm freaking pissed with my bio lab partner. xinyu. it's not my fault that i have to be her lab partner since my register number is next to hers. i wish she weren't even in my class. all she did during lab was sit there and take out ONE testube of hers. and she didnt even bother to do her share of worksheets. then she spends so much bloody time chopping up the food samples. and cleaning her darn testubes with soap. and breaking glass droppers. gaah. i feel like strangling her. hmms.
after school i waited for mel and zenda to finish their "meeting" with ms wee. or smth like that. then had to help mel carry boxes of files up to her class. hahah. halfway called keith over and chucked him a box. haaah. and i stole his hellopanda. went to canteen and saw nicola eating hellopanda. stole some also. bwahahahah xD. then keith also wanted to go home, so walked out together with mel and me. had fun time crapping about suitable slacky CCAs for them. wahaahh. okaaye. thats how my day ended in schooool =)
the greatness of gratitudeJesus was on His way to Jerusalem when ten lepers approached Him. standing at a distance, as lepers were required to do, they called to Him:"Jesus, have mercy on us!" (Luke 17:13).
when Jesus saw them, He commanded,"Go, show yourselves to the priests." and as they journeyed, they were healed.
onr of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back, threw himself at Jesus' feet, and thanked Him. "Where are the nine?" Jesus asked. good question.
Jesus referred to the grateful man as a Samaritan-an outsider-perhaps to underscore His saying that "the sons of this world are more shrewd...than the sons of light" (16:8). the word translated "shrewd" means "thoughtful". sometimes people of the world have better manners than Jesus' followers do.
in the busyness of life, we may forget to give thanks. someone has done something for us-given a gift, performed a task, delivered a timely sermon, provided a word of counsel or comfort. but we fail to say thanks.
has someone done something for you this week? give that friend a call or send a thankyou note. after all, "Love has good manners" (1 corinthians 13:5)
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we thank you Lord for blessings
You give us on our way;
may we for these be grateful,
and praise You every day.
(adapted from Our Daily Bread, January 29)
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okay. so has my post enlightened you guys? hahah. do not underestimate the power of these 2 words, "thank you" yep! just your way of showing gratitude to whatever has been done for you. anyway, i shall say a big THANK YOU to all my friends out there. what would the world be like without them? hahahaaah.
well, today was kinda slack(: firstly had english in 2rp! yepyep. i miss that classroom. hahah. the table that we drew on with chalk is still there. can see the words faintly. and also the 3 words i carved there. hahahs. saw another table with the JOY <3 SHIANGG there(: aww so sweeeet. brings all the memories of 2rp back): i still miss that class!!! haahahah.
yep and during reccess i think i broke my record of slurping down a bowl of piping hot wanton mee in 2 minutes. and ran all the way up to the 4th floor just to see my teacher standing at the flight of stairs and chit-chatting with the clown. wahahah. aye. then during history the teacher also can't control the class, so after i finish the worksheets i just turn around and talk to the irritating people sitting behind me - alex, sean, darren, edwin (in order of appearance). HAHAH! and act crayzee. then kna whack on head by dunno who. i think sean or alex. for no reason!! then that stupid edwin keep asking me to play scissors paper stone with him coz he knows i will lose =.=" lame lah.
ooo yep last night went to Mediacorp! to support beekwee in campus superstar! hahah she has such a nice voice, but sadly she didn't make it to the next round. nevermind! we will always support her! ((: yeah! and adriano is SO CUTE can??? hahahah. yup then after that went to shiang's house to stay over! wahahaha. play with her comp and hairdryer blahblahblah. and prank calling people at 3am but sadly they didnt wake up! gaah. it was fun anyway. hahaah
we don't need more to be thankful for - we just need to be more thankful.
4:01 PM
helloes. im blogging from shiangg's house. her keyboards abit spoilt, and theres an ant on the LCD screen. haaaaaah. thenthenthen. we're having a sleeeepover. wheeeeeeee. okay. nothing to blog about. will have more of those "chim" posts as what keith calls it when i get home(: *winks* gdniteynite
11:06 PM
Love goes beyond likingfrom childhood on, we are urged to show love, whether it's for parents or pets or friends, and especially for Jesus. but what is love?
we think of love as an emotion, a tender feeling, a positive reaction. so we may be confused about the meaning of love when we are asked to love God and our neighbour.
feelings simply cannot be commanded. a mother can order her child to love spinach, but she can't compel him to react positively when faced with a helping of that green vegetable.
so love must be more than an emotion. an old translation of our Lord's command may help us to understand love as an action that we choose:"Thou shalt love...." It's choosing to be patient, kind, selfless and humble (1 Corinthians 13:4-5). we can love others even though we may not like them, because it's a matter of making a choice.
yes, we can respond obediently to what God directs us to do. he knows, though, that we are not capable of doing this on our own. that's why He's given us the Holy Spirit to empower us to a life of loving obedience. with His help, we can learn to love those we don't like. who knows? we may even being to like them.
O Lord, how often selfishness
Will raise its ugly head,
So help us, Lord, to conquer it
And show Your love instead.
(adapted from Our Daily Bread, 25 Nov 2005 issue.)
11:06 AM
hokay. so today morning when i was walking to the mrt, noticed some weird things. saw little heavy PODs. those fruits from trees which do dispersal by the fruit bursting up. aha. then i wonder why they even planted these kinda trees above a carpark. when the HEAVY fruit drops down then there is a possibility of it dropping on a car and shattering the windows. some development planners are so stupid.
met shiang and pauline at singpost to have bfast at LJS! they had this really cheap and nice and BIG breakfast set at buy 1 get 1 free. so cute. hahahaha. so shared that set with shiang! couldnt finish it in the end still. aiyoh. then sat the longlonglonglongLONG ride to dover mrt, standing all the way. then took the bus at the wrong side of the road =.= so had to cross over and take back again. finally reached ACJC and then shiang went to find her friend who passed us the coupons to use at the funfair. (did i mention that we were going to acjc's funfair?) basically we just walked around not knowing where to go. then walkwalkwalkwalk and buy random stuff, mostly food. saw yongkai anyway (yonggeng's bro). finally, left at like 1pm with a gigantic bag of purple candy floss.
so decided to go bugis to window shop. went to the wrong side of the road AGAIN and had to cross over to take the correct bus from the correct side. hahahaha. how cute. sat a longlonglonglongLONG bus journey to bugis, thankfully with available seats this time. went there and walkwalkwalkwalk and all three of us bought the same adidas deo - icy burst. =.= sounds so... cold. shall spray some into my locker and our CO instrumental practice room since it stinks of paint and solvent. ah. then went and took neos. hahaha so fun. HM. okay. then decided to go home cos it was getting latelatelaaate. so i got pangseh-ed by shiang and pauline cos they wanted to take bus instead of mrt. hahaha. anyway the mrt was CROWDED! aye. squeeze here squeeze there. hah. okay. i'm still tired! i wanna go sleeeeeeep. but it is still so early. the
night day is young. nonono. its kinda old already. hah. i'm talking nonsense. signs that tell you a girl's going crazy. ahwell.
5:47 PM
IM TIRED.
day started off by waking up at 6.45pm. stupid alarm clock didn't ring. then dad managed to pia me to school in time. if not it wld be 50 squats from mr soon. why do latecomers have to be punished anyway. ponder ponder. everyone makes mistakes. anyone makes mistakes. whats the BIGDEAL about people getting up late once in a while. i'm sure teachers do wake up late too. even MR SOON may wake up late occasionally. ahwell. life's like that.
walked into class and dumped my bag like what i usually do. can't be bothered. i miss 2rp. alot. the feeling is just different.
after school had co. went out for lunch with shiang and pauline. had some kinda noodles with weird sauce. pretty nice to munch on lah. hah. then had an OREO iceblended. heee. nicenicenice. although it looks disgusting. hmm. i was thinking why cant the stupid co rm get ready quickly. if not we will end up carrying things up and down the stairs every week. yes even chairs.
so. as i was walking home, i see leaves falling all around me. i step on them. "crrrunch crrrrunch". love that sound. so i purposely step on them all the way home. some little tiny entertainment when i'm alone. i walk along that pathway, and reminiscence about those times. not that i care anyway.
then i reached home, and my parents rush me to go bathe and change so can go out for dinner with my sis's bf's family. and we go to the airport and eat thai. then i reach home and there happens to be a funny show going on - white chicks. so i sit there, plug earphones into the TV and watch silently while my dad talks to ck's family. and finally they go home. and im made to take photos of them.
okay. what's my purpose of life. i don't know too. what am i living for? wouldnt it be better if i just wasn't born? why me? out of so many "souls" out there. why did God choose to put me into a person called Joy's body? what am i sent into this world to do? what if i never existed? would there be much difference in this world?
i'm tired.
10:54 PM
today was a normal school day. just like any school day. i just wanna say, if i happen to look sad or troubled or give you attitude or whatever, im really sorry. dont feel so right too. i dont know why. hahahh. anyway, im glad that mdm phua cancelled Amaths remedial and instead give us a worksheet to bring home and do. and im also glad that i have a great tablemate, HY. she always lends an ear! and always so lame and funny. SO. on my way out from school. i saw someone i didnt wanna see. and he was like "what's so special about joy." loud enough for me to hear. let me tell you, i dont give a damn. guess what. i dislike your attitude. okay. got home so that i could go have a nice sleep before going for tuition. improve my maths!! wahahaha. okay. byees
where are you?3:22 PM
today i lugged a big bag of teddy bears to school. heeheee so cute. during recess they had this food rationing thing going on to commemorate total defence day. served nice big steaming bowls of porridge. kinda nice anyway. added lotsa soy sauce and had fun eating and sharing and tasting diff kinds of porridge with mel zen and shiang! wahahahs. so fun so fun!!! then after school went for co sec 1 orientation. games turned out kinda okay. the teddy bear game was kinda fun and cute, altho had to spend lotsa time explaining to them coz they couldnt get what i was talking about =X
anywayys. tmr theres a chem test. and im too lazy to study. AAHHH! work harder lah JOY. sec 3 liao hor. wells. more to come tmr (:
i love that smile of yours.7:44 PM
so today was valentines day. 3rd valentines day i've spent in cchms. dont count those in primary school. during those times we were too young and immature to show love to everyone around. also, this valentines day will be my most memorable one. first time i have received valentines day gifts in my whole entire life =D im so elated. SO ELATED. hah.
okay so here's whom i wanna thank:
shiangg for the card, sweets and paperweight
melissa for the lil card and pretty chocs on them
zenda for the little candle and strawberry chocs
natalie for the little pink bag of sweets and chocs
emily for the litle blue bag of chewy sweeties
chantelle for the yummy milkybar
huiqi for the cute lil postcard
lionel for the ferrero, and ytd's balloon!
edwin for the BIG tube of ferrero
evan for shutting up after i gave you the lolly
keith for being so gay and making me laugh
guess what. these little gifts from the hearts really made my day(:
yeah!! hope i made many other people out there happy too! with my little lollies xD
well, after school had co, and tmr theres this sec 1 orientation going on, to welcome little juniors into our big co family. planned some games and stuff for them. yep. really CUTE games. ha! hope it works out well tmr. anyway, mum wasnt home so had to dabao macs home to eat. aww so pathetic. okay. so thats how my really amazing day passed
8:15 PM
THANK YOU LIONEL for the sweet lil balloon! hahaha im so touched. not to mention that he gave mel shiang and zenda one too! aw. so sweeet. well, valentines day is tomorrow. went and bought 3 bags of lollipops to give out. dont know if it will be enough anyway.
had a fire drill today. sadly, it wasnt during bio or chinese. so still have to do our tests. im so gonna fail. a fight kinda broke out during lunch time. seems like a guy called sheldon hit a guy then that guy's friends came back to revenge blahblah. saw sheldon crying after that.
urms. just wanna tell mel to cheerup, and all of us will always be there for you(:
and tell zenda to JIAYOU! and dont make a huge mistake.
and SHIANG. you owe me a ice breaker game idea. =))
and keith, okay i will say HELLO whenever i see you =.=
and lionel, THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!
and edwin, for being lame and make me laugh
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
i love my friends SO MUCH!!!
aye. happy Vday! <33
let me see that smile on your face =)
7:16 PM
okay. spent yesterday and today lazing around, finding what's my purpose of life. after this i'm going to read "the purpose driven life" to find what motivates me, so that i dont waste my time aimlessly and later regret it. basically i just did my proposal today, and imported songs from my many cds into iTunes since my dad deleted all of them. another thing im really angry at is that i havent gotten a reply from my email appealing reactivation of my maple character. i do miss maple. i miss the times when i would just wake up and head to the computer to train my character without having to think all the time about what to do. God, please tell me the purpose of life. teach me how to spend my time wisely.. aaack.
i do love you <36:44 PM
anyway, i wish that i did not pick art as my creative arts module in the first place. =.= you know why. wahlau, get pissed up whenever i see him. do i regret it? yeah kinda. aye. lameshit. 3 tests tmr. chinese, emaths and english compo. gaah, so far only studied e maths. stupid teacher only informed us about the chinese test like TODAY. how are we supposed to study. sheesh. im tired. i want to sleep.
10:43 PM
fairly uninteresting day at school. just that during the last lesson of the day (a maths) my hair got spray-painted black by lionel the pig =.= what for spray it black when its already black? then mdm phua kept us back once again. i seriously have some weird teachers. one is SO punctual that exactly when the bell rings she walks into class, and anyone later than her is OUTstanding. kna twice liao. and another one likes to hold us back after school or for recess. gahh. shittyshit. after that went for tuition, and ended like at 9.30pm. went back home and nobody was there to open the door for me. outstanding again. so went to find a phone to call pple, and found that my sis was at home, only too deaf to hear me knocking my knuckles off at the door. then when i went in kna suan by her and she was like imitating whatever i said in a squealish way. i just said "fuck you" under my breath and walked away. damn. sometimes i really feel like killing her. gah. mom calling. gotta run~
10:33 PM
aye ((:
so today my class were selling drinks and stuff for the I&E thingy. and stupid teacher in charge didn't let us sell during lower sec recess, and only during upper sec recess. my class bought too many cartons of drinks =.= like.. 200 cans. managed to sell arnd 120+ so anyway we made back what we used, and profited quite a little. still quite a few cans left. heee. thanks to some *supportive* members of our class. HAH.
now, i must congratulate ______ and _____ because something happened, and im SO HAPPY for them xD!! SO CUTE!!! hahaha. andandanddd. after school slacked around then went for CO. hahaha. then went home as usual. what a boring day aye?
anywaaay. Vday's coming. tmr staying back to make lil prezzies for BUTTheads. OHYEAH. by the way, we have this new clique consisting of shiang, mel, zen and ME! shiang is BUTT #o1, i'm BUTT #o2, mel is BUTT #o3 and zenn is BUTT #o4 (: ain't it cute? yes? i knew it ((:
im thinking now, "what is valentines day about?"
is it about.. showing how much you love and appreciate your friends & beloved ones?
or going out with your loved one?
or is it just a day of romance?
hahah the whole idea's kinda cute la. seems to be the day that people confess their love to others according the "latest fashion". HAH. so highly amusing. ahwell.
10:39 PM
today started off horribly. during assembly got caught by soon. says my skirt too short. luckily i unfolded it when he wasnt looking. HA. thenn during chemistry mrs lim didnt come, so we were all hanging out at the corridor. then assembly. blahblah. then go home lor. hahaha
6:18 PM
FUCK IT. my dad deleted all my songs from iTunes. AGAIN. WITHOUT asking my permission!!! ugh. seriously. he should go get a life.
8:06 PM
to start off, let me tell you a story.
one day, at approximately 12am, a mapler called cherrylips (level 47 FP wizard and illusi0nistz was playing at the subway in kerning city. illusi0nistz's vaccum hack was turned on, thus the jr wraiths were being vaccumed to a corner. they started training and training, and suddenly another unknown mapler came and stood by them for a moment. before they knew it, they got disconnected. when they tried to sign in again, they couldn't sign in. they got banned for hacking.
ahwell. that story was based on me. more to come
7:04 PM
today was
awesome. first, met shiang at dhoby ghaut mrt, and walked around the basement of plaza sing. shiang's slippers were breaking, so she got a pair of flipflops from flash n' splash. and i got a nice
little big new roxy pencilcase, $12.90. heeee. then we decided we were hungry, so got ourselves LJS combo 1's, when BOBBY walked in. hahaha. so we said hello to him and his $90 bag. thenthenthen. we took neos xD. turned out
okay horrible. haah. SO. then we took mrt to heeren, and bought ourselves a pink schoolbag from 37 degrees, $39.90. nicenice. i finally got my new schoolbag. after 3 years =)). THEN we walked a longlonglonglong way to far east plaza despite our terribly aching feet. bought purple hair extensions just for the fun of it,
$6.90 $5. aww. then shiang had to go, cos she needed to be at her cousin's place to bainian. after carrying 2 oranges in her bag the whole day, we parted at the mrt =D. NICE shopping trip, but thats not the end of it =D. suddenly on the mrt, had this
OVERWHELMING urge to go for the City Harvest Church weekend service. they had Delirious?, one of the nicest christian rock band all the way from UK to give us a freeee concert. WHOA. it was great. met sean at the expo mrt, then walked to expo hall 8, where i waited for mel and her lil sister to arrive. aaack. grace is so cuute. okok. mel's cute too =) thenthenthen. we went to get our seats, and it began!!! hahaha! played awesome songs like rain down, here i am, here we come, what a friend ive found, did you feel the mountains tremble etcetc. aaack!! fun time jumping up n down!! yeah. service was great too. =D. oh boyy, chc rocks! im so glad i went. OH YA. saw bobby there too! hahas. so qiao. anyway, then walked with mel and her lil sis out, and took the mrt homee! what a FAB day.
tmr going to huanglaoshi's house to bainian and make dumplings. funfunfun. then can wear our purple hair extensions. HA. more to come tmrr
11:03 PM
HAH. chia yuwei owes me a favour. i partied him. and i let him stand there and loot. 32%!!! ahhaa. so he used the vac hack on the jr wraiths. then basically i just stood there and fired fire arrows at them. so the training was fast and cool. luckily there was nobody at the subway. hehe. i still can't believe i trained him for 32%.. aughh. hahah. see? im so nice =D
1:34 AM
oh yeah there are some things i wanna say to my mum. seriously, i'm not eating dinner cos i had fries on my way home. yeah. and i dont look "yellow". okie. lets go disturb yg
9:51 PM
okay. if you wanna be happy, just be happy(: then life would be so happy-go-lucky and carefree. learn to look on the bright side of life.. then maybe you'll see that life ain't that bad at all! anyway, tmr im meeting butt #o1 for SHOPPINGG!!! finally a new school bag. after months of pleading with my mum. wahahas. lets shop till we drop xD. okay LAME. hahaha
9:45 PM