Tomorrow officially marks the start of Recess Week. Hope the days wouldn't pass that fast as I have much to catch up on for my readings. I've been sleeping a lot whenever I have the time and I don't know whether it's just me cos everytime I'm taking public transport from one place to another, I will automatically be in snooze mode. It's like I'm conditioned to sleep whenever I'm in the bus/MRT...

Today was good as usual. I enjoy Sundays a lot due to church and stuff but I particularly cherish the time we spent after church having lunch as a family, travelling to far-flung places in Singapore to sample good food (although they might be a little overrated at times). Today, Eryi wanted Bak Kut Teh so we ended up at a Sin Ming coffeeshop but things became interesting when we went to the famous Roti Prata shop nearby. Previously, I was wishing with all my might that someone would say that they want Roti Prata, cos we passed by the famous Prata Shop on the way to Bak Kut Teh, and my wish turned to reality with the help of Eryi! :D


Okok...I know it's unhealthy and I know I already had Duck Rice but I couldn't resist! For prata, I can do anything! (Ok, almost anything....)

Saturday's live recording at Steph and Gwen's church was great. Worship was good! The singers are fantastic, I think they are super charismatic man. My church feels so conservative compared to them (No offence though, Evangelites! I enjoy worship in Evangel a lot too!) The only problem I had was that we stood for quite a long time and my feet really hurt. [Plus Steph the meanie didn't allow me to sit down leh! HAHA!] And Gwen did a really great job dancing. Wish I could be as flexible and natural as her man!

Anyway, I think worship is really such an important part of church man. It really sets the mood and prepares us for the sermon and it really connects to you on another level which words really can't (if you get what I mean).
Worship doesn't have to be very extravagant with complex musical arrangements and stuff as proven by Ai Ping's cell group. As long as you worship with a sincere heart, a longing for God to minister to us and such, then I think it has served its purpose. Recently in church, we had worship after the sermon when we would usually have altar call. The worship itself was so impactful that there was no need for an altar call then cos the altar call WAS the worship itself. I don't know why but it was so powerful then. The presence of God was so strong then that tears just flowed. Worship can heal and remove the painful wounds of the past that Time is unable to....

my space! my voice!

Taking a breather from my Bio project which is sort of due tomorrow. Went to Lee Kong Chian Reference Library just now after vainly searching Tampines Library and the Central Library in school for the past 3 days. Is Global Warming and food supply and security really that foreign a topic such that the libraries do not carry books on them? Anyway, Lee Kong Chian did not fail me today...just hope that my research would be of use to the group man...

On another note, I was in high spirits yesterday cos I bumped into Jie Min outside LT11 yesterday! Have not seen her for so long and just when I least expected to see her, she appeared! Haha,miss her so much! Anyway,we were just talking about the upcoming netball league organised by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and I really hope we can participate in it man (provided I have enough time...) Hopefully the no-guys rule would apply then cos it's still unfair for guys to be in netball (think one-man shows and all).

Speaking about netball, I embarrassed myself unnecessarily during netball on Tuesday. While we were hanging around at the netball court, one stray soccer ball rolled into our view. Seeing that there was nothing to do and that no one seemed to be going forward to retrieve the ball, I happily kicked it to some random space. Just when I was gloating about my soccer skills to myself,I heard the owner of the ball shouting for his ball from behind me. Super pai seh!

Another reason which contributed to my jubilant and, should I say, ecstatic mood would be due to my Lit test. It was such an encouragement and I seriously thank God for it man...haha! Hope that this would replicate in my other assignments too!


It's funny what Uni can do to people socially. Ever since term started, I have been saying hi to people I do not know personally in JC even though I know them by face value. And surprisingly, they were equally spontaneous in their "Hi"s and "Bye"s too!

Recess week's coming but when there's a gain, there's a loss. Psych and Geog test on the following Monday after break and a deadline for Psych Mid-term paper 2 days after.


Can't wait for church camp next year. Quite a long wait but it's something to look forward to. It's been 2 years without church camp! Can you believe it?!?! Moreover, my mum would be joining us for the coming church camp and that makes me wanna fast forward to June 2009 man! No regrets! I don't mind skipping one whole Sem! :D

Actually there's something to look forward to this year other than church camp and that would be the possible vacations overseas. Mum and Eryi were looking at brochures to Taiwan but the one I'm more interested (and hopeful) would be the trip to Tokyo with Midori and Esther! Still praying that mum would allow man although the chances of going would be quite slim...

Tundra, Taiga and something for the girls!

Pastor Lim's sermon today got me reminiscing about Geography all over again. Hmm, maybe reminiscing isn't the right word to use, considering that it WAS an examinable subject but still, Nature never fails to surprise us time and again, especially when all we see in Singapore are engineered parks and "fake" trees and shrubs everywhere (Credit goes to NParks still for making Singapore such a FINE city! hiak hiak hiak!)

It's no surprise that Pastor Lim refers to Nature for his analogies most of the time, especially in recent weeks. Nature, in all its humble glory, seems to teach us things that we humans tend to overlook at times. How we should face adversity, how we should unlock our potential and live our dreams even though we may think it's impossible at times,etc....

Won't talk about school for now so, to end off nicely, some pictures of my latest Asian find, inspired (or should I say, brainwashed) by Midori!


YAMAPI EVERYBODY! :D
And compare these gorgeous pictures with that of his kiddy, Cloud Nine, happy-clappy yesteryears! See how much he has grown man! I'm so proud of him! :D


Pretty in pink (NOT!)

Choose your caption:

1. "My little pony, everybody!"

2. "Someday my prince will come (on a puny poodle)"

3. Let's fight animal cruelty together. Save a dog. Save a life.

Ok, now for some refresher pictures in case you, like me, are on the verge of forming the impression that Japanese guys exude more feminine qualities than the female species. It is only natural that I would show you pictures that are more,hmm...masculine...haha!

Haha...enough of Tomohisa Yamashita for now. Seems like the focus of this post (the Tundra/Taiga, in case you're too smitten that you've forgotten already) is drifting to Yamapi, which should not really be the case!

Anyway, I just realised the reason behind my sudden fascination with this Yamapi guy: he has an uncanny resemblance to Russell Wong of The Mummy 3 fame. Serious!

For the record.....

Russell Wong!

OK..maybe a much-younger Nippon-ised version of Russell Wong la!

Shit. Now I look boy-crazy.

yamapi: hi! dis ish yamapi! heard from my singaporoo friend that you've been fantasizin about me
mi-dori ~ yamapi: hiiiii yamapi, altho i know u only exist in my fantasies, nice to know u took time out of ur busy schedule to read my pathetic blog. ahah!! I LIKE YOU! LOL. [happy now sy??!!! =P]

yamapi: of course! euu hab been sucha fadeful memberu of NEWS,midori-san! hope to meetchu when we come to singaporoo soon..see you at the singaporoo dome aka esplanade!

mi-dori ~ yamapi: dude, we dont wanna cause an uproar here in sunny island s'pore. hahaa!! why ur language like so ah beng?! hhahaa!! hurry come to singapore!!! and dont forget to CALL me when you do ya? =DDD

Talk about fantasizing man...