早不坏吃不坏

偏偏昨天坏。

my phone's been ill for quite some time now. the first symptom was when the alarm wouldn't snooze. when i pressed snooze, it just doesn't ring again! (i tested it when i was awake, to make sure ok). and then, the phone doesn't show my missed calls. meaning, i've to go to the call log to check if there've been any missed calls. and when there're messages, it only shows an icon, but not the pop up that tells me i've got a message from so and so. then recently fang said her messages to me couldn't get through. all these i could tolerate. until yesterday.

my phone just auto off-ed! and it took a super long time to load when i switched it on again. so in essence, the phone just didn't work for abt a whole hour or so. the thing is, i was supposed to meet my cousin's tailor to take measurements (i'm her jie mei for her wedding in sept). all i knew was to meet the tailor in wisma, but not which part of wisma. so there i was, starting to panic cos i had no way of reaching the tailor/my cousin. in the end, i used the public phone to call home for my cousin's number, then called my cousin from the same phone for the tailor's number, and finally called the tailor.

and about an hour later, when i got home, my phone miraculously revived. but i figured i didn't want to risk it a second time, so today i brought my phone to the clinic. the nokia service centre. i'll be uncontactable for about a week. if any kind soul reading this has an extra phone to lend me and will see me during the weekend (meaning church pple alr la). please tag and let me know can? much appreciated!

back to the tailor. this is the first time i'm buying something tailor made. but that's cos i was left with no other choice. my cousin wanted all of us to wear the same fabric in the same colours, and requested for us to have the dresses made by the same tailor. which explains why i'm spending hundred over dollars on a dress that i will never wear again. sigh. perhaps, maybe, if i remain the same size, i might wear it again when i'm asked to be jie mei again? but then again, i doubt so. not every bride wants the jie mei to wear such 隆重dress..

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sigh

bidding is such a chore -.-

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change

is good. in this case, i think my parents + bro shifting church was good.

now, another abt 4 couples from my bro's 小组 are at my place. they just came back from dinner, and are eating durians at the dining table. they're a really happy lot, laughs super loudly. and there're like 5 children altogether running about in my living room now too. kids of my bro's friends, Shermaine's church mates.

it's a really heartening sight. and at the same time, I am greatful that my parents had thought of my bro's growth and shifted church so that my bro n his wife will have a proper fellowship. i think my parents are very self sacrificing and self giving parents.

after all, we're all still one body in christ. my father still constantly gives one of his subtly-persuading-me-to-join-them talk, abt how nice it'll be if we were all in the same church, hoping i'll change my mind and go join their church instead too. but, as happy as i am for their shift and for the fellowship that my bro's now in, i'm equally, if not more, happy for the valuable relationships i have in okyaya. as much as i'm sure that their decision to shift was a good one, i'm equally sure that my decision to stay was good too, hard though it was. it wasn't easy saying no to them, but i did, and I thank God for having brought our family through. now, to hold on to the hope that my 大哥will someday return to the body of christ too.

:)

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漂亮的午餐

我妈妈今天心血来潮, 用了二嫂的心形模型来煎鸡蛋 :)

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tree top walk

At the beginning of the walk. we were about 4km away from the tree top walk itself.

4km later, we're at the start of the tree top walk! chong yu and qing en are afraid of heights. so i walked in front. and i was nice so i didn't swing the thing we were walking on :D

this is the whole length of it.

Still near the start of the tree top walk.

Here we are, in the middle of the tree top walk. Chong Yu complained when I kept stopping to take photos cos apparantly he was scared at that height. haha.

completed the tree top walk! the tree top walk itself is abt 1 plus/2km i think. but to get to that we walked abt 4km. and then i suggested not going back the same way but walking to macritchie reservoir instead. that was another 5.1km of walking. at that time chong yu agreed, saying we should go a different way so we'll get to see different things.

but, along the way, he kept complaining. saying we should have gone the way we came, since it'll be shorter. -.- and he took this photo of my bag. he said it was to 作纪念. probably cos throughout the whole walk he kept pulling my bag and asking me to piggyback him. i don't know if it was when i refused to piggyback him or when i didn't spread the tuna on his slice of bread for him, but he said i wasn't as 善良as shi yan!! grr!!

unglam photo of qing en taken by chong yu. too bad chong yu deleted his own unglam photo taken by qing en! (can imagine how chaotic they were? they didn't stop talking at all until maybe the last 3 km when they grew tired. or rather, when chong yu grew tired. )

throughout, han xin was the cool guy.

i think this was qing en's hand. he said to post this picture -.-

on our way to macritchie, there was this 'watch tower' kind of thing. we climbed up, and this is the view. qing en didn't make it to the top cos he got jelly legs from the height. funny how he made it across the tree top walk but not to the top of this thing.

we spent abt 5mins here trying to take a photo of this beautiful blue butterfly. haha.

we finally see the macritchie reservoir!! yay! only thing is, at this point, we were still abt 3 plus - 4km form the macritchie reservoir park, where the bus stop is....

we spent yet another 5 (or more) minutes trying to take photos of this komodo dragon lookalike thing. it scared me when it first moved right beside me. then qing en and han xin were so intrigued they started chasing it around to take photos of it.

oh then along the way there were monkeys! i don't like monkeys. i really don't. chong yu had to walk with me past them. i couldn't do it alone man. and again, qing en and han xin took photos of these monkeys.

According to chong yu, the big monkey was tending a wound for the small monkey.

there, the day summarised. we went for lunch at amk afterwards, and ended the outing with a prayer - each one gave thanks for one thing that day. then, the three of them went to a LAN shop to play! i went home, did a lil surfing for R&R for ocip, then took a nap, before going to band. by the time i was headed out for church, they'd only just finished playing at the lan shop la! so much energy.

i told yu xi i'll bring her and chi yuan out for a girls' outing since she didn't get to come with us for this, as a 10-12 km walk will be too hard on her. it was tiring to bring the 3 of them out, but i really enjoyed myself. :D they're good company actually!

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the photos

out for dinner with lanfang, meihui and shi en on thurs night. and then fri morning there was the outing with my xiao zu. and after that in the evening there was band. and today morning there was a meeting for the ocip in aug, then taught piano, and then church. the past few days were packed. so here are the photos taken on thurs night. we talked a lot, laughed a lot. i think we have a unique brand of humour. we say a lot of weird stuff actually. haha.

this mirror is part of an art exhibition at the underpass to esplanade. i THINK it's called installation art. Ah too bad ting en's not back yet. she'll know..

shi en trying to look cool, pretending to look elsewhere.

the theme for this photo was to compete and see who has got the ugliest facial expression :D

alright that's all the photos for now. will post the tree top walk ones tomorrow. got to slp now in order to wake up on time tmr.

主的喜乐是我力量。把这样的生命唱出来吧！

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i've received

three very encouraging emails.
and a blog post.

when i read shehui's email and mich's blog, this came to mind:

you raise me up, so I can stand on mountains

I remember we sang this in st nicks at some thing. i can't rem what though, just that we sang it. and i rem renny writing this in a note to me.

but today was the first time i experienced it so strongly, after lunch w ling, shehui's email, and mich's post. i love you girls. :) i love dabestclique :)

to P & P (haha prick and pear), thank you very much :D its a major comfort to know i've the support of such dear sisters in ministry. thank you :)

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