downloaded picasa the other night, and started making collages! this one's kinda squarish.. i shall start learning to use adobe photoshop soon. but anyhow, this is one of the nicer ones.
sigh. the past day has been kinda tough. well, back to reading about suppositories. if not, my mould will turn out as disastrous as it did on monday. i guess no one would want to shove varied colour suppositories up their system, would they?

just got back from my grandfather's birthday dinner. it was a really good time, time well-spent catching up with my cousins. we reminisced about the past and my brother's little mishaps with prawn and prawn sauce, watched commando ian finish up the food, talked to my mischievous little cousin about school.. (he was teaching us some new way to do multiplication. although it really seems more difficult to me. :s) and we managed to catch up a little with each other.

i guess over the years, these tri-annual meetings have caused us to treasure the time we have with each other more. seeing them so few times a year makes me feel sad about how i used to take them for granted. now the dinners and bbqs we have mean so much more to me.

the food was overloaded with msg though. gave me a headache!

on the way to the twins' house this morning, my brother dropped me at the normanton park bus stop so i could take a bus from there. as i looked around at my surroundings, a wave of nostalgia swept over me, for this is where i grew up, where i spent the first 15 years of my life. i peered over the fence, staring into the dimly-lit void decks of blocks 4 and 5 as snippets of my life flashed briefly through my mind. the times where we would play hide-and-seek and catching all round the estate, sometimes going as far as kent ridge park, my turtles! i vaguely remember keeping them, and when they got too big for the tank, we'd walk to the park and release them into the pond. and then there was the supermarket, where we could buy all our favourite sweets on credit, the playgrounds and exercise areas, the hairdresser, gift shop. wow..so many other precious memories. normanton was like a kampong in those days.

as i stood there and gazed through the fence, i came to a realisation that so much had changed during the short span of 5 years away from normanton. i, for one, have changed so much. time really flies.. part of me longed to go back to the simple, yet happy childhood i spent at this place. haha.. but yeah, we gotta keep moving and growing. :)

heh, my bro and i at our blk 1 flat!

"A willful child wants only his own way. His will has never been exercised against himself. The strong-willed person wills against himself, chooses that which he does not naturally choose, refuses that which he would naturally choose."

Lord, help me to be strong-willed, not willful.

i am soooooooooooooo exhausted now! just had the most traumatising dispensing practical i had in a long time. and guess what? it's our first for this sem! 8 more to go! ask any pharm group b ppl and they'd agree with me. lab was a madhouse today. and im thinking i REALLY need to prepare for lab nowadays, cos the demands are much greater. it's a good thing though, i guess it'll push me to work harder.

another long day tmr, and many things to be done. but yeah.. was reading 2 Peter 1 today. "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him, who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these, He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires." hey! praise God cos His divine power has provided for our every need, including and especially in living a holy life that pleases God. keeping my eyes on God. that's what i need to do..

Your Summer Ride is a Beetle Convertible

Fun, funky, and a little bit euro. You love your summers to be full of style and sun!

What's Your Summer Ride?

my dog.

today there was this msg going around via sms that there would be a 40% discount on petrol prices during the 4 o clock hour. the moment my dad heard it, he said it was a sure fraud. just now, i went to pump petrol and buy groceries for my mum. to my horror, i found such a long queue of cars at the petrol station, then i remembered the 40% discount myth. took me so long to get into the station itself.

when i finally stepped into ntuc to buy whatever i needed, everyone was cursing and swearing.. lamenting that they got cheated by that particular sms. oh well, let's face it. singaporeans are kiasu.

first day of school.. heh. had a long day! LSM lecture.. peiru and i resolved to listen attentively this sem, and i think we did a pretty good job today, yeah? :) i started to lose focus abit towards the end cos by then, i was quite brain tired. well, our actual lecturer was sick, so this "aunty" lecturer took over. but all in all, i felt quite accomplished and resolved to go home to read up abit more.

well, after that, i followed chen may back to her hall cos she said her friend could give me a lift to buona vista on his lorry! initially, i wanted to ride at the back, but seeing that i kinda had to fight for space with fire extinguishers which weren't really secured to the lorry properly, i decided not to. was quite interesting, seeing what her hall did for rag.. visiting her new room and pebble again! he's grown so big.. so has the cage. heh.

met mich, bryan, jeremy, yin and yiling at ps after that for lunch. and while they went to watch a movie, i shopped! walked around looking out for birthday presents and walked into times bookstore. i picked up this book "what God wants" and started flipping through it. hmmm.. was pretty disturbed after that by what i read in that book. hah. i shall not elaborate. ask me if you wanna know!

"An endless stream of pilgrims
Made their way into Jerusalem,
To offer up the goat, the lamb, and dove.
Atonement for their sin was made,
But only for a season;
And still their empty hearts cried out
For a lasting peace and love.
And then from Bethlehem He came,
Emmanuel was His name;
He knew the world would need a sacrifice.
And a million lambs could never pay the price.

Once and for all,
He walked the road to Calvary,
Carrying the sins of ev'ry man upon His shoulders.
Once and for all,
He conquered death victoriously,
Tearing down the separating wall.
The price was paid in full once and for all.

An endless stream of mercy
Falls like rain from heaven's holy throne,
To everyone who calls upon His grace.
And tho' we all were sinners
He loved beyond our weaknesses;
Though we were unworthy,
He came to suffer in our place.
And as His blood fell to the ground,
Our hope again was found;
No longer are we guilty and oppressed,
For He has thrown our sin as far as east is from west.

Once and for all,
He walked the road to Calvary,
Carrying the sins of every man upon His shoulders.
Once and for all
He conquered death victoriously,
Tearing down the separating wall.
The price was paid in full once and for all."

This song really spoke to me today. As I listened to it in the car, somehow God's mercy and immeasurable love just overwhelmed me. I've been feeling so tired the past few days, thank God this song lifted my spirits abit.

"It was God who made us different, and He did it on purpose. God created male and female, the male to call forth, to lead, initiate and rule, and the female to respond, follow, adapt, submit. Even if we held to a different theory of origin, the physical structure of the female would tell us that woman was made to receive, to bear, to be acted upon, to complement, to nourish." - "Let me be a woman", Elisabeth Elliot.

Actually, I do agree with that. heh. comments, anybody?

"Who am I?
That the Lord of all the earth,
Would care to know my name,
Would care to feel my hurt,
Who am I?
That the Bright and Morning Star,
Would choose to light the way,
For my ever wandering heart,

Not because of who I am,
But because of what You've done,
Not because of what I've done,
But because of who You are,

I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean (ocean),
A vapor in the wind,
Still You hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling,
And You've told me who I am..
I am Yours.

Who am I?
That the eyes that see my sin,
Would look on me with love,
and watch me rise again,
Who am I?
That the voice that calmed the sea,
Would call out through the rain,
And calm the storm in me,

Not because of who I am,
But because of what You've done,
Not because of what I've done,
But because of who You are,

I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean (ocean),
A vapor in the wind,
Still You hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling,
And You've told me who I am...
I am Yours, I am Yours.

I am Yours,
Whom shall I fear?
Whom shall I fear?
'Cause I am Yours,
I am Yours."