the end of an era

well, the world has seen the last of saddam hussein who was executed yesterday; guess junior bush did something that his dad didn't accomplished, Beat Up Saddam Hussein!! now that that has been done, bring the troops back from iraq, georgie - enough damaged has been done!!! let their families have a reason to celebrate the new year!! Do the right thing, Be A MAN!!

the week so far

this is what happened during the week:

• sunday - christmas eve mass was good but we ended up at our fav prata shop after that, then proceeded to macs - send corrinne and julia home - back to coffeshop again - came back home @ 6am.
• monday - lunch @ crystal's place - dinner @ bro's place - back to crystal place for drinks and games - back home @ 3am.
• tuesday - overslept - reached work @ 10am - dinner @ jen's place - came back @ 1am.
• wednesday - work - briefing after work - dinner with colleague's - came back home - ended up @ fred's place courtesy of joanne n pat - came back home @ 2am.
• thursday - work - supposed to have a small company new year's celebration but the caterer screw up with the orders so dinner was cancelled - proceeded to JE for dinner with some of my colleagues - back home @ 1030pm.
• tmr - work - clubbing!!! lol

next stop - new year!!

wish

wish x'mas will just pass and 2007 will be a better year...
wish i was somewhere else; wish i was someone else

The Fart Button

Limited Gold Edition... LOL

caroling @ orchid country club - dec 17th

after a break of almost 5 years, i 'm back carolling and man, it was fun, though it was only @ one place. after caroling, we had dinner and drinks... yea, the table behind was ours. the funny part was we took pics before we started singing. after dinner, we headed to the pool room as it was raining heavily outside. we booked two tables and almost brought the place down. had more drinks courtesy of zab's dad (cool dude) and i was just not having a good game until i was sober - pat was like, 'why u so quiet?'.. hahaha. we left OCC and headed to our fav prata haunt for some coffee and more food. all in all, i had a great time and i'm glad that i came. next stop: christmas!!

there's something out there..

heard faint screams coming from afar, not sure if its of a woman then there was silence except for the rumbles of the clouds. then i heard another faint scream from a far, this time i'm not sure if it's of a man... now there's silence except the rumble of the clouds and lightnings. the night is too quiet and its giving me the creeps.

it brings to mind of an event which happened abt 30 years ago @ my old place in toa payoh. in the silence of the night, a dreadful scream pierce through the night and it was cut short, silence followed. my elder sis, bros & myself jumped out of bed and stared at the block where the screams came from; hoping to see some signs or hear a plea for help... there was nothing but dead silence. i never found out the faith of the woman but my bro's friend told him that it happened on the sixth floor center staircase; there was blood on the floor but the body was nowhere in sight. however, i didn't buy that story as it was from someone else but however i know this is for real... the staircase light on that paricular staircase never worked.

guess that spooked me more than the things that happened in my hse past and ...... present. it's two hours to dawn and i should get some sleep.

Why Teachers Weep

Then Jesus took his disciples up on the mountain and taught them, saying:

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, Blessed are the meek, Blessed are the merciful, Blessed are you who thirst for justice, Blessed are you who are persecuted, Blessed are the peacemakers . . ."

And Simon Peter said, "Do we have to write this stuff down?"

And Phillip said, "Will this be on the test?"

And John said, "I'm sorry. Would you mind repeating that?"

And Andrew said, "John the Baptist's disciples don't have to learn this stuff!"

And Matthew said, "Huh?"

And Judas said, "What does this have to do with real life?"

Then, one of the Pharisees, an expert in the law, said, "I don't see any of this in your syllabus. Do you have a lesson plan? Is there a summary? Where is the student guide? Will there be any follow-up assignments? How will this affect the bell curve?"

And Thomas, who had missed the sermon, came to Jesus privately and said, "Did we do anything important yesterday?"

And Jesus wept.

Quotables

BRITTANY (age 4) had an earache and wanted a painkiller. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a childproof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: "How does it know it's me?

JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister. After a while he asked: "Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?"

STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom goodnight. "I love you so much, that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window."

Pope and the Lord's Prayer

After watching sales falling off for three straight months at Kentucky Fried Chicken, the Colonel calls up the Pope and asks for a favor.

The Pope says, "What can I do?

"The Colonel says, "I need you to change the Lord's prayer from, 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken'.

If you do it, I'll donate 10 Million Dollars to the Vatican." The Pope replies, "I am sorry. That is the Lord's prayer and I can not change the words." The Colonel hangs up.

After another month of dismal sales the Colonel panics and calls again. "Listen your Excellency. I really need your help. I'll donate $50 million dollars if you change the words of the daily prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken.'"

This time the Pope responds, "It is very tempting, Colonel Sanders. The church could do a lot of good with that much money. It would help us to support many charities. But again, I must decline. It is the Lord's prayer, and I can't change the words." The Colonel hangs up again.

After two more months of terrible sales the Colonel gets desperate and calls the Pope again. "This is my final offer your Excellency. If you change the words of the daily prayer from, 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken'

I will donate $100 million to the Vatican." The Pope replies, "Let me get back to you."

The next day, the Pope calls together all of his bishops and he says, "I have some good news and I have some bad news. The good news is that KFC is going to donate $100 million to the Vatican." The bishops rejoice at the news. Then one asks about the bad news.

The Pope replies, "The bad news is that we lost the Wonder Bread account."

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alas the weekend is here... gonna do carolling @ orchid country club on sunday. wonder how its gonna be like as i've not been carolling for the past five years. so if anything goes wrong guys, just pretend that it wasn't me... ;p


project j was fun as usual... melanie thanks for the x'mas card, it's very sweet. i've not done anything as yet and it's only ten days left to christmas.

christmas

missing you

missing u

who ever u may be

where ever u may be

when ever it may be

how ever it may be

my other half....

Lost?

okie, the camp turned out well although there were some areas that cld be improved, like having more time for the leaders to relax and let the rest run the camp..hee.


i spend the first day of the camp practically outside the camp.. after setting up the sound system, father jj and me set out @ 1pm to get some items for the systems but ended up with a lot more things. we went to swee lee first, then to plaza singapura, sim lim square and lastly to paradize center to pick up adel and daphne. we came back at about 7 odd, did sound check and heave a sigh of relief when everything was working well. did a last minute checks on things and went for dinner with father, daphne and leslie @ a nearby kopitiam. after dinner, i was off again - tis time to pick up cristy from sembawang. came back at about ten and took a long deserved shower, the rest were still having their walk up the hill and i just chilled out with nico gab till it was lights out.


woke up at 5.45am, the guys were still asleep but some the girls at the next room were already awake as i told them to wake up at five. sorry, gals there was last minute changes - the guys were not informed but they still slept like a log and man, u should have seen their faces when they woke up - disorientated and blur... hahaha..


we walked up to mount faber where we had our morning reflections and breakfast. jamie told them that they are going to have an amazing race kinda game but it will be called stairway to heaven. they were told that there will be station masters at each checkpoints and they will also have to question ten strangers to find out what christmas meant to them. so off they went to orchard road, city hall and other areas in town to each stations finding their own ways and means to get there. while father, jamie, don & deb (both not feeling well), jessy and me headed back to camp.


back in camp, don took a power nap, jamie tried to but her phone rang every now and then, jessy was on the keyboards entertaining us while debs and i tried to solve the jigsaw puzzle which will have to be used later that night.. jessy later joined us and alas, we managed to solve it and debs numbered it correctly. (thanks debs & jessy for helping out!) we were still contemplating where to have lunch when jamie told us that lunch has to wait coz the first group just passed the last station. so we came down and waited for all the teams to arrive.. chels' team came in first coz they managed to squeeze five people in the car thus beating eugene's team. the next team to arrive was daffy's team and the last was leslie's team who took another route up to church while we waited for them at the front....hie!! anyways, chels' team won a $50 secret recipe voucher... *applause*.

wld like to blog more of the camp but u have to be there to experience it but i wld just like to add this:

- leslie, i know how stress u were when nobody listens to you and the pressure u got from us..but u managed it all well. you did well, kid and i guess u have matured during the camp. keep up the good work!!

- denise really impress some of us given that she's only eleven. once she came up to jamie and asked her if she could be a leader for the amazing race; and the other time she came up to a bunch of us and reminded us that we should be practising for the the skits and i think i was very brave of her considering the fact that she's the youngest in the camp.

- bell, thanks for helping out when we needed the extra hand and watching over denise.

- to everyone else... the fun has just begun... together we could make the youth group a driving force of our parish!!

so tis is christmas..

its been a tiring week and i just wanna take a break from everything.. from work, choir, friends and project j.. but with the camp just around the corner, i guess i have to hold on to that tot.


today, i wanted to do some x'mas shopping and also get somethings for the camp. but when i reached home, the skies open and it just dampen my spirits - so i wasn't very happy with the weather as it has been raining for the past few days.. mother nature has been having her way for the past few days. so here i was feeling sorry for myself n cursing my luck when i received a call from a friend who i knew was having problems back home but i didn't know what it was this time. as the conversation went by, i found out that this friend of mine was living w/o electricity as it was disconnected a few days ago. they are going thru a difficult period hence they have overlooked the payment which amounted to quite a bit and due to the current situation they are right now, they are paying it off slowly. which made me think that i take daily necessities for granted and feeling sorryfor myself for not being able to do my x'mas shopping.


i guess god made me realise that christmas is not about the gifts or clothes. its about reaching out to those who are less fortunate than us and let them feel the christmas spirit. a small gesture goes a long way and the true meaning of x'mas will be felt by everybody

I miss you

(I miss you miss you)

Hello there the angel from my nightmare

The shadow in backround of the morgue

The unsespecting victim of darkness in the valley

We can live like Jack and Sally if we want

Where you can always find me

And we'll have Halloween on Christmas

And in the night we'll wish this never ends

We'll wish this never end

come and see

the weekend

caught 'casino royale' on friday night with dq and it was worth the money; can't wait for the next one. sat was spent at east coast where i got to see the other side of my colleagues and we all had a pretty fun time playing games, eating and more games. we had 'water-bomb' games where instead of water, it was all kinds of liquid and god-knows-what. got bomb pretty badly - i wld prefer sea-water anytime, andy!! after everything, while waiting for our colleague's hubby to arrive to being back some of the times, there were two cans of carlsberg left - so we played seven-up... it was damn funny. to carrie, ricky, andy and kris - we will have our beer buffet soon again.

sunday, was spent in church helping to raise funds for our camp in dec and i guess we did pretty well today. can't wait for the camp, its dec 8 to 10; juz in case u wanna come; and yes, cristy - me won't leave u alone, me come fetch u!! hahaha... the camp's gonna be so fun, i just can't wait for it. anyways, had lunch with pat, debz, cristy & chels and we accompanied pat to the library after that but pat left first so we hung around for a while then made our way home.

with nothing much to do at home, i did some maintenance check on my comp by downloading ad ware and avast, my comp was unprotected for a while so i did expect to find some ad wares and spyware but didn't expect to find a trojan in my comp. have no idea where that came from. this avast software is kinda cool although i still a big fan of trend micro - norton is just not user-friendly and it does not protect ur comp fully. try trend micro pc-cillin 2007 against norton internet security 2007 and u'll see the diff.

anyways, it's another 10 days to pay day, 17 days to camp, 35 days to x'mas and 41 days new year - i should get back to my game now!! ;p

me

in the end its the circle of which i stand
with laughters all around

project j

the week passed by pretty fast as i had to train this guy for a day but he ended up being my understudy for the rest for the week. it was kinda fun actually and time really past by fast. hopefully he digested everything i've said otherwise i'll have to pack me bags.. haha.

went for project j(esus) ; we shared abt the end of the world or the second coming and how prepared are we. we had some deep answers from the young ones which makes u wonder, how prepared are we if god decides to call us tmr. well, from what i believe - we need not worry abt the sins we hve committed coz forgiveness was already given to us when HE died on the cross. we all journeying to our true home in heaven till then we will remain in purgatory right here on earth.

its the weekend again and i must say the week past by pretty fast, before u know it, its monday again... so make the weekend count, i'm going to bbq!!

to mel : see u dude on dec 9, have fun down under.

a life without limbs

Most of us live our lives complaining about all the things we haven’t got, the circumstances we were born into and lives we wished we had. I’ve been guilty of the above too. But reading about Nick’s story touched me. Here’s a man who’s got possibly a little bit more than most of us do. Nick’s a work of God, a gift of love. He’s truly an inspiration for me and for everyone else who doesn’t realize what this life’s about yet. You can read about Nick here.