Some nice things i heard from Dj Dan (if i'm not wrong?)

Music. Everyone loves music. Be it Rapping, R&B, pop, rock, metal... bla bla bla.. No matter where we go, music is like always an attraction in our life. It's always bring us different type of emotions. And we're like everyday listening to it, and our journey had colors on it.
So the main thing he was saying was: Find the music that is bringing out color out of your life. Find that music that is filling your life everyday. And most important is let that music be part of your life just like your normal day life.

SO.... PLEASE DON'T STOP THE MUSIC.... MUSIC....

SURVIVED!

Its almost been a unbearable mental torture for the past few days. It's really driving me crazy.

Tonnes of trial & tribulation.
Being crushed as though there's no pride.
Facing financial obstacles.
Pressure from friends.
Balancing.
Doubts.
Lots n lots (i really meant super duper lots!) of constraints.

BUT I'm still standing strong, just like a concrete wall facing a incoming huge wave.
And never shall i FALL.

Its makes me start to ponder things around me. Is it just me? Or is it "them".

Finally became Officer Cadets in Training(OCT). It's actually not that bad.
A bunk that looks like an hostel room, a super rowdy area, a not so bad bunk mates and more importantly is i got my BMT buddy over there!!
Though may be enlisted in a rumor-spread "xiong" company but somehow i get to enjoy their broad-leave as well.. which is kinda of not bad for now.

More things are to come. But mostly are things that are more negative.

Sigh.. Gotta buck up. HA.

Well, there's a saying goes:
"Monkey see Monkey do."

I guess i about there, ha. Following what my dear best^5 friend did. =)
An analysis of my own personality.

Result of test:
You are sensitive and indecisive at times. You are good at making friends and when the joyful moment arrives, you make the most out of it. You love your house and family. You are a gifted artist as well. Once you have a problem, you need a friend with you. Your life is always full of changes. Once you have a problem, you need a friend with you. Your life is always full of changes.

You will avoid being alone and seek the company of others whenever possible. You love excitement and create it wherever you go. You see the world as it is, not as you believe it should be.

You are not a romantic person by nature. It also safe to say that others don't see you as a flirt. You don't think much about yourself.


Anyway, OCS Ramp-up training started and next week will be going in SAFTI to begin OCS journey. Though how much i wanted to go in the training, still the sudden pain still lies @ there, wandering around my shoulder. Grrr.. What an obstacle.
*PRAYING HARD that i go into a good company*

TWISTED ENDING.

Its all started with an ambush of a section mate...

AND...

It ended with an injured shoulder...

GRRRR..

Well.. something telling me to blog today, right now. So here am i, blogging on this particular space of mine, trying to figure out what's exactly in for me in the short term goals. (now that i'm in NS now)

1st: Focus on my dream, of cos.
Well, time is always an issue for me. Though there's a saying: Time is created by ourselves but still at times when a person is so tired that laziness hormones start to react.
Always wanted to do this, always wanted to do that, but excuses always come in the way.

2nd: Read more.
Does reading without understanding helps? guess not, its always good to understand something, but i guess there's more to buck up on. (For me at least)

3rd: Stay focus on God.
Outside House of God, temptation is everywhere. Well, its just not that easy to resist temptation. "Though the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."

4th: Breakthrough in life.
For a better prayer discipline, for a better leadership. Most important is to shine brightly out in the marketplace.

Lastly: Be Fruitful.
Guess to sow a seed and harvest it needs TIME. And to cultivate a seed needs TIME too. But, i placed my faith on God, and "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Words of God."


In conclusion: constraints is always there in our life, but its all up to us to remove it. No one could remove the sandbags on a hot air balloon except for the person who is in the balloon itself. Identify it and life will be easier and we are able to fly even higher in our life.

Wooooossshhhh...

Finally, its seems like all kind of hardship is over for now.
Finished Grandslam and Wanderers @ Tekong(heh, back to there)

Nowdays, don't really have the inspiration to write much and influence people over here. haa, but still it is a must to update once in a while. This is to make all my dear readers i still here!!! Not mia ok? HA!

Well, James gone to Austrialia, not for any holiday... but for WALLABLY training!! WOO. Heard that the food there is nice, the drinks is nice... the girls is nice as well... hahaa.. don't ever try to think what i meant over here!!

"To the pure, all things are pure!" - Titus 1:25)

Something that installed into my mind @ today service.

Lightning Rod.

A few months ago, Pastor Mike Connell (if I'm not wrong) was preaching about finding a lightning rod in our life.

What exactly is lightning rod in our life?
Well, lightning rod basically act the function like those lightning rod you see on the top of every HDB building, to prevent any lightning from hitting the building. So basically, it's sort of preventing the damage of the building.

When we applied it to ourselves, we are in the form of "building" in that scenario. Lightning referring any storms we faced in our life. So what then is lightning rod? Lightning rod just someone around our life. Someone whom you trust he/she is able to confide in, able to rest on, able to rely on. AND that's is really very important in our life.

Let's see in this scenario:
If one day you feel so left out inside a clique. That point of time, you should be starting to feel like as if you are out-casted because of something regarding you. Then the devil start to attack you even more by casting more negative thoughts into your brain.
"AHHH, must be because i didn't say things in that way, that why.." or maybe "i must start to say this and that so that i can be inside the clique again."
Then all kinds of impossible answer became possible through the assistance of the devil. Then your self-esteem is damaged, your confidence is lowered, your mood became moody etc.. You became another person. And you wanted to find someone to talk about it but you found no one. There's no lightning rod is your life. There's no one you can rely on. You are just alone, facing the stormy weather alone.
After awhile, you thought that such thing is common in our life. We could just let it past and looking forward to the next day. And so, time passed and true enough you managed to forget about the unhappiness, the unbearable moment of out-casted. You are happy about it. You managed to SKIP all those unhappiness.
Then one fine day, things happened again. This time you are super down. Because of previous incident + this incident, you kind of confirm that you are in fault. From then on, you changed. The impact is in your heart, and you never get to share it out because you thought you are REALLY GOOD at handling such stuff because it happened so many times in your life. You really thinks that you are like God, but thats wrong my friend.
Even Jesus, whom is the Son of God shared his problem around. Share his unhappiness. What moreover is us.

My advise to those people who are not does not have any lightning rod. Start finding 1 now. It's not neccessary must be the same old people always. Not every lightning rod that you find can conduct the same lightning voltage. Everyone in this world definitely needs 1.

For me, my lightning rod is none other than Him, Jesus. What about yours?

Well, this week of training is kind of tiring. Not only been navigating around Paris Laba Camp, but as well as Lower Mandai. Though its really super fun but still its tiring not just only physical but mentally as well.

Haven't been having enough rest this week. Always sleep around 11pm to 1am, and then have to wake up on the same time - 5.15am. Then have to focus on a lot of stuff. UGH..

Though lost in the jungle, nevertheless the Way is always there for me. Though a bit 'holland' here n there, but still we are back in 1 full piece. Thank God everything.

Finally i got my first PTE paycheck! ha, more than what i expected.. Kind of blessing~ :D

WHY LEARN?

JUST A PENNY THOUGHTS OF MINE...

Nowdays youth, teenagers... or maybe this might applied to some adults is having this "WHY LEARN" attitude towards their life. BUT never did they know something, that this 2words is words of our life. This 2 words enriches our knowledge, our attitude towards life and might be the key for us to have an breakthrough.

So how do we fully utilize the 2 word? Well, we have to start by breaking this 2 words into a word itself - "WHY" & "LEARN"
"WHY WHY WHY?" Why do we have to do this? Why do we have to do that? Why is this occuring? Basically our life is full of question mark. Too much mysteries. But when we start to ask ourselves why, we took the first step to recognise something in our lives. Creating a curious heart within ourselves.

BUT just asking isn't enough, we have to find out. We have to take action. We have to know where can we source for the answer. By friends? Internet? Wiki it? Or many others secret technique you have. Most importantly is we have to know our answer!

Then next, we got our answers. But we don't LEARN from there! We just "oh, so thats how it works" then we move on to our next question mark and so on..

BUT guys/girls, see this. 'WHY' is linked with 'LEARN'. It just that we made it so negative that nothing of the positive is able to excel in that word.

At the end of the day, i just hope that whoever who reads this blog of mine, will understand "why learn" attitude is suppose to have. *wink*

WHAT A SERMON BY PASTOR KONG

WOOOOSSSHHH..

Gosh, today's preaching is really really... super duper powerful.
This is like the first time i experience this type of preaching.. Full of power & the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon Pastor Kong.

And this is like the most enlightening preaching i ever had. Man, Pastor Kong is...
*thumb up* x2


Alright, next to post is about cell group..
1. Prayer REALLY REALLY work out fast. A moment ago was praying for zhihao to respond to the altar call, next moment you'll see him @ the altar call. Welcome to E376, zhihao!!

2. Finally, Kristy was not so afraid of me anymore. haa, though she might be still alittle "close up" BUT she's much more opened up to me like that... haa, soo its quite a good news!

3. Tomorrow is Light Bring Life BBQ. Let's enjoy it to the max E376! :D


Last but not least, is Raven 3's BBQ outing..
1. Reached there quite late, got nothing much to EAT and i'm suffering from hungry illness now... :(

2. First time in my life, squeeze 8GUYS inside a car... AND THERE IS 2GUYS IN THE CAR BOOT!


Conclusion for today:
Its super tiring becoz i didn't manage to get enough sleep last night and i'm out of home whole day..
BUT nevertheless, i'm feeling energetic right now and i am really thankful for today activties.
Managed filled my "empty tank" and i'm so on FIRE for God. HAHAHA!!!
Bonding with friends is the best thing in life, and a relationship with God is something i will never regret..

THATS ALL~ weee

p.s. Had a great with ya, best friend^5 =D

RAVEN 3 P3 SECTION 3.

Alright, been talking about them but haven really let you guys see them. NOW is the time to take a very close look @ them! ha,

*DRUM ROOLLL...*

LADIES AND GENTLEMENT, INTRODUCING RAVEN 3, PLATOON 3 GUYS..

GATHERING @ SENTOSA~

Then... we meet up with our Sergants... SGT Jason, SGT Jian Long & Platoon SGT TONG

After sentosa, we meet up with our SGTs for some 'dian xin'. Chatted abit w them, then we proceed to HeadQuarter lan shop to thrash our SGTs.. HEHEHEEE... Nah, joke. But we did had quite some fun @ the lanshop itself.
Lastly, went to Coffee Beans to chill, afterwhich we went our own way home..

NOW.... INTRODUCING R3 P3, SECTION 3!!!!!!!!

First row(left to right) Roger a.k.a stratch dick king, Soon Yee a.ka soon kuey, Shawn a.k.a Section IC, TX a.k.a Fastest SOC, Jeff a.k.a Paranoid king.

Second row(left to right) ME a.k.a Helmet Gang Leader, Brendan a.k.a Toilet IC, Joseph a.k.a ex-fastest silver, zhijie a.k.a muscle man, yong whee a.k.a cold joke king.

break break~



AND Yes, with them, my ns life isn't that dull.. Its full of laughter and piss off moment. BUT still with them, times really flies. Miss you guys man!!!!!!

BMTC SCHOOL 2; RAVEN COY; PLATOON 3

P.O.P LO!

w my dad

w my mum

POP LO!!

Last but not lest, my platoon SGT

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow... plenty of wow. seriously wow.

This platoon really rocks, especially this section. Though conflicts arise, though we have things comon and uncommon, though each of us had our flaws but still, WE ARE A PART, NOT APART.

I'm starting to love NS life, loving the buddies and bro-hood in there. Thinking of the first day when i first enlisted, everyone like a blur cock. Expecting life to be like civilian life, till we get whack hard hard in the ass and *Poofff* we woke up from our civilian dream.

Then we share complains and whining, start to target people to shoot and suan, begin to enjoy each other companions, looking at the sea infront of our windows... appreciating the scenery and spending time at the sunset.

Then we walked the route march, we sing along the way, we support each other and finally, we completed our 4km, 6km, 8km then followed by 12km and 16km... last but not lest, we tong until 24km ends and YES!!! FINALLY. The time is coming, about time for us to say goodbye to each other; PASSING OUT PARADE (POP).

2months just passed like that, and that when the real NS life is coming. 2 months in BMT gave me a memorable experience of NS.
So, reader out there who is about to be enlisted, OR maybe you are in NS right now, or maybe you have already ORD... but don't ever forget the days in army.

I really really thank God for giving me this company, this platoon, this section, this bed, theses SGTs, and most importantly this life of mine.

THE LAST BURST OF FIRE...

THE VERY LAST BURST OF FIRE.

24KM ROUTE MARCH AND THEN...

P.O.P LO.

COUNTDOWN TIMER...

TICK TOCK.. TICK TOCK.. TICK TOCK........

Just another 2 1/2 weeks more. In another words, 16days more to the end of BMT.
Sound rather close huh?

There is so many things i wanna do while i am in army but it just time constraint that i am facing right now. Really wonder do i have the energy to keep it going and finish the race of mine. Not being pessimist over here but it just sucks to be stuck at this constraint which gonna drag me for another 20months.

Whether could i have the consistency to do it... which i know that that is my weaker point. Not being consistency. Still, i really have to manage my time well. Else, i guess i will really collapse.

Too much whining doesn't really help much here. ha, but i guess it does help alittle on relieving myself.

Gonna stop here... BYEEE...

wooo.. its been like almost 1 month since i blogged. sorry man readers.

I hope to have more time and lesser constraints to let me blog BUT, ever since i started serving my country, time have been restricted... freedom have been kinda of taken away from me. BUT still, praise the Lord for as He is always with me. Making me feel like freedom is still there.

Time really flies. Without knowing, i'm already 1month away from POP (Passing out Parade). HA!!! Army life might be tough, but as long as you tahan it all the way, it is actually kinda of cool. So to those guys who are going to join force with me, be happy because you are going to serve it!!! WEEEEE..

Basically, nth much to post as well..


THE MOST DISAPPOINTING THING RIGHT NOW IS.....

A COMPUTER BREAKDOWN... =(

Yeah man, attached below is the some of the photo when i went korean last month (june 08).

Please enjoy =)

Well... what can i say? This week, no. This year birthday celebration is super duper blessing.

Not only i got financial blessing, i got love blessing, i got care blessing, i got all sort of blessing from the all the people around. In summary, i feel SO BLESS.

I would like to give thousands of thanks to people who made their time specially for me, specially those who went to places whereby it is inconvenient to them. A REALLY BIG THANKS TO U GUYS. *muacks*

Then, AGAIN another thanks for the PRESSIE. Really appreciate all those presents and i will definitely treasure it. *muacks again*

Lastly, thanks for all the cakes~~ had alot of cakes and i think i'm lacking of breathe becoz of the dozen of candles to blow.

Oh yeah.. those candles... reminded me that i'm 20years old. AND as suggested on my blog header. Its time for me to chiong sua all the way.. Chiong for my future, chiong n chiong.. keep on moving forward till the Lord is holding me up in the sky.. =)

Yes chiong sua. Tonight shall be my last freedom night to be typing this blog, making some entries and feeling emo here n there. haa, yes chiong sua! TML IS BOOK IN DAY. THE START OF BMT.

So dear readers, please don't be saddened by this new. Though i might not be free to upload fascinating stories or some emotional topic, or some nice pictures(duh! referring to me of coz =D), or maybe sharing some insight experience, BUT.. BUT BUT BUT... I'LL BE BACK! THATS FOR SURE..

SO make the tagboard busy okayy.. For as now onwards, your dear writer have to report BMTC School 2 by 9.30am. See u guys around!

*muacks* :D

HMMMM.... almost 1month since i updated.

Basically nothing much happen this month. I would say its more of... A PEACEFUL MONTH.

Celebrated jiaying 21st bday..

Quitted my job on 23rd june..

Left sg for korea on 24th june..

Came back from korea to sg on 1st july..

Then planned for bday celebration..

Then had to buy army stuff before going in.. ( which is next week >o )

Then attended last cell group meeting

Will be going for last service and experience the mightly Mike Connell preaching.

Celebration of bday with different peeps..

LASTLY,

REPORT @ BMTC SCHOOL 2 on 11/7/08..

Alright guys, though i have no time to upload the Pulau Rawa Part 2 story, but i do have another story to share out with you guys:

THE NEOS CAMP 2008

Well, this is considered as my first camp after like... ermm, 2-3yrs? ha. BUT, I'm been looking forward to it and truely, it is COOL.... but not awesome. ha.

Anyway, it is becoz through this camp, I got a feeling that the connect group members is looks more bonded together. Esp Charles, seems like he tried to open up to us. Thank God for that.. And thank God for blessing his performance though it was his first performance.

First night of the camp, we get to sleep at 3plus a.m. and had to wake up by 7am to do some P.T. Which tired out alot of people and i believed quite a number of people is complaining about it (yes, of coz it includes me). What's more worse is we slept with air-con AND some of us doesn't have any sleeping bag with us.. Its like so freaking cold in the middle of the night.. *Shivers*

And, the best part of the camp is... devotion time!! The presence of Holy Spirit is being felt throughout the devotion time. And the worst part of the camp is... WE MISSED THE SESSION TWICE. Well, long story for it... all i can say is the reason lies @ jg :D


And yes, da peeps took some AWESOME photo @ some photo shop in Lucky Plaza. Though the place might look alittle low-down; not nice looking, but still afterall i guess what makes a picture nice is the content inside. So WE are the content, and its really cool. I guess i will miss them alot alot when most of us start to serve our country. ha..

The pictures:

The Formal; Serious Yet Relaxing Moment..

The Informal; Mischievous times

The Charming Guys; Charismatic Ones.

The Elegant Girls; Lovely Few

In conclusion, we are just AWESOME. TRUELY AWESOME.

E25B.. HA, NICE NAME & CLASS. =)

HEY HEY.. its like.. ermm..
1..2..3..4...5...
11days since we visited Pulau Rawa.. Man, that place is.. AWESOME!!

You guys should really go check it out.. cause its really cool and the water is so freaking clear that you can even see a "pu mu" in another word – jellyfish, in the water..
(opps, sry az, just have to make fun of it. *PEACE*)


Whats that!? Its is a shark!? NO, its a fish.. NO, its "pu mu"


Anyway, the pictures are attached below and that is only part of it..

Lets move on the events that took place over there.

Readers, imagine if you are one of the character in “Lost” the US series drama, (except that you have a good place to rest, a good place to eat, and a good place to “LEPAK”) what is the first thing we must do!?

a. Stay where you are..
b. Explore around!!
c. LEPAK!
d. Wait for your death.

A: OF COURSE IS EXPLORE AROUND RIGHT!? So ya, my main point is just to say we explored the area after putting our things down at our “bunk”.


The bunk with a mess

Explore explore and explore… then we found 1 interesting item.. TADA (look at the pictures below)


GOSH..

Waking up early in the morning, not having breakfast.. and have to rush to take our ferry to the island itself… everyone WAS hungry.. so YUP, we had our first meal over lunch.
Once again.. it is… NICE.


First meal.. not mine though..

So, after filling our stomach etc.. etc… well the next thing is to.. enjoy the beach.. enjoy the sun burning on our body.. of course we TOOK tons of pictures!!! (attached below, well basically there are too much for me to upload.. so please understand that I need to have 2 posts to upload the cool pics)


walking along the beach


some post before setting off...


Look @ the beautiful thing. Scenery i mean.



Some group discussion before setting off..


Enjoying the clear beach


THE WATER SLIDE...


Amazing..


The departure... nahh.. jk :D


Playing with sand?



A better view of the jetty and the entrance to the slide


Once and again, cool water slide.



The other side of the island



A bunch of... cool dudes..

After explored the whole area, these are some facilities we found in the place..

1. A water slide~
2. A renting place to rent diver suit, kayak, snorkel, flippers etc…
3. A lepak area (meaning dining hall, drinking point)
4. A trekking track
5. Tennis Court
6. Snooker Table
7. A dart corner
8. Table Tennis
9. American Pool table
10. A bar
11. Meeting room (but we used it as kbox session)
12. Gaming corner
13. Movie Area
14. Volleyball court
15. A club resort just next to us

Too much to list…

The dining hall itself..

ANG MOs... thats cool.


Overall view of our LEPAK area



Rest..


Our departure..


k-ing.. with scoring system somemore..


Snookering..

Our first day passed after we sun tanned alittle, and played some sand castles thingy, kboxing.. darting, table tennis-ing etc...

NOW, 2nd day is really an happening day. BUT we did not took much pictures because it is inconvenient for us, you see?

These are the things we did during the 2nd day:

1. Kayak-ing, capsized once
a. ALL thanks to JG who tried to be like a man standing up high, but anyway its great to be capsized. Ha.
2. Snorkeling
a. Whereby we get to see some coral far deeper in the sea, as well as trying to siam some “pu mu”
b. Our dear tekko darrius get stung by “pu mu”
3. Sliding down the water slides
a. Gaying each other by having 5persons sliding down the water slide TOGETHER
b. Playing ‘open number’ to decide who shall be the LOSER to slide down with the pattern the WINNER thought of
c. “Sauna” with the slides
4. Sabo-ing each other to drink some “salt-water”
5. Volleyball-ing
6. Captain-ball
7. Touch Rugby
8. Poking a jellyfish that we caught
9. Sand-burying jg and being buried
10. Building some lousy piece of castle whereby we could really spend almost ½ a day doing that
11. Throwing SANDBALLS @ some “monster” whereby in the end caused some incidient. (SRY KLL)
12. Feed fish with bread provided by them.

THEN.. its was night time.. had BBQ BUFFET FOR DINNER.

Loook here pleasseee!!

BBQ buffett...

Mr.... EAT-ALL-HE-CAN.. hahaa.. jk :)

We went to the jetty to look for our DD & TEKKO Darr but found none. OH well, might as well take some pictures over there:


Then.. we heard some happening trances music coming from the Club resort, so…. We decided to join them..
So.. on the way there.. look what we found! A yacht in the sand.. Celebrity time~~

Tyres.. duhhh..

Random pic @ the jetty.

Modelling for havanas in the middle of the night

It's obvious who is a cam-whore..

Night jetty walk..

A buried yacht.. in the middle of... sands..

Memorable picture on the yacht..

Cam-bastard..

WOOHOOO

My "bunk" mate

On the yacht

Then.. its time for Harry Potter & his coconut tree broom~

AM I HARRY?!

TO BE CONTINUED...

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW.. PLEASE LOOK FORWARD FOR THE NEXT POST WITH MORE PICS~ :D


*Cheers*