Hot Hot Hot Hot Day!!!

Today is a super hot day. Walked my way to Botak Jones, Bedok, to have lunch with godma and Aunt Joan. While waiting for them, was tempted to order a ice cold pint of Hoegaarden. SHIOK!!
Tried the Cajun Chicken. They served mine with chicken breast meat. It tasted pretty delicious.. Think my next visit will be to Aston at Bedok. Wanna try their other food.. YUMMY!

Nothing beats a cold Hoegaarden in a hot day...

SUPER LONGGGG WEEKEND

Last week was 4 working days. This week was 3 working days. Got to clear last year's leave, so took it on Thursday and Friday to have a super longggg weekend. Slept till 830 today. Think I'm not those kind who can lay on the bed the whole day. But I kept sleeping though.. Woke up, had breakfast, fell asleep while watching tv. Went to June's place in the evening. Bought ginger tea over. Played with little Jayden. Geraldine and family was there, so is Aunt Joan. We helped gong gong move to his hospital bed. Had to move out the old king size bed, so that we can bring in the sofa chair for mama to sleep on. Left at about 1230, wanted to cycle to East Coast Park to do some thinking. Haven't did it for a long time. But in the end, decided to went back to rest.

Benjamin's Birthday Caramel Biscuit

outside my window..

Can you guess wad this is? (my mop)

Camry Cabby!!

Jayden's favourite

Cooking Day!!

I've never felt so stupid before!! Was trying to do some advertisements using the new Mac PC with Pro Tools. After recorded my DJ's introduction, I got to import audio files in using CD. But the problem is, there isn't a eject button on the CPU, its not like the normal Windows PC's CPU. I spent almost half an hour to figure how to eject the CD drive. Look around the CPU, tried on the desktop, just couldn't figure out. In the end I got to open I Tunes to eject. So stupid! Richmond can eject the CD drive!! LOL

Wanted to go jogging today, but super lazy. Plus I've not started preparing for Sunday's song leading. So bought some chicken fillet from NTUC and went to cook. Long time since I've cooked. Haha.. As if I can.. The last time I cooked was for Zelia's Birthday. Cooked Carbonara with white mushroom and chicken breast meat. This time was chicken fillet, marinated with pepper and my Curry Maggi Mee's seasoning. Together with a bowl of Curry Maggi Mee.. Dinner was so filling.. There is still Hershey's Cookies & Cream chocolate for dessert. Gonna eat it when I feel less bloated while preparing for song leading.

It's Tuesday Again!!

Its Tuesday!! Haha.. Now I look more forward to Tuesdays as it is swimming and bowling day! The norm for me is that I will go home after work, to change and take my swimming bowling gear. So my left hand will carry my shoe bag with my clothes and goggles and right hand will carry my bowling ball.

Andrew was late today. Called when and heard him saying he will reach in a few minutes, in the end what he meant was 20 mins!! haha.. So I went on to swim first without him. Today's pool is really people mountain people sea, more crowded than usual. While swimming, I have to look out for swimmers from opposite direction and also beside me. Worry that I will either crash into them or treat them with my supermond breaststroke kick. Swam about 25 laps today. Don't understand how Andrew can actually keep track on how many laps he swam. I always lost count so I don't even bother counting. Haha..

Now let's talk about bowling. Last week was we were on time, but no lanes to play. All the lanes were fully booked. But this week, there were so many lanes for us to play, but most of the others were late. Haha.. Kelly brought a friend to join us today, Zu Wei. Really encouraged and happy that Kelly has been joining us quite often. Really hope that she can continue to join us. Haha.. She claims that when she plays with us, we pressurize her to perform better. Haha.. Today I played quite well.. Hit 148 pin falls for the first game and 158 for the last game. I even had a turkey!! But I also hit all time low of 98 pin falls.

After our bowling session, went to have supper and also to talk to Zu Wei about the gospel.. Glad that he is so enthu in asking questions and wanna know more about who Jesus is. Spoke to him till about 12.30am, before we decided that it is rather late and head home. LOL..

=............( Andrew will be going to Brisbane to work for the next 3 months!!! I will definitely miss him badly! Last week during Bible Studies, was randomly chatting with Eugene. Only then did I realize that I am seeing Andrew 4 times a week. Tuesday swim and bowl, Wednesday Bible Studies, Saturday soccer, Sunday church. Hope that even he is not around, I'll still continue with my Tuesday swim and bowl. Even if the others are not keen on bowling, I will still play alone and train up to try to increase my average pin fall..

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Spent the whole Friday afternoon trying to fix 1 Ikea drawer all by myself. It came in a huge box with planks of wood, metal strips (for holding the drawers) and screws. Spent quite a while trying to figure out how to fix the drawer. Had to make sure the direction of the metal strips is correct, correct thing at the correct place. That's not just the tough part.. Screwing in the screw is also very tough. Had so many screws to screw and most of them doesn't go in smoothly. Some holes are sooo close to the edge that there isn't space to hold the screwdriver properly. So I can only screw with a few fingers on the screwdriver. 1 frustrating thing was when the drawer was almost done, I notice that the drawers can close nicely. Looked here and there then found out that there is another piece of paper that only has diagrams, and the diagrams is suppose to tell you that step 14 and 19 in the instruction manual is wrong, so I am suppose to follow the piece of paper. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't they just write it out it words that the steps are wrong? Haha.. The diagram has the number 14 and 19 crossed out, then some corrections on the wrong manual. Felt great to look at the final product.. Now I can claim that I did it myself. LOL

Stage 1

Screws and Nuts

Stage 2

Stage 3

Screw near the edge

Stage 4

Stage 5

Mission Accomplished!!!

My tasty treat at Pancake King... Tao Sar Pancake!

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Didn't attend church today =( overslept.. Can't wake up, kept snoozing my alarm. In the end, went church just to attend the easter event meeting.

After the meeting, we went to Lit's place for Wednesday CG gathering. Went there to have lunch and games. The lunch was Mexican theme, so Jasmine prepared a few mexican dishes. Jaeden is so cute! He was trying to call my name, and in the end, he ended up calling me thunder Richman.

Mexican Chicken Dish (nameless.. LOL)


Lemon Slice


Sweet Corn


Salad


JaJa!!

Had so much food and fun. Played blokus with Andrew, Lit and Keith. First time Andrew and Keith playing. Whenever its Andrew's turn, he sure take very long to decide where to put. Haha.. Well, that's Andrew. The side was the noisiest. The other group was Suan, Kelly, Amy, Jasmine, Ray, Benjamin, Jeremy and Carlsen. With Ray, Ben and Jam in the same team, they were so noisy. When the 3 laughters combine, 1 can go deaf. Haha..

Blokus

The 3 thunder laughters

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why angry?

To me, there are many reasons why people get angry. It can be because of jealousy, pride or impatient. But the usual reason is because of one's expectation not being met. For my case, I get fed up when people do not reply sms or return call. I find it so rude not to reply sms. Busy is not an excuse.. If one is busy, the most he/she can do is to send an sms saying he/she is busy now, will get back to you later.. How long can a sms reply take? Or would you rather just keep the other party waiting for your reply. My expectation is for people to at least reply. But different people have different expectations and that leads to anger and eventually argument. 1 minute of angry = 60 secs of happiness gone.. Whatever it is, I've learnt to be merciful, forgiving and always put reconciliation in first priority. In Matthew 5, people think that only when you murder, will you face judgment. But according to God, when you are angry, you will face judgment, don't even talk about murder. Is there someone you are not reconciled with?

NEVER BUY TOYOMI PRODUCTS!!

NEVER BUY TOYOMI PRODUCTS!! Didn't have dinner after the swim and bowl tonight. Must stay awake for Liverpool game, plus a bit hungry, so cooked noodle to eat. After cooking, went to living room, on light, tv and fan. When I was turning on the fan, the back of the fan head suddenly exploded. I can see sparkles and a loud bang was heard. SO SCARY LA!! Almost disfigure my handsome face. LOL.. So never buy Toyomi products!! Especially fans!! NOT SAFE!!!

TTD = tiring tiring day...

Today was a super tiring day for me. Didn't really slept well last night. Went to Ikea today, despite the rain. Had to go down and exchange some items as they delivered the wrong ones to my office. Spend 2 hours where choosing curtains. But in the end didn't buy, cos the wall in my new studio is not a real wall, its a partition.

After work, went to swim alone, LKK not free, got meeting to attend. Thank God that the rain stop, if not cannot swim today. The swim was good, even though the water is a bit cold. Today swam beside this 'uncle'. Looks quite fit, think he is an officer or encik. He swam free style for more than 10 laps!!! My max is only 3!! That shows how fit he is.

Played bowling AGAIN!! This time Kelly came along too. Kanna cheated by her, still say she is a average 60 - 70 pin falls girl. First 2 games got more than 100 pin falls, won the first game too. Played not bad today, my average score improved quite significantly. 122 average today, 144 maximum. Think I've got my feel now, hope can maintain this standard and challenge LKK next week.

LIVERPOOL VS inter milan later in the morning.. CANNOT FALL ASLEEP!! BIG MATCH FOR LIVERPOOL!! okok.. go play some games, hope can stay awake till 3.30..

Tuesday is swimming and bowling day..

I almost lost my arms today!! Had my first swimming and bowling session with Andrew. Its been a while since I really swim, usually is just casual dipping with no goggles and I purposely went to buy goggles. Swam about 25 laps today. Really tiring but shiok. I somehow seems to enjoy the feeling after a good workout. Even though its tiring, but it just feels refreshing. After swimming, we met up with Justin for our bowling session. It was so coincident that Justin and Andrew both wore last year's church camp shirt. Sp we decided that it will also be our official Tuesday bowling attire. Haha! Played 3 games today, had an average score of 114!! Really look forward to next Tuesday!

I was forced to try DJ-ing today. So funny LAR!! With no experience and no preparation, was told to try and anyhow say something, just for fun, to record and listen, not on air LAR!! It just feels so weird listening to my own voice. Haha..

Gaining Through Losing...

Finally found some motivation and energy to blog. Many things had happened. There were loses but there were also gains. Spent a real good time to reflect on life. Prioritizing what is important and what is not. Trying to be on the right track with God again. I can't always be trapped with personal issues and be distracted and lose focus in God. Thankful that I've taken the step to move on...

2008 is going to be a busy year for me. There will be Easter evangelistic treasure hunt, youth camp, relaunching of my company, Perth trip to visit Wai and family and also Church Camp. Really pray that I won't fall sick and have the strength, guidance and support to go through these busy periods.

There is something new on every Tuesday. Its not 50% off waffle, but bowling with Andrew and brothers. Made the commitment to swim with Andrew then follow up with a game of bowling. Hope that the meet up will be a great opportunity for us to continue support and encourage 1 another. So all my after work hours will be packed with activities. Jogging on Monday. Swimming and bowling on Tuesday. Bishan CellGroup on Wednesday. Jogging or slack day on Thursday. Young Adult Cellgroup on Friday.

This week, we learnt about how we should live as salt and light of the world. How we should be different from the world, how we should preserve the world and let our good deeds shine, so that God will be glorified. It really requires us to be prepared for persecution, be it to the extreme or just mild ones. Nothing is ever easy, hope that we will all persevere and not give up. Draw strength and peace from God. Amen