curve or bold?

bold

or curve?

i like it, its nice. slim. and business like. i can update my tweets, surf the net while waiting for people who are really late when it comes to meeting me, etc etc. just that the curve’s an older version, a tad slower and less stylish looking.

but maybe i want to do games too. how?

oh.. have i told you?

noticed i stopped talking about the UM-1? well, its because i gotten it. MAN. i can hear rachael yamagata rocking her chair when she sings her songs!

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okay, something i encountered today really ruffled my feathers.
i guess people should really stop being selfish, be it for their own ambitions, or for their own welfare. i know there’s work to be done in the office, but i am attached to another department at the moment, doing another project, which i’ve always been doing and i’m always involved in that particular project. how can one be so selfish to comment it as “it does not value add the organisation”? grow up already! whatever we do will in fact value add the organisation. shredding paper, though mundane, is still part of value adding. do you know how crushing it feel when people think that your work doesnt add value to the organisation. and there’s no point making noise to the higher ranks because the only person who’s going to suffer is me. i will break down and give you a halfassed job.

selfishness is as good as murdering someone’s spirit.

nevermind.
i pray that God will remove the bitterness.
i pray God will come into this already sticky situation.
i pray God will provide a solution, and a way. When there’s a will, there’s a way.
i pray these couple of months left in this organisation will be a blissful one. let me leave in peace.

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dad and mum’s leaving in a week’s time for india. MY GOODNESS, can you imagine a house to ourselves for eight months? washing our own clothes, cooking our own meals, marketing. so hostel living.

the philosophy of Poh.

i love Saturdays with Poh (sounds like a tv program, but its better than a tv program, trust me.) i don’t mind paying a little compared to other teachers (come on, its just $10 more per lesson). He teaches us music arrangement, layering, bringing life to the music/songs that we play, song leading during praise and worship (its a totally different ball game) and variations on the guitar. he also teaches us the characteristics of different chords. he went on to tell us about how he never tries to help the Holy Spirit (can’t tell you that, i paid ok, but if you ask me on msn, i’ll tell you. :] )

as you guys know, i’ve been to the printers to have my stuff printed, they gave me a voucher from a particular restaurant and said they were printing it, so they can give it to me anyway. it really got me thinking and believing and visualizing that if one day, i can continue doing awesomefied designs for major companies and have a good working relationship with them. then next time, whenever church has an outdoor event or something, i can actually get them to sponsor. you know like, energy drinks and chocolates, and make the event a spectacular one. i’m not saying church events are bad now, they’re good. but, there’s room for improvement. we can always incorporate letting the guys doing the talentime rock it out with the models from fashion fiesta with O School dancers dancing at the backdrop. but then again, its like a total rip off. give me some time, i will think of an original idea. (sorry piglet, i know how much you love justin timberlake’s songs.)

(as i am typing this, someone texted me about watching body of lies, but he/she wasnt really interested in that body.)

i know this sounds random, i was eating tomatoes and some friend was eating watermelon. kinda reminded me of my trip in australia where i loved the blackcurrents and raspberries so much that i ate an entire box of them in an hour. yummy! i love berries! straw, black, rasp.

UPDATE: i forgot, as i was having lunch today, i watch Jamie at Home. his dishes are all so yummy. i’m pretty glad mum’s going to join dad in india for eight months next year! i so want to try to make pies and pizza and what you have not. oh crap.. i’ve got no oven. oh wait! maybe i do!

mummy and money..

my dad’s been india for quite a period of time now. i’m kinda glad he’s posted there, no not because he’s hardly around. that’ll be rather sadistic, don’t you think. dad’s been watching his health. no more morning instant noodles as breakfast. instead, he has oatmeal with milk and boils his own soup for dinner. Chef Fong’s ultimate India Escape, a continuation of Jamie Oliver’s Great Italian Escape.

anyways, i’m earning very little now, and with the building fund here, i want to start getting freelance work again. i feel very bad asking my mum for money now even though i am earning very little compared to my brothers when they were in NS. i think i am the only person in my famly not getting any financial help from my mum other than Poh’s monthly guitar fees (she pays half, i pay half) and transport fees. recently, my EZ-Link went wonky (more of the GIRO Account’s problem) so i will need to pay 40 bucks for me to continue with my daily travelling. i do have insurance policies with my prudential financial advisor also, i find it more of an investment than a chore. i think its never too young to start planning for one’s future/retirement.

what gives me faith to continue moving on is the countless of success stories in church. Pastor Kong rode with a bicycle. Pastor Tan rode in a motorbike while he carried a guitar on his back (stuntman). they once barely survived with what they had, but they were good stewards. i totally and absolutely trust in my leaders and what they say. i seriously cannot care less about what others say about how our church is too rich and our extravagance. please wake up your idea. We are never too rich to sow into the kingdom of God. as long as someone out there needs help, our church is not rich enough. as long as there are unchurch people out in the streets, our church is never rich enough not to build another awesomefied building.

“but dude, you’re so poor, what can you do with your little giving? Why are you giving so much?”
because everyone’s poor in their eyes. we always have wants. so then, are we going to give up the building of other people’s life to have our wants?

oh, but don’t get me wrong. i heart money.
money to buy my wants (hey, i believe my God provide for my wants if i am faithful with my finances. don’t ask me why i never donate all my money to God since i want to act so holy. please. God expects you to leave some seeds for the next harvest. and i am pretty sure my God can give me surplus!)

my wants like..

this.

and

this.

i can’t wait for friday.

The aftermath of “Oh Shit”

Captain bernard whacked me today and told me i forgot to cake out the coffee cake.

oh, i managed to almost complete the rubik’s cube today! and i was kinda left with the 4 corners so i went to Roy, the brainiest shit in our unit. apparently, he gave me more than a solution. now i’m having a little runny nose.

spent the night watching L.A Ink and cable tv again. Cable tv- God’s solution to the boring programs mediacorp. Speaking of Mediacorp, i was watching the news on channel 5 and realized how self indulgent mediacorp is. they had some MEDIACORP awards, awarded to MEDIACORP personalities and MEDIACORP news articles and the news aired the highlights of it in MEDIACORP news. how very very indulgent. 

mother’s day is coming. mummy’s been into western cuisine recently so i guess i’ll get her JAMIE OLIVER’S cookbook. the sick thing about jamie is that he knows his stuff. and he’s like some rockin cook with a cute wife and crazy father. he cut his daughter’s hair and realized it was damn horrible but he was leaving for italy, so he kissed his daughter who’s about 3 or 4 years old and said.. “sorry about the hair, won’t do it again…” man. i wanna cut my kid’s hair next time. i saw this infant, who’s 6months old. he had a mohawk. 

new beginnings..

hello online world. i hope i’ll be able to update this blog as long as i can. apparently, my previous space expired and i couldn’t be bothered to buy it again. the previous blog was crap anyways. the only major changed that i really enjoyed since i left my blog was the introduction of cable tv. since then, my life has been enriched with endless episodes of futureweapons, Jamie Oliver’s cook shows, L.A inks and Miami inks. i like the way how tattoos are being shaded, especially the japanese styled kinds. 

saturdays have been nice to me. going to expo for service makes me happy, even if i went alone. i don’t know if its the train rides i have alone or the personal encounters i have with God during service. being alone during service is really cool. you can concentrate on what pastor’s preaching about. my brain doesn’t work like your brains. i tend to wonder off after pastor gives an anecdote and it becomes a story in the end!

someone actually sneaked up behind me and gave me a nice surprise today. andy’s happy.