Promise me

Another week back to camp.. but field craft sounds fun :) Anyway I miss Ju

Promise me you'll wait for me
'cause I'll be saving all my love for you
and I will be home soon
Promise me you you'll wait for me
I need to know you feel the same way too
and I'll be home, I'll be home soon

-"Promise me" by Beverly Craven

You

A song that i've been hunting since sec 1, today, 7 yrs later I've found it.. its really nice and meaningful :) I remembered they played it on 98.7FM


You:

Who makes
The sun light up my shadows
When the darkness tries to follow me
Who makes
The air that bring me life
So I can breathe the love
that's given to me

CHORUS:
You make everything good
Everything wonderful
You grace my days
And heaven fills my view
Let's forever sing
You make everything pure
Everything beautiful
You make me see the only
thing that's true
It's you

Who makes
The waters of my sorrow part
And leads the gladness into my heart
Who makes
The rivers run that wash away
And clean my soul to
make a new start

You hung the moon
You placed the stars that
shine your love for me
I hope all that I do
Will show reflections of you

- Jaci Velasquez

Call of Duty

You believed in me, you believed strongly in patriotism, duty and service to our country, you told me to be brave and strong

I will fulfill them dilligently.


And from now untill then, till we meet again..

I will miss you so very much dear.. take care and study hard :)

Dog

After a morning of soccer, to my horror I discovered the carnage of a backyard:

Soil strewn everywhere, plants uprooted, the fence to the garden broken and more importantly, my dog looking at me innocently with muddy paws...

I gave codey a telling off and sent her back into her cage for time out so that I can burn my saturday arvo repairing the fence and cleaning the garden. Mentally I was cussing but just kept it in, washing the soil away, sweeping up all the rubbish, getting out wires, wire cutter and a pole to repair the fence. Just as I was sweeping the grime away, I turned to look in the cage and realised that codey was lying down, watching my every move..

I don't know if her eyes read remorse, amusement or even indifference, but I recieved a sudden epiphany from it...

I realised its probably the same thing my parents experienced, me messing things up and them getting frustrated, be it in deeds, academia or even things said.. tell me off and whether I was remorseful, defiant or indifferent to the situation, they would still clear up the mess and set things straight.. no matter how tired they were.. it made me realise this afternoon that very simply, what codey did was bad, not that codey's a bad dog.. perhaps simply this is so with people too: perhaps sometimes its so convenient just to extrapolate a single bad deed to classify a person's character as bad.. perhaps sometimes if we were just to be gracious and overlook the indiscretion, we'll be able to see the goodness in every person :)

Codey still sitting there quietly watching me clean the place up, and I sweeping the place up silently, couldn't help but feel the anger dissipate; I guess despite the mess made I still love my dog.. and maybe this is love.. keeping no tracks of wrong-doings..

:)

How do you tell..

How Do You Tell....

How do you tell someone u can't see, 6303km away...


.. that she is the music in me?...

...That she is my sunshine...

...Someone you can count on for all time..

....Someone who shares your frowns...


.. and smiles...


.... a person you'll always be beside whether making tough decisions....


... or happily basking in the warmth of the summer sunshine..

... someone to share my life with..... as if it were a bowl of 3 packets worth of indomee..

... as if 2 hearts were meant to be connected as one..

.. How, where and when is it that we've met each other.. doesn't really matter..

... what matters is from now till then..

....I want to tell her everyday that i'll be there for her...

... to care, love and support always and unconditionally.. :)

Auspicious

Had driving class one day..

..drove Car no. 4...

... my driver's name was Leow K O..

...I was glad to get out alive..

The Sunshine State

Love

Citizen Soldier

I vow to thee, my country
All earthly things above
Entire and whole and perfect
The service of my love..

The love that asks no question,

The love that stands the test,

That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;

The love that never falters

The love that pays the price,

The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.

- "I Vow to Thee, My Country" by Cecil Spring-Rice, 1908

The JC Lightbulb Joke

Taken from another blog.. quite amusing.. an old joke revisited :)

The JC Lightbulb Joke

Q: How many RJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 4 whole faculties. One to design the new bulb, one to
manufacture and test it out, one to write a proposal on it and one to market it.

Q: How many HCJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. To compete with RJC.

Q: How many VJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. One student to screw it in and the rest to cheer and wave flags and banners to give him/her support.

Q: How many NJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They can study without light.

Q: How many AJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They’re too busy trying to be one of the top 5 JCs.

Q: How many ACJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They’ll rather use all their money to employ YJC to do it for them.

Q: How many YJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Only one teacher to tell them what a light bulb is in the first place and to demonstrate how to change the light bulb. (So how do you think they’re able to change it for ACJC?)

Q: How many CJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They’ll prefer it to be darker. (Hmmmm?*raises eye-brows* )

Q: How many JJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Their physics is so bad that they made their macho male physics teacher cry.

Q: How many TPJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Would they even bother?

Q: How many SAJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They believe in praying for it.

Q: How many NYJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are still using oil lamps.

Q: How many SRJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Huh, what litebarb?

Q: How many PJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Heck the light bulb lah, the principal would do something about the rightbarbs. Let’s do 300 jumping jacks for not wearing the proper school attire.

Q: How many MJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are too busy trying to get promoted.

Q: How many IJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are Innovians. They’ll find ways out of the dark.

Q: Who wrote all this?
A: A TJCian.

Q: How many TJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They think they are already very bright.

Chlorine

The familiar smell of chlorine and excessive sunscreen... I return to the pool.. almost 5 weeks away from my enlistment, I really had better get my act together and train hard. They say success is when preparation meets opportunity... hopefully they'll give me opportunity in the army..

Time to up the training

Missing

I miss my Julie dearie..

Romantic Pythons..

Even Animals have a sense of romance..

Insight

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference..

Impatient

I feel a sense of impatientence.. waiting on job responses.. If I don't get the lab job with Experimental Therapeutics @ ASTAR, I'll go do volunteer work for children with cancer..

Maybe I'll regret my impatience for finding something to keep my hands busy when I enlist.. but well I'll regret that later..

It just feels so squalid..

Contemplate

Its 2009 already.. and here I am sitting on my butt contemplating the future. The feeling of not going back to melbourne is a mixed one- kinda sad because those few years were really the best years of my life, yet happy because from here on, I can move to the next stage in life.. which is erm.. ironically to pay off a debt.. but one i dont mind.. something different for a change.

Torn between 2 choices- PhD or medicine.. I know not which is better. After 4 years of science, it is as if my brain circuitry has been wired to think in a science manner. I went to the NUS med/Sci book store and opened up a medical textbook on clinical practise and realised its a totally different ball game as compared to science.. it came almost as a shock to me. I thought that having a firm grounding in science will guarantee an ace in medicine.. but looks like its a totally different ball game- one which stakes are higher and mistakes can cost lives.

Yet I just feel compelled to want to do something about it- the fact that I am young and have to serve NS imparts a feeling of my hands being tied up. But oh well, a debt is a debt and it has to be paid off.

Anyway sitting on my butt's starting to get boring.. hopefully job replies come in soon.. really need to keep my mind active and focused on something before it rots..

Notable of 2008

My First batch of Students @ IMCB/ASTAR

Double Cramp @ July Camp '09

At 'I LOVE SG' Day, Melb'08.. that guy sure is Hainanese..

Melbourne City

Skiing at Falls Creek

Full Marathon '08

Grad '08

YX graduates

Research X'mas Party

A confectionary triumph

Hard headed people at Kat's NYE party..

Paintball with the BB guys.. and getting shot in the nuts..

Running Running as fast as I can..

At AHMR Congress '08 with Poster Presentation

Kenchin learns to snowboard.. unsuccessfully..

Kenchin learns to rock


Saying farewell to the OCFers

Hope 2009 holds alot more :)