Ranking

Today I went another interview at this company located near China Square Central. Fenfen accompany me there eariler in the morning and even prayed with me before I went for my interview. So sweet of her. heehee.

The office reminds of me of a newspaper office in the 70s except that it was rather quiet and air-conditioned. Almost all of their furniture are made of wood and I fell in love with the place. So barang barang the place, I told myself. The decor of the office is pretty well done. Hope I get the job though. I guess the environment made me really comfortable and they even have a dinner table! If things go well, I'll be called back again to meet with his staff. First time having the head of the office interview me. Thought it's usually the second or last round that the big boss would come out to do the interview. Anyway will still carry on my job hunting.

Just receive the iPod shuffle and hope to sell it off but couldn't find any interested buyers. Thought of selling it to help fenfen buy her iPod mini. Looks like it's gonna be hard selling off the shuffle as I believe more and more people will receive their free shuffle from Singnet. Even saw a auntie carrying the iPod shuffle on her neck this morning at People's Park! Shocking. Fenfen got a silver iPod mini yesterday and she's pretty satisfied with it. Very satisfied. My ranking should be dropping to no.4 in her life if it's according to the ranking as below.

No.1 God
No.2 ibook
No.3 iPod mini
No.4 bengbeng

So sad...nah...what is hers shall be mine! mine! all mine! muahahahaaaaa

Oh, the depth of the riches
of the wisdom and
knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgements,
And his paths beyond tracing out!
"Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?"
"Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay him?"
For from him and through him
and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forver!
Amen
Romans 11:33-36

how to build an environment-friendly house

Honda hatched an idea ...

The End

no finishing line

"I'm good with people. I can motivate my staff...I'm good at developing teamwork. I acknowledge the accomplishments of my colleagues. I make them see my vision. I engage with people, I am able to put them at ease. I try to create a work environment of very high energy - but also of fun. Success is about a lot of people getting together for a common purpose...My future? Bigger playing fields, stronger cross-media platforms...I'm always focused. It's always a race in the publishing business, but at Vogue there's no finishing line."

Thomas A. Florio, publisher of Vogue which is world's biggest selling fashion magazine for five years in a row.

Look Who's Here!

Don't you think Moses, after a discouraging day, may have pulled open his tent flap to see the pillar of fire high in the sky and said, "Everything's fine. LOOK WHO'S HERE."

And what about Daniel, charter member of the Lion's Club. He laid his head on the mane of a lion and said, "I'm not afraid. LOOK WHO'S HERE."

King Nebuchadnezzar had those three fellas thrown in the fire but when he looked down he saw four. Shadrach and Company were just fine. "LOOK WHO'S HERE."

And what about Elijah? Water was scarce and still he ordered twelve barrels to be poured upon the altar. God or Baal? Choose you this day whom ye will serve! Ol' Elijah just chuckled to himself and said, "LOOK WHO'S HERE."

David, the shepherd boy who would become King, looked at Goliath, loaded his slingshot, and said "Your time's up. LOOK WHO'S HERE."

Remember when Walter Cronkite signed off every evening with, "And that's the way it is." A preacher friend of mine would say "No Walter, that's not the way it is, that's just the way it looks. LOOK WHO'S HERE."

Lazarus had been dead four days when Jesus said "roll the stone away." But Lazarus walked out of that tomb because Almighty God turned death on its heels and said "LOOK WHO'S HERE."

One of these days "it may be at morn when the day is awakened, it may be at midday, it may be at twilight, it may be per chance in the blackness of midnight" – in one mighty shout around the world we will look up and cry "Hallelujah! He's back! LOOK WHO'S HERE!"

Dr. Vance Havner

reservist @ nee soon camp

Today is the fourth day of my ICT. Was starting to have this dread feeling on the first day already. It was so unlike my previous two in-camp training. Usually we'll be excited to book in and catch up on one other's life so we have such a busy and happening life outside that we don't have the time to meet up. ICT to me was the gathering I looked forward becos I can get to see how's my army friends. And by the third day of ICT, I'll start to have this feeling that I hope the ICT will be over soon cos I'd done all the catching I need to do and just want it to be get done and over with. This time round, the feeling of wanting the ICT to be over was sinking in on the very first day. Perhaps it was becos two guys from our clique wasn't able to make it for this ICT. One has to attend NIE freshman orientation and the other guy(nickname Big Head) just started on his new job hence couldn't make it. I guess I missed the times of going e-mart shopping together and making jokes about army stuff and suan-ing our fellow Big Head.

My skills in operating the heavy plant vehicles has deteriorated man. Couldn't dig a proper 106 tankpit with the shovel yesterday. Losing the touch man. My ground guide was wondering what am I trying to do. Actually operating on the shovel is quite tough as you can't really see what you are digging and have to rely on your 'feel' to gauge how deep and how far you have dug. Even today's tankpit was quite a letdown. Really hope I had more time training on those heavy plants.

Anyway tomorrow is the last day and there's nothing too siong going on. Found out I got a silver for my IPPT test! Yayyyy! Finally. Got a silver for it. Looks like my jogging once a week has paid off. Got to work on my standing board jump though. Also found out that I didn't get a silver for my previous IPPT was becos of my standing board jump. doh. Thought it was my running that pulled me down. Wanted to reward myself for watching a movie but was carrying loads of stuff from camp. Instead I bought two chocolate donunts for myself. heh. nice. Tomorrow gonna get ready for a 5km run which is good cos I hope to maintain this 5km a week jog habit.

Was rather disappointed with this year's ICT as I start to notice the inefficiencies of our company and the irresponsible people not being punctual and all. How to go to war in such mentality? I felt that our commanders could have done a better job in organising the company but I might not be able to do better job if I were them. Reason being that most of us just treat this in-camp training as a waste of our civilian time when we could be doing more 'meaningful' stuff outside of army. Really hope it doesn't take an actual war for us to realise how in-camp training is important us to be prepared for the actual thing. The war of the worlds might just be coming our way.

Playground

Can't help wondering if heaven is like a huge playground because Jesus said to his disciples in Matthew 18:2 that "...unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven..." .

bus rides = hell rides

Find that several of our SBS bus drivers are kinda reckless in their driving. Wonder why do they seems to be in a rush to reach the interchange. Could it be that they were driving with an almost exploding bladder? Seems like all those toots and beeps going on in the bus makes the nature call even more urgent. Maybe I don't know what is driving those bus drivers nutz but I do hope they could drive more safely. With all the accelerating and braking shaking the bus forward and backward, it's not gonna be a safe ride for the children, elderly and pregnant women.

Do you sometimes wonder out loud while waiting for a bus that the waiting seems like eternity? I wonder that often. Tend to imagine they are off somewhere buying kopi and was too engrossed in conversation with kopi uncle. Worst still. The bus you are waiting for comes in pairs or threes. Reminds me of girls going to toilet in pairs during Pri. sch days. Years back, having bus side by side at a traffic junction is such a rare phenomenon to the bus drivers that they tend to shout happily across each other. Perhaps it felt like seeing your old pri sch classmate. Now I hardly see such things happening because they tend to exchange glares more. Wonder how they could hear each other in the midst of the noisy bus engine and traffic. Maybe they lip read. Lip reading hokkien speech is a feat by the way.

I do pity the bus drivers are so low paid and they have to work on weekends when they could be elsewhere with their family or love ones. But some of the bus drivers just make you hang on to the handpole so tight like you are gonna head for a crash. Hope that bus uncles will have a better attitude when driving on the road and avoid reckless accelerating and braking. Think of those kids, elder folks and pregnant women on the bus can?

Congratulations merf

I have succumbed to try this Which Singaporean Blogger Are You?

Congratulations merf, you are...

'PoiPoi' Apple Lim of verypoisonouslady.blogspot.com

You look like a stereotypical bimbo outside but its a different story inside. You're a nice, simple, proud and straightforward person who believes what you're doing is right. You don't change people, and you love them for who they are. Your primary goal in life is to be happy, next to being pretty. You have your detractors but you don't let them bring you down. You go out of your way to help others out even before they ask, and for that they love you.

Woah. I didn't know I'm such a bimbo on the outside. So mirrors do tell lies.

Amazing smurfs

Yesterday our youths were having this amazing race after church so I decided that our young working adults shall have a break and join in the fun. heh. It's been quite some time since I join them for such activities especially in an outdoor setting. Our group was called the smurfs! Though our team had a 15 min headstart, we didn't came in as a winner. Doh. No thanks to me for answering some of the questions wrongly and we took too much time trying to find the answers at Fort Canning and we took quite some time getting out of it to our next checkpoint. Most of the answers were easily found on the brochures we took from the Fort Canning Park. Nevertheless we had great fun running around searching for answers to complete our checkpoint. Just that some were feeling damn thirsty from all the running.

When we finally return to church, John and I did some composing of songs with whatever themes we come up with. heh. There was a song about kopitiam, a song about MRT train and a song about loneliness. It was great time interacting thru the music from the guitars.

We went to the KFC at Funan for dinner and I suggested we go Padang to watch the stars after that not realising that there was construction of the stage and all that going on for our coming National Day. Then we went to the Esplanade and sit around and chat for a while inside the lobby with these green arcylic in shapes of jigsaw puzzles hanging over us. After fooling around and taking pictures we went home. What a day to spend with brothers and sisters in Christ. : )



saw an ol frd of mine...use to look fwd to see him once a wk when i was v. young...

Not worth going at all

Seems like the up and coming 3 million dollar musical may not be worth going at all(unless there are people having fetish over yellow boots) as Cinewhore share his side of the story about the latest singapore production:

"...Their "director" was basically a sleazeball producer who was just out to make a quick buck. He was, in two words, completely incompetent. The actors didn't know what the fuck they were doing, the tech stuff was all over the place, and everything that could be going wrong was going wrong. And yet, he was doing nothing about it.

The people he had were good people, but they could do nothing without his approval, and he was skimping on everything. The department heads, when he could get away with it, were all volunteers with zero experience. He got actors on the cheap, giving some of them only a minimal transportation allowance. He got choirs and kid actors from schools instead of the real deal. Basically he's been exploiting the name of the show and hooking desperate people in on the supposed "exposure" it'll give them. His dancers and orchestra were (and still are) filled with people from China, who didn't understand a word of English. He housed his China dancers in chalets. When I got there the first night, they were rehearsing in an abandoned warehouse with no air conditioning. Catering looked like it was provided by a school canteen. He was going to force a dancer to be a stuntman and fall from the second floor, which is one of the most unethical and irresponsible things I've ever heard of.

And don't even get me started on the script, which had gone through tons of drafts, each one progressively worse than the one before.

Even an idiot would know that this was not the way to run such a huge project. And basically, everyone has this question to ask: "Where the fuck is the S$3 million budget going to?" I don't have an answer to that, but he's driving a new Jaguar. That oughta say something.

We talked to some theatre folk today, and apparently his entire career is a sleazefest. At this moment he's involved in a huge bribery scandel, and everyone in the scene knows he is someone to avoid like the plague. Unfortunately, someone at my company fucked up and thought it would be a good idea to work with him.

And now we're paying for it. It's been hell, we've had to re-work almost everything, but it's coming along as best as it can be. We only have a few days before the first performance, and hopefully, just hopefully, it'll all work out. In spite of him and his shenanigans.

I may not have any say on this, but I'm definitely advising the big brass on my end to sue. I don't know on what grounds, but I'm
sure they can think of something. They are a corporation, after all. And guys like these, they don't deserve to live. I'd run him over any day without hesitation." 7 June 2005

And I found out why our local shows sucks. One less question for God.

"...Actually, I think I can put most of the writers here in The Dark Side too. They're just so incredibly lazy and unwilling to do research. When I went to the guy in charge of the drama I'm supposed to be writing next week and proposed a certain scenario, he said he didn't want to write it because there was too much research involved. I was blown away. No wonder the scripts have been so shitty thus far, he just didn't want to get down and dirty with the material.

It does not work when you don't do the research, and when you do your homework, it shows so very clearly. Given this, I cannot fathom how a writer can refuse to do research, it should be illegal. It pissed me off so much I decided to write that scenario and thoroughly research it and write the best fucking episode ever. Just so I can wave it in their face and say, "Fuck you." Seriously, they should just be fired. Maybe that'll give them a wake-up call..." 31 May 2005

pets

"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything."
Paris Hilton

Inspiring

Was inspired by today's Tozer devotion:

"If you are a believing, trusting, joyful Christian, never let anyone rob you of this assurance and consolation. Allow no one to edit or change this basic truth-trying to make it more acceptable to philosophy or literature or art or religion. Let this wonderful truth stand tall in its beauty and effectiveness. Christ died, and in the giving of His life, He died vicariously!"

Amen!

lover of God's Word

During a sunday service, someone(can't remember who) asked the congregation,"Who loves the Word of God?". I found myself compelled to raise my hand after seeing so many people around me raising theirs. At that moment down right in my heart I know I'm lying. My passion for reading God's word wasn't as strong as before. I have lost much interest in God's word and I like to take shortcuts by reading devotions with verses here and there and be contented with a few chapters of the Bible during quiet time. Sometimes my day is just a mumbled prayer before I fall asleep. As I look at my daily going and coming, it is no charateristic of a person who loves God's word.

Yesterday I took leave for my interview and meeting with fenfen for lunch, I almost spend my whole afternoon reading God's word. After lunch, i went to Raffles City BK to prepare the lesson for bible study. After preparing the BS, I was rather curious about the part where Jacob wrestle with the angel so I read the part in Genesis from Jacob's life onwards till the life of Joseph. D.L. Moody advised that we should read the stories or the letters in the bible as a whole. By just reading a chapter or two in a day will not give us a clear picture of what the Author is trying to speak to us. So I decided to take up Moody's advice and read the books of the bible as a whole. I stayed at BK till five plus and moved on to Pacific Cafe to wait for Cheow Sheng. Was down there reading my ACCA past yr exam paper, reading about Enoch and John the Baptist in this book "Men God challenged", listening to the mp3 sermon and finally going thru the BS with my disciple. What a day to be immersed in God's word. heh.

While preparing the BS, I came across this verse in the book of Romans and it made me wanna put it in my handphone greeting to remind me to live out the verse:

"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:21