he is amazing.

there is no other word to describe it.

one of the most fantastic and powerful and versatile male vocalist ever.


sam tsui and kurt.


a musical duo of incredible talent.

viewership of 15+million. 

apparantly i'm not the only one who thinks they are mad good.

we zip away

a sunday spent at....

MEGAZIP ADVENTURE PARK

and $29 bucks....

 for a 1 min flying fox through the tree tops & across the beach...

what a way to spend money.

all geared up in our harness

lol, one of the only 2 shots i managed to take while speeding down the cord...

what a failure.

we managed to capture a video though of the entire scenery.

and who said the fastest has to be the heaviest??

i beg to differ....

cause i was the one speeding way ahead of the rest.

so i don't care what anybody says...

enjoying a refreshing ben & jerrys...

and then chilled out at the beach for the rest of the day! i miss going outdoors, i wana join some rock climbing, outdoor-ish activity soon before i become too lazy to get outta my house.

at this rate i'd sooner be a couch potato.

Megazip was fun but for $29 bucks...

i'd recommend you

FOREST ADVENTURE @ BEDOK RESERVOIR instead.

so much more worth it.

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ON ANOTHER NOTE:

i FINALLLY got promoted!!

and let's just say i am happy with my pay & bonus!

yay!

brought some damage to my paycheck by purchasing a mac book,haha.

but oh well, i don't expect to be spending much for the next 2 months so i choose to believe it's a worthy investment :)

mummy's birthday

Make a guess where we went? :)

ARAB STREET

how cool is my mum?

when we were making suggestions on where to go for the birthday celebration...

i offered some options...One Fullerton? Dempsey??

and whaddaya know...

my mum being uber cool...

choose to go to some indie street.

my mummy's really pretty huh? :)

we were really adventurous that day...a lot of first times...

for instance...

we went to some turkish restaurant for arabic tea & hummus dips...

though i have to say...

the taste has really been altered to suit Singaporeans' taste cause honestly i think authentic turkish food taste like crap (from past experience in Istanbul where we survived mainly on chicken & rice for an entire week)

After dinner,we proceeded to scour the lanes of arab street...

passed by a couple of shee shaw houses...

guess what we did next?

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ta dah! If you look close enough, you'll realize this is the menu for shee shaw flavours...mad lotta flavours, much more than that available in Canada.

31 flavours in total.

whatever you want, they've got...

apricot, banana, coconut, vanilla, mint, mango, cappuccino, pomengranate, double apple, etc etc.

honestly, i think my family felt that spontaneous urge for adventure that day cause never in the world would my dad have agreed to try out shee shaw (my family don't do smoking. it kills the lungs.)

and so we paid 14 bucks for shee shaw plus another 6 bucks for green apple tea.

eventually, we only gave it a few puffs and the 14 bucks mainly went to tons loada photos we took with the shee shaw pipe &jug (or whatever it is called).

lol.

what a day. love my family.

went to find one of my fave gals, Jade, at her store!

really nice store set up by a local designer...

go check it out, it's at STAMFORD BUILDING.

but be warned, it's not cheap.

BESTIE!!

took the car out on one of our rare suppers outings

and

hung out at THE TEA PARTY :)

love my sec sch peeps to bits...they really are one of my closest friends and they mean sooo much to me :) love you guys! it's always a blast hanging out with them...we can be one 38 buncha ppl...sometimes...lol.

wah, Jade,ur eyes are HUUUUGEE!! like the pussycat in boots in Shrek!

us acting pro at the guitar...

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decisions, decisions, decisions...

i hate having to make a choice...

you know how it gets when you are in a dilemma...

there's that nagging voices in your head going on and on in two contradictory perspectives...

"you should do it, if you don't, you will surely regret"

"but if you don't do it, you'll have more time/money...you sure you're ready to give it all up?"

"follow your heart, if you never give it up, how would you know whether you might be better off?"

it is mad annoying.

and being the typical undecisive person...

it sure has been a challenge...

1) Money or Passion?

currently still in a dilemma over this. i've recently gotten a job offer at a luxury fashion brand house...intro-ed by a friend...but i would most definitely have to take a huge paycut and sacrifice the kind of stable 8.30am-5.30pm kinda job that i have now.

am i ready for it?

if i don't try this now, i will never ever get the chance or be willing to sacrifice a higher pay for my passion.

2) Blogshop or not?

been wanting to set up a blogshop for the loooonnngest time. and recently after seeing the success of so many blogshops and reading BC's owners' blogs, i feel so revved up to start one.

and this time round, have decided to collaborate with vicks on this. i hope i actually get off my butt to do it. been researching and doing some background work on it... so hopefully this materialises!

3) Maldives or leave & money?

2 nights free accomodation at sheraton hotel in maldives & 500bucks air fare tics...

should i goooo??????

but i don't have sufficient leave/money....

but it surely is tempting.

4) Daehan Education Centre to learn korean or not?

actually this is no longer a dilemma. i've decided to sign up. i am not letting my prior korean studies go to waste. 안국어르 here i come!!!

(and because i like pictures in my post...i decided to paste an entirely irrelevant photo of jiuzaigou(China) taken by WP...this is sooo on my list of Must-Go places before i die)

FIRSTHAND MINISTRY!!

HOME TEAM & WARD TEAM.

i've joined this ministry for a short 2 months and i think the few times i went down to cdc, i really felt that little sense of gratification from the little things that the patients do/say and i look forward to serving more in this area.

it may not be as glamorous as chc choir/children's church/drama team but as giselle said and i couldn't agree more is that the people who serve in firsthand want to impact lives by giving back to the community, to give comfort to people who most need it, to show support to those who may be ostracized from society. of course that is not to say that the other ministries are not meaningful. some people join ministries so that they can contribute what they are best at. for me, it would have been a most natural choice to choose choir as i love singing and music to me is life. and i believe that is something which i am good at and choir would be where i can contribute the best of my abilities. but at this point in time, for me, i want to learn how to care for others, i want to do something where i can touch lives in a more personal way. I may not be the best at providing care/support but i want to learn.

and that is why i joined this ministry...

and it cetainly has been a good few weeks of memorable instances...

instance #1:

on the very first ward visitation, i met this old man and we started talking to him, asking him simple conversational questions while Song gave him a foot massage after convincing him that the oilment was not the "hot" type. we could tell that he was glad that he had someone to simply talk to and he was very appreciative of us. by the time it was time for us to go, he said in chinese,

"thank you very much for volunteering, you all are good people"

it was a simple sentence of gratitude but i already felt uplifted.

instance #2:

i met Mr K who was a bearer and has been in the ward for a good 1+ months. he shared with us his life, his family, what he does in his free time and because sometimes he gets bored being coped up alone in his ward, he often goes over to the other wards to talk to the other patients. he is a friendly man who unfortunately has a growth on his lungs...the doctor said he only has 50% chances of success if he goes for op...sometimes you hear things like that, and you don't know what else to say because if you place yourself in his position...what would it feel like to know that you only have 50% chance of survival...i wouldn't...

sometimes he would share with us how the doctors constantly have to draw blood to check on their healths and according to him, they draw blood everyday, sometimes up to 3 bottles. as a result, he needs blood tranfusion cause of low blood count.

and so the first time we paid a visit to him, we had a good talk together with another patient. the next time i returned, which was a good 2 weeks later, he still remembered me :) i was very happy and contented because it is always nice to know that people remember the little things that you do for them.

instance #3:

there is this old patient who is half paralysed and has been in the hospital for months. some of the volunteers wanted to read him bible versus as he is also a christian. however this patient did not look too interested at the start. Jack, a volunteer, then came up with the brilliant plan to act out the bible story and hence they put up a mini "adam & eve" drama. the patient was rather entertained by our hilarious gimmicks.

DINNER WITH AA306 PEEPS

love them.

and we learnt something shocking that day...

lol.

apparantly one of them recently started dating the bro of another.

what a small world.