well well.. my housemates had forgone the deposit we paid for the new house (that i intended to stay there from sep till i grad but pay little rent during the holiday) and instead managed to arrange a lease at this current place till november but at increased rent... they forgone the deposit, their money not mine... but cos this hse increase rent so when sept comes, the rent i pay them also should go up to $140 (the agreed amt i'd pay for the new house) - den after i go back sg for my holiday and come back brisbane again, i gotta find my own place again...

actually i've juz began to warm up to liking the new place that we'd haf moved in to - all the space in my room (cos right now their things are still in my room!), my own toilet (we've got 2 toilets now too but they used one as storage!), a lock in my room (yea, i change in my closed bedroom but without a lock lor!)... but in the end, they decided that they cannot accept the little bit of rent i'd be willing to pay for the holidays so decided to juz call off that house...

now the only thing i bu shuang is i pay the increased rent but get as little space... :s even if its jus for 2 months - i think i deserve getting the space i paid for....... but im not going to argue with them la... we're still frens afterall... if its juz any housemates i will fight lor... haa..

anyway, den i worked out my finances - if the new move plan had carried out, the total amount i pay until i grad is even prob more expensive actually... if i come back and get a place that less than $180 a week, i'd still save up to $200 over!! woohoo... thats comforting to know...! haaa....
Love Is In The Air!
Monday, August 27, 200710:51 PM

Today after my guitar lesson, I felt like walking Tampines Mall. Then I remembered I haven't watched Jay Chow's movie "Secret". So just in time to catch the 3pm movie. This movie is very nice, it's one of the movie which makes me lost in time. I'm the person who loves Classical music, and this movie played quite a few nice pieces which I really enjoyed. The way Jay Chou played the piano was superb. I am sure those who love music will love this movie. The way Jay Chou direct this movie is wonderful. The cinemagraphic style and the way they shot and the angel it is very beautiful. I think i will buy the DVD when it's out. After the movie I forgot what time I was in, so after I watched the timing from my handphone then I came back to real life.

Billy
Love Is In The Air!
Sunday, August 26, 20075:42 PM

billy seem to think im very free... the fact tat im blogging in the afternoon prob will further encourage that thinking... hmm... im very busy leh, i feel very busy... but despite feeling very busy, it wouldnt stop me from playing games and watching tv - taking breaks inbw is good mah...

so i've been busy with the usual lor - HEAPS of assignments... a test tmr, assignment due on next tues and 2 more due next friday...

actually i've been troubled too - about money matters, namely my rent... not like mother is pressing me to save money, but i myself feel very stingy abt paying empty rent... jace, kezia and me decided to move out in mid sep cos the rent's gonna increase by $70 per week! so the new question is whether i wanna keep staying wif them and hence pay empty rent inbw or stay till i go back for summer holiday in november... both decisions have good and bads and yea, i think i didnt sleep well last nite cos of my self-troubled problems...

and the weather's not helping at all... its like the coldest ever since winter started - and i tot it was warming up already, been like storming on and off since sunday... all my shoes feel damp... :s i appreciate being cold actually, but too cold now!!!

deb
Love Is In The Air!
Thursday, August 23, 20072:12 PM

Today after church I dunno what to do, so I just walked around Bugis alone. I went to Bras Basah to buy spectrum, then went to Bencoolen Centre to take a look at watches. Then after that I dun wanna kill my sunday on my bed, so I walked to National Museum. I sneaked into some exhibition room, wah, it's wonderful. I like National Museum, if you have friends from other countries, that is the must visit place you have to bring them to. I saw all the old old photos, some stories of the photos. Super old and big cameras. How last time hawker sell things and what they use to cook. Then I visited their shop, wah, I like the shop, if I am the tourist, I will buy quite alot of things, and somemore the price is not to conned tourist one. I bought a Florida Water which is just cost $9 and bought a old poker card which only cost $2. Very happy.


Florida Water


Poker Card

Then after that it was just 4 pm, then I dunno what to do, so bored, then I went for a movie ALONE AGAIN. I was deciding to watch The Bourne Ultimatum and Jay Chou's Secret. Then in the end I choose Bourne. It's a nice show. I love it. Then I walked to a shop called Wood Would, they sell nice nice notebook, stationaries and cards. Then they now also got sell tin toys! I wanna buy the robot but may be next time, then this time I bought this:




Today it's my big harvest of the things that I like!

Billy
Love Is In The Air!
Sunday, August 19, 200711:36 PM

Hmm... got the link from laiyi's blog, and added some personal thoughts.. HEE... http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001196.cfm thought i could give something to the curious.. haa.. since we've decided to do this as a couple blog! haa...!!!

Defining courting and dating
Courtship:
- "begins when a single man approaches a single woman by going through the woman's father, and then conducts his relationship with the woman under the authority of her father, family, or church, whichever is most appropriate"
- "Courtship always has marriage as its direct goal"

Dating:
- "begins when either the man or the woman initiates a more- than-friends relationship with the other, and then they conduct that relationship outside of any oversight or authority"
- "Dating may or may not have marriage as its goal"

My views:
- honestly, i started this relationship 8 yrs ago with the "may or may not have marriage as its goal" approach... haa..! :P (come on, i was only 14 lor..!)
- now, yea.. of cos im seeing this maturedly... hee...
- we decided to go out, but told our parents like within days of our decision, my mum was ok, billy's mum had some concerns but we still decide to go out... hmm....

Difference bw courtship and dating:
- man's motive - "he believes it is possible that he could marry her, and the courtship is the process of discerning whether that belief is correct"

(so ask the man...)

- mindsets difference - "not self-centeredness that treats the whole process as ultimately about me 'Will this person make me happy? Will this relationship meet my needs? How does she look? What is the chemistry like?' "

(yup, i def not in this like a korean drama princess who is all about the ME!)

- methods - "In modern dating, intimacy precedes commitment. In biblical courtship, commitment precedes intimacy." And not just physical intimacy, includes emotional intimacy too. such that u are not each other sole emotional confidantes, dun share like every deepest secrets and desires, dun become overly private. "The man should take care not to treat any woman like his wife who is not his wife" but "treat all young women (includes the girlfren) to whom he is not married as sisters, with absolute purity. The man should show leadership and willingness to bear the risk of rejection by defining the nature and the pace of the relationship"

(i think in this sense i do share some deep thoughts or feelings i have abt some things to billy that i wldnt share to someone else.. but there are also things that i might tell like persis but not billy... haa.. so shld be still safe ba...)
(and yup, i dun treat him like a husband, cos tats the point of not marrying yet.. haa... and neither do i expect him to treat me as wife lor...)

so is our relationship biblical? i think yes ba.. haa.. YEAH!!!

the writer writes all these alot in the men's perspective, like the men has to be the one who leads the r'ship, i think billy def is the more giving and leading one amg us two.. (oh and he is always so sweet.. hee...) yea, and contrary to feminist ideas, i think this is an absolute loving picture... not that the girl is "useless" or whatever... like eve was created to be adam's helper, guys shld lead and girls shld help him be able to lead... :)

i've happened to be thinking abt what it really means to honour god in a r'ship.... and the reading ends nicely.. so i'll juz paste it here too...

"In all these ways, a biblical relationship looks different from a worldly relationship. If this is done well, Christian women will be honored, even as they are pursued. Christian wives will be honored. And God will be glorified."

may all u young readers (like soarers!) enjoy courtship biblically, maturedly, and pleasantly!!
Love Is In The Air!
Saturday, August 18, 200712:16 AM

if a picture says a thousand words... i reckon videos might say a million? (well, if they're well taken at least. mine jus so-so... hee...)

so the ekka is a very huge and large scale exhibition and showground thingy that happens annually... there's a few sections - rides and games, showbag shopping, food, animals, agriculture, science, an arena, and others - i could only name those i remember and went to.. haa...

i bought a Girlfriends magazine showbag... its a big bag of goodies at very discounted prices... my showbag was jus $12, but it has magazines, cosmetics, sample beauty kit products, discount vouchers, etc in it and the total value is like over $100!!

took a not very scary but still fun ride at the "haunted house"... there's this other one called extreme speed that super shiock and scary one.. haha... but i didnt go up cos we had odd numbers who wanted to play and i didnt wanna sit alone... haa... but considering how badly my muscles ached from the dancing on the previous nite and the walking ard the ekka for 11hrs - thank God i didnt go up that ride!



Jessica and EiLi went though!! haa... caught on video... its like really super high...

at the animal farm there was a old man singing farm songs...



there was a stage near the food section and anybody who had registered could perform what they want there... so there was this old couple, grandma and grandpa age kind... haa.. wah saz, they rap and dance and seriously quite havoc leh.. haa..!! the grandma is the star i think, she like called "resurrection mary"...



and we got horses from the outback australia show - tat show cost like hundreds over but we got previews of it for juz $16 (the cost of entering the ekka)!



and there was motorbike race... wah sooooooo COOL...!!! i post 2 videos on that!! cos it soooooooo COOOOOL...!!!



1st they go separately...



then they go together!!

and the day ended in fireworks, which dun look very good on video so these are photos la...!







deb
Love Is In The Air!
Friday, August 17, 20071:43 PM

Havent really clubbed in like 6 mths... tues nite went and dance till i happy.. haa... den today wed is ekka holiday, i went to the ekka and walked like 11hrs lor... (more on ekka coming soon!)

aiyo... now body ache like siao... i cant even walk properly liao... my waist feel like will break liao...

and got a poor injured little toe... mylongtoes become mypoortoe liao...

deb
Love Is In The Air!
Wednesday, August 15, 200710:59 PM

After I came back from Australia, I found that the black dot on the photos that I shot getting more and bigger. So I suspect it's the fungus in my lense. Then I email Nikon how much if cleaning to lense, they said $75. Then I wanna know is there any other place where will charge me cheaper. So I went to Camera Hospital (it's the name of the shop) in SunShine Plaza. Then I told him about what happen. Then he checked and told me the black dot on the photos is bcos there's dirt on the CCD and the mirror inside the camera, he showed it to me and I saw it. Then he told me that if I want to clean the CCD will cost $75, if clean the whole inside of the camera will cost $135, then he suggest me to clean the lense becos he said also got fungus, that will cost $120, so the total price is $250, but he give me discount at $200. Then when he told me cleaning of lense cost $120, I knew he was conning me liao, so I told him I think about it first. Then I emailed Nikon to ask the cost for cleaning CCD, they replied it only cost $26.75!!!!!! But the service centre only open on weekdays from 9am to 5pm, although Wednesday got extended hour to 8pm but I sure can't make it there bcos I off work at 7pm at Kaki Bukit. Then this morning I reached there at 9am sharp and I am their 1st customer, so after I told them I need to clean CCD and the mirror inside the camera, then they told me to come back in 20 min!!! That's was fast! I thought I have to come back another day to collect. haa.. So I walked around their showroom and and collect the camera back. Then I took a photo and check that all the black dot finally gone!!!

Billy
Love Is In The Air!
11:01 AM

Jay Chou accepted Christ as his Saviour. It's a great news! His mum is a Christian who accepted Christ 7 years ago. I only know that much, hope to hear more about it.

Praise the Lord!
Love Is In The Air!
Friday, August 10, 200712:46 AM

ok... tat sounds corny.. haa... anyway... yea, it really is national day wat...

i didnt go the ndp thingy afterall, cos i got an email reply that says its full so im wise to not go and embarrass myself.. hee... but i cant help but feel like tat event's not really full lor.. i think the organisers are juz sick of late sign-ups and hence they delibrately wanna disadvantage me... :s haa... watever.. i think im being a sour grape...

unicell nothing going on tonite too.. so i decided to celebrate myself by cooking sg food!! wanted to cook bak kut teh with chicken, cos i currently dun haf pork... but realised i needed garlic groves too... so i read the cooking instructions for the ginseng chicken soup instead and well well... i only need chicken to cook tat... so i cooked ginseng chicken soup instead... but in the end, ginseng chicken soup is not really a sg dish - so i didnt really carry out my celebrations too... haa...

anyway, i had good dinner... i liked my soup... watever...

today i juz realised my msn version can do the handwriting thingy.. haa..! so i used it a lot to disturb dear billy... i enjoyed myself... hope u enjoyed my disturbance too.. :P

deb
Love Is In The Air!
Thursday, August 9, 20079:25 PM

tat facebook thingy is new and addictive to me.. haa... ok la... has more features than friendster... but all the more it encourages bo-liao-ness... hee.. anyway... added new photos!!! and i updated my aussie photos page too, http://aussiedeb.shutterfly.com/. speaking of photos... QUT-christians updated photo page too... so the very cool colour crusade, paint ball fight, day is now available http://www.qutchristians.info/ too... tat was so much fun... haa...

formed my assignment group today for e-marketing strategies... we gotta choose an organisation and work on an e-marketing plan for it... there's this girl in the grp who works for australian masters poker (AMP) and we might just use that organisation... i know nuts about poker let alone my belief that gambling is bad... may God work out a way for me and the group... i'd suggest the group to work on facebook.com (hee...) and everybody pretty much tot its cool, but its gonna be hard to analyse that... 1st of all, we dun even know much abt how a site like tat survives/makes money... like we're sure they get income thru advertisers and sponsored polls - but cant just be all that ba... the grp's gonna search online more about AMP, facebook, or something else and finalise decisions next week... well well...

tmr's national day!!! singapore student association is gathering at qut to watch ndp live.. haa.. i rsvp-ed thru email, but i didnt meet their deadline for registration... so yea... whatever, i'll juz go... amelia was also saying its not as if i turn up they'd turn me away... but i reckon its pretty paiseh... haa... but watever... i dun think i wanna miss it!!

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY!!!

AND HAPPIER HOLIDAYS!!! (not for me... :s)

debs
Love Is In The Air!
Wednesday, August 8, 200710:49 PM

Oh no!! My friend juz reminded me tat our 1st assignment is due next week!! And i havent started research yet!!! tonite i spend some 1 hr playing around facebook... haha... works like friendster, but its like the most "now" thing in brisbane right now, so as a marketing student, i think i ought to have one account and be more informed abt it... anyway... i cant tell why do australians think its better than friendster, maybe im juz too used to friendster...

had a nice chat with rachel last fri after uni bible talks, giving her some crash course on asian students perspective... haa... so qut-christians can start some international student ministry... seems quite interesting... and we planned our 1st outing - a coffee shop crawl which involves moving ard 3 diff cafes and ending up wif personal reviews on each of them... and we aim to get to know each other during the crawling ard cafes.. :) i'm supposed to come up wif a flyer about it!! haha... 1st time so far in oz that i gotta use some creative graphical ideas... hmm...

watched simpsons movie last sat!! wif mei - classmate from last sem... 1st time we go out together... but i think we mix well... i discovered tat she goes clubbing too, not juz drinking but dancing too... yeah! found kahki liao... from the time i've landed till now, i prob only went to 2 or 3 pubs, one which was a super lousy club tat looks like a lousy movie set-up and 2 other which are juz drinking pubs.. cos amelia and helen dun go dancing clubs, and i didnt wanna go clubbing wif juz anybody tat i dunno well.. so next week i can try clubbing wif mei!! ehehehhh...

on sunday i served as backup singer in worship in CCCB! 1st time im doing tat in australia - which i think went alrite.. i enjoyed myself and i didnt fail to not sing the right lyrics too.. haha... but jus a minor prob, no big deal.. before i came to oz i wanted to go to a big church and hop churches, didnt wanna serve but be served... but God still brought me to a small chinese church and i still haf to serve.. well well, not my will but Yours be done! auntie molly asked me if i wanna join her discipleship class, i said no and gave no much reasons for it.. well actually of cos i've got reasons - basically i cant decide if i really agree with her teachings! pastor steve is encouraging and inspiring... auntie molly and uncle richard are very opinionated and take their words carefully... coming to oz and learning God's words from unfamiliar places and pple make me very cautious of learning the wrong things, CCCB is afterall a no denomination church and im careful about what im preached to.. i rather haf my solid spiritual food from QBC and juz take the necessary from CCCB for now.. tats my reason to not do discipleship wif her lor...

deb
Love Is In The Air!
Monday, August 6, 200711:33 PM

Plain life. but still ok. nothing up but nothing down. very normal. Work ok. Colleagues ok. Soar ok, Youth Zone ok. Guitar learning. Antioch ok. church ok. Korean hostage in Ahfganistan not ok. QT ok. Debbie ok. Family ok. Harry Potter window display teared down liao.

I wanna renovate my room but don't wanna spend money, wanna save up for next trip to bring Debbie back. Wanna train up my physical for IPPT but lazy. No friends to go out with, but good, can save up the money, but boring. My indonesian colleagues are good, very good and true to me. They won't sabotage me, they won't backstab me, they won't share my secret to other people. All the indonesian friends (including my previous company's indonesian friend) I met are very good. After 2 times of kanna backstab/slander, I hardly trust anyone to be the one I can trust. So now I dun have best friend or close friends, only Debbie is my best friend. But she is 7 hours plane flight plus 20min train ride plus 15 mins walk away. If you have a best friend who can be trusted and they didn't sabotage you, you must treasure him/her.

Wanna go travelling again but have to save up, so I have to work well in office. Wanna change all my furniture in my room and throw away a synthesizer which no one is playing it but I duno why my mum want to keep it and put it in my room. I got a broken neck fan but still workable, so I dun wanna waste money to buy. Dad wanna install aircon in my room and tommy's room but we don't want bcos we felt that we won't get use to fan under hot weather if we get used to aircon. You may think we are stupid, but we don't wanna be those people keep on shouting singapore is so hot. Well, here is tropical country, if you don't like it please leave. Back to change furniture part, I am looking for a single door wardrobe bcos I dun need a double door bcos too big for me and waste space. I rather use the space for me to draw things on the wall. But wardrobe quite expensive, if cheap kind looks ugly. Wanna change my flooring also, but expensive. Wanted to paint my whole room but no space to put my furniture for temp. I think by the time I can buy new furniture is the time I get married and buy furniture for the new house liao. which is a good thing too. So that I can discuss and renovate with my wife, many people said usually couple will sure quarrel over renovation, but I am sure we won't quarrel over this kind of things bcos we have the same taste and same ideas of what we want our house to look like. People will say let's see, then I will reply them let's see too. I think if you think you will quarrel over renovation, then I think you have the wrong man/lady liao or you yourself have problem that you dunno how to take a step back. Anyway, I am glad that I have a good girlfriend who has the same taste as me.

ok, sorry for your time. too bored liao.. BYE BYE!!!

Billy
Love Is In The Air!
Wednesday, August 1, 20078:29 PM