i still remember

The World Is Awesome - Boom De Ya Da

2009-05-12T18:13:00.000+08:00

Dreams will come true!

2009-04-27T22:23:00.000+08:00

Eh all u people, crazy ah... punggol so far and ulu... of cos choose sengkang also dun choose punggol la... out of your mind ah... THREE more stops nearer to dhoby ghaut in the north east line leh... sengkang got SENGKANG MALL lor, punggol tat one lousy one la.....

xiao ah, choose punggol, chi sin lo!

5 things British tourists (ridiculous) complain about while on holiday

2009-03-25T11:10:00.001+08:00

1. A tourist staying at an African game lodge who saw a visibly aroused elephant complained that the sight of the beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel "inadequate".

2. A woman threatened to call police after complaining that she'd been locked in by staff. She mistook the "do not disturb" sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.

3. One tourist was unhappy that the sand he saw on the beach was "not like the sand in the brochure". The beach shown in the brochure had yellow sand, but the tourist said his beach had white sand.

4. An enquiry from a prospective client: "The brochure stated: "No hairdressers at the accommodation". We're trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying here?"

5. A tourist was upset that while it took "us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England, it took the Americans only three hours to get home".

This was compiled from a recent report published by The Association for British Travel Agents (ABTA) and Thomas Cook on some of the most ridiculous complaints travel agents receive from holidaymakers.

This article was first published in The New Paper on March 22, 2009.

Extreme Sheep LED Art

2009-03-20T00:41:00.000+08:00

This is very cool but very cruel. haa..

What brand of mineral water is that?

2009-02-16T21:21:00.001+08:00

What happens when you miss your flight?

2009-02-16T21:19:00.001+08:00

dental needs

2009-02-08T00:48:00.002+08:00

debbie chua needs to see a dentist before all my teeth start rotting...

so does mr billy cheng....

the boy called weiwei

2009-01-08T10:39:00.001+08:00

this morning I got a hug from my neighbour’s cute little boy... as usual, weiwei came running to his door when I open my house door. His aunt happened to come out to throw rubbish so the gate was open… so weiwei walked all the way out and asked me “where u go” – his latest favourite question. So I told him im going to work… then we say our bye-byes, but he pulled a new stunt on me – which was so cute.. haa… “hug hug one” he said, and came to me, so I hugged him, of which he shyly walked away after being hugged… haa…!!

debbie

New hairstyle after 10 years!

2009-01-05T22:11:00.003+08:00

Today I went for haircut after work. After I sat down, the hairdresser asked me," Short layer?". This hairstyle has been with me since I met Debbie, since this hairdresser transformed me from "curry puff" hairstyle to "short layer" 10 years ago. So I replied reluctantly replied,"Yes, any suggestion?" Then she think and think, sprayed some water on my hair and mess them up like weeds. She said, "Let's keep more hair in the center of the head, if you don't like it, you still can style it back to short layer, how about that?" I was thinking, good, at least I can style back to short layer if I think the new style don't suit me. So I am a little excited on how will the hairstyle change me. I wait and wait, anxiously but excited for the hairstyle being done. Ok done! wow, not bad, looks like Le Yuan's hairstyle but not that wild. So I asked the hairdresser what's the name of this hair style, she said it's called "Layer Moehock". Sounds good! So this "Layer Moehock" will be with me through this chinese new year. Hope that I can style it well!
~ Billy

Good to have Debbie back!

2008-12-14T21:41:00.002+08:00

Wah, I didn't blog for so long since I went to Australia to carry Debbie back to Singapore. After back from Australia and had a very wonderful time with Debbie in New Zealand, and of cos I proposed to Debbie beside Lake Tekapo successful! I was super happy and we can start to plan for our journey. hee ....

Past few months I did a little adjustment on my lifestyle because Debbie is back into my life and I really wanna spend time with her, so it's busy but it's a good busy, at least Debbie added colors in my life again. No more lonely, no more stick very close to parents while alone, no more only me and my violin, etc ... She found a job in SATS (Singapore Airport Terminal Services) and thank God for providing this good job in these economic crisis period. I very busy with my work in office because of all the year-end promotions stuffs. But we still have time to meet up each other. Also, she adds some noise, happy noise, in Antioch, soar and S.I.N.G. too. Both of us also involved in Pamela, Debbie's 2nd sister's wedding. Debbie is the bride's maid cum organiser and I am the photographer, we had a wonderful time in this wedding and we know how's the backstage of the whole wedding, which is good for us so that we'll know how to plan for ours. hee....

Yep, good to have Debbie back!

debbie super career woman

2008-11-29T02:44:00.002+08:00

super career woman - NAH...................

working life has commerce 4 weeks already! Im still pretty unconfident about what im doing in the office, but prayerfully that'll get better... :) Still struggling with the wake up at 6.30am and leave house by 7.45am thingy - causing me to always fail wif the struggle and contributing to many taxi uncles' early morning income... AND im already running out of new, interesting, and nicer clothes to wear everyday... :s

over the past weeks of no blogging, many things have happened... lots of emotions going on co-currently within me, sometimes popping out inbetween other feelings.. there's the empowerment feeling of having a fixed income but also nagging feeling to save for many more important things... feeling of happiness and anticipation for er jie's upcoming marriage, uncertainty about my dad's recovery, helplessness and anger about Avis who is creating more trouble for me and billy... longing to spend more time wif billy, responsibility to do my job well, tiredness from the 8.30 to 6pm officelife, worry over my own skin and health... blah blah blah...

rite now, im feeling sleepy and my eyeslids are almost shutting, but unwilling to end my day just yet... :P

thank you Avis for your excellent service - YA RITE...

2008-10-21T15:24:00.004+08:00

Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:49 PM
Subject: Regards of my excess charge
To: customerservice@avis.com.sg

Dear Avis,

I rented a car from Avis in Christchurch, New Zealand 2 weeks ago and because of the car's engine problem, Avis charged us $225 for the excess charge while waiting for the inspection result, they said if the engine problem is not my fault, they will return me the excess charge. So they asked me to contact Avis Singapore to find out the result because they said they will send you the inspection result. Below are the document details:

RA Document: 74xxxxxx5
Hirer Name: Cheng Ka Ki
Driving License No.: Sxxxxxxx

Thanks for your help and hope to hear from you soon.

Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:54 PM
Subject: Regards of my excess charge
To: customerservice@avis.com.sg

Dear Avis,

I've sent you an email regards of the result of the excess charge 2 weeks ago but I didn't get any reply from you. Please kindly help me to follow up and hopefully you can get back to me asap.

Thank you and best regards

Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM

Phone Call - Avis Singapore Customer Service Hotline

Deb goes on repeating the story and goes along the line of "can you pls follow that up"....

Person: You need to contact Customer service.
Deb: Yes, we sent them 2 emails but there is still no reply. Can you check on that?
Person: What is the email you sent to?
Deb: customerservice@avis.com.sg
Person: Yes, that is the correct address.
Deb: Yes, and there is still no reply.
Person: Emailing them is the right thing to do.
Deb: Yes, but there is no reply. Can you make sure its being followed up.
Person: Er... Please hold on...

P/S: FEEL MY LEVEL OF PISSED-NESS GO UP...

Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Subject: Regards of my excess charge
To: customerservice@avis.com.sg

Dear Avis,

This is the 3rd email I am sending regarding the results of the engine inspection for

RA Document: 74XXXXXX5
Hirer Name: Cheng Ka Ki
Driving License No.: SXXXXXXXX

As per the phone conversation I just had with customer service with Avis Singapore, I was told that Avis Singapore has already sent the inquiry to Avis Christchurch and will be sending me the inspection results when you receive a reply from Christchurch. I trust that this will would not take too long more and hope to hear from you soon. I can be reached on my mobile 9XXXXXXX, my fiancee's mobile 9XXXXXXXX or at this email.

Please acknowledge upon receiving this email.

Regards

HOWEVER, THERE WAS STILL NOT REPLY............................ SO WE WENT ON TO FIND AVIS NEW ZEALAND - WHICH DOES NOT PROVIDE A DIRECT EMAIL ADDRESS, ONLY AN ONLINE FEEDBACK FORM...

Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2008 5:43 a.m.
To: Customer Service NZ-Avis
Subject: NZ Online Enquiry

Comment/ Feedback/ Question: I rented a car from Avis in Christchurch, New Zealand on 18 Aug 08 and because of the car's engine problem, Avis charged us $225 for the excess charge while waiting for the inspection result, they said if the engine problem is not my fault, they will return me the excess charge and also a report on the cause of engine cooked. So they asked me to contact Avis Singapore to find out the result because they said they will send them the inspection result. But after 2 weeks, I called up Avis Singapore and they said they sent an email to Avis New Zealand for further information. I sent another 2 more emails to them after a week but until now I didn't receive any report and follow up neither from Avis Singapore nor Avis New Zealand. I am very disappointed by the inconvenience this has caused me and hope that this matter will be attended more promptly as from now. Please inform me of the actions that Avis is taking currently, and how long more will you reply me with the results of the engine inspection.

AND FINALLY, WE RECEIVE OUR 1ST RESPONSE FROM AVIS.... ALTHOUGH IT JUST AN AUTO TEMPLATE REPLY.................

Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:42 AM
From: customerservice@avis.co.nz
Subject: NZ Online Enquiry

Thank you for your feedback. A customer service representative from Avis New Zealand will be in touch soon.

Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:44 AM
From: Sabayle, Warlito
CC: Customer Service NZ-Avis
Subject: RE: NZ Online Enquiry, ASI07739

Hi KaKi,

Please see attached documentation for the above claim. Note that per assessment report, the vehicle (Camry-EGL28) hit an animal (rabbit) causing damage to radiator and engine. Since you opted for Excess Reduction, maximum amount of 225 + gst was deducted as excess. Total repair costs to the vehicle is 9672.44 (gst incl).

RegardsWith such excellent service, not to mention the extreme helpfulness and great manners at the Avis NZ office, we definitely highly recommend friends to rent from Avis if u intend to go road trip holidays...!

Memories from the land of the Lord of the Ring!

2008-09-09T02:43:00.008+08:00

oh dear... new zealand was almost one month ago!! feels like it was jus last week... HEE HEE...

photos finally all up on facebook...! I've totally given up on my shutterfly webpage already.. haa...

Day 1
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40298&l=3f8b3&id=533819155
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40302&l=2505e&id=533819155
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40316&l=34fbd&id=533819155
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40321&l=290f4&id=533819155

Day 2
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=70570&l=e1780&id=718041293

Day 3
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40598&l=797c3&id=533819155
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40602&l=1055f&id=533819155

Day 4
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=70677&l=4f858&id=718041293

Day 5
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40767&l=5a069&id=533819155
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40769&l=0c90d&id=533819155

Day 6
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=70960&l=8adec&id=718041293
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=70967&l=2fb8b&id=718041293

Summary of our memories - pt form cos i've been repeating the stories to almost everyone i actually meet.. :s

best food - fresh fresh FRESH Mt Cook Salmon! & $13 muscles at honey pot cafe!
most mobid - running over several dead rabbit and then killing a live one by running over it too!
most adventurous - Franz Josef Glacier hiking!
most romantic - billy's stunt at Lake Tekapo
most beautiful - lake wanaka!!
best hostel/ hotel - none, all had something i could complain about... :s
silliest joke - locking keys inside car and being trapped on the snowy Mt Cook village for 3 hrs before mechanic rescues us...
most turn-of-event - the not-so-quiet small town of Fairlie
most disappointed - road closures leading to no skiing... :(
most god-given song - Let it Be, from the Across the Universe soundtracks

6 days is sooo not enuff... the next traveller who goes there shld go for 2 weeks at least!

3rd day back in Singapore

2008-08-28T02:01:00.003+08:00

so far, thank God the weather is not as hot (but nevertheless its still extremely humid!)... its been very rainy, adding to the humidity... its been rainning almost the whole time since i woke up in the afternoon today... and due to me taking one day break from cleaning up my long unused room, i perspired least today.. hot hot hot!!

while my skin allergies are still in control for now, and my respiratory problems are getting in control wif the help of asthma inhalers, and my nose allergies improving wif the excellence of nasal spray... my eye allergy is killing me!! its very itchy most of the time, makes my eyes teary and dry and feels swollen too (although it does not really look swollen)...

the shortness of our country's people and traffic light poles still amuse me.. :P Not that i'm too, but its funny how everything's so short... our green and red man are short and fat too! Very amusing too, the size of our coins! so small!! SG 50 cents must be the size of AU 20 cents i think... talk about adapting back to life here...

my appetite has ironically shrunken... but tat's not stopping me from gorging myself... slice fish bee hoon at my local coffee shop has increased 30 cents in price!! argh... bubble tea seems to be more popularly $1.50, not $1... :( How amazing that $20 can buy sambal stingray, carrot cake, fried oster and 4 bbq chicken wing at Bedok 85... Take away sushis come wif FREE wasabi and soy sauce!! well but all the sashimi tat im eating here makes me wonder if worms will grow in my stomach - now that i've tasted the super duper fresh salmon sashimi in new zealand's Mt Cook Salmon Farm, i know what is and what isn't GOOD... oh.. my mt cook salmon......................

my most appreciated part back here - the next train after the missed train is 3 or 6mins... not 30 or 60 mins anymore! internet usage is really unlimited now! although now i gotta keep hearing mum rattle on about wasting electricity wif the computer... well well...

all my frens are working (i think)! arghhh... i shld get a job too... gotta start supporting my family too... which is also what i want... moving out of my comfortable and familiar zone is very daunting... im tempted to go back to market research, but my heart wants to try something new and more relevant to my degree...! time to think about ideals and goals... and those other popular interview questions... i wanna answer truthfully and impressively... although my truths are not always impressive...

Debbie

The Return of the Debbie!

2008-08-25T01:04:00.002+08:00

Im back!! After my convocation ceremony, an awesome new zealand holiday, and my massive running-ard-and-packing-my-stuff saturday.. I'm back!! yeah!!

didnt haf a good flight, the qantas ticket i bought put me on board a british airways aircraft... :s I could only haf chicken for lunch becos their lamb dish had ran out... :s :s The in-flight tv screen was extremely bad quality and the stupid kind where movies are set to play at certain times only... :s :s :S Not to mention, the unfeeling qantas staff who charged me 4 kg excess baggage (totaling to AUD$96 leh)!! ARGH!!!!

hmm... but anyway, my baggage were super duper over the limit.. haa... it's kinda long and embarrassing story but in short, billy and i sneaked ard a little... kekeke... the qantas staff tot i had 4 kg excess only, but in fact i think i haf at least 20-30kg excess!! haa...!! the day before our flight, saturday, which is also the day we landed back in brisbane after NZ, billy and i rushed like mad to the bank and post office... we really ran to the post office, but only to find out that it had closed half an early ago already.. :s :S Yeah, so u see, i didnt wanna bring everything, i had wanted to mail some stuff over, but the post office closed on me... :(

but its still great to be back...!! great to heard the customs officer talking very warmly in singlish... haa... im so proud of the lights we haf in singapore! it's so dark in aussie and even NZ... when our plane was approaching singapore, i could see that even our sky is brighter higher! haa... and i can't wait to shake away the terrible public transport in brisbane and get back to my excellent SBS and SMRT... kekeke...! No more post offices closing at 12pm for me and no more banks closing at 4pm!! and hello to my big house, big room, and good comfy hard bed!!

Oh but im going to miss most dearly, the weather and air in australia!! haa... which is of cos, so good... ;) Going miss my big and powerful shower water-flow.. my slack lifestyle!! my massive eating junk food in front of tv... my unhealty stocked up coke supply.. KRISPTY KREME DONUTS!! Ohhhh....

but still... its great to be home! i cant wait to buy my SG$1 bubble tea tmr!!

waiting... looking forward... anticipation...

2008-08-07T23:52:00.002+08:00

life as a slacker is wonderful...!! haa... everything my day starts at 3pm, and i'll chat online, waste my life away on facebook until like 3am... hmm, come to think of it, im sleeping 12 hrs a day! wow....... and while im awake, i'll go out, meet people, etc... i love my life now.. haa...! ok ok, i'll admit, this cant last for more than 3 months, but it's been great so far! muahahahhaaa!!

my things are being well sold off, looks like my IMC tactic works... 1st of all there's traditional print advertising, where i pinned up an advertisement on QUT's library and Z blk notice boards and include a link to my debleavesbrisbane blog site... den i occasionally go take some photos of the things i dun want anymore and blog it with a price... and then there's personal selling where i tell people by word of mouth that im selling stuff... see, print, online plus personal selling and WOM makes good enuff IMC.. i've successfully sold stuff to some friends and 2 strangers... :D and for da jie's information, i placed an ad on QUT student guild website before i did this IMC thingy, haa... which didnt work at all... :s

anyways, yea, i think i really lost my $150 book voucher... :( im thinking i might have accidentally threw it away... argh!! i hope no one wants to buy it now.. haa.. it's still being listed as an item to buy currently... haa.. im a hopeful person - i hope i can find it and i hope someone buys it!

right now is 29 more hours before i see billy again! its been 6 months man... its the longest time we've spent apart... everyday i wake up at 3pm and count down to saturday... HEE..!

Mad About English

2008-08-07T01:04:00.001+08:00

China People in Beijing are learning english for the Olympic Games. Very funny video.

debbie chua now has

2008-07-25T14:14:00.003+08:00

$150 value in a worthy voucher that no one wants to buy...

2 extra graduation already paid for, now that my parents are canceling their flight...

one extra week of doing nothing now that i've already arranged all my farewells to happen before 2nd aug, which was when my parents were originally coming...

dad's health to worry about...

only one person (billy) to take advantage of luggage space, meaning a combined 40kg only!!!

OH NO!!!

Melbourne!!

2008-07-15T11:02:00.010+08:00

3rd till 8th, no 9th July - melbourne trip!! 1st overseas holiday wif persis and any of my sac childhood mates... haa... the holiday continued into gold coast and brisbane where i was the unofficial tour guide and room host... hee... overall, it's been really nice!! and very fruitful... we had all the ups and down... falling sick, taking care of each other, expensive shopping, cheap shopping, getting lost, finding our way, even missing our flight and sleeping in the airport! who does all these things over jus 2 weeks of holidays... haa...!

What did i do in Melbourne - lots of shopping!! it's the australia stocktake sale, but we were kind of at the end of the sales but there were still some good bargains if u try hard enuff... my most expensive purchase was $25, and cheapest purchase $3!! on the average, i think the stuff i bought are abt $20!! haha... good rite...

Sunday - my mega shopping day

market shopping!! the pple in brisbane say u get better markets in sydney and melbourne - i think i prefer sydney's paddington market (last yr's trip) more than any of the melbourne markets visited, which includes queen victoria market (like a mega unclassified market), rose st artist market (artist and designer things), and the smith st's lost and found market (sells vintage and 2nd hand stuff).. and there's st kilda's sunday market, and the st kilda beach and area reminds me of surfer's paradise.. only surfer's is nicer! haa.. :P

can't help but compare melbourne with sydney (last yr's trip) - melbourne seems busier actually! much ruder people.... or at least, so i've met on the streets... sydney has more things to see - harbour bridge la, opera house, etc... melbourne, erm... some "artistic" things like a "sunken library" and a huge purse on the floor ba...

there's blue mountains in sydney - which is so easy to access by urself without a car, and there's great ocean road and the rocks formations in melbourne, which u must go either on a tour or self-drive...

Great Ocean Rd - all of us!

Ida went about a week earlier to meet her fren Zi Yang there, and they got us a cheap great ocean road tour - only to realise when we actually went on the tour that it's a cheap china tour on a cheap and small bus with a lousy driver and conducted in chinese! haa... and the guy's chinese is not even good, got hong kong accent, gives me a headache man... but great ocean road was nice still - or at least, i found there are things that are nice abt it... and i stayed awake most of the time on the road so i saw much more than my friends..

persis was almost sleeping throughout...

Foodies!! "Spicy fish" is super duper nice!! its got the really spicy taste but u can still taste saltiness and other things so it's not overpowering... the fish is really fresh and u can taste the freshness, so it's not like other cheapstake ma-la dishes that uses poor quality meat and overpower the poor quality with chilli... it's really good... haa..

and then there was the mega buffet that was only $17.50 Jessica intro us on thurs nite when we arrived... the queue for food was so duper long, we jus took almost a lot of everything and filled the whole table wif food.. haa...

and of cos.. my most loved chocolates! by Koko Black and Max Brenner..

friends in melbourne!! persis and i met some frens there...!

finally, there's the missing of flight on the 8th when we were supposed to leave melbourne.. it's really stupid... i lose a luggage and ran ard looking for it while neither persis nor i thought of checking in 1st... :s in fact, neither of us knew that we were going to miss our flight, cos we tot we had to check in 30 mins before take off, but in fact it was 45mins.. in the end, we missed our flight by 10mins!! 10 bloody mins..! can u believe it... den there was a lot of drama changing our flight, so in the end, thank god for Ida, we got Ida to help us buy online 2 new tickets that will take off 17 hours later...! :s Feeling so stupid about having to pay double fare, we didnt wanna go out of the airport again cos there's the getting out and getting there transport costs to pay if we did so, didnt wanna pay for another hotel nite either.. so we spent 5 hrs at Nandos and eventually found a chair near a power socket and watch movies on her computer, talked on the mobile with our own frens and finally fell asleep on the chair in the melbourne airport.. :s

lo and behold, we finally and eventually left melbourne the next day at 7am! we went for the check in at 5am ok... haa... and that marks the end of my memorable melbourne holiday!!

checked in and waiting for boarding - FINALLY...!

Welcome back Debbie!

2008-07-10T01:25:00.002+08:00

Welcome back! Share your joy and experience with us about your Melbourne trip! I can't wait!

Billy

happy birthday billy!

2008-06-28T20:15:00.001+08:00

after putting 2 tablespoons of minced garlic into my veggies for the past 2 days and still feeling like crap, i decided it's time i try the boiled coke cold remedy that i've always heard about... except that i cant do that until tmr when i buy my $9.99 per kg ginger 1st... -.-

Coke cold remedy

Slice your lemon and your ginger into thin slivers.
Pour your coke into a saucepan, add your ginger and lemon.
Simmer your coke mixture over medium heat for about ten minutes.
Pour the hot coke into a mug, you can strain off the lemon and ginger if you want, but I like to leave them in the mug.
Curl up under duvet and sip your drink.

But while searching online for boiled coke, i found something even more exciting... boiled sake!! haha!

Tamagozake (Japanese Eggnog)
Ingredients: for 1 serving
1 egg
180 mL sake
2 tsp sugar
(A little ginger juice from grated ginger root -- optional))

so maybe if sake's not expensive i ought to buy some too tmr! it's supposed to be an effective ancient japanese remedy!

and it's billy darling birthday!! happy birthday to the sweetest guy on earth!!

SAC choir... WOOOOO...!!

2008-06-18T22:14:00.001+08:00

Wah!! SAC choir went to Czech and won 2 medals!! How come our conductress was lousy Joey Lye during MY time... :s

Finally I got my Polaroid Camera!!!!

2008-06-16T21:25:00.003+08:00

HHAAA!!!! Finally after so many searching and searching, I finally bought a first polaroid camera through Ebay!!! It's called Polaroid One Step Land Camera SX-70 Rainbow Mint. And the most shiok thing is, the camera worth S$14 but the shipping cost S$36, so I only pay S$50 only!!!! Got one time I saw a polaroid camera selling in a flee market Singapore, the seller sell at $200. Siao ah, so expensive. This is my first time buy thing from Ebay and I dunno whether can trust the seller or not bcos he just show the photos of the polaroid camera and said it is in very good condition. Then I was thinking, ok la, just $50 to try it out and haa.. I got it! HAHA!!! I'm going to get the polaroid film to try it out!!!!

Saturday the 14th

2008-06-14T15:04:00.003+08:00

like having a belated friday the 13th... :s

i set my alarm last nite but i didnt set it to ring... :s huiyan's call at 10.10am woke me, 1st qn was "hey, where are u?" - i was like, what?! den it occurred to me that my alarm's supposed to ring to wake me to go for church worship practice at 10am... :s anyway, den i have to wash up do whatever and catch the bus so i said i'll be like there in an hour unless it's too late and prob i jus dun sing... anyway... the pple there reckoned i cld jus come so fine, i got out of bed...

timing wld have to perfect to the catch the st lucia bus from my change of bus in the city (the st lucia bus comes every half hourly), if not for the delay on the road because of street demonstration!! what a morning! i tot i was at a red light stop and i saw at the very far right a large crowd of pple walking slowly with banners that i cld really read from my distance.. den after i realised the "red light" is been longer than it's usual, i saw that crowd there starting to walk pass my bus!! and all the traffic on the road had to stop unless the petition walking pple passed!! arghh... anyway, they were lobbying gay rights... there were bikers, children, old pple, male, females, gays, lesbians, and a wolf amg them, to mention jus a few...

and hence i missed my 11.07am bus and the next one leaves at 11.37... super diao now.... reached church at like 11.50am... and left, cos they finished practising everything, after 2 songs at 12pm past... DIAO........ got a ride to the city, i jus wanted to buy lunch and contact lens solution, den while waiting for my 12.30pm bus back home, i realised my keys are not in my bag!! ARGHH... so i walked ard the city to all the spots i've walked by trying to find my keys... in the end i didnt, and my waited for another 20 more mins for the next bus... while waiting, i also noticed my kripsty kreme donuts (which were meant for after lunch snacking!) was given to me wrongly... arghh... i wanted original glazed and cinnamon but was given choc tradition and cinnamon...!! HAI~~~~~

reached home, and AMANDA'S LEFT THE HOUSE!!! super duper diao now...!! so i called my her, she said she'll cut a key and come back for me in about 15mins (i think she took slightly longer but tat's fine).. so i continued search the route i walk out to the bus stop from home to see if i dropped my keys there but NO LUCK... den i went back, sat outside our garage and ate my lunch under the sun... and 2 neighbours caught me.... and one (my friendly couple neighbours right beside) offered their house for me, haha... which of cos, i paiseh-ly thanked and den rejected... at least there are nice people ard... arghh... :s

saturday the 14th huh... i'm not stepping out of my house until tmr...!

deb

8 cheap ways to shut the kids up when you're driving

2008-06-11T23:22:00.001+08:00

Driving with kids can drive you out of your mind.
Worse than that, it can drive you into a ditch or a tree or head-on into another car.

The trick is to do something about it before you leave. Later may be too late.
Here are 8 possibitities:

1. Before you start out on a trip, go to the dime store and buy some soft toys, coloring books, magic slates, games or puzzles. Wrap them individuaIJy and give them out along the way.

2. Make the oldest kid the Navigator. Go over the map with him, mark the route, and let him watch for road signs, towns, rivers and places' of interest. (This is an especially good idea if you're not too good at it yourself.)

3. Have the kids keep a Scrap Book of the trip. When you stop, let them collect postcards, match covers, menus and other souvenirs. When they get back in the car, they can paste them in the Scrap Book.

4.Play a game called Count Bumps. The kids cover their eyes and count the bumps the car goes over. (Make a rule that they nave to count to themselves, not out loud.)

5. When they get tired of counting bumps, get them to count something else. Anything else. Red cars. Blue cars. Police cars. Stars. Women drivers. Anything. Anything.

6. Take along a Junk: Box. It can be a shoe box full of spools, string, a magnifying glass, pipe cleaners, any old things. The kids will make up their own games to play with the junk.

7. Make a bed in the back for naps. You can do this easily by putting suitcases on the floor to level with the seat. (Whatever you do, don't forget favorite blankets and pillows.)

8. Suggest a game of Keep Quiet. Whoever keeps quiet longest wins.
If you have some pet ways of your own (leaving the kids at home doesn't count), let us in on them. Send them to Mobil, 150 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. 10017 and maybe we'll pass them along in another ad.

betrayal

2008-06-02T12:35:00.004+08:00

I have betrayed my many years of love, Coke, for Pepsi because of a $3 difference deal... i've broken my loyalty! I've betrayed tat long-established relationship! Does customer loyalty really exist? Does marketing really work? DEN WHY AM I STUDYING IT?!

Super debbie's hyper actitivities

2008-05-24T22:02:00.003+08:00

y'day i woke up early at 10am (yeah, tat was early!) to reach uni at 11am to start the 1st tutorial of the day... went through whole day at until until 7.30pm... went to jay's house at like 8pm for ssa dinner... den went clubbing... den got out of the club and went to a quieter pub to continue drinking... den took night bus home... den slept at 4am... den woke up at 7am to go unicell outing... den played soccer and all kinds of ball games at the outing and walked some forest trail.... den came back home at like 4pm... den did assignments until about 8pm... den watched tv until about 11pm.. den play guitar until now... and finally decided to have my good 8 hours sleep now... HEE....

good night billy, not waiting for you liao...!

Baby Hiccup

2008-05-21T20:40:00.001+08:00

laughing babies drive me crazy!!! hahahahaaa...

Debbie

Don't eat Lemon in front of anyone!

2008-05-20T23:19:00.002+08:00

Just now I watched Brainiac in Art Central. This programme is to show people about some science experiments in a funny way. Then just now I watched that one they showed if a person eat Lemon in front of a trumpetist while he is playing his trumpet, will he drool and cannot play well? So they asked the trumpetist to play a piece of music, then in the middle of the music, they ask someone sit in front of the trumpetist and start eating Lemon. The trumpetist's saliva start to flow out and cannot play well. haa!!! the reason is bcos the brain of the trumpetist takes effect when he saw the action of eating Lemon. haa... So next time don't eat in front of Pastor Ng while he is preaching.

Billy

Earthquake in Si Chuan China

2008-05-15T23:43:00.001+08:00

Pray pray for the people in Si Chuan China because they just experienced a 7.8 earthquake, lots of people died. Many children and students dies in their school too bcos earthquake happened during lesson time. I am in HK now and the news kept on showing the scene of people dying, mother cried over their children, children cried over their passed away parents, dead bodies found, people tried their best to save those still alive, China Prime minister encouraged and care for the children, to encourage them that they are very lucky to be alive in these disaster, so they have to live fully and government will take care of them. Very very heart breaking and touching. There's a father went to the place and dig for her daughter, thank God he managed to save her daughter. There's a gal who had her 20th birthday under the bricks and the people who were saving her sang her a birthday song.

So please pray for all the people over there.

Billy

business law lecture

2008-05-15T21:16:00.001+08:00

this is a funny and crooked real life case that was discussed in my business law lecture (tort law) - anyway... u dun really need to know the law to see the twisted-ness... haha...

State Rail Authority v Wiegold

Facts: Plaintiff, employed by the Defendant as a maintenance linesman, was injured when he fell down a railway embankment. The Plaintiff could not see where he was going because the torch he had been given by the defendant was not working. Following the accident, the P received workers compensation, but he began to worry about how he could support his family once his entitlements ran out. His solution was to grow and sell marijuana (drugs). P was arrested, convicted and imprisoned. He sued the D alleging that the employer’s negligence caused his imprisonment.

Held (trial court): The plaintiff would not be in prison but for the defendant’s negligence and awarded damages to the plaintiff.

Held (on appeal): As a matter of policy (i.e. common sense), the imprisonment was not caused by the defendant’s negligence. The plaintiff could not prove it was more probable than not that the defendant caused him to engage in criminal activities.

Our legal system actually gives a lot of allowances to base things on how a normal and reasonable person would see things. But since all men have fallen short of the glory of God, i guess our law is never going to be perfect...

Krispty Kreme Donuts

2008-05-06T21:24:00.002+08:00

Today after project group meeting, at about 7pm i noticed the brand new Krispty Kreme outlet had no queue at all!! ok, this Krispty Kreme Donuts is described like "heavenly donuts" brought into Brisbane from Melbourne... and everybody was going gar gar over Krispty Kreme Donuts even before it entered Brisbane, and when the press release came to say that Krispty Kreme will come to Brisbane earlier this year, everybody and heaps of media have been talking about it ever since.. and when the branch eventually really opened maybe about half a month away, the queue at Krispty Kreme goes all the way and every single day u'll see the long queue... kind of like the hello kitty at macdonalds in singapore... haha...

anyways, so since there was no queue, i've heard so much about Krispty Kreme, and donuts basically reminds me of billy... i went in and spent $19.90 on a dozen of donuts... actually i wouldn't really have meant to buy a dozen, it's jus the peer pressure around me, cos everybody was buying a dozen.. i didnt really dare to say "give me 2 donuts" - like it'll be quite dumb to but just 2 world Australia donuts... anyway... hai... i dun even like donuts in the 1st place... but i bought a dozen anyway... so i came home and was glad to share it with amanda! but she didnt take many, i think she paiseh... and she had this amazing way to eat the donuts - put it in the microwave for 8 seconds and den eat it.. so i did that... the first bite - hmmmm.... AMAZING... the nicest donut that i ever ate... it kind of melts in your mouth... hmmmmmmm....

and den after we had one donut each, there were 10 left... 6 flavours altogether... i wanted to try one of all the flavours so i stuff 6 donuts down my stomach... which by like the 3rd one already made me quite sick... ;P haha... by the 6th one, i decided that the heavenly Krispty Kreme Donuts is not going to change my dislike for donuts... i think it'll jus eat it again only when persis or billy come to brisbane - cos they both like donuts... haha...

Yumeiji's Theme

2008-05-04T20:26:00.002+08:00

Some people ask me who is Yumeiji after I put my msn nick as Yumeiji's theme. It's actually a music piece played in a movie called In The Mood For Love (花样年华) directed by Wong Ka Wai.

In Remembrance of You

2008-05-04T17:50:00.006+08:00

My church sang this song during worship today... I was ban4-chang4-ing so anyway the song has been in my mind since y'day after practice.. haa... it's a new song for me, but i love it!! and today while holding the communion bread in one hand and another hand holding the mic and speaking it as a congregation was fantastic! It touched me so much...!!

Have you guys ever looked at communion with spiritual eyes and saw something? personally, i think this is something its easy for me to take for granted. But God has given his life, given his grace so freely to us... So each time we take communion again, i pray for myself and others that we'll really remember Jesus.

This is my body given for you
This is the cup that holds the blood of the new covenant
This is forgiveness, simple and true
This is the way that I have made for you

Chorus:
Before you eat, before you drink
Take a long look inside and tell me what you see
He said “Do this in remembrance of me”
Do this in remembrance of me

This is the bread of life broken for you
This is the cup that holds the wine of a new covenant
This is the love of Christ poured out anew
This is the Son of God who died for you

Bridge:
I will remember the cross that you bore for me
I will remember the crown that you wore for me
I will remember the reason you suffered and died

The Prayer

2008-04-27T23:28:00.001+08:00

I hope I can play it one day.

I pray you�ll be our eyes
And watch us where we go
And help us to be wise
In times when we don�t know

Let this be our prayer
As we go our way
Lead us to a place
Guide us with your grace
To a place where we�ll be safe
La luce che to dai

I pray we�ll find your light
Nel cuore restero
And hold it in our hearts
A ricordarchi che
When stars go out each night
L�eterna stella sei
Nella mia preghiera
Let this be our prayer
Quanta fede c�e
When shadows fill our day
Lead us to a place
Guide us with your grace

Give us faith so we�ll be safe.
Sognamo un mondo senza piu violenza

Un mondo di giustizia e di speranza
Ognuno dia la mano al suo vicino
Simbolo di pace e di fraternita

La forza che ci dai
We ask that life be kind
E�il desiderio che
And watch us from above
Ognuno trovi amore
We hope each soul will find
Intorno e dentro a se
Another soul to love

Let this be our prayer
Let this be our prayer
Just like every child
Just like every child

Needs to find a place,
Guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we�ll be safe
E la fede che
Hai acceso in noi
Sento che ci salvera

PAINball ah...

2008-04-20T19:26:00.004+08:00

yeah! today i finally accomplished my goal to ever play a paintball combat game! haha... full on, hard core one...!! there were 4 games each game played twice, altogether played about for 3 hrs... most of the time, i was jus estimating where to shoot... i think there was only 3 or 4 occasions that i could see my target extremely well and used my arcade shooting skills on him..! haha... my stupidest moment was holding our team flag and shouting for cover - cos once i shout "cover", immediate kanna shot by enemy on top of the hill... :s my most victorious moment was saving my buddy! this guy was getting hit so bad he wldn't raise his hand to signal that he's out of the game... and i had the very good view cos i was rite behind him (and he was
in front being shot) so i shot his attacker with one good aim! haha...!!

that was the paint... now the PAIN! haha... i would classify the levels of injuries
to 3 levels of pain... the least serious is jus bruise but this can range from peanut size to bigger than a coke can size..! haha.. 2nd is swollen bruise, again the size can vary like the bruise... and the most seriously painful one must be when u're skin actually comes off! yucks!! yesh, u can get a 5 cent size hole in ur skin when the bullet directly hit on u at closer range... my injuries.... hee.. thank god... it's so minor i'll really haf to be very bitchy to bitch abt it.. haha... jus peanut size bruise and swollen parts... mostly from butt to legs.. haha... i actually kanna a lot of shots on the face.. but cos our face is protected by a face mask (which really fogs up by the 3rd game u hardly can see anything and cannot take it out to wipe... :s) so it's ok...

photos at half time, after going thru 2 games...

my hair still looking at too bad.. haha...

End of all 4 games! see my clothes become all so messy liao.. :P actually the guys say we didnt need to tack in the top, but tacking in makes the pants tighter... will drop leh...

debbie chua grew fat and flat! haha... no la... we wearing a breastplate soft harness inside... but which adds to the heat! but thanks to that... my spine is totally protected... only girls get to wear the breastplate... HEE HEE...

Ad Campaign from United Church of Canada

2008-04-17T12:09:00.006+08:00

That's my idea of our church should do some ad campaign like this, got concept, got message behind, a little sense of humour, instead of illegally ripping photos from the web for their posters which we Christian shouldn't do.

You can see more ad campaign here ...
http://www.wondercafe.ca/display_index.php?pageName=ac_list&loadedFrom=Index

Billy

Planet Shaker Concert 08!

2008-04-12T12:57:00.002+08:00

Yesterday night I went to Planet Shaker Concert at Singapore Expo with my church youth. Beside Planet Shaker, there's another singer/band from London called Tim Hughes. Planet Shaker still rocks! But too loud for my heart beat, I think I am old, but I still like. But I like Tim Hughes' song more because I can concentrate more on the lyrics than just only feel shiok about the music. So I prefer Tim Hughes. And I found out that after Tim Hughes put down his guitar, I can see his big tummy! haa ... I am relieve after I saw that. Because he looks cool and stylo on the stage but he still got big tummy. haa... So got big tummy still can looks cool and stylo one . haa.. But That's not my excuse for not reducing the size of my big tummy la. haa...

It's a good concert which can tell non-believers that actually be a Christian can still be very fun and exciting in the Love of God. But as a Christian, besides enjoying music and jump until we smell after a soccer game's smell, we must know and understand and appreciate the lyrics that the writer wanna bring out and remember in that concert, we are worshipping God and not only just be there and feel the shiokness. haa...

Ok, old man speech ended, enjoy the photos below!

Bach - Minuet 1, my first truly decent music piece

2008-04-02T21:52:00.003+08:00

I finally can play and learn a truly decent music piece after 5 months of learning violin. While I was practising, I search youtube see how people play well and I found this video, the boy's expression super cute!!! haa .... hope that while I am playing, I won't frown my eyebrow and open mouth like him. Enjoy!

Billy

plans...

2008-03-31T23:24:00.003+08:00

in my miss home mood, i cannot bear doing assignments and would do all other things unnecessary like thinking about my material plans... let's see... before i get too old (old being still undefined), i would like to...

1) try surfing!!
2) learn hip hop!!
3) learn a musical instrument professionally - what, i havent not decided...
4) learn hindi!!
5) land myself in latin america! chile, argentina, brazil and other are bonuses.
6) travel more of europe!! like spain la, russia la...
7) develop my hot body before my glorious wedding day... HEE... for not-so-not-obvious reasons...
8) learn driving - then again, maybe not... hmm...
9) go sailing! or yacht-ing, or boating... in a romantic sense... hee...

number 10... number 10... hmm... i'll get to that when i think of my final one...!

the wrong guy

2008-03-31T21:45:00.004+08:00

watched tv juz now - "real CSI"... there was a guy, Dr Shepperd, who was accused of murdering his wife without even being given a fair trial... so many things and evidences were untested and/or not even tested and he was found guilty by the jury that he killed his wife who was found dead in their bedroom with half of her clothes off herself... maybe it was the director of that tv show, or maybe it's just me - i do think he seem very innocent given the 2 re-trials' arguments and new evidence testing methods... for goodness sake, the 1st trial that convicted him did not even test to check if the blood in the crime scene was belonged to him... the re-trials tested the old blood and found it to not belong to that guy nor his dead wife, so obviously there was a 3rd person... and some many other things... the guy was found not guilty in the 2nd re-trial and released from prison where he was jailed for the past 10 years... and the 3rd re-trial was brought up by his son after he died in the early age of 47, cos the son wanted to sue the government for wrongly and unjustly jailing his innocent father - and the 3rd trial found the poor Dr Shepperd guilty again, even after his dead for 30 yrs...

imagine if u were Shepperd... u hear ur wife scream and go up to find her in a pool of her blood half naked, face totally smashed... and u were certain u saw a stranger in the room whom u fought wif and ran away... den u get accused for ur beloved wife's murder and u die with the whole world thinking that u had murder her... so sad rite... aiyo, i feel so sad for the dead guy, and the dead wife...

and all this jus makes me miss billy even more now... haa... i dunno why...

debbie

Wet n' Wild - ed

2008-03-28T21:56:00.002+08:00

went to wet n wild water theme park today!!! SOOOOOOOOO FUN!! so glad i went..!! haa... cos after sunshine coast i did feel like my back is aching slightly... but frens and i already planned to go since last weekend... but y'day cos of my back, i want to go wet n' wild but i didnt know whether i should go or not..

anyway, was going wif jess, june and ee li... and they all live together and i only have jess' msn and june's mobile number... so y'day morning i sent jess a msn offline msg say meet 9am... den later in the day i decide that maybe i should not go, although i still wanted to go... so wanted to call june to ask for her opinion.. haa... but she missed my call... and den later she sms-ed me say they got my msn msg so see me at 9am... den i called her again and she didnt pick up again... so it was already very late so i decide to jus go la... the most is i dun go up to the more extreme rides lor...

this morning my aching was not as bad, in fact when i started playing cannot feel the ache anymore.. haa... so i went on ALL the rides!! haa... SOOOOOOOOO shoick lor... the weather is not hot today, in fact later in the afternoon started to become a little chilly... but it didnt matter great deal, we carried on playing anyways.. haa... and the best part was there is local resident discount this month so we went in half price!! totally worth the price we paid... and the queues werent long cos it's uni holiday but not public holidays... and prob most pple tot it might be too cold to play in the water anyway... so today was all SOOOOOO good! haa...

now i am super aching everywhere... it's so energy consuming to play water theme park... go inside the water, get out, go in, get out... so u're like warm, cold, warm , cold... and so many stairs to climb so u gotta reach the top of the slides... and so many rides that gotta climb so many stairs with a big heavy float to slide down on.... im duper tired now so im jus going to sleep early...

good nite billy...

debbie

Sunshine Coast Trip

2008-03-26T23:59:00.004+08:00

Just back from my 2D1N Sunshine Coast trip! Was fun!! We went to the Australian Zoo and for the 1st time im seeing kangaroos and koalas in australia since coming here in feb 2007... haa... went for expensive seafood dinner, noosa beach, eumundi market, and underwater world!!

the animals at the zoo and the underwater world were sooo funny... the wombat tried but failed to poo... koalas and water monitor (which are like really huge lizards) were making out - each within their own species of cos.. haa... and the otters soooooo adorable... hee...

going to upload some videos soon... HEE... i also updated my shutterfly photo page... so yea, my 2008 aussie photos are continued in aussiedeb.shutterfly.com...

changing inkjet printer cartridge 1st time in my life!

2008-03-20T22:10:00.003+08:00

unconsciously, i've never ever changed printer ink cartridge before in my life! haa... i jus never had to do it... at home it was always "daddy, there's no more ink in the printer" and two days later, it'll "magically" have ink again... hee... so anyway, i got a printer free from a friend and i bought ink to change its cartridge, making that my 1st time ever! haa... not as scary and complicated task as i tot it would be... HEE...

i've been here for juz barely one month only!! feels like i've been back for ages already... and even so, less than one month of uni and my 1st assignment is due... :s argh... there was one whole part i wasnt even sure if i got the theory correct and my lecturer completely missed my email and phone call.. arghh... too bad for me, nothing can be done too anyway so i handed it in...

holidays!! holidays are here... actually it's not even mid semester yet but anyhow we are having mid sem break... i think the uni juz wanna "cheat" our holiday days... cos monday's supposed to be public holiday but it doesnt count for uni students since it's the start of our mid sem break too.. :s Wanted to go whitsunday coast during the break but no one was interested... but yeah! thank God He still had plans for me.. hee... im going to sunshine coast instead! and there's other activities lined up all thru the week... ho ho ho.. and i gotta hand in another assignment after the break.. :P Debbie Chua will survive!!!

詩歌 - 彭家麗/王祖藍 - 好好戀愛

2008-03-19T01:46:00.001+08:00

Very nice Christian song for those who always ask God when will the Mr Right will appear.

happy bday to me!!

2008-03-12T23:36:00.006+08:00

i'm one yr older!! HEEEE... not a bad thing at all.. thank God for my past 22 years!!

1st day of my 23rd year is very fruitful... haa... i did heaps of things.... started my 1st hour doing ASSIGNMENTS.... haa!! :s Den read my textbook to bore myself so i will feel sleepy enuff to crash... hehhh... in the day... i went for lecture, participated in tutorials... went shopping, cooked dinner, threw a mini party, watched a movie during the party... yeah, and ended my day wif msn-ing billy!! fruitful day indeed!!

amanda gave me a daisy..!! and a card... very sweet... she put it in a nice position on the dinning table before i got home, and she on the air-con for my party so the house will be nice and cool before pple come...

my mini party consisting of 9 frens from church (7 for most parts cos 2 left early) was good! 1st time i throw party in aussie... haa.. probably like the 2nd party i ever threw in my life anyway.... :P i baked potatoes, which tasted quite good i think.. haa... i really think so... :) and there was soup and chips, and cake... but actually i think the amount of food is not enuff, but watever... hee... received lots of bday sms and phone calls, thanks dearlies for remembering...

now... looking forward to part 2 celebrations on friday night live!! muahahahaa...

living alone

2008-03-11T20:42:00.002+08:00

well, not really alone, but... anyways...

last nite i went out, and i went duly to the bus station at like 9.45pm to catch my 10pm bus... and there were 2 other older man and woman (not related) waiting there too.. 10pm, and the bus didnt come... about 5mins passed, the 2 of them got very worried, cos its the last bus... i still haf another bus coming at 1040, i was juz pissed, not really worried... and then the announcement came and the bus was delayed and it says it would come around 10.30pm... :s

so the relieve two were like, "oh now we know"... and then each started to call their homes to say that they'll be late, all the "dun worry about me" talk... and den i felt a bit like a loner then and there... cos there isnt anyone worrying abt me getting home late... :s

was washing the dishes juz now and i tot to myself, is it sadder to eat alone or to cook for yourself (ah, cos u can buy take-aways and eat alone over cooking and eating)... yea, and i guess its definitely sadder to cook for yourself... which, for a matter of fact, i do A LOT here.. haa.. but yeah! its my bday tmr and im glad i haf pple to cook for!! gonna get some frens over and i dunno what we'll do but we'll do something.. hee...

got my 1st bday present and its from billy (in the mail)!!!

my 1st bday cake from kahyi and amanda (not my housemate)...

i offered some leftover cake to amanda (my housemate) and that blow the cover that it'll be my bday... she says she's gonna get me something.. haa... hmm... actually i would like to get something... HAHA...

:P Deb

plans crashed, heart shattered... like a peanut...

2008-03-07T21:53:00.002+08:00

SO SAD..................

my long awaited rock climbing at the CLIFFS gotta postpone indefinitely AGAIN...................................................................... cos frens and i finally found a day to do it, which was the coming monday.. but the trainer cannot make it...............................................

and today i lost my dear, treasured, best, most loved handphone cover... which billy bought for me................. i tot i put it into my bag, but apparently i mus have put it inbetween my bag and my body and it fell to the ground and i lost it forever.......................................

my most wanted whitsunday coast full-of-sun-sand-and-sea holiday looks gloomy, possibly not happening.......... whitsunday leh... so coool... why arent u impressed?! hmmm...

see how dreamy it is............

Debz

My Violin class

2008-03-06T01:34:00.004+08:00

Today is my 4th month of learning violin. So far so good. Still very fun and nice to play with. Today my teacher asked me to remove 2 stickers which act as a guide for me to get use to where the note on the violin is. Total there are 4 stickers and now have to remove 2! Finally can upgrade a bit. haa ... Violin really not easy on some songs, and somemore my fingers are fat, so some of the notes are quite hard for me to press, I really have to squeeze 2 fingers together very closely then I get the note. The songs in Susuki music books are nice, at the same time I am learning another book from China which is more tough for my fingers, don't sound nice when play alone, but when I play with my violin teacher who she play the bass, wah!!! the music pieces suddenly turns out very very nice. Hope that I can learn better in my bowing bcos I still find that it still doesn't sound right. haa...

Billy

My Ipod is back to life!

2008-03-06T01:27:00.003+08:00

Previously my ipod's battery cannot charge anymore and I don't wanna spend a bomb to let Apple to change for me. So I went to a shop which I trust the most in SimLim Square. I bought a battery from them but I have to change by myself. Then reached home and start to change. But I think those parts inside the ipod are very fragile and I am too big size to do it, I broke a connector which leads the power to the harddrive in ipod. I almost did it but I'm too careless. I don't wanna send to Apple bcos for sure they will throw my ipod away and ask me to get a new one. And I think there should have a way to safe it. So I called back to the shop and they referred me to a guy who can repair. So I brought down my ipod and he change the mainboard for me and my ipod is back to life!

Billy

The garage below

2008-02-26T13:10:00.003+08:00

there's a remote control that i can open and close the garage below from the house above... y'day i left it open for half the afternoon as i was hanging my laundry there... and sunday too... and everytime i close the garage door from above, i'll feel abit paranoid about what if my housemate is in there and i unknowingly lock her inside.. haa... cos u cant see inside the garage from above... thank god it hadnt happened so far...

jus now my housemate opened the garage before leaving the house to take something and she told me to close it in abt 15mins time... ard 30mins later i went down, wanted to feel if my clothes are dry already.. and found a cat walking out of the garage!! den i occurred to me that it's prob not so easy to accidentally lock my housemate in here than to lock stray animals there...!! how gross!!

i shoo-ed the cat away and quickly closed the door without even touching my clothes.. haa... cos the cat was following me and i was not going to lead it into the garage again!

deb

God's timing!

2008-02-22T20:34:00.003+08:00

I can move tomorrow!! muahahahahaa....

the tenants (ruth and huiyan) of this house tat im in currently will all be back tmr and its prob best that i can move out by tmr... well, tat was my initial plan... but things didnt seem very successful in the beginning... last nite i viewed a city apartment... it was a really good location, literally rite outside uni, above a chinese restaurant, beside a chemist... and the house is very big and spacious and tastefully maintained... and the room although was small was prob enuff... but its only going to be available on 14 march, i actually told the people there yes i'll rent their place, and we were going to sign the papers on coming tues.. and actually i was praying that we can sign the papers any day after saturday becos i was still waiting for another house in a zone 2 suburb called Annerley to give me a reply on whether or not im going to get to rent her place... (cos she said she can only give me a reply fri or sat) and thank god the city apt people said to sign the papers on tues...

so today at 6pm, the Annerley person told me i rent that place if i still want it... and so yes, i want it... and cos i told her already that i like to move by sunday, so i asked her can i move tmr and after i've moved den we'll sign the papers and she said ok... so yeah! i can move tmr!! apologetically, i called the city apt to say im backing out... hehh... thank God they were very nice, they didnt make things hard for me... :) the Annerley unit is cheaper than the city one and plus its immediately available, so yea, i think its a better deal...

so tmr ruth, huiyan and myself will all have our own beds to sleep on...!! yeah!!

debs...

there's always a brighter side

2008-02-18T21:00:00.002+08:00

in case u still dunno, debbie chua is back in brisbane...

for jus 3 days... my legs are super aching and sored from climbing up and down hills... why? becos brisbane is built on hills... i used to complain so much abt my 1st house at dorchester st for being hilly... now im staying at st lucia in a fren's house temporarily and boy, her house IS in the middle of a super duper steep hill tat i believe is the main cause of my aches...

house hunting began right when i landed... but i was duper sleepy, so i started viewing places on sunday only... so far i've called 5 houses, seen 3 - out of which 1 i really liked... its was an absolutely new, clean, modern and cool townhouse in herston suburb where the other QUT campus is near... well, not exactly near... the walk from QUT to tat house prob added another 40% to my aches.... but the house was realllyyyy cool... but anyway, i got a call about 1 hr later informing that they've picked someone else for to give the lease to... so well... im still homeless...

i was thinking of having aussie housemates, but somehow i do think that they prob prefer to not live with an asian anyway... plus, im not like a very cool asian kid too, i appear nerdy at 1st look, i think... why aussie housemates? well, cos im in aussie! ha... prob more experiences if i were to live wif a local rite... den again, with asian housemates, i can cook and do asian things freely without thinking wat they would think of me... HEE...

arghh... i just wanna get my own place soon!!

My first Yong Dau Foo in my life~

2008-02-13T00:11:00.000+08:00

Previously I tried to convince myself to eat Yong Dau Foo during lunch bcos it's healthier than chicken rice and other food in the food court near my office. But everytime I stand in between of Chicken Rice store and Yong Dau Foo store to decide which one to eat, the chicken always able to pull me to the chicken rice store.

But today is different. Today my stomach dun feel well and I dun have appetite to eat meat. So today the chicken can't pull me over, the chicken rice uncle look at me strangely that why i didn't line up for the chicken rice. So today I had my first Yong Dau Foo in my life! My colleague taught me how to order, recommended me which are good. So I picked 7 different food with sweet sauce with rice. Out of my expectation, it tasted good! and it's very filling too. So from now on, I will eat more Yong Dau Foo during lunch!

Healthy life style starts today!

Billy

moonlighting

2008-02-01T18:24:00.000+08:00

Oooo... been a longgggg time since i blogged in the office.. haa... yups, im back in synovate office... doing temp lor... haa... this is my 3rd last day... hee.... right now, i nv cheat the company money okie, i already signed off the timesheet liao... but im jus hanging ard waiting for another focus group done by another company but held in synovate office to happen at 7pm... my extra work tat's gonna earn me $80 in 2 hrs...! muahahahahaha!!

sometime ago da jie got a lobang to do a korean food focus grp... den she refered er jie... who after some qns from the in-charge, failed the screener so cannot join the group... den one day later, da jie also failed the screener.... haa... and guess what, tat IS the focus group that i am going to attend shortly later.. hahahaha...

borings... now i also dunno what to do... although i already sign off timesheet... but scared later some boss see me do all these own things think i nv sign off timesheet, think i cheat them leh... haa... but actually i also dun haf lots of things to do... borings....

let the music heal your soul

2008-01-29T00:33:00.000+08:00

let me jus say that i enjoyed the duet very muchie too!! hee... fun to play music wif billy together... the most amazing part is that my guitar was 1st taught by him... hee... seeing billy play the violin also makes me wonder how good i'd be at it (violin) if i didnt stop classes when i was 10 yrs old... hee... come to think of it, last time when i quit learning violin, it wasnt cos i didnt like it or i was tired of it - jus cos i moved house and there wasnt any music sch near me (tampines mall was not even built too) and i was too lazy to find another teacher - or maybe my parents were lazy.... come to think of it.. how come i was lazy when i was so young already?!!

hmmm....................

debdeb

Duet with Debbie!

2008-01-28T00:13:00.000+08:00

Just now Debbie was in my house for dinner. While we were waiting for the dinner to start, we played some music with guitar and violin duet! Although those music pieces are for kids like Mary has a little lamb, I am a teapot short and stout and Go Tell Auntie Rhody, but the effect was great and that met part of my dream which one day I can duet with Debbie with Guitar and violin and that consider partially! haa... then when tommy heard we play, he joined in with his harmonica. Wah, I just found that he got talent in Harmonica! You just name and sing to him any song, he can play it straight away without any music score!

Billy

coil up my wires

2008-01-11T01:57:00.000+08:00

hmm... one, of the many, sweet things billy did for me when we were in australia was coiling up my wires before he left me to go back to singapore... i remember it was the evening he just left, and i was alone in my bedroom, missing him deeply.. den i wanted to charge my handphone, and it was only den tat i saw tat he had coiled up all my various chargers and laptop's wires neatly... i tot it was so sweet that he even cared about such little details of my life and the fact that it was such a small little act that wouldnt last long (cos i'd be messing them up once i started re-using any of them) yet he bothered to do that for me... and i was looking at the wires and crying non stop at that time... orhh....

last tues after dinner wif SING's farewelling cheeping into NS, we were talking about such topics over coffee... and i had mentioned billy's coiling my wires that softened my heart... hee.. today after song prac wif soarers in church, after i reached home and took out my laptop (i bought it to the prac), i found that billy (who was also there) had once again neatly coiled up my wires as he helped me keep my laptop just now... :) and my heart is softened once again... orHHhhh....

sick looking loser guy

2008-01-03T23:43:00.000+08:00

today i found 8 new fren requests on facebook - 7 of whom i are really frens... and 1 sick looking loser guy dave lim - is not... haa... im doing a mean thing here... everybody look and have a laugh... http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=616803149

1st of all, his is a public profile - 1st proof of his sick loser life, try to make every tom dick harry, ah lian and ah huay able to see "everything" about him... :s i couldnt help but take a look at his sick loser facebook life - which left me absolutely amazed at how ugly he was and the amount of "hot" girls he have as friends... makes me wonder, why these girls, who obviously do look quite good, are willing to do such cheap things as to associate wif such loser guys... well, prob some girls argue that its juz making online frens, no big deal... but why would i wanna make frens wif such loser guy and subject myself to become an object of his fantasy and god-knows-what he'll do wif the image of me.. hahaaaa... why would any decent good looking girl wanna be placed in such a loser guy's "showcase of pretty girls"... yeee... that sick guy has all the sick applications too - hot friends, human pets, make and send love things.. yee... and whats so sick about all this is that his showcase of pretty girls do interact wif him there... yucks! pui!!!

have a laugh at his page man... im sure dave lim wun mind, in fact he prob enjoy... esp if u're a pretty girl too! muahahahahahahaaaa...!!!

happy new year!

2008-01-03T01:57:00.000+08:00

one year passed...! thank God for the great year passed..!

had my 1st dinner of 2008 in novotel y'day!! its serene and matthew's wedding! frens i made in brisbane... they're still going back to brisbane, but they're holding a dinner in sg cos they're both sg'eans.. 1st time i attend wedding alone - as in i went there alone... met familiar faces from brisbane church pple (those who are sg'eans back permanently or temporarily), and some unicellers.. but unfortunately, i was sitting on a table where i didnt know anybody, they were all unicellers from much earlier batches like 2001 till 2004... it was absolutely weird... but thanks to my friendly nature, we managed enuff conversation to not be too weird... a couple who was sitting on my table offered me (and 2 others) a ride home at the end of the dinner... thank god i saved on taxi! haa... actually.. opps... i dun even remember their names.. haa... plus i only knew them for juz 2 or 3 hrs... hee... but i dun care man, im sure they're good pple... haa.. on the car, i was thinking of how my mother always taught me as a kid, "dun talk to stranger, dun go home wif strangers"... haa... :P

and not forgetting, nice slack and simple 1st lunch of 2008 in some nice homely vietnam restaurant in siglap - with billy!!!

Finally is over!

2007-12-23T23:56:00.000+08:00

It's over, finally is over! These 2 months (Nov & Dec) were my busiest months of the year. I was so busy that I almost choked but thank God He accompanied me thru and sent His angel back by my side to accompany me. in November, I was busy with my office's work's window display for Christmas and Anniversary ad, at the same time busy with QBC Christmas musical's invitation. I was so stressed that the window display have to run around to buy all the props, coordinate the printer to print the sticker and then go down to vivocity to set up. I was so pissed that without informing me, they removed my hand-made red house and the big translucent snow flake, but anyway, when I saw the kids standing in front of the window, look at what I've set up and smile, I am satisfied liao, all the pissed thing in my mind all gone. But the worst thing is I missed the deadline for the christmas musical, I was quite "oh no" .... thank God He gave me an idea of paper toy which you just have to print and fold. So I applied this idea into the invite bcos I think it will be fun and unique which church never did that before and I think is suitable for youth and young adult, also they can participate in doing it for their friends. But my mistake is, in the first place I thought the budget was enough to print, cut it out and make folding line by machine so that everyone don't have to suffer the cutting part, but budget blown by 1.5 times more .... sigh .... but still print it out and ask everyone to help to cut and fold. I think many people were quite frustrated on the cutting part especially the wings part, so this invites can say it's a partial failure. The heart in the box I ran around to look for a budget 3D heart but I can't find and bcos I don't have enough time so in the end I have to buy the 2D one which the effect not so good. But when I saw so many new faces appeared yesterday's musical, I was so happy and thank God for what he had done! yesterday the sky was so dark and after that raining, my friend almost dun wanna come, but thru prayer, my friend came in the end and other bro and sis 's friends also come and filled up the whole 4th level sanctuary. The musical was wonderful, the songs really moved me, although yesterday only had one new friend put up his/her hand, but it's a good rally to spread the seed into their heart.

Before the musical, I went to KL with Antioch bro and sis, it's a wonderful and enjoyable trip although almost rain everyday. We had a good time to get to know each other better and have good time to shop around too!

Finally now I have more time to be with Debbie for her last 8 weeks in Singapore, so I must treasure it~

cold... trembling... shivering

2007-12-18T15:42:00.000+08:00

i can feel my leg hair standing.... :s

haven felt so sick for so long... even went i spent $150 on medical bills when i 1st came back last mth, it was jus cos of allergies... last nite went for christmas musical rehearsal, i went there ok... recovered from my lost of voice since KL trip... den at the end of the rehearsal, i felt my throat a little painful... den this morning i woke up cold and wif an awfully painful throat... sneezed out chunks of blood... feel like im shivering... headache... aiyo...

all my plans, last min plans, are being affected now... :s I havent buy stamp and do express post for my uni credit exemptions application - cos i die die also dun wanna do strategic marketing again... :s havent buy christmas cards, havent buy presents for billy and my girlfrens... and christmas is juz 7 more days away and wif the musical rehearsals and actual happening plus billy's long leave period reaching.... where got time to do all these things?!

deb

back from KL holiday!

2007-12-13T01:38:00.000+08:00

yeah!! went and came back from KL liao... was fun and i enjoyed!!

our hotel was so miserably small... smallest hotel i've ever stayed in before... including comparisons with the irish and australian budget hostels.. haa.. but nevertheless, it was clean so it's alrite... but the funniest part was that the double occupancy rooms seem to be for rendevous nites.. haa.. cos the toilets have glass doors...! :s lydia and ping's room was totally transparent glass... so each can see the other totally clear when shes bathing and even when shes shitting.. haa!! mine and joey's room had the lower half of the glass doors frosted so we're a bit more covered... at least no one can see me shit.. haa..! :P

shopping was so good!! yea, sometimes the clothes are abit off, but everything' cheaper cos of our currently very strong SG dollars... i think i managed to buy something every day.. hee... i shall crown myself the true shopping queen!!

billy started losing his voice on the 2nd day... den he started regaining it back, but i started to lose mine... hehh... talk about sharing each other's burdens... hee... now i still sound like an ah gua... :s and the christmas musical is next week...

the 4 girls spend one nite up talking... hehh... not bad la... managed to talk alot and caught up... antioch gals havent done tat for very long, at least i havent done it wif them for very long.. hee... den i spent the last nite up wif tommy, bernard and william... playing mahjong!!!! haa... this trip developed most amounts of conversations wif william... haa... and gotta know bernard more ba, kind of... the mahjong game was fun!! tommy played till his eyes are really almost closed... haa.. anyway, i missed mahjong!! haa.. staying up wif the girls vs the guys is totally 2 things... wif the girls was a lot of talking, wif the guys lots of crapping... both of which i liked! haa...

now my beloved soar bros and sis shld be going into camp liao... im not joining cos i need a proper bed to sleep in, and i guess i juz dun wanna go to bukit batok everyday for stay-out camp ba... but im sure they'll have fun!! come to think of it, although i wanna be close to them and want them to feel close to the daoshis, i also think almost grown up youths shld try to be more independent from daoshis too, to a pt where they can operate on their own... den my (and daoshis) mission will be accomplished!

fantastic weekend

2007-12-04T02:48:00.000+08:00

sat during soar we watched Evan almighty.. haa.. very funny!! yea, but billy and i didnt stay for the discussions cos we were going to PSC show, pui3 wei1 zhi1 ye4!! haa... but i tot the movie was fine in its message... as in its not anti-christ, but rather i think the message is not about christianity at all... its kind of a "do good" message, which in some sense is quite new-age, cos it prob indirectly advocated the "all religions are good" kind of message... anyway, its really a no harm to watch one... haa... and super funny really...

and the PSC show was sooooo auntie... haa! its my 1st time to mediacorp live studio, so i was pretty excited... pan wei bo was the special guest, sang 2 songs and danced very coolly.. anyway, i think the fans there were so un-pro and considered soft and few lor... cannot be compared to the days when i was chasing after jeff chang and faye wong.. haa..! anyway, we went to the show not for mr pan, but for joey who was taking part in the costume design competition for the kids... her design was good! but she didnt win... watever... the kids are like acrobats!! they can really do stunts man... and amg the audience was a little girl in a really big orange fluffy dress who was sooooo trying to get attention... and she's also an "acrobat" too.. haa... but the way she dress, behaves, and the things she do ah... aiyo... i feel so embarrassed for her... kids shouldnt behave this way lor... i totally dun find her cute... :s

sunday nite i went to angie's house for dinner wif my sec sch frens... havent been to her house since i was 14 maybe... haa... anyway, we had such fun!! played taboo which im actually, surprisingly, not very good at.. haa.. den after dinner elaine displayed out her very pro gambling table mat with casino tokens as well... haa.. and we played Caribbean Poker and blackjet.. banker (elaine) lose till a negative value and i won over $1000 in tokens... haa!!

and tonite (monday) billy and i had a super nice and homely dinner at yasmine and sc's new house... their house is soooo nice!! and yas can cook!! she had some synovate colleagues over too, and we talked about like synovate juicy gossips to wedding proposals, to weddings, to wives, to kids, to primary schs for kids, to enrichement classes... haa.. all the very grown up topics... billy even commented that i didnt talk a lot, very unlike me.. haa... but cos the topics very out of my range mah... haa... but i had an excellent time!! these are prob going to be the best (ex) colleagues i'll ever meet...

deb

Whatever~

2007-11-27T10:34:00.000+08:00

MDA senior management rap ... faint ...

2007-11-22T17:25:00.000+08:00

two weeks home

2007-11-16T23:15:00.000+08:00

hmm... i've been back for 2 weeks already!! feels like i've been back for a very long time already.... upon landing in changi airport, my 1st sg purchase was chivas for billy's dad... haa... within 2 weeks here, i've bought myself lots of food (billy bought me more!) and 2 clothes already!! muahahhaaa... shopping is so good and shiock here... the 1st few days when im back, i tried to do whole day shopping... cos when i was in australia, i always tot its so dumb that the shops have to close at 5pm, but now that im back, i find myself too tired to continue shopping after 5pm! haha!!

i've been gone for only 10months but even im amazed at how different things really are as how i've remembered... or probably amazed at how adapted i was to aussie life... some few things that striked me was how short and stout our traffic lights are here! haha!! the round face with the red or green man leh... its so big and round in sg!! and the whole traffic light pole is so short it feels** like i can reach it.. haa... (but obviously, i cant... :s) i was also quite amused with our banga construction workers... all dark and dark.. haa... construction workers in aussie are big, tall ang mos - so imagine the contrast! also my breathing was so accustomed to aussie air too i actually need my asthma preventer seretide to help me deal with difficulty with breathing... den my nose allergy almost caused my nose to drop that i now have to use a nasal spray thingy.. den even my eyes got allergic and was prescribed some expensive eye drops that now i think probably shouldn't have been so expensive... all my medical bills added up to 150 bucks liao lor... aiyo... and the weather is sooo warm! hotter than i remembered!! i wonder how i survived in jeans all the time in the past... before i went to aussie i even wore long sleaves and jackets sometimes in sg...!

but being back is soo nice too... no worries about sms-ing pple short texts like "ok" or "ya"... haa... no need to wash my own dishes... always can bug billy on the phone... can start shopping at 7pm, eat dinner and have bus stopping rite outside house at 12am... woo hoo!!! nice to start serving again in church, serving the church i love... nice to worship in chinese... rev ng's chinese is still the same too.. haa! nice to be in pastor ivy's office... my oh-so-ever-comfy bed... sleeping in air con!! no worries about electricity... HEE... ability to explore beyond my own wardrobe into my sisters' ones... being back is still better... :)

yeah, looking forward to meeting more frens and relatives now... everybody's having exams or busy with some things now...

First violin lesson~

2007-11-06T23:54:00.000+08:00

Praise the Lord I found a violin teacher and today is my first lesson of violin! Today I brought my violin back to office bcos I am going for lesson straight after that. Then after work my colleague asked where am I going, I said I am going to learn violin. Then they laugh laugh laugh bcos they think I was joking. haa... then I said I am serious and show them that I carried my violin. Then they believed. haa ... They said they should gave me an Ang Bao bcos today is my first lesson. haa... I had dinner with Debbie before I went for lesson. Nice to share my joy with her. My teacher is a young Christian, 24, and in Mandarin congregation in City Harvest. I can see she is not that type money minded kind of teacher, bcos she didn't even mention of school fees or what. She is very patient to teach also. Thank God provide me a good teacher! So today I learnt how to hold the bow properly and fingering. very fun and enjoyable! haa... Hope I can serve the Lord with violin too! Bcos violin is my childhood dream and now I am learning!!!!

i still remember

2007-11-06T02:03:00.000+08:00

im back in sg!!! the last week was so fast paced for me... i was doing assignments non-stop from sunday afternoon till monday afternoon, afterwhich i studied and dozed off from mon afternoon to mon evening and when for exam at 6pm, and finished and handed in 3 assignments at 8.45pm... of which my holidays officially started on monday 8.46pm.. haa...

den started buying things and packing stuff like crazy from tues to friday morning... and left brisbane on fri 1.45pm.. and reached sg 7.30pm!!!

why was i in such a rush to get back? well..... cos i wanted to make it back before 5 nov 2007 so i could celebrate 101 monthniversary with billy!!! sooooo cool... we've together for 101 months liao... as i was writing the card to billy... i recalled the times he always treated me so well, buy me things, make me presents, give me good advice, discussed and shared opinions, always giving in to me and nv picking fights... i jus remember that all my 101 months i've been very happy with him beside me and i juz thank god for such an angel... :)

today (5 nov) when out early in the morning and came back late at nite.. did lots of things, had lots of fun, ate lots of things too! haa... i loved his present, its so sweet i was holding back tears... hee... billy specially took a day off work to go out wif me... and i risked persis' fury of not wishing her happy bday in time by refusing to end the day early (so i could go home and give her highness an email or something).. haa... but today was all good!! its not the things we did or ate, its the day and the special meaning of it, and the time spend with him that made the day worked out soooo well...

happy 101 to my most treasured billy!!

and happy bday to my bestest friend persis!!!

debbie remembers...

Free design for you? You are insane yo!

2007-11-02T12:53:00.000+08:00

Every day, there are more and more Craigs List posts seeking "artists" for everything from auto graphics to comic books to corporate logo designs. More people are finding themselves in need of some form of illustrative service.

But what they`re NOT doing, unfortunately, is realizing how rare someone with these particular talents can be.

To those who are "seeking artists", let me ask you; How many people do you know, personally, with the talent and skill to perform the services you need? A dozen? Five? One? ...none?

More than likely, you don`t know any. Otherwise, you wouldn`t be posting on craigslist to find them.

And this is not really a surprise.

In this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified mechanics. There are SEVENTY times as many people in the IT field.

So, given that they are less rare, and therefore less in demand, would it make sense to ask your mechanic to work on your car for free? Would you look him in the eye, with a straight face, and tell him that his compensation would be the ability to have his work shown to others as you drive down the street?

Would you offer a neurosurgeon the "opportunity" to add your name to his resume as payment for removing that pesky tumor? (Maybe you could offer him "a few bucks" for "materials". What a deal!)

Would you be able to seriously even CONSIDER offering your web hosting service the chance to have people see their work, by viewing your website, as their payment for hosting you?

If you answered "yes" to ANY of the above, you`re obviously insane. If you answered "no", then kudos to you for living in the real world.

But then tell me... why would you think it is okay to live out the same, delusional, ridiculous fantasy when seeking someone whose abilities are even less in supply than these folks?

Graphic artists, illustrators, painters, etc., are skilled tradesmen. As such, to consider them as, or deal with them as, anything less than professionals fully deserving of your respect is both insulting and a bad reflection on you as a sane, reasonable person. In short, it makes you look like a twit.

A few things you need to know;

1. It is not a "great opportunity" for an artist to have his work seen on your car/`zine/website/bedroom wall, etc. It IS a "great opportunity" for YOU to have their work there.

2. It is not clever to seek a "student" or "beginner" in an attempt to get work for free. It`s ignorant and insulting. They may be "students", but that does not mean they don`t deserve to be paid for their hard work. You were a "student" once, too. Would you have taken that job at McDonalds with no pay, because you were learning essential job skills for the real world? Yes, your proposition it JUST as stupid.

3. The chance to have their name on something that is going to be seen by other people, whether it`s one or one million, is NOT a valid enticement. Neither is the right to add that work to their "portfolio". They get to do those things ANYWAY, after being paid as they should. It`s not compensation. It`s their right, and it`s a given.

4. Stop thinking that you`re giving them some great chance to work. Once they skip over your silly ad, as they should, the next ad is usually for someone who lives in the real world, and as such, will pay them. There are far more jobs needing these skills than there are people who possess these skills.

5. Students DO need "experience". But they do NOT need to get it by giving their work away. In fact, this does not even offer them the experience they need. Anyone who will not/can not pay them is obviously the type of person or business they should be ashamed to have on their resume anyway. Do you think professional contractors list the "experience" they got while nailing down a loose step at their grandmother`s house when they were seventeen?

If you your company or gig was worth listing as desired experience, it would be able to pay for the services it received. The only experience they will get doing free work for you is a lesson learned in what kinds of scrubs they should not lower themselves to deal with.

6. (This one is FOR the artists out there, please pay attention.) Some will ask you to "submit work for consideration". They may even be posing as some sort of "contest". These are almost always scams. They will take the work submitted by many artists seeking to win the "contest", or be "chosen" for the gig, and find what they like most. They will then usually have someone who works for them, or someone who works incredibly cheap because they have no originality or talent of their own, reproduce that same work, or even just make slight modifications to it, and claim it as their own. You will NOT be paid, you will NOT win the contest. The only people who win, here, are the underhanded folks who run these ads. This is speculative, or "spec", work. It`s risky at best, and a complete scam at worst. I urge you to avoid it, completely. For more information on this subject, please visit www.no-spec.com.

So to artists/designers/illustrators looking for work, do everyone a favor, ESPECIALLY yourselves, and avoid people who do not intend to pay you. Whether they are "spec" gigs, or just some guy who wants a free mural on his living room walls. They need you. You do NOT need them.

And for those who are looking for someone to do work for free... please wake up and join the real world. The only thing you`re accomplishing is to insult those with the skills you need. Get a clue.

-- Anonymous from craiglist

THREE dead fishes now

2007-10-27T22:30:00.000+08:00

actually not now.. was on friday... a third fish died.. :s

this is definitely one of the most stressful time i've ever had in australia - not cos of uni work or whatever.. but becos of fishes that aren't even mine in the 1st place... :s :s

y'day (friday) i was thinking about the dirty fish tank water and the newly dead fish... and i wondered maybe that fish died of water pollution, so i goggled online for tips on when and how shld i change fish tank water... read lots of things and decided that i still dun understand it... so i saw a guy fren came online, so i asked if could help me and he said he's not free... so feeling really helpless... i prayed that god will help me cos im really very stressed to see jace's fishes die one after another (there's still six left now). den amazingly, quite soon later helen sms-ed me if i wanted to have dinner together and if i needed any help of any kind at home (cos she was worried abt me being home alone) and i was like THANK GOD! so i asked if she cld help me wif the fishes...

after dinner outside, we went back to my house and spent almost 3 hrs washing all the fish tanks and changing all the water.. and the whole house really stink like rotten fisht + salted fish + BO + drainage smell... like the smelliest smell ever...

now im just so thankful that the my fish worries is temporarily solved (now crayfish is the only one left that is living in dirty water)... i soooo need to finish my 3 assignments and read for my exam on monday lor... **super tiao~~~ -_-!

TWO dead fishes now!

2007-10-23T13:50:00.001+08:00

bckgrd infor: jace got a lot of fishes in a lot of tanks...

so today i realised the white fish in another tank beside the big dead fish tank IS DEAD TOO! the only reason i can think of is must be cos of the tube connecting the two tanks - and i didnt even notice the tube until i saw the 2nd dead fish... :s

thank God Jace saw my email and texted me his number... i called him juz now, he say its unlikely cos of the tube... maybe the white fish seeing a big dead fish juz beside him, feel very traumatised den die also... !!!

so before i leave the hse juz now, i covered the dead fishes tanks wif paper so the other smaller fishes in smaller tanks nearby dun start dying too...

the fact that i was there... while it was still alive, going mad, jump out of water, picked up by ME back into the water, go mad again, den faint, den die... i was there lor... tats makes looking at the dead fish very scary...

so i called mark and dawn, to come help me clear them tonite... PRAY that the fish will not start rotting before they come...

im so freaked out by their deaths...! its quite lame, i know... but I WAS THERE.... its really scary... i feel amused, saddistic, scared, lame, and helpless all at the same time... -.-!

THE FISH IS DEAD

2007-10-22T21:09:00.000+08:00

its upside down

not moving

no response even if i use the net to poke it

.....

confirmed dead...

OH NO!!!!!!!

horrors of all horrors.. 2nd greatest fear....

2007-10-22T19:34:00.000+08:00

jace and kezia gone to sg for 2 weeks holidays this morning liao... my worst fear while they are not ard is that the clayfish will grow big suddenly and find its capability to climb out of its pail-tank which is on the floor...

ok, thank God that didnt happen... yet...

but horrors of all horrors... 2nd greatest fear actually came thru like juz less than 1 hr ago... his big fish really jumped out of its tank!! it used its head to knock the top cover a couple of times, and suddenly both the cover and the fish flew out of the tank, the cover landed on the table while the fish dived all the way down onto the carpet, juz a few cm away from the clayfish pail-tank (which is open top).. i took less than a min to catch the fish to put it back into the tank - although i was very scared and screaming loudly... but after returning to the tank, big fish started swimming ard upside down... like, isnt an upside down fish dead?!!! but it was swimming...

was, cos now i go disturb, its not swimming anymore, juz upside down...

ARGHHHHH!!!!!

terrified now...!!! im home alone with a fish that's potentially dead... what do u think, will a dead big fish contaminate the water and affect the alive and swimming small fish in the same tank?

pls dun die fish... pls dun....

one down!

2007-10-17T23:56:00.000+08:00

Today i completed my media kit assignment 2 days before it is actually due! haa.. !! 1st time ever, i do work so fast ahead... and my tutor went thru the kit and was like "good!" "GOOD!" "EXCELLENT!"... **BIG grin*** but sometimes im very scared of these crazy ang mo's compliments... like are they really impressed or juz being polite...

anyway... i feel so light now that one is down... still got 3 more big assignments to do now... and an exam... and 2 weeks later i'll be truely liberated!!

now the most pesty of all assignments is the e-mktg plan... 3,500 word, min 50 references and 15 appendices max... all the trouble juz for 25% of the total weightage.. at least the PR writing one is 4000 words but worth 50% and IMC only 1500 words for 40% lor... arghh... im soooo not over that bu4-hua2-ness...

:s
deb

so cool, so suave is my Lord Jesus!

2007-10-13T00:41:00.000+08:00

I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me - just as the Father knows me and I know the Father - and I lay down my life for the sheep.

I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also.

They will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life - only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.

I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

John 10:14-18

stupid gas company

2007-10-11T12:00:00.000+08:00

arghhh... AGL the stupid gas company is really reallyyyyy making my blood boil... in a nutshell, they own me my refundable deposit for like 3 months already lor... y'day i finally received a chq from them... but guess what, its only $15.11 when it should have been $80... im sooooo pissed now... arghhhhhhhhh.... i was going to mail them an official letter of demand already, now they do this kind of thing..... arghh... how am going to structure my letter... arghhh....!!!!

ARGGHHH!!!!!!

angry deb

MetLife Presents Snoopy in Fashion

2007-10-08T21:21:00.001+08:00

Havent blogged in for quite long already... well well.. been really caught up with uni stuff... had i good weekend with Polly in Brisbane... photos at aussiedeb.shutterfly.com.

today i was sending nic a snoopy ecard and came across a snoopy fashion show, as part of the mercedes-benz fashion in new york last september... the idea is so fun!! haha.. i love it... but i guess tats why i'll call FASHION fashion show... clothes tat are impossible to really wear.. haha!!

100 Months together!

2007-10-06T00:16:00.000+08:00

Today (05 October 2007) is the day marked Debbie and I have been together for 100 months! Although it doesn't sound long, but if I tell you we have been together for 8 years and 4months, will that sounds better? haa ....

In these 100 months, we have been throught all the happy, sad, angry, fun, exciting, interesting, enjoying, tears, sweat, lovely, sweet, bla bla bla .... Of course, some of the events that we gone through were not involve only both of us, those events involved you too! Aroma/Antioch, Soar, Song Compose competition, visiting her in hospital, vacation, camp, bla bla bla ... You guys are important to us in these 100 months! Thank you for all the wonderful time together with us. And of course, God always involve too! If I didn't migrate to Singapore, if Polly didn't brought Debbie here, if Pastor Wu ZiPing dind't merged HK and Singapore Youth Fellowship, if .... bla bla bla ... we won't be together. All these were planned by God long before we were borned.

Although today is 100 months and both of us cannot celebrate together, but we did it through phone only, but that doesn't matter, as long as both of our heart till together, we still love each other very much.

What's next? Ask God lor ... haa ...

Billy

Indescribable by Chris Tomlin

2007-09-29T02:16:00.000+08:00

From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea
Creation's revealing Your majesty
From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring
Every creature unique in the song that it sings
All exclaiming

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God

Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
You are amazing God

Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untamable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
Incomparable, unchangeable
You see the depths of my heart and You love me the same
You are amazing God
You are amazing God

toowoomba flower festival

2007-09-23T15:35:00.000+08:00

Y'day i woke up at 6.30am in order to leave home at 7pm to go to another town near brisbane called toowoomba to see flowers... haha!! the literal meaning of this outing is really that lame, but the day turned out fine... hee...

its an annual flower festival and homes compete to win the best garden houses... we were able to go inside the winning home garden - which was as huge as a park... and the flowers were really amazingly pretty! and of cos, my most hated bees and other flies were all ard... but i guess there were probably more flowers than humans so the bees and flies didnt bother us much... haha...! album at aussiedeb.shutterfly.com .. actually i cant really decide, but i think i do like daisies more...

y'day in the car, Alisha from Taiwan was telling us she used to stay at a college hostel which was juz opposite wang li hom's house!!!!!! THAT IS SOOOO COOL!!! haha... she say u'll be able to see li-hom sometimes, but mostly at very odd hours... the neighbourhood is quite used to his presence so its not like very difficult for him.. and i asked her if she cld see li-hom in shorts and top naked at his home.. haha... cos tats like the dress code for guys in billy's house mah (so i assume its a man's thing!) and she say she nv saw but she sometimes see him in shorts and tee at home.. wah saz!! and he is sooo not gay lor... he nv bring gals home, but he is sooo NOT gay! haha... she say in taiwan always got rumours abt him and other gal stars one... den last nite juz before falling asleep, i was thinking what would do if li-hom stayed in my neighbourhood!! i dun think i'll ever wanna move away!! haha!!

Ball photos!

2007-09-17T01:09:00.000+08:00

More at aussiedeb.shutterfly.com!!!

Spot the hidden bear on Tolerone Chocolate logo

2007-09-16T21:47:00.000+08:00

Spot the hidden bear on Tolerone Chocolate logo.

Billy

going to the ball... la la la...

2007-09-13T22:07:00.000+08:00

the AFES ball is tmr!!! hee... i feeling a bit more than quite excited abt it.. haha... bought a dress, shoes, necklace, earrings for it... spend quite a lot but everything i think is very worth - plus the dress (which is the most out of my style) was a discounted $20 piece only!! woo-hoo!!

i havent been to a ball before actually, the closest probably senior dance nite during SAC days... sec sch grad was a dress up ceremony, not like a ball thingy... and my batch from poly didnt wanna form a committee to have a grad ball too... yea, so tmr's gonna be my 1st time!!! haha... while shopping and preparing for it... i keep feeling like its such a young thing to do.. haha... like some kids going out on a big nite for the 1st time.. :P

update with some photos real soon... i hope i'll look alrite tmr... :)

Bling Bling Singapura!!

2007-09-06T14:56:00.000+08:00

came across some interesting sg data while doing my assignment on another topic... juz k-po and read and blogged... :P

Singapore millionaires (July 2007)
According to the recently released World Wealth Report, the number of millionaires in Singapore has increased by 21% to 67,000, making Singapore the fastest growing country for millionaires in the world, followed by India and Indonesia where the number of millionaires is growing at 20.5% and 16% respectively. Millionaires are those with more than US $1million worth of assets, excluding their primary residences. Some one-third of the millionaires (approximately 18,000 people) in Singapore are Indonesian living in the city-state. Singapore's population is about 4.5 million, with 1.48% of the population classified as millionaires.

Singaporeans will turn to family in times of need (June 2007)
According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, some 91% of Singaporeans would turn to first to their families when they face financial or other problems. However, besides falling birthrate and rising divorces, another problem for the institution of the family is the growing number of transnational marriages, which form one third of families in Singapore.

Singaporeans among the world's most weight conscious (March 2007) Deb says HAHA!!
Singaporeans are among the world's most weight-conscious people according to a United Nations report on the use of slimming pills. Singapore ranks fifth in per capita usage of appetite-suppressants called anorectics.

Singapore ranked one of the two least corrupt countries in Asia (March 2007)
Singapore and Hong Kong have been ranked the least corrupt places to do business in Asia, according to the annual survey by the Hong Kong based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy. Singapore was also least corrupt in last year's survey.

Singaporeans go for HDTV (Jan 2007) Deb says Woo-hoo!!
According to a survey by StarHub, 96% of Singaporeans are satisfied with the picture quality of HTTV, and four in five viewers. The launch of StarHub's service makes Singapore the first country in Southeast Asia to offer a commercial HDTV service. The Media Development Authority has been actively encouraging local content producers to create quality HD content for domestic and international markets. SingTel and MediaCorp plan to have a commercial HDTV launch later in 2007.

The Internet generation (Jan 2007)
According to a recent survey, 66% of Singaporean homes have access to the Internet and there is a rapidly expanding blogosphere. Half of all Singaporean teens aged 15 to 19, and 46% of 20-24 year-olds are on the Internet and spending time blogging or podcasting ie 120,000 young Singaporeans are reading and writing on web sites. Net usage is highest (90%) among children between 10 and 15 years old, a consequence of Singapore schools having one computer for every two students. Online shopping in Singapore is also on the rise with about a third of Internet users making online purchases in 2006. Worldwide end-users spent $1.16 trillion on information technology in 2006 and such IT spending is forecast to increase at a compound growth rate of 6.3%

Singapore advertising switches online (Dec 2006)
Google expects to more than double its advertising revenue from Singapore in 2006. Singapore is regarded as among the fastest growing areas in Asia Pacific for online advertising.

New clubs to improve leisure ambience (Dec 2006)
Six new entertainment outlets, including a restored power station, recently opened, signalling an intention to make Singapore more of an entertainment venue. The St. James Power Station has been turned into nine venues with a capacity of 5,000 people, while five outlets licensed by nightclub operator LifeBrandz, including Kandi Bar and Fashion Bar have also opened. Together with Singapore's most popular club, Zouk, and British-owned Ministry of Sound, these venues are, according to analysts, gradually transforming Singapore in terms of its night life appeal. However, Singapore still has a zero-tolerance policy to drugs, and homosexuality remains officially a crime.

Tourist survey results (Nov 2006) Deb says Woo-hoo-HOO!!
According to a recent survey of tourists, Singapore now ranks second in the world for the quality of its nightlife and dining, with only Italy ahead of it in that category. Categories covered included safety aspects, shopping experiences, night life and business-friendliness with Singapore in the top 10 in nine out of 20 categories. Singapore was second-best place for shopping, behind the United States but ahead of Italy and Japan, third-best country in the world to hold conferences, fifth for ease of doing business and seventh for safety.

New mall biggest event of the year (Oct 2006)
In terms of numbers and consumers impact, the biggest event in Singapore in 2006 was not the International Monetary Fund meeting or the city-state's first big international art show, but the opening of its largest shopping mall. Over 2 million people, equivalent to half the population, have shopped at VivoCity (as at Oct 27th) since it opened on Oct 7th, compared with about 20,000 delegates who attended the IMF-World Bank meetings in September and 400,000 visitors for Singapore's art biennale. Some 84% of people in Asia-Pacific go shopping once a month or more for 'something to do' or for entertainment, even if they do not need to buy anything, according to an AC Nielsen survey, compared with a global average of 74%. The survey found that 7% of Singaporeans go shopping twice a week or more just for something to do, ranking third after Hong Kongers (17%) and Thais (9%).

Wealthy shoppers like buying digital (Oct 2006)
Wealthy Singaporeans are the region's top shoppers, despite the fact that average monthly income of US$5,355 ($8,475) has hardly changed compared with 2005. According to Synovate's recent survey of the affluent top 20% income earners in 11 Asian markets, 51% of wealthy Singaporeans enjoy shopping – the highest number across all countries and well above the regional average of 38%. The survey found Singaporeans especially liked buying electronic gadgets and digital equipment. They had high ownership levels of products such as digital cameras, liquid crystal display TVs, MP3 players and mobile phones. Wealthy Singaporeans also travel more: over a third went overseas one or more times on business, up about 20% from last year. A third now own unit trusts, about 20% more than the previous year.

Social status drives fashion consumers (June 2006)
A quarter of Singapoream consumers polled by A C Nielsen said that they purchased American brand Ralph Lauren. At least one in 10 bought DKNY and Gucci. The most desired brand among Singaporeans was French fashion house, Louis Vuitton. According to researchers social status is a key consumer motivator. In Singapore, 64% of respondents believed that people who buy designer labels do so to project a particular social image. Another finding was that in Asia Pacific, as in America, respondents believe that designer brands have a significantly better quality than standard brands.

Got more... but i dun think the link wld work anyway... cos its under my library database... but yea, these are the funny and interesting ones anyway... haa... i do believe that our country is good!

Thirsty Merc!!!

2007-09-05T00:23:00.000+08:00

wahahahaa... tats the new band i like very much!! in fact cos im in uni, and like everybody listens actively to music, so in order to keep up i also got a bit very involved in bands.. its a sydney band, rai the curly hair guy is the lead singer... haa.. and i really like this band, like its been long since i like a band/singer... make me feel like juz buying their CD, so hard to find free downloads... i usually search within multiply.com only - anybody else got smarter ways??

anyway... i was searching multiply which lead me to youtube, so tot to share some of my fav songs... "in the summertime" was wat started me off - the music is so good...! the video a bit off, haa... also cos its not a new song, like prob 1 or 2 yrs ago liao...

"20 good reasons" keep me liking this band...

which lead me to another new song, "the hard way" (which i cant find mp3 for!! arghh... if u haf it, give it to me hor...)

DEBzzzzz

house solution

2007-08-27T22:51:00.000+08:00

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....

Secret The Movie By jay chou

2007-08-26T17:42:00.000+08:00

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

cold and busy

2007-08-23T14:12:00.000+08:00

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

Big Harvest!

2007-08-19T23:36:00.000+08:00

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

what does a biblical relationship look like

2007-08-18T00:16:00.000+08:00

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!!

ekka, royal queensland exhibition show

2007-08-17T13:43:00.000+08:00

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

debbie body ache

2007-08-15T22:59:00.000+08:00

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

Black dot no more!

2007-08-15T11:01:00.000+08:00

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

Jay Chou accepted Christ!

2007-08-10T00:46:00.000+08:00

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!

happy birthday singapore!

2007-08-09T21:25:00.000+08:00

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

photos!!!

2007-08-08T22:49:00.000+08:00

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

updates...

2007-08-06T23:33:00.000+08:00

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

Plain plain life

2007-08-01T20:29:00.000+08:00

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

mother and student

2007-07-25T21:57:00.000+08:00

today in my 1pm lecture, there was a student (she's overage one la) who actually brought her child into the lecture hall together with her! initially the child (i cant tell if its boy or girl) quietly sit in his/her pram... den slowly started to make some noise... a child's noise is very obviously "child" one lor... u know for sure its not the noisy students on the top row who are making the noise.. haa... den slow the child's noise became louder... to a point when the lecturer also dunno what to do.. haa.. den finally the mother-student publicly apologise and go away wif the child... i thought she went out la... but after a while u start hearing the child make noise again.. haha! she was actually standing at the doorway (like a small corridor) - like, as if we cant see them we will not hear them lor... den after tat the child really start to make a lot of loud noises den the mother-student finally left the room...

aiyo... so u see, ang mos also can be very bu4 zhi4 dong4 one... there's actually a child care centre in the uni for students and staff to leave their children there one lor... to me, i think its juz inappropriate la... if a mother wants to study, she should leave the child in someone's care den go to sch without any burden mah... if the mother wants to take care of the child, should juz defer her students until the child is bigger and more independent lor... but i think, by the time i become a mother, i think i wldn't even wanna study liao lor...

deb